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10 Minute Motivation
Sunday, 30th May 2010
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So the story goes, I got a Google Top 10 ranking for “Youth Motivational Speaker” and last week I released a quick video asking you all to go on a crazy treasure hunt to find all sorts of personal items. The time has come to reveal the method to my madness. *drumroll* Introducing… 10 Minute Motivation: How to get inspired and motivated in under 10 minutes!!!
I received a flood of emails from readers last week about the whole treasure hunt exercise. Everyone was dying to know exactly what was going on and so now you’re about to find out. Here’s the video that explains the whole concept:
So your challenge this week is to try the 10 Minute Motivation techniques using the items you collected from your treasure hunt last week. I’d love to hear how you went so email me - and let me know if it worked for you.
Thanks once again for helping me get ranked on Google and hopefully the 10 Minute Motivation technique will work for you as it’s worked for me over the past few months.
Good luck with your dreams...
Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!
AJ~
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Author: AJ Kulatunga
Category:
Inspire, motivation, inspiration, 10 Minute Motivation, AJ Kulatunga, Youth Motivational Speaker
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Google Top 10!
Sunday, 23rd May 2010
Hey hey hey! Just found out that I’ve got a Google Top 10 Ranking for Youth Motivational Speaker!!! This is huge for me considering there’s so many other great youth speakers out there and I’ve still got so much to do to take the Dream,Build,Inspire,Lead! message out there to the world. But at least its a start. So to say thanks, I’ve got something special planned for you guys.
So here’s a quick video of what it’s all about. Actually, its just a bit of a teaser into what I’ve got planned so check out the video:
So this week’s challenge is for you to get started on your treasure hunt and I’ll see you again next week!
Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!
AJ~
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Author: AJ Kulatunga
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Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!, Google, Top 10, Youth Motivational Speaker,
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Pivotal Moment
Sunday, 16th May 2010
It gives me great pleasure to announce another milestone for Dream,Build,Inspire,Lead! as today we have our first ever guest blog contribution from Lisa Foreman. Lisa is one of my closest friends and one of the few people who I turn to for advice when I get a little lost in life. She has this amazing ability to cut through the crap of any situation and just tell it how it is.
A few months ago I called Lisa up one night and told her about a particular business situation I was in and asked her advice on it. We had a really great conversation and the basis of it was this notion of a “pivotal moment”. I’ll let Lisa enlighten you on the concept:
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The pivotal moment – a life changing event, a shift in thinking – yes, it is all these things, and so much more.
We all know life passes us all by so quickly – we all go through our ups and downs, but there is a huge pressure forced upon many of us to quickly move on – get on with work, family and our social lives as quickly as possible.
But in our haste, are we forgetting that it’s ok to stop, take stock and fundamentally learn from whatever it is we have gone through?
There’s no doubt about it.
For those of us who have stopped and realised, a “pivotal moment” means something different for everyone.
Some people see it as a crossroads, a turning point in ones life or even simply a twist or shift.
For me, it has come after many years of great sorrow, pain and confusion – it felt like a moment that caught me by surprise - when the “penny dropped” and what I needed to do and the direction I needed to steer my life suddenly became a far clearer map to read.
Don’t be mistaken – it didn’t mean it was a tranquil journey– but the surety I felt about my path certainly made it easier to ride the waves with greater confidence.
Since my “epiphany” as I sometimes refer to it – I have also found myself to be greatly taken aback my other people’s stories and journeys.
Before I took note intently and with interest – now, I listen with an open mind – allowing myself to learn and grow from other people’s experiences of pain, heartache and loss – as well as amazing happiness, contentment and feelings of fulfilment.
The reason that most of us never really learn from our own experiences and those of others, is because I think while we may listen – we seldom really take the time to actually tune in.
We are all so often afraid of ourselves – that little voice in our head that we chose to ignore when we know something isn’t right – but we fight the voice and plough on ahead anyway because to listen is to scary, too confronting, or requires to much change.
I ignored the “alarm bells” as I now refer to it – in my head for almost seven years.
I wish I hadn’t let the pain become unbearable before I had the courage to face what I knew was true.
Thankfully, I have now learnt to not be afraid to be honest with myself about how I feel.
I share this story with people every now and again in hopes they will stop, take stock, learn and above all – be true to themselves.
Clarity will come – but only if you are brave enough to look the truth in the eye.
-Lisa Foreman (@LisaForeman)
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Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!
AJ~
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Author: Lisa Foreman
Category:
Inspire, guest post, pivotal moments, life changing, lessons,
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Big Appetite
Sunday, 9th May 2010
Today’s post is a different spin on the importance of being passionate in your life, but before we get into it a couple of quick plugs.
First, BLKMGK ICT is rolling out BLKMGK Go-Live which is a 3 week online course that teaches you everything you wanted to know about building and marketing your own website. If you know anyone who is interested in learning how to build their own website ask them to check out BLKMGK Go-Live.
Second, we’re now doing email subscriptions to the Dream,Build,Inspire,Lead! blog because I don’t want anyone to miss out on any posts so the plan is to email subscribers a summary of all the posts every month and it also gives me an opportunity to find out what people are thinking of the posts and what sort of topics should I be writing about. So help me take the Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! message out to the world and enter your details into the “Email” box over there on the left. Don’t worry, I’m paranoid about bad internet people getting ahold of my email address so all your details are just for me and me alone. Thanks HEAPS! So onto this week’s post.
You all know how important it is to have passion in your life and when you undertake to do something with passion you summon up a fire deep within you to bring out amazing results. Fellow motivational guru Les Brown takes the concept one step further and says that if you want something to happen in your life then you REALLLY REALLY REALLY have to want it bad. He calls this “hunger” and says that when you are REALLY REALLY REALLY hungry for something amazing things happen.
I stumbled upon one of his videos that illustrates this “hunger” that he talks about and combines it with looking for opportunities and the power of persistence. Check it out for yourself:
An AWESOME story and a lesson well learned. Don’t give up and while you are waiting keep preparing yourself for the moment an opportunity comes your way.
So this week I challenge you to develop your plan of action. What are you going to be working on and focusing on while you wait to seize your moment of opportunity? For example if you were like Les and you wanted to be a DJ, you’re going to need to learn how to be the perfect DJ so that would be part of your action plan.
Never give up and stay “hunnnnnngrrrrry!”
Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!
AJ~
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Author: AJ Kulatunga
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