Value of Time - this will help you value life, time, friends, family and etc! What's it really worth to you?
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400.
It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use
during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed
to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance.
It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow".
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a
pre-mature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer with kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND, ask the person who won a
silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you
shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.
And remember that time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Strangest Secret
The Strangest Secret
The Strangest Secret has sold over a million copies and is the only gold record ever achieved for the spoken word. Its message is simple, yet powerful … You become what you think about … and it became the basis for the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. Many thousands of people have attributed this recording with turning their lives around and helping them make their fortunes in the world.
Turn up your speakers and enjoy listening to Earl Nightingale's great words, inspiration and thought.
To listen click on the link
The Strangest Secret has sold over a million copies and is the only gold record ever achieved for the spoken word. Its message is simple, yet powerful … You become what you think about … and it became the basis for the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. Many thousands of people have attributed this recording with turning their lives around and helping them make their fortunes in the world.
Turn up your speakers and enjoy listening to Earl Nightingale's great words, inspiration and thought.
To listen click on the link
http://www.markvictorhansen.com/strangest_secret.php
Monday, December 10, 2007
Hold on Tight to Your Dreams: How to Get What You Want in Life!
Hold On Tight To Your Dreams: How To Get What You Want In Life! by Cucan Pemo
How many times have you felt that your dreams weren't ever going to come true? Whether you've tried to make things work and things have failed over and over again, everyone has gone through a crisis of faith to a certain extent, wondering if they just aren't being realistic.
You might be seriously wondering if it's even realistic for you to think about creating wealth and abundance in your life. Here's some food for thought.
1) What you're thinking is creating your reality
The laws of attraction state that what you put out into the universe either in thought or action will be returned to you in kind.
So, thinking that your dream is unrealistic may not be the best way to begin living your dreams. It's a negative thought, after all.
Let's change this thought to the idea of whether or not your goals are reachable. That's a completely different way to look at things ' and it's a step in the right direction.
If you're looking to make a million dollars in a day ' that's not a realistic thought. While it might be a dream of yours and perhaps some people have done this, all in all, this isn't likely to happen.
If you're thinking about having a fancy car in the next hour, that's probably not going to happen either ' even car dealerships can't work that quickly. Sorting out realistic and reachable are two different things.
2) You may be limiting the universe
One of the tricks with setting timelines or creating an 'it has to be done this way' with your dreams is that the universe becomes limited with this energy. You're creating only one way for your dream to happen ' or not.
But this limitation generally causes your dream to become more difficult to reach. You're trying to make things happen YOUR way, rather than allowing the universe to take care of the details.
The universe is a powerful force that can figure out a way for you to reach your dreams, but creating an impossible situation for the dreams to occur is something that might not work out as well as you might hope.
You want to have a certain dream in mind, but then allow the universe to start coming up with the way that it can fulfill it for you.
3) What about having goals?
Goals are still a good thing, however, but it's how you create them that make them work more efficiently. The point is that you need to create goals that you can reach in timelines that you can reach them.
And this is important; you need to do something about it. Many people believe that if they just think successful thoughts, they'll immediately become successful. This is partly true, but it's not the whole truth and it may be where you have failed in the past.
Instead, let's create a realistic goal for your own personal definition of abundance or your dreams.
a) Be specific about what you want and when you want it.
b) Figure out a way to measure your progress
c) Pick a goal that is attainable
d) Again, remember to be realistic about the goal.
e) Try to come up with a timeline
When you stop to break down your ideas of abundance, they will seem a lot less scary.
4) Building up momentum
What you're doing is starting to build energy for the things that you want in your life. You NEED to think about what you want, a lot, in fact.
Instead of just a fleeting thought about your dreams, you need to constantly refer to them so that you can start using the laws of attraction to begin to make them your reality.
Think of it this way, you can want to date the most beautiful man/woman in the world, but if you never head out of your house, is this realistic?
Take some time to define your dreams. Close your eyes and visualize your life with all of the things that you want, all of the things that you really want in your life.
Really stop for a moment to figure out what it is that will make you happiest in this world. When you have that picture clear in your head, think about how you feel, how your life is, and how content you are.
This is a picture that you will want to carry around in your head whenever things begin to feel too 'hard' or complicated.
Being realistic is only part of the equation on the way to your dreams, being clear about what you want is much more important. The universe can only give you what you want if you can name it.
If you know DEEP in your Heart and Soul BOTH of you are meant to live your Lives TOGETHER, get my FREE Save Relationship Video tutorial and learn how you can SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE or Relationship TODAY with my POTENT strategies, no matter how hopeless your relationship circumstances are! Gain INSTANT ACCESS to even more FREE Attraction and Love Advice if you desire to attract Men or Women! Read the RAVE REVIEWS from my readers from ALL over the world!
Article Source: http://www.positivearticles.com
How many times have you felt that your dreams weren't ever going to come true? Whether you've tried to make things work and things have failed over and over again, everyone has gone through a crisis of faith to a certain extent, wondering if they just aren't being realistic.
You might be seriously wondering if it's even realistic for you to think about creating wealth and abundance in your life. Here's some food for thought.
1) What you're thinking is creating your reality
The laws of attraction state that what you put out into the universe either in thought or action will be returned to you in kind.
So, thinking that your dream is unrealistic may not be the best way to begin living your dreams. It's a negative thought, after all.
Let's change this thought to the idea of whether or not your goals are reachable. That's a completely different way to look at things ' and it's a step in the right direction.
If you're looking to make a million dollars in a day ' that's not a realistic thought. While it might be a dream of yours and perhaps some people have done this, all in all, this isn't likely to happen.
If you're thinking about having a fancy car in the next hour, that's probably not going to happen either ' even car dealerships can't work that quickly. Sorting out realistic and reachable are two different things.
2) You may be limiting the universe
One of the tricks with setting timelines or creating an 'it has to be done this way' with your dreams is that the universe becomes limited with this energy. You're creating only one way for your dream to happen ' or not.
But this limitation generally causes your dream to become more difficult to reach. You're trying to make things happen YOUR way, rather than allowing the universe to take care of the details.
The universe is a powerful force that can figure out a way for you to reach your dreams, but creating an impossible situation for the dreams to occur is something that might not work out as well as you might hope.
You want to have a certain dream in mind, but then allow the universe to start coming up with the way that it can fulfill it for you.
3) What about having goals?
Goals are still a good thing, however, but it's how you create them that make them work more efficiently. The point is that you need to create goals that you can reach in timelines that you can reach them.
And this is important; you need to do something about it. Many people believe that if they just think successful thoughts, they'll immediately become successful. This is partly true, but it's not the whole truth and it may be where you have failed in the past.
Instead, let's create a realistic goal for your own personal definition of abundance or your dreams.
a) Be specific about what you want and when you want it.
b) Figure out a way to measure your progress
c) Pick a goal that is attainable
d) Again, remember to be realistic about the goal.
e) Try to come up with a timeline
When you stop to break down your ideas of abundance, they will seem a lot less scary.
4) Building up momentum
What you're doing is starting to build energy for the things that you want in your life. You NEED to think about what you want, a lot, in fact.
Instead of just a fleeting thought about your dreams, you need to constantly refer to them so that you can start using the laws of attraction to begin to make them your reality.
Think of it this way, you can want to date the most beautiful man/woman in the world, but if you never head out of your house, is this realistic?
Take some time to define your dreams. Close your eyes and visualize your life with all of the things that you want, all of the things that you really want in your life.
Really stop for a moment to figure out what it is that will make you happiest in this world. When you have that picture clear in your head, think about how you feel, how your life is, and how content you are.
This is a picture that you will want to carry around in your head whenever things begin to feel too 'hard' or complicated.
Being realistic is only part of the equation on the way to your dreams, being clear about what you want is much more important. The universe can only give you what you want if you can name it.
If you know DEEP in your Heart and Soul BOTH of you are meant to live your Lives TOGETHER, get my FREE Save Relationship Video tutorial and learn how you can SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE or Relationship TODAY with my POTENT strategies, no matter how hopeless your relationship circumstances are! Gain INSTANT ACCESS to even more FREE Attraction and Love Advice if you desire to attract Men or Women! Read the RAVE REVIEWS from my readers from ALL over the world!
Article Source: http://www.positivearticles.com
The Value of Positive Emotions and Thoughts
The Value of Positive Emotions and Thoughts by Mary Ann Copson
Thinking and emotion go hand in hand. It seems that a negative mood activates negative thinking and a positive mood calls forth positive thinking. Does it matter if you are in a negative mood thinking negative thoughts or in a positive mood thinking positive thoughts? Is one better than the other? What is the advantage in thinking and feeling positive?
Emotions Have Evolutionary Value
Negative emotions have evolutionary value. Negative emotions like fear, loss, and aggression activate the flight or fight response. When we experience negative emotions, we have a feeling of aversion, which sets us on course to identify what is wrong and eliminate it. Negative emotions and thinking are associated with a survival alert that activates a reaction to fight, flight or conserve - each reaction with obvious evolutionary value.
Positive emotions also have evolutionary advantage. They "broaden and build." Experiencing positive emotions increases our survival chances because positive emotions broaden our intellectual, physical, and social resources and build reserves for us to draw upon.
Experiencing positive emotions increases our drive for exploration and discovery and provides the basis for positive social interactions. When we experience positive emotions, we become more tolerant, expansive, and creative. The more positive emotion we experience the more open to new ideas and new experiences we become.
Negative emotions narrow our perspective to focus only on the immediate threat. When negative emotions are experienced, we withdraw, freeze, or protect. When we experience positive emotions, we feel safe and engage in active, playful exploration, and discovery. Negative emotions contract and positive emotions expand.
Positive emotions form the experiential foundation for mentally healthy people. Positive emotions provide a foundation for growth and exploration and build the intellectual, social, and physical capital for further growth and development.
When we experience negative emotions, they tell us to deal with what is wrong and eliminate it. When we experience positive emotions, we start looking for the virtues of what is happening. We become constructive, generous, un-defensive, and open to seeing possibilities.
Experiencing positive emotions gives us an entirely different way of thinking from a negative mood. A negative mood helps us think about and detect threats in our environment and focus our thoughts on protection. A positive mood moves us into thoughts about growth and development, exploration and discovery.
Positive Emotions Build Resources and Capital for the Future
Positive emotions build the resources and capital that will become the basis for growth and development in years to come. When we feel and think positive, we reach outward and broaden our resources through exploration and discovery. We are more creative, think quicker, and do not succumb to premature closure or other forms of superficial intellectual processing.
Depressed people experience what is called a "downward spiral" of negative emotions. Depressed emotions call forth negative memories that feed more negative thoughts, that feed more negative memories, that feed more depressed emotions. Breaking this downward spiral is crucial to stopping the depression.
Psychologists have found what they call an upward spiral of positive emotion. Positive emotions produce a different way of thinking and acting. The thinking becomes creative and broad-minded, and the actions become adventurous and exploratory. This increased creativity and exploration results in greater expansion.
Often negative emotions and thinking are taken more seriously because traditionally they have been believed to be the evolutionary backbone of human motivation. It was believed that people are motivated primarily to avoid experiencing negative emotions and that positive motivation was merely superficial.
But positive emotions are just as real, authentic and important as negative emotions and are equally important for development, growth, and success.
Positive Emotions Lead to More Successful Interactions in the World
Experiencing more positive emotion results in more friendships, stronger love, better physical health, and more successful interactions in the world accompanied by a sense of mastery. Growth, positive development, and creative and successful interactions in the world (i.e. mental health) may have their foundations in the experience of positive emotions and thinking.
Happy people view themselves subjectively as more successful in the world. Happy people remember more good events than actually happened and forget more of the bad events that happened Happy people see success as lasting, personal and pervasive and failure as impersonal, temporary and specific. Happy people may lose a bit of realism but this does not lock them into ineffective functioning. Happy people are more likely to switch tactics when involved in a task that appears to be failing. In the normal course of events, happy people rely on their tried and true positive past experiences while less happy people are more skeptical. However, when events are threatening, happy people, more readily than less happy people, switch tactics and adopt a skeptical and analytical frame of mind. Happy people can deal better with adversity.
Happier people are markedly more satisfied with their jobs than less happy people. Happiness inceases productivity and results in higher income. Happiness also makes gainful employment and higher income more likely. Both adults and children who are in a good mood select higher goals, perform better, and persist longer on a variety of tasks.
Happy People Are Healthier
Positive emotions result in better physical health. Positive emotions predict health and longevity and protect people from the wear and tear of aging. Positive emotions strongly predict who lives longer, who dies earlier, and who will become disabled. Happy people are more likely to seek out and make use of health risk information. Happy people have better health habits, lower blood pressure, and stronger immune systems than less happy people. They endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened. Positive emotions and thinking prolong life and improve health.
Happy People Are More Connected With Others
Very happy people differ markedly from average people and from unhappy people in one principle way - a rich and fulfilling social life and more secure relationships. Happy people have more close and casual friends, are more likely to be married, and are more involved in group activities than unhappy people. Happy people are also more altruistic. When we are in a good mood we are less focused on ourselves, we like others more and we want to be kinder and share our good fortune with others. However, when we are experiencing negative emotions and thinking we become distrustful, turn inward and become defensive about our own needs.
Focusing on Positive Emotions
Positive emotions undo negative emotions and reduce the negative physical and psychological stresses of negative experiences. Negative emotions tell you that you are facing a win-loss encounter and need to take steps to engage with the obstacles. Positive emotions and thinking tell you that you are in a potential win-win situation.
Positive emotions and thinking guide you to be more expansive, tolerant, and creative and maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits of the situation. Positive emotions and thoughts provide both the fuel and the raw material for experiencing more growth and development, more exploration and discovery, more mastery and successful interactions in the world. So, yes, there is a great deal of value in feeling good and positive thinking. Go for it!
Copyright (c) 2007 Mary Ann Copson
Mary Ann Copson is the founder of the Evenstar Mood & Energy Wellness Center. With Master's Degrees in Human Development and Psychology and Counseling, Mary Ann is a Certified Licensed Nutritionist; Certified Holistic Health Practitioner; Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician; and a Health, Wellness and Lifestyle Coach. Reconnect to your physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual natural rhythms at http://evenstaronline.com
Article Source: http://www.positivearticles.com
Thinking and emotion go hand in hand. It seems that a negative mood activates negative thinking and a positive mood calls forth positive thinking. Does it matter if you are in a negative mood thinking negative thoughts or in a positive mood thinking positive thoughts? Is one better than the other? What is the advantage in thinking and feeling positive?
Emotions Have Evolutionary Value
Negative emotions have evolutionary value. Negative emotions like fear, loss, and aggression activate the flight or fight response. When we experience negative emotions, we have a feeling of aversion, which sets us on course to identify what is wrong and eliminate it. Negative emotions and thinking are associated with a survival alert that activates a reaction to fight, flight or conserve - each reaction with obvious evolutionary value.
Positive emotions also have evolutionary advantage. They "broaden and build." Experiencing positive emotions increases our survival chances because positive emotions broaden our intellectual, physical, and social resources and build reserves for us to draw upon.
Experiencing positive emotions increases our drive for exploration and discovery and provides the basis for positive social interactions. When we experience positive emotions, we become more tolerant, expansive, and creative. The more positive emotion we experience the more open to new ideas and new experiences we become.
Negative emotions narrow our perspective to focus only on the immediate threat. When negative emotions are experienced, we withdraw, freeze, or protect. When we experience positive emotions, we feel safe and engage in active, playful exploration, and discovery. Negative emotions contract and positive emotions expand.
Positive emotions form the experiential foundation for mentally healthy people. Positive emotions provide a foundation for growth and exploration and build the intellectual, social, and physical capital for further growth and development.
When we experience negative emotions, they tell us to deal with what is wrong and eliminate it. When we experience positive emotions, we start looking for the virtues of what is happening. We become constructive, generous, un-defensive, and open to seeing possibilities.
Experiencing positive emotions gives us an entirely different way of thinking from a negative mood. A negative mood helps us think about and detect threats in our environment and focus our thoughts on protection. A positive mood moves us into thoughts about growth and development, exploration and discovery.
Positive Emotions Build Resources and Capital for the Future
Positive emotions build the resources and capital that will become the basis for growth and development in years to come. When we feel and think positive, we reach outward and broaden our resources through exploration and discovery. We are more creative, think quicker, and do not succumb to premature closure or other forms of superficial intellectual processing.
Depressed people experience what is called a "downward spiral" of negative emotions. Depressed emotions call forth negative memories that feed more negative thoughts, that feed more negative memories, that feed more depressed emotions. Breaking this downward spiral is crucial to stopping the depression.
Psychologists have found what they call an upward spiral of positive emotion. Positive emotions produce a different way of thinking and acting. The thinking becomes creative and broad-minded, and the actions become adventurous and exploratory. This increased creativity and exploration results in greater expansion.
Often negative emotions and thinking are taken more seriously because traditionally they have been believed to be the evolutionary backbone of human motivation. It was believed that people are motivated primarily to avoid experiencing negative emotions and that positive motivation was merely superficial.
But positive emotions are just as real, authentic and important as negative emotions and are equally important for development, growth, and success.
Positive Emotions Lead to More Successful Interactions in the World
Experiencing more positive emotion results in more friendships, stronger love, better physical health, and more successful interactions in the world accompanied by a sense of mastery. Growth, positive development, and creative and successful interactions in the world (i.e. mental health) may have their foundations in the experience of positive emotions and thinking.
Happy people view themselves subjectively as more successful in the world. Happy people remember more good events than actually happened and forget more of the bad events that happened Happy people see success as lasting, personal and pervasive and failure as impersonal, temporary and specific. Happy people may lose a bit of realism but this does not lock them into ineffective functioning. Happy people are more likely to switch tactics when involved in a task that appears to be failing. In the normal course of events, happy people rely on their tried and true positive past experiences while less happy people are more skeptical. However, when events are threatening, happy people, more readily than less happy people, switch tactics and adopt a skeptical and analytical frame of mind. Happy people can deal better with adversity.
Happier people are markedly more satisfied with their jobs than less happy people. Happiness inceases productivity and results in higher income. Happiness also makes gainful employment and higher income more likely. Both adults and children who are in a good mood select higher goals, perform better, and persist longer on a variety of tasks.
Happy People Are Healthier
Positive emotions result in better physical health. Positive emotions predict health and longevity and protect people from the wear and tear of aging. Positive emotions strongly predict who lives longer, who dies earlier, and who will become disabled. Happy people are more likely to seek out and make use of health risk information. Happy people have better health habits, lower blood pressure, and stronger immune systems than less happy people. They endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened. Positive emotions and thinking prolong life and improve health.
Happy People Are More Connected With Others
Very happy people differ markedly from average people and from unhappy people in one principle way - a rich and fulfilling social life and more secure relationships. Happy people have more close and casual friends, are more likely to be married, and are more involved in group activities than unhappy people. Happy people are also more altruistic. When we are in a good mood we are less focused on ourselves, we like others more and we want to be kinder and share our good fortune with others. However, when we are experiencing negative emotions and thinking we become distrustful, turn inward and become defensive about our own needs.
Focusing on Positive Emotions
Positive emotions undo negative emotions and reduce the negative physical and psychological stresses of negative experiences. Negative emotions tell you that you are facing a win-loss encounter and need to take steps to engage with the obstacles. Positive emotions and thinking tell you that you are in a potential win-win situation.
Positive emotions and thinking guide you to be more expansive, tolerant, and creative and maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits of the situation. Positive emotions and thoughts provide both the fuel and the raw material for experiencing more growth and development, more exploration and discovery, more mastery and successful interactions in the world. So, yes, there is a great deal of value in feeling good and positive thinking. Go for it!
Copyright (c) 2007 Mary Ann Copson
Mary Ann Copson is the founder of the Evenstar Mood & Energy Wellness Center. With Master's Degrees in Human Development and Psychology and Counseling, Mary Ann is a Certified Licensed Nutritionist; Certified Holistic Health Practitioner; Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician; and a Health, Wellness and Lifestyle Coach. Reconnect to your physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual natural rhythms at http://evenstaronline.com
Article Source: http://www.positivearticles.com
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Ever Want To Change the World
Ever wanted to change the world?
Sick and tired of all the pain and suffering that we inflict on each other? On a planet full of despair, there are very few left who are willing to step up and say, "Enough!"
But an ordinary man has decided to change all of that, and his message will change the world.
Burt Goldman's goal is to raise the consciousness of 1 million people over the next year by sharing the experiences of his prolific life as a disciple of yoga, and as a protege of a leading parapsychologist.
Can you imagine? He's become an award winning photographer, a painter, an album releasing singer, and he's in the best of health-and he's EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
Now through the power of the internet, he will be delivering his message to the planet for free-as 7 lessons from Burt Goldman, the American Monk.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
20 Great Problem Solving Tools and Techniques
Have you been faced with a problem but haven’t had the right tools and techniques for solving it. I’ve dug up 20 great problem solving tools and techniques that will reduce the time it takes you to solve problems. It doesn’t matter whether you’re solving small mental problems or really serious and complex problems these problem solving tools and techniques will still apply.
These tips can aid you through everyday life and will teach you how to deal with sometimes the most abstract of situations. One great tip for solving problems is to never be one dimensional about the whole process, creativity in many different forms will guide you to the answers.
These tips come from the great Win Wenger. . . He’s a modern day thinker in creative problem solving.
To read the rest of this article follow the link below
http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/
These tips can aid you through everyday life and will teach you how to deal with sometimes the most abstract of situations. One great tip for solving problems is to never be one dimensional about the whole process, creativity in many different forms will guide you to the answers.
These tips come from the great Win Wenger. . . He’s a modern day thinker in creative problem solving.
To read the rest of this article follow the link below
http://selfpursuit.com/33/problem-solving-tools-and-techniques/
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