November 2011
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The Illusion of Darkness?
Can’t find your way? Doing something or many things that put you right back into a place you don’t want to be? I do this all the time. And looking for answers only see darkness. But there is another way to look at this. And it makes sense. More in the podcast.
The Illusion of Darkness? (mp3)
September 2011
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Conscious or Not? Reduce Anger and Frustration Now
If you are depending on people to help you with something, and they appear to be idiots, fools, jerks, or just plain out-of-tocuh, maybe you need to see them in a different light. To see them in a way that kind of explains why they are the way they are.
Conscious or Not? Reduce Anger and Frustration Now (mp3)
June 2011
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“The number of fools is infinite.”
– St. Robert Ballarmine
May 2011
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“Our whole life is a continuous temptation.”
– St. Bernard
March 2011
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“The truth never not is.”
“That it doesn’t matter what we believe, is hard to believe.”
November 2010
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Keeping Your Cool In Times Of Stress
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The world has changed a lot over the past few years. As a result, many activities have become more complex, time consuming, bothersome.
This addition affects the amount of time you have available to deal with these increased demands. Likely, your life and work take as much time as they did in the past so available time is really squeezed.
With that kind of pressure, it’s easy...
October 2010
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How To Release Bad Habits And Barriers To Your...
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We were born complete. But along the way, parts of ourselves are split off and stuffed into a long dark bag we drag behind ourselves for life. The contents of that bag holds many answers as to why certain habits or behaviors stifle your progress. More in the podcast.
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“I have had to eat many of my own words, and I have found the diet very...”
– Churchill
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Using A Reference Point To Balance Your Way To...
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Goals need a structure, from general to specific. Often we get totally lost in specifics, losing sight of the big picture. Having a reference point allows you to balance your efforts and conserve your energy and money. More in the podcast.
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Your Reptile Brain Wins
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The “power” part of our brain, the oldest part, is wrapped in a layer of emotion, and then in another layer of actual rational thought.
Accessing the power in our old but very powerful reptile brain is no easy task. However knowing this basic brain structure will help guide your efforts to make changes in your life. More in the podcast.
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Free Yourself From "Time"
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“Time” is limiting. Free yourself from the limitation of time and find more space for better connections with your ideas and efforts. More in the podcast.
September 2010
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“…happiness is not about accomplishing great things, but about appreciating...”
– James Sloman
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How To Solve Problems And Fulfill Your Desires
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Solve problems in your sleep! Really. An easy way to access your subconscious and get things done while staying organized. The “Subconscious Cooker Sheet”. More in the podcast.
PDF copy of the cooker sheet: http://media.mikestask.com/Subconscious_cooker_sheet.pdf
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How To Handle Trouble
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Not all trouble is alike. Sometimes we go looking for trouble, other times trouble finds us when we least expect it. Why? And how might such troubles be handled? More in the podcast.
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Being Yourself
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It’s hard to be real, to be 100% yourself. It’s scary. It can hurt. So walls, barriers and other protective measures are built. Later, when we wish to explore, grow, to move ourselves toward greater success, we’re stuck in our own protective shells that keep us from experiencing what we really want. More in the podcast.
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Having Something To Give
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Having something to give, giveaway, or sell is an important step in the cycle of giving or selling and receiving something back for your efforts.
Where do you find or get things to give? More in the podcast.
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Getting What You Want
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If you aren’t getting what you want or need, how do you turn that around? It is easy to place blame or to find fault as we operate in a sea of systems. And when something breaks down, we feel it. But that doesn’t mean that answers and solutions aren’t there. They are. All of them. More in the podcast.
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Stop Sabotaging Your Own Best Efforts
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Even when things are right, they may appear to be wrong.
Listen to what happened to me, and how it is possible to avoid the fallout from crazy situations like this. More in the podcast.
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How To Improve Your Day
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Noticing when you are feeling good, and then spending some time feeling it, fills you up and improves the chances that your efforts will have the greatest impact. More in the podcast.
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Is Concentrating On One Thing A Good Idea?
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While concentration and listening to yourself screens out the noise and overwhelming complexity of external choices, it doesn’t really change anything that’s there.
Yes, there may be a new viewpoint that is often helpful, but what do you do with it? Where do you go with this new viewpoint?
Using both internal self-direction as well as external choices, allows you to...
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How To Do The Right Things Easily At High Profit
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How to access knowledge you didn’t know you had and use it to your advantage. More in the podcast.
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Which "Flow" Do You Go With?
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When people say you should “go with the flow”, what does that mean? Is there more than one flow? More in the podcast.
August 2010
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Takin' The Easy Way Out
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What’s wrong with easy?
Is beating yourself or others, forcefully, the way to get things done? To “make” things happen? No. Things will happen anyway. Go with the flow, and win. More in the podcast.
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“I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now let’s write a swimming...”
– John Lennon
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How Your Thoughts Impact Results
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Thinking “right” won’t guarantee anything. Neither will a good plan.
Unknown obstacles are embedded in the way we think. These hidden thoughts influence results—a lot.
How does this work? More in the podcast.
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The Failure Club
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I was thinking of starting a failure club. To turn the tables. To look at failure as a failure to be yourself rather than as a failure to measure up to someone else’s definition. Use failure to your advantage.
Failure is an interesting topic containing many answers and much wisdom. More in the podcast.
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“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
– Oscar Wilde (via ithinkijustroared)
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Listen To Yourself To Improve Your Results
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Things work out faster and easier when you listen to yourself. The quality level of what you do automatically improves when you are in sync with yourself—with the best and the worst parts of you. Plus, whatever you then do, is automatically unique.
Learn to tap into this strength we all have and use it to improve your results. More in the podcast.
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Video On Your Site NOW →
This even works with iPhones and iPads.
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“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in...”
– Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Prospects And Customers Need Systems That Work
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Systems are wonderful when they work, when the people responsible for them maintain them. But when systems become barriers to customer interaction, they fail as being anything of value to a customer, leaving angry, dissatisfied customers.
This can be avoided quite simply. More in the podcast.
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Use Your Talents And Balance The World
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Inside of YOU is where the gold is.
There is plenty of noise and distraction in the world. Many things want your attention.
Paying attention to yourself, your inner YOU, is your best defense against the derailing onslaught of external expectations and distractions.
The more you pay attention to your inside matters, the less need there is to pay attention to outside concerns as a...
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Opportunities In Video Marketing Still Exist
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Large companies use videos but those videos are not indexed on Google, Yahoo or Bing. YouTube gets billions of views yet most major companies are not yet there. This means opportunity for you. Three quarters of the top 50 Internet retailers have no video presence on Google. Start with this free report on http://www.sundaysky.com/resources/download-q210-report.html and see...
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Simple Static Websites At Amazon Web Services
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Amazon Web services has a new feature, that allows you to create simple static websites. They don’t call it by that name, because they don’t talk that way.
Now, when you create a bucket, you can put a default file in there, that will show when somebody types in the bucket name.
What this means for Internet marketers, is that they can create simple static websites. Create...
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How To Know What To Do
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Is there a right way? People say there is. Sadly, these right ways have not worked for me.
What has worked, is doing my best and listening to myself. Doing a little bit at a time, taking it easy at other times, eventually things come together.
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How To Exercise Your Improvisational Muscles
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Listen to me wing it with total improvisation. I did this podcast as an exercise to uncover directions and barriers within myself. And to demonstrate how to create something when you have no notes, no ideas; where you just go and do something come what may.
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"Control" Doesn't Always Work
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Some days spin out of control. Is that a bad thing? Not always. This podcast touches on some of the good points of letting it all go.
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“Vision without execution is a daydream. Execution without vision is a...”
July 2010
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Start Creating Your Info Product Now
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Decide to create something. Anything. Once you do, your frame of reference changes…for the better. You’ll see.
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When You Don't Know What's Going On, You Don't...
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When you’re new to internet marketing—or really to anything—all processes are new and you have no idea where you really are during any point of a process.
Are you at point A, point J, point Z, you just don’t know for sure. Are you doing the “right” things?
You ask experts and people who have opinions, but really they don’t know. Their...
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Internet Marketing: More Than Money And Glitz
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Marketing online consists of many basic activities. Boring or plain choices that are handled honestly, regularly, and with concern about your product and your customer.
Not at first, but eventually, these blah choices produce consistent results that automatically improve over time.
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Resubmitting A Podcast Feed To iTunes
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Moving from one blogging software to another can break your RSS feeds. For podcasters, a broken link is a lost subscriber. How can you get Apple iTunes to properly note your changed (new) feed?
My recent experience with this is covered in this short podcast.
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Faster Status Updates On iPhone
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Am I The Only One Who Thinks Making Things Easier...
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Spending 40 minutes to change a password (that I didn’t even want to change) is not making life easier for anyone. Why do some businesses make things harder and more time consuming than they need to be?
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30 Minutes Or Less
A new Ben Stiller movie is being filmed about 2 miles from where I live.
It’s called “30 Minutes Or Less”. They’ve got Vito’s Pizza closed off for filming today. Traffic is being diverted, but it’s kind of cool because you know, Michigan, Grand Rapids, not exactly the big time. But things are happening here.
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How To Be In Three Or More Places At One Time
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Press a few buttons, spend a few minutes, press another few buttons and be posted in three or more places instantly. Details inside this short audioboo.
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Two Podcast Tips For Podcasters
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