Archive for November, 2008
Using Goggles to save your online reputation
Posted by: | CommentsGoogle has available the download of goggle where you can save your online reputation by answering a few basic math problems before you send out that message you may later regret. This reputation safeguard may just be useful for making you think twice before you actually send out an email you emotionally wrote.
When you enable goggles you will be asked some basic math questions (and I mean basic) which will allow you extra time to reconsider before sending something over email. If you don’t want to install another program you can always sit on your emails after writing them for a few hours only pressing send when you have considered all the consequences of your actions.
With emotions running high and more and more people losing their jobs and wanting to rant in emails to their friends and co-workers I highly suggest using restraint and taking advantage of this tool if you don’t have the will power to thoroughly think through the consequences of your emails.
It is always best to keep some thoughts to yourself. You do not always have to let everyone know what your thinking or prove your point, especially when emails can be easily traced right back to you with free online tools and your header information which carries your IP address. I can easily trace most emails back to a name and address using the header information and it is hard to remain anonymous online anymore so think twice before you press that “send” key.
Do not take more than your share.
Posted by: | CommentsPeople who look at body language can often tell if you give too much or if you take too much by your posture. If your shoulders tend to be forward as well as your body in the giving position your probably an easier target to take from. On the other hand a person who has their shoulders back more upright may be a little harder to sell as they tend to be takers.
I believe it is important to be balanced you have to be as good of a giver as you are a receiver. The world tends to work things out when this balance is not in place, so if you have been taking/receiving most of your life often events will take back what you did not deserve. We often here of people with great wealth living on a roller coaster with great highs and lows of wealth not really learning this lesson. We have most recently seen this in the stock market, all of the great wealth generated for many corporations who convinced us that growth was there and traded many multiples times earnings have had to give back that wealth to posture them in-line with reality.
As you look into your balance today and moving forward try and get off the roller coaster ride with those who have yet to learn this lesson. Living with less highs and lows will give you more stability and freedoms. Make sure that you are giving back and keeping your commitments to what you say you can and will do and be open to receiving what you deserve and is rightfully yours and be thankful for what you give and get in your life.
Time to set the clocks back
Posted by: | CommentsWe will be setting our clocks back an hour tonight which means this is a great time to take advantage of the extra hour your biological clocks give you tomorrow morning.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
- Ben Franklin, famously
“Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin …”
- Mark Twain
Use the quiet time tomorrow morning as you wake up an hour early to start your day doing something that makes you feel good. As you rise putting your feet on the ground from your bed try and become more aware of your self and your environment and appreciate the people and things around you. Watch the sunrise, make a good breakfast, sit in peace and enjoy the quiet silencing your thoughts and just listening to the calm.
This evening take some time to write down a detailed description of where you would like to be in your life as if you are already there. Write several affirmations to state out load in the morning. Vow to persevere as you focus your efforts on your dreams the minute you open your eyes in the morning.
If negative thoughts and fear starts to emerge say “cancel” and go back to your focus. Redirecting your mind away from the negative will do a lot to achieve success in what previously appeared destined for failure.
Take your writing with you and re-read your focus during the day and check in where your at and make adjustments accordingly. Try not to multi-task too much, focus on one thing at a time. This extra hour we all get tomorrow morning comes at a very needed time. Let’s work together and use it to make a difference in our own lives and carry that out into the world tomorrow.
