How to Achieve self power

1. Don’t be afraid to approach prominent people. Ask them about their success. Listen carefully to their answers, write them down for future reference and application in your own life.

2. Use motivators to help you succeed. Here are some examples:

POSITIVE THINKING
VISUALIZATION
AFFIRMATIVE REPETITION
DYNAMIC FIRST IMPRESSIONS

3. First impressions are important. You are your own “best” or “worst” walking advertisement. Create an effective “hello”. Dress up your image so that others are impressed by you.

4. Select a hero or role model and emulate his or her outstanding attributes. Picture in your mind’s eye the strength of character and leadership qualities of your selected role model, then picture yourself as one possessing these desirable traits.

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Tips about Thinking Creatively in Everyday Life

You can use the Magical Secrets to generate fresh new ideas in your everyday life. Here are Kathan Brown’s suggestions:

1. Cultivate Sensuality. Touch things, actually or in your mind. Feel the thickness and texture of a fabric, a book, or a flower petal to get a sense of it. Look at an artwork by imagining you are within it, touching each shape or line. You’ll learn to think with your senses as a counterpoint to rationality.
2. Use a Lot of Time. Set up some oasis time when you can focus full attention on something that matters to you. Everything else will fall into place around it.
3. Get into the Flow. Do the first thing, then the next thing, then the next thing, without strategizing. Obstacles increase the possibility of discovery, so if something throws you off course, meet the challenge and move on.
4. Have an Idea. Think before and after you do a creative task, but not while you’re doing it. While you’re working, go where the work leads. Then look at what you’ve done and see if there is an idea there that you can use to start the next thing.
5. Don’t Know What You Want. Don’t set goals. Just start working and get fully involved in what you are doing. If you get stuck, think about how many possibilities there are within the framework you’ve chosen. What can you use that’s at hand?
6. Know What You Don’t Want. Familiarize yourself with what others have done in the field you’ve chosen, so you won’t waste time trying to re-invent the wheel. Don’t worry about finding exactly what is most suitable to you. Just start somewhere that is not unsuitable.
7. Stick Your Neck Out. Advice from mentors and friends can be useful, but you don’t need to be part of the party line. Go against the prevailing attitude if you feel like it.
8. Use Every Tool. If a computer is your primary tool for what you do, try adding work done with tools you can hold in your hands. A trip to the art supply store may be just what you need to get your mind unstuck. On the other hand, if you’re not using computers for your art, you might consider that possibility. Old tools are deeply satisfying and should not be completely abandoned, but change is good.
9. Use Every Source. Art is a speculation of possibilities, and in our day the possibilities include poetic images created over the past two thousand years or more. Tools are conduits from your body to your mind, and you can use images as tools. Do not disrespect your sources; they never mold entirely to your vision and may be stronger than your mind perceives.
10. Become Skillful. Art is anything done sublimely well, and every kind of creative work benefits from high levels of skill in its execution. However, all the skills you use need not be your own. Know when you must develop a skill yourself, and when you can work with others whom you have instructed and chosen because their skill exceeds your own.
11. Take Yourself Lightly. Live your life the way you make your art, with pleasure and full engagement, but without forcing things. People who are not self-important are the ones whose work is most likely to develop and change and remain interesting over time.
12. Go into the Ether. Art-making is a mixture of the practical and the ethereal. The sensuality of concentrating on tools and materials sets the mind free to roam in an unworldly place. Then the necessity of decision-making brings it back. Thinking around the edges of what you are doing, moving back and forth from the ether to the materials in front of you, is exciting and engrossing.
13. Own It. This Magical Secret will come to you automatically after you have mastered the other twelve. You cannot try to achieve it, but it will come. At some point you will know for sure, deep down, that you are doing your work, the work you should be doing. And at that point, the work is almost certain to be good.

by: Kathan Brown

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HAPPINESS IN A CHAOTIC WORLD

“A man of happiness is consistent in his steps, not disorderly,” wrote Confucius in the year 510 B.C. From his writings, I have extracted the following four practical recommendations:

A man of happiness is consistent in his steps

“A man of happiness is consistent in his steps, not disorderly,” wrote Confucius in the year 510 B.C. From his writings, I have extracted the following four practical recommendations:

“A man of happiness is consistent in his steps, not disorderly,” wrote Confucius in the year 510 B.C. In our days, technology has rendered life less demanding in physical effort, opening the door to endless achievement or overwhelming conformity.
The multiplication of choices has increased individual capacity to make right decisions or colossal mistakes. “Foolish men do things without knowing their purpose,” remarked Confucius, “but chaos is not the way; be observant, choose the beneficial, and try to attain it.” From his writings, I have extracted the following four practical recommendations:
1.- DEFINE YOUR LONG-TERM INTERESTS. No formula can guarantee happiness, but following the fashion of the day is unlikely to bring peace of mind to anyone. Think of the people you know who are highly satisfied with their achievements. Is it not true that those are, almost without exception, individuals who have been pursuing difficult goals year after year?
2.- ACTIVITY BEATS IMMOBILITY EVERY TIME. “Fortune comes from turning tireless thought into faithful practice,” wrote Confucius further. Twenty-five centuries ago, crying and wailing were as much of a waste of time as they are today. No matter how difficult your situation, taking determined action is the best alternative. Start doing something today to improve your state of affairs. A ship in motion keeps advancing even if there is no wind for a while.
3.- FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS. Low-cost electronic media are making traditional education obsolete. Nowadays, you can learn almost anything you want, no matter where you live. Assess your abilities, choose your field, and develop your expertise. As Confucius put it, “learning knows no rank and no end.” Concentrate your efforts on cultivating your best qualities and they will take you as far as you wish to go.
4.- LEARN TO SHRUG YOUR SHOULDERS AT NONSENSE. “Wisdom does not fret and knows when to stand quiet,” Confucius reminded his disciples. Life is full of nonsense and inconvenience. Even if you reside in a prime area, you will be caught in traffic jams from time to time. You will always have to deal with individuals who criticize you unfairly no matter what you do. Getting angry at other people’s folly is a waste of resources. Move on and work at building a better life for yourself.
Everybody’s time on earth is limited. An individual’s best chance to attain happiness lies in his efficient use of resources and opportunities. Define your long-term ambitions and pursue them with passion. Happiness is not inertia, but purposeful motion. Become what Confucius defined as “a man of endless craving, who never tires of learning,” and you will be on your way.

by; John Vespasian

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Kingston & rsquo;s new Flash Drives go up to 128GB

Kingston has some new Flash drives that come in 32GB, 64GB, and a whopping 128GB!

I’m told that the DataTraveler 200 is the very first 128GB flash drive on the market. Of course, I always get suspicious when something says “world’s first” on it. Usually it ends up not being the world’s first of anything, but just the company who could spend the most money on promotion.

One of the things that make these flash drives unique is they don’t have any easy-to-lose caps, but the USB end can retract into the housing itself. They also come with Password Traveler security software for Windows computers, and are Windows ReadyBoost compatible.

The prices might dent your wallet. The 32GB sells for $120, the 64GB sells for $213, and the big ticket item, the 128GB for $546.

So is this the beginning of a new age of flash drives? Who knows? I can honestly say that they are getting to the point that they are tiny portable hard drives. If you head over the Kingston site, you won’t see any information about these particular hard drives, but you will see a lot of info about other types.

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