The subject matter on the power of positive thinking has been ahead extensive popularity lately. Main goal with the aim of causes the spill out in popularity is due to the liberation of many put your name down for and DVDs on The Secret. Many of us try to find happiness in life and you may well achieve happiness through the incredible power of helpful thinking.

You may well be the single of the many thousands perplexed by the claims with the aim of the teachers in the film The Secret kind. While It may well sound nonsensical to selected with the aim of the power of positive thinking has the capability to contract pardon? We desired, you need to find out a better message being displayed in the film. You need to read sandwiched between the outline. Let’s say with the aim of similar to watching the film, I unwavering to apply the power of positive thinking.  I keep an eye on to focus my feelings on road rage. I used to enter my vehicle thinking not far off from other drivers with the aim of approach too close to the rear of my vehicle. This pet-peeve really got under my skin and I in point of fact began to dread driving.

Instead of getting into my car with feelings of anger and dread I unwavering to go my feelings into the opposite direction. I chose to think not far off from the many drivers who keep a safe distance and I besides convinced myself with the aim of everybody who drove too close to my vehicle would go inedible in little schedule. The power of helpful thinking has misused my driving experience.

After with the aim of helpful thinking, I am happen to more relaxed whilst a car drives too close to as I know with the aim of the car will not be too close to me in place of too long. I besides don’t interrupt thinking with the aim of drivers imminent up on my car too quickly or suddenly. You may well in a jiffy ask if my car has installed some kind of weird defensive defense with the aim of keep other cars from entering its individual hole. My answer is a definite rebuff. My in one piece line towards this in one piece position has misused dramatically and my driving experience has been a delightful single.

We know pardon? Will go on subsequently. When a driver offhandedly drives too close to to a car in front of it, the driver by the side of the front becomes annoyed and irritated. The front driver begins to decelerate its car and barred of misery he showed selected obnoxious gestures to the car with the aim of followed too close to it. Following with the aim of, both drivers got barred of the car a violent road rage immediately took place. If you likely such a circumstance to go on, you will kind it go on. That’s the power of our thinking and if you think of helpful feelings, something high-quality will go on. Your measures be an enthusiast of your feelings and feelings. Believe with the aim of this high-quality gadget will go on and it will.

As a child, each and every one of us has dreams of becoming a doctor, engineer, teacher or even president of a country. As the time passes by and we grow up, some of us are lucky enough to fulfil those dreams, while others remain behind closed doors and not able to achieve any of their dreams. Let’s imagine for a few minutes, what happens to those of us who are ambitious and have not been able to achieve their goal? Despite the fact they have devoted their whole life to the purpose of achieving one goal.
Let’s take the example of someone I have known for a very long time; he wants to remain anonymous. Ever since, I have known him, he has been a very ambitious and hard-working person. As a child he wanted to work in the media industry as a PR Executive and it was the only job he wanted. He was a good student at school, with an excellent character.
He wasn’t the brightest student in the class, but was average, yet very ambitious and diligent. As we grew up together, he successfully graduated from High School with good grades and proceeded to go to college. After graduating from college, he went to university to study a degree course to follow his dream. While studying full time he was working part time in order to cover his expenses. In addition, he attended unpaid work placements with major PR companies, which would be useful for him to secure a job once he graduated from university.
He graduated from university with a Merit grade, which he didn’t expect. He was shocked and disappointed with the grades because the low grade meant that it might jeopardise his long term goal to become a PR Executive. But he remained hopeful that he could start a career somewhere in PR industry.
After sending thousands of applications and resumes for two years, he didn’t find work in the media industry, so he decided to apply for jobs in the banking sector, as he had previously worked as a part time customer sales person. But it seemed he was running out of luck, as he could not find a full time job in the banking sector.
When he graduated, it was the start of the recession, which made it even more difficult for him to get a job in any sector. Like thousands of other graduates he was also the victim of the recession. After two years of searching for a full time job in all sectors, he was still jobless, although he worked as a part time customer service representative, which wasn’t his ideal job.
During this period, he had been borrowing money from credit cards and banks as he used to hold an excellent credit scoring. But he was unaware that he had borrowed too much. Four years later, he was still working as a part time customer service representative for a company, and he was only earning just enough to cover his rent. He was really worried about his health when he realised that he had borrowed $60,000, which he could not pay back any time soon.
His only hope was to buy lottery tickets, if he could win a lottery to pay back his loans. Although he didn’t consider himself lucky enough to win a lottery, he remained optimistic. Buying lottery tickets was giving him hope rather than anything else.
I had no idea that a degree course would cost you so much. If he had not followed his dream to study, he would not have been at the same position as he is now. Education is supposed to make your life better, not worse, but I have come across several people who have been left without hope after earning their degrees.
There is a question in my mind, after all those years: was it worth dreaming, spending most of your time and money in education?

1. Keep it Challenging but Realistic.

Any goal that you set for your company should be challenging but don’t over do it. For example, if you had an average order amount of $700 last year, you wouldn’t want to set your goal for this year at $3000 per order. Unless you make drastic changes in how your company runs or what you are selling, that goal is just not realistic. You know best what you may be able to achieve in your particular industry, so be honest with yourself and set your goals accordingly.

2. Write All Your Goals Down.

You may say to yourself on January 1, “I want to get 20 more new customers per week this year.” A few months later you will be saying “Did I say I wanted 20 or 30?” Or more realistically, you have forgotten that you even made that goal. If you have all of your goals written down you will be able to not only go back and check them, you will also be able to go down the list every few months and check to see how many of them you have completed.

3. Assess Your Current Situation.

To set goals you have to know where you are at right now. In 2003 I wanted to assess our customer service rating so we sent out a survey to all of our customers on which they could rate us in each department of our operation. That helped us establish our base. Now we send the survey to every customer after every order. This way we can keep track of how we are doing and if there is ever a hiccup we can fix it quickly. Don’t assume anything. Always assess the current situation before setting a new goal.

It’s Only Going to Hurt A Little…

Now, in financial goal setting for your business, one invariably comes to the question: “How do I decide on a budget when starting a marketing plan?”

 This is obviously the first question that you have to answer in order to get started on your new campaign – and in order to reach the income goals you have set for yourself.

  So how do you figure out what your budget should be? Here is an easy method to help you find a number that is going to work for you and your business. Some might say that it is a good rule of thumb, but I personally judge things on whether or not they work and get results. That’s all.

Moving on… Start with the amount of income that your company generated last month and multiply it by .14 (or 14%). That means that if you had $50,000 in Gross Income last month you should budget to spend $7000 on marketing in the next month. Wait… I know, it sounds painful but it is just like a shot at the doctor. It might hurt for a minute (or in this case a month) but down the road you are going to be glad that you went through it. Putting that much toward the right marketing will bump up your income the next month and start you on a cycle of steady growth. 

    I know that some businesses run tighter than others and it is possible that you won’t be comfortable with that amount in the beginning. Don’t misunderstand me, any marketing is better than no marketing. Don’t get discouraged if your budget is lower than 14%. But use 14% as the ideal to strive for because, for me as well as many other growing businesses, it has proven to give the best rate of growth possible. How do I know, 

you ask? My company has expanded 400% in the past 2 years. Now picture your business at 4 times its current size… There’s that smile I was looking for!

  The growth of your business is based on three factors; quality products, great customer service and the proper amount of marketing. If you know you have the first two taken care and you still aren’t experiencing healthy growth then you need to take a serious look at your marketing budget.

  So sharpen your pencils, start calculating and decide how rapidly you want your business to grow. 

Please take a moment this week to sit down and decide on your goals for the New Year. Even if it is past the New Year and even well into the year, set your goals for the rest of the year. 

  Everything is easier when you are working towards a goal. My goal is your success and I assume that is your goal as well.

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“People are disturbed not by the events that happen to them, but by their view of these events.” 

Epictetus, 55-135 A.D.

 I just love the Ancient Greek philosophers, particularly the Stoics.  Stoa is Greek for “porch,” which is where those great minds sat when they congregated to philosophize.  The Stoics were calm, unflappable, making nothing more or less of any reality they dealt with.  And Epictetus was born a slave, so he knew harsh reality. They believed that all suffering arises from attempting to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting to control that which we can. They also believed that human beings have a duty to care for one another, and that by doing so, one can achieve happiness and peace of mind.

Bottom line:  It’s a drama-free life.

The Cynics, on the other hand, seemed to thrive on drama.  Cyn is Greek for “dog,” and these philosophers veritably barked at those who disagreed with or displeased them.  Obviously, this is where we get our English word for cynical. Cynics generally thrive on negativity. 

Imagine, if you will, the Stoics perched (stoically, of course) on their porch, stroking heir beards, cool as cucumbers, while the Cynics chased one another around the yard barking ferociously, carping, negative, disturbing the peace.

We have a choice of how we want to move through life, moment by moment, day by day.  Calmly watching life unfold in front of you, or constantly running around and raging? Living in acceptance or ranting endlessly?

Staying focussed towards what you have set out for, makes success a sure deal. Meaning to say, that if you decide to follow through upon your plan to achieve your goal, and you know that you are going to stay focussed throughout the time until you get to your goal, it becomes natural to say that you are surely going to make it. Its a 100% done deal.

But as you may know and perhaps have some experiences too, staying focussed isn’t a cake walk. It requires high level of persistence, combined with the resolution to make your way through the thick and thin no matter what happens. Also, there arises certain situations in life where you may feel tempted to question the very reason for achieving your goal which automatically results in a fluctuation of focus. Hence as you can probably feel intuitionally, that staying focus needs efforts. Conscious efforts.

a few ideas that ensure that you stay focussed have been summarized below………

HAVE A GOAL

Staying focussed is hard when you don’t exactly know what you are trying to do. Having a goal to achieve is the first requirement if you plan to get anywhere near being focussed. A plan will be a reminder to you that you need to get something done and it won’t happen on its own. You’ll have to put in the efforts. And hence, it motivates you to stay focussed.

KEEP A REGULAR CHECK ON YOUR PROGRESS

It really helps to know where exactly you stand in the true scheme of things. Keeping a check on your progress is the simplest method of keeping yourself focussed. When you constantly monitor your progress, you keep yourself aware about the pace with which you are moving forward. There is an automatic calculation at the back of you head…..

–  am I falling behind?

– do I need to improve my way of doing things?

– should I start earlier so that I get can more done each day? Etc etc…………

Hence, such a thought pattern makes it impossible to ignore your priority and you become automatically focussed…….

I didn’t do well in the last market crash, so I look over job listings for contract work.  Yesterday I saw a posting for a project coordinator/proofreader.  The first line of the job description read: One of the countries fastest growing multi-channel marketing agencies … instead of One of the country’s …. 

The hiring company’s website showed a contact email address, so I sent them an email identifying the error.  A corporate VP in a distant city kindly replied (to my astonishment) and explained that the company’s proofreaders confine their work to customers’ documents.  In other words, if a document doesn’t affect the bottom line, no one proofreads it.

Photo by Adrian Pingstone from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

Should Internet content writers follow the model of this company?  Perhaps they should.  Each and every piece of writing you publish should have a goal.  If you can accomplish this goal without proofreading, maybe you shouldn’t proofread.  For example, if you are writing for search engines (bot fodder), errors may not make any difference in how high the search engine puts your article on the results list.  If you want human beings to forward a link to their friends or to link to your article from their blogs, you may want to correct errors.

Fact Checking

This morning telegraph.co.uk published an article about Leonid Ksanfomaliti’s claim that he’d found evidence of life on Venus in photographs taken by the space probe Venera-13.   The author of the article identified Venus as “the red planet” and stated the planet’s gravity was 9 times that of Earth.  Commenters pounced on these errors, and the paper quickly corrected them.  

The view from Venera-13. Photo from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

If you make statements whose errors could be corrected by an extra minute reading Wikipedia, human readers may bounce to a better article.  They may also fail to link to your article.  You may have to resort to black hat SEO techniques to acquire backlinks.  A few minutes of fact checking can help you avoid the need to generate deceptive backlinks and the risk of getting caught cheating.  On the other hand, you may be writing for true believers who won’t let facts stand in their way.  Once again, it may be a question of the goal of your writing.

Writing Badly is a Right

…everything is given to us by the party and the government and only one thing is taken away: the freedom to write badly. –Isaac Babel

If you publish online, you will slip up and publish errors.  Sure as Brin and Page misspelled googol as google, you will encounter readers who think all your content should come down or that you should never write for publication again because of the errors.  No possible pardon is possible, they think, for those who confuse Mars and Venus.  Only authorities with credentials should write, etc.  I argue against this position by reminding everyone that appeal to authority is a logical fallacy and that even someone as inaccurate and syntax-challenged as George W. Bush deserves the right to speak his mind.

George W. Bush from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

Moreover, even bad articles may do good.  Recently I’ve read some Chinese blogs.  I don’t know Chinese at all, so I either have to wait for translations or read with the aid of translation software.  After struggling with a particularly scrambled machine translation, I asked myself some questions. What if this were as good as it gets?  What if I lived in a country with aggressive Internet censorship?  What if only articles with mangled text and misspelled keywords could slip through to tell me about life outside my country?  In that case I would feel privileged to read even bad articles.

  Example: My Dream. My Motive. My dream is to be a well known Performing Artist. Motive: Your hobby is not an career until you get paid for it. I wanna make money for something I love to do. In your one life don’t waste time being unhappy at a job. Don’t watch your life go down the drain. I love to sing and perform, that’s what is going to make me the best. MOTIVE…

  So a hobby is something you like to do, so what if you got paid for something you like to do? I call these kind of goals, dreams. Cause if I have the power to go up inside my head and image myself doing this, I just created a dream. Your hobby is something you do for free, until you actually start to get paid, and that makes it a job or career. So how much more would you do it if you were paid for it? Hmmmm???? Think about that one. ALL THE TIME!!!

   Now, psychologically, we put a weight on our minds with the word “Dream.” It sounds way more bigger then it actually is. Imagine me telling you: “I want you to help me lift my “757 Jumbo Jet,” 2″ inches off the ground. I know my jet is 60 lbs., but you don’t know it’s a model jet inside my apartment. See how the description of what I needed help with seemed bigger then we could lift, until I told you it was a model jet. This is the same way we look at the word “Dream.” Also keep in mind, that this is a sub-conscious decision to look at the word negatively. It’s not a conscious decision. The weight of the word “Dream” directly impacts our effort mentally and physically. And effort is the only way you can get results from anything. “Ohhh, he’s following his dream.” “Ohhh, he’s living his childhood dream.” Look at the definition of dream again. It’s not that hard to create a dream and live it. The point: Don’t over think the term, “Follow Your “Dreams!”

   What is your motive? You know my motive. I have to create a living for my family and myself. My hobby is singing, and I love to do it. Not only do I sing, but I’m above average. It’s my opinion, that life is too short to be stuck at a job, not having control over your schedule or your life. Plus, what’s the chances of you hating your job? I want to be happy, and travel the world.  We only have one life to live. So my motive is to create a living doing what I love. Singing….. Following my dream, accomplishing my dream, and have fun doing it is my goal or intention.

   So find out what your motive is, and really bring your motive to the light. “Huh, bring my motive to the light?” Yes, understand your purpose for wanting this dream. Your motive is what makes you stay up late when your tired. Your motive push you to make the necessary sacrifices.

Example: Your car represents your dream, and your motive represents your gasoline. Your Jet represents your dream, and your jet fuel represents your motive. Don’t allow yourself to forget why your following your dream. Cause if your car runs out of gas, or your jet is low on fuel, or if you forget why your following a dream can you imagine the circumstances or the consequences. Forgetting your motive or not having one is similar to the example of running out of the key elements in this example. (Fuel, Gas, Motive, Drive, Effort, Passion, Determination) Don’t ever run out or Don’t ever forget the cause. Stay around positive influences!

  Do not listen to people that don’t agree with what you believe in, it’s up to you to prove it to yourself. Everyone has their own theory or opinion. It’s okay to listen, but be careful because it can create doubts, sub-consciously. Just as the word “Dream” use to carry weight, peoples opinion could cause you to lack the confidence you need to push through the rough times. I’m going to be honest, it’s not going to be easy. Hey, life ain’t easy, why would accomplishing your goals or dreams be easy? Also visa versa, support from positive people, role models, and/or mentors is just as influencing. Get good people in your corner, get rid of people that means you no good. Your peace and success is at stake. Including family, sorry sometimes family members tend to have bad motives.

   Next, your life dreams, cannot be a dream, if you have not dreamed it yet. Tongue twister, right? Read it again if necessary. Remember the definition of dream? If you haven’t dreamed your dream yet, this is simple to fix. Creating dreams is fun & simple. 

Example: My dream is to be a famous singer. I watch movies such as, The Five Heartbeats, The Movie RAY, and many others. I go on YouTube and watch famous singers in concert. I also watch a lot of the interviews with performing artist to learn from them. I listen to there experiences, and there stories. I learn pitfalls to avoid, and this is why interviews exist. Remember when I mentioned peoples influences, and role models? You can create those positive influences, and role models through these interviews. You don’t have to have them as a mentor, and you don’t have to know them to get the power of influence working at your advantage. Just continue to learn and study everything that has involvement with your dream. I daydream some of those concerts I seen on youtube and image myself in their shoes, like a glimpse. I build my images of the lifestyle in my daydreams, through their videos, and put exactly how I want my reality to be when I accomplish my dream.  Before I go to sleep, I’m living that lifestyle in my head, so I cannot wait to go to sleep at night cause before I fall asleep, I’m imaging me before a show, things I’m going to do during my show. I can see what outfit I have on, everything. I live this in my head every chance I get, I call it brainwashing, or programming myself. It’s fun imaging my huge screaming crowd.

 ”You have to dream it, to believe it. You have to believe to achieve it. “

   Basically I’m painting my own image of what it’s going to be like. Sometimes when I fall asleep, my sub-conscious mind take the dream to new heights. I focus my mind on my dream and what I want in my dream. I sit and daydream it as much as I can, because I’m that person in my head. So when I am famous it won’t be nothing new to me, because I can tell that artist, “Hey, you know I lived this life through you?” So when I get on stage in front of thousands for the first time, it won’t be the first time. Many artist are not worried or afraid the first time and we know why now.

   Understand this, you don’t have to really dream the dream sub-consciously. If you do, and when you do, that’s good, but you don’t try to create that it’ll just happens. But you do want to create & live the dream in your dream for a while before it can come to reality. Remember, whatever you focus on expands.

   Last but not least, chasing dreams… Chasing dreams is, in some cases, a sacrifice. Cause you still have to create a living, but you have got to have a plan. What is a plan exactly? Scheme or method of action or arrangement, developed in advance… A plan is a step-by-step process to achieve a scheme, goal or intention. Step-by-step means you cannot go to step 5 without completing steps 1-4 in chronological order. If you start now, you will have about 300 steps, so a way to eliminate that is to know the different types of goals or plans. Short Term, Mid Term, and of course Long Term… This process will reduce the amount of steps you’ll have to take. After planning properly, you’ll physically know exactly how to achieve the attended goal and you’ll know how much time it will take. You also should know the advantages and the disadvantages, plus the pitfalls to avoid.

   “I’m so confident you will achieve your dream in life now. Why?”

Recap:

1.)You clearly know what a dream is, and how to create one.

2.)The word “Dream” alone no longer impacts you negatively. Also the word “Dream” no longer attach mental and physical failure to your effort to accomplish your dream.

3.)You understand the importance of “Motive” and how it directly effects your effort to get results.

4.)You know “The Power of Influence.” By friends, family, role models, mentors, etc….

5.)You know how to daydream and live the lifestyle or dream in your head first, to make it a reality, along with your efforts.

6.)Plus you know exactly how to plan your way to success, and the motto is: “You failing to plan is planning to fail.”

   And personally, I feel your 400 times more confident to succeed at accomplishing your dream, because you have understanding and control. So you will be successful if you want to be…. Remember have fun… Subscribe to my profile for more articles with similar information. Also support my singing career and add me on facebook.  Search:   Rodric Dennis King  

      Your number’s tell’s all the negatives, who left early, who took more breaks, who didn’t work hard, and who didn’t learn anything, who quit for the day, who’s being a student, who’s still learning, who’s growing, who doing their homework. All the excuses you make why something didn’t happen is your fault. No more excuses, you have to hold yourself accountable.

      Also the numbers tell you who stayed later, who does their homework, who takes more time to learn, who has new material, whose asking for help to get better, who doesn’t take breaks, who is first to arrive and last to leave, who is on time everyday. All the positive things you have to say about yourself at playing your position, you don’t have to, cause your numbers tells everyone that.

      So let’s get to the point. If you missed your sons football game three times in a row, your work should say that not your mouth. If a person is lazy, selfish, and always late, you don’t have to say nothing their numbers say it all.

    With that said, your job is to progress in your position every new day. You have to always be learning more. Always working for the next position, or taking it to the next level. In other words, if your a sales manager, and your sales is going up and down and it’s not a trend that your business is in. Something is wrong and you have to fix it, but don’t always think you can do this on your own. Find more experienced people and run it by them and see what they would do. Go online and research different material on the subject, build a plan, and then put it into action. Monitor your results, see what you can do to take sells through the roof. Your goal is to break records. Set individual goals for your teams. Or do competitions to make your employee’s compete with one another. You have to get the entire store on fire about your goals. No matter what it takes get the ball rolling in your direction. You shouldn’t be going to work trying to survive another day, push people.

    With any title, business owner, managers, or any position out there. You have to know where you are, what you got, and where your going. Set production goals. We are here now, and this is where I want to be by next month. Here is the way we’re going to get there. You have to know where the progress is, so you can find out what you want to push it too. If you flip burgers, learn more about your job, then the manager knows. Then start working on the next position, and be super good at that. Learn how to multi-task, practice it.. Make yourself irreplaceable. Make someone say, you could never replace who we lost. When you get a promotion, now you duplicate yourself. If a person cannot be trained to work that position like you did or better. You DON’T need them. You should have this attitude in any and every career. Definitely business owners or entrepreneur’s.

    Whatever position or title you hold, be the best, and set the example. What does set the example means? This means when I have a job, I’m going to learn as much as I can, I’m going to remain learning. I’m going to be there first, and leave last. Friendly as ever, and know how to re-train a person to be as good as I am or better. If I leave that position and I don’t re-train that person to do what I did, they would have to hire two people for the one position. Cause I raised the bar on the standards for that position. That’s setting the pace or being the example everyday. Not on and off, everyday.

    So always be a student, take less breaks, learn from everyone, out work everyone, and arrive on time everyday. Also your uniform or attire should be on point every time, hair, shoes, facial groomed neatly, shirt, pants, and shoes should always look like it just came out of the store. No matter what position, this is professionalism. Dress for the position you want, not the one you have. Remember always set goals, and continue to push yourself to know more and be more. If you sell $300 a day, tomorrow work harder and push for $350. After a consistent week of $350, push for $400, and never doubt yourself. Always push for the next level, everyday. And know what you have to do to get your promotion.

    Then, “Your Number’s Would Say A Lot.”

     Also don’t forget why you go to work. To make money. Why do you need or have a career? To make money & a living. So go to work with the intent to do a double in 8 hours. Don’t forget why you are there. Always learn your position with the expectation of working the position until your promotion. Never go to work to do your job and that’s it. You always could use more money right? Right, but if I’m looking for a reason to fire you, do you think I’m going to give you a raise, better yet a promotion? Image if one of you co-worker’s reading this now. They are coming to work tomorrow to take your job.

    I was a salesman for three years, and I was so good at my job. I had customers asking to borrow money for gas to get home. I did my job, and I worked harder, and it was because I went to work with a goal in mind. Perform better then I was yesterday, and I left that salesman job and now I’m a performing artist, and I give a show always looking at how I can be better. So my numbers said a lot…. “What Does Your Numbers Say?”