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		<title>When Will You Be Too Old To Live Your Dreams?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you written off your dreams because you think you are too old? Think about this, more and more Olympic athletes are over 30 and some over 40. The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing China has more athletes over 30 participating than any time in history. Do you realize how difficult it is to make the Olympic team in a country with a lot of athletes trying to get on the team and where there are many young athletes competing for the positions?                      

Dara Torres, 41-year-old swimmer for the USA, just got two Silver medals and she out swam her much younger competitor during the last leg of the relay.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you written off your dreams because you think you are too old?</p>
<p>Think about this, more and more Olympic athletes are over 30 and some over 40. The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing China has more athletes over 30 participating than any time in history. Do you realize how difficult it is to make the Olympic team in a country with a lot of athletes trying to get on the team and where there are many young athletes competing for the positions?                      <img class="alignright" src="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com/images/dara_torres%20_swimmer.jpg" alt="Dara Torres 2008 Olympics" width="86" height="92" /></p>
<p>Dara Torres, 41-year-old swimmer for the USA, just got two Silver medals and she out swam her much younger competitor during the last leg of the relay. She has successfully balanced the rigorous training needed with being the mother of a 3-year-old daughter.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com/images/Belarus'_Ekaterina_Karstan.jpg" alt="Ekaterina Karstan 2008 Olympics" width="93" height="107" />Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus, competing in the women’s single skull rowing, brings home a bronze medal and she is 36. This is her 4th Olympics, she has won three gold’s and one silver in this event in those efforts proving she has remained in top shape for many years.</p>
<p>Romania’s Constantina Tomescu is 38 and just won the gold in the women’s marathon. In <img class="alignright" src="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com/images/Constantina_Tomescu.jpg" alt="Contantina Tomescu 2008 Olympics" width="141" height="93" />fact at the halfway point she was in 26th place before she gathered speed to end up finishing almost two and a half minutes ahead of the second place finisher. She finished 20th in the 2004 Olympics but has improved steadily in the last four years as she has gotten older in age.</p>
<p>Oksana Chusovitina the 33 year old German gymnast received a silver medal on the vault. My two <img class="alignleft" src="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com/images/Oksana_Chusovitina_vault.jpg" alt="Oksana Chusovitina 2008 Olympics" width="134" height="93" />daughters were both involved in competitive gymnastics, I know how physicaly brutal this sport is. She has stated that if she is able to qualify for the next Olympics she will, she will be 37. She said, “if I can I’ll do a sixth Olympics.” Is she giving up on what she loves? She says, “I don’t feel 33, I feel 18.” She not only made the German team, she took 3rd place amongst all competitors, most of which are about 16 years old!</p>
<p>Jason Lezek, the US swimmer who helped Michael Phelps win the two team relays, is 32 swimming against<img class="alignright" src="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com/images/Jason_Lezak_Getty_images_sport.jpg" alt="Jason Lezak 2008 Olympics" width="119" height="79" /> athletes 10 to 15 years younger. He has shown that he can still compete in finals in the Olympics as well as other international events.</p>
<p>The ability of athletes continuing to compete at such a high level as they age can be attributed to several factors; more financial support for athletes, better sports medicine, more understanding about diet, but mental perspective and determination is at the foundation of it all. It definitely can become more difficult physically to train as a person gets older and the drive to continue must be strong. But the decisions you make based on your perceptions are the determining factor to what you will motivate yourself to do.</p>
<p>These older athletes are redefining what is possible as we get older. Their success shows what we are capable of when we have the vision, motivation and determination. More importantly is shows that more people are able to see themselves in this role as they continue to get older. When you can see something as possible you are more likely to find the ways to bring it about.</p>
<p>The demise of ones abilities begins with their perception of what is possible and not possible. So often people fall into the mental trap of thinking they are too old for something or that it is not appropriate for an older person. This is just not the case in all instances. Your physical abilities and mental drive is governed by your perceptions of what is possible, what you ’should’ be doing and many times the influence of others.</p>
<p>This concept does not just apply to sports, any endeavor that you have stopped allowing yourself to see as possible is not necessarily dead, unless you condemn it in your mind. Take time to assess your deep wants and desires and rather than staying with restrictive perceptions, take a fresh look at it. You will discover that many times it is your own mental decisions that have stopped your progress and squelched your dreams, not your actual abilities.</p>
<p>Harland (Colonel) Sanders did not even start franchising his chicken until he was 65 years old, you may have heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken.</p>
<p>What is really possible for you ‘if’ you were to follow your dreams without telling yourself no?</p>
<p>John Halderman<br />
More life changing concepts at <a href="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com">Effective Personal Development Blog</a></p>
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		<title>You Are Always A Success Whether You Like It Or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jhald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you trying to be successful at something, or with several areas in your life? This is a characteristic normal for us human creatures, to feel good about our abilities and accomplishments. We seem to be continuously striving for something more to feel good about. We so often think that we are not doing or being what we want.
When actually...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you trying to be successful at something, or with several areas in your life? This is a characteristic normal for us human creatures, to feel good about our abilities and accomplishments. We seem to be continuously striving for something more to feel good about. We so often think that we are not doing or being what we want.</p>
<p>When actually, it?s not a matter of finding out ?how? to have success in your life, but rather how and where to<br />
direct your success. The problem is not, not being a success. The thing is you actually already are very successful every day, but maybe not at what you would like.</p>
<p>You are successfully living your life, your body is functioning and you are thinking about something every day, all day.  Now if you weren?t having any thoughts at all, I would be concerned.  And since you are thinking about something, you are receiving the fulfillment of those thought requests without fail.</p>
<p>The universe doesn?t fail itself, and since you are a part of it you will not be failed either.  Just as a plant seed always gets what it requests, so do you. So then why don?t you get everything you think you want? You want it so you must be requesting it right.</p>
<p>Well, again you actually are getting everything that you are requesting.  I know it seems like I?m taking you in a circle here but think about this for a moment, how do you know what a tulip has requested from the universe? Well, the tulip would not be a tulip if it had requested something else. The way to tell what has been requested is by the evidence that is present.</p>
<p>Now, a tulip can?t request anything else, it is programmed into the bulb exactly what it is to request from the all providing source.  But you and I are a little different, we have two different aspects.  One, like the tulip, your physical self, has been programmed much the same way through your DNA and this is just as automatic as with the flower. You don?t need to think to keep your body running as it was designed, including all your uniqueness.</p>
<p>Then, the other aspect you have is your mental capacity to reason, think and choose.  Sure some other creatures have a little of this aspect but nothing like we do.  A cat can decide to seek out a warm sunny spot to lay in, but it can?t learn a new trade or change the way it perceives things like you can. This second mental ability is one where you decide what is in the seed - your seed. You have the ability to design what the seed will request from the universe, let?s call it your ?creative seed?.</p>
<p>Now this part is important to understand, just like the tulip seed and your physical body, your ?creative seed? is always activated with the universe.  This means the universe is constantly reading your request within your ?creative seed?, thus it is always responding in kind. Here is the scary part, your thoughts, all of them, are the ?creative seed? which is a continuous active request link to the intelligent universe.  So everything you are thinking is your ?creative seed? whether you are or are not consciously aware of it.</p>
<p>This is why it is so critically important to make it your main objective all day every day to discover what you are thinking and adjust it to be congruent with that which best serves what you want in your life. When you may say that you want something, but all the while your inner thoughts are pointed elsewhere and your behavior is reinforcing something else, your ?want? doesn?t hold much weight in the request seen by the universe. Your predominant thoughts and actions are so strong; the universe can?t hear what you really want.</p>
<p>You are right now completely successful at what you have invested your thoughts and energies to, even if you are not totally aware of them. Your experience in life has a direct correlation to what you think about and feel strongly about most of the time. There is an exact relationship to the percentage of time you allot to any thoughts and your life experience.</p>
<p>So if you want to be successful at something other than what you are successful at today, you will need to devote a higher percentage of your thoughts, feelings and energies in ways that are more in alignment with these desires. Just occasional lip service will not do.</p>
<p>All of your thoughts combined are what is included inside of your ?seed? that the universe works to fulfil for you. So ask yourself, ?How much of the volume or space in the seed is taken up with what I deeply want and how much of it is what I don?t want, don?t like, put up with or just complain about?? You are constantly creating this seed, and from this you are completely successful based on what?s in it.</p>
<p>To change this, you will need to take command of your everyday thinking, choose to have more of your thoughts, feelings and actions be congruent with your deep desires. Using your valuable thought time to complain, ridicule, doubt, worry, feel angry, resent someone, and many other negative type thoughts, just steal time you can be filling your ?seed? with what you really want. Plus, you will just get more in your life to complain, resent, worry about and all the rest - is that what you really want?</p>
<p>Some people have actually kept track, in time, of their thoughts all day long in order to discover what percentage of time they devote to certain ideas. With this you can discover what undesirable thinking you want to replace with the aligned thinking you want.</p>
<p>Take command of your thinking now by aligning more of your thoughts with your deepest desires, you will see your feelings and actions follow suit, then your life experience will too. Choose what you are successful at by redirecting the same tools and power you now use to get what you now have.<br />
John Halderman</p>
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		<title>Don?t Wait For A Hole In the Plane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jhald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure you have heard about the Qantas Airways Flight 30 jet that had to make an emergency landing at the Manila International Airport shortly after leaving Hong Kong while in route to Melbourne, Australia. It was discovered that there was a large hole in the fuselage and a this point no explanation has been given as to how it happened, although it's not likely caused by a terrorism act. All the passengers are fine and were very calm during the unknown course of actions needed to get the plane down safely in Manila.

This is just the event that can trigger your personal growth and development. Have you ever been in a situation where your life is quite possibly in imminent jeopardy? 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure you have heard about the Qantas Airways Flight 30 jet that had to make an emergency landing at the Manila International Airport shortly after leaving Hong Kong while in route to Melbourne, Australia. It was discovered that there was a large hole in the fuselage and a this point no explanation has been given as to how it happened, although it&#8217;s not likely caused by a terrorism act. All the passengers are fine and were very calm during the unknown course of actions needed to get the plane down safely in Manila.</p>
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<p>This is just the event that can trigger your personal growth and development. Have you ever been in a situation where your life is quite possibly in imminent jeopardy? If you have, you will know first hand how you quickly go through an awakening, which commonly includes &#8217;seeing your life flash before your eyes&#8217;. You all of a sudden see yourself and your life from a different perspective. It is much like the perspective many people come to when they are at the place of imminent death from old age or illness. They are able to see in a new light many of their long held feelings, thoughts, and perspectives from a more &#8216;outside looking in&#8217; point of view.</p>
<p>When you are living &#8216;in&#8217; your life you have a harder time taking an outside view of what you are doing. What you think is important or necessary may not actually be so. Your perspectives and your interpretations of the people, situations and events in your life may not be the most desirable to have to support the life you really want. When your life has evolved as it has, you accept much of it as &#8216;how it is&#8217; and don&#8217;t really look at it as something that can be different.</p>
<p>When an event wakes you up so to speak, you are sort of knocked off kilter a bit and suddenly you are able to see things differently. At this point many people do a lot of reassessment of what is important to them and of their priorities, making changes that are more aligned with their true feelings. As undesirable as the trigger event may be, it can be a wake up call for you to take a look at how you are using your life.</p>
<p>Like at old age when people look back and say, &#8220;I should have done this or that, or not have acted that way&#8221; and regret what they did for so many years. Why wait the facing of death to reassess your life? You can do it any time you choose. Just because your life has evolved mostly in an automatic way, you don&#8217;t have to let it stay that way. You can shift gears and change direction any time you want. The first point is to realize that you can, and you can. You don&#8217;t have to be shocked into it, although that can make it quick!</p>
<p>There are many helpful methods and tools available for you to use helping yourself see your life in a new view and then with making any alterations you may choose to make. The second requirement is you must want to change, as your mind will most easily keep doing what it has been doing up to this point so you will need personal motivation to override this. You are intended to continuously change and evolve throughout your life, but many get stuck and don&#8217;t realize why they feel unfulfilled and frustrated.</p>
<p>You have your thinking, reasoning and the ability to choose which are your basic tools to navigate your personal evolution through life. Your connections with your inner self and your intuition serve as guidance as you go but can only respond to what you seek. A life unquestioned is a life unchanged except by outside influences. Allowing outside influences to be your only guide, you will be much like the ball in an old style pinball machine bouncing from peg to peg with little to no choice.</p>
<p>Choice is part of your basic equipment, learn how to use it and do so. Don&#8217;t wait for some outside event or near death to wake you up, assess your life and how your feel now. What is working and what is no? Everything in the universe is in constant change, what makes you think you can remain the same and feel good about it? You can&#8217;t - dissatisfaction, unrest and unhappiness are the result. Rather, learn to navigate the change to best suit the life you are guided from within to live and you will see your happiness and satisfaction increase dramatically.</p>
<p>As you navigate your natural change, as guided from within, you will actually feel more calm and secure than when you were seeking comfort by trying to keep everything the same. Let this latest in air emergency be the catalyst for you to asses your life, don&#8217;t wait for something to happen to you. If we can learn from what happens to others, we may not need to experience it ourselves. Your first choice is to take a look at yourself - or not.</p>
<p>John Halderman</p>
<p>John Halderman writes and trains in personal growth and development focusing on what can be done daily to enhance your happiness and satisfaction with life through the understanding of how life works, managing your thoughts and purposeful actions. Find out <a href="http://designalifesystem.com">what you can do daily to improve your life</a>. And see the <a href="http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com">Effective Personal Development Blog</a> for insight, methods and tools for life growth.</p>
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		<title>Can You Give Up Existing Thoughts and Perceptions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that makes it tough to change your thinking is the attachment to existing thoughts.

At first you may think that you wouldn't do such a thing when the new mode of thinking is what you think you want. And of course this is true, but there is the aspect of your mind that loves to hold on to what you know and are familiar with. It's very much like how a magnet automatically attracts iron and steel. Your existing thoughts seem to have a power of their own. They don't of course, other than through your allowing them to.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things that makes it tough to change your thinking is the attachment to existing thoughts.</p>
<p>At first you may think that you wouldn&#8217;t do such a thing when the new mode of thinking is what you think you want. And of course this is true, but there is the aspect of your mind that loves to hold on to what you know and are familiar with. It&#8217;s very much like how a magnet automatically attracts iron and steel. Your existing thoughts seem to have a power of their own. They don&#8217;t of course, other than through your allowing them to.</p>
<p>But the hard part comes with your not always being aware that these thoughts are even there. Your unconscious mind harbors these thoughts which are integrated into your base mental operating system</p>
<p>Two aspects that are very powerful with us humans are the desire for comfort and following the familiar. Even when thoughts are not really in our best interest but are familiar to us, we will gravitate towards them, craving what is known.</p>
<p>We generally have a hard time facing the unknown, thus we shy away from it rather more often seeking what is known and comfortable. In our desire to eliminate the unknown, we attempt to define, categorize and organize everything to put it all into neat order that we can feel comfortable with.</p>
<p>This of course can not actually be done. In reality everything is in constant change, but because we are generally uncomfortable with new and different, we seek the known no matter how inappropriate it may be for us. This is also why thoughts and actions that don&#8217;t serve your best interest are so readily held onto and acted upon automatically in your unconscious mind.</p>
<p>&#8220;Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.&#8221; &#8212; Glenda Cloud</p>
<p>Part of your mind is trying to help you feel comfortable by building a database of what you have already experienced and use this as often as possible to help you feel good. One of the basic human drives is to feel good and our unconscious mind is geared to help accomplish this.</p>
<p>I know, how can doing something that is harmful such as a bad habit be comfortable? It can in the sense that it is known. It is more comfortable than what you have not done before because at least it is known to you. As you know many people will hang on to some very destructive habits without knowing why. This is one of the main reasons why change is so difficult.</p>
<p>For the most part you are unaware of this mental activity as your unconscious mind efficiently streamlines many of your thought processes. Don&#8217;t get upset with your brain, it&#8217;s just doing it&#8217;s job. Just imagine if you had to consciously think about everything your mind did - you wouldn&#8217;t have time to do anything above your basic life support, if that.</p>
<p>&#8220;What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.&#8221; &#8212; Abraham H. Maslow</p>
<p>Our unconscious mind, much like a computer operating system, performs many functions without our need to be aware of them. But also like a computer program, your automatic brain functions can be altered. As a programmer can go in and change a program such as Microsoft Word and get it to perform different functions, you can change many of your basic thoughts, feelings and perceptions that automatically guide your behavior.</p>
<p>The question is - are you willing to face your basic comfort seeking programming in order to experience something new and different in your life? You must choose to step into the unknown, into what is new to you and away from what you have been deriving some comfort from. On the surface this seems and feels unnatural - but it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>Learning to face and accept the uncertainty of the unknown releases your ability to change your lot in life, realize your potential and increase your happiness.</p>
<p>Dr. Wayne Dyer said, &#8220;If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.&#8221;</p>
<p>This applies here with your perceptions about the unknown, comfort and feeling good. When you change how you look at change, the unknown, anything new, you can affect your related behavior and how your automatic unconscious mind tries to keep you away from it.</p>
<p>Your life is designed to continuously develop with you becoming more of what you are capable of as you go along. When you allow yourself to shy away from change you are actually stopping this free flow of growth. When you see something new as being somewhat painful because it is different, this is a perception - a choice. Something new and different does not come with discomfort attached that is your doing. Nothing comes with perceptions or emotional feelings attached - that is all of our doing.</p>
<p>One of the most powerful self-help methods is totally free. Ask yourself questions, the right questions. Your subconscious will seek to answer your serious heartfelt questions. And questions can be used to assist with changing the way you perceive the unknown and change so that you welcome it rather than avoid it.</p>
<p>Ask yourself, &#8220;How can this be beneficial to me?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How can this be more beneficial than remaining as I have for so long?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How can this, new and different activity, better support the life I want?&#8221;</p>
<p>The questions you can ask are endless. It will take a little practice to figure out what to ask, just keep playing with it - having the intent of creating effective questions you will discover the right questions for your situatuion. You will also likely need to learn to listen for the answers. Quieting the incessant mind chatter is necessary and can be done in various ways such as breathing and meditation.</p>
<p>Another angle for questions is to ask yourself why you feel as you do about change, comfort, happiness, new and different to see if you can get clarity into your perceptions about them. This then allows you to see what you don&#8217;t want which then leads to the opposite, what you DO want.</p>
<p>Take the position mentally that something new and different is basically good and beneficial, ask questions seeking how this is. Rather than your old way of looking at change as uncomfortable and undesirable. Look for the benefits, not the detriments - this is a change of perception. Your emotional feelings will follow your perceptions, you will feel different about change when you look at it differently.</p>
<p>Be proactive with how you look at things, choose the perceptions that best support the life you are meant to live. Just because you have had a certain perception now does not mean you must keep it forever. The first step is to change the way you look at change.</p>
<p>&#8220;Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.&#8221; &#8212; Herbert A. Otto</p>
<p>John Halderman</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many things have you began and put aside before completing?

If you can answer, many, you are a 'starter'. 

Do you have a tendency to get excited about doing something, begin it, then soon get sidetracked by interest in somewhat new. This can be any type of project, a new career or job, a hobby, a business idea, even a relationship - whatever, just anything that gets put aside when  your interest clings to something new. 

If you can relate to this, you are also perhaps quite frustrated with the lack of money, satisfaction and happiness in your life. What's the problem? You try so hard; you are always involved with or working on something yet you don't see the results you initially desire.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another article in the &#8216;Daily Action For Self Improvement&#8217; series, articles focusing on the personal development and growth actions you can take daily to support a high level of happiness and satisfaction in your life.</p>
<p>How many things have you began and put aside before completing?</p>
<p>If you can answer, &#8220;many&#8221;, you are a &#8217;starter&#8217;.</p>
<p>Do you have a tendency to get excited about doing something, begin it, then soon get sidetracked by interest in somewhat new. This can be any type of project, a new career or job, a hobby, a business idea, even a relationship - whatever, just anything that gets put aside when  your interest clings to something new.</p>
<p>If you can relate to this, you are also perhaps quite frustrated with the lack of money, satisfaction and happiness in your life. What&#8217;s the problem? You try so hard; you are always involved with or working on something yet you don&#8217;t see the results you initially desire.</p>
<p>What is going on with this repetitive cycle you are stuck in?</p>
<p>* You do not have a clear course in your life to act as a beacon keeping you on track.<br />
* You don&#8217;t have a clearly defined set of specific goals, targets or a vision to serve as benchmarks in your progress.<br />
* You are not managing your time properly nor sticking to appropriate tasks.<br />
* Allowing your focus to bounce around shows you are not fully committed to a big picture.<br />
* You are not benefiting emotionally from the reward and satisfaction of accomplishment.<br />
* Your personal confidence is likely not how it ought to be.<br />
* Your frustration level is damaging to your personal power, energy and motivation.<br />
* You are likely to be questioning or even doubting your ideas and decisions.<br />
Now look at what a success cylce can be like.</p>
<p>The fact that you are bouncing your attention from idea to idea indicates that you are not aware enough of your purpose. Your purpose is what you are here to do to serve the universe and your work supports this when directed properly. Discovering or getting a better sense of your purpose in life gives you a specific direction to focus much of your attention. From this you will be better able to decide where to place the focus of your thought and the energy of your actions.</p>
<p>Seeing and feeling your purpose will reveal a deep intent and a strong motivation. You should feel strongly like you are on a mission. This helps you to remain focused and on task. You will have the inner strength and conviction to take command of your thinking, directing your thoughts and actions towards supporting your mission.</p>
<p>The questioning and doubting mentioned above comes up when your inner self is hampered by your conscious attempts to seek happiness and satisfy your ego mind. Without consciously knowing your direction you will not be giving your all to what you should be focused on. You can actually cause your inner guidance to be clouded to your perception, not receiving it&#8217;s full benefit.</p>
<p>When you determine a direction based on your purpose you can more appropriately set up the steps and focused actions that will support this. You don&#8217;t need to know every step in the beginning, just enough to get yourself going and more is revealled as you go. Through your inner guidance, intuition and conscious thought details are exposed as you are immersed in the process. If you sit back and attempt to figure it all out ahead of time before starting you will remain stuck. You must begin, in trust, taking steps forward in order to discover the next steps.. You will see the way forward as you procede in the right direction.</p>
<p>Accomplishing some goals or targets along the way definately gives your confidence and motivation a boost. This is crucial in keeping your energy and interest at a high level. Continued accomplishment and motiovation supports willingness to do what is necessary.</p>
<p>Daily planning and refocusing on the specific tasks to be accomplished each day is important to keep yourself from getting mired in daily life. You must have an intention and the burning desire behind it every day in order to trigger the self-discipline to stick to it, as it is so easy to get distracted amid everyday things that do not directly support  your purpose. You can be busy all day and not get done anything that you had set out to if you are not diligent. Time management is critical to your overall satisfaction and progress, there is not time to do everything you can think of in a day. Learn to be selective with the thoughts you hold and the activities you are involved in so that you are not merely getting moved by life but rather focusing on your desires.</p>
<p>This should be reinforced with daily reminders of your purpose, intent and goals. Set up a daily plan for your  activities every day, be determined to stay on course, and check yourself often, it&#8217;s very easy to veer away. If supporting your purpose includes several things, know that you can&#8217;t do everything at once. One thing accomplished provides far more motivation than 3 things half-done. Determine the method and order that projects will be done and commit to when they are to be completed. Focus your focus and atttention to the first or most vital step then go through the list - you are now on a mission. You will soon develop the positive habit of the success cycle.</p>
<p>Your personal development is your responsibility, take control of your scattered thought and find the key to focused attention. Happiness and satisfaction are the result of purposeful accomplishment.</p>
<p>John Halderman is a trainer and writer dedicated to assisting people with ideas, methods and tools to help them do, be and feel better enhancing their overall happiness and satisfaction.  Get the guide detailing many activities you can use to <a href="http://www.designalifesystem.com">daily support your personal development and growth. </a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="style4">Time moves too quickly. The days pass by and it seems as though we're spinning our wheels. The same problems that held us back last year are still dragging us down. Yesterday's barriers remain in place. We might be doing okay, but we certainly aren't where we want to be.</p>
<p class="style4">We all have a vision of a better life. A content life. We want that hard-to-explain sense of fulfillment.</p>
<p><strong>We want the life we deserve</strong>.... But we aren't there yet.</p>
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<div><span class="style5">It might be a lack of tools. You might know that you want and deserve better but just aren't sure how to go from wanting a better life to actually having one.</span></div>
<p><span class="style5">It might be fear. You may be wary of leaving your &laquo;comfort zone&raquo; even though the benefits of getting to a &laquo;better place&raquo; in life seem so great (don't just think this is something that happens to other people...You can really achieve everything you want out of life).</span> <span class="style5"><strong>Get a Life</strong> is the perfect ebook and audio course to help you create the Amazing Life you deserve to have.</span></p>
<p>It could be all of those things and a thousand more I didn't mention. Whatever the reason, you aren't there yet.</p>
<p>If you're reading this letter, you obviously have a strong desire to get your life together. You certainly want a change for the better. You also have questions. Those questions are so important that they DEMAND answers.</p>
<p>&laquo;<strong>Get A Life&raquo; </strong>is a brand new, comprehensive look at making positive changes in your life. It covers everything from initial preparation to enjoying the fruits of your efforts. This extensive, no-nonsense, to-the-point guide will take you through the key steps to making positive changes without pulling any punches or confusing matters with unnecessary clutter and 'airy fairy' information.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 01:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="style4" align="justify">Give me 20 minutes and I'll change the way <strong>you view the rest of your life</strong>.</p>
<p class="style4" align="justify">No matter what it is you wish to do. Be it learn to be a better cook or run in your first marathon. Any man or woman who ever set out to do such a thing first made it a goal.</p>
<p class="style4" align="justify">The feeling a person gets after just climbing Mt. Everest is the direct result of them knowing how to take steps towards reaching their dream. That knowledge got them there.</p>
<p class="style4" align="justify">How long has it been since you got that <strong>feeling of accomplishment? </strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify">What are your dreams? Your aspirations? What in this world do you want to do before it's too late?</p>
<p class="style4" align="justify">And what did you do today to get you closer to that goal? (If you haven't done anything yet, it's not too late. I'll tell you more in just a bit.)</p>
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<p class="style4" align="justify">But what successful people know that others don't...</p>
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<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Beginning Your Goal Setting Plan</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Key Points to Goal Setting</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>How Things Can Go Wrong</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Setting Career Goals</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>4 Strategies to Developing an Action Plan</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Setting Health/Fitness Goals</strong></p>
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<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Setting Financial Goals</strong></p>
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<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Setting Artistic Goals</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Get Motivated To Achieve Your Goals</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Goal Setting Do's and Dont's</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Increasing Time Management For Achieving Goals</strong></p>
<p class="style4" align="justify"><strong>Manage Stress For Goal Achievement</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere along the line, many of us developed a mental image of our future and how things are suppose to work out. We would go to school, get a good job, work until our hair turned grey then retire. It seemed simple and natural.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somewhere along the line, many of us developed a mental image of our future and how things are suppose to work out. We would go to school, get a good job, work until our hair turned grey then retire. It seemed simple and natural.</p>
<p>But we have discovered that long-held plan was far less than picture perfect. It came with limitations on our individuality, creativity, earning potential and personal fulfillment.</p>
<p>We learnt that jobs provide a paycheck but take so much more from us. We work our hardest to succeed within the workforce, but find ourselves at the mercy of others and forces we can never hope to control.</p>
<p>We begin to realize that no matter how hard we work in our traditional job, no matter how many times we take on extra assignments, come in early or stay late that our chance for real success will always be limited.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we spent so long assuming &laquo;this is the way things suppose to be&raquo; that it is hard to envision a real alternative. So we try to grit our teeth and tough it out in hopes that some miracle will happen and things will get better.</p>
<p>How many hours will we spend commuting? How many managers and supervisors will come and go before we tire of the corporate politics? How many benefit cuts and undersized bonuses will we endure?</p>
<p>THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS IS UP TO YOU. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE.</p>
<p>Thousands have found a way out. They have pushed down the walls of their cubicles, thrown down their aprons, taken off their name tags, ripped up the company dress code and found a solution to the dullness and limitations of the workforce.</p>
<p>They operate their businesses and they do it from the comfort of their own homes.</p>
<p>Working from home is an absolutely outstanding way to escape being a mere employee and to transform your life while improving your financial well-being.</p>
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<p><span class="style6">Here's Just A Sample Of The Topics You'll Find Covered Inside this Instant Download Digital Ebook</span><br />
<span class="style20">&laquo;A Guide to Working at Home&raquo;</span></p>
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<li class="style17"><strong>Why work at home?</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Challenges of working at home</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Risk and insecurity</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Is working at home right for you?</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Can you afford it?</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Plan B</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Do you really want it?</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Choosing a business</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Working from behind the keyboard</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Affiliate marketing</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Ebay and auctions</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Adsense and contextual advertising</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Providing a service</strong></li>
<li class="style17">Making working at home really work</li>
<li class="style17"><strong>Parenting while working at home</strong></li>
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<p align="center">- Miz Helena</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets be honest, we are all at least a little vain. Who can blame us? We want to look our best. The world, for better or for worst, will always judge us, at least somewhat, on our appearance.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets be honest, we are all at least a little vain. Who can blame us? We want to look our best. The world, for better or for worst, will always judge us, at least somewhat, on our appearance.</p>
<p>Plus looking good is a sign of good health and an unmistakable sign to everyone that sees you that you care about yourself.</p>
<p>Looking good also makes us feel better. When we look our best, we feel our best and that has a positive impact on everything we do every single day.</p>
<p>There are lots of things we can do to improve our well-being and appearance without spending ourselves into bankruptcy with plastic surgery or taking out a second mortgage to afford custom made designer gowns!</p>
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