Some of these past experiences may hinder you directly in working towards a goal and some might just be slight hurdles. In all cases these memories can affect you as to how well you do when heading towards a new goal.

Some of you go through life dragging an imaginary anchor around with you. It slows you down, it makes you unable to react to the changes in your life and it certainly weighs you down when trying to work towards new goals.

Releasing that weight would enable you to move quicker and succeed more easily. Perhaps that’s you holding on to past hurts, past incompletes, past resentments, anger or fear. Yet letting go of those anchors could be what you need so that you can fly into the future.

Have you allowed past failures to slow you down in achieving new successes? Have you remembered a friend telling you that you will never achieve anything? Do you remember the teacher at school who told you, you were an idiot and couldn’t do anything anyway?

What about your parents? Did they always encourage you as much as you thought you needed? Did they support you with your school activities and sporting endeavours or did they show no interest?

What have those people done to your confidence in moving forward and achieving new successes? Have they kept you back because you remembered what they said about you? Do your memories of anger, resentment and desire for revenge make you waste valuable energy that could be used to better effect in attaining success?

It’s important to move forward in your life with love and forgiveness. Forgive those who have hurt you, who might have lied to you or stolen from you. Maybe they gossiped behind your back or cheated on you. That doesn’t mean you condone their action, but just that you are letting go.

Letting go will release all that negative energy and will provide you with newfound momentum to perform in your life and attain successes that you might have never thought possible to achieve.

Best way to achieve this release is to actually note down all the people you need to forgive by creating a list showing anyone who has hurt you. Work on each of these hurts until you are able to forgive them.

The release of new-found energy will amaze you. Negativity can be unbelievably draining and in many cases can even be harmful to your health.

Yet it is one of the hardest things to do. Forgiving somebody and letting go of hurts and resentments is the biggest life challenge you face. You feel that these people who have hurt you have made you lose your confidence and contributed to your inability to succeed in life.

It’s not these people who have hurt you that are holding you back from earning the successes you deserve to have. It’s the fact that you are allowing those hurts to hold you back that is so damaging. For your own sake forgive the people who have hurt you. It will clear the way to personal achievements you wouldn’t otherwise even dream of reaching.

This idea motivated me to list my all or recent posts on my Facebook profile. And I thought of uploading RSS feed of I, Me and MySelf (this blog). But when I started doing it so, I came to know it is bit difficult and tricky. It took me more than 1 hour to find and get those things done in facebook.

Now without narrating whole story, let me be straight forward to say how it was done.

How to Add RSS feed on your Facebook’s Profile (Using Facebook Application):

1. Go on well-known Facebook application Blog RSS Feed Reader.

2. Click on Go to Application button on left side.

3. Now allow Blog RSS Feed Reader to access your profile.

4. Click on Add When you see the below shown screen and add the details of your RSS Feed and make other setting the way you want your  feed to be appeared and save your settings. The next screen will show green button if your feed is successfully added. Also you can preview your feed by clicking the preview button on right.

5. Now I know you will go your profile page to look for the displayed feed, but you will find nothing anywhere. But don’t worry. On the very left side of Facebook footer bar, you always see Applications. Click that.

6. Click on Edit Applications and in your application list you will see Blog RSS Feed Reader. Go on its Edit Settings.

7. You will see below given image. Now click on Add where it says Box: Available (Add) and then ok to exit this screen. You can do other settings as well, but not required.

8. Now go on your profile page you will have an extra tab named Boxes beside Photos tab.

9. Click on the Boxes and you can see your feed sitting there.

Now if you want this feed to appear on your profile page without going in Boxes, Sorry! Unfortunately Blog RSS Feed Reader  application doesn’t support it. (Go down in the same post if you still want to do it other way!)

How to Add RSS feed on your Facebook’s Profile (without using Facebook application):

1. Go on Applications on the very left side of your Facebook footer bar.

2. Click on Notes.

3. Now go to My Notes. You will see

4. Now click on Import a blog on right side of your screen.

5. Enter your feed URL, tick the checkbox for T&C and click Start Importing.

6. You will see the preview of your feed. Go down and at the end of the page, click on Confirm Import.

7. Now if you go on My Notes, you will see your posts title and some description of your articles displayed well. Go on your profile page and you will see same imported contents are posted on your Facebook Wall as well. So every time a new article is posted on your blog, it automatically updates your Facebook’s wall.

But if you are Facebook addict and updating your status frequently, there are chances that your posts will not be available on your profile page or on your wall in first instance.

So what to do if you want your latest posts always available on your profile page in first instance? Here is the solution.

How to add RSS feed on your Facebook profile’s wall tab:

Facebook wall tab is left menu bar just below your picture on profile page. It contains some information about you, displays some of your friends photos, etc. So this is the best place to set our RSS feed.

1. First you will have to add your feed into My Notes. (As mentioned above).

2. Now go on Applications on far left side in Facebook footer bar. Click on edit applications.

3. You will see the list of applications. Click on edit settings in the Notes.

4. Now you will see below given figure with Box and Tab Available. Click on Add in Box option. And exit the screen by pressing OK.

5. Now go on your profile page and go to Boxes tab beside Photos tab.

6. You will see your RSS feed with the heading Notes. (shown below)

7. Now click on the top right corner edit button (pencil icon) and click on move to wall tab option.

8. Now go on your profile page to see how well your RSS feed is fitted in wall tab. Move around your wall tab block up or down to place wherever you want.

Now your and mine friends can see our latest posts on our Facebook profile page!

I hope this might be helpful to someone like me!.. .

It’s therefore really important when working towards a goal to keep track of your successes. The best way to do this is to write them down, or journal them in a file on your computer or even better write about them on a blog.

There is also great project management software available online that allows you to keep accurate track of what’s happening on your journey towards your goals. Many of these are free if you use the basic entry level option.

Keeping such an accurate track of your successes makes you appreciate your achievements. It allows you to pat yourself on the back and to encourage yourself to achieve even more. It also provides you with a history of your activities which will allow you  to reflect in future years on the steps that you took to reach your goals.

Set up your journal to show the day and date and then compile a list of activities that you completed during the day. If your goal is to lose weight you might want to fill in the first block of your journal with the point that your scale showed you had lost some weight.

That would make you feel good about yourself. To achieve further progress you might consider a personal trainer at the gym just to give yourself a bit more momentum in the exercise regime or you could work on the next day’s menu with nutritious fruit and veg to fill the whole day with so as not to need to grab that packet of crisps because you are hungry.

Looking at your success journal will allow you to work out the best experiences for the next day. It makes it clear in your mind what worked for you and what you need to do more of to continue your successes. Leaving your weight loss program to chance will lead you to miss reaching your goal.

Add to this powerful exercise by visualising your next day and how it could be absolutely perfect for you. Imagine the day as you would like it to happen. You see yourself complete your work quickly so that you have time to enjoy your day at the gym and even add a quick swim to your exercise regime and maybe extend those precious minutes in the sauna.

You see yourself having time to really enjoy that healthy salad you have planned for lunch instead of having to resort to grabbing a quick hot dog to fill that hole in the stomach. You see your day run smoothly and efficiently with many friendly and helpful people making it a pleasurable experience.

With such a wonderful day you will feel that you can go home happily and that you won’t need to relax with that bottle of wine that you know will pile on the pounds faster than you can exercise them off. You have had such a great day you just know your body is loving you and your scale will show the effect by dipping further.

Visualising your ideal day will help you create it. By doing this at night just before you go to sleep your subconscious mind will have the opportunity of working on it for you and helping you make it a reality.

When you made them they seemed so easy to stick to. You were going to go to the gym three times a week. That was an easy goal to set. You were going to drink and smoke less, maybe even give up smoking. Seemed reasonable at the time. Arriving at work on time every day was definitely possible until they started those road works of course and all traffic ground to a halt in the morning. After all that couldn’t be your fault then could it. Phoning your parents once a week was on that list, so was signing up for a new course to help your career along.

By February those New Year’s resolutions had evaporated and you felt guilty that they didn’t at least last until mid-year. It seemed that every year those goals set at the beginning of January have a shorter shelf-life.

What stops you from keeping those promises you make to yourself?

What stops you from making those changes that could enrich your life?

Why do you hang onto those old habits for dear life, never wanting to let go?

Setting goals and sticking to them is one of the most difficult things to do. Countless self-help books are available in shops and online stores. The proliferation of eBooks on the topic shows that there are many people who want to learn the secret to goal setting.

The biggest secret and one that is seldom discussed is that goals need to be packaged into small achievable steps. It is the idea of one enormous goal that often puts people off and stops them from trying. It’s like planning to climb Mt Everest but you haven’t tried to climb the local hill.

As long as you keep your eye on the goal or your final outcome you will manage to get there by using small steps.

An interesting story was told by a woman entrepreneur who started a very successful weight loss club in competition to the more famous Weight Watchers. She set up her office in the garage of her home. That’s where she tested and assembled her product line of diet foods and supplements and planned her marketing strategy.

Her weight loss club grew into a huge organisation with the additional income of product sales in supermarkets. During an interview for a program on successful women she said that if she had known how big her organisation would become, she wouldn’t have had the courage to start it.

That’s how our goal setting fails us. We set our goals to be so large we fail at them because we lose courage. We need to lose weight? We don’t set a realistic goal, we want to immediately get rid of all the excess weight. The fact that it might have taken ten years to creep up on us is forgotten. We want to get rid of it in a month. When that doesn’t happen we give up.

We want to go back to University to get a degree to help with our career and we give up after a few months. It wasn’t supposed to take that long and be so much work.

Break up your goals into small bite size pieces. Make them smaller and easier to achieve. Being able to easily attain many small successes will more easily encourage you to keep going to reach the bigger goal at the end of the road.

Thought to Share:

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top ~ Napoleon Hill

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Hope you have enjoyed!.. .

This thought forced me to browse and read more about this new Android application called SKY MAP! I found some pictures and this amazing video on you tube and thought to paste them here!

This application lets you find information about the twinkling stars. Just point the phone upwards facing camera lenses towards sky, and the app will give you all the information it has on the brightest stars, constellations and planets in that part of the sky. Wow! No more words from me, watch the video and if you fancy Sky Map application, download it from Android Market. Let me know how does it goes on you T-mobile G1 or HTC Magic!.

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Whether you are navigating the highs and lows, or not sure which way to turn, inspiration can always be drawn from the greatness of successful people both past and present.

Here is a selection of quotes to enlighten, inspire and empower!

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs – CEO, Apple Inc.

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” Warren Buffett – an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” Henry Ford – Founder of the Ford Motor Company

” When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen “ J. P. Morgan – Founder of J. P. Morgan & Co

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” Les Brown – International Motivational Speaker and Author

““The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon – a famous British hairdresser and businessman.

“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” Larry Ellison – CEO, Oracle Corporation

“Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.” Akio Morita – Co-founder of Sony Corporation

“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.” J. Paul Getty – Founder of Getty Oil Company

“I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.” Curtis Carlson -Founder and Chairman of Carlson Companies

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller – Founder of Standard Oil Company

“Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.” Bo Bennett -Famous Motivational Speaker

“Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.” David Packard -Co-founder of Hewlett Packard

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel A. Barker – Independent Scholar & Futurist

“Successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.” Don Marquis -American Humorist, Journalist and Author

“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.” James E. Casey – founder of the American Messenger Company

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” Andrew Carnegie – Founder of Carnegie Corporation

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” Chin-Ning Chu – Motivational business speaker

“It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle “ Richard M. DeVos – an American billionaire and co-founder of Amway

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.” Henry Ford – Founder of the Ford Motor Company

“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.” Charles M. Schwab – CEO, Charles Schwab Corporation

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” Warren Buffett – an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.

“If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.” Harvey S. Firestone -Founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

“You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.” Debbi Fields – Founder and current spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries.

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” Dale Carnegie – American Writer & Lecturer and the developer of famous courses in Self-Improvement

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” John D. Rockefeller – Founder of Standard Oil Company

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.” Charles M. Schwab – CEO, Charles Schwab Corporation

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.” Charles O. Finley – an American businessman

Source: Jack Sampson – MyFinanceDirectory

Ask your spouse or your boss or your employees or your customers… they’ll tell you all they want is the truth.

But that’s a lie.

We hate the truth. Our reaction to real truth is hostility and fear.

Do we really want to hear the truth about why we’re fat, or why we’re broke, or why our kids are under-achieving? Tough stuff to process for most.

And yet telling the simple raw truth is one of the most effective attention and persuasion tactics available. Especially these days, with people sick to death of being lied to and betrayed.

But if people reject what you say, truth or not, you’re back where you started.

Guys like Buddha and Jesus had this problem.

The solution remains the same.

Tell a story.

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