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Rudrakshas (Elaco Carpus seeds) are power beads. It is a common practice in India to wear a rudraksha mala or garland or necklace of rudrakshas.

Wearing rudraksha controls heart beat and ensures a positive effect on blood pressure, stress, anxiety, depression, palpitations and lack of concentration.

The best quality rudraksha is that variety that is divided segment wise like wedges of an orange. These wedges are called as faces. Rrudrakshas are available from single face to twenty one faces.The rudraksha seeds are from a tree named rudraksha (Elaco carpus) tree. Good quality rudraksha beads can be obtained from Nepal, India, Tibet, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

The lighter the rudraksha, the more fruitful it is. That which has a natural hole from end to end is the most excellent one and that which is bored through by human effort is the middling one.

A research scholar D. Subhas Roy ,a professor of Banares, India, gives supporting scientific evidence for the good effects of rudraksha on human body.

Due to their dielectric and magnetic properties the rudraksha beads initiate and effect positive change in the bio electrical system of the human body in a life supporting manner. As a result of this change in the electrical makeup of our body, positive change is also initiated in our bio chemical system. As bioelectrical and biochemical actions and reactions organize in the body at higher levels of interaction another change is then initiated in our bio mechanical system and the sacred trinity of body systems are in union with one another. Thus rudraksha, by virtue of its electrical and magnetic properties beneficially affect our central nervous system, autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and various other organ systems in toto.

Rudraksha has no

side effect. The various types of rudraksha, different classifications which bestow wealth, health and other worldly pleasures are given below:

A rudraksha of a single face bestows worldly pleasures and salvation. Very rarely one gets this single faced bead.

A rudraksha with two faces bestows the fulfillment of all desires. This quickly makes one to control his mind.

A Rudraksha with three faces always bestows means of enjoyment. As a result of its power all lores become firmly established.

A Rudraksha with four faces instantaneously bestows the four aims of life namely, virtuous life, wealth, sexual enjoyments and salvation. It also represents Brahma the lord of creation. By wearing this, designers, engineers, interior decorators and artists can improve their power of creativity.

A Rudraksha with five faces bestows salvation and all desired objects. Normally ninety per cent of the rudrakshas available in the market are five faced.

A Rudraksha with six faces absolves all sins. This bestows health and wealth.

A Rudraksha with seven faces bestows wealth and wisdom. Even a poor man becomes a great lord.

A Rudraksha with eight faces bestows longevity. Man who wears it lives the full span of life.

A Rudraksha with nine faces increases the energy.

A Rudraksha with ten faces removes ill luck, poverty.

The scriptures and Upanishads explain the power of the rudraksha beads.By this ancient wisdom of India one can improve his/her success quotient.A lot many secrets are hidden in the power beads which will be the subject of a future article.

S.Nagarajan is a vehicle body engineer by profession. He has written more than 1300 articles in 16 magazines and published 18 books so far. He is revealing Eastern Secret Wisdom through T.V.Programmes, magazine articles, seminars, courses. His email address is : snagarajans@gmail.com

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We own a home on the island of Puerto Rico nestled high in the mountains against the backdrop of the United States’ only national rainforest, The Yunque. To say that the trees, faunas and wildlife are incredible is an understatement.

Where we live there are only a few handful of houses spaced apart enough to enjoy one’s own privacy. One of my neighbors is a wonderful retiree name Emilio. When you look at Emilio he reminds you of that favorite grandfather who would probably play pranks on you. Emilio’s humor and energy, if you’re around him long enough, is contagious.

About six months ago as I was pulling up to our house, I saw huge piles of cement powder, boards and tools scattered about Emilio’s front yard. I went over to see what he was up to. Emilio had decided to build his own cement patio. “Incredible”, I thought. I asked him if he was going to do it himself and he said, “Yeah, why?” When I returned to Puerto Rico a month or so later he had finished the patio which extended wonderfully off a small dip in the valley giving him an even more spectacular view of the rainforest.

The next time I went to the island, I remember while sitting on my porch enjoying a cup of coffee and the view of the valley, I heard someone yelling my name, “Victor, Victor”. When I came done the road by Emilio’s house I saw him sitting on the roof of his house with his feet dangling over the edge and laughing. Apparently, while repairing some shingles on his roof, the wind came by and blew the ladder away and he had no way of getting down. After a few moments of laughter, on my part, I put the ladder back in place so Emilio could get down.

Last week we went up to the house in Puerto Rico again to find Emilio finishing up the installation of a hot water heater powered by a couple of solar panels he had installed. Apparently technology didn’t scare this old guy either.

That night we sat down and chatted while sipping on a few cold ones. Emilio’s story of how he was raised and the adversities he’s had to overcome made him even more amazing. One of the most recent challenges was the loss of his wife to cancer 10 years ago after 42 years of marriage. She died before their dream house there in Puerto Rico was finished. Emilio can’t go for more than 10 minutes in a conversation without bringing up her name.

To hear him speak of his wife, you think she’s in the next room. A beautiful black and white photo of their wedding sits alone atop a desk and is the first thing you notice when you step inside his home.

Emilio still takes care of his house and continues to improve on it. I suspect that in his mind he’s not building it alone. No. Whatever new task Emilio takes on, his wife is right there beside him in spirit. His vision for their dream house continues to motivate him on to the next project.

Unlike Emilio, many of us have lost our motivation. We’ve lost that drive to bring about the life we once thought of having. We’ve surrendered it to the past and have become apathetic in reclaiming it. Our will to pursue our passion, our dream, our vision has atrophied.

Many of us complain that it’s too late to start a career or learn a new skill. We think we’re too old to learn anything new. Think of Emilio. He learned how to build the patio as he went…at 78!

Many of us stop dreaming because of some tragedy or misfortunate event. Think of Emilio. He taught me to work through the pain, push on and give your life new purpose, new meaning.

And, many of us are afraid to fail or look stupid in the process of building our dream. Failure scares us. Think of Emilio sitting on the roof when the ladder was blown out from under him. I didn’t find him on the roof depressed or belittling himself. Instead I found a big kid laughing at himself and the situation. From Emilio I learned that fallen ladders (i.e., things don’t go the way we planned them) don’t matter and it’s OK to ask (or in Emilio’s case yell) for help.

Emilio shows no sign of letting up. He’s a human Energizer bunny still going strong, still building on his dream, still holding steady to a shared vision.

Are you still holding steady to your vision of happiness?!

Are you still building?!

Remember to laugh when the winds of misfortune blows your ladder out from under you. And, don’t be afraid to ask (or yell) for help. You may be surprised at who shows up to help support your vision.

Please forward this article; share it with a friend who may need words of inspiration to pursue their dream.

Victor Gonzalez, top Hispanic motivational speaker and author of “The LOGIC of Success”. For more info go to: www.thelogicofsuccess.com or by email victor@thelogicofsuccess.com

Whenever you set an ambitious goal, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll encounter some roadblocks.

There’s no reason to let that stop you though. A roadblock isn’t much of an obstacle for a human being. You can climb over it, walk around it, blow it up, get someone else to move it, or otherwise bypass it.

Roadblocks do an outstanding job of frightening away the timid. But to those with a modicum of courage, roadblocks have very little power. When a committed person tackles a roadblock, the roadblock stands very little chance. After a little time spent hacking away at the roadblock, the universe will tend to do the equivalent of saying, “Well, alright then… I was just checking to see if you were serious. I won’t stand in your way anymore. You’re free to proceed.”

Perhaps it’s a universal safety mechanism, something along the lines of survival of the fittest. Maybe the universe won’t allow weak-minded people to go too far down the path of goal achievement, since if they were to succeed in a big way, they’d just make a real mess of things. Strong-willed people are free to pass, while weak-minded ones get knocked back and have to train up a bit more.

Time for a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

So the question is… are you a timid adventurer? Has the world been scaring you away from setting and achieving some really big and meaningful goals?

Is a scarecrow enough to derail you from getting what you really want? Have you been derailed so many times that you’ve stopped pursuing what you want and settled for what you think you can get?

Have you defined as “impossible” or “highly improbable” a whole host of possibilities that other human beings have already proven achievable?

Sure there are some goals that would be really tough for you to accomplish. Maybe you’re right about certain things being impossible for you. So let’s see your battle scars then. Show me the wounds you’ve endured as a result of pursuing goals you couldn’t achieve. Let’s see that bankruptcy, that broken heart, the rejection letter, the lawsuit, the divorce, the public humiliation. Show me the total failures, the brutal disappointments, the smack-downs.

Let’s see them battle scars.

What’s that? Do my ears deceive me, or are those crickets I’m hearing?

No scars, eh.

Alrighty, how about some cuts and bruises? … A skinned knee? … A boo boo? … Heck, I’ll settle for a henna tattoo at this point.

If you have no scars, then you’re a super-duper mega-achiever, right? You must either be a complete genius or incredibly lucky. Nothing but a huge string of successes one after the other.

That’s not it either?

But if you’re not experiencing unfathomable successes and you’re not taking heavy damage either, then what the heck have

you been doing with yourself?

Playing it safe, eh? Playing… Pretending…

Did you really come here to live a pretend life? Perhaps you should stop doing that.

Think about living a real life for a change… the kind of life people write poetry about.

If this world were a role-playing game (RPG), would you be classified as an Avatar or an NPC (non-player character)? NPCs sit around and repeat the same actions day after day. Avatars go on quests, where every day is different.

Do you have a quest? Or just a queue? Those last couple letters make a big difference.

Is your life safe? The word safe is both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective it means “being free from danger.” As a noun it’s “an enclosed storage container with a lock on it.” If you’re living the adjective, you’re living the noun too.

The word brave is also an adjective and a noun, meaning “possessing courage” (adj) and “a warrior” (n). Same rules apply.

Put an ending to pretending. Design your character, train him up, buy him some cool weapons, and send him into battle. Leave the safe behind — it will only slow you down.

In other words, decide what you want, develop the required skills, acquire the necessary resources, and go after your goal with courage. Don’t let anyone or anything stand in your way. Be that resolute young fellow (regardless of your age) as opposed to the timid adventurer.

It really is true that you have nothing to fear but fear itself. If you get hurt along the way, then suck it up and keep going. Battle scars are a part of life. To deny yourself disppointment is to deny yourself victory. If you want to go on a meaningful quest, you’re going to have to risk losing some hit points now and then. Imagine playing an RPG without losing any hit points. You’d be playing scared, and it would be mind-numbingly dull and plodding. Is that how you’re playing the game of life right now?

Is your life full of ghastly defeats and glorious triumphs? Or has getting the mail become the highlight of your day?

Do something today that causes you to risk outright failure. Polish that old armor, and clean up those rusty weapons. Put some of those hit points to good use for a change.

If you fail, then nurse your wounds and celebrate that you’re finally living as human beings were meant to live — impassioned, emboldened, and completely unafraid.

But if you succeed, go find yourself a damn good poet.

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Create an environment that is so inspiring and nurturing that it does half the work for you

When your work and living space are cluttered and dirty, when dishes are piled up in the sink or when your wardrobe is uninspiring, energy that you need to meet your goals will be bled out of you like a battery being run down by a forgotten dome light.?You need all of the energy you currently have just to run your life, and you need to generate more to reach your goals.?Do so by ensuring that your environment doesn’t just meet your needs (organizing, cleaning, maintaining, restocking, etc.) but goes the extra step to ensure that it actually creates energy by anticipating your needs and providing you with a reserve.?How? Simple – overcompensation.?

For example, if you feel better in bright colors, don’t just throw out your “blahs” and pick up a few nice colored pieces – recreate your wardrobe starting with a few basic neutrals and then fill the rest of the closet with a handful of the brightest, most flatteringly-colored and styled clothes you can afford.?This way, you will not only feel fantastic when you wear them, but when you look into your closet, you will feel inspired and energized by everything that is in there and not dragged down by having to fight your way through another “How can I throw

together something decent out of this mess” battle.?

If your problem is clutter and mess, organizing and maintaining is a great way to keep it under control, but having a “stuff audit” – where you toss out everything (furniture included) that you don’t absolutely love or absolutely need, and that doesn’t fit your perfect life ideal – ends up giving you less that you have to clean or organize, more room and more emotional energy to apply to other activities, plus the space to move in some choice, consciously chosen items that inspire you and move you forward, such as great art, a truly wonderful sectional set or that professional kitchen knife set you’ve always wanted (and never bought because your drawer was already full of inferior, but reasonably serviceable, knives).

Don’t settle for less than what you want out of life – but less can be more if your new environment supports, encourages and energizes you.

(c) Soni Pitts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim “soul proprietorship” in their lives and to begin living the life their Creator always intended for them.

She is the author of the free e-book “50 Ways To Reach Your Goals” and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.

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Have a “Pitch Party”

Invite friends and work together to haul out all the old stuff in your life that no longer works with your new direction.?For example, if you have lost a substantial amount of weight, drag out all those too-big clothes, the ugly sweats you slouched around the house in and anything else that belongs with the “old you” (diet magazines, weigh-in charts, etc).?If your goal is more esoteric or offers less tangible reminders of the changes, such as completing a training course or becoming a mother, buy a stack of brightly colored index cards and use markers to write down, one item per card, whatever in your life is getting “tossed out”, such as a low paying job because you weren’t certified, or pining over pictures of happy families in magazines because you didn’t have a baby.

Now gather up all the old stuff and ceremoniously destroy it, with lots of laughing and cheering! Have a bonfire, if that is permitted in your

area, and throw everything onto it.?Or burn the cards in a big ashtray or tear them up and fling them off a mountaintop.?If the items are valuable, or you think someone else might find use in them, you can decorate your vehicles with streamers and window paint and have a festive parade to the local Goodwill or other “offloading” spot, then go out to dinner afterwards.?Keep nothing in your new life from your old life that brings you down, holds you back or detracts from your success.

(c) Soni Pitts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim “soul proprietorship” in their lives and to begin living the life their Creator always intended for them.

She is the author of the free e-book “50 Ways To Reach Your Goals” and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.

OK those of you that have been with my for any time at all know that I have talked about the two reasons why we don’t succeed, no matter what your definition of success is. So why am I talking about three reasons now? Well I have been thinking about this for a short while, and I believe that the third reason can be tied into the other two, but I think it is important enough to give it its own category. So what are the three reasons?

1) Guilt

2) Previous experience

3) Self Image

Over the next few days I will be talking about these success killers. The simple fact is that often times recognition of one or more of these sabotaging agents will sometimes be enough to get rid of it. The illogical thought process will sometimes just be kicked out, because you realized it was there. Sometimes, however, it will take some real and intensive work to get rid of these patterns. Either way, knowledge of them is the first step to obtaining success n whatever you are working towards

Today I am going to talk about guilt.

Years ago a friend of mine named Donald was a world class billiards player. I don’t mean that he was OK for the bar or that he was a good local player, I mean he has played and beat some of the best players in the world. If you are familiar with the game of billiards or pool in the for the last 25 or 30 years, you would recognize some of the names of the people that Donald had beat. You would, in all likelihood, however not know Donald’s name, even if I gave you his full name. He was told by one old timer, Jim Rempe I think, that he should enter the US Open. Jim knew he could win, and once he won he could go over seas and do exhibition matches. He would make a bundle of money and be treated like a king. Jim told him this, by the way, after Donald had beat him in a match.

So Donald was one tournament away from fame and fortune doing what he loved. That seems pretty successful to me! Now granted it was the US Open, maybe the hardest tournament in pool, but he could win if he tried. So why is it that most people who love the game have never heard of Donald and why is it that he was my roommate in a house that was getting foreclosed on? I will tell you. Donald felt guilty about having anything, even a title. That is the reason. That’s it. Simple huh? The only thing holding him back from succeeding was guilt.

Donald was a great guy. He would literally give his last dollar to a homeless guy. He would give you the shirt off his back in a heart beat. But he never had anything, including a place to

live.

Donald is an extreme case, but many people fell the same way. They feel guilty about accumulating any wealth. The guilt may come from the idea that others don’t have as much. Or it may be because your parents, sister, brother, or cousin isn’t as successful as you. It could be guilt that you may have to spend more time away from your family (that is not true by the way). There are literally dozens of reasons why people feel guilty about being more successful.

Perhaps you feel guilty about having a great relationship. Guilty that you are leaving your Mom or Dad. Guilty about children from a past relationship.(I am talking about “replacing their mother or father. You should always do your best to take care of your children. Your new spouse should understand that or you should tell him/her to leave!) Perhaps you feel guilty about having a great relationship because none of your friends do, and after all why are you so much batter than them.

I know this stuff sound silly, but I am telling you it can kill you hopes and dreams. Often these feelings are buried deep in your mind and you don’t even realize they are there. The good news is that they are often easily dismissed once identified. That’s right, the premise of these feelings is so ridiculous, that often our minds kick them out as soon as we realize they exist. The problem is realizing they exist. That is one of the many things I talk about in my book “The Barbarian’s Guide to Success”. It has exercises I used, and still use, to change my thinking, and literally pull to to success in whatever I focus on.

With that I will say:

Get the Barbarian Mind Set and keep it. Stay trú to yourself and your family, the rest will take care of itself.

Welga!

Everte Farnell is a author and speaker and professional coach. In May of 2003 Everte was a divorced broke single father. Two and a half years later Everte is a happily married father of two. The company he and his wife worked to build supplies his family with a six figure income, and his children are happy healthy and well adjusted. He lives a life that many dream of. It is the life that he dreamed of in May of 2003.

In October of 2005 he released his book “The Barbarian’s Guide to Success” and is dedicated to helping other realize their dreams. He is a straight forward, politically incorrect, figure and makes very little time for detractors. He often says “So many ‘coaches’ have made their money by coaching. I do everything I coach. It is important that people know that I have faced or do face the same challenges they face. Life is an integrated process. Your professional life must support your personal and family life and vice versa, otherwise you will never find true success.” Everte Can be reached at his web page http://www.successfulBarbarian.com

“Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.” — Jim Rohn

Have you ever wondered why some people always seem to get whatever they want?

In fact there’s nothing mysterious about it. You, too can quickly get whatever you want …and enjoy it, too – it’s all a matter of mindset, success mindset.

Start now, and build your own Success Mindset!

To begin with: Work on yourself. Examine your mind. What are your deep-seated beliefs on yourself?

The best way to find out is to discover the limitations you set for yourself, which are the result of your self-concept i.e.the way you “see” yourself..

For example if you decide to do something, like lose weight, or get up earlier, or work more etc. do you find it easy or is there a “little voice” inside you that keeps whispering to you: “No, you’re just wasting your time, you’ll never make it….”?

Those are the limitations you have imposed upon yourself throughout your life.

Most probably, the seeds were planted in your mind since childhood and, over time, have taken on the disguise of reality.

Childhood programming and associations grew up with you and were nurtured, seemingly confirmed by successive failures throughout your life.

And things will go on like this until the day when you stand up, stamp your foot, and say: “No! No! No!”

You’ve just realized that there is no fatality in life!

Those beliefs on yourself, which you thought you were “born with”, were in fact acquired from your childhood on and gradually built up to constitute your “personality traits.”

There is now scientific evidence that “you can get to the deepest part of your mind and program your belief system with affirmations, visualizations, prayer” (if you feel so inclined), and thus create a new reality for yourself.

You can “introduce other patterns of belief into the subconscious and unconscious areas of your mind”.

This is something within your power. You can decide to do it and then proceed to do it.

NOW YOU KNOW, and this puts you high above Jim Rohn’s “97% crowd”!

And you can deliberately program

your mind for success, it’s like installing the Success Mindset software.

Yes, Success Mindset is really like software. Your mind is programmed for success. It is framed in such a way that you always get whatever you want.

Success is no longer accidental or occasional. It has become second nature to you – or one should even say “first nature”.

What you used to call failure becomes an opportunity to learn a lesson and move forward to still further success – “a blessing in disguise”.

One nice thing about Success Mindset is that ANYONE can acquire it, never mind whether some people are “more gifted” than others.

It simply can be built and nurtured by any human being.

And Success Mindset is based on what I call the “Success Mindset Tripod (TM)”:

- gratitude- purpose- faith

In other articles, we examine

- how an attitude of gratitude enables you to be at peace with both your past and your “already visualized” future;

- how a sense of purpose is what you need to control your destiny and define your own future;

- how faith is at once the vehicle, the fuel and… the bridge between your past, your present, and your future.

We also talk about the tools you will use for your Success Mindset building, such as self-talk, affirmations, visualizations, goalsetting, etc. and much, much more.

Meanwhile, don’t allow your “Success Mindset Tripod (TM)” to wobble and crash down. Let it proudly stand on its three sturdy legs.

- Cultivate gratitude: whatever your present situation, it certainly might have been worse,

- Strengthen your sense of purpose by being crystal-clear about what you want,

- Nurture your faith, if only faith in yourself.

Or… will you just idly sit by and powerlessly watch as your Magnificent Dream explodes, with bits and pieces hurtling down the bottomless pit of abject failure?

“Don’t walk sideways, breast your way through life!”

A.M.Sall

A 30+year experience – translator, teacher, traveler, musician, writer, plus crosscultural awareness, worldwide ancient spiritual traditions… Success Mindset Philosopher A.M.Sall helps you “be whatever you want to be and get whatever you want to get “. http://www.health-beauty-wellness.com/smm.htm

I have noticed that though my clients often have created a plan, many do not incorporate an understanding of themselves to execute it, and so it is not adequately customized. Unleash your ultimate success by developing a strategy that seamlessly integrates self-knowledge to increase profits and personal fulfillment. Imagine the results of integrating that into your day-to-day life? Can you logically deduce the potential benefits and act accordingly?

Like me, you probably get e-mails everyday telling you about a new product that will automate cumbersome parts of your business. However, it is very easy to end up with a ton of software and books and still find yourself struggling with the same root issues.

Look, if you are going to invest in yourself or your business you must examine the big picture, not just one part of it. Acting haphazardly can actually take you farther off course, away from your true aspirations.

It’s akin to getting bogged down in the details. There is a middle point between bogged down in details and skimming the surface.

I highly advocate dealing with your relationship to self as a primary objective because it has multiple benefits on nearly every level. That is the key to unleashing the secret to your success. The place to begin is developing a strategy with your requirements and objectives at the center.

You might like to know that I haven’t always emphasized this relationship with self, component in my consulting practice. For a while I thought it was too personal, but time and again I saw that it was at the root of why the initial plan didn’t work.

The turning point came for me after I had been consulting with a recreational vehicles parts manufacturing company. The company had earned $1,000,000 in profit in its third year, so all seemed reasonably well. That is until I got inside.

There were a lot of communication problems, production was six months behind, what was being produced was mostly rejected work, and this contributed to issues of lacking supply inventory, nonexistent company morale…

You get the picture. After conducting my assessment, going over the production and sales logs, I made my report. Since my focus is on thought leadership and relationship marketing this was the framework in which my recommended solution was offered.

The managing director was unwilling to see the situation as a relationship that was dying and he wasn’t interested in “throwing anymore money at it”. Long story short, within six months half of the key staff had left and the

company only had one remaining account to sustain the business, so much for another year of million dollar profits.

I wondered if it would have saved the company if I had pointed out that the director was at the center of the entire fiasco, fanning the flames actually. I saw enough of his personality drama to understand the tension I sensed from everyone working with him.

This was a lesson to me about what is at stake if I pretend not see what is glaringly obvious. If the client doesn’t see it, then that explains why they hire me. But what I witnessed did not ignite the joy that led me to go into this line of work.

In my life that moment indicated the need for self examination. I required a change. I needed to experience myself in terms of making a difference through my service. I decided to offer my services to people who were truly in need, but unlikely to get the kind help I thought I could offer.

I accepted the privilege of assisting women with children as they transitioned from homelessness. I became part of a mentor team. My role started out as personal coaching mostly because it became clear very quickly that a little help could go along way for someone who has never been encouraged.

Out of those coaching relationships several entrepreneurs were born. Empowered to seize their destinies rather than merely being manipulated by the choices of those around them, I witnessed how the relationship with oneself can heal a life.

I was privileged to benefit from the experience of others and I realized how much relationships could mean during times of uncertainty. This is as true when our professional life is negatively impacted, as it is when our personal life seems devastated. However, it is impossible to make real progress with anyone that is unwilling to make the changes required to improve a situation.

Perhaps those who have lost everything are more willing to take that risk.

It has been my honor to work with a number of talented, highly motivated and inspiring people. As we come to the end of this tête-à-tête, I encourage you to remain aware of the importance of relationships in reaching or staying on the top and the value in beginning with the one you have with yourself.

Yvette Dubel is the founder of http://www.enhancementconsulting.net and creator of the e-consultation product line: Simple Plan System©. Enhancement Consulting also publishes “Elements of Simple Plan for Success” ezine.

“Things might have been worse”

This is the most powerful, dynamic, revolutionary statement you could ever make in your life.

But first, deciding to take an inventory your life will lead you to put down in front of you two parts of your life:

1. the good things: positive

2. the bad things: negative

Do you think your life might have been better or worse?

This is a choice for you to make.

But if you put every thing down and carefully examine it, you will realize things certainly might have been worse.

“I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.” (Confucius)

For example, you have lost your job but you are in good health: you might have lost BOTH health and job.

Now, the mere fact that you are faced with a choice means you are in a dynamic situation, the possibility to decide for yourself, to assert yourself, to test your sense of purpose.

You are FREE to decide. Yes, it is up to you to decide whether things might have been better or worse.

If you decide that things might have been better and things had indeed been better, you wouldn’t have felt the need for change: you would have carried on, unconscious and happy (!?)

If your “present” is better than it might have been, then there is no reason why your “future” should not be better than your “present” (please read this sentence again .

The only difference is NOW YOU KNOW, and this is what makes your situation so powerful, so dynamic, so revolutionary, so excitingly full of proactivity:

You can decide, you can make choices, set goals and work to achieve your goals.

You are no longer groping in the dark and whatever you decide for yourself will come to pass.

Your future is a heavily pregnant lady and you don’t need an obstetrician, because YOU are the obstetrician – not just any obstetrician, but the most powerful obstetrician that ever was.

All the kids are yours and YOU can decide what they are going to be This is a terribly exciting story, and you are the superhero.

Now is the time to exercise your sense of purpose.

Deciding that things might have been worse means you are ready for three things at least:

1. gratitude: you can be grateful because you see the positive side in all things.

You realize there are more positives than negatives, so you don’t complain, you

don’t explain, you are in control;

2. faith: the realization that from now on, things CAN be better and you can decide things ARE GOING to be better.

3. clarity of purpose: you know exactly what you want things to be.

You are ready for a life-change and you have faith, gratitude and a sense of purpose. These are the 3 legs of your Success Mindset Tripod.

Once you are ready for change, you have gone at least 60% of the way, you can get anything you want.

Attitude is the first thing to change and you have changed your attitude from negative to positive.

Clearly affirm your readiness for change.

From now on, anything you do will be informed by your faith, your gratitude, your clarity and unity of purpose.

Meditate a lot to convince yourself that you are on the right track.

This deep conviction will rid you of stress, tension, doubt and fear, your two worse enemies.

Eventually, you will impress everybody, including yourself!

Deep conviction will bring you into agreement with yourself, the only person you really have to agree with, after all. This is what I call “unity of purpose”.

And once you agree with yourself, you’ll find it much easier to agree with anybody else – contrary to what some people may think.

Now is the time for you to decide what part of your life you want to change, be it making money, losing weight, relationships, or anything else.

Now is the time to set your goals, and take action to achieve them.

But never forget that you have already gone 60% of the way – readiness for life-change, which was obtained through making a balance-sheet of your life and deciding that things might have been worse (past + present) and that things CAN and indeed ARE GOING TO get better (future)

And things are truly going to be better than they could ever be, simply because NOW YOU KNOW.

Always remember “things might have been worse” – and be grateful, confident and purposeful.

Then move forward and upward, and build your life with your Success Mindset Tripod!

Lead your life and don’t allow yourself to be led by your life.

A.M.Sall – author, coach, success mindset strategist

A 30+year experience – translator, teacher, traveler, musician, writer, plus crosscultural awareness, worldwide ancient spiritual traditions… Success Mindset Philosopher A.M.Sall helps you “be whatever you want to be and get whatever you want to get.” http://www.health-beauty-wellness.com/positive.htm

I am going to tell you something you already know but actively ignore. 90% of the time, 90% of what you think is complete and utter drivel, useless background chatter, and recycled subconscious tape loops.

We all know that thought is a creative activity and that conscious intentional thought is responsible for ALL wealth creation; yet, we allow our minds to wander aimlessly around in the surrealistic wasteland of old ad jingles, meaningless daydreams, unfocussed societal programming and non-productive, unconscious idle thoughts.

In fact, you can compare most people’s mental activity to a TV set with 400 cable channels all controlled by a channel surfing chimpanzee holding the remote control. No focus; no attention span; no intentionality; no reason; no worthwhile purpose. No worthwhile results.

Thought creates. Focused intentional thought creates intended results. Unfocussed, unintentional thought creates unintended results. What you think about, you bring about.

In order to produce (create) wealth, you must train your mind to think the thoughts that produce wealth. And you must also train your mind to think those thoughts clearly and consistently.

I am not the first to tell you this.

Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

These are all classics; all bestsellers. They all say the same simple thing…the results that show up in your life are created by what and how you think. So, let me ask you this…what exactly are you thinking? Why? To what purpose do you allow your mind to hold the thoughts that it does?

Most people never achieve the levels of success and happiness they aspire to. And these 90% of people willfully ignore the fact that 90% of the time, 90% of their thoughts are creating results they do not intend or desire.

Always, according to these people, it is the outside conditions and circumstances that are to blame for their lack of hoped for results. They steadfastly refuse to closely examine their own thought processes and steadfastly refuse to accept responsibility for what and how they think.

I’ll tell you this…if you really, really desire to create for yourself the ideals of wealth, health and happiness you hold, you will have to learn to think on purpose. A hammer is a tool. A chisel is a tool. Many can use them to chip away at concrete. Michelangelo used them to create the statue of David (and more). The mind is a tool. Many use it to chip away at life. A few use it to create their

ideals, the life of their dreams. Your mind is your own. It is a tool. How you use it is up to you.

We can all see the stupidity of someone wanting to be healthy and fit but spending their evenings channel surfing in front of the boob tube eating junk food. It is the same as wanting to be wealthy while spending most of the time thinking random non-productive thoughts.

Physical exercise produces results. So does mental exercise. Living on a diet of junk food will prevent or destroy your health. Living on a diet of mental junk will prevent or destroy your wealth. Simple thing to understand; yet most folks live on mental junk. They watch mindless drivel on TV. They allow societal programming to dominate their thought processes. They don’t examine what they are thinking. They don’t make the effort to think on purpose. They don’t flex their mental muscles.

Can you think and grow rich? You bet. That is how all riches are created. Most, however, are more habituated to the “think and grow poor” way of life. Opt out of the mass mindset. Start thinking creatively. Start thinking wealthy thoughts.

The laws of the universe are immutable. One such law is that thought creates. Like gravity, it works all the time, not just when you want it to. Your every thought is creative. Scattered thoughts create scattered results and that sometimes confuses people and leads them to believe that thought is not always creative. 15 minutes of positive, focused, purposeful thought cannot completely override 23 hours and 45 minutes of unfocused, negative and accidental thought. If your results are mixed, it is because the quality of your thoughts is mixed.

You can deny but not escape that plain and simple truth.

Do you want to create intended and desired results? Get control of your thoughts. Do you want to be wealthy? Think your way to riches. Get the wealth consciousness.

Don’t know how? Read the books mentioned above or, better yet, read my books.

© Leslie Fieger. All rights reserved worldwide.

Leslie is the author of The DELFIN Knowledge System Trilogy: The Initiation, The Journey and The Quest plus many more success publications. He also the co-author of The End of the World with Hugh Jeffries and Alexandra’s DragonFire with his daughter Ashley. Subscribe to his free and ad-free eZine at http://www.ProsperityParadigm.com or http://www.LeslieFieger.com.

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