Archive for March, 2010
Bob Proctor: The Brain Behind the Law of Attraction
Self-improvement or empowerment is not a new idea to the 21st century. Actually, such ideas have floated down through the decades since the 1930s. Before that, motivational speakers and forums might have been called something else. Today, the Law of Attraction is the key idea that has encouraged millions of people worldwide to reach for and attain goals in personal growth, financial independence and productivity.
Bob Proctor, the Canadian-born founder of the Law of Attraction self-improvement method, has been teaching and instructing people throughout the globe how to obtain prosperity and improved personal relationships since the 1960s.
Although a high-school dropout, Proctor has always had goals. He was not born into money and did not live a pampered life. He experienced many of the same trials and frustrations millions of people do today, including a lack of education and a sporadic work history. As a young man, he read a book that literally changed the course of his life. That book was called, “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. It was the first book of its type that he had ever read. He followed it with works by Earl Nightingale.
Nightingale was earning quite a reputation in the 1960s, along with his partner, Lloyd Conant, founders of Nightingale-Conant, producers and publishers of a new wave of personal improvement media that seemed ripe for the plucking during that unsettled era of personal and spiritual growth and freedom.
Soon Proctor began to work for the Nightingale-Conant Company, and before long he became vice president, promoting the immensely popular culture the company engendered. Soon, Bob Proctor created his own seminars and began speaking engagements around the world. Since then, his speeches, workshops and uplifting and encouraging motivational materials have helped thousands of people reach for and obtain their own personal goals.
The popularity of self-help tools and motivational speaking has reached an-all time high as the 21st century ushers in more independent thinkers and business people taking advantage of global communications made possible by the Internet. Using tools that teach positive thinking, motivation and how to maximize human potential, Bob Proctor has created a program that teaches and uplifts people from all walks of life. Through his seminars and teaching materials, possibilities that were unimaginable before now seem possible for anyone who reaches out for help.
The greatest thing about Bob Proctor, says the majority of his followers, is that he doesn’t talk at you, but with you as he speaks about attaining unheard-of wealth, personal satisfaction and growth. Anyone who has ever heard Proctor speak to audiences of hundreds has experienced the enthusiasm and joy he feels for his subject matter. Proctor offers not only the tools, but also the methods needed to use those tools to their fullest potential in order to obtain the goals that people yearn for. Take the time to find out what the Law of Attraction is all about. You won’t regret it.
Richard Gober
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/bob-proctor-the-brain-behind-the-law-of-attraction-155106.html
Role Models for a Real World: Tyra Banks, Oprah, Wynonna and Me
There’s a certain magic that comes with all celebrities – obviously. They are dynamic. They are engaging. In fact, even though we never meet them, they often become role models. Through their work, they invite us to look into ourselves and find the magic inside each of us. For plus size women, these role models also have something that we often have very little of – confidence. Even those female celebrities who struggle with their weight and body image seem to know that they have something magical and unique, and that it has nothing to do with the size of their derriere or the number on the tag of their blouse.
Like all human beings, starlets come in an endless array of shapes and sizes – they come in the slender variety by the dozens – and they come in the not-so-slender category, like fuller-figured retired supermodel Tyra Banks. Season after season, Tyra uses her popular show, America’s Next Top Model, to champion plus size women at every turn. And no conversation about plus-size role models would be complete without Oprah Winfrey – the queen of the modern-day weight battle.
So what is it about these particular women? Is it that they love themselves just a little more than the rest of us? Or is it simply that they ask US to love ourselves more – and to own EVERYTHING magical about ourselves that has NOTHING to do with our bodies?
Because I think that most of us look at their struggles with weight and often think, “Who cares?” When I see Wynonna Judd or Oprah struggling with their weight over and over, I never stop being amazed that they would even CARE about that. They are accomplished and fantastic, after all, and their beauty is NOT up for debate. So the question I am then led to ask is this: What does that say about me???
Much to my amazement, time after time, the answer is that I stop seeing myself from the outside – as a “plus size” woman – and instead, I see myself as a PHENOMENAL woman. My beauty is also not up for debate – not even by me! And it does NOT depend on the size of my a**.
Believing that our worth is proportionately tied to our size (in adverse ratios, I might add) is as awful as believing that it is tied to our race, or our bank account, or the neighborhood we live in. It’s just another form of lies and false division. The WORST insult is when I do it to myself.
That is why I so often write about the importance of plus size fashion and having a killer wardrobe – because I am NOT going to let my magic be overlooked just because I’m hiding in the crowd, embarrassed about my weight. There’s so much more to me that really matters in this world. My style matters. My vision matters. My PASSION matters. My ability to inspire others, my capacity to spot great ideas, my savvy when it comes to marketing and positioning – all of that matters. My fat a**? Not so much. And that, quite simply, is how I feel about that.
Stacy Montgomery
http://www.articlesbase.com/fashion-articles/role-models-for-a-real-world-tyra-banks-oprah-wynonna-and-me-756538.html