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Looks like this could be a good read! Although vision boards online lend themselves to a more dynamic experience, this book looks to be a great knowledge source! Read the PR below for more.

What's your vision?
Michelle Magnan, Calgary HeraldPublished: Monday, November 03, 2008
New Book - Ever heard of a vision board?
Neither had we, but if it's good enough to be featured on Oprah, maybe we've all been missing out.
According to a new book by Joyce Schwarz called The
Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life (HarperCollins, 2008, $26.95), a vision board is something like a collage that helps you determine what you want out of life and how to get it.
In the book, Schwarz shares vision boards from everyday people to celebrities, including Jim Carrey and Robert Downey Jr.
She also gives tips on how to create your own boards, which can include photos, drawings and quotes, that will help lead you to the life you want.
If it all sounds very Secret-esque to you, it should.
Bob Proctor, a teacher from the uber-popular book and DVD, The Secret, wrote the foreword, while Jack Canfield, one of the creators behind The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, wrote the afterword.
Source: The Calgary Herald 2008

iLearning Global Conference
Join Me in "SOAKING IN" The Wisdom of the Top Speaking & Training Gurus at the:

Saturday November 8th
Phoenix, Arizona
iLearningGlobal is putting together an once-in-a-lifetime event with several

of the best speakers & trainers in the world!
Brian Tracy: “It’s a Wonderful Life,”get more out of yourself and achieve your goals far faster than you ever thought possible.
Steve Siebold: “Million Dollar Speaking Secrets,”Learn closely guarded strategies that professional speakers use to educate, motivate and inspire their audiences.
Dolf de Roos: “You Never Get What You Deserve - You Get What You Learn to Desire”
Paul Martinelli: “10 Lessons to Help You Create a New Belief,” If you can change your self- limiting beliefs, you can change your life forever
Kevin Carroll: “Purposeful Play”and how it can unleash the creative genius within all of us
Tony Alessandra: “The Platinum Rule - How to Get Along with Anyone and Make Friends in Just Minutes”...and Many more!
iLearningGlobal is offering this event to the public for the low price of $299 per person or to iLearningGlobal customers for only $99! (For an additional $30 you can bring a companion).

Mind Makeover Workshops
… the latest in the Law of Attraction

Every couple hopes that they'll live happily ever after. Reality check! Only one in four will. What makes the difference? Is it luck? Is it true love?

In the first of its kind mind makeover work shop, you will learn how to use the law of attraction to guide and transform your current relationship. You will discover how you created your current situation and your relationships with your thoughts and actions. And most importantly, you will learn how to makeover those thoughts and actions to bring more joy and happiness into your life and your relationships.

The workshop was developed by international author of the book What Do You Do When You Find Out Your Husband Is Gay? You Celebrate You! Carolyn M. Brown and her new husband, speaker John Belton Brown III.
Our passion is to assist others in living their dreams. We can guide you through the process of achieving your "passion for attraction". We will help you learn how to change your thoughts, to live your life with intent and how to manifest your dreams says Mr. Brown..The mind is creative; it processes your thoughts and experiences. All we have been all we are and all that we will be is dependent upon our thoughts. To transform our life, we must first transform our mind.
John and Carolyn find that through workshops they can enrich many more lives which in turn enrich their lives. Life is always a work-in-progress. It is gratifying to help others learn how to change their thoughts, channel their energy to manifest their life's desires; spiritual, financial, health, knowledge and their relationships. Mind Makeover workshop information:

Passion For Attraction - Creating Relationships
The Subconscious Mind.The Energy of “Creating” & Developing Harmonious Relationships through The Law of Attraction.

Topics of Workshop:
The Laws of the Universe
The Subconscious Mind
Thoughts -Beliefs
Identifying Limiting Beliefs
How to Change Limiting Beliefs
How to live your life with intent
How to use this knowledge to attract & enhance relationships
Available Dates: November 1st- Sold Out

Nov 15th, or 22, 2008 8:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.

OR 1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.

Location: Embassy Suites, Biltmore Fashion Park . 2630 E Camelback Road , Phoenix , Arizona $49.00 (single), $79.00 (couple) registration fee for each session, please indicate morning or afternoon session.
For more information on this and other workshops, please log onto
Contact:
Carolyn M. Brown
602.614.1867 http://www.amindmakeover.com/

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You're in the best shape of your life for your sport. You know winning techniques, strategies and tactics. You even know your opponents well. But you're not winning as often as you should. Sometimes you're even losing to opponents who clearly don’t have a physical edge on you. So you think you’ve got to train harder, longer, or more intensely?
Think about it some more. Athletic competition is about far more than physical techniques and training. Mental and emotional training is just as important, especially for sports that are the most physically demanding.Olympic swimmer Susie O’Neill should know. Every year from 1990 to 2000 she won a medal at every international swimming competition she entered. (Counting? She holds 35 Australian titles and eight Olympic medals.) "If you train hard physically for your sport, you should also train hard mentally," she writes in a plug for the book Mental Training for Peak Peformance by Steven Ungerleider. That’s not a piece of advice that just sounds good. What happens in your mind makes a difference in what happens on the scoreboard.
Understanding the importance of visualization can help you prevent losing to competitors you know you should beat. More than that, it can help you to win against competitors in your league who are bigger, stronger or faster than you. "When two athletes of equal -- and often unequal -- ability compete, the athlete with the mental edge most often emerges as the winner," according Kay Porter, author of The Mental Athlete.Right. Visualization is a necessary part of athletic training. But how exactly?You understand the importance of mental training and visualization. But how exactly do you go about it?As with physical training, mental training requires:-Time Just as you set aside time for physical training, you should schedule time to visualize. A few minutes daily is enough.

-Goal-setting You should set goals. But don’t obsess on them. Goals should be realistic. For example, if you’re 20% accurate from three point range in basketball, your goal might be to achieve 25-30% within a month. (Goals should be realistic. Visualizations don’t have to be -- more on that below)

-Planning You should plan your visualizations. Start a session by visualizing your strengths -- suppose you’ve got a reliable jump shot from five feet. See yourself hitting five, six, seven in a row. Then move to areas you want to improve. For example that top-of-the-key three-pointer. See yourself hitting ten in a row. -Motivation Just like physical training, visualization training requires motivation. Some days you might not feel like doing it. Mental pictures often need help from actual images on a vision board (a collage of goal-related images on a poster board) or, better yet, a multi-media, online vision board site such as visionboardsite.com.

-Action Yes, this means mental action: actually doing your positive self-talk, affirmations and visualizations daily. Expert Tips on Visualization Kay Porter: ""Mental training requires you to make a commitment to be as dedicated to training your mind as you are to training your body." Among the tips she offers for successful mental training are:1. Effective goal-setting2. Positive self-talk and affirmation3. Relaxation techniques4. VisualizationMistakes to avoid"It’s important not to set goals that are too overwhelming," according to Miguel Humara, at Athletic Insight, the Online Journal of Sport Psychology. Why? It can increase anxiety and cause a decrease in performance. Humara advises against speeding up or slowing the skill down in mental practice.

Visualization should take place in "real time" in your mind. Don’t visualize yourself as from a camera lens. Practice your visualizations from your perspective, from your own eyes. Finally, Humara cautions against unfocused visualization. Don’t just see yourself playing a perfect game. Instead, he says, you should select a specific skill to focus on in any visualization. Don’t overdo it.Obsessing on an athletic goal can make it harder to achieve, according to Craig Townsend, a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Director of It's Mind over Matter in Sydney, Australia. He specializes in mental coaching and visualization for elite swimmers. Townsend: "Often when we obsess or focus too much on what we want, it actually drives our goal further away from us. The key is to relax, allow your body to do what it has been trained to do, and trust that this will be enough to succeed."How to organize your mental trainingAs with anything, you should use the organizational tools that work for you.

Some choices include:Journaling -- writing down goals, visualization plans, and keeping a log or journal about them can can be just as valuable as a physical training log. Poster-board-and-glue vision boards -- Images are often more powerful than words for motivation. Cut out images from magazines that motivate you. Paste them on a piece of poster board. Hang this collage where you’ll see it daily.
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Online vision board sites such as http://www.visionboardsite.com/. You’ll have the advantage of multi-media, multi-sensory presentations. Best of all, you can create your own, using images and music from an online library. You can even upload material yourself. Sites such visionboardsite offer one-stop shopping for motivational and organizational tools. Motivational images, music, planning tools and record-keeping are all at your fingertips. A final advantage of an online vision board site is that, wherever you travel, it’s there: just log on, right after checking your email.