The Top 10 New Years Resolutions!

From the "8 Dynamics of Life";

Every year we take them, as this new year is going to be THE year that it's all going to change!
That made me wonder as to what would be the Top 10 New Years Resolutions.
This is what my survey brought me;

1. Spend more time with family and friends;

Recent polls conducted by General Nutrition Centers, Quicken, and others shows that more than 50% of Americans vow to appreciate loved ones and spend more time with family and friends this year.

2. Get in shape;

The evidence is in for fitness. Regular exercise has been associated with more health benefits than anything else known to man. Studies show that it reduces the risk of some cancers, increases longevity, helps achieve and maintain weight loss, enhances mood, lowers blood pressure, and even improves arthritis. In short, exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better. Why not make this the time to start getting in shape?

3. Tame that bulge;

Over 66 percent of adult Americans are considered overweight or obese by recent studies, so it is not surprising to find that weight loss is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. Setting reasonable goals and staying focused are the two most important factors in sticking with a weight loss program, and the key to success for those millions of Americans who made a New Year's commitment to shed extra pounds.

4. Give up that nasty habit of smoking;

If you have resolved to make this the year that you stamp out your smoking habit, over-the-counter availability of nicotine replacement therapy now provides easier access to proven quit-smoking aids. Even if you've tried to quit before and failed, don't let it get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before they quit for good. Start enjoying the rest of your smoke-free life! Locally, there are a variety of free support services, hot-lines and smoking cessation classes to help you kick the smoking habit.

5. Have more fun and enjoy life more;

Given the hectic, stressful lifestyles of millions of us, it is no wonder that "enjoying life more" has become a popular resolution in recent years. It's an important step to a happier and healthier you! Consider some products designed to bring balance to your body, mind and soul. Or just get out and try something new! Take up a new hobby or try your hand at some hobby you used to do (I'm picking p sky-diving again!). Go to a theater near you, or head to the local sauna or spa.

6. Say no to alcohol;

While many people use the New Year as an incentive to finally stop drinking, most are not equipped to make such a drastic lifestyle change all at once. Many heavy drinkers fail to quit cold turkey but do much better when they taper gradually, or even learn to moderate their drinking. If you have decided that you want to stop drinking, there is a world of help and support available. Alcoholics Anonymous offers meetings throughout your country. Buy a good book or attend a seminar about it. Face it, we all drink too much and it became socially accepted, so we get away with the guilt and responsibility feelings.

7. Get out of debt, make more money

I will give several "Wealth Creation Seminars" in the coming year. Opportunities are not knocking at your door, the are almost tearing your door apart. Visit my website, write us an e-mail and find out where there is going to be a seminar close to you. Turn your world around for good!
Was money a big source of stress in your life last year? Join the millions who have resolved to spend this year getting a handle on their finances. It's a promise that will repay itself many times over in the year ahead.

8. Learn something new;

Have you vowed to make this year the year to learn something new? Perhaps you are considering a career change, want to learn a new language, or just how to fix your computer? Whether you take a course or read a book, you'll find education to be one of the easiest, most motivating New Year's resolutions to keep. Most local colleges and universities offer distance and adult education programs. Stay sharp, all things are changing in an exponential rate. Knowledge is power! And now more then ever!

9. Work on your Contributional dynamic;

Help others! A popular, non-selfish New Year's resolution, volunteerism can take many forms. Whether you choose to spend time helping out at your local library, mentoring a child, or building a house, there are many nonprofit volunteer organizations that could really use your help. The House of Dynamics organization makes it easy by connecting volunteers with projects to fit practically any schedule. Or if your time is really in short supply, maybe you can at least find it in you to donate the furniture, clothing and other household items that you no longer need, rather than leaving them out by the curb to fill up our landfills.

10. Get organised;

On just about every New Year resolution top ten list, organization can be a very reasonable goal. Whether you want your home organized enough that you can invite someone over on a whim, or your office organized enough that you can find the stapler when you need it, these tips and resources should get you started on the way to a more organized life.
Attend one of our "8 dynamics of life"-seminars and design your new blueprint for the future. It is the best seminar of his kind. Once your life gets organised, it will become easier to get in your personal flow and start attracting things effortlessly instead of working harder without the expected rewards.
Check out our websites or drop us an e-mail concerning.

To your success and happiness!

Leo Stroobants

The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

Engineering bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

From the CONTRIBUTION Dynamic;

Because we all care about our environment and that Physical legacy (Planet Earth) that we will leave behind as a legacy to our children. I found this wonderful article I would like to share with you all;

Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.
In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis.

Check out following links;

http://www.rdmag.com/News/2009/12/Energy-Engineering-Bacteria-To-Turn-Carbon-Dioxide-Into-Liquid-Fuel/

and

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n12/abs/nbt.1586.html

Because we care!
And remember that real leaders today face the music all the time, even when they do not like the tune.
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

Looking at Heroes,...

Let's take a look at a very unique individual that I like to refer at as a "HERO"; Nick Vujicic!



Born with no arms or legs, Nick Vujicic gives an inspiring testimony about overcoming circumstances in one's life. Nick Vujicic (born December 4, 1982) is a preacher, a motivational speaker and the director of Life Without Limbs, an organization for the physically disabled. 

Early life
The first-born child in his devout Serbian Christian family, Nick Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia with the rare Tetra-amelia disorder: limbless, missing both arms at shoulder level, and having one small foot with two toes protruding from his left thigh. Initially, his parents were devastated. Vujicic was otherwise healthy.

Growing up
His life was filled with difficulties and hardships. One was not being able to attend a mainstream school because of his physical disability, as the law of Australia required, even though he was not mentally impaired. During his schooling, the laws were changed, and Nick was one of the first disabled students to be migrated to a mainstream school. He learned to write using the two toes on his left "foot," and a special device that slid onto his big toe to grip. He also learned to use a computer and type using the "heel and toe" method (as demonstrated in his speeches). He can also throw tennis balls and answer the phone (also demonstrated in speeches). 

Epiphany
Being bullied at his school, Nick grew extremely depressed, and by the age of eight, started contemplating suicide. After begging God to grow arms and legs, Nick eventually began to realize that his accomplishments were inspirational to many, and began to thank God he was alive. A key turning point was a newspaper article about a man dealing with severe disability that his mother showed him when he was 12, that led him to realise he wasn't the only one with major struggles. When he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group[5], and eventually started his non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs.

Wherever you decide to look, that is what you'll see!
You are the one taking the decision as to where you are focusing your internal camera on.
There are some that get out of balance by minor things, there are some -You might call them heroes- who will turn every weakness into a strength.
Are you focusing on the obstacles, or are you celebrating these obstacles in your life because they make you stronger and tougher?
Don't ask for better cards, learn instead to play better with the hand of cards you have now!
Are you out to find excuses or more reasons?
What are you deciding today?

To your fulfillment,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

Is MMS the most powerful pathogen killer known?

About 4 months ago, my brother set me up with MMS. In the beginning I was very sceptical, but after I let my girlfriend (who happens to be a pharmacist) investigate this, my beliefs started to shift!

I have been doing some intensive research and I'm using the product daily.

This is so powerful and wonderful that I would like to share this with the world!

Read this article very attentive and get the book for FREE!

Miracle Mineral Supplement also referred to as MMS is a reasonably new development, well at least to the general public. The best way that we can tell you about The Miracle Mineral Supplement is to tell you what it is made of and how to use it. According to Jim Humble’s book, Breakthrough, The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century, ClO2 only remains active for about two hours in our bodies with some residual effects lasting a short while longer. More than 75,000 malaria victims have taken the Miracle Mineral Supplement and are now back to work and living productive lives. Because the Miracle Mineral Supplement functions as a supercharger to the immune system, it is not meant for treatment of any particular disease, but rather it’s designed to improve the immune system to the point of overcoming many diseases, oftentimes in less than 24 hours.

Miracle Mineral Supplement is claimed to be a miracle, but in reality it’s just pure science and common sense. MMS once more is not a miracle, it is just absolute science that works so well that many people call it a miracle. MMS works extremely fast, and the body likes to start healing in no time. It works best to destroy pathogens that are present in the body, after activating the formula 2 or 3 mg of free chlorine dioxide are in the solution at the time it’s ingested.

In Breakthrough, Humble explains how he discovered the use of chlorine dioxide as an alternate treatment for Malaria, which has since led to over 75,000 documented successful treatments of the disease in Africa. Reports of overcoming incurable diseases are happening every day.  Other details give included treating animals, hepatitis, pneumonia, snake bites, food poisoning, many cancers, tuberculosis, asthma and other diseases. 
 
It’s the most powerful killer of disease pathogens known to man, and that’s a known fact. The mineral supplement recharges the immune system enabling the body to destroy diseases caused by germs, bacteria, viruses, parasites and poisons. All this happens within a 3 minute time space to eradicate diseases. The price is around $20 per bottle with thousands of doses, and previous users have written claims that it cures many serious diseases, including HIV, TB, many cancers, Hepatitis A, B, and C, herpes, and malaria.

As with any herbal or mineral supplement, we can’t make claims about The Miracle Mineral Supplement. This miracle mineral supplement introduced by Jim Humble consists totally of a bona fide revolutionary formula containing 28% sodium hypochlorite in a solution of distilled water. There is too much proof that the miracle mineral supplement can cure disease!

I am very pleased to announce that our full edition Miracle Mineral Supplement Guide ebook is now available FOR FREE as a PDF download! This books is small, but packed with goodness! I hope it serves to help out many people who need a good source of information, tips and facts.
The book is made freely available and you may share it with your friends and loved ones. This isn’t the book by Jim Humble, but is based on his published works, our personal experience with MMS and other documented facts.

We look forward to your feedback so we can grow the book as people share their findings with us.
Right click the link below and select save as to save the book to your computer for future reading.

http://www.mmsfacts.com/files/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement_Guide_Full_Edition.pdf

Check it out and spread the word!
It's FREE and it WORKS! How much more do you need?


Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

So you want to become a famous blogger???

An image says more than a thousand words!

Enjoy,

Leo Stroobants

www.leostroobants.com

A tribute to Jim Rohn

The Passing of a Legend

With great sadness we share that Jim Rohn, our mentor and friend, left us December 5, 2009 for a better place.

Over the past 18 months, in his battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis, Jim assured us with a smile that all is good, that he would fight until the last breath, yet he had no fear as to what would be next. Jim’s faith was as much a part of his life as his desire to inspire and challenge us all to be the best we could be and to live our dreams.

Jim’s courage in his final months and days were a testament to his message that we should all fight the good fight. He never gave up and never gave in.

Jim Rohn touched millions of lives over the past 46 years through his seminars, books, articles and CDs. He always stayed long after an event to shake hands, take pictures and sign autographs. He loved making a difference in people’s lives, that was his passion and inspiration. Yet he was also a private man who kept a small, loyal and caring inner circle. He was a tremendous friend to those who knew him.

Harold Dyke, long time close friend of Jim’s for over 55 years said it best, “As Jim is ending one life he is simultaneously being birthed into a new life. One that he has talked about over the years and anticipated with great joy in his last remaining days.”

Kyle Wilson, long time colleague and friend of Jim had this to say about his mentor, “Jim Rohn was a great human being. Jim had the rare ability to take any concept or idea and then frame it in such a way that the rest of us could see it more clearly. His wisdom and insights positively affected everyone he touched on some level and to so many of us it was in an extraordinary way. But even more impressive was Jim Rohn the man. He possessed style and charisma, yet was humble, kind and understated to all who knew him. I find myself every day reflecting, benefiting and passing on the wisdom and ideas that are rooted in Jim’s message and wisdom. Jim is irreplaceable on every level. I will miss him beyond words, but am comforted as I know he was, that his message and legacy will live on and positively change millions of lives over the years to come!”

Someone once said “when you are born you enter the world crying while everyone else is rejoicing and when you die hopefully you have lived such a life that everyone will be crying while you are rejoicing”. Jim Rohn lived such a life.

Jim’s family asked us to thank all of you for your concern, prayers and love toward their father and grandfather, which has been so evident during the past 18 months.

Darren Hardy, dedicated student and Jim Rohn protégé for more than 15 years, said of Jim, “He was the most influential man in my life, second only to my father. Jim cemented my philosophical foundation and nourished my mind with ideas and ambitions never before imagined. He chiseled my character seminar by seminar, tape by tape, book by book, then CD by CD, hour by hour. Jim emboldened my belief, in me and in my most daring dreams. When I fell and was bloodied, he was there with encouraging words to help me get back up. When I didn’t think I could go on, Jim convinced me I was stronger than I imagined. When I wanted a shortcut, he reminded me there aren’t any. Even when I got too caught up in trying to achieve and succeed, Jim compelled me to leave room to live, to laugh and to love.”

Stuart Johnson, business associate and long-time admirer, said, “I was first introduced to the philosophies and teachings of Jim Rohn almost 25 years ago. And he made an immediate impression on me. I was amazed by how this modest and unassuming man could communicate such an extraordinarily powerful message in simple and straightforward terms. In person, one-on-one, he was as humble and down-to-earth as he was in front of an audience of thousands. I will treasure my personal memories of Jim and know that I will forever benefit from the wisdom of this remarkable man.”

There will be a private funeral held in the coming days. Plans and details are also being arranged for a Public Memorial Service to be held in the Los Angeles area in the coming weeks. Details will be announced upon final confirmation.

We know Mr. Rohn is looking down on us at this very moment with a smile saying I did it, I gave it my all, I went for it, now it’s your turn. Go for it. Make your life a life worth living well!

View a special tribute to Jim below produced earlier this year and debuted at the March 2009 SUCCESS Symposium. You are also encouraged to post your thoughts and remembrances of Jim on the Memorial Wall below.

Jim fondly closed his programs with the following sentiments: “I go with you in all the experience that we’ve had. But I promise you this as we leave here: I will not leave you behind. I’ll take you with me in my thoughts and in my heart.”

Thanks for sharing and shining Jim!
Leo Stroobants

Het levensverhaal van Andrew Carnegie

Dynamiek; Financieel-Professioneel-Bijdrage

Nadat hij Engeland enkele malen had bezocht, was Andrew Carnegie al snel overtuigd dat staalproductie de nieuwe markt zou worden. En dat in plaats van het courante ijzer. Dat is wanneer hij besloot verschillende kleinere ijzermijnen en fabrieken op te kopen.

Rond het jaar 1988 kocht Carnegie het rivaliserende Homestead Steel Works en werkte hij verder aan de ontwikkeling van de Carnegie Steel Companie. Met een geschat vermogen van $25 miljoen werd Carnegie nu de eigenaar van 's werelds grootste staalmaatschappij.

Carnegie sloeg de spreekwoordelijke nagel op de kop want de impact van staal op de komende industriele revolutie was enorm. Ondertussen groeide de Carnegie Steel Company tot een totaal aan winsten van ver boven de $38 Miljoen, en dit in de eerste 10 jaar van zijn bestaan. Tegen eind jaren 1880 werd Andrew Carnegie de grootste producent ter wereld van zuiver ijzer, stalen rails en cokes.

In het jaar 1889 benoemde Andrew Carnegie de jonge Henry Frick als de nieuwe president van de Carnegie Company. Tijdens een poging de winsten nog te verhogen, verlaagde Frick de lonen van alle werknemers waardoor in 1892 het Carnegie Homestead fabriek in staking ging. Als antwoord hierop bracht Frick 300 staking verbrekers binnen. Een hele dag werden er zware gevechten gevoerd tussen de twee rivaliserende groepen, waarbij men er op het einde van de dag een dramatische telling van 10 doden en een zestigtal zwaargewonden op nahielden.

Carnegie was buiten zichzelf van boosheid tegenover Frick en in 1899 kocht hij deze laatste uit voor $15 Miljoen. Vanaf die dag organiseerde Carnegie zijn volledig bedrijf volgens democratische normen, waarbij hij al zijn werknemers de garantie en zekerheid bood dat hun eigen inzet ook daadwerkelijk een merkbaar verschil ging uitmaken binnen zijn bedrijf. Zijn unieke aandelen boni werd een succesformule waardoor het bedrijf uiteindelijk steeds sterker en sterker werd.

Een andere hefboom die Carnegie creëerde was een incentive systeem waarbij hij de verschillende werknemers op een constructieve manier tegen mekaar liet wedijveren. Hierdoor motiveerde en inspireerde hij hen tot de hoogste productiviteit. Carnegie bouwde zijn bedrijven om tot beperkte partnerships , waarbij hij steeds de controlerende partner bleef. Hij verkocht nooit een enkel aandeel publiek.

Een van de ultieme sleutels van de verbluffende groei binnen zijn bedrijf was zijn tegendraadse investeringspolicy. Terwijl zijn concurrenten hun winsten herinvesteerden gedurende de hoogdagen van de markt, wachtte Carnegie tot wanneer de markt keerde wanneer de prijzen het laagst waren. Deze strategie gaf zijn bedrijf een enorme boost tijdens de economische recessie van 1893 tot 1897.

In voorbereiding van zijn pensioen, rond de leeftijd van 65, transformeerde Carnegie zijn privé bedrijven naar publieke bedrijven. En op 2 Maart 1901 deed de gerenommeerde Amerikaanse bankier John Pierpont Morgan een succesvol bod, wat toen resulteerde in de grootste overname ooit in de geschiedenis. Dit resulteerde in het etablissement van de US Steel Corporation, het eerste $Miljarden concern ter wereld.

Andrew Carnegie collecteerde hierbij bijna $230,000,000 in obligaties uit deze verkoop, wat hem een van 's werelds rijkste mensen maakte.

Op zijn oudere leeftijd begon Carnegie zijn enorm fortuin aan te wenden voor goede doelen, in het voordeel van het publiek en als ondersteuning voor sociale vooruitgang. Hij stichtte verschillende publieke bibliotheken in de VS, in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en in andere Engelstalige landen. Hij stichtte ook verscheidene fondsen ter ondersteuning van kunst, wetenschap en patriottisme.

Wanneer hij stierf in 1919 werd er een schatting opgemaakt van alle fondsen die hij zou hebben geschonken en weggegeven. Men kwam aan het verbluffende bedrag van $350,695,653 terwijl hij leefde, waarna zijn overlijden er nog eens een bijkomend totaal van $30,000,000 werd weggeschonken.

Andrew Carnegie blijft vandaag nog steeds een unicum, een meester filantroop en een overvloedige bron van inspiratie.

Ik bewonder deze man mateloos, vandaar dat ik jullie vandaag graag zijn levensverhaal deel.

Stay inspired,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

3 Pillars to Success in Life

Dynamics; Professional-Emotional

Yesterday I received on e-mail of a distant friend asking me a very straightforward question; "Leo, how do I get successful?" Now, this isn't an easy one-two-three answer! Let me have a go on this one,...

FIRST: Get some CLARITY and FOCUS!

-You need to have a clear and compelling VISION, where attention goes, energy flows and results finally show. FOCUS is where the energy goes to. Write it out and make it compelling.

-You absolutely need very strong REASONS to follow through. Forget about pushing your way towards succeeding, you want to be pulled into it.

-When you wake up in the morning, nothing else can be on your mind. Sort of like a very sound obsession, you don't want to do anything else.

-Be completely HONEST about where you are today. If people ask you where is Russia, it all depends where you are. It's different when you are in Belgium, Hungary, Sicily or the US. First pinpoint where you are, where to start from.

SECOND: Get the best TOOLS!

-The fast track to success is finding MENTORS, people who are already succeeding huge in the areas of your life where you would like to excel. Get proven maps how to get there, mentors know the shortcuts!

-Then start modelling them. Do exactly the same as they do, imitate them, their behaviors, their actions, their reactions, their focus, their "modus operandi".

-Start with setting high STANDARDS. Put your limiting ego aside and don't try to re-invent the wheel all over again.  See what works and what doesn't, starting with those things that are already working right now. Then follow that path, copy the successes until it doesn't work any longer, then make some course changes and review your strategical approach.

-Surround yourself with a peer group that keeps tracks of your evolution and your successes. Make sure that they are critical enough to hold you accountable.

-Take DAILY ACTION and start building some consistency. Measure your progress!

THIRD: Unlock what is Stopping You!

-Don't focus on the MECHANICS, they are only accountable for 15%, the rest is 85% PSYCHOLOGY!

-Ask yourself the most important question of all; WHY? The emotional drive behind the WHAT is 100 times more important. Unlock and unleash!

-Ask yourself what beliefs, goals or values might be in conflict? If your goal is to become a super salesman and your number 1 fear is rejection, then you are setting yourself up for failure!

-Align your life with what is most important to you. Ask yourself what is the most important thing for you today?

-Now re-align your PSYCHOLOGY so you naturally take action in the direction you are most passionate about. The direction that is in highest resonance with your highest values.

FINALLY;
When you achieve, CELEBRATE  than CONTRIBUTE and pay it forward!

To your success!
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

Wat is bewustzijn en wat zijn wijzen? NL

Dynamieken: Spiritueel

Na veel vraag, wordt dit de eerste blog in mijn tweede moedertaal!
Afwisselend zal u Engelstalige en Nederlandse blogs te lezen krijgen,...
Enjoy!

Er wordt vandaag zo gigantisch veel over geschreven en gepraat, soms minachtend en spottend, dan weer allesomvattend en essentieel.
Wanneer we de huidige geleerden vandaag volgen, dan denk ik dat er eerst een aantal zullen moeten sterven zodat we niet langer alleen de fysische benadering onder onze neus geschoven krijgen.
Ons bewustzijn wordt ook soms omschreven als onze ziel of geest.
Is ons bewustzijn een bijverschijnsel van onze hersenen dan?
Denken, voelen, emoties, dromen, zijn ze een vreemde dans van onze moleculen, een bijproduct van het fysische?
Volgens de wereldvisie van de meest dominerende geleerden alvast wel.
Wanneer verlies je je bewustzijn? Door een klap op je hoofd, door kalmeermiddelen. Dus,...dan is het fysisch?
Stel je voor dat je naar je favoriete zanger luistert op de radio. Je breekt je radio open en je vindt de zanger er niet fysisch terug!
Stel dat je TV stuk is, zou je dan verklaren dat het netwerk plat ligt?
Wanneer je een mooie roos ziet, voelt en ruikt, waar exact gebeuren die sensaties dan? Inderdaad, in je bewustzijn!
Het start allemaal steeds als een subtiele intentie.
De materialistische geleerden zouden gelijk stellen dat het in je hersenen gebeurt.
Vandaag heeft men manieren ontwikkeld waarbij men daadwerkelijk via een bepaalde suikermolecule doorheen je hersenen kan reizen.
Hebben ze daar beelden teruggevonden? Kleuren, geluiden? Nee! Je hersenen zijn donker en vochtig en zien eruit als een overrijpe banaan.
Ze hebben er niets meer teruggevonden dan electro-chemische processen onder de vorm van neuro-peptides. Een reeks positieve en negatieve ladingen die op en neer werden afgevuurd.
"Het beste dat we weten is dat er wat onbekend is dat zaken doet die we niet kennen!" Edminton
Zo is elke religie slechts een expressie van een culturele mythologie. Wanneer ik naar de maan wijs, dien je mijn wijsvinger niet te verafgoden!
Vandaar dat religie niets meer is dan een expressie van onzekerheid. Geloof is iets dat we aanwenden wanneer we niet langer zeker zijn.
Wanneer je jonge katjes opvoedt in een ruimte waar er slechts verticale strepen zichtbaar zijn, zullen ze later alles slechts verticaal herkennen.
Hetzelfde geldt wanneer je de ruimte vult met horizontale strepen.
Dit heet "Premature Cognitive Recognition", waar ik tijdens mijn seminaries meestal naartoe refereer als je geconditioneerde blauwdruk.
Zij die deze patronen verbreken en durven anders en ruimer te denken worden omschreven als gekken, excentriekelingen of ...wijzen!
Wanneer je kijkt naar een mooie rode roos, is er dan een rode lichtstraal die zich naar jouw ogen richt? Is het werkelijk een electro-magnetische energiestraal? Bestaat er werkelijk rood? Er is geen rood! Binnen in je oog, in het synoptische netwerk binnenin je ogen is er ook geen rood te vinden. Waar is het rood dan? In je bewustzijn!
Waar is Brussel? Waar is Amsterdam? In je bewustzijn!
Jij bent niet in je lichaam, je lichaam is in jou! Jij bent niet in je geest, je geest is in jou!
Het is allemaal jij, als een bewustzijn!
"Everything is a vibration of light!" Sir Arthur Edington
Stay inspired and enlightened!
Namaste!
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

Steps to get enlightened,...

From the 8 Dynamics seminars; SPIRITUAL

So many e-mails, ...finally here is my answer;

I read somewhere that becoming enlightened is like a process of peeling back the many layers of the ego to experience your true radiant Infinite Self. It's a proces of opening to your innermost being, and as a result to the entire Universe.
I found out in the beginning that the deeper you reach, the more turmoil I got, until finally things started to slow down a bit. The goal actually is to reach the layer of absolute stillness. Some of us need some time to get there, but once they do, it's easier to get there again.
A bit like learning how to ride a bike, it doesn't really work from the first time. You need to practice over and over again, until one day you are swooped away.

Our great masters and teachers tell us that in our deepest self, our true spiritual knowledge resides, the place where we actually feel connected with the Universal energy. Finally we will start to recognize that the newfound inner self is who we really are. You without the ego, full of love clarity, understanding, abundance, eternity, compassion, forgiveness, light.
Every book I read about "enlightenment" observes form a different angle, some work for me, others are a bit off track when I listen with my heart. But they mostly get together in the agreement that it is a continuos state or realization that you are an eternal being who will never die. We just move on to another dimension, another understanding, another matrix.
We are spiritual beings in a material body.

Being enlightened for me starts with a celebration for all the things in my life, a feeling of deep and honest gratitude. Knowing that I am part of a bigger, much bigger, eternal and infinite "whole" which I would like to refer to as the Universe. You might like to call it God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, The Light, Abba, Elohim, Yazad, etc.
Some refer to it as a living, conscious intelligence that loves you unconditionally.

Here are some steps that might help you get closer to your enlightened you;

1. Turn of your ego; The constant, never ending chattering inside your mind. The mind is just a mere habitual illusion of who and what we really are. Let go of your beliefs and just BE, without conditions. Turn off your repetitive mind, your internal record that plays over and over.
2. Find a quiet place; a place where you can turn your internal computer off. The board of a lake, in the middle of the woods, a sunny beach overlooking the sea, on top of a hill, a private room with calming music and some candles, whatever works for you.
3. Let go of the illusion that you live separate from the Universal source; Feel all the abundance you already possess right now. Get out step into nature and find all the abundance that you already possess. Stop suffering because you are simply not aware that you are ONE with the UNiverse.
4. Release all your HAVE's; During time, you got attached to people, things, feelings that are limiting you today. Some things will give you the illusion of pleasure, others pain. Pain and suffering is just a way of the Universe to say to "LET GO!"
5. Face the bull; Don't run away from your fears, run towards them. Almost all the times they will disappear before you reach them. Fear is something that was created by YOU, you can dissolve it.
6. Believe your own stories; We were all conditioned when we were young, to become more and more detached from the Universal energy. Success was falsely explained, we were never thought to find the source inside us, in the contrary. Success is finally determined by how fulfilled you are as a spiritual being in a material body.
7. Stop thinking; Thinking is like an arm or a leg, use it only when needed. Limited by only 52 visuals images a second. Practice being.We are human BEINGS. Learn to be in the here and now, and redefine your definition of success.
8. Wanna be right? Let go of trying to be right all the time. It's a limiting ego-trip. You don't need to fight for what you wish, life is a playground. Play!
9. Step out of the rat race and stop suffering; Live conscious, not subconscious. The cheese will only get bigger, and the suffering will never disappear. Dare to swim against the stream, and wake up! Everything you need to stop suffering is INSIDE you, not outside!
10. Stop blaming, stop justifying and stop playing the victim; The rewards you get from them are always very temporary

Choose to wake up now, and enjoy!

Live life fully,...
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

What needs to be done to BREAK through and FOLLOW through?

Dynamics; Emotional- Professional

So many people approach me asking me what the difference is between those who breakthrough after one of my seminars, and those who don't. Why do some people follow through and some stay stuck? This basically doesn't only happen with my seminars but with any seminar, program or product out there!
One day a surgeon shared with me that of all the patients undergoing major surgery at their lungs or heart caused by smoking, 70% of them starts smoking again. Picking up their destructive behavior again!?
What really needs to happen for people to follow through then, you might ask.
The best thing I do is modeling. I model the individuals that master the specific things I crave for, try to do what does people do, adapt it, master it and teach other people how to do the same.
It's actually also about the validation in the mind that there isn't any fear any longer. Wipe out the fear by planning without a plan B. Burn the ships you came ashore with!
It's a proven fact that almost 97% of all people talk their way out of business before they even started. (So much for their wonderful ideas!)
Overachievers on the other hand have the tendency to increase their fear, so fear will work in their advantage. They are so afraid to miss out on all the wonderful opportunities, instead of settling in waiting for things to change out of their own.
Then you have those who clearly have strong enough reasons to break through and follow through. For instance, being sick and tired of being sick and tired of a certain situation is indeed a perfect motivation!
Some of them, like me (who already lost everything 3 times in my life), have to hit rock bottom first before rising to the highest levels.

In order to break through, you will have to be in a state of breaking through. Lots of people are still captured in a "desiring"-state, instead of a "MUST"-state. A MUST state is needed to break through the level to make massive change possible. Solely wishing won't just do it!

My question to you is; WHAT PISSES YOU OFF or WHAT EXCITES YOU THE MOST IN LIFE?

The first results are mostly the biggest kick in the butt to follow through; The first kilo's you lose by working out, the first money you make in your new business, the first actual sensory changes you are observing!

Listen, the most important thing to do before all, is knowing exactly WHAT it is that you want; Chrystal clear and very detailed and then determining the following magical step of WHY you actually want what you want. It has to be something you are really hungry for, craving for, obsessed by, something that will make a huge DIFFERENCE in you life.
That WHY will open up a container of feelings and emotions while you are doing your daily visualizations of your WHAT's.

And if,...for some reason.....you still don't know it. If you are still not hungry?
Then get around people who ARE hungry!
And see what happens,...

To your success, happiness and prosperity!
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist

Let's redefine and reshape the definition of success!

Dynamics; ALL!

Working for more then 8 years with my 8 Dynamics of Life seminars, I keep on hearing more and more people having a pretty narrow idea and visualization of the concept SUCCESS,...
Throughout my works I like to offer other, deeper views and insights about what the meaning of success really holds.
First of all it's no longer about how much money you have, or how successful you THINK you are. It's all about how much IMPACT you are having on the world!
Re-read this sentence and feel how you are reshaping the meaning of success, prosperity, wealth and fulfillment in your mind,...
What do you want your LEGACY to be?
Will it be how much money you finally made, or...
How many lives you CHANGED, how much IMPACT you had on others in a constructive, loving and meaningful way?
I dare to think that I already sense your answer,.....that is.....if you are really HONEST to yourself!
Now here comes the second "secret";
Are you ready,...?
You really don't have to make a choice between making money and making a difference!!!
It's actually almost never a matter of "either-or", but a matter of "AND"!
Once you personally figured out how to apply LEVERAGE and CREATE massive CHANGE in your world, you'll find that money simply COMES to you, automatically,....without EFFORT!
Because you are creating VALUE, and that is exactly what the UNIVERSE is waiting for to give massive REWARDS to you.
Mmmmmm, interesting yes?!
Without questioning the world is undergoing massive CHANGES in the last years (and it ain't over still). Lots of people have been hurt, crushed and majorly challenged, both emotionally as financially.
But I learned that in times of CRISIS the biggest OPPORTUNITIES are created.
During my seminars I teach the willing to embrace crisis, because it is the messenger of huge quantities of chances, new beginnings, new ideas, new implementations and HUGE opportunities.
It ain't over yet, and believe me that a massive SOCIAL CHANGE will sweep through the world, and it is UNSTOPPABLE!
Most of us do not longer want the TOYS, the big mansions, a collection of expensive cars like we did before. Today we are looking for MEANING and PURPOSE, to CONTRIBUTE and thus make a positive IMPACT on the world.
That is why we need to redefine and reshape the definition of SUCCESS, because unfortunately people still wrongly associate money with success and prosperity, where it actually only has to do with the impact you have on others.

And that is why I accepted to cooperate with a fantastic spiritual experiment called SUPERWISE ME! (Wisdom 9-9-9) Created by Len Branson.
I will share more about it later, just google around and find out!

I want to close with a mantra I often use from his holiness the Dalai Lama;
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness,..."

To your "success"!
Leo Stroobants
Your Energy Maverick

Get out of crisis by changing your focus

Dynamics; ALL!

These are the greatest times in our life, REALLY!
The best time to work on all 8 dynamics of your life; Professional, Financial, Material, Emotional, Physical, Relational, Spiritual and Contribution.
Times have never been better, REALLY!
And in the years to come we are going to receive more gifts and opportunities in all different shapes and forms and in ways that we never even thought possible.
But, we will have to shift our focus and start modeling those who are successful in this new world market even more.
We will HAVE TO adopt new rituals, new philosophies, create new habits while shifting old paradigms and breaking previous conditioning.
What worked in the past will definitely not work any longer in the present and will be ridiculed in the future. Constant learning, adapting and growing will be the new identity.
During my seminars or while I walk in a room full of people I can spot the exploited rituals of most individuals in a second. Some of them show that they work out 4 to 5 times a week, others only twice, some not whatsoever. By looking at what state they are in and reading their physiological proof I can spot if they are smiling, vibrant and open minded versus some who look worried, stressed and frustrated.
We have to recognize that our rituals determine our life!
What state are you in RIGHT NOW wen you read this article?
Are you sitting up, smiling, open minded and full of energy?
If not, shift you state RIGHT THIS SECOND and see what happens, put a major grin on your face and feel what you are reading.
How do you react NOW?
Are you doing the right rituals in your life today?
You can be SINCERE but in the meantime you could be SINCERELY WRONG!
Maybe you are doing the RIGHT things in the WRONG time?
That doesn't really work, and will only give you lots of PAIN!
Are you doubting or wondering if you are right on track? Just look around and see what your life looks like right now. That will be the answer you were looking for.
You need to do the right things in the right time. As Jim Rohn says; "You need to know what season you are in,..."
Walking around in swimming trunks on the ski slopes of Gstaad in the winter month of December is as ridiculous as jumping around in your ski suit on the beaches of the Cote d'Azur in the middle of the summer.
It will only result in PAIN!
Take control of your STATE right NOW and start to become AWARE that your old paradigms won't bring you any closer to your goals, well in the contrary.
Start to FOCUS on the RIGHT things, focus on those things that will bring you closer to your goals, FASTER.
You only live ones, so also become AWARE that your time is one of your most valuable assets. Even though time is an illusion just like anything else, let it be your tool to measure your progress, but not the source of any frustration.
Write them goals down, visualize them daily, use dream boards or vision walls as your practical aid and take some daily time to MEDITATE and get CONNECTED with the UNIVERSAL ENERGY that unites us all.
Have FAITH and move on.
Remember that even when you don't pay attention, or even while you are asleep, your BRAIN keeps on working for you.
We THINK consciously while we ACT unconsciously.
You will find WHAT you are looking for!
WHAT are you looking for,....Focusing on?

Namaste,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist

Turn Crisis into Opportunity

Dynamics; Relational-Professional-Emotional-Physical-Financial

The Chinese word for crisis consists of two characters; One meaning DANGER, and one meaning OPPORTUNITY.
A crisis and an opportunity aren't that different, are they? Each event is a critical point at witch events will turn for the better (or worse). A well-managed crisis becomes an opportunity, a mishandled opportunity becomes a crisis.
So again, the most important factor is not really the challenge itself, rather then the way you will handle it.
Is there really a crisis going on? During years, many organizations, banks and individuals have been driving at full speed blindfolded. Products became more important then sales, sales became more important then service. Sooner or later the inevitable had to happen; Financial meltdowns and bankruptcies.
Since 80% of all people live their lives without any specific goals, they are drifted by the winds of the masses. So when the crisis hits, they will find themselves right smack in the middle of it. With no defense or trained skills to handle it.
Events are what they are, and worrying about them does not change anything.
So it all comes back to you choice;
Are you going to look at it as a crisis, or as an opportunity?
Look at the current economic crisis and decide that this is not YOUR crisis;
Take advantage of the lower competition.
Take advantage of lower prices, fees, commissions, rent etc.
Take advantage by slowing down and re-arrange your goals and your aspirations.
Take advantage of the unfounded pessimism, since things aren't all that bad.
Take advantage to book a holiday, great offers never been as cheap.
Take advantage to start a new business, since so many "over-loaded" companies are quitting.
Take advantage to take care of yourself by working out, attending seminars and re-rejuvenate.
Take advantage by your creativity, finding new and innovative ways to excel.
Take advantage of this hyped situation by staying focused and clear about what you want.
People tend to overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a lifetime.
This situation will pass too, be ready and prepared to conquer as never before.
Life goes through cycles, as does the economy. It can be compared with the seasons in nature; We might be in the Winter season now, so sure as can be.....Spring will follow. It has always been like this, and that will never change.
Assess this situation correctly, maybe you decide that you were following the wrong careerpath, that they time for self-employment is NOW. maybe you want to move to another country or state, maybe you want to get out of a limiting relationship or...get married, maybe you are sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Allow yourself a couple of minutes to ask yourself if your life today is still heading in the direction of your goals and dreams?
Every critical juncture carries the potential to become either a crisis or an opportunity.
What will be your choice?

Wishing you the best of luck,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist

Beware of Energy Vampires getting into your life!

We all know people like this. When we spend time with them we feel like we are drained of energy, they almost literally suck up all the high vibrant positive energy we possess. Energy vampires - such as drama queens - leave you feeling drained and listless, but these fifteen ways to protect yourself from negative influences will help!

After spending time with an energy vampire, you barely have enough energy to do anything and certainly not to take care of your responsibilities or to pursue your goals and aspirations. The energy vampire's negative influences have consumed your positive energy.

How Energy Vampires Suck your Juice of Life

Energy vampires suck away your positive energy in many ways, such as:

• Intruding on your life, imposing their ways and their limiting beliefs, ignoring your personal boundaries and privacy (energy vampires don't think of you).
• Making big deals out of nothing. They always have yet another drama-story that "happened" to them. Energy vampires are often called "drama queens" because they can easily turn their sick pet into a Shakespearean tragedy. Negative energy spreads from everyday events.
  
• They are always surrounded by drama, sickness, illnesses, excuses and are always ready to blame, justify and point fingers. They mostly don't flock alone, since misery always looks for company.
  
• Complaining constantly about their partners, jobs, children, bad luck, and illnesses. Energy vampires like to vent.
  
• Not only do they want to vent, they suck up all the attention. In conversations, they will not be shy to interrupt, and try to lead almost all the time.
  
• Criticizing your hair, appearance, job, children, partner, friends, and pets (energy vampires aren't positive).
• Not taking "no" for an answer. Energy vampires don't consider your needs.
• When feeling threatened they will do whatever to gather extra manpower to sing their awful song. Influencing their posse with half truths, misconceptions, lies and manipulative suggestion.
  
• Being unrelentingly negative. Their negative energy is relentless, and energy vampires drain your positive energy by encouraging you to be negative, too. Since there are only two ways to get equalized in vibration level, they prefer to tear yours down rather then stepping up to yours.
  
• Since they never take responsibility, they will always find people to blame. One of their preferred tools is "guilt". That is a game they master in their manipulative ways.
• Unfortunately it is almost impossible to alter their ways, since their behavior mostly came out of their deep embedded convictions. Old habits are indeed hard to break.

Why You Feel Drained and Depressed After a Conversation

You know you've spent time with an energy vampire when you leave feeling depressed, exhausted, or sad. Energy vampires drain your positive energy for their own use. Energy vampires leave you feeling empty and sluggish – and to compensate or build positive energy you may eat, drink, shop, or sleep for hours afterwards. Since you don't think and live in those ways, yo don't always have an armor ready to shield you off and protect you towards their draining forces.

They Need Your Positive Life Juice

Energy vampires come in all shapes and sizes: loud and aggressive, soft-spoken and shy, charming and seductive, pushy and overbearing. They could be (and mostly are) found in your inner circles and even in your family. There are no stereotypical external specifications to recognize them on the spot. Energy vampires have energy deficits that they need to fill. It's up to you to stop and block energy vampires from feasting on your positive energy. Often energy vampires don't even realize they're bleeding you dry. Most Energy vampires have suffered some sort of crisis, whether in childhood or adulthood, and they're compensating to get rid of their negative energy. Energy vampires may not be deliberately, maliciously stealing your positive energy -- but they're definitely not contributing to a fantastic relationship.

It may look like a very difficult task at first, but these Energy Vampires can be stopped.

Here are 15 of Leo's ways to stop these Life Juice Sucking Flying Rodents:

1. Always plan the amount you want to spend with these energy vampires. Limit your time you have to spend with them because the less time you're together, the less positive energy you'll lose.
2. Try to stay calm at all times. They are masters in mental manipulation, that is what they thrive on. Get mentally detached from them in your mind and don't allow yourself to step into their game.
   
3. Always remember that you need to give them permission to allow them to feast on your positive energy. Don't let their negative energy consume you.
4. Adopt ways to block these energy vampires from the start. When they call you, tell them you are about to do something very important, or let them know that you can't spend more then 5 minutes with them. One of my mentors used to ave a huge framed quote hanging above his desk that read; "You got 5 seconds to get me enthusiastic or to get out!"
   
5. Mentally prepare yourself before you are about to meet them and expect new and (for them) exciting new approaches, blitsy stories and newbies.
   
6. Be honest about your needs (eg, "I need this time to work/read/relax/exercise.")
7. Refrain from attempting to rescue them or fix an energy vampire's problems.
8. Think about all the energy vampires you can detect in your life and list them on paper. Now visualize a new life with very limited time having those people around. And start living like that. You do deserve better!
   
9. Practice walking away from energy vampires.; the more you do it, the easier it gets. Perfect practice makes perfect!
   
10. Limit eye contact with energy vampires. Where attention goes, energy flows!
    
11. Avoid being in close spaces with energy vampires (elevators, cars, etc). Negative energy is catching. Misery always looks for company!
    
12. Define and guard your personal space from energy vampires. Be very clear and very bold.
    
13. Tell energy vampires you feel uncomfortable discussing particular people or circumstances.
14. Stand up for yourself and your boundaries! Your time, positive energy, and resources are precious and should be closely guarded from energy vampires.
15. Be firm, be on alert. Positive people give you attention, energy ampires give you an infection! Focus on all the beauty in life, and how much time you want to spend there instead of mingeling with those energy vampires.

Enjoy your weekend, life is meant to be lived with passion and love!
Namaste,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist.

Develop Mental Toughness!

Why does one end up as the winner and the second becomes the first runner up?
What is the difference between someone freezing in the face of fear and someone facing an impossible situation and still having the willingness to conquer it?

CEO's, Sportspeople, Top Athletes, Prime Executives, Entrepreneurs and Leaders of all kind possess this amazing quality called Mental Toughness.
For you it might be the difference between reaching your goals or keep staring at them! It is necessary to possess this ingredient in order to overcome any obstacle or to overachieve in all different dynamics of your life; Your Finances, career, lifestyle, relations, emotional wellbeing, physical performance and health, your spiritual connection and your contribution to others.

If I had to describe Mental Toughness I would refer to it as; You having the physiological edge that enables you to be consistent, confident, focused, and determined during high pressure situations in order to perform at your maximum potential.

It's not a skill that you are born with, and neither is it an easy attribute to acquire. That is probably the reason why 80% of all people don't have it. The 20% who do, make all the difference and are mostly referred to as the "examples" or "rolmodels".
They say that to acquire this force is well worth the hard work and the endurance.

Imagine that you have it too in following situations;
- Excel during pressure situations
- Get going under high stress
- Having a mental advantage over competitors
- Being very flexible and able to bounce back fast after a setback
- Being unstoppable through most any circumstance
- Deliver results even when the likelihood of succeeding is low
- Set new standards in times of crisis
- Shift into a higher gear when every one else around you thinks about quitting

And times of crisis might just be;
-Your business or investment has been failing
-You have received a bad management and/or peer review at your job
-Everything at the party/wedding/gathering that could go wrong, has gone wrong
-You lost your company
-You’ve been assigned to work with a group of people that you do not get along with
-You just got fired
-You are getting divorced
-You have to speak in front of a small or large audience
-You are way behind on a project and the deadline is fast approaching

Those who are strong minded are not hard to spot.
True mental toughness, however is sometimes hard to find.
There are many characteristics that a person may possess that may mimic the characteristics of a mentally strong person.
If someone is stubborn, opinionated, outspoken, bossy, or demanding some might see them as strong minded and may confuse that with toughness.
Toughness is not usually seen in the actions of a person, rather in the reaction of that person. You might know a person who seems to be a rock mentally.
This person seems to know what they want and know how to get it. Not only that, they have an answer to every question, an opinion for every topic, and an idea for every circumstance.
That may seem to be the formula for success in the mind, but what happens when something goes wrong? Or a plan or project fails over and over and over again?
This is where those who are mentally tough strive and excel.

There are six major characteristics of mental toughness

-Confidence; Whatever happens, stay loyal to your own values and principles. Believe in yourself no matter what and move on. The darkest hour of the night is the hour before the sun rises. You did it once, you can do it again.

-Focus; Where attention goes, energy flows. What you focus on tends to expand and becomes bigger, brighter and more real. Focus on all the things that bring you energy, vitality, strenght, optimism, passion and wellbeing. Fuel your inner engine with high octane gasoline!

-Motivation; Motion creates emotion, move, shake, exercise and eat healthy vibrant foods. Listen to some inspiring CD's, go and attend a great seminar, read several great books and start motivating yourself. Find some rolmodels to use as an example. Go and have a great conversation with some people who already achieved the success level in the area that you are aiming for.

-Courage; Acting in spite of fear, having the heart and taking the responsability to face the bull. Even if your heart is racing and you blood pumping like crazy. Fail forward. Whatever you do, don't quit ad feel the zest of life running through your veins. Set new standards and step up!

-Strenght and endurance; Life is no sprint but a marathon. People overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can achieve in a year. Keep your body and your mind sharp to be living on the edge if needed. Endurance is created by consistency and training.

-Resiliency; It doesn’t matter how confident, focused, motivated, courageous, or composed you are, if you do not see your goal to the end then it may turn out to be pointless. Being resilient is pushing through until you reach your destination. Take it step by step, one day at the time, as long as you keep moving in the direction of your Cristal clear goals.

Developing Mental Toughness is the same as developing your muscles, start with it today and practice every day until you reach the level that - you too - are part of the small percentage in this world who make a world of difference.

Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist

6 tips from the superstars

Here are some tips that were send to me a genuine mogul:

Tip 1) "What do other networkers want?" This is the

question you need to ask yourself in order to find out how

to attract them. Give them want they want. Solve their

problems for them. Then you will attract them effortlessly.

Tip 2) Do NOT spend time trying to prove to people why

they should join you! Newbies do this all the time, the pros

never do. Give people real value and you will never have to

pitch your business to anyone ever again.

Tip 3) If you are buying leads, you are lazy. Learn to

generate your own leads, otherwise go get a job.

Tip 4) Every night before you go to bed write down 5

things you need to get done the next day. This way you will

wake up with your goals in mind. And with each task you

accomplish you are a step closer to reaching your ultimate

goals.

Tip 5) Confidence is a decision. People judge you by the

way you look and sound, so if necessary, give yourself a

physical and/or mental make-over. In your videos and your

pictures do NOT look like you just rolled out of bed.

Tip 6) Learn copywriting. You'll need to master this skill

in order to write anything in this industry -- even something

so simple as ad copy. You need to know the psychological

triggers that make people respond and take action.

Now get going, crystallize your dreams!
Leo Stroobants

Powerful Personal Development!

When I say Think and Grow Rich, what comes to your mind?
Almost everyone in sales and those interested in personal development have read this classic by Napoleon Hill at least once. And almost everyone who's read it has a positive comment. Many (like me) will say, "Turning point in my life."
Everyone has a turning point in their quest for lifelong learning. Everyone has their Aha! In your personal development, it's what you choose to listen to, watch or read that enhances your understanding of your life and teaches you what you need to do to succeed.
Napoleon Hill's 1937 quote sets the standard. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
And once you have the information, it's all about what you are willing to do to take advantage of it.
Most people know Napoleon Hill was the author of Think and Grow Rich. The person Hill emulated and studied was Orison Swett Marden. Not many know that.
Marden was the leading positive-attitude genius of the 20th century. Well-known before 1930-almost unknown today. He was a founding father of personal development and positive thought. Aha!
Author of more than 40 books, Marden also was the founder of SUCCESS magazine. Here are a few of his words of wisdom from the book he wrote in 1908, He Who Thinks He Can.

• "Every child should be taught to expect success."
• "The man who has learned the art of seeing things looks with his brain."
• "The best educated people are those who are always learning, always absorbing knowledge from every possible source and at every opportunity."
• "People do not realize the immense value of utilizing spare minutes."
• "No substitute has ever yet been discovered for honesty."
• "Poverty is of no value except as a vantage ground for a starting point."

These are quotes worth learning and passing on to others. One hundred years old!

"Learn More about Orison Swett Marden."

Based on my personal experience and personal Ahas!, I'd like to challenge you with the rules of personal development and give you some examples of what I have learned so you might make your own plan to succeed or enhance the one you have.
1.Expose yourself to knowledge.
At the end of a seminar I gave on positive attitude, I received an evaluation from a woman named Mary with a comment that read, "I wish I would have heard this 30 years ago." I got goose bumps of sadness and thought of a Jim Rohn quote: "All the information you need to succeed already exists; the only problem is you're not exposing yourself to it." This information existed 30 years ago. Mary just hadn't exposed herself to it.
Jim Rohn is known as America's leading business philosopher. His CD, The Art of Exceptional Living, is among the modern classics of personal development. Jim Rohn is the current master of inspiration and Aha! He imparts wisdom in every sentence.
Between Marden and Rohn, there is a long list of valuable books. I owe my career success to these books and to personal development information to which I have exposed myself.
Most of the books are more than 50 years old. Many with religious connotations-but still preaching the right words and thoughts. One of the most notable is The Power of Positive Thinking by NormanVincent Peale. Biblical and brilliant.
2. Simple is powerful.
If you read it and it seems too easy or too hokey, reread it. It's probably part of your personal development foundation.
One of my early Aha! moments of personal development was the simplicity of the message. Sometimes it's so simple, you go right past it without understanding the impact it can make.
A classic example is the eternal How to Win Friends and InfluencePeople by Dale Carnegie. In 1936 he wrote, "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." How many salespeople could benefi t from that single Aha!? I think all of them.
Interesting to note that Dale Carnegie's lessons still are being taught in the classroom 70 years later!
3. Think and apply to improve.
In As a Man Thinketh, published in 1902, James Allen says, "A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." Thinking what can be done is at the core of your personal development. About 54 years later, in the million-seller, The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale writes, "We become what we think about all day long." Get it?
In 1969, I listened to Glenn W. Turner on a cassette tape: "Act as though you have already begun to achieve. Not fake it-live it."
4. Take a daily dose.
Think about the time-worn expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apply that to personal development, and it means learn and apply one new thing every day. At the end of a year you will have 365 new pieces of information.
5. The older the better.
If you want a new idea, read a book that's 100 years old. "The best educated people are those who are always learning, always absorbing knowledge from every possible source and at every opportunity." -Marden, 1908. Or, "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -B.C. Forbes, 1919.
6. Personal development and positive attitude are joined at the hip-and at the brain. And there is another component-being of service.
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." -Clement Stone, 1946. Add that to the 5000-year-old Chinese proverb, "To Serve is to Rule."
7. Do it even as your butt falls off.
In 1898, Elbert Hubbard wrote an essay titled, Message to Garcia. Deliver the message, get the job done, complete the task-no matter what. Many have read that essay. Few have emulated it.
Personal development challenges you to think forward. "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come." -Victor Hugo, 1874.
Personal development challenges you to be your best. "You cannot mandate productivity; you must provide the tools to let people become their best." -Steve Jobs, 1988.
"I am the greatest of all time." -Muhammad Ali, 1963.
Personal development challenges you to make decisions based on the person you seek to become. "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -John Ruskin, 1869.
Wondering where you can "find more time" to devote to your own success? "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." -Henry Ford, 1901. Just a thought.
The key word is not development; the key word is personal. Do it for yourself, in your own way, and make your own time for it-or not.
The biggest Aha! of personal development is from Russell Conwell's Acres of Diamonds. Considered to be one of the finest speeches ever written, Acres of Diamonds offers a multitude of lessons about the rewards of work, education and finding the riches of life in your own back yard-or your own library. Aha!

I borrowed this article from Jeffrey Gitomer, who is the author of The Little Red Book of Selling.
I hope this might inspire you to get going on a new week of opportunities and chances!
Licensed to thrill,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com

10 Prosperity Tips

As we all know living a prosperous life is about much more than just having enough money. In order to be truly prosperous, you need to change your total mind-set from lack to abundance. You need to make a mental and emotional shift and start living your life on a more abundant level - in all 8 Dynamics of life! (Professional-Career/ Financial/ Material-Lifestyle / Emotional /Relational-Family/ Physical-Health / Spiritual / Contribution

Below are some 10 tips for doing that:

Prosperity Tip #1 - Do What You Love

When you spend time doing things you really love, you automatically feel happier and you put in motion an entire set of events. When you feel happier, you emit more positive vibrations, and attract the things you want more quickly and easily! Start spending more time doing the things you really love. Spend more time doing things that give you energy. This can include hobbies as well as transitioning to a more fulfilling career.

Prosperity Tip #2 - Affirm You Always Have More Than Enough

The more you focus on lack, the more lack you will experience in your life. Turn this around by constantly affirming, "I always have more than enough money for everything I need." The more strongly you can come to believe this, the more your physical surroundings will shift to match your expectations. Where attention goes, energy flows. So what you continuously put your attention to, will expand!

Prosperity Tip #3 - Take Action

Before he became Buddha, Siddartha spend his entire time thinking and visualizing the world as he wanted. Until he decided to take action. Action isn't always necessary in order to attract abundance into your life, but it sure doesn't hurt. Don't sit around waiting for your circumstances to change - get out there and change them! Things don't change, people do! Taking even one small step toward what you want can often trigger a flood of opportunities and synchronizations that get everything moving in a more positive direction. At the very least, taking action can boost your confidence and make you feel more in control of your circumstances. Are we human being or human doings? Really?

Prosperity Tip #4 – Gratitude and Appreciation

Start your day with gratitude and it will become one overloaded with gifts. An appreciative mind-set makes everything seem better. Not only do you feel more abundant, your very focus on the positive aspects of your life will naturally attract more things to be grateful for. Pick up the habit of writing in your gratitude journal. Make it a daily habit to appreciate the wonderful things that happen to you - even the small things. The more you do, the more you'll find good stuff flowing into your life as if by magic.

Prosperity Tip #5 - Love, Love, Love

The most important force of all, the emotional drive we all thrive by. Love is one of the most powerful and transformational forces. It can heal the most painful situations, transform lack into abundance, and inspire positive change in both the giver and receiver. Practice flowing feelings of deep love for everyone and everything in your life. Love your blessings, your friends and family, the difficult people you encounter each day, and even your illnesses and obstacles. When you love them, you heal and transform them into genuine blessings.

Prosperity Tip #6 - Boost Your Self-Worth


Your beliefs have everything to do with the things you experience on a daily basis. Only when you feel worthy about yourself, you can recognize the worth in others. If you don't believe you deserve abundance, you will continually push it away! Start improving your self-worth and affirm constantly that you deserve to be happy, healthy, wealthy and full of energy. When someone gives you a gift or compliment, accept it with gratitude! You don't always have to return it, just happily accept it. The more you do this, the more you will open yourself to the blessings the universe wants to send your way too. And believe me, there are many!

Prosperity Tip #7 - Make Room for More

If every nook and cranny of your life is crammed with clutter and disharmony, you've got no ROOM for prosperity to come in! The Universe hates vacuum. Once a year you should trow away (or better yet give away) the clothes you haven't been wearing in the last year. Make space to be filled up again with new goodies, new energy! One of the quickest ways to get abundance flowing more smoothly through your life is to clear a space for it. Get rid of physical clutter and release painful emotional burdens and unresolved issues. Clean up your physical, spiritual, emotional and financial affairs, and watch how easily they are transformed from stagnant to vibrant.

Prosperity Tip #8 - Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

Besides poor self-worth, you may have other limiting beliefs that keep you from experiencing the prosperity you deserve. For example, do you believe you must work hard to receive a lot of money? Do you believe that rich people are rude and insensitive? Do you believe that having a lot of money would be a burden? Learn to examine and question your beliefs about prosperity - and change the ones that limit you. This is an ongoing process that can change your life in powerful ways.

Prosperity Tip #9 - Fire Up Your Abundance Radar

You've probably heard it said that whatever you focus on expands. Prosperity is no different! Get into the habit of seeking examples of abundance wherever you go. When you're shopping, pause to notice the abundance overflowing from store shelves. Each one of those products began with a simple idea in someone's mind and was created in physical form! Take a trip to your local farmer's market and marvel at the abundance of produce available. Each one of them was started with a tiny seed planted in the ground and nurtured until it grew into a luscious fruit or vegetable. Take time each day to reflect on the abundance you see all around you, and you will attract more of it (in all forms) into your life.

Prosperity Tip #10 - Positively Abundant

Positive thoughts and emotions will automatically attract more positive circumstances into your life, including prosperity! Negative thinking is nothing more than a habit of looking at the less favorable aspects of every situation. But every negative situation has at least ONE positive benefit. The more you can train your mind to look for the blessings and remain open to possibility, the more blessings and possibilities you will see! Start a new positive thinking habit today and watch how it transforms you into a magnet for everything good.

There are many more ways to attract greater prosperity into your life, but these tips offer a simple way to get started.

Life is meant to be lived fully!

Licensed to thrill,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com