MOTIVATION, THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT

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MOTIVATION, THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting flunked grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us of our inability to look for a source of income. Being humiliated gives us the ‘push’ to speak up and fight for ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may be a bitter experience, a friend’s tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves.

With the countless negativities the world brings about, how do we keep motivated? Try on the tips I prepared from A to Z…

A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.

C – Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D – Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.

E – Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F – Family and Friends – are life’s greatest ‘F’ treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.

G – Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.

H – Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I – Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don’t let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people – the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.

J – Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

K – keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.
L – Learn to love your self. Now isn’t that easy?

M – Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O – Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways – how they want things to be, and how they should be.

P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.

Q – Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate – are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?

R – Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.

S – Stop procrastinating.

T – Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U – Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.

V – Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W – Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

X – X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on “extras” on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.

Y – You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.

Z – Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!


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Creative Notions, Success, & Insanity

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People seem to have the misconception that only a select few are able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is not true at all. The fact is, creativity is very much like a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to consistently give out great results. If you don't practice harnessing creative thinking, this skill will very much atrophy into nonexistence. But keep working and this skill will soon come to you in a snap.

So how do you unleash your creative thinking? Well, the first thing is to become a human leech. No, we're not talking about just sucking the blood out of every living being available, we're saying that you should take in as much knowledge and learning you can find. Read everything available -- good and bad, and keep your mind open to the infinite possibilities of the universe. The more you know, the more you'll want to know, and the more your faculty of wonder will be exercised. Prepare to be amazed at little facts that add a bit of color into your life.

Focus on a creative activity everyday. Yes, it's an effort. Even doodling is a creative activity. Don't let anything hinder you. Mindlessness may be a creative activity, but for people who are just starting out to unleash a little bit of creative thinking in their lives, it is helpful and encouraging to have concrete evidence, that, "hey, what I'm doing is getting somewhere." So why don't you try it. Practice drawing for a couple of minutes each day. Bring out your old camera and start snapping photos like crazy. Keep a journal and make a point to write in it religiously. Another cool idea is to write by describing something with your five senses. Try to avoid vague adjectives like "marvelous," "amazing," and "delicious." Before you know it, you'll have built yourself a tiny portfolio, and you'll be amazed at the growth you've undertaken after amassing all those works of art. Who knows, you might actually take to liking those things you do everyday. Pretty soon those things will become a part of you and you'll be addicted to these creative exercises.

Think out of the box -- or don't. Sometimes, constraints are actually a good thing. Limitations discipline you to work within your means. It enables you to be more resourceful. Creative freedom is great, but limitations enforce discipline.

Try something new everyday and let your experiences broaden your perspective. Explore a new district in your neighborhood. Spend an afternoon in a museum to which you've never been before. Chat up someone on the bus. Open up to the people around you. As you thrust yourself out of your comfort zone more and more each day, your sense of adventure grows and so does your zest for life. Think about it. When was the last time you did something for the first time? If it's been a while, I tell you, you've been missing out on a whole lot of experiences that could've added to your growth, emotionally, mentally, physically, or spiritually. Why don't you try bungee jumping today? Not only will you learn, but you will also have plenty of stories to share, enabling you to practice your storytelling skills and making you the life of the party.

Embrace insanity. No, not to the point of practically admitting yourself into the mental ward. As John Russell once said, "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting." Exactly! Every creative thought was once deemed insanity by other "normal" people at one time or another. Luckily, that didn't stop the creative geniuses from standing by them. The thing is, sanity or being normal confines people to think... well, normally. We think with limits. Creativity is essentially breaking through barriers. Yes, this includes the bizarre and the downright strange. I'm not saying that you yourself should develop a creative personality. That might go haywire. An example of a creative personality would be George Washington, who often rode into battle naked, or James Joyce, who wrote "Dubliners" with beetle juice for an intense fear of ink, or Albert Einstein, who thought his cat was a spy sent by his rival (or in thinking creatively in this case, the term could probably be "archnemesis.") It's important that your creativity doesn't get you detached from the real world completely.

I hope this article has inspired you to start thinking beyond your "limits." If you follow these steps pretty soon you'll be living a life full of interesting adventures. Unleashing your creative thinking will bring about a new zest for living life.

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"Relaxing with a Mental PDA" Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management

We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.

Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some of the things that can be done by just remembering it, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.

Managing time

Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.
· Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you.
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.
Build healthy coping strategies

It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Lifestyle

Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:

· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
· Have a sense of purpose in life.
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.
· Don't smoke.

Social support

Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.

Changing thinking

When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.

· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.

Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough and have our own way to relieve stress. Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.
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"Enlightenment" Your 7 days program to Positive Thinking

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"Enlightenment" Your 7 days program to Positive Thinking

I'm sure you have a bright idea hidden somewhere in the back of your mind that you just can't wait to test out. Of course you're not the only one with the bright idea. So what motivates you to churn those creative, or even inspiring juices to its utmost flavor?

It's always best to set up a personal goal where you can accomplish the most in record time, maybe like mowing the lawn in an hour before the big game on TV. A correct and positive attitude in whatever you do will make things easier, and even enjoyable.

Here are some tips to make it through the week even if you're just sitting in your favorite couch. An idea takes time to form in your head and is always at work while you are busy sitting.

Having a bit of positive thinking can help you realize things that are never thought possible. Thinking big is indeed the American Way and that what made our country prosperous.

1. Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it.

2. Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul, out of love rather than fear. The American Dream will always be there, but a dream will still be a dream without motion. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

3. Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. Every time you hit on something that may appear too extreme, why not give it a shot and see if it will work. You will be surprised to see of there are other ways to get the task done in time. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.

4. Dwell completely in a place of gratitude. Learn to utilize what you have in your hands and make use of it in the most constructive way. Slipping into neediness will become less of a habit when you repeatedly shift towards gratitude, away from poverty consciousness.

5. Use a Passion Formula of Recognize/Reevaluate/Restore in place of the Shoulda/Woulda/Coulda whirlwind. The former is based in increased knowledge and abundance while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates. You would rather be richly passionate!

6. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as 'old as great-grandma'. Life has so much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.

7. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically. As long as there's still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.

It's interesting how people get wallowed up by something trivial as learning to use a computer, when nowadays that top computer companies are manufacturing software that even the kids can do it. I don't mean to be condescending, but that's the idea of not having any positive thinking in your life-you'll just end up as a dim bulb in a dark corner. So instead of subjecting yourself to what you will be doomed for, make your path by taking the first step with a positive attitude.


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Anger Resolution


With this report at hand, there's no need to vent out anger in a non-constructive way. From here on, you'd be able to make the most out of this rather negative feeling. It can even make you a better person! Plus, you can be the peacemaker for all the people around you.

This report will also reveal to you:

* What anger really is and how it can affect your life.
* The major causes of anger.
* The idea why humans do have the need to be angry.
* The danger when anger transforms into a negative emotion.
* The reasons why all of us needs to know proper anger management.
* Why some people copy other people's anger.
* The main goal and purpose of anger management.
* How anger management works and why it is very effective.
* The people that can help you handle your anger.
* Factors that influence the outcome of anger management.
* The different techniques used in anger management.
* How to gauge your anger.
* The right way to relax when you are angry.
* What Cognitive Restructuring is and its role in anger management.
* The different ways on how you can find solutions to your anger.
* The role of humor and its importance in defusing anger in certain situations.
* How to enhance the channels of communication and address anger positively.
* The proper way to adjust to the environment so as not to be destructively angry.
* Timing and anger management.
* How to avoid being angry.
* The different alternatives you can use to distract you from being angry.
* When you should seek counseling.
* How to train yourself to be assertive enough not to be angry.
* Time management and how it is used in relation to anger Management.
* The critical ways on how you can learn to forgive.
* The use of faith to eliminate all problems associated with anger.
* How to determine if you anger is truly under control.
* The right way to act if chronic outburst continues despite managing your anger.
* The right things you should do if an angry person confronts you.
* Answer to the question of whether anger is inherited or not.
* The link between video games and anger.
* Relation between anger and gun control.

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Live & Learn - Anxiety Issues

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Live and Learn: Anxiety Disorder Knowledge

Anxiety disorders are varied an include agoraphobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a number of other medical conditions. Most people do not learn about anxiety disorder normally, so it is important to put effort into learning about anxiety disorders if you or a loved one is diagnosed with one of these medical conditions.

The first place you can start when looking for information about anxiety disorders is, of course, you medical professional. If you think that you may have a problem with anxiety to the point where it is disrupting your life, you should see a doctor immediate and describe your symptoms. Your doctor will run tests and check your health in order to make a diagnosis, and be sure to save enough time during your appointment to ask questions about you anxiety disorder and your treatment options. If you feel rushed, make sure that you make another appointment in order to go over your anxiety disorder. If you doctor seems too rushed to talk to you, you are probably better off finding a new doctor who will be able to help you.

Once you leave your doctor’s office, don’t go home—hit the library. There are hundreds of books devoted to anxiety disorders and you can find general information here, that has probably already been covered by your doctor, as well as specific information, including theories on the causes of anxiety disorders and the best treatment options. Along with the books you’ll find at the library, you will also find medical journals and magazine, which will provide you with the most up to date information in the medical community regarding anxiety disorders.

At home, you can continue your education online. The Internet is a wonderful resource when it comes to research just about any topic, including anxiety disorders. You can do this without leaving the home, which is an advantage to people who are suffering from anxiety disorders that are not yet under control. The Internet also allows you to connect to others dealing with the same conditions or in the health care world through email, forums, and chat rooms. However, remember that the information you find on the Internet may not always be the most accurate. Anyone can post on the Internet, from someone with a Ph.D. to your mailman.

No matter how you chose to research your anxiety disorder, it is simply important that you do so. Only when you have all of the information available to you can you truly be able to totally make the best decisions for your body.

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Fear...When You Can't just "Get Over It"

Fear – When You Can’t “Just Get Over It

Have you ever tried to explain to a friend or family member your fear of driving? Sometimes the reaction you’ll get won’t be the one you’re looking for. Instead of a sympathetic shoulder, you often get rolled eyes and a response like, “Just forget about it,” or “You have to get over it.”

It isn’t always as easy as turning off your fears like you would a faucet. Fears are embedded in our conscious and subconscious mind. They become ingrained as a formal belief system that we hold.

Getting past a fear like driving doesn’t necessarily mean it will ever be completely erased from your mind, but you can find ways of relieving the panic and anxiety you feel when confronted by your fears.

Facing fears is often the most difficult thing we can do. It’s our instinct to avoid those things that worry us or that we fear will do us harm in some way, whether it’s physical or emotional turmoil.

The first thing you have to do is examine the fear of driving to see if it’s credible or irrational. It doesn’t matter if it is irrational; you’ll still need to find a way to deal with it. But giving it a realistic examination will help you find a solution to your anxieties.

For instance, you might fear that you’ll get lost and have to stop for directions. When examining the evidence, you see there have been previous times you’ve gotten lost. This is a valid fear that would require you to take action in the form of being sure to bring a map and maybe a cell phone.

An irrational fear might be having a panic attack every time you drive more than 10 miles from home. When examining this fear, you find that whether you’re near to home or further away, the act of driving is the same and the fear isn’t justified.

Either way, you’ll need to take the next step, which is dealing with your fear responsibly. For irrational fears, you’ll need to learn how to remove the bulk of the stress you feel by calming yourself down before you allow panic to ensue.

You might do this by using breathing techniques, self-hypnosis, or even (in some rare cases when you can’t control your fears), through prescribed anti-anxiety medications.

Don’t ever let yourself become prisoner to your fear of driving (or any other fear, get my free report below). Whether you have a close support system or not, you have the power to take control and diminish the effect it has over you and your life.


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How to Get Anything Out of Life... In 68 Seconds!

How to Get Anything Out of Life... In 68 Seconds!



Let's keep this simple. As simple as can be. What do you want?

More money? A new house? A nice luxury car? A holiday in France? A new boyfriend or girlfriend? An athletic body? Whatever it is, it is a physical result, is it not? Physicality.

Why? For what feeling? So you can feel secure? Happy? Fulfilled? Whatever the reason is, it so that you can feel good, feel free, and experience satisfaction of some kind. It is to enjoy your self one way or the other. Feeling.

So how do you get whatever it is that you want in your life, easily? Here is the formula for all creation of one's reality. And trust me; it is as easy as you make it to be. If you complicate it, it gets complicated to that degree. If you keep it as simple as it is, it becomes a seeming miracle, simple yet profoundly powerful, a sign of mastery.

And now, the formula:

Step 1: Ask

How do you ask and who do you ask it to? You don't have to address your asking to anything or anyone or any deity. The asking is simply your desire and how you feel about it. It is automatic and natural. All you have to do is to be clear on what you want, as clear as you can be. Don't bother about how you will achieve your desire - the way will show up step by step automatically. Just be clear only on the end result, not necessarily on the way to get there. What is the end result you desire, exactly? Imagine it has already happened.

Also, forget about what you don't want. Here is why: whatever you are putting your attention on is what is being asked for. Where your attention is indicates what it is you are asking. How it is that you are feeling indicates what it is that you are asking. Your attention and feeling will show you, predictably, what it is you are creating in the future and how it will feel like when you get it.

Step 2: The Universe Answers


At conception, we are all 90 percent water. You probably know how to have sex. But do you know how to put together a baby from water and all the other elements of nature? No! no scientist in this world today can go grab some water and so on, and put together babies. Yet we make them without knowing how!

Here is the magic of the universe. The universe is always expanding, always and in all ways. Eternity and infinity. It expands as a function of answering all the desires of all parts of it (even your individual cells ask through their natural preferences for health, nutrition, bliss, and so on).

Did you know that there are many Nobel Laureate quantum physicists that have proven without doubt that the act of observing is what creates that which is being observed? In other words, without doubt, you see what you believe. You create your reality. What you intend to observe is what the universe creates in your experience.

This has been proven by quantum physicists many times over the last few decades. If you would like to explore this in more detail, have a look at the eBook A Happy Pocket Full of Money from www.imagesofone.com.

Literally, scientifically, the universe creates your desire. It handles the "how". So the more you let go and allow life to unfold as it does, the faster you let creation happen for you. Let go of the how, so that you can allow it to come to you in the fastest way possible, including ways you would never have thought about. If you insist on the how, you block other pathways and possibilities. Also, let go of the need, of the anxiety, insecurity, shame, guilt, or whatever, because these feelings only destroy. Let go internally and externally.

Step 3: Receive


This is the final step and the one that most people seem to mess up. You must receive. Reception is very much like the way a radio receives its channels. It tunes into the channel. The radio must match itself to the broadcast frequency for you to receive any music from it.

In the same way, you must match yourself to that which you asked for so that you may see it appear in your life and experience it. This is the key. And there are two parts to it:

First and most importantly, match your feelings. How would it feel to have that which you asked for? Feel that now. How would it feel to drive that amazing car or have that amazing partner or that amazing business? Feel that now. Feel good. When you feel fear, anxiety, despair, and so on, you are not in alignment.

Secondly, act on inspiration and "coincidences". You will notice opportunities cropping up in your days. Take them. If you meet someone who somehow mentions something to do with what you are seeking, follow that clue. If you feel the urge to make a phone call or visit a place, do that. It may take one step or a thousand, and you won't always know how far down the road you have come, but you are guaranteed to get there if you keep taking one step at a time.

So what is the 68 seconds all about? Well, research has now shown that if you hold a thought for 68 seconds, it begins to materialize into form. It really is that simple.

The materials of Abraham by Jerry and Ester Hicks also expand on this simple formula, for those of you who wish to investigate it further. The e-book "A Happy Pocket Full of Money" from www.imagesofone.com goes into the actual way that the universe goes about creating your reality and more.

Life is a miracle. When you are not experiencing miracles, you are probably struggling up the hard way to get things done. Share this knowledge with others and talk about it; grow it within your friends. As you do, test it. Test it over and over again in all areas of your life, perhaps with the small things first. And as you do, you will notice more evidence of it, and as you practice you will become better at using it and creating a life of miracles as the norm. Forward this article to as many people as you can, then invite them to a discussion. The fastest way to grow in this wisdom is to create your own mastermind of miracles!

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The Myth of Chronic Anxiety: "Disorder" — Or Evidence That Your Brain Works Fine? By Robert Mantell, Ph.D., C.M.Ht.


The Myth of Chronic Anxiety: "Disorder" — Or Evidence That Your Brain Works Fine?
By Robert Mantell, Ph.D., C.M.Ht.


Phobias.
Panic attacks.
Agoraphobia.
Post-traumatic stress.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Social Phobia.

Pretty scary sounding stuff for most of us. And even more scary if you are among the 1 in every 12 Americans who suffers with some form of chronic anxiety problem serious enough to seek professional help.

When a person finds him or herself experiencing disturbing levels of anxiety too often, the first thing most people do is open the Yellow Pages and start looking around for a counselor or psychotherapist. Upon a first meeting, the well-meaning therapist listens, takes notes, looks for emotional and behavioral patterns, and armed with that information, consults a professional manual known as The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV).

Based on the presence of one or more prescribed elements therein, the therapist develops a diagnosis of one or more mental disorders to explain what's "wrong" with you. And, of course, once you've been diagnosed, the therapist uses the totality of his or her knowledge base and experience to attempt to help you "recover".

Depending on the branch of medical or psychological help consulted, the doctor or therapist may choose to begin individual or group psychotherapy. Many purported specialists in the field of anxiety treatment may go a step further in utilizing an approach called Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (or CBT), currently considered the "state-of-the-art" in anxiety treatment. Using a process known as progressive desensitization (also called graduated exposure therapy), or in its most protracted form, flooding, this approach often requires the patient to endure extended periods of direct exposure to their feared stimulus. Many such specialists will suggest or prescribe medications such as Xanax, Paxil, Klonopin, Celexa, Zoloft and others to augment the psychological interventions being employed.

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How exactly the therapist attempts to "cure" such a person is not the point of this article. The fact that he or she is even attempting to cure something that he or she thinks is "wrong" with you and needs to be "cured" is the point.

You see, I have questions about whether or not the presence of chronic, even debilitating anxiety — or any other emotional or behavioral problems, for that matter — are truly evidence that a mental disease or disorder is present in the first place.

Don't get me wrong — I know that people with these kinds of problems are feeling ways they don't want to be feeling, and/or behaving in ways they don't want to be behaving — and that, ostensibly, they've sought professional assistance in alleviating their symptoms because they can't seem to help it.

But is that evidence that there's something actually wrong with the person? That they have a mental disease or a mental disorder? I don't know.

You see, when you take the time to carefully examine a person's history, almost without fail, you begin to see how the presence of anxiety-related symptoms in a person's life could actually make a lot of sense.

Let me tell you what I mean by this.

I believe the brain has a positive intent for everything it does — everything — including causing a person to experience chronic and debilitating forms of anxiety such as phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, agoraphobia, social phobia, and OCD. (By the way, I believe this notion extends to emotional problems that most would consider even psychotic by nature, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and so forth.)

I believe the positive intent on the part of the subconscious mind for objectifying any chronic emotional or behavioral symptoms in a person's life is simply to protect that person from pain — specifically, the same kind of pain they experienced earlier on in life, usually (but not always) in childhood. Thus, the positive purpose for the presence of the various expressions of anxiety in a person's life is to act as a kind of protective barrier, if you will, from the kinds of situations, circumstances, people or things the brain greatly fears will lead to pain, based on past experience.

From this standpoint, the presence of clinical anxiety could be considered a useful, and even a healthy response.

LET'S TAKE AN EXAMPLE

Suppose Lisa has been a little too busy, with too much on her plate, and has not paid nearly enough attention to creating balance in her life. Over the preceding weeks, months or even years, Lisa has been plagued with chronic psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, backaches, tight muscles, stomach cramps, and so forth. These kinds of psychosomatic symptoms, by the way, are often the brain's "signal" — it's calling card, if you will — that one has organized their life in such a way that it is terribly out of balance, and requires some serious balancing now!

Because the brain does not speak English, Lisa doesn't get what's really going on here — the message being delivered from her subconscious mind by way of these physical symptoms: "Mellow out, slow down... Stop working so hard, so often. Slow it down for awhile and smell the roses for a change! If you don't, I'll soon be unable to manage all the stress you're creating, and eventually I won't be able to keep it suppressed any longer!"

Suppose Lisa doesn't get the message being offered by her subconscious mind, and eventually, sure enough, all that pent-up stress finally boils over. This is called a panic attack, folks.

And suppose Lisa unexpectedly experiences this panic attack while she's in the car driving. If you've never had a panic attack, I can tell you that it usually comes upon a person for the first time seemingly from out of nowhere — often at the most unexpected times, and in the most unexpected places. I can also tell you that the experience of a full-blown panic attack is extremely fear-provoking, often causing a person to imagine that he/she is losing her mind, or perhaps that he or she may even be having a heart attack! Yup... Scary stuff, for sure.

REMEMBER PSYCHOLOGY 101? LET'S REVIEW CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Recall that the brain's “prime directive”, if you will, is to protect the person from pain in any way possible. One of the ways the brain does this is to link fear with whatever's going on in the environment when the person is in such distressed state. Utilizing a well-known learning process called classical conditioning, the person's brain makes a mental note (sort of like a taking a mental snapshot) of what exactly was going on in the person's environment when he/she was so terribly uncomfortable.

This kind of powerful neuro-associative pairing is so deeply ingrained, that days, weeks, months or even years could go by before the person may find him or herself in a similar situation or context, and when they do, BAM! The person goes right back into the same kind of traumatized state they experienced the first time they encountered the fear-provoking situation.

Thus, now, whenever this person even THINKS about returning to the same kind of environment wherein she experienced the original trauma, she experiences great fear and will (for example) avoid the actual experience of getting back in the car and driving at almost all costs.

Why? Because fear is the brain's most effective tool for keeping a person away from things that could potentially cause the same kind of intense pain they experienced earlier in life. Well, if once upon a time a person had experienced great pain in a particular situation or circumstance, now, whenever the person so much as thinks about being in such a situation, he/she experiences tremendous anxiety.

In the example of Lisa's panic attack in the car, because that experience was so terribly upsetting, her brain linked up pain with the idea of being back in the car. Now, every time she thinks about what it would be like to be driving (essentially mentally recreating the same conditions that were present in the earlier painful experience), she experiences intense anxiety. The positive purpose for the brain's objectifying that tremendous fear is to protect Lisa from possibly returning to the same sort of context that led to great pain for her in the past.

This fear is what some people would now think of as a phobia to driving.

(Ever drink too much whisky, wine or beer, and get very, very sick?? if so, I'm willing to bet that now, whenever you so much as THINK of that substance, you can feel yourself getting sick. In a not so dissimilar way, your aversion to that substance can be thought of as a kind of "phobia" to it.)

And even though the ongoing fear of driving may not necessarily be a desirable mental "program" to maintain over time, the fact is, considering this person's past, this fear — this phobia — seems to make a lot of sense, doesn't it? In fact, this phobic behavior could even be considered healthy, reasonable and biologically adaptive — hardly justification to diagnose someone with this kind of problem as mentally ill, with a phobic “disorder” of some kind!

AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO THE RESOLUTION OF CLINICAL ANXIETY

Rather than treat this kind of challenge as evidence of a mental disease, as though something is truly psychologically "wrong" with the person, we find it preferable to view this person's anxiety-related symptoms as nothing more than the brain's best strategy — the brain's best self-defense mechanism, if you will — to keep a person out of the same kind of intense pain they had when they were younger. And fascinatingly, it's almost always effective! It's ingenious, in fact. (In fact, if it weren't effective, the brain wouldn't continue to invest energy in maintenance of the behavior — the anxiety symptom would disappear, all on its own.)

Thus, rather than try to “fix” something that is regarded as wrong with the person, we believe that the anxiety-related behavior simply requires to be recognized first by the subconscious mind as an old and outdated strategy for protection, and then released when the brain comes to understand that it is no longer necessary to be maintained as a protective mechanism. And because the brain works on something called the Principle of Economy of Effort (more on this later in another article), the brain will be only too glad to stop wasting energy on maintenance of a behavior that it finds is not worth the investment.

For example, although the response may have made a lot of sense when the person was younger, the brain may come to understand that it's probably OK to let the behavior go at this point because, chances are, the person is now bigger, better, stronger and faster then they ever were when they were younger. And they are probably in possession of far greater resources now, should they encounter the same kind of troublesome situation, than they ever could have brought to bear in their younger years due to their relative inexperience at the time.

There are many ways to communicate and demonstrate this to the person's subconscious mind. These brief therapeutic treatment modalities range from hypnosis, to direct behavioral intervention, to outright disruption of a person's mental “recipe” for creating their age-old anxiety-related response.

Regardless of the specific method used to make the change, the bottom line is that when a person learns to perceive differently whatever they used to fear, they can't help but feel, and therefore respond, differently to it.

Is it really appropriate to think of this as "fixing" what's gone mentally wrong with a person?

We prefer to assign no more meaning to it than simply the process of helping our client to change a behavior that clearly doesn't work for them. This approach is more congruent with how we like to think of our clients. We like to think of our clients as individuals who are simply doing the very best they can at any given moment in time with the resources they have available to them. We feel our job is merely to assist our clients to gain access to greater and more powerful resources, and in the process, enjoy greater behavioral choice and flexibility in the old, formerly troublesome contexts.


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A Part Of All That You Earn Is Yours To Keep

A Part Of All That You Earn Is Yours To Keep

Article extracted from the book "This Book Will Finally And
Certainly Get You Rich No Matter Who Or Where You Are, Now,
Guaranteed" by David Cameron (Images Of One).

Wealth comes from the growth of assets (cash, stocks, property,
or any other asset). Assets are purchased with income. If you do
not put aside part of your income to acquire assets, you will
find it extremely difficult to acquire wealth. However, if you do
put aside part of your income to acquire assets, you will find it
very easy to acquire wealth. It is all very simple.

Just to summarize:

No savings = no investment = no wealth growth

You can't invest what you don't have. So the first step is to,
guess what, save some money! Not once, but consistently and
systematically. But look at it like this:

Lets make up a simple example for illustration. Lets say one week
is composed of 10 days. And lets say you work for all those 10
days. You earn $100 each day. This is week 1. By the end of week
one, you have earned 10 x $100 = $1,000. Now, if you spend the
entire $1,000 and you have none of it left by week 2 (or even by
week 30 or week 200), your entire efforts for week 1 have
evaporated! You have nothing left to show for your efforts.
Nothing! What were you working for? For who? You gave away all
your money. You paid everyone else except yourself! Now, here is
something you should know: No successful corporation or wealthy
individual does that! None! And if you are doing it, then it
shouldn't be a surprise that you aren't accumulating wealth. So
how should you live if you wish to start accumulating wealth?
Well, let us continue with our example. In week 1, you would keep
the money you earn on day 1 (so you keep 10% of your income), and
spend the money you earn in the remaining 9 days. And you would
do the same in week 2, in week 3 and in every week. No matter
what, you would keep that contract with yourself, the contract to
pay yourself first. It is honoring you, valuing yourself. It is a
testament that you believe that you have a future worth investing
in. it is a testament that you value your work, your income, what
you make for yourself. You don't pay everyone else and remain
with nothing! Why on earth would you do that when it is your
money! You deserve to keep part of it; after all it is you who
earned it. So, even in week 200, you would still have with you
the 10% from week 1, week 2, and every other week. And you
wouldn't keep this money so you can spend it on a holiday, car or
something like that (that should come out of your other 9 days).
You keep it so that it can work for you, bear children for you,
and make you more of its own. You worked for it, and now its time
to have it work for you. So, you invest it right from the
beginning. So by week 200, you would still have with you the 10%
from week 1 plus its children (what it has earned in your
investment), week 2 plus its children, and every other week plus
their children. And because you are re-investing your returns
(the children the money bears), your investment will be
compounding itself, so the children themselves will be bearing
children of their own, into many generations. The gains you made
in week 1 will be re-invested and they will earn more money
themselves in week 2 and so on, and that money itself will earn
more money in week 3 and so on... And this just grows into what
you call wealth, generations upon generations of your money
earning for you. And it all starts when you honor yourself enough
to ensure that no matter what happens, you keep at least 10% of
what you earn every week! You pay yourself first.

Now, as your investments grow, you are of course entitled to
enjoy some of your money, but you must remember that keeping it
invested is what gets it growing. So, you may choose to spend,
say, 30% of your investment gains (your returns) and re-invest
70%.

Arrange your life so that, no matter what, no matter what, you
keep at least 10% of your income every week. And don't spend and
hope some will be left over to save and invest. Pay yourself
first, first, before the bills, the gasoline, the food, the
clothes, the ... Pay yourself first.



Article written by David Cameron Gikandi. For even greater
insights into your quest for wealth and financial liberty and
ability, go here:

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Read This Post and I Guarantee You'll Be Motivated to Take Some Kind of Action

Read This Post and I Guarantee You'll Be Motivated to Take Some Kind of Action
From my friend The Nametag Guy Scott Ginsberg



1. Be not alarmed when you discover that nobody cares about you.
You simply aren’t #1 on their lists.
Are you speaking to people with meaningful concrete immediacy?

2. Be not anxious in proving your value too early.
You will not be listened to.
What is preventing people from taking you seriously?

3. Be not avoidant of personal growth experiences.
You need to make everyone – and everything – your mentor.
How did you add value to yourself yesterday?

4. Be not cajoled into conformity.
You need to deprogram your mind.
Are you prepared to swallow the Redpill, uproot self-destructive notions and weigh the truth?

5. Be not conditioned to respond predictably.
You need to eliminate old answers and rewrite your scripts.
What narrow definitions do you need to escape?

6. Be not conformed to some external template.
You must jettison accepted limits, leave familiar territory and override your defaults.
When was the last time you recast outworn assumptions?

7. Be not silenced by those who demand that you set aside your playfulness.
You need to practice being childlike (not childish.)
Have you read this book yet?

8. Be not dependent on advice from people who only got lucky once.
You need to hang with smarter people.
How many of your friends regularly inspire and challenging you?

9. Be not embarrassed about what you do well.
You need to make a name for yourself or else someone will make one for you.
Are you bragging enough?

10. Be not google-eyed by people who artificially inflate their value.
You know you can smell their bullshite.
Is the message preached by this person the dominant reality of her life?

11. Be not handcuffed to a job that makes you wonder, “What the hell am I DOING here?” all day.
You need to remove what robs you and embrace what excites you.
Have you fulfilled your quota of usefulness today?

12. Be not hindered by that which makes you crap your pants.
You have no business in your comfort zone.
When was the last time you did something that literally terrified you?

13. Be not limited by the rules of a game you don’t even need to play.
You should just go do your own thing.
What would happen if you changed the rules, or, better yet, changed the game?

14. Be not obliged to sacrifice the truth just so you look good.
You can’t be dishonest any longer.
How much money is untruthfulness costing you?

15. Be not obsessed with trying to impress yourself all the time.
You’re never going to make that stoplight.
Why are you rushing?

16. Be not obtrusive upon someone else’s dream.
You have no right.
How does it feel when people tell YOU that you can’t do it?

17. Be not preoccupied with pouring every moment of your being into other people’s lackluster expectations.
You will eventually experience a crisis of the soul.
Whose approval is suppressing your success?

18. Be not ordinary in a world where nobody notices normal.
You will never, ever get noticed.
How much money is being boring costing you?

19. Be not relegated to the realm of mediocrity.
You have more worlds to conquer.
What movement are you starting?

20. Be not scared of being booed.
You’re nobody until somebody hates you.
Are you willing to risk being unpopular?

21. Be not seduced into situations that do not welcome the soul.
You’ve got better things to do.
How many of your friends are losers?

22. Be not self-congratulatory for maintaining baseline integrity.
You aren’t remarkable.
When was the last time standing up for your values actually made you lose friends or money?

23. Be not sourced from anything other than passion and love.
You need more than just adrenaline and Red Bull to sustain yourself.
When was the last time you meditated?

24. Be not submissive to other people’s rigidity.
You will not comply.
Whom do you need to (finally) stand up to because you just can’t take it any more?

25. Be not sucked into the vortex of obsolescence.
You will not succeed by winking in the dark.
Why aren’t you blogging yet?

26. Be not swept into the undertow of self-indulgent workaholism.
You don’t impress anybody.
Why are you checking email at the dinner table when you should be listening to your kids?

27. Be not threatened by the success of others.
You should be inspired and excited.
Who makes you want to work harder?

28. Be not unclear of the work you’ve clearly been put on this Earth to do.
You were given a Divine Assignment, and have no right to dedicate your life to anything else.
How will you validate your existence today?

29. Be not worried with impressing people you don’t even like.
You have better things to do.
When will the moment occur when you realize you no longer needed to justify your value?

LET ME ASK YA THIS…
Well? Are you motivated yet?

LET ME SUGGEST THIS...
If not, for the list called, "153 Quotations to Inspire Your Success," send an email to me, and I'll send you the list for free!

* * * *
Scott Ginsberg
That Guy with the Nametag
Author, Speaker, Coach, Entrepreneur
scott@hellomynameisscott.com



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The Man Who Thought His Way Into Partnership With Thomas A. Edison

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The Man Who Thought His Way Into Partnership With Thomas A. Edison

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

A little more than thirty years ago, Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that men really do THINK AND GROW RICH. His discovery did not come about at one sitting. It came little by little, beginning with a BURNING DESIRE to become a business associate of the great Edison.

One of the chief characteristics of Barnes' Desire was that it was definite. He wanted to work with Edison, not for him. Observe, carefully, the description of how he went about translating his DESIRE into reality, and you will have a better understanding of the thirteen principles which lead to riches.

When this DESIRE, or impulse of thought, first flashed into his mind he was in no position to act upon it. Two difficulties stood in his way. He did not know Mr. Edison, and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange, New Jersey. These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire. But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by "blind baggage," rather than be defeated. (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train).

He presented himself at Mr. Edison's laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. In speaking of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said, "He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after. I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him the opportunity he asked for, because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved that no mistake was made."

Just what young Barnes said to Mr. Edison on that occasion was far less important than that which he thought. Edison, himself, said so! It could not have been the young man's appearance which got him his start in the Edison office, for that was definitely against him. It was what he THOUGHT that counted. If the significance of this statement could be conveyed to every person who reads it, there would be no need for the remainder of this book.

Barnes did not get his partnership with Edison on his first interview. He did get a chance to work in the Edison offices, at a very nominal wage, doing work that was unimportant to Edison, but most important to Barnes, because it gave him an opportunity to display his "merchandise" where his intended "partner" could see it.

Months went by. Apparently nothing happened to bring the coveted goal which Barnes had set up in his mind as his DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE. But something important was happening in Barnes' mind. He was constantly intensifying his DESIRE to become the business associate of Edison.

Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance."

Barnes was ready for a business association with Edison, moreover, he was DETERMINED TO REMAIN READY UNTIL HE GOT THAT WHICH HE WAS SEEKING.

He did not say to himself, "Ah well, what's the use? I guess I'll change my mind and try for a salesman's job." But, he did say, "I came here to go into business with Edison, and I'll accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life." He meant it! What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Maybe young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single

DESIRE, was destined to mow down all opposition, and bring him the opportunity he was seeking.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Mr. Edison had just perfected a new office device, known at that time, as the Edison Dictating Machine (now the Ediphone). His salesmen were not enthusiastic over the machine. They did not believe it could be sold without great effort. Barnes saw his opportunity. It had crawled in quietly, hidden in a queer looking machine which interested no one but Barnes and the inventor. Barnes knew he could sell the Edison Dictating Machine. He suggested this to Edison, and promptly got his chance. He did sell the machine. In fact, he sold it so successfully that Edison gave him a contract to distribute and market it all over the nation. Out of that business association grew the slogan, "Made by Edison and installed by Barnes."

The business alliance has been in operation for more than thirty years. Out of it Barnes has made himself rich in money, but he has done something infinitely greater, he has proved that one really may "Think and Grow Rich."

How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes' has been worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it has brought him two or three million dollars, but the amount, whatever it is, becomes insignificant when compared with the greater asset he acquired in the form of definite knowledge that an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.

Barnes literally thought himself into a partnership with the great Edison! He thought himself into a fortune. He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to KNOW WHAT HE WANTED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT.

He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win. With these intangible forces he made himself number one man with the greatest inventor who ever lived.


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A Part Of All That You Earn Is Yours To Keep

Article extracted from the book "This Book Will Finally And
Certainly Get You Rich No Matter Who Or Where You Are, Now,
Guaranteed" by David Cameron (www.imagesofone.com).

Wealth comes from the growth of assets (cash, stocks, property,
or any other asset). Assets are purchased with income. If you do
not put aside part of your income to acquire assets, you will
find it extremely difficult to acquire wealth. However, if you do
put aside part of your income to acquire assets, you will find it
very easy to acquire wealth. It is all very simple.

Just to summarize:

No savings = no investment = no wealth growth

You can't invest what you don't have. So the first step is to,
guess what, save some money! Not once, but consistently and
systematically. But look at it like this:

Lets make up a simple example for illustration. Lets say one week
is composed of 10 days. And lets say you work for all those 10
days. You earn $100 each day. This is week 1. By the end of week
one, you have earned 10 x $100 = $1,000. Now, if you spend the
entire $1,000 and you have none of it left by week 2 (or even by
week 30 or week 200), your entire efforts for week 1 have
evaporated! You have nothing left to show for your efforts.
Nothing! What were you working for? For who? You gave away all
your money. You paid everyone else except yourself! Now, here is
something you should know: No successful corporation or wealthy
individual does that! None! And if you are doing it, then it
shouldn't be a surprise that you aren't accumulating wealth. So
how should you live if you wish to start accumulating wealth?
Well, let us continue with our example. In week 1, you would keep
the money you earn on day 1 (so you keep 10% of your income), and
spend the money you earn in the remaining 9 days. And you would
do the same in week 2, in week 3 and in every week. No matter
what, you would keep that contract with yourself, the contract to
pay yourself first. It is honoring you, valuing yourself. It is a
testament that you believe that you have a future worth investing
in. it is a testament that you value your work, your income, what
you make for yourself. You don't pay everyone else and remain
with nothing! Why on earth would you do that when it is your
money! You deserve to keep part of it; after all it is you who
earned it. So, even in week 200, you would still have with you
the 10% from week 1, week 2, and every other week. And you
wouldn't keep this money so you can spend it on a holiday, car or
something like that (that should come out of your other 9 days).
You keep it so that it can work for you, bear children for you,
and make you more of its own. You worked for it, and now its time
to have it work for you. So, you invest it right from the
beginning. So by week 200, you would still have with you the 10%
from week 1 plus its children (what it has earned in your
investment), week 2 plus its children, and every other week plus
their children. And because you are re-investing your returns
(the children the money bears), your investment will be
compounding itself, so the children themselves will be bearing
children of their own, into many generations. The gains you made
in week 1 will be re-invested and they will earn more money
themselves in week 2 and so on, and that money itself will earn
more money in week 3 and so on... And this just grows into what
you call wealth, generations upon generations of your money
earning for you. And it all starts when you honor yourself enough
to ensure that no matter what happens, you keep at least 10% of
what you earn every week! You pay yourself first.

Now, as your investments grow, you are of course entitled to
enjoy some of your money, but you must remember that keeping it
invested is what gets it growing. So, you may choose to spend,
say, 30% of your investment gains (your returns) and re-invest
70%.

Arrange your life so that, no matter what, no matter what, you
keep at least 10% of your income every week. And don't spend and
hope some will be left over to save and invest. Pay yourself
first, first, before the bills, the gasoline, the food, the
clothes, the ... Pay yourself first.



Article written by David Cameron Gikandi. For even greater
insights into your quest for wealth and financial liberty and
ability, go here:

www.Imagesofone.com





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