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		<title>Business Education &#8211; Start your Career Planning Early</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting out in a business career is easy. Start early, and keep your eyes and ears open. How about the lemonade stand when you were 11? Or cutting lawns when you were 14? Or the baby sitting jobs? All are basic training for a career in business. How about that first &#8220;real&#8221; job when 16 [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1444" title="Business Education" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/business-education.jpg" alt="Business Education" width="280" height="280" />Starting out in a business career is easy. Start early, and keep your eyes and ears open. How about the lemonade stand when you were 11? Or cutting lawns when you were 14? Or the baby sitting jobs? All are basic training for a career in business.</p>
<p>How about that first &#8220;real&#8221; job when 16 or 17? What did you learn about business? How about customer service? Did you show an initiative? What did you do with your earnings? Was some saved and invested in your future? Did you read the business section in the newspaper? How about the Wall Street Journal when you went to the library?</p>
<p>Business career training comes in many sizes and packages. All help you prepare in becoming a business entrepreneur someday. It outlines different subjects and training involving corporate finance, marketing and business law. In the course of training, you begin to get a more detailed idea of what you want to do in considering a business career.</p>
<p>There are a number of specialized fields in almost every business. Finance, marketing, operations, technology, and sales all lead to different career paths. This is the main decision you need to make before your business career training starts. Another decision you need to consider is the aspect of business that you want to get specialized in. Let&#8217;s go over the benefits and tips of taking up a program in business career training.</p>
<p><strong>1)	Business Concepts are life concepts as well:</strong> The business concept is reflected around you to include the very basic ideas. It is being applied to almost any aspects of our life and work. General problem solving skills and working well with others is the most useful learning you can acquire from business career training.</p>
<p><strong>2) Having better credentials mean more money and other options:</strong> If you have an advanced business career training degree, you are allowed more freedom in selecting your career path. Most of the top companies in the world prefer to interview and hire graduates of business-related courses and degrees. And offered salaries are definitely higher. With a degree in business career training, many job opportunities are open for you.</p>
<p><strong>3) Find the ideal advanced education:</strong> Finding for the ideal business career training is a necessity. A good school that will fit your personality and possess the things that gets you interested aside from the business career training programs they offer. One reason for this is for you to balance career development with your lifestyle and exterior interests.</p>
<p><strong>4)	 Interaction with different kinds of people:</strong> In a business career training program, you are most likely to experience interacting with different kinds of people related to your program&#8217;s activities. With this interaction, you need to understand the interpersonal and individual motives and behaviors of every person performing in business activity. You need to have the ability to read the personality of a person as well as the dynamics of the group.</p>
<p><strong>5) Expand your business rolodex:</strong> In taking up your business career training program, you need to learn the art of expanding your business network. Through your business network, you&#8217;ll have a precise introduction and established system that is essential in setting up your business career.</p>
<p>The above listed benefits and ideas are just the beginning. Plan on a life long learning program. You&#8217;ll find as your career develops additional options will appear, keep and open mind and you may be surprised and delighted to where it may lead.</p>
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		<title>Life is a Journey &#8211; Not a Destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is a journey, not a destination is a phrase that has become popular. Have you pondered the true meaning of this statement? If you have, you no doubt, recognize that, life is a journey with many steps on your unique personal journey that takes you down a winding and sometimes bumpy road of constant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1410" title="Life Journey" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/life.jpg" alt="Life Journey" width="280" height="280" />Life is a journey, not a destination is a phrase that has become popular. Have you pondered the true meaning of this statement? If you have, you no doubt, recognize that, life is a journey with many steps on your unique personal journey that takes you down a winding and sometimes bumpy road of constant evolution. Each day, you are provided a myriad of opportunities that allow you to transform into your next best self&#8211;more of who you truly are.</p>
<p>Each moment on your journey, you are presented with an opportunity to react differently when yet another someone or something in your life rubs you the wrong way, or you may find yourself wanting to walk away from a circumstance, but are not sure if that is the right thing to do. However, you may find yourself stuck in a rut that seems impossible from which to extricate yourself. You may even make the same choices over and over again because you do not know how to choose otherwise.</p>
<p>Rather than moving you forward, your present path may take you in a seemingly never-ending circle where your actions and choices lead you, not only, nowhere, but to where you&#8217;ve been before. It is during these repetitious moments that awareness becomes the first step to change.</p>
<p>Awareness is the moment when you are able to recognize what you are doing at the deepest level. You observe yourself, noticing your actions, reactions and choices in real time. Awareness is the first step to change because you can not make a change unless you are aware of what needs to be changed.</p>
<p>You can then understand why you are doing what you are doing. Afterward, it becomes difficult not to change because you are no longer in a fog about what you are doing. You will, also, realize that as much as you are the root source behind the causes for your behaviors, you are also the originator for any changes that you need to make.</p>
<p>There is infinite freedom in your awareness. Rather than thinking that you are stuck in a repetitive cycle with no escape, you will begin to see how you play a role in creating your life. Whether you are aware of them or not, your behaviors and choices are yours to make. Your past and present no longer have to dictate your future when you choose to be aware in real time. You are then free to move beyond your old limits, make new choices, and take new actions. With awareness, you take a new path that moves you forward while paving the way for new experiences and new ways of being. It is through awareness that you can continue to consciously evolve.</p>
<p>Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, &#8220;101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.&#8221; Dr. Dorothy has the unique gift of connecting people with a broad range of profound principles that resonate in the deepest part of their being. She brings awareness to concepts not typically obvious to one&#8217;s daily thoughts and feelings. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.drdorothy.net">http://www.drdorothy.net</a></p>
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		<title>Quotes by Famous People &#8211; 3 Inspirational Quotes That Lead You to Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often turn to influential people for inspiration &#8211; whether it&#8217;s in the arena of sports, entertainment or politics. We observe how they act and how they speak. But perhaps what is most inspiring about them is what they have to say about succeeding in life. There are inspirational quotes by famous people on life [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1382" title="Mother Teresa" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mother-teresa.jpg" alt="Mother Teresa" width="280" height="280" />We often turn to influential people for inspiration &#8211; whether it&#8217;s in the arena of sports, entertainment or politics. We observe how they act and how they speak. But perhaps what is most inspiring about them is what they have to say about succeeding in life. There are inspirational quotes by famous people on life that everyone would benefit from reading.</p>
<p>I myself am inspired daily by their words. In this article, you will know some of the most memorable quotes by famous people that can lead you to massive success.</p>
<p><strong>1) &#8220;Though I&#8217;m grateful for all my blessings, it hasn&#8217;t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I&#8217;m just wearing better shoes.&#8221; &#8211; Oprah Winfrey</strong></p>
<p>As powerful and as influential as Oprah Winfrey is, she has never let it go to her head. She remembers her roots, what she has been though; and yet she shows appreciation for what she has now.</p>
<p>This is one of the major reasons why the whole world still can&#8217;t get enough of Oprah Winfrey. If you&#8217;ve just been promoted, for example, don&#8217;t flaunt it for all the building to see. Don&#8217;t turn into a snob and don&#8217;t look down on others.</p>
<p>Instead, count your blessings and be thankful that you have reached this far. Then use your success to help others achieve the same.</p>
<p><strong>2) &#8220;Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we&#8217;ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.&#8221; &#8211; Barack Obama</strong></p>
<p>When it comes to motivational quotes by famous people, this is probably one of the most relevant right now. If you really want to succeed in life, you have to take matters into your own hands.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t slump on your desk complaining about the injustice of work. If you want that raise, don&#8217;t just wish it in your head. Start actively doing things that would get you that raise.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t gripe about the broken coffee maker or the perpetually defected photocopy machine. Have the courage to write a report about it and process it to the right department.</p>
<p><strong>3) &#8220;God doesn&#8217;t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.&#8221; &#8211; Mother Teresa</strong></p>
<p>If you want to read inspirational quotes by famous people, you can&#8217;t go wrong with Mother Teresa. Her compassion for everything will not only strengthen your faith in yourself, but also your faith in others.</p>
<p>This particular quote teaches you not to give up so easily. Nobody is perfect. But that doesn&#8217;t mean people can use that as an excuse to come up with shabby results. At the very least, make the effort to fulfill your goals and success will follow.</p>
<p>We all have different interpretations of success and different ways of achieving it. However, based on all these motivational quotes by famous people, the most important success is the one we get from coming into an understanding with ourselves.</p>
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		<title>Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink&#8217;s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. www.theRSA.org Youtube Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc Related Posts:Changing Education ParadigmsThe Secret Powers of TimeVarious Levels of ManifestingAT&#038;T Don&#8217;t Text While Driving Documentary7 Principles That Make Your Website More Engaging]]></description>
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<p>This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink&#8217;s talk at the RSA,  illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home  and in the workplace.</p>
<p>www.theRSA.org</p>
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		<title>What’s Your Wealth Profile? &#8211; Wealth Dynamics in 10 min by Roger Hamilton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OneLife&#8217;s Roger Hamilton reviews Wealth Dynamics in under 10min. http://roy-Mcdonald.net The Wealth Dynamics Profiling system provides clarity on your path of least resistance to wealth creation. Through a profiling test it identifies your specific path to wealth. Wealth Dynamics is an evolution of Jungian psychometric testing into specific action &#38; thinking dynamics that relates to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OneLife&#8217;s Roger Hamilton reviews Wealth Dynamics in under 10min. <a title="http://roy-Mcdonald.net" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" href="http://roy-mcdonald.net/" target="_blank">http://roy-Mcdonald.net</a></p>
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<p>The Wealth Dynamics Profiling system provides clarity on your path of least resistance to wealth creation.</p>
<p>Through  a profiling test it identifies your specific path to wealth. Wealth  Dynamics is an evolution of Jungian psychometric testing into specific  action &amp; thinking dynamics that relates to entrepreneurs. It goes  back to the roots of personality profiling in Chinese philosophy, which  precedes Western psychometric testing by 2,500 years.</p>
<p>Rather  than just being a profiling report and list of soft recommendations,  Wealth Dynamics provides an intuitive system which equips an  entrepreneur with:</p>
<p>1. Clarity on the path of least resistance to success.<br />
2. One of eight paths with a list of identifiable role models &amp; biographies.<br />
3. A six-step process to building the right team and focusing on the right activity.<br />
4. Links to the growth stages in business, giving clarity on leadership succession.<br />
5. Links to country, industry and lifestyle trends, giving clarity on when winning formulas become losing formulas.</p>
<p>What is the ONE best action to accelerate YOUR wealth creation today?</p>
<p>&#8220;We  all have different strengths and ambitions. We are all at different  levels of growth and expertise. With all the conflicting advice we  receive every day, how do you know what is the right next step for you  today?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>&#8216;The Secret&#8217; Book &#8211; Prepare to Be Inspired</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of us has a secret. And most of the time, our secrets are kept because we believe (often erroneously) that it will cause us humiliation or pain if it is revealed. So secrets are sometimes associated with negative and hurtful experiences. But there are also good secrets in the world &#8212; empowering secrets that [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/thesecret.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-194" title="thesecret" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/thesecret.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="254" /></a>Each of us has a secret. And most of the time, our secrets are kept  because we believe (often erroneously) that it will cause us  humiliation or pain if it is revealed. So secrets are sometimes  associated with negative and hurtful experiences. But there are also  good secrets in the world &#8212; empowering secrets that can lead us to  wealth, happiness and prosperity, if we only dare to take them  seriously, and our willing to try a new way of looking at the world.</p>
<p>&#8220;The  Secret&#8221; is a book that has sold millions of copies around the world  since it was published in 2006. The book is actually a printed version  of the earlier-released movie also entitled &#8220;The Secret&#8221; by Rhonda  Byrne. The subject of both the book and the movie is an obscure but  millennia-old philosophy known as the law of attraction.</p>
<p>The law  of attraction states that individuals have the capacity to attract  success, wealth, health and relationships according to their beliefs and  the use of visualization techniques. Further, it teaches us that  abundance (not lack) is the natural state of our world&#8211;whether we  realize it or not.</p>
<p>The law of attraction is believed to be the  secret for total success and for creating our lives by design. This law  also teaches us to believe that we can establish our own money mindset,  and challenge the limiting beliefs most of us have about money.  Confronting some of these myths about wealth can lead us to greater  success and even create millionaires. Reading &#8220;The Secret&#8221; causes many  people to realize the importance of believing in their own capacity for  success, and their own responsibility in creating their life.</p>
<p>Like  &#8220;the Secret&#8221; movie, the book transports a very unique message &#8212; one  that many people are unaware of as this philosophy receives so little  attention in the main stream media. The book says that their is  something powerful within each of us that can empower us to be better  people, and live more productive, satisfying lives.</p>
<p>But &#8216;The  Secret&#8217; is not just about being successful in term of monetary gain; it  also teaches readers to overcome their weaknesses and bridge their  differences with others, promoting greater harmony, cooperation and  mutual responsibility. It really makes us realize and appreciate life&#8217;s  worth and teaches an unashamedly positive view of life.</p>
<p>Although  success cannot just be measured in terms of money, there is no denying  that the accumulation of wealth is important to each of us for security,  personal growth, self-esteem and personal enjoyment. It is part of the  rich tapestry of life. But real wealth (as described in &#8216;The Secret&#8217;) is  about more than just money. It is about living a wealthy, prosperous  life and enjoying the abundance of love, prosperity and resources  available to us &#8212; and doing so with a grateful mind.</p>
<p>In fact,  gratitude is a subject much discussed in &#8216;The Secret.&#8217; The law of  attraction is all about getting into alignment with what you want, and  &#8216;The Secret&#8217; explains that feeling and expressing gratitude for the  wealth and abundance we ALREADY have is the surest way to attract more  of these things into our lives.</p>
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		<title>Inspirational Quotes for the Disheartened Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You sometimes hurdle times where in you feel extremely down that you just want someone to throw you some inspirational quotes. Here are some selection of inspirational quotes and ways to apply it in real life. 1. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-593" style="margin: 10px;" title="inspirational-quotes-1" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/inspirational-quotes-1-300x203.jpg" alt="inspirational-quotes-1" width="300" height="203" />You sometimes hurdle times where in you feel extremely down that you just want someone to throw you some inspirational quotes. Here are some selection of inspirational quotes and ways to apply it in real life.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">1. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present. &#8211; Babatunde Olatunji</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Most people, they set their future goals too high that it is almost impossible to reach it at a realistic timeframe. Stop complaining about the past. No matter what you do, time will never rewind itself on that day you made a mistake. So cherish the moment now. Who knows, you may regret the time that you never took a chance to ride that roller coaster when you still can.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">2. Do not let what you cannot do stop you from doing what you can do. &#8211; John Wooden</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This inspirational quote tells us that everyone has a weakness but that does not mean you do not have strength. You must be good at something and that is what you should cultivate.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">3. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. &#8211; Confucius</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This inspirational quote says that the heart of a champion always pursues his goals. That is why when they reach their aim, they often reap the sweetest glory for the reason that they rose after the fall.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">4. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. &#8211; Oscar Wilde</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">True indeed, most people are solely on earth for mere extinction. The bible even tells us that we should do things in the name of the Lord. At the start of the day you should say, &#8220;I dedicate my work to you, oh Lord.&#8221; That way, you do not just exist, you are living. One distinction between living and existing is HAVING A PURPOSE.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">5. The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. &#8211; Theodore Roosevelt</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Of course, how can you achieve something if you do not act on it? You are a human being, not a thing who does not move or breathe.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">6. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. &#8211; Elizabeth Bibesco</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This inspirational quote tells us that when we give or share something, we oftentimes expect something in return. But it is indeed always better to give than to receive. You may not be compensated here on earth, but God will not forget that good deed you just made.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">7. If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Most people wallow in sadness because they choose to. If your lover left you for another person, why mourn over them. There are more than 6 Billion people around the world and one of them can appreciate you even more and will be afraid of losing you. So choose to be happy instead.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">8. Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon. -Anonymous</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This is the real world and as crazy as it is, you are only limited by how far you think you can achieve. So do not stop achieving your dreams.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">9. Everything is okay in the end, if it is not ok, then it is not the end. -Anonymous</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This is one of the inspirational quotes that tell us not to give up. Challenges are already part of life what you need to do is keep going until everything falls into the right place.</p>
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		<title>Dreams, Goals, and Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty much everything you read about goals in human achievement tells you about the importance of goals, how to make them, and how to use them to succeed. Unless this is the first article you&#8217;ve read about goals or you&#8217;re a confirmed doubter, you know that goals are important. Simply, most of our achievements in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-511" title="goal" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/goal.jpg" alt="goal" width="300" height="250" />Pretty much everything you read about goals in human achievement tells you about the importance of goals, how to make them, and how to use them to succeed. Unless this is the first article you&#8217;ve read about goals or you&#8217;re a confirmed doubter, you know that goals are important.</p>
<p>Simply, most of our achievements in life start with an idea of something that we would like to do, to have, or to achieve. Many people call this the dream. It&#8217;s an idea, a concept of something we want.</p>
<p>Some people think a dream is the same thing as a goal, but it&#8217;s really not. Think of a goal as a dream with a date on it. That&#8217;s over-simplifying, but it&#8217;s easy enough to understand. Dreams can be a bit vague but goals have to be specific. To make this easier, I&#8217;ll discuss it in relation to a recent diet of mine.</p>
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<p>My dream, if you will, was not to weigh a certain amount. That&#8217;s really too vague. What is a &#8220;weight&#8221;? It&#8217;s an arbitrary number that an instrument gives us to show what? If you don&#8217;t understand scales, pounds, and the relationship between height and build, it&#8217;s just a number. My dream was not something like that; my dream was an image I had in my mind. That image was my person in a slimmer body. I knew what I wanted to look like. That picture in my mind was my dream.</p>
<p>During my life I have moved through weights from around 5-1/2 pounds to 220 pounds. I say I&#8217;ve moved through them. Actually, sometimes I&#8217;ve moved through ranges of those weights more than once! But, I remember what I looked like when I was at some of those weights. In fact, I still have pictures of my wife and me at our wedding when I weighed between 135 and 140. That&#8217;s not my dream, but I have the image. If your weight is higher than what you want it to be, I&#8217;ll bet that you have an image of you with your preferred body shape in your mind too. So I had a dream, a vision.</p>
<p>Next, I had to refine the dream into a specific goal. I had to do some analysis to find a goal that would produce an acceptable vision. So, I chose the weight that would meet the vision, and then I put a time frame on it. In my case, that was easy because I was going on my first-ever cruise in nine months&#8230;now I had a date and motivation!</p>
<p>Dreams and goals are important, but you won&#8217;t achieve them without a plan. You need a plan that you believe you can follow, one that you are confident will produce the desired results, and one that you can use to measure your progress. Also, you need to be able to adjust your plan if it doesn&#8217;t produce as you want it to.</p>
<p>I was fortunate that I had dieted before and had a pretty good idea of what worked for me. So, I put a plan in place that reduced my daily calorie intake to a set amount and continued the exercise routine I had already developed. I created a goal chart to track my progress on a monthly basis. And, I set an end date for achieving the goal. I&#8217;d never started a diet this way before. I&#8217;d had the dream before, and I&#8217;d had goals before. I had just never laid them out in a reasonable, long-term, measurable manner before. This time I decided to follow things I&#8217;d learned about goal setting, and I was going to succeed.</p>
<p>So I started my diet, followed my plan, and tracked my progress. As time went on, I could look at my progress and decide whether the plan was working and whether I was really executing the plan. How did it work? Well, I lost over half of what my goal was. What happened?</p>
<p>Remember that thing about visualizing what you want? As it turns out my vision of myself wearing some clothes that I already owned became reality before the final goal. I reached that point and lost another five pounds but fell off my plan at that point. I still need to get the vision of myself at the final goal weight, and it needs to be a vision of something I really want, something that will provide the motivation to take me the rest of the way.</p>
<p>Summary</p>
<p>What can we learn from this real-life example?</p>
<p>The dream must be something you can visualize so you really see yourself fulfilling it.<br />
The goal is established by defining the dream with numbers that are measurable.<br />
The plan has to be something you believe will work and that you can track yourself on.<br />
Progress must be checked along the way.<br />
Did I fail? No. I haven&#8217;t reached the final goal yet, but I now weigh 25 pounds less than when I started, and I&#8217;ve maintained that for almost nine months! That&#8217;s not failure, that&#8217;s progress toward my goal.</p>
<p>Want to learn more? Visit http://www.launchyourgoals.com/cbprods/c7stepsb.htm to learn how to stop missing your goals and start living your dreams.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to make a goal or idea materialize is to learn how to make it persist. Have you ever been sidetracked from a good idea, a meaningful goal, or your dream because you did not quite know how to make it materialize? The ability to make your ideas or dreams a reality is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-525" title="reality" src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/reality.jpg" alt="reality" width="300" height="319" />The best way to make a goal or idea materialize is to learn how to make it persist. Have you ever been sidetracked from a good idea, a meaningful goal, or your dream because you did not quite know how to make it materialize? The ability to make your ideas or dreams a reality is not only a key factor of success, it is also an indispensable asset to achieving happiness, or to one&#8217;s ability to recover quickly from unexpected setbacks. It takes a tremendous amount of mental fortitude, realistic thinking, and creative problem solving to be able to achieve the success and happiness one desires out of life. These are just some of the conditions and actions that it takes, in order to have an idea materialize, or make a dream come true. Persistence is not just the ability to keep on keeping on; it is also the very essence of making ideas and dreams a reality.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Nothing can exist, survive, or last unless it can also persist. With that being said, how do you make an idea persist, until it materializes? How do you maintain your motivation and drive in the face of challenges? Most importantly, how can you free yourself from the elasticity of recurring problems, so that you can move forward with less effort or stress &#8211; and with greater effectiveness? The key here is to know and fully understand what the elements of persistence are, and use them to take effective actions that will get you results. No solution is useful to anyone unless they know about it and feel certain they can use it to accomplish the results they desire. Allow me to introduce the book and workbook Secrets of the Art of Persistence &#8211; solutions for turning your ideas and dreams into reality.</p>
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		<title>Quotes To Inspire You To Be Successful</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">There are times in our life, either at work or at home, personal or professional, when we just start to lose inspiration. The grind of it all, the constant challenge, can wear even the best of us down. It is hard to work at being successful, especially when we fail.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It is times like these when we especially need inspiration. Here are a few quotes and words of wisdom to help inspire you to overcome your challenges and meet the goals and dreams you have.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This first quote comes from Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><em>&#8220;Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Motivation and inspiration truly are mental. It&#8217;s all about getting into the right mental attitude to reach your goal.  Of course this is easier said than done, but by simply acknowledging it and understanding it we can take a big step towards overcoming mental blocks.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><em>&#8220;Impatience never commanded success&#8221;</em> ~ Edwin H. Chapin</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It might be easy to just give up, and we are certain to get frustrated and annoyed along our way. But to stay the course and to have patience is the true virtue and will result in success.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">From Dennis Waitley comes this inspiring quote regarding success and failure. <em>&#8220;Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.&#8221;</em> The easy way is to quit and give up.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><em>&#8220;Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.&#8221; ~</em> A. Branson Alcott. This quote inspires me, as the harder I work and fail, the more prone I am to give up. But I try to keep in mind that my reward, the ultimate success of my trials, will be that much more sweeter from all the toil and struggle I put into obtaining it. I hope this one helps you through a difficult time.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Thomas Edison is well known for his many inventions, from the light bulb to electric power plants. But did you know that Thomas Edison failed many many times on his way to achieving such well known results? One such famous <a style="color: #1900ff; text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.edisonmuckers.org/" target="_new">Thomas Edison quote</a> is, <em>&#8220;Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won&#8217;t work, I haven&#8217;t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward&#8230;.&#8221;</em> Edison speaks to us and tells us that if we believe in what we are trying to accomplish, we are much more likely to stay the course and achieve results. When you are at your lowest, just remember that even a great man like Thomas Edison felt the same way as you. He failed countless times, but he got back up and tried again and again until he reached success.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">We often think of these great men for what they accomplished, but keep in mind that the only reason we know them as great men is because they stuck to it and accomplished what they sought out to do. The road was tough, and they faced many mental and real challenges. Let their words of wisdom inspire you to stick with it and achieve your own success.</p>
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