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A little shameless publicity is good for the soul, and so my soul is warm and cuddly as I ask you to take a moment to vote for my blog if you find it useful or entertaining or insightful or (add own description).

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Every now and then bloggers participate in certain “internet games” to improve their Google PageRank and attract new readers to their blog. These games are often easy to participate because they usually involve a simple copy/paste routine. Last time I participated in the Technorati Favorites Exchange and honestly it was fun to discover new blogs to read through this scheme. Now check out these new link building programs of Viralinks and Viraltags going round the net.

If you add these to your site you should see an increase traffic and Technorati authority. Drop me a comment if you include them. Cheers! (more…)

Man alive I do get frustrated over on the photoreading forum with the number of people who just don’t get that photoreading requires a different level of investment from the reader. It’s frustratingly full of people desperate to get through textbooks in minutes without investing effort in the learning process. Consequently they complain about how it doesn’t work, that it’s a shortcut rather than a skill that needs an entirely different way of reading to the traditional paradigm.

Perhaps the book needs to place more emphasis on this. After all if there are that many people that aren’t “getting it”, then the message is getting lost in translation.

Anyhow for those of you visitors who photoread or want to, here’s my standard answer to the “what is a purpose” question.

Traditional reading is a fairly passive activity.

That is, most people read from cover to cover and expect the information to wash over them. They then remember the stuff that was most relevant and the rest is ignored. You still read it all though.

ABANDON ALL PRECONCEPTIONS OF READING NOW!!!

Done that? Good. Right let’s get to work.

From now on you are ACTIVELY ENGAGED in the learning process.

That’s right, success is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Forget that this is a book of paper. The author worked his ass off to impart in these pages all of the knowledge he took years to acquire.

Now if you were sitting with the author would you ask him to just tell you everything in a convenient order, and let the information wash over you?

If your answer isn’t NO!!! then go back to the start of the post and try again.

Hopefully you would engage with him (or her), ask him questions, get to the bottom of the bits that you don’t understand. You wouldn’t keep asking him the same generic question and hope to come away thoroughly understanding the book, would you? I hope not.

So here’s the thing.

EACH OF YOUR QUESTIONS COULD BE A PURPOSE!

That’s right, activate in short bursts, get your answer and then consider how that answer changes your next question. GET INVOLVED in the learning process and rather than have information wash over you, you will be diving for pearls with a 90% or better success rate.

From now on, don’t think of reading as a lecture, think of it as a 2 way conversation with the author GET INVOLVED and you will see results.

I’m currently listening to Brian Tracy’s Success Mastery Academy. Brian Tracy’s work is superb - littered with good humour and plenty of stories and examples, he is kind of the Success Yoda… if you want to be good at something, really good, such as being a master in your field, ot just plain earning money, I recommend you listen to Brian Tracy. He’s a straight down the line “been there, done it” guy with a lot of knowledge on what success is in its purest terms and how to achieve it.

And so far through this 10 hour programme, i’ve found it very useful. The first revelation for me was a new law. Sure I’ve heard of the Law of Attraction recently - who hasn’t? And that one for me doesn’t really ring true, I think it’s The Thinker and The Prover all wrapped up in a bunch of mystical poppycock.

And yet Brian Tracy quotes the Law of Correspondence. Hmm…

In the time of Abraham, the teacher Hermes Trismegistos asserted that all information about a man could be found within a single drop of his blood and that within a man was represented the entire universe. He formulated from this a principle which he called The Law of Correspondence which stated: “Whatever is above is like that which is below, and whatever is below is like that which is above“.

In the case of being successful, Tracy suggests that the Law of Correspondence means that your external world is representative of your internal world. And it’s one way - changing your external world, such as buying that hifi you can’t really afford, or giving your lounge a new coat of paint, doesn’t change who you are inside. He suggests that to make real change to your outside world, you must change your inner world, your mind.

And at this point i’m going to leave it there. I could (and usually do) continue to talk about the how. I’ll leave that for another post and let you wonder and wander about what this means to you.