Five Great Cell Phone Tips
July 14, 2008
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I bet you didn’t know you could do
Most of These With Your Cell Phone.
I sure didn’t.
Cellular phones seem to be one of the most used technology items over the past few years. It is very rare you know a person who doesn’t have a cell phone or hasn’t had one in the past,
Here are 5 great things you can do with your cell phone.
1/ One of the first things I discovered really interesting that could be done on my phone is when I was travelling over in Europe I didn’t know what their Emergency Number was. I discovered that if you type in 112 on your phone you would be given a worldwide Emergency Service.
This works perfect even when you are out of your networks coverage area. It will find a network that is working in the local zone and allow the call to be connected.
Now your probably thinking, what if my phone is locked and I am in such a panic I can’t even function to get it to unlock?
Don’t worry; this function will even work when your keypad locked. I’d say test this out, but you could be making a false emergency call so just remember this for your next vacation it may come in quite handy.
2/If you are really forgetful this will be useful.
Do you have a vehicle that has one of those fancy remote keyless entry options? Did you leave your keys in the vehicle and can’t get in?
Do you have an extra set with someone else? Well you are about to be amazed. Now you can stay with your vehicle while unlocking it.
Call the person who has your extra set of remote keyless entry keys, tell them to put the extra set to the phone pointing the signal to the microphone, turn your cellular phone towards your vehicle, press the unlock button, BAM!
Your vehicle is now unlocked.
Trust me this actually does work. I am one of those people that forget my keys in my vehicle all the time so this comes in quite handy. It doesn’t even matter how far away the other person is.
Now save yourself time trying to get someone to bring you your extra keys when they can just unlock your vehicle from home.
3/Don’t you hate it when you are in a middle of a conversation and your cell phone’s battery is getting real low?
This third useful thing will come in very handy especially if you need your phone for a short period of time till you can get it to a charger.
There is hidden battery power in your phone. Now you probably never even thought this was possible, but it is!
Simply type in the following into your cell phone “*3370#”, now your phone will then restart and when you turn it back on you’ll see that your cell phone’s battery has increased by approximately 50%.
This comes in real handy when you need a little extra charge to get you through a little longer till you get your cell phone onto its charger finally.
4/Are you always worried about having your cell phone stolen, but are not entirely sure where to get your serial number from for your phone.
I’ll explain to you how you can get your cell phone’s serial number. Keep this number in a safe place just in case your phone is ever actually stolen.
To get your serial number type in the following code into your phone ” *#06# “, once you type the code in a 15 digit number will display on your cell phone’s screen and you will now have your serial number.
Give your cellular phone service provider this code and they can block all access to it making the phone completely useless even if there is a swap out of the SIM card.
5 /Are you one of those people who always tend to be in desperate need of a phone number, but never have a phone book near you?
You probably tend to use the service 411 and always get charged, correct? Well stop!
No longer pay for your 411 calls that seem to be costing you $1.00+ per use.
Instead dial this number into your phone: (800) FREE-411 or (800) 373-3411. Works in the U.S. only.
You may still be charged your regular cellular phone minute charges, but that is much better then spending your regular cellular phone minute charges plus the $1.00 or more to get a phone number.
There you go Try these five interesting features out and see if they make your cell phone use more efficient.
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Canadians Mortgage Shopping For Your Florida Home
May 14, 2008
It’s a great time to buy a second home in
I recently had the opportunity to attend a
With the loonie about par with the American dollar, interst rates low and a huge inventory of even brand new homes available & ofttimes sitting vacant there has not been a better time to buy in the last 10-15 years.
So first off you don’t have to pay for the property cash. You can get a mortgage on your home in the sun without a
They have a team of financial professionals specially trained to assist you with
Banking & Mortgage laws and regulations & terms are quite different in the
While we can get a mortgage in 2-3 days here in
Being pre-qualified is a much stronger position to be in than having to buy conditional. Canadians are use to this and have no idea how much more challenging this is in the
Also in the
When you mortgage in the
With
You will need make sure your will or trust covers your
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Serendipity and the Law Of Attraction
March 18, 2008
Serendipity from www.answers.com = The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
Funny thing has been happening lately. My web associate Bruce Hughbanks in Texas of a product currently known as Blog Matrix Pro. Bruce sold the original Word Press Mass Installer to J.P. Shoefell and now it has been renamed.
Anyway Bruce, really like my visioning and goal setting system. He was reading some private label products at the time and I said “Bruce, I have a much better system, let me show you mine”. After which he convinced me I should write it up. At the 45 page point it had turned into a product. Which is where the serendipity and the universe kicked in.
All of a sudden everywhere I went friends and associates started handing me goal setting materials that they had worked with over the years. Someone gave me a Dan Sullivan CD to listen to then our real estate broker who is just a pro coach handed us a few more sheets of paper from another source and so on.
Then I bumped into a Jack Canfield Book on Law of Attraction at Costco… yes I do tend to bump into books. As I read and listened I realized that they all agreed with my own thinking but some of them had clarified certain elements of language that I had been struggling with a little bit.
So I am about to dip back into my work and expand upon it taking it deeper. Maybe this is actually meant to be a book and not just a Workbook.
But the point here is … this is how the Law of Attraction works. What I focused on is exactly what I have drawn towards me. The end result will just make my final book better.
Have a very attractive day.
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Do You Search For Sameness or Can You Deal With Difference
January 22, 2008
Recently I have been looking for a new financial advisor to assist me with my portfolio.
I have been meeting with several people to try and clarify what I want and to ascertain who might do the best job for me. I look after my own real estate investments but find it challenging to watch it all.
I met with one lady at our local coffee shop. She had been highly recommended to me. It was very intersting to note her reaction when she discovered that we think very differently and that I didn’t just automatically agree with all of her assumptions. She quickly told me that I wouldn’t be a good client for her because we thought too differently.
Of course I was sitting there looking for exactly that. Someone who thought very differently from me. I was rather surprised given that she appeared to be a very good salesperson, but she could not account for difference or adjust to it quickly. A fatal flaw in the sales & client relationship game. Before listening carefully she was ready to cut me off because she didn’t have the training to see the value in the difference in personalities and money thinking.
There are many ways to achieve a goal and what matters is having the same core Values and a similar Vision. When dealing with successful people or anyone for that matter it’s important to make allowances for how other people operate or achieve their plans.
A great tool for learning this is the DISC profile. I am registered with Keller Williams Real Estate and the DISC is a profiling tool that we use regularly. There is no right or wrong, there is just who you are and how you fit into a group, team, or corporate structure.
Being a very high “D” or “Driver” I used to wonder why other people didn’t seem to get much done. An indepth understanding of the Disc really helped me to clarify how different types of people function and gave me much more insight into personalities and what to look for to build my team. There are several type of DISC profiling tools available but just doing your own and your partners DISC can help you to learn to interact with each other better. They are easy to locate on the web.
So, to keep this blog post short the end result is the young lady I met with is now putting a plan together for me to review. Maybe she decided she could be missing out on a good customer after all. We will find out in a few weeks time whether we can work together.
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Multiple Streams of Income
January 18, 2008
Multiple Streams of Income
Published on Saturday, March 18th, 2004
Good Markets or Bad, generating a second stream of income is one of the most effective ways to improve your financial situation.
While you work hard at the job or business you have, you should also develop a system to provide part time income, preferably one that can provide you with residual income that will make money while you sleep or go on holiday? There are many ways to do this.
Writers earn royalties, web- preneurs have their cash registers ring at all hours of the night and day, some folk find good Direct Sales opportunities where they can build a team .
They build their own stream plus the team brings in a second income for them. These used to be call Multi level marketing and although we all used to cringe at the name, today there are a number of fine ones that offer value and high return.
One of my clients keeps his regular job because of the company benefits for his family, but over the years has developed a great skill as a currency trader? Aside from his nigh time trading He teaches weekend workshops in currency trading at $4000. per course. U.S.$ that is.
Here in Canada where he lives that is more than $5000. a head. His classes are 10-12 people and he does this usually about once or twice per year. We can’t discuss all methods to develop a second or third stream, enough to say they are out there and teaching something you know is one of the easiest things to do.
Bottom line. With our North American lifestyle where even the middle class live like millionaires while piling up debt reality is that the average family needs $60-80,000 per year income just to pay the bills never mind investing for the future.
In order to invest for retirement and provide a future income you will need an income of $150,000.00 per year or thereabouts. This will allow you to pay the mortgage, car, bills, create a reserve fund plus have cash flow to invest for your future whether in stocks, real estate or another business.
I use a five Bank account system that allows you to put your money to work effectively. I will be training this shortly as part of my new coaching program. Eventually our current high markets will slump and cheap investment opportunities will abound again.. Frankly they are out there right now if you are dedicated to finding them.
Cash will be king and we will all be in a position to leap on great deals if the cash is in the account. A part-time business also gives you an opportunity to eventually become a full ?time entrepeneur if that is your goal. Done right this allows you freedom to choose your personal time, freedom & an independent & happier life.
Choose a business that fits in with what you do now or something that you love and are truly passionate about I started Rise and Shine because I have always wanted to write.
As a kid I wrote poetry and won competitions as an essay writer. I also felt my 30 years of business experience as a small entrepreneur would be of value to people in the Job Market who would like to get out.
I don?t know very much about corporate settings as I have never worked in a traditional corporation. My yearly income has always risen or fallen depending on my own skill. As a teenager I made goods and sold them to stores or left them on consignment.
At age 20 I started with a commission job and went from there. Rise & Shine is proving challenging however because sometimes I just get stuck and can’t seem to write, or too busy with other projects and leave these gaps in my communications with you.
This is primarily because it is very different from what I have done before and I sometimes Hit the Wall of my own Fears. So I am working on that.
My main source of business for years has been real estate sales I have bought and sold in excess of $200,000.00 million dollars worth of real estate. It took me 10 years to figure out that I had better start buying the stuff for my own account.
Gradually My passive income from real estate came to the point where it paid for the house, the car and allowed me to put my feet up and stay home for a month whenever I felt inclined to do something else with my time..
As a single mom managing on my own this was the easiest way for me to grow to millionaire status and didn?t require the use of a huge number of brain cells ( just joking).
Aside from the skills I had of knowing how to buy the building and finance it I had to learn construction, how to renovate, bookkeeping, negotiating with the banks when I occasionally ran out of money ( I can still remember doing the books until 4 in the morning , hitting the job site at 8 a.m. and being on my bank managers door step ready to beg 15 minutes before they opened. The adrenaline used to pump.
Then was the matter of renting out the properties and learning property management skills, finding handymen (who always disappeared after awhile). Quite a set of skills ehh!
I had no clue how to do all this at the outset so I just copied a client of mine and did what he did,just jumped in, because I totally believed in Real Estate. Figured my client wasn?t any smarter than me and It worked! Now I can do it all in 25% of the time.. it used to take. In fact it is a bit of a yawn and the adrenalin doesn?t pump any more. Now I sit back and watch the real estate go up.
This is a good business to be in but not a great cash flow business for the first few years as most of the money is tied up in the houses.. It’s a good long term situation. For me what made it viable is that it is real estate and real estate is what I know.
My point here today is as a second stream try to choose an offshoot of what you know Don?t try to go in a completely different direction it, is too time consuming . Rise and Shine consumes more mental energy than anything I have done before and half the time I don’t even get the ezine out. But it is something I am passionate about so I am willing to persist.
Sell your product or skill as an information piece or a workshop. There is one adventurer here in Canada?s cold North who earns $20,00 per weekend teaching people about bears doing Bear Workshops.
Also add related products to your line ( or profession) I have added Pre-Paid Legal to my list of offerings. I have always enquired with my sellers and many of my buyers if they have wills and powers of attorney in place. About 70% will say no. An absolute disaster in the making. Nor did they have any other form of legal protection.
I later discovered I could market this plan myself. It fits right in with what I do .. hand in glove. Ideal for realtors, accountants, business coaches, bookkeepers, virtual assistants, and professional sales people looking to build a team and potentially a six figure stream of income.
Threadbare to Millionaire at www.threadbaretomillionaire.com don?t go there now no site yet, in a couple of weeks will let you know.
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Getting Back To Basics
January 18, 2008
Published on Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Your in a Sales or Business Slump, your energy is flagging and your feeling down. Get back to basics. We get successful and we start getting fancy creating all manner or new distractions. The basics will get us rolling again. What are the basics?
1/ Create a strategy. Success requires a plan. Create one. Make it sensible and realistic for you. In other words use your head. Don’t decide to contact 50 people a day when you’ve never before contacted more than 5. Determine how many contacts a day you will need in your business to reach your financial goal
There is a formula for this in any given industry. Find out the formula in your business, then look at it in reverse and ask yourself how you can exponentialize it.
Remeber this Poem?..
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulgham
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned..
Share everything. Play fair. Don?t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don?t take things that aren?t yours. Say sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3 o?clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.
Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
In other words apply several different views including a contrarian viewpoint. I personally must speak with 12 people daily to reach my goal. Doing this effectively will take me to 1 million $ in real estate income yearly.
The key word there was EFFECTIVELY or maybe better STRATEGICALLY. So for me that is to make 5or 6 of them people with whom I have done business with before. Those people like me and trust me. Many of them will send me a referral.
Follow your plan daily. Track it on a daily and weekly basis so you can see if your hitting your results Remember it’s not about them it’s about you. If you aren’t getting your results adjust your communication.
The meaning of the communication is ultimately the result you receive. Think about that for awhile. Customers will not simply find you so stop hoping and wishing.
Determine your market, how to reach it and go. One of the best books I have found on Communicating is “Question Based Selling” by Thomas A. Freese. Available on Amazon. Changes your whole perspective on the sales process and stops you from backing yourself into corners if you follow the advise.
2/ Passion. Success requires passion. If you are constantly making plans and not following through you need to ask yourself ?what on earth am I doing?. If there is no fire in your belly you are in the wrong field.
You?ve got to want to get up in the morning and go. There will always be challenges and setbacks. Without that fire things will constantly fall apart. It’s likely a passionate relationship that survives through all manner of personal problems.( a few do).
If your heart is not in it Give it up and go find something else to do. To be a high achiever you’ve got to have a fire for your work.
3/ Create a Team . It’s lonely running a marathon, take a group of runners with you, plus make sure you have a great group that have your back. Look for the best for your team Only let A players sign on with you.
Yes, fire people when they are not Take a lesson from Mr. Trump. To attract A players you have to be an A player. So let the B’s, C’s and D’s go and focus on yourself. When you are an A you will attract all A’s. This can be a challenging lesson to learn since it can be lonely. Whos an A player?
See Robert Fulgham.”ll I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kingergarten” printed for you below.
Here are the Four Rules for Having a Relationship
A/ Ability to tell the Truth-
if there is conflict in a relationship then someone is not telling the truth. Look at yourself and ask, “What is it in me that is not working with this person”. Why look at yourself? Because the buck stops here. A leader gets to the truth, learn the art of self reflection.
If one of your suppliers, vendors, clients etc. are not returning your call then you are in conflict someone is not telling the truth. Time for a conversation that will open up this space. Check out “Loving What is, Four Questions that can Change Your Life” by Byron Katie, again available at Amazon.
B/ Responsibility
No Victims, No rescuers. In most relationships there are three positions.. Victim, rescuer, persecutor. Most salespeople set up relationships where people allow us to rescue them.
They call saying they are going to be late and we rearrange our whole schedule to rescue them. They are surprised when you turn the tables and state that, this was your scheduled time with them for that day and that you will have to re-book them at another day and time.
The response, “I’ve made my schedule to be there at 2:30 p.m. today. Are you asking me to re-arange my schedule to be there at 4 p.m. instead” (non accusatory tone) wait for response. Then, I’d be happy to do that.
For a moment they don’t like you. You have made them responsible and taken yourself out of the rescuer role.
If your 150% responsible someone else has to be only 50% responsible.
C/ Commitment ” Know the difference between a goal and a commitment”. My goal is to sell your home by the end of the month. My commitment is to offer you the highest caliber of service available in the industry.
Be careful about what you are committing to. If someone asks ” can you guarantee” you can sell my home in 2 weeks.. clarify” my goal is to”.(your industry) “my commitment”.. Don’t commit to what you cannot guarantee. You set unrealistic expectations for yourself and then you are back to rule one, you didn’t tell the truth and now you are in conflict. You are now in the position you are not the “A” player on the team
Don’t ignore language. Language is everything and tells you clearly the other person’s world. Thomas Leonard used to say. “When coaching, Step over nothing”.
D/Appreciation. Kind of speaks for itself. Acknowledge people for telling the truth. To have a quality relationship it is important that people tell the truth, create no victims and no rescuers, keep their commitments and feel appreciated So acknowledge you’re “A” players for doing this. Become an “A ” player.
We don’t change people we change ourselves- then we attract different players.
Everything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself. If you really want to know the truth, the answer will meet your question. Byron Katie
4/ Hard work. Nothing happens until we roll up our sleeves and start. Only work will make it happen. Work is the basis for results and results count.
Have a great week. Aeriol.
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Getting To Yes!
January 18, 2008
Published on Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Have you often noticed that when you go on a sales call you get back to the office completely drained? Then you will go out for dinner with a friend or cohort, talk for 2 hours and feel energized. What is the difference?
The first is what I call a “Pitch” the second a “Conversation”.
What would happen if you stopped pitching and started having conversations with everyone?
What would happen if you started thinking about what the “clients” needs, I mean actually listening to what they say, rather than assuming they need your product.
The day you stop selling and start having consultative conversations is the day your energy and business will change. That?s the day that you step back and put your clients needs always ahead of your own need to make a commission.
In brief Jay Abraham calls this the “Strategy of Preeminence”. Jay can discuss this strategy for days. We’ll discuss a little wee snippet here.
It has always amazed me to see what a salesperson will do to make a one time sale rather than sitting down and listening to the “clients” desired outcome and understanding it thoroughly.
Having the courage to tell the “client” they need less than they have initially asked you for is still considered a novel approach in many sales circles. It may mean you have a smaller initial sale. Where do you think that customer will come to when he needs more product or to whom will he refer his friends. Plus quite frankly you will have made yourself a new friend. You stand out. You will be remembered.
This is Powerful! Simple! Elegant!
Learn to Listen! Learn to Consult instead of Tell! Begin to position yourself as a Trusted Advisor with your “client”!
My second point today
Why do you think I kept bracketing “client” above? .. Mr. Websters SaysCustomer : A person who purchases a commodity or service.
Patient: A person receiving medical attention
Client: A person who is under the protection of another.
For my money I want to be your client not your customer or patient. Client has powerful implications. When you change how you think about people from Customer to Client we shift everything. When you start to think in terms of serving clients a much deeper shift starts resonating through you. Believe it or not you start to change at a cellular level. You start to move to genuine concern. Language makes your world. Use it to empower you and generate great success in your financial and personal dealings.
When you swear you downgrade yourself. When you speak well of others you lift yourself. Start tuning in to what your body does and feels when you use certain words, language, phrases.. test, test, test. Don’t believe what I say. Then start shifting all of your language and thinking to that of service in business and gradually your world will change. You can stop selling. I gave it up years ago and the customers keep on calling. Doesn’t matter what those around you are saying or doing. shift your own headspace and you will gradually become a raving sales success.
Add Value to every task you undertake. Be a problem solver not a problem bringer. Focus on giving value and advice. Stop manipulating and maneuvering. People will want to take advantage of the valuable service that you are offering and refer their friends.
Third Point today. Let’s get back to conversations. It has become an epidemic today for people to focus only on themselves and their needs.. to cut off others mid conversation for so called time management purposes.
The past two weeks I was shopping for a new broker. There were two who actually listened. The others were too busy trying to get what they wanted their way without listening carefully. A couple of associates cut me off in conversation as well. Clearly calculating in their head the exact monetary value or lack of it in speaking to me at that moment. Where do you think I will turn when sending a referral or a client of mine. Not to any of these folks I can assure you.
Start listening, start conversing genuinely. Trust levels will soar, sales and referrals follow. In the end people are human and what resonates with the heart and soul will drive results, at least that’s been my experience over the last 30 years of Consulting
Have a great week. Aeriol - and responses can be posted at the blog.
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Test Your Market, Then Create The Product
January 18, 2008
For most of the year of 2003 we ran home buyer workshops. A huge amount of work with limited results and very long term payoff? Then I received an e-mail from Dean Jackson at www.deanjackson.com suggesting setting up a booklet or brochure offering Free Pricing Information for a specific area? Sounded good to me? So off we set to test, like all good marketers do?
Initially we thought that a book on First Time Buyer Pricing info would be a hit. we also focused in on a particular region and a booklet on Loft Living in the City of Toronto - featuring original lofts instead of the new condo lofts? The items in total to test, test, test. I expected the first to be a hit, the Region book to come in second and with the glut of lofts and condos the loft guide to be last.
The results were reversed? This shows the importance of testing a concept and also your titles before you spend time and energy producing a product for the marketplace? We ran small ads within our full page buyer workshop ad.
Then we created a full page add in a local Homes magazine offering the three products. First ad results, loft living 59 hits, York Region Guide 25 hits, First time home buyers guide, 5 hits. Had we not run the add first before producing the product, I would have spent a few days of my time developing the wrong brochure.
The lofts are glamorous and relative to everything else in the marketplace they are the newbie on the block. They trigger curiousity? However we have found most folks end up buying something else? For either cost considerations ( much more expensive to carry than initially advertised) or space considerations? such as too open, too noisy etc.
So what is my point?.. Before you spend a great deal of time creating a product? make sure it is what they market wants. Test , test, test? Either on the internet? checking hits on key words at overture or in your local market initially with small classified ads and then something larger when you see a response. Then create the product?
In our case the Toronto Price book was not worth creating? We called these folks and offered them something equally if not more valuable? Our Credit Guide.
See you next time. Aeriol
P.S. you can make comments on the blog if you wish? Best. A.
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Journaling For Fun and Proit
January 18, 2008
Journaling For Fun And Profit
I have been journaling for several years? In my office we have a leads journal where all brand new prospective business is immediately written down so we don?t lose it?.
Particularly when I get distracted and go off on one of my creative tangents.
I have a daily journal where I write notes on every conversation that I have with a client or supplier as I am having the chat? so I will remember any and all main points, plus my commitments?
I have a journal that I write notes in when I am listening to classes or courses so that I can quickly review the information and think about how I want to think about the information. However, recently I discovered a new twist on the art of journaling.
I was in a class on a Sat. with one of my favorite coaches Joe Stumpf from www.byreferralonly.com . He had flown in from San Diego to spend the day with our group. He had a rather novel approach to journaling which I have been utilizing for the past month with rather surprising and interesting results.
Here?s the gist of it.
Joe uses two journals?An imput journal and an output journal.. The input journal is used when listening to tapes, reading a book, generally for learnings and thoughts on learnings..
The output journal :
Step 1/ Make a list of everything on your mind , literally, dump it out??put air in the Mercedes tire, buy a new electric toothbrush, pick up fresh vegy?s?. And on and boring on?no matter how seemingly small or petty.
The idea behind this is that you dump your load. Today our minds are in overwhelm, we have so much coming at us? there is no room for more. I have been practicing this for about 6 weeks now. Just a couple times a week. It is interesting how it empties the mind.
Ergo the well known zen koan that suggests the tea cup that is overflowing cannot retain any new content, therefore we have to learn to dump the cup before anything more can come in. What has been interesting about this process is the quality of what comes out on paper after I have dumped the load?
I used to have days of challenge with what was happening when I journaled because I would hold a lot of content in my head while trying to write about a particular area or subject. So first you dump the load.
Once you?ve dumped your load and all the great ideas and projects start to pour out you have some decisions to make; you won?t be able to tackle them all. Sit with them for a time until you figure it out.. here?s the next step.
Step2: Note all the one step processes and highlight them in yellow.
Pick up fresh vegy?s is a one step process. Get them done or delegate them. Get the one step projects out of your life because they take up mental energy and space, blocking your better projects All processes with 2 or more steps highlight in green, it?s a project.
This is where you have to be picky. It is highly unlikely you will ever accomplish all of your multi step projects. So you need to develop a system for choosing depending on your values. Which ones are closest to your heart, or which ones monetarily allow you to leverage your time to create the greatest financial benefit. You Pick. This reduces the number of tangents particularly for creative types.
Step#3 When it goes beyond project status it?s a letter to God . Joe writes a letter to his inner CEO of what the completed project would look like, puts it into his God box and then leaves it alone. I haven?t tried this last one yet but I will test it in the near future.
I understand it is a system in itself and available in a book called The Eleventh Element which I am sure you can buy at Amazon. This is not on my current time line, but if you are really interested check it out. However, I have moved ahead much more naturally on a couple of major projects in the last 30 days. My brain has simply been clearer.
The concept behind this system is that the brain is a tool for processing and not for storage? It is true many of us get stuck with a lot of stuff in our heads and can?t move on. So give it a try and let me know your results in a month or two. Have a great week.
Aeriol
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The Secret of “The Secret”
January 18, 2008
The Secret is being able to hold a controlled vision of the direction of your life without losing site of that.
So here?s the question to ask yourself.
If I could achieve 3 measurable priorities in the next 10 years that would make a 50% difference in my lifelong contribution ( to the planet) what would they be?
Then take your journal and write them out as if you have accomplished them and are looking back at them today.
So, a little tip for this is would be to set your vision 10 years past your desired outcome. Come from the place of looking back at your 5 year plan. If you plan to be in your beach front house in a tropical location in 5 years then start 10-15 years out in the future and describe how that vision looks, peering back at it.
If you haven?t watched the secret yet then here is the link to the site. www.thesecret.tv
Do you think this could make a difference to your life? Let me know with your comments below.
Aeriol.
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