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Meditation for Saturday – July 24, 2010 Recognizing A Problem Is The First Step Toward Solving A Problem. Today’s Meditation Recognizing that something is a distraction is 90% of what it takes to push it aside. Once you realize something is distracting you, it only takes 10% more effort to go the rest of the [...]

Meditation for Friday – July 23, 2010 Distractions Are Unreal. They Only Exist, If You Let Them. Today’s Meditation Distractions have the uncanny ability to interrupt us, if we let them. Distractions can come in all forms, shapes and sizes. We can be distracted by others at work who want us to put aside what [...]

Meditation for Thursday – July 22, 2010 You Must Learn To Put First Things First. Today’s Meditation Another aspect of focusing is the ability to prioritize the tasks to be accomplished. Many times, especially in a business environment, we are faced with more tasks than can readily be accomplished. Successful people either have, or have [...]

Meditation for Wednesday – July 21, 2010 Focus On The Task At Hand. Today’s Meditation Focusing is the ability to shut out all distractions and concentrate only on what is important. It is the ability to keep anything from getting in the way of achieving the desired result. Robert J. Shiller said, “The ability to [...]

Meditation for Tuesday – July 20, 2010 Conflict Can Be Both A Builder And A Destroyer. Today’s Meditation Many of us are taught as children to shy away from conflict. We are taught that conflict is bad and should be avoided at all cost. This is simply not true. If there was no conflict in [...]

Meditation for Monday – July 19, 2010 Conflict Is A Necessary Element Of Growth. Today’s Meditation I’ve learned the value of conflict through personal experience. I come from a family of strong-willed, highlymotivated individuals. We all have our opinions and we frequently do not hesitate to express them. Naturally, this can lead to uncomfortable conflicts. [...]

Meditation for Sunday – July 18, 2010 When You’re On A Roll, Ride It. Today’s Meditation Momentum is so important. Highly successful people either started out knowing this or discovered it somewhere along the way. Ninety percent of your energy is spent in getting started. The remaining 10% is spent acting upon what you have [...]

Meditation for Saturday – July 17, 2010 Find Your Style And Don’t Be Afraid To Follow It Today’s Meditation Think of some of the popular, successful individuals such as Madonna (music), Bill Gates (computer software) and Warren Buffet (investing). Were they conformists? Did they follow a set pattern in their rise to the top? What [...]

Meditation for Friday – July 16, 2010 That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche) We all have setbacks that shape our lives in one way or another. For me, a major setback occurred when my mother died when I was eight years old. It affected me in many ways. I harbored [...]

Meditation for Thursday – July 15, 2010 Four More Valuable Traits Are Subtlety, Delicateness, Sensitivity And Gentleness Today’s Meditation Subtlety – Acuteness or penetration of mind; delicacy of discrimination.  A refinement of reasoning. Delicateness – Quality of being fine in texture, construction, etc.  Fine or precise in action or execution.  Capable of responding to the [...]