Is The Pace Of Technology Making Us Stupid?

A huge attention span is the hallmark of genius.

The biographies of men like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla reveal that they were so fascinated by their experiments that they worked almost all day and all night in a state of fascinated excitement.

Conversely, a short attention span is a sign of stupidity.

Our world will never again see the essays of men like Henry David Thoreau, rich in metaphor, similes, and cascading rivers of prose.

It is moving too fast, and its events are being communicated to our bedazzled brain in sound bites and media blitz.

The internet itself, when it comes to the subject of literacy, is a huge paradox.

On one hand, the pace of technology causes the user to quickly grow weary of slow dial-ups and slow loading web pages, our nervous systems responding to 5 to 10 second pauses with the impatience of drivers stuck behind a red light.

On the other hand, the plethora of information, running to billions of web pages, with each search word literally offering a million or more possibilities on a search engine, is staggering.

The word “Henry David Thoreau,” on Yahoo Search Engine for example yields 1,900,000 results.

Unfortunately, those of us who habitually dabble in this new frontier are becoming increasingly less likely to develop solid study skills, which involves developing a large enough attention span to process, comprehend, and implement ideas.

Our hard drives are filled with e-books not read, software files not opened, and digital projects not completed.

Unfortunately, these habits of subject illiteracy are not confined only to this new media of global communication, but spills over to all other aspects of our lives—from channel surfing to grocery shopping, from responding to the question of a friend to designing a new business plan.

Quick is in, and slow is out. Brief is hot, and long is the kiss of death.

The person with the fastest pitch wins the sale.

The faster you move, the more you can get done.

While all this may have its merits, the human brain, the three pounds of spongy mass, which has more circuits than the most sophisticated telephone exchange in the world, is becoming increasingly less efficient.

Our eyes need time to scan and our ears to hear and our brain to sort out the true from the untrue, fact from fiction, and to draw elaborate models of how things are put together and work in harmony.

Sometimes when reading a novel from another century, like Victor Hugo or Honorè de Balzak, for example, where the characters move slowly and ponderously through the plots, feeling deeply the movements of their destiny, in touch with the depths of moral and philosophical complexities, it seems we are evolving to become a different species—a dazzled and bewildered one, where superficiality is the norm, rather than the exception, and where we are almost completely losing touch with what it means to be human.


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Creativity, Fun, and Originality In Internet Marketing?

Sometimes it seems to me that everyone on the internet is busy copying everyone else.

This is not entirely a bad thing, but this perspective can also be limiting.

Allow me to explain how creativity, fun, and originality can spice up your internet marketing.

While I certainly understand the concept of modeling, using the tried-and-true experience of someone else to cut corners, save time and money, and be on your way to depositing serious amounts of money into your bank account, I also wonder if this is entirely a significant and worthwhile maneuver.

You see, there is no one quite like you.

You are utterly unique.

And while I’m not going so far as to recommend that you cleave entirely to fresh origination, I think that something worthwhile may come of letting your brain experiment with an original thesis.

Economically, things could go either way.

Your original rendition of an old theme or your creation of something entirely new may or may not make an impact on your end-of-day receipts.

However, from the perspective of personal satisfaction, there is a delight to creating a product that no-one else has made, proposing an idea that has never been pitched before, or stepping on a creative landmine in the middle of the night that keeps you on high alert for the rest of the nocturnal hours.

There is something entirely unique about you, and when you roll it out, find it meets with an unexpected public frenzy because it offers an unprecedented solution, your feeling of personal satisfaction and achievement surpasses anything that you may earn.

Of course, however, it’s always wonderful to win a complete coup—and have your brilliance rewarded with numbers ending with numerous zeros—but that thrill is secondary to having the opportunity to be dazzling.

Perhaps a compromise is possible—between the bread-and-butter affiliate and resale right products and the methodology espoused by your adopted guru—and your own occasional creative flair.

This way, you are assured of an income, and yet also have the freedom to play with an idea birthing in your brain alone, waiting to grow up enough to pull on its pants and go out there and do unbelievable electronic back flips to an amazed world.

Every unique idea in your brain needs to be treated with the respect due the dauphin of the kingdom. Treat the heir to the throne well, and he may very well surprise you with his empire-expanding vision.

The internet can be more than a place where you make a great living, it can be a playground for a whirlwind of creativity, fun, and original contribution.

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How to use Failure to Succeed

Failure is not an end point. It is a signal for course correction.

Despite the avalanche of material on system’s theory and many excellent works that compare the mind to a cybernetic system, similar to that of a heat-seeking guidance missile, everybody, regardless of how well educated they are about the operations of subconscious mechanisms, has the instinctive feeling to respond to failure as a massive upset to their plans.

Behind good information processed by the neocortex we still operate a mammalian brain, and it is this that kicks in when we experience a collapse of our ideal.

It takes deliberate effort to realign with our goals, respond to negative feedback as feedback, and begin to upgrade information to craft a slightly different trajectory.

All entrepreneurial ventures are flawed from the beginning because we simply cannot foresee all possible variations.

It is, therefore, inevitable to get feedback, both negative and positive, and it is important to process and comprehend these rather than treat them as mere noise.

Despite the sophistication of the human brain, goal achievement is always considered an arduous achievement.

This is due to not understanding the emotional structure of our brain, responding to information inappropriately, and short-circuiting hope, which in turn drains the vitality necessary to move forward.

What truly creates a spirit of defeat is failure to acknowledge the sheer genius of our own subconscious minds and rely almost completely on conscious processing.

Our subconscious mind is a teleological and parallel processing mechanisms whose computing power rivals and even exceeds that of the most advanced supercomputer on this planet.

It is this schism between conscious deliberation and subconscious operations that causes people to give up too quickly.

Failure, then, is feedback on two levels.

On the overt level, it is failure to achieve an objective because of a misapplied or poorly understood technique.

On the covert level, it is failure for the conscious and subconscious
mind to speak the same language and move congruently toward the same goal.

Responding to the failure on both these levels and stimulating course correction, results in success, sometimes in the most amazing fashion, where seemingly miraculous experiences appear to rescue the situation and deliver the desired outcome.

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How To Upgrade Your Success

By understanding the two concepts of processes and resources and how best to use them, you can cause a major upgrade in your level of success.

This is a very unsexy topic, unlikely to raise your pulse, but I think these concepts, once understood will make a major difference to understanding exactly how you can upgrade your success in anything.

While you may find this article somewhat abstract, you will also find many useful applications for it, once you grasp the universal applicability of these two concepts.

The two concepts are processes and resources.

A process is anything that has a starting point, a sequence of events, and an end point.

A business process, for example, is manufacturing a product, presenting it to the consumer, and selling it.

There are innumerable processes. They are biological, psychological, social, economic, and so on.

Everything that undergoes a transmutation, going from a lower state to a higher state does so through a process.

Life itself can be considered a process, where one is constantly becoming wiser, more able, and more powerful.

Success, then, can be defined as efficiency of processing.

The better a processor, the more useful the end product.

A speaker, for example, processes information in a way that enlightens his or her audience. And the more able the processing, the more delighted the audience and the more richly rewarded the speaker.

The other essential concept to understand is resources.

This needs less explanation.

A resource is anything, any raw material, that can be processed into a finer state.

Knowledge, for example, is a resource, and the more knowledge is processed, through scientific and artistic methods, the more powerful it becomes.

Now the dynamic between the two is actually quite different. And, this is the whole point of this brief article.

In any process, the more signal you get and the less noise, the more powerful the process will become.

Writing is a process, right?

The more complex my writing, both in terms of structure and volume, the less you the reader understand.

Conversely, the simpler and more accurate my description of something, the quicker you can grasp my point.

A historical example may help.

Why do we no longer use Elizabethan English? It was very rich and expressive. A single line of Shakespeare could keep you thinking about it for days.

Is it because we have become more simple minded? Or is it because we have so much more knowledge now that we must convey much more information rapidly and easily.

While some may like to argue for the dumbing down theory, I think that it just became more socially and economically necessary to speak in a simpler way so that we could say more.

Thus, for a process to be highly effective, less is more.

The less variables in a process, the more efficiently you transition from the start to the end point, the greater the output.

Again, I am conveying all these ideas to you in an article. This medium is very light and portable. If I wanted to convey the idea to you in a book, it would take me more time to organize them, it would take me more resources to get it to you, and it would be more of an effort for you to understand it as well.

Thus, I am using a simple process to convey my idea to you.

Now, with resources, it’s just the opposite.

The more resources you have, the more choices and the deeper your penetration of those choices.

The more money you have, for example, the more choices you have about anything, and the more keenly and adeptly you can follow any particular choice.

You can experience a major shift in your success, then, if you simplify your processes and amplify your resources.



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A Message From Your Unconscious

Rather than thinking of your life as a game of chance, consider that it is one only of choice, even if at this moment you believe that outside forces control you.

The following 10 second exercise will tell you what your unconscious rating is of your success in this life.

Imagine a large white dice.

It is numbered from one to six.

Now further imagine it is a symbol of your potential.

With one being almost no potential realized and six representing a full and happy life.

Now, in your mind’s eye, roll that dice, imagining that your life force determines how it should land.

Yes, close your eyes, roll the dice, and see where it lands, then come back to reading this letter.

How does your dice land?

If it is a six consider that you are exactly where you need to be and are heading in the right direction.

If it is less than a six, ruminate, over the course of the day, what you can do to become more of who you are and do more of what you want and have more of the things that are important to you.

When you are ready, make a plan to amp up your life today, bringing it closer to your inner vision of what is possible for you.



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How To Play A Winning Game

In business as in life, forces are at work that determine the outcome of things.

These forces, for want of a better name, are psychic forces.

I would like to wax on two of them here for a moment, as they pertain to something that you may find highly relevant. They are the forces that determine failure and success.

While life is too complex to identify these two forces as the only ones, they are elemental enough to have a major impact.

The first force is called the gathering force.

The second force is called the scattering force.

They are diametrically opposed to each other; use the first, and you win; use the second, and you lose.

The gathering force is focus and attention. When you use it, you are in the right mood, doing the right thing, with the right people. You have a vision, a plan, the right knowledge and skills, and apply the appropriate action. You learn from feedback, whether positive or negative, adjust to it, and move forward with your venture. There is cooperation, harmony, and even love when you use the gathering force.

The scattering force is lack of focus and inattention. When you use it, you are in the wrong mood, doing the wrong thing, with the wrong people. You have no vision, a vague plan, insufficient knowledge and little or no skills, and act impulsively. You fail to learn from feedback, either ignoring it or taking it personally, fail to adjust to it, and make no progress with your venture. There is conflict, disharmony, and various levels of hatred when you use the scattering force.

Of course, people don’t use the scattering force intentionally. It just seems to happen. It is an inchoate, unformed, and eventually chaotic state; while there is an attempt at order, it is insufficient, the center does not hold, and things fall apart. The result is bitterness, hatred, and rejection of all learning and understanding.

Since you are now more fully aware of the value of the gathering force, you can use it to play winning games and to abort losing games and start over.

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In business as in life, forces are at work that determine the outcome of things. These psychic forces create winning or losing games.


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How To Boost Sales

We are all cluttered thinkers, our minds preoccupied with numerous thoughts, feelings, and unresolved information.

You can see that clearly as you walk down any city street.

Faces are contorted with angst, inner dialogues, and multilayered emotions. People even walk and move in an uncoordinated way.

Examine your own thinking, and you’ll see that hidden agendas, conflicts, and internal upsets constantly interfere with the clarity of your logic.

This is both an opportunity and an obstacle for salesmanship.

It is an opportunity because you can offer people something that they need to improve their lives, ease their pain, and end their confusion.

Your product may very well provide the relief that your customers need.

It may be a way for them to make more money following a specific technology.

It may be a way for them to develop will power and self confidence.

It may be something that makes their lives easier to organize, maintain, and evolve.

It may be a way for them to get rest, relief, and peace.

Or it may be a way for them to recuperate energy, health, and well-being.

Yet you also have an obstacle. They can’t see you, hear you, or even respond to you—again, because of their preoccupation.

As a psychologist this happens to me quite often.

People write to me about some difficulty they are having. I write back, proposing a simple, common-sense and highly-doable solution.

Then they write back repeating their complaint, completely ignoring the solution.

In other words, they weren’t even able to understand that they had been presented with a solution.

The way most marketers try to break through this preoccupation is to increase their marketing signal to break through the customer’s internal noise.

They amp up their marketing message—playing on the customer’s spectrum of desires with a hammer. It’s called hype.

In their desperation, customers often respond in the way that the marketer desired.

Encouraged, the marketer then rolls out the next pitch with the same tactics.

Eventually, however, even this does not work. The customer becomes numbed out, tone deaf, and utterly indifferent.

In addition, everybody else is assailing the customer’s sensibility, trying to attract their attention, with the same dramatic techniques.

A better approach is to tone down the customer’s inner noise, rather than raise your own marketing signal.

How do you do this?

You simplify and clarify your message at every point of contact.

Rather than hype things up, you present your information in an increasingly simple and direct way.

Whether you’re into internet marketing, network marketing, mail order or sales, you will always have a better response if you simplify your marketing message.

This is why USP’s, slogans, and other techniques are popular—they give a handle to the brand or product.

Sometimes even an unusual company, brand, or product name can awaken a whole train of familiar associations in the customer’s mind.

However, the principle is more important than the technique being used.

And the principle is keep it short and simple.

If your message is clear, it will be received and acted upon. Your sales will improve. And if you get really good at this, they will soar!


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My Struggle To Keep It Simple

If your internet marketing message is not working, you have forgotten to keep it simple.

Coming from a background as someone with five degrees, with years of academic papers behind me, this has not been easy to do.

In undergraduate school, I had to write historical documents, using primary sources involving Elizabethan English. My history professors loved my accurate reporting and interpretation of complex historical events.

Then in graduate school, I had to write reports on the complex issues of psychology. It’s hard to describe the progression of dementia in simple words! My professors approved and awarded me accordingly.

Finally, as a fiction writer, I feel that I’m ripping people off if my sentences are short and choppy, rather than long, eloquent, and rich in description. My readers thought my works imaginative and engaging.

And to make things even tougher, most of my bedside reading is at a college-level. I am simply bored if the writer talks down to me. When he rolls out one idea per page, or worse per chapter, I feel an urge to throw the book out of the open bedroom window. I want to read people who are smarter than I am. It’s how I evolve.

Yet, in the online world, it’s a completely different story.

I used to write the most elegant and engaging emails to my list and my web copy consisted of a blow-by-blow description on the features and benefits of a product.

How did I do?

No click through! No sales.

I was baffled. I completely believed in my products and my intent in describing them was utterly sincere. If I got detailed, it’s not because I wanted to be pedantic—I really wanted to offer a full description and honestly outline the value.

I soon learned that people online are a different breed altogether.

They are preoccupied. And, generally, they have the attention span of gnats.

Offline they probably engage in thoughtful discussions and ponder on deeper issues, but online they transform into instant satisfaction junkies.

It’s something to do with the media. Slow dial-ups are an anathema. Slow loading web pages are an insult. It’s a world of flashing electrons, where quick is in, and slow is a sign of death. And if your computer or the programs on it are more than two years old, you’re in the Neanderthal age.

Hence, to survive, I’ve learned to simplify, simplify, simplify. They’ve “gotta” have it now or they’re “gonna” leave and it “ain’t” they’re fault
if I can’t “git er done.”

Financially, I’m not doing as well as others who use clichés without cringing, awful grammar without flinching, and propose lofty ideas with the verbal skills of a high school dropout, but I’m learning.

At least, I’m creating more white spaces between paragraphs, slipping in incomplete sentences, throwing in shorter sentences, and deleting any sesquipedalian words. (Oops, I just missed one!)

It really is a wild frontier out here. Simplicity seems to be key to engaging with it.

It’s not easy being simple.

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The Value Of Original Articles

When I was in college, the metric was an idol. Students focused more on their G.P.A. and their test scores than on what they were learning. They were more focused on taking the right amounts of credits to complete their major, then on their field of study.

After college, no one asked me about my grades, and no one even asked to see my diploma; my potential employers only wanted to know what I knew and whether those skills would help their business.

Now that I’m making my living online, I’m seeing that phenomena once again, the metric is more important than the knowledge.

This is very obvious when it comes to article marketing.

The original idea is superb—sharing nuggets of your expertise to help others. As a marketing tool, it brands you as an expert. Over time, it creates an audience and a dedicated readership.

Yet article spam is threatening to kill the value of articles.

It’s possible to buy articles in bulk and put your name on it as an author. It’s also possible to trick the filters, the human reviewers and the search engine robots, by changing the headline and using a thesaurus to change the words.

The purpose behind this whole phenomena is to increase backlinks to your website, improve your search engine placement, and increase traffic coming to your website. These are the metrics.

However, just as the purpose of college is to gather knowledge, improving one’s understanding of self, world, and life, so too the purpose of articles is to disseminate knowledge.

Sticking to the purpose, the metric takes care of itself.

Yet when the metric becomes the focus, the result is an outlay of superficiality. The value of knowledge becomes diluted. When 2,000 other people are saying pretty much the same thing, there isn’t much value to the content.

Ultimately, this incorrect focus causes a series of collapses. As search engine robots become more refined and human reviewers become more wary, the articles are cast aside, rejected, and the instant expert status is quickly lost.

There is another way. Really becoming an expert, studying your interests, becoming knowledgeable about it, and passing on the information to others.

Thus, rolling out one article after another, and providing readers with thought-provoking content, you’re a purveyor of value. It’s slower, but the branding lasts, and over time, as your articles circulate, your metric improves all by itself.

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The Secret Of Creativity In Business, Art, And Life

Years ago, at a Self-Improvement workshop by Jerry Stocking, participants were asked to listen to a children’s rhyme and repeat it. It was a rather long rhyme and everybody lost track of the sequence of events and stopped in embarrassment.

A tense and nervous atmosphere built up in the room as one person after another failed to recite the entire rhyme. People began to feel that they just had insufficient short term memory to recall and repeat the whole thing.

Then a NASA Aeronautical Engineer, with numerous pauses, got it!

His secret was that he paused. During those pauses, in the space between words, his subconscious mind prompted him with the next line of the verse.

“This,” said Jerry Stocking, “was the secret--because the space between things allowed intelligence and creativity to emerge.”

Both Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer are equally enthusiastic about this space between thoughts. They call it “the gap.”

Deepak Chopra says it is a contact point between our mind and the quantum field of all possibilities.

Wayne Dyer believes that for a moment, one actually touches the divine before springing back into our consensus reality, which is kept alive by a constant stream of limiting thoughts.

Echart Tolle has earned fame and fortune teaching others about this space. He is famous for his long silences, during which he is merely being aware, and devoid of thought. When he, by example, induces this state in his audience, they feel a sense of deep peace and “a fullness of being.”

Similarly, when I was studying art, learning how to draw people, horses, dogs, still life objects, barns, and open spaces, the space between my sketches were the most meaningful. With those spaces, my images came to life.

I love classical music, and it is for the same reason. The space between the notes is where the magic lies.

I have noticed a new surge of creativity in my online endeavors as well, when I respect these spaces.

When I am writing a sales letter, my thoughts become very intense, and after a while I suffer from information overload. When I take a break and come back, all the sentences flow perfectly, and I convey my message the way that I had hoped.

The same amazing thing happens after studying. If I spend a lot of time researching something, then give it a break, which may last for as long as a day, all the elements of the project become very clear to me.

The other day, I was listening to a David Valleries interview and I had to smile when he said that his most creative ideas came after he had quit pursuing them and did something utterly mundane instead.

There is a magic to the space between images, notes, streams of thought, and information gathering. Respect those spaces and confusion dissipates. Then the mind becomes very clear and action becomes efficient and precise.







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The Right Answers To Internet Marketing

We live in a knowledge era. In fact, internet marketing is based on the creation and
dissemination of knowledge. Success in Internet Marketing is only possible when you master and apply the right answers.

Why do so many people struggle heroically with Internet Marketing, only to fail, give up, and return to their lackluster life, claiming bitterly that “it doesn’t work?”

There obviously is no shortage of information nor of ways to build a home based business.

If there were only failures, one could legitimately conclude that the copious information is at fault and that all online opportunities are fraudulent.

Yet there are people who use that information and use that opportunity and develop what is popularly known as the Internet Marketing lifestyle, in which they stay at home, spend time with their families, indulge in their hobbies, and make money whether working or sleeping.

If you read the biographies of these gurus, you find that most had very little understanding or competence when they first set out. Yet through sheer persistence they pushed through and found the right answers, implemented them, and slowly climbed to heights of success, earning in a month what the average employee, slaving away in a corporation where he is continually bullied and harassed to toe the company line, earns in a year.

Here is what is probably going on. These are the 7 deadly sins.

1. A failure to find the right guru, someone with a proven track record.
2. Failure to leverage the best opportunity to express one’s interests.
3. Failure to commit and structure time to allow for learning and practice.
4. Low self-esteem and insufficient will to complete tasks.
5. Refusal to commit, getting distracted, and losing track of progress.
6. Inability to focus on a simple workable plan.
7. Giving up.

Yet all these boil down to an even more essential weakness: the failure to learn, identify the right answers, and build sufficient momentum.

It takes focus and concentration to learn anything. A smattering of skills is not enough. Until you can prove results through your bottom line, that is, your bank balance, you have to assume that you do not know and you have to make the effort to learn.

Do this now.

Take 3 sheets of paper.

On the first sheet write where you are now and how you got there.

Then on another sheet, write the header, “What do I know?” Fill this out.

Finally, on the third sheet, write, “What do I not know?”

Now, you have CLARITY. You have set confusion and frustration aside.

Your task is now to start getting the right answers. When you next download an information product—read it through completely, reread it and take notes, and then experiment with the ideas, tweaking them as you go along.

Seek knowledge, seek the right answers, and you, too, will start earning “impossible” monthly incomes.

Why settle for failure when you can be a soaring success and live the lifestyle that you really want?

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Use the Pleasure Response For Success

The Pleasure Response is a new therapeutic tool that I have been successfully using to help other people become more productive and successful

Although Dr. Herbert Benson wrote a fascinating book called the Relaxation Response in which he outlined 6 steps to relax deeply, you have probably never heard of the Pleasure Response.

You probably have not heard about it because I haven’t told anyone about it yet—unless of course, someone else has been thinking the same thing and has already communicated it.

Before I get into it, I have a question for you:

Have you ever noticed that when you should do something but you don’t really want to do it, you either force yourself to do it--if you’re experiencing sufficient external or internal pressure-- or--if you can get away with it--you don’t do it at all?

Sooner or later, and more often sooner, you avoid the activity altogether.

There are numerous things that we should do that would benefit us if we did them, but we just don’t want to do them.

Examples abound: balancing your check book, exercising, eating right, performing better at your job, and so on.

The reason you don’t want to do these things is because you link up pain to doing them.

It is as easy to make the Pleasure Response work for you. All you have to do is link up pleasure to taking action. Of course, before you do this, please make sure that you should make this switch. Sometimes, the pain is a warning. For example, if you hate your job, you are being warned to do something that is closer to your own nature and to desist from being untrue to yourself.

With that said, assuming that a switch will do you a world of good, how do you turn an “I should do it but I don’t want to do it” into an “I want to do it and I want to do it now”?

You change the associations in your mind.

As an example, suppose that you hate to exercise. You know that your health and energy would benefit from it but you don’t want to do it.

The reason you don’t want to do it is because you associate pain to the action. You think of the discomfort of getting sweaty, panting, feeling physical discomfort, looking foolish, putting up with ridicule, and so on.

Yet you may have noticed that there are other people who love to exercise. In fact, they even pay to go to certain places where other people are exercising.

What is happening inside them?

They are operating on the Pleasure Response.

In their minds, they envision their improved cardiovascular fitness, muscularity, weight loss, healthy physiology and the sheer joy of energetic movement. They imagine compliments and stares of admiration. The whole exercise phenomena is a thrill to them.

Using your mental software program called your imagination, you can hold similar thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Run this program long enough and intensely enough and you’ll be reaching for that tennis racquet or gym membership in no time.

The Pleasure Response. Tap into it and you can live a much happier, productive, wealthier, and healthier life.

Here, then, is a brief checklist to make the Pleasure Response work for you.

1. Identify what you ought to do but don’t want to do.
2. Decide whether this is something that you should actually consider not doing at all.
3. If you decide it would be highly beneficial to do it, then make a list of all the painful mental associations you have with this activity.
4. Now write just the opposite response.
5. Run an imaginary scene in your mind where you are doing it and deriving a lot of pleasure.
6. You can amp up this scene with intensity and repetition.
7. You have now connected with the Pleasure Response.




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Meditation: The Art Of Self-Recovery

When you change your picture of the world out there it changes for you. Meditation is the way to do this by becoming aware of who and what you are.

What you focus on determines your reality because your mind becomes active in acquiring and bringing into your reality the things that you focus on.

You bring into your experience what you focus on.

If you focus on lack, limitation, negativity, and scarcity, then that is what you bring into your experience.

If you focus on abundance, expansion, positive things, and plenty, then that is what you bring into your experience.

A moment of introspection will make this obvious.

Why, then, if it is that easy to switch our reality, from one of suffering to one of joyful experience, do we persist in injuring ourselves?

It is because we are not in charge of our minds. Rather our minds are in charge of us. We, a conscious being, are dominated by our conditioning.

This is why the practice of meditation is important.

Every time we meditate, we dissolve more and more conditioning. We get off autopilot and take over the path our ship is cruising on.

As we let go of more and more of our reflexive thinking, we start to take charge of our own minds, and our reality, slowly, creakingly, turns around for us.

Of course, this is not easy.

Yet, it’s not much fun living a scattered and chaotic life either.

Until our awareness comes to the surface, we can’t really expect to improve our health, boost our finances, or be able to calm the storms of a relationship. Our dreams are always one step ahead of us, lost in the mist of “someday I will…”

The path is simple. Learn a method of meditation and practice it.

The path is also difficult. You have to learn and you have to practice.

The reward, however, is immense. Increased self-awareness, increased control of your mind, and increased appreciation and meaning of your own self and life.

In many religious traditions, we are often said to be asleep.

What exactly does this mean?

It means that we are almost wholly unconscious. We think and act in ways that are not in our best interests.

A conscious person is an aware person and awareness is something that comes when we release the subconscious programs that run our lives.

A brief review of yesterday will show you how your notion of self-control and inner mastery is pretty much an illusion.

If meditation is not your thing, then try contemplation, sitting in silence, quietly reflecting on who you are and what it is that is important to you.

A daily routine where you work on raising your awareness will do you a world of good. It will, in fact, change your world, placing you in one more favorable to your interests.


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How To Get Fabulously Rich

The word “rich” comes from the root word for “reach”.

You are rich when you can reach out.

The first type of reaching out is a personal one.

You have to reach beyond your limited understanding.

When you expand your thinking of what is possible for you, you are reaching out.

When you expand your knowledge of how to do anything, you are reaching out.

And when you expand your physical energy and improve your skills, you are reaching out.

This kind of reaching out improves your chances of getting rich.

Getting rich, however, is never done in isolation.

The marketplace is a dynamic interplay between buyer and seller, between consumer and supplier. It is a relationship.

Thus, your reach has to extend out to your customer.

It has to give the customer what he or she needs and that satisfies that customer. The satisfied customer will then reach back for more of what you can provide.

Then your reach has to expand to more and more customers.

This multiplies the power of your reach.

Also, you can reach out to expand your industry more and more.

Or, you can reach out into other marketplaces for multiple income opportunities.

Thus, you can reach either deeper or wider.

Those who reach out are rich.

You can begin the process of inviting riches into your life by working on improving your reach.

It’s simple isn’t it?

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How To Put Divine Order Back Into Your Life

Order is a beautiful thing. As are balance and harmony. With them, your inner peace deepens, your productivity improves, people appreciate you more, things get done, and you notice that you start to prosper.

While chaos seems more natural to all of us, order, surprisingly enough, is not that difficult to achieve.

Here is a simple method to put your life in divine order.

Instead of creating a “to-do” list create an affirmation list.

The problem with “to-do” lists are that they tend to not get done. You find yourself procrastinating.

In fact, you feel discouraged before you have even begun.

A “to-do” list is a list of problems. Unfortunately, the list itself is seen as a problem. The way most people tend to solve problems is to avoid them. Sometimes problems do go away--but not often enough to make this a reliable method.

Now, imagine, that you wrote a list of affirmations instead.

An example may make it easier to understand.

A typical to-do list might look like this:

1. Clean out the house.
2. Pay the bills.
3. Do the laundry.

Switch it to an affirmation list:

1. I feel good and everyone else is happier, too, because my house is clean and orderly.
2. I feel proud of myself for paying all my bills on time as people then gladly provide me with the services that I need. This positive attitude brings even more prosperity into my life. In fact, because of my prosperity consciousness I’m discovering a large surplus left over from each paycheck.
3. I enjoy wearing fresh and clean clothes because it shows my high self-esteem.

Try out this simple idea.

Your mind likes to win. It’s better psychology than trying not to lose. Hope for gain is better psychology than fear of loss. Why not improve your psychology today as you do your chores and bring your life into beauty, balance, and harmony.



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Success Is A Winning Feeling

While it may seem that success creates the winning feeling, it is also possible to use the winning feeling to create success.

Let me explain.

Your subconscious mind does not know the difference between something imagined and something that really happened. Your conscious mind knows, but your subconscious does not know.

What is the significance of this little psychological fact?

First, let’s briefly cover the difference between the two aspects of your mind. Then, you’ll be able to grasp the significance of this little trick you can play on your own mind to motivate yourself into a success breakout.

The conscious mind is what you are using right now to read and evaluate the ideas in this article.

The subconscious mind is what runs the three trillion processes of your body and is the storehouse of all your memories and latent, untapped mental powers.

The conscious mind is reality-oriented. The subconscious mind is a servomechanism that responds to what the conscious mind tells it.

The conscious mind is the decision-maker. The subconscious mind puts the decisions made into action. While the conscious mind can come up with a good plan, it is the subconscious mind that makes it happen.

Finally, like an iceberg, most of your mind is underwater; it is subconscious. What you often assume to be your mind is just the small portion that is visible on the surface.

Now when you are succeeding in something, you feel encouraged and get better and better at it. You put more time and more energy into it. Your learn more and you refine your experiences, creating even better strategies. All this happens because you have a winning feeling.

Conversely, when you are failing at something, your self-esteem plunges, you feel lethargic, and you get stupid about what needs to be done. Soon enough, the losing feeling hurts so much that you discontinue the activity altogether and move on to something less painful.

With the winning feeling, you move toward even greater success, and you get more of what you want. With the losing feeling, you move toward even more failure, and you get less of what you want.

Now, let’s put all this together.

By simulating the experience of winning, even before it has actually happened, your conscious mind is turning on the juice and the subconscious mind pours out more resources—more creative and inspired ideas, a greater enthusiasm for learning, and more energy and effort toward the goal.

Simply by continuously imagining yourself, holographically imagining yourself, as winning, you actually start to make it happen. Your 3 dimensional vision of your own success will create the actual experience.

This is the way to earn more money, enjoy better health, enjoy a wonderful relationship, and fulfill that long desired ambition.


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How To Get Rich Online With Internet Marketing

Here is why most people fail in an online business:

They see the possibilities immediately: You can market a digital or dropship product to the entire world, the process is almost completely automated, and you can get rich very quickly.

They then reach out and study internet marketing and try and focus on expressing their niche interest.

They reach out and start buying marketing materials and going to seminars and hanging out in forums.

Often the get into debt in the process and sometimes their relationships fall apart as their significant other consider them short off dementia, but they are goaded on by this vision that they see as possible. A lot of stress happens when you suddenly become single-minded. Intense focus is both the secret of greatness and the root cause of burnout.

Finally, they get overwhelmed by the amount of information that is out there on this subject, spin their wheels, suffer from information indigestion, experience failure, and then quit.

Yet, remarkably, some people do amazingly well. They go through the same cycles but they come out winners. At this point, they start making in a day what took them a year in their previous deadend jobs to make.

While this is a complex topic, there are two critical elements that a netpreneur has to sort through. How he or she sorts through them determines whether they stay in the game and win big or drop out and fail, going back to the dismal jobs and unfulfilling lives that they hoped to escape.

The first element to failing online is poor study skills.

It’s easy enough to whip out a credit card and download an ebook or a software program that promises the end to the search. Suddenly, they see an end to poverty and the beginning of riches. Suddenly, they envision the death of pain and the birth of pleasure.

Unfortunately, they then have to actually read, study, and apply the information.

Most people don’t get this far. It’s easier to just get the next information package.

Often enough, they consider the information to be at fault. Even if the person selling the information happens to have a fabulous track record, with lots of social and statistical proof.

They conclude that either (a) they got scammed or (b) some vital information was withheld from them. They become guru-haters.

The real culprit however is their own impatience, poor study skills, getting discouraged when there isn’t instant comprehension, and failing to test the strategies out.

An ebook is just an ebook and a software program is just a software program—until the information is read, studied, comprehended, and applied.

The second element to failing online is not understanding the learning loop.

Failure is a bitter experience. Most of us shy away from it. Yet in our reluctance to go through it, we fail to get to the other side, which is success.

You have to fail first before you can succeed.

Failure is the process of trying something out, learning about it, improving your performance, eliminating what does not work, and finally arriving at a formula for success.

Once you have this formula, then you can replicate that success over and over again.

What’s more, when you refine that success, it gets even bigger.

Mastery consists of three phases: learning, applying, and responding to feedback.

It’s a cybernetic loop.

If you focus on the feedback as feedback, you will go through cycles of failing that will then lead you to cycles of succeeding.

Unfortunately, most people don’t let the loop run itself out. They respond to negative feedback as failure and stop dead in their tracks, discouraged, disillusioned, and upset.
They only want positive feedback.

Yet the feedback loop is always both positive and negative. Some things that you try out work and others that you try out don’t work. You will never know what works and what does not work until you try different things out.








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