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YOU

The best investment online is YOU, your talents, and abilities. Everything stems from you. Your purpose, goals, and actions produce results. Everything that happens, or does not happen, online is up to you. It rests squarely on your shoulders.

Maybe previously you did not think of yourself as a valuable resource. Wealthy countries become wealthy due to their power and influence in certain markets, for some it is the technology sector, for others it is the mineral and materials they mine from the earth, and yet other countries value tourism as a money making tool. We, as individuals, have our own resources. In much of what we can become we leave our talents and skills undeveloped. These resources are our intellectual faculties, our energy level, ability to get things done, and a myriad of other skills.

Maybe it would be a good idea if we start to think of ourselves as valuable, a living, breathing people, capable of much achievement with many resources at our command. So how do we develop these human resources within us? The first step is to recognize that we have these achievement qualities before we can develop them.

INTELLECT

Our intellectual faculties can be exercised, like a muscle, in several ways. Reading is a great intellectual habit. I read at least one book per week. That is 50 books per year. In two years I have read over 100 books. We begin to see how constructive intellectual habits accumulate and empower us. Reading is one of the best ways to develop the intellect. Most of the books I read are on personal development, empowerment, and I also read fiction. Reading a book uses the mental machinery in such a way that the mind gets its exercise. It is much like going to a gym. Like our physical muscles, our mental muscles require exercise, and we can with application develop our intellects to a high level.

Yet another great way to develop the intellect, being one of the main components of our mind power, is by listening to CDs on self development. I listen to personal development recordings in the morning and during the day. My mind is constantly exposed to great thoughts and brilliant thinkers by this process.

If you combine book reading with listening to personal development CDs you have a very real powerhouse combination. I find this mind development a great help for me online as I describe a concept, in my articles, and reach for a thought, as a result of my personal development my powers of combination, analysis, and deduction are magnified.

Discussion, that is intellectual discussion not useless chit chat, is another tried and proven way to develop the mind. I am thinking about JOINING TOASTMASTERS, a group who meets to focus on bettering intellectual discussion, and I will let you know how this goes.

HEALTH

Health is linked with intellect. Since if one is in pain, either emotional or physical pain, then concentration goes out the window. Good health means, for me, a high energy level. The more active I am, the happier I get, and inactivity leads to regression, with activity leading to expansion in a certain direction. A healthy diet, a reasonable exercise program, I factor into my busy schedule. My energy level is tied in with my health. The higher my energy level the better, I feel it is so, my blogging and articles become.

TIME MANAGEMENT

A technique I have been using for several weeks is to plan my tasks the day before. This article was prepared yesterday. By writing out a list of what I want to achieve, as I work my way down the list, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment as I see my daily tasks completed.

Sometimes solutions to problems happen during sleep. This, dear reader, is a very fascinating part of our human mind power. A part of the mind must, in my experience, continue to work during sleep as when I awake in the morning many ideas, creative solutions, present themselves. These new ideas are new slants on problems previously unsolved.

A part of my mind, perhaps the subconscious part, took my list of tasks, and on its own accord with the direction from my conscious mind, the subconscious part continued to work on during sleep providing me with solutions to new Blog articles, and answers to problems not thought of before. I will look further into this faculty of the mind, as I find it stunning in its application, and part of our human potential and power.

PROCESS THE SHADOW

I have a part of myself that works against personal development within me and this part I call my shadow self. I consider the shadow a part that is unworthy of a person. It is the part of us that limits us with unbelief in our powers of accomplishment.

I will give you a simple example of the human shadow in action. You tell a friend you are going to call tomorrow. But you do not call. This is the human shadow in action. Not only have you let your friend down you have, more importantly, let yourself down by this unworthy act.

Getting back to my shadow. Even though I work to develop my intellectual faculties I do try and balance it by working on my shadow. This I find best, by working on my feelings, to expand instead of contract them, by attempting to have a bigger heart. Actions of the heart take into account other people’s feelings, what in the old days used to be called the moral sense, and being as polite as possible during my interactions and relationships with people.

MIND, BODY, AND SOUL BALANCE

Balance of mind, body, and soul is what I aim for in daily living. A healthy and active body, with a cool calm, yet sharp mind, meanwhile not neglecting the spiritual purpose behind it all. A healthy balance between body, mind, and soul makes blogging fun for me. You could say I am enjoying the journey. I wish the same for you, dear reader, to look after your best investment. Yourself.