March 14, 2007
How To Harness Your 'Secret' Power
In This Issue:
Feature Article: "How To Harness Your 'Secret' Power"
Audio Interview: "Meet The 'Niche Cloner' Derek Tomei"
Quick Tips: "How To Control Your Email (So It Doesn't
Control You!)"
* FEATURE ARTICLE *
“How To Harness Your 'Secret' Power”
In this second interview with Personal Self-improvement Trainer,
Julia Nestler, I ask Julia how we can harness the "secret" power
we all have... but probably aren't fully using... our INTUITION.
Q: What is intuition?
A: Intuition is a wonderful ability we all are gifted with as
human beings. It is often called our Inner Guide, since it
secretly reveals to us what we should do or pay attention to in
many important situations.
Intuition has nothing to do with our rational thinking, it does,
in fact, replace it or complement it, since it works much more
precisely, quicker and in tandem with reality.
Rational thinking, on the other hand, works step-by-step in a
process over time while our intuition works for us in real time.
This means that our intuition communicates with us at that
critical and particular moment - just when we need it the most.
Intuition can appear like a clear and powerful message from deep
inside us, telling us what to do in important situations when our
rational thought processes can`t help us anymore. It can, for
example, give us that sudden, life-changing clear conclusion in a
critical situation – a decisive conclusion given to us, without
our having given it any logical or rational thought.
It can also be that sense of just "knowing" which decision is the
right one to make, especially in critical and time-pressing
situations.
Intuition will sometimes come as a distinct feeling that warns us
away from situations that just don’t "feel" right. For example,
danger – many people have described how an intuitive "feeling"
has saved them from tragic accidents. And much more.
Our intuition communicates with us in a wonderful way during many
important situations in life.
We all have this amazing ability but many of us may not know how
to get in touch with it, or even how to use it. But – intuitive
thinking is something we can all do! In fact, it’s an ability that
can be developed in an easy way and it always improves with use!
Q: Why is it important?
A: Our intuition is important because we need it in order to handle
our lives successfully. The more we are in touch with our
intuitive mind, the more we improve our ability to make the right
decisions in life, to solve problems, to find and discover great
possibilities, to create well-being and happiness, and much more.
Our brain consists of a right part (where the main part of our
intuitive thinking has its source) and of a left part (where our
rational thinking comes from). The reason why we have these two
parts of the brain is, of course, because we need them and
therefore should use them in balance.
Q: Why have so many of us lost our intuitive ability – or at
least our confidence in using it?
A: The two main reasons are:
a. Our western society, unfortunately, is focused almost exclusively on rational thinking as a "rational" means of conducting our lives and solving our problems.
This process starts in our childhood when our natural intuition is still very keen.
More precisely, somewhere between 4 and 5 years of age we
often start to learn through our upbringing that our
intuitive thinking needs to be controlled and adapted. We learn this by noting a growing increase the attention and praise we receive for excising our rational thinking as we
grow older, simultaneous with a decided decrease in the
attention and praise we receive for the spontaneous,
intuitive things we say and do. Instead, we might have been taught to accept, even welcome intuition and encouraged to understand how we can use in balance with rational thinking, but, unfortunately, this rarely happens.
As a result we lose confidence in our spontaneous intuitive
abilities and use them less and less the older we get, until
finally, we’re all but completely cut off from them. b. The other main reason our intuition gets cut off has to do
with two very trying emotional mind-states, namely, fear and
various kinds of stress – two states many of us will come to have even more difficulty with in our lives if we don't take care of our self-esteem and personal development. Q: What can someone do to improve their intuitive ability right
now?
A: There are many things we can do – here are two examples.
1. Make room in your daily life for a period of calm and
stillness. Intuition is suffocated by stress and by a tempo in our lives that is far too high and far too constant. You need to find an inner-peace, divorced from all planning and
analysis. Until you do, you cannot perceive intuition’s subtle
messages.
You can meditate – do relaxation exercises – take walks in
nature – or perhaps take a long warm bath.
The particular method is not all that important – consistency
is the key. Be prepared that in the beginning suppressed
tiredness, sorrow or anger may bubble up. It can feel
uncomfortable, even frightening, but when you dare to meet
them, these feelings gradually die away, and you’ll have
increased you self-esteem at the same time you’ve been creating an opening for your intuition to communicate with you.
2. Make the most of your dreams. The traditional common-sense advice, "Sleep on it," reveals an age-old wisdom. Intuition
doesn’t sleep simply because you do.
Pay attention to your dreams. Try to remember them and see if
you can discover something new about yourself.
About Julia
Julia Nestler is a Personal Self-improvement Trainer and author.
Order her break-through ebook, How To Find The Secrets To Your Self-esteem! and you'll also get a FREE bonus copy of her ebook,
"The Intuition Report".
For more information visit:
==> http://www.successaccelerator.net/self-esteem.html
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* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
“How To Get a Job... The Easy Way”
Are you eager to change jobs... but worried that you'll end up
spending ages looking for a job... only to get nowhere?
You know, where you spend day after day pouring through job
listings... applying for countless jobs... sending numerous cover
letters and resumes...
...only to get a “we’ll keep your details on file” rejection
letter... or an interview with someone who seems determined NOT
to hire you?
Well, it's not so surprising when you discover that 50% of all
new jobs go to "Insiders"... people who take a different - and
much more effective - approach to getting the job they want.
Yet all the books, career counselors and recruiters tell us
to apply for a job using the conventional "Outsider" approach!
No wonder getting a job is so hard.
Well it doesn't have to be... and it's NOT.
Not when YOU discover and apply the Insider approach to getting
a job.
Read on...
* AUDIO INTERVIEW *
“Meet The 'Niche Cloner' Derek Tomei”
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If you're interested in building an Internet based business or growing any kind of business from scratch, you'll enjoy this interview with Derek Tomei. |
| Derek and I had a great talk about Internet marketing, business and success... and I managed to squeeze all sorts of things out of him, like: |
- How Derek turned his professional expertise into a super-successful business running niche sites on the Net. (Just
one of these sites earns Derek over $20,000 per month... and
he only spends 3-4 hours a week on it.)
- How Derek gave up the safety and security of the corporate
world to being an Internet entrepreneur... the SMART way.
- What many Internet marketing "gurus" DON'T teach you...
because they don't know! (Hint: if you think all the
techniques used by marketers in the Internet marketing
niche work just as well in other niches... think again!)
- What Derek believes to be the No.1 best business to get
into on the Internet... and no, it's definitely NOT Internet
marketing. It's much bigger and there are still plenty of
opportunities!
- The most important thing Derek did to ensure he achieved
business and financial success WITHOUT sacrificing his
family or other needs. (It sounds simple... but it's made
all the difference in the world to his business and life.)
- Derek's "formula" for achieving success in every single
business he goes into.
==> Interview with Derek Tomei
(Click to play and/or save to your computer.)
Check out the websites Derek mentioned in the interview: NichePros.com and Secret Success Warriors
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* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
“How an Ordinary Manager Transformed a Struggling Business On
The Verge Of Collapse Into a $40 Million Company”
Here’s a shocking, yet true, story...
At the start of last year, a good friend of mine took the job of
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a small technology company.
The company was five years old, but hopelessly unprofitable.
It’s backers – a venture capital company – were growing impatient
with the company’s abysmal performance and ordered the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) to appoint someone who could
commercialize the company’s technology – so they would finally
have a product to sell.
Otherwise, the venture capital company would no longer fund the
business.
My friend was excited about the job. He was a bit of a risk taker, and despite the pressure, looked forward to helping the
company bring its product to market and build it into a
profitable business.
But there was one problem.
A big problem.
The staff, the CEO warned him, were “incompetent and lazy.”
In fact, one of the reasons the CTO was being hired was to get
rid of the “dead wood.”
“Frankly,” the CEO told my friend, “you’ll probably have to fire
the lot of them.”
Read on...
* QUICK TIPS *
“How To Control Your Email (So It Doesn't Control You!)”
Now, I'll admit to being a recovering email-aholic, but I can
tell you, if I didn't do a few things right... the situation
would be far worse!
Here are a few tips I highly recommend for minimizing the time
you spend sorting through your email - e.g. working out which
emails to read first, who they're from, where to find them, etc.
1. Organize
Create rules in your email program so that emails from specific
people go to specific folders. Put your replies to those emails in
the same folders too.
2. Scan
When you check your email, scan (don't read) each message first.
This allows you to...
3. Prioritize
Decide which emails to read first based on their order of
importance.
4. Read
Read your emails in order of priority, at the appropriate time.
5. Think
If an email motivates you to take action e.g. reply or visit a
website, take a moment to THINK before you act. Is it necessary
to respond right now? Should it wait until you've finished doing
something else more important?
And when it comes to replying to a gruff or unfriendly email...
think before you reply. Should you reply at all? What outcome do
you want to achieve? What is the best way to phrase your response
to achieve that outcome? And if someone else came across your
email... would you be proud of what you wrote?
6. Respond, check and send
Go ahead and write your response, but before you send... make
sure you're sending it to the right person and aren't likely to
make any other email faux pas!
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