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If you are long time follower of mine you’ll recall that this blog started out at another domain a couple of years ago.

That first blog started out as a personal blog on which I also shared many principles of success.  Some time ago I decided to do away with that blog and create one on the principles of Wealth, Wisdom and Success and the power of dreaming, acting, planning, and believing.

Lately however I’ve had long time followers tell me that my story should be shared. That said they found it inspiring and that it gave people hope.

Their opinion was that my story has a place on this blog. At the same time, my intuition was also telling me that it was important to share my story.  Something I always intended to do again some day and in some way.

You see, I have lived a great life, but I like many others have experienced a past full of trauma, depression, illness, panic attacks, and plenty of failures.  A doctor once told me I had experienced more trauma at a young age than most people will in a life-time.

Thankfully I’ve experienced great success and recovery as well.  And those experiences have given insight to things I would have not known any other way.

So please journey with me as I continue on the road to success and continual recovery.

The journey into my past will begin shortly…

Will Smith’s recent films have turned me into somewhat of a fan.  However, the video clip I share with you below made a much bigger fan out of me.  You see, Will seems to really have an understanding on what it has to achieve true success and there is no doubt that Will Smith has learned how to live a Life Without Limits.

Perhaps some of you are thinking “anyone who has achieved the status in life that Will Smith has really has to understand it. “  Yes, that is true, to some extent. Certain thought processes need to come into play to achieve the same level of success.  But I would bet that few of those actors and/or actresses have taken the time to really study the laws of success like Will has.  And how many of them have the same goals that Will Smith has?

He said…

“I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here. ” ~ Will Smith

“I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea.  I want to represent an idea.  I want to represent possibilities.  I want to represent magic.” ~ Will Smith

Take a few moments to watch the video and you’ll see it is obvious that Will has spent a great deal of time studying the laws of success, and has developed a strong work ethic.

I particularly enjoyed his commentary about being realistic.

Some of my favorite Will Smith quotes I made note of  from this video are:

“You can’t be scared to die for truth. Truth is the only thing that is constant.”

“Make a choice.  Just decide what it is going to be, who you are going to be, and how you are going to do it.”

“You don’t try to build a wall.  You don’t set out to build a wall”  “You say, I am going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.  And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.”

“Being realistic is the most common road to mediocrity.”

Here’s some of the success related content I enjoyed reading this week.  Likely you will too!.  I encourage you to visit these blogs and take a look.

Tips to Increase Your Motivation Level

In Motivation, The Heart of Self Improvement James and Elena outline one self-improvement tip  for each letter of the alphabet. All of them are tips to help increase your motivation level.   One example for the letter “D” is: “Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.”

Tips to Improving Relationships

Adil Syed shares some great tips on improving relationships through celebrations.   The post starts out encouraging people to ” Celebrate the joy of having met that one very special person, find joy in the wonderful things that ‘click’ about you and your spouse and celebrate what you are committed to building together. “  Some great advice, but I found the original article at several other places online.  So I’m honestly not sure if the original content is Adils or not.

Improve Your Business Using  Systems

I have been working on implementing more  systems in my business so I can run it more effectively so I was glad to stumble upon Shirley George Frazier’s post at Solo Business Marketing on  Six Procedures to Put in Your Marketing Systems Folder as well as the importance of documenting your marketing procedures.  She has some fantastic tips for the solo entrepreneur and small business owner on her blog.

Design Your Own Life

I was recently talking to a dear friend about how I need to get a better about setting up boundaries.   So the article by Joy Chudacoff titled Smart Women and The Race Against time was ideal timing.  In it  Joy talks about four things women (or men) can do to help free up more time for what is important – one of them is to set up boundaries.  Read it to find some important time management tips.

We All Need Special Tactics

We All Need Special Tactics to get the most out of life.  Tactics help highly trained SWAT teams achieve their objectives.  You’re no different.  Steve Borgman says, “Every top business uses a tool called SWOT to uncover its Strengths and Weaknesses, and to examine Opportunities and Threats facing it.”  Click here to learn more about his SWOT tactics and how it can help you.

Take advantage of the tips and improve your life.

Neuro Linguistic Programming involves specific techniques designed to influence people.   NLP was primarily designed to help people heal from physical ailments and emotional trauma but is naturally used in the sales cycle.   This video really demonstrates the  use of anchoring.

If you know nothing about NLP or anchoring let me give you a little background…

NLP uses a series of anchors to create certain emotions in people and then translate that emotion back to a specific desired result.  Anchoring can change the way you feel about something by creating a favorable emotional state and then transferring those feelings to something else.

It is stimulus that is linked to a specific emotional reaction and therefore can evoke a specific response.   Anchors produce internal reactions thousands of times a day without you realizing it.  Certain smells and sounds put us in emotional state, and our bodies, and our emotions react to that state without us doing anything consciously.    So at it’s core these anchors put you in a specific frame of mind.

So with that definition here is the video that first aired in the 2010 Superbowl.  After you watch please share with us which  anchors (emotional stimuli) you saw in this advertisement?

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

The tagline Old Spice added to the video says it all:  “We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.”

What emotions are they trying to anchor to Old Spice?

Do you believe this was a successful advertisement?

Here’s some of the interesting content I found last week on the web.  Friday is the day I want to publish links to some of the interesting articles I came across during the week and I thought this was set to publish last Friday.   But  I still had this article saved as a draft.  So for now Monday it is.

1. I love the beauty of Christine’s blog, but her content is equally just as beautiful. This week Christine reminded me that I may be hindering my communication with others in her article titled  I Might Be Wrong.  She reminded me that I am always a little blind in every situation. And that this lack of pure knowledge could cause me to react in ways that cause others pain and separation. Sadly, I know that has been much to true of myself lately. Perhaps it will help you as well.
2. Have you recently felt insignificant? Michelle Stimson’s post Every Wonder Why You’re Here? will remind you that you have a unique mission to fill and that who you are makes a difference in this world.
3. Also from Christine’s blog comes an article about creating optimism and more of that joyful energy in Have the Right Attitude.
4. You Too Can make Someone’s Day is another post I enjoyed by Michelle Stimpson.  She reminds us to slow down and take  the time to help others feel better about themselves, their lives, and their contribution to others.
5. In Stop being a student; Sart being a master Brett talks about the dangers of becoming stuck in a constant learning mode and therefore failing to move to the next level.  He shares some fantastic insight into what separates the master from the student.   Brett is only 17-years old but you can learn much from him.

Enjoy!