Merry Christmas!

Have a blissfully blessed Christmas, Everyone! I value and appreciate your visits with me here, at Heart's Desires Are Coming True, and your tweets with me at Twitter.com/DelynMiche. Again, thank-you! It's one of my heart's desires and prayer that you all have a physically, Spiritually and financially prosperous, beautifully productive 2010! Take care.

Your Business Profitability: 7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase It

7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability

Good day, Everyjone! Today's post features a presentation by Consulting WorX, which details '7 Ways a Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability'. You'll read about:

• Focus on Your Core Business
• Reduce Staff Costs
• Increase Flexibility
• Control Capital Costs
• Start New Projects Quickly
• Level the Playing Field
• Increase Efficiency
  

7 Ways A Freelancer Can Increase Your Business Profitability

Gold and Silver: Wealth Building

FDIC, 9-11 and Why Michael Maloney Doesn’t Use a Safe Deposit Box

Hello, Everyone! Today's post is about wealth-building precious metals, gold and silver, with Mike Maloney of GoldSilver.com.

Mike Maloney is the owner and founder of GoldSilver.com, an online precious metals dealership that specializes in delivery of gold and silver to a customer's doorstep, arranges for special secured storage, or for placement in one's IRA account. Additionally, GoldSilver.com provides invaluable research and commentary for its clients, assisting them in their wealth building endeavors. Learn more about Mike Maloney.

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

The New Economy: People, Planet & Profit
Buzz Marketing Ingredients

Good day, Everyone! The following presentation is vividly interesting and informative, with details of how to create a buzz online. Specifically, it shares the few, key ingredients that must be present for a web campaign to be truly successful in achieving its goals. View it to discover the examples of these keys:

1. Ground Breaking
2. Cool
3. Spread Correctly
4. Believable
5. Simple

These keys may be what you need for your online/web campaign. It's so good you'll want to go through it more than once and visit the actual sites (online) of the examples! I have. Enjoy!

Green Marketing: 5 Ingredients to Creating Buzz Online

The Business of Blogging

Blogging As A Business Option

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features a presentation, "Blogging As a Business Option" by Zigfred Diaz. This presentation details:

• What a blog is
• How bloggers make money
• How traditional business owners can boost their business via blogging
• The basics of how to setup a blog

For those of you that aren't blogging yet, this should be helpful.  For those of you that are blogging already, you may learn something new. Enjoy!

Blogging As A Business Option

Related Link: Start Your Own Blogging Business (Startup)

Think Before You Post - Facebook

News Hub: Navigating Facebook's Privacy Changes ~ 12/9/2009

Good day, Everyone! Facebook has rolled out privacy changes, including the elimination of regional networks as well as the ability to specify who can see photos, links or other posted items a member adds to his profile. In the following video Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin and Elizabeth Bernstein join the News Hub to discuss the changes.

Opportunities in Difficult Times

Steve Ballmer: Opportunities in Difficult Times
Stanford University

Summary
Steven Anthony Ballmer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing, since January 2000. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. As a visionary and leader, Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft to the top of the computer software world.

In the following presentation Ballmer discusses a variety of topics of interest to entrepreneurs, including:

• The Economy: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
• Entrepreneurs Are the Future
• Big vs. Small Company Experience

Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century

LuxuryLab: Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century

LuxuryLab presented its first-ever INNOVATION FORUM, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace. Held at TheTimesCenter in November '09, the forum brought together thought leaders to share never-seen-before research, trends, best practices, and a passion for ideas.

Hello, Everyone!  I appreciate your presence, here! Thank-you.

Today's feature, except for the few expletives/swearwords used for emphasis, is a valuable presentation by Cindy Gallop and LuxuryLab detailing factors that she thinks will impact business with those that easily afford luxury items.  It is quite informative.  Are you positioning your business/talent-work to be a luxury brand (in a win-win/win-win-win way)?  Watch, listen and learn.

Note: If video isn't visible on this page (home page), click Lucrative Luxury Brands of the 22nd Century.

Ten Booming Business Opportunities

10 Business Opportunities That Are Booming

Hello, Everyone! I hope you enjoyed a glorious Thanksgiving Day celebration. With today's post I'm sharing the Business Insider article, below, which highlights business opportunities that are FLOURISHING in this economy! You may discover something that you can do!

Thanksgiving & Gratitude: This One Plus 364 More

Gratitude at Thanksgiving

Hello, Everyone! This week many people are gathering to celebrate, Thanksgiving Day, and will express their gratitude for each other, their gathering and other wonderful blessings. This is a wonderful day of celebration, for sure! However, let's not forget to extend that attitude of gratitude into our daily life. We have so much to be grateful for everyday that we may actually overlook, because it's always present. Such as:

• family: mother, father, daughter(s), son(s), sister(s), brother(s), grandmothers, grandfathers, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, in-laws, 'half-' and 'step-' relatives
• friends
• affiliates, their products and services
• mentors
• associates, Blogger blog readers/visitors (you all, from all over the globe), & Twitter Tweeple
• businesses: our own and others' like Macy's, Wal-mart, TJ Maxx, JourneyEd, MotherNatures.com, Kroger & so many more
• financial income sources (win-win & win-win-win)
• financial abundance
• pets
• nature
• technology, electronics and software (and its inventors) we use regularly, if not everyday, like Blogger, Adobe, Twitter, WordPress, Skype, BlackBerry, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Internet & many more
• appliances by GE, Maytag, Philips & many more
• water (clean)
• air (fresh)
• sunshine
• sleep (restorative & soothing)
• food (nutritious & delicious)
• furniture & furnishings
• houses/homes
• generosity
• kindness
• honesty
• integrity
• great customer service/care
• talents & gifts
• music (uplifting, joyous, soothing, exciting; all the good)
• various objects of comfort and convenience
• automobiles/transportation
• safety
• leisure and blissful experiences
• health (great or improving)
• love
• our Creator, His Creation, His love, His blessings (including His son, Christ Jesus)

This list contains only a few of the blessings we can be thankful for everyday! It's my desire that you all enjoy a healthy, safe, joy-filled Thanksgiving Day along with 364 other days, each year, filled with much to be thankful for!  Enjoy the serene, blissful video and its 'Thanksgiving' music.

Thank-you for visiting with me, here and leaving your 'star' on the Revolver visitor globe. I'm forever grateful for your presence here! Take care.

Attitude Decides Altitude

Attitude Decides Altitude - Presentation

Good day, Everyone!  Here's a neat visual presentation that uses an original way to highlight the truth that our attitudes really do impact how high our level of achievement can grow!  Is your attitude stunting the achievement of your goals and heart's desires?  Enjoy.

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported

Why Diversification is A Mistake: New Rules of Money - Part 7/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

FOCUS! Why Diversification is A Mistake

Good day, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 7/7: / Focus! Why Diversification is A Mistake

The Difference Between Buy, Sell & Fool: New Rules of Money - Part 6/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

The Difference Between Buy, Sell and Fool

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 6/7: The Difference Between Buy, Sell and Fool.

Good Debt vs. Bad Debt: New Rules of Money - Part 5/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

Good Debt versus Bad Debt

Good day, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 5/7: Good Debt vs. Bad Debt.

Assets vs. Liabilities: New Rules of Money - Part 4/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

Assets versus Liabilities

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 4/7: Assets vs. Liabilities.

Why Savers Are Losers in This Economy: New Rules of Money - Part 3/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

Why Savers Are Losers in This Economy

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 3/7: Why Savers Are Losers in This Economy.

The CASHFLOW Quadrant: New Rules of Money - Part 2/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

The CASHFLOW Quadrant

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 2/7: The CASHFLOW Quadrant.

Conventional Education vs. Financial Literacy: New Rules of Money - Part 1/7 by Robert Kiyosaki

Conventional Education Vs. Financial Literacy

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Robert Kiyosaki explaining New Rules of Money, Part 1/7: Conventional Education Vs. Financial Literacy.

10 Questions for 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Author Robert Kiyosaki w/ Time Magazine

Good day, Everyone! Today's post features, Robert Kiyosaki, an investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker and inventor.

Robert Toru Kiyosaki, born April 8, 1947, is best known for his Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of motivational books and other material. He has written 15 books which have combined sales of over 26 million copies. Three of his books, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant, and Rich Dad's Guide to Investing, have been on the:

• top 10 best-seller lists
• simultaneously on The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the New York Times.

The book Rich Kid Smart Kid was published in 2001, with the intent to help parents teach their children financial concepts. He has created three "Cashflow" board and software games for adults and children and has a series of "Rich Dad" audio cassettes and disks. He also publishes a monthly newsletter. The financial guru's new book is Conspiracy of the Rich.

In this July 2009 presentation, below, Robert Kiyosaki answers finance/money/wealth questions.

Featured in upcoming posts are Robert Kiyosaki's New Rules of Money series from August 2008 (still quite relevant in 2009), including:

• Conventional Education vs. Financial Literacy
• The CASHFLOW Quadrant
• Why Savers Are Losers in This Economy
• Assets vs. Liabilities
• Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
• The Difference Between Buy, Sell and Fool
• Focus! Why Diversification is A Mistake

This is a very enlightening series; it is educational and tremendously beneficial!

Les Brown on Mindset Maintenance!

Good day, Everyone! Today's video features a discussion with Les Brown, the World-renown Motivational Speaker!

The 50 Million Dollar Entrepreneur-ess!

Good day, Everyone! Today, a panel discusses 'Business Success' with Renee Fraser and Betsy Berkhemer.

Facebook: Ten Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy

Good day, Everyone!  Today's post features Facebook Privacy Tips. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.  As you may know, many individuals, entrepreneurs and companies are utilizing it quite successfully as a business tool.  You'll want to be knowledgeable about safely utilizing Facebook.

10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
Posted by: Dr. Joseph Mercola
September 29, 2009

"Facebook has over 300 million active users. It is growing VERY rapidly. In July of this year there were 250 million users and 75 days later they added another 50 million users. Please understand that Facebook will become as pervasive as phones and computers, so if you aren’t on already I would strongly encourage you to consider joining.

Unfortunately, most users don’t know the implications of entering personal information, making friends, and playing games on Facebook.

However these concerns are EASY to address if you follow the guidelines below. Please understand that I strongly believe Facebook now offers a very powerful way to leverage our influence and more rapidly change the fatally flawed conventional paradigm.

I am VERY excited about Facebook and spend a lot of my free time connecting with highly leveraged individuals and CEOs of major companies, and news media. I have several major national news correspondents and journalists as friends.

I’m currently in the process of brainstorming a strategy to optimize these new relationships, but once that is done we should be able to get the message out to well over ten million people.

At this time I believe Facebook is going to play a major role in the beginning of the end of the entire corrupt system.

Currently Facebook limits the number of friends you can have to 5000 and I reached that many months ago. So if you haven’t already done so, please join my Facebook Fan page which has around 20,000 fans at this time.

There is a good chance that Facebook will change the rules and open up the Fan page to friends in the near future, so please join my Fan Page now.

Once you join Facebook, or if you are already on it, please follow these guidelines to preserve your privacy.

1. Organize Friends in Lists

Friend Lists are the foundation of your Facebook privacy settings. Select Friends from the top menu, and  use the Create link to create friend lists like Co-workers, Family, College Friends, etc. Your friends can’t see your lists, so you can name them whatever you like.

2. Customize Profile Privacy

Click Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile. Select which parts of your profile will be seen by whom. If you choose Customize in the drop down, you can be more specific. This is where the Friend Lists you created before become really useful.

Also go to the Contact Information tab and choose how you want your contact information to be shared on the Internet.

3. Set Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums

On the Photos tab of your profile page, click Album Privacy. Here again, you can use your Friend Lists to set the privacy for each photo album. Note that your profile pictures go into a special album that is always visible to ALL your friends.

4. Restrict Search Visibility

Click Privacy > Search to set your visibility when someone searches Facebook for people. This is an important way to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates

Your actions in Facebook such as comments, likes, appear as highlights on ALL your friends’ home pages. You cannot use friend lists here, only turn them on or off. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall and make your selections.

6. Set Facebook Wall Privacy

Go to your profile page, click Options > Settings under the status box. Here you can control whether your friends can post to your Wall, and who can see the posts made by your friends.

7. Avoid Appearing in Advertisements

Facebook has two types of advertisements: third-party and Facebook. Third-party advertisements are currently not allowed to use your pictures, but there is a setting to disallow it if it is allowed in the future. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall > Facebook Ads tab to turn this off.

8. Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications

Go to Privacy > Applications, and click the Settings tab and uncheck all the boxes. These settings control what information about you is visible to applications installed by your friends. By default, these are set to visible. This means that your information is readily available to one of the million worldwide Facebook application developers, each time any of your friends takes a quiz, plays a game, or runs any other Facebook app. These settings control what applications installed by your friends can see about you, even if you don’t install the application yourself.

9. Privacy from Your Applications

There is no way to control what applications see about you; it is an all-or-nothing affair. The only thing you can do is to authorize only those applications you require and trust. Go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu. Change the drop-down from Recently Used to Authorized. Here you can see all the applications you have authorized to get access to ALL your profile information. Remove the ones you no longer need. Also check the list of applications Allowed to Post and Granted Additional Permissions to remove unwanted ones.

10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, Don’t Just De-Activate Your Account

You can easily deactivate your account in Facebook from the Settings page. But deactivation will retain all your profile information within Facebook, including pictures, friends, etc. If you want to permanently delete your Facebook account, click here to submit a deletion request. Note that:

There is an unspecified delay between submitting your delete request and actual deletion.

If you login to Facebook, your deletion request is automatically cancelled.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to confirm that your request was completed.

Even after permanent deletion, copies of your photos may remain on their servers for technical reasons.

Sources: MakeUseOf.com September 13, 2009"



Note: Also, view "3 New Facebook Strategies for Building Your Personal Brand"

2.3 Billion Dollars in Referrals!

Good day, Everyone! Today's video features a discussion with Dr. Ivan Misner, the Founder and Chairman of BNI - the world's largest business networking organization, which has generated 2.3 billion dollars in referrals!

Are You Failing Enough?

Good day, Everyone! This video, above, shares tips on "How Failure is Part of Success.'

Turn Your Passions into Profits!

Good day, Everyone! This video features a panel discussion on 'The New Entrepreneurial Mind' with Wealth and Life Style Strategist, Chris Howard!

Recession or Rebooting?

Hello, Everyone! Today's video explores the "Rebooting of the Economy - Is the Recession a Blessing?"

How to Accelerate Your Life & Your Business

Hello, Everyone! Today's video features tips on how to accelerate your business with CEO of Early to Rise, Mary Ellen Tribby!

THIS Skill Will Boost Your Success!

Hello, Everyone! This video features a panel discussion with Communications & Productivity Expert, Dianna Booher. Watch, listen and learn!

Business & Marketing Legend, Jay Abraham: Is Your Business Recession-Proof?

Hello, Everyone! Watch, listen and learn from the Business and Marketing legend, Jay Abraham!

Benefit from the Social Media Revolution

Hello, Everyone! The following video features the 'Pied Piper of Social Media', Mari Smith, sharing valuable details on maximizing our usage of social media, now.

Video: For Entrepreneurs Only

Good morning/evening, Everyone! 2009 is a great time to become an excellent entrepreneur so as to establish a foundation for your long-term (lifetime) financial independance. Today, I'm sharing information about The Entrepreneurs' Organization to introduce another 'tool', in the form of this organization, which you may utilize to achieve your business goals, dreams & heart's desires.

"The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) - for entrepreneurs only - is a dynamic, global network of more than 7,300 business owners in 42 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life." ~ EO. View this 4-minute video to hear and see how EO engages leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow. Also, you may want to follow EO on Twitter for entrepreneurial tweets!

"You Can Acquire & Achieve Everything in Life You Desire, If ..."

Good day, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing some of the wonderful wisdom of Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar. Zig Ziglar, born on the 6th of November 1926, is an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker. Below, you'll find several wisdom-filled statements and success principles by Zig Ziglar which are so valuable for life endeavors. Be sure to check out the Zig Ziglar Twitter movie linked to at the end of the quotes!

• You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
• A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
• Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
• If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
• Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.
• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.
• You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
• If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
• The way you see people is the way you treat them.
• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

View a delightful 'western/cowboy' themed movie about the Laws of the Twitterverse from Zig Ziglar and see how some of the quotes above apply to Twitter, as well!

The Most Valuable Question You Can Ask

The Most Valuable Question You Can Ask
by Jack Canfield

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect.

Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Thomas Edison is reported to have tried over 2,000 different experiments that failed before he finally got the light bulb to work. He once told a reporter that, from his perspective, he had never failed at all. Inventing the light bulb was just a 2,000-step process. If you can adopt that attitude, then you can be free to take an action, notice what result you get, and then adjust your next actions based on the feedback you have received.

Ready, Fire, Aim!

Don't be afraid to just jump in and get started moving toward your goals. As long as you pay attention to the feedback you receive, you will make progress. Just getting into the game and firing allows you to correct and refine your aim.

The Most Valuable Question You May Ever Learn

In the 1980s, a multimillionaire businessman taught me a question that radically changed the quality of my life. So what is this magical question that can improve the quality of every relationship you are in, every product you produce, every service you deliver, every meeting you conduct, every class you teach and every transaction you enter into?

Here it is:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality
of our relationship during the last week?"

Here are a number of variations on the same question that have served me well over the years...

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate...

· our service?
· my teaching?

· our product?
· this class/seminar/workshop?

· this meeting?
· our date/vacation?

· our performance?
· this meal?

· my coaching/managing?
· this book/recording/show?

· my parenting/babysitting?



Any answer less than a 10 always gets this follow-up question:

"What would it take to make it a 10?"

This is where the *really* valuable information comes from. Knowing that a person is dissatisfied is not enough. Knowing in detail what will satisfy them gives you the information you need to do whatever it takes to create a winning product, service or relationship.

There Are Two Kinds of Feedback

There are two kinds of feedback you might encounter - negative and positive. We tend to prefer the positive - that is, results, money, praise, promotion, raise, awards, happiness, inner-peace, etc. It feels betters. It tells us we are on course and doing the right thing.

We tend not to like negative feedback - lack of results, little or no money, criticism, poor evaluations, complaints, unhappiness, inner conflict, pain, etc.

However, there is as much useful data in negative feedback as there is in positive feedback. It tells us that we are off course, headed in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. This is priceless information!

In fact, it's so valuable that one of the most useful projects you could undertake is to change how you respond to negative feedback. I like to refer to negative feedback as information for "improvement opportunities." Here is a place where I can get better.

Ask Yourself for Feedback

In addition to asking others for feedback, you need to ask yourself for feedback, too. More than any other source of feedback, your body will tell you whether or not you are on course or not. When you are relaxed and happy, your body is telling you that you are on track. When you are constantly exhausted, tense, in pain, unhappy and angry, then you are off track.

Take time to listen to what your body is saying to you. Take time to listen to your physical sensations and your feelings. They are sending you important messages. Are you listening?

Remember, Feedback Is Simply Information

You don't have to take it personally. Just welcome it and use it.

For more on Using Feedback to Your Advantage, review Principle #19 in The Success Principles. It's one of the most important principles you can apply.

© 2009 Jack Canfield


Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.freesuccessstrategies.com/.

Acknowledge and Appreciate Yourself

Hello, Everyone! I'm sharing more articles from Mr. Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, and I'm very grateful that he allows bloggers to share them on our sites!


Acknowledge and Appreciate Yourself
by Jack Canfield

Pop Quiz: When was the last time you acknowledged and appreciated yourself?

That’s right: YOU. Not your spouse, not your children, not your boss, co-workers or friends. Just YOU!

Seriously, think about it!

And if it’s been too long since your last pat on the back, then I want you to take the time right now to acknowledge and appreciate yourself for everything you've accomplished today, throughout the year, and in life.

Ask yourself: How many times have you succeeded in the past month? The past year? The past 10 years? Are you able to recall your successes as easily as your failures and missteps?

This is not a selfish or egotistical act in the least. By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved—and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses—you actually can enhance everything about you!

Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have.It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life. Whatever that might be. The road then becomes easier to navigate—easier to see from the distance and walk confidently step by step.

Don’t forget to think about both big and little accomplishments. Many people under-appreciate the minor things they do successfully every day . And yet they can recall in detail all the times they have failed or made mistakes. That's because the brain remembers events more easily when they are accompanied by strong emotions.

For example, you might vividly recall a graduation, losing 10 pounds, having a child, winning an award, or landing a highly sought after position. But see if you can identify just as many minor, more subtle successes, such as your intimate conversation with your spouse last night, the re-connection you established with an estranged friend last month, the quality time you were able to spend with your children today, how you checked off all your list of To-Dos for the weekend, how you learned a new task at work, or got your kid to school on time.

These may seem like minor acts in the grand scheme of life, but they are what make us feel whole, happy, and accomplished along the journey toward those larger, and much more deeply satisfying moments.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has it pluses, but we often don’t have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders. And a mind stuffed with negative chatter about the gaffes of life won’t fuel your energy, nor your confidence, creativity, and motivation to keep going.

Consider this, too: if you only remember the mistakes and failures, you won't be as ready to take risks that will lead to your successes. Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again.

Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don’t wait for anyone to praise you. Here are two suggestions:

1.) Record Your Personal History. Take time to write your achievements down. Start when you were very young and think of all your achievements since then. Don't just pick the major milestones; write down all the things you take for granted. For example, if you list your college degree, write your appreciation for having the opportunity to go to college and forge friendships that will last a lifetime.

You can also create a log of success every day and review it when you are faced with a new challenge. By writing it all down daily, you're securing it in your long-term memory and it will become a part of what makes you tick. It can even become a source of positive reminders and affirmations for when you’re feeling down, as well as a personal record of you that becomes your legacy.

2.) Celebrate Yourself with Mementos. Surround yourself with reminders of your successes. Put up pictures, articles, trophies, awards and other pieces that bring your attention to your success. Make your environment speak to you about your achievements. Be proud of them!

By the way, showing appreciation for yourself and accomplishments has many rewards that go far beyond boosting your own self-confidence.

Appreciating yourself creates a cascading affect—your heightened confidence will spill over into other aspects of your life. Watch what happens when you gain that special trust in yourself. You’ll attract opportunities, experience more fulfilling relationships, and have no trouble reaching loftier goals.

Remember, people like to be around those who have a healthy self-esteem and who are achieving their goals. Commit to acknowledging your achievements and your brain will begin to tell you the truth: that you can do anything!

© 2009 Jack Canfield


Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.freesuccessstrategies.com/.

Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (5) - Twitter Tools

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing the fifth part of a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! The first four of the five presentations posted here, 8/23/2009. Each of them is enlightening and helpful. The following presentation is Part Five - 'Twitter Tools'

A Conversation About Twitter - Part Five

View more presentations from Fresh Consulting.

TwitStamp: Attractively Designed Twitter Badges

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing another possiblility for your Twitter widget/badge called the TwitStamp. "TwitStamp allows you to use your current Twitter status anywhere - in the form of an image. This means you can post your status on blogs, forums, websites... wherever you want!

You can follow @twitstamp on Twitter for the latest news and updates. Following us will also allow you to use TwitStamp even if your profile is private." ~ TwitStamp

For detailed help with your TwitStamp visit http://twitstamp.com/help. The following images are a few of the attractive badge designs available from Twitstamp.

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Twitter Widget: How to Resize It to Fit Your Sidebar

Hello, Everyone. By now you know that Twitter is an extraordinary tool for business/entrepreneurs, particularly if you:

• include a functioning URL for your website/blogsite
• Tweet about your latest blog posts, your events, your other social sites, & such which directs traffic to your sites.
• use the Twitter widget on your site to display those 'tweets' so that people that visit your site can click on the links to your other sites and visit. It's another tool!

As I visit my Twitter Followers' sites, I've noticed that many have their Twitter widgets sized too wide to display properly within the boundaries of their sidebars. That can be solved by resizing the widget, appropriately. Below, I've included several examples of actual Twitter widgets that I've resized. I've highlighted the numerical values in green.

To resize your Twitter (Facebook) widget (Note: I'm using the same widget on this Blogspot/ Blogger blog in a different color) look for the two, width and height values and increase or reduce the value to fit your space. The code values to look for appear twice in the widget's code; two for height and two for width.

Examples of the resized widget are below. By increasing or decreasing the width="___" and height="___" values, I'm able to resize the widget after pasting the code into my blog.

width="290" height="350"

width="200" height="260"

width="400" height="460"

width="200" height="400"

width="150" height="150"

Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (4) - Seven Strategies and Tactics

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! Four of the five presentations will post here, today. Each of them is enlightening and helpful.

The following presentation is Part Four - 'Seven Strategies and Tactics'

A Conversation About Twitter - part four

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Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (3) - What's In It for Business

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! Four of the five presentations will post here, today. Each of them is enlightening and helpful.

The following presentation is Part Three - 'What's In It for Business'

A Conversation About Twitter - Part Three

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Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (2) - Why Should I Join?

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! Four of the five presentations will post here, today. Each of them is enlightening and helpful.

The following presentation is Part Two - 'Why Should I Join?'

A Conversation About Twitter - Part Two

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Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (1)

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! The series has five presentations. Four of the five presentations will post here, today. I think you will find each presentation to be enlightening and helpful. I hope you enjoy them. Take care!

"Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.

Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis. Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits. In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent. However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained. A recent study found that 40% of twitter messages constituted "pointless babble"." ~ Wikipedia.

For interesting history details about Twitter, view Twitter History.

The following presentation is Part One: 'To Tweet or Not to Tweet - What is Twitter?'

A Conversation about Twitter - Part One

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Video: The Blessing - Walking in Fullness (3)

Hello, Everyone! The following presentation is the third entry of information from Joel Osteen, teaching about "Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing." Joel Osteen, the American, best-selling author and senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His Christian ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in the United States and millions more in over 100 nations around the world. He shares wonderful insights of what it means to live in the full Blessing.

Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing Part 3

Video: The Blessing - Walking in Fullness (2)

Hello, Everyone! The following presentation is my second entry of information from Joel Osteen teaching about "Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing." Joel Osteen, the American, best-selling author and senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His Christian ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in the United States and millions more in over 100 nations around the world. He shares insights of what it means to live in the full Blessing.

Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing - Part 2

Video: The Blessing - Walking in Fullness (1)

Hello, Everyone! In this post and forthcoming posts I'll feature information from Joel Osteen teaching about "Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing." Joel Scott Hayley Osteen is an American, best-selling author and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His Christian ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in the United States and millions more in over 100 nations around the world. ~ Wikipedia

"This ministry is committed to helping people from all walks of life experience the unconditional love and unending hope found only in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We are sharing this hope with others by providing the basic necessities of food, clothing and medical supplies to those in need. We are using television, Internet, podcasts and other new technologies to reach others with the Good News of the gospel. We are dedicated to helping people everywhere be inspired and rediscover their true purpose in life." ~ Joel Osteen.com

Walking in the Fullness of the Blessing - Part 1

Video: 3 Steps to Creating Wealth - Tony Robbins

Hello, Everyone! The following audio presentation concludes this particular series of posts featuring outstanding information by Tony Robbins. In this audio presentation, he speaks of "3 Steps to Creating Wealth".

The posts of this series are:

1. Shifting the Factors that Define You ~ posted 8/13/2009
2. Shift Your Focus ~ posted 8/14/2009
3. Your Focus is Key to Your Success ~ posted 8/15/2009
4. What is True Wealth? ~ posted 8/16/2009
5. 3 Steps to Creating Wealth ~ posted 8/17/2009 (below)

3 Steps to Creating Wealth