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		<title>How to Live the Life of Your Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the day has finally come! My first e-book &#8220;How to Live The Life of Your Dreams&#8221; has just been launched.
This book was literally years in the making. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it didn&#8217;t take years to write it, but it did require years of research and practical application testing ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="How to Live the Life of Your Dreams" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/live-the-life-of-your-dreams.html" target="_self"><img class="alignright" title="How to Live the Life of Your Dreams" src="http://www.positive-attitude-tips.com/images/live-the-life-of-your-dreams.jpg" alt="How to Live the Life of Your Dreams" width="261" height="317" /></a>Well, the day has finally come! My first e-book &#8220;<a title="How to Live The Life of Your Dreams" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/live-the-life-of-your-dreams.html" target="_self">How to Live The Life of Your Dreams</a>&#8221; has just been launched.</p>
<p>This book was literally years in the making. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it didn&#8217;t take years to write it, but it did require years of research and practical application testing before I could develop a sure fire formula for creating anything you want in life.</p>
<p>How to Live the Life of Your Dreams outlines a ten step process that includes teaching you how to determine what you really want in life, and then shows you step-by-step how to go about making it a reality.</p>
<p>Here are just a few of the things you&#8217;ll learn:</p>
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<li>How and why you ended up where you are now.</li>
<li>How to quickly discover what you really want, and how to get it.</li>
<li>The ten steps to making what you want a reality.</li>
<li>Simple action items for each step that make it easy to implement the process.</li>
<li>The perfect way to formulate your goals.</li>
<li>How to get your subconscious mind to help you succeed.</li>
<li>Simple techniques that will activate the law of attraction to bring your dreams to you.</li>
<li>The right way to visualize for maximum effectiveness.</li>
<li>How to use the power of your mind to put your success on virtual autopilot.</li>
<li>How to discover and easily clear your mental blocks to success.</li>
<li>How to easily tap into your intuition to learn exactly what steps will make your dream a reality in the quickest, and easiest, way possible.</li>
<li>How to expect success, and get it.</li>
<li>How to utilize the little known “law of vacuum” to literally pull your dreams into reality.</li>
<li>How to allow your dreams to easily unfold in your life.</li>
<li>How to stay motivated and increase your confidence in your own creative abilities.</li>
<li>How to have fun doing the whole process.</li>
</ul>
<p>You really can create the life you want. Stop struggling and learn the ten steps you need to take to make your dreams come true.</p>
<p>This e-book is guaranteed to help you. If it doesn&#8217;t, you can ask me for a full refund (within 60 days) and I&#8217;ll give it to you, no questions asked. Plus, you can keep the e-book and bonuses as my gift to you.</p>
<p><a title="How To Live the Life of Your Dreams" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/live-the-life-of-your-dreams.html" target="_self">Click here to learn more about &#8220;How to Live the Life of Your Dreams&#8221; and the bonus gifts I&#8217;ve included.</a></p>
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		<title>How Ignoring One Piece of Advice Can Help You Succeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Quit now, you&#8217;ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you&#8217;ll be halfway there.&#8221; &#8211; David Zucker
We&#8217;ve all seen somebody cover their ears and start singing &#8220;La-la-la-la-la, I&#8217;m not listening!&#8221;. If not, I hope you at least know what I&#8217;m talking about. At any rate, ...]]></description>
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<p><em>&#8220;Quit now, you&#8217;ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you&#8217;ll be halfway there.&#8221;</em> &#8211; David Zucker</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all seen somebody cover their ears and start singing &#8220;La-la-la-la-la, I&#8217;m not listening!&#8221;. If not, I hope you at least know what I&#8217;m talking about. At any rate, I&#8217;m here to tell you that this is a completely acceptable way to handle things when somebody tells you to give up pursuing your dreams.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been pursuing your dreams, or even talking about it, you&#8217;ve probably also had the unpleasant experience of someone telling you to give up or not even bother trying. When someone tells you to give up, it can be tempting to take their advice. After all, giving up is easy and painless right? It might especially seem that way when things don&#8217;t seem to be working out for us.</p>
<p>The problem is that giving up on your goals and dreams isn&#8217;t painless. Sure, you could learn to be content with the way things are, but I can promise you that your dreams will continue to gnaw away at you for your entire life. You&#8217;ll never be completely happy, something will always feel like it&#8217;s missing or incomplete, until finally one day you&#8217;re on your deathbed, full of regret, and wondering what your life could have been had you not given up.</p>
<p>Okay, so maybe that&#8217;s a pretty bleak picture to paint, but in many ways it&#8217;s true. Close your eyes for a moment and get your imagination going. Fast forward your life and imagine you&#8217;re in your final years on this planet. Do you think you will be glad that you spent your life playing it safe and taking the easy route? Do you think you&#8217;ll be glad you stayed in career you hated instead of pursuing your dreams? Do you think you&#8217;ll be glad you decided to take the easy way out and watched television every night instead of taking some small daily actions to make your dream a reality?</p>
<p>Giving up on your goals and dreams is not painless, and it won&#8217;t make your life any easier or better in the long run. But if that&#8217;s true, why would people tell you to give up?</p>
<h4>The Two Types of Naysayers and How To Handle Them</h4>
<p>Why in the world would somebody tell you to give up on your goals and dreams? There are two main reasons why someone might give you this flawed piece of advice.</p>
<ol>
<li>They genuinely care about you and don&#8217;t want to see you suffer failure.</li>
<li>They aren&#8217;t currently pursuing their dreams, and the fact that you are is making them feel threatened by you.</li>
</ol>
<h5>1. The People Who Genuinely Care About You</h5>
<p>If someone that genuinely cares about you tells you to give up on your goals, it&#8217;s probably because they don&#8217;t want to see you end up being hurt or disappointed. They worry that things won&#8217;t work out for you, and it can be hard for loved ones to watch us go through difficult times.</p>
<p>The way to handle this type of situation is to gently thank these people for caring enough to try to protect you from suffering. But you also need to let them know that you will also suffer pain and regret if you don&#8217;t try to succeed, and that you would appreciate it if they could try to encourage and support you instead. If they really do care about you, they will respect your wishes.</p>
<h5>2. The People That Are Threatened By You</h5>
<p>The other type of person that will try to discourage you are the ones that feels threatened by your ambitions. They might feel threatened for a couple of reasons, and both of them are very selfish ones!</p>
<ol>
<li>When they see you going after their dreams, it reminds them of how they have given up and settled in life. This reminder can be painful. So instead of being inspired by you and following your example, they instead try to get you to give up so that they don&#8217;t have to suffer being reminded anymore. To deal with these types of people, feel entirely free to use the hand over your ears method and ignore them.</li>
<li>The second type of threatened person is worried that you&#8217;re going to leave them behind. They worry that as you move on, you&#8217;ll forget about them, or won&#8217;t have time for them anymore. To deal with situations like this, gently remind the person that they are being selfish and that if your relationship with them is truly important, you will both make time for each other no matter how much your life changes.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>Stay strong, don&#8217;t give up, stay true to yourself and your dreams. Listen to the wise advice of David Zucker&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Quit now, you&#8217;ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you&#8217;ll be halfway there.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>And feel free to throw in a quick cover of your ears and a &#8220;La-la-la-la-la, I&#8217;m not listening!&#8221; just for fun. <img src='http://www.practical-self-help.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>How To Change Your Life: Part 5 &#8211; Putting It All Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this series of posts on how to change your life!
We&#8217;ve covered a lot of ground over the last few days, so I thought it might be a good idea to summarize everything for you into a step by step guide.
Step 1 &#8211; ...]]></description>
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<p>I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this series of posts on how to change your life!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve covered a lot of ground over the last few days, so I thought it might be a good idea to summarize everything for you into a step by step guide.</p>
<h4>Step 1 &#8211; Become Clear</h4>
<p>If you want to change your life, you first need to become clear about what it is you want.</p>
<p>Deciding exactly what you want will give your life direction and purpose.</p>
<p>Without having a clear goal in mind, you have nothing to move toward. It will be impossible to develop a plan to change your life if you don&#8217;t know where you want to go.</p>
<p>Imagine that you want to take a trip. If you have don&#8217;t know where you want to go, how can you make any sort of plan on how to get there?</p>
<p>Your life is no different. You need a goal, a destination in mind so that you can plan and live your so that you are constantly moving in that direction.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not clear about what you want in life, you&#8217;ll end up moving around aimlessly in a life that goes nowhere.</p>
<p><a title="How To Change Your Life - Part 1 - Become Clear" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-1-become-clear/" target="_self"><em>Read more about Becoming Clear&#8230;</em></a></p>
<h4>Step 2 &#8211; Align Your Thoughts and Feelings</h4>
<p>Once you&#8217;re clear about what you want, you need to align your thoughts and feelings with that desire.</p>
<p>What does this mean? Well, it means that you keep your mind focused on the thoughts and images of achieving your goal. You spend time everyday imagining what it would feel like emotionally and physically if your goal were achieved.</p>
<p>Why do this?</p>
<p>First, you need to keep your desire strong and believe that it&#8217;s possible for you to achieve your goal. By focusing on it daily, you will strengthen and reinforce your will to succeed.</p>
<p>Second, repeatedly thinking about your goal as if it were already achieved helps to reprogram your subconscious mind. If you keep bombarding your subconscious with thoughts and feelings of achieving your goal, it will eventually start helping you to make it a reality. New ideas and inspirations that can help you succeed will start popping into your head and your belief in yourself and your abilities will begin to increase.</p>
<p>Third, these thoughts and feelings will activate the law of attraction in your favor. Basically, the law of attraction says that like attracts like. So as you think about your goal as if it were already achieved. And as you imagine what it would feel like if your goal were already acheived, the law of attraction states that the Universe will start working to make those mental images a reality for you.</p>
<p><em><a title="How To Change Your Life - Part 2 - Align Your Thoughts And Feelings" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-2-%E2%80%93-align-your-thoughts-and-feelings/" target="_self">Read more about how to align your thoughts and feelings&#8230;</a></em></p>
<h4>Step 3 &#8211; Learn What You Need to Know</h4>
<p>In order to move towards your goals and dreams, you need to take action. The problem is that sometimes we don&#8217;t know enough to make the right moves. That&#8217;s where learning comes in.</p>
<p>When you have the the right knowledge, the actions you take will be a lot more effective and efficient and you will move towards your goals a lot faster.</p>
<p>There are many ways that you can aquire the skills and knowledge you need.</p>
<ul>
<li>Go to school</li>
<li>Take a night course</li>
<li>Read books on the subject</li>
<li>Get a mentor</li>
<li>Read magazines and online articles related to your goals</li>
<li>You can even learn from your mistakes. At least you&#8217;ll know what not to do on your next try.</li>
</ul>
<p><em><a title="How To Change Your Life - Part 3 - Learn What You Need To Know" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-3-%E2%80%93-learn-what-you-need-to-know/" target="_self">Read more about how to change your life by learning&#8230;</a></em></p>
<h4>Step 4 &#8211; Take Action</h4>
<p>Now that you have the knowledge you need, you&#8217;re ready to start taking action.</p>
<p>Action is necessary to achieve any goal. Read any good book on success, or any autobiography of a successful person, and they will tell you that you need to work to achieve your dreams.</p>
<p>Schedule time to take action towards your goals every week, or even better, every day. If changing your life is important, then you need to make it a priority to take the actions that will make it happen for you.</p>
<p>Making excuses isn&#8217;t going to change anything. A basic principle of physics explains this very well &#8211; &#8220;Nothing happens until something moves&#8221;. So get moving!</p>
<p><em><a title="How To Change Your Life - Part 4 - Taking Action" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-4-%E2%80%93-taking-action/" target="_self">Learn more about how to change your life by taking action&#8230;</a></em></p>
<h4>This Concludes The &#8220;How To Change Your Life&#8221; Series</h4>
<p>I sincerely hope that you&#8217;ve found this series of posts on how to change your life to be helpful. I strongly encourage you to apply them in your own life. If you&#8217;re not already moving towards your own goals and dreams, don&#8217;t waste any more of your life. Get started today!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re already working on changing your life, why not share what&#8217;s working well for you by leaving a comment below?</p>
<h5>Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life</h5>
<p><a title="How To Change Your Life - Part 1" href="../2010/01/2010/01/2010/01/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-1-become-clear/" target="_self">How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear</a></p>
<p><a title="How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings" href="../2010/01/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-2-%E2%80%93-align-your-thoughts-and-feelings/" target="_self">How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings</a></p>
<p><a title="How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know" href="../2010/01/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-3-%e2%80%93-learn-what-you-need-to-know/" target="_self">How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know</a></p>
<p><a title="How To Change Your Life: Part 4 - Taking Action" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2010/01/how-to-change-your-life-part-4-%E2%80%93-taking-action/" target="_self">How To Change Your Life: Part 4 – Taking Action</a></p>
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		<title>Are You Living Your Life With Passion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to live a life that has meaning to you, one that you can be proud of when you come to your final days on this earth, you need to live your life with passion.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to live a life that has meaning to you, one that you can be proud of when you come to your final days on this earth, <strong>you need to live your life with passion</strong>.</p>
<p>Living your life with passion is not as impossible as it might seem. All you need to do is to live your life in pursuit of <a title="Your Life Purpose" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2009/11/are-you-pursuing-your-life-purpose/" target="_self">your goals and dreams</a>.</p>
<h4>Life Without Passion</h4>
<p>If you don&#8217;t actively pursue your dreams, you end up getting tossed around by the currents of life. You become distracted by what&#8217;s going on around you, and there is no central purpose to your life. You only react to what happens to you instead of working to create what you want to happen.</p>
<p>You might achieve a few things and you might acquire some nice stuff over time, but most of it will feel empty and meaningless. You will feel like something is missing, like there must be more to life.</p>
<p>Eventually, if you continue down this path, you will end up in the final years of your life filled with regret. Regret that you ignored what really mattered the most to you. Regret that you ignored your goals and dreams.</p>
<p>Even if you had tried and failed to achieve your dreams, you would still feel much more satisfaction with your life than if you had never tried at all.</p>
<h4>Life Lived Passionately</h4>
<p>A life lived passionately is a life lived in the pursuit of your dreams. Your dreams become the central guiding point on how your life is lived.</p>
<p>The work you do, the things you study, almost everything you do has a deeper meaning. You are careful to choose what you do with your time because those choices will either move you closer to, or further away from what you want out of life.</p>
<p>Every day has meaning. When you get out of bed in the morning, you know that you will be pursuing <a title="how to discover your life purpose" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2009/12/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose/" target="_self">your life purpose</a> as you move through your day.</p>
<p>Life still happens. But the difference is that you no longer let life control you. You are no longer simply reacting to it. You have a plan, you have a dream, and you are doing everything you can to make it a reality.</p>
<p>And when you finally get to your final days of this life, you can look back and feel pleased with how you used it. Even if you didn&#8217;t achieve your goals, you know that you tried your best. And as long as you tried your best, you have nothing to be ashamed of. You will not be filled with regret for ignoring what was really important to you.</p>
<h4>Don&#8217;t Waste Any More Of Your Precious Life</h4>
<p>Take advantage of the gift of life. Don&#8217;t squander it on meaningless pursuits and by wasting time doing meaningless activities that will have no future value.</p>
<p>You are not meant to hide away from your dreams. Pull them out, dust them off, and start doing whatever it takes to start making them a reality. Start living your life with passion again.</p>
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