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Focus your way to success

Focus is something that a lot of people in the self improvement industry talk about. Is is one of the crucial elements in accomplishing anything. It brings our attention and concentrates it on one task so we can complete it successfully. So the question is how do we focus our attention?

There are many techniques out there to increase focus. Here are a few tips to help you to become more efficient in your activities:

1. Do one thing at a time.

Simply pick a task and do it until it is done. It is easy to say, but not so easy to accomplish. Creativity in that aspect can definitely help. I recommend using a time management system that will help you to categorize tasks, to assign priority of one task to another; so you know which you have to do first. If you follow any good self improvement system, one of the first things they would tell you is the importance of learning how to manage your time properly. Self help often implies taking the responsibility for your own life. That includes learning how to manage your time in the most efficient manner.

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2. Pick tasks that are easy to do first and try to accomplish as many of them as possible.

We often gauge self improvement by the sense of how much we have accomplished. So by trying to accomplish many tasks, we in fact increase our self confidence, and in turn are more motivated to focus more on what we are doing. Using your creativity to find motivation can be a great tool. Motivation is a driving force behind all self improvement.

3. Concentrate on the outcome.

It is very important to have goals that will excite us. The key to motivation is being excited about what you are doing. One of the ways of keeping that excitement going is to be absolutely clear about what you want to accomplish. Use your creativity to find goals that you feel give you an emotional response. Goals, if you are emotionally connected to them, are a powerful motivator.

Mastering the art of focus will greatly enhance you self improvement efforts. When you are focused and your creativity is at its peak you will be able to achieve great success in anything that you do.

Another Columbine? Dawson College events today

If you haven’t heard it on the news, there has been shooting in Montreal, Canada. A disturbed individual opened fire on unsuspecting student body.

I have a special connection to Dawson College - I used to live in Montreal and went to Dawson for four years.

What can I say - as these things keep happening around the world, it is just another reminder that we as society need to change. That’s why I firmly believe that self improvement is critically important. As the matter a fact I believe that improving our selves is the only viable solution to the problems that we face in the society today. The more we work on our selves, the more individuals there would be constantly striving to be better, the more world around us will improve. Only by improving our selves we can affect a deep change in the world around us.

I want to express my deepest sympathies to the victims and wish them a speedy recovery!

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Corey Rudl story

I was recently reminded of a story I heard long ago of an infamous internet marketer Corey Rudl, who passed away not too long ago. This is another one of those great stories that when you hear it for the first time just makes you say “wow”.

Corey was an “everyday Joe” he had a job and hobbies that he pursued when he was not working. One of his greatest passions was racing. He hung out at various internet forums devoted to the sport quite regularly. One day he saw one discussion about luxury cars that was extremely lively. He tuned in and found out that they were discussing a problem that luxury car owners are plagued with. It was the fact that inner-city gangs were stealing the hood emblems for those cars, and that it was extremely expensive to replace them. This practice of stealing the emblems was so popular, that the owners didn’t know what to do. Reporting the theft to the insurance companies would only increase their already high premiums, and paying the replacement out of pocket every month was too expensive.

You can look at this situation from two points of view. One, you offer your sympathy to those victims, and do nothing else. Two, do what Corey did. Look at it from a creative entrepreneurial point of view, and see an opportunity in that problem. Corey went out and found a wholesaler that would sell those emblems to him at a discount. This brought the total price to about one eighth of what the dealership was charging those car owners.

After that he made a simple site that sold those emblems. He went back to the forum, and told everyone there, that he found a place where they could purchase the emblems at a fraction of the price. The very first year without doing any further marketing he made something like 70000 dollars. That was many years ago, and till this day this site makes about 40000/year without any advertising or marketing.

This story isn’t about being lucky, or “getting rich quick”, it is about being open to everything around us. Without a doubt Corey was a genius where it came to marketing. But was he not open to notice this opportunity, he wouldn’t have acted and the story would have ended with that. Creativity works very much like that. One needs to be open at all times in order to let the creative inspiration blossom. The more we are open, the more we are able to be in the creative flow (a concept that we teach in our “Kick-Start Your Creativity” course). We also going to get to the point where we feel inspired all of the time - and that is truly a great way to live.