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I received an email this week from Vishen Lakhiani from Finer Minds with his list of the Top 5 Personal Growth Videos.

I had seen most of them -- but this one is new to me and I loved it and therefore wanted to share…

What’s on your “Most Do Before I Die” List and what’s keeping you from it????

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The Global Love Festival is a coming together to celebrate humanitarian love and its unifying, healing and transforming power with many facets from the fun to profound.

This one-of-a-kind festival fuses music, creativity, and consciousness raising inspiration with many unique attractions and entertainment extras on top.

Fostering love, peace, joy, harmony, and respect in an on-the-ground community experience, the  intention is to create a positive impact that ripples out at individual and collective levels.

The vision for the Global Love Festival began in a night-time dream by founder Aine Belton in which she was organising a festival, a dream followed by several others and many waking life synchronicities that ignited a calling and invoked her commitment to birth the vision.

To find out more about the Global Love Festival Launch on July 18th in London visit http://GlobalLoveFestival.com

and if you can get there -- please do -- and then come back and tell us about it -- please  

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WARNING

The Language in this clip may be viewed by some to be vulgar and inappropriate .

Please don’t watch if you are easily offended.

For everyone else… be sure to watch to the end and then take a moment to share your thoughts.

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”

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Please click on the title to see another special video tribute to the truly inspirational Jim Rohn…

…who sadly passed away on December 5, 2009

He touched millions of lives over the past 46 years through his seminars, books, articles and CDs.

Kyle Wilson, long time colleague and friend of Jim had this to say about his mentor, “Jim Rohn was a great human being. Jim had the rare ability to take any concept or idea and then frame it in such a way that the rest of us could see it more clearly. His wisdom and insights positively affected everyone he touched on some level and to so many of us it was in an extraordinary way. But even more impressive was Jim Rohn the man. He possessed style and charisma, yet was humble, kind and understated to all who knew him. I find myself every day reflecting, benefiting and passing on the wisdom and ideas that are rooted in Jim’s message and wisdom. Jim is irreplaceable on every level. I will miss him beyond words, but am comforted as I know he was, that his message and legacy will live on and positively change millions of lives over the years to come!”

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“I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of  patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.”  Jim Rohn

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Classic Jim Rohn -- 3 Keys To Greatness Four Questions To Ponder

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“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” Jim Rohn

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A Tribute to Jim Rohn

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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn

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Bonus Video  -- Jim Rohn Inspirational Quotes with music by U2

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For more about Jim Rohn -- his life, his work and his passing visit Jim Rohn International.

Did Jim touch your life? …We’d love to hear your messages…

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…and many thanks to our reader Avil Beckford, who sent us this interview she did with Jim Rohn……..

Jim Rohn, an Interview and Short Reflection

I got the opportunity to interview my hero and invisible mentor, Jim Rohn, a few years ago. On December 5, 2009, Jim Rohn a business philosopher and teacher, passed away from pulmonary fibrosis. I was very saddened by the news, but his words will live on, and I am grateful for the 30 minutes that he was in my life.

How I Got to Interview Jim Rohn

A few years ago I interviewed Jim Rohn for my newsletter Ambeck Edge, and my book Tales of People Who Get It. In one of those instances, Jim telephoned me and I conducted the interview. Just talking to him, you would never believe he was an extremely wealthy person. He was very respectful and down to earth. When his assistant made the appointment, she got the time zones wrong, and Jim called me an hour before I was expecting the call. He was very nice about it and offered to call back at the appointed time. How many people who have “made it” would be so accommodating?

For the interview, I asked Jim the same questions that I asked the other thirty-three interviewees:

1. Describe a business challenge that you had and how you resolved it

2. What lessons did you learn in the process?

3. How do you integrate your personal and professional life?

4. In your opinion, what is the formula for success?

5. Describe a major regret that you’ve had

6. What’s your favourite quote and why?

7. Which book did you read that made a major difference in your life?

I would like to share Jim’s answers with you because I am sure that you can learn from his responses. I mentioned that Jim Rohn was one of my invisible mentors, and in case you are wondering, what I mean by an invisible mentor, let me define it for you. Invisible mentors as defined by Washington State University professor Karen L. Peterson are unique leaders who you can learn things from by observing them over a period of time. Jim Rohn was very generous with his knowledge and I learned a great deal by reading his books and participating in his one-year success program.

Here is my gift to you, Interview With Jim Rohn

Avil Beckford: Describe a business challenge that you had and how you resolved it.

Jim Rohn: Challenge – In the early 1980s I had 13 satellite offices, all filled with people working hard, but we were losing money. A number of advisors said that we should open more offices and the result would be that we would then make money. I disagreed. I figured that if we opened more offices, we would just be compounding the losses. At this point I was faced with a difficult decision, but difficult decisions are one of the skills necessary and often what leadership is about.

Resolution: Strong leadership is required at times to make hard decisions. So I pulled the plug. We were already doing all that we could yet it wasn’t enough to make a profit using the strategy of satellite offices. We finally took our number of satellite offices down to only two –the groups that were the strongest and most profitable. Then we went back to the basics and worked to become profitable again. I still remember the pain of that hard decision, because it affected so many people. By some, it could be perceived as failure, but for us it was a strategic decision that had to be made to make our company viable and successful for the long-term. And here we are decades later, more profitable than ever. Challenges like those that I faced are hard, but when you face them head on with courage, integrity and faith, you will be ahead of the game in the long term.

AB: What lessons did you learn in the process?

JR: There are two key lessons:

1. The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money

2. Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time

AB: How do you integrate your personal and professional life?

JR: Integrating my personal and professional life has always been a challenge. It’s difficult to keep family, friends, social and work all in balance. You have to recognize the challenges and develop a plan. Do not ignore them. Now that I am older, I do less work and have more time for charity. When I was younger, I constantly had to negotiate with family and friends. I paid attention to the challenges.

AB: In your opinion, what is the formula for success?

JR: You have to understand the philosophy of success. You have to be helpful to the marketplace and find a product or service that adds value. I like what Zig Ziglar says, “You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.”

To be successful there are two values that you bring to the table:

1. The product or service

2. The value that you become

The more valuable you become, the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

It addition, to be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Find partners to work with because no one succeeds alone.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

AB: Describe a major regret that you’ve had.

JR: No regrets! I’ve been blessed with a unique life — from childhood up until now. If I did have any, they are all gone by now – they’ve disappeared from memory.

AB: What’s your favourite quote and why?

JR: I like “Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purposes” by Benjamin Disraeli because it challenges the human spirit to ultimate possibility – give it all you’ve got. Become all you were designed to become. It simply means do it or die. We all need challenges.

AB: Which book did you read that made a major difference in your life?

JR: I always read The Holy Bible and it’s the one book that has had the biggest impact on me. It is filled with history, poetry and excellent love stories. It gives key advice to follow.

Note: Interview taken from my book, Tales of People Who Get It, pp 77 -- 78

Here are five key lessons that I learned from interviewing Jim Rohn

1. Things will always go wrong so ride through your difficulties and learn from them

2. Invest in your professional development to become more valuable

3. Provide products and services that add value by filling a market need

4. Have a success team because no one succeeds alone

5. Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the “experts” suggest

I hope that you are able to apply the knowledge and wisdom that is in the interview. Jim Rohn, “If you can hear me, thank you for the many lessons that you have taught me. You work lives on.”

Avil Beckford, Chief Invisible Mentor, writer and researcher with over 15 years of experience, is the published author of Tales of People Who Get Itand its companion workbook Journey to Getting It. Subscribe to the  Invisible Mentor Blog for great interviews of successful people, book reviews, how-tos, articles and tips to mentor yourself and ignite your hidden genius. Explore the Resources page for free white papers, presentations and an e-book.

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I have noticed Eckhart Tolle coming into my consciousness more and more over the past few days and weeks.  I find myself in conversation with different people about his books, his teachings, even the space between his words.

I love sharing the earth with a teacher such as Eckhart Tolle -- and I love being part of the digital age that makes him so accessible to everyone.

Here is a simple short video that we can all use as a “time out” an opportunity to bring ourselves into the Now

Also -- for all my friends in the Super Mind Academy -- when you are looking for someone to pace -- Eckhart Tolle is one of my favorite subjects

Loving Life -- How about you?

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We have an Art Gallery where we love love love to showcase our communities work…

and we have our music lounge -- where we get to enjoy some of our favorite music pieces…

and every once in awhile we talk about bringing poetry to the ezine and we wonder what you think?

enjoy this video -- and be sure to watch it until the end (in truth I wasn’t certain I was going to publish it until I reached the very end -- and then  -- as a Mother of 2 teenage girls -- I really had no choice) and….

if you are a poet looking to share your work please send me an email (cyndi@evolutionezine.com) with a sample or two and we will see what we can do (ah -- did you notice -- I rythmed   )

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Have you seen this yet?

A dear friend in Greece (Hi Gabrielle) sent me the link and I watched it a few times before I began to set up the post -- with tears in my eyes each time.  I love this video for a number of reasons besides the obvious beautiful music and watching Simon get fooled.

I love it when genius is hidden in unusual packages.

I love witnessing the magic of true friendship in action

and I love being here now -- able to share this with all of you

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Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.

I haven’t watched it all yet -- but I will.   The parts I did watch leave me in awe.

and what was your experience?

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part 2

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part 3

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part 4

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part 5

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part 6

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It was just 10 minutes ago that I was thinking that I was just way too busy today -- lots of posts that still need to be created this week,  calls that needed to be made, children to take care of…

And this post -- which I had written yesterday but for reasons known only to the Internet Gremlins -- had disappeared -- so needed to be written again.  I was sensing some internal irritation.

So in preparation for writing the post I watched the video.

And then I watched it again.

And I am now centered, calm, and present.

And there is nothing else that needs to be done -- except for what I am doing now -- and that is enough.

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Underneath the thought -- We are Love

Byron Katie teaches that thoughts are good things until they are not.  We tend to place a lot of power of our thoughts -- believing them without question.

But are our thoughts true?

What is the thought/belief that you are struggling with in this moment?

Is it True?

How Can You be Sure it’s True?

Who would you be without that thought?

What happens when you turn the thought around?

What happens then?

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