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Anything is Possible

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The other day I was reading a very interesting article concerning a shark attack that occurred way back in 1916. It played off along the North East coast of the U.S. and concerned a great white shark, that had been had been terrorizing the New Jersey beaches.

Now everybody knows and accepts that a shark is a creature of the sea and needs salty water to survive. Therefore nobody thought that a shark may attack them in freshwater, but that is exactly what happened later that year.

This particular shark remained close to the shore and eventually swam up a river stream around Raritan Bay, attacking a couple of bathers upstream.

Shortly before the attacks occurred, a retired Sea captain, by the name of Thomas Cottrell saw this shark swimming upstream while crossing a bridge. He couldn’t believe his eyes, but nevertheless got into his boat and raised the alarm. Not surprisingly nobody believed him. “A shark in a river? C’mon, get real, It’s not possible.”

But you know what? As incredible as it seemed there was a shark in the river and all those who didn’t heed the warnings were in danger of being attacked.

Eventually this shark killed two people. The first victim was a teenager who may or may not have heard Cottrell’s warning. Shortly after this attack another man jumped in the water to look for the victim, even though he was told there is a shark in the water. He too was attacked and died from a severe loss of blood.

While reading this I couldn’t help thinking about September 11 and see the parallels between these two stories.

When asked by the U.S. Congress and the media, why “clues” which should have been picked up were disregarded, the heads of the FBI and CIA as well as members of the Bush administration replied, “We didn’t think they would use airplanes as missiles.”

Had the FBI and CIA believed that something like what happened on 9/11 was possible they might have put measures into place which would likely have prevented this from happening. But they didn’t, even though the hijackers left dozens of “clues.”

Similarly if the swimmers at the US East Coast had believed Captain Cottrell when he told them there was a shark in the river, chances are that nobody would have been killed by this shark on that day.

But because they believed it is “impossible” for a shark to be found in freshwater they disregarded the warning altogether, just as the US law enforcement agencies did, resulting in many paying with their lives.

On the other hand there are human beings who overcame extraordinary odds and accomplished great feats. Everyday we hear stories of people who were told by the so-called “experts” they didn’t have what it took, yet made it regardless.

The lesson here is that anything is possible, both the good and the bad. By believing or not believing in something doesn’t mean you will not be affected by whatever happens. But it means that based on what you believe, you may take some action which may save you from something terrible or may get you out of a terrible situation. There are many of us who are in terrible situations, including poverty, unhappiness, debt, etc. Those of us who have changed their situation, did it because they believed they could make it.

Those who don’t obviously don’t believe that they can change their situation otherwise they would have done something about it, right?

How many opportunities have you missed just because you thought it wouldn’t work or wasn’t possible. Just think what you could do if you believed that you could do anything, even realise your dreams?

What great talent do you have which you have done nothing about, because you probably believed you can’t do it.

I hope to have shown you through this short article that anything is possible. And that by just believing, “I Can,” your battle is already half-won.

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Use Feng Shui Living For Career Success. The Best Tips To Improve Your Career Prospects.

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Feng Shui Your Desk For Career Success – 12 Wonderful Tips on How to Feng Shui Your Personal Career Luck
Feng Shui Your Desk For Career Success

There are effective and powerful ways to enhance your personal career luck with the wisdom of feng shui. In this article, I have my 12 amazing feng shui tips grouped into 4 main categories, they are “How To Enhance Your Personal Career Luck”, “How To Enhance Your Personal Work Space / Desk Top”, “How To Enhance Your Personal Office Space” and “How To Enhance Your Personal Success & Development”. Feng Shui Your Desk For Career Success

How To Enhance Your Personal Career Luck

What makes me so amazed at feng shui is its ability to help with every aspects of our life. We can use feng shui living to give our career a . Good career feng shui usually shows in the form of increased opportunities and responsibilities. The following three feng shui tips can help you to enhance your personal career luck.

1. The Career Corner
The career corner is the North of any residential building, corporate office or personal space. Hence, to get the bestout of career feng shui, you should use fengshui methods to energize the North corner of both your house, as well as your office. One excellent way to your career luck is to place a small aquarium filled with guppies in the North wall or cornerof your living room and office.
The calming effect of the fish tank will soothe your mind when needed and the sound of bubbling water is calming.

2. Activate Career Luck With Your Files
This is a very powerful feng shui tip for activating career luck. Simply energize all your essential files with prosperity coins that represent good fortune. The key to activating these coins is the red ribbon used to tie the coins together. This assists in creating prosperity energies for the success of your work.

3. Sit Facing The Door
Inside your office, try to sit facing the door. Never have your back facing the door. For career people, this allows you to see who is entering the room and will prevent backstabbing. It also means you’re subordinate, bosses or co-workers will betray you, and you have a difficult time managing and handling them.

How To Enhance Your Personal Work Space / Desk Top

Career luck is much improved when you can fengshui your personal work space or desk top. Start by making sure the the location, position, direction, and layout of your workspace is correct. The following three feng shui tips that can improve your personal work space or desk top.

1. Sit With A Solid Wall Behind You
Always remember to sit with a solid wall behind you as the wall will give you tremendous support for any challenges or difficulty. Do not have the window behind you or have any doors behind where you sit.

2. Sit In Your Power Position
This is an excellent feng shui tip for enhancing your career luck by positioning your seat well in the office. The power position in any office is always the corner that is diagonally opposite the main entrance. It is deep insidethe office. Try to sit in this spot to get the best career luck.

3. Never Sit Next To Or Below Toilets.
Always remember to check whether you are sitting next to or below a toilet on the floor above you. In feng shui, this is considered a very harmful situation in the office and you should move your desk away from under the toilet immediately. Remember to shut the tolit lid so you are not flusing money down the drain

How To Enhance Your Personal Office Space

We spend almost the whole day in our office working for a living. The environment that we are working in, is important in terms of Feng Shui Living. We need to have an office space that we feel comfortable working in. The office space must have a mixute of yin and yang energies and the flow of air in the office space must be even and smooth. If possible, open awindow to increase the energy(chi) in your office space The following 3 feng shui tips will enhance your personal office space. Feng Shui Your Desk For Career Success

1. Keep Trash Bins Out Of your vision
All cleaning gear like brooms and dust pans are deemed to symbolize bad luck and must be kept out of sight of your office space, and especially the main door.

2. Block Out Excessive Sunlight
While it is good to have yang energy like sunlight to energize your office space, you must also not forget about the balance of yin and yang energies in the office. This is espcially true for those office spaces that have a west-facing wall. The power and heat of the afternoon sun can create an excess of fire energy. This excessive yang energy from the sunlight will create disharmony in the office. Flared tempers and impatience will be the order of the day. One solution is to block it with curtains.

3. Never Leave Clutter In Your Office Space
Your office space is where you work hard for your job or business. There should not have any clutter that will create blockage in your office space. Remove any clutter and organize the things in your office space properly. Clutter in your office space will bring bad luck, disharmony, irritation and conflicts with your co-workers. Keep a tray on your desk to place papers and sort them once a week.

How To Enhance Your Personal Success & Development

Success comes when you work hard towards it. The goodnews is, we can apply good feng shui to make sure that our path towards our success is more smooth-sailing. Below are three feng shui tips that can help you to enhance your personal success and development.

1. The Prosperity Signature
In feng shui, it is believed that a signature can attract great prosperity and success if it starts with a firm upward stroke and ends with another firm upward stroke. Many successful people have their signature signed in this way. Practice your new signature until you change it for the better

2. Buttons On Your Outfits
Conventionally, buttons are usually round and when the buttons are made of metallic material, it represents strong metal element. Such buttons are excellent feng shui for those wearing black or blue but will be inauspicious for people wearing greens and browns. On the other, plastic round buttons are basically harmonious.

3. Dragon For Great Success And Good Fortune
The celestial Dragon is the ultimate good luck symbol in feng shui and Chinese tradition. In fact, the Chinese believed that places with excellent feng shui are said to enjoy the dragon’s precious cosmic breath. Hence, placing a picture of a dragon in the office is always believed to bring its owner great good fortune and success.

If you start to incorporate these Feng Shui Living tips into your office, you will find that your circumstances will improve.

Things They Never Told Me At School But Could Have

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It’s funny, but when asked about things learnt that have served to be the greatest contribution to their lives most people will not mention anything from schools days. Have you noticed this? I can say that the things I have learnt which have served as a platform for personal growth did not come from the classroom.

Basically, the education system with its tunnel-minded curriculum is designed to make young people fit into boxes for the corporations and suchlike when they come out. In a way, that means, you’re going to have to make up for an absence of really learning about life!

Here are 7 things they never told me at school (but could have).

1. The Importance of Communication

We were never told the importance of communication or trained in this area. Effective communication brings together so many different things and therefore serves as a great life handling tool: Great relationships, successful projects, achievements… are all routed in effective communication.

2. Everything is the expression of consciousness

Life shows up as a consequence of where you are consciously at: Your thoughts, feelings and emotions, attitude… all contribute to the life that ‘shows up’ for you. So, if you don’t like the life you’re living then change these things. For example, if you find yourself in victimhood circumstances (the symptoms of victim consciousness) then look at where you are consciously at and change these things (the root cause).

3. Natural health

Like other schools we had our share of economics teachers but no one ever said that the best investment in life you could ever make is in your health. Because of corporate interests the education curriculum generally focuses only on pharmaceutical approaches when it comes to health. Alternative practitioners and great pioneers with their potentially life-saving approaches based on natural health have been ignored. There are 4 things that support good health. They are: Nutrition, exercise, attitude in life and the environment, but sadly, this is not given enough attention.

4. Applying philosophy

In school we never talked that much about life. No curriculum was ever set up to have conversations and discussions with our teachers on how to handle life; dealing with problems, or how to make relationships work… etc, the things that matter most to us. Sadly most people grow up, possibly out of school habit, seldom talk about life and spend much of their time talking meaningless nah, nah, nah nothings… and look at the result: A world full of people going nowhere in their lives, just like the soap opera characters on TV. Philosophy doesn’t have to be just mere armchair discussion. It can be used to practically apply ideas in life, hence the empowering phrase ‘applying philosophy.’

5. Being yourself

You don’t have to just be some corporate cog-in-wheel care of the education system’s grooming. I have learned that being yourself is your biggest strength. More than ever, particularly on the humanitarian front, the world needs people to think for themselves. Realize that there are other ways, different to this education sausage machine that turns out well educated clones unable to really think for themselves. As Albert Einstein once said “Real thinking is to think the unthinkable…” History has shown outside-of-the-box individuals thinking for themselves and they have contributed greatly to humanity…

6. Having a deep and genuine love for yourself

How do you expect to have a deep and genuine love flowing out there with your family, friends, groups, communities, the environment or all things spiritual… and then have it return on you when you had not began that deep and genuine love right there with your own self? This is consistent with 2 above that life shows up as a consequence of where you are consciously at.

7. The past is your biggest enemy in life

I was never told at school how to learn to realise that my past can run me instead of me running it: Fear, anxiety or an unwillingness to be creative and adventurous… are the operatives here. Because this subject could go into great lengths I’ve decided to make it something for another day. Simpler to say to be in present time, the only place where life exists is something to be cherished and mastered.

Of course, there were others but I’ll leave there, at least for now.

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Important Feng Shui Tips To Bring In More Money

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Tips 1
Money is something everyone needs and wants. Besides using hard work, here are some feng shui tips to remember to generate more money. The first thing to remember is that there are financial power spots in your office, living room, bedroom and kitchen. These spots are found in the corner of the back left hand side of the room, when facing in from the doorway. Once you know the financial power spots of the office, you have to keep these areas clutter free. This is because clutter always symbolizes stagnant energy. And this clutter in your power spots will only clog your cash flow. On clearing these spots, you shift these power spots to a higher spot.

According to feng shui things that are broken have to be fixed as things that dont work indicate that something is wrong in your life. So look for things like switches that dont work, file drawers that dont repair or clocks that dont give the right time. Either remove these things, or repair them so that they work. In place of these non-working things, place symbols of prosperity in your power spots like bowl of coins or a lucky bamboo plant for more prosperity in life. Even pictures of your dream house or car can be placed here as these are effective money symbols that have some special meaning for you.

Tips 2
Color is an important part of feng shui, and in making more money through feng shui. This is why it is advised to accent all money areas in your house with the colors green and purple. Green is the color for vitality and growth while purple is the color for wealth. One feng shui suggestion for this is to place purple and green grapes in a bowl in the wealth area of the kitchen. These grapes can be real or artificial; however if you use real ones and eat them, make sure you replenish the grapes and that the bowl is always more than half full.

Handling money with care is an important part of feng shui. Many people are of the habit of jamming money in wallets or money dips or to keep them crumpled in the pocket. This is not at all a sign of showing respect to money; instead clear your purse and wallet of its clutter and start saving money in them with care. This is because feng shui says that if you start neglecting money, money slowly starts neglecting you. Make it a point to balance your checkbooks and to pay bills punctually and to store your checkbook in attractive purple, black, blue, red or green covers. Place this cover in the back left corner of your desk, its wealth area or in the wealth area of your office.

Tips 3
Feng shui does not mean only the right placement of things for prosperity, but it also means the development of the right attitude in life. According to feng shui, you can make more wealth once you learn to live generously.
This is because money is a type of energy that has to be made to not only into your life, but also to flow through your life. If you dont have money to share, you can always give your time, appreciation and compassion to others for greater abundance in life.

Remember that little drops make a great ocean. So everyday, you have to spend a few minutes in the evenings, thinking of all the good things in life and thus show your gratitude for being lucky to receive all these things. It is not always getting or having something right that is important; it is learning to focus on the positive side of things in life that is important. The more you learn to notice, appreciate and show gratitude for whatever you receive, the more good things and money, you can expect to come your way. This is because prosperity in life is not always determined by the amount of money you have with yourself. It is also dependant on how you learn to enjoy whatever you have in life.

If you realize how rich you are with so many friends and your family, how fortunate that you can laugh, how fortunate you are to breathe in fresh and free air and realize the richness of your spiritual life; you will pretty soon receive material blessings and prosperity in your life.

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Easy and simple to followed feng shui tips to enhance your living life!

Chinese Water Element Characteristics

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The Water element in Chinese is called Shui and it is one of the most important element to Feng Shui. The name Feng Shui itself has a meaning of wind (Feng) and water (Shui). This element is essential for living and in Chinese astrology, it is considered as cleansing agent. Water symbolizes emotions and it can be quiet or violent.

Those who born in the years influenced by the Water element are calm, philosophical, creative and intellectual. They like to take up multiple professions. Instinctive and diplomatic, they like to keep secrets to themselves only. They possess spiritual powers and strong intuitions. These individuals are highly emotional and fluent. Water element people are normally good communicators and these people have the ability to influence others.

They have certain magnetic touch in their communication which enables the Water people to easily get someones affection and confidence. They are really good with subtle persuasion. Water people can effortlessly make others follow them almost anywhere without being irritating or aggressive. They have special ability to make people feel special and can utilize people effectively to obtain what they want.

People belong to this element are flexible and calm. Those qualities can make them attractive and also vulnerable to pessimism. The blue and black colors represent the Water element. This Water element is also represented by any uneven or wavy shape. Fountains, tinkling bells, aquariums, all of them symbolize the element of Water. Be careful as not to have too much Water element as it can make you become sly, cunning and often plot dark schemes.