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I am one of the presenters in this free event at the Self Improvement Summit 2010 that starts Monday 12 April.

It’s a virtual (online, browser based) event, so you won’t need to book in and travel anywhere.
Enjoy it all from the cozy comfort of your dressing gown.

There is a quick registration (just first name & email).
You’ll be sent all 15 one-hour interviews over the a two-week period.

I have added a fantastic bonus for guests who register.
It’s a bonus that I don’t offer anywhere else, and probably won’t for a while.
You’ll have access to free bonus gifts from each of the line up of experts.

The place to be inspired during this month and to instantly collect bonuses is Self Improvement Summit 2010

Here is the list of the 15 topics being covered by each presenter:

Discover YOUR Personal Formula for Success and Fulfillment
The Creative Choice
The #1 Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life: High Self-Esteem
The Power of Taking Intelligent Risks
Unleash Your Full Potential
Releasing Mental Blocks and Core Beliefs
Achieve Twice the Performance with Half the Effort in Business and in Life!
Mental Photography: The Secret to More Knowledge, Memory & Clarity
Creating Momentum For Making A Huge Difference To Your Goals
Exceptional Steps to Your Best Business and Life
The Four Secrets Shared By All High Achievers
Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken: The Power of Authenticity
How to Balance Work & Life and Still Have It All
Think Like a Black Belt!
How to use Lateral Thinking to Boost Creativity
From Mainstream to Your Own Stream
3 Strategies for Staying Accountable to Success: Get unstuck and on track with this proven formula for lasting change

After the date of my presentation, you’re most welcome to write to me and ask any questions.
You can do that at My Forward Steps Mini-Questions

Cheers, Thea

P.S. – Feel free to pass this along to your friends! Remember too, to vote for me HERE!

Now you have this blog post open, will you take a little time out to read it? It’s not too long.

I have 2 very special news items for March, and need some help.

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FIRST NEWS ITEM…

I am gifting a ONCE ONLY TIME for you to buy my book with more than a 30% saving on the download version, and a 20% saving on the physical paperback copy of “Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones”.

I decided this on a whim because I want to send out a big thank you!

Take FULL advantage of it here => www.timeformylife.com/#buy

Do that BEFORE the last day in March 2010 because end of the month, both those editions return to their original prices – permanently!

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SECOND NEWS ITEM…

Do you have your own blog or website? Then, you MUST NOT MISS out…  www.myforwardsteps.com/Story-Contribution.html

I aim to have all story contributions to me before end of March 2010.

Anything that I do which is of benefit to promoting these two books, will equally support the promotion of your own products or websites.

A rising tide raises all the boats!

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A REQUEST FOR YOUR HELP…

Will you do a HUGE FAVOR and share about one or both those gifts?

Here’s one terrific, first example to show you…
www.cindycullen.com/2010/03/10/dreamed-of-being-a-published-author

To tell friends about the Time For My Life special during March…

http://budurl.com/BookEmail to send an email to your friends, and/or  http://budurl.com/BookSocial to submit it to your social bookmarks.

To share with others the book contribution opportunity, just use…

http://budurl.com/StorySocial to add it to your social sites, and/or  http://budurl.com/StoryEmail to email people you know, directly.

OR you could become an affiliate and benefit several times over… www.timeformylife.com/affiliate.html

Each Forward Step Enhances The Value Of Your First

Namasté,
Thea

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See you inside!

Thea

P.S. Remember, all the content at all my blogs and all the pages, books, resources I have ever created will gradually diappear behind the screen of the My Forward Steps Member site.

Feeling overwhelmed with responsibility, bored with the same tired routine, or frustrated about how to create meaning in your life? Then snippets of time, well spent every day, can lead to extraordinary changes.

The contents on the pages of this book, are guideposts to which you can return throughout the day, providing energy, motivation, ideas, options, personal choices and inspiration when you want them most.

Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones is a daily call to action helping us take consistent, energized action. There is, of course, also an abundance of no-fluff, feel-good material, on each one of its pages!

When the content of this book gets you to move even just one centimeter towards the fulfillment of your desires then it is doing its job. The role of Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones is to stir you into action and change your life, habit by habit.

Here is something else to keep in mind…
Apparently the average person talks to himself or herself about 50,000 times a day and its said that these personal conversations of ours are negative 80% of the time. Visitors to www.forwardsteps.com.au and www.ask-thea.about.com often ask me how to remove those negative thoughts.

Let me share a secret with you…
Thoughts are not something to be removed. They can only be replaced, just as as it is when we’re replacing habits that do not serve us. Use the pages from Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones as your daily point of focus, before the gremlins begin to take hold!

Visit the site today and find out more about this terrific book… www.timeformylife.com

Right now, I can tell you that my book Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones is finished (time zone AWST Sunday 19 July 2009 6pm).

I am so excited!

Currently, am editing & proofreading, plus setting up the publishing accounts, so that you can buy the book as PDF and/or as hard-copy book. They too take a few days to approve everything, and it’s possible I might need to wait for a postal copy, of a hard-copy proof to accept. That will need to be mailed from USA to Australia. Meantime…

I will be creating unique web pages, complying with their guidelines. As well as, formatting the book to their distinct requirements. I have a day job, so everything goes a bit slower than I would like.

A couple of friends are proofreading for me, as well. Thank you! I am impatient too, and all these things take time. Almost there!

To add to the book’s site, I have some great free bonuses and also some complementary products to create. Meantime, I am working to get this month’s Triggers Ezine published and delivered as well. That too will be a mini-distraction for me for a few days. So much to get moving this month!

You can be sent an email as soon as the book is available to you. You WILL be FIRST to know! Just add your name to the mailing list at Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones

Here’s a little something to relax us all, while we wait. Enjoy the gift!

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A few evenings ago, I thoroughly enjoyed staying up till 2:30am and watching an epic game of Wimbledon tennis. It was such a pleasure to see Roger Federer reach this pinnacle in his career, apologies to Andy Roddick fans! I too like Andy, however I really wanted Roger to break all those tennis records with that one game. You can learn a lot by observing his career, in fact, by observing the career of any highly accomplished person who has achieved amazing personal victories.

Then, last week Thursday here in Perth, Australia, I had the pleasure of going to see Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, live. Theirs is the first ever album I bought, with saved pocket money (in 1973 that was a long time saving). Yes, it’s an LP record on vinyl, and I still have it if my sister has looked after it! The concert night was such fun, and I truly felt a part of something historic, just as with the Wimbledon match. I was in awe of the incredible talent on display, including the other musicians that shared the stage.

Ten years ago, if someone had said to me that in 2009 I would be living in Perth, watching Simon and Garfunkel on stage, with two friends I did not yet know, I probably would have thought they were nuts to even suggest it. If they had added that I would be writing about that concert for a large list of readers from my personal website, I would have thought, “Totally impossible”. I had sent my very first email only around 9 years ago! Consider this experience, when reflecting on your own life as you think of your personal dreams, and their possibility of fruition. A space of 24-hours IS a very long time! John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”.

By the way, when did you last visit Forward Steps? The site has changed, plus there are also a couple of new videos at the Inspiring Videos page as well as a couple of minor changes at the 50 Free Gifts link. In addition, I include a set of Monthly Special Features on the home page at Forward Steps, you’ll see them in a slide. As well as all that, now Forward Steps has a new self-hosted WordPress blog, which serves as my main blog. Do go and take a look at each of those links, if you have a few moments for that.

Lastly, on July 12th 2009, are you in Melbourne, Australia? Then book your ticket for this unique Music And The Arts Event [PDF], to raise funds for Marysville after the horrific February bushfires. Greg (my partner) will be there, and Lucas Barr (Greg’s step-son, who has flown down from Germany) organized the event. Give them both a big hug for me if you attend! Greg and Lucas would love to meet you. Tell them you’re one of my Forward Steps friends. All proceeds go towards developing music and the arts in Marysville.

This is something you really must watch today! You’ll really love and be inspired, by this insightful (short) video interview between Ryan and Adrian Law. It contains a terrific piece of personal coaching for you. The tips given during the interview will change the way you look at any current circumstances in your life.

The Work by Byron Katie is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts. The Work works for everyone who is open to it, and it has a profound effect on your whole life.

Robin Sharma’s Leadership for Everyone online program offers you the keys to understanding how to unleash the leader that lies within and offers a journey of transformation and growth. I have just begun this program myself, and I’m loving the entire experience and the super practical sessions.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success were developed by Dr. Deepak Chopra to help people achieve success in life. The laws offer anyone who wants to create a meaningful and happier reality the practical tools and clear knowledge of what success is and how to reach it. Discover and practice them, and coach yourself to success!

Well here it is, December 2008 has arrived. It’s time for me to once again list my 100 accomplishments over the past twelve months. That is not a list I share publicly, rather it is something that I quietly do for myself enabling me to be clear to create the new year in January, 2009.

Perhaps it is a regular practice that you’d now like to take on board, as part of your annual reflection.

Each year in December, I create for you my online Greeting Card and I add to it this very special Forward Steps Countdown Calendar, plus a bit of Forward Steps festive humor.

Also, accept a ‘December only’ free gift from Brian, this month’s V.I.P.

This December Triggers edition is a Best Of 2008 Collection from all the past eleven editions this year.

If you are someone who devours every teensy snippet of Triggers every month, then you will recognize many of the entries within this December edition. However, if you are someone who is a selective reader of Triggers and are not able to get through every inch of the magazine each month, then you will greatly appreciate this December Best of 2008 edition!

“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week’s vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.” ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher~

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.” ~Ayn Rand~

“Life will give you what ever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” ~Eckhart Tolle~

“You must be prepared to act on your dreams, just in case they do come true.” ~Bill Strickland~

“Don’t just do something, be there!” ~Buddha~

“It has been said that success only shows up when determination does… but it must be powered by a non-negotiable decision.” ~Doug Firebaugh~

“As long as I have the idea in my head “I have a relationship” or “I am in a relationship,” no matter with whom, I suffer. This I have learnt. With the concept of “relationship” come expectations, memories of past relationships, and further personally and culturally conditioned mental concepts of what a “relationship” should be like. Then I would try to make reality conform to these concepts. And it never does. And again I suffer. The fact of the matter is: there are no relationships. There is only the present moment, and in the moment there is only relating.” ~Kim Eng [Relationships - True Love and the Transcendence of Duality]~

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” ~Herbert Otto~

“A man doesn’t know what he knows until he knows what he doesn’t know.” ~Laurence Peter~

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.” ~Ernest Newman~

“You see, I do something real good for three people. And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each. So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven. Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one. Then two hundred forty-three. Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?” ~Trevor [Pay It Forward]~

Enjoy a few of my favorite, inspiring videos and free personal growth gifts at this Season’s Countdown Calendar I created for you.

Hi all, and once more, it’s been a while since writing. I appreciate you dropping in again to check out what’s new and happening at Forward Steps.

Many of you may not know that I also have a day job, and it’s not really that important in the overall scheme of things. One’s only as good as one’s last posting, not all those gone before! Yet at my end, going to a workplace 6 days a week, does pose challenges because I’m so committed to providing great material for you and regularly.

Here are a few pages that I’ve recently worked at, and I think you’ll enjoy exploring.

Recently, I thought it was time to buy www.theawestra.com The links at the taps on top of the page are handy for quick reference, they are for me!

I have also continued work on the 35 Favorite Self Growth Products and my list of 50 Free Personal Development Gifts that I know you’ll love.

Each month, the huge production of Triggers takes a little doing as well. That continues behind the scenes during my weeks. I’m always on the look out for great things to share with you.

It would delight me if you could share those with friends. They are a great gift and I am certain that it is something your friends will appreciate.

Please don’t spam, you are welcome to send them to personal contacts or to post those two links at your own blogs, or within messages when commenting at someone’s blog. We all know the value of Paying It Forward.

Have a terrific week and I’ll catch you again soon. Cheers, Thea

While you wait for me to resume blogging…

I give you these gifts from my other sites:

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~ With increased costs and financial uncertainty there are still some great things available for free – please accept this Forward Steps October Birthday Present This gift is time-sensitive and it is something that I WILL NOT be offering to my readers again. True!~

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~ If you don’t like the look of the cheques that you currently receive, why not write your own? Here is access to your personalized Wealth Attraction Abundance Cheque ~

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~ Rather than listening to negative messages thrown at us via mainstream media, and to have a mini-break from all the hype – take some personal time-out for a Daily Meditation ~

If you would like to receive periodical emails from me, then I recommend choosing from one of my varied selections:

A. Triggers is a bumper issue, sent 1st of each month since 2002… (Note: See the first gift at this post)
B. Samples of Triggers are short snippets, sent weekly…
C. Forward Steps Daily are mid-sized & for 1-year only…
D. Power Questions, a power question sent for 52 weeks…
E. Forward Steps Master List, a brief note sent monthly…
F. Online Visible Web, an online tool or gift monthly…

Enjoy a productive week and a relaxing weekend.

Remember to share this post. Spread these gifts by sharing them with a friend, or two. You CAN make a difference, and imagine the impact if every visitor here today shared with just one other! Pay it forward…

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While you wait for me to resume blogging…

I give you these gifts to enjoy and share:

-ONE-
~ With increased costs and financial uncertainty there are still some great things available for free – please accept this Forward Steps October Birthday Present This gift is time-sensitive and it is something that I WILL NOT be offering to my readers again. True!~

-TWO-
~ If you don’t like the look of the cheques that you currently receive, why not write your own? Here is access to your personalized Wealth Attraction Abundance Cheque ~

-THREE-
~ Rather than listening to negative messages thrown at us via mainstream media, and to have a mini-break from all the hype – take some personal time-out for a Daily Meditation ~

If you would like to receive periodical emails from me, then I recommend choosing from one of my varied selections:

A. Triggers is a bumper issue, sent 1st of each month since 2002… (Note: See the first gift at this post)
B. Samples of Triggers are short snippets, sent weekly…
C. Forward Steps Daily are mid-sized & for 1-year only…
D. Power Questions, a power question sent for 52 weeks…
E. Forward Steps Master List, a brief note sent monthly…
F. Online Visible Web, an online tool or gift monthly…

Enjoy a productive week and a relaxing weekend.

Remember to share this post. Spread these gifts by sharing them with a friend, or two. You CAN make a difference, and imagine the impact if every visitor here today shared with just one other! Pay it forward…

P.S. Share this message by using an easy Tell-A-Friend