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I sourced the following book summary, from a terrific letter at this page – Busting Loose from The Business Game. I couldn’t have said it better myself, so I decided to simply use that letter to let you know about this excellent resource…

Business profits, the economy, and your water bill are all illusions – they aren’t real – they’re just like cleverly crafted Hollywood special effects – a bold viewpoint from Robert Scheinfeld, known as “the wild man of self help.”

Over the last 20 years, Transformational Coach Robert Scheinfeld has helped thousands of people all over the world “bust loose” from their perceptions and limited experiences of “reality.”

In Scheinfeld’s new book, Busting Loose from The Business Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Recreating Yourself, Your Team, Your Customers, Your Business and Everything in Between, (Wiley, June 22, 2009), he addresses how the “Old” Business Game is ruling our lives and making us miserable, overwhelmed and afraid. He teaches us how to play The New Business Game. Those who choose to play The New Business Game experience True financial freedom, joy, relaxation, fun and abundance versus the “fake” success most people seek.

True Success in business isn’t about the size of your profits, dominance of your chosen niche, your personal income or net worth. It’s about the amount of freedom you have and the enjoyment you get from what you’re doing. “The path to True Success,” Scheinfeld says, “isn’t about what happens in the world that appears to be outside of you, it’s about happens in the world inside of you.”

Busting Loose from The Business Game is not another book about improving sales, marketing, management, leadership or finance. It’s not about manifestation or how to attract good things through thinking positively. It is about completely redefining your perception of who you really are, what you’re really capable of, and how the world really works. In other words, it is about breaking through “lies” and illusions about business and life that we all accept as true.

This book will help you:

* Achieve extraordinary financial results – without “trying to”
* Continuously fund your ideal lifestyle (whatever that is) with total joy and ease
* Clarify what is real and what is an illusion in your business, career and personal life
* Make your “work life” full of fun challenges, exciting people and meaningful activities
* Eliminate all fear about money and outside forces – like competitors, the economy, stock market, etc.
* Experience True Success and more abundance, power and fun than you ever thought possible

Scheinfeld has experienced the Business Game rat race. He has felt the frustrations, ups, downs, and failures. He has discovered a unique pathway to ending those experiences – completely and permanently. His journey to discovering True Success began when he was only 12-years-old. His tycoon grandfather (founder of Manpower, Inc. – the world’s largest temporary help service and Fortune 150 Company) told him True Success is based on your ability to tap into power in “the invisible world.” Unfortunately his grandfather died before he could finish teaching Robert about the invisible world and other secrets of his success. That led to a 33-year discovery processes in which Robert uncovered the missing pieces to the puzzle.

Through his quest to uncover mysteries of “the invisible world,” he became a multimillionaire (and self-proclaimed stressed-out maniac), plunged $153,000 in debt, and spent seven years struggling before he uncovered the final missing pieces to the mystery his grandfather left him with at such a young age.

As a player of The New Business Game, everything is about fun, creative expression and exploration – with money and “success” being complete non-issues. His book will cause you to see yourself, your career and business in radically different ways, and help you begin playing The New Business Game too. The concepts revealed are so revolutionary that they render the old rules of business obsolete.

Whether you’re miserably overworked, an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, or just terminally bored, Busting Loose from The Business Game is the roadmap to a new and transformational experience of business and success.

Build on positive results.

Create some wins for yourself. Each time you win a little victory over yourself, you create impetus for moving forward even more. It helps you to grow, and become the person you must become, for having that dream live for you. There will be changes, this is inevitable when working toward a big dream and when growing into the person who is to fit such a large dream. Allow, accept and actively encourage that level of personal growth.

Abundance is a concept often debated in spiritual and entrepreneurial circles.

Entrepreneurs commonly use the catch-phrase “thinking BIG,” but they really mean the same thing.

Abundance is tough to define because it’s one of those unique ideas that must be experienced to really be understood … it can’t just be explained.

Yet the most encouraging part of adopting an abundance mindset is how it can connect you to people with totally different set of beliefs and values.

It instantly sustains inclusivity even with people who are dramatically different.

POP QUIZ: What do Mother Theresa and Donald Trump have most in common?

The answer is their abundance mind-set.

Donald Trump says, “If you’re going to think anyway, you might as well think big.”

Mother Theresa said: “The more we discover the magnitude and abundance of God’s gifts, the more we will find ourselves.”

Again, the abundance mindset creates connections.

Bucky Fuller had this to say about the abundance mindset:

“The condition of planet earth is abundance. Our belief in either scarcity or abundance determines how our financial, legal, political and military systems are set up or exist at all.

Scarcity and abundance are foundational and contextual ideas. They each give rise to a distinct system of thought and a number of rules, characteristics and measures which only make sense within their own system.”

Above all, the abundance-mindset is a choice. In other words, you choose to look through the lens of scarcity, or through the lens of abundance. There is no in-between.

“Do … or do not. There is no try.” ~ Yoda

Alex Mandossian and Scott Martineau are hosting the Virtual Abundance Expo next week.

So what do you say … are you game?

If you are game, then take a peek at these 9 abundance quotes to get your heart and mind moving…

“The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention” ~ Kevin Kelly in Wired

“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.” ~ Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

“Abundance is, in large part, an attitude” ~ Sue Patton Thoele

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise” ~ Heraclitus (540 BC – 480 BC)

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)

“Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super- abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares” ~ Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into” ~ Wayne Dyer

“Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level” ~ Eileen Caddy

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance” ~ Epicurus

Yes, there is a formula to success that if followed will help guide you towards the achievement of your objectives. And No, the formula is flawed because it cannot take into account every single step you are going to personally take along the journey towards your goals. As we have matured over the course of our lives, we have been conditioned somewhat differently by our peers and environment. This process of maturity, which has been discussed within the MasterMind Matrix, is built upon a unique individual journey that must be corrected and adjusted at each stage or segment that may be leading to a breakdown of the end goal or result you would like to achieve in your life. Make the necessary adjustments, correct these limiting habits, and you will progressively clear a path towards the outcomes you desire to experience in the physical world. On the other hand, neglect these breakdowns and you will consequently push yourself down the Path of Self-Destruction and unfulfilled dreams and desires. Please have a read of The Psychology of Personal Success & Achievement for further information about this topic.

The Blueprint to Success IQ Matrix is designed to guide you along the right path, and will help you to develop empowering daily habits that will instill the necessary patterns of behavior to assist you along your journey towards your goals and objectives. The discussion that follows is presented as a short list of simple steps and guidelines that we must all instill into our psyche if we seek to experience the sensations of “success” within our lives. Follow these steps to the letter, incorporate them into your daily habitual ritualistic patterns of behavior, and you will progressively develop the mental strength that is required to achieve your life’s ambitions.

Source: Blueprint To Success Mind-Map

What is it that motivates you to change?

What is it that motivates you to change the circumstances you are currently facing?

Often, until something drastic happens in life, that causes pain, change is less likely to take place.

How can we get around this pattern?

How can we motivate ourselves for big change in our finances, health, or even relationships with our spouses?

The secret is… “It requires dedicated effort”.

This means that you must abandon your old habits and start with a 180 degree different approach looking into what it is you want in your life.

This is why you need someone to support you physically and mentally to get what you truly want in life. If not, change will be very difficult.

Go ahead and do yourself a favor. Ask yourself the following…

Who are the people in your life that love you and want to see you grow?

Who are the people in life who are willing to do whatever it takes to see you achieve what you want in life?

Who are the people in your life who would like to make the same changes you are making in your life?

Identify them. Tell them the changes you want to make. Ask them for their support. Create a support group. Network with them. Take your life to the next level.

This is how you grow. This is how you are able to achieve success in your life.

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I talk with other marketers who are struggling with some aspect of their business, and the more I’ve thought about it, the more I am 100% certain that the real power behind building a successful business (and life!) is this…

A Focused Vision For Where You Want To Go

The world, the economy, and business is a complex place these days, no doubt about it.

At any given time, you can encounter a smoke screen of negative energy from people around you, self-doubt, and all the other voices that beat you up every day.

When it comes to being successful, and attaining anything you want in life, it’s all about making choices.

The first choice you need to make is deciding HOW you are going to think. It is the one thing that can truly make or break you.

You can’t mess around with this, you absolutely must get your head wrapped around the reality of charting your course.

The funny thing is, it is really super easy to get started with this for yourself, if you listen to this, and DO IT!

I’ve been incorporating more of this way of thinking for a while now, and have been pretty impressed with how it began positively impacting my business.

You can do this exactly as YOU want, or you can get started immediately by using some effective tools that Ryan made.

This is how you can start polishing the lenses of YOUR “special binoculars”. Once you catch the vision of the power of this, you will see a tremendous change in your life.

If you take advantage of this, you’re really getting access to something that could change the path of your business, and your personal life too.

Start using the tools you will find at this Program Your Mind page. Do your best to already “feel” like you have already achieved your goal. The more feeling (or energy) you put into it , the more effective will be the session. In some cases the effectiveness can be enhanced by 500%! For some people concentrating on the “thought” that you have already achieved your goal, may be more effective. Try them both, see which one is more natural for you.

Using it is simple. You just have to use this Program Your Mind website every day (preferably at the same time of day). Click on the “Next” button, near the lower-right of the blue area. Choose or type in the command you want to embed into your subconscious mind, choose how long you want the session to last, click the “Next” button again, and enjoy the show. After a while (depending on the time you chose) the movie will end, so you can return to your regular stuff or you can start another session.

You can’t get stuck in hypnosis, you are going to remain conscious all the time, so in case of an emergency you can snap out of it or any time you want to! And there are no side effects, don’t worry.

If you choose to input your own commands, then make sure that you write your commands in a positive way.(Example: Instead of using, “Don’t be sad”, use “Be happy” or, instead of “Don’t be a looser”, write “Be a winner”).

If you do this regularly each and every day for a few weeks, and fuel it by emotions I believe that you will certainly see major improvements in the quality of your life.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad…C. S. Lewis

What can you do today to improve your life forever?

The conscious mind is almost a dim-witted cousin of the subconscious mind. You might have the strongest desire to attain something, but as long as your subconscious holds a particular belief that is not aligned with that desire, nothing will ever happen to manifest the desire. This is the single most important fact you have to understand. You set your goals with your conscious mind and you reach them with your subconscious mind. Download this free ebook for yourself, The Principles of Successful Manifesting

Never use time as your excuse.

Wedge dream projects into your current lifestyle, and commitments. Even if you crawl forward at ten minutes each day, do something every day toward that end goal. When you go to sleep each day, rest yourself in the knowledge that you have done something that day, to move you closer to your dream. At some time during every day, put one foot in front of the other toward that dream. Slow is better than never.

Everyone wants something that is new, better and different. I am often asked this question – Where do I start to bring the positive change in my life ?

Usually my answer is that Success is a system… it is a process. And I explain this with the help of 5 pillars that I created to bring the personal and professional transformation in the lives of people.

The Five Pillars Are -

1. INSPIRATION 2. ACTION 3. PURPOSE 4. VISION 5. EXECUTION

Nothing in this world happens without INSPIRATION, it is a fuel for the action in our lives.

ACTION is the natural byproduct of Inspiration. Get clear on what are your goals and take “ACTIONS” accordingly. So what is ONE opportunity on which you must take ACTION right now?

When you are coming form a place of inspired action…Your PURPOSE shows up. What is that you are passionate doing? Ask yourself – Why do I do what I do. THAT IS YOUR PURPOSE.

Once you know what is ‘the contribution’ you want to make to the world your VISION becomes Clear and Big. If you knew you could not fail…. What would you like to do?

When your Vision becomes clear you need to EXECUTE. Get off one task that is draining the energy out of you. Outsource the task that you dislike doing most and this way your productivity will increase.

Incorporate these 5 pillars in your life to bring personal and professional transformation.

Source: Five pillars to personal and professional transformation by Ted McGrath
Watch Ted’s video at the original blog.

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I heard that line – dream beyond the common order of things – in an advertisement for tea, of all places. Yet the words jumped out at me like a vivid memory. I know that I have had many times in my life when I have created things bigger than I thought I knew how to achieve, and personally produced results that even left me in a state of bewilderment about what was possible for my life.

Have you ever experienced those moments? They are well worth revisiting and building on. They are your key to producing such results again, if you still have some more big dreams to accomplish. If you have achieved something in your past, it means that you can achieve it (or something similar), again in the future. You now have the tools you need, and cellular memory of what it takes to create anything outside of yourself.

This article lists a few of the thoughts that came up for me as I recalled a few monumental achievements in my own life, and I write them here with the intention of making a difference to the life of somebody else, who may read these words. These pointers, about living out your dreams, are not in any particular priority order. They are simply a collection of random thoughts that I know to be true, about accomplishing large goals.

If you have a massive goal and you are continually procrastinating, perhaps this is indicative of a misalignment somewhere in your life. Is there something that is not in integrity with who you believe yourself to be, or is there something for which you haven’t forgiven yourself. Those are the areas that must first be cleared up, to enable forward movement.

At some stage, when you notice that the goal you have created is not for you, then at very least do it for others. Create a purpose outside of yourself, if your own is not yet strong enough. You will build the muscles you need as you step forward. Collect all the crutches you can until you have generated some personal momentum. Soon the goal will again be yours and will no longer feel foreign to you.

Build in structures and systems that keep the dream alive over extended periods of time. Add props like quotes, images and posters in your daily surrounds. Have pop up messages on your computer, use the screensaver area on your screens, and add material to inspire you. Include supportive friends who know about your intentions, so they will ask you about it each time you speak. Ask for lots and lots of help with all the things about which you do not yet have enough knowledge. Hear the voices of experience around you.

Dreams need wheels, foundations, and time lines. Begin incorporating daily actions and habits to move you forward. Set up files, folders, calendars and other structures for being able to immediately collect material and information that you need for your projects. Set short and long-term timelines for specific phases, and for specific completion points. Then live your days toward those dates of completion, and targets that are easily measured.

Have big reasons for wanting to achieve the results you declare. Make these reasons large enough and truly heartfelt, so that they ignite passion and strong emotion behind your dreams. You need to always be able to instantly get in touch with wonderfully powerful feelings about your dream goals. Those emotions will inspire consistent action and will inspire others around you. You will need those inspired friends on the days you feel a bit too flat for taking action.

Reach for those stars, there is no mud up there. Keep your eyes focused on the end prize, in fact, a little way beyond where you say you want to be by a particular time. If you shoot a bit beyond the desired end result, then you are sure to arrive at your intended destination.

Decisions must be made. A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action. If there is no action, then you really have not decided. Check in with yourself. Have you honestly made a decision regarding your dream? If not, then make one. Either completely drop the goal or get on ahead full-steam with it.

Never use time as your excuse. Wedge dream projects into your current lifestyle, and commitments. Even if you crawl forward at ten minutes each day, do something every day toward that end goal. When you go to sleep each day, rest yourself in the knowledge that you have done something that day, to move you closer to your dream. At some time during every day, put one foot in front of the other toward that dream. Slow is better than never.

Build on positive results, and create some wins for yourself. Each time you win a little victory over yourself, you create impetus for moving forward even more. It helps you to grow, and become the person you must become for having that dream live for you. There will be changes, this is inevitable when working toward a big dream and when growing into the person who is to fit such a large dream. Allow, accept and actively encourage that level of personal growth.

All the points listed above are by no means a comprehensive collection, or a complete formula for success. They are purely a few things to consider and check in with, if you are up to some big things in your life. Throughout them all is the common thread of managing yourself. Watch the language you use, and how you speak with yourself. Live with awareness and recognize the many faces of fear. Continue to build harmony in your every day living. Never lose touch with the miracle and dream life that you already live. Inhale gratitude with every breath. You have today as a gift, now go spend it!

© Thea Westra is founder and author at www.forwardsteps.com.au, based in Perth, Australia. Enjoy her other publications with these Forward Steps subscriptions and download a few free personal development gifts from Thea.

I love the simplicity of the tracking software by whos.amung.us, allowing you to better understand your website how your visitors use it.

There are two main widgets available, the original widget which comes in a variety of sizes and colors, and the maps widget.

The original widget displays how many people are currently on your website or blog. The number represents concurrent unique users, meaning no person is counted twice and once they leave your site.

The map widget is an exciting way of showing where all of the past and current visitors come from. Maps are also very customizable, the background, pin style, and colors, and size are all configurable. I have personally used that widget at www.forwardstepsblog.com (near the bottom right hand, in the side-bar).

There is no registration to use their widgets. Simply take the HTML code you see and put it on your website, or use one of the instant install buttons under the codebox for supported networks. Their widgets are free to use and they will always remain free.

The Firefox extension/addon allows you to see how many people are on your website from the convenience of your browser’s status bar. It requires that you have one of the widgets installed on your site already. That extension only works with the Firefox web browser.

You can read much more about the whos.amung.us serice at their help page.

Here is a sample that I created – hope it works OK inside this blog post!:

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Did you know? At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4:00am On the 8th of July this year, the time and date (in the USA) will be 04:05:06 07-08-09. This will not happen again until the year 3009. (I had a deep feeling that you just needed to know this) Plus, need I say to you that in Australia this will happen on 7th August?