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Ryan deserves the keys to the franchise

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Johnson finds his fame at Ga. Tech

San Francisco Examiner - His organizational game-planning teaching and motivational skills were firmly in place the day he took the Navy job six years ago following a ridiculous 62-10 run at Division I-AA Georgia-Southern. As head coach offensive coordinator and play ...

Season could be on the line tonight

San Francisco Examiner - Billick’s strengths have always been in the organizational and motivational areas — the behind-the-scenes stuff that happens during the week. Sundays have been another story. Between his lack of in-game adjustments his failure to find roles for ...

Ryan deserves the keys to the franchise

San Francisco Examiner - He’s a charismatic communicator and his teaching and motivational skills are plainly visible. As a defensive line coach under Billick he inherited interior linemen Tony Siragusa Sam Adams and Lional Dalton — not exactly a trio representing world ...

Johnson finds his fame at Ga. Tech

San Francisco Examiner - His organizational game-planning teaching and motivational skills were firmly in place the day he took the Navy job six years ago following a ridiculous 62-10 run at Division I-AA Georgia-Southern. As head coach offensive coordinator and play ...

Season could be on the line tonight

San Francisco Examiner - Billick’s strengths have always been in the organizational and motivational areas — the behind-the-scenes stuff that happens during the week. Sundays have been another story. Between his lack of in-game adjustments his failure to find roles for ...

Johnson finds his fame at Ga. Tech

San Francisco Examiner - His organizational game-planning teaching and motivational skills were firmly in place the day he took the Navy job six years ago following a ridiculous 62-10 run at Division I-AA Georgia-Southern. As head coach offensive coordinator and play ...

Season could be on the line tonight

San Francisco Examiner - Billick’s strengths have always been in the organizational and motivational areas — the behind-the-scenes stuff that happens during the week. Sundays have been another story. Between his lack of in-game adjustments his failure to find roles for ...

Season could be on the line tonight

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Motivation, Your Core Resource by Ke o agile

Motivation, Your Core Resource by Ke o agile

Your motivation is one of the core resources you have to accomplish all the things you want to achieve.
Let us get one thing clear though before we handle this resource called motivation.

You may have listened to people who refer to themselves as 'motivational speakers'. And you may have attended a motivational training workshop. You got motivated there. Good!

I want you though to start of thinking of 'motivation' in a new way. And this way, which is an old fact is that 'success is not a product of motivation'.

Yes, I know I have just said it.
Contrary to some popular wishful thinking, success is not a product of motivation. Rather, it is the other way round.
High Motivation Is A Result of Success and low motivation is a result of prior failure.

What this means is that repeated success in a particular activity leads [motivates] one to want to do that activity often. While repeated failure at a particular activity leads [demotiavtes] one to want to avoid that activity.

Now that you understand that success creates motivation, and failure destroys it, what's the use?
Motivation is made up of four elements that are essential to know and apply in your quest for success and abundance. Those elements are: memories, meanings, meta-programs, and metaphors. Let us take a look at each one of them.

Memories
The memories you have about your past are influencers on your motivation. If memories of success are many and strong in your life, then it stands to reason that you will be positively inclined, and well motivated. Plentiful memories of failure on the other hand will predispose you to strong hesitancies.
It is important therefore to choose with care the memories that make up your success package.

Meta-programs
Meta-programs are patterns of acting/re-acting which an individual prefers in given situations. They may change across context and time. Two of the meta-programs you may want to think of are:
internal/external: relying on your own opinions versus relying on the opinions of others.
towards/away from: moving towards some desired objective versus moving away from an undesirable situation.
The meta-programs identify what motivates an individual and are helpful in defining 'success' and what makes it happen.
What this means for you is that you will find it helpful if you know which meta-programs you use to attain success. And use them!

Meanings
The meaning an event/experience has for an indvidual will determine how motivated they will/not be to engage in it.
Meaning is made up of expectations and criteria.
How much you expect something to occur goes hand in hand with what that particular something means to you. If it is something you are not really attached to, it does not matter whether it occurs or not. It is meaningless to you. You attach a particular criterion to something in order for that thing to have a personal meaning to you.
Criterion says: "What makes this meaningful to me", while expectation says: "How possible is this for me?".
What an event, activity or experience means to you will determine how successful you will want to be in relation to that activity. And, your perceived success will in turn influence how motivated you will be to engage in (similar) activities.

Metaphors
Metaphors are language tools we use to try to understand vague or abstract concepts and experiences. When we use them, they become frames that help us focus our attention on some aspect of a concept, situation or experience while ignoring other aspects.
Metaphors have an impact on our perceptions and the behaviours that result from these perceptions. The metaphors that you apply to yourself, others and your situations contain with them your beliefs about reality. They make experience coherent for you. And because they contain beliefs about reality, they tend to be self-fulfilling prophecies. In order to understand the influence of metaphors on your experience do the following:
identify your metaphors
which beliefs are inherent in these metaphors?
what reality (or even lies) do they create?
is this the kind of reality that you need to?
Now you know that prior successes motivates you. How can you use this knowledge?
What you can do is to recall any and/or all the successes you have had in the recent past. Fill your brain with memories of success.
Secondly, make sure you know the meta-programs that are operational in your life.
Thirdly, take a look at how you use 'meanings'. How do you balance your criteria with your expectations?
And, fourthly, make sure that your metaphors are congruent with who you want to be or with what you want to happen in your life. Contradictory metaphors are disabling.
You now can see how motivation is a core resource you can use in positioning yourself for success and abundance.

Make sure you understand it very well, and apply it wisely!


About the Author
Ke o agile (keoagile@consultant.com) is an NLP Coach as well as editor and publisher of In TheZone(http://inthezone.port5.com), an NLP focused ezine that coaches creating an abundance lifestyle.

Commit To Applying Lessons Learned by Brian Maloney

Commit To Applying Lessons Learned by Brian Maloney

When growing up as a child, the concept of learning a
lesson becomes so routine, that many of us just set it aside
as unimportant like many other principles that otherwise
should be heeded.

It is so true that all of us are mortal. Furthermore, all of us
are fallible and no one is absolutely perfect. However, there
are some people who would argue this about themselves or
someone they know.

My contention is the people who perpetually make many
crucial mistakes in their lives and continue to make the
exact ones again, are not taking the necessary steps to
correct themselves.

Simply put, carelessness, laziness, or mere insecurity in
oneself are the primary reasons lessons due to mistakes
are not applied.

Changing ones mindset and attitude towards self
progression has significant importance in this area of
growth.

Sure, there are many people out there who will almost
always be making mistakes in perpetuity, but certainly that
shouldnt mean that you have to be one of them. Taking
control of your life is an excellent first step.

Life does not have to be extremely complicated. It is a
known fact that when people simplify their lives they are
not only more happy, but more productive in any given task
because the mind has less to wonder about.

Listing or ranking things of importance in ones mind
assists in shaving down the myriad of less important things
that always seem to hinder our lives. Moreover, examining
mistakes much like a football player watching film the
Monday after a big game and then deciding a better
approach will change the outcome to a positive rather than
a negative.

So why is it so hard to apply a learned lesson?

Just learning the lesson is what many of us do, but that is
merely half the battle. The other aspect is actually setting
your mind by consciously programming it to steer away
from this mistake. It is like staring at the problem with a
microscope and discovering reasons why you made this
choice.

This part is what I call conscious recognition, where your
conscious and subconscious are on the same wavelength
rather than opposing each other.

The concept of consciously recognizing something as
wrong can be applied not only in lessons learned, but
practically every facet of life. In taking a little more time to
think a mistake out, you are literally dissecting apart each
area that needs to be addressed.

Certainly, most people will not apply a learned lesson
unless they want to or unless the law forces them to. Yet,
one must truly desire to apply a lesson before it happens
again, or that person will only know that it is a mistake and
not do anything about it.

Much like an alcoholic must will him or herself into treating
the disease by coming to peace with the thought of living
their lives without a drink, people must make firm
resolutions to fix the areas of their lives that are broken.

Procrastinating and lying to oneself about applying lessons
today, rather than tomorrow, makes for a compromising
environment when one already knows that applying the
lesson is in their best interest.

Wanting to make changes and becoming a better person is a
daily task, not yearly. Work is what it is, but the rewards of
living cleaner always outweigh that work.

--by Brian Maloney-ValuePrep.com
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Make a Living or Design a Life:13 Tools for Successful Living in 2005 by Sheraun Britton-Parris

Make a Living or Design a Life:13 Tools for Successful Living in 2005 by Sheraun Britton-Parris

On the journey through this thing called life, we all endure the challenges of mass confusion, unanswered questions and feelings trepidation as we navigate our way to SUCCESS. As elusive as the achievement of Success may seem, it is indeed a process with universal laws, principles and tools that nature uses to create everything we see in material existence.

So as you reflect on 2004 and prepare for 2005 I offer you 13 tools for achieving success and inner peace. If practiced daily and incorporated into your consciousness, these tools will help you create the future you desire instead of the one life serves you. God Bless!

1.Program your mind for SUCCESS, deleting any thought, word, idea or person that disempowers you from pursuing your purpose

2.Own your own decisions, not letting the opinions of others distract you from following your hearts desire

3.Sit still in silence connecting with the Divine source by which the unmanifest becomes the manifest

4.Speak ONLY edifying words to yourself and others

5.Inherent in every intention is the mechanics for its accomplishment. Make sure you maintain Definiteness of Purpose

6.Believe SUCCESS is your birthright. What YOU become comes from what YOU believe about yourself

7.Invest in your personal development ALWAYS seeking wisdom and growth

8.Love your self and others because faith works by love

9.Infinite patience produces immediate results. Patience is how you act while you are waiting for your dreams to materialize

10.To have, GIVE all to all, because into the hands that give, the gift is given

11.Express what you want to impress, focusing on what you want to manifest in your life

12.Eliminate your pre-disposition to be critical and judgmental of others

13.Show gratitude. Gratitude keeps you connected to the divine source that brings things into your life

Have a Happy New Year and a Prosperous 2005!
About the Author
Sheraun Britton-Parris, is Founder & CEO of The Possibili-Tees Inc. The Possibili-Tees are womens tee shirts with motivational affirmations that awaken your personal power, provoke your self-confidence and stimulates your human potential. ThePossibiliTes.com is your source for quality novelty tee shirts that promote Success, Empowerment and Positive Self-Esteem.

Know What You Want Out Of Life by Mark Claridge

Know What You Want Out Of Life by Mark Claridge

At this point in time you have an opportunity to really analyze your life. Where you are right now and where you want to be in the future. Now is your chance to take a close look at what you would really like to do with your life. Perhaps you have never dared to choose a path based on your true desires, you have purely gone with the flow. This is now your chance.

Before you know how you are going to achieve your goals, you have to know what those goals are. You have to have specific goals. Its no good saying I am going to be rich, you have to define rich in a monetary term.

I will earn $250,000 per year.
I will earn $500,000 per year.
When I retire I will be worth $1m.

The same goes if your goal is to run your own business. What business?

I want a new sports car. What make, model and colour will this sports car be?

You have to be specific. If you are not specific you havent got a clear goal.

Speaking personally I love Jaguar cars. My goal is to have a Jaguar car from each marque within the next 10 years. I set this Goal two years ago. Last year I bought a series 3 XJ6. I wanted a series 3 because it was what I consider to be the last real Jaguar to be built in Coventry. This year I purchased a 5.3 V12 1979 XJS. Again I wanted this specific model because it represented the first of the XJS`s before the HE, when they added chrome and made other various modifications. They are both rust free, low mileage examples with a full service history.

I have used a personal example to demonstrate that you have to be specific. I knew which series I wanted. It had to be rust free. It had to have a full service history. It had to be low mileage.

Whatever you might be planning, bear this in mind:

Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve. There are no limits!

Do you want to achieve your dreams and your goals? And I mean REALLY achieve them?

By the way, if you are reading this thinking 'I just don't know what goals to set', then don't worry. Ive got a solution for you.

I want you to really figure out what it is you truly desire. I want you to commit and focus your energy on achieving these goals. Goal setting is good. Even in its simplest form goal setting can help you achieve the things you want from your career and your life. Goal setting can and will free you from your mundane life.

So sit down and write down everything you want from and out of life until the day you die. These are your ultimate goals. Now right down everything you want within the next 10 years. These are your intermediate goals. Now do the same for the next 5 years. These are your shorter term goals. Now do the same for the next year. These are your short term goals.

You will never achieve your ultimate goals as these are just dreams, without setting shorter term goals to make your dreams a reality. This is where so many people go wrong. You have to set goals on a daily, weekly and yearly basis to achieve your long term objectives.

The reason for goal setting is simple. Without goals, you simply drift. People drift into unsatisfactory relationships, unsatisfying and poorly paid jobs and spend their lives looking at successful people, wondering how they do it. On the most basic level, it's possible to set goals just for one day and achieve more than you ever thought possible, in the form of a simple "To Do" list - where you list all of the things you need to get done and cross them off as you achieve them.

Goal setting is a very powerful technique that can improve all areas of your life. The process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on and improve, and what merely a distraction is. Goal setting gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It helps to focus your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organise your resources.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind.

So get into the habit of goal setting. Your long term prospects depend upon it.
About the Author
Mark Claridge specializes in teaching motivational and self-development skills. In his new FREE e-book Mindset and Match he covers amongst other subjects how having the correct mindset can bring you all you want out of life and is available at http://www.mindsetandmatch.com.

FOLLOW YOUR PASSION! by Jonathan K Dall

FOLLOW YOUR PASSION! by Jonathan K Dall

FOLLOW YOUR PASSION!!!

The key to a successful life lies in following your passions. When you do this the Universe responds in a dynamic way. This can only occur when one is fully engaged. We are taught from the time we are young to be practical to carefully consider the why and the how of things. This, my friends is a waste of precious time. The clue to each of our destinies lies in recognizing our deepest passions and becoming fully engaged in them. Give no thought as to how they might be realized the Universe is far more capable in this regard then we could ever hope to be. Just so you dont think Im talking through my hat I am going to give you a stellar example that illustrates exactly what Im talking about. This story is true from beginning to end. I have some friends that have a home on an Island in Canada. They tried for thirty years to get me to go there and for thirty years I thwarted their efforts. After thirty years I just couldnt deny their pleas any longer and I agreed to go. To say that I fell in Love with the place simply doesnt describe the depth of my passion. It was truly like coming HOME. When I left that Island two weeks later I knew that I must return. It was like a constant yearning in my soul. I returned again the following year and I knew in every fiber of my being that this was the place I belonged. On the last day of my stay I was leaving the beach when I ran into some folks I had become aquainted with. We talked about their beautiful Island and I told them then and there that I would be back to stay. The woman recognized the absolute certainty (remember these two words absolute certainty) with which I made this statement. The following year I made a quick trip to the Island in the spring and the transmission failed in my car. Under ordinary conditions this would have caused me a great deal of stress but I was certain that there was a reason far beyond the obvious for this otherwise troubling event. Through the aid of friends I made it back safe and sound and they took care of getting my car repaired. I borrowed a car from my Brother that he was not using and went about my normal routine. To backtrack just a little about four years prior to this I placed a piece of property I owned up for sale. The property simply would not sell so I made a decision to take it off the market, which I promptly did. Two weeks later I received a call from the realtor who said he had some folks who wanted the property. I told him if they wanted it that was fine but I was not willing to negotiate on price. He called back the next day to inform me that they had agreed to pay the asking price and went about the business of taking care of the paperwork and arranging the closing. In the meantime the repairs on my car had been completed and I was to go and pick it up in two weeks. This is the gospel my friends I closed on the property the day before I left for the Island and off I went with check in hand. Pay close attention now as the story unfolds. I spent an entire week riding around the Island searching for a piece of property. The prices were steep to say the least and I began to become discouraged. The eighth day I was taking another ride around the Island and came upon a lovely little house sitting up on a hill with a wonderful view of the ocean. My friend who was with me urged me to stop and take a look, and so I did. We looked the place over and I could see that it had a new roof and had been recently painted and some windows had been replaced. When we arrived back at the home of friends we were staying with they asked if I had found anything and I told them about the little house with the water views. They told me it was the first place they ever stayed when they came to the Island. They told me to go back and get the phone number and so I did. When I returned with the number they handed me the phone and told me to call and so I did. I simply couldnt believe my ears when she told me the asking price. I told her I would like to do an inspection of the house and she agreed to have her Father meet me there the next morning. Upon inspecting the house I discovered that it had a new water pump and pressure tank a new furnace a new septic a good well and the house was structurally sound. I also discovered there was eight acres of property with the house and that the property included shore frontage. I called the woman back and (what nerve) made an offer on the property. She called back fifteen minutes later with a counter offer in the exact amount that I had determined I would pay. The story goes on with mind, blowing synchronicity. Remember my passion? Remember my absolute certainty? These are the things the Universe responds to. Dont try and figure out how it will happen youll only get in the way of things. Engage your passion and know with certainty and the universe will respond in ways you cant even imagine. If you want more info check out http://islandoutlaw.tripod.com

To Your Success
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Live the Dream by Mark Claridge

Live the Dream by Mark Claridge

To achieve what you want, what you desire, needs a change in your thinking. You need to change your mindset. You need to visualise. By using this technique of visualisation you will actually put yourself into any given situation.

Any sports man or women at the top of there game will use visualisation. If they are a high jumper they will go over and over a jump in their mind. They will live it and re-live it, step by step. A motor racer will visualise leaving the starting grid and getting ahead of the pack. They would have driven every part of the track, taken every bend or turn. They will know exactly were to brake and were to accelerate. They will have driven the racetrack a thousand times in their minds eye.

Although we may not be aware of it, the brain works by visualising pictures not by using words. Yes we use words to communicate but the brain will automatically turn these words into pictures. So that we can visualise what is being said.

I once attended a seminar. The lecturer was very good, very confident and used many practical examples to explain himself. He was explaining how you can remember anything you are told, see or read if only you can visualise it. Just before the break for lunch he asked us to write our first names on a piece of paper and hold them up in front of us.

On our return he asked us to sit in exactly the same place we were before lunch. Now there were around 50 people in the room. He then started to name all of us. He told you your name, the name of the person to your right, your left. The name of the person sitting in front of you and the person sitting behind you. It was truly amazing. He did this through a form of visualisation. He put a picture to every person in the room. Within that picture was a story within that story was your name. So when he looked at you he just visualised his story.

That was one of the greatest examples of visualisation I had or have ever witnessed. But it proved his point, visualisation does work. Many entertainers use this method to remember names of people in an audience. Especially comedians who "play off" many members of an audience, as part of their act.

Many of us have trouble remembering things. If you can put a picture to everything you here or read with practise you will find your memory will improve.

So how do we use visualisation to achieve our goals?

You have to use visualisation to live the dream. This is the way to achieve it.

I have often spoken about the universe and how all life is connected to it. This is not a new theory. Hegel, Emerson, Wallace Wattles and Napoleon Hill have covered it in great depth, back in the last century. Furthermore through many philosophers even further back in history.

Here we go. You might have to read the next paragraph a couple of times to grasp the concept.

If we are at one with the universe and the universe is at one with us and everything throughout the universe is connected, this must include our mind, body and soul. Then our mind must have an effect on our body and consequently our soul must have an effect on or mind. So therefore our mind must have an effect our soul.

Please stay with this, as this is the fundamental principle of obtaining what you want.
No, what you are entitled to.

The difference between us and all other forms of life is the very fact that we have a very powerful brain. We can think, we can reason and we can invent.

Everything man has created, every idea he has ever had, has been born in his brain. We have the ability to create. It could be a beautiful picture, an architectural achievement or a medical breakthrough. Whatever it may be it has to be thought of, to exist. If you purchase a new kitchen the salesman can not bring everything around to your home, take out the old kitchen and fit the new one just to see if you like it. You have to imagine what it will look like as a finished article from a few samples or a showroom display. You have to form a picture in your mind as to what it will look like in your own home.

You see we form pictures in our mind all the time; its just that we take this ability for granted.

The other difference between us and all other forms of life is the fact that we have created a monetary world. You can do very little in this world without money. By having money is the only way you can truly have an abundant life. So if having an abundant life is an entitlement for all living things then our entitlement to money is an entitlement to live the life we are entitled to. We have the right to learn and expand our knowledge. Reading books, attending courses and travelling the world can achieve this. All this requires money. Never think great wealth is purely an entitlement for the few. Its available to everyone.

We have a very powerful tool that we carry around everyday, our brain. If you give someone a paintbrush but never show him or her how to paint they will never use it. We are given a brain at birth but if we are never shown the power within it, we will never use it.

Now where were we? Oh yes, mind, body and soul.

The mind is very complex but in broad terms it is simply the tool we use to learn and store information. It is a processor that enables us to use this information to its fullest extent.

The body is the machine. This is the equipment that can carry out all our physical needs. It enables us to see, hear, walk, run and lift amongst other things. But most importantly it allows us to build and physically create the ideas that are pictured in our minds.

It is said the soul is the very essence of life. It is the soul that makes us what we are, it is our character, our sense of humour, our emotions and the way we interpret the messages we receive from our brain. It is our spirituality its what makes us the person we are. Happy and wild or maybe withdrawn and miserable. Usually a combination of all these things. It is the part that connects us to the universe and all life.

Remember I said earlier that every thought you have ever had has bought you to where you are now.

Ask yourself. Am I happy with where I am now?

The chances are the answer is NO. Very few people are. Everyone wants to advance further. Everyone wants to achieve more. They want a more abundant life.

About the Author
Mark Claridge specializes in teaching motivational and self-development skills. In his new FREE e-book Mindset and Match he covers amongst other subjects how having the correct mindset can bring you all you want out of life and is available at http://www.mindsetandmatch.com. Visit his motivational web site http://www.inthe6th.com