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5 Steps to Reinvent Yourself

5 Steps to Reinvent Yourself
“You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” ~C. S. Lewis Change means reinvention. Each time a major shift happens in our lives—leaving a job or a relationship, moving, losing a loved one—we have to take control of who we will become or risk never reaching our full potential. I’ve reinvented myself several times in my life. But what I always forget is that we have to choose reinvention. When I’ve waited for my future to find me, I’ve waited in vain, lost in confusion and sadness, or I’ve gotten tangled up in a situation I didn’t want. One morning, after struggling for months with grief and loss, I woke up and realized that I was having so much trouble moving forward partly because I had no idea what it was that I wanted to move toward. That morning, I woke with a vision: a crowd of people from the life I needed to leave behind with the sun rising opposite them and me standing between the two, the sun beating down on my face. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. About Melissa Kirk

10 scientific laws and theories you really should know Even if you don’t find yourself, say, operating a scanning electron microscope all that frequently, you might want to brush up on these 10 scientific laws and theories. After all, they’re some of our best tools for describing how the universe works. We’ll start off with a bang and move on to the basic laws of the universe, before hitting evolution. Finally, we’ll tackle some headier material, delving into the realm of quantum physics. Full list at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia

Reinvent Yourself in 21 Days Can a mop and a dust cloth bring happiness and luck? Back in August, I picked up a book written by Mr. Mitsuhiro Masuda (in Japanese) who advocates the power of cleaning and decluttering. Now, I know grabbing a dust cloth and reorganizing the bookshelf is as boring as it gets in personal development. Many people are big on decorating their place. The book came with the 21 day action plan. Ready? Letting the fresh air cleanse and refresh the place Day 1: Open the windows to change the air. Day 2: Open the windows first thing in the morning and take a few deep breaths. Day 3: Open the windows first thing in the morning, take a few deep breaths, and say “Thank you.” You want to keep the good habit of caring for your personal space. What is your baggage literally? Day 4: Take out everything from your wallet and throw away unnecessary items such as old receipts and coupons. Day 5: Do the same with your purse or bag. Day 6: Check the address book in your cell phone or PDA. How it worked for me

THERE’S NO PAINLESS WAY TO KILL YOURSELF Altucher Confidential Posted by James Altucher I gave my 11 year old daughter important advice the other day: there’s no painless way to kill yourself. “What about with a gun?” she said. I told her about a friend of mine who shot himself in the mouth. He put the gun in his mouth and pointed upwards towards the brain. He missed. He shot off half his face, he went blind in one eye, and he is now in a wheelchair. If you type in “I Want to Die” into google, my website is the first result. My first business I sold for $15 million. Mobb Deep would hang out in my office. Then I saw that kids in junior high school were learning HTML. I bought an apartment for millions. Then I started more companies. From June 2000 until September, 2001 I probably lost $1 million a month. I couldn’t stop. I wanted to be loved. Writing this now I even feel like slitting my wrists and stomach. I felt like I was going to die. I lost all my friends. There were no jobs, There was nothing. I tried meditation to calm down but it didn’t work.

Brain scan can tell if you are a quitter - researchers | Space, Military and Medicine Will you quit this year? Researchers say an MRI scan can reveal how likely you are to successfully kick the habit. Source: The Daily Telegraph US researchers have found a way to predict how successful a smoker will be at quitting by using an MRI scan to look for activity in a region of the brain associated with behaviour change. The scans were performed on 28 heavy smokers who had joined an anti-smoking program, according to the study published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Psychology.Participants were asked to watch a series of commercials about quitting smoking while a magnetic resonance imaging machine scanned their brains for activity. After each ad, subjects in the study "rated how it affected their intention to quit, whether it increased their confidence about quitting, and how much they related to the message," researchers explained. "It seems that our brain activity may provide information that introspection does not."

Free In-Depth Personality Test - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire "Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself." Returning to the test? Please log in here... How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. It is hard to be objective about oneself - after all, one is being oneself and therefore there is no distance from which to view. Eysenck, however, as a behavioral psychologist believed that personality, like intelligence, is determined to a large extent by a person's genes and is unchangeable beyond an effort to cover up negative traits through learned behavior. Of great significance in the development of personality is an individual's experience, both pleasurable and painful, in this lifetime, from birth onwards. So the results of this Questionnaire should be seen as an instructive guide to your present psychological makeup and an indication of areas of your life that you may choose to transform by applying appropriate techniques of personal development. You will need to register to begin the questionnaire.

3 Words That Guarantee Failure People who fail to achieve goals almost always signal their intent to fail by using three little words: "I will try..." There are no three words in the English language that are more deceptive, both to the person who says them and the person who hears them. People who say "I will try" have given themselves permission to fail. No matter what happens, they can always claim that they "tried." People who hear "I will try" and don't realize what it really means are fooling themselves, by thinking there's a chance that the speaker will actually succeed. People who really and truly achieve goals never say "I will try." Instead, they always say "I will do" something–or, better yet, "I must do" whatever the task is. As a wise (though fictional) guru once said: "Do, or do not.

15 Tips for Low Light Landscape Photography A Post By: Natalie Denton (nee Johnson) Capturing scenes in low light remains one of the most challenging aspects of photography, yet the results when executed well can be truly captivating. Whether it’s an energetic cityscape or ethereal seascape the possibilities are endless. Here are a few essentials points to consider before you begin. It’s a good idea to formulate a plan of attack before the twilight hour so scout out a position while there is another available light and grab a few set up shots to make sure your scene works and will be free from distracting objects. Image by V31S70 So start by setting your camera upon a solid tripod and switching the unit to manual or shutter priority if you are wish. Image by kern.justin Another key piece of kit is a remote control shutter release like Nikon’s ML-L3 wireless control which works with Nikon’s enthusiast range of cameras; D40, D40x, D60, D80 and D90. Image by Paco CT Read more from our category Most Popular 12657 Shares

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Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning - Peter Bregman by Peter Bregman | 11:00 AM May 27, 2009 I was late for my meeting with the CEO of a technology company and I was emailing him from my iPhone as I walked onto the elevator in his company’s office building. I stayed focused on the screen as I rode to the sixth floor. I was still typing with my thumbs when the elevator doors opened and I walked out without looking up. Then I heard a voice behind me, “Wrong floor.” I looked back at the man who was holding the door open for me to get back in; it was the CEO, a big smile on his face. The world is moving fast and it’s only getting faster. So we try to speed up to match the pace of the action around us. But that’s a mistake. Never before has it been so important to say “No.” It’s hard to do because maybe, just maybe, that next piece of information will be the key to our success. A study of car accidents by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute put cameras in cars to see what happens right before an accident.

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