The Key to Survival For Terrestrial Radio

By Kenny Beck

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The onslaught continues. Every day we hear about the end of an empire once flourishing under the guise of traditional media. A very important part of traditional media has been radio, under siege for the last few years. Yes the internet has changed the landscape of much we once revered, but does that mean that everything must go?

A major part of the problem has been this siege mentality. Rightly or wrongly when terrestrial radio found themselves in the predicament of defending their turf, they folded like wilted and soiled deck of cards. Their response to XM and Sirius radio was to have no response at all. The just laid down like an old, worn doormat and allowed themselves to be trampled almost into extinction.

Part of the problem was the Kings of Radio (more apropos a title would have been the Kings of Idi-ocracy. You know them, those multi-figure earning purveyors of more bullshit than you can shake a stick at. Now, if my tone sounds a bit acrid, let me give you a bit of a scoop why.

Jocks, as some of the knuckleheads who ruled the airways were once called, were regally proud to accept their new, macho, laudatory praise and accolade moniker Jocks. Behind the mike, they thought it gave then an air of coolness; an air of invincibility that would soon prove to be short lived. Instead of pausing for a moment and taking stock of all their surroundings, they just played it cool and decided to let nature take its course. To hell with their tyrannical station bosses who werent paying them like they deserved, who weren’t valuing their sweet asses as they thought they should. No sir-ee buddy. Well just let them take it on the chin when Sirius and XM come-a-calling. When Sirius and XM come round, were gonna get one of those Howard Stern deals. After all, they all knew they were good enough for international syndication; when Sirius and XM came round. Now look at the quandary they’ve left themselves in. How many will even have a job working anywhere next year, the prospects are terrorizing. If only they were seeing the signs amidst all the exuberance.

Almost from the very outset, the mega merger between Sirius and XM began rearing its ugly head as a bad Idea. In their haste (Sirius and XM) to nail the coffin lid shut on traditional radio. Not to say it didn’t deserve to be shut. Terrestrial radio and its Jocks, were making bone head moves all along instead of learning and being open to a metamorphosis in how to keep its bread and butter gravy train on track. Was it just supposed to happen? Maybe, just maybe, you were just waiting for that satellite gravy train to stop on by. Hint: Its not coming. Satellite radio may be in for some serious troubles of their own. Fortunately for you, you’ve been given a 2nd chance to redeem yourself, your career and terrestrial radio (or something very close to it). Now listen carefully, I’m only going to say this once. Its not too late, but youd better get on your job now and you’d better hurry.

Nothing is safe, it appears, any more.

To some, this is a good thing. The setting aside of traditional anything, has trumpeted in an a new era of technological wizardry. Though fully untested & with new uncharted pathways laid before us, it seems John Q. Public has spoken. Individual, audience members want content control and the demand is here to stay (its gaining in popularity every day).

Its Terrestrial radios own fault (the pattern of its Jocks pomposity was first laid down more than 60 years ago).

By allowing smooth elocutionist to wend their smarmy ways into a public’s consciousness (perhaps smarmy is a bit to pitched), broadcasters allowed for the creation of little fiefdoms between drive time hours.

Sure, it was inviting, controversial and maybe even a bit sexy. Who knows where radio would have been without the silver tongued sharpies like Alan Freed (man), who put Rock and Roll on the map, Dr. DaddyO, Wolfman Jack or the legendary Murray the K.

Barry Robert Clark is the Engineering Director of Taxi Productions. He has been a professional broadcasting engineer for some 34 years and counting. He started out in Las Vegas as on air talent, and then found himself splitting his time between his love for being on air and his dedication to keeping things running smoothly as chief engineer. Barry says radio used to be the portable entertainment media. It went on picnics with you, to the beach, the ball game, even the drive in movie.

Dynamically interesting solutions Barry proposes. Some of you head honchos at the remaining terrestrials should pay close attention to him. Hes been trying to tell it for a few years.

According to Barry (and I concur), broadcast companies who control the content need to become acutely more aware of what they should to be creating. He suggests the moment stations begin to realize the easy ride they’d been on for years was over, they should set aside all egos, get off their well comforted fannies and get on the grind. Once radio could no longer just put out anything they wanted to and the audience had to grin and bear it, Little or no chance to remedy the situation they should be creating and lining up community focus groups and panels, use their facilities as a way to stretch out their hand to their listening audience and learn from them what they truly want, what they want radio to become and how radio could satisfy them and keep them loyal listeners. Terrestrial radio would then be able to create desired content, protecting their important source of income, the advertising dollar. How could they have been so benign that they just let it slip through their fingers without so much as a whimper.

The whole affair perplexes me and I used to work in radio.

Focus groups and other sounding boards are great devices still are great for staying in tune with your audiences current desires, but is it a bit too little, a bit too late, isn’t it? Since there is so much content out there that’s proven its metal in so many situations, shouldn’t broadcasters harness the devices that are proven winners and start developing their own apps and begin passing along this content to their listeners? Imagine, developing their own branded, content before it becomes any later than it already easy?

Apparently, this is just what Barry the genius engineer has in mind.

He proposes setting up a series of lectures and seminars for senior broadcasters and station owners who are holding on by a skim thread.

I propose something a bit more radical, which is not difficult to do at all. In earnest Ive already begun tracking and identifying likely, receptive groups, causes educational institutions and other like minded individuals that would initially benefit most.

Podcast and web cast are being borne as this piece is being hammered out. There is no more time for procrastination, vacillation or pontification. Time now, for real action. Its long overdue. We put out a call to all on air talent, programmers, developers, performing artists, producers, writers, fans of traditional radio and any other interested parties to sign up with  and let us rally you to the cause, by having a series of pertinent content programming kick off in the next two weeks or three weeks. We want you, your ideas, your opinions your thoughts, suggestions, opinions and resolutions. Traditional, terrestrial radio still has a lot of relevance to societies around the world, as along as its reshaped an cast in the image of its audience who want good quality, high resolution, fun content they can totally control themselves. Sound like a daunting task? Not at all.

years was over, they should set aside all egos, get off their well comforted fannies and get on the grind. Once radio could no longer just put out anything they wanted to and the audience had to grin and bear it, Little or no chance to remedy the situation they should be creating and lining up community focus groups and panels, use their facilities as a way to stretch out their hand to their listening audience and learn from them what they truly want, what they want radio to become and how radio could satisfy them and keep them loyal listeners. Terrestrial radio would then be able to create desired content, protecting their important source of income, the advertising dollar. How could they have been so benign that they just let it slip through their fingers without so much as a whimper.

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Is There Such Thing As Too Much Self-Help?

By Maryanne Comaroto

What a flipping fantastic question! When I was 33 years old I asked myself that very same question!! My library at the time brimmed with enough self-esteem-building, spirit-lifting, relationship-advising, co-dependent, neurotic, feminist, esoteric, astrological, paleontological, philosophical paradigms and relief to diagnose and heal several galaxies. From the esoteric: psychics, tarot readers, trance channels, holographic re-patterning specialists, aura color healers, palm readers, Reiki masters, past-life regression experts of the Far East Dharma, Karma, Buddha masters. I included the New Age, the poets and even the dead: Kierkegaard, Swedenborg, Kant, Borges. And I didn’t stop there: I devoured books on sex, business, the inner workings of the mind and ecstatic dance. If it was nonfiction and said “help” ANYWHERE in or on the book, I READ IT! I was on a path (with frequent intermissions) to find out EXACTLY how to be free and NOT suffer unless absolutely necessary. And even then was convinced I could find a way to diminish the likelihood of that. Yet, despite my drive in my particular quest to find immunity from pain, this form of my quest came to an abrupt halt at 33. I had crossed a line.

And funnily enough, just prior to that I had asked myself-or rather, I heard that still small voice that I hear and know as the Great Divine (sort of as if The Great Oz was God) inside of me say…and I swear it cleared its throat (okay, maybe not, but I like to think my inner guidance system has a tremendous sense of humor) “Maryanne…dear. Can it be, after so many years of relentless pursuit of the internal fortress you seek, that the answer does not lie somewhere in even one of these books?”

I was actually embarrassed, because for the first time I realized how profound the notion was. When you come down to it, awakening and staying awake is not a new concept. Yes, we are complicated beings, but many great people have devoted their lives to taking on the complex material of spiritual laws and have done a really tremendous job of breaking it down for us. Yet there I was, face-to-face with a question that led me across the abyss of awareness to transformation. It was time, at last, to take all “I knew” and actually create a practice. You see, I had become addicted to the buzz. A self-help junkie. And why not? I am pretty sure that of all my addictions this one actually paid off! But like all things the time had come for me to fish or cut bait. Change or die-well, I wanted to die, anyway.

Despite all this amazing information, I stood and looked at my life and could not figure out why, despite knowing “it all,” I was still suffering. Still in an unhealthy, unfulfilling relationship; still exercising poor choices, maintaining inappropriate boundaries, religiously entertaining recurrent negative self-talk, etc. And I knew it. This, my friends, was painful. They say ignorance is bliss. I said, after a 17-year quest to, in essence, wake up, I instead was faced with (in great detail) precisely what was wrong with me, simultaneously knowing better. Reminds me of a great line from a poem: “The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.” Kabir

And then I woke up! Yup. Just like that. For me it took what it took, and, like all of us on a path, it takes what it takes. So could it be that had I read one book fewer I would have had my awakening, being delivered from suffering? Would I not have found that which I had sought my entire life? I can never know, it seems. What I do know is that I am often asked this question, I say to anyone that walks through my door or asks my advice on the matter: “What do you want? And what are you willing to do about it?” The answer for me was simple. I wanted true freedom of being and freedom from suffering. I said a prayer. “God, please show me the way!” And I woke up. But not before I had spent almost twenty years trying everything else! And what I was willing to do about it? The answer was equally as simple; whatever it took! Staying awake for me, is what I had sought my whole adult life, And to stay awake included, among other things, developing a daily practice that fostered this gift I had received.

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Self-Development Tips - 3 Ways to Overcome Procrastination

By Ruth Sias

Procrastination is brutal no matter what industry you are in or role in life you take. It’s a waste of time and almost as bad as being lazy in terms of productivity. There are not too many people that I know of that haven’t had procrastination plague them at one time or another. Usually there is a root cause that triggers us to procrastinate maybe it’s something we are afraid to do or just plain do not like doing and so on.

Whatever the cause that has got you procrastinating here are 3 tips to help you overcome procrastination:

1. Check out your environment. Is your environment, home, office, work, car setting you up to procrastinate? Is your atmosphere cluttered? Are you able to know exactly where to find the things you need on a daily basis? Are there other distractions, like the TV on, music, etc.?

Look around the areas in your life, if they need to be cleaned up and organized, do so! If you have to turn off the phone, the cell and the TV to get some quiet time to work on your task than do so.

Take the precautions necessary to have a more productive life. Simply put, clean up your act and leave no possible distraction left.

2. Forget the last minute. If you are the type of person that waits till the last minute to get something done, STOP! Not only is it stressful, it is simply not conducive to having a productive and fruitful life. It is highly unlikely that you are doing your body any good or the project or task of that moment any good by putting it off till the last moment.

Plan ahead and breakdown the task into smaller pieces that can be done from assignment to date it should be completed. Give yourself some extra time at the end so if a challenge arises you can take care of it and still meet your timeline without stress.

In the end by planning and not waiting till the last moment we not only have more time to do the things we enjoy in life we also get to live with less stress.

3. Stop that stinking thinking. If you do not enjoy what you do for a living or maybe a particular task often we create a bunch of negative self talk. For instance we think in our heads or maybe even tell others how annoying it is, how much we hate it, how difficult it is, how boring it is and so on. This type of negative talk and emotions make us want to do the task even less and causes us to drag our feet on starting and working the task. This makes the task take longer to do and sucks up our time.

Instead of thinking about what you do not like, switch it up and think about what you do like about the task or better yet how getting the task done quickly and efficiently we enable you to do something you enjoy.

If we believe and think that the task will be easy that we will conquer any challenges with ease and that we can get it done fast and on-time or better yet before it is due and keep the negative talk out we will find ourselves procrastinating less and getting more done in the same amount of time with less stress.

The key to self-talk is to make it believable to you, if you do not believe what you are saying then it becomes ineffective.

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Who is That Person in the Mirror?

By Debra Kessler

How we act when no one is looking is a good indicator of what we are made of. Do we have integrity? Are we morally sound? Is honesty in the forefront of our thoughts when we are faced in any situation? Every day we are tempted to face our self image and decide will we compromise our beliefs and values.

It is said that it can take as little as two weeks to make or break a habit. It is amazing how fast one can destroy a lifetime of integrity. When one lives by a belief system, our actions are guided by it on a daily basis. Our integrity or character will keep us from going out and hitting someone with our car because we value human life. And in the same vein we wouldn’t wake up and quit our jobs because we didn’t feel life going to work.

I realize that these examples are extreme and one could ask who would do a thing like that. You’d be surprised. We do not just wake up one morning and decide to not be honest or have good character. The slipping of our character starts in a series of small steps. It is so vital to keep ourselves in check to keep that from happening.

Have you ever noticed that the bad guy looks like an ordinary person? In the movies, the guy gets caught and tells the police that he never set out to embezzle a million dollars from his company. He thinks he is not a bad person. His character slipped and he failed to keep is integrity in check.

Yes, staying true to our integrity filled belief system is a twenty-four hour job. We come under fire when we least expect it. Something will happen and it could be that pivotal point that pushes us over the edge of staying true. It is like seeing that man who drops his wallet. Do you pick it up and give it back or keep it, thinking that he should have been more careful?

Situations like these are the defining moments. We have the right to chose to do right or wrong. Each little decision changes us. We must always keep our thoughts in line with our integrity. If we chose to comprise, a little more of our integrity is chipped away. It becomes easier to give in each time.

We must continue to look at ourselves in the mirror. Do we want to be labeled a hypocrite? Are our principles becoming less concrete and fluid? If we have compromised it will be hard to regain our integrity especially around those for whom we compromised. But with the help of understanding and trustworthy people, our self-image can be restored and we can begin to rebuild our life.

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3 Key Secrets to Help You Break Through Any Mental Barrier

By Monique Gallagher

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Imagine that you’re tied up, placed on a chair and locked in an airtight room. You don’t know who did this to you or why but you know you’re trapped.

This may sound fictional but it’s not. This is exactly what we do to ourselves when we let our unconscious feelings, beliefs and history dominate our thoughts, our actions and then our life results.

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try and break old patterns and beliefs, something gets in the way? Have you tried certain programs, techniques or exercises only to fall back to you old ways? If you have, it’s not your fault. You are fighting against programming, unconscious memories and cellular memories.

Breaking out of your own personal prison isn’t easy but there are three key proven strategies to help you free yourself. Here are three of the best ways to remove those blocks and barriers:

1. Coaching: Coaching is a relatively new profession that really became popular in the 1980s. Although history shows that we have always had some kind of coach, often it was in the sporting arena but now, we have coaches that help us reach our highest potential in our careers, our relationships, with our money, community, spirituality and more.

Coaches help us discover what may be holding us back from having a successful life and business. They find out what is and isn’t working, what our goals and dreams are and they help hold us accountable as we often have to report to them and keep them informed of our decisions and actions.

If you feel like you are hitting a barrier or have blocks, it’s important to seek coaching to help you deal with these obvious or hidden issues. What makes coaches different from counselors is that coaches focus more on the ‘here and now’ and what you plan to do to change your future if you are not happy with your present results.

Monique Gallagher of: Highest Potential Training, is an expert at helping people break through barriers and limitations to live a full, energized and purposeful life.

Sometimes, though, there are situations that are too traumatic or can’t be solved with just coaching alone. Sometimes these mental challenges are triggered by physical problems in the body. And, often these physical problems are triggered by emotional part of the brain.

While coaching is very effective, there is also another scientifically-proven technique that can enhance the coaching process and even speed up the results. It is called Emotional Freedom Technique and it is quickly becoming a major force with health practitioners.

2. Emotional Freedom Technique: is a fairly new discovery that combines mind body medicine and the ancient practice of acupuncture without the needles.

The reason EFT works is that the body runs on energy. And within the body are energy meridians where nerves send signals from the body to the brain. When you put your hand on a hot element on a stove, it doesn’t take long for the pain sensors to travel up the energy meridian to the brain where the brain processes the feeling, determines this is pain and danger and you promptly remove your hand.

New research is proving that the cells store memories and trauma at the cellular level. In fact, disease is considered to be a ‘body not at ease.’ Disease is now being proved to be caused from many triggers but trauma to the cells is the key factor.

When a traumatic situation occurs - we generally react in a negative way and trigger negative energy. Our brain releases stress hormones directly into our bloodstream. We also tighten up parts of our body and hold on to the stress.

For example, if you’re driving your car down a freeway and suddenly a car careens into your lane without warning and you are forced to swerve your car abruptly to avoid an accident, your brain reacts, stress hormones are released, your stomach muscles tighten, your mouth gets dry and you react - trying to get out of the way. The emotions stay with you for several hours, days or longer depending on the severity of the event and your interpretation.

If you are survivor of abuse, you’ll store the pain in your body in such areas as: the heart, stomach or muscles.

If feelings and stress stay in the body and aren’t released, toxins build, muscles constrict, blood flow constricts and you have the beginning of disease.

EFT is a useful tool to incorporate into a coaching program to clear cell level memories, which if unresolved, can also create beliefs such as: “I’m not good enough,” “I don’t deserve success,” or “Who am I to be successful?” These are the blockers which may come up and are unconscious habit patterns that may sabotage our success.

When you’re healthy, relaxed and unstressed, you radiate success and generate more success.

Emotional Freedom Technique is not a New Age scam - it is a detailed groundbreaking proven science. A recent study was done that included 5000 patients who had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and were treated with a tapping technique on the body.

People with EFT recovered much more quickly than the other test subjects who didn’t receive the treatment. 76% of patients were completely cured from EFT compared to 50% with conventional techniques.

To sum it up, EFT is like energy acupuncture - you tap into thoughts and feelings and move them through your body and release tension and toxins that are lying dormant in your cells. EFT removes the emotional part of the memory and makes thoughts benign. EFT isn’t 100% effective and other things may need to be done but it can make a difference with many situations.

Once the physical remnants of your thoughts are removed, you can start to consciously rewrite what happened. The emotion and negative charge is removed and you can reprogram yourself to be successful.

Emotional Freedom technique uses physical tapping with your fingers. Tapping is done with the fingers slightly curved and you use the finger tips and tap both sides of your body at the same time.

It’s important to have a glass of water ready as you may feel a slight headache while or after your practice a session. As toxins are released, they may cause you to feel a little disoriented; this is not a bad thing - it means toxins are leaving their ’stuck points.’

Emotional Freedom Technique can be enhanced greatly if you add essential oils to your practice. In fact, essential oils have been used for thousands of years to calm, clean, and heal the body.

What are essential oils?

3. Essential Oils: Essential oils have been used for thousands of years and they are oils that are derived from flowers, leaves, roots of plants. They contain volatile aroma compounds and have distinctive scents and healing properties.

They are generally extracted with distillation or pressing and are often used in perfumes, cosmetics, flavoring, incense, cosmetics and cleaning products.

Interest in essential oils has always been there but in recent years, aromatherapy has become ‘mainstream’ and has been used in alternative medicine.

Due to the concentration of the oils, they are generally diluted with a carrier oil such as: sweet almond oil so they don’t burn the skin. There are few pure oils you can place directly on the skin; Lavender is an oil you can place on your skin and this oil has been known to promote the healing of wounds and help with stress and sleep problems.

Oils are volatilized or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage, diffused in the air by heating over a candle flame, or burned as incense, for example. Essential oils hold many properties and can also be enhanced synergistically by combining one or more oils for a medical procedure, massage or cleaning.

Emotions are stored in the limbic part of the brain which is also where memories are housed. If you breathe in essential oils, they have compounds that increase the oxygen flow to this region of the brain and they help you release endorphins which make you feel calm and relaxed. Hormones and enzymes are also released and this can unlock blockages in our glands and organs which in turn, release emotional baggage which was held at the cellular level.

The chemical structure of essential oils in adaptable and synergistic with our cells and we can easily absorb it so this is why these oils can work quickly on us.

If you are thinking about using Emotional Freedom Technique and essential oils, you need to know that there are certain oils that are more powerful for releasing emotions when you start tapping.

There is a line of essential oils called: Young Living and the blends help release blocked feelings and aid healing in the body and mind. The ‘Feelings Kit’ has oil blends called: Valor, Acceptance, Inner Child and more. If you would like to know what oils are best to use with Emotional Freedom Technique, email Monique at: Monique@Highest-Potential.com

How do you use the essential oils and Emotional Freedom Technique?

First, be sure you have a quiet, relaxing place to do your exercise. Next, make sure you have a glass of water nearby as you’ll be releasing built up toxins and may get thirsty.

Next, you want to use a statement when you are tapping. This way, you’ll address the mental/emotional center of your brain and replace negative emotions with positive ones while you tap your body.

The statement that works best is:

“Even though I have this I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

You may fill it the blanks with anything like: money problem, problem with procrastination, problem with overeating, problem with being rude - you get the idea.

Once you know what you want to say, place your fingertips in some essential oil and then start at the top of body. For this exercise, we will only focus on your face. If you study EFT in detail, it also addresses the rest of your body.

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Who is That Person in the Mirror?

By Debra Kessler

How we act when no one is looking is a good indicator of what we are made of. Do we have integrity? Are we morally sound? Is honesty in the forefront of our thoughts when we are faced in any situation? Every day we are tempted to face our self image and decide will we compromise our beliefs and values.

It is said that it can take as little as two weeks to make or break a habit. It is amazing how fast one can destroy a lifetime of integrity. When one lives by a belief system, our actions are guided by it on a daily basis. Our integrity or character will keep us from going out and hitting someone with our car because we value human life. And in the same vein we wouldn’t wake up and quit our jobs because we didn’t feel life going to work.

I realize that these examples are extreme and one could ask who would do a thing like that. You’d be surprised. We do not just wake up one morning and decide to not be honest or have good character. The slipping of our character starts in a series of small steps. It is so vital to keep ourselves in check to keep that from happening.

Have you ever noticed that the bad guy looks like an ordinary person? In the movies, the guy gets caught and tells the police that he never set out to embezzle a million dollars from his company. He thinks he is not a bad person. His character slipped and he failed to keep is integrity in check.

Yes, staying true to our integrity filled belief system is a twenty-four hour job. We come under fire when we least expect it. Something will happen and it could be that pivotal point that pushes us over the edge of staying true. It is like seeing that man who drops his wallet. Do you pick it up and give it back or keep it, thinking that he should have been more careful?

Situations like these are the defining moments. We have the right to chose to do right or wrong. Each little decision changes us. We must always keep our thoughts in line with our integrity. If we chose to comprise, a little more of our integrity is chipped away. It becomes easier to give in each time.

We must continue to look at ourselves in the mirror. Do we want to be labeled a hypocrite? Are our principles becoming less concrete and fluid? If we have compromised it will be hard to regain our integrity especially around those for whom we compromised. But with the help of understanding and trustworthy people, our self-image can be restored and we can begin to rebuild our life.

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The Dangers of Recognition

By Willie Horton

We all have the ability to recognise - someone we already know, a difficult situation when we see one, an opportunity that’s staring us in the face or a problem that needs our attention. However, our psychological ability to recognise is just as much a curse as it is a blessing. We take in raw data through our body’s five senses - a psychologist would term this “bottom up” data - through the process of cognition. At this point, the data, of itself is meaningless - we need to interpret it. This is done by adding our “stored knowledge” or “top down information” to the raw data and, in this way, we make sense of what is going on. This is the process of re-cognition.

As I said, this process enables us to make sense of the present moment. Or does it? The big problem with our stored knowledge or top down information is that, generally speaking, it is decades out of date. We generally start storing key elements of that “knowledge” between 12 and 18 months - when we create “schemata” (or pigeonholes) into which we then fit anything similar that we might encounter in later life. From an evolutionary perspective, this gave us a huge advantage - we didn’t have to waste our precious attention on routine day-to-day stuff - we needed that attention to watch out for the next man-eating tiger that might otherwise devour us!

But the result is that, in the modern day, we pay little or no attention to what our senses are actually telling us in the present moment - we prefer, automatically and subconsciously of course, to let our top down information make sense of what’s going on for us. And, in the process, we make nonsense of the present moment and react accordingly.

Somewhere between 12 and 25 years (adolescence), we generally stop taking in new top down information. That has drastic implications for the rest of our lives because, for the rest of our lives, we live in an illusory world of make believe - we create what we think is going on based on out of date information. As a result, so-called “normal” people never really appreciate what is actually happening - everything is “filtered” through their stored knowledge - and, as result, they react to what they think is going on. And, as you and I know, reacting generally makes matters worse, not better.

Quick example. Somebody at work asks you to do something. Because of the way we automatically pigeonhole people, you will have made up your mind whether you like or dislike the person who’s doing the asking within four minutes of meeting them for the first time. Say, for example, she reminds you of your sister-in-law (and you hate your sister-in-law because she reminds you of someone who bullied you at school thirty years ago). Also, the thing you’ve been asked to do is something that you think you don’t like doing - you might, for example, have a hang-up about putting together some sales figures because, when you were small, your father gave you grief over how awful your math marks were (these are all true client stories, by the way).

So, someone, who not only could be the nicest person in the world but who might also have a major impact on your career and on your life, asks you to do a simple task - and you snarl at them in return. It’s an automatic reaction. The request is the raw data - but you’ve made nonsense of the request based on a load of out-dated notions that are stored deeply on your subconscious. And that’s the process of recognition.

And that’s what gets normal adults into trouble. Conflict breaks out at work and at home - not because of what’s actually going on but because of what normal people think is going on. But, worse than that, real opportunities are missed because they are never spotted in the first place. The opportunity could be staring you in the face and, because of your top down data, you wouldn’t recognize it for what it truly is.

Normal people need to stop recognizing and start cognizing all over again. That’s why so many business and sports people meditate - it enables them stop recognizing and start experiencing what is actually and really going on, using their five senses, in the present moment. Watch your TVs - all the great sports people “meditate” before a field kick or a tee shot, before a penalty or a serve in tennis. And I meditation was good enough for someone as prolifically successful in business as Thomas Edison well then, it’s good enough for me. Start paying attention to what your five senses are actually telling you. Stop analyzing, judging, adding your top down out of date information.

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Recession - An Employer’s Dream Or Nightmare?

By Lorraine Mclnerney

Article placed by Carlos Lama

The recession may mean that money is tight as far as business is concerned, and a gloomy outlook might be what is pervading the markets. But existing and potential businesses should not allow this negative mindset to dismay them. What is bad news for graduates and job-seekers, might just be good news for employers. At the moment there is such a huge surplus in graduates seeking employment that when a employer is seeking to recruit workers they will have the cream of the crop to select from. This will enable, for instance, start-up companies to take on the best possible candidates for the jobs they need to fill, and in turn will enable the company to provide the best possible service to its customers.

The news that graduates are leaving college at a particularly unfortunate time has been a prevalent issue in almost every newspaper in the first few months of 2009. In March of this year, President of the High Court Mr Justice Richard Johnson admitted that the 32 new solicitors receiving their parchment at the Law Society were graduating at a “pretty tricky time”. New figures from the Law Society show growing unemployment in the profession. But despite all the negative reports regarding jobs for graduates, there has been some good news; PriceWaterHouseCoppers launched its 2009 Graduate Recruitment Campaign which will provide jobs for over 250 graduates.

The Wall Street Journal’s Economic Forecasting Survey of October 2008 predicted a rise in unemployment to 6.8 percent in 2009, and this might be said to reflect the situation just about everywhere. So, concerning Company formation, a new enterprise might just have the potential to succeed in these afflicted times due to there being a surplus in qualified candidates for the business to employ. Hence, the service or product a company wishes to provide will have the potential to be of the highest possible quality.

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Our Ailing Economy - The Natural Order of Things?

By Lee K Jones

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Whose idea was it that it is our responsibility to keep businesses in business? When did it become one step away from mandatory that we buy a new car every two years? Why is it that most of us buy a home that we can barely afford? Who benefits from the use of a credit card, we, the consumers, or the bank owners? These rhetorical questions have glaring answers, answers that should tell us that something is dreadfully wrong with our economic system, and with our society.

As a kid growing up in the 60s, I watched TV, as most American kids did. I remember many of the ads, cigarettes, toys, cars, over the counter remedies, foods, household goods and supplies, and many other items relating to everyday life in America. For the most part, the ads showed us what was available, what it did, and where we could get it. At that time, there were laws against “False advertising”. To my recollection, the only companies who were playing dirty pool were the cigarette companies, directing their ads at young, impressionable teenagers.

Fast forward to the late 80s, no smoking on TV, but false advertising in just about every ad that flashed across your 35 inch cathode ray picture tube, and it’s been downhill ever since. In my estimation, no less than 60% of what you see in between your favorite shows is from health care, pharmaceutical companies, and other businesses directly related. Some of the products include: Pain killers, antacids, cold/flu remedies, magic weight loss pills, hair growth pills, anti-oxidant pills, and these are just the over the counter drugs. We now watch thirty and sixty second skits that tell us it’s normal to have headaches, backaches, cholesterol, diabetes, GI conditions, sleep disorders, ED by the time we’re 35, and, just about the silliest of them all, restless leg syndrome.

We’re told, not just in ads, but in “documentaries” and movies, that if we’d eaten certain foods in our lifetime, we are likely to get cancer, if we don’t eat certain foods, we are likely to get cancer, if we don’t take enough of a certain vitamin, or enough of the latest miracle preventative, we’re likely to get cancer. If we eat this, we’ll have high cholesterol, if we eat that, diabetes, etc. We’re led to believe that we must regulate our blood sugar from one minute to the next, or something dreadful will happen to us. There are prescription drugs, advertised directly to us, what could be the reason for that? How many of you have forgotten that the body is designed to balance itself, that food is to nourish our body, not destroy it, and as long as we eat balanced meals, and we eat a variety of foods, we will be fine.

You get a cold, your body will heal itself. It’s not normal to get headaches, there is no cholesterol gene, and there is no fat gene. There are no shortcuts to being slim and healthy, and there is certainly no magic pill that will replace good eating habits and exercise. If you eat Chips Ahoy, Doritos, drink buckets of Coke, and the couch is your favorite place to be, you’re gonna have problems. If you eat the same 5 meals week after week for years and years, you’re gonna have problems. If you cook all your food to death, that’s right - problems. You don’t get sick, you don’t come down with this condition or that condition because you have a lack of drugs in your body, this stuff happens because you do not eat properly, you are afraid to get up off your couch, and you believe all the nonsense that you see on your TV. Think about that before you read on.

Well, folks, the health care and pharmaceuticals are not the only ones playing dirty. Insurance companies, banks, cell phone companies, the auto industry, fast food chains, most retailers, just about every business that we can think of has their ownership and upper management pulling every trick in the book and then some, to literally steal your hard earned money. Certain types of insurance have been made mandatory by the government, with more on the way, how’s that for advertising? Approximately two months ago, I heard a story on one of the TV News networks, about a doctor somewhere in Oregon, who was offering free services.

Well, the story said that the government stepped in and said that it was against the law to do such a thing. On the same network, about a week ago, there was a report about the government telling farmers that they could not grow more than a certain amount of wheat - on their own property - they did this by hiding behind some law regarding interstate commerce. Also on the same network, I saw a report about how the elite was very upset and angered by President Obama’s proposal that they not be allowed to hide their money in foreign banks. This particular network wholeheartedly agreed that the president’s proposal was a terrible thing. This author applauds our president, should this bill pass.

Well, it’s becoming common knowledge that most large corporations will stop at nothing to get our money - lie, cheat, steal, exploit workers in any way possible, and, now that it may become illegal for them to hide their wealth in offshore bank accounts, they are up in arms. It’s not enough that they can afford high powered lawyers who know how to hide money, and get out of paying their fair share of taxes. And please, we’re not talking dollar amounts here, we’re talking percentages - if I’m required to pay 40% of my earnings to the IRS, and to the government in the form of hidden taxes, then the same should apply to the wealthy.

We need to find ways to combat these atrocities. Some of the things that I do include, boycotting anything possible that is produced or offered by large corporations, buy from the small businessman whenever possible. I only use my credit card if I can pay the balance as soon as I get the bill. When I buy a new car, I keep it for at least five years, no matter how pushy and obnoxious the salesman is. I barter whenever possible - and you want to see something that the government hates, just wait and see what happens if there ever comes a time when barter is practiced by many - you’ll see just how fast, and how violently they find ways to ban it.

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Workforce Innovation For the Modern Times

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By Amy Twain

There seems to be a perception that the reason of our incentive, performance measurement and ownership problems and difficulties lie in what we do to the workforce. Experience tells us that the difficulties and obstacles are not because of what we ‘do’ to the staff, they are simply caused by the mindset which believes that as managers we could manipulate and dictate the staff to ‘do’ what we want. This mindset or kind of thinking is often the basis of failure. If what we are doing now to the workforce is not working well, then we have to change what we ‘do’ to the staff.

The greatest hindrance that blocks the way of the staff’s purpose is the boss telling them what are their targets, telling them what machines and equipment to use to reach those targets and most especially telling them what to do. The largest part of the answer is quite easy and that is Workforce Innovation # 1.) Stop telling people what to do–but then what do bosses and managers have to do? How to inform the group that telling people what to do is wrong? Or do you ever have to do that at all? If we believe in the power and value of the staff and we know that they want a job well done, then the management’s job stops being to get the staff to do what we want by asking them what to do and it starts being to find for the things that are keeping the staff from doing a good job, and removing them.

The initial proposition that we want to work from this workforce innovation is that the staff know well and understand how to do a good job, they want to do a good job that could come up to the standards and they just need to be equipped with what they require in order to comply with the task. Managers and leaders only need to listen to what the staff want and give it to them. Workforce Innovation # 2.) The management needs to speed up in listening to the workforce. If only we are able to modify the manner that the workforce feel about what they do, then the managers will ask, “Well, how did that happen?” It is because when individuals are proud of what they achieved, their performance becomes amazing.

Actually no one has been asked what to do. We simply permitted the workforce themselves to become as competent and capable as they could by getting rid of the barriers that bosses put in the way and the ending performance makes the managers wonder, How did you manage to do that? Because they asked, we can now reveal to them, because they asked. We do not have to let the managers to ‘do’ any differently. When they find out what is happening to their workforce and their end results, they will fully understand it for themselves.

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