The town has created a Qantas museum. Qantas stands for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services” and has come a long way since it first began. The headquarters are now in Sydney but the service is very proud of its beginnings. The Qantas fleet now circles the globe carrying passengers and cargo all over the world.

There are two planes there that you can walk through and see what it is like to be in the pilot’s seat. There is a 747 and a 707. The 707 is one of two that are still able to fly. The other one is owned and flown by John Travolta who has become an ambassador for Qantas. The museum buildings are quite extensive, displaying aircraft from former years.

Just across the road is the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This was opened and dedicated to the stockman who originally opened up much of Australia.

Now apart from enjoying the sights in and around Longreach, there was one thing that I did not enjoy. The internet was only available from one carrier and if you moved too far out of the town there was no service at all.

You can easily see that I know I could never live where I cannot get the internet. I felt completed isolated from my friends. I was glad to get back home last Friday. I had over 500 emails waiting for me and heaps of skype messages.

So now I am back here to work on my internet marketing and I love it. I am starting a great new course Internet Business Code X.

Always nice to go on holidays but there is no place like home.

Wow! Just found out that Google are now trying to get more market share back from Facebook by using their+1 button. You may be wondering what the +1 button is all about. It is similar to the Facebook’s “like” button

It is still in trial stage but they have come up with the idea because Facebook is gaining more and more users.

Why? Facebook is social media and people who go on Facebook to chat seem to stay on facebook. Google, on the other hand, was primarily known as a search engine but times are a changing.

You may not have even noticed it when you do a search on Google but it is there.

Go and do a search on Google and I am sure you will see it straight after the title.

So if you want to learn all about it I would suggest you read exactly what Google has to say. I am sure you will find it very interesting.

Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/+1/button/

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” Alexander Graham Bell

Let’s examine this positive quote. What is the power that Alexander Graham Bell is referring to? It is the mindset – it is the power to achieve what you believe is possible.

Unfortunately most people do not believe in their own ability to accomplish what they really want to do. They find reasons that they try to justify why they cannot reach the goals they set. We know these people to be “interested” because they will invent roadblocks and excuses when they do not achieve their desired goal. They can never accept that they themselves are to blame. They will blame others around them or the world they live in but never will they examine what they are saying and know they are just making excuses. This number of people who fit into this category could be as high 97%. Yes that is the sad fact of life. Three percentage of the world earn 97% of the money and taste success.

The 3% fit into the category of “committed.” This means that they will complete what ever they try to do. Take for example – Edmund Hillary, the man who climbed Mount Everest in May 1953. He was a bee keeper in New Zealand and he had no idea how he was going to climb the mountain but he had the belief that it was possible. He first attempted the climb in 1952 but did not reach the summit. He returned the next year and along with Tenzing Norgay (his Sherpa guide) climbed to the top of the mountain and erected the New Zealand flag.

Edmund Hillary had no idea how he was going to climb Mount Everest but he had a burning desire and believed that it was possible. His belief never wavered and that is why he was able to achieve what had not been done before.

So if you really want to achieve something in life – believe in yourself and believe that it is possible and you will definitely succeed.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

Why is it that some times we procrastinate? Is it because we can be lazy or is it because we lack the knowledge and do not know how to tackle the task we should be doing?

Many times is the later. If we have insufficient knowledge – it is like a paralysing fear. We want to start the task but because we are not sure that we know how to fully complete it, we tend to put it aside and not start it at all. This fear is often irrational but we tend to think, what others will think or say if you fail. The problem here is compound because you are thinking what others will think instead of just trying to start the task. When it comes to this, think about yourself and forget the others around you. You will probably find that they will praise you for doing something that you wanted to do.

Once you start, you may surprise yourself when you see that there was really nothing to fear because you find it relatively easy. If you need help, why not ask. There are many people amongst your friends and colleagues who will help you, if you feel that you lack the knowledge or skills. Most people will go out of their way to assist you. There is a saying I love “You have to do it for yourself, but you do not have to do it alone.”

The thing about our society is we do the things we feel comfortable doing or things that we have to do during our normal day. This keeps us busy but to step out of our comfort zone and attempt something else scares us.

So this being my year, I am stepping out of my comfort zone and not procrastinating any longer. I am going to complete any task I attempt but I may need help along the way.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

1. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action towards its attainment.

2. I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

3. I know through the principle of auto-suggestion any desire I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining its object; therefore I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence.

4. I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop trying until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

5. I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built on truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them and in myself.

I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory, and repeat it aloud once a day, with full faith that it will gradually influence my thoughts and actions so that I will become a self-reliant and successful person.

 

Napoleon Hill  – “Think and Grow Rich”

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela

We should all take note of this. Nelson Mandela believes in everything he did. Even all those years in prison could not make him a lesser man. He always stayed positive and some of his positive sayings are frequently quoted.

At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu

We all know that perhaps one of the greatest sources of positive sayings and quotes comes from ancient Chinese philosophy, and Western philosophers like Socrates, Epicurus and Senica and Buddhism.

Two Chinese philosophers who were credited with a numerous amount of the positive sayings and quotes were Lao Tzu (or sometimes written as Laozi) and Confucius. There seems to be some confusion about their year of birth but history says they could have lived between 600 BC and 400BC.

Lao Tzu is known as the father of Taoism (pronounced Daoism). Taoism consists of two separate streams – one is the school of philosophy and then there was a system of religious beliefs that arose over 500 years later.

Confucius was the founder of Confucianism and he was a very influential figure in Chinese history. It is an ideology and never really associated with a religion. Confucius was a teacher and many of his sayings became well know proverbs. His teachings were mainly about being a good and virtuous person and improving your own character.

Socrates was virtually a teacher and thinker the same as Confucius. He believed in teaching through dialogue but also espoused goodness and wisdom but considered himself an ignorant man. Because he believed that he was guided by a mystical inner voice, he was charged with neglecting the established gods and deities of his time and was sentenced to death. He died through willing drinking poison.

The Buddha was believed to have been born (as agreed by Western scholars) was born in 563BC and died eighty years later in 483BC. The Buddha was born to a life of wealth and entitlement but he decided to turn away from this and searched for the Path of Enlightment.  At the age of 35 he experienced – what became known as the Great Enlightment.

The Buddha became a great teacher but all his teachings were oral teachings there were no written manuscripts. This was the way his teachings were passed down until eventually they were written down and systemized.

So many of the positive sayings and quotes that we now use were from centuries ago.

To YOUR Success

Sue McDonald

Well on May 13, I met John at a seminar in Brisbane and now I have booked to go to a seminar in San Diego on the 11/12 June where Frank is a speaker. So it looks like I will be able to meet the second person on my list. When I first decided that these people were on my “to meet list” I really did not know how I was going to achieve this.

This shows you the power of belief. If you practice visualization and affirmation, you are able to achieve what you want. This is proof for me that I am doing what I want to do and achieving the goals I have set for myself.

I am a true believer in Napoleon Hill’s book – “Think and Grow Rich.” There are other similar books available but for me this was and still is one of the best. If you have not read it, it is now out of copyright and is downloadable, for free, on certain sites.

So many people do not have the right mindset for so many things in their lives. They allow doubt and negativity to creep into their thinking, and before they realize it, they have defeated themselves. They fail to achieve the goals they have set for themselves and instead of remaining committed to the task fall into the category of the “interested” and make every excuse why they were not able to attain the goals they had set.

So you can see that I am achieving what I planned and I want you to do the same.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

Well yes I did go and hear John Assaraf talk last Friday and I loved it – even managed to get a photo with him.

John’s story is like a lot of other people. He grew up in Canada and was, as a teenager, going down the wrong path. His childhood had been very poor and at 8 years of age promised himself that he would be a wonderful provider to his children and they would not experience lack in their lives as he was. He was not a good student at school but his favorite show on TV, as he was growing up, was “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”

He was 19 when he went to visit his brother in Toronto and he was helped by his brother to turn around his entire life. His brother introduced him to a man named Allan Brown. John credits Allan for changing his entire life. At the age of 19, John sat and passed the real estate examination and became a fully fledged real estate agent. Allan asked John what he wanted in life and his answer was to live like the rich and famous. Then Allan asked him “Are you committed or interested?” Like a lot of people, this had to be explained to John and so that night he went home and wrote down exactly what he wanted to achieve. One thing he wrote was that he wanted to retire at 45 so that gave him 26 years to achieve that goal.

How did John achieve all that he set down to achieve? He did it through visualization and affirmations, the same thing that he is teaching today but he has now studied to prove scientifically that our thought process can be changed. Our behaviour is governed by our belief, values and habits and some of these stem right back to our child hood when we heard such things as – money doesn’t grow on trees, why are you so stupid that you never get things right, or – don’t ask again because we cannot afford it. All these types of statements have been imprinted on our subconscious and these are the things we have to change. With John’s method it means removing these thoughts and planting in the ones we want.

If you have doubts and fears that you cannot change, then this is the belief that you will achieve – no change – but if you believe that by affirmations and visualizations practiced everyday and you believe that you can have the lifestyle you want – you CAN achieve.

This was an exercise that John had us do. You see what you want to see! Can you see the arrow in this logo and also the measuring spoon?

The arrow is between the Ex. If you look at it closely it will appear as a white arrow. Now for the measuring spoon, the spoon is in the first e and is going from left to right.

So you can train your brain to see things differently – so you agree? I have a copy of his book “The Answer” but I need time to read it.

So start writing down your goals in detail, and practicing affirmations and visualizations and make time every day. It is the repetition that will change the pathway to your brain.

To YOUR Success

Sue McDonald