1,000 to 2,000 milligrams of American ginseng (from a study at the Mayo Clinic)
Five hundred milligrams of L-carnitine, an amino acid
The best energy boost is weight lifting. Lifting three days a week can increase energy levels by up to 50 percent even on days you dont lift according to the May 2008 issue of Best Life magazine, page 24.
This was on the cover of the March 2007 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. The article is a waste of time with advice like: industry experts advise working in a food-service environment first to learn the rhythm of the business and experience its inner workings. Any restaurant experience can be valuable, provided you spend enough time learning the ropes. The article then recommends writing a viable business plan, and choosing a building on a well-traveled street where its possible to install highly visible signage. This Entrepreneur article offers almost nothing of value except a quote from a restaurant operator, “Dont even think about starting a restaurant with less than $100,000 in cash for a bargain-basement opening, or you wont get even remotely started on the right path.” The amount depends on your location and the local cost of living. In pricey New York, for instance, a different restaurant operator mentioned in the article stated that youd better have $2 million for a restaurant with 200 seats if you hope to generate $1 million in sales. The article ends with: For more step-by-step information, see Entrepreneur magazines StartUp guide # and they try to get you to order. There was no step-by-step information contained in the article; and yet they expect to lure people in with a lack of quality information. The next page begins a list of the top restaurant franchises for the year, which takes up five pages with ads. This is why I will generally use magazines like this as wrapping paper, so I can find some way to make use of them. If you have any interest in these kinds of magazines let me know, Ive got extras I can give you.
Yesterday I found this junk message in my inbox. It is an offer from a management association to register for an online seminar:
Simple Steps That Can Make You an Expert in Any Field
(The steps arent provided; its just an introduction to foolery.)
Whether youre attempting to gain trust, get your point across, or build relationshipsyour ability to connect with others immediately through knowledge of a particular subject is a vital skill.
(No, your perceived interest in a particular subject will connect you to others. It seems like an attempt to dress-up the methods of the school of Dale Carnegie.)
The truth is that you can generate amazing rapport with anyone by honing in on the one subject that interests them most: their own area of expertise.
(Dale Carnegie has already covered this when he wrote talk in terms of the other persons interests. Its amazing how someone comes along and thinks they can re-invent/re-design a part of the Dale Carnegie approach without the Dale Carnegie experience set.)
examines how you can convince others that you “know what youre talking about”helping win clients, gain allies, make sales, and much more.
What Youll Learn
Shortcuts for conducting fast, targeted research on any topic
How to guide conversations to inject information at exactly the right moments
Tips for reading human behavior to determine when others are “buying” your expert insights
How to ask the right types of questions that demonstrate knowledge of the subject
And much more!
(Wow, Im so unimpressed with this approach, its propositioned as mostly nonsense there isnt any mention of case studies or anything of substance.)
This hour-long program will explore how you can use sincerity, honesty, and respect for the good of your organization to lead more effectively.
(It leaves me with one choice pressing delete and blocking all messages from a worn out organization with unproductive communication. If you want to read about the modern sickness of venturing into expert-land for salvation, check out this bookstore for a fun and strange read of Im No Expert )
Measure the value of everything you do against the kind of life experience you expect of yourself. No more petty internal arguments, no more inconsequential disagreements with others, no more irrational fears, indecision, regrets, foolishness, lies, self-deception now we have something meaningful to work toward.
What life comes down to for those of us that live in an industrialized consumer environment is the notion of trying to escape ourselves and yet, balancing fears of non-conformity – the question that we avoid: Who admires you? The winners represent what we could be. I like people that risk it all, or take proportionally huge risks. It not only makes for an interesting story but interesting life experience. Playing it safe might be comfortable in the short-term but you cannot avoid the uncertainties of life indefinitely. We all must come to an end, and all that we can do is to experience a rich life in terms of memories and defeats, only fools demand guarantees for self-comfort and self-inspired safety, while other fools rush toward freely dispensing with prudence and fulfilling their whims at all cost for the potential of the smallest gains, and yet at times we are all guaranteed to play the fool.
Thinking nothing is better than trusting your mind for guidance.
Accumulate more stress, and use it effectively.
If you want to find out the substance of your capabilities, you cannot limit yourself, and you cannot be cautious.
No goals; it is a limitation to long-lasting motivation, and achievement.
Dispense with being a team player: individual achievement is valued more/ranked higher than team accomplishments.
Know when to risk it all; superior performance arises from single-minded purpose.
Show business strategies: Target the experience, extend, repeat, upgrade, and update. Your organization needs to create an experience that customers and employees will want to repeat. When it comes to films, the good ones establish an emotional connection with the viewer, the less interesting ones rely on technical merits to fill a gap. Why is the show business approach so valuable? Because people have TV habits and they respond to and want customer experience, not customer service.
What matters is the activity, in and of itself, and not the result. Produce for concrete satisfaction, not the abstract purpose of selling a commodity.
Our values are handed to us; passed off as a form of religion from the church of common sense, branded, promoted in the media by institutions, tradespeople, family members and others we encounter, and we embrace this one-size fits all answer a continual neurotic response from a society adverse to happiness and self-realization.
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The primary motivating objective with success authors is to sell books, seminars, and speaking engagements, not to help humanity. We live in an environment of success peddlers. The reason success books dont work is that no matter how successful the author or promoter, the years of accumulated fears, compulsions, and doubts cannot be erased for the reader or audience. What is being sold is hope in some ideal future, but if you cannot erase your past, you will continue to rely on the same kinds of patterns in thought and behavior that keep you stuck in the unpleasantness that you are seeking to improve upon.
How do you know if hes the one? Hell be there for you on your worst day. If you cant see him there on a bad day, such as a death in the family, he isnt the one. According to Star Jones Reynolds, here are four other ways you can tell if hes the one: Does he keep you company? Does he gentle his criticisms? Does he push buttons to get you mad and hurt your feelings? Does he love and respect his mom or the women in his life? You may disagree with me on this one, but a man who treats other women kindly, especially his mother, is usually a nice person. Thats important to Star. I checked on the Half website to see what the book is selling for, 75 cents (the minimum) in all conditions. My guess is that it isnt worth much to the reader but here are some tidbits so you can save time and avoid reading the book.
Relationships: If I can get it right with God, I sure ought to be able to get it right with anyone I care about. “God, I have not always done the best with the resources that you have provided me. Ive made poor decisions in my finances. Ive allowed my desire for pretty things to overcome my desire to take care of my long-term needs, but I finally put myself in such a position that I have gotten my credit in order. I have another opportunity, a second chance, and this is a blessing. Please bless me again and help me to learn from my mistakes.”
Do we have to be perfect to find that perfect peace?
I know Im not there yet. I have so many weaknesses that block the way to that kind of spiritual completeness. For example, I know God is still working on me getting out of my own way. (Thats a great comment. Becoming the best you is a noble endeavor but even celebrities dont have the answer.)
The happy route to change: Fail safe-ways to rev up your lifestyle
According to Star Jones Reynolds, the following are fine ways to become the best you can be and truly get ready to meet love and romance around the next corner. If youve gotten this far in the book, youve changed your life already: you now know how to assess yourself, look deeply inward, and figure out places you can change for the best. (I dont see how she drew this conclusion, there is nothing life-changing or compelling to speak of becoming the best.)
Make a decision to change one thing – only one at a time – write down your intention, give yourself a time span in which to accomplish your goal. (There are too many people pushing goal setting as a solution, it might work well in business but it doesnt work well with personal life if all people had to do was set goals and achieve them wouldnt the world be so much better for everyone? Or perhaps it wouldnt matter because mega-success, life-changing super-performance doesnt arise from goals.)
Follow through with action. Just do it. When youre satisfied that youve made a change that will probably last, tackle another area. Keep track of your progress in a journal. Date each entry.
Bring in a second or third party, a trusted witness to your action. (I dont know if this works well, if you surround yourself with people that you know well, theyre stuck in the same kinds of situations you are in. Wouldnt it be better to get direct help from someone already doing well in the area you want to improve?)
Reevaluate yourself in three months. (If you wait that long, youve waited up to 89 days too long to see that you have failed. People probably need a daily or weekly review
isnt that what the journal is for? When you get homework it gets checked the next day
thats how performance is measured.)
Fail-safe ways to rev up your lifestyle:
1. Take a calculated risk
2. Trust your intuition
3. Practice mindfulness
4. Choose your friends: dont settle for being chosen
5. Give back
6. Meditate
7. Find an intercessor – Someone to pray for you, a double prayer approach.
8. Celebrate yourself – If you dont love you, who will? So bask in the glory of who you are and who you will become.
9. Finally- the premarital solution – Doesnt it make sense to spend a little more time before the marriage ceremony finding out how to discuss differences in ways that actually strengthen a relationship and make intimacy-well, more intimate? Heres a statistic: the number one predictor of divorce is the constant avoidance of conflict. Couples who dont know how to handle conflict eventually just shut down. (What statistic? Where is Star Jones getting this? Conflict is an inherent part of life. A girl approached me as I had the book open. She wouldnt bother reading it and said that Star was caught up in love and now shes divorced.)
Marital absolutes:
A wife is like a mirror in which a man sees himself.
A woman finds security is a mans consistency.
A woman wants a man to be decisive, strong, and consistent.
A woman determines a mans strength by his gentleness.
A mans kindness is what makes him attractive to a woman.
Id found the best me. If youve read this book, you will be ready soon. I know it. I feel you fulfilling your potential. I feel you growing. You can be so fine if you just put your mind to it. You will shine. (I dont think you will. The group of people selling the book online for less than a dollar speaks for itself. Becoming the best you is a noble endeavor but lets refrain from paying celebrities to show us their wisdom.)