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Just a video representing my fight to find the right way to make the world into the place it once was and with which it has now long since forgotten the way in which it once wasn't.

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Giving back what was never given back to me, An artistic voyage with Captain Broderick Boyd of the Messiah Concord.

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The "Get Altitude" by Eben Pagan Summary E-Book

This is a chapter summary from the "Get Altitude" Top Gun Entrepreneurial training program from master internet entrepreneur Eben Pagan. In this program, Eben teaches some unbelievably valuable concepts related to becoming a top gun entrepreneur, including You, Your Market, Your Marketing, Your People, and Your Systems. This program includes EVERYTHING that you need to know about being a successful entrepreneur, internet marketing, direct marketing, sales, hiring stars, keeping stars, design, productivity and everything in between. This is also part of the much larger Complete Summary eBook PDF available at the end of this chapter summary. Enjoy.

Your Customer Avatar

The process of creating your customer avatar takes a lot of see through, being able to see through the eyes of another person and experiencing what it's like to be them.
When you really understand your customer and you really understand what their needs are, you can create things that speak directly to them and really meet their needs.
An avatar is a temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity, or an embodiment or personification of a principle, attitude or view of life.
If you created a figure or a personality or a persona that represented what all of your prospects or customers had in common that was relevant to your niche or your category, and then you named this person and you started describing them, you would then have a "customer avatar" and you can talk about that customer avatar intelligently, you can talk about that customer avatar intelligently, you can talk about how to create a relationship with them, how to get them to want to buy your stuff and how to serve their needs. That's your customer avatar.
If you then went further and you took all of your products, services, your marketing and everything that your business has created, and you projected that out, into another personification, another image, another person, that would be your business avatar. One of the ways to really take advantage of some of the incredible discoveries, tools and methods that have been created in business, is to create a customer avatar and to create a business avatar, and then create a conversation between them. Create a dialogue between those two. Figure out what they would say if they talked to each other. If you want to do extra credit, script out the interactions and the dialogues that would happen between them both as their relationship develops.

Compassion

In business, the psychological and emotional process that we call compassion, might be one of the most profitable skills. The skill of compassion. Compassion is proactive empathy. It implies more action. It implies really getting into it, really taking it seriously. Getting involved. Compassion is so important, because compassion implies, not only proactively going and trying to help and seeing how another person feels, but it also involves feeling those feelings yourself. Experiencing the emotion that the other person is experiencing. So compassion is not only feeling the pain, but wanting to, it's: "I want to know how you feel, I want you to help me experience this thing" and once you go through the process of understanding another persons perspective, what they're dealing with, where they're coming from, what their circumstances are, the conversations that they've had, the thoughts that they're having in their head, the fears, all the things that are going on around them, when you understand them to that point and your simulating them to the point in your mind where spontaneously that feeling comes up for you, and you go: "oh, wow, that's how I'd feel if I were in that situation," that's how you know you're getting it. When you experience the emotion that they would probably be experiencing. Not when you think: "Oh, I'd probably be feeling really sad," it's when you feel sad and you go: "Oh, now I get it," it's the difference between an "ah-ha" and a realization. It's when you have a concrete experience of what that would feel like. It's important to get to that point when you're trying to think like a customer, so you can then know what to do, how to communicate with them, how to get their attention, and what to say once you have their attention. If you're not there, if you're not experiencing that and you don't "get it", there's going to be no connect and the customer is going to feel no connect. Say: "Help me to understand where you're coming from."

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"The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne and Prime Time Productions Summary E-Book

The following is a chapter summary from the DVD "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne and Prime Time Productions. This movie is all about the Law of Attraction and how you become what you think about most of the time, and you also attract what you think about most of the time. Some of the great motivational speakers in the film include Bob Proctor, Esther Hicks, Jack Canfield, John Assaraf and James Arthur Ray. This is also only part of the much larger Complete Summary eBook PDF available for purchase at the end of this article. Enjoy.

The Secret to Life

Your purpose is what you say it is, your mission is the mission you give yourself. Your life will be what you create it as, and no-one will stand in judgement of that now or ever.
If it ain't fun don't do it.
Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter, that's what it is. If you experience joy just by sitting there and meditating for an hour, do that. If you experience joy eating a salami sandwich, then do that.
Constantly put yourself in that state of joy, then all you have to do is have the intention of what you want, and what you want manifests.
Inner happiness is actually the fuel of success.
Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.
If it feels good then utilize it, if it doesn't then let it go. Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." -Joseph Campbell
If follow your bliss you will follow the trail to abundance and well being on all subjects.
Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal, it is a magnificent trip.
See yourself with the good that you desire. The more you use the secret, the more you'll understand it.
Welcome to planet earth. There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have. You are a magnificent creator, and you are here by your powerful and deliberate wanting to be here. Go forth, giving thought to what you are wanting, attracting life experience to help you decide what you want, and once you have decided, giving thought only unto that. Most of your time will be spent collecting data, data that will help you to decide what it is you want. But your real work is to decide what you want, and then to focus upon it, for it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating.
You are great, there is something magnificent about you, regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there is something that is within you, there's power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge, it will take over your life, it will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it.
Feel good.

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Strength vs. Intelligence

Sometimes it is easy to believe that everything can be “figured out” or that with enough intelligence, any problem can be overcome. The problem with this is that intelligence is only part of the equation. There is another critical part of that equation, and that is what I am going to call “strength.”

Strength is everything that must be done by something other than just “knowing what to do” or “knowing how to do it.” You can know how to do something, but that won’t always guarantee, or even make success more likely.

The reason is, is that there are many elements in your being, many tools in your toolbox, that must be worked like a muscle. These are things like “willpower,” motivation, courage, the ability to tolerate risk, emotional intelligence, the ability to maintain your cool in tight situations, and the ability to resist temptation. There are a million different things such as these in your being that you will have to use and deal with on a regular basis, but simply “knowing how to do them” or “knowing how they work” will not allow you to use them successfully.

These are things that must be practiced and “worked” on a regular basis, just like the use of a muscle. It is the only way to really develop them and learn how to use them. Not only that, but these are critical elements of your own personal success, and what will ultimately help you to become a better person. If you cannot use and develop these things, you will be hopeless.

Intelligence is just data. It is everything that your “conscious” or pre-fontal brain uses and processes. Data is great to have, knowing critical information is a great thing and ultimately what makes us distinctive as humans, but you have to develop the other side of the equation also. Develop your strength, develop your will power, develop your emotional intelligence, your ability to tolerate risk, your ability to resist temptation and sometimes to do things that your body or conscious mind tells you that you shouldn’t do, and you will become a stronger, more dynamic and more powerful human being.

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Let Go of the Need to Be Natural

Lot’s of people talk about the need to be natural and the need to get back to basics. They talk about natural methods for curing different diseases, natural diets and other “natural” ways of life.

The problem with trying to be “natural” is that there is very little that is natural about our modern life.

We have things like pollution, mass production, fertilizers, large government, religion, mass media, the Internet, vaccination and electronic radiation… all things which are things that are inherently un-natural.

We deal with these things everyday, and they effect almost every aspect of our lives.

The reason why “being natural” isn’t a valid philosophy for many different goals we have in life, is that the ability to be natural is inhibited by so many thing that are un-natural.

Sure, being natural would probably be one of the most effective techniques to use if we still lived in ancient times, but now that we live in a modern society, being natural can be an extremely flawed method to guide our behavior.

We need to let go of this as a prevalent philosophy in our lives, and accept that we need to be very un-natural in a lot of circumstances in order to succeed. We need to use un-natural methods to achieve our goals in a very artificial world. This is okay, because it is merely a shift in our tactical approach to problems. We can still achieve the goals that we want to achieve, it’s just that our methods may have to change and adapt to a new world, and a new system of organization.

Artificiality and a synthetic approach can be the most effective approach in a lot of circumstances. If you have bad vision, it’s okay to get lasik surgery or contact lenses and correct your vision. If you have a disease, it’s okay to take modern medication in order to cure it. It’s okay to get vaccinations in order to prevent future diseases, and it’s okay to use modern technology for things that were traditionally done in more “natural” ways, such as online dating, communication, education, personal growth, and social networking.

Don’t let it make you feel guilty or feel as if you’ve strayed from the basics or become less “down to earth.” The world is constantly changing, and to survive most effectively, you are going to have to learn to change with it. Let go of any needs you have left compelling you to “be natural” and take up the tools that can help you the most in your life today.

"The Red Queen" by Matt Ridely Summary E-Book

This is part of a summary of the book "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley. The Red Queen is subtitled "Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" and that is exactly what it is about. The book covers all different aspects of human nature and the reasons why these traits of our species exists, based on our own evolution and the process of sexual and natural selection. The following is just a piece of the much larger and Complete Summary eBook of The Red Queen, available at the end of this article. Enjoy.

The Human Peacock

The idea is ridiculous: Men succeed with women for much more varied and subtle reasons. They are kind or clever or witty or rich or good-looking or just available. Humans are simply not a lekking species. Men do not gather in groups to display for passing women. Most men do not abandon women immediately after copulation. Men are not equipped with gorgeous ornaments or stereo-typed courtship rituals, however it may look in the average discotheque. When a woman chooses a man to mate with, she is less concerned with whether he can father sexy sons or disease-resistant daughters than whether he would make a good husband. A man choosing a wife uses equally mundane considerations, though he is perhaps more of a sucker for beauty. Both genders use criteria that bear on parental abilities. They are more like terns, who choose mates that can fish well, than sage grouse hens, who copy one another's choice of a fast-displaying male. So the Red Queen race between the genders over seduction and sales resistance that follows from pure Good-gene choice does not happen. And yet we cannot be so categorical; There are species of mammal in which the effects of sexual selection are few and small. It is hard to argue that the average rat has been endowed with conspicuous display ornaments by the preferences of ancestral females. Even our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, are little touched by the effects of female choice. Males look much like females, and courtship is somewhat simple. But we should pause before dismissing the effects of sexual selection on human beings. People, after all, are universally interested in beauty. Lipstick, jewelry, eye shadow, perfume, hair dyes, high heels—people are just as willing to exaggerate or lie about their sexually alluring traits as any peacock or bowerbird. And as the list above makes clear, it seems as if men seek female beauty rather more than women seek male beauty. The human being, in other words, may be the victim of generations of male choice even more than female choice. If we are to apply sexual selection theory to man, it is male choice for female genes that we should examine. But it makes little difference. When one gender is being choosy, all the consequences of sexual selection theory inevitably flow. It is quite possible, even likely, as the next few chapters will reveal, that some parts of the human body and psyche have been sexually selected.

Polygamy and the Nature of Men

In the ancient empire of the Incas, sex was a heavily regulated industry. The sun-king Atahualpa kept fifteen hundred women in each of many "houses of virgins" throughout his kingdom. They were selected for their beauty and were rarely chosen after the age of eight—to ensure their virginity. But they did not all remain virgins for long. They were the emperor's concubines. Beneath him, each rank of society afforded a harem of a particular legal size: Great lords had harems of more than seven hundred women. "Principal persons" were allowed fifty women, leaders of vassal nations, thirty, heads of provinces of 100,000 people, twenty, leaders of 1,000 people, fifteen, administrators of 500 people, twelve, governors of 100 people, eight, petty chiefs over 50 men, seven, chiefs of 10 men, five, chiefs of 5 men, three. That left precious few for the average male Indian whose enforced near-celibacy must have driven him to desperate acts, a fact attested to by the severity of the penalties that followed any cuckolding of his seniors. If a man violated one of Atahualpa's women, he, his wife, his children, his relatives, his servants, his fellow villagers, and all his lamas would be put to death, the village would be destroyed, and the site strewn with stones.
As a result, Atahualpa and his nobles had, shall we say, a majority holding in the paternity of the next generation. They systematically dispossessed less privileged men of their genetic share of posterity. Many of the Inca people were the children of powerful men. In the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa, all women were at the pleasure of the king. Thousands of them were kept in the royal harem for his use, and the remainder he suffered to "marry" the more favored of his subjects. The result was that Dahomean kings were very fecund, while ordinary Dahomean men were often celibate and barren. In the city of Abomey, according to one nineteenth-century visitor, "it would be difficult to find Dahomeans who were not descended from royalty."
The connection between sex and power is a long one.

Mankind, An Animal

Human beings are a product of evolution as much as any slime mold, and the revolution of the last two decades in the way scientists now think about evolution has immense implications for mankind as well. To summarize the argument so far, evolution is more about reproduction of the fittest than survival of the fittest; every creature on earth is the product of a series of historical battles between parasites and hosts, between genes and other genes, between members of the same species, between members of one gender in competition for members of the other gender. Those battles include psychological ones, to manipulate and exploit other members of the species, they are never won, for success in one generation only ensures that the foes of the next generation are fitter to fight harder. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race. This chapter begins to follow the logic of these arguments into the heart of human behavior. Those who think this unjustified on the grounds that human beings are unique usually advance one of two arguments: that in humans everything about behavior is learned, and nothing is inherited; or inherited behavior is inflexible behavior, and human beings are clearly flexible. The first argument is an exaggeration, the second false. A man does not experience lust because he learned it at his father's knee; a person does not feel hunger or anger because she was taught it. They are human nature. We are born with the potential to develop lust, hunger, and anger. We learn to direct hunger at hamburgers, anger at delayed trains, and lust at the object of our affection—when appropriate. So we have "changed" our "nature." Inherited tendencies permeate every-thing we do, and they are flexible. There is no nature that exists devoid of nurture; there is no nurture that develops without nature. To say otherwise is like saying that the area of a field is determined by its length but not its width. Every behavior is the product of an instinct trained by experience.

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The "Beyond the Secret" by Anthem Pictures Summary E-Book

This is a summary of the DVD "Beyond The Secret" by Anthem Pictures featuring great motivational speakers such as Bob Proctor speaking about the Law of Attraction and different ways that you can utilize this powerful law in your own life. This DVD is a response to the original DVD movie on the Law of Attraction called "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. This article is also taken out of the Complete Summary eBook PDF of this DVD available at the end of this article.

What do you really want?
"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me." -Helen Keller
The law of attraction is always working, just like the law of gravity is.
The vibration you are in dictates what you are going to attract.
Like energy attracts like energy, if you're not in a good vibration, you're going to attract things that you don't want.
The law of attraction is always working, it's just a matter of understanding it, and bringing your mind and body and whole being into the right vibration so that you attract what you want.
A thought is more than a thing, a though is the very essence of your being.
Thoughts become things. They especially do so when they are aligned with feelings, action, strategic relationships, your gift, your calling, with whatever it is that you're bringing out into the universe.
Every man made creation was at one time a thought.
Thinking is the highest function that you are capable of.
You have to take action every single day.
Baby steps are a great way to move forward. Baby steps will take you all the way up mount Everest if you just keep taking them.
Changes usually take place inside before they take place outside.
A bamboo tree will spend around 5 years growing under the soil before it shoots up to 90 feet tall all within 6 weeks.
Thoughts that you hold, and thoughts that you choose, start to create your beliefs and paradigms and the filters through which you see the world.
Decide exactly what you want and then write it out in a vision form. Like a story, like it's already happened, like it's present tense.
We can take a pen and a paper and create our own destiny.
Build the image, get emotionally involved with that image, hold that image in your mind of the life you want to live with you in it, and you will begin to see results manifest themselves. That is the way to create the life that you want.
"If we will just advance confidently in just the direction of our dreams, we can live the life we've imagined." -Thoreau
What you need to know is why... what's your purpose?
Thinking that you're stuck is the problem.
Redefine what it is that you want, begin to take the steps to the dream that you do want.
Don't allow what's going on with you right now to define you. Expect things to get better for you and ask yourself what it is that you need to do differently.
Don't give power to the mistakes of the past.
Build on your achievements, not on your mistakes.
It's never to late to change your life, it's never too late to make your dream come true, and it's never to late to create a new dream for your life.
Ask yourself: Where do I want to go from here?
Whatever you focus on the longest, will become the strongest.
The dream is what gives your action direction.
What is something that you know you should do, know you could do, and know that if you would do it, would move you closer to your dream?

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