Curt Rosengren at The M.A.P. Maker blog has developed an interesting take on self improvement. (The M, A and P in the blog name, by the way, refer to Meaning, Abundance and Passion in your life.

In an article titled “Create a Better Life with 30-Day Experiments” Rosengren observes that it’s hard getting hiself to do the things he has resolved to do - (know anybody else like that?). So as an experiment, he began treating all self improvement efforts as short, 30-day sprints. Continue Reading »

Remember how the gurus all recommend spending your time in the company of successful people so that their success mindset will rub off on you?

This is good advice, and it’s worth going out of your way to do.

But the other day I discovered that this principle also applies to another important area of your life.

Last Monday I was in one of the little gypsy buses on the way to language class at the YMCA when an elderly couple got in and seated themselves opposite me. They were westerners, and as they talked, I overheard a familiar down-home drawl. Continue Reading »

A quick heads-up — a delightful new self help website has just been opened called Self Help Collective. It’s by my friend Steve M. Nash, an unassuming guy who likes to have fun with everything he does (meaning he’s not all puffed up with self importance). And this new website reflects his personality perfectly.

Furthermore, Steve believes that improving our life is our own responsibility and that what we really need is not more gurus, but simply a source of dependable, proven information and a group of friends who’ll share their learning experiences for each other’s benefit. Take a minute now and click over to http://www.selfhelpcollective.com to look around. I think you’ll really like Steve’s “take” on the real meaning of self help.

For truly powerful living,
Charles

Do you practice what you preach? Walk the talk? Treat others exactly as you want to be treated? Think deeply before you answer, because it’s easy to get this one very wrong.

I’m not talking about your actions in the shadow of privacy, when no one is watching, although that’s important, too. No, I mean the things you do out in the bright sunlight of public awareness. Again, be careful how you answer, because others may not be seeing what you think you’re showing.

Guest columnist Peter Vajda today takes us to a recent public event, in which some of the world’s highest profile leaders casually took what many might call a very glaring mis-step. Did they perhaps bite off more than they can chew? Continue Reading »

Michael was depressed — again… “No matter how I struggle and try to control my mind, I can’t seem to make it obey me.”

A student of self-help for years, Michael had bookshelves filled with more than a hundred self improvement books. Most of them he had actually read and taken notes on. Scattered among them were binders from the many seminars and audio courses he’d invested in.

“I just can’t seem to get consistent results. My own mind is always working against me.”

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In this age of manic communicating and hyper-activity, we hear many of our success gurus advising us to “take massive action.”

Yes, that can be good advice… but what kind of action? Unfortunately, many of us get it wrong… then spend most of our waking hours in reactive, low-quality activities aimed at simply trying to keep up. It’s not even the Joneses we’re trying to keep up with anymore. Now we’re just trying to keep up, period. This leads to very little thought going into the actions we choose.

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Are you really going to accomplish the next thing you decide to do?

Now, I don’t know what your “next thing” — your next goal — might be. It could be a business goal, or a family objective. It may be connected with inner growth, or with your physical health.

But whatever it is, whatever you promise yourself that you’ll do, are you actually going to follow through? Will you keep on till you reach completion?

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“So when would be a good time for us to start on your coaching?” Linda asked. Linda was a well-experienced relationship coach interviewing Ann, a potential new client.

“Well… first I’d really like to think about it for a few days,” Ann told her.

Linda gave an ironic smile. This answer was a common one. Many people, she had found, don’t like stepping forward and making decisions on the spot. In fact, they don’t really like making decisions at all, and they’ll often go to great lengths to avoid them.

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No relationship is exclusively one-way. When any two people interact, the influences flow in both directions.

So if there’s someone who consistently irritates you, peeves you, and just generally gets under your skin, know this: you are almost certainly part of your problem.

Guest columnist Peter Vajda returns this time with some very practical suggestions to help you uncover your own contributions to the prickly relationships in your life.

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“The Best Advice I Ever Got.” I don’t usually pay much attention to the financial magazines, but the headline on this one was too good to pass up, so I bought the May 12 issue of Fortune, and I’m glad I did.

This article presents quotes from 19 high achievers, or as Fortune calls them, “accomplished people.” The 19 include Larry Page of Google, Michael Bloomberg mayor of NYC, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico, Tina Fey actress and comedienne and Tony Robbins who everybody knows.

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As you move yourself forward toward increased success, if you’re doing your work right, you’re going to meet expanding opportunities to serve a wider community, market or audience.

And at each stage of that growth, one side of you is going to dig in its heels and protest desperately, with self-talk such as:

“Who am I to do that? I don’t belong in that role. After all, I’ve got this and this and this wrong with me. And besides, I’m not really interested in doing all that.”

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Wendy Piersall is the owner of Sparkplugging.com, a blog that literally outgrew its first name.

A couple of years back, Wendy began a new blog, mainly as a hobby, but within three months her new “hobby” was so successful that she knew two things. First, this was turning into a profit pulling business. Second, she would soon have to change the name.

That initial name? EMoms at Home. But it wasn’t long before the readership included many men, as well as single women with no kids. Now, logic alone tells us that you can only attract that kind of rapidly growing and widely varied readership by giving good advice and good, solid business how-to.

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Seems like we’re constantly struggling for better understanding. Understanding of ourselves; of our problems; of the people around us.

So how’s that working out for you?

While it may be comforting to have a better handle on what’s going on all about you, and awareness is almost always better than being oblivious, understanding may be seriously overrated as a tool for resolving problems.

Here’s a little secret about problems: the cause is almost never where you think it is. I’ll say more about that in a second, but here’s the point. Knowing more and more about your problem is filling your mind with facts about a symptom rather than a cause. It’s massive misdirection which can produce amazingly few results for the energy expended.

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Once in a while I get an email that really makes me think more deeply than usual. This one came this morning from from Mark (not his real name), who is reading my book Command More Luck. He said:

I am currently focusing my mind on riches in order to manifest them. Although I do believe that this does bring success into a person’s life, the lunatic asylums are full of people who firmly believe that they are millionaires or rulers of great kingdoms.

It is said that genius is akin to madness. My question to you is: What is the discriminating factor?

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Most people’s affirmations don’t get past the end of their nose.

Mine never used to. There was a point in my mid-thirties when I had read so many books, with so little results, that I finally and firmly determined to grab my affirmations and MAKE them work.

I set up a work space, got a 3-ring notebook, a stack of paper and a fistful of pens. Then I sat down and started. I carefully designed an affirmation which, I was sure, covered all the details of what I desired. And I wrote it out.

A thousand times.

Then another thousand. And three thousand more after that. A total of five thousand times I wrote out that long, glowing sentence.

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In this, my newest class, I’ll show you strategies and techniques you can use the same day to start clearing the “stuff” from your mind and return it to its original condition — filling yourself with natural confidence, self-respect and self-esteem.

RESET is a simple, direct way to stop the junk running in the back of your head. It will enable you to reclaim your natural power over your own thoughts and actions.

Now — you have a way to kick out the negative “stuff” that runs in the back of your mind. You know the stuff I mean… self-doubt instead of self-esteem, uncertainty instead of confidence, self-sabotage instead of success, fear instead of boldness. The stuff you learned early and deep. The stuff that causes virtually all your problems… now learn to access your RESET button, and begin reclaiming authority over what happens in your mind.

This Tele-Clinic presents strategies and techniques you will use to RESET your mind back to its original specifications. Once you’ve learned this, you’ll be able to use it any time you notice negative junk sneaking back in, trying to re-pollute your thinking.

Click to Find your RESET button — start clearing things up fast.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

It happens fairly often. About one customer in 100 steals from me.

But I’m not alone. Virtually every person I know who sells information products says they have the same experience.

No matter how good your product, no matter how much value you pile on, about one-to-two percent of your customers will order your product, download it, then immediately request a refund. And usually there’s only a delay of a few minutes between download and refund demand.

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Charles Burke (+66) 849-49-7644

Hundreds of thousands of websites are hacked annually, causing untold upset and anger — but not in every case. When one website was hit recently, the owner called it good luck and decided to celebrate.

“Ironically,” said the website’s owner, Charles Burke, an American author living in Thailand, “they chose to hack a website that sells ‘Command More Luck,’ a book that teaches how to turn ‘bad luck’ into good luck. So I decided to use this hacking as a case study, showing exactly how any situation can mean good luck.”

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There are things you won’t do. You won’t willingly beat up a helpless person, abuse a baby, lie to your priest or minister (about most things), or commit murder.

But will you keep something that’s not yours?

Think carefully before you answer because this COULD develop into a trick question.

In today’s guest article, Ophelia Nicholson in her excellent Law of Attraction Blog dares you to take a second long look at the limits you’re putting on how the Universe answers your requests. Now, I can almost guarantee this article is going to rile some of my readers - maybe you. Read it and tell me what you think.

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