Do you have customers, potential customers, people who can refer you work or business, or have contacts who can help you someone down the road in any part of your life? Wouldn’t you want a referral from Elmer J Fudd, the millionaire who owns and mansion and a yacht (as he would say in Bugs Bunny)?

 

This is about how in a business sense, and personal, you can easily sabotage the foundation of a relationship you have with others who can drive business to your doorstep or can be a incredible force in your life if not now in the future. It is also about how we can easily be misunderstood or miscommunicate. Now this may not pertain to drug dealers or serial killers, ticket maids, or tax collectors.

 

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How do you sub consciously or myoptically sabotage your life and success? Certainly replicating one of the stunts on Jackass would be one, although this example is from my first hand experience. I can attest many will share a similar reaction. You have some information you feel useful or important to others. You decide to share it with those who you have already met at an networking event. You send it out and a curt note comes back.

 

Lets rewind a bit to an earlier point - the person handed you their business card in the past. What does this mean? Stay in touch, call me, connect with me, share what you have with me, lets shag, etc. Further they write their email on their business card. To most of us who are not from Mars it would seem obvious the person wanted to stay connected via email.

 

If you don’t like what someone emails to you, who you have met or share a business or personal relationship with, you either delete the email or you ask them them politely to not send emails to you any more. Email is a very impersonal and cold way to communicate. Being that many don’t read emails carefully makes the issue even more challenging. Internalization of a what is delivered occurs, misunderstandings or mis-communications come as easy as just a single word read out of syntax.

As a busy business person who gives many people the benefit of a doubt I hold very little tolerance for for those who are rude, have low integrity, or are just takers in life. With one rude email I delete and tag the individual as someone I would never refer business to nor do business with in several lifetimes. There are many others who perform the same service or the same product (usually). What are you willing to invite and accept in your life and business? Those I refer business to I respect and vice a versa.. as someone said once “if you lay down to sleep with a flea ridden dog, chances are you’re gonna wind up with fleas” - fact. Lay down in a bed of roses and what to you wake up smelling like?

The message: treat others the way you would want to be treated and never under estimate the worth of how you craft your message especially if you cut corners to summarily cut people off or your are curt with them in this impersonal correspondence medium. Your communication style is a reflection of you and how the person sees you. Your communication style can make you smell like roses, or sink your ship faster than solid lead in water with your business relationships.

Sometimes those who are rude are intentionally rude, hostile, angry or just raging. When you have two actions or more in the same framework that indicate a particular demeanor you can safely assess what frame of mind the person was when they created it. For example if someone received an email from you about a open house you were having to showcase how to use something and one person who has provided you an email while networking summarily sends you back an email saying “TAKE MY NAME OFF YOUR LIST!!!” How do you read this? It is curt, it is in all caps, it has exclamation points, and is based on a false assumption and accuses you of it without knowing the facts. The ironic thing is the name of the company is “The Door Opener”. Are you laughing yet?? Is that a Jekyll Hyde poise on the title where they say one thing but conduct their affairs differently, inconsistently from the image of what the image professes to elicit for the business? Okay, Duh? How do you open doors by being rude and discourteous to others?

The flip side of this is “Thank you for your email. Could you please remove me from your emails at this time?” What emotion does this bring up versus the first one. This is just my opinion. I find it a better business decision not to burn bridges unless the person has absolutely proved to me there is no other way to communicate with them and they are real low on integrity to the point of being a sociopath.

By the way if sales people are calling on you, remember they are just doing their job to earn a living. Of course if they are rude and over the top with you certainly they need to be locked in room a subjected to William Shatner songs playing at full volume while being forced to watch Paris Hilton acting in full length videos. Otherwise, the person contacting you to share information about their product or service is just doing their thing, the same as you or I may be at some point - sales is not reserved for just sales people. What goes around comes around.

This may come as no surprise to many and yet the many still live and die by the fact they complain about the situation they are in, the same old same old, and they are getting no where. Your environment plays a huge roll in your destiny. If you want to be at the top of your game, if you want to rise to the top, do more than you could ever believe imaginable one part of the formula is simple.. surround yourself with positive successful people who have accomplished or on the way to what you seek to achieve.

 You are the sum average of the five people you surround yourself with on a daily basis and hang with. Reflect a bit and see if you see yourself like your peer group. This could be good, bad or indifferent yet absolutely true.

 One of the areas I am involved is creating platforms for people to transform in a positive manner. What do you think happens if you offer someone a solution to a age old dilemma they are comfortable in yet are always complaining about the results in their life, their life or life in general. This provides a “clue” that perhaps this person is not on the track they truly want to be and perhaps may want to do something differently to shift the results they are getting or not getting in life. A one degree shift is the difference between hot water at 211 degrees that does nothing other than scald and burn you and steam at 212 degrees which can move thousand ton locomotives and steam boats.

 Ever heard of Craigslist? I went to check out some information to locate staff for an event and found the most incredibly negative and hostile comments and discourse on their forums. I can say it was a disgusting show of some of those who have nothing better to do than to bash other people who they don’t know and have never met before in their lives. Creating a negative environment just perpetrates more of the same and here is an insight.. people don’t hang around too long with those who are toxic in fear of being poisoned. And so we find those who are the true circle we would want around us but at what cost?

 I’d like to introduce you to an Empowerment Conference and Retreat that is bringing together the people, the leaders and the atmosphere to foster positivity, possibility thinking, action based on “I can” instead of “you can’t” or “you shouldn’t”. With 20 presenters sharing their strategies and insights and those who are creating a safe place for all to grow, get clear, and focus on what’s next we push the limits on complacency and deny negativity to control our passion and desires to excel and succeed.

 I am rewarding those who are following my blogs. This your invitation to join this very same group of people on Saturday and Sunday, June 14 - 15, 2008 in Port Jervis, NY at an incredible two day conference and retreat to bring out the best in you and to stimulate your greatness and leadership. You are invited as my guest to attend this amazing event. If you’re interested email me at info [at] powermastery.com. All you need do is get there as well as being responsible for your meals and if you are not commuting, your lodging. This event is valued at $799.00 but for anyone seeking to grow it is invaluable..

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This may be one of the most incredible stories you ever heard. It is about someone snatching victory from the jaws of death. More than enough people have experienced adversity and lived to tell the story. This is not however, not about that it is my story about an amazing consequence that could have put me in the morgue or created massive damage to my physical being and a number of others who I would have been leading.

 

About a year ago I planned a group trip the China. We worked out an elaborate schedule with stops in every breathtaking and back village area to get the sense of life outside the commercial enterprise. This would have put us up in shantys and the bare necessities in villages where phones are shared in town centers or at the village center and the lavatory facilities was just a hole in the ground.

 

My agenda was to fly into Hong Kong on May 5 and then work our way around central China until May 26, 2008 when we would depart after a short stay in Macau, Kowloon and Hong Kong. This is where the story gets interesting.. we planned to travel to where the Karsts are that you see in Chinese paintings as well as visit the famous Pandas at the most celebrated sites for Panda research in the world. Erie as it seems we were scheduled to be in Chengdu, China and in the Sichaun province the night and morning when the earthquake and 300+ aftershocks hit which flattened a number of buildings and destroyed a large area..

 

Looking over my schedule today after hearing the news about an Earthquake in China. It was an awakening thought hearing I would have been at the site of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed 9,000 lives. Oddly my trip to China was canceled just weeks before May 12. We again were scheduled to be Chengdu from May 10 - May 12 with departure to Yichang the next morning when the earthquake hit. I cheated death! If the trip was a go with the 20 others I was leading there I could have been an earthquake victim with worse even if the only part of me under the rubble was a toe tag to identify me.

 

What does this tell you about how you should live life each and every day? Why wait for who knows what tomorrow has in store for you. I am producing the nations only empowerment retreat on personal development of its kind June 14 - 15, 2008 (site is www.powermastery.com). What many have told me is that I was redirected from my intended destiny for a purpose. What some have said it is because the Empowerment Retreat must take place. As I thought about it and what the Retreat stands for in the hope, possibility and growth it represents to the many that are attending, the event important than putting my life on hold. Well I am not religious although I am spiritually grounded.

 

Many things happen for a reason just as you may have read in the Celestine Prophecy. My belief is you create your destiny just like what others will do at the Retreat. We can accept coincidences and accidents happen.. and for those who know me.. I have been leading hikes for over 12 years. How do you explain it has rained on less than 10% of the hundreds of hikes I’ve lead. Well food for thought.

 

 

The following is an Associated Press news report:

CHENGDU, China - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country’s worst quake in three decades.

The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam.

 

Snippets from state media and photos posted on the Internet underscored the immense scale of the devastation. In the town of Juyuan, south of the epicenter, a three-story high school collapsed, burying as many as 900 students and killing at least 50, the official Xinhua news agency said. Photos showed people using cranes, mechanical hoists and their hands to remove slabs of concrete and steel.

 

Buried teenagers struggled to break free from the rubble, “while others were crying out for help,” Xinhua said. Families waited in the rain near the wreckage as rescuers wrote the names of the dead on a blackboard, Xinhua said.

 

Parents of the dead students built makeshift religious altars at the site, resting the corpses on any available piece of plywood or cardboard, and burning paper money and incense in a traditional honor for their child in the afterlife, according to NPR’s Melissa Block.

 

The earthquake hit one of the last homes of the giant panda at the Wolong Nature Reserve and panda breeding center, in Wenchuan county, which remained out of contact, Xinhua said.

 

In Chengdu, it crashed telephone networks and hours later left parts of the city of 10 million in darkness.

 

“We can’t get to sleep. We’re afraid of the earthquake. We’re afraid of all the shaking,” said 52-year-old factory worker Huang Ju, who took her ailing, elderly mother out of the Jinjiang District People’s Hospital. Outside, Huang sat in a wheelchair wrapped in blankets while her mother, who was ill, slept in a hospital bed next to her.

 

Xinhua reported 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone and 216 others in three other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing.

 

Worst affected were four counties including the quake’s epicenter in Wenchuan, 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. Landslides left roads impassable Tuesday, causing the government to order soldiers into the area on foot, state television said, and heavy rain prevented four military helicopters from landing.

 

Wenchuan’s Communist Party secretary appealed for air drops of tents, food and medicine. “We also need medical workers to save the injured people here,” Xinhua quoted Wang Bin as telling other officials who reached him by phone.

 

To the east, in Beichuan county, 80 percent of the buildings fell, and 10,000 people were injured, aside from 3,000 to 5,000 dead, Xinhua said. State media said two chemical plants in an industrial zone of the city of Shifang collapsed, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia.

 

Though slow to release information at first, the government and its state media ramped up quickly. Nearly 20,000 soldiers, police and reservists were sent to the disaster area.

 

Disasters always pose a test for the communist government, whose mandate rests heavily on maintaining order, delivering economic growth, and providing relief in emergencies.

 

Pressure for a rapid response was particularly intense this year, with the government already grappling with public discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics.

 

“I am particularly saddened by the number of students and children affected by this tragedy,” President Bush said in a statement.

 

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge sent his condolences to President Hu Jintao, adding: “The Olympic Movement is at your side, especially during these difficult moments. Our thoughts are with you.”

 

Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by training, called the quake “a major geological disaster,” and traveled to the disaster area to oversee rescue and relief operations.

 

“Hang on a bit longer. The troops are rescuing you,” Wen shouted to people buried in the Traditional Medicine Hospital in the city of Dujiangyan, on the road to Wenchuan, in comments broadcast by CCTV.

 

“As long as there was a slightest hope, we should make our effort a hundred times and we will never relax,” he said outside the collapsed school in Juyuan.

 

The quake was the deadliest since one in 1976 in the city of Tangshan near Beijing that killed 240,000 — although some reports say as many as 655,000 perished — the most devastating in modern history. A 1933 quake near where Monday’s struck killed at least 9,000, according to geologists.

 

Monday’s quake occurred on a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian land mass, smashing the Sichuan plain into mountains leading to the Tibetan highlands — near communities that held sometimes violent protests of Chinese rule in mid-March.

 

Much of the area has been closed to foreign media and travelers since then, compounding the difficulties of getting information. Roads north from Chengdu to the disaster area were sealed off early Tuesday to all but emergency convoys.

 

In Chengdu, the region’s commercial center, the airport closed for seven hours, reopening only for emergency and a few outbound flights. A major railway line to the northeast was ruptured, stranding about 10,000 passengers, Xinhua said. Although most of the power had been restored by nightfall, phone and Internet service was spotty and some neighborhoods remained without power and water.

 

Nervous residents spent the night outside, some playing cards or heading to the suburbs. State media, citing the Sichuan seismology bureau, reported 313 aftershocks.

 

“Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting,” said Ronen Medzini, an Israeli student in Chengdu, via text message.

 

When it hit shortly before 2:30 p.m., the quake rumbled for nearly three minutes, witnesses said, driving people into the streets in panic.

 

“It was really scary to be on the 26th floor in something like that,” said Tom Weller, a 49-year-old American oil and gas consultant staying at the Holiday Inn. “You had to hold on to something like that or you’d fall over. It shook for so long and so violently, you wondered how long the building would be able to stand this.”

 

While most buildings in the city held up, those in the countryside tumbled. On the outskirts of Chongqing, a school collapsed, killing at least five people. Residents said teachers kept the children inside, thinking it was safer.

 

The city of Mianyang ordered all able-bodied males under 50 to take water and tools and walk or drive to Beichuan, where most of the buildings had collapsed.

 

State TV broadcast tips for anyone trapped in the earthquake. “If you’re buried, keep calm and conserve your energy. Seek water and food, and wait patiently for rescue,” CCTV said.

 

Although initially measured at 7.8 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey later revised its assessment of the quake to 7.9. Its depth — about six miles below the surface, according to the USGS — gave the tremor such wide impact, geologists said.

 

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, 930 miles to the north, causing evacuations of office towers. People ran screaming into the streets in other cities, where many residents said they had never felt an earthquake.

 

In Beijing, where hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors are expected for the Olympics, stadiums, arenas and other venues for the games were undamaged.

 

Li Jiulin, a top engineer on the 91,000-seat National Stadium — known as the Bird’s Nest and the jewel of the Olympics — was conducting a site inspection when the quake struck. He told reporters the building was designed to withstand a 8.0 quake.

 

“The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake,” said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee. “We considered earthquakes when building those venues.”

 

Some 660 miles to the east in Anhui province, chandeliers swayed in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel. “We’ve never felt anything like this our whole lives,” said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.

 

The massive Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest about 350 miles to the east of the epicenter, was not affected, according to the information office of State Council Three Gorges Construction Committee. The area around the enormous dam remains increasingly precarious as rising waters in the reservoir have led to landslides.

 

Premier Wen, after arriving in Chengdu, traveled to Dujiangyan, near the collapsed high school. On his plane, he appealed for people to rally together.

 

“This is an especially challenging task,” state TV showed Wen saying, reading from a statement. “In the face of the disaster, what’s most important is calmness, confidence, courage and powerful command.”

 

By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer

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What I remembered was something the great sales and motivational speaker - Zig Ziglar said.. “help other people get what they want and they will help you get what you want”. So here’s the deal.. I created a platform for those who help me grow the event make passive income. What does that mean? Making money with very little effort or time involved. Pretty much its just communicating the website or information and the rest is cash in your bank.

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Be More and Achieve More for Yourself and Others at the speed of Thought

Do you want to be better and make the most of it in all aspects of your life? Do you want to achieve more results? Are you tired of saying to others and to your self your life lately has been the same-old, same-old? Is your life sometimes feel like a struggle?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions you are in good company. A majority of the population feels exactly as you do. How do you do more, achieve more, have more and be more?

Here is the tip of the iceberg in change and state management: begin by ’shifting’. That means begin doing something different! The definition of insanity as stated by Albert Einstein is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!” If you want different results in your life, then by commonsense you know you need to do things differently if what you are doing is not getting you there.

 

In your daily habits and rituals think about this if they are not serving you and you believe things need to be different, things need to change.. they are not going to happen on their own. You need to do something about it. When you repeatedly take the same action and inaction repeatedly and you receive a consistently repeated behavior it influences what you see as what ‘will’ happen if the same action or inaction is taken in any given situation.

 

Once you form a habit and a behavioral pattern established. Your actions become comfortable to you because you are expecting a predictable outcome based on past results even if the results are under serving your or destroying you!

 

Ever notice when you try out or on something new or different and it felt awkward, strange or uncomfortable. Part of our immediate objectives are to move ourselves from pain to pleasure. As crazy as this may seem you will feel uncomfortable and even pain if you are going through empowering change, even if it is the best thing that will happen in your life because it will make a better and more successful person. If you avoid the feeling of discomfort by retreating to your old habits and withdraw into your comfort zone you’ve lost to yourself and your battle to believe and achieve.

 

You cannot achieve better results for your life if you are doing the same thing, old things. Here are some tips to help you escape the pitfalls of becoming victim to your comfort zone:

 

1. Make and commit to a firm decision to change. Write it down, and read it out loud. Most importantly commit! Trying to take on huge draconian changes may work to your advantage unless you have done this exercise enough to manifest massive and immediate change instangly. For now begin with tangible baby steps. Begin with the smallest outcomes and actions you ‘ll need to get from point A to point B first not from point A to point F instantly.

 

2. Access and make a decision what actions or inactions must be changed and what you need to do differently.

 

3. Take immediate action - NOW! When you make the decision you must take the necessary action and stick to your promise to yourself or it just becomes a lie. At this point you will be pushing out of your comfort zone so you will experience self talk why you should NOT do what you are doing and instead it would be more comfortable just letting it be. Well you’ve gotten this far and are you going to let that little voice prevent you from experiencing the greatness and abundance that awaits with incredible change in your life?

 

It may take you a few minutes, a few days or even weeks make and break a habit. Some say it takes 21 days. For me it took me minutes because once I knew my purpose and saw the outcome I made the commitment to myself and knew there was no turning back. It was a done deal. You can see what it was all about at www.powermastery.com. Would the same old bad habits or belief systems come back into my life.. the sad reality is you need to keep working on your own voice. Taking the lead and sticking to your commitment rather than letting dis-functional and other people’s voices tell you what you can and can’t do if they are not serving you.

 

So here is the deal, dedicate just a few weeks of diligent work to make the necessary changes. Develop new habits and therefore shall you reap the positive outcomes you seek. If you don’t achieve what you are seeking then shift a little and try again. It took Thomas Edison over a thousand successes to invent the light bulb. After experiencing some breakthroughs you will notice an increased confidence in what you are capable of and be able to command the courage and commitment to take instant action when the need arrives. Want to learn how to take action immediately and cut through all the clutter that resides in your mind? Visit with us at the Empowerment Retreat this June 2008.

 

An example is an Empowerment Retreat I am producing on a 1,000 acre wooded property in NY June 13 - 15, 2008. There came a moment in time I was tested to see what my commitment to serving the greater good is and how I can make a dramatic impact in the lives of others. What I envisioned was a retreat, away from distractions, and completely connecting like minds who seek positive results in their own lives, breakthrough, clarity, and a commitment to ever lasting change in their lifetimes what they can do to help and contribute to the lives of others and humankind.

 

It was within the moment I saw that if I did not take action - now, it would never get done and it would have been just another idea which I would regret not bringing to reality if I at least did not make an attempt to bring it to light and life. Within two days the Powermastery Empowerment Retreat was born. I had the vision, I did some number crunching, and some research. Once everything showed to be rationally achievable all bets were on and I took it up to the next level recruiting presenters from all over the US and one from Australia. Of course this also required me working with others who also believed and shared in my vision to help get these top class presenters on board. And how long did it take to bring together the plans and commitment for a two day weekend Retreat which now has over 20 presenters and an anticipated audience of 300 or more? Just two days!

 

If you really want to achieve more, do more, and experience more in your life you may want to reward and honor yourself and now check out and join us at this amazing Retreat. Because like you and others I too get lured back to my own comfort zone sometimes and know there is a better way, better way of thinking, and I know there are likeminds who resonate with this belief and will support their network in the same.

 

The Empowerment Retreat is a testament to the human spirit, it is about how you can when all else tells you, you cannot or should not. The Retreat will take you from where you are yesterday and into today to where you want to be for tomorrow starting right now. It begins by you connecting with like minds, instilling the knowledge and confidence built from the how to’s and even how did they stories and strategies the presenters will share with you in this life transforming result.

 

To ensure we are able to grow the community and support as many like minds as possible the pricing is set lower than any seminar or bootcamp in the industry for self help and empowerment offering even half of what this one does. There are no rates you will find lower, it takes away any issues anyone could possibly have with cost concerns if they are inclined to making a difference in their lives financially, personally, spiritually, healthwise and relationshipwise. As a matter of fact on-site lodging is priced below cost! Everything has been set in motion to support a community and gateway to experiential learning to take you to the top. The bottom-line is there nothing on this Earth that brings you the format and human spirit this Empowerment Retreat offers and is built upon, nor anywhere near as close as the incredibly low price it is set at..

 

The Empowerment Retreat is about you breaking out of your comfort zone, taking action to make positive change in your life, and achieving a more abundant and positive outlook on your life and to what new heights you can bring yourself from what you walk away with at this inspirational, motivational and powerful weekend Retreat!.

 

To register for the Retreat visit www.powermastery.com. If you are stuck, if you are a wandering generality, trying to find your way, or want to surround yourself with the support system that believes in you and will be there as your network I wholeheartedly encourage you to be part of this Retreat, a labor of love, created in the image of how others I am connected to can be served to make an incredible difference in their lives and within their lifetime.

 

It is interesting how many people know what the word integrity means and state they live with integrity. The truth is many do have high moral intentions and act with best efforts yet fall short of living with the integrity they would like others to afford to them in return. Acting with integrity is what you do, it is what is emblematic of who you are, and what you stand for. It is about whether you had a deliberate intent and if not what you will do to make what you were going to do or not do right in what was outlined or promised by you.

Think about these examples: have you ever promised to be somewhere, meet with someone and you blow off the meeting at the last moment for no reason other than you were not up to it or felt tired, etc.? Have you ever offered to help someone, perhaps network with others and offer them some leads or contacts and never deliver or just shoot them names out of a newspaper or magazine you’ve read as carrying through on your ‘promise’ or statement to them? Or, have you ever not lived up to yourself in what you said you would or should do thereby allowing procrastination to prevail in and make decisions in your life?

These are examples of living outside integrity.. it doesn’t judge whether you are right or wrong in what you did or did not do what it does point out is you did not carry through with something or some action you promised to others and most importantly to others. What does this mean? If you can treat others with the respect of following through on what other perceive as your promise to them or what you schedule for yourself then you should not expect the same in return. You will be treated with like dispatch and labeled accordingly in that persons mind as either being dependable or trustworthy or not.

What does integrity mean? If you read Stephen M.R. Covey’s book titled “The Speed of Trust” you will find there is a vast difference in those who are viewed as trustworthy and who act with integrity vs. someone who they believe is honest. It takes commitment and character to build integrity and it takes your unconditional attitude and actions to establish a air of integrity. With integrity you can make a huge impact in your life as well as be a leader of wisdom and with a standard many never achieve because their integrity is not in alignment with who they are and may not be congruent with their actions and non-actions.Here is food for thought, it is powerful, it is true, it may be harsh to some, but it is reality: “People expect results, not excuses“.

Ever waited for someone who was late to meet up with you? Did you want to hear their excuses why they were late?

Ever have a time someone did not get the order correct or do what was specified to them in lengthy detail? Did you feel the person disrespected you in not listening to you or not placing importance in what you spent time explaining to them by at least not writing it down?

Ever have someone tell you they’d call you right back or they will call you at XYZ time or date and they never do? Did it feel like they blew you off or are a bit liberal with their statemens and promises?

There is the other side to this picture to all the things why people weren’t able to keep to their promise, and often it is something we can’t avoid such as car accidents, stuck in a tunnel on a train where there is no reception, etc. etc. And good in validating your point and it is still your excuse whether a valid one or not.

The issue is most people really don’t care what your excuse is if you “diss” them. There are few who can let go and treat it as what it is and move on with a lesson under their belt to see if it happens again. By the way here is a profound statement true 80% or more of the time “How you do things in your life, is how you do everything!“What does this mean to your interpersonal relationships and future for ‘WHO’ you are? Lets first say you are not a label so if you label yourself for some reason it is not true although you can convince yourself to live according to that label.

Who are you? If you wish to live with integrity remember to live without excuses and just do what needs to be done to correct the wrongs and prevent any repeat infractions in life for the future. You don’t need to go on explaining or excusing yourself because many times after the first time stating an excuse or even part way through it the person who was depending on you already stopped listening; and yes - sad but true - has begun judging you and has formed a global belief about you and your integrity/dependability.

There are few who can honestly say they are able to move beyond at least the initial thoughts of judgment of what just happened or what did not if someone did not live up to a promise (or sad to say that other person’s expectations) - by the way that thought may even be a forgiving one, so it is not always a negative although most of the time it is the negative view.We can live in a bubble a believe people are without judgment and in their good nature will believe and accept anything you say while still keeping you in high integrity.

Face the facts if someone is consistently late, consistently forgets things or never returns calls they say they will.. how will you begin pro-actively viewing this person’s integrity or ability? Again this is not about someone being a good nor bad person it is just what it is. However, it does leave milestones as to how that person will be viewed and treated by others in the future.If you live with integrity, and yes it is sometimes something you have to consciously work at achieving for the sake of ensuring you are not cutting corners in life, then life becomes a proverbial Oyster where the world opens to you in many opportunity while creating a much happier and abundant way of living. Have you ever wondered what the statement “treat others the way you would want to be treated” means? Now you on the right path to understanding.

Live your purpose and allow integrity to be your guiding light. Touch the many and show them the way you wish to be treated and you will be provided the respect of kings and queens - well maybe that is an exaggeration.. but certainly not the same respected afforded Homer Simpson.

Namaste~

 

Recently I launched www.powermastery.com. Lets first put everything in order first.. I am not nor have I ever been a web designer and my knowledge of CMS and CSS style sheets is event less. So if I told you I created a CMS based website in two days you may understand that is a fete laced with an inspirational “I can do it” mantra added to “Just do it” attitude.

 

The way this all came about there was no one I knew who understood could even effectively assist me in the coding and design of a Joomla based website. Why Joomla? It was easier than PHP Nuke, Mambo, Cold Fusion, and a bunch of others to use although still a daunting and steep learning curve. If you take it on make sure you have:

 

Infinite patience;

Tenacity;

Unshakeable stubbornness;

Some understanding of technical terms and instructions; and

The willingness to done it NOW

 

Visit www.powermastery.com and you will see it is a fairly complex even though fairly static based site.. the rest will come later. It has several menu boxes, a shopping cart, registration area, and even interesting fun ad ons. The best is it looks pretty good with not many dangling bits which happened in its early incarnations.

 

The fact the website exists now and I am able to make information public about this awesome weekend Empowerment Retreat to create positive change in people’s lives is solely based
on the fact I took action. It wan’t just action it was immediate action. If I thought about the “what if’s” or what I did or didn’t know about web design you and thousands of visitors would not be able to take advantage of the content that now resides there today.

 

The ability to take immediate and massive action is based on the fact it has to be a “must”. No “maybe’s” or “should’s”. You also need to commit right away. Take too much time and you will take yourself out of it. In the great advertising slogan Nike puts out.. “Just Do It!”.

 

Life waits for no one and it won’t wait for you. Why wait for your time when you can control the time you have now. Once you have the information to feel comfortable all is safe to proceed get going and don’t look back over your shoulder. The only time you should look back is to admire your handy work, your accomplishments and those around you who supported you.

 

Make your move and give yourself the courage to acknowledge your ability and value with all you do and take on. www.powermastery.com.

There were about 277 junk mail messages waiting for approval on this blog site - you were spared to honor of seeing them when I decided to deep six them. Ever wonder how effective hitting the same recipient with useless dribble is? The answer is not reserved for rocket scientist. The spam I received was 95% pharmaceutical based on male enhancement drugs and then a few others. Has the pharmacies gone out of business? I am wondering there must be a few souls out there who fall victim to these con grams.

 

Is the following an oxymoron.. sometimes it seems you get a piece of useful spam that is really non intrusive and is even polite in their approach. Not that I want any of it although the legit companies have to find some way of communicating with the population although the answer to a low cost method in this time of rising postal rates may be to go the route of smoke signals if the vendor can’t use the internet cost effectively.

 

Perhaps the answer is to hire a crew from either Chip and Dales, or the Playboy Mansion to hand deliver the marketing material right to your door! Hey, that would get more votes than trying to decide who to vote for in the primaries. Speaking of the primaries have you listened to the Democratic debates? Now let me say I have no allegiance to any party nor at this time endorse any candidate. I just vote for who I believe to be the best person for the job.

 

So trying not to be unbiased here is a lesson in human psychology and sales based on our political landscape:

 

1) Who would you buy from based on the following:

a) someone who spoke about “we” or “I”??

b) how much engaging is the speaker when at the beginning or end of each sentence there is a ‘duhh”?

c) how credible is someone who is selling promises and not results?

 

If you watch the Democratic debates and speeches you’ll see and hear exactly what the above is referencing. Your subconscious mind is constantly working. As a matter of fact 90% of the communication that is occurring in your brain is at a sub conscious level. There are things to be said about strategy working at the sub conscious level.

 

2) What is this with the Governor of New York? We know prostitution is among one of the oldest professions in the world. legal in some areas of the US, and some of the greatest leaders in the world have had harems and concubines. This doesn’t excuse infidelity although how do we know his actions were not condoned or just tolerated - I guess that may remain a secret between two people. I am still at a loss as to how his children are victims of his actions? They are not him, they are not accountable for what happened, they most likely don’t agree with what he did, are most likely going to get ribbed about it, and if not strong enough will believe they were some way at fault. So perhaps here it is the loose use of the term “victim”.

I heard in life there are no victims. There are only spectators and participants. Here there just so happens to be some collateral damage to the spectators. To be a victim you need to have been to primary focus of the intent or action. Unfortunately, for many, they assume a victim state and summarily for a few it becomes their identity. Life offers up a box of chocolates and it is up to each one of us, unless we do not have the luxury of deciding our own destiny. Own the day and don’t allow yourself to fall into victim state. It is so easily painted for many by others telling you ‘you’re a victim’. Before you know it you buy into it and go through life being the ‘victim’ instead of someone with their own voice or one who can make decisions for themselves. It is a painful thought for those who accept and live for people providing them a pity party. It does not get you far nor is it good for your self esteem and confidence.

Here is a question about this scandal: whose money paid for those services? Scandal? As with those who would cast the first stone what is the rate of infidelity at least here in the US? More importantly do you subscribe to the realism we are all human and people can stray when given the fact infidelity is almost a household word? Not to excuse the actions; however, can their be redemption, compassion or atonement for those who wander from their path with their life partner? At $1,000 an hour I’m considering changing my profession although I’d have to get a permission slip from my partner first!

By the way isn’t it incredible how a prostitute breaks the law, is seen as a victim, and is poised to make millions on magazine and book deals along with music download sales! Capitalism at its best!!! There is gold in them there hills.

 

3) On Bush.. Does he exist so we can have news to talk about? Well, no substantive comments.. I am sure you have your own thoughts

 

Vote with Passion!

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It is for the NY Times Travel Show Saturday and Sunday, Mrch 1 -2, 2008 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC. Carson will be conducting a presentation on the main stage on Saturday afternoon, March 1, 2008.