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Life is not a competition.

Not at all. Life itself is abundant and rich and overflowing. Take a look at a tree full of ripe fruits or a field full of grain. Just by looking at it, it makes you feel rich and abundant. And you feel that there is more than enough for everybody. But usually the abundant mentality stops there.

Many of us are born and raised in a strong belief system that says that there is never enough of what we need or want. For many this is also more then a belief, it is a fact of life. There is not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, etc. You learn to think that if you don’t make sure to take your part, someone else will take it.

That is where you start to believe that life is a competition. You have to be better, stronger, faster, prettier, taller, and skinnier or whatever else you can be more than others.

But fact is that there is more than enough of everything we need and want. There is more then enough food, so nobody would have to starve. There is enough medicine to save millions of lives, and there is enough money. If all the money in the world would be balanced more equally, everybody would be very rich!

I know this may sound simple and easy, and that there are many reasons why I am wrong, but please put aside judgements and opinions for a moment.

Start to think like you care for people instead of compete with them. Would it not be fair if all human beings had equal rights? That everyone would have the right to get food, shelter, medicine and basic education. I am not talking about equality here, like the communistic idea that everybody should be earning the same, regardless of what they are doing. I am talking about getting basic needs covered. If basic needs are covered, people can choose how to live their life, instead of having to fight to survive.

With competitive mentalities like Survival of the fittest and Dog eat Dog, we justify that people are starving to death. We think that if someone wins, someone has to loose. It is now time to change this into a win-win mentality. That means we think, talk and act in a way that we want everybody to benefit. It is a way of thinking that includes all human beings. This way of thinking comes from the understanding that we are one.

We are one human race on one planet.

When I see myself as a part of this world I feel that the world is my responsibility. I understand that what I am thinking, saying and doing will affect the world. What I think, say and do to the world, I do to myself since I am a part of the world. That makes it more difficult not to care about what is happening, because I know that it directly affects me.

With competitive mentality, I do not mean the drive you have to do your best. That you want to do your best is a fantastic asset and a driving force in your life. Wanting to do your best is a great motivation! If you do your best you are the best. That means everybody is unique and exceptional, just by being who they are.
Do your absolute best; strive to do what you love with the highest quality ever seen. But do it from a place inside where you want to come out with who you are, and not to overrun others. If you do what you love doing, you are competing in a natural way; you are on top because you are giving your very best.

You hear athletes talking about “The Flow”, that means the space where their performance comes easy and seem effortless. You can also reach that space with your work, and that is actually what life is meant to be. Not a struggle, not a competition, but a flow. This flow is an energy that comes out of you because you want to create.
So remember to make your competition a heart-full one and not a horror-full one.

When you do your best, you are the best!

Copyright (c) 2005 Oyvind Hennum

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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be
blessed with miraculous success while others are not?

Successful people don’t achieve their success by accident.
It takes much more than skills and talents to attain great
success in life. Even the most talented people can fail. It’s
the ones who recognize their power and use it to their
advantage that achieve the success they desire!

Jim Carey deliberately used his power to strategically
produce success at a time when things were challenging in
his life. In 1987, he was married with a new baby, living in a
single apartment in Los Angeles, and working in comedy
clubs at night. Afterwards, he would drive to the top of
Mulholland Drive and look out over the city where he
affirmed that he was the most sought after comedian in the
business. He experienced what it was like to be that
successful and didn’t come down from the mountain until
he felt like he was. He also wrote himself a check for $10
million dollars for acting services rendered. A path opened
up that eventually led him to that success. On the day that
his check was dated, Jim Carrey was worth 10 million
dollars. He later became one of the world’s highest paid
actors and able to command $20 million a movie.

You, too, have the power to achieve tremendous success. It
just takes understanding your power and then setting your
desires into motion!

Skyrocket your business to success by using just a few
simple techniques!

1. START YOUR DAY BY STATING A POWERFUL
DECLARATION!

Your words are powerful! The words that you speak and the
thoughts that you think attract to you the exact conditions that
you focus upon the most consistently. If you want to be
successful, your words and your thoughts need to
consistently confirm your success!

* Affirm: “Enormous quantities of money are being drawn to
me from everywhere and I see myself becoming financially
independent immediately!”

2. WRITE IT DOWN!

Take advantage of the Power of your word!

Everyday write down:

* “I see my business skyrocketing and becoming an
immediate financial success! I consistently net over $
easily and effortlessly every single month!”

Or:

* “I see all of my investments doubling and tripling
consistently, which make me a multi-millionaire
immediately!”

3. FEEL LIKE IT!

Take a moment each day and experience what it feels like to
be the success you desire.

Example: While you are sitting at your desk, close your eyes
and experience yourself sitting in a location that you would
be in if your success were a reality now! Such as:

* Sitting at a desk in your new office:
Feel how comfortable your new leather chair is and imagine
yourself feeling how smooth the hardwood finish is on your
desktop. It feels so wonderful being in your brand new
office. It is so beautiful, and everything is so clean and
organized. You hear your phones continually ringing with
orders and a competent staff is taking all of the calls. Your
business has become so successful that everyone is
seeking you out and buying everything that you have for sale.

* Sitting on a chase lounge by your new swimming pool:
Feel how relaxing it is to be lying out on a comfortable chase
lounge next to your beautiful new pool. The air is clear and
smells so good, and the heat from the sun feels so
soothing on your body. You are so grateful that your
business has become such a tremendous financial
success that you can now take time off to consistently relax
and play with your family!

* Being on your own yacht on the ocean:
Feel how exhilarating it is to be cruising out on the turquoise
ocean on your own magnificent yacht. You love the smell of
the fresh ocean air and you can feel the sea breeze on your
face. You are so grateful that money is just pouring into your
life! Lucrative opportunities became available to you that
enabled you to immediately become a huge financial
success! Your business is now generating millions of
dollars in passive income and you have lots of time to do
what you love. You have fun traveling and relaxing…all year
through!

or…

* Being on stage being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey!:
Her producers sought you out because your product has
become one of her “Favorite Things”! You are now a world
renown success and the revenues have not only afforded
you a lavish lifestyle, your contributions to charities have
empowered everyone throughout the world.

Use your imagination! Whatever you impress your
subconscious with consistently, will soon be reproduced in
your life.

© 2005 Carole Dore, PowerVision Dynamics,
CreateMoneyFAST.com

NOTE: Some excerpts within the above article are taken
from “The Emergency Handbook For Getting Money FAST!”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Visualization expert, Carole Dor

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the second in a series taken from
How to Evaluate and Profit from a Business Opportunity

Going into business for yourself is a big decision, one that requires careful thought and a great deal of planning. Whether you decide to buy a business, or start one from an idea or a patent, you need to know yourself. In order to make the business successful, it has to be one you will like working in and its requirements have to match your skills, and attitude.

First, understand why you want to go in business for yourself. There are lots of reasons. Some people want to build an empire; others have an idea they passionately believe in. Some because they can’t find a job and by owning their own business they will have income to take care of their needs. Still others want control over their lifestyle while many want to pass on something to their heirs.

Knowing why you want to own your own business will help you avoid mistakes and let you focus on what’s right for you. A good match at the beginning will go a long way towards making you a successful business owner. We always do better at what we like.

As you start working on a self-assessment, remember that while it’s important to know what you are, it’s equally important to know what you aren’t. Do you learn new things easily, on your own, or do you find it tough to deal with change? What was the last new thing you learned? What are you looking forward to learning right now?

Can you teach others how to do things? Can you motivate people; are you good at critiquing, negotiating and reprimanding? If so you may want to stay away from a business that employees many people and experiences a high turnover.

How about your personal lifestyle; is being home for dinner with the family important, or spending time with the kids on weekends? If so a retail business might not be right for you. Its time demands could be a conflict which causes many problems.

If you like tinkering with tools and equipment instead of sitting at a desk, you probably should consider some type of light manufacturing or assembly business. Besides being able to help your employees deal with the occasional machine breakdown, you may very well find new ways to do things, maybe even design a new process or tool which you can market.

Are you a detail person or do you always seem to grasp the bigger picture? As the owner you will have to be both, but knowing how a business makes money (a topic for a later article) will let you begin spending more of your time on the activities you like.

Do you enjoy making people happy, bringing a smile to their faces? Maybe you’ve always had an itch to go on the stage. If so perhaps you should look for a restaurant that serves great food but all the people out front add nothing to the fun of the dinning experience. Perhaps the owner/chef really knows how to cook but lacks people skills and would be willing to take in a partner who would be the out-front person. If you know accounting, you can also take over the bookkeeping functions and free the creative genius in the kitchen expand the culinary offerings.

Always remember you don’t have to own it all to be in business for yourself.

At the end of Chapter Two in my book How to Evaluate and Profit from a Business Opportunity - The Entrepreneur’s Guide there is a twenty- nine questions self assessment quiz which will help you learn more about yourself.

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Art Consoli held eight corporate positions with Johnson & Johnson before starting his first business. He went on to build over twenty businesses from patents or ideas or from businesses others couldn’t make successful. These ranged from starting a veterinarian drug company to taking over a steel fabricating company to developing the first manufactured home subdivision to qualify for every private and government assisted mortgage program in Arizona. He also did ten workouts for lenders and owners; the last was a $30 million, 300 employee, precision parts manufacturing plant that made parts for the auto industry. Consoli’s unique background and skills allow him to speak and write about how someone with limited experience can do a self-evaluation which will let him decide which business opportunity is best, how to evaluate opportunities and gain control over the one which offers the greatest potential and then manage that business to success. Readers of his book call and write to tell him how much his book has helped their lives and improved their business.

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