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Issue No: 126 - August 30, 2010

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Today's Reflection

ACHIEVING COMPLETE SUCCESS

STAYING FOCUSED

Real success has to be multi-dimensional. And real success costs nothing - there's no striving, no effort, no compromise required. If you crave something you will not get it - the craving is what is holding you back - and that's on top of whatever perceived inadequacies with which you were conditioned subconsciously. The key to multi-dimensional happiness and success lies in flow. Develop your innate ability to enter flow and everything that your heart desires will simply... flow!

Have you spent a few moments early this morning getting yourself focused, clear-minded and turned on for the day ahead? If you haven’t, you’re a worse fool because your personal effectiveness, success and happiness are completely and totally dependent on your ability to be ‘all here’. So, if you haven’t got yourself focused this morning – there’s no time like the present!

But even if you have, it is all too easy to slip into the mindlessness that characterizes the normal day, the normal life. Whether it’s just the mundane of daily routine, the overwhelming nature of what’s on your plate today or your perceived boredom or dislike for your job or life, your subconscious mind will use every single opportunity available to it to slip back into its default state – one where it is content to focus in the past and prompt you to dwell on negative distraction. It’s oh so easy to snuggle up in your not too uncomfortable zone!

It’s pointless if you ‘wake up’ in the morning only to fall asleep again – the trick is to ‘stay awake’. So, as today progresses, give yourself the breathing space, the ‘me time’ to calm down, clear your mind, take a few deep and mindful breaths and be present in the only place and time that life can be lived – the here and now. You’ve got to ensure, throughout the normal day, that you be the very best you that you can be – otherwise, what’s the point!

This Week's Recommended Read - FLOW

Personal Development Article

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

This classic work on happiness presents the general principles that have enabled real people to transform boring and meaningless lives into ones full of enjoyment. It introduces the phenomenon of “flow” – a state of joy, creativity and total envolvement, in which problems seem to disappear and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence. Drawing on extensive research, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains how this preaurable state can be brought about by all of us and not just left to chance. We each have the potential to experience flow, whether at work, at play or in our relationships. Through understanding the concept of flow, we can learn how to live in harmony with ourselves, our society and, ultimately, with the greater universe. We can return to the state of happiness that is our natural birthright.

first published July 27 2009

THE FINE ART OF COMMUNICATION

by Willie Horton

Communication is about making an impression. Yet technology deludes us into thinking that we have become great communicators - email, text, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Blackberries, enables us send information. But does it make any real difference, is anyone listening? Your success and happiness is affected by your ability to communicate - to make a good impression. Develop your presence and you will become the ultimate communicator.

How to be an effective communicator...

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