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The 7 Principles of Managing Your Health

After spending an evening with the wonderful Don Tolman, i reviewed my notes and thought I should share them with you. After all without managing your health, the rest just simply does not happen

So here are the 7 Simple Principles you can use everyday to maintain your health and well-being:

1. Air

Might sound a little obvious, but we need to breathe clean fresh air into our lungs. Clean moving air is the best.

2. Water

Drink plenty of water and if you need a beverage – herbal tea.

3. Sunshine

Sunshine is an amazing source of all the good things that maintain life.

4. Wholefoods

Seafood, Game meats, Skinless chicken, Eggs, Vegetables that grow above ground, Fruits from the berry family and Lemons.

Nuts, preferably raw, Walnuts, pecans, almonds, Hazelnuts, Macadamias, Pine nuts, peanuts and Cashews.

Seeds – Flax, Pumpkin, Sunflower and sesame

5. Non Toxic Relationships

Avoid and stay away from toxic relationships – You don’t need them and they will damage your health, both physically and mentally.

6. Passion

Practice gratitude and be passionate about the gift of your life. Look for the good in every low period, because these are the times when we can learn about ourselves. Think about what got you to this place and stop doing it.

Be grateful for the good or high times, think about what got you here, appreciate it and keep doing it.

7. Walk

Walk for at least 30 – 45 minutes everyday. Breathe in the air, enjoy the sunshine and drink water

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10 things you don’t need to know about computers.

From Peter Philipp – Director, TechOnline Pty Ltd

1.  A computer is a computer.

Wrong!  You get what you pay for.  A cobbled together car from various parts is not a Commodore – let alone a BMW.  You would not even consider purchasing a clone car.  Don’t purchase a clone or white box computer – go for a brand (Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc.) and always get a 3 year warranty.  Otherwise you will pay dearly for possibly saving a few $’s upfront.

2.  My son/husband/niece is a computer guru.

Correct – until your computer crashes and you lose all your data.

Use an IT professional – just as you would use a lawyer or accountant for your legal or accounting work.

3.  Computers are easy.

Except when they’re not.  If only I knew what to click on, I could do this myself.  Why not give it a go?  And now that it is really screwed up and I have lost all my data,  ……

4. If it’aint broke – don’t fix it.

Wrong!  Cyberspace and cyber threats have changed dramatically with hacks/scams growing exponentially for the last 5 years.  In the last 3 months 46%, 24%, and 83% of web-based malware was new malware in that month.  You must have the latest protection in place.  And remember – home and small business computers are the easiest and most often hacked (because they have the least protection deployed).

5.  Computers last for ever.

Wrong!  It is an electo-mechanical device and it will eventually fail.  It’s just a question of when.

Businesses should plan on replacing their computers every 3 to 5 years.  It makes sense financially and for reasons of productivity and efficiency.

6. I didn’t touch anything!  And now ……I can’t ….. I’ve lost …… this has never happened before.

You should know by now – computers DO fail.

And do you remember receiving an email, clicking through to a website, etc.  Yes.  But …….

7.  I can look after my own computers – and only call you when I have a (major) problem.

Do you wait until your car breaks down on a freeway and then decide to get it serviced?

A computer is x100 times more complicated than your car.  Get your computers regularly serviced.  And use an IT professional – not your son, daughter or Joe Tech.

8.  I have not had a problem with my computers for the last 3 years - until you (IT company) came on board/did something.

The 2 events are rarely connected.   You might have been lucky in the past and your time is up.

Or, you just did not recognize that little things (signs, error messages) in the past were pointing to a major issue in the future.  Good luck – but your time is running out.

9.  My computer is fine – it does not need to be replaced.

In 3 years, the performance of your standard PC will increase over 300%.  It can pay for itself with improved performance in less than 4 months.  And you will have fewer or no hardware and support problems for the next 3 years.

Note:  a 3-year old computer is like a 10-year old car.

10.  Of course we do back-ups.

Most small businesses do not do regular backups.  They need to be done regularly – best is daily, no less than weekly.  But also vitally important is what is being backed up?  Are emails (which are now deemed legal documents), or your accounting/financial (MYOB, QuickBooks) data included? Have you checked?  Is a copy stored off-site?  Have you tried to restore from your back-up?

Note:  tape back-ups fail 30% of the time – so don’t rely on them.

Note:  disaster recovery and back-up are quite different – you need both.

Peter Philipp – Director, TechOnline Pty Ltd. (=61 3 9886-9630)

TechOnline focuses on “proactively managing” and not “reactively fixing” your computers.  It does this by delivering a daily, fully automated and cost- effective service for small business.  A recent Telstra Business Awards state finalist, winner of Comm Bank “Small Business CHAMPION Award”,  listed in AFR’s “25 Rising Stars” and winner of  “Business Excellence” and “Innovation” awards, TechOnline’s service provides:

-          security and monitoring

-          offsite backup

-          disaster recovery, and

-          24 x 7 helpdesk to provide technical advice and resolve (fix) problems.

Don’t wait for your next computer incident. Protect your business now.

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Amazingly, we’re already moving through another year at break-neck speed!

And this quick note is about just that. About time! And about having the time of our lives.
That’s precisely what you get from an evening with the genius who is Don Tolman. This is your special invitation to share an evening with him in February. That’s right, Don will be back in February for his inspiring, hard-hitting, 2 ½ hour evening program in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane.

It’s an evening that’s FREE to you as a friend of Business Success Mastery, saving you the normal $89 entry to experience Don. Again, it’s free to you as our guest. And I caOURNEn promise you it IS a truly fantastic evening.

If you’re yet to experience this event, I can promise you it’s an evening you’ll benefit from for the rest of your life. If you’ve already been to this program before, you’ll know Don has an incredibly powerful and timely message in relation to our own health and education. You’ll know that Don inspires with his discussion about two revolutions that are upon us – Self-Care and Self-Education.

If you don’t need any further introduction to Don and want to see him Live in February as our guest, jump straight to Fortune Events and register now. Be sure to enter the Privilege Code: IAN to get your FREE ticket before this program sells out (as it always does!). And you’ll want to pass this on quickly to your friends too. Here are the details for An Evening with Don Tolman in February:

PERTH: Monday 16th February – 6:30pm – Novotel Perth Langley, 221 Adelaide Terrace, Perth
ADELAIDE: Tuesday 17th February – 6:30pm – The Sebel Playford, 120 North Terrace, Adelaide
MELBOURNE: Wednesday 18th February – 6:30pm – The Sebel Albert Park, 65 Queens Road, Melbourne
GOLD COAST: Thursday 19th February – 6:30pm – Gold Coast International Hotel, 7 Staghorn Avenue, Surfers Paradise
BRISBANE: Friday 20th February – 6:30pm – The Sebel King George Square, Cnr Ann & Roma Streets, Brisbane

Click Here to Register now! Remember to use the Privilege Code: IAN to obtain your FREE ticket (saving you $89).

If Don has so far escaped your gaze, let me explain precisely why this is one of those must-be-at evenings – an evening that stuns you with its impact and insights.
First, you can click on the screen below for a snippet from a recent evening program.

Kristina Mills from Brisbane, who attended one of Don’s programs puts it this way: “Every now and then a person comes along who impacts you so profoundly that life as we know it is never the same again. Einstein did it. Da Vinci did it. Newton did it. And I believe (no, I know) that Don Tolman is doing the same. He is pure genius.”

Seen enough? Register HERE NOW for An Evening with Don Tolman, LIVE in February. Remember, to enter your Privilege Code: IAN at the registration page to get your FREE ticket and be sure and forward this email and this special code onto your friends so that they too can obtain a FREE ticket before this program sells out.

Don has spoken to more than 1,000 audiences in all 50 U.S. states and in 7 foreign countries. His media credits include more than 50 radio and TV talk show appearance per year.

In Australia, he’s jammed switchboards after appearing on Channel 10 and in New Zealand a planned 5 minute TV interview extended for 35 minutes. Just last September, nearly 200 people had to be turned away such was the rush for tickets for this evening event. He’s already wowed thousands of people in live events in Australia in the past 3 years. And now, you can experience him live. And it really is an ‘experience’.

Don Tolman has earned the right to speak at some of world’s leading health and technology organisations such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Health Research Academy at Cornell University in New York City and the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

In what you’ll see as a totally enthralling (and absolutely flowing, fun) evening, Don takes you on an amazing journey of discovery—a journey that parallels his own and one that’s been documented on TV’s Discovery Channel. Amongst so many things, you’ll discover:

• Why we’re losing the so-called ‘war on cancer’—and who IS winning. (Don is retained as a consultant in US Hospitals—when cancer patients are sent home because ‘there’s nothing that can be done’, Don works with those critical cases to bring them back to FULL life in every sense of that word).
• Precisely why our education system is failing us and how to turn that right around too. You’ll learn and you’ll actually see firsthand how to get so much more from the gifts we’ve been given. (Incidentally, it’s always at this point in the evening program where the entire room bursts into sustained applause—that’s how stunning it is).
• Why we’re being conned as a nation, indeed as a global community, and being sucked in by stuff that actually harms our lives. And how to stop that happening to you with 7 MAJOR keys to maintaining your health, vitality and living a disease-free life.
• What the future holds for the education of our children and why the new Age of Imagination calls for an entirely new method of learning.
• Why self-care and self-education delivers so much more than our ‘traditional’ systems of health and learning and why we owe these gifts to ourselves and our children
And although you may not realise it, Don Tolman has already influenced you.

He trained as a neuro-scientist and (as a direct result of working with ancient wisdom) he developed those magical 3-D pictures that apparently sprang from a random collection of dots. And there’s much more to that than you can imagine right now.

Don describes this special evening this way: “I am not aware of a more complete in depth evening program being presented, sharing this kind of knowledge, anywhere on the earth at this time.”

An evening like this clearly IS rare. And it’s clearly important. And you can come to the evening, NOT for the $89 ticket price, but for FREE as my guest by registering now at Fortune Events and using the Privilege code: IAN
And, because Don’s message is so important, you can CLICK HERE to pass this invitation onto your friends so that they can take advantage of a free ticket too whilst they’re still available.

So you (and your friends) are saving $89 just by responding quickly to this email. But more importantly, you and they will be experiencing an evening you’ll remember and benefit from for a lifetime.

I really do encourage you to be at this unique, powerful evening. You’ll experience genius first-hand (and you’ll have so much fun with Don in every sense of that word). And because you’re coming as my guest for FREE I’m taking away any hesitation and risk you might normally feel.

Again, it’s really simple. Just go to Fortune Events, select your city of choice for An Evening with Don Tolman and then follow the registration prompts. Remember on the booking page, it will ask for a Privilege Code so that you can get your FREE ticket. Enter: IAN in this section.

And, by the way, if it’s more convenient for you, just pick up the phone and dial 1800 623 890. Have your Privilege Code handy and our happy team at Fortune Events will register you instantly.

Whatever you do, PLEASE DO IT QUICKLY because this event will definitely sell out quickly just as it did in September when Don last delivered this amazing event in Australia.

I’m really looking forward to welcoming you to this special evening in either Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gold Coast or Brisbane with the remarkable Don Tolman. It’s a wonderful way to get the absolute most, not just out of the year ahead, but the rest of your life.

Have a healthy day

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When consulting one on one or presenting at one of our workshops, after explaining a process or a strategy I often get all the ‘but’s’ and ‘That’s great but we have a problem with … ‘

My advise is “You always see or get what you are looking for” or to put it another way you create ‘your world’ with the way you think.

Consider it is all about the way you and your thoughts are ‘being’. At Creative Business Builders we insist on ‘being’ creative.

Problems are things we make up to avoid something, maybe our success?

The following post is based on an article I came across some time ago, I cannot recall where or who the author is, however I would like to acknowledge the author for their creative work.

Japanese grocery stores had a problem.

They are much smaller than shops and therefore don’t have room to waste. Watermelons,big and round, wasted a lot of space. Most people would simply tell the grocery stores that watermelons grow round and there is nothing that can be done about it.

That is how majority of people would respond. But some Japanese farmers took a different approach.
If the supermarkets wanted a square watermelon, they asked themselves, “How can we provide one?”

With some creative thinking it wasn’t long before they invented the square watermelon.

The solution to the problem of round watermelons was not to solve as the farmers did not assume it was impossible – and simply asked how it could be done.

They found out that if you put the watermelon in a square box when they are growing, the watermelon will take on the shape of the box – and grow into a square fruit!

This made the grocery stores happy and had the added benefit that it was much easier and cost effective to ship the watermelons. Consumers also loved them because they took less space in their refrigerators
which are much smaller than those in the West meaning that the growers could charge a premium price for them.

What does this have do with anything in life or at your job or business Systems? Here are a few lessons that can you can take away from this story which I know will help you :

1. Don’t Assume:

The major problem was that most people had always seen round watermelons so they automatically assumed that square watermelons were impossible before even thinking about the question.

Things that you have been doing a certain way your entire life have taken on the aura of the round watermelon and you likely don’t even take the time to consider if there is another way to do it. Breaking yourself from assuming this way can greatly improve your overall life as you are constantly looking for new and better ways to do things.

This was one of the most difficult things for me to do because most of the assumptions I make, I don’t even realize that I’m making them.

They seem perfectly logical at the time and on the surface, so I have to constantly make an effort to question them.

Remember the saying: To Assume makes an Ass out of You and Me

2. Question your habits:

The best way to tackle these assumptions is to question your habits. If you can make an effort to question the way you do

things on a consistent basis, you will find that you can continually improve the way that you work.

Forming habits when they have been well thought out is usually a positive thing, but most of us have adopted our habits from various people and places without even thinking about them.

I have changed a large number of habits that I have had after taking the time to question them and continue to do so on an ongoing basis. Some of them I have know idea where they came from while others I can trace to certain people or instances in my life.

It’s a never ending story or process, but by doing this, you can consistently strive toward making all aspects of your life more enjoyable instead of defaulting to what you have now.

Remember doing things the same habitual way will give you the same results – Nothing will change!

3. Be Creative:

When faced with a problem, be creative in looking for a solution.

This often requires thinking outside the box. Most people who viewed this question likely thought they were being asked how they could genetically alter water melons to grow square which would be a much more difficult process to accomplish.

By looking at the question from an alternative and creative perspective, however, the solution was quite simple. Being creative and looking at things in different ways in all portions of your live will help you find solutions to many problems where others can’t see them. I am fortunately a creative person, so I’ve found that the more that you look at things from different perspectives, the more creative you will become. It’s a learned art and builds upon itself.

4. Look for a better way:
The square watermelon question was simply seeking a better and more convenient way to do something.

The stores had flagged a problem they were having and asked if a solution was possible. It’s impossible to find a better way if you are never asking the question in the first place. I try to ask if there is a better way of doing the things that I do and I constantly write down the things I wish I could do (but currently can’t) since these are usually hints about steps I need to change.

Get into the habit of asking yourself, “Is there a better way I could be doing this?” and you will find there often is.

Remember the Teacher (the solution) will appear when the student is ready (or asking)

5. Impossibilities often aren’t:

If you begin with the notion that something is impossible, then it obviously will be for you. Remember “You always see or get what you are looking for” or to put it another way you create ‘your world’ with the way you think.

If, on the other hand, you decide to see if something is possible or not, you will find out through trial and error. Take away the lessons from the square watermelons and apply them to all areas in your life (work, finances, relationships, etc) and you will find that by consistently applying them, you will constantly be improving all aspects of your life.

I am confident we can bring about change if we really want to.

Remember concentrate on what you want – the solution. Not what you don’t want – the problem

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