Secret of Law of Attraction

After reading the posts at this site, a friend shared with me privately that she’s so inspired and motivated to get started to do what she’d wanted to do since the start of the year.

You see, she’d been kept busy for almost the entire year, but looking back, she felt she hasn’t achieved much professionally, financially, personally and spiritually. She was doing what was expected out of her job, meeting deadlines after deadlines. At the end of the day, all her energy just gets ‘zapped’ out of her that leaves her not wanting to do anything else but wait for the day to start all over again.

She was also in awe that there are so many things she wants to pen down for the rest of the year and the following year, for that matter. I could sense that if she gets overwhelmed, she will just slip back into not setting her goals, working towards some of her dreams. Do you feel that you get that feeling too?

I told her that what’s important is that she gets started with simple goals that allow her to make little changes along the way. If it’s a goal or dream she wants to pursue which might take a year or two to accomplish, break it down into smaller, more manageable baby steps.

Here are some past posts relating to taking baby steps…

Take Baby Steps to a Better Family Relationship

Take Baby Steps to a Better Career

Take Baby Steps to Better Health

Take Baby Steps …

Allow me to share an excerpt of what I read - “Decision Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory - it is a fact. Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.”

There you have it… procrastinate no further! Take the decision of starting to review what you’ve accomplished and set goals for the coming year! All for the benefit of pursuing your dreams!

Carpe Diem!

Did you like the Video on An Inspriation! Identify & Sieze Opportunities?  What an amazing kid or creative entrepreneur!

I will be doing some Self Improvement Series and I was looking for pointers to be creative like “The Amazing Kid”.  As I was surfing through the web for some information, this article caught my attention on Being Creative in the internet marketing and I would like to share it with you if you have not seen it.

Looking to Be Creative? by Raymond Brookside

One of the most important aspects of an effective marketing campaign is creativity. When you’re out of marketing ideas and need a new solution, don’t despair. Many marketers struggle with the concept of creativity - but then again, many don’t. These individuals have developed techniques for improving their creative process.

Through many years of experience and significant portions of trial and error, I have discovered a number of techniques that help to jump start the creative process. Here are a few suggestions for getting you started:

1. Begin by searching the Internet. If you have an idea or concept or don’t know where to start, spend some time surfing the Internet. Looking for book titles? Visit Amazon.com or other book related sites and do a little research. Seeing similar products in your category is a great catalyst for creative ideas.
2. Start drawing. Putting pen, marker, or crayon to paper or white board is a great way to get your thoughts going. Many creative thinkers use whiteboards excessively starting with a word in the middle of the board. Circle it and created branches that contain related ideas and circle them. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can fill your whiteboard with new concepts and ideas.
3. Involve others. Anyone can have a great idea. From a marketing perspective, many new product names and even marketing concepts have come from everyday people with no formal marketing experience. Need a new product name? Ask those you work with, family, or friends. Even if you don’t get the name you were looking for the experience can provide new ideas and concepts.
4. Go to your “idea” file. Keep an idea file. Each time you find an ad, web page, or email that really moves you, throw it in your idea file. Over time you’ll probably fill more than one file and use it regularly to generate new ideas or identify concepts you wish to replicate. The idea file is an old concept but one that’s highly effective.
5. Flip through books. Printed resources including books and magazines can be a great resource for ideas. Keep in mind that some of the best resources may be those that are outside of your industry or area of expertise.
6. Pick up the remote. Television commercials are created by some of the most intelligent and creative people in the marketing industry. Use commercials as idea generators. The best way to use commercials to generate ideas is to consider the imagery, the key messaging, and the feelings they create. Can you apply any of these elements to your product or service?
7. Go for a walk. If you’re still struggling to generate that “big” idea, then go for a walk, clear your head, and refresh. Sometime taking a break is the best thing you can do for your mind. It’s said that Thomas Edison, one of the world’s greatest inventors took cat naps to clear his mind and improve his thinking. Give it a try!

Creative thinking is both fun and challenging. When your stuck and need something motivating, experiment, try something new, look for references that can start the ideas flowing again. Every struggles for new ideas so be prepared - know who you can talk to in order to get the ideas flowing again and have a plan. This results in more ideas and more creativity.

Article Source: Self Improvement Articles from PositiveArticles.Com

Of course whilst doing all these steps listening to the Attraction Accelerator audio will help on your creativity too! Do you have any other Creative Pointers?

Why not let us know what you think by adding your own comment! Your opinion is as valid as anyone elses, so come on… let us know what you think.

I know there are many people out there who at times find relationships within the family very straining. They think that their family being the closest to them, ought to understand, ought to be unconditional in support or even ought to giving. Relationships of any sort needs time, commitment, patience, nurturing and communication just to name a few. Never take your family for granted. They will be there for you, they will understand, they will give you support and be giving when it’s due.

Remember I shared earlier about my friend who had some challenges in his family? In my opinion, it all boils down to the very fundamentals. It always helps if you can start visualizing how a happy, united and supportive family you want to have. Just these baby steps will help you go a long way in improving your family relationship…

1) Improve Communication
Communication is the lifeblood of relationships. It is through communication that the family feel connected. That’s when time is spent on talking about trivial matters, daily activities which they want to share or even important issues of life. Take note that it is the effective communication that will help improve the family relationship. Ineffective communication will worsen any relationship. For effective communication, ensure

• you’re open, honest, yet kind
• you’re objective and deal with the problem discussed and not the person
• you clarify any messages when in doubt, otherwise it will lead to more misunderstanding
• you avoid “mind-reading” and reading between the lines

2) Spend Quality Time Together
It’s never the quantity but always the quality that matters. In the current world that we live in, there’s always so many things to do in so little time. What come may, what ever little time you can set aside for the family, make sure it’s quality time well spent. The family that spends time together helps eliminate isolation, loneliness and most importantly develops an identity or group unity). Good family memories are always built from time spent on family activites. The little things that you do together matters, like

• having meals together
• outdoor sport
• holidays and celebrating birthdays
• indoor activites like board games, fixing jigsaw puzzles
• picnics etc

3) Show Appreciation
When you start showing appreciation with your family, friends or even colleagues, it will motivate them, makes them feel good and unknowingly behave positively towards others around them. Always appreciate your family for being there, the little things that they’ve done for you or just remembering birthdays and special occasions. Showing appreciation can be as easy as

• giving credit and praise for a job well done (regardless how small it is)
• saying “I love you”, “Thank You” or even “I appreciate that”
• always looking for the positive, instead of the negative
• treating family members like your best friends

4) Strengthen Spiritual Wellness
It’s been said that spirituality is a force that can help us reach far beyond ourselves as well as become a part of something larger than ourselves. Family members who attend religious services do have a sense of power in life and togetherness. However, regardless of your spiritual orientation and beliefs, do recognise that human beings do have a spiritual dimension within them. In general, by strengthening your spiritual wellness, it will help the family

• have a positive outlook in life
• have a sense of peace and freedom help other families cope during times of need
• strengthen as a unit as it provides support of others who share similar beliefs

If you have other “baby steps” to share, especially through your personal experience or people whom you know, I’d definitely want to hear from you. In the meantime, enjoy and share with friends whom will benefit.

Have yourself a wonderful day.

Carpe Diem!

I took a detour and lost my way as I was moving along with my baby steps… 

Here’s the continuation to the baby steps series to better career… 

If your career appears to be in the doldrums, take time to take stock of where you are and where you want to be. This is especially critical as before you start making any changes or taking baby steps to improve your career, you need to know what’s bothering you, where it “hurts” and what needs to be rectified.

Here are five baby steps you can consider for a better career -
1) Take stock
Ask yourself if you are still aligned with your career goals. Are there good value exchange between you and the company? Be realistic. Don’t cheat yourself into staying on with the company by such self-talk like “Things will get better after the project is over”, “when the economy improves” or “when the additional staff comes on board”. Are you staying on because you’re afraid to change, feel that there’s no choice or are pretty certain things will improve?

If you are staying on and there’s no positive change in sight, ask what will it do to you as a person and your relationships (be it colleagues or family)? Will you always be a foul mood which will impact anybody who comes in your path? If you’re able to see yourself learn and accomplish more in the next 12 months, then plan and make sure it materialises.

2) Focus on what’s important
When committing to a new work assignment, ask yourself how it can add value to your employer or your client? What will you be giving up to accomplish the assignment? How will it enrich your life? Once you’ve committed to the work, file away the list of work you’d completed, so that you can use them at your next performance review or when you ask for a raise/promotion.

3) Don’t be too social
Social support from your colleagues breaks work monotony, improves comaradarie and communication. However, don’t fall into the trap of being too sociable that you don’t have time to finish up your work and “eats” into your official work hours. Learn to say “No” or provide good alternate solutions to colleagues who consistently asks help from you, especially if you have not completed your own tasks. However, if you’ve been assisted during the course of your work by your colleague, then spend time to send a “Thank You” note to show your appreciation. It goes a long way.

4) Update Your Resume
Your resume is a living document. It must be updated as you progress in your career. Ensure that it contains lots of action words and documents accomplishments you have achieved.

5) Take courage and just do it.
Change is the only thing that is constant in this current economic & globalization climate. It is always scary. There is always the possibility that you might fail. But, how will you know if you don’t give it a try? Take courage. Move out of your comfort zone and take calculated risk. Envision yourself succeeding. Model yourself after someone you know who are successful in making an effective change or made that bold step of getting out of his comfort zone.

Here’s a quote by Jack Welch, “Change before you have to.”

Carpe Diem!

My friend can’t be classified as grossly obese, but definitely overweight and can easily tip the scale to be considered as obese. He complains about feeling tired easily, not having enough energy to spend time with his kids and lovely wife after work, which seems to zap all his energy. Sounds too familiar ?

I have read countless newspaper articles, reports and even heard horror stories relating to health issues such as that of silent killers like heart attacks, strokes or even amputation of extremities. I firmly believe that if the spirit is willing, you can accomplish just about anything. It doesn’t have to be drastic and painly. Just think baby steps for the following -

1) Physical Activity
Exercise seems to have a negative or less than positive connotation like pain, drag or monotonous. We should replace the word Exercise with that of fun, physical activities like dancing, walk in the parks or national park. Get friends and family involved in the physical activities by going for cycling, hiking, skating or even using the hula loop.

If you have been totally sendentary, start with walking two extra flight of steps to your office, park an extra block away from the office or supermarket and walk to your destination. Just think baby steps…

2) Food choices
Increasing physicaly activities may be a good thing, but if no changes are done to what you consume, the positive impact may not be obvious. If you are a coffee drinker, drinking at least 5 cups a day, just cutting out sugar from your coffee, you can easily lose about 12 pounds in a year. Assuming you consume 2 teaspoons of sugar in your coffee. Each teaspoon provides about 16 calories. That will give you 160 calories daily just from 2 teaspoons of sugar for that 5 cups. In a month, that’s about 4800 calories, slightly more than a pound of weightloss. In a year, that’ll translate to about loss of 12 pounds. See, just a small change will reap you benefits without feeling deprived.

3) Other lifestyle changes
A major lifestyle change that will help improve your health dramatically is to rid off cigarette smoking. By eliminating cigarette smoking, you definitely reduce one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The other 3 risk factors are cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and diabetes.

To quit smoking is a tough decision, not quitting is even tougher, especially when you’re challenged in terms of health. Nobody can ever do or say to convince you to stop smoking, unless you really want to. However, if you choose to quit smoking, there are numerous tools and doctors who can help you in both overcoming the addiction and dealing with breaking the habit.

Remember, baby steps here and there can help you in the long run to obtaining better health and an improved life for you and your family.

Share your journey on taking baby steps towards your goals, be it health, wealth, personal development etc. Would love to hear from you.

Carpe Diem !

One of my favourite quotes by Confucius said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.

I remembered my friend commenting that “it will take time before any results can be achieved”, when he was listing out goals he wanted to achieve that some goals are long term goals, will take a few months before it can reach fruition or needed help along the way. That is where the above quote by Confucius was most apt.

Take baby steps…

Whatever goals you have, no matter how difficult, regardless the timeline, can be made easier by breaking them down into smaller, more achievable goals. They will be tackled one at a time, finally accomplishing the ultimate goal. Completing these smaller goals is definitely one of the best ways to build confidence, momentum and a track record of constant action, especially when you are always updating your Goal Plan.

Do you remember how your child or seen a child learn to walk? Children learn to walk by taking one tiny baby step at a time. Do you remember seeing them stumbling? You see, learning to walk requires some hand-holding, a few painful or countless stumbles, and lots of encouragement. Before you know it, the child will be walking; then running, skipping and jumping. Soon, there will be no stopping her/him.

Success in whichever aspects of your life are built on those baby steps you take, be it financial, career, health, fitness, spiritual etc. Let’s start with a baby step. Do you know where you are going? Do have a clear vision of what you want to finally achieve? Visualization is one great place to start. What better tool to help you along with that is to create your very own Vision Board.

Here are 2 previous posts to guide you along with your baby steps -
1) Create Your Vision Board - you can take this as a family activity or your own ME time.
2) Visualize your Success and Accomplishment

Remember! Take baby steps… you will get there and never alone!

Want to share your baby steps accomplishment and success? Love to hear from you.

To your success!