Archive for November, 2009

Personal Development – Take Credit for your Success

Everyone has at least one goal in their lives, one thing we want to obtain or to achieve. The only problem is if we reach our goal. There may be many reasons why we are held back, deviated from our path but the main obstacle that lies in front of us is ourselves.

Along out path there may be many things that could influence the outcome of our journey. The most important thing to any personal development goal is to keep your mind on the result and anything that comes between you and your goal should be overcome or went around.

Keeping this in mind, there are a few things you should do in order to get closer to success. The goals you set for yourself should be practical and reachable and not start thinking about how it would be to own a small island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Once the results are set, the problem is the journey to that point. The road to any personal development success is bound to be full of obstacles and challenges. Remember to keep focused on the outcome and not the stumbles along the way.

If one thing is true is this: what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Keeping this in your thoughts let the troubles begin. If there are more troubles along the way, but you still achieve your personal development goals, the taste of victory will be that much sweeter.

What you need in order to overcome those obstacles is self confidence. Be aware that you can overcome anything and if you approach every challenge with this way of thinking, your personal development journey should really be a synch.

Something that can boost your self confidence is remembering your successes. Because of this, you should keep track of what you achieve, even if those things may be almost meaningless to anyone else. Let’s talk about a practical situation to make things clearer.

Since this is the age of information, we should talk about computers. Let’s say you are a computer games enthusiast and you want to have a high performance piece of equipment in your living room. Here are a few pc tips to make the purchase process easier.

Contrary to common belief, it is not the hardware that is used most in a computer, but the software. You may have the most advanced computer available on the market today, but if you do not have any software to run on it, that thing is the same as furniture and all you can do is look at it.

Consider this as one of the most valuable pc tips of all. Do a little research about the software you want to run on your computer and the requirements that need to be met. Different software programs may have similar requirements and to meet them all you need to know what you need.

If you want more pc tips on what to look for in a computer, pc tips regarding the maintenance of your hardware, personal development tips for achieving your goals or just a few guidelines concerning life in general be sure to visit girishk.com.

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Personal Development Affiliate Programs: What You Need to Know When Choosing One

If you’re searching for the right personal development affiliate programs to sink your time, money and effort into, then there are some things you should know.
You should strive for programs that have: great potential for profitability, marketing support, clear compensation structure, community support, value driven products, and repeat customers.
A great potential for profitability has to be there. The personal development affiliate programs you choose should have many different products in different price ranges. This way you reach many more customers in different price points.
You should also have an opportunity to earn off the big-ticket products. It’s easier to make a liveable income if there are products in the $500+ price range. Just a few sales per month can make you a high five or six -figure income.
The right marketing support is crucial to your success as an affiliate marketer if you’re a newbie. The best affiliate programs give you adequate promotional materials to help you promote the products. In addition, some programs (very few), will give you marketing lessons and tips. This will help shorten your learning curve and put you into profit mode much faster.
A clear compensation structure that is easy to understand will help paint a clearer picture of how much earning potential the affiliate program has.
Don’t forget that good community support plays a role in your success. You can network and share tips with other affiliates. In fact, good community support is almost as crucial as good customer support.
With all these things in place, nothing else holds programs together more than value-driven products. If you’re in search of personal development affiliate programs, then you’re in search of products that actually help people become better people.
Quality of life is important to you. You want products that deliver more life to the customers that buy your products. The emphasis has to be on value. When you offer people valuable products, the money will always naturally follow.
When you have great products, repeat customers will naturally follow. Repeat customers can also be the lifeblood of your business; which it’s why it’s important to have products that have continuity built into them.
Continuity is when one product leads to the purchase of another product and to another. It’s important that each product must stand on its own and deliver value to your customers. The caveat is that the products have to be so good that customers naturally want more of what you’re selling.
In the end, choosing an affiliate program comes down to providing value. Personal development affiliate programs are especially about helping other people become wealthy in all areas of their life…and in turn you become wealthy as well.

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The Path of Personal Development

Human beings, the highest and mightiest of all creations on earth are endowed with qualities and potentials to grow to large heights. It is said that even Albert Einstein, the eminent scientist had used only a fraction of his brain. If that is the case of a scientist who toiled day and night, then what’s to say about the ordinary mortals like you and me. Each and everyone of us should look inwards to see how much energy we waste indulging in things of no use to ourselves and society at large.
Personal development is all about growing up, having the maturity to own up responsibility of ones life, career, emotions, relationships and finances. It involves a conscious effort to reach the goals of your life and balancing your inner conflicts. Personal development requires hard work and there is no easy way out. Beware of shortcuts because they will usually take you nowhere. The developed person or for that matter the person who is matured remains unruffled even at the challenges life throws at him in life.
The inner strength will see him tide over the crises smoothly. He will have the courage to face life and its unpredictability in a bold manner. Many resources are now available to give you practical ideas to mature mentally and to make decisions both small and big. They teach you to take life as it comes without becoming over-anxious or stressful. You are the captain of your life and steer your wheel to a safe shore of your liking. You should understand that it is you who makes your destiny. Learn to know thyself and avoid self denial and self imposed limits.
You should know your positives and negatives, your abilities and your weaknesses. To create the life of your choice, get motivated and disciplined. To reach the goals of your life you should have or need to develop the inner urge to scale the heights. Without motivation, you will get nowhere. Call upon your inner strength and face life positively. When you set out for something you are sure to encounter obstacles. To face these hindrances you need guts to move ahead.
Sometimes the obstacles come in the form of damaging remarks that can throw you haywire. You have to believe in yourself to overcome this. Develop a routine that is easy to follow. This will help you stay on track without much effort. When you choose a career, choose one where your passion lies. Only the work you adore can yield good results. If you are doing a job where your mind is not there, it will lack luster. Let your financial independence come from honest work without compromising integrity.
Enter into relationships that allow you to grow. Some relations are damaging in the sense that both are doomed. Always think of the rich life you have and make use of it prudently for some opportunities come only once. Those who lead a successful life are people who courageously explore, express creatively and embrace human life for the common good of humanity. They live a wholesome life, true to its core.

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Your Leadership Development Plan – Some Tips To Improve It

Very often, the leader is not one who is exceptionally talented at what he does. But it could be a person whose experience with people can make him a good motivator to his subordinates. When you can provide the right motivation to people, they will no doubt turn out the best that they are capable of. You need to define a set of plans for your employees to be able to follow them. A leadership development plan can help all employees, not just managers, to do well at the work place. As leader what you would love to achieve is to be able to trust your employees totally, that they will complete any task given to them with efficiency.
Most leadership development plans only tend to help you improve your weaknesses. Go for a plan that not just does this but also makes your strengths even better, so that you become more of an expert at what you do best. Your strengths and your weaknesses all need to, after all work together in harmony so you should keep that in mind.
Never feel that you have learnt enough. There is no end to learning, and a leader needs to constantly keep himself up to date with the latest trends and technology in his area of expertise. Once you feel that you have learned all that you need to know, that is the end of the learning process for you, so make sure you do not get into this ditch.
Do make it a point to apply all your newly learned skills practically at the work place. Not only will this encourage you to learn even more leadership skills, it will do a lot of good to your company. Practical application is after all the end result that we desire. When you start feeling the motivation within thanks to what you have learned, make sure you infect others around you with it too.

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Personal Development is the Key to Financial Freedom

Why should you invest in personal development, why should you invest in knowledge? Well, are you where you want to be in your life yet? Do you have total financial freedom where you do not have to work anymore and can spend all your time doing exactly what you want to do when you want to do it? Chances are you have answered no to the above questions.
How does anybody become good at something that they have no idea about? They learn. They learn as much as they can on the subject and then they practice it.
Tiger Woods is not the best golfer in the world because he was born with talent. Sure he is talented and would certainly be a good golfer but NOT the best and probably not even a professional golfer if he did not dedicate hour after hour to learning and practicing new techniques. Tiger started holding golf clubs before he could even walk and has dedicated his life to perfecting his swing. Even to this day, he still seeks perfection and wants to learn more and more and more. That is why Tiger is the best golfer in the world.
Now, you probably don’t really want to be the best golfer in the world, but you probably do want to attain financial freedom and escape the Rat Race. To be rich, you have to think like a rich person. You need to invest in yourself, invest in knowledge, and learn how to think like the rich person thinks!
What’s the difference between you and Bill Gates (besides a gazillion dollars)? Do you think he is smarter than you? Maybe, but that’s not why he is rich, there are plenty of people much smarter than he but don’t have anywhere near as much money. Do you think it’s his good looks? (What good looks?) The only difference between any of us and Bill Gates is our mindset. Bill Gates sees opportunity where others see failure or hard work. The good news is we are all capable of changing the way we think if we so wish to. The only way to think like a rich person is to learn how the rich think actually think. We do that by reading books, listening to audio CDs, attending training courses, playing specially designed games and so on – Personal Development.
Currently our minds are programmed in a set way, perhaps something along the lines of; in order to make money you have to get a job, or you might think that money is evil. However you have been brought up to think about money, you will believe it in your subconscious. We need to re-programme our minds to think like successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Warren Buffet and we can do this by surrounding ourselves with their presence, their knowledge and their experiences, in the form of books and audio training.
The more time we spend learning from masters past and present, people who have been there, done that and got the T-shirt, the more we will start to think like them, and the more we start to think like them, the more we can make decisions in our lives as they would and the more we can make money like they do.
Don’t be afraid to spend money on training your brain as personal development is the key to success. Whatever you spend on educating yourself you will make back again and more providing put what you learn into practice and keep practicing until you get it right. You won’t get it right first time either, but through consistent effort and constant training you will become the person you want to be. Buy every book you can get your hands on and read it! Invest in knowledge!

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Learning Chess: Through Personal Development Training – Pt 1

Learning Chess: Through Personal Development Training Pt 2

Knowing Who You Want To Be

 

 

By Mason Bolton III

 

Welcome back!

In our previous work, we constructed an inventory of your shortcomings as determined by how you feel about yourself.  NOW, let us take a more expanded view of both you – AND of the person whom you want to be.

 

 

OK.  Listed very neatly on your inventory, is what lies between you and your goal of being a better chess player, (as based on an honest self appraisal). 

 

The next step entails the development of two more lists.

 

The first list is a profile of what a solid chess player is – to you.  What are their characteristics, strengths and – yes – their weaknesses – for even a master at chess has weaknesses.  Sometimes, I wonder that the most distressing thing about being a top achiever – even a world leader with millions of loyal followers – is that at the bottom of it all – you are still human – and thereby still plagued by human weaknesses.  But I digress.

 

Using the traits table from part 1 of this article – you will define your ideal chess player.  That is – whom do you want to be when you grow up?  Spell him out as completely as is possible and account for those things you admire about great chess players – and for those that you do not.  If the table below does not completely meet your needs, add additional information as you require to complete your list.

 

This step really is the only way to obtain a comprehensive list of a chess player’s characteristics for you to take on.  There is no one-size-fits-all chart that you can employ to nail down the “chess player personality”.  The fact is that there are 45 million chess players in the United States alone – and ALL of them have different personalities.

 

Therefore, we don’t try to chase EVERYTHING that a chess player can be.  Let us instead go after those elements of a chess player’s character which YOU have noted that you would like to instill in your own chess play.  Just as you have your idea of a dream girl (or guy) you also have your own idea of a dream chess player.  You are not attempting to become a particular chess player.  Somebody already owns that identity.  You are attempting to become the chess player that you want to be.  This exercise will help you to determine what that chess player looks like.

 

Once you have that table ready – you will build your second profile.  This one correlates your strengths and weaknesses to that of your ideal chess player.  Use your self-honesty appraisal to note (with a check mark) those things that you feel that you and a great chess player have in common.  Then, note in a separate list, the areas from your self appraisal where you feel that you fell short (having no check mark).

 

When you are done,  you will have one list – with items that you know need fixing (as taken from Table 1) – and with items that you feel need fixing (from your own self-honesty appraisal).  Both are equally important.

 

With that – we are now armed with the material required to build our wish list for building ourselves into the monster chess player that we want to be.  By now, some of you are getting REALLY depressed about the work that you are being put to.  If this be you, then there are two things that you should remember.

 

1.      When these lists are made – 90% of the work will be done.

 

…and

 

2.      You are building a plan – the most important part of any endeavor.  Once you have a credible plan of action – you can, at least, anticipate success.  Nothing is ever guaranteed to succeed – but embarking on a task without a plan is a sure-fire way to guarantee failure.  So take heart.  This is good work you are doing.

 

OK.  Time to go to work!  Use the inventory checklist from part 1 to help guide you through building the two profiles.  Build your self-honesty assessment first, followed by your chess player’s personality profile.  Compile them into one list of flaws that you need to fix as described above.  Then let’s meet back here to build a task list. 

 

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Personal Development We Can All Use it

Hi! I come to you today wanting to talk about personal development. And introduce you to a beautiful, talented, loving, caring women I have come to know and love today. ME!I strongly believe in the principle “Model someone who’s already reached a goal I want to achieve”.Living by this principle I’m privileged to have grown in my personal development in life. I can remember my dad; William A. Grieves, as I was growing up telling me I can always be what I want to be, and achieve what I wished to achieve. As most of us do in life it took me awhile to live life on life’s terms to realize what he meant by that statement.If I may I’d like to share a fundamental truth I believe. Marketing “theories” and “concepts” aren’t enough. Especially in Personal Development.I’ve had to analyze, understand, and model real people that are already personally thriving. I had to become privy to their most powerful assets, techniques, and secrets.I have learned in my short 51 years of life and experiences that it’s important for me to have a balance of business sense, common sense, and coming from the heart when I interact with others.For so long I looked to align personal values, passion and purpose with a bigger vision of life, my goals, and choices. I lacked confidence in the direction of where my life was taking me. In other words I wondered, “What Is My Path?”Through coaching, and personal development, and following the principle belief of modeling someone who’s already reached a goal I want to achieve I have learned what makes me unique. I have stepped outside what I thought was my comfort zone. That dungeon that incased me in what I thought was a unpenetrateable wall of fear. I walk through the where, when, what, who, and how I can use my gifts and talents to serve others. I was an editor of the North East Washington Area Narcotics Anonymous Newsletter for one and a half years, I have 17 years of sobriety and clean time. I have the freedom of bondage from drug addiction and alcoholism today. I have walked through grief issues from the loss of family friends, relationships, and job losses to name a few. I am a poet, artist, an excellent listener, and a home business owner that provides support for other home business owners.My purpose in life naturally unfolds as I continually link my strengths, passions, values, and life story.It’s no wonder I have the experiences I do. Its as though I was being sculpted by the Great Potter’s hand to live out the purpose I came to fulfill.It took planning, assessing risk and reality, developing relationships, and following through. This was a process that took focus over time. Following this process you can even build a bridge and consciously create your life’s work and purpose.For further information you can reach me,Joletta McKliget@ 888-323-8916 Option 101Or Visit: http://www.successbeyondmeasure.info

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10 Killers to Personal Development

Many people want to change their lives for the better. It seems that the majority of individuals are unhappy with some aspect of how they are living. Perhaps they would like to lose some weight. Some want to improve their relationships. And others want a successful career path. Regardless of what someone wants to change, there is a model available to follow. Unfortunately for some, to be effective one needs avoid certain pitfalls that befall so many. Avoid these to increase the chances that you will be able to make the changes necessary in your life.

Here are the 10 most common killers to personal development.

1.Being a ‘know-it-all’: It is always interesting to see someone who wants to make a change because the results that they are presently receiving are causing them pain. They are not successful doing what they are doing. However, when suggestions are offered they immediately discount them. They say something like “I already know that” or “I agree with you but ….” They simply are cannot be taught anything. The mind is closed off from any new information. This type of person knows it all.

2.Switching Programs: There are many wonderful teachers and coaches out there. They often have a curriculum of success that they teach. There is a linear path they take people down on the road to achieving the results that are desired. However, switching from teacher-to-teacher usually only leads to confusion while reducing the results attained. For example, there are programs that show people how to pick winning stocks using fundamental analysis. There are also ones that teach about technical analysis. For either will yield tremendous benefits (assuming the program is a good one). However, if one tries to switch back and forth, the stocks they pick will likely fail to deliver the results desired. Choose one curriculum that suits you and stick with it.

3.Failing to believe this stuff works: The self improvement industry often gets a bad rap from people. Sure there are individuals who are promoting things that do not work. Unethical people exist in every spectrum. However, the bottom line is that millions of people have changed their lives completely by implementing the teaching of personal development experts. However, if you believe that none of it works, that is a guarantee that it will not.

4.Lacking the commitment to change: Many have the desire to change certain aspects of their lives. Yet most do not have the overwhelming commitment to do anything about it. It is like the alcoholic who knows that he has a problem yet continues drinking anyway. He might want to stop but his actions tell another story. If you hope, wish, want, pray, or think you want to change something, the odds are that everything will remain the same. When you are committed to changing something, the chances increase substantially that you will make it happen.

5.Lacking consistency: Habits are like muscles. They get more powerful the more we work them out. To develop good habits, it is imperative that we attend to them on a regular basis. Attempting to follow a self help program for a few days then setting it aside for 3 months will do little to change anything. Personal growth is a full-time practice. Developing the qualities that we desire and make us successful are gained through repetition. Over time, we get better at anything we put consistent effort in to. Treat you personal development the same way that a top athlete treats his or her exercise program.

6.Blaming others: There are times when you will encounter challenges along the way. Old behaviors can be extremely difficult to change. Sometimes we get frustrated at the progress we are making. However, our egos will not allow us to take responsibility for what is occurring. This is when the tendency to blame others just up. We believe that we would succeed if only “our _________ would have been supportive” or “if I didn’t have to do ________”. The excuses that arise will be many. Resist this temptation since your life is your responsibility. If there is something that is not working for you, make the necessary changes to get yourself on the proper path.

7.Failing to take action: Improvement is an action business. It does not occur by reading a book, listening to audio programs, or going to classes. These sources provide us with the valuable information. However, for anything to be effective, it must be put into use. Life is a contact sport. It involves action. To grow, we must have the willingness to do what we are taught. Gaining information is imperative at the beginning yet we encounter a time when the “book learning” ceases. Studying weightlifting will do nothing unless we actually get into the gym. Act upon the information you learn.

8.Quitting: We live in a world that is conditioned for instant gratification. The desire is to do something once and receive all the benefits of one who has worked at it for decades. The habits and traits that are present within us now took a long time to develop. It took decades for you to become the person that you are. Do not expect everything to change overnight. Be persistent in your pursuit of improvement. It will come with continued effort and attention. However, giving up is a guarantee that nothing will be different.

9.Hanging out with bad influences: Hang out in a barber shop and sooner or later you will get a haircut. We are product of our environments. The influences that others have upon us in shaping the people we become are incredible. If you take the necessary action to change something about your life, do not sabotage your efforts be interacting with people who are exactly like what you are attempting to alter. Studies have shown that people’s income is within a few thousand dollars of the average of the 10 people that they spend the most time with. If you desire more money, hang out with a higher class of people.

10.Allowing negativity to make decisions: Self improvement is centers largely in the mind. Like anything, there are challenges along the way. Life circumstances are present regardless of what we are doing to grow. It is easy to allow the negative self talk to hinder our progress. When you find yourself in this situation, do not believe what your mind is telling you. It is the greatest liar in the world. The mind strives for one thing, certainty. It abhors uncertainty. Change creates a situation where the mind is uncertain. To combat this, it will tell you anything that will prevent you from moving forward. Hence all the negative ideas which pop into your head. Resist the tendency to make decisions based upon this negative information. Show some perseverance while trudging forward.

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Using Hypnosis For Personal Developments

Hypnosis is a term which evokes a variety of emotions. Some are overawed by it, while others are just scared. It is described on two principles namely, ’state’ and ‘non-state’ theories. The ’state’ theory is built around the fact that an altered state of consciousness is a critical element which contributes to the experience of being hypnotized. Non-state theorists believe that simple psychological processes such as focused attention are sufficient to explain hypnosis. Regardless of what one believes, the fact is that, it is fast becoming a rage as a field of science which can successfully treat a numerous of problems in one’s life. Hypnosis was always shrouded in mystery with people associating it with everything from black magic to mysticism.
Hypnosis in simple terms is the awakening and strengthening of the sub conscious mind, it’s about taking responsibility for bringing about a change in one’s life. Anyone who wants to persevere at changing aspects of their personality or habits can take a shot at hypnosis. It works on the principle that our sub conscious is an immensely powerful entity. Contrary to popular beliefs, it doesn’t imbue people with special powers; instead it helps you in overcoming your weakness.
Personal Development & Hypnosis
Personal development can take numerous forms. It can be used to improve personal performance and change emotional states. Hypnosis crafts a path whereby you rapidly learn how to appreciate different ways of approaching one’s personal development. Most people are not happy with their present state of affairs. One needs to constantly think of ways to reinvent and rediscover themselves.
Researchers have proven that hypnotherapy is the one stop shop for personal development solutions. From emotional ailments such as nervousness, low self-esteem and anxiety to physical to physical ones like slimming and even smoking. While there’s no doubt that hypnosis can work on improving personal development, it’s not really the magic pill as it’s worked out to be. Hypnosis simply improves things which are within reach for every one of us. All of us have the power within us to change and improve, but certain things are beyond our limits, and its best left at that.
Building Confidence
Hypnotherapy has displayed amazing results in treating low self confidence, doubt and inferiority feeling. The root cause of a low self confidence is related to self image. Hypnotists work around this core issue and once it’s sorted out, the rest is cake walk. Self Hypnosis is a widely used tool in treating low self confidence.
Overcoming Procrastination
Procrastination is a graveyard in which ones dreams, aspirations lay buried. Men whine of not having adequate time, yet have much more than what he knows to do with it. Procrastination is the single biggest problem that more than often stems success. There are quite a lot of reasons why people procrastinate, anyway it’s not the reasons but the solutions that one needs. To decimate procrastination one needs to focus on how to accomplish and not how not to procrastinate.

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Personal Development and Personal Productivity

Personal development goes a long way in affecting productivity. Human mind rapidly shifts between levels of grief, guilt, fear, joy, love and courage. While people pop in and out of these levels, there’s usually a predominant ‘usual’ state for everyone. An increase in productivity in metaphysical terms refers to a flow of clarity and strength deep inside one’s heart which translates into their speech, mind and actions. Productivity is nothing but an uninterrupted flow whose result transmigrates into the material world as wealth. Anything that saps your energy and robs you of focus stems this flow. Time management is a critical element in personal productivity and how you manage your time can make or break you. The super dynamic entity that time is leaves no room for procrastination. The sole weapon human possess against this virtually indestructible enemy is planning. Most people commit the mistake of drafting plans that would require an android to execute.
Art of Time Management
An ideal Time management plan is one which is practical and realistic. Most time management plans bites the dust because it’s drafted without considering the ‘humanity factor’. Humans unfortunately have a labyrinth of ‘internal resistances’ comprising of doubt, fear and procrastination. Even the best of the system fails miserably if it fails to address both the mental and physical reason why you get stuck. Once a person realizes where he/she is spending the time it unlatches the door that separates the unconscious habits and the conscious. Time logging is another useful option which traces where you have been wasting the resources.
Cultivating a desire
All great success stems from a simple desire or an idea. What ultimately fuels these ideas into reality is the power of desire. An idea can render you a temporary moment of satisfaction but it’s the desire that’s going to help you overcome the inevitable hardships. Individuals who cultivate a burning desire are on a drive and would go to any length to see their goal met. Everything’s nice and good when the riding the crest of a wave, it’s when the wave crashes and you are left a total wreck that the power of your desire gets tested. A burning desire is an infinite source of inspiration from which one can draw from even at the depths of desperation and hopelessness.
All said and done, systems are great, templates are good and plans are well drafted. But if they don’t suit you or your situation, you are pretty much back to square one. Trying to fit into someone’s shoes cramps your effectiveness, leaving you sore. Personal development is best described with an analogy of our existence. If one examines the events that took place for us to be brought into existence at this precise moment in time. The whole series of happenings just seems a freak accident that should have never happened. In the realm of Personal development, nothing is really impossible, because everything is.

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