In this Season of Giving, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to give what you want and not just what you can afford to give. When the collection plate is passed at Church you are able to drop a check in it for whatever amount you want, $100, $250 or even more, wouldn’t that be nice. Make a goal for the weekly collection at your church to pay the weekly expenses or even have extra left over. When you pass the Salvation Army Bell Ringer you can throw a $10, $20 or even a $100 bill in the bucket. If you have a favorite charity or cause that you feel strongly about you can donate the amount you feel like not donate what you can afford or if you can’t afford to at all and you don’t give. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take time off from work and volunteer your time for your favorite cause, help out at the local school or church? I believe that God has brought me to a Great Business Opportunity that can help those in this Country and in this World to become Healthier and Wealthier. Shame on me if I do not spread the word about GBG’s (Guided by God) incredible Business Opportunity that is Free with the Purchase of any of the 4 wonderful health products, the main one we focus on is our 10-in-One Liquid Vitamins. You can learn about GBG’s Business Opportunity, any of the products at my website http://drinkliquidvitamins.info. One of the goals of the company is to help raise churches’ weekly collection nation wide and eventually world wide and so if you would like to help do this check out my site. I also believe that we can help those who are struggling financially right now by giving an opportunity to them and help them achieve their goals in life. God Bless Everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
I have updated my Article about Business using Blogs and Social Networks to Grow their Business Online check out http://www.scribd.com/doc/8307438/Using-Blogs-and-Social-Networks-to-Grow-Your-Business-Online for the update article and hope this help you build a sucessful GBG Business
talk to you all later,
David Jados
http://drinkliquidvitamins.info
I always encourage you guys to use Scribd.com and here is why. Congrats Brian, I found you in the Search Engines when I was researching health keywords. Here is the article.
This is all you need to write to get listed guys. Brian has the right idea.
BEST HOME BUSINESS IN THE USA!
WWW.GETLIQUIDVITAMINS.COM
Michigan business consultant
Brian Ledford
Phone (231)218-2657
GBGDISTRIBUTION1@GMAIL.COM
Brazilian [acai] berry destroys cancer
cells in lab, UF study shows
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Brazilian berry (acai berry) popular in health food contains
antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida
study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.
Published today in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed
extracts from acai (ah-SAH'-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86
percent of leukemia cells tested, said Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with UF’s
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
"Acai berries are already considered one of the richest fruit sources of antioxidants,"
Talcott said. "This study was an important step toward learning what people may gain
from using beverages, dietary supplements or other products made with the berries."
He cautioned that the study, funded by UF sources, was not intended to show whether
compounds found in acai berries could prevent leukemia in people.
"This was only a cell-culture model and we don’t want to give anyone false hope,"
Talcott said. "We are encouraged by the findings, however. Compounds that show good
activity against cancer cells in a model system are most likely to have beneficial effects
in our bodies."
Other fruits, including grapes, guavas and mangoes, contain antioxidants shown to kill
cancer cells in similar studies, he said. Experts are uncertain how much effect
antioxidants have on cancer cells in the human body, because factors such as nutrient
absorption, metabolism and the influence of other biochemical processes may influence
the antioxidants’ chemical activity.
Another UF study, slated to conclude in 2006, will investigate the effects of acai’s
antioxidants on healthy human subjects, Talcott said. The study will determine how well
the compounds are absorbed into the blood, and how they may affect blood pressure,
cholesterol levels and related health indicators. So far, only fundamental research has
been done on acai berries, which contain at least 50 to 75 as-yet unidentified compounds.
"One reason so little is known about acai berries is that they’re perishable and are
traditionally used immediately after picking," he said. "Products made with processed
acai berries have only been available for about five years, so researchers in many parts of
the world have had little or no opportunity to study them."
Talcott said UF is one of the first institutions outside Brazil with personnel studying acai
berries. Besides Talcott, UF’s acai research team includes Susan Percival, a professor
with the food science and human nutrition department, David Del Pozo-Insfran, a
doctoral student with the department and Susanne Mertens-Talcott, a postdoctoral
associate with the pharmaceutics department of UF’s College of Pharmacy.
Acai berries are produced by a palm tree known scientifically as Euterpe oleracea,
common in floodplain areas of the Amazon River, Talcott said. When ripe, the berries are
dark purple and about the size of a blueberry. They contain a thin layer of edible pulp
surrounding a large seed.
Historically, Brazilians have used acai berries to treat digestive disorders and skin
conditions, he said. Current marketing efforts by retail merchants and Internet businesses
suggest acai products can help consumers lose weight, lower cholesterol and gain energy.
"A lot of claims are being made, but most of them haven’t been tested scientifically,"
Talcott said. "We are just beginning to understand the complexity of the acai berry and its
health-promoting effects."
In the current UF study, six different chemical extracts were made from acai fruit pulp,
and each extract was prepared in seven concentrations.
Four of the extracts were shown to kill significant numbers of leukemia cells when
applied for 24 hours. Depending on the extract and concentration, anywhere from about
35 percent to 86 percent of the cells died.
The UF study demonstrates that research on foods not commonly consumed in the United
States is important, because it may lead to unexpected discoveries, said Joshua Bomser,
an assistant professor of molecular nutrition and functional foods at The Ohio State
University in Columbus, Ohio.
But familiar produce items have plenty of health-giving qualities, he said.
"Increased consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with decreased risk for
many diseases, including heart disease and cancer," said Bomser, who researches the
effects of diet on chronic diseases. "Getting at least five servings a day of these items is
still a good recommendation for promoting optimal health."
Credits
Writer
Tom Nordlie, tnordlie@ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-0400, ext. 276
Source
Stephen Talcott, sttalcott@ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-1991, ext. 218
Source
Joshua Bomser, jbomser@hec.ohio-state.edu, (614) 247-6622
Okay.... so you just joined a new mlm or network marketing business. You are excited about your new opportunity and you are telling everyone you know. You are in the business for a month after spending a couple of hundred dollars initially to join the opportunity. Everything is good so far... right?
Wrong!! You just got your first autoship and it is for $150. You are most likely not in profit yet because you just started your new mlm business. You get a knot in your stomach when you get the bill. You also get your shipment and realize that you still have plenty of unused product from the month before.
You are now most likely not feeling as excited because you realize that your new opportunity is expensive, even though you like the product. You are also fully aware that you will get a new autoship in the next thirty days.. and thirty days after that.
The scenario above is one of the main reasons that people fail in mlm or network marketing or just drop out. Because it takes a while to build a network marketing business, it can take quite a few months for the product to pay for itself. This is what network marketing and mlm attrition rates feed off of. Expensive products month after month can doom even the heartiest and optimistic of people.
The reason I like the GBG opportunity is because it is an excellent product that I will use month after month and it will not put a dent in my pocketbook at all. GBG is actually less expensive on a monthly basis than all of the supplements I was taking combined!! At $19.99 a month, this product is at a price point that is affordable for me.. as well as my customers and affiliates who enroll with me.
This means very high retention in the GBG business and a high rate of success for GBG business builders.
Oh yeah... AND... I have a home business that I am building at the same time.
If this does not make GBG an exciting, lucrative, and affordable home business opportunity I do not know what does!
Michelle Tukachinsky
GBG Independent Distributor South Florida
561-965-8342
Till now you have read some of the characteristics of entrepreneurship. “Practice makes perfect” is the motto about everything in life and especially if you are a business owner. Bookish knowledge can help you a lot to avoid mistakes but nothing beats the practical hands on experience of seeing what works for you.
You have the right passion, the right business format and all the skills. But before making the leap of faith make sure you are ready in some other aspects as well.
From starting the business to make it run smoothly requires a lot of dedication and sacrifice. Which means young or old, personal life will take some hits. Family and friends must be supportive as they must know what it takes to start a business and its effect on your family life. Lot of you may choose to have a job in the initial days of starting a business; this means all your spare time has to go for running the business.
Entrepreneurship will take its toll on your health. Being lean and mean is great for business but that often means spending longer hours doing yourself what you would pay other people to do. Thus for surviving those 14+ hour work days, seven days a week you must be at the top of your physical and mental condition. Proper nutrition and a regular exercise regime will take care of your health. It’s hard to enjoy the success lying down in the hospital bed.
Know your strong points in business and hire others to do the other jobs. Many owners think that they must be good at doing everything. This is surely not the case. Though at times knowing every aspect of the business is advantageous. Just in case anyone falls sick. From an entrepreneurial point of view having a team where you are the weakest link is not bad.
Along with knowing your strong points you also must know your comfort zones.
Are you comfortable being the boss and having employees who are older than you?
Dealing with the multiple personalities your employees possess?
Handle money and take financial decisions? Getting into debt first for starting the business before seeing profits?
Spare some years before you see enough profit to provide you a steady paycheck with?
All these are just a few things you should keep in mind and keep a back up plan or two ready just in case you run into them down the road.
To become a successful entrepreneur you need good ideas, a little luck, money and lots of hard work. 90% of successful people fail, which means to gain something (profits, equity etc) you must first lose something (your initial investment). Phat-farm is a multimillionaire company whose owner Russell Simmons lost 10 million dollars in the first five years.
A lot of experience and resources is not required but to become a successful entrepreneur you need to have passion and persistence.
Turning everyday ideas into business is what makes an ordinary entrepreneur extraordinary. This talent or gift is what makes them unique. Most start with very limited resources and go ahead of their competitors through personal effort. The moves have to be fast and good decisions needs to be taken to gain share in the market and move forward for bigger competitors.
They differ in age, sex and race but it’s easy to spot an entrepreneur and their business. They might grow richer with their ideas but the start up point is to look for areas not being served and change the way things are done. A good idea is not the same as an ideal opportunity. Understanding the distinction will save your time, effort and money.
The entrepreneur creates a vision and pushes the company through ups and downs towards fulfilling that vision. Becoming an entrepreneur is at the same time scary, thrilling, worrisome, yet an exciting experience. But before you become one you have to understand the concept of entrepreneurship first. There are many types of entrepreneurs such as social, home based, virtual, traditional etc.
The widely accepted definition of entrepreneurship would be to start up a new organization or take over an old one to respond to certain identified opportunities. You must be made aware that a large part of new businesses fail. The most successful people are they who are not afraid to experiment, and learn from their past mistakes and rectify to become successful.
The difference between an entrepreneur and a small business owner is the process or method they want to inculcate for the expansion of the business. Small business owners would want their business to be the way they are i.e. small and geographically bound only making a few millions in their entire lifespan.
Entrepreneurial ventures look for earning millions in the first 3-5 years and expand internationally utilizing all opportunities. Other characteristics would be being focused, inclined towards innovation, and create new values to shake up the marketplace. In America small businesses provide maximum jobs whereas entrepreneurs provide most of the new jobs.
You are just a kid now, concentrate on studies. For business you need experience. Blah blah blah… People will have numerous reasons for why you shouldn't start a business, all out of good intentions only.
But before you gulp down all that, think for a while about Bill Gates who left Harvard to start Microsoft, Michael Dell who left the University of Texas to start Dell, Milton Hershey who opened his first candy shop when he was 18, Fred Smith who, while attending Yale, received a "C" on his Fedex business plan and decided to start his business anyway, Steve Jobs who left Reed University to start Apple, William Hewlett and David Packard who started HP out of a garage after graduating from Stanford or the thousands of other young people who have started a business and been successful.
What would have happened if they were convinced about these lame arguments and backed from their business plan?? We will have to live without a Dell, a Microsoft, an HP, a Hersheys, a Fedex or an Apple… oh! Horror horror!!!
Best ways to tip the card in your favor:
Adults expect less from young people and it can be used to your advantage. It's OK if you're not perfectly polished. It will take less effort to please clients and make a name for yourself with the media.
There's little competition from other students, which makes your story more press-, scholarship-, competition-, client- and award-worthy.
There are many nonprofit organizations and individuals that support youthful endeavors. First on this list is your school, which probably has teachers who have contacts in the business community that can help you.
Students often have income coming in from their parents. Even if it's not consistent, then it's at least something you know you can always look for. If you're venture fails when you're young, you definitely won't starve or lose your house.
The practical knowledge you learn from running your business can help your academic work and vice-versa. Some schools will allow you to earn academic credit from an independent study of your business. You can also base class projects on your business.
Young people have a fresh perspective on the world. This perspective helps them to see many opportunities that were till now not been exploited. The founders of Microsoft, Dell, HP, Hersheys, Apple and Forex will vouch for you.
I am really excited about the GBG Prosperity Wellness Team. This networking site is absolutely state of the art. I know that I am going to learn so much from Chris and other members of this team. I live in South Florida, and I am hoping that I can build this business locally, as well as through the internet.
Please call me with any questions at 561-965-8342
Michelle Tukachinsky
Setting career goals
One of the toughest issues in making a good career choice and career goal setting is identifying what it is that you want. Even when it seems that you know what you want, you may still have doubts on if your career choice is the right one for you.
Reaching clarity in those issues may be the most important thing you can do in your career planning and goal setting. Here are a few career goal setting guidelines that can help.
Most people, even very successful ones, have some periods in their career path when they seem unsure about their career choice and goals. It is totally human to feel that way.
Often, such periods just come and go. For example, they come when you face some overwhelming obstacles on your way. It is all over as soon as you get through these obstacles.
That situation by itself is not a problem of choosing a career, only a test of your perseverance in seeing it through but what if those doubts persist, or if they always live somewhere in the background of your thoughts? If it just does not feel right?
If this is the case, then it is time to look more carefully at your career choice and overall career objectives.
Often we choose or are placed in a career because it just seems like the right step to make or that is what your studies have focused on.
The only problem is that sometimes that passion that we once had as a young adult are now gone, or the realism of the job has taken the interest and joy out of it.
That is when it is time to set a new career goal or objective. Choosing the right career goal to sink into requires a great deal of soul searching. You need to ask yourself these questions beforehand:
These are all vital questions that you have to ask yourself before deciding what your career goals are going to be. If you are honest with yourself, you will know exactly what direction you should be going in.
Without being honest with yourself you can’t expect to better your life, you can only expect to have to ask yourself these questions all over again until you find happiness.
Career Goal Setting Plan
[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]
[endif]
The following table provides you with a simple outline of the factors you may want to consider and identify when setting and analyzing your career goals in a step by step format.
Career Goal You must Define and write them down in order of priority | Benefits and Advantages of achieving this goal Listing these may help to motivate you | Key Steps That you Need to Take | When Will I do This? Give Yourself deadlines | Support and Resources (What support and from whom do I need, what resources, such as time, money, contacts) | Outcomes and Reflection (Record whether you achieved the goal and what worked or did not work along the way for future reference) |
The above table sort of shows you the who, what, where, when, and how of career goal setting. It is just like finding the facts for a story. Journalists have to answer all of these questions in order to get the full story.
That is the same thing that you have to when setting career goals. Let me show you in exact detail in the next diagram.
Who | What | Where | When | How |
Who will I ask for help? | What do I want the outcome to be? | Where should I start? | When should I begin? | How should I begin? |
Who will benefit from my career goal? | What will I do to get started? | Where will my career goal put me in 10 years? | When Do I want these goals to be reached? | How will these goals affect my future? |
Who will I work with to accomplish my goal? | What will really make me happy? | Where will I apply my resources? | When will I apply my knowledge to begin attaining my goals? | How do I really feel about the goals that I have chosen? |
Do you see what I’m talking about now? All of these questions have to be directed before you can begin to work on your career goals.
They will take some real thought and honesty to set them properly. When you have answered these questions you next have to begin to prioritize them. Let me show you an example.
John Smith wants to be the President of his company one day. Right now he is a mere data entry clerk. His company is a large corporation that works with computer repairs and security. John knows everything there is to know about computer repairs and can fix almost any computer he will ever look at.
He is efficient at using and finding hackers and securing computers are not hacked into. His boss is currently ignoring his advice so John is not so sure how to go about getting his dream of being president of the company someday which he is more than capable of doing already. What should he do?
This is a time when John should begin to prioritize and decide how he can get to his goal. His ultimate goal is to be company president and he wants to accomplish this in 10 years.
John is currently 26 years old. Since he knows the what and the when; he must decide everything else. I opted to show you his possible steps in an easy to read table……again.
| Steps for How | Steps for answering what | Steps for why | Steps for When | Steps for where |
1 | I will make a to-do list | I will put my ideas for improvement in it | I want to move up the next position at work | I will do this today! | I will do this in private |
2 | How can I get noticed | I will make a presentation showing my idea for improvement | Because I can’t move up if no one knows I’m there | I will do this the day it is finished | I will do this at work |
3 | How can I let my work be seen | I will now show my superior my presentation | I know my work is good and strong | I will do this when I know my boss can’t ignore me | I will do this in my bosses office or invite him to my house |
4 | How can I get the higher ups to see my work? | I will schedule time with a major company player to give my ideas | I can’t move up until I make friends with higher ups | I will invite colleagues and higher ups to a cocktail party this weekend | I will do this during a meeting |
5 | How can I keep moving up? | Now that I’m getting closer to higher ups I will share my ideas verbally & get impression |
| I will do this after 3 months of making friends with higher ups | I will bring these up at meetings with backup presentation ready if requested |
This is just a sample of the first 3 months of John executing his goal to get higher in the company.
Naturally becoming president will take a lot longer than 3 months but getting closer to superiors and colleagues at work is a great start as long as you don’t step on anyone’s toes and build their trust. Over time, you can introduce your ideas and present them in a professional manner at the right time.
When you see that your company needs help on something work in secret and bring in a finished product at the right time or schedule private meetings with your boss.
This shows that you are not only ambitious but also motivated and determined. It is a great way to move up in the company. In order to do this properly, you must take the steps in succession and not try to become a president in 1 year. That is unrealistic.
Although John will want to begin working for his long term goal of being company president, he should also begin by setting short term goals that will lead him there.
The first goal can start with moving up one position at work and continue on in this method. That way he can celebrate each promotion and advancement separately rather than focusing only on his inability to make president right away.
From here, John should just follow the step by step methods mentioned in the above sections for exact steps to attaining and setting goals. Just remember that you have to develop an action plan if you are going to succeed.
What are the Key Points in Goal Setting?
Goal setting is an important method of accomplishing any lifetime achievement. However, there are some key points that you should consider before setting your goals. Let’s take a look at what those are.
You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward yourself appropriately. You must draw lessons where they are appropriate, and feed these back into future performances. In learning from mistakes and errors, you are guaranteeing future success.
You would think that there would be more than five key points to goal setting, but truly there are only five. Everything else is just a branch of the main five points. Let me show you what I mean.
[if mso & !supportInlineShapes & supportFields]> SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT [if gte vml 1]> Your Goals What is important to you? Motivation Your goals are your own Self Confidence Do for yourself not others Get started, keep going Lifetime achievement Feel better about yourself
What this diagram shows you are the key points in setting your goals. It shows that they are the key points in the setting of your goals.
If you continue to add more branches to those four, you will see that they are all manifestations of what you are already seeing. As you continue to add more branches you will find that all these things will tie into the first branches.
How Goal Setting can go Wrong
Goal setting can go wrong for a number of reasons. When these things happen, it can be a great bit devastating to the self esteem and can make the idea of setting any new goals mute.
Before we can look into what we can do about solving these goals setting problems, let’s see what the problems can be. This section is really no more than a more detailed explanation of the above section, but I felt that it needed a section of its own to help you set your sights solely on how setting your goals can go wrong.
If it seems repetitious, it is because it is! But it is very necessary for this guide; especially for quick referencing later.
Where goal setting does go wrong, not only are the benefits of goal setting lost, but the whole process of goal setting can fall into disrepute.
By avoiding these problems, and setting goals effectively as described in the previous section, you can achieve and maintain a strong forward leap into your future.
The 'Quantum Leap' Approach to Goal Setting
One approach to goal setting for yourself and other people is the 'Quantum Leap' approach. This tries to force intense activity by setting a goal that will need a 'quantum leap' in activity to achieve it.
This is a dangerous technique that should be used with a great deal of care. It is very easy for the whole process of goal setting to fall into problems where quantum leap goals are not met.
Similarly if you are really not convinced that a goal is attainable, you will not put effort into achieving it. Doesn’t all of this sound repetitious!
Business Managers using this approach should take care that they are not shot down by someone that is firmly requesting information on how a quantum leap goal should be achieved because then everybody suffers.
Getting Specific in Goal Setting
Although the concept of setting goals in general is a great one to learn; which was explained in the above sections, it helps to be able to set goals in specific areas of your life separately.
For example; if you want to better your career options, you will be setting goals that specifically cater to your career. Of course, career goals aren’t the only goals that most people are looking to set. Other areas of goals include:
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Relationships
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Family
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Health and fitness
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Spiritual
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Social/cultural
Let’s take a look at all of the most common goals that you should consider and how best to go about each one.
What would be the point in learning how to set goals in general and not give specific examples and instructions on the most common goals that are set? Let’s get started now.
First of all what do you think stops most people from achieving what they want out of life? Perhaps it is a lack of talent, lack of ability, personal circumstances, and upbringing. I'll tell you this much; it's none of those.
The single biggest reason for an inability for reaching goals is a lack of action, or not setting them in the first place or doing anything about it.
If you don't start in the first place, then how do you expect to move forward? Many a life long adventure started with the smallest of steps. Action is the first step to achieving your goals.
Most people are fine at choosing a goal to set, but are inept at reaching them. You can achieve everything you want by making one step.
One step is all you need to make. One step today, one step next week or tomorrow, whichever is more convenient to you. The important thing is to keep making steps once you have started.
The trouble is, often the first step is the hardest, and the next step is just as hard. It is only after you have made a series of steps that it gets easier.
You need to know the truth about what is really holding you back. Motivation and goal setting go hand in hand. The goal is your journey and the motivation your fuel to get there.
You may have many goals, but no fuel to get there. You may have gallons and gallons of fuel, but no journey to go on.
What can prevent you from going on that journey? There are many more things holding you back than you realize.
YOU are probably the biggest cause. The way you approach a goal will ultimately affect whether you will achieve it or not. The good news is that you can break free from whatever is holding you back.
Friends and family are next in line. They may have your best interests at heart, but often their inaction is what lies behind their advice to you.
It is really common for those around to hold you back simply because they are not doing anything themselves. For example, if you are losing weight, some of your support system will inadvertently sabotage you by offering you food or alcohol.
I'm not saying that all advice is bad, it's just that sometimes the most well meaning of comments can empty your fuel can faster than, well a very fast thing.
You need to spot these things when someone or something is draining your fuel and put a stop to it, either mentally or physically. You need to break free from whatever is holding you back. Now that you know this, let’s get started.
Beginning your goal setting plans
This section explains how to set personal goals. It starts with your lifetime goals, and then works through a series of lower level plans culminating in a daily to-do list.
By setting up this structure of plans you can break even the biggest life goal down into a number of small tasks that you need to do each day to reach the lifetime goals.
The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting lifetime goals that gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making process.
To help give you a broad, and balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some or all of the following categories:
Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to assign a priority to them if you want to succeed.
Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.
Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the goals that you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse, family, or employers want them to be.
Success only happens when you are working for your own well being because doing it for others will ensure that you sabotage your own success.
How to begin to achieve your Goals
Once you have set your lifetime goals, the best thing that you can do is set a 25 year plan of smaller goals that you should complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan.
From there you can just shorten your overall goal spans for example, you set a 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 6 month plan, and 1 month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals.
Each of these should be based on the previous plan. It is the best way to begin to achieve a lifetime that is filled with and results in a life without any failed wishes. It results in a life without regret.
You see, by starting out slowly, you are giving yourself the chance to realize and work on achieving the goals that you set out to.
Nobody ever succeeds at attaining a goal that was forced through. Those that tried never really got what they were hoping for. In rushing through and trying to achieve your goals quickly you will likely miss a few key aspects that can really change your outcome.
Think of it this way; if you were to run a 10K marathon and decided to take a cab for half of the journey; have you really achieved that goal? Would you be satisfied when you crossed the finish line?
It would be a hollow victory that could only provide a moment’s happiness.
Finally set a daily to do list of the things that you should do today to work towards your lifetime goals.
At an early stage these goals may be to read books and gather information on the achievement of your goals. This will help you to improve the quality and realism of your goal setting and in effect; make it easier to achieve them.
You also have to review your plans, and make sure that they fit the way in which you want to live your life.
Once you have decided what your first set of plans will be, keep the process going by reviewing and updating your to-do list on a daily basis.
You have to periodically review the longer term plans, and change them to reflect your changing priorities and experiences in your life.
Setting your Goals Effectively
There is a difference in setting your goals and setting them effectively. Anyone can set a goal, but doing it effectively means that it will actually get done.
There are so many things that you can do to better your life, but if you don’t know how to go about it you are stuck.
The following guidelines will help you to set effective goals and help you manage your time in an efficient manner that will cause those goals to become reality.
State each goal as a positive statement
Express your goals in a positive way. That is a key component to setting goals that you can attain.
How often have you been excited to accomplish a goal that didn’t even sound good when you brought it up? If you are not comfortable or happy with the goals that you have set, the likelihood of you succeeding is pretty low.
If you want to express your goals in a positive way, you simply have to first think of a goal that puts a smile on your face when you imagine it completed. Why would you want to set a goal that made you frown, cringe or cry?
When you are beginning to set your goals it helps when you are talking about them to others in a manner that states your actions as positives because it will have others seeing it as a positive as well.
That will garner you a great deal more support. In the end, don’t we all need a little support when we are trying to do something positive in our lives?
Be precise
Set a precise goal that includes starting dates, times and amounts so that you can properly measure your achievement.
If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
Being precise in setting your goals is no more than setting them with exact details. It is easier this way because then you can follow a step-by-step format. That’s all there is to it.
Set priorities
When you have several goals, give each a specific priority.
This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones and follow each in succession. Setting priorities will force you into the step-by-step format above.
By doing the most important first and moving to the least important in succession, you are enabling each task to be easier than the last. It causes the accomplishment of each task to get easier and easier which will encourage you to complete your goal.
Write goals down
This crystallizes your goals and gives them more force.
In writing your goals down, you are better able to keep up with your scheduled tasks for each accomplishment. It also helps you to remember each task that needs to be done and allows you to check them off as they are accomplished.
Basically, you can better keep track of what you are doing so as not to repeat yourself unnecessarily.
Keep operational goals small
Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and easy to achieve. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it.
Keeping goals small and incremental allows you more opportunities for reward. Derive today's goals from larger ones. It is a great way to accomplish your goals.
Set performance goals, not outcome goals
You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons that are beyond your control.
These could be bad business environments, poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal your performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and get satisfaction from achieving them.
Set realistic goals
It is important to set goals that you can achieve.
All sorts of people (parents, media, and society) can set unrealistic goals for you which is almost a guarantee of failure. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions or flat out disinterest.
Alternatively you may be naïve in setting very high goals. You might not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite how many skills you must master to achieve a particular level of performance.
By being realistic you are increasing your chances of success.
Do not set goals too low
Just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high; do not set them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid of failure or where they simply don’t want to do anything.
You should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp, but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them. No one will put serious effort into achieving a goal that they believe is unattainable.
However, remember that your belief that a goal is unrealistic may be incorrect. If this could be the case, you can to change this belief by using imagery effectively.
Achieving your Goals
When you have achieved a goal, you have to take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe the progress you have made towards other goals.
If the goal was a significant one, you should reward yourself appropriately. Think of it like this, why would you choose to ignore any accomplishments that you have made?
In doing that, you are downplaying your accomplishment which will convince you that it wasn’t that important in the first place.
With the experience of having achieved each goal, you should next review the rest of your goal plans and see them in the following manner:
You should keep in mind that failure to meet goals does not matter as long as you learn from it. Feed lessons learned back into your goal-setting program.
You must also remember that your goals will change as you mature. Adjust them regularly to reflect this growth in your personality. If goals no longer hold any attraction for you let them go.
Goal setting is your servant, not your master. It should bring you real pleasure, satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
If it stops, there is no longer a point. Let’s look at an example.
The best example of goal setting that you can have is to try setting your own goals. Set aside two hours to think through your lifetime goals in each of the categories. Then work back through the 25-year plan, 5-year plan, 1-year plan, 6-month plan, and a 1-month plan.
Finally draw up a To Do List of jobs to do tomorrow to move towards your goals. When you do, you will soon realize that you will be on your way to using your goals setting on a routine basis.
Every person in the world devotes countless hours to thinking of their future and their present situation in life. Almost everyone wishes that there was something that they could change in their life.
Whether it is their family life; their friendships; relationships or finances, everyone wants to change something. The first step to doing that is to set goals.
However, many of us are great at trying to set goals; most of us are practically incapable of following through with them.
Think about it. How many times have you decided on a course of action and simply didn’t follow through with it?
That is pretty much the norm for most people.
Sometimes even setting goals at all is the harder part of accomplishing any. The easiest way of looking at this is to think of each and every New Year.
The largest part of New Year’s celebrations are not the parties and the get-togethers; it is actually in the resolutions.
As much as we all like to attend and talk about New Years Eve parties, the most common source of conversation is the resolutions for the new year.
All it really is- is code talk for new goals that need to be set. The only problem is that most of us set the same resolutions every year, and every year, we are unsuccessful. After all, if we were successful; why would we need to keep making the same resolutions year after year?
This e-book was designed to teach you how to end the constant need to re-set the same resolutions every year. Basically this book will be your comprehensive guide to setting and fulfilling goals in every aspect of your life.
When I say every aspect of your life, I mean every aspect of your life. Aren’t you getting tired of trying to set goals for yourself and always finding that you have to do it again almost every other month?
With this guide, you will learn how to set goals in your life for:
By setting goals you can:
People who use goal-setting effectively:
Goal Setting Also Helps Self-Confidence
By setting goals, and measuring their achievement, you are able to see what you have done and what you are capable of.
The process of achieving goals and seeing their achievement gives you the confidence and a belief in yourself that you need to be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals.
Providing that you have the self-discipline to carry it through, goal setting is also relatively easy. The following section on goal setting will give you effective guidelines to help you to use this technique effectively.
How to choose the right goals to focus on
Sometimes setting goals alone is not the only problem that you must face. Sometimes, choosing the right goals to begin with is harder.
Basically, you can choose to work any goal that you feel is necessary for your health, stability and happiness.
Goal setting is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. By setting goals on a routine basis you decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of these goals.
The process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on to do it. You also know what nothing more than a distraction is.
Goal setting is a standard technique used by professional athletes, successful business people and high achievers in all fields. It gives you long term vision and provides you with short term motivation.
It helps to focus your attention and knowledge which helps you to organize your resources. By setting sharp and clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless effort.
By setting goals, you will also raise your self confidence, as you recognize your and ability to meet the goals that you have set. The process of achieving goals and seeing this achievement gives you confidence that you will be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals later on.
Goals are set on a number of different levels. In the first place, you decide what you want to do with your life and what large scale goals you want to achieve.
Second, you break these down into the smaller aims that you must hit so that you reach your overall lifetime goals.
Finally, once you have your plan, you start working towards achieving it.
3 Bad Diet Mistakes To Avoid At All Cost
Even though there is so much information available about weight loss, the same diet mistakes are being made over and over every day. We are not talking here about little slipups where you ate a slice of pie that was not on the plan, but big mistakes that lead to failure to lose the weight that you want to lose. Understanding these errors can help you develop the attitude that will lead to permanent weight loss for you.
1. The All Or Nothing Attitude
All or nothing dieters will often pick out a complicated diet that is almost impossible for them to maintain. Before beginning, they will search the kitchen for anything that does not fit the plan and throw it in the garbage. They are planning to be the perfect dieter, and so they will be, for one day, three days, seven days or even a couple of weeks. Then, inevitably, something happens that means they cannot keep to the diet one time. Immediately the whole thing is ruined in their eyes and the diet is over. They go to the store and buy all the things that went into the garbage last week and proceed to gain back all the weight that they lost, as fast as possible.
If you are this kind of dieter you need to ask yourself some tough questions. Do you really want to lose weight permanently, or just lose a few pounds so that you can enjoy putting them back on again? The way forward is to make small changes to what you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.
2. The Attitude of Sacrifice
Another common mistake is to view your diet as a period of sacrifice. You do not allow yourself the foods that you enjoy most while you are on your way to your target weight. You may have a great diet plan and be very successful in losing weight, but what happens when you reach your goal? You have not learnt to eat 'bad foods' in moderation so as soon as you start, you are likely to go out of control. It is better to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to enjoy it in small quantities. Yes, even chocolate!
3. Goal Failure
Setting achievable goals is vital in any weight loss plan. Goals should be clear, realistic and set out in writing. While you probably do have an ideal weight in your mind, unless you are only very slightly overweight it is probably too distant to be useful. A more useful goal would be to lose two pounds per week for the first five weeks and then one pound per week after that. Some weeks you will lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you track your progress on a graph you will see that ups and downs are natural and do not stop you progressing steadily toward your major goal.
If you have been making these mistakes, do not worry. The most important point in dieting as in so many other things is to move on. Learn from your failures as well as your success and do not use a mistake as an excuse for giving up. The only way to achieve your goal permanently is to make a commitment to become a healthier person. Remember that eating normally includes eating more some days and less others. Learn to enjoy food in moderation and you have every chance of avoiding these bad diet mistakes.
New Weight Loss Supplement that REALLY WORKS, Check out GBG EnRgy
Brought to you by the Prosperity Wellness Team
Blogging and social networking are inextricably linked in the sense that both contain certain features and certain properties of one another. Both are aimed at creating a wide movement as far as multimedia interaction is concerned. Though it is true that blogs can be regulated and kept very private, the main purpose of them is to reach out to a number of people, to have a medium to voice your opinion.
Another similarity is that both these concepts have existed in cyber space for almost a decade now, but in the initial stages both were rather exclusive of one another. Only in the recent times have they been merged, and their similarity in motives truly recognized.
Blogging is essentially done to channel your thoughts out on to an online journal. You also want other people to read what you have written.
This way, you go about coming in touch with people from all over the world who you would not have otherwise known. Similar is the function of social networking. It is a hub where the young and the hearty flock. The chances of getting an audience at such a platform are high.
The origination of the term ‘blog’ is interesting. It was initially called a ‘weblog’ meaning a log or a diary or a journal that helps you to record your thoughts on a day to day basis. In that sense it was rather in its primitive stages and did not turn into an instrument for propaganda immediately. This term was later shortened to blog and this is when free blogging services like Blogger became extremely popular.
As mentioned earlier, blogging today is not restricted to only maintaining a journal. It has truly become a platform where various kinds of people from all walks of life, whether they have the same ideologies or not, conflate, and discuss the matters they think are important to them.
Blogging in the twenty first century has come to become an important tool for advertising for people who wish to market their products online, for politicians who wish to sell their ideologies, and reach out, to the masses.
Moreover, creating a blog and maintaining it does not require a fortune. Everybody now has a personal blog and it is all free of cost. Also, one does not need to be a computer engineer or a graphic or web designer in order to embellish their blog.
Unlike a website which operates on a different domain, and for which every single template and tab needs to be designed and created from the scratch, blog sites do not need such knowledge. The blogging service providers have their own inbuilt templates and fonts which have to be chosen by the bloggers as per their own tastes and preferences.
Blogging is an ideal way to make new friends and come in contact with more people than you can do in the actual word, from all quarters of the world. Such diverse people will obviously have differing viewpoints. Therefore, this gives scope for a good deal of discussion and debate with all points of view being taken on board.
Blogs can also be for the sole purpose of making new friends and socializing. That is why social networking sites have picked up the clue and in these times social networking and blogging has, to some extent, been combined, and almost become indistinguishable.
It would be interesting to note that the word ‘blog’ is both a noun and a verb. This leads us to the fact that blogging in some sense also helps get rid of hassles of publishing. Though your work will not come out in print, you know that you can publish your work – your articles, pictures, videos, etc – yourself through you blog.
Therefore, it may be your own personal journal that you wish others to read or you works of art in terms of the stories or articles that you write, or the movies that you make. You can share almost any content with the world at large.
It must also be noted that just like you do not have to be a web designer to create your own blog, you need not be a professional writer, a film maker or a photographer to publish content on your blog. It is just a space for you to indulge in your own small artistic pursuits and share those moments with others. Blogging must therefore be exploited to its full potential.
"In the future, an affordable home based business will always win out, I think we will be eating everyone else's lunch!"
OK, what do I mean by affordable? First of all many home based businesses require you to pay for a web site ..... We don't do that, all sites are at no cost. Most companies require you to buy a "Kit" I've seen these things go from $29 up to as much as $1500 ..... That's just plain nonesense... What does GBG require of us? Simple, be on auto ship for the 10 in 1 liquid vitamin, it's something that we all need anyway, pay $19.95 a month plus shipping and that's it, you get the business for free with all training and web sites, everything you need.
Let me say this, like it or not we are in a Recession.... At this point in time we all need a "Plan B" I looked at 50 or more so called "Opportunities,"... the 50 became 30, the 30 became 10....then 5 and finally I found that this oppotunity was the one that just made the most sense..... I'm Not Looking Back. "I've Found a Home!"
In my Contemporary Business Communications class I read an article from Businessweek.com called “Social Media Will Change Your Business”. It starts how talking about how most of the blogs out their have nothing but useless junk on them. The report continues about how there is about 2-5 million good ones out there on topics ranging from Business to Entertainment and Motorsports to Gardening or cooking. Those top rank blogs don't get the bulk of internet traffic but the amount visitors that they do get is nothing to sneeze at with some of theses getting couple hundred thousands of viewers to a few million viewers a month. Blogs are very affected way of getting your business message out and getting consumer feedback. Think about even if your business Blog gets a small fraction of monthly Internet traffic like less then 1%, you are still getting a huge amount of people traveling to your business blog. According to http://internetworldstats.com as of June 30, 2008 that there are 360,985,492 people that have Internet that is about 22% of the world population with the number growing everyday. Image getting about ½ of a percent of them or even 1/10 of percent of them. That is about 360985 to 1804927 people a month traffic with it growing everyday like I said. Think about it everybody image that you are getting this type of traffic to your GBG sites and blogs, your business communities would be exploding, so use your blogs as vital part of building your GBG business. Are you Fired Up! Yet. Blogs are not the best part. There is new thing called Social Networking that is huge, I'm just kidding I bet almost all of you either have a Myspace, Facebook, Tweeter, etc account or know someone one that has one. Every Presidential Candidate have one, many of those running for the Senate or Congress have one.
Stats from FaceBook.com as of January '08
General Growth
* More than 60 million active users
* An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
* An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007
* Active users doubling every 6 months
Stats from MySpace.com as of January '08
· MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users
around the globe
· We are the country’s most trafficked site on the Internet
· 85% of MySpace users are of voting age (18 or older)
· 1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace
· in the UK it’s as common to have a MySpace as it is to own a dog
So do you see why companies want to have a Social Network Page. The way for me to describe social networks is to think about a High School Cafeteria where you have your different groups. The sports enthusiast are in one spot, the music lovers are in one spot, the poets have their spot, etc. With social networks someone can belong to a group that is about Dragracing, a group about Hunting or the outdoors, a group of rock music lovers, country music lovers, and a group to support your Candidate for President. What cool about social networks if Nike wanted to place an ad about their new running shoe they can pay myspace or whatever site to place the ad on the home page of anyone who is a runner and that makes the ad targeted right to the group in mind. By placing ads that way companies or whatever do have to spend so much on traditional media like TV, Radio and Newspapers that it is hit and miss to get their target audience. Also if you are a fan of an artist or company you can become friends with them online and get the latest information about them. Also you can post your feelings about a product or service and companies can use to better the product or service quicker with the instance feedback from the consumers. There is a new site called Twitter.com that works like some the other social networking sites where you can be friends with others online and post messages on each others profile. You can only post a post that is 140 or less characters long like text messaging someone. Steve Rubel who has his own Internet marketing firm did an interview with the author of the Business Week article and the reporter asked why do you use Tweeter and so Steve type on his Tweeter Page “Sitting with Steve Baker, wants to know why tweet?” and with 10 or so minutes there was 20 response why to use tweeter. So to all of you who want to build a successful GBG business use your resources online like your blogs, the social networks like our new Prosperity Wellness Community Forum. So lets go out there and share this great business and our great products while doing that have some fun making money and making a difference in our world. God Bless and Good Night.
David Jados
GBG Independent Distributor
http://drinkliquidvitamins.info
david@drinkliquidvitamins.info
This GBG Opportunity is awesome! I've tried other companies and had little to show for my efforts but this is soooo different! Even if you are a recluse and are completely scared to talk to anyone, the product if fabulous and a comparable product can't be found in stores. Therefore, you win regardless of whether you choose to grow the community or just be a consumer. Chances are, you'll have a growing business regardless because the Prosperity Wellness Team is about GROWTH!!
Glad to help anyone with any questions they may have.
GBGDistribution1@gmail.com
(231)218-2657
Brian