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Self Improvement Gifts 4 – Event Offers 100s of Free Personal Growth Items
Posted by: | CommentsI wanted to let you know today about a Self Improvement site that will allow you to download 100’s of self help gifts. And the best part is that it is absolutely FREE!
If you’ve had enough of plodding along year after year and you want to improve yourself to make 2010 your BEST ever year, then you need to go here.
Self Improvement 4 will be open only for a VERY LIMITED TIME from January 5th to January 19th 2010. When you go there you’ll find a multitude of products – all FREE – provided by Self Improvement and Internet Marketing experts from all over the world. Here is just a small sample of what you will find:
* Personal Development Tips
* NLP – Love Your Physical Self
* Dynamic Personality
* Transformational Fitness
* Anger Management
* Managing Stress
* How to Stay Focused
* Outrageous Health
* Secrets of the Subconscious
* Law of Attraction
* How to Reinvent Yourself at Midlife
And my special report , “Get Along Better: Relationship Reinvention Tips” !!
There are more than 500 free items in this giveaway, so go ahead and join the fun at Self Improvement Gifts 4.
You only have to walk into any book store in any country to see how popular the subjects of self improvement, self awareness and personal development are. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry churning out hundreds of new books, audios, CD’s and other paraphernalia every year. These can be very expensive but in this giveaway you can pick this information up completely FREE.
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Sleep: A Lesson in Productivity
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There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day sometimes. As a solopreneur with your schedule, something always gets put off until tomorrow. In order to catch up, you might be tempted to work longer at night but that will have the opposite effect.
When your schedule runs long or you have a pressing project, the first thing that enters your mind is that you can do it early or stay up late to get it done. The problem with this idea is that the rest of your routine will suffer. There will be less, if any, time for your family, friends and activities. From the point that you steal time from one area to benefit another, you will be playing catch up.
Over time, your body will respond to the added demands. It won’t be pretty…stress of any kind that is prolonged can cause health problems. You are more likely to develop illnesses because of a depressed immune system. You won’t be your kind and cheery self anymore as you become short tempered and nit-picky.
What about your goals? Whether work-related or personal, your goals never seem to get met. The laws of nature are a funny thing. In our society, we have the idea that to get more done you have to speed up and sacrifice. While that may be true in some situations, the part that we choose to sacrifice makes a big difference.
To get ahead and get more done you need to slow down. Sleep is a part of your daily routine. It’s a part that we don’t pay much attention to. After all, if you are tired, you will eventually fall asleep, right? That’s not how sleep is supposed to work.
The human body is like a wonderful and complex machine. All machines need maintenance to continue working. The body does its repair jobs while you sleep. There are several sleep cycles. During the deepest sleep, the body can go about restoration and repair because you are not keeping it occupied with movement and thought. It’s sort of like a short hibernation period.
Unfortunately, many people don’t get enough restorative sleep for it to matter. You wake up tired and that leads to concentration problems. It’s hard to think of new ways to increase your productivity when you can’t keep your eyes open. Burning the candle at both ends will leave you with nothing.
Do yourself a favor. Get your 7-8 hours of sleep a night. As a result you will wake up refreshed and your focus will be clear. You’ll find you have more energy and get more accomplished in all areas of your life. There is less downtime needed during the day because you got all of the rest you needed when you slept.
Defining Your Purpose in Life
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you are born, you instinctively possess natural instincts. Because you are young, you don’t recognize the value of these instincts in your life during that time. But, as you grow older, you recognize that there is more to life than eating and sleeping. You develop a life purpose.
What is your life purpose? You instinctively know how to live. Breathing and blood circulation is involuntary. As a child, you go to school and learn what you need to know to get ready for adult life. This is all a preparation.
Defining Your Purpose
As you learn and grow, you also yearn. Thoughts begin to fill your mind of a world beyond the four walls of your home and your school. Where do these thoughts come from? Every sphere of influence in your life feeds into those yearnings: parental care, friends, church, school and life in general. It is as much about self-preservation as it is about the other influences.
Each person develops a life purpose. Beyond what is expected of you in the early years, what you make of your life is up to you. All of these influences feed into your ideals. That’s your belief system.
You are taught right from wrong, but there are other traits like intuition, logic, perseverance and bravery that are learned through experience. That experience comes through goals, failures and achievements.
From your life purpose or belief system, you’ll begin to turn those yearnings in your life into tangible goals. Maybe you want to help people heal emotionally. That desire can change into a goal to become a licensed professional counselor. Perhaps you want to help others realize their business and/or life purpose, if you translate this into a goal, you may be best suited as a life or business coach.
The goals that you choose to pursue are in direct relationship to your life purpose. Goals can be shaped by good and bad experiences in life. An abuse victim may set a goal to help other abuse victims by starting a program for recovery. Positive experiences at college can lead to becoming a recruiter of the college and/or encouraging others to come for the same great experiences.
If you are looking to take your life in a new direction, consider your life’s purpose. What experiences and knowledge has shaped your life thus far? What do you believe in strongly? Use the answers to these questions to begin the quest for how you can enhance both your life and business.
Success – It’s Only For You To Define
Posted by: | CommentsSociety has its own standard of “success”. Some people reach it and some don’t. Before you jump on society’s bandwagon, learn to express what true success means to you and only you.
Your goals in life stem from your personal beliefs about life and business. What fills you will joy and a sense of purpose? Explore the Three Success Factors to get started on your personal definition of success.
What Is Your Definition of Success?
Three Success Factors
Several different criteria go into determining a definition of success. There is:
• Your Personal experience
• Your Upbringing
• Your Feelings
Your Personal Experience
Perhaps as a young child, your mother was a solopreneur. She made beautiful handmade doll clothes which were adored by her purchasers. However, while her clothes were loved by others, she didn’t want the spotlight or the praise. Your mother’s reward was not notoriety, but placing the doll clothing into the hands of a happy young child who loved it as much as she did.
That type of experience lets you know that success is more than money. Maybe those clothes netted a fair profit but the main reward was your mother’s talent well used. This is far different from someone who had another person take credit for their work and vowed to never let that happen again. Their goals may be to get all of the recognition for themselves for every little thing that they do.
Your Upbringing
This goes along with personal experience. Our parents were integral in dropping tiny droplets of wisdom in our lives. They taught us to turn the other cheek and help a person in need. All of these lessons roll into our philosophy of how we will search for success in our lives.
Achieving a goal for self satisfaction doesn’t involve money but it is no less a success. Climbing a mountain or learning to fly a plane actually take money but the return on your investment can’t be measured in currency.
Your Feelings
At one time or another we have all been a slave to our emotions. The key is not to let your feelings rule your life, but rather use them to define your life. Use determination to keep you focused on your worthwhile goals no matter what the obstacles. This takes strength of mind.
Use joy to find the silver lining in every cloud. Just because one plan didn’t work to achieve your goal doesn’t mean that another one won’t pan out. Use what you learned to avoid future mistakes but keep moving towards that particular goal.
What success means to you is something only you can determine. Once you establish that parameter, let it guide you through all of the goals you set and strive to achieve in the future.
