When posting to forums, learn which symbols mean a topic is “hot”, i.e. one that is viewed and commented on A LOT. It might be a picture of a piece of paper on fire, or even the word “HOT” to the left of the title of the post. Commenting on these topics will get your posts seen more often than posting anywhere else in that forum.
Another tip…some forums (like one I discovered tonight), actually tell you how many people are viewing that topic RIGHT NOW. Go there – post, comment, participate. That will get you noticed.
Come back and tell us how that worked for you. We want to know!
In the quest for learning the business skills necessary to survive and thrive in the real world, sometimes we have to tear down what we’ve created in the way of a life that doesn’t encourage us reaching our full potential. This book points you in the right direction to do that.
For some reason, I thought the author was a little “out there” when I read the first chapter, “Attributes of Consciousness”. She almost lost me when stating, “plants have a minimum level of consciousness”. This wasn’t because I am a die-hard scientist and don’t believe in the hard-to-believe or the metaphysical. I have seen enough to know that just because you can’t see something does not mean it doesn’t exist.
It was more for the reason that a friend of mine accidentally channeled himself into the plant next to his bed while doing an advance form of yogic meditation one day and came back with the first-hand report that, no, plants do NOT have a consciousness.
That’s all.
After pushing on and reading the entire book, I went back and reviewed that chapter and now it seemed a little less rooted in the twilight zone. The real meat and value of this book is in the chapters following. Fans of “The Secret” and the Law of Attraction will find familiar territory here. As one interested in both, I appreciated the foundation the author laid down first in explaining how the conscious and subconscious mind works. It really can seem like, “Mind Magic”, but in fact is rooted in the realities of how awesomely powerful our minds are.
Clear, concise details are given on how to use self-hypnosis as a tool for working towards creating powerful transformations in your life for the better. For those wary of hypnosis, it is nothing more threatening than guided meditation, and it was only after reading this book that I felt more comfortable with it, though I had gone to a trusted friend for my first experience in hypnosis a few months ago. It is just something in the way the author explains it that, coupled with the guided imagery experience I had done then, that convinced me it was the way I had been looking for to finally figure out what is going on in my head behind the scenes, so to speak.
You can sit and contemplate your life only so long, do yoga, meditation, chants, etc., but unless you use the techniques reviewed in this book – LOA (Laws of Attraction), self-hypnosis, mental imagery, affirmations and writing down your goals, along with a good, uncomfortable dose of facing the truth about yourself, you won’t be rich, or happy or find your bliss…just face it.
And that really is the root of so much sickness, misery, angst, violence, selfishness and depression in the world…the fact that people are too lazy or scared to do some mental housecleaning and root out the poisonous, self-destructive things that have seeped into our subconscious over our lifetimes. We blame government, our parents, our kids and spouses, society, the next door neighbor ANYONE, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING EXCEPT OURSELVES! If you can’t take the truth that you attract exactly the things you deserve in life, if you aren’t willing to do the hard work it takes to make a change in your life for the better, then don’t bother getting this book. We create stress in our lives because of our reaction to it, not because it is stressing. Just take a look at the person next to you who weathers storms than you with ease and can be happy even when they have a harder life than you do. The U.S. as a whole is a spoiled rotten nation, but in the reality of life, what truly matters has to be worked for.
Reading this book is no magic pill, but it can give you the incentive to take your own pill and make you life the stuff of your dreams.
As an interesting side note, I know I am a little blog in a sea of a billion other blogs out here in the world wide wilderness of the internet, so why shortly after I posted my article about evites did I suddenly get more traffic?
Is it because I optimize for search engines? Ha! My specialty is Website Design providing, NOT spending endless amounts of time chasing after the big-dog search engines begging them, tricking and bribing them to be listed. Take a look at that blog and tell me here why you think it got the attention of the search engines. Any opinions? I’ll tell you when I get some comments on your theories.
After attending Quattro’s Entrepreneur’s College, I feel it’s time to take on groups that challenge my speaking skills. I didn’t get the chance to do my presentation up in front of Gary de Rodriguez’s Powerful Presentations class and feel the need to keep sharpening the skills he so graciously shared with us.
I am also taking some time off of a networking group I have helped nurture and grow over the past year. Right before the college I realized I had outgrown it…I hope that doesn’t sound pompous or arrogant. Instead it feels like it isn’t meeting my networking needs any more and that I need something more challenging. Quite often we all go through contemplation periods in our lives. This being a Mercury Retrograde cycle right now offers me the best chance to sit down and reevaluate it’s worth in my life with the best possible chances of making a balanced, objective decision about whether I should continue on it with or not.
I had the great, good fortune the morning of April 30th to spend a brief time at breakfast with Quattro teacher Gary de Rodriguez. He was staring, lost in thought, out the window at the vast sea of boats and masts docked just outside the Kona Kai hotel in San Diego (where the college is) and I went over to say Hi and how much I enjoyed his classes when he invited me to sit down.
Though we only spent about 10 minutes talking, it was great to just converse outside class about little things here and there…the kundalini of the planet, where we each were when Kennedy was assasinated, further training for Quattro reps in the Los Angeles area. He expressed a desire to train us in such a way that we “don’t even mention sales during our presentations”, making them all about the service Quattro provides and how important it is to the future of small business owners and entrepreneurs everywhere. It was a great, pleasant start to the morning I will keep among the best memories of our time here at the college.
I learned so much as a student in his class at the Quattro inagural College. The transformations I saw in his Powerful Presentations class among my husband, the students I worked with and the ones who gave their talks at the end of the class were amazing. It was during that 20 hours of instruction with him that I felt us as a community at the Quattro College really bond to each other. Having that brief time to talk at breakfast during the college, too, was a joy and a rare moment. I can’t wait for him to come to L.A. to give us more instruction. I will be there, whatever it takes!
Evolution means sometimes taking risk. Anything worth obtaining is worth paying the price for. Do you believe this? If you do, your possibilities in life widen.
The next step in business evolution for me, I believe, is to become a better salesperson. To learn more about how to sell my products and myself, to learn more about how the world of business works, and especially about who is not only surviving, but thriving in this downturned economy and more importantly WHY they are thriving. Even before the economy turned, about a year, year and a half ago, I realized that jewelry and cell phone purse retail sales were not going to cut it in bringing in enough money for me. I followed what the Universe seemed to be guiding me to do, and that was website design. When the economy killed my retail sales half a year later, it began bringing me more opportunities for expanding my website design clientele and so I went back to school to get some more education in the Adobe CS3 suite. But that was only the beginning of my evolutionary journey.
Now, in April 2009, my research into this area has me sitting at the inagural opening ceremonies of a new business college created by Quattro University. This is a large, financial chance we are taking, but in a sense it was also a no-brainer. With our 401ks hemmoraging money every month, they no longer served our purpose where they were. They are better invested into sharpening our business and entrepreneural skills. Remember, give a man a fish (or a job) and you’ll sustain them for a time. Teach them to fish (or run a business as an entrepreneur) and they will not only feed themselves, but they will be able to adapt and adopt to changes in the economy. And, as Quattro teaches, they will be able to “pay it forward” so everyone around them who are willing to listen will also benefit.
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:23 pm. Comments
I was attending a non-profit organization’s volunteer meeting last night. This group gets funding from a government agency whose representative made an opening statement last night that should really be taken to heart by many who often make this obvious, yet all too common, terrible business mistake. For clarity’s sake, I will paraphrase the lesson, and then go into what was said and why it was said.
The paraphrase is: “Be careful what you say in emails.”
What was said, “There has been a lot of negativity in the emails back and forth on this upcoming project…many seem to think we are the enemy, but the truth is, we aren’t AND you need us to fund your project.”
My long-time experience with sending emails and seeing the repercussions of poorly-worded/tactless emails made me sit there and silently agreement with this man. He had the grace and tact to word it in such a way as to not make it look like the friendly warning it was, and while I applaud him for his decorum, at the same time I feel sorry for him.
He is fighting an uphill battle against the anger ineffective government has engendered in today’s common people. Whether he or his department is guilty of the all too common funding shenanigans that run rampant in any City Hall, he is still a victim of it, as were the upset constituent, you and I. There is a time and a place for such ventings of one’s anger at officials or the “system”, BUT it is never at a volunteer meeting, or on an email list going to the very people one is accusing. I guess this must be a lesson learned, and not common sense, and of course, when tempers run high, ALL sense and common sense go flying out the window and back into the mouth of the horse who just said it (hence the title of this piece).
What amazed me is the fact that as soon as this official said this, someone spoke up right away (gee, I wonder who sent the email?) and added to the fire by reiterating what was in the emails. Gee, he wasn’t listening, was he? In this day and age in the United States/California, expecting government to have tons of money to throw at small, community projects when their budget is getting cut and their staff is let go is positively ludicrous. But I digress…
…back to the main point, at least in this blog. If you are in business, and I will capitalize this for emphasis, RE-READ THAT EMAIL BEFORE YOU SEND IT! Would you tell that person this to their face if you were face-to-face? I look at words spoke like pointing a gun – if you are going to point it, say it, email it, YOU BETTER BE PREPARED TO USE, DEFEND AND LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT HURLED VERBAL BULLET!!!
Don’t burn your business bridges because you couldn’t keep your mouth shut long enough to rethink that stupid, thoughtless, antagonistic comment you felt it was your God-given right to say. Sure, you have a right to say anything you want, but if it hurts someone else or your business for future, potential business, you better think twice or be prepared to live with the consequences of fewer friends in life and less business.
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Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:27 pm. Comments
