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Give yourself an Extreme Thought Makeover! 

Steve Jobs said many memorable things. His name is one that so many everyday, ordinary people know. His technologies have touched countless lives worldwide.

Here is what he said about following your heart and intuition:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs inspirational quotes on success from his Stanford 2005 Commencement Address

He’s absolutely right!

Everyone with a pulse will endure challenges and difficulties from time to time. It’s part of living.

If you think the flowers and trees have it easy, try living through a drought or flood when you can’t move away from them!

Know that you will face a road of trials in your quest for living the life of your dreams.

But when you follow that divine guidance system, which is your heart and intuition, you will make it to your desired state of being. Yes!

Follow your heart – follow your intuition – follow your BLISS!

How?

1. Get quiet inside. There’s a reason so many cultures say in one way or another to that God whispers.

2. Figure out what excites you. Anything about which you are passionate gives you a good indication of where your heart is.

3. Stay around people who are inspiring. Negative people drag you down. Never hang around complainers. You’re most like the 5 people with whom you talk regularly.

Most people do not have a mentor or guide to help get to that still, quiet place and to follow your heart and intuition.

For more guidance, there is a beautiful program called The Journey,  This program guides the student along a path of self discovery through connecting with your inner guidance and with the natural world.

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Steve Jobs spoke to a Stanford graduating class at their commencement. He told 3 personal stories from his life. This is what he said about the importance of loving what you do:

He was reflecting on getting fired from Apple, which was devastating at the moment it happened, yet held a hidden blessing. He got to enjoy starting over once he moved through the loss.

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.”

Steve Jobs inspirational quotes on success

The speech was not lengthy, yet it was memorable. His use of 3 narratives from his own life demonstrate the power of storytelling as a tool of transformation.

He told stories about his trials and tribulations, not his glory days. This is a key understanding for anyone wishing to have an impact.

It’s important to find the message in your mess – the power in your pain.. How? By understanding what quality or experience you have gained by walking that road of trials.

Successful people count their tribulations as blessings. Steve Jobs felt that way.

Your “mess” truly has a powerful message, not only for YOU, but also for those lives you touch.

Discover its power now and your life will be forever changed.

You’ll discover how to find the power in your pain and unlock your own personal magnetism.

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Discover how to find the power in your pain and unlock your own personal magnetism.

The Find the Message in Your Mess Package includes an audio training, a guide, the Great Storytelling Formula that unlocks your story power, and more.

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Steve Jobs, who never finished college, gave the commencement address for Stanford‘s 2005 graduating class. “Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation,” he quipped.

His speech is a brilliant demonstration of storytelling as a tool of transformation.

He told 3 stories from his own life. The first had to do with connecting the dots.

Did you ever know the connection between calligraphy and computers?  You can read or watch his address for that trivia.

What stands out most for me in his story about connecting the dots are these inspirational quotes: Emphasis is mine, to guide you.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Jobs didn’t graduate college. He even got fired from the very company he founded. Then he contracted the cancer that killed him this week.

Yet none of those things stopped him living his purpose in life.

Blessings are treasures hidden in life’s challenges.

Steve Jobs brilliantly demonstrated this in his speech. He used his own personal narrative examples to teach valuable life lessons to the young graduates. 

He didn’t talk about his numerous accomplishments, all the technology he helped bring into being, or all the money he made.

Jobs talked about the power in his pain and the message in his mess.

Find the Miracle Hidden in Your Own Difficulties

And to better understand the power in your pain and the message in your mess – uncover the good things that came dressed in what seemed like trouble, trials and tribulations at the time.

The Find the Message in Your Mess Package includes an audio training, a guide, the Great Storytelling Formula that unlocks your story power, and more.

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“Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success which are always found together. One leads to the other.” – Napoleon Hill inspirational quotes on success

Concentration Of Effort - Napoleon Hill inspirational quotes on success

There is a powerful ancient wisdom quote that gets horribly misused, and it’s robbing people of valuable time, energy AND results!

Here’s the quote:

:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius inspirational quotes

A lot of people feel that if you love what you do, that must mean that you should want to spend as much time as possible doing it. 

But is it possible to love what you do, yet cause more harm than good?

Howard’s Story: He LOVES what he does…and so should anyone he wants something from!

Howard works from home and loves what he does. He doesn’t appear to be making much money at it, by the way, but he tries to give the impression of success.

There is so much he wants to know, and he’s willing to bother anyone at any time of the day or night to satisfy his needs.

No, he does not invest in himself or his business..

Howard has a habit of trying to pull people into Skype chats and conversations.  And he has no particular regard for anybody else’s schedule or availability.

He does not ask whether the person is actually available to speak.  He simply calls them up using Skype.

Since Howard has not set an appointment or even asked whether the lucky recipient has time, the end result is most definitely disruptive.

What happens with Skype is that a wide banner that spans most of the screen comes right up in the middle of the workspace.

Certainly the phone can ring at any time, and anyone always has the option either to answer or not to answer.  Skype calls are more “in your face” than a normal phone call.

Howard never considers what he does to cause a big disruption. He’ll intrude three and four times a day, given half a chance.

Howard calls at any time of the day or night. He LOVES what he does, so calling someone at 1 AM or 6:30 AM or anytime he pleases suits HIM well.

His attitude is that if you love what you do, then nothing is work, and thus it’s perfectly OK to have absolutely NO boundaries about talking business.

As a matter of fact, he expects any entrepreneur in his world to let him pick their brain (without paying them) at any time of the day or night.

His feeling is that because he loves what he does, he need not set any boundaries on his day.

It doesn’t matter to him what time of the day or night something crosses his mind that he wants to talk over with someone more experienced.

Therefore, it shouldn’t matter to anyone else, because they’re also supposed to love working from home and have no life beyond work.

 It doesn’t matter when somebody can meet, what they’re doing, or whether they want to have a balanced life…

…because he loves what he does, nothing else matters! 

He even said, “Well, if you really love what you do, time doesn’t matter.”

The implication is that whomever Howard wants something from should take his calls and answer his marketing questions any time of the day or night with no compensation —

—all for the love of it.

Ha!

People are blocking him from Skype and otherwise distancing themselves in order to avoid him.

Howard laughs at time management tools!

Howard feels no need for time management tools. He loves what he does and nothing else matters (at least until the house goes into foreclosure or he lands in the hospital or dies of a heart attack..

“There will come a time when we will sit down to dine at the banquet of our consequences.”

Robert Louis Stevenson inspirational quoteson success

Ah yes. Consequences.

Every choice brings consequences. Whether they will be a banquet of culinary delicacies or a mouthful of bitterness is the question.

Can Confucius’ beautiful words of wisdom about having a job you love lead people astray?

The message he is really delivering is that when you love what you do, you should let your entire life get way out of balance so that you can continue doing it at the cost of everything else in your life.  

According to this line of reasoning, loving what you do also includes using and devaluing other people and their time,

The Dark Side of Loving What You Do

Loving what you do so much that everything else in life drops causes numerous problems including:

1. Getting very much out of shape, physically and mentally, from sitting at a desk or on a phone way too much.

This causes physical harm, including poor air supply, bad posture, and not to mention, a big butt! 

2. Working longer actually decreases efficiency and quality by working harder, longer or more. 

Success does not mean working more, pushing through and slamming harder.  Ingenuity and creativity arise from a well nourished spirit.

3. Setting no work boundaries creates a habit of devaluing time–  both one’s own and others’.

By not setting time limits and boundaries on work, tasks expand to fill the day very quickly. This may seem productive, but looking at results, it is clear that spending more time does not mean better results.

Value Your Time and Get More Done Using Time Management Tools

Given no boundaries, tasks will expand to fill all available time.

Allow a fully focused hour to complete a task (such as writing an article or finishing a product) and it will get done in that amount of time.

Give no limits, and that article or that product may remain unfinished for weeks, months, or even years.

3 Simple (and free) time management tools:

1. Set SMART Goals: That means specific, measurable actions that are realistic and time-bound

2. Focus: Don’t multi-task. Turn off all messaging (phone, Skype, chat, email) for focused periods of time and watch results soar!

3. Value time. Get a life! Respect time – both yours and other people’s – because there is no way to get more hours in a day.

The surprising truth is that there are actually simple, effective ways to do LESS and yet accomplish more. It is the closely guarded secret of the super-successful.

Starting the day in a particular way sets up a pattern of success.

Avoiding three deadly time mistakes that are all simple to implement make all the difference.

You can start right away!

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EFFORTLESSLY—”

Bypass the resistance, skepticism and doubt that typically cause people not to buy from you – even when they know you have their perfect solution!

Gain deep trust, respect and rapport with your ideal prospects and watch in awe as they become your ideal customers!!

Create word-of-mouth (AKA viral) buzz about you and your solutions!

Sort out prospects before they buy to turn the divas and whiners and others not suited to your away before they become problem customers!

Convey your most important message so that your business is in perfect harmony with your values, goals and dreams!

Is learning storytelling techniques important in business?:

People sometimes think storytelling is merely a pleasant bedtime activity for children or something to do on camping trips.

Now, I love a spooky ghost story as much as the next person, but that’s “whipped cream” –  lovely for dessert, but insubstantial.

Saying that storytelling is just for bedtime and camping is like saying the sun is just a nice yellow ball of light in the sky!

Here’s what makes storytelling essential to your success (not a warm-fuzzy-bedtime family-thing):

On the Discovery Channel show The Pitchmen, veteran salesman Billy Mays said that this skill –  which you are about to master –  is at least HALF the reason why people buy from you.

What does this mean? It means that having a great product or service only takes you HALF way to a sale!

And there’s more. Number 1 bestselling author Seth Godin has a lot to say about storytelling, including this:

”Great marketing is storytelling.”

Seth Godin Quotes on Storytelling

I anticipate you have this question.

“Great, but how do I tell a the kind of story that grows my business?”

Yes, if I simply said, “therefore go ye and tell stories!” you would probably wander aimlessly, blunder around, and not know what, how, or when.

What makes the Great Storytelling Formula great?

The Great Storytelling Formula is global. No matter what country you or your ideal customers call home, they will naturally, effortlessly respond to this formula.

The Great Storytelling Formula naturally makes sense to people of all races, cultures, and spiritual paths (or lack thereof) equally well.

The Great Storytelling Formula has proven the test of time. Hundreds of thousands of years of human

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I know Amazon.com won’t like what I am about to say, because the biggest reason for letting authors publish a book on Kindle is most authors who publish on Kindle generate sales of 3–5 of the pricey devices.

Why? Because even though every Kindle book shows the available free Kindle apps right there on the page, people don’t look, don’t read and and don’t pay attention.

Here’s how the sales happen.

Let’s take a hypothetical yet typical author named Carol. She finds out how to self-publish a book on Kindle. She follows the simple path to publishing, and in just a couple days, she is a published author with her first Kindle book.

She is so excited that she buys a Kindle so she can read her own book on it. Chalk up one more Kindle sold.

Then she tells everyone she knows (rightfully so) that she is a published Kindle author, and her family and friends get ALL excited too (again, rightfully so!).

Her mom, sister, and two other family members all go and buy a Kindle so they can read their family superstar’s book on Kindle. Chalk another 4  Kindle Reader sales.

Her best friend, 2 ladies from church and 1 mom from carpool all go get one too. Chalk up 4 more sales of the Kindle Reader.

Carol has sold 9 books in this transaction, perhaps bringing her enough revenue to take her family out for ice cream cones.

Amazon.com is the big winner with over $1,000 in revenue generated simply because they allow authors to self-publish.

This hypothetical example resulted in 9 Kindle Reader sales since our Carol is so magnetic, but typically, friends and family of authors who self publish a book on Kindle DO cause sales of the device..

Self Publishing Kindle Authors Mean A Few Dollars for the Author but Huge Revenue to Amazon.com

People tend to ASSUME they need to own a Kindle in order to read a Kindle book, even though every page with a Kindle book shows all the free Kindle apps available right there on the screen.

Every author who will publish a book on Kindle generates an average of 5 Kindle Reader sales. Not to mention all the other Kindle books and accessories that that will result all from authors like Carol.

I’m not saying Amazon.com is evil. I am proud to say that I am a #1 bestselling Kindle author. I steer people to the free Kindle apps for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and more. And if they want a Kindle Reader, they can get it through my affiliate link!

No, I did not buy a Kindle Reader. No, I have nothing against them, other than the fact that they’re not accessible to blind people.

As someone who is mostly blind, I can’t use one. Even the free Kindle apps are inaccessible to me. Though there is an option to have a mechanical voice read the book, the human has to be able to see in order to get there.

Now that I’ve spilled the beans, so to speak, on Amazon.com’s dirty little secret, you can publish a book on Kindle knowing how NOT to fall under their spell.

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First, you may be wondering,

“What is Google Accessible Search and why do I care?”

Google Accessible Search is a project of Google Labs. Its function is to make the worldwide web a friendlier place for those who have low vision or blindness.

The interesting thing is that by making sure your site is friendly for people with “disabilities,” you also make it a friendlier place for all readers. This is a good thing, because overall, being accessible should increase the engagement (involvement) of your readers.

Remember, people have different lerning styles. Some readers would rather listen to your blog while running or driving than read text. Others love videos and prefer to both see and hear the articles on your site. Some just want the post as you wrote it.

As I often teach my students…

“Serve your prospects and customers well and you always win. The more you serve them, the better your results!”

–  Ronda Del Boccio Inspirational Quotes / Success Quotes

As time goes by, it becomes clearer and clearer that the search engines, Google in particular, are rewarding site owners who take good care of their readers. The better the reader experience, the higher search engine you are likely to get for your keywords.

ProfitableStorytelling.com dominates Google Accessible Search for video content reader and holds position 1 for audio content reader.

How to Turn Your Text Blog Posts into Audio

Turn Your Voice into Text and Speak Your Blog Posts 

One way to include audio with text posts is to use a service like CopyTalk, which you’ll find at www.ProfitableStorytelling.com/copytalk to record your blog posts.

With CopyTalk, you simply call a designated phone number You speak in up to 4–minute increments (up to 5 “chunks” at a time). Ten you can use the audio and text on  your site.

You receive an audio link, text document and PDF of what you speak into your phone. You would use the text file they send you to craft the text post and include the audio version along with the text post.

Use Odiogo to Turn Your Text Blog into Voice on Autopilot

Odiogo is a free service that turns any RSS feed into audio. that means you can effortlessly burn an audio feed. Then let your readers know that you have an audio content reader available for your blog.

How to Use Google Accessible Search

Google Accessible Search works just like “ordinary” search. You just go to a different address to access it. You’ll find Google Accessible Search at  Labs.Google.com/accessible.

You can compare your site in Google Search and Google Accessible Search simply by opening 2 tabs and running the same search.

There is an Accessible Search FAQ (frequently asked questions) page, and here are a couple of the most likely questions you have. 

How do you decide which sites are “accessible” and which are not?

Broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages as content that the blind and visually impaired can use and consume using standard online technology, and we’ve worked with a number of organizations to determine which websites and pages meet those criteria.

Our methods for identifying accessible pages and content are always evolving; Currently we take into account several factors, including a given page’s simplicity, how much visual imagery it carries and whether or not its primary purpose is immediately viable with keyboard navigation.

How Can I Make Accessible Search My Default Home Page

Here is the short answer for IE and Firefox. Assuming that you are on the Accessible Search page, the following key sequence: Alt + T, O, Alt + C, Enter should make that your default home page. This sequence is the same for both IE and Firefox.

Here is a more detailed explanation of what the above achieves.

On IE, go to Tools, Internet Options, and under the General tab in the Home Page area, click the “Use Current” button. Note that the General tab is the default tab when Internet Options first comes up.

On Firefox, go to Tools, Options, and under the Main tab in the Startup area, click the “Use Current Pages” button. Note that the Main tab is the default tab when Options first comes up.

You can watch ProfitableStorytelling.com using the video content reader feed at www.feeds.feedburner.com/ProfitableStorytellingVideoContentReader

You can listen to ProfitableStorytelling.com at www.Feeds.Feedbrner.com/ProfitableStorytellingAudioContentReader.

Please use the comment form to ask questions so I can serve you well.

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Accessibility contributes to your blogging success, and…

When your site is accessible, EVERYBODY wins!

How would you define success?

Is it having money? Material things?

Here is how Tony Robbins defines success:

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

Tony Robbins Inspirational Quotes on Success

 

Put yourself on the path to success (however YOU define it!) by overcoming stress!

Tony Robbins

Inspirational Quotes on Success

Tony Robbins

What is the quality of your communication?

Here’s how to find out.

Do you listen more than you speak?

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational Quotes

When you’re busy with many responsibilities, it’s so easy to get caught up in rushing from one thing to another.

Rushing, “WORKing”  and “TRYing” put yuo automatically into a state of stress.

Signs of stress include things like:

• frequent headaches
• stomach troubles
• shortness of breath
• poor sleep
• shallow breathing
• trouble falling asleep
• worrying
• running negative thoughts in a loop
• and many more.

When you can shift your focus from rushing and DOing to being present, you can enjoy the dance of life much more. After all, you are not meant to have a hassled life with signs of stress hitting you at every turn!

You may not give your purpose in life a second thought, but in all truth, knowing your purpose in life can help you sift through your various activities and responsibilities to cut out what is taking you AWAY from your ultimate aim and put you in a powerful position to direct your own life.

Write on Purpose  is a program that empowers you to tap into your own inner words of wisdom – AND master 13 different ways to determine your purpose in life.

You get an audio teaching, follow-along guide and 13 journal writing prompts to guide your exploration and self understanding.

Signs of stress can melt away when you find your joy and purpose and stop doing battle with your mental chatter, old beliefs and big fat lies that you’ve been carrying around for so long.

Take care of YOU for a change AND get in touch with your purpose in life. You’ll discover that life can truly be fun and rewarding again when you do.

Find the program at www.WriteOnPurpose.com

Anthony Robbins

Inspirational Quotes on Success

Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quotes on Success

Bringing the Teaching into Your Life

Now here are some inspirational thoughts to help you put the teaching of the inspirational quotes into your life.

One of the best habits you can acquire is the habit of teaching what you have learned. It “seals in” the learning for you, plus it allows you to feel good about sharing what you have discovered with someone else who wants the knowledge.

Turn around and teach what you have learned immediately. This truly helps you learn the lesson so you don’t forget. It also puts into play the second part of Angelou’s quote, “When you get, give.”

Here is a living example. When Terri learned from Ronda (me) how to make a product graphic using a program called PrintMaster, she Showed Gina how to do it as well.

When a teaching is given to you and you give to someone else, this begets more receiving. Pass it on!

Giving, receiving, learning and teaching are all ways to experience a better quality of life and reduce signs of stress, because you are connecting, sharing, and making life better both for yourself and for those with whom you share.

Another way to help this process happen in a bigger way for you is to take a free program called The 21–Day “I AM a gift to the World!” Challenge. The reason this program will make your life better is because you receive teachings designed to relieve stress, put the smile back into your life (or more smile into it), and feel truly connected.

The 7 lessons, or “secret missions,” cause you to think about life in a very different way. And don’t worry, the missions are not complicated, and they don’t take a lot of time.

Find The 21–Day “I AM a gift to the World!” Challenge at www.ProfitableStorytelling.com/iamagift.