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Explore nature with music.

Listen to the most famous themes of classic music rearranged by New Age. A wonderful twining of melodies and harmonies built on the magic music's of the end of millennium.

Here is a sample from Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey
by Vangelis.

Organizing THINGS IN and SPACE

In 1998 I was led to learn organizing information in paper and electronic forms, a year later to organizing projects and project execution, and now to organizing things and space.

In organizing information, we are told that the methodology should enable us to find what we are looking in 10 seconds. That the mindset should go like this: (aaa) What do I need? (bbb) When do I need it? and (ccc) Where can I find it?

In project organizing and execution I learned that the process shall be: visualize, plan, implement and close.

In organizing things and space, I learned that the way is to mimic the Kindergarten Model of Organization.

What makes it work?

1. The room is divided into activity zones.
2. It is easy to focus on one activity at a time.
3. Items are stored at the point of use.
4. It is fun to put things away-everything has a home.
5. Visual menu of everything that is important.

This is what Julie Morgenstern in the book Organizing from the Inside Out says about the Kindergarten Model of organization,

"Walk into any kindergarten classroom in the world, and you will behold the perfect model of organization. Think about what makes it work.

First the room is divided into activity zones: the Reading Zone, the Dress-up Zone, the Arts & Crafts Zone, the Music Zone, and the Snack Zone.

Second, it is easy for a child to focus on one activity at a time. Each zone is well defined and fully self-contained, so that the child can concentrate 100 percent on a given task; nothing else competes for his or her attention.

Third, everything needed for each activity is right there at the child’s fingertips because items are stored at their point of use. For example, if the child is doing arts and crafts, all the paper, crayons, markers, paints, brushes, and smocks needed for creative session are gathered in one convenient location.

Fourth, in a kindergarten classroom it is almost as much fun putting things away as it is playing with them. Every item has a clear, well-labeled home in a container that is the perfect size to hold it. There are sliding trays for the puzzles. Wooden blocks have holes in them for scissors (points down, handles up). Cubbies and hooks have the child’s name on them, maybe even the child’s picture. As a result you seldom see a kindergartner trying to figure out where to return something or struggling to shove fifty paintbrushes into twenty-five brush container. Cleanup is fast and easy. The teacher rings the bell, and in a matter of moments, the room is in tiptop shape once again.

Fifth, and most important, it offers a visual menu of everything that is important to the people who inhabit that space. A child can walk into that classroom, look around, and decide what to do and where to do it based on a set of clearly defined cues.

The beauty of the kindergarten model is that it can be applied to anything: from the whole home or office to just one room or a single drawer. By following this model, you will design your space for easy access and retrieval of any item. The space will be inviting and enjoyable to use and allow you to concentrate on one activity at a time. Your surroundings will give you visual cues as to what there is to do, and when life gets busy, and priorities get confused, a glance at your very environment will help keep you focused on who you are and what is important to you."

I submit to all of you (Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, Space Planners, Homemakers, Office workers) that the above model fits beautifully well too with information and project organizing.

If you are interested in a more detailed treatment of the methodology of the above organizing system visit Julie Morgenstern's Organizing Institute.

To see Ms. Morgenstern and some of the other works that she is doing, watch!

“when the rubber meets the road…”

Drawing is just an art to show one’s feeling and thought. While drafting is the technical one consisting of lines, shapes etc. with its magnitude and angles. But if you would combine drawing with drafting in engineering layout, you can create a masterpiece.

Mel, Jem and I met the Personnel Officer of the Provincial Engineers Office and it really is a mark to our group’s history. Our marketing strategy was challenge much … “Practice confidence with faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.

There’s a lot of work done this week. We conducted a seminar for the Department Of Science Technology scholars and there’s a lesson I have learned and proven. Never face a battle if you didn’t… Be sure to win the war before going to battle.

We had our meeting for the Servia Leadership Center with Sir Manny (Quizon). I learned from him how to make an annual report and the duties of a COO. I admire him for having a great mind knowing almost everything, from accounting to engineering, to office works and other stuff. Be careful on what decision you will make especially if there’s a lot involved. Do what you can and do your best but don’t forget to ask questions if you are in doubt. Ask the people who have more skill and knowledge about the job.

Servia Emotion Marketing Group came up with a brochure for the seminars and workshops being conducted by the Leadership Center and we receive praise from our CEO. It was a great honor for us. Thanks to the comments of Ycon and it came out that beautiful.

We went to different municipalities of Batangas to talk with the Baprosa Coordinators. Our target is to deliver the seminars and workshops conducted by Servia or just let them know that we are doing this kind of job.

Being at Servia is cool. We’ve been to different places here in our province, met different people with different attitudes. And now, we’ve just move outside, we went to Harvard School of Laguna to talk to their Personnel Officer to discuss the Team Building Seminar.

...Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny...

And now the end is near… 800 hours. Being with Servia is full of happiness, learning and sharing life with each other. Servia taught me to discover new things, learn more about myself and be concern with others.

Thank You All! GODBLESS!”

- Francis June Fortunado
4th Year Electrical Engineering, SY 2001-2002
Batangas State University, Philippines
On the matter of his stint with the SERVIA TEAM

The Secret

The Secret: Thoughts Are Things; there is The Master Key System; you should tap Your Invisible Power ; and that there is too, a Science of Getting Rich.

Who Said? Prentice Mulford, Charles Haanel, Genevieve Behrend, Wallace Wattles ...Robert Collier (New Thought Library)

The Law: "What you think about and thank about, you bring about."

I agree!

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Secrets A1-H8 are excerpts from the book 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself , Steve Chandler, Career Press 2004

Secret H8 - Connect truth to beauty

I hate reading motivational material that thunders at me about the importance of integrity and honesty for their own sake. Somehow, that always seems to turn me off, because the writers come off like angry preachers and teachers. Hardly inspiring.

I’m always inspired better by things that are made to look interesting and fun. I’m always taken in by a promise of life being more beautiful and rarely taken in by a promise of a life being more righteous and proper.

To me, the best case to make for honesty is how beautiful it is…how clean and clear it makes the journey from current reality to the dream.

When people know exactly where they are, they can go somewhere from there. But being “lost” is a function of dishonesty. And when we’re lost, or dishonest, anywhere we go from there is wrong. When we start with a false reading, there’s no direction home.

Like Bob Dylan’s rolling stone, we don’t know who we are. We feel at the core, “like a complete unknown.”

Truth, on the other hand, is clear, complete, and compellingly vivid. It is solid and strong, so it can hold us steady as we climb.

“Truth,” said poet John Keats, “is beauty.”

The more honest we are with others and ourselves about current reality, the more energy and focus we gather. We don’t have to keep track of what we told one person or what we told another.

One of the best and most positive explanations of the beauty of personal integrity was expressed by Nathaniel Branden in The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Branden, unlike most writers on the subject, sees truth and integrity as a positive part of the process of self-esteem. His point is not that we owe it to other people’s sense of morality to be honest, but that we owe it to ourselves.

“One of the great self-deceptions,” said Branden, “is to tell oneself, ‘Only I will know.’ Only I will know that I am a liar; only I will know that I deal unethically with people who trust me; only I will know that I have no intention of honoring my promise. The implication is that my judgment is unimportant and that only the judgment of others counts.”

Branden’s writing on personal integrity is inspiring because it’s directed at creating a happier and stronger self, not at a universal appeal for morality.

One of the ways we describe a work of art that is sloppy and unfinished is as “a mess.” The problem with lying or lying by omission, is that it leaves everything so incomplete---in a mess. Truth always completes the picture---any picture. And when a picture is complete, whole, and integrated, we see it as “beautiful.”

I’ll even hear about people---usually people who you can’t believe about anything---described as “a mess.” And conversely, a person who you can always count on to be honest with you is often referred to as a “beautiful” person. Truth and beauty become impossible to separate.

Truth leads you to a more confident level in your relationships with others and with yourself. It diminishes fear and increases your sense of personal mastery. Lies and half-truths will always weigh you down, whereas truth will clear up your thinking and give you the energy and clarity needed for self-motivation.

Secret G7 - Embrace the new frontier

Fortunately, for all of us, a new frontier is upon us. Because our nation, and world, has entered the information age, the old patterns for living are gone.

An article by business writer John Huey appeared in the June 27, 1994 edition of Fortune. In it, Huey observed, “Let’s say you’re going to a party, so you pull out some pocket change and buy a little greeting card that plays ‘Happy Birthday’ when it’s opened. After the party, some casually tosses the card into the trash, throwing away more computer power than existed in the entire world before 1950.”

In the old paradigm, forged in the Industrial Age, we human beings became less and less useful and adventurous. We found lifelong employment in guaranteed jobs and did our jobs the same way until retirement. Then, once we reached retirement age, we became thoroughly useless to society and lived lives dependent on the government, our relatives, or our own savings that we accumulated in our “useful” years.

Now, with the technological explosion and entry into the Information Age, employers are no longer as interested in our job histories as they used to be. They are now more interested in our current capabilities.

One of the romantic appeals of the early Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett frontier days in our nation was the usefulness of individuals. If you were living out on the frontier, farming, cooking, and hunting, and you turned 65, it would never occur to anyone to ask you to “retire.”

We have finally come back to those days of honoring usefulness over age and status. For example, if my company is trying to enter the Chinese market to sell its software and you, at age 70, can speak fluent Chinese, know all about software, and have energy and a zest for success, how can I afford to ignore you?

Bill Gates of Microsoft has said, “Our company has only one asset – human imagination.” If you took all of Microsoft’s buildings, real estate, office hardware, physical assets – anything you can touch – away from the company, where would it be? Almost exactly where it is now. Because in today’s world a company’s value is in it’s thinking, not in its possessions.

This is great news for the individual – because usefulness is back in style. If you can cultivate your skills, keep learning new things, study computers, learn a foreign language, or become expert in a foreign culture and market – you can make yourself useful.

The great basketball coach John Wooden recommended that we live by this credo – especially apt for the new technological frontier: “Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.”

Gone are the days when you employability depended primarily on your job history, your school ties, your connections, your family, or your seniority. Today your employability depends on one thing – your current skills. And those skills are completely under your control.

This is the new frontier. And where we once entered retirement age nervous about the “wolves at our door,” today, with a commitment to lifelong growth through learning, we can be as useful to the world community as we are motivated to be.

The more we learn about the future, the more motivated we become to be a valuable part of it.

Secret F6 - Run with the thinkers

The president of a major office equipment company put his problem to me this way: “How do I get the whiners in my company to stop whining and start coming up with solutions?”

He went on to explain that he had two kinds of people working for him, the Whiners and the Thinkers.

The Whiners were often very smart and dedicated employees who worked long, hard hours. But when they came to the manager’s office , it was almost always to complain.

“They’re great at finding fault with other managers and telling me what’s wrong with our systems,” the president said, “but they are a drain on me because they’re so negative that I end up trying to make them feel better. After that, I’m depressed.”

The Thinkers, on the other hand, had a different way of coming into the office with problems.

“The Thinkers come to me with ideas,” he said. “They see the same problems that the Whiners see, but they’ve already thought about possible solutions.”

The Thinkers, in other words, have assumed ownership of the company, and are creating the future of the company with their thinking. The Whiners have stopped thinking. Once the problems are identified, and their reaction to them justified, the thinking stops.

The Thinkers have taken their reaction to the company’s problems past their emotions, and into their minds. And because they have formulated some solutions, the nature of their meeting with the manager is creative. It’s a brainstorming meeting. The manager enjoys these meetings because they stimulate his mind, too. Both parties leave the meeting feeling energized intellectually, and the manager looks forward to future meetings with the Thinkers.

The Whiners have left their reaction to their company’s problems down at the emotional level. They express resentment, fear, and worry. The manager’s problem in such a meeting is that he deals primarily with those emotions, so he finishes the meeting with his own sense of discouragement.

When you are committed to self-motivation as a way of life, you will fall in the realm of the Thinker. Your thinking not only creates your motivation, but it creates your relationships, your family, and the organization you work for as well, because they are all part of you. You are more valuable to your organization with this orientation to thinking, and you’re more valuable to yourself.

Secret E5 - Think outside the box

Once I attended a new business proposal presentation by Bob Koether, in which he had his prospective customers all play a little nine-dot game that illustrated to them that the solutions to puzzles are often simple to see if we think in unconventional ways.

As people laughed and tore up their puzzles in frustration when Koether showed them the solution, he stood up to make his final point.

“We restrict our thinking for no good reasons,” said Koether. “We do things simply because that’s the way we always did them. I want you to know that our commitment in serving your company is to always look outside the box for the most innovative solutions possible to our problems. We’ll never do something just because that’s the way we have always done it.”

To many business leaders pitching a lucrative account, this kind of puzzle-solving exercise would simply be considered a clever presentation. But to Bob Koether, it was a symbolic expression of his whole life in business.

Once, on a Xerox-sponsored trip in Cancun, Mexico, Bob and Mike spent the day out in treacherous waters on a fishing boat. After coming ashore, they retired to Carlos O’Brien’s restaurant for tequila and beer and a period of reflection on their lives in sales thus far.

“We knew that as well as we had done, we would never own boats like the one we were just in if we remained at Xerox,” said Bob. “We talked about possibilities in the bar, and it wasn’t long before we noticed some black T-shirts on the wall with the word infinity on them. Then, for more than two hours, Mike and I discussed just what the word infinity meant. Out of that discussion, a dream was born, a dream that took shape in the form of Infinity Communications.”

Bob Koether and his brother believed that there was one vital area in which Xerox was underperforming – and that was customer service. What if, they asked, a company’s commitment to the customer was infinite? Not boxed-in, but unlimited in its possibilities for creative service?

With that concept as motivation, the two brothers formed “Infincom” (short for Infinity Communications) in the state of Arizona, and within 10 years they grew from six employees and no customers into a $50 million business with more than 500 employees. And for the past three years straight, the Arizona Business Gazette has ranked Infincom the number-one office equipment company in Arizona – ahead of Xerox.

All of us tend to look at our challenges from inside a box. We take what we’ve done in the past and put it in front of our eyes and then try to envision what we call “the future.” But that restricts our future. With that restricted view, the best the future can be is a “new and better past.”

Great motivational energy occurs when we get out of the box and assume that the possibilities for creative ideas are infinite. To realize the best possible future for yourself, don’t look at it through a box containing your own past.

Secret D4 - Make today a masterpiece

Most of us think our lives accumulate. We think they are adding up to something. We think of our lives as being strung together like a long smoky train, so that we can add new freight cars when we’re feeling right, and dump the others on a siding somewhere when we’re not.

But when basketball legend John Wooden’s father said to him, “Make each day your masterpiece,” Wooden knew something profound: Life is now. Life is not later on. And the more we hypnotize ourselves into thinking we have all the time in the world to do what we want to do, the more we sleepwalk past life’s finest opportunities. Self-motivation flows from the importance we attach to today.

John Wooden was the most successful college basketball coach of all time. His UCLA teams won 10 national championships in a 12-year time span. Wooden created a major portion of his coaching and living philosophy from one thought – a single sentence passed on to him by his father when Wooden was a little boy – “Make each day your masterpiece.”

While other coaches would try to gear their players toward important games in the future, Wooden always focused on today. His practice sessions at UCLA were every bit as important as any championship game. In his philosophy, there was no reason not to make today the proudest day of your life. There was no reason not to play as hard in practice as you do in a game. He wanted every player to go to bed each night thinking, “Today I was at my best.”

Most of us, however, don’t want it to be this way. If someone asks us if today can be used as a model to judge our entire life by, we would shriek, “On no! It isn’t one of my better days. Give me a year or two and I’ll live a day, I’m certain of it, that you can use to represent my life.”

The key to personal transformation is in your willingness to do very tiny things – but to do them today. Transformation is not an all-or-nothing game, it’s a work in progress. A little touch here and small touch there is what makes your day (and, therefore, your life) great. Today is a microcosm of your entire life. It is your whole life in miniature. You were “born” when you woke up, and you’ll “die” when you go to sleep. It was designed this way, so that you could live your whole life in a day.

Secret C3 - Find your master key

I used to have the feeling that everyone else in life had at one time or another been issued instruction books on how to make life work. And I , for some reason, wasn’t there when they passed them out.

I felt a little like the Spanish poet Cesar Vallejo, who wrote, “Well, on the day I was born, God was sick.”

Still struggling in my mid-30s with a pessimistic out-look and no sense of purpose, I voiced my frustration once to a friend of mine, Dr. Mike Killebrew, who recommended a book to me. Until that time, I didn’t really believe that there could be a book that could tell you how to make your life work.

The name of the book was The Master Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill. It sat on my shelf for quite awhile. I didn’t believe in motivational book or self-help. They were for weak and gullible fools. I was finally persuaded to read the book by the word riches in the title. Riches would be a welcome addition to my life. Riches were probably what I needed to make me happy and wipe out my troubles.

What the book actually did was a lot more than increase my earning capacity (although by practicing the principles in the book, my earning doubled in less than a year). Napoleon Hill’s advice ultimately sparked a fire in me that changed my entire life.

I soon acquired an ability that would later realize was self-motivation. After reading that book, I read all of Napoleon Hill’s books. I also began buying motivational audiobooks for listening to in my car and for playing by my bed as I went to sleep each night. Everything I had learned in school, in college and from my family and friends was out the window. Without fully understanding it, I was engaging in the process of completely rebuilding my own thinking. I was, thought by thought, replacing the old cynical and passive orientation to life with a new optimistic and energetic outlook.

So, what is this master key to riches?

“The great master key to riches.” said Hill, “is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind. Remember, it is profoundly significant that the only thing over which you have complete control is your own mental attitude.”

Taking complete possession of my own mind would be a lifelong adventure, but it was one that I was excited about beginning.

Maybe Hill’s book will not be your own master key, but I promise you that you’ll find an instruction book on how to make your life work if you keep looking. It might be The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, The Last Word in Power by Tracy Goss, Frankenstein’s Castle by Colin Wilson, or The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden. All those books would have worked the primary transformation for me, and they have all taken me higher up the motivational ladder. Your own key might even come from the spiritual literature of your choice. You’ll find it when you’re ready to seek. It’s out there waiting for you.

Secret B2 - Definitely plan your work

Some of us may think we’re too depressed right now to start on a new course of personal motivation. Or we’re too angry. Or we’re too upset about certain problems.

But Napoleon Hill insisted that that’s the perfect time to learn one of life’s most unusual rules: “There is one unbeatable rule for the mastery of sorrows and disappointment, and that is the transmutation of those emotional frustrations through definitely planned work. It is a rule which has no equal.”

Once we get the picture of who we want to be, “definitely planned work” is the next step on the path. Definitely planned work inspires the energy of purpose. Without it, we suffer from a weird kind of intention deficit disorder. We don’t know where we’re going or what we’re up to.

When I was a training instructor at a time-management company many years ago, we taught people in business how to maximize time spent on the job. The primary idea was this: One hour of planning saves three hours of execution.

However, most of us don’t feel we have time for that hour of planning. We’re too busy cleaning up yesterday’s problems (that were caused by lack of planning). We don’t yet see that planning would be the most productive hour we spend. Instead, we wander unconsciously into the workplace and react to crises. (Again, most of which result from a failure to plan.)

A carefully planned meeting can take a third of the time that an unplanned free-for-all takes. A carefully planned day can take a third of the time that an unplanned free-for-all day takes.

My friend Kirk Nelson manages a large sales staff at a major radio station. His success in life was moderate until he discovered the principle of definitely planned work. Now he spends two hours each weekend on his computer planning the week ahead.

“It’s made all the difference in the world,” he said. “Not only do I get three times the work done, but I feel so in control. The week feels like my week. The work feels like my work. My life feels like my life.”

It is impossible to work with a definite sense of purpose and be depressed at the same time. Carefully planned work will motivate you to do more and worry less.

Secret A1 - Hold your vision accountable

“It’s not what a vision is,” says Robert Fritz “it’s what a vision does.”

What does your vision do? Does it give you energy? Does it make you smile? Does it get you up in the morning? When you’re tired, does it take you that extra mile? A vision should be judged by these criteria, the criteria of power and effectiveness. What does it do?

Robert Fritz is widely quoted in Peter Senge’s business masterpiece, The Fifth Discipline. Fritz is a former musician who has taken the basic principles of creativity in music composition and applied them to creating successful professional lives. Life gets good, he argues, when we get clear on what we want to create.

Most people spend most of their waking hours trying to make problems go away. This lifelong crusade to solve one’s problems is a negative and reactive existence. It sells us short and leaves us at the end of life (or at the end of the day) with, at best, the double -negative feeling of “fewer problems”!

“There is a profound difference between problem solving and creating,” Fritz points out in The Path of Least Resistance.
“Problem solving is taking action to have something go away—the problem. Creating is taking action to have something come into being—the creation. Most of us have been raised in a tradition of problem-solving and have little real exposure to the creative process.”

Step one in the creative process is having a vision of what you want to create. Without this vision, there is no way to create. Without this vision, you are only problem-eliminating, which is double negative. It’s impossible to feel positive about a life based on a double negative.

So the way to alter your thinking is to notice when you’re drifting into, “What do I want to get rid of?” and mentally replace that thinking with, “What do I want to bring into being?”

When Fritz says that we have been “raised in a tradition” of problem solving, he is almost understating it. We are programmed and wired to think that way everyday. Notice the thinking of people as they approach a challenge (even a challenge as small as an upcoming meeting with other people):

“Here’s what I hope doesn’t happen,” one will say. “Well, here’s how you can avoid that,” someone else will helpfully say. “The only problem we have is this,” a third person will say, attempting to make the meeting seem less frightening.

Notice that nowhere was there the question, “What would we like to bring into being as a result of this meeting?”

Whether the situation is as small as a meeting or as large as your whole life, the most useful question you can ask yourself is, “What do I want to bring into being?”

It’s a beautiful question, because it makes no reference to problems or obstacles. It implies pure creativity. It puts you back into positive side of life.
My friend Steve Hardison made an observation about self-motivation that I have always remembered and agreed with.

“It’s just one thought,” he said. “Motivational teachers repeat it in many different ways, but it’s just one thought: It’s a binary system. Are you on or are you off?

Are you positive or are you negative? Are you creating or are you reacting? Are you on or are you off? Are you life or are you death? Are you day or are you night? Are you in or are you out? “Is you is or is you ain’t?”

And there’s nothing more motivational to flip your binary switch to “on” than a clear vision of what it is that you really want. What do you want to bring into being? It doesn’t matter what that vision is or how often it changes. It only matters what that vision does.

If your vision isn’t getting you up in the morning, then make up another one. Keep at it until you develop a vision that’s so colorful and clear that it puts you in action just to think about it.