Hey everyone todays motivational monday video comes from Matt Morris’ site featuring a clip of Chris Gardner doing a commencement speech at UC Berkeley.  Matt Morris writes down his favorite 10 lessons from it.

My favorite lessons from this are

1. Show gratitude to the people who believed in you.

2.  The “economic downturn” is an opportunity for you to re-create the American dream.

Another line he says on the speech which I thought was great was ” To all the folks that said you wouldn’t make it, you are perfectly justified to say how you like me now!!!!

Make sure you check out Matt’s site to watch the video and see the 10 things that he has learned from it.

Matt Morris motivational Monday

to yOUR success

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What should you ask yourself daily?   Personally I like to write down what I need to do the night before.  I usually ask myself two questions when writing my list.

Question 1.

What 5 or 6 things can I do tomorrow that can help myself or my business in the right direction?

Question 2.

In that to do list which ONE thing would make the biggest impact.   Basically what’s the MOST important and Prioritize that to do first.

When I ask myself those two questions it usually makes writing my to do list faster and more effective.

Do you agree with my question or do you ask yourself different questions?? Let me know below

to yOUR success,

PS, To learn how I generate leads for my business using Twitter, Facebook and other social media on Auto Pilot make sure you check out theblastoffsystem

Happy Wednesday everyone,

Leaders are DEFINITELY readers…. In order to become a leader you must put the time in by learning and implementing.  One of the keys to becoming who you want to be (leader, multi milionaire, etc…) you must learn and take action then again learn and take action.

If you come over a very successful persons house chances are they have  a HUGE library…  I know some of you are no longer readers after high school, like myself (because of all the boring books I WAS FORCED TO read) but I knew that for me to get to where I wanted to be I had to do something different than what everyone else was doing.  Everyone was just watching TV and not even reading a book…  I started getting into personal development and I was immediately hooked and read anything I can get my hands on.  Had I found all these books during high school man I would have definately been a reader.

But some of you really have a hard time reading well nowadays you don’t have an excuses anymore.. they now have audio books of almost ANY book, so really what your excuse now???  After years of reading ALOT of books there are a few books that I feel are MUST reads.  This is MY list not “THE LIST” so if you disagree let me know on the comments so I can add it to my library or my list

My top five

1. Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

Good read.. It was first made during the 1960s.  A lot of the books written today reference this book.  Good info about self-image.

2. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

No need to explain this book.  The read is a little hard because of the early 1900s writing style.  So read slowly to let it sink it.

3. The secrets of the millionaire mind by T Harv Eker

This was the FIRST book I read that opened up my mind.  Before this book I knew I always wanted more but I had no direction but this book opened up my eyes.

4.  How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

Another book that you should have already read.  Talks about how to be a likeable person that people are atomically drawn to

5. Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Another great eye opening book.  Many people start with this book but this was probably my third or fourth book I read when i got into Personal development.

Remember this list is just MY LIST of the five books that I feel have changed my life.  What are the top books that I haven’t listed here???  Comment below or Retweet this so share your fav or my favs thanks

to yOUR success,

PS, To learn how I generate leads for my business using Twitter, Facebook and other social media on Auto Pilot make sure you check out theblastoffsystem

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Hello everyone,

It’s been a loooooooooooooooooooong time since I last did a Tip Tuesday on here.  Sorry for not being around on my OWN blog.  Here’s a quick Twitter Tip for tuesday.

So how do you watch your niche with your iphone or whatever smartphone you have???

Pretty simple actually….. Use apps… Of course you need to have a smartphone like an iPhone or an EVO or what ever new smart phone they have out there.  There are many apps to use to spy… i mean to watch your niche or competition.  The one I particularly like using is called Tweetdeck for my iphone.  You can also use tweetdeck on your desktop

Here’s the site http://www.tweetdeck.com

On Tweetdeck you can have multiple users screens up as long as you don’t use up the 150 API per hour with it.  But what I like to use on it is the search function.  With the search function you can have a separate window for a certain keyword and when someone mentions it on a tweet it will show up on that window.  Keep in mind Twitter is open source so that’s why you can see most of this stuff.

So for example say you were in the weight loss niche and you wanted to see what people were talking about you would then type that for the search and each time someone tweets that keyword you can see that conversation.  Pretty straight forward and simple but the possibilities are endless…  Imagine someone was looking for a particular product and you saw their tweet.  You can send them a tweet and provide them value by linking them up to that product…..

What apps do you like to use for twitter??? comment below and tell me what you use…

to yOUR success,

PS, To learn how I generate leads for my business using Twitter, Facebook and other social media on Auto Pilot make sure you check out theblastoffsystem

While surfing the web I ran across this VERY powerful video on Youtube.  No need to talk much about the video.

Enjoy!!

update: 7/11/2010 I had to put a different vid up because the one with TOny Robbins voice was taken down but this is is just as good

Enjoy still Please comment on what you think about this video…….

How to master anything quickly?

Do you sometimes feel like you’re a slow learner? Do you feel like after you’ve read a book that you still didn’t get much from it, or it just went from one end and out the other? Are you getting those self help books but still aren’t getting anything out of it? This was me years ago until I learned what I’m about to teach you on how to master basically anything quickly and easily.

The quickest way to answer how to master anything quickly is something called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is listening or doing something over a period of time until it is ingrained in your mind. A perfect example of when you could use spaced repetition would be when you get a brand self help audio. Normally you would listen to each track once, do the exercises then move on. Maybe once of twice review your notes or listen to a track a couple more times. But to get a lot more out of the audio program you would listen to each track a bunch of times in a short period of time. You would then move on to the next track and do the same thing.

Think of it like when you hear a brand new hit song on the radio. When you first hear it you don’t know the words but after a couple weeks of always hearing THAT same song on the radio over and over again you learn the words without even knowing it. That’s spaced repetition working on you! You don’t have to necessarily like it but since you’ve heard it so many times it gets ingrained in your head almost like a habit.

You can use spaced repetition with anything like audio, books, flash cards etc… But audio is by far the most effective in my opinion. With audio you don’t need alone time to do it. You can listen to an audio anytime and even if you’re doing something, even something like SLEEP. With a book you have to use alone time with it, you can’t read and vacuum at the same time but with audio you can. Using audio you can listen in your car, at the gym anywhere you please.

Then you wonder how many times do I have to listen to something for it to get ingrained? Well generally speaking listen to something 21 times over a span of 30 days will help. It will eventually turn into a habit. Or if it’s broken down into multiple tracks I would listen to a certain track at least 7 times before I move to the next track.

If you do this on anything you’re trying to learn I promise you, you will get A LOT more out of it. You will learn a lot faster then going through something once or twice and expecting to take action with it right away. I do this for everything I do now and it’s helped me master anything quickly.

New Years goals revisited 2010.  Morning everyone, 2009 is almost finished and we welcome a new decade 2010.  crazy how time goes by so fast.  Hard to believe that I’ve had this blog for over a year now.  It’s that time to set your new years goals for 2010.  I personally like to set about 10 goals and focus on one major goal that would make a big difference in my life this year.  But here’s some goal setting things that can help you for the new year and check out my post on resolutions vs goals as well.

Happy New Year everyone

here’s one about goal setting

http://www.yveslanot.com/blog/goal-setting-for-09/

Here’s my post with the difference with new years resolution and new years goals

http://www.yveslanot.com/blog/new-years-goals-vs-resolutions/

Thanks,

Yves Lanot

Happy Tuesday everyone,

For Twitter Tip Tuesdays I will give you the top 5 twitter tools that I use on a regular basis. So here they are in no particular order

1. Tweetlater (now known as socialoomph)- Basically lets you automate your tweets and lets you manage multiple twitter accounts.  There is a free version and a paid version.  I use it to post my automated tweets like quotes and things like that.

2. Tweetdeck – I use this for my iphone so when I’m not home I can check my twitter account on here.  The cool thing with tweetdeck is you can customize the platform to where you can have certain windows open or closed.  For example on my platform I have the regular timeline, my @mentions, my DM, and I have a couple searches that updated on there as well.  Tweetdeck is not just an iphone app you can also use it for your computer as well.

3. Twitter Karma – I use this to unfollow people who don’t follow me back.  Be careful with this as mass unfollowing people on twitter will get you suspended.  SO use this sparingly and use at your own risk.

4. Hummingbird - Another tool so to help you automate your twitter accounts.  THis is an actual app that you can use to help you with twitter.  Helps you get your twitter followers to big numbers.

5. Selective tweets – This is more like a facebook app but selective tweets lets you pick which one of your twitter tweets can show up on your facebook update.  Very helpful especially if you tweet a lot and your friends don’t want to see EVERYTHING you put on twitter.  I know personally that happened to me.  I had my twitter hooked up to my facebook and it showed every tweet and my friends got annoyed because of my interaction on twitter.  To find this go to facebook and look for selective tweets in one of the apps.

Well these are some of the tools I use on twitter to help me get my twitter following to 4k+ in the few months I have been using it.  But the key to using twitter is to INTERACT.  YOu need to build relationships with people you speak to on twitter.  YOu can have a following of one million but if you don’t INTERACT with them then it does you no good.

Thanks for checking out Twitter Tip Tuesdays I’ll have another Twitter Tip for you next tuesday!

Here’s another motivational monday video from a man named Nick Vujicic.  If you don’t know who he is, he is a man born with no legs or arms but has managed to make a big difference in life.  He could have easily quit his life but he choose not to.  So if you ever think about quitting what you’re doing just think of Nick Vujicic.  If you fall keep trying to get back up because if you quit trying to get up you will stay down.  Great video!!

Man with no legs and arms – Inspiring story