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I am so excited! Right now, I can tell you that my book Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones is finished (as of, time zone AWST Sunday 19 July 2009 6pm).

Currently, Greg is editing & proofreading, plus I am setting up the publishing accounts, so that you can buy the book as PDF and/or as hard-copy book. They too take a few days to approve everything, and it’s possible I might need to wait for a postal copy, of a hard-copy proof to accept. This would need to be mailed from USA to Australia. Meantime...

I will be creating the unique web pages, complying with the various guidelines. As well as formatting the book, to each of their distinct requirements. I have a day job, so everything goes a bit slower than I would like.

A couple of friends are proofreading for me, as well. Thank you! I am impatient too, yet we’re almost there! :)

For adding to the book’s site I have some great free bonuses, and a very special complementary product, that I am creating from scratch over the next few days. Meantime, I really was moving to get this Triggers Ezine edition delivered on time. Phew, so much to get moving this month!

You can be sent an email as soon as the book is available to you. You WILL be FIRST to know! Just add your name to the mailing list at Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones

Kurek has two weekends coming up, and these are the only one’s he’ll be doing in Australia. I have read Kurek’s story, in his book “How Would Love Respond?”, and it’s quite a story. If you’re available for these two weekends, I'd get yourself registered to attend. All the information is available at Kurek’s website

Jack Canfield is hosting a 7-day event in August, for only 400 people, so if you want to be there then I think you may need to rush over here to register. This event begins 9 August! The information for Jack’s live event is at the Canfield Trainings site. In his 31st July newsletter, I read that if you are interested in attending, they still have seats left. Even if you cannot be there, at the event’s site there is access to some terrific, and free, audio training for you. I have listened to them a couple of times over.

You have the first opportunity at securing a seat at this groundbreaking event that is sure to sell out quickly. Mark your calendar for November 5-7, 2009 and get excited for a weekend like you will have never experienced before. One to help you discover your true wealth™ - inside and out.

Jamie has arranged for over half a dozen millionaires to teach you everything they know about making millions in the stock market, property market, business and the internet. Everything you need to know to make an incredible amount of money in 2009! Secure your exclusive free tickets to this brand new 21st Century Education Event immediately. You can also get your free copy of Jamie's "What I Didn't Learn At School But Wish I Had"

The 9th August garage sale, at the Old George Gallery in East Fremantle, is a little more low key that the events listed above. It is also not a self improvement event, however, could be classed as home-improvement! You’ll meet some lovely people there. Just open this pdf image about the garage sale, to get all the details you’ll want.

In a remote region of the Andes, two tribes were feuding. One tribe lived high in the mountains and the other in the lowlands. One day the highlanders raided the village of the lowlanders and kidnapped a baby. The next day the lowlander tribe assembled a rescue team to climb the mountain to find and retrieve the child. But the lowlanders did not know the trails and they were not skilled at mountain climbing. They struggled to make their way up the mountain, but after a half day of climbing, they could not ascend anymore. Discouraged and disappointed, they packed their gear to return.

Suddenly, to their amazement, the rescue team saw the baby’s mother coming down from the mountain, holding her baby in her arms. Baffled, they asked her, “How were you able to scale this steep mountain and rescue your child, when we were unable to do so?”

She answered, “It wasn’t your baby.”

If you want something enough, you will find a way to do it. If you are not very motivated, you will either not attempt to reach a goal, or if you do your efforts will be half-hearted and you will attain no measurable results. Motivation and intention are far more significant elements of success than circumstances.

Do not assess your possibilities on the basis of the beliefs or unsuccessful efforts of people less motivated than you. Their results are less a function of reality, and more a result of their beliefs and intentions. Nor do you need their permission to do what you want and need to do. The mother who retrieved her child did not ask the search party if the mission was possible nor did she request their permission. She just knew what she needed to do and she did it.

The compelling documentary Man on Wire chronicles the brazen feat of Philippe Petit, a visionary circus performer who, in 1974, strung a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center and, without asking anyone’s permission, walked between the skyscrapers eight times. Petit and several cronies planned the stunt for years with an Ocean’s 11 level of craftiness and detail. They cased the World Trade Center for months, fabricated phony I.D.’s to gain access to study the building’s design, found an inside agent in whose office they stored their equipment, and hid overnight under a tarpaulin with guards walking past them just feet away. At one moment a guard saw the intruders scaling a back staircase with their equipment, but for some odd reason he overlooked them. Once atop a tower, they shot an arrow across the 200-foot span to begin to secure the 450-pound wire. While Petit’s feat was extraordinary, what it took to pull it off seemed even more astounding. After his tightrope walk Petit was arrested for trespassing, but he was released when he agreed to put on a show for kids in the neighborhood.

How could Petit get away with such a Mission Impossible? The answer is simple: It was his baby. He conceived the idea in the waiting room of a dentist’s office, where he read a magazine article about the planned construction of the World Trade Center. When he saw the sketch of two towers looming 1368 feet over Manhattan, the idea grabbed him and would not let him go until he accomplished it. Petit ate, drank, thought, slept, and dreamt the idea for years. That’s what a vision baby feels like.

You, too, have a baby you love and believe in. It may not be as outrageous as Philippe Petit’s, but it is life-giving to you, and bigger than your history or fear. It speaks to you in your quiet moments and stirs you when you think about it. You are hungrier for it than safety, comfort, or the status quo. That’s the depth of cry of your baby that will drive you to fetch it.

A young man asked Ernest Hemingway, “Should I become a writer?” Hemingway answered, “If anything can stop you, let it.” If other people’s opinions, or scientific data, or fear can put you off from retrieving your baby, don’t even bother starting the climb up the mountain. But if you care less about what others think and more about what you feel, start your journey. If adversity does not put you off, it will strengthen you. If old friends fall away, you know you are on the right track. When new ones show up, you have a confirmation. And if you need no recognition from the world, but simply take deep reward from your adventure, it is worthy indeed.

Les Brown said, “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.” Wayne Dyer echoed, “Motivation is when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is when an idea takes hold of you.” Quit trying to do something, and let something do you. There is a Power in the universe seeking to express through you. If you let it, doors will open that you could not imagine how to open yourself. Your goal may seem mountain high to accomplish, but if you love your baby enough you will find a way to bring it home.

Thank you Elan Sun Star for sending this article to me. There’s no way that I could not have shared it with everybody at Triggers!

    Have big reasons for wanting to achieve your goals.

    Build on positive results, and create some wins for yourself.

    Never use time as your excuse. Keep stepping forward.

    Put one foot in front of the other toward that dream.

    Allow, accept and actively encourage personal growth.

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In this segment of Triggers, I present you with selections of free gifts such as audios, videos, books, programs and products. Here is this month's collection of short films... Don't Quit, Rudyard Kipling, Funeral, Paradigms, Great Work, and The Proof

A series of free Audio Training Teleseminars for you, from Jack Canfield. It starts with a training where he walks you through the basics of his Success Principles and allow you to start working with some of that material right away. Assuming you are decisive in nature, want to reach your full potential, and have a burning desire to attain they greatness you know you have inside - you’ll want to listen to the Preview Calls for the actual Breakthrough to Success event. Each of the 70-minute training calls are loaded with actionable, impactful strategies and tactics you can start using in your life immediately.

The Blueprint to Success Mind Map will help you to focus on the most important fundamentals that will help you achieve the success you desire to experience in your life. Stick with these principles, memorize them and incorporate them into your daily life habits, thinking and actions, and you will progressively move towards the attainment of your goals and objectives.

Happiness is a feeling. When you are happy at work, you feel good. That’s what the Happy At Work Project is all about – feeling good at work. Sounds simple enough, right? So why aren’t there more people doing it? The best way to optimize your work happiness is to break down what brings you joy, how it brings you joy and how to do more of it. The magic word is “how”. When you ask yourself how you will make work happiness a reality, you begin the process of bringing more fun and success into your life. Download the free pdf report to find the four most important aspects of working happy.

Daniel G. Amen, M.D. discusses brain imaging and ADD ADHD on the The Wellness Hour. It is a 30 minute video interview, and I decided to place it here because it is an issue that many people face in their personal lives, or in the life of someone they know. During my 23 years in education, I came in contact with many who were diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. Dare I say it publicly, often I had a “gut” instinct that it was over diagnosed, and too quickly medicated for many young people. I was unable to get past just over 4 minutes of the interview, perhaps you can. You will find more great information in these Q&A audios, plus here is an online ADD Test to as a starter guide.

Stephen Covey wrote a runaway bestseller in the self improvement industry, titled the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This book has sold over 10 million copies worldwide! In the book, Covey lays out 7 proven principles for success.

David Rickland from Self Growth, explains exactly what he thinks these mean, and what he learned from them.

Number 1 – Be Proactive
That’s almost self explanatory. It means you are taking the initiative. You are not living reactively, but are taking a proactive stance in your life.

Number 2 – Begin with the End in Mind
The End is really your goal or your goals. Effectiveness is not just a matter of reaching a goal but rather of achieving the right goal. Imagine yourself sitting in the back of the room at your funeral, and what people could honestly say about you based on the way you are now. Do you like what you hear? Is that how you want to be remembered? If not, change it.

Number 3 – Do first things first
This means to focus on your most important priorities, your top priorities. This doesn’t always mean urgent. The phone is ringing, and picking it up might seem urgent, but the caller is not always important. It could be a telemarketer. Focus on your top priorities.

Number 4 – Think Win Win
In personal, business or other relationships, exercise “interpersonal leadership” to make both parties winners. Two wins make everyone better off; two losses hurts everyone. A win/lose relationship creates a victor and leaves someone injured. Think Win Win.

Number 5 - Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Communication is a two-way street. To develop win/win relationships, find out what the other parties want, and what winning means to them. Try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes.

Number 6 - Synergize
Cooperation multiplies the power of one. In fact, “creative cooperation” may yield a force greater than the sum of the parts. The buzzword to describe this kind of relationship is “synergy,” which means bringing together a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts.

Number 7 - Sharpen the Saw
There’s an old story about a man sawing a log. The work is going slowly and the man is exhausted. The more he saws, the less he cuts. A passerby watches for a while and suggests that the man take a break to sharpen the saw. But the man says he can’t stop to sharpen the saw because he is too busy sawing! A dull saw makes the work tiresome, tedious and unproductive. Highly effective people take the time they need to sharpen their tools, which are, in fact, their bodies, souls, mind and hearts. It’s time for “self-renewal.”

Hop over to David's site at Self Growth. There is so much great material to be found. I'm a member there, so be sure to connect with me when you join. It's free.

Known as 'The Gap' because it is all about that big space, between one Triggers edition to the next. You know, that place in time when you are just twiddling your thumbs, eagerly waiting for next month!

It's great to see that so many of you are subscribed to several other Forward Steps publications, as well as to Triggers. Keeping you in touch with the many wonderful new items being produced online.

My intention is always to provide products, programs, information, and tools that inspire and empower you, enabling you to unleash your personal creativity and your unique contribution in life. I love this Tony Robbins quote...

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever... the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

If you just cannot wait until next month to receive more from Forward Steps, there are also quite a number of links for you to follow at the Forward Steps blogs

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. -Mel Brooks

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. -Dalai Lama

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -C. S. Lewis

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. -Tony Robbins

    What can you do today to be happy with your life, forever? [VIDEO]

    What are your highest priorities? [VIDEO]

    What have you been avoiding or pushing aside? [VIDEO]

    How do you want the rest of your life to unfold? [VIDEO]

    What project do you love enough to make happen, no matter what? [VIDEO]

    Goodbye Solo enlarge your perception of the world

    Touch The Top Of The World an incredible journey by Erik Weihenmayer

    Kassim The Dream story of World Champion Boxer, Kassim

    Hope In Motion detailed portrait of Christopher and Dana Reeve

    Under Our Skin gripping tale of microbes, medicine & money

    Leading With Kindness by William F. Baker, Ph.D. & Michael O’Malley, Ph.D.

    Hug Your People by Jack Mitchell (proven way to hire, inspire and recognize)

    Busting Loose From The Business Game by Robert Scheinfeld (recreate yourself)

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Start using the tools to Program Your Mind Do your best to already “feel” like you have already achieved your goal. The more feeling (or energy) you put into it , the more effective will be the session. In some cases the effectiveness can be enhanced by 500%! For some people concentrating on the “thought” that you have already achieved your goal, may be more effective. Try them both, see which one is more natural for you.

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