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Follow Your Dreams

REMEMBER: Follow Your Dreams

“Never ignore the little things.

Remember 12 inches make a foot,

3 feet make a yard,

1760 yards make a mile,

and 26 miles make a marathon.

Attack the challenge of a marathon one inch at a time.”

Randy Pausch, Dying 47-year-old Professor gives Exuberant Last Lecture | Must Watch Video

I have just watched this video - Watch it - you will be glad you did.

Personal Note: I like to think I’m a tough guy but at the end of this video there was the glisten of a tear in my eye - but not with sadness - it was with immense pride and gratefullness to share my time on Earth with people of the calibre of Randy Pausch

Here are some quotes from the Randy Pausch Transcript - and this quote from the transcript impressed me most of all:

“If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.”

And Randy Pausch has some amazing things to say about Childhood Dreams:

“Almost all of us have childhood dreams; for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don�t achieve theirs, and I think that�s a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I�ve actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU�s Entertainment Technology Center of helping many young people actually Achieve their childhood dreams.”

We salute you Randy Pausch

Ben Lowrey : Money and Products

These videos was forwarded to me today by Mark Anastasi - I strongly recommend you watch both of them. Sound quality is not that great in places but the message is awesome.

Great videos on the nature of money, the law of attraction and being in the ABUNDANCE ENERGY. These guys are clearly doing well for themselves - but most of all note their attitudes, their beliefs, especially the GRATITUDE they show.

Yes, I know the video is a bit of a Pitch for Ben Lowrey and Mark Anastasi for their Systems - but that doesn’t change the fact that the message is spot on!

And another…..

Mark Anastasi and Ben Lowrey in discussion

Paying Attention, The Law of Attraction, Being Successful and how it Relates to Bloggers

Alternative Title: Paul Potts and My Celebrity Blog

In a previous post I mentioned: The Secret and The Not So Secret Law of Attraction

This is a sort of Follow Up post to that. [and a longer than average post - but I do get to the MAIN POINT eventually ]

For a long time now - indeed, for as long as I can remember, I would say that I have felt “guided”, that somehow, I do end up in the right place at the right time, with the right idea. In recent years, especially as I have got more into personal development I have come to express this as “What you focus on, is what you get”

You see, I have never been strongly motivated by GOAL SETTING for example but I have always been pretty focused on the things I wanted in life. As a very young boy (around 8yrs old) I can clearly remember wanting to be dept free and financially independent and it is that focus which I’m sure assisted me in making some very good business decisions - decisions that have led to financial independence.

Any way, to get back on track, I mentioned in my original Law Of Attraction post that I was some what frustrated at all the publicity that the DVD “The Secret” was getting. Not because it was a bad DVD (I enjoyed it) but because it for me, overly simplified the strategy for getting what you wanted in life. (and in my opinion, could be misleading for some)

I mentioned that THINKING alone, rarely if ever makes anything happen. I mentioned that great book THINK AND GROW RICH and how it may have been more accurately Titled Think, Take Action and Grow Rich

Today, I would like to revise that further and say:
Think, Pay Attention, Take Action and Grow Rich

Now please bear with me….. (this is a longer than average post)

As some of you may know, one of my business ventures Midascode Ltd is involved in the Buying and Selling of Websites

One of the websites we bought last October was VipGlamour.net which is a Celebrity Blog

At the time of buying the site, it was averaging around 2464 visitors per week and I mentally set myself a target that it would be good to get weekly visitors up to in excess of 75000 visitors and then perhaps consider selling the website (flipping the website)

By April of this year, we were averaging 59985 visitors per week but in May it had come down to an average of 48682 visitors per week. Now I was not worried, but I was a little frustrated.

You see, I do not normally post on VipGlamour.net. To be frank, Brittany and Paris and all their late night activities didn’t interest me that much - so I left most of the posts in the hands of a very useful team of Volunteer Bloggers that we have. (Up until what I am just about to tell you, I had only done two posts before)

Anyway, last Monday Morning, (11th June) I was on YouTube, just briefly looking at what was “hot” when I spotted a Video of a brilliant young Welshman called Paul Potts. Paul is an Amateur Opera Singer and a Mobile Phone Salesman and he had just appeared on the UK TV Show: Britain’s Got Talent

I will never be able to explain why, but Paul Potts caught my attention big time and for some reason I just “thought” this is a FUTURE CELEBRITY and perhaps this video would be worthy of a post at VIPGlamour.net

Now if I had thought about this much longer, I may have thought making a post about Paul Potts really did not make sense, after all, where would he fit in with an audience that normally wants info on Kate Moss, Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears?

I will admit, I did think twice about making the post, but something TOLD me GO AHEAD and make that post, which I did. You can see it at:
Paul Potts, Future Celebrity Opera Star Found in Britains Got Talent TV Show
and another follow-up post at: Paul Potts Interview

Now if you have not heard of Paul Potts yet, then I think there is a very good chance you will soon. To say Paul Potts was HOT online last week, would be an understatement.

In the end, featuring Paul Potts last week at VIP Glamour gave us our best week for visitors ever, with 90616 UNIQUE visitors in the week and currently 202 comments made in response to my original post. Any of you Professional Bloggers out there will appreciate just how big a response 202 comments is - something that usually only the very TOP BLOGGERS can expect to get.

To further add to this remarkable story. Last night, Paul Potts won the Final of Britain’s Got Talent.

Now, my question for you and for MYSELF is “What is I had not been paying attention to that Inner Voice” and perhaps more importantly what if I had decided to not listen to it and take action?

For sure, we would not have had that RECORD BREAKING week at VIPGLAMOUR.net last week.

So to repeat - for me the Law of Attraction is not just about “Thinking and Attracting” - it is about:

Thinking, Paying Attention, Taking Action and Growing Rich

Another remarkable thing is that I heard Paul Potts (the subject of my original post) say in an interview that he was not even sure he wanted to enter Britain’s Got Talent - as he had more or less gave up on his music career. Now that is almost Scary - because Paul has the most amazing talent and ability to connect with the general public with his singing and I can only think how much poorer the lives on many people would be today if Paul had not “PAID ATTENTION” to his inner voice and entered Britain’s Got Talent.

So I have a question for all of us;

What great TALENT has laid un-discovered just because we did not PAY ATTENTION to our inner voice.

I am Amazed that we came so close to not discovering Paul Potts Talent and I am somewhat embarrassed (in a good way) that as knowledgeable as I am about the LAW OF ATTRACTION I could just so easily not be relating this story today.

It seems that almost everywhere you look at present, someone is discussing �The Secret�, by Rhonda Byrne.

From the mighty OPRAH to the 1000’s of blogs, they all have a “take” on the secret.

In the main, the feedback is positive but a growing number of people are starting to point out what has been obvious to a number of people, for some time now - and that is that: THE SECRET - IS REALLY NO BIG SECRET.

This is simply the LAW OF ATTRACTION - and the amazing power of the LAW OF ATTRACTION (LOA)

My concern is that the Law Of Attraction as presented in The Secret is to some extent being presented as a “Cure all” for modern wows, a solution to all of our personal problems. Well indeed it might be, but only if it is also combined with a huge amount of APPLICATION and DOING.

And it is the fact that there appears to be less emphasis on the APPLICATION and DOING part that is bringing out the most criticism of “The Secret”

Many years ago I read The Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and it was in these books that I first became fully aware of the power of my thoughts to dictate my actions and my results.

Now a title like Think and Grow Rich is a great title for a book - and I expect the Title in itself was one the reasons it became a best seller, but truthfully a better title for the book and the message in it may have been: Think, Take Action and Grow Rich. You see LAW OF ATTRACTION or not, Action is Required to achieve that Dream.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that “The Secret” and those who appear on it are Charlatans - indeed a good number of the people featured, I respect highly.

What I am saying is that Thinking Something in itself will not make something happen.

What you focus on is what you get - but really a more accurate definition is: What you Focus On and Diligently Apply Your time To Achieving - YOU GET.

In the interest of some balance I share some links below:

The law of attraction is real. The movie �The Secret� is fake.

Interestingly, I have started to notice that many of the Gurus featured in The Secret are starting to in their interviews give greater emphasis on the DOING and TAKING action part of The Law Of Attraction - In particular I notice that James Ray and Bob Proctor are keen to make this point.

I just hope that enough of the people who are turned on to The Secret get that point also, rather than just thinking that “happy positive thoughts” (as nice as they are) will cure all life’s problems.

In the video below, Bob Proctor and moneymaking and business-building expert, John Assaraf, discuss how you can become more successful in life with “The Secret.”

Note, how John Assaraf talks about The Law Of Action - You Have To Get Of Your Butt!

Also note how Bob Proctor points out that other important point - The Law Of Attaction works both ways - We attract everything, both Good and Bad.

came across this web page in my surfing today - an interesting collection of PDF books - on mainly self improvement topics

To The Next Level

Personal favourites are:
Acres of diamonds - Russell H. Conwell

and

Psycho Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz

I cannot be sure that whoever put up this web site actually has the “rights” to distribute this material - and for that reason I am reluctant to give it a 100% endorsement. That said, there is no doubt, most of the material is EXCELLENT

another quote from the site:

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences ”
Jawaharlal Nehru

Lilith - The Return of the Matriarchal Age

Now, the wheel of time has almost turned full circle. For thousands of years, the wind has blown over desert sands. The stars have journeyed across the heavens. The face of the Earth has reformed and been reshaped. Empires, kings, emperors have all come and gone, back to dust, until now, when, many billions of light-years away beyond the belt of Orion, a ship is coming. It is a huge inter-galactic ship, black and powerful and it is bringing Lilith back to re-establish the new Matriarchal Order.

A Metaphysical Adventure, A Self Help Book for the 21st Century