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College Freshmen Mindset
Every year Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, located south of Madison, southwest of Milwaukee and almost smack dab in the middle, and just north of the Illinois/Wisconsin border, issues its “Mindset List”. This list basically serves to remind the faculty and staff of the cultural changes so quickly taking place and reminds them to avoid “dated” references which are likely to not only bore, but to place themselves in questionable standing with the students.
I decided to take a gander and see just how “behind the times” I may be, even though having grandchildren close to college age has given me some little insight into where they’ve been, where they are now and where they’re going. As for my one year old grandson? Who knows what his future will bring, much less his freshman year of college.
So, the majority of the students entering into their freshman year in college right now, in 2010, were born in 1992 and will graduate in 2014.
Most of them see emerging technology as too slow and the digital world as simply “routine”. Most of them don’t even know how to write in cursive! (Really? They don’t teach that in school anymore? Oh, that’s right. Typing class is now called Keyboarding.)
It was interesting to discover that most of them see no need to wear a wristwatch because they have a cell phone to tell them the time. (Hmmmm. Me too! I had just never thought of it. I think that cell phones strapped to wrists would be a good thing and with the technological advances, it is certainly within the realm of possibilities that they will someday be small enough to be strapped to wrists comfortably.) In fact, these freshmen students wouldn’t recognize the “sign” that pointing to your wrist is a request for the time.
Email? Almost a thing of the past now. (That is just amazing to me. Yes, I still use email though I own an iphone, which, btw (text speak for “by the way”) my grandchildren think is VERY cool.) Evidently today’s freshmen find the “instant” communication offered by text message much faster than email. You can even get all of your FaceBook communications and status updates on your phone if you wish. (When, oh when will these students have time to actually learn if they do this?) Forget ‘Snail Mail”! It is only used in extreme circumstances with aging or stubborn relatives who don’t have the technological savvy or desire to enter the 21st century.
Street corner lingo, and that in the nation’s coffee houses, has always included phrases like “caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte”. (Just give me a cup of plain old coffee with a bit of fat-free half & half please. I’m always confused on what to order when faced with a coffee menu, even at McDonald’s.)
I was amazed to discover that these kids believe that the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities. They have never lived in a world where there were not Braille signs in every elevator or restroom and where a wheelchair did not have access to a building.
They are much more “tolerant” of those celebrity kids that may attend college with them and are much less likely to engage in paparazzi-type behavior. (Celeb’s kids are people too and I salute these astute college freshmen for realizing that.)
Clint Eastwood is more widely known as a “sensitive” director, rather than the crime-busting vigilante of Dirty Harry fame. (This is actually kind of disappointing. I love Clint Eastwood and though I love all his movies, my fondest memories are of him saying “Make my day…”.)
When they think of Fergie, they think of the pop singer, not Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
And sadly they have never had the joy of curling a twisted handset wire around their fingers and wrist, and sometimes their toes, as they talked on the phone. (I have even had my grandchildren spy an “old-fashioned” phone in an antique or thrift shop and ask me what it is!)
Moms and Dads have never been able to walk them to the departure gate at the airport, except maybe when they were under the age of 10 and once they get through security, traveling is kind of like going to the mall with a plane ride at the end.
In addition, toothpaste tubes have always stood on their caps, food has always been prepared in a microwave, rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties, filtered ice and water have always come out of the door, Beethoven has always been a St. Bernard and Michelangelo is a deadly computer virus, not an Italian Renaissance artist.
LOL…what is this world coming to?
Sammi loves new technology, and is always looking for new gadgets. Some of her favorites are the rat zapper 2000 and the rat zapper ultra. They help her get rid of mice humanely.
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The Entrepreneur Mindset
How Entrepreneurs Think
Entrepreneurs have many definition. From a guy who creates good products to sell and profit madly to that businessman who turned that business into gold. Well, actually, entrepreneurs are really just businessmen. Contrary to popular belief, it is not an easy task to become an entrepreneur. There’s more than meets the eye with this term.
Entrepreneurs typically have some special traits, or characteristics. It is this that separates the true entrepreneurs from people that call themselves entrepreneur. However, there are also many factors that make an entrepreneur, e.g education, skills, money and others. Regardless, one of the most important element that most successful entrepreneurs have is their mindset.
So what is this entrepreneur mindset? It is how the successful think. It is the ticket that will pave the road to success for you. It will be that transport to carry you closer to financial freedom. And without an entrepreneur mindset, you won’t go very far before crashing and ultimately, taste loss.
The first trait that successful entrepreneurs have is confidence. They think they can do anything and everything, and they think they can do it good. You can see all successful entrepreneurs’ confidence. They are always looking good and talking calmly in the eye of the public. They glow when cameras are rolling and mics are everywhere when the normal public will be trying to hide their faces.
Next, to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to think positive. Thinking positive has many benefits, including the ability to predict the future positively and taking good and positive actions, such as making a good decision. No one wants to be with negative people. People like praises and when you give it to them, people will most often return the favour. However, don’t overdo it until they think you’re bootlicking.
Stop and think for a while. One day, you are faced with an obstacle. Your only flight was cancelled, but you have to attend one very important meeting. At this point, what will you be doing? Will you complain it to the authorities? Will you talk to someone? Or will you sit around, feeling hopeless like everyone else? I don’t know about you, but Richard Branson of Virgin Group chartered an airplane to the destination, borrowed a blackboard and attempted to sell seats for $ 50 each. All seats were sold off within 2 hours.
Richard Branson turned an unfavourable situation into a profitable oppoturnity. His mindset was already set to see such oppoturnities, that is why he is a billionaire. So what can we conclude in this short story? You have to hone the millionaire mindset to be successful, and always think positive.
Shaun R Lee is a budding new entrepreneur. Visit his blog at http://startyourinternetbusinessnow.blogspot.com/ for more details on internet businesses.
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African Leaders Mindset
There are little things some African leaders should be subjected to before taking over power. They should be appreciative, of ‘little things’, which the creator has bestowed on the continent.
A visionary leadership cannot come to be: going by the unpopular actions and decisions of some African leaders. Without a vision, a people perish. Little things begat great things. They need to sit back and think hard for once especially those countries that are in different shades of turmoil.
As I have remarked elsewhere, no foreign nation outside the fringes of the continent will waste their real resources to chart a path of progress for black Africa. Africans simply have to do it themselves. The intrinsic nature of Man is about self-preservation, survival and opportunism.
Morals? Yes, that could be negotiated. Nobody easily gives you what you deserve until you negotiate.
It is a pity that in most parts of black Africa and I will made bold to say that, what engages many so-called leaders are very ‘surface’ things, bordering on ephemeral issues.
Elsewhere, secrets of successful human development and nation building are open secrets.
The men of influence in Africa can only bring themselves to discover these secrets if they break things down to basics. The so-called little things they tend to ignore.
Of course, a dose of patience has to be in tow as new structures and values are being put in place.
These little things are part of our essence; they make us complete as part of humanity.
If in doubt, lets take a few moments to reflect and explore the impact of this mindset and values amongst our fellow homo sapiens in those countries; those countries some African rulers rush to, on mere suspicion of even malaria attack- a tropical disease. They gleefully make noise about their departure and arrival during such trips! ‘My boss just came back from abroad for general checkup” a Personal assistant would proudly announce to the local press.
Only if we can use God given comparative advantage to have the best of resources including state of the art hospitals- manned by highly motivated personnel- in the continent.
I believe wherever we were born, we did not have a hand in it at procreation. This is accepted. It was not by accident, therefore, we can as well make our own part of the planet a better place.
This goes beyond religion that many African nations now hide behind as a temporary shelter for being ineptitude.
Let us think about ‘little things’ may be our warped value system will change for the better because the rest of the world is waiting for our real contribution to this global space.
Muyiwa Osifuye is a photographer based in Africa. He works within the thematic, documentary and commercial modes. (catch a glimpse of his limited edition works at http://www.pictures-of-nigeria.com) His documentary works explore the rich cultural heritage of his country, Nigeria. Major international exhibitions and events continually show his thematic works which address cogent issues that he feels are necessary for a global understanding. He is a regular columnist in a prominent Nigerian newspaper and a budding writer; sharing his thoughts and perception about humanity as a whole.
Mindset Over Matter
Anyone who is in business for themselves starts every day with a list of problems to be solved. If it’s not problems, it’s projects that need to get done on the task list that never ends. Sometimes it’s easy to become overwhelmed and frustrated by a seemingly endless list of things that demand your personal and immediate attention. When overwhelm takes place, it’s easy to think about maybe just giving up – throwing in the towel and calling it quits. Unfortunately, some small business people actually take that drastic step. They shut the doors, shutter the windows and walk away, back to their corporate cubicle that they don’t really like anyway.
The truth is that this endless list of things that needs to be accomplished is really your freedom. Nobody makes the self-employed entrepreneur do anything. One of the joys of being your own boss is the ability to control your own schedule, and to determine how your most precious resource-time freedom-will be spent. Instead of shirking away from the list and complaining about its length and complexity, the self-employed entrepreneur should embrace it, as the template for personal freedom.
This is where the topic of mindset comes into play. Mindset is simply how we tend to think about things. And think is the operative word there. Nobody forces your mindset on you. You can change your mindset of your own free will, turn it from negative to positive in an instant. It’s purely a matter of focus, and perspective.
The key is to continually reaffirm to yourself the reasons you do what you do, and why you do it. By focusing your mindset on the positive aspects your life, it will improve automatically. The difference between having a miserable day and having an outstanding day is simply a matter of mindset-of conscious thought and free will.
The lesson here is not to be overwhelmed. The lesson is also not to get frustrated to the point where you feel as though you are a prisoner of your own creation. The matters that you address on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis are the very things that enable you to be free. By the way, if you work for another company, maybe it’s time to think about an alternative. Because if you are an employee, your daily task list is not your own. You’re at the mercy of someone else.
Remember-it’s mindset over matter. You are whoever you want to be.
David Allinson is the president and owner of Allinson Master Marketing Inc. David is an online business and lifestyle coach. He specializes in both online and offline marketing for the MLM, direct sales, and network marketing industries. He actively promotes and teaches others the value and benefit of Attraction Marketing – which simply put, means – be the “wizard”, and give without want while being the leader people are seeking and they will ultimately flock to you and your opportunity!
Reset Your Mindset
There are 5 important steps that you must take to resetting your brain and way of thinking. This is a challenging thing to do, therefore it requires constant practice. Be willing to do whatever it takes to be successful and go the extra mile.
1. Figure Out What You Want.
Everyone wants more money, freedom and time to do as they please. But you need to be specific in knowing what you want. How rich do you want to be? What country would you like to see? What kind of house would you like to own? If you are unsure on what you want, then you won’t form an emotional attachment to that want. Remember you get what you focus on. If you want to get “attached” to a goal, then you need to research and familiarize yourself with that goal. Have specific details and put reminders of your goal around where you can see them regularly. The more normal your goals become, the closer the reality of reaching those goals.
2. Leave Pessimists Behind.
There are always going to be people around, especially family members, to tell you that you can not make it. People have no problem in crushing others dreams and pulling you down to their level. They do not have the guts to take the risk and jump out of their comfort zone, to get out of their dead end situation. There fear of failure stops them before they have even begun. So they just sit there complaining about it instead. Begin networking with people who you desire to be like, listen to training calls, read books. Do what is necessary to keep you focused on your goals rather than getting disheartened from the negative pessimists.
3. Visualize Your Goals.
A great way to stay focused is to visualize your goals for 30 minutes a day. Pretend that you have reached your goal. Think about every little detail and start to “feel” the emotions that you would have on the day you achieve your goal. To experience something is the fastest way to learn. In your mind start experiencing your future life.
4. Find Social Proof.
You must get beyond your inner programming that tells you, you’re unable to achieve your goals. The only way you can do this is by finding people who started out like you, but have gone and accomplished their goals. Google is a great place to find these types of people. Also training calls are excellent to plug into and help re-wire your mindset to a prosperous mentality. Join a network of people who already have the results you desire, as this is one of the easiest ways to change your inner programming. Remember you become what you think about.
5. Be Open To Receive.
Make sure that you are open to receiving solutions to help you reach your goals. Solutions will come from the places you least expect. Get comfortable with receiving, most people these days are extremely uncomfortable with receiving anything. To become wealthy you must get good at receiving.
Lastly remember that no business comes without obstacles, so embrace them for the learning experiences that they are.
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Super Affiliate Mindset
People with an open mind focused towards learning and benefiting from the knowledge they learn, have the proper mindset to be an super affiliate. Always seeking to learn what they do not know, seeking knowledge from different people in different areas.
Honestly, you got to know how to get better at different things for you to be able to go where you want to go. Example; To drive a car you need to learn how to drive, to learn from a person who knows how drive and (teach), to benefit from what you learn you need to put it into practice.
Now you can drive. Awesome.
An important thing for your “drive”-“motivation” towards a goal, you need belief. With belief, nothing can move you back. With that said, you’ll need to put a plan of things you need to do. You need a plan to grow your business and in the start you need to build the roots of your business. And the outcome will be a strategy for your business to follow.
Worst thinkable, you need to find a way to build this mindset. For you to succeed in the long run and have the ability to continue developing.
It is important to know that for anyone to succeed in anything anywhere, you got to build the proper mindset for the proper work/job. And to build the proper mindset takes time and practice.
When you’re working in business you’ll come across different obstacles in front of you, some will be easy to solve some will be hard, some will be impossible depends if you have people help you or seek people who got the same problems.
There will always be someone who got or had the same problem as you. Therefore you can benefit greatly from their experience.
With that, i want to wish you best of luck. Don’t forget that anything is possible with the will of God.
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Change Your Mindset
The journey of a thousand years begins with a step. That first step is the most difficult part of any journey. This is the giant step that gives you the best push towards success and provides you the tricks and impetus needed to break all the hurdles holding you back. Therefore, whatever you want to achieve in life, you need to have a positive and progressive mindset. Your mindset is your will power. Nobody can give it to you. You have to develop it by yourself. Your parents, guardian, boss and even government cannot create your mindset for you. Whatever you may believe in, you need to remember always that “God will never change the condition of a people (or an individual) until they change what is in their minds”
Optimism is the the bedrock of success while pessimism is the first step towards failure. When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Self confidence must always be incorporated into your plans always.
What is Your Mission in Life
Your ultimate mission must be to be happy and make others happy. To help people overcome the problem of procrastination, which is the main cause of failure. We strongly believe that success cannot be achieved single-handedly. You need to team up with others or like minded people . With team work, you can collectively achieve your goals.
This is why great men and women enjoy hanging out with progressive people. These are the selfless people who are ready to help each other and are prepared to leverage others experience in various endeavors. Belonging to the right group at the right time and readiness to learn with complete humility and open heart can be the key to ultimate success.
Giant Steps For Guaranteed Success
With my four decades of existence and with my personal interaction with people of all works of life, I have been able to observe that the main clog in the wheel of most people’s progress is lack of courage to take the first step towards the realization of their ambitions. To be precise, procrastination is the culprit that we all have to fight together. In a nutshell, take note of the following and always try to remember them before embarking on any action:
* Giant Step – Whatever you want to achieve, always summon the courage to take the first step. Make it big, let it be a giant one. Do not set your goal too low. Your worth may be higher than you personally rate yourself.
* Forward – Always attempt to go forward and never backward. Do not waste your time regretting over what you should have done better. Remember, yesterday is gone; you cannot correct it. Study your present and plan for the future.
* Upward – Aim to the top in any group you may find yourself. You may not be the best or the overall leader, but do not ever settle for a second class category. Remember, the society appreciates you better as a clever plumber than a misguided philosopher. Any society that prefers a misguided philosopher to a clever plumber, both its pipes and ideas will not hold water.
* Now – Do not delay today’s action till tomorrow. Delay sometimes could be very dangerous. Prompt action leads to prompt success. A wise crippled person does not wait for the invading army before he flees for safety.
* Ever – As long as you live on the surface of the earth, do not stop being active. Keep learning, keep working however minimal, keep giving and keep helping.
Therefore, take the Giant Steps Forward and Upward and do it Now.
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Be Positive Every Day With Subliminal Positive Affirmations
Good personalities attract better results. That is true whether you are at home, at the office, in a party, or anywhere else. So if you want to achieve the best results in everything you do every single day, you need a daily dose of positive thinking and subliminal mag cd that can maintain it.
Here are some tips on how to start thinking positively:
1. Identify the negatives in your mind. You may be unaware of it, but the way you think eventually and very easily becomes a habit. Everything you see, hear, and absorb from since you were a child contributes to these thoughts and turn into habits.
So if you have accumulated a lot of negative thoughts, like how your grades have always been average or how your parents have always favored your other siblings, these make it hard for you to believe in positive ideas, such as you are capable or you are admirable. Eventually, this becomes a habit, that when someone asks you to do something or assigns a task to you, you automatically think that you cant do it.
So before positive thinking can take over, you need to be aware of these negative thoughts and guard your mind against them.
2. Take control of your subconscious mind with self help subliminal messages. Once negative thoughts become habits, however, weeding them out can be harder than you think. Usually these negative thoughts set up shop deep in your mind that they are bound to come up every now and then. If you want to be positive every single day, you cant let them survive, not in your conscious mind and not in your subconscious.
Its easy to control your conscious mind. But if the negatives are in your subconscious, the only way to attack them is with affirmations like these:
I enjoy life.
I am enthusiastic.
I am content and satisfied.
I am energetic.
I am passionate.
I appreciate everything I have.
DIY subliminal messaging can help you customize these affirmations to help with your worst negativity issues. Subliminal programming is a way of communicating with your subconscious mind. These can involve customized affirmations in various forms like subliminal text, images, audio/music, and film/videos. Whats special about them is that they go straight to the subsconscious, ignoring the filtering and analysis of the conscious mind. Ultimately, they are more effective since it is easier for thoughts that rule the subconscious to turn into habits.
3. Live it. The joint effort of your subconscious mind and your conscious decisions to choose positive activities and decisions is the key to being positive every day. With negative habits at bay, you can make conscious decisions and actions; you can simply choose to live positively. Nothing is hindering you anymore; no negative thoughts are holding you back.
So every day, you can be proactive and actually make something good happen to your life. If an old friend from the past invites you for coffee, take the opportunity. When you see an ad to help plant trees, joint the cause. Do not just let life go by; you have to actually live it.
Positive subliminal suggestions will tell you that you are fully capable of enjoying life to the full. You can invite positive results and circumstances to your life with that shining positive attitude.
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Positive Motivation: Building a Network of Positive Energy
Take a solid look at your friends and family, and focus your thoughts on the messages they convey to you. When you look at each person individually, do they build you up and motivate you or do they tear you down and spread a “can’t do” message to you? Each of these people are important to your life and are loved by you, and yet some people are simply negative forces in your life. If you want to be successful and happy in life, you need to build a network of positive energy by focusing on those individuals that provide you with positive motivation.
Obviously you cannot stop interacting with those people in your life who don’t offer positive motivation, but you can limit your interactions with them. You should also take steps to avoid internalizing their messages if you know they will bring you down. Don’t ask them for advice or talk to them about problems more than necessary, but instead do these things with the positive forces in your life. You can absolutely still socialize with those you love who are less than positive, but you need to be aware of how their words and actions can affect yours so you can take steps to head that off before it starts.
For a truly more productive and successful life, you should try to spend more time on those people in your life who do offer positive motivation. Internalize their messages to you. Develop more friendships and relationships with people are are positive, and really build up a strong network of positive energy. It is truly amazing how being around negative people can bring you down, too, and likewise how being around positive people can be uplifting. Surround yourself with positive energy, and you will find that you lead a happier and more successful life.
Carla Kaplan is a writer and researcher on positive motivation. Find insight, inspiration, and tips on how to stay positively motivated at this blog: eof737.wordpress.com
A Positive Attitude Attracts A Positive Fullfilling Life
You might think that attracting prosperity sounds like a phrase that people use who think you need to meditate two hours a day, not eat meat and communicate with spirits with Biblical names. And while there are some New Age and New Thought gurus who do all of those things, actually attracting prosperity to your life is much simpler than that.
That’s not to say that it’s easy. There are a number of ways to do it wrong, which only means that you won’t attract the prosperity you deserve. There’s no doom and gloom option when it comes to trying to bring good things into your life. There’s no way to do it wrong and actually attract heartache.
Even by just attempting methods of attracting prosperity, you start wheels turning in both your head and the universe that can help good things happening in your life. Because the first step in making good things happen for yourself is a change in your attitude. This can affect every part of your life, if you let it.
Instead of seeing things through a negative lens,it’s necessary to see them through a positive one.Use the analogy of a glass that’s filled halfway with water. Instead of seeing it as half-empty or half-dirty, learn to see it as half-full.If you burn dinner,don’t see it as a ruined meal, notice that the pans will still be fine after they’re washed.
This shift in perception takes you from seeing negativity and limitations and instead into seeing the positive side of everything.Attracting prosperity works on the principle that what you believe and what you surround yourself with will attract similar things.If you go through your day noticing what’s wrong with everything,you are going to attract problems.
But if you go through your day noticing the good side to each situation,you will attract prosperity.This might sound far-fetched to some people,but when you focus on being positive and on seeing the good in things, your attitude will change.
Once this attitude shift takes place,it becomes even easier to automatically see the positive in even a very bad situation.When you begin noticing positive things, opportunities that you would have otherwise missed if you had been focused on the negative instead make themselves known to you.
When viewed this way,attracting prosperity seems less like some strange metaphysical system than it does good common sense.When you see an opportunity you might have missed with a more negative attitude, it’s like you’ve attracted the potential for prosperity, by seeing an opportunity where you wouldn’t have before.
And when you’re faced with an opportunity, you can take advantage of it where you couldn’t have before. Even if it was something you might have noticed before but not acted on when you had a more negative attitude, with a positive attitude you may act on it and believe that it will work in your favor. Attracting prosperity becomes second nature when you believe that good things are possible.
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