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Next year is but days away – what will YOU do?

Evie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:21:46 +0000

Today’s post comes from guest writer Chuck Denk click here to visit his Facebook Profile

This coming year’s promise will only be fulfilled if we recognize that things will only get better if we are fully engaged in being part of the solution to make things better. We have to recognize that social justice is a necessary condition to have a flourishing market economy.

Capitalism without a Conscience leaves a market economy that has to be subsidized by the government in the form of welfare because we not only have far too many people who are unemployed. We have too many people who are underemployed or are amongst the working poor because they can’t get employment that provides a living wage.

Wall Street needs to start helping Main Street rather than just themselves. The Health Care Industry needs to recognize that their desire for profits causes needless illnesses and deaths. Corporate America needs to take classes on Civics and not just recognize that the US Constitution is the Law of the Land: “Government is of, by, and for the people,” not “Of, by, and for the Corporation” as far too many people associated with the upper echelons of Corporate America expect WE THE PEOPLE to believe and accept as the way it should be.

Generosity, not Greed, is what has made this country of ours the best it can be. As we approach the end of this holiday season, let us all remember that the Spirit of Christmas is Giving, not taking, and that the Spirit of Christmas should exist every day. Let us all give love and joy to others; not agony and despair. We need to be good neighbors that help a community thrive through cooperation. Competition should be for who can be the most helpful in making the community more than a sum of its parts, rather than who can be the richest leech in the neighborhood. In game-theoretic terms, we don’t have to play a zero-sum game where there has to be winners and losers. We can change the status quo to a new paradigm where all sides gain by balancing the needs of a market economy with social justice.

My heart is unconditionally full of compassion for my fellow citizens, that’s just the way I am.

Say I am, Say I Am, Say I AM Wonderful, we ARE WonderFUL

Evie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:08:11 +0000

I ran across a YouTube video … and WOW!!! awesome I wanted to ensure I do not lose contact with this video and the song – so what better way than to write a blog What a GREAT way to start a day.

Say I Am, Say I AM, Say I AM WONDERFUL It is by Gary Go and I say he is, I say he IS, I say he is WONDERFUL

You will need to go to YouTube to watch the video – click here and it will open in a new window as the embed feature has been disabled (but hey! it’s his and he wants his viewers to go to his YouTube page and see his other stuff as well, rate and leave comments … show your love )

Short, sweet and to the point.

When you see something you want to do – do not put it off, do it now. Today – NOT tomorrow. You know what you want to do. What is the plan to do it? What can be done NOW? DO IT … we are a miracle … but we each only have a finite amount of time to do what it is we are here to do.

Begin to accept you ARE wonderful, we are ALL wonderful – WE ARE A MIRACLE. Imagine when everyone understands how absolutely wonderful we all are … and then we begin to act like we ARE Wonderful and WE ARE MIRACLES … WOW!!!

Be happy? Be kings? Be blessed? Understand the power of our choice and what we choose?

We create in everything we do and do NOT. We affect and have an effect on everything we come into contact with every day. Embark on this journey and accept the fact that YES!!! YOU ARE WONDERFUL.

What is the potential when humanity begins to expand into how wonderful we are and begins to work together to build instead of against to destroy … WOW … it is with the Law of Attraction I set this magnetic course into action.

“Say, I am wonderful” resonates with awesome source vibrational energy. It brings a smile to my face just hearing the words silently inside my head …

And so it is, I share this video through this blog – please go, watch, rate and comment. As of the writing of this blog, the video has been watched 1,372,842 times. Will you make it 1,372,843 or will the number be even closer to 1,400,000? Do it today don’t wait for tomorrow. Do it today and then again tomorrow and the next day and the next and the next … do it until you know just how wonderful you are. Then go on to assist others to know how wonderful they are. You are a Miracle!

Thank You ~ From a Thankful World to a Thankful World and beyond.

Enforce Accountability

Evie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:47:06 +0000

I am going through the 100 Day Challenge and today is day 30. Today’s lesson is about enforcing accountability.

I love the point of “What is the point of setting a goal or making a commitment if one has no intention of honoring it?”

Then all of the … but this happened, or I had no control over that, or any number of *excuses* and yes – even an “accident” can be called in and used as an *excuse* for why something didn’t get done or can’t be done.

If this is a one off item that hasn’t been able to be accomplished (yet) then what ever kept the commitment from being completed will be moved past and is a non issue … The clock on a goal, promise or commitment does not stop until the goal, promise or commitment has been completed or the goal, promise or commitment are ended.

If this is the track record of the person with the “accident” *excuse* then it is only another excuse as to why something is not done, or another promise must needs be broken, or {fill in the blank} There comes a time when others know one’s word does not mean anything – but still the person who says they will, thinks they will at the time they make what ever commitment they agree to … We may *Lie* to others – but one can not lie to one’s self.

When we try to tell our self that we will – but we have not COMMITTED to Our Self that we WILL (if we have not yet decided to ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY) ~ it is another goal, promise, commitment not worth the breath or paper it was made on.

It all comes down to how we CHOOSE to be perceived. It comes down to what it is we want to create. It is our free will and choice to follow-through or to give up, quit, stop, or break promises given. We must know what it is we are (or want) to do, then plan how it will be done, and then we must ACT on what we want, how we want it and keep going until we have completed our commitment.

We must first seek to commit to ourselves. And Then ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY, Once we get over that hurdle, anything is possible. Potential is limitless.

No matter where you are on the spectrum of accountable or total slacker who never accomplishes ANYTHING – YOU have the ability to reverse that trend and go from Super Human to slacker or from slacker to Super Human. We all have that choice to make every time we make a commitment, set a goal, or give a promise.

It is up to YOU to be your Enforcer of Accountability. Only YOU can create YOU to be the best you are able to be – anything else is just a temporary outside force. Like the wind may blow a leaf miles into the sky and half way around the world – but once the wind is no more – the leaf will surely fall back to earth and decay.

Pandora – the way music will be heard in future?

Evie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:45:22 +0000

Yesterday I became aware of a site called Pandora (no kick back, payment or affiliation of any kind for the link) Pandora began what they call a Music Genome Project (registered trademark) … About this same time we began a project at my place of work at the time (Intuit) and we called it the genome project.

The business end of our project goals was to get to the smallest particle of what made what happen when and where in the QuickBooks program. QuickBooks had grown very quickly and it had become a pieced together bit of wonder – but how did all the pieces work together? The team I had on this project were the BEST of the BEST! and they delved deeper than anyone thought they would be able to. They embarked into an unknown territory. Their focus was to uncover the genome of QuickBooks.

We went to Mountain View a few times to educate the programmers of the program about what the program THEY built did, why, and what happened IF … since I was on the management side (the *YOU CAN DO IT* motivating part) a lot of what my team did went right over my head, but I knew what they did made a HUGE difference in what happened going forward.

We knew what our goal was we carefully planned what to do and then we acted upon what we found. The potential was HUGE!

Unfortunately (in my view) the bottom line ruled the future and Intuit is where Intuit is now because of that … neither here, neither there – BUT …

The Genome projects of the year 2000 lay the ground work for the future – one of which is Pandora:

On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

Since we started back in 2000, we’ve carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists – ranging from popular to obscure – and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy – but now that we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project

If we lived in Oakland California – I’d be banging on their door daily – I want to work for you! I want to work for you! I WILL work for you But since we don’t and moving to California is HIGHLY unlikely – this blog post will suffice for now. I have created three seperate stations so far and I am amazed – in awe – in wonderful WONDER as to what they have created.

It is my hope the project my team undertook in the year 2000 to map out the QuickBooks genome has rendered that product as useful and awesome as the one undertaken by Pandora.

Give it a listen – try it out and see what you think – I’d LOVE to hear your comments about this new media available to us all.

Thank You,

Evie

Currently 450 Times A Day I Am famous

Evie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:05:27 +0000

Being an early adopter of things has it’s rewards and drawbacks. However, being an early adopter of Famous For Fifteen Seconds has some massive rewards. Being as there are only 12 positions taken so far out of 5760, the current 12 positions are rotated continuously.

Twelve images/URL’s rotating at 16 seconds each means a complete rotation is taking 192 seconds. One hundred ninety two seconds divided by 60 seconds is 3.2 minutes. Being as there are 1440 minutes in a day (60 minutes times 24 hours) if my image and URL are shown every 3.2 minutes by my calculations I have the potential to be seen 450 times a day.

Famous for Fifteen Seconds traffic has gone us by 410% over the last three months (as per Alexa.com) Even Twitter has only gone up by 73.2%. Sure Famous doesn’t have the traffic of Twitter … BUT … If this keeps up – WOW!!! Especially if people visiting the site do not see the value of adding themselves in to the rotation. But it is all about choice and choosing rather or not $5.00 is too much to pay a month to assist in driving traffic to your website or offer (NOTE: I am not an affiliate, partner, or any other thing that will get me even a penny of the $5.00 – but I DO believe Adrian’s idea has HUGE potential)

Anyway – that has been our math section of the day If I have it incorrect some how – PLEASE comment and let me know. I’ve been out of school a LONG time and what you don’t use you DO lose.

As I’ve said before we can have the grandest ideas in the world, but if we fail to take action – they are just ideas, pipe dreams, nuggets of stuff just floating around – waiting for someone else to take the action(s) needed to bring a GREAT ideas to reality. So — KNOW what you want to do, PLAN how you will go about doing it, and then ACT. If you haven’t yet begun to do this with your ideas and dreams … make today the day you Being To

SO – with that being said … what is the GoalBuzz of today? Giving a shout out to for Adrian Cowley of Famous for Fifteen Seconds … maybe he’ll let me in on his next grand project

Hmmm – does that mean I am gaining anything from this post? … thinking … the answer I get back is Nope … I am good to go. So check out Famous for Fifteen Seconds – I’d LOVE to know what you think about it.

Famous For Fifteen Seconds

Evie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:49:25 +0000

I just joined a fairly new website called Famous For Fifteen Seconds. The cost to be added into the rotation is $5.00 per month (every month one stays a member and in rotation). The actual time a subscribers image and URL are on at one time is 16 seconds so an image will be able to rotate around the clock and not just be shown at the particular time the subscriber signed up.

From the Terms and Conditions:

As the actual time for display will be 16 seconds this will ensure if all slots are filled that your image gets a time slot right round 24 hours so will be seen at some stage at each time of day all around the world.

Sixteen seconds times the number of TOTAL available slots is 25.6 hours.

The early adopters are able to get their image shown many more times than once per day, as the images (and subsequent URL’s) are being rotated continuously. As of the time of my subscription there are still 5,749 slots available. I feel that even once the rotation is full – having ones image and url the only thing someone sees on their screen for 15 seconds will be huge. Where as the Million Dollar Home Page is a static page ~ Famous For Fifteen Seconds is on a rotating basis … so (imho) the site will end up being much more sticky (meaning people will come back more often and stick around longer)

My current image is that of a red flower (for the BUZZ and the URL is of course Goal Buzz anything to get the buzz on our goals.

This was a subject I felt I must act on. What a way to begin to put my feet purposely on to the hot coals. This is a new venture I am excited about embarking on, as the focus truly does shift to goals and *getting things done* Another of my (very) major goals are my domain names and my domaining business … and I am very curious as to what the effect of famous For Fifteen Seconds will have.

Ideas are swirling on the potential of this venture and possible ideas that spring forth from this, like the seed burrowed into soil, given water and sunshine grows to the plant it is to be bearing the fruit it bears and then the seed burrows into the soil to start the cycle all over again…. I am grateful for the follow on Twitter that alerted me to this opportunity. After reading the FAQ on Famous For Fifteen Seconds, reading the T and C’s (terms and conditions) and asking some clarifying questions of Adrian, I knew it was time to plan and then act Talk about some magnetic marketing!!!

So it is I share this find with you. We truly do have so much to be thankful for in this world, as the Internet continues to shape and mold so many possibilities. As this site gains readers it will morph into a platform for all our members to utilize to assist in defining, setting, planning and then acting on our goals.

The hard part is waiting for my image and URL to go live as again from the Terms and Conditions:

Once you have ordered and the funds have cleared in my PayPal account, I will aim to get your image online within 24-48hrs (but please have patience if things kick off and loads of people order at the same time)

OK – I can do this

Day three of the 100 Day Challenge

Evie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:34:27 +0000

Oh My Goodness – time really does fly!

It is day three of the 100 day challenge and I am already behind. I have a lot of reasons (excuses) for why this is so, but I think the *reason* I am, is I have yet to “Pay The Price”. Not the price of the program ~ which is quite nominal, but the price of investing in myself enough to MAKE ME get up and DO … F-O-C-U-S.

Focus has always been an issue with me – I can be into something and a little flutter just out of my line of sight catches my eye and off I go in another direction … ooohhhh … what was that? So, at the end of the day I am left with *stuff* all over the place and I can’t remember what that *stuff* was for

I remember as a kid seeing George Carlin talking about *Stuff*:

It is time to organize and keep track of my stuff and focus on what I am to do … The 100 Day Challenge. Accountability happens in the 100 Day Challenge. It is time to act and begin to spread the happy of being blessed, but that is all choice we are free to choose.

For everything we do or do not do, we create. We create rather or not we acknowledge we are creating. Either we are creating *stuff* people want or *shit* no one does. Even if want we create is *stuff* that can not be held, touched, or seen … we are creating … even if what we create is nothing more than a black hole.

… hmmm … the world is filled with enough black holes. It’s time to create what people want (or the secret is …) Or creating things people WILL want. Now – how to do this? I feel it is in the 100 Day Challenge, so – back to work for me

It’s never too late to begin the 100 day challenge, and open to ones own potential.

Will YOU take the 100 Day Challenge?

Evie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:09:04 +0000

The other day while surfing the Internet (I hang ten like a PRO ) I ran across a site that points out there are only 100 Days left of the year 2009 on September 23rd. The website asked if I was ready for the 100 Day Challenge?

After signing up and scouring the site … I can excitedly say YES!!! Yes I am ready for the 100 Day Challenge. I am ready to be inconvenienced. I am ready to be pushed, poked, and prodded. I am READY

Check out the 100 Day Challenge and see if you are ready as well.

Stay tuned as I endeavor to grow exponentially and begin fresh and new to Be, Do, and Have all I know I am manifest to be, do, have and become. What will you choose? What potential have you not addressed? Are you ready to create YOUR Big BANG? If so, please join me in the 100 Day Challenge and we’ll see where we grow to

The video’s available just for pre-registering are AWESOME. My excitement level is high and I am looking forward to Wednesday September the 23rd, 2009. This has given me an exceptional push to get all the things I’ve been postponing DONE, so I will have a clean slate to work with on the 23rd.

Tonight is our monthly Home Owners Association (HOA) meeting, so that means the notes from tonight’s meeting will be written, published to our HOA website and sent out to the board for feedback earlier than expected … what a GREAT way to start.

Potential-Action-Results-Belief

Evie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:42:23 +0000

Great Day All,

I am in need of some heap big POWERFUL To Do List Secrets …

I have decided today is a day to begin to do what it is that I do so as to create results. I am not looking for mediocre results, or maybe even pretty good I am looking for knock it out of the ballpark and into some place that makes/writes history.

So – to this one must have all components, gears, and channels running in their best form.

Potential – Action – Results – Belief … This is something Tony Robbins talks of at: http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/ if you have 38.25 minutes to invest … GREAT video You’re welcome

What is needed to BREAK – THROUGH ?

Follow-Through?

Follow-Through BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU DO – and YOU WILL!!!

Does one HAVE to hit rock bottom to break through the belief of rather or not something is possible. Many never have any driver to success but just an internal drive to succeed. HOWEVER we are ALL meant to succeed, prosper and “be all we can be”

Do ONE Thing – DOT – Department of Transportation – what vehicle will YOU use to get to where you want to be. Belief … Belief in that power of (y)(o)(u)(r) capability.

Why? Oh, You ARE Capable

FOCUS ~ Multi-Tasking is a catch phrase that has hurt us greatly. We CAN’T do more than ONE thing at a time. We can all fill every spare moment – BUT – we are actually ONLY doing ONE thing at a time.

Doing ONE thing at a time we are able to build certainty that what we ARE doing WILL work. Doing one thing, we are able to gain the skills needed to succeed. But that all begins with a plan. What is the potential? Can we shift past a “It’s never been done before” mindset and understand potential is only based on what action one takes.

Now taking an action and that action doesn’t work – the actions can either be tweaked, continued as is, or stopped. Tweaking with the certainty you WILL succeed draws that result to oneself greatly. Belief is a HUGE driver. Do I BELIEVE I can? Even if others say I can’t? Can one break past others overlay of what they feel I SHOULD or should NOT be able to do?

BE CERTAIN – Build certainty into your actions. Golfers use it. Basketball players do it. Execution is everything – BUT being CERTAIN it will work makes the execution able.

What is the potential – What ACTIONS will you take drive the results we get – which builds more belief … but the magic fairy dust of belief can be broken … we are ALL capable of ANYTHING we are certain we can do.

By being certain we can, we can take almost any potential and through action our results will continue to grow in what looks like an EnchantedFairyTale.com

What rituals do you do in YOUR enchanted fairy tale (each of our lives are a story we write day in and day out). Our role is to create value. Our role in life no matter what it is WE do – our purpose is to create value for others. Once we break through the barriers of what believe we are capable of – the belief in what we can do is limitless.

But what if we are disappointed? Disappointment is ONLY a lesson – tweak it, continue doing your one thing to absolute awesome success in creating value. It is all in our head … or not … I am also reading the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle.

We are our story ~ ??? ~ or are we not … We CREATE our Story

CHANGE Happens in a Moment. Make that change and break through Decide. YOU are the only driver you have. No One Else Can Make Anyone a Success. ~CLICK~ With Gratitude – I publish this post.

Motivation and Inspiration

Evie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:05:41 +0000

It is my belief there are more of us saying the same thing in “in our own way” than ever before in all history combined together compared until right now, this moment.

Case in point In my travels today – one of the sites I landed upon is a blog, and this particular blog entry Motivation and Inspiration is exactly what I needed this day.

Below are the snippets I pulled from the video’s Thank You

Les Brown

Put back as retarded in the fifth grade to the fourth, most of his schooling was done as though he was incapable of learning. A chance meeting with a teacher changed the path he was on.

Someone else’s opinion of you does NOT need to be your reality. The ONLY person whose opinion DOES matter is YOURS. You are your best advocate or your worst enemy.

It’s possible. When faced with *whatever* say IT’S POSSIBLE It’s Possible.

Most people are so negative they must say no seven times before they say yes. Be ready, seek advancement of skills. The only way to “Be Ready” is to seek advancement of ones skills when there is no need, and to be “hungry”

Pursue ones passion. We must have passion in what one does. Being able to follow ones passion, one becomes more thankful.

Thankfulness breeds gratitude. Gratitude breeds success. Find reasons for gratitude.

Nido Qubein

Change from within … the only one who REALLY wants change is the baby in wet diapers.

1) Excellence is a habit: The wildly successful people form habits which “breed” success.

2) Personal responsibility: No one can whine to me why THEY can’t achieve their dreams. As children our surroundings have a lot to do with we do and do not, however there comes a point in every human being’s life when THEY take responsibility for their own actions – even if that decision for their responsibility they give over to another to control. The one “being controlled” is still the one who is choosing in every moment to BE controlled

Life is lived best when you set your self a goal.

3) Change – it is time to face our greatest fears. Change does not come from, nor just for the sake of, cause improvement, but improvement ALWAYS comes from change.

Do not change for the sake of change, but change for that which will improve … once this vicious cycle has begun and others are taught how to do and then improve, abundance is ours ALL of ours

Napolean Hill

Personal Success – When Napolean Hill was a youth and he studied with Andrew Carnegie; he told Mr. Carnegie he (Napolean) should not be a leader due to his youth, lack of education, and lack of finances:

Andrew Carnegie: Science for success philosophy, taught Napolean one GREAT truth

A power that is greater than poverty, education, greater than all your fears and superstitions.

This profound power is that of the creator. We have the complete and unchallengeable control over our mind.

Napolean Hill’s take away was: What ever the mind can conceive and can believe, the mind can achieve. (and how is that, the mind finds a way

Marci Shimoff

Dare to be happy – happy attracts success.
Don’t believe everything you think. I CAN, I CAN, I CAN
Use the power formula: Intention, attention, no tension.
Let your passion lead – have the will to go with your gut. Do what you love. Continue-continue-persist.
Don’t catch the NO Cold ~ emotional contagion. We become the average of the five people we spend most of time with. That we associate with. Spend time with people who are happy for no reason.

Zig Ziglar

By the time I got to Zig’s videos I was happily adlibbing along the way. Sorry

Can one help a negative Nellie? Drama … problem seekers … want to be negative Nellie’s. The people who complain the loudest are usually the ones who ARE the problem? Negativity breeds negativity. There is no other way to say it It has gotten to the point me, myself will actually go about shaking it off the cycle of negativity MUST end.

Do IT … If someone isn’t willing to DO something first, nothing will be done. You MUST do step number one, before you can do step number two.

The person WITH the problem – if THEY do not take that first step – no matter HOW bad the problems seem to be, or the person seems willing to change it – the person does NOT WANT to change the situation.

The eyes are the window to the soul. Look deep into your eyes in the mirror and say your affirmatives into the eyes of you. Morning, Noon & Night … and if you get a chance to sneak an extra one or two in ~ WHOOOO HOOO !!!

Before bed – I love *~* because … and go through the list looking into and through the window of your soul (eyes)

In the morning before starting the day again look into the window of your soul and say your affirmative statements again FEEL These as your truth with passion and excitement and just the first 24 hours will uncover miracles.

Everybody sells – EVERYBODY. Unless one is a hermit and the only one they interact with is themselves (they are still selling them self How and why? Who knows – but time is the most precious of commodity.

No one changes except YOU. Self talk is the worst talk. How to stop self talk … ooohhh good article to research and write

Seems kinda strange one of my domain names IS EverybodySells I love it when a plan comes together, even if I have been like Fry and been asleep for a thousand years

Gratitude – the healthiest of ALL human emotions is gratitude.