Why I don’t eat Chicken
I have been a non meat eater now for about two years. I used to love eating meat and it was a really important part of my cooking. After some health issues I realised that I needed to look at my diet and I started to reduce the about of meat in it.
The more I learnt about nutrition the more I stopped eating meat. This then got me looking at the welfare of animals. I loved animals and I realised that if I loved animals why did I eat them?
This post doesn’t have much to do with Personal Development but I wanted to do this post as it is part of what I am today. Read more
The secret to the 2 hour work week
After my article about ”15 reasons why you are not successful” I had some comments asking about what it takes to work less but get the same results.
To be frank, I am still working that one out as I am running so many projects right now that I couldn’t say I was doing that. There is a great book by Tim Ferriss called the 4 Hour work week. Excellent book and I suggest any business owner should buy it. In this book Tim shows how he has achieved the 4 hour workweek and how any person can do the same thing.
I thought it best to let someone who is really working that week tell you how to do it. There is a guy I follow called Yaro Starak. He makes a great income from his online business. I learn a lot from Yaro and is one of the most honest and open guys in that market.
The Real Secret to the 2 hour work day
Take a look at this post. It’s a great example of what you can do to achieve more in your week without working more. If you like his post and want to know about how to make money online then resister for his free Blog Profits Blueprint eBook.
Go for your goals each day.
Matt
Mike Koenigs founder of Traffic Geyser talks about leadership
You most likely won’t know this guy unless you are in the internet marketing area but he has helped some oif the biggest names in the personal development industry build their business online.
I use his Traffic Geyser service and he provides some great content not just on making money but on self help. Here he is talking about leadership. It is a great video.
Who is going to be UK number 1? Is the Rage Against the Machine campaign nasty?
I know I know this is not really a personal development post!
But I wanted to write something about what people are doing in the UK. If you don’t know what is happening let me explain.
Simon Cowell has had an artist at number one for the Christmas single. Four years running! This is a great achievement but many people are not happy that he is dominating the charts so much. Especially with the sort of songs he has.
The X factor show is also a great platform for him to sell these artists to us. Clever when you think about it.
So what is the big fuss about Rage against the Machine and Joe McElderry?
Well someone on Facebook started a campaign to get “Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the name” at number 1 rather than Jo McElderry’s song.
I am fairly indifferent to the whole thing but I have to say as a teenager I did love the Rage against the Machine song. Joe’s song is also good but I kind of want this backlash to work.
Not in a malicious way, just because I think it is great this country is realising that if we stand together we can make a difference. I think that we need to do more of this. I don’t mean raging against the machine just knowing that if we think something is wrong then we can do something about it.
It doesn’t have to be a riot but it can be something powerful like this campaign. Many say it’s all a con anyway as Sony has the rights to both songs so what is the difference?
Well I guess that is a good point but I think this about people realising they have a voice.
We can do so many great things in this world if we just forget about being just a couple of people and seeing that if we feel a certain way then other people will also. They are always people who will feel the way you do. It’s just about finding them and working to a common positive goal.
OK, so perhaps I should tell you which download I purchased? Well you may have guessed. Some of the lyrics are pretty strong but I couldn’t help myself!
Matt
That’s a way to get perspective!
I saw this article while doing some looking around the internet. It really made me stop and think.
It’s a wonderful article and worth reading. How would your perspective change?
Trust, Freedom and Resentment
by Charles H. Green on Friday, January 26, 2007 (post #56)
Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, flight lounge 52. I have 90 minutes of work to do in the business lounge.
A few desks away from me sat a very large man, gobbling snacks, sweating—and wheezing, very loudly, with every breath. The more he went to get food, the louder he wheezed on return.
He annoyed the hell out of me.
My head phones couldn’t compete, my iPod was unavailable. All seats were taken, and I had to work. The minutes droned on, his snargling wheezing got worse; I got angrier.
I hurried, mentally rehearsing snide remarks. I finally left early, thinking of noise pollution, gluttony, and the selfishness of other people. He’d put me in a bad mood.
Then I read the NYTimes story, “A 12th Dallas Convict is Exonerated by DNA.”
HOUSTON, Jan. 17 — A 50-year-old Dallas man whose conviction of raping a boy in 1982 cost him nearly half his life in prison and on parole won a court ruling declaring him innocent. He said he was not angry, “because the Lord has given me so much.”
The parolee, James Waller, was exonerated by DNA testing, the 12th person since 2001 whose conviction in Dallas County has been overturned long after the fact as a result of genetic evidence….Prosecutors had joined defense lawyers in calling for the clearing of Mr. Waller, who spent more than 10 years behind bars before he was paroled in 1993…
Mr. Waller broke down once at the hearing, describing how his car crashed on the way to a court proceeding in 2001, an accident that killed his pregnant wife, Doris, and the unborn daughter they had wanted to call Grace. “I said, ‘Well, I don’t want to live no more,’ ” he recalled, mopping his face with a tissue…
By the [12-year old victim’s] account, he [had] heard the voice of his [medium-height, medium-weight] attacker that night at a 7-Eleven near his home, and turned to see Mr. Waller, who was then 25 and lived with his family in the same apartment complex as the victim, the only black family there. Although there were discrepancies in the boy’s account — Mr. Waller is almost 6-foot-4 and was heavy — and although Mr. Waller presented witnesses saying he was home at the time, he was convicted in 46 minutes and sentenced to 30 years. He won parole in 1993 but had to register as a sex offender….
Mr. Waller has started a lawn care business, but remains on parole pending the formal action of the appeals court and must shy from all contact with children. “It has been a long struggle for me,” he said. “They look at you like you’re an animal.”
Mr. Waller—incarcerated, libeled, despised—is free of anger.
I—flying business class internationally—was imprisoned by it. I couldn’t even own my anger, I had to blame someone else—a poor man who had the nerve, the temerity, to continue breathing after I had entered his room.
I am struck—and shamed—by the enormous gap between Mr. Waller’s way of dealing with reality, and my own.
Trust requires the ability to get outside oneself. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. The optional part is vastly greater—if we only choose it.
Why do I find that so hard to do?
http://trustedadvisor.com/trustmatters/85/Trust-Freedom-and-Resentment
What is your purpose in life?
Mind Mapping with Stephen Pierce
I am a big fan of using tools to help in development. Mind Mapping is considered one of the best tools to help you.
This video is very good as it show you how to use mind mapping to get as much as you can from reading. I hadn’t really thought about it in that way so it was great to see.
If you don’t know Stephen Pierce then you are going to enjoy finding out about his story. Essentially he was homeless and broke. With some big goals, drams and hard work he is now has an online million dollar business.
Can I really change my life?
When I speak with people about changing their lives, I often get responses that shows they don’t believe they can really change.
Why do people not believe?
What we can do is discuss some of the reasons why.
Typically it is down several reasons why. If you took a list of things why people believe they can’t change their life you might get something like the following: -
- I am not clever enough
- I don’t know how
- I don’t have enough time
- I don’t have enough money
- I could never do that
- That all I was made to do
This list is likely to be much bigger but we have all probably used one of them at some point.
The truth is these are just excuses. They are used so that we can keep away the real reason. We don’t have to face the real reasons.
Fear and Belief are the real challenges.
Many just don’t believe they can turn their life around. They are fearful of failure and that creates lack of action.
if you really believed you could change your life you would just do it. Right?
Fear of failure means thats we don’t try. We stop trying and then we stop believing we can do something.
It really doesn’t matter what the excuse is, we can achieve anything if we just believe we can do it.
When we believe we start to take action. When you start to take action you start to believe more.
if you are looking at this right now and want to change your life then I would suggest you do one thing. Write down some action that will get you towards what you want. Then do it! Don’ think about it just do it.
Taking that first action step will make you feel great and get you towards what you want.
Have you do that yet? Come on…you can do it.
Go for it.
Matt
