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Desperate Times Call for... Simple Measures

There’s a shared belief that we live in desperate times. People have lost their jobs – those who have jobs are scared that they’ll lose them. Often, it’s only when people become desperate that they rise to the challenges of making the bold decisions that they should have made anyway. A lost job is an opportunity – possibly the greatest of your life. And, if you’re scared of losing your job, how does that fear effect your performance. It’s time to stop dwelling on the negative - come to your senses...

Your Life is Your Choice

What have Tiger Woods, you and I got in common? We all make choices and, often, our choices may not be for the best, for our lives or for the lives of those around us. But we don't make big bad choices out of the blue, we make little choices, moment to moment, that move our lives in our chosen direction. Most of us don't realize this and, consequently, drift - finally wondering why life is not so bad. Well, not so bad is not good enough...

Has a Self-Help Guru Ripped You Off?

Self help means that you must help yourself. You need to gather the appropriate information or guidance but after that you're on your own. You do not need to develop a dependence on some "guru" which, more often than not, will leave you worse off than you were at the outset. No rites of passage are required. You do not need to pay some "guru" thousands of dollars to awaken that which only you can awaken yourself - the potential within.

Forget About the Recession - Here's How to Succeed

Swapping negative recession stories is perpetuating economic hardship. And, as things stand, there are enough cards stacked against us in our everyday lives without us adding to our own woes - unwittingly. Instead of mindlessly joining in the negative hype, we need to set ourselves apart, break with the broken normal. We need to start being mindful, for it is in focused mindfulness that we create our own success - and it's up to you alone.

Degrees of Success

You don't have to work hard to be a success. Nor do you have to ride roughsod over everyone in the process. Perhaps we need to re-evaluate what we see as success, bring more balance to our perspective and, in the process, realize that there is a totally different level of "super-success" that can be effortlessly achieved, if we could simply step outside the herd of the normal.

Gossiping About Tiger Woods, are We?

The media is full of rumor and inuendo about Tiger Woods' life. But Gossip is wasting the most precious resource you have - your energy. Your life is created by virtue of where and how you invest your energy - so negative gossip is literally killing you. As a responsible adult, you should take responsibility for where you direct your energy - point it towards the positive - not only will you stop feeding the negative that permeates modern living, you'll start creating the life that you really want...

Overcome Your Fear to Achieve Effortless Success

The world is in the mess it's in becuase enough normal people think that's the way it should be. Science proves that we get what we expect. It also proves that, if we expect something different, something different will indeed happen. We need to step outside the norms of how we use our minds, stop our minds abusing us and start using our mental power for our own true benefit. It is in this way that highly successful people are highly successful - and we can be highly successful too...

Rising to the Challenges in Life and Business - PDF

When it comes to business, you might say that the purpose of being in business is ‘to be successful’ – so that all the stakeholders get a good return for the efforts. Of course, each of us has our own unique definition of happiness and success – assuming, that is, that you’ve ever stopped to reflect on it at all. But, you might care to reflect on this question for a moment – are you really, really happy and successful – and, if not, why not? Do you, perhaps, have issues in business and life that get in the way? What exactly is standing in your way?

Are You Adding to the Gloom and Doom?

Continually talking and reading about bad news adds to the affect that bad news has on our common consciousness. We are all contributing to the global downturn simply by talking about it. Yet, quantum physics tells us that energy is responsive. Psychology tells us that state of mind is contagious. You can choose to spread the contagion or start a new flow - a flow based on all that's good in our lives. Start that new flow today...

Barack Will Save Us All!

There is a great expectation that Barack Obama's election to the White House has changed everything. Yet, as the Mahatma Gandhi said, ordinary people create real change - and, in fact it was ordinary people's belief and expectation that got Obama elected. At present, there's a lot of negative expectation about - the good news is that psychology andn quantum physics prove that expectation, which is contangious, works positively too...

Leading Your Way Out of Recession

Current economic conditions are crying out for leadership. But, each of us is responsible for our own lives - and, indeed, only each one of us can take responsibility for our own state of mind, regardless of what is going on around us. Here are some thoughts on how to embrace that responsibility open-armed and, in the process, become the leader, not only of your own life, but a shining example for the rest of us...

Is Self Help a Scam?

Recent university research suggests that self help "makes you feel worse". But the researchers know nothing about self-help - they studied self-affirmation. And self-affirmation is a scam - you'll never convince yourself that you're wonderful if you don't believe it in your heart and soul. To really help yourself, you need to get in touch with that heart and soul, the part of you that can create the life and happiness that you really want...

How Secure is Your Job?

There is no such thing as certainty or security. Everything is in a constant state of flux. You can neither make assumptions about the future nor can you depend on other people or events for your own wellbeing. This constant flux is, however, our greatest opportunity. It enables us create our world, on our terms, if we rise to the challenge of being clear enough and present enough to seize the opportunity. All you need is a clear and present mind...

No More Bad News

Why are the media full of bad news? What kind of sick minds continually press negative stories on us? Or, more to the point, what kind of sick minds continually have such a voracious appetite for bad news? Normal people, that’s who! Normal people are very sick people – they use almost none of their mental capabilities, they only perceive what they expect to perceive and, as a result, live normal lives are, at best, “not too bad”. That’s not good enough. The good news is that you can choose to be abnormal – abnormally successful and happy...

The Importance of Being Calm

Bet you that you didn't know that if enough of us were calm, everybody would be calm. And in a world gone mad calm is of paramount importance - not only will it change your life, the knock-on ripple effect will produce results. So says the US Federal Government. So says modern quantum physics. Enough hot-headed people can mess up their own lives and others' too - it works exactly the same for calm. So, do you want to change your life for the better and help in a greater cause?