By: William Winch

Childhood obesity has more than tripled over the past 40 years. More than 30% of children and teens are overweight and 20% are classified as obese. Most parents wait for their child to grow out of it, encouraging them to be proud of who they are. That is certainly noble in theory, but being overweight increases the risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol levels, and premature heart disease.

It can certainly be a challenge for parents to provide children with opportunities to lead a healthy lifestyle. You never know what they could be stuffing down their mouths in the school cafeteria or at their friend’ house. That is why it is so important to teach proper nutrition in the home. They will not learn about it in school, not even in health class. The more you practice good health at home, the better choices they will make out in the world.

Here are a few weight loss tips to get your children started on the road to good health.

Children Lose Weight Tips #1: Be The Example Yourself

If you are overweight or obese yourself, you are setting a bad example for your children. Be a responsible parent and go on a diet. Yes, YOU! Children often mimic what their parents do, and if you are fat, they will think it is OK to be fat. It is a rare occasion that I see fat children with skinny parents, and vice versa. How often do you see fat kinds with skinny parents, or skinny kids with fat parents? Not too common.

Children Lose Weight Tips #2: Pack Their Lunch For Them

Do not hand over a five dollar bill for your child to purchase a lunch themselves just because you are lazy in the morning. Nine times out of ten they will spend it on junk food because you are not there to tell them no. If you want your children to eat properly, do the most you can. Pack their lunch so they are forced to eat it. If that is all they have, they will suffer through it and come out better in the end.

Children Lose Weight Tips #3: Think Ahead

Kinds want to grow up fast but they do not think of the consequences once getting there without planning. Studies show that if a child remains obese by the age of 10-14, they have nearly an 80% chance of remaining at a dangerously heavy weight through adulthood. Let them know that, especially if it scares you (which it should!). A childs weight is the most important predictor of whether or not the child will become an obese adult. Nearly 65% of obese adolescents will still be obese as adults, even if neither parent is obese.

Children Lose Weight Tips #4: Eat Together

When I was a child, it was a rare occasion that my family ate dinner in separate rooms. Do not let your child heat up a burrito and slam it down in their room in front of their computer or television. It is important to monitor their eating and make sure they are paying attention to the luxury of having dinner, especially if they are trying to lose weight. Eating together as a family is an activity that will help everyone follow a healthier lifestyle.

Children Lose Weight Tips #5: Fix Them A Healthy Breakfast

You know this is the most important meal of the day, so handing over a sugary pop-tart to your child on their way out of the house is extremely counter-productive. And do not even think about stopping off at Starbucks and buying them a fatty latte either. A healthy breakfast at home does not have to be time consuming. I make a soy based protein smoothy every morning that provides me with the best nutrition possible. It takes me literally 2 minutes to make it in the blender.

Children Lose Weight Tips #6: Introduce Healthy Snacking

Children are quite active with school, sports and other extra-curricular activities. It makes sense that they need a boost of energy in between meals. Stock your cupboards and refrigerator with healthy snacks instead of processed trigger foods. Cut fruits and vegetables so they can grab them just as they would a candy bar. Protein bars and soy nuts are a great alternative to cookies and chips. Premix flavored water with green tea to give them natural energy boosts instead of providing high sugar soda and sports drinks they are not healthy.

Helping a child to develop lifelong healthy habits can be rewarding in so many ways. Introducing healthy alternatives into your child’s diet is not rocket science. Try the Children Lose Weight tips listed above to prevent resistance to healthier eating. As a parent, you are responsible for what, when and where your children eat. It is up to you to help your children adopt a healthy lifestyle.

Bill Winch is a Personal Wellness Coach whose mission is teaching and coaching others who are struggling with getting healthy, losing weight safely and keeping it off for good. He is also a Certified Business Growth Specialist, former High School and College Business Educator and Counselor, and mentors from his home office in Rochester, NY. If you are interested in receiving his Free Report “9 Weight Loss Myths Exposed” visit his website by clicking on FREE REPORT or by calling him directly at (585) 271-3767 for a free wellness consultation.

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By: chum chandarin

>>>Introduction

Indonesian Language and Culture Learning Service (INCULS) is a department in the faculty of cultural science, Gadjah Mada University. The overall goal of INCULS is to prepare foreign students with Indonesian language and culture through a training course period. Foreign students from developing countries that get scholarship from Indonesian government to pursue master degree in Indonesia have to be trained in INCULS so that they can survive in term of communication in their everyday lives as well as their academic environment. The program was conducted during an eight-month period from September to May 2007. An evaluation was intended to make judgments about the merit, value, or worth of the training program conducted at INCULS. This evaluation study was to find out the reaction of the students participating in the course and to find out if the program was effective and efficient in delivering knowledge to students. It was envisaged that this evaluation study would increase efficiency, effectiveness and good performance in delivery good quality of learning program at INCULS.

Evaluating reaction is the same thing as measuring customer satisfaction (Kirckpatrick, 1998:25). He continued that if training is going to be effective, it is important that trainees react favorably to the training or they will not be motivated to learn. Motivation has been considered a major impact on human behavior (Sprinhall, N.A &Sprinhall R.C, 1987: 463). According to Brophy (1987), motivation to learn is a competence acquired “through general experience but stimulated most directly through modeling, communication of expectations, and direct instruction or socialization by significant others (especially teachers).” The beliefs teachers themselves have about teaching and learning and the nature of the expectations they hold for students also exert a powerful influence (Raffini, 1993:286). As Stipek (1988) notes, “To a very large degree, students expect to learn if their teachers expect them to learn.” School wide goals, policies, and procedures also interact with classroom climate and practices to affirm or alter students’ increasingly complex learning-related attitudes and beliefs. Classroom climate is important. If students experience the classroom as a caring, supportive place where there is a sense of belonging and everyone is valued and respected, they will tend to participate more fully in the process of learning. Effective learning in the classroom depends on the teacher’s ability to maintain the interest that brought students to the course in the first place” (Ericksen, 1978:3). Courses should be instrumentally motivating by being obviously related to preparation for future goals and aspirations (McPartland & Braddock, 2000).

Cognitive theorists view learning as a reorganization of a number of perceptions; this reorganization allows the learner to perceive new relationships, solve new problems, and gain a basic understanding of a subject area (Sprinhall, N.A &Sprinhall R.C, 1987:192). In addition, learning can be defined as the extent to which participants change attitudes, improve knowledge, and/or increase skill as a result of attending the program (Kirkpatrick, 1998:20).

Thus, it can be assumed that positive reactions of students toward a training program tend to help them learn more. Trainees can learn effectively and will be able to apply the knowledge learned efficiently once they have high motivation to learn. It is in the hand of instructors, administrator and school climate that can facilitate the learning process and increase students’ motivation.

>>>Evaluation Method

The first two levels of Kirkpatrick’s (1998) model of evaluation, namely reaction and learning was applied in evaluating the training program. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approach was used to study the population in order to obtain valid and reliable data. Data collection techniques included observation inside and outside class activities, interview, documents and questionnaire. Twelve foreign students from various countries attending the program were the population of this evaluation study.

1. Reaction: How well did the students like the training course? Each student completed the reaction sheet which was divided into content, instruction and overall course satisfaction. The course content was referred to the clarity of the course objective, the agreement between course objective and lesson assignment, and the well planned, organized and used of time period. The instruction was focused on the knowledgeability of instructors to the subject matter, the teaching methods and techniques employed by instructors, and the understanding and facilitating of the instructors toward students needs. Finally, the overall evaluation of the program was meant to evaluate the whole satisfaction of students to the training program. A five-point scale was used to scale the responses, with 5 being the highest satisfaction and 1 the lowest. The interview was conducted to check the reliability.

2. Learning: Is there knowledge gained after the training course? Can students use the language learned? All students before getting the training did not know anything about Indonesian language; this means that they had zero knowledge of Indonesian language. To evaluate learning, the students’ test scores were compared to see if there were improvements in vocabulary, reading, grammar, writing, and conversation skills. The observation was made to see if the students used the language learned in public.

>>>Evaluation Results

The evaluation was conducted as planned successfully and the results were communicated as follows:

1. Reaction

The reaction score to the content, instruction, and overall evaluation was:

Content: 3.29

Instruction: 3.46

Overall: 3.5

The results suggested that the students were fairly satisfied with the program. However, according to the interview, some students revealed that the program was little of important for their future study when they do master degree since they were told they could use English. They perceived that the program was very important for everyday life but not academic. Some students complained that the book was not very attractive and there were no clear objectives in each lesson. Answering to the question if a variety of media was used to help teaching learning process, most students said no and some teachers come to teach without preparation.

2. Learning

There was absolutely learning occurred in the program. It was known that students had zero knowledge of Indonesian before they came to study. This means that they did not know anything about Indonesian; however, after studying they can communicate Indonesian effectively, they can read some paper and even do some writing for their class. To be sure, mean scores of two tests which were done in the middle and at the end of the course were taken to comparison. The report of the test was obtained from INCULS and the results revealed:

Vocabulary Writing Reading Grammar Conversation Total Mean

Test 1 77.58 83.83 85 72.33 77.75 79.29

Test 2 80.25 84 76.91 72.58 80.83 79.91

Total Gain 2.67 0.17 -8.09 0.25 3.08 0.62

The scores show that there was tremendous improvement of students from 0% (zero knowledge of Indonesian) to 79.29% in the first test and 79.91 in the second test. There was an overall gain of 0.62% at the end of the course; however, if we look at each subject in the first and second test, reading score decreases to 8.09%. This means students’ reading ability is very limited. Conversational score increases 3.08% which is the highest gain among the five subjects and the vocabulary gain score is 2.67% which is the second highest. The observation was made in school campus and public place including market, football pitch…etc, and it amazingly revealed that most of the time students used Indonesian language to communicate among friends. Indonesian students who communicated with the population reported that they understood the communication 90% from various topics in Indonesian. The foreign students further stated that they preferred communicating in Indonesian to reading or writing.

>>>Conclusions and Recommendations

The students conversationally learned a lot from the program. Language training program in INCULS is very important for foreign students since it equips students with the ability to use and understand Indonesian in various contexts and culture. The score of the reaction can always be improved if some aspects are taken into consideration. The content of the course should be improved. The content should be valid, significant, interested, learnable and consistent with social realities, and utility. The course should be separated into two levels. First level is for general language using ability; that is the ability to use Indonesian in everyday life communication. Finally, the language should be focused on each subject that students will be doing in their master program. The objectives of each lesson must be stated clearly. The students will be more motivated to learn if they know real objectives and the benefit of learning. Instructors should plan their lessons well and present them attractively and effectively to the class. High satisfaction and learning quality will be improved if all those mentioned factors are considered. In contrast, if all the negative aspects are not taken into consideration, the learning situation might be worse for the next program.

>>>Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to all those who gave me the possibility to complete this evaluation study.

I am deeply indebted to Prof. Kumaidi who gave so freely of his time with valuable comments and support to me during the study in Indonesia. His stimulating suggestions and encouragement helped me in all the time of research for and writing of this evaluation study. His priceless help and advice contribute tremendously to my educational achievements.

I want to thank Dr. Ida Rochani Adi for giving me permission to conduct this study at INCULS.

Students, friends, and staff at INCULS supported me in this evaluation study. I want to thank them for all their help, support, interest and valuable hints.

>>>References

Brophy, J. (1987). On Motivating Students. Occasional Paper No. 101. East Lansing, Michigan: Institute for Research on Teaching, Michigan State University.

Ericksen, S. C. (1978). “The Lecture.” Memo to the Faculty, no. 60. Ann Arbor: Center for Research on Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan.

Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1998). Evaluating Traning Programs: The Four Levels. San Francisco. Berrect-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

McPartland & Braddock. (2000). A Conceptual Framework on Learning Environments and Student Motivation for Language Minority and Other Underserved Populations. Available at http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/symposia/third/mcpartland.htm (Access: 11 May 2007)

Raffini, J. (1993). Winners Without Losers: Structures And Strategies For Increasing Student Motivation To Learn. Boston: Allyn and Bacon

Stipek, D. (1988). Motivation To Learn: From Theory To Practice. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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By: Mr. Ashok Sharma

J KRISHNAMURTI – “And with love, do what you will, there is no risk; there is no conflict. Then love is the essence of virtue. And a mind j that is not in a state of love, is not a religious mind at all.”        

J KRISHNAMURTI –“As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride… This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.”

J KRISHNAMURTI –“Death must be something extraordinary; as life is. Life is a total thing. Sorrow, pain, anguish, joy absurd ideas, possession, envy, love, the aching misery of loneliness — all that is life. And to understand death, we must understand the whole life, not take just one fragment of it and live with that fragment, as most of us do. In the very understanding of life there is the understanding of death, because the two are not separate.”           

J KRISHNAMURTI – “Education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may win degrees; you may have a series of letters after your name and land a very good job; but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?”

J KRISHNAMURTI –“Human relationship is society, the relationship between you and me. If I am greedy and I have great power and authority, I am going to push you out; and you will try to do the same to me. So we make laws. But others come and break our laws, establishing another set of laws, and this goes on all the time…”  

J KRISHNAMURTI –“It is only when you have no reason for being peaceful that you will have peace.”

J KRISHNAMURTI –“Psychologically there is nothing in the world that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. Because, your leaders – religious and political — and your books — sacred and profane — have all failed, and you are still confused, in misery, in conflict.”          

J KRISHNAMURTI –“The confidence of which I speak is understanding — not the “I understand”, but understanding without self-identification… Confidence comes into being, it cannot be manufactured by the mind; confidence comes with experiment and discovery; not the experiment with belief, theory of memory but experimentation with self-knowledge. This confidence or faith is not self-imposed nor is it identified with belief, formulation and hope. It is not the outcome of self-expanding desire.”     

J KRISHNAMURTI –“To expand consciousness there must be a center which is aware of its expansion. The moment there is a center from which you are expanding, it is no longer expansion because the center always limits its own expansion.”   

J KRISHNAMURTI –“We shall know the state of love only when jealousy, envy, possessiveness, domination, comes to an end. And as long as we possess we shall never love.”   

J MARILYN BARRETT –“Although weeding, cutting back and transplanting are activities that may seem repetitive and never ending, when seen as a necessary and integral part of the overall unfolding of the garden scheme, they become purposeful rather than boring. In fact, what may appear on the surface to be tedious physical work may, in the actual doing, be spiritually liberating.”  

J NEVILLE WARD –“Failure is as much a part of life as success is and by no means something in front of which one sits down and howls as though it is a scandal and a shame.”

J NEWTON –“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”        

J P VASWANI –“If ye would reach the Goal, be prepared to lose thyself on the way!”  

J PAUL GETTY –“My father said: “You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals”

J PAUL GETTY –“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”

J R LOWELL –“The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can’t see it but, all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.”

J W VON GOETHE –“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”      

J. DONALD WALTERS –“Expand your happiness by sharing it with others. The larger a rainbow, the more brightly it shines.”   

J. DONALD WALTERS –“Not in passion, but in tenderness and kindness love finds its ideal expression.”  

J. DONALD WALTERS –“The secret of love is performing some little act daily to give happiness to your beloved — an act of service, perhaps; a small gift; a word of appreciation, a smile of affection.”  

J. HAWES –“The strength and safety of a community consists in the virtue and intelligence of its youth, especially of its young men.”   

J. KRISHNAMURTI –“No one holds the key to the kingdom of happiness. That key is your own self.”

J. KRISHNAMURTI –“The action of love has no motive, and every other action has.”  

J. KRISHNAMURTI –“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love, and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover the world transformed.”  

J. KRISHNAMURTI –“We shall know the state of love only when jealousy, envy, possessiveness, domination, comes to an end. And as long as we possess we shall never love.”   

J. KRISHNAMURTI –“With love, do what you will, there is no risk; there is no conflict.”       

J. KRISHNAMYRHTI –“Religion is the feeling of goodness, that love which is like river, living, moving everlastingly.”

J. P VASWANI –“Every one, no matter how poor, can give something. We can give a loving thought, a sweet word, a radiant smile, a moving song, a helping hand, any of which may bring comfort to a broken heart. More than money, the world needs love and sympathy.”   

J. P. VASWANI –“Life is a duty: dare it! Life is a burden: bear it! Life is a treasure: share it!”  

J. PETIT-SENN –“We tire of the pleasures we take but never of those we give.”  

J. RUSSELL LYNES –“Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.”        

J.C. & W.A. HARE- “No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.”

J.G. HOLLAND –“The heart is wiser than the intellect.”   

J.K.GALBRAITH- “Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.”

J.K.GALBRAITH –“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”  

J.K.GALBRATH- “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.”

J.KRISHNAMURTI –“Life is death;/ Death is rebirth/ Happy is the man/That is beyond the clutches/Of their limitations.”

J.M.BARRIE –“Let no one who loves to call unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

J.P. FLEISHMAN –“Most of us, swimming against the tides of troubles the world know nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and well make the goal.”   

J.P. VASWANI –“Everyone, no matter how poor, can give something. More than money, the world needs love and sympathy.”  

J.P.SENN –“Let us respect grey hairs, especially our own.”   

J.R. LOWELL –“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”   

J.R.LOWELL- “The better part of every men’s education is that which he gives himself.”

J.ROBERT OPPENHEIMER- “The physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they can not lose.”

J.S HUXLEY- “The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.”

JACK BENNY –“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”   

JACK HANDY –“As a young boy when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.”

JACK HANDY –“The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.”   

JACK KAINE –“It’s easier for people to see it your way if you first see it their way.”   

JACK KEMP –“Self-esteem is at the core of a healthy nation.”  

JACK KEROUAC –“We tiptoed around each other like Heartbreaking new friends.”  

JACK KORNFIELD & MARK VICTOR HANSEN –“Great thinking attracts great results. Mediocre thinking attracts mediocre results.” 

JACK KROLL –“He was an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.”  

JACK LONDON –“A bone to the dog is not charity Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”   

JACK LONDON –“You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” 

JACK LONDON –“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it.”    

JACK NICHOLSON –“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.”    

JACK NICHOLSON –“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.”  

JACK NICHOLSON –“Your reputation is in the hand of other’s. That’s what a reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

JACK VALENTI –“Perception has a ravenous power because it springs from conviction.”

JACK WELCH –“Globalisation has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital.”    

JACK WELSH –“Control your destiny or somebody else will.”

JACKIE CHAN –“I have broken everything — from the top of my head (skull) to the bottom of my feet.”

JACKIE ROBINSON –“Life is not a spectators sport. If you are going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, you’re wasting your life.”   

JACKS, L.P. –“The pessimist sees difficulties ever opportunity, the optimist sees opportunities in every difficulty.” 

JACKSON BROWN –“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be alt they have.”          

JACOB BRAUDE –“Always behave like a duck-keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle with great vigor underneath.”

JACOB BRONOWSKI –“The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.”   

JACOB BURCKHARDT -“Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness. Permanence means paralysis and death. Only in movement, with all its pain, is life.”     

JACOBI –“It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith.”     

JACQUELINE BESSET –“Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together.”

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS –“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”        

JACQUELYN SMALL –“We are not human beings trying to be spiritual, we are spiritual beings practicing to be human.”           

JACQUES BARZUN –“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”  

JACQUES BENIGNE BOSSUEL –“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”   

JACQUES CONSTEAU –“Don’t forget; the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”

JACQUES COUSTEAU –“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

JACQUES DERRIDA –“To pretend, I actually do the things: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

JACQUES MARTIAN –“We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.”

JAIDEV –“ “A buxom maiden cosily ensconced in Krishna’s arms Sings the refrain of his song in her sweet soprano voice. One maid, with her quivering eyes and inviting glances, Showers the sweetness of love on Krishna’s lotus-like face.” 

JAIDEV –“Krishna takes one lass in his arms and flirts with another; He smothers lips with kisses and looks deep in entranced eyes. The poet Jaidev enchanted by these amorous acts Narrated tales to devotees and filled their hearts with joy.”  

JAIDEV –“One maiden, pretends to whisper in Krishna’s ear, But instead kisses his cheeks, letting her love-juices flow. Another maiden seeking intimacy alone near the river, Tugs at Krishna’s clothes to drag him away from the crowded grove.”  

JAIDEV –“Radha sees Krishna flirting with other maidens and leaves in a fit of jealousy A friend showed Radha… Krishna in the embrace of many besotted girls, and said to a stunned Radha: Krishna’s deep blue body is smeared with sandalwood paste; His dangling jeweled earrings flirt with his bright smiling face. Sultry maidens, proud of their beauty, grasp Krishna tightly. While charming Radha sees Krishna do their every bidding.” 

JAIDEV –“She who jingles her bangled wrists in tune with Krishna’s flute Is flooded with repeated praise from the man of her dreams.”  

JAJA Q –“Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, you gotta be ready to hit the curve.”

JAKOB JELLING, -“The elephant is a sacred animal for many oriental cultures and carries a great amount of symbolism. It also is one of the sacred treasures of Buddha, and according to Buddhism it is a celestial animal. It is seen as a representation of morals and dignity as well as it can help people having good luck… According to the oriental traditions and feng shut, the elephant symbolises power, strength, wisdom and longevity.”       

JAMES –“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”    

JAMES –“That knowledge is very superficial which remains only on your tongue: The intrinsic merit and value of knowledge is that you act up to it.”

JAMES A BALDWIN –“Those who says it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” 

JAMES A FROUDE –“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”        

JAMES ALIEN –“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”   

JAMES ALIEN –“The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a. habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”   

JAMES ALIEN –“The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”

JAMES ALLEN –“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”   

JAMES ALLEN –“Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.”    Thomas Jefferson –“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”  

JAMES ALLEN –“The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practise it.”   

JAMES BALDWIN –“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

JAMES BALDWIN –“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.”   

JAMES BALDWIN- “If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us in the night.”

JAMES BALDWIN –“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, and love is a growing up.’

JAMES BALDWIN –“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”  

JAMES BALDWIN –“People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.”

JAMES BEARD –“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”   

JAMES BOSWELL –“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to born to friends.”  

JAMES BOVARD –“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”   

JAMES BRANCH CABELL –“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”

JAMES CONNELL- “Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which unendurable.”

JAMES DEAN –“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”    

JAMES GARFIELD –“The man who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.”   

JAMES GORDON –“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

JAMES H. DOUGLAS –“Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.”  

james hetfield –“It’s all fan and games until someone loses an eye — then its fun and games you can’t see anymore.”

JAMES JEANS –“From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe begins to appear as a pure mathematician.”

JAMES JOYCE- “All human history moves towards one great god.”

JAMES JOYCE- “history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

JAMES JOYCE –“No pen, no ink, no table, no time, no quite, no inclination.”      

JAMES JOYCE –“The east shall shake the west awake, / and ye shall have night of morn.”

JAMES JOYCE –“When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.”

JAMES LEWIS –“The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.” 

JAMES M BARRIE –“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”      

JAMES MACKINTOSH –“’Diffused knowledge immortalises itself.”    

JAMES MICHENER –“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”        

JAMES OPPENHEIM –“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”  

JAMES PUCKLE- “An honest man is a citizen of the world.”

JAMES QORDON –“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”   

JAMES R LOWELL –“Children are God’s apostles, day by day Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”   

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL –“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”   

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL –“Not failure but low aim is criminal.”     

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL –“Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.”    

JAMES S. MC DONNELL –“The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.”  

JAMES T MCCAY –“No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.”     

JAMES THRUBER –“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”    

JAMES THURBER –“Accidents do not happen — they are caused. Ernest Greenwood There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”

JAMES THURBER –“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very very few persons.”   

JAMES THURBER –“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

JAMES W RILEY –“Ma loves me when she cuts an’ sews My little cloak an Sunday clothes; An’ when my Pa comes home to tea, She loves him most as much as me. She laughs an’ tells him all I said, An’ grabs me up an’ pats my head; An’ I hug her, an’ hug my Pa, An’ love him purt’ nigh as much as Ma.” 

JAMES W RILEY- “Ma loves me when she cuts an’ sews my little cloak an’ Sund’y clothes; an’ when my Pa comes home to tea, she loves him most as much as me. She laughs an’ tells him all I said, an, grabs me up a pats my head; an’ grabs me up an’ pats my head; an’ I hug her, an’ hug my Pa, an’ love him purt’ nigh as much as Ma.”

JAMES WATSON –“Francis and I were running against God, in the sense that we wanted to know what made us human. Both of us had been subjected to religious truths which came by revelation, and we didn’t have much acceptance of truths by revelation. We wanted to know really what we were. We were both very curious about what life was. What is life? And that thinking led you to “What is a gene?”      

JAMES WATSON –“I was twenty-five and too old to be unusual.” 

JAMESTHURBER –“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”      

JAMI –“All through eternity God unveils His exquisite form. He holds a mirror to His own Face and beholds His own beauty.”    

JAMI –“The Loved One is quite colourless, 0 heart; Be not engrossed with colours, then, 0 heart: All colours come from what is colourless, And ‘who can dye so well as God’, 0 heart?”   

JAMSE A BALDWIN –“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” 

JAN GLIDEWELL -“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

JANE –“Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now?”

JANE AUSTEN –“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

JANE AUSTEN –“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.”   

JANE AUSTEN –“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”    

JANE AUSTEN –“One half of the world can not understand the pleasure of others.”

JANE AUSTEN –“Picture of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.”  

JANE AUSTEN –“She was nothing more than a mere good tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her she was only an Object of Contempt.”

JANE AUSTEN –“The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.”

JANE AUSTEN –“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”  

JANE AUSTEN –“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”  

JANE AUSTIN –“A woman, especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

JANE WAGNER –“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now 1 see that I should have been more specific.”  

JANE WAGNER –“The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.”      

JANEAUSTEN –“I pay very little regard to what a young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they haven’t seen the right person yet.”

JANEAUSTEN –“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”

JANEAUSTEN –“Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.”

JANET CHAWLA –“Shakti practitioners worship the divine female principle, the immanent power of the absolute, in forms such as Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Tripurasundari, Bhairavi, and local variations. According to one estimate, 51 Shakti Peeths are strewn across the geographical length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent. Mythology weaves together these sacred sites in the narrative of the grieving Shiva who flew through the skies in anguish at the death of his beloved Sati, dropping her body parts on to the earth.”   

JANET HARRIS –“We were brought up with the value that as we sow, so shall we reap. We discarded the idea that anything we did was its own reward.”  

JANIS JOPLIN –“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”    

JANNA LYNN –“And I bow to the deathless Lord whose form I see, motionless in the still, white glacier beyond the swift, foam-capped waters, moving surely, one day to merge in the Sea.” 

JANNA LYNN –“In that stillness, as the spring snow drenched the Earth, I remembered offering myself at the temple ; as I lay under the pure Ganga stream, in the distance, Shivaling, where the yogi dreams above the shrill clamour of humanity in the valley below.”  

JANNA LYNN –“On the dark Moon, I dream placing a pineapple on the altar of Shiva and lighting a candle to burn in the darkness of the Moon.”   

JANNA LYNN –“So I may dwell with the Beloved and, one day, dance, foot lifted, pointed to the sky in the new cycle of becoming realising the dream into being.”  

JANNA LYNN –“The cool crystal water washes the ash on my forehead, and the ashes of one dear arise in my mind’s eye, As I rise clear-eyed from the current rushing with the force of the river’s journey homeward to the Sea.”  

JANOS ARANY -“Just because someone doesn’t love you in the way you want, doesn’t mean that they don’t love you with all they’ve got.”

JAPANESE PROVERB –“Don’t be afraid of going slowly, be afraid of standing still.”  

JAPANESE PROVERB –“Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.”   

JAPANESE PROVERB –“Guests and flesh stink after days.”   

JAPANESE PROVERB –“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”

JAPANESE PROVERB –“If you understand everything, you must misinform.”   

JAPANESE PROVERB –“One kind word can warm three winter months.”

JAPANESE PROVERB –“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” 

JAPANESE PROVERB –“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”   

JAPJI –“There is one God. He is the Supreme Truth. He, the Creator, Is without fear and without hate. He, the Omnipresent, Pervades the universe. He is not born, nor does He die to be born again. By His grace shalt thou worship Him?”       

JAQUES MARITIAN –“We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.”

JARIOSARNAY –“In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.”  

JASBEEN S, CALIFORNIA –“When life throws shoes at you… at least pick through the best ones and try them on for size!”

JATAKA –“It will be given to us to behold the Bodhisattas infinite Buddha-lila and to hear his word.”   

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU – “Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU – “The only alternative to co-existence is co-destruction.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU – “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU – “There could be no real freedom without economic freedom, and so long as poverty remains. To call a starving man free is but to moke him.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU- “A moment comes. Which comes bur rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance?”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“A secular state does not mean an irreligious state.”      

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.”    

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”     

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Civilization, like empire, fall not so much because of the strength of the enemy outside as through the weakness and decay within.” 

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage that they force us to think.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”     

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”      

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”   

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”  

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Hinduism, as a faith, is vague, amorphous, many-sided, all things to all men.”   

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilised on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”   

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“If you reject coexistence, the alternative is war and mutual destruction.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.”   

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”    

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Now what effort should I make So that I am rid of my doubt and swim across the ocean of fear I have done no good since I was born. That’s why I am afraid so much. My fear is that I have not remembered Him In thought, word, and deed. I haven’t gained understanding listening to my Guru. Like cattle I fill my stomach. Says Nanak—God, I can be saved I  Only if You are kind as ever, There are barriers of religion, caste, colour, party nation, province,  language, customs, and of rich and poor fortunately children do not know much about these barriers which separate. They play or work with each other, and it is only when they grow up that they begin to learn about these barriers from their elders.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”    

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“Waiting for the monsoon in Bombay, I became a watcher of the skies… A few showers came… Heavier rains followed, but I ignored them and waited for some extraordinary happening. While I waited I learned that the monsoon had definitely come and established itself. Where were the pomp and circumstance and glory of the attack, and the combat between cloud and land, and the surging and lashing sea? Like a thief in the night the monsoon had come to Bombay Another illusion gone.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”         

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”        

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“When minds are closed they become impervious to reason.”       

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“When you educate a man you educate a individual, when you educate a women you educate a whole family.”

JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU –“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”              

JAWAHAR MALJI SAIN –“Accept the will of God. Will of God is destiny and one cannot fight destiny This does not mean that one must sit back and wait for destiny to perform. One must realise one’s role in society and strive towards performing it, without trying to be what one is not. Every man is not destined to be a Mahatma or a Maharaja.” 

JAWAHAR MALJI SAIN –“Have a clean body A clean body will harbour a clean mind. Follow a daily routine to maintain a healthy body and mind. This will allow a person to perform his duties well.”

JAWAHAR MALJI SAIN –“Have a clean mind, devoid of evil thoughts. The mind should not be dull, but sharp and analytical. A mind that could discern between good and bad. An animal works on instinct and reaction, while a man has the ability to decide after weighing all options. A clean mind will find the right path.” 

JAWAHAR MALJI SAIN –“Have a clean soul that is simple, yet strong in character. For strength helps resist temptation. A simple, strong soul be honest, true and reliable. Such a soul would be humane.” 

JAWAHAR MALJI SAIN –“Lead a simple life. A simple daily routine will generate simple habits and will have the least requirement of luxury. Larger materialistic needs call for greater worldly goods and such a need will lead to evil deeds. The urge to get what you do not have, is likely to cause evil thoughts and deeds.” 

JAY –“Science can probe down to the most minuscule subatomic particle or look out into the universe, where light was first born a billion light years ago. Science is the field of the intellect. But…the poet’s song touches the human heart, and the beat of that eternal rhythm will never be explained, save by the Love of God.”         

JAY LENO –“Now there are more overweight people than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you has met your New Year’s resolution.” 

JAY LENO –“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington DC. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”    

JAY LENO –“You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.”

JAYADAYAL GOYANDKA –“Exclusive devotion is only another name for undivided love, love which is absolutely disinterested and imbued with supreme reverence and which is characterised by the notion that the almighty Lord alone is supreme… That love, which makes it unbearable to forget the Lord even for an instant, goes by the name of exclusive Devotion.”  

JAYADVAITA SWAMI –“Kamini, Kanchan, Kirti — beauty, wealth and fame —Krishna had these and more. He also had strength, knowledge and renunciation. With this winning combination, no amount of material opulence alone can attract Him.” 

JD SALINGER –“Take most people, they’re crazy about cars—and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even newer. I don’t even like old cars. I mean they don’t even interest me. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”       

JE VON THOMPSON –“Thoughts don’t have to be “real” or “true” to create failure or success in our lives. They just have to be believed.”   

JEAN ANOUILH –“Beauty is one of the ran things that do not lead to doubt of God.”   

JEAN ANOUILH –“God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.”   

JEAN ANOUILH- “Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one arch enemy and that is life.”

JEAN BAUDRILLARD –“Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.”   

JEAN COCTEAU –“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”   

JEAN DE LA –“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

JEAN DE LA BRUYERE –“Poverty may be the mother of crime, I but lack of good sense is the father.”    

JEAN DE LA BRUYERE –“There are only three events in a man’s life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”    

JEAN DE LA BRUYERE –“We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.”

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE –“Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.”    

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE –“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”     

JEAN DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD –“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”  

Jean genet- “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”

JEAN GIRAUDOUX –“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”   

JEAN GIRAUDOUX –“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”     

JEAN HOUSTON –“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”  

JEAN HOUSTON –“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done — challenging us to a realisation of a new humanity.”   

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU- “All of my misfortunes comes from having too well of my fellows.”

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU –“As soon as any man says of the affairs of state, “What does it matter to me?” the state may be given up as lost.”   

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU –“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

JEAN KERR- “You don’s seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position then a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.”

JEAN KLEIN –“Meditation is from moment to moment. The eyes see, the ears hear. The organs function. There is no interiorisation, no concentration, no introversion, no withdrawing of the sense. Don’t go into the old habits of withdrawal. Go in the directionless expansion, the space less space.”  

JEAN KLEIN –“Meditation is from moment to moment. The eyes see, the ears hear. The organs function. There is no interiorisation, no concentration, no introversion, no withdrawing of the sense. Go in the directionless expansion, the spaceless space.”   

JEAN LUE GODARD- “Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

JEAN NIDETCH –“It’s choice—not chance — that determines your destiny”

JEAN P RICHTER –“God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering stars; but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers.” 

JEAN PAUL RICHTER –“Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.”       

JEAN PAUL SARTRE –“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”      

JEAN PAUL SARTRE –“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”

JEAN PAUL SARTRE –“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

JEAN PIAGET –“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterises children before they are deformed by adult society.”      

JEAN RACINE –“Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.”   

JEAN RACINE- “It is no longer a heat concealed in my blood; its Venus herself setting on her prey.”

JEAN ROSTAND –“Kill a man and you are assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.” 

JEAN ROSTAND- “The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”

JEAN SHINODA BOLEN –“While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul’s need.”   

JEAN SIBELIUS –“Pat no attention to what critics say… a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic.”

JEAN WEBSTER –“It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.”

JEAN ZHENG –“Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don’t believe in romance.”

JEAN ZHENG –“You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU –“The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”  

JEANNE MOREAU –“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”   

JEAN-PAUL SARTER- “Human life begins on the far side of despair.”

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE –“Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.”  

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE –“We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we silent and as mute as stones, our passivity would be an act.”

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE –“When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.”   

JEAN-PAUO SARTRE –“Once you hear details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from defeat.”     

JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN –“Our vision of secularism isn’t anti-religious, but is one of the State’s neutrality and the spirit of tolerance.”   

JEFF –“Science cannot answer why there is something rather than nothing. Science can only study the something.”     

JEFF MARDER –“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.”

JEFF. BUCKLEY –“Money can’t buy back all your youth when you’re old, a friend when you’re lonely, or peace to your soul. The wealthiest person, is a pauper at times compared to the man with a satisfied mind.”   

JENNIFER ANISTON –“Unless it is mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn’t be one of them.”

JENNIFER BARRETTA –“Once they know you’re willing to put on a bikini, the phone won’t stop ringing.”  

JENNIFER LOPEZ –“Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got I’m still, I’m still Jenny from the block Used to have a little, now I have a lot No matter where I go, I know where I came from.”    

JENNY BIRD –“I may depart from the strength of loneliness But when you are joined as one with me I feel the unity of life I’m complete within and you are whole We blend and emerge as a universal soul, so come together in Unity, Unity, you know it makes us stronger Unity, Unity, separation is no longer Unity, Unity, alchemize your visions of unity.”  

JEREMIAH –“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?”

JEREMY BRETT –“Villains are very, very boring to do. They’re so much easier than heroes.”        

JEREMY TAYLOR –“A great fear… is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produced religion.”    

JEREMY TAYLOR –“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.”  

JEREMY TAYLOR –“No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence. A just man does justice to every man and to every thing; and then, if he also be wise, he knows there is a debt of mercy and compassion due to the infirmity of man’s nature; and that is to be paid.”

JEROME CUMMINGS –“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”

JEROME K JEROME –“It is always the best policy to speak the truth – unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”        

JEROME K JEROME- “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

JERRY BROWN –“What we need is a flexible plan for an ever changing world.”

JERRY GARCIA –“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.” 

JERRY GILLIES –“The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.”   

JERRY SEINFELD –“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”

JERRY SEINFELD –“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”    

JERRY WILSON –“The word ‘Halloween’ comes from All Hallows Eve’. November 1, All Hollows Day’ or All Saints Day’, is a Catholic day of observance in honour of saints. But, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year. The Celts extinguished their fires not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.”   

JERZY KOSINSKI –“I rent everything, other than the gift of life itself which was given to me without any predictable lease, a gift that can be withdrawn at any time.”  

JESSE JACKSON –“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”   

JESSE JACKSON –“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

JESSE JACKSON –“Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”

JESSE JACKSON –“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”   

JESSE JACKSON –“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”   

JESSE OWENS –“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”    

JESSE OWENS –“If you don’t try to win you might as well hold g    the Olympics in somebody’s backyard.”         

JESSE OWENS –“In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?”   

JESSE OWENS –“The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”

JESSE WALKER –“Voting is more an act of devotion than an act of democratic input… Voting is the holiest ritual in America’s civic religion, and not much else.” 

JESSE WALKER –“Voting is more enact of devotion than an act of democratic input… Voting is the holiest ritual in America’s civic religion, and not much else.”  

JESSICA BRUMLEY –“The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.”

JESUS CHRIST –“Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”   

JEWISH PROVERB –“A mother understands what a child does not say.”    

JEWISH PROVERB –“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”     

JEWISH PROVERB –“If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.”

JEWISH SAYING –“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.”     

JG HOLLAND- “A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man, and men are the parties of which it is composed.” 

JHOMAS A KEMPIS –“First keep the peace within yourself, and then you can also bring peace to others.”

JHON CHURTON COLLINS –“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”     

JHON TUDOR –“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.”

JIANG QING –“There can not be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm.”

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI – “Love dose not demand a thing from another- nothing, physically, emotionally, intellectually. Has love a cause? IF it has not, then love and intelligence go together…Love is something beyond all causation, which is order, then the universe is open- because the universe is order. If love has a cause, it is not love.”

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”  

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“Do we know what love is? You know sensation, emotion, desire, feeling, and the mechanism of thought, but none of these is love. You love your spouse, your children; you hate war but you practice war. Your love knows hate, envy, ambition, fear; the smoke of these is not love. Power and prestige you love, but power and prestige are evil, corrupting. Do we know what love . is? Never knowing it is the wonder of it, the beauty of it. Never knowing, which does not mean remaining in doubt, nor does it mean despair; it’s the death of yesterday and so the complete uncertainty of tomorrow. Love has no continuity, nor has death. Only memory and the picture in the frame have continuity but these are mechanical, and even machines wear out, yielding place to new pictures, new memories. What has continuity is ever decaying, and what decays isn’t death. Love and death are inseparable, and where they are, there’s always destruction.”        

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If i love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something — and it is only such love that can know freedom.”       

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“Live with it. You live with pleasure, don’t you? Why don’t you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.”  

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“Meditation is not the means to an end. It is both the means and the end.”        

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”        

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the . moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”       

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“To love is the greatest thing in life… If while you are young… you don’t look with love at people, at animals, at flowers, when you grow up you find that your life is empty; you will be very lonely, and the dark shadows of fear will follow you always. But the moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”      

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –“Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.”       

JIGME SINGYE –“I care less about the gross national product and more about the gross national happiness.”       

JIGME SINGYE WANGCHUK –“I care less about the gross national product and more about the gross national happiness.”

JILI –“Man is the link between God and Nature… As God has descended into man, so man must ascend to God.”

JIM COURIER –“Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.”  

JIM CRAMER –“I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist.”     

JIM GOODWIN –“The impossible is often the untried.” 

JIM HENDRIX –“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

JIM MORRISION –“You can not petition the Lord with prayer.”        

JIM MORRISON –“I’ve always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and i used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little  pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the life movement.”   

JIM ROHN –“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”    

JIM ROHN –“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”       

JIM ROHN –“Till you change how you are, you will have what you’ve got.”            

JIM ROHN –“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

JIM RYUN –“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” 

JIMI HENDRIX –“If you can just put your mind together and come across to me,/ We’ll hold our hands and watch the sunrise/ From the bottom of the sea / But first, are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? / Well, I have.”   

JIMI HENDRIX –“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”  

JIMMY BUFFETT –“We are the people our parents warned us about.”   

JIMMY CARTER –“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”   

JIMMY DURANTE –“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”

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By: Catherine Zandueta
Dental school is a four year process that involves nonstop learning. Here are a few ways that can help you excel in your studies.

Be sure that becoming a dentist is what you desire. Dental school is a very rigorous journey not unlike going through medical school. The first year can be a shock. Learning about dentistry is like learning a new language. You must buckle down and focus on adjusting to new vocabulary, terms and theories.

If you’re not sure if you want to become a dentist then there is no point in going through the motions. Adjusting to learning dentistry takes more than superior academic ability. It takes genuine interest.

If you’re rock solid about your decision to become a dentist then the best advice for excelling in dental school is to manage your study time well. This seems like a no-brainer but sometimes the most obvious advice is the one that is easily pushed aside.

Find the most effective ways for you to study. Some people like to block out their time. After classes and before they go to sleep they will spend four or five hours studying. If you have a problem concentrating after two or so hours then change your study habits. Spend an hour each morning on your studies, a couple of hours after lunch, and maybe another two hours in the evening. Find what works for you.

Get involved in extracurricular activities. Dental school is not your whole life. Find time to have a little fun. Spend time with friends or join a volunteer program. This will help balance your life and will actually improve your grades. Spending your whole life studying can start to become stale. You need to be refreshed when you hit the books so go out and have fun. Be sure to eat well and exercise.

Get a tutor if you’re falling behind. Not everyone can be great in all aspects of dental school. There are so many different classes, lectures and lab time that you cannot excel in every one of them. If you need some help in a subject, the smart way to go is finding a tutor. Take control of your grades before it’s too late.

A tutor will help you better grasp the material learned in class and can also provide advice on how to cope with life in dental school. They can tell you the best teachers, the hardest instructors and the easiest ways to study. Take advantage of peer tutors.

Another way to excel in dental school is to prepare well for your Board Exams and Clinical Exam. You will take your first Board Exam after your second year of dental school and in the fourth year you will sit for your second Board Exam as well as your Clinical Exam. These are the most important parts of dental school because passing the exams allows you to graduate and begin practicing dentistry.

Needless to say, you must study well for these exams. They will be a culmination of everything you have learned through your years in dental school. Be sure you feel prepared. Have a good night’s sleep and eat before you take the exams. These exams can last for many hours so gear up for a marathon.

Pretty soon all your hard work will pay off and you can finally practice dentistry or go on into a residency program. The skills you learned to help you excel in dental school are lifelong lessons that can be applied to any facet of your life.

Take a look at more industry related articles by Catherine Zandueta at CareersandEducation.com. Catherine Zandueta is a frequent contributor with articles pertaining to using Distance Learning and Career Advice.

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By: Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc.

Isometrics is an old often forgotten method of increasing muscular strength. It has several advantages for increasing a martial artist or self-defense practitioner’s striking power as well.

What is Isometrics?

Isometrics may be defined as a muscular contraction in which the amount of work performed is equal to the resistance.

A very basic example of an isometric exercise is pressing your palms together in front of your chest. Caution: because isometrics involves complete muscular contractions people with high blood pressure are at a higher risk for a heart attack during this type of exercise. Always seek the advice of a physician before engaging in any physical activity.

Advantages of Isometric Exercises

No Equipment to Little Equipment is Necessary

Train anywhere you want to when you want to. Even if you’re traveling you’ll find the simple pieces of equipment right there in your hotel room

Isometric Exercises Can be Done Anywhere

Train anywhere you want to when you want to. Even if you’re traveling you’ll find the simple pieces of equipment right there in your hotel room

Isometric Exercises Can be Done Discreetly

Train anywhere you want to when you want to. Even at a meeting isometric exercises can be executed discreetly.

Lack of Muscular Bulk Development

Those of you interested in developing muscular strength without the normal increase in the size of muscular fibers as found with isokinetic and isotonic (force resistant range of motion exercises such as weight lifting) isometrics, possibly do to the lack of motion, is a solution.

Complete Relaxation of Antagonistic Muscle Groups

When any athlete attempts to increase power a relaxation of the opposing muscle groups hindering the attempted action is not only necessary for an increase of power but for a conservation of energy as well.

Do you see what I’m getting at here? Once it becomes a learned reflex (please don’t use the incorrect term muscle memory muscles don’t have memories) to relax opposing muscle groups and a full contraction of agonistic muscle groups is developed as a learned reflex combined with drills to increase speed, power is increased with less energy!

Yes I know a huge statement in the beginning of a dissertation but I wanted to get you as excited as I was when I formed my theories which were later tested and through testimonials proven.

More on My Power Development Theory for Isometrics

The formula for kinetic energy (energy of motion) is 1/2mv^2. That’s half mass times velocity, which is basically speed, squared. You’ll note speed is a more important factor, however since we’re discussing strength in this article how can we work with and increase mass?

Gross Motor-Coordination

Gross motor-coordination is the use of agonistic muscle groups in proper timing in order to increase the ability to and efficiency of work. To be more precise to a martial arts and self-defense point of view coordination of your body to hit harder. You may feel you do this already but let me ask you, can you ever hit hard enough or are you always striving to find ways to hit even harder?

One solution I’ve discovered to increasing gross motor-coordination is by improving stability in order to generate the greatest potential for force in and through a strike. I have never released this information except in my ebook and downloadable video Step by Step Learning Internal Energy Strikes. Obviously with a family to feed I cannot divulge the content of my entire work, but let me get you excited with this bit of information….

Positioning Yourself in a Striking Position and Utilizing Isometric Contractions Will Increase Stability by Improving Form!

YES! Think about what you’re trying to achieve with your stances for striking.

No weight shift in the opposite direction of your strike.

Optimal penetration for greatest injury potential to your attacker to increase your chances of survival.

Isometrics is an exercise in which you can’t compensate lack of stability with speed. For example, plyometrics is a system of exercises in which explosive power is used and developed. This is a great system of exercise of which I also support, but, as in many fast paced speed type of drills it’s very easy to compensate with speed a lack of proper mechanics which would give you even more speed and power when properly developed.

I, along with my readers have noted, by positioning oneself to emulate a strike in a stationary position against a resistance equal to or greater than the muscular effort needed for a complete contraction, proper form for this position is realized especially after fatigue begins setting into the primary striking limb and the body attempts to compensate with agonistic muscle groups for that striking position! In other words proper body mechanics (sorry I know it’s an over-used phrase) is realized and a learned reflex and kinesthetic sense (awareness of the body in space) develops for this more proper position with greater advantageous skeletal positioning.

Are You Thinking Now?

If you are I did my job. If you’re the type of person whose training is slowed down by yabutting everything let me save you the trouble. ALL training exercises are just a part of the whole. Thus I’ll list some of the disadvantages of isometric exercises.

Disadvantages of Isometric Exercises

Lack of Muscular Bulk Development

Yes I know I listed it as an advantage, but some people want the bulk. Those of you interested in developing muscular strength without the normal increase in the size of muscular fibers as found with isokinetic and isotonic (force resistant range of motion exercises such as weight lifting) isometrics, possibly do to the lack of motion, is a solution.

Increased High Blood Pressure during Isometrics

That was the first thing I told you. So check with your doctor before engaging in any physical activity.

Muscular Strength Improves at The Angle of Contraction

Let’s use the pressing hands example again. You’re only improving muscular strength with your hands together. In order to improve muscular strength throughout your entire range of motion you will need to execute the isometric exercises at three different ranges of motion for the exercise.

Lack of Speed Development

Again just a part of the whole. You’ll need to add some speed drills to your repetuare. Those who join my newsletter receive a free speed drills book.

Lack of Dynamic Gross Motor-Coordination Training

Make sure you practice your techniques moving throughout your range of motion as well as your isometrics.

Conclusion

Obviously the disadvantages of isometric exercises are compensated for in my book and video. The advantages of the little used training method are definitely utilized. I firmly believe isometrics is an important part of anyone’s training system with it’s advantages for both strength and stability training.

J. Richard Kirkham is a dual certified teacher specializing in alternative teaching methods and a martial arts instructor He currently resides in Honolulu with his wife Jan and son Hunter. Mr. Kirkham has produced three works with include isometrics in the system of exercises.

Step by Step Learning Internal Energy Strikes http://kirkhamsebooks.com/MartialArts/InternalEnergyStrikesEbook_pd.htm which has been completed in both printable ebook and video format describes how to develop power from nonstriking exercises to the dangerous relaxed strikes with complete follow-throughs.

How to Exercise Throughout Your Day http://kirkhamsebooks.com/HealthNFitness/ExerciseEbook_pd.html has also won praise by readers as an idea giving and forming work for those with little time in their schedules.

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By: Dennis Harting

How do you eat an elephant? The answer is one bite at a time.

In an era where we specialize in instant gratification, often people having a difficult taking on larger projects. Our society is continually moving towards a time where everything is instantaneous. ATM machines allow us to get money on the spot. We can order anything at anytime on the internet. The meteoric rise in fast food sales shows that many people do not wait long even to get their food. These activities all create the mindset where gratification is needed immediately.

The video game era forged an interesting situation. Many are conditioned to receive all the benefits from a particular activity in one sitting. If it takes longer than that, we lose interest. This is evident when it comes to handling different projects. People generally want to finish things in a short period of time. They lack the discipline to spread the work over multiple sessions. A daily regimen is a foreign concept to them.

Exercise is a prime example of how the “I want it now” mindset is taking hold. Whether one is looking to lose weight or gain muscle mass, the concept is the same. Working out regularly 3-4 times per week over the period of 6 months to a year will have a definite impact on your body. If this is mixed in with a healthy diet, the results are increased. However, we seem to encounter people who want to try to disprove this theory. The desire to have it all instantly causes many people to try to take shortcuts. In the end, none of them seem to work.

Establishing a routine to break activities into multiple sessions is a healthy way to progress forward in any endeavor. When confronted with a mammoth activity, individuals tend to put a lot of action in initially. Then, as they burn out on it, the activity begins to fade. Consistency is a worthwhile ideal to strive for. By breaking the project down into a variety of different components, one can keep the enthusiasm up while moving it forward in a steady manner.

I encountered a situation where I had to make a choice similar to this. We needed to submit an article to over 1,000 different locations. Fortunately, we were able to do it online which was saving a great deal of time. Yet the size of the project still required a terrific amount of work. I was confronted with how to best handle this. There were times in the past where I would have spent every waking moment doing as much as I could for the first few days. This always led to the situation where I would get tired of doing it and back off. Thus, I decided to break the project into a daily activity for a month. Over that time period, I submitted to at least 30 locations a day. On the days I was a bit more industrious, 40-50 were done. However, I made sure never to go over 50. I was able to get it all completed in 24 days.

Apply this technique to your life. Consistent activity yields much greater results that a short burst of extremely high productivity. Sales organizations prefer to hire salespeople who produce a steady amount of sales over the superstar who is up and down. It is much easier to plan and build off consistency as opposed to volatility. Similarly, it is easier for you to make drastic jumps in your abilities if you are consistent in what you do. The discipline one has from doing the beneficial things consistently lays the foundation for phenomenal success.

Focusing you attention onto consistent activity will enable you to tackle any project. People often complain that they lack the physical energy to get done all they need to get done. That is because they often burn themselves out handling one major task. The total focus is on that task to the exclusion of all else. Learning a little patience while resisting the desire to gain instant gratification is paramount for high achievement. Each step moves us closer to our pre-determined goal. The extra energy we gain by not burning ourselves out creates more balance in our lives. We are transformed into steady producers.

Dennis Harting is the Head Coach at Your Rich Life. He is an acclaimed speaker, trainer, and best-selling author. His international best selling books include Your Easiest Million and The Ultimate Procrastination Handbook. His programs and more information can be found at http://www.yourrichlifeinc.com.

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By: Andre Zizi

ZiziWorld Ethical Investment Opportunity & How To Profit The Moral Way

ZiziWorld’s mission, is one that truly surges from inner passion that reflects my yearning desire to touch billion lives. This is a social enterprise that informs, educates, empower individuals and companies to overcome low performance, mental and physical ailments, in order to achieve optimum health, mental happiness, and financial freedom with N.V.L.S.E – self-help coaching system, entitled ‘’The Rapid Dream Goal Achievement System’ and other products such as audios, CDs, booklets, and book series.

All of my materials are researched from from academic research of neuroscience, physics, astrophysics and sports psychology, written in a layman language to touch billion lives. This is an ethical and morally sound investment opportunity to help advance evolution, and better ecosystem in a win-win situation

This is my moral philosophy, rather than investing in money making to maximize wealth for wealth sake, why not invest in well-being to not only empower and enrich the condition of human lives, but also help the economy.

My journey has been devoted to education, to self-development, and how I can make a difference to human live. For me, this has become an endless pursuit. I passionately want to see investments that will contribute to fairer, more sustainable investments, for which, both individuals and the ecosystem is sustained in coherence for the purpose of human evolution.

World economy, their shareholders play an exponentially important role in shaping our collective consciousness – for poorer or richer. As investors, one would pray that the motivation of ethical behaviour is self-interest, because when the motivation for ethical behaviour is self-interest, decision-making is reduced to risk/reward rather than adherence to selfish ethical principles. I believe that your investment is self-help industry create a production orientation in a way that gives some sort of coherence to human lives

Our present mental, physical and spiritual state is the product of yesterday’s investment and the motivation behind it that shaped the way we are heading today, our moral responsibility must be encouraged and investors must use their investment money wisely, creatively to foster further innovations towards mission –related goals, thus creating an enabling environment, promote trust and commitment for a better future”

My main focus in-house research, to perfect my products, is geared to ensure that the pioneering of my first Self-help coaching system that requires a professional recording studio, and state of the art sound system, design, and marketing so that I can assure investors of better investments that will contribute, empower the quality of human conditions, and sustain world economy, while managing risk through market research and viral marketing strategies

I insist that two moral principles must underpin the global investment standards: the motivation for ethical behaviour must be our number one self-interest to reduce risk and increase reward to maintain human dignity, and the continuous care for our environment. These include anyone who come in contact with our vision, our suppliers, investors, customers, employees, local, national, and the wider community around the world. In a nutshell, “in Ziziworld we invest to teach and we coach to success

The Investment opportunity

I have used similar program that attracted £250 Million Dollars from the Wall street Investors back in the 1990’s. N.V.LS.E .is an advance system that sites at the forefront of modern science.

N.V.LS.E combines mental imagery training in consistent and relevant encoding systems to cater for particular individuals. Quite often, people mistaken academic mental imagery, in neuroscience, sports psychology, and physics with that of visualisation of the new age guru

Visualization is not about retreating into a quite place and daydream, and hey presto, you achieve your dream goals. Neuro visual, & Neuro Syntax Encoding systems goes beyond visualization you have ever read about, or practiced.

• It is about mental preparation,

• Cleansing the unconscious mind,

• Getting the brain into EEG coherence,

• Physiological state,

• Context,

• Linguistic relevance,

• Intensity,

• Vividness, and Frequency.

Neuro Visual Linguistic Syntax Encoding, which in short, it is called N.V.LS.E is the culmination of the latest success coaching system, entitled The Rapid Dream Goal Achievement System combined with audio cds for high impact cognitive encoding. N.V.L.S.E is the leading edge of brainpower technology, combined with Hollywood Special music sound systems, brainwave entrainment binaural encoding, subliminal re-enforcement, and RX17 Holophonic sound.

If you are an investor, this is the best time in history, this is the first time to have ever been able to gain knowledge and technology at the speed of light, touch billion lives, and advance in cognition. This Rapid Dream Goal Achievement System is an intelligent investment strategy, and how to Make Profit with investment strategies that is easy to follow.

I completed 5 books that I can convert into syllabus, CDs, audios, and in the Cognitive Cyber Space Centres on the high streets, but this my second project if you are interested in this one as well.

Entrepreneurial Authorship

My books require editing, design, and marketing. These books are composed in a way to facilitate and accelerate learning and thinking, My Freedom Education Books are not only inspired by my first hand experience, but also by the latest research in neuropsychology of achievement. These Freedom Education Books are written in simple readable lay man language, with the few exception of some minor scientific, and philosophical terminologies to stimulate and accelerate learning.

These books can convert into profitable materials such as

Cds

Audios

Mini Book Series

Ebooks

Mini Lectures

Workshops

The Benefits to Clients

Enhanced Performance,

Greater Productivity,

Increased levels of harmony

Rapid result

Brain Power – Personal Power – Freedom Power is The Leading Edge in Brain Mind Technology designed along Neuro Visual & Linguistic Syntax Encoding to help individuals and companies to tap and develop the following

How to Expel the demon within and Unleash True Genius Within

Master a Magnificent Memory

Vocabulary Genius!

Ultimate Creative Mindset

Total Learning

The Zone: Peak Performance

Laser-Sharp Focus

De-clutter Your Brain

The Exam Success Kit

Increase Your IQ

Whole Brain Thinking

Brush Fear of Failure Aside!

Write a GREAT Novel NOW

Write a GREAT Screenplay, NOW!

Overcome Interview Anxiety

Overcome depression

Overcome panic disorder

Overcome ADD

Overcome anger

How to resuscitate a dying marriage

How to attract your dream sweet heart

How to make a gay relationship work

Improve Your Visualization Skills

Young Persons Guide to Excellent Schooling

Team Effectiveness & Fostering Empowerment

Financial Payback.

Research & reference

The notable psychologist Carl Jung calls this the’ universal consciousness’ The world famous biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, is well known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He first worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, calls the power of remote reviewing and telepathy the ‘Morphogenetic field’ imagine harnessing your enigmatic brain to communicate directly with other minds to create a win-win situations.

N.V.L.S.E does not only develop the individuals to become their full potential, but also to help them help themselves to achieve their dream goals, imagine you want

• To resurrect a dying marriage, and hopeless relationship.

• It can be used to modify a child’s behaviour.

• Gets you the Job you dream about.

• Attract your dream partner.

• Businesses who apply Neuro Visual & Linguistic Syntax Encoding have reported fast improvement in sales.

If you consider two businesses driven by competition, and aiming at superior market share, the one that apply the techniques of N.V.L.S.E will excel, and achieve results

How to Live Longer and disease free . . . There are about 405 symptoms with which we can create products to market online and offline

I am looking for an investor, to finance a specialist editor, audio recordings studio, website, design, and marketing.

Freedom Education products convert into syllabus to go into different learning centres, therapy and self-development such as prisons, NHS, schools, and business start ups, small and large training organisations

My books entitled

The Spiritual Psychology of the Science of Money-phology

Win Investing Intuition

The Two Psychological Tools Which Drives Human Behaviour

The Psychology of Rapid Self-Employment Achievement Plan

N.V.L.S.E “The Rapid Dream Goal Achievement System”

Future Books include

How I Survived Homelessness and Poverty without Welfare States

How I overcome Adult illiteracy Without Going to School

How I overcome Brain Tumour without Medical treatment

How I overcome Panic Disorder Without Medication

How I overcome Clinical Depression Without Medication

How I overcome Suicidal Attempt Without Life Coach

Online Market Research By David Rickland

• Facebook has 200 million active users! Up 89% this year alone

• Facebook users check their accounts three to four times daily!

• They spend an average of 19+ minutes per visit

• Facebook signs up 250,000 new users every day

• Twitter grows at 300K new users per month

• YouTube plays 75 million videos daily! That’s 150K per day bigger than any TV network – $4.3B in ad spend 2008

• YouTube visitors are viewing 13 billion videos a month

• Linkedin has over 15 million business people networking

• Twitter is growing at over 40% a month

• Digg and Stumbleupon are driving millions of visitors to websites every month

Virtually EVERYBODY with a small business can succeed with Social Media! Let me share a few success stories to show you the power of Social Media…

Len Foley created a viral video on YouTube that attracted 1.7 million viewers and earns him a cool $11,400 in passive, residual income. And best of all, he made this video for less than 82 bucks.

Danish Ahmed has built up a teleseminar business through Facebook that has generated over $15,000 from a single teleseminar.

Carrie Wilkerson has generated over $300,000 worth of identifiable business that is a direct result of her using Twitter.

Gary Vaynerchuk turned his Internet celebrity into a seven-figure book deal. He has over 160,000 Twitter followers, and his YouTube videos have been seen all over the world.

Lynn Scheurell used her Face Reading for Facebook group to generate over $10,000 of revenue within the first 30 days from people who had no idea who she was before they met her through Facebook.

And these are just a few examples…we could go on and on!

Are people using Social Media for business?

Absolutely! The world has changed forever.

After doing this research, it was clear that Social Media for business is critical and will become even more important.

Testimonials From Online Readers

“The N.V.L.S.E” is an educated antidote to rationality about the world of spirituality, and the power of the algorithm of thought, feeling, and action. The author, Andre Zizi uses an impressive record of accomplishment in our world of modern technology to underpin his credentials. ‘John Lindsay’

In the book, and particularly the application with his guided audio system, he utilizes sound research to demonstrate the existence of neuro-energy that connects everything in our lives. What’s more he demonstrates that we can plug into soul consciousness using his guided Neuro Visual system through series of guided Time Travel Visualisation to bring forth inspired ideas, and bleu print of winning strategies to overcome our limitation, scarcity, fear, doubt, low performance, and illnesses. ‘ Chief Editor, Mr Morris’

Conclusion

Sophisticated intelligence of N.V.LS.E is the culmination of subconscious success programming, designed the neuroscience way. If artificial intelligence has driven technology, come and see what and how N.V.L.S.E intelligence rapidly metamorphoses man or woman to go from being a tramp to top professional, from being an adult illiterate to gaining a philosophy degree, from mental and terminal illness to fully recover.

Bio:

Andre Zizi is a philosophy graduate and a philosopher, trained in the educational Psychology, with NLP Dip, teaching qualification, writer, mentor, philosophical counsellor, and independent neuroscience researcher. I can be contacted on 07999 579 135 and available to meet for informal chat, and drink in London.

Thank You. – Andre Zizi -

Andre Zizi
Author – The Spiritual Psychology of the Science of Money-Phology
A Philosophy Graduate & Therapist. Philosopher/Mentor/Teacher

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By: Sarvesh Sharma

Importance of Reading, I mean the habit which is quite steadily growing  in all civilized countries of using print to gain acquaintance with the great mass of human thought, experience, study and imagination.

This mass of what for the sake of brevity we group under the one word knowledge, has become very great and mounts up with marvelous rapidity. Under oral tradition, when things were handed down by memory and speech only, the sum of knowledge was small. The invention of writing increased this sum very considerably. Reading completes the importance of writing which it deserves. Books are for us only, either written by our ancestors or by someone else. Every book is packed of some wisdom points, some teachings and many more interesting and beneficial things.

Evolution, with its survival of the more fit and the resulting  improvement of the species, seems to have ceased to operate on the human race, so far at least as increase of intellectual power is concerned, before history began. We have been at our best for full 200 generations. During this long period we have failed again and again to cope successfully with the evils national success has brought in its train. We have never had to aid us in one of these crises the habit of reading; and here, perhaps, lies our salvation in the next struggle of civilization for eternalness.

But, we now discover that the same invention which brought us the habit of reading has aroused to more active operation an encyclopedic evolution, an accumulation of knowledge, vast beyond all the conceptions of our predecessors.

The increasing value to men in every walk in life of the ability to take from the printed page those facts, arguments, theories and imaginings that can help him in his calling. Professionalism, socialism, the student of the remotest specialty in medicine and all can gather from reading that which will help them to find, to be and to do.

Now, it is of the essence of society’s progress that its units become more efficient each in its way. No one thing can to-day contribute so much to the efficiency of each unit as can the habit of using reading to learn what others have learned.

Other things may contribute somewhat to this efficiency; reading can contribute most. All advocates of education have made that statement the very foundation of their faith. It means that books are the prime tools of learning; that a library is the most important of all laboratories, and that high reading power in our native tongue is the most valuable of all the acquisitions that the schools can give.

Libraries are better than laboratories and book clubs are best than everything. These are most important things which provide us opportunity to read more and more. India Today Book Club is well known for easy availability of books with discounts and gifts items for all of its club members. India Today Book Club is the best way to make learning a fun. For making reading more enjoyable, you can visit: http://www.indiatodaybookclub.com/

This article is all about importance of Books and Reading. All of us know that “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”. Books are not hard to find and read. Here, we are also giving some information about a reputed book club i.e. India Today Book Club where we can easily find books of our choice and to get these books you can visit:-http://www.indiatodaybookclub.com/

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By: Shen-Li Lee

The diaper-free movement, also referred to as elimination communication, natural infant hygiene, or infant potty training, is the practice of potty training a baby from infancy rather than waiting until your child is two or three years old to begin. The general theory is that babies have a natural instinct for elimination and do not want to soil themselves. If parents are able to understand the baby’s elimination cues, there is no need to wait until that baby turns two or even three to begin potty training.

The theory of the diaper-free movement believes that the main reason why potty training toddlers can be so difficult is because we have already conditioned our children to pee and poop into their diapers. When potty training a toddler, what we are really attempting to do is put a stop to a habit that we created in the first place. So rather than train your baby to pee and poop into a diaper and then have to un-train him or her again at the age of two or three, why not capitalise on the elimination instinct from birth and save money on diapers?

How Do You Learn a Baby’s Elimination Cues?

There are essentially four ways you can do this, although a combination approach is usually the way to go.

1. Following your baby’s timing patterns and rhythms.

This involves knowing when your baby is most likely to eliminate. Although there will be variation between babies, there are some general patterns you can look out for. For instance:

after waking up (in the morning and after naps)

during or after a feed

frequent and regular periods in the morning

less frequent and regular periods in the afternoon

As you practice keeping your baby diaper-free, you will eventually learn which pattern your baby follows.

2. Reading your baby’s body language and signals.

Before the age of six months (where it is believed that a diapered baby will become conditioned to pee and poop in a diaper), babies naturally show signs of wanting to eliminate. These may be:

squirming or fussing

wearing a look of concentration

ceasing all activity

increasing in activity

stirring or waking from sleep

If you baby has been diaper-free for a while, you will also find that your baby might reach for you so you can take him or her to the potty.

3. Using mother’s (or father’s) intuition.

Some parents will have a natural instinct for knowing when their babies need to eliminate. Even if you don’t have the instinct naturally, you will develop it as you continue to practice natural infant hygiene with your baby. Here are some examples of intuition at work:

a sudden thought wondering if your baby needs to go

just knowing that your baby needs to go

feeling an urge to pee

feeling the sensation of warmth spreading over your lap even though your baby is dry

4. Creating mother’s (or father’s) cues.

To help communication with your baby regarding elimination, you can have a routine “position” and sound associated with each elimination experience. For instance, always holding your baby a certain way over the toilet and making the same cuing sound to tell your baby that it is time to eliminate.

In Summary

The diaper-free movement may seem a little daunting and challenging at the start, especially when you are attempting to read the signs of a baby who hasn’t quite learned to communicate with you. Toddlers who are being potty trained have usually learned words like “potty”, “wet”, and “dry” which is definitely a lot easier to understand. Infants also have smaller bladders and will have to go to the bathroom more regularly. This can present a real challenge for a parent who is always on the go.

That said, the diaper-free movement doesn’t necessarily have to be an all or nothing approach. Some parents have their babies diaper-free at home and diapered when they go out. If that still sounds like too much, then try having your baby diaper-free for just a few hours a day. Once you feel more confident, you can increase the duration.

Shen-Li is a stay-at-home-mum dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in parenting. She has a formal educational background and former work experience in healthcare. If you enjoyed this article, visit her blog Babylicious and follow her as she learns how to raise a happy, confident and successful person.

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Harry Truman, erstwhile President during the later and following stages of the Second World War, stated a definition of a Leader that is pithy and simple; “A Leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” This was the man who had on his desk during his presidency “The buck stops here.”, broadcasting to his people and underlings that his desk was where the last court of appeal would rest.

Interestingly Truman was never thought to be much of a Leader before he acceded on the death of FDR to the highest office in the world. Yet his conviction that a Leader must take the ultimate responsibility within a clearly defined organisation and set of goals have led revisionist historians to rank Truman as one of the most influential presidents this century, with the dropping of the atomic bomb and the commencement of the Cold War marking this era as one of the most difficult and messy in the history of modern International Relations.

But the greater point at issue is the seeming dearth of leadership skills in our public officialdom and in society and business at large. Something has gone rotten in the state. As Walter Bennis a scholar respected for leadership studies once commented: “But now, try to name only one larger-than-life Leader, one who could fill the role of FDR, or Ike or De Gaulle, or Churchill.’” Most of our leaders today are decidedly average, and do not promote or lift us or our hopes on the wings of higher purpose and energy. They miss the leadership skills that Bennis and others are dedicated to teaching. The skills that are according to Bennis are so vital for leadership are:

-Judgement and character.

-Persuasive ability to get people to accept the idea.

-Candour.

-Constancy.

-Conceptual skills

-Strongly defined sense of purpose.

-Potent point of view

-Limited number but clearly defined objectives.

-People skills.

Importantly Bennis believes that leaders are not born — but are self made. All the above points are a framework of skills that combine character traits and psychological dispositions. It is a complicated and interesting mixture of these two ‘concepts’ that seems to produce the leaders of human society. First we shall look at the issues of character and use Bennis’ ideas (below in Italics) to provide a framework and then we will look at Churchill and other leaders of this century. For simplicity I have grouped Bennis’ ideas and other concepts of leadership into the following categories;

In time of change and tumult, extraordinary effects are expected from the ordinary human. The modern Christian and secular era which began with the rationality of Descartes, was a keen departure from the more fatalistic, deterministic concerns that had befuddled man since the time of the ancient Greeks. In the philosophy of antiquity, progress did not exist. The human condition was cyclical, in the hands of Gods, and deterministic.

The three fates, picked, pulled and then cut the thread of each life. Pagan rituals, myths of various kinds and then institutionalised religion, bounded the masses into acceptance. However with the coming of the enlightenment and the power of individualism these shackles were thrown off. Progress and equal access to power were demanded by the dull but brute mass. Standards and expectations have progressed and now we have the question of how to achieve an open Liberal order within the framework of human frailty, egoism and banality ? How should, in this culture of equality and ‘me too’ rights, a person lead ?

The evolution of leadership usually matches the evolution of societal development, albeit for some regions of the world at a retarded pace. Different eras will throw up different leadership paradigms. In the mostly militaristic and tribal and primal eras that were in vogue for most of history before the industrial revolution and the spread of technology and democracy, most leadership was rather authoritarian. The authoritarianism could take different guises and forms, and have different points of emphasis, but mainly until about the 19th century, rule was by force, by a small oligarchic elite, and without any real regard for popular expression.

The degree of this atavism would be influenced by the degree of the particular empire, city-state, or tribe’s collective mission, religious worship and strength. But there is very little difference when looking at the attitudes and actions of early Sumerian or Babylonian rulers with those of Rome, the Mayans, the ancient Manchu’s or the Gold Coast Princes, or even those skills demonstrated by Napoleon, Stalin or Mao. But in a world where the Internet runs amok, technology creates new markets and extends the human life each year, and mass communication has rendered a class system an anachronism, some redefinition of the leadership paradigm is required.

In the re-appraisal of leadership during the past century, many experts have concluded that the priority of the Leader is to guide, co-ordinate and empower. Only in this way could he avoid the primitive struggles, revolutions and intrigue that seemingly crippled or destroyed the leaders of history during the more primitive era of human societal development. Not eschewing the principles of power it was deemed that all leaders could achieve control through persuasion in a democratic environment with the inclusion of their constituents.

It can be witnessed in reading history that the most effective leaders are those that have presented a drama that unfolds over time, with a pregnant message and a theme that is dynamic. For those who are revered as leaders they have given or are giving their people the impression that they have, all together, embarked on a journey. Importantly for the followers this journey will in some way resolve the issue of their individual identities and their place in the order of this chaotic universe. As such the strong message and vital theme is linked to the self worth and egoism of the constituents.

Therefore the skills that we have identified – communication, persuasion, and people skills – will be necessary to democratise but at the same time civilise the group mission. Leadership occurs in the human mind (s) of the Leader and followers – especially in the cognitive processes of those that are following. Power must be yoked to cognitive processes and specific messages that can appeal to the needs of the followers, especially the human need to feel included, wanted and respected. In this regard there is no need to guide policies by the latest opinion poll or force complex ideas into sound bites.

Churchill for example exerted influence directly through the stories he communicated to his audience. Einstein was an indirect Leader using the ideas he developed and his treatises to appeal to these basic human yearnings and thus win wide acceptance as a Leader of science. Thus persuasion and communication are extremely important, in fact crucial, for any Leader. When a Leader tells stories to sophisticates it can be complicated, but when the Leader is dealing with a diverse heterogeneous group the story must be sufficiently basic to be understood by the untutored mind.

In the thread of communication the Leader must focus the group on the goal (s) (limited it should be stressed for the sake of clarity), that they will collectively achieve. To realise the goal the Leader must drive for quality, achievement and results. However the Leader must be steeled and resistant and ruthless in dealing with those who demand unwarranted change in the group’s direction or those who demand that every step be performed to perfection. Rebels and those who corrupt the cause must be effectively dealt with, either they are brought into the group as effective participants or they must be ejected. Perfectionism on the other hand is the enemy of effectiveness. An effective plan executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next year.

A true Leader will be able to make, communicate and implement an effective plan. He must really resist those who demand perfection. In my experience these perfectionists are more in love with delay and babble then in achieving something. They are also incapable of taking judicious risks. This is not to deny quality, but elevate results. In this regard, the skill of communication will be vital as the Leader manages the art of improvisation to achieve the stated goal; “Petty minds attempt to accomplish everything; wise men pursue only the most important.” The large goal must be always communicated and present and perfectionism and other obstructions found intolerable.

The sophisticated and untutored mind will believe and subscribe to the achievement of the goal if the story told by the Leader is carried into force by action and determination. The Leader must lead by example and by hard determined work. Importantly a true Leader will have the self discipline and associated skills to not only enjoy quietly the triumphs along the way, but more importantly to maintain calm during a crisis. Patience and knowing when and how to achieve victory are important qualities that the Leader must relate, tell and exemplify.

To satisfy goal attainment we are not only dealing with the skill of convincing others, but we must integrate into the message the skills of intelligence and knowledge. Effective communication without knowing what you are doing or talking about is dangerous. Knowledge, is the foundation of success. Knowledge is the fundamental, strategic, and tactical understanding of the entire process at work, and what the goal(s) should be and how to achieve these goals. To understand what you do and do not know is true knowledge and the type of knowledge a Leader needs to strike the right message, communicate the right signals to the right people at the right time, and get those with the skills he does not possess on the team.

Intelligence

Communication skills are therefore a component of intelligence but what exactly is intelligence ? IQ tests though providing some standard to measure raw, Western based concepts surrounding how we in the West view intelligence, are not accurate indicators of success in life. School achievement is not an indicator and does not provide a direct mathematical correlation to the success people enjoy or do not enjoy in professional and private affairs. Intelligence is in essence a combination of skills and aptitudes over a wide range of areas, with, it appears an applied focus on a particular domain, by a person with perseverance that generates success. Natural genius in some is evident but this genius by itself is not the only variety of intelligence that humans offer and is not even the most important when people discuss intelligence. The hard intelligence – scientific, mathematical, calibrated – is not the same as the soft intelligence of human skills, communication and common sense. Einstein could not remember his phone number, Churchill could not fix a car engine, Bill Gates is celebrated as lacking in human skills; but are any of these people less intelligent in general than the other ? Who knows.

In general we can state that there are some forms of intelligence that an effective Leader should possess. The first of these is technical ability. Technical ability is the application of skills relating to the discipline at hand. The tools, the methods, the programs, and the general knowledge around the subject, constitute technical intelligence. It can be highly mathematical and refined. Even non-scientific, non-industrial or non-technical areas, can be calibrated and quantified and the understanding regarding what constitutes the subject can be considered ‘hard’. To be effective and know what is really going on a Leader needs to be well versed in his technical discipline.

Important in this aspect is the application of innovative thought. The ability to change or add more value to the technical area by using common sense to solve problems or change some technical feature of the topic at hand elevates the prestige of the Leader. Innovation is then another key component of intelligence. Capitalism as a theory is founded upon innovative destruction. Creative chaos breeds challenges, changes and chance. People can then add to their speciality some form of applied innovation to solve some issues or create opportunities. Innovation however is rather difficult to quantify. Some innovations are achieved by sheer dogged courage, others by a combination of sweat and luck, others by circumstance and collaboration across time and people. How are we to measure the creative creatures who are building electronic commerce systems for internet shopping, against the local garage engineer who cheaply and efficiently finds, fixes and tests a novel solution to your car engine’s trouble ?

A Leader must have the technical and innovational skills demanded by his environment or the same skills to create his environment. However, I would submit that this is not enough. A Leader must also understand history and people. This is a completely different interpretation of intelligence, utilising different spheres of the brain and neo-cortex, yet vital for a Leader. I mean not just the history and people of his chosen area of professionalism, but a Leader must have in general an appreciation of history, culture and time.

People follow leaders who can demonstrate a multi-faceted approach and understanding to life and who can show other people the skills and ideals that they aspire to and want to hold. For the leader a general appreciation of history, people and time is indispensable for self–perspective, and to understand his place in the universe. It also forms a part of the group’s mission and vision in the grand sweep of historical progress and civilisational development. A Leader who understands history can elevate the current and mundane to the sublime, through an enthusiastic interpretation of the group’s mission in historical terms. He can also spot trends, repeated occurrences and learn from the past to avoid mistakes. The good Leader recognises that history does indeed have a nasty habit of repetition, albeit in different disguises.

Vision

A true Leader develops an intense determination to achieve his vision. This creates high morale and spirit among the constituents. The Leader will use this power to control the efforts of his followers. The path to command therefore starts with a purpose. The most notable leaders in history have possessed an overarching vision relating to their goal; the philosophy and meaning of achieving the vision; and the ethical doctrine (which can be very much debatable depending on the principles espoused by the leader), supporting the vision. This vision is usually premised upon the skills and traits mentioned already. There has to be some valued added and ‘exciting’ agent at work in marking this person out as a Leader and distancing him from the rest. Usually this agent is catalysed by innovation, resolve and intelligence – all related to a vision that the followers buy into.

This vision should not only be a stated goal – or a hard objective. It has to also be a moral statement or a position that is recognised at the very least as neutral regarding the basic beliefs that underlie all human religious activity – patience, hope, understanding, humility, civilised conduct and co-operation. The vision cannot come into conflict, at least not with people who have some ethical construction – with these basic ideals. This is very true in an integrated world. Despite the many horrors of human history and the swings in the pendulum of human morality, one can point to the gradual emergence of more sophisticated ways of thinking in the areas of morality and civility.

Leaders are also evolving their morale themes — Jean Monnet, Churchill and Gandhi would be examples since they developed in their constituencies a more complex way of thinking; in effect they communicated a vision with a meaning. Many leaders fail the vision test since their stated goals are material and ignore the ethical. As Freud expressed; “the voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.” The intellect is concerned not only with achievement but also with emotional needs.

People need spiritual as well as material meaning. The vision then has to conform to many different pressures and levels of expectation. It must be pure in ethics, strategies, and philosophy to garner complete and unchanging support from those involved. The handling of this vision and its changing character or adaptation to a changing environment, and in response to comments ‘from below’ is the responsibility of the Leader. The vision may justly be amended if circumstance or comment warrants and as along as it satisfies the material and spiritual demands of the constituents.

If this has been accomplished it becomes the Leader’s responsibility to embrace the duties and obligations that grow from trust and power in doing what is necessary to make the vision happen. The Leader must therefore lead by example, show an overriding concern for the constituents. He must also do the essential things well – be proactive, reduce complexity, and seek improvement – all in the name of achieving the vision. In essence – action: “When the chips are down, the main question is not how you go about meeting your objectives, but whether you succeed in doing so.”(9) . The vision is nice. But without results it becomes hollow. To achieve the vision takes extraordinary energy, discipline and the judicious usage of power.

Power

The attainment and use of power is one of the most interesting investigations that we can undertake. It encompasses the fields of psychology, political relations, philosophy and biology. Yet much about power remains rooted in the primeval nature of man. As with any part of the primate family the human tribe has a pretty well developed organisation of power. In human society there are dominant hierarchies, with dominant males and some dominant females.

These dominant leaders will exhibit certain levels of serotonin, and lower overall levels of stress, demonstrated in higher neurotransmitter activity. Within an organisation it can be observed that when a male’s position changes in the hierarchy so do these psychological markers. As well it can be observed that within these hierarchies there is a proclivity to imitate, and this is unidirectional, with lower primates imitating higher status animals. In the 20th century corporation the above principles are still valid. We call it company culture.

Thus we can state that if a Leader attains power he can expect his subordinates to imitate his movements and attitudes. But how then does the Leader establish this power ? In bygone eras force or hereditary status was enough to mark the primate’s role in the hierarchical league. But today this is hardly sufficient though brainpower replacing strength can be used to elevate one’s position in society. But power is not about the supremacy of muscle or grey matter, it also has to do with capturing the cognitive and emotional impulses and designs of others.

The motive force of much of human history has been the desire of individuals to achieve. To leave a legacy is a basic human need. From Cheops to Imperialists, to graffiti artists at the foot of the Great Wall, to encrypted radio signals scanning the universe and broadcasting our existence, the human seems especially concerned with his role in the order of time. Yet for most of us we must be concerned with daily survival and obtaining necessities and we have little of our energy is left for other purposes. Yet through chance, design or circumstance some of us, driven by imagination, or a combination of extraordinary skills, strive to reach the pinnacle.

Bertrand Russell paints succinctly, this struggle to attain power:

“Of the infinite desires of man, the chief are the desires for power and glory. These are not identical, though closely allied….As a rule, however, the easiest way to obtain glory is to obtain power; this is especially the case as regards men who are active in relation to public events. The desire for glory, therefore, prompts, in the main, the same actions as are prompted by the desire for power, and the two motives may, for most practical purposes, be regarded as one.”

The study of power is vital. Men who love change and glory, utilise and usurp the levers of power. Key components of this journey are the concepts of intelligence, integrity and energy. But like the above, power has many forms. None can be thought of as subordinate to the other. Some weave power through communication (or oratory), some through example, others through sheer hard work, others through knowledge, and yet others by understanding the system and using it to their advantage.

Or perhaps all of the aforementioned are employed. Though the conduits may vary, the result always justifies the means for those who seek to lead. Power is somewhat amorphous and dense. Much as some men’s characters lead them to command, some to follow, with the great majority stuck somewhere in between, so is power utilised by different people, in different ways to attain different results.

At the core of power seekers we have the great self confidence that lies not only on the surface, but penetrates deep into the subconscious. This self confidence necessary to a Leader may be caused or formed in various ways. It may come from childhood experiences, through early familial pressures, educational processes, years spent in independent struggle, support and advise by someone close, or a combination of these and other factors. Indeed the psychological profile of self confidence is one of the great holy grails of those who seek to measure intelligence and success.

From my less scientific and casual observations I have noticed that those people in my life who are truly self-confident have a high degree of honesty, a past in which they really had to struggle to survive and achieve, and the support of someone close who acted as a sounding board and a buttress. Invariably they are open but stubborn in pursuing what they want. Interestingly as well they are optimistic people, optimistic not about the human character but optimistic about eventually achieving their own goals.

In any event these types of personalities and power seekers will inevitably run into other power seekers. If we observe for instance Cromwell, Napoleon, and Lenin, all dominated their respective countries and secured the willing service of able men who were not be nature by submissive. All three had boundless courage and self-confidence, combined with sound judgement. Crowmell and Lenin also happened to be men of profound religious faith believing themselves to be the appointed ministers of a non-human purpose. This faith gave them the courage to carry on when the task seemed lost. Yet they had the technical, human and visioning skills to suppress or direct highly competent and ambitious colleagues.

These men recognised that if one aspires to leadership one must acquire the position of leader, and he must excel in the qualities that confer authority: self-confidence, quick decision making, and skill in deciding upon the right measures are especially sought after by the mass when times become too confusing, threatening or generally incomprehensible.

In the realm of politics or matters of state, issues are deemed by the mass to be too arcane, and have in the representative systems in use in the West, proxied their political interest to elected officials. This allows the toiler to subsist and focus on the immediate world and immediate needs.

Leadership is in a very real sense, the combination of the profane, the fecund and the spiritual.

Look into Winston Churchill and his idea of a good leader. The Internet is a good source of information to discover what Churchill has to say about the concept of leadership and how he was a leader himself.

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