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Take control of your financial future - I

http://www.ixigo.com/html/affiliates/affiliatesHome.ixi http://www.ixigo.com/html/affiliates/affiliatesHome.ixi Money! It's one of the most emotionally charged issues of our lives. Most people are willing to give up things that are much more valuable than money in order to get more of it. They'll push themselves far beyond their past limitations,give up time with their family and friends, or even destroy their health. Money is a potent source associated to both pain and pleasure within our society. Too often it is used to measure the difference in the quality of lives, to magnify the separation of the haves and have-nots. Some people tend to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives. For the elderly especially, a lack of money often translates into a lack of critical resources. For some people,money  holds mystery. For others, it is the source of desire, pride, en...

Take control of your financial future - II

You and I know, intellectually, that money is merely a medium of exchange. It allows us to simplify the process of creating, transferring and sharing value within a society. It's a convenience that together we've created in order to allow ourselves the freedom to specialize in our life's work without having to be concerned as to whether others will find our work worthy of barter. We have learned to associate some of our most debilitating emotions to a scarcity of this commodity : anxiety, frustration, fear, insecurity, worry, anger, humiliation, and being overwhelmed, to name but a few. As we are now witnessing in Eastern Europe, political systems have been toppled by the pressure associated to financial deprivation.  Can you think of any country, any corporation, or anyone's personal life that has not been touched by the experience of financial stress? Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipat...

Decisions - The Pathway to Power

     As you look back over the last ten years, were there times when a different decision would have made your life radically different from today, either for better or for worse?  Maybe for example, you made a career decision that changed your life. Or maybe you failed to make one. Maybe you decided during the last ten years to get married- or divorced. You might have purchased a book, a tape, or  attended a seminar and as a result, changed your beliefs and actions. Maybe you decided to have children, or to put it off in pursuit of  a career. Perhaps you decided to invest in a home or a business. Maybe you decided to start exercising, or to give it up. It could be that you decided to stop smoking. Maybe you decided to move to another part of the country, or to take a trip around the world.  How have these decisions brought you to this point in your life? Did you experience emotions of tragedy and frustration, injustice or hopelessness during th...

Health and Fitness are not the same.

His goal was to break a world record. For eleven straight days, he been been running twenty-one hours a day and sleeping a mere three hours a night.The mental challenge was as great as the physical challenge: he had to travel from the everyday world he'd lived in his entire life into one where his primary objective was the next step. He devoted years of training not only to his body, but also to his mind.His objective? To demonstrate the unlimited physical potential that lies locked within us. By breaking the previous record and running over 1000 miles in eleven days and nineteen hours, at an average of eighty-four miles per day, Stu Mittleman demonstrated that by understanding how to condition both the mind and body, one can produce results far beyond anything that society could consider possible. For years I have pursued those I've considered to be masters in their area of expertise and physical fitness and health have been a major focus in my life. Just as...

A man who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary

S o often I hear people talk about changes they want to make in their lives. But they can't get themselves to follow through. They feel frustrated, overwhelmed, even angry with themselves because they know they need to take action, but they can't get themselves to do it. There is one elementary reason : they keep trying to change their behaviour which is the effect, instead of dealing with the cause behind it. Understanding and utilizing the forces of pain and pleasure will allow you once and for all to create the lasting changes and improvements you desire for yourself and those you care about. Failure to understand this force dooms you to a future of living in reaction, like an animal or a machine.  Perhaps this sounds like a complete oversimplification, but think about it. Why don't you do some of the things you know you should do? After all, what is procrastination? It's when you know you should do something, but you still don't do it. Why not? The a...

The Force that Shapes your Life - (Continued)

Not more than 250 miles away in our Nation's capital, a jet airliner crashed on a takeoff from National Airport during a blinding snowstorm. It hit the Potomac Bridge at the height of rush hour. As traffic snarled to a halt, emergency rescue services were immediately dispatched to the scene,and the bridge became a nightmare of chaos and panic. Firemen and paramedics were overwhelmed by the destruction, and dove again and again into the Potomac to try and save crash victims. One man repeatedly passed the life preserver to others. He saved many lives, but not his own. By the time the rescue helicopter finally got to him, he had slipped beneath the icy surface of the water.  This man gave his life in order to save those of complete strangers!What  drove him to place such a high value on other people's lives - people he didn't even know - that he was willing to give his own life in the process? What makes a person with a "good background" behave so sava...

The Force that shapes your Life

http://amzn.to/2Fzahh0 She had been jogging only for half an hour when it happened. Suddenly a dozen young boys began to sprint in her direction. Before she had time to realize what was happening, they pounced upon her, pulled her into the bushes and began to beat her with a lead pipe. One boy continually kicked her in the face until she was bleeding profusely. Then they raped and sodomized her, and left her for dead.  http://amzn.to/2Fzahh0 http://amzn.to/2Fzahh0 I'm sure you've heard about this tragic, unthinkable crime that happened in Central Park several years ago. The savagery of the attack was so appalling but even more so to hear who the attackers were. They were children from the ages of 14 to 17 years old. Contrary to stereotypes they were neither poor nor did they come from abusive families. They were boys from private schools, Little League players, kids who took tuba lessons. These boys were not driven  crazy  by drugs, nor were they racially motivated. T...