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Use The Power of Positive Thinking To Enhance Your Life

August 20, 2012 7:40 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Don’t underestimate the power of positive thinking. It is definitely not about being pollyannaerish and ignoring problems. It is not about sitting in the park under a tree chanting ohhmmmm and hoping for the best!

Thinking positively means you acknowledge reality BUT then you turn your undivided attention to where you are heading … consistently focusing on feeling good about where you are AND feeling excitement about where you are going.

If you are thinking but I’ve got to be focused on my problems. I can’t just be all positive about the future. You’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

When you are driving and you see a car accident happen just in front of you – do you turn your entire focus on the car accident or do you look for an escape route to ensure you safely navigate your way around the problem? Life is no different.

You MUST acknowledge the problem …. you can’t ignore a car accident in front of you, however, nor should you give it your undivided attention … use either of these tactics and you’ll plow right through it and create an even bigger problem!

As a leader you are responsible for finding problems …. but your bigger obligation is for finding solutions. And that’s why you have to master tapping into the power of positive thinking.

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The Truth About Positive Thinking

July 20, 2012 2:36 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

A lot of people are very skeptical about positive thinking because they have tried it in the past and did not see any real improvement in their lives.

Those who dismiss positive thinking are in fact right about one thing – Positive thinking alone will NOT change your life.

The truth is that there are no magical genies waiting to make your dreams come true just because you maintain a positive attitude.

This does not however mean that positive thinking is a waste of time. On the contrary, positive thinking is the first step of a powerful process that can and will change your life if you choose to apply it.

Here is the truth about positive thinking…

Positive thinking is only effective when it inspires you to take positive action towards achieving your goals.

Over time, repeated positive action becomes a positive habit and it is these habits that will bring you the positive results you desire.

The main reason people become disillusioned with positive thinking is because they mistakenly expect positive thoughts to lead directly to positive results. When things don’t improve, they then dismiss the concept of positive thinking entirely. This is a big mistake.

Once, you understand that positive thinking is the first step of a powerful four step process, you will discover that the true benefit of positive thinking is that it gives you the impetus to take action.

This Week’s Action Steps:

1. Visualise your goals each day and fill your mind with a positive image of the outcomes you want to achieve.

2. Use these positive thoughts as a springboard to take action.

3. Understand that repeated action becomes a habit.

4. Establish the habits that will lead you to achieve your most important life goals.

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Yahoo to Pay CEO Mayer $100 Million Over Five Years

July 20, 2012 7:38 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

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Ms. Mayer is expected to receive around $5.4 million from Yahoo for the remainder of this year and around $20 million a year after that, though some of that amount is tied to performance targets set by the board.

While it is hard to make a direct comparison, Ms. Mayer’s predecessors, Scott Thompson and Carol Bartz, received compensation packages worth $27 million and $44.6 million, respectively, over several years. Both CEOs departed prematurely. Mr. Thompson resigned in May after a five-month stint, while Ms. Bartz was fired last fall after more than 2½ years at Yahoo.

Ms. Mayer, 37 years old, joined Yahoo as CEO on Tuesday after a 13-year career at rival Google Inc., GOOG +2.12% where most recently she was a vice president of local, maps and location services.

The Yahoo pay package includes restricted stock units valued at $14 million in order to “partially compensate” Ms. Mayer for forfeiting her compensation from Google. It also includes a one-time retention award that is valued at $15 million and will vest over five years.

Ms. Mayer faces the challenge of turning around onetime Internet pioneer Yahoo, which has more than 700 million monthly unique visitors to its news, sports, entertainment and email sites but has failed to develop innovative Web services and is far behind its competitors in offering sophisticated tools for advertisers to buy ads on its sites.

Yahoo on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit dropped 4% from a year earlier to $227 million, while revenue slipped 1% to $1.22 billion.

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Planning your Day, Week, Year and Life

July 19, 2012 6:54 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

If you want to make your dreams come true you need to have timetables and become goal-driven.

Do you plan your day, do you write it down
Do you plan your week?
Do you plan your year?

It doesn’t take long to do these plans but most people don’t get round to it, it is a classic “Important but not Urgent” type of task that continually gets put on the back burner!

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The part Time Work At Home Maximum Makes $7,397/Month Part-Time

July 18, 2012 7:35 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Have You Ever Considered Working Online?

Krishna Karpal from Bombay never thought that she would, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her three children.

I read Krishna’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our local job report. In our phone interview she told me her amazing story. “I basically make about $7,000-$8,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-13 hours a week from home.

We interviewed Home Income Cash Systems to find out more about why more and more people are joining there system:We are so confident that people will make money using this system within the first few days, that we are letting people use our system without paying a penny! We currently get around 800 people joining us every day, mostly with very little computer experience.’

‘People  are  fed  up  of  the  scams  out  there  and  now  is  the  time  people  can  take  advantage  of  making  money  from  home,  or  anywhere  in  the  world’

Working online has been a financial windfall for Krishna, who struggled for months to find a decent job but kept hitting dead ends. “I lost my job shortly after the recession hit, I needed reliable income, I was not interested in the “get rich quick” scams you see all over the internet. Those are all pyramid scams or stuff where you have to sell to your friends and family. I just needed a legitimate way to earn a living for me and my family. The best part of working online is that I am always home with the kids, I save a lot of money.”

cheque“I basically make $7,000-$8,000 a month online.”

I asked her about how she started her remarkable journey. “It was pretty easy, I filled out a short form and applied for a work at home kit. There is a small shipping and handling fee, its not really free but it was under $30. I got the Kit and within a month I was making over $5,000 a month. Its really simple, I am not a computer whiz, but I can use the internet. I fill forms and post links, I don’t even have to sell anything and nobody has to buy anything.”

Quickly, Krishna Karpal was able to use the simple kit to make it out of the

home income cash system

recession.

Krishna had never shared her story before, and with her permission, we are putting it public.

Step 1

Go to this link, fill out a basic online form and hit submit at home income cash system

Step 2

Follow the instructions at  and set up your account. Then they will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. Everything gets tracked.

Step 3

You should receive your first cheque within a week or so. Or you can start to have them wire directly into your bank account. (Your first cheques will be about $1000 to $2,500 a week. Then it goes up from there. Depends on how many links you posted online.)

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Notching your way to Success

July 12, 2012 6:10 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Achieving success can be like climbing a hill where every time you think you’ve reached the top you find there is yet another ridge ahead. It is very discouraging because it’s hard to tell how far you’ve got to go and worse how far you’ve come. That’s not much different from trying to estimate how much you’ve improved , you may seem to have made no progress at all. The trick is to keep a Success Diary and record your Notches , first time you spoke in public, You competed first chapter of your book, you went to the gym every night for a week, you made your first sale, you made that difficult phone call. Read your Success Diary now and again to see how far you’ve come.

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The Tom Butler-Bowdon 50 Success Classics

July 12, 2012 6:00 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅
Tom has dedicated his career to raising the status of the Self Help, Self Improvement and Motivational Fields. He has for the first time cataloged, reviewed and summarized the top fifty books on each of these sectors and made these available in his famous 50 Classic book series. These allow to select which of the well known works from Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
to Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
by Horatio Alger which dates from 1867 are pertinent to your success requirements.
Could Self Improvement one day be taught in Colleges and Universities with respected Professors and proven research, measures of effectiveness, peer reviewed papers Tom certainly hopes so and if so could it help more of us fulfill our potential? You can see a selection of Tom’s books here Tom Butler-Bowdon’s 50 Classic Series .
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Google Nexus Q

June 29, 2012 5:50 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

exus Q home streaming device hands-on (pictures)

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What is it?
It’s an orblike streaming-media device, selling for $300 and shipping in mid-July.

The Nexus Q is shaped like a very small bowling ball and is almost as heavy. It’s got a flat bottom for setting on tables, but is otherwise a smooth matte black. When you turn it on, a middle strip glows with LED lights to indicate that it’s working its magic, streaming songs, videos, and photos to your connected devices around the house. When the lights glow, it looks like a small Saturn.

On the back, there’s a Micro-HDMI output, an optical audio port, Ethernet jack, plus a Micro-USB port for “general hackability.” More interestingly, there’s a set of banana jack speaker outputs, which are for powering speakers using the Nexus Q’s built-in 25-watt amp, no separate AV receiver required. There’s also built-in dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC (near-field communication) support.

 

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

 

The Nexus Q runs a version of Android 4.0, with 16GB of onboard flash memory and 1GB of RAM. Unlike streaming-media boxes like Roku or the Apple TV, the Nexus Q only supports a few Google-centric apps: Google Play Music, Google Play Movies and TV, and YouTube. The “social” aspect of Nexus Q initially appears to be the ability for multiple Android devices to create a group playlist.

What does it do?
Think of the Nexus Q as mix between an Apple TV and a Sonos Connect:Amp.

Part of its functionality is to act as a bridge between Android devices and your TV. Use your Android phone/tablet to queue up music from Google Play Music or a video from YouTube, then have it play in your home theater on the Nexus Q.

However, it operates a little differently than Apple’s AirPlay technology. With AirPlay, typically content is first streamed to your phone/tablet, then it’s streamed again from the phone/tablet to your Apple TV. With the Nexus Q, the Android device is merely acting as a controller: you tell the Nexus Q what to play, then the content streams directly to the Nexus Q. The downside is it appears that only Google Play content and YouTube will be supported, at least initially; AirPlay currently works with tons of third-party apps.

 

The other major part of the Nexus Q’s functionality is the built-in amp. That’s a big break from the way current streaming-media boxes (like Roku and Apple TV) work, which usually require an AV receiver if you want to use a home audio system, rather than your TV’s built-in speakers. It also allows you to easily set up a streaming-music system in another room simply by adding speakers to a Nexus Q. In fact, Google is selling a pair of $400 bookshelf speakers, dubbed theTriad Bookshelf Speakers, exactly for this purpose.

Why does it cost $300?!
The Nexus Q’s price is surprising, especially since the most successful streaming-media boxes (Apple TV and Roku) sell for $100 and less. A lot of that cost is likely because of the built-in amp. The similar Sonos Connect:Amp also features a built-in amplifier and costs $500 — and the Sonos only supports music. Also driving up the cost may be the fact that the Nexus Q ismanufactured in the United States. (The New York Times has a more in-depth look at the manufacturing process.)

Still, I think Google is going to have an uphill battle convincing buyers that the Nexus Q is worth $300, especially since it currently only supports Google Play content (no Netflix, Pandora, etc.) and only works with Android devices. That seems like a small niche with not enough functionality, no matter how well it works.

 

Google's mysterious orb is the Nexus Q.Google’s mysterious orb is the Nexus Q.

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Ronaldo’s decision to wait didn’t help Portugal

June 28, 2012 8:21 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

WARSAW (Poland): Cristiano Ronaldo is the kind of player that can change a game with one moment of excellence, the kind of player every team wants to have when the game is on the line.

Until, maybe, when it comes down to a penalty shootout.

The Portugal captain was one of the best players at the year’s European Championship. Some would argue he was THE best, while others wouldn’t even deign to argue about something that so many believe to be pure fact.

But against Spain, on the big stage of the Euro 2012 semifinals, there was no shot from Ronaldo in the penalty shootout. No chance for the Real Madrid winger to lift his team to victory.

And not even a reason why.

After his team was eliminated at the Donbass Arena, Ronaldo said he told Portugal coach Paulo Bento he wanted to take the fifth kick. That’s the same spot he was in back in 2006, when Portugal beat England in a shootout in the World Cup quarterfinals.

“He said to me, ‘You want a kick?’ And I said, ‘Yes, in the fifth,’” Ronaldo said late Wednesday night, shortly after Portugal lost the match. “We missed two penalties so it’s frustration.”

Before the shootout, Ronaldo was improving with every match. He had scored three goals in his previous two games at Euro 2012, and had several chances to break the scoreless draw against Spain – including a 90th-minute shot from just inside the area that he sent high over the bar. He also sent a pair of free kicks into the same space way above the crossbar, somewhat closer to the top row of spectators than Spain’s goal.

And then came the shootout, football’s version of a coin toss.

Ronaldo hasn’t had the best of times in shootouts in recent years. While still with Manchester United, his spot kick against Chelsea in the Champions League final was saved. And this year, his attempt against Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals was again saved.

Two big misses for a big player on the big stage, and no chance for redemption in Donetsk.

“If it would have been 4-4, he would have taken the last penalty and we would have talked in another way (now),” Bento said through a translator. “We defined beforehand what would be the best conditions to succeed and now we didn’t. I don’t regret anything.”

Ronaldo came into Wednesday’s match on a roll. He was less-than-stellar in Portugal’s opening two matches, but he scored both goals in a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands to guarantee a spot in the quarterfinals. Then he scored the lone goal in the win over the Czech Republic.

Those two displays certainly quieted the distracting chants of “Messi, Messi” that he endured earlier in the tournament. And they went a long way to easing the somewhat commonly held view that Ronaldo is no good on the international stage.

But his decision to wait – possibly only in the hope that he would be the hero – in the shootout did nothing to keep the team in the tournament.

And in the end, the lasting image from the shootout – maybe even more memorable than Cesc Fabregas’ winning shot off the post – will be Ronaldo with his face hidden in his hands, probably wondering what went wrong.

“It’s always difficult moments,” Ronaldo said. “I expressed myself in the way that I feel.”

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Indian outsourcing of IT jobs gets massive backlash in UK

June 28, 2012 8:11 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

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Indian outsourcing of IT jobs is once again in the limelight, after a week-long IT debacle at Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest, that left customers locked out of their accounts for a week, is estimated to cost the bank a large chunk of cash in fees.

Shares slumped 9.1 %, meaning over £1.7billion was wiped off taxpayers’ 82% stake in the bank since the problem started last Thursday.

RBS has cancelled its plush corporate hospitality expenses at Wimbledon, chief executive Stephen Hester has announced senior management will face the music, and the bank, which was bailed out by the UK government and is part taxpayer-owned, faces an FSAinvestigation.

Reports in the UK media peaked Wednesday quoting “bank insiders” as saying that the entire problem was kicked off by an inexperienced CA-7 IT operative at RBS’ Hyderabad back office, who wiped out vast swathes of crucial data while performing a routine upgrade.

Ca-7, a routine banking software produced by Computer Associates, is reported to be at the root of the problem. According to some reports, RBS is considering legal action against CA, an American backbone It provider as well.

The link between an alleged inexperienced Indian in Hyderabad and a major meltdown of taxpayer value in the UK, has kicked off a massive backlash against outsourcing to India in the UK media.

As a senior Indian IT professional points out: “Most of the explosive reports are not in the financial or technical papers, but in the general media.” In the midst of a double dip recession, while outsourcing may not be as bad a word in the UK as it is in US, local media is quick to look for a scapegoat to blame.

RBS officials, including chief executive Stephen Hester, categorically stated that the problem has nothing to do with outsourcing, in a number of official statements and TV interviews. “We have been clear we will fully investigate the causes of this incident. But we hope people will understand that right now our complete focus is on fixing this problem and helping our customers. The management and execution of the batch process is based in Edinburgh, UK at the Fettes Row Data Centre, as is all of the current work to resolve the problem.”

“It has been unnecessarily linked to outsourcing. Accidents can happen anywhere. The unions are trying to make it an outsourcing issue,” a senior Indian It observer told ET.

The Union, however, says it has not. While almost all Uk media reports have gone to town reporting that Unite, a major Union in UK, which represents RBS employees, blamed job-cuts and shifting of jobs to India for the debacle, Saba Edwards, a spokesperson for Unite, told ET that the union is not blaming Indian outsourcers.

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