Top Ten 2009 New Year Resolutions By Venkatesh Iyer

The year 2009 is coming and it is time for the New Year to come. Another year has gone by and time lost is lost forever. So it is time to make some quick resolutions.

New Year is always a year for new resolutions and new events. People make lot of plans and resolutions to improve in the coming days. Some of the Top Ten 2009 New Year Resolutions are:

1. Have Balanced Food/Diet & Regular Exercises
Today there are many people having health problems. There is a saying that ‘Health is Wealth’. Without health, there is no wealth. You need to take good care of your health. With rising competition and work stress, health needs lot of attention. The most important thing is having a healthy, balanced and nutritious food. Eating the right food is important. You can have vegetables, salads, cooked foods, fish, fowl, fruits, nuts, diary products, herbal teas and juices. This should be taken in the right proportion and at the right interval of time to maintain a balanced diet. Regular exercise is very much necessary in order to keep yourselves fit.

2. Protect Animals, Trees and Conserve Water
Nature is filled with wonders. Flowers and trees are Gods biggest wonders. It is the duty of every person to protect trees as well as animals. This will help in reducing pollution and create a good environment. Animals are very important and it is very difficult to think life without animals. We should try to restrict the usage of water and measures should be taken to ensure that water is not wasted.

3. Going Out For A Vacation
On account of stress and routine daily life, people hardly have time to spend with their family members. A vacation with family members is the perfect opportunity to spend more time and bring them closely. Going out for a vacation will reduce the stress and make travel a pleasant memory forever.

4. Trying Measures To Get Out Of Debt
Every country is undergoing a recession phase. It is most important for every individual to save some money and secure their future. You should try to curtail your expenses. Look for areas where there are more expenditure and try to restrict it to the minimum. You can restrict expenses on items like clothing, eating out and smoking and try to use this money for repayment of your loans.

5. Help & Serve Others
Today most of the charitable organizations require your help. Try to help others, donate small amounts whatever is possible towards a good cause. There are many children as well as old age people who require your help.

6. Working Harder To Make Extra Money
Today with increasing competition, survival is a big question. On account of high cost of living, days are becoming very tough. In order to survive, you need money. It is better to work harder as well as smarter to earn good money.

7. Try To Improve Social Contacts And Make New Friends
With online chat facilities and other online groups available, you can improve your social contacts as well as friend circles. Make new friends and explore new ideas, new thoughts every day. This helps in improving your self confidence especially for young college students.

8. Improve Lifestyles - Be Patient And Think Positive
It is important for every individual to improve his lifestyle by controlling his or her emotions. Try to think positive and this will have a good impact on your health.

9. Try To Protect Your Country & Its Interests
We should try to protect our country in whatever ways possible to have a peaceful environment.

10. Try To Learn New Things, Gather Information & Impart Knowledge To Children
With the advancement of science and internet, there are many new concepts coming each and every day. So it is better that you try to keep yourselves updated on each and every concept and try to gain the maximum knowledge. Try exploring new ideas and new thoughts. Share your knowledge with children and provide them with good education.

Venkatesh Iyer has been writing several articles in his blog.

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Three Sure Shot Steps to Achieve Enormous Success By Justo Herrera

I have read many books and articles that recommend steps one needs to take in order to achieve success in many areas on one’s life. Many are fantastic in their totality and others in part. I owe a lot to writers such as Brian Tracy, Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Jack Canfield, T. Harv Ecker, Charles F. Haanel, Dale Carnegie, Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, and John Assaraf, just to name a few. The wisdom and the practicality in those pages have helped me to become a better human being in business, in my family life, and as a member of society. What I am about to outline-steps you must take to go from where you are to where you ought to be-is only original in so far as having been filtered through my own personal experience and my own mental, emotional and spiritual filter. You will hear echoes of other thinkers, of other doers, in my own ideas, and that is good! The art and the science of self-growth and human potential is probably the only one where imitation and emulation is allowed and preferred. The originality lies in “you being you” while using someone else’s good ideas.

1.    Sit down and think. It sounds trite, doesn’t it? Yet, it was not until I sat down and though about where I was in life, who I was, or who I had become, and where I wanted to go with my life, that I got into a position to start changing and improving myself and my situation. This is a process you may have to start over, and over, in the different areas of your life. It is “an examination of conscience”. It is a confrontation between the person you think you are and the person can envision being. Earl Nightingale in his famous recording of The Strangest Secret, says that today “men don’t think.” That statement penetrated deep into my mind. This “thinking” is done with your brain and with your gut. It ought to be a thinking that shakes the foundations of who you are, or think you are. As you go through this thinking process, write down all the ideas that you come up with, all the questions, all the names of people who come up in your thinking, all the desires and dreams that stir up in your soul.

2.    Activate your will. I have had many reverses and challenges in my life and in my several careers: sickness, lack of funds, debt, problems in relationships, wrongdoing from others, and done by me to others, accidents and incidents that escape my control, problems with my children, touchy situations with my wife, etc. Throughout it all the one thing that sustained me, and allowed me to keep going forward was my will, my willpower. I want you to know that no matter what you are going through, no matter how dark the clouds look, looming in your horizon, that you will not succumb to the distress, you will not loose the war, that you will triumph over all adversity, one way, or another, if you hold on firmly the power in you we call the will. This faculty, which I call a gift, was given to you by God, and He himself can not bend it, or break it. It is your greatest weapon, your greatest fortress. “I will survive,” “I will win,” “I will go through this,” “I will build this company,” “I will buy that house,” “I will send my child that school,” the WILL says. John Assaraf in The Answer says: “Will is the conscious exercise of that quality of commitment [to do whatever it takes]. A person with a “strong will” is someone who can dig down deep and do whatever it takes to get the thing into motion.” (p.39) I am asking you to activate your will. First realize you have one, then, strengthen it through affirmations such as: I can do it! I am the master at this! I continue until I succeed! Please realize that YOU are not what happens, or may happen outside of you. You are made to conquer and succeed, and what happens out there are the fires that forge the steel that you are.

3.    Work on that on which you are brilliant. On your quest for greater success you are going to find many ideas, efforts, propositions, and activities that on the surface may seem to be the perfect fit for your life, for your career, for the fulfillment of your dreams, but, beware! My grandfather-of whom I will write in a future article-used to say “No todo lo que brilla es oro.” This meant: Not everything that shines if made out of gold. Ask yourself: does this effort enhances, or allows me to use my talents, these talents I know I have in me? You must know and respect, and of course, develop those abilities that make you a jewel in this world. Well, the activities, businesses, and efforts that will propel you to the top of your field are those that utilize most fully your talents. Are you a talker, a writer, a charmer, a caregiver, an organizer, an artistic person? Let your talent, or talents, be the missing piece on that puzzle you are trying to put together. I will fit it like a glove.

So, to sum up: Start thinking, activate your willpower, do that in which you are brilliant!

Stay tuned for my next article on success principles entitled “The Mystery Bottle.”

Justo G. Herrera is President and founder of Marisstella Oneworld Marketing LLC. He and his wife own the on line gourmet coffee store http://www.coffeeandyou.com. He is also expanding his marketing expertise with ILM, Internert Leveraging and Marketing, a bilingual (English, Spanish) aproach to Intelligent Phase Marketing, inviting entrepreneurs across the globe to create veritable fortunes: visit http://www.eaglesreborn.com for more information on this opportunity.

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Reflection - One of Four Powerful Ingredients in the Recipe For Personal Growth By Clive A Wilson

The cycle of human consciousness I promote as a simple formulae for a fulfilling life is as follows:

Connection: taking time out to be alone at one with ourselves and the universe allows us to connect and live our life with presence.

Presence: being fully conscious and grounded in all we do, being there in the moment for everyone we meet.
Right action: resulting from being fully present, at other times we react in reflex and unconscious manner.
Reflection: allowing us to learn from what worked and what didn’t. Looking back we can see very clearly when we acted with presence and whether our time in connection helped.

In this article, I’d like to spend some time considering the last step of the cycle, reflection.

cycles of reflection

Let’s take stock of the times when we have reflected. Our reflection often goes in cycles. It is often unnoticed. The more we are aware of our reflection, the more powerful it becomes.

daily cycles

We naturally reflect on a daily basis, sometimes at the end of the day, maybe sitting by the fire, perhaps as we lie in bed before we drift off to sleep. Sometimes it even happens first thing in the morning, especially if the night before was hectic or even wild. If we are wise, perhaps we take time out at lunchtime to be alone or to share thoughts of the morning with our colleagues and friends.

weekly cycles

Then, there are the weekly cycles. In most faiths there is a weekly opportunity to give thanks and also to confess wrongdoings. But even if we do not belong to a particular denomination, we might still have a special day of the week for reflection and appreciation. Perhaps we simply sit down with our family and friends for a special weekly meal. In my home, Sunday lunch is very special and there is both reflection on the week gone by as well as sharing plans for the one to come.

monthly cycles

Monthly reflection happens too. Perhaps we give ourselves structure by formally making a monthly report or even something as mundane as an expenses return. Maybe as we’re claiming expenses for a journey, we will pause to reflect whether it was indeed a good journey. Or perhaps we plan our diaries on a monthly basis, taking tasks from our list and putting them into real time slots.

annual or seasonal cycles

Then of course there are the annual or seasonal cycles. I find that during summer holidays I often find a quiet spot in an inspiring place and just reflect on my life in general. What’s working and what isn’t? Similarly in the winter at the end of one year and in anticipation of the one to come. Was that a good year? What will I build on? What will I do more of? What must I stop doing?

opportunistic times

And then there are other more ad-hoc or fluid times such as on journeys. Over the years, I have probably reflected more on trains and in airport lounges than anywhere else.

big reflections

Finally there are what I call the “big reflections”. Just before passing my job as MD at Primeast to my friend and colleague, Russell, I spent a few days in the mountains at Chiang Mai in Thailand. I meditated, which of course is more about connection than reflection. But I also reflected on a phase of my life that was ending. What had worked that I could celebrate? What could I have done differently? Was I even doing the right thing by moving on?

helping each other to reflect

We can help each other reflect by sincerely asking things like, “How’s your day been?” Or, if we haven’t seen someone for a while, perhaps we ask about their year or their summer and so on. Sometimes our questions are more context based, asking about the person’s job or family.
When we engage with people in this way, the manner of our engagement is really important. Usually when we ask how someone’s day has been, we do so simply as a matter of courtesy. Are we aware that the same question asked in sincerity and with a follow-up question or comment can really help them to take stock and perhaps celebrate something they’ve achieved? Try it. Just on your own, rehearse a simple question like, “How’s the job going?” Feel the difference between the throw-away comment and the sincere expression if interest.

providing structure

If we’re in a position to do so, we can provide structure for ourselves and for those around us for more reflection time. I’ve done a bit of this, such as encouraging shared meals at work and at home. I’m even a fan of monthly reporting at work because it keeps us focussed and doing the right things. For me, I consciously make the most of journeys as described above.

doing more

But even writing this article has grown my awareness. I hope it’s done the same for you. What more can we do to consciously create opportunities for ourselves and others?

Here are the thoughts that are emerging for me:

I will enjoy even more the opportunities I can provide for family, friends and colleagues to eat and share reflective time together
I will encourage reflection through my work on the Sacred Space project (see below)
I will take time to be alone in the countryside and in meditation
When I reflect I will capture the ideas that emerge and act on them
I will recognise reflective time for what it is and appreciate it a whole lot more

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