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		<title>The Power of Choice!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Strongest Principle of Growth Lies In Human Choice &#8211; George Elliot Everyday offers each and everyone of us a chance to make choices. We can make choices to be financially successful, change our eating habits,exercise more, acquire knew knowledge, plus so many things. We can even decide to do nothing and maintain old habits, [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>The Strongest Principle of Growth Lies In Human Choice &#8211; George Elliot<br />
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<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-477" title="success_and_failure" src="http://simonpreacher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/success_and_failure.jpg" alt="success and failure The Power of Choice!" width="300" height="225" />Everyday offers each and everyone of us a chance to make choices. We can make choices to be financially successful, change our eating habits,exercise more, acquire knew knowledge, plus so many things. We can even decide to do nothing and maintain old habits, such as procrastinating, being lazy and so forth. We make choices!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The choices are ours to make</strong></span>. Many people woke up everyday frustrated about their lives. They want things to change but refuse to make the right choices to change them. They go about their day doing the same things that didn’t work yesterday, making the same decisions and choosing the wrong things such as rest instead of labor, Television instead of education, anger instead of self control, etc. Will things change? No! Life will continue to be a one big circle of misery and frustration!</p>
<p>There is no need to be frustrated when you have the power to make a choice and change your life. The procedures that didn’t work yesterday need not to be implemented again today. Choose life instead of death, blessing instead of curse, joy instead of misery and success instead of failure. The choice is yours to make.</p>
<p>Don’t let temporary pleasures stand in your way, hindering you to do what is right for the future. You have the power to make the right choices. If TV is stopping you to achieve better results, then get rid of it. Whatever it is that stands in your way, make a choice to get rid of it and move on to accomplish your important goals.</p>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>‘If you don’t like how things are, change them! You’re not a tree’, said Jim <span class="misspell">Rohn</span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life &#8211; and it all begins with your very own <strong>Power of Choice</strong>.</p>
<p>To Your Higher Potential</p>


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		<title>Look Ahead Where Your Future Lies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Preacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today, Hope For Tomorrow! Stop worrying about the wasted times of yesterday. Yesterday is gone and what is left is what lies before you &#8211; today and tommorow. If you are one of those who spend time thinking of yesterday&#8217;s wasted opportunities, its time to stop. Begin to be proactive [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today, Hope For Tomorrow!</span></h3>
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Stop worrying about the wasted times of yesterday. Yesterday is gone and what is left is what lies before you &#8211; today and tommorow.</p>
<p>If you are one of those who spend time thinking of yesterday&#8217;s wasted opportunities, its time to stop. Begin to be proactive and think about where you are going and not where you are coming from. Use the references of the past only as life lessons to make better decisions today and not for the purposes of accomodating guilt and blaming yourself over spilt milk.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Nobody Gets To Live Life Backward. Look Ahead, That Is Where Your Future Lies</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Today you have a chance to do things right. It doesn&#8217;t matter how bad things might have been, you have a chance to be different and to make better choices. So, make the most of it! Take the necessary actions you need to take and see all your objectives through!</p>
<p>Have A Nice Day!</p>


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		<title>What Is A Mindset?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Preacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia: A mindset, in decision theory and general systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors, choices, or tools. [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Mindset" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>: A mindset, in decision theory and general systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors, choices, or tools. This phenomenon of cognitive bias is also sometimes described as mental inertia, &#8220;group think&#8221;, or a &#8220;paradigm&#8221;, and it is often difficult to counteract its effects upon analysis and decision making processes.</p>
<p><a title="Mindset" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mindset" target="_blank">Dictionary.Com</a> Defines Mind-set As</p>
<p>1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person&#8217;s responses to and interpretations of situations.<br />
2. An inclination or a habit.</p>
<p>That is how mindset is being defined from these authority sites. In this category we will go deeper, as we discuss this profound subject. So stay tuned.</p>
<p>As we can see from above mentioned definitions, <strong>Mindset</strong> is a mental state of thinking. It describes how you convey messages in your brain about particular things you see, hear, touch, feel , smell and how you interpret them as true or false, real or unreal. That is what we call <strong>Mindset</strong>. Other people call it a paradigm</p>
<p>We will be talking about the Mindset quite often. It is important that you mantain a positive mindset. But to maintain one, you need to know how to go about it. Simon Preacher is here to make sure you have the right mindset, so that you can live life to the full.</p>


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