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Mobile Broad-Band is the key to the Development of Fast Connections

January 21st, 2009

Mobile broadband has been advertised as the trendiest technology in the broadband world that is more and more looking like it the turning point to the development of high speed internet. Recently, broad band was available only through a simple phone line, high speed cable, which brings internet access to your PC terminal using an ADSL modem or router. Wi-Fi broadband will soon be very spread, whereby the high speed connection is attached to the personal computer through a wireless intranet, and as a consequence internet users are now clearing their homes of cables. But broadband on the go is taking internet further and offering another idea in the developing of internet; a broadband connection nearly in any room without the need for a traditional phone line cable.

The option of connecting to the internet with a working broad-band connection at home is surely an obviously interesting concept for potential users, like those people who often connect to internet with their pc terminal not from home. Business people who usually travel for business meetings are the main obvious target for mobile broad-band because they will love the concept of not having to look for a working WI-FI spot for a reliable internet connection. Mobile high speed connection goes further than that, and as prices soon start to decrease and connection speeds get faster soon we will witness a great number of high speed connection potential users applying for mobile high speed broadband.

Mobile broad band works by using a small modem to a laptop, often called a ‘dongle’, from which a personal computer will connect to the mobile ADSL internet provider the customers have acquired. Internet providers are marketing mobile high speed internet packages and coverage of the networks, very popular as 3 G networks, which covers nearly 90% of England.

Internet speed has been an important issue for any high speed connection line and mobile broadband telecoms not that far ago had problems to persuade potential clients that their mobile high speed internet could match up with conventional, ADSL landline fast speed connection. Connections are improving, since Vodafone has announced mobile broad-band speeds of up to 7 mb, which is not that far from some of the landline internet broadband. Countries like Great Britain, are thinking to sponsor with huge resources in fibre optic cable networks, in order increase high speed internet line to up to 100 mb.

In New Zealand a famous telecommunications provider has announced that mobile broad-band networks will soon improve fast in the next future and they have said that mobile broadband will deliver speeds of up to 100mb by early 2011, the year the United Kingdom’s fibre optic network is due to be finished. This could herald a major step in industry thinking, with the creation of a super fast mobile high speed connection network having obvious advantages over the laying of thousands of kilometers of fibre optic cables, not least from a practical point of view.

Betting Games Betting Maniacs Play: Introduction to Casino Wagering

January 18th, 2009

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On the assumption that you have little understanding of casino card-playing, please keep reading.

Generally speaking a gaming room is a construction that features gaming. Aficionados will take a risk by challenging the slot machines or another gambling games. Betting saloon games on the whole have mathematically calculated percentages governing them that ensure the casino maintains an interest versus the gaming aficionados.

Numerous betting establishment games can sway you into getting overly habituated in no time. By way of example, consider the vintage 1-armed bandit, a coin operated gadget with three, sometimes more drums which pirouette when a handle on its flank is tugged. This contraption on the whole renders corresponding with a string of glyphs seen on the front panel of the contraption. Regretfully, casino games allow the misconception of staying in control, hoodwinking the gaming devotee — the victim is granted choices, but actually these won’t really remove the customer’s fundamental negative odds. This is induced by the betting establishment never paying out the full sum as hoped for. This philosophy is continuously seen at work in well-known casino games like seven card stud, dice, roulette or blackjack.

Straight poker is definitely a very fashionable casino pastime. The clients, playing with partially guarded hands, will bet into a central pot which is finally awarded to the last participant possessing the leading set of cards. (And yes, the best bluff can easily win as well…)

Analogous to stud poker, blackjack is likewise an immensely fashionable casino game. Much of its notoriety is thanks to its particular mix of luck and competence & choice making, as well as a method termed card counting. This is an approach by which gambling fans are in a position to significantly change the probabilities of the game in their interest both by betting & procedural opetations in agreement with the hands shown.

“Craps” is yet another well known gambling hall wagering game where players try to predict the roll of 2 dice. Gamesters are placing bets on the score of one cycle, or on a string of rolls on two dice. Very much unlike blackjack, there just isn’t any viable sustainable killer betting system people could cash in on to bend the odds.

Roulette is a crowd pulling casino pastime. A croupier twirls a roulette wheel accomodating thirty-seven (French roulette) or precisely thirtyeight (American or Vegas roulette) independently numbered slots in which a pellet will settle, thereby marking the winner When a gamester happens to bet money on a number which actually makes it, which is to say they’ve got a lucky hand, the promised ward will be thirty-five to 1, the pledge proper being tossed back. So in total the original stake is multiplied by thirty six.

You should always be very guarded as well because all of these casino games of chance are pretty addictive. A lot of lives are proven to have been destroyed through addictive gambling and much as it might be enjoyable, try to restrain yourself.

What Do You Value Most? Part 1

January 16th, 2009

Have you ever really thought about the importance of your values to your success and to self improvement, or even considered what your values really are, or what they really mean to you and your life?

Our values are at the very centre of what we are as people. Our values determine our beliefs about the world and even more importantly, about ourselves. Our beliefs determine our attitude to life in general and everything that happens to us, and determine our expectations. Our values are pretty much our personal philosophy of life.

It is your values that ultimately determine your actions and the decisions you make in every area of your life. If you’re not sure what your values are, one of the best ways to find out is to look at your behaviour and your actions, particularly when you’re faced with a number of options, or under pressure. If you look at the way you have behaved in the past, the choices you have made will give you a pretty accurate indication of your values, as you will always act according to what is most important to you at any time.

Most people have many different values with varying degrees of importance. Their order of priority may change in varying circumstances, but generally there will be some that have the strongest influence over most of our behaviour. The reason you should be aware of your values and know and understand yourself, before setting your goals, is that it’s important that your goals are compatible to your values.

For example, if Dave spends an extra 2 or 3 hours a day on top of his full time job working on opportunities that will help to create a better future for himself and his family, he has decided that this is the most valuable use of his time. He is expressing his most important values. If Jim decides that this time is better spent watching TV or socialising with friends, he is also expressing his most important values.

If you set a goal for yourself to be financially independent and to retire at the age of 50, it’s easy to see which of the above behaviours is most likely to bring about that result. Therefore, there’s little point for anyone who consistently finds themselves behaving more like Jim than Dave setting such a goal for themselves.

This is an example of how values, goals and actions are interconnected.

If your goals are not compatible with your values and overall philosophy on life, you are likely to or spend a lot of time going backwards and forwards, or around in circles, achieving little. You are also likely to create inner conflict and imbalance, and to become frustrated and disillusioned with the whole idea of setting goals.

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” - Brian Tracy

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Five Steps to Successful New Year Resolutions

January 16th, 2009

Do you ever make New Year resolutions only to see them broken in a few days or months? Have you stopped making resolutions because you never seem able to keep them? Here are five simple steps to help you make and keep your resolutions.

Step 1: Write them down

Committing your resolutions to paper is a very powerful way to help you keep them. Putting them on paper is in itself almost a commitment to keep to them. It also helps you to clarify your thoughts. By putting resolutions down on paper, you turn them from vague thoughts into potential actions. It is always easier to work toward something that is written down rather than a thought that is kept in your head and is subject to change at a whim. Once written down, you can display your resolutions anywhere you wish, on a wall, in your diary, on your screensaver, anywhere that you can refer to and use as a reminder.

Step 2: Tell someone else.

Telling someone else your resolutions can help you to keep to them. The other person can help, prompt and support you. Be careful who you tell though, do not tell someone who is likely to tease or ridicule you, make sure it is someone you can trust. By telling someone else, you are sharing your resolution with them, this has the added edge in that they can help you measure your progress or success. Should you slip from your resolution, they can help you get back on track. If you start to fail, they will be there to prompt you back again.

Step 3: Break them down into manageable steps.

Too many people set their resolutions in grand terms that they know they are not likely to achieve. The key to setting resolutions, as in goal setting, is to make them manageable. So if you do have a grand resolution, break it down into smaller parts and give yourself a timescale for each part. Then you can strive to achieve each part at a time, thereby maximizing your chance of success.

Step 4: Make them measurable.

Don’t be vague! Be specific about your resolutions. Make sure the outcome is something that is tangible, something that you or others can see. Make sure you have some way of recognizing or knowing when you have achieved your outcome.

Step 5: Reward yourself.

Go on, treat yourself. Give yourself a reward at each and every step along the way to achieving your final outcome. Do make sure, though, that the rewards are no greater than the outcome itself! Perhaps make the final reward something that you can share with any friend(s) to whom you told your resolution at the outset.

Douglas Woods is a fully qualified life coach. You can find more about his work on his website at http://www.dougwoods.com.

New Year’s Resolutions - Developing a Plan to Achieve a Goal

January 15th, 2009

Each year people make New Year’s resolutions as a declaration of commitment to themselves to make changes in their lives. Have you wondered how effective resolutions are? Do you achieve your New Year’s resolutions? If you achieve your New Year’s resolutions you are in the minority. Surveys suggest that less than one percent of New Year’s resolutions are achieved. It is merely a ritual people have followed for decades. The question is, “Do you want to make changes in your life?” Making a resolution to accomplish something without a plan to achieve it is like putting gasoline into a car that doesn’t have an engine.

Developing a Plan to Achieve a Goal is surprisingly simple. There are many plans one can use to achieve a goal. The easiest goal-setting plan I use is four steps. See, Think, Plan, Act.

Step I: See: See the situation/issue/habit/behavior as it currently isDescribe it, Define it, Analyze it.

Step II: Think: Think about what you want instead of the current situation or how you want to change an issue/habit/behavior. What would the new situation/issue/habit/behavior look like? Who is involved in the situation/issue/habit/behavior? Who needs to be involved to create the change? Who will benefit from the change? How will I convince those involved to go along with the change?

Step III. Plan. What steps do I need to take to achieve the change? Research the various aspects of your plan. Check for feasibility, viability and possibility. Set a ‘by when’ date. ‘By when’ will I act on my plan?

Step IV: Act. Implement the first step of your plan. When you have acted on the first step of your plan, you have now arrived at Step I again.

Step I: See: What is the current situation/issue/habit/behavior after taking the first step? Has the action I took in Step VI created the change I wanted? Am I happy with the result? If the answer is ‘Yes,’ continue to follow the plan created in Step VI one step at a time. If the answer is No, proceed to Step II.

Step II: Think: What didn’t work? What do I need to change to get the result I want? Who do I need to talk with to help me? Continue to analyze the current situation/issuehabit/behavior until you have thoroughly analyzed the outcome of your initial action. Proceed to Step III

Step III: Plan: What changes are required? Who needs to be involved? When all aspects have been analyzed, Proceed to Step IV again.

Step IV: Act: Once you have carried out one aspect of your plan you are back to Step I.

Goal achievement is that simple. When people do not reach their goals it is not because the goal was a ‘bad’ goal it is because people do not have an effective Plan to achieve the goal or they fail to act on their plan and/or analyze each aspect of the plan as the plan unfolds to determine if the plan is achieving what they intended to achieve. ###

THOUGHTS TO PONDER
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When you know that what you’re doing is right, nothing will be able to stop
you. When you are absolutely convinced of the true value of your efforts,
you’ll have the courage and the persistence to see them through.
To believe in what you’re doing is not just important. It is everything.

Anything less cannot possibly succeed. For any accomplishments you reach
while living a lie will ultimately be of no value.

It is not always easy to live true to your highest values, true to your
authentic self, true to what you know is right. Yet it is always your best
choice.

When you deny what you know is right in order to follow the expediency of
the moment, the benefits you gain are trivial and fleeting. Choose instead
to live each moment true to the highest values you know.

Then, who you become will be the fulfillment of who you truly are. Why would
you ever want to be anything less?

–Ralph Marston

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Everyone Has Been Hurt…Part 1

January 14th, 2009

I want to share some things with you that I usually don’t share with many people. To be honest not many people do know the whole story and that is because I don’t really trust many people with this. Anyways here goes..

When I was a little girl I lived with my mom and dad and two half sisters and a brother. My sisters are older than me and my brother is younger so I fall in the middle. My sisters are my dad’s kids with his first wife and me and my brother are a result of my mom and dad’s marriage. We had a great family. We always did the family things together, weekend trips , sometimes longer vacations, game nights and so forth and so on. I also got to spend a lot of time with my grandparents on my mom’s side of the family. My mom worked a lot, and I really don’t have a lot of memories with my mom back then. I did spend a lot of time with my dad though. I wasn’t in school yet so he would take me to work with him when I wasn’t at my grandparent’s, or we would hang out at the house or go for rides just whatever to occupy time. We were very close and I was very much a daddy’s girl.

At some point in time my dad lost his job and I remember my mom and dad began to argue a lot, not really in front of us though. They would go in their room, close the door, and I guess they thought we couldn’t hear but we always did. It never got violent or anything but once in a while it would get over heated and my mom would pack us up and take us out to my grandparent’s house for the night. We always came back the next day and everything seemed fine from that point on for a while anyways. We ended up having to move from the trailer we were living in and we moved to a smaller apartment in town. My dad began to drink heavily and I do mean heavily. One week my sister went to florida to Disney Land with some friends of hers, the night she came back, that night I remember waking up to her screaming. I was probably around three years old at the time. I had no idea what was wrong and I was scared but I didn’t move I just laid in my bed and pulled the covers higher over my head and tried my best to go back to sleep. The next night I slept with her and I believe every night there after that we lived in that apartment. So from a very young age, I became her protector, of what I had no clue but I knew she needed me and I was going to be there. I became the protector of my whole family or at the very least hers. I really didn’t even know why though, but of course now that I’m older I do.

Not very long after that we moved again but this time we moved to my grandparent’s farm and I was thrilled. My grandpa had a huge cattle farm, well maybe not huge but when your little everything seem so much bigger. He owned three houses on that property and he let my mom and dad have one. My dad was very unhappy. I saw this then and I was little. He started to drink even more and I began to be afraid of him. My mom and dad believed in strict punishment and we were good kids because of that. It wasn’t rare for us to be whipped with a belt or a switch. I remember one time my sisters and I had got in trouble for something and he beat our legs till they bled and when he was done he put methiolade on them and we squalled from the burning of it even more so then the whipping. We learned at a very young age to not talk back and we didn’t. I also remember a time when I was very young also when my mom and dad left me in the car because I was asleep I woke up to find myself alone and I started to run across the street. I was hit by a car and luckily I wasn’t hurt though, my dad broke a belt on me that night because I had scared him so bad and he whipped me until I pissed my pants when I did that he whipped me harder. Counting was a big thing with my dad when we got whipped we had to count the swats, probably how I learned to count, if we missed time or didn’t count he would start over, and that was punishment as they saw it. This was all before I even started school. You learned to mind back then or else. And you didn’t want to know what else it would be. Those are my memories no one told me these things. I remember all of it, coming from my own memory. He didn’t believe in waste either, one time he made supper and the meat was very spicy and I didn’t want to eat it, he made me anyways and when I threw up he whipped me, and I think I had to eat it anyways. My grandparent’s would come over and visit and since they only lived across the road, they would sometimes sneak me into their car and take me home with them, every time I came home I got whipped but I continued to do it because that is where I felt safe.

This wasn’t always a constant thing, we still had very good times when they were good they were very good but the bad times slowly increased. Then the stuff with my sister started again. I remember waking up to her crying at least once a week, maybe more. At this time we all slept in the same room upstairs but in different beds. My brother stayed down stairs with my mom and dad though in a separate room. Close to on of the last nights there. I remember waking up to her screaming and crying, I remember her exact words, she said,” Dad, I swear I will kill myself”. I got up out of my bed and ran to my other sister’s bed and I started shaking her telling her to wake up and she finally did I started screaming for my mom and she started screaming too. I heard someone run down the stairs. My oldest sister got us all up and, got us dressed and took us to my grandparents’ house. There were times in between all these times that when my sisters left for school I got scared so I would go downstairs and crawl in bed with my dad, because I was afraid, of what I didn’t know. I knew it had something to do with Dad but I wasn’t sure what. I had no idea he was molesting my sister, how could I. I was a baby myself. My mom finally confronted him that night or shortly after. Remember a three year old child is telling this story my words and thoughts/memories but the time frame might be a little off. The night my mom confronted him I remember waking up to them screaming at each other, hearing glass break and then I heard my dad call my sister downstairs. Shortly after she went down my mom and sister began screaming and yelling. I guess my dad pulled a gun and held it up to her and told her to get out. He left and he told her to be gone when he got home. I heard him outside cussing at my grandparents who lived across a holler I never ever heard my dad so angry ever. I was terrified. My mom came in and grabbed us, right after he left and grabbed clothes and we headed for my grandparent’s house. Half way there, he came back and he got a spotlight and started looking for us. My mom laid on top of me and my brother when he began to shoot and when he finally stopped shooting, we ran as fast as we could to my grandparents who were waiting outside the door, my uncle barred the door and they called the police, the police came and they found my dad in a field still holding the gun. My grandma put us to bed. I never saw my dad much after that. On occasion he would come around but we were so scared we wouldn’t even go near him. My mom got a divorce.

We lived with my grandparents after that and I was the happiest kid in the world I don’t remember to much about starting school, other than the fact that I cried every single day and I threw up every single day that I had to go. My grandpa and I were very close. I loved living on the farm. We had tons of animals and I felt like I was in Heaven. I was happy then. Before I started school animals were my only friends and I had many. I was the oldest besides my sisters and I spent a lot of time with those critters. They did stay with my mom after that even though my sisters weren’t her real kids but they did stay. They were not treated very nice though by some of my family members but that is there story and I will allow them that. My youngest sister moved back in with my dad some years later and then ended up in a foster home. My oldest one stayed with us though. I had to sleep with someone every night after all that and even pissed the bed for years after that. Doctor said it was psychological, kidding right? Ya think? I did out grow it eventually and life carried on. My grandparents were very religious and had a lot of morals and they instilled that on us the best they could. I don’t remember many times with my mom back then because she worked so much. I was happy though and I felt free.

Years later as I grew older my animals became the most important thing to me. I had an uncle who was living with my grandparents at the time and he must have been jealous of the attention we got, because we did get babied by my grandparents a lot. He really didn’t like my sister and made it a point to pick her out to humiliate, but again that is her story. He loved to pick at us and eventually it came around to me. How do you think he got to me? With my animals. He loved to kill and torture my animals. He was very abusive to me in this way. If I made him mad or even if he just had a bad day he would come home, take me outside and go get a big box. He would say, “pick which ones you want to keep”. My grandma would try to stop him but he would get more angry, and he would say, “pick, pick which ones”. It was always puppies and kittens. I was just a kid. I don’t even know how old I was. I would stand there and I had to pick which ones lived and which ones died, if I tried to change my mind and try to take one out, he would yell more. When he had the box full he would take it out in the field and shoot it full of holes, or he would toss them in the air and kill them that way, and he would come home bragging of it. He beat one of my collie pups to death and I was on vacation at the time, I saw the blood in the road. I started to hate vacation time because I knew when I came back some of them would be gone and dead. Every time we went, I came home to that. I hated him and honestly this was the worst type of abuse I have felt, simply because he made me choose life or death for something I cherished more than anything. Around that time I started school again and I was being picked on a lot because I was so skinny. I was also extremely shy, I wouldn’t talk to anyone. I started hating school too.

To be continued … 1st of six……

Vaughn Pascal

Here’s the Latest: All about Poker Rake Back Deals

January 13th, 2009

Many a player has asked “Why should I benefit from this rakeback offer? I play in internet poker sites if I have a bonus.” However what if you take the opportunity to play poker full time? There are too many players in the gaming community who lament dismissing rakeback and right away most of them have opted in for all the major web based rooms. Do not turn into one of them.

Full Tilt Poker Rakeback

Anyone that bets up to one or two dollars and then only bets when clearing bonus sign-up rewards, you could be experiencing normally around a hundred percent rake back considering the bonus payment on your play. One major web site lately shut down betters that played on the gambling web site entirely for this type of gambling. Who knows if this practise might become a trend. If it ocurrs then instantly a poker rakeback is an essential. Eventually you might just find your best game and become very rich, if you are not by now. I was injured by an accident then poker came along when I was off work and never looked back. That’s more than 2 years back yet I have not even once needed a job in those couple of years all because of gaming and rakeback. It’s fantastic plan to look ahead. Think of it as an investment, even if you do not think Full Tilt Poker rakeback is appropriate for you right now it just might become a fantastic investment in the future, there is no way you can miss. Should you be thinking about signing up for a new poker room signing up for rake back has to be a good strategy.

The Rakeback Professionals website is proud to have such a lot of ethical affiliates. Signing up is as effortless as logging into any Rakeback Professionals affiliated web site or even as pain free as e-mailing. The partner has the ability to get anybody set up on the spot. You will be set up to play straight away. If you sign up with an affiliate thru Rakeback Professionals you can rest easy as each partner has been checked out and also have agreed to authorize The Rakeback Professionals web site to arbitrate any complaints you may suffer. Granted that we screen our affiliates, we have had hardly any issues and futhermore we will always act straightaway to remedy any issue for the protection of the card players.

Excellent Jan Snowfalls for Most of the French Alps

January 12th, 2009

Global warming and the credit crunch, these dual perils have spared the Southern Alps, at any rate for Christmas. On the other hand it may have been so altogether contrary. In the weeks before Xmas hamlets in the Espace Killy locale were isolated when heavy snow hammered down. Motorway routes such as the crowded Col du Serre Chevalier were cut. There was no mains or telephones, home owners were evacuated to temporary housing, it seemed as if it were a repeat of 1996.

It appears that all promotion is good promotion. La Mongie appeared every evening on French news bulletins. When power was restored inquiries commenced to pour in, pulled in by the fantastic skiing conditions.

La Chavanette and neighbouring La Clusaz have almost 4 metres snow depth on the higher areas at 2000 metres elevation and 2.1 metres at the end of the runs. At the moment the deepest in the French Alps. Portes du Soleil claims there is three meters at the top of the resort. Regrettably snow drifts have swept away a support of the lift which serves the domain. It will be out of action till the middle of January.

In other places in the European Alps inquiries have increased 17% in Auron, Verchaix and Les Orres. Luz Ardiden has 99.8% occupancy and distributed a record number of lift passes on Sunday. That is good news for Ski France and other big skiing businesses.

Photographing Twins

January 11th, 2009

Capturing a portrait of twins compared to one person is more than twice as difficult. For a good comparison while retaining individual characteristics, all eyes must be focused at one point. There is a tendency to place the twins on a bench which unfortunately puts them both at the same height. This produces a static look and may lead the viewer to place false emphasis on minor height differences. Many methods can be used to place the twins at different heights. The ideal configuration is one in which the chin of the lower subject is even with the eyes of the upper subject.

Many methods can be used to attain this height difference. A small (four inch) riser can be placed under one subject or one subject can be standing. A small chair for one subject and the floor for the second satisfies the composition for a full length portrait. Teens to adults can be photographed one in an arm chair and one on the arm.
Some sporty poses have one kneeling on one knee and the other sitting back on his heels. The aim is to make a diagonal of a line drawn between the faces. This has the effect of a more dynamic and energetic composition.

For twins portraits that have a priority to compare faces, it is important to make sure that the turn of the faces is identical. If the differences in facial characteristics is important, the body angle and head angle may be slightly different. Many more exposures should be taken in order to insure there are enough good poses. Blinks, off looks and bad expressions have to be discarded.

Triplets portraiture follow the same rules with the addition of the third subject. A constant flow of conversation is helpful in keeping the triplet’s attention on the photographer. Make sure no two heads are in the same plane and that all three heads are the same distance from the camera. This is to minimize any effects of foreshortening. A longer than normal telephoto lens can be used to help in this department. If identical clothing is worn, extra attention should be placed in arranging the clothing for a neat effect. Inevitably, comparisons will be made. Facial expressions that are on the moderate side will help create a nicer twins portrait. Buddy pictures are ideal for twins. Arms around shoulders, leaning on one another and interaction shots (reading, gaming) play up the closeness of twins. Be sure to have twice as much fun!

Retired portrait photographer. Comments welcome.

Goal Setting and Getting: The BD3 Approach to a New Year

January 11th, 2009

Brainstorm

Get yourself in a quite place where you are not likely to be disturbed. Let your mind focus on these questions:

What would you like to accomplish in the next two years?
What would you like to change?
What would you like to be?
What would you like to have?
What would you like to do?
Where do you want to go?
What would you like to contribute?

Now spend 5-10 minutes writing down whatever goals come to mind. For this exercise, there are no limits. Let the ideas come freely, without evaluation. Don’t just think about them, write them down. Remember, the weakest ink is better than the strongest memory. Come up with as many goals as you can. Now you are ready to…………

Decide - on two things:

1) Choose one goal from the brainstorming list that you most want to accomplish in the next two years, and

2) Decide it will happen. Decide that no matter what, you will get this goal sometime in the next two years.

This is a very powerful decision to make. Because change can occur in an instant, deciding that you will get this goal begins the process of change, and begins to build momentum.

To continue building momentum, now it’s time to………..

Do

Do all the necessary things to make it happen. One way to do this is to work backward from your deadline to now. For example, if your goal is to save a certain amount of money by the year 2000, how much will you have to save each year, each quarter, each month, each week, each day? In this way, you are able to break a rather large goal down into daily actions. Remember, once you set and commit to a goal, you can only have two results: you get the goal or you have excuses why you didn’t.

Distinguish

Distinguish between what is working and what is not. If what you are doing is working, keep doing it. If what you are doing is not working stop doing it and try something else until it works.

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