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How to Approach Beautiful Women

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

In my previous article I talked about how you can use all of your encounters with beautiful women to boost your own self-confidence with women… In this article I am going to talk about the how to approach beautiful women successfully…

First, remember your personal radar… the one that maps all of your encounters with beautiful women…next don’t ever forget the ladies have their own radars. Think about that for a second…how would you feel if a woman, you had never even seen before, came up to you and started talking or even trying to pick you up?… Well you would either think… ‘my luck’s in here!’… or more likely… ’we got an oddball here’ and exit stage left fast!

Well it’s exactly the same for the ladies… and they get approached all the time. They get whistled at…lewd comments… straight up ‘in your face’ propositions and some down right perverts. And this happens to them all the time…

From a young age women build a wall… a defense mechanism that shuts it all out. So they have their radars like we do but theirs have extra defenses… and these cannot be penetrated with a smart bomb… but they can be penetrated if you yourself are smart and can find a way through… and it is not difficult.

You simply need to try a different approach to all the other guys…and it’s dead easy…just treat them exactly the way you would a guy (at least at first)… give them respect and respect their personal space.

Remember to be confident in your approach but not arrogant, maintain good eye contact and engage them in a normal polite conversation.

Be very careful on actual physical contact… this a very important aspect of actually really getting to know a lady but at first hold back as this may put her off. I’ll talk more about this aspect in a later article but initially you can form a strong impression with touch right at the start if the right situation arises… A good example would be if you were out shopping and you come across a lady who looks lost… ask her the problem…and if you can…very gently touch her on the shoulder and steer her in the right direction… (You could then head on down to where she’s going and accidentally bump into her again… but don’t actually follow her!)

Never rush on a first encounter with a beautiful women… at this point your job is to get placed favourably on her radar…and that’s it! Now depending on the situation you are in you may be able to move quickly onto the next stage but for now it’s vital to make a good first impression. So always be polite and helpful but not overly nice… they will think you’re a bit weird if you overdo it.

So to sum up…to approach beautiful women, make a good first impression… don’t rush but be confident… always be polite and helpful and never be overtly sexual on a first encounter. If you treat ladies with respect at all times you will get added to their radars

In my next article I’ll talk more about this and the best ways to approach groups of beautiful women so be sure to look out for them. Because they are rarely on their own, right?…In later articles I’ll be dealing with the ‘in for the kill’ tactics but it’s vitally important you get the ground rules down first.

Happy Hunting

Dave

My name is Dave and I have had great success over the last 20 years attracting beautiful women. I’m now going to pass on all my secrets in these articles. If you can’t wait for the next one check my site now! The Extreme Predator
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Wisdom of an Attractive Personality

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

We all are attracted to people with great personality. But what are the traits that make up an attractive personality? What is needed to make everyone likes you? Let some famous personalities sheer some light on the wisdom of an Attractive Personality.

Optimism

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

Sense of Purpose

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” William Shedd

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” Mitch Albom

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” Benjamin Franklin

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau

Sincerity

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” Edward R. Murrow

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.” Benjamin Disraeli

“A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.” Don Williams, Jr

Promptness of Decision

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Flora Whittemore

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” Tom Robbins

“Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.” General George S. Patton

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” H. L. Hunt

Courtesy

“Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy“ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.” Benjamin Franklin

“When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war“ Confucius

“All doors open to courtesy“ Thomas Fuller

Tolerance

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” Peace Pilgrim

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” Ralph W. Sockman

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” Dalai Lama

“Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one’s own” Mahatma Gandhi

Smile

“Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.” Mae West

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Manner

“A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” Louis Nizer

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” Emily Post

“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself“ Richard Whately

Humility

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” Oscar Wilde

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” Charles de Montesquieu

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” Mahatma Gandhi

“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” Norman Vincent Peale

Faith

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.” Oscar Wilde

“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible“ William James

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” Mary Manin Morrissey

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to” George Seaton

Sense of Justice

“Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.” Harrison Ford

“The foundation of justice is good faith.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Emotional Control

“The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action” William James

“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.” Bertrand Russell

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” Roger Ebert

“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason” Marya Mannes

Courage

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause

“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” John Maxwell

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell

“The key to change… is to let go of fear.” Rosanne Cash

Generosity

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” Mother Teresa

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.” Friedrich Nietzsche

There you are, a short introduction of some of the traits needed to have an Attractive Personality. Study them, understand them and make it a habit by applying them, in time to come, you will fee the ‘Law of Attractions’ working for you.

Roderick works as a Business Executive in Talentpreneur Hub, a company based in Singapore that helps youths turn their talent into business.
A student of Personal Development, he hope to enrich himself by enriching others.

In order to live, breath, eat, sleep Personal Development, he have created a blog to share his articles, insights and opinions on the subject.

Do visit his blog @ http://www.mindchic.blogspot.com

Is Everything Vibration?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

I’ve seen this saying in some self-improvement topics, that everything is vibration and energy. They are used to explain that if you are positive and energetic, you shine others and attract abundance.

However, to explain the law of attraction (mainly say you attract what you think and expect), another famous hypothesis can also do it, that your thinking leads to your feelings, and then your action, and finally a result.

If you think positively and is willing to take actions, you have a chance to achieve the thing you desired. And you can learn experience from the ones who have achieved it, do more actions and adjust your strategies, your success rate will be high.

So is everything vibration?

If the string theory is true. The string theory states that every elementary particles (electrons, quarks etc.) is made by vibrations of tiny strings. It looks very promising but before experimental examination, we can not say it is true.

While one may have heard that light is vibration, which is true. Visible light, together with x-rays, infrared, ultraviolet, and so on are electromagnetic waves.

And is everything energy?
Referring to E2=p2c2+m2c4, or in some conditions it simplified to E=mc2, it is true.

I believe the intention is good, but the metaphors “everything is vibration” used may not be appropriate.

“Well” one may say, “after all if it works.”

I do more believe that the key point for change is the willing to change and subsequent actions.

Or in another perspective, it is your brain that works. If a person spends time training a skill, those experiences are recorded in the brain. Everyone can train to be an expert of finding excuses, or an expert of finding opportunities. It is what you focus on expands.

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The Rules Of Attraction

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Dale Carnegie reminds us in ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ that if we want to be a memorable conversationalist, we need to say little. We simply need to let the other person talk and show a genuine interest. This causes an irresistible magnetic field between the two of you. The other person feels important, and validated BY YOU. You become that person’s new hero.
I’ve had amazing results with this method. Often people come up to me years after I’ve had a conversation with them – it might have been only a four minute conversation at a conference or social event. They remind me of what an impact I made on their lives by listening. Think about it – how often in life do we ever have someone sincerely listening TO US. More often the other person is formulating their argument or their point of view.

Now put the shoe on the other foot! How often are WE thinking of the next thing WE will say, rather than BEING THERE for the other person?

If you want to create an irresistible bond between yourself and another person – be it your spouse, your child, your boss, your parent, your friend or a stranger – be still and encourage the other person to talk. Then listen!

I recently suggested this to my husband as a technique with our 3 year old granddaughter. Sometimes she gets a bit rambunctious in the evenings, with a lot of built up childhood energy. Rather than trying to get her to stop irritating him with this energy, I suggested he connect with her on a genuine listening and interest level. The results amazed us both. He told me this story. “I sat down at her eye level and in a calm quiet tone of voice, I asked her to talk with to me,” he said. “I gave her my 100% of my attention and complete eye contact.” She instantly quieted down, and threw her energetic enthusiasm into telling him a big story in her precious three year old fashion. “I felt really close to her, rather than irritated,” he reported. That was several months ago. Now he spends a few minutes each morning connecting with her on that basis, and it BRINGS HIM GREAT JOY. Think of the bond he’s creating that will last a lifetime between them. AND of the confidence she’s building through knowing that someone cares enough to LISTEN, REALLY LISTEN.

Yesterday, I was talking to my Liz, our co-founder, and poised this question. I wonder what fantastic relationship could be created between parents and teens, if a parent would sincerely listen to the teen’s point of view. I know how easy it is as a parent to get caught up in the rush of the day. I have three kids myself. BUT I know what amazing results can be had from 3 minutes of REAL LISTENING. By listening intently and unjudgmentally to a person, WE VALIDATE THAT PERSON. And become their hero – we build a bond that lasts a lifetime. Isn’t that what we all want as parents?

3 SECOND FOCUS TIP – Think now, who is important in your life? What can you do TODAY to listen intently AND unjudgmentally to that person? Make the determination to DO just that and SEE WHAT JOY YOU EXPERIENCE! Or, try it on a stranger immediately. You’ll be amazed at HOW IRRESISTIBLE YOU BECOME to that person, be it a family member or stranger!

This article is written by Christine Harvey, co-founder of http://www.WomenforWealth.com, Empowering Women Financially to Impact the World Globally’ through Education and Inspiration. Christine Harvey is the author of 6 leadership books sold in 25 languages, including ‘Your Pursuit of Profit,’ ‘Secrets of the World’s Top Sales Performers’ and ‘Can a Girl Run for President?’

How To Attract a Powerful Support Squad that Think You’re Wonderful!

Friday, August 24th, 2007

With the many ups and downs in business, let alone life, it’s hard to stay positive and keep the faith in the day-to-day pursuit of our dreams. And, when we associate with negative or unsupportive people, it becomes almost impossible.

Unfortunately, it’s difficult to eliminate all of the negative people from your life because they may be those closest to you; a parent, spouse, sibling, best friend or business partner. Because these people have personal history with you, they usually remember your successes and failures - heavy on the failures. And, they may simply not be able to think of you in terms of what’s possible.

That’s why we all need to create a team of brand cheerleaders and an environment that provides us with love and encouragement.

To create the best possible support squad, try the following tips:

1. Build more relationships that nourish and restore you either with a coach, buddy, spiritual advisor, mentor, or role model. Spend time with people who will hold you to a higher standard and “stretch” yourself.

2. Pay less attention to relationships that make it easy for you to maintain the status quo. Some friends will always tell you what you want to hear and let you get away with performing sub-par. Spend your time with friends, colleagues and associates who understand your goals and will help you grow.

3. Get rid of negative relationships - those focused on gossip, mutual complaining, or making excuses. Let’s face it, that’s as unproductive as it gets! They add nothing to your journey and are not a good investment of your time and energy.

4. Open yourself to meeting new people - on purpose. It’s only scary if you make it scary. Look at it this way, the next encounter you make with someone new could mean new business, a referral partner or a new shopping buddy.

5. Put your sales skills to good use and get buy-in from your family. If you can help your family members see how your goal directly benefits them, you’ll get more of their support. For example, if your goal is to lose weight, you can explain that being healthier will mean you’ll have more energy to be with your children and spouse or significant other.

6. Find a support buddy or group. Share your daily insights and draw strength from each other. This not only provides accountability and structure, but it makes the process more fun and enjoyable.

Mastermind Groups are a terrific way to get this kind of support. Mastermind members support one another with constructive ideas, feedback, a push when you need one and always with your best interest at heart.

© 2006 - Liz Pabon. All rights reserved.

About the author: Liz Pabon, “The Branding Maven,” is inspiring, motivating and empowering - but most importantly, she’s effective. A speaker and author on the topic of personal branding, Liz delivers insights and principles that are proven to achieve WILD SUCCESS. Liz publishes the weekly Keys 2 Wild Success! ezine. If you’re ready to ATTRACT amazing clients, set yourself APART from the pack, make a lot more MONEY, and have a lot more FUN in your small business, get Liz’s FREE WEEKLY TIPS by going NOW to http://www.thebrandingmaven.com!

Wherever I Go, There I Am

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Two weeks ago, I overheard a lady speaking about moving to another town and how much nicer the people were there. It reminded me of an old story. There was a customer seated at the lunch counter in a town diner. He asked the waitress what the people were like in this town. She smiled and asked about the people in the town he came from. He said they were awful, stuck up, uncaring, and rude. She replied to the customer - “you’re probably not going to like it much here either”.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Do you know people who are looking for a new job because they hate the job they have now? What makes them think they won’t hate their new job?

Wherever you go, there you are.

It’s not about your neighbor, your job, your spouse if you’re not happy take a look on the inside. Are you happy with yourself? My bet is no, my bet is it’s time for an attitude adjustment - a check up from the neck up.

When I’m feeling down I find that I’m better off not watching the news on television or listening to it on the radio. I find listening to classical music very soothing it raises my spirits. I have a collection of inspirational and motivational CD’s I listen to, I have a collection of DVD’s that are positive and lift me up. I avoid negative people; I try not to dump my negativity onto others.

Does it always work? Nope, but it usually does. Positive thinking does work. It’s not immediate, but it’s just really hard to stay in a bad mood when you’re listening to Zig Ziglar or Bob Doyle or Joe Vitale or Bob Proctor. You’ve got to take action to get out of your funk; you’ve got to surround yourself with positive thoughts and people.

Keep in mind the Law of Attraction; you will attract what you think about. Positive thoughts will attract positive results every time.

One of the biggest challenges we face as humans is dealing with negative friends and family. How do you dismiss a friend of 20 years because you suddenly realize they’re no longer good for you? I don’t have an easy answer to this question I’d really appreciate some thoughts and comments from you about this. I have (yep, still do) a friend who constantly complained about things in her life. One day I’d reached my limit and asked what she had done specifically about the problem she was describing to me. It was something she had been complaining about for close to a year. She replied “nothing”… my response was less than compassionate. I said “I don’t want to hear any more about it until you’ve taken some action to correct it yourself.” Well, I didn’t hear any more about it - but… other people did. She just stopped complaining to me. I can’t change others, I can only change myself.

Wherever I go, there I am.

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: http://applying-the-law-of-attraction.com

What Do You REALLY Want? 5 Magical Ingredients For Getting It

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Do you find it easy to know what you want and express it clearly? If not, what is holding you back?

Whether we pay homage to God, Nature, the Universe or whatever, there comes a time when we seek help or intervention for something important to us, something that affects our innermost desires. Very often our prayers or requests are not granted and then we tend to lose hope. But we are not likely to have our prayers answered for three main reasons.

First, we tend to pray or make our request when there is a crisis, so we pray with anxiety and desperation, the panic button at full throttle, with lots of doubts and fears, and no real belief in routine miracles or getting a result! Surprise, surprise, nothing much happens, which then confirms the lurking doubt within us that our god doesn’t truly care or isn’t really there! Second, any prayer to a higher unseen power takes a massive leap of faith and belief in what is possible and we tend to lack such blind faith. Third, and most important, we fail to ask specifically for what we want because we have not stopped to think about it clearly. Instead we cling to a generalised idea of our situation, a kind of cure-all “Help me, please!” plea because too many things in our life need sorting out. We are afraid to make our request specific in case it might seem unrealistic, unreasonable or even selfish to others.

But that attention to specifics is what helps to provide focus, and once we start to focus we begin to energise the desire, to make it an intention rather than just a fleeting wish, which then moves people and the environment to help us to achieve it. In fact, to show how the Universe (or your God) delivers when we have faith, just think of any item, like a type and colour of car, and focus on it for a while. From that moment on, a rush of cars conforming to that type and colour will come into your vision; the articles which draw your attention in magazines are likely to relate to it and unexpected occurrences around that type of car will begin to happen. The power of thought is phenomenal for fulfilling our wishes. Sooner or later, circumstances will conspire in a series of coincidences to give us that car, if it was our desire. We are on earth to be happy and healthy; to have our desires fulfilled. However, it is a focus on negativity which keeps us feeling unhappy.

The Fulfilment of Dreams

There is no great mystery to fulfilling our dreams. So long as we can articulate exactly what we want, we can always achieve it with action and commitment. I am in total agreement with Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner (NLP: The New Technology of Achievement) when they say, “In NLP we believe that anyone can do anything. If its not possible the world of experience will let us know. We’ll find out by doing, not by thinking that we can’t.”

In fact, I believe that we can have anything we want in our lives if we have five simple attributes, what I call my ‘magical ingredients’:
1. The self-belief that we can make it happen.
2. The faith in our abilities, and a higher power, to carry it out.
3. The action and effort to bring it to fruition.
4. The willingness to pay the price in focus and commitment
5. The COURAGE and patience to see it through.

There is nothing so great about my suggestion. It is the power of thought and belief that has built our world. When I use my computer I am writing on someone else’s thought which they brought into being through their belief. When I use a microwave, I use someone else’s thought, the direct manifestation of their faith in what is possible. When I drive my car I am enjoying Henry Ford’s thought and experimentation for my comfort and journey. Every time I turn on the electric light we take for granted I am using Thomas Edison’s thought and the personal courage and determination that took him 10,000 attempts and a massive leap of faith to get it working. And as you read my book you are sharing my thought and creation, the end result and confirmation of a deep faith and belief that I could actually write a book for public consumption, take action on it and find the courage and determination to bring it to life! I simply asked, believed in it, took action, and it was given.

Eight Steps to SUCCESS

Experience, and lots of achievements, have taught me that every thought and creation is marked by eight stages:
1. Excitement

2. Possibility

3. Fear

4. Belief

5. Faith

6. Action

7. Commitment

8. Result

Most people get stuck on stage 3 (FEAR) and so very little happens to them to reinforce the talent and ability they know they possess. I have few fears so I get a result EVERY TIME, even if it is not the result I wanted. That only fires me up to keep trying until I get the desired outcome. There is nothing more exciting than creating your own reality, seeing an idea take life from nothing, except your thought, and watching it evolve. Nothing at all! Others might only reach stage two (POSSIBILITY) in their ideas but lack the encouragement or resources to take it further, so they end up without any action. A few might make it to stage six (ACTION) but lack the stickability to produce the right results, while the ones who have the five essential ingredients mentioned earlier (my magic formula) will triumph in the end. They will reach a result, no matter how long it takes. If you believe it, you can create it. Your focus and thought processes will eventually find the means and resources to attempt it and your commitment will give it life. This applies particularly to finding the right soulmate.

If you believe someone special is there for you, your faith, action and commitment will bring him into your world. It’s your level of resistance and non-belief that will keep her away. Self-belief and faith are two powerful tools in getting us what we require, but without the action to bring it to life, and the courage and commitment to stick with it, we will always remain dreamers. Self-belief and faith are also governed by our past experiences. If we have not done very well in our own eyes, or have not achieved the success we have sought, both of those ingredients gradually diminish as we brand ourselves ‘failures’ and hide behind our fears. We come to dread trying and experimenting with anything new because we fear having to face the consequences of any action which fail to come up to expectations. Yet consequences are part and parcel of results. We cannot escape them. The only way to cope with them is to keep trying in order to get more of the results we desire.

This is an excerpt from 10 Easy Steps to…Finding Your Ideal Soulmate! by Elaine Sihera, which is available on Amazon.co.uk

ELAINE SIHERA (Ms Cyprah - http://www.myspace.com/elaineone) is an expert author, media contributor and columnist. The first Black graduate of the OU and a post-graduate of Cambridge University, Elaine is a CONSULTANT for Diversity Management, Personal Empowerment and Relationships. Author of: 10 Easy Steps to Growing Older Disgracefully; 10 Easy Steps to Finding Your Ideal Soulmate!; Money, Sex & Compromise and Managing the Diversity Maze, among others (available on http://www.amazon.co.uk). Also the founder of the British Diversity Awards and the Windrush Men and Women of the Year Achievement Awards. She describes herself as, “Fit, Fabulous, Over-fifty and Ready to Fly!”

Are You Tied To Your Circumstances?

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

What do you think has shaped the way you are and how you live? Do you believe you were conditioned by your upbringing, your environment and that you reflect the way you were brought up?

That might seem to be an easy question to answer for someone who had what they remember as a happy childhood, surrounded by parents or carers. If you were one of those people you might say that you have turned out as a reflection of the values you were brought up with and that you learned from an early age how to love others and to respect yourself.

Has your life always been blessed with good fortune?

And how about if things weren’t so easy? That’s not something you might find comfortable in facing, that your parents or carers weren’t the loving people they could have been, or that you grew up struggling to seize your identity and to make something worthwhile of your life despite all odds.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter at all what kind of background you come from if your life right now isn’t the most exciting journey possible. It doesn’t matter whether you were rich or poor, indulged or deprived. It doesn’t even matter if the last few years of your life have been difficult or you’ve had to battle with the dragons you fear the most. What matters is the here and now. This very moment is all that matters.

You have the power to choose how to live your life. You have the power to reject the influence of a sad childhood, or a terrible time at school. You have the power to resist the urge to stay closed and protected against new relationships and friendships because you’ve been hurt in the past. You can choose to live your life without regret, blame, isolation or a defended heart.

Blaming others for the quality of your life is a useful strategy to deflect the responsibility away from yourself to someone else, but in doing so you just drown yourself in a sea of unhappiness because your happiness or lack of it is always tied to the past. It is always dependent upon other people. Remember, the past is over unless you choose to live there!

Choose instead to see all those adversities as lessons. See them as important milestones for you to negotiate so as to learn from them and gain a deeper understanding of who you are and what you are searching for.

Choose to interpret your past as a path to personal growth and you will see that you no longer have to remain hidden and safe behind the walls you build to protect yourself from the world.

You really can be free of anything you choose to let go. Choose to be free!

Neel Raman, is an author, presenter, workshop facilitator and coach to many. He has written ‘Hoops and Freedom’, a powerful self-improvement book, in the form of an entertaining fiction story, targeted at those who want and demand more from life. To get the first chapter for FREE and to receive FREE motivational lessons, visit: http://www.focusedon.com.au/blog
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How Do We Recognize The Start Of Our Journey?

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Often in life, it takes a crisis to make us re-evaluate what we’re doing with our lives and where we’re headed. Faced by doubt and uncertainty, we’re reminded of our fragile mortality and we wonder what it is we’re really searching for and what makes life worth living.

Suddenly life can seem shallow and pointless without some purpose to it. You’ll wonder why you’re not allowing yourself to live the dreams you dreamt as a child. Where did all those dreams go, and why did you let go of them? Where did that joy of life disappear to and why do you not feel complete and fulfilled?

It’s at those times, when you’re at the crossroads, when you’ll come to realise that you have a choice to make. You can look to a far horizon and resolve to make the best of the rest of the three billion heartbeats you have left, or you can choose to stay at the crossroads, not risking the chance of failure or making a wrong decision.

Your intuition will be your most honest and trustworthy guide. You will recognise that that there are changes you want to make in your life and that you haven’t yet fully explored the potential you have for living a fulfilled and spiritually rewarding existence.

Listen to that inner truth. Know in your heart what feels right. What seems like barren wasteland will unfold into a rich and vibrant experience once you take the first steps towards enriching your life and choosing to live every second of it with an open heart and a focused mind.

If you let your heart open to what’s possible, you will let in signs that will affirm you are taking the right decision in following your true purpose in life. You will meet people along the way who are also on their own journeys and you will be charged with the energy they radiate so that you radiate with the same light and purpose. You will know it because you have learned to listen to you intuition and to ask for what it is you want in life. It will come to you.

All it takes is to listen to your intuition. Once you do, you will find your courage and set off on the most exciting time of your life. That will be the start of a new journey for you.

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The Rummage Sale Game

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I asked the universe for a chair; one that I could put into my bedroom. It had to be a little masculine looking to complement the lady-like armchair I already had. This chair, I told the Angels while reading from my mental list, had to be the right size, a combination of upholstery and wood. The upholstery had to be either blue or red in color. It had to be the right price and I preferred that that price be free!

I like to pretend I am in a store, fill out mental “order blanks” and submit it to the universal energetic flow of anyone and everyone in the area who is planning on having a rummage sale in the near future. I laugh a bit as I give specific orders. I figure that the item I want is out there somewhere and should someone just happen to not need it they can just put it out for me! Why not?

I let a few cold and rainy weeks pass and, immersed in other projects, forgot about the chair. Finally, it stopped raining and the weather warmed. People were ready to sit in their garages for the weekend. Rummage sale signs dotted the street corners and I was quickly and happily into the car and on my way.

Sure enough, the chair presented itself in somebody’s garage at an estate sale. What’s more, there were 3 more just like it.

The universe, in her great abundance and love, had taken notes when I’d submitted my order, found it and put it right into my path. And, what’s even better, the lady selling her items just wanted them gone and placed the token price of $2.50 each on them!

Yes, you can try this at home. It’s a game to practice manifesting that which you want. Think of something small that you’d like to have. Be specific. Make a list of attributes. Date it, put the list away, forget about it and go about your life. Place yourself in the path of abundance and let it present itself.

Do this exercise over and over again until it becomes second nature to you. Then try it with something larger!

Copyright© 2007 Catherine M. Kasper

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