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Whatâs the point of meditating?
What are you likely to gain from meditating?nnSimple: nn⢠It improves the power of your concentration. n⢠Calms you down. n⢠And enables you to know what you want out of life and how to achieve it. nnIn our experience, we each have two sides of us, two YOUS if you prefer.nnONE YOU: wants to be successful and has the ability of giving you all the help and encouragement you need. nnTHE OTHER YOU: wants you to be an all so ran. Mediocre and that one will also give you all
June 20, 2005
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Discover YOUR Passion
What are you passionate about? We didnât ask if you are passionate. But what are you passionate about? What stirs your emotions? What is it you canât stop talking about whenever someone asks: âWhat are you passionate about?â Whatâs the fire in your belly? What really turns you on? What do you love doing most?nnWhat is it that you love doing so much that you forget time? You forget others. You are so focussed that you donât hear anything. What is it that gets your
June 8, 2005
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Do you have the skills to be a secret service agent?
Do you have the necessary attributes to be a successful secret services agent? Do you melt into the background where no one can see you? Do you hide behind someone else? Would you describe yourself as having an incognito life? Are you capable of always putting yourself second? Do you constantly defer to another person? Do people see right through you and ignore you? nnThen you have the skills.nnYou see, as John Reilly, states in the song he wrote for the musical Chicago; you
May 27, 2005
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âAnything thatâs worth doing, is worth doing Poorlyâ
Yes you got it. You read it correctly. Weâre not out of our minds. We really are saying that âanything thatâs worth doing is worth doing poorlyâ. When we found this quote by Joachim DePosada on the web site: The Gary Halbert Letter, it struck such a huge cord. It made such immediate sense to us. The more we looked the more we realised that our lives were built around this quote. What about yours?nnJust take your mind back to when you started to learn to drive. That ve
May 13, 2005
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âYou must play by the rulesâ
You must play by the rules. Everything has rules. You want to play chess then learn the rules. You want to play soccer then learn the rules. You want to play tennis then learn the rules. You want to play life thenâ¦.hang on a minuteâ¦. Who wrote the rules of life? nnWho wrote the rules to your life? Did you?n nWhen you look at your life you begin to realise that most of the time you are living by someone elseâs rules. The rules made by your family, the education system, t
May 3, 2005
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Everyone talks in code!
How often have you left a meeting with a customer or your boss telling yourself he likes my ideas. Only to find later that you didnât get the sale or your boss has told everyone that you are crazy. nnAs we get older it seems to us that everyone talks in code. No one tells us what they really mean. Everything is hidden behind a veil of double talk. nnBut all is not lost. We found a copy of the code breaking manual on the web site of that well known code breaking magazine, Ha
April 14, 2005
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What is your process of Discovery?
When Julie looks through the lens of her camera she is interested in what is in focus and what is out of focus. Sometimes what is in focus is so boring, itâs the out of focus which interests her. The question that occupies her mind is: how do I bring that which is out of focus in focus? nnThe solution, for Julie, the photographer, is in thinking differently. In thinking what if I use this lens. Will the different lens bring what is out of focus in focus? What if I approach
March 31, 2005
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How to avoid being labelled as Average.
When your life is over how will you be graded? Will you get an A or a B or will you get a C Average? Will your time on this earth be rated as average? None of us want to be average. We all want to be successful. We all, deep down, have the desire to achieve something in our lives. nnSo why oh why are you satisfied with being Ms or Mr average? What is it that makes you content being average?nnWhat makes you average?nnThe inability to say No. nThe need to back your life both wa
March 16, 2005
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How to overcome your âObstaclesâ.
â¦â¦I realised that I really created my own obstacles in life, and nif I just got out of the way of myself and nlet my mind not hold me back, nI could do things I never thought I could.ân(Hilary Swank, as reported in the Sunday Times)nnnHilary Swank puts her breathtaking performance in Million Dollar Baby down to the way Clint Eastwood was able to get her to relax and stop her interfering with her natural ability to create such an awesome character. nnWhat about you? How
March 2, 2005
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The need to be successful
The need to be successful. This is the bottom line for us all. Deep down we all, you and me, want to be successful. This is why we are attracted to the various âget rich quickâ schemes that appear on the internet and in the newspapers. We are searching for success. This is what drives us beyond our limits. The need to be successful. nnWhen we are breaking our necks to reach the top it is the need to be successful that is driving us. None of us wants to end our lives with
February 24, 2005
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Who should win the Oscar?
Who, do you think, should win the Oscar this year? Who has been the best male actor in film this year? Should it be Don Cheadle, in Hotel Rwanda, Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby or Jamie Foxx in Ray.nnWhat about Leading female Actress? Who gets your vote? Annette Bening in Being Julie, Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace, Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby or K
January 25, 2005
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What Inspires You?
Have you ever thought? What inspires YOU? What is it that drives you day in and day out? What is it that inspires you?nnWe think of creative people as being inspired and ask about their work. What inspired you to paint, draw, produce this piece of work? What inspired you to make this? Usually the answer is: a book, poem, film, experience, person, a place or in Cole Porterâs case the âphone call from the directorâ. nnSomething else or someone else inspired the artist, th
January 23, 2005