How many times have you wondered why you aren’t successful, fortunate or happy as some other people seem to be? Why haven’t you accomplished this or that? Do you believe you don’t have it in you? I beg to disagree, you do have the potential. This little three minute movie Why Not Me? asks you to examine yourself, and answer Why Not Me? and ask yourself better questions that will create more happiness and opportunity for you. This little movie helps you to contemplate what questions you should really be asking when you ask why not me.

Why not create more happiness and opportunity for yourself? Watch the Why Not Me? movie today.

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

This is the last post about the inner game of distinguishing yourself. The next posts about distinguishing yourself will focus on the outer game. According to Rajesh Setty the last step of the inner game is about love. Within this step of exploring ones inner self consider that passion rules. Problems arise so that heroes may overcome them. Remember of course that Success=Love what you do and Do what is required.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. -  Francoise de Motteville

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If I have everything set up right with Tweetlater you should be able to get the link to my new 6 page PDF The Responsibility Report: Performance Improvement for Peak Performance by following me at the microblogging platform Twitter. Just set up an account at Twitter.com and then follow me at http://twitter.com/kstien1959. You should receive a welcome email with the link to the report.

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau

Rajesh Setty lists in his book Beyond Code that the fourth step of the inner game of distinguishing oneself is to make lasting impressions. In making lasting impressions you show that you care about both others and the quality of your work. Be resourceful, and go beyond the call of duty. Most of all, leave a legacy so that people in general, or people at your company or project remember you when you’re gone.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.- Dale Carnegie

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Part of personal development is weight loss if you are overweight due to the fact that being overweight can contribute to many health problems. I personally love salads as a meal or part of a meal from time to time. Are you someone who loves salads and are using them as a part of your weight loss plan? If you are eating salads in order to lose weight you could be sabotaging your weight loss plan. Here’s how this may be happening:

Did you know that any type of oil used in foods or in cooking are high in fat? This includes the various types of oils used in salad dressings. This includes oils that are thought to be healthy such as olive oil. Unfortunately many Americans consume 60 grams of added fat each day in the form of oils.

The culprits in question here are refined or extracted oils. They are 100 % fat. What can you do to avoid sabotaging your lettuce and other green salads?

Here are some tips that you may follow:

1.    Don’t use salad dressing on your salad. Include enough of a variety of vegetables in it that it has a naturally good flavor.
2.    Use flavored vinegars. There are several available now and some even come in convenient spray bottles so that you may spray your salad with these vinegars.
3.    Use fresh lemon juice as a flavoring. Take a fresh lemon, cut it in half and squeeze the juice out of it directly into your salad.

If eating a green salad without salad dressing doesn’t appeal to you then here’s some ideas to watch the amount of fat that you are consuming:

1.    Make sure that you use salad dressings that use unrefined oils. Unrefined oil has bioactive components. This gives them healthful benefits and provide full-bodied flavor. It also makes the oil more prone to oxidation.
2.    Rather than pouring salad dressing directly onto your salad pour a small amount such as two to four ounces in a small container. Dip your fork into the container randomly as you eat the salad and by the time you are done eating the salad you should have consumed much less salad dressing than you normally would have.

My advice is to eat your green salads. Use organically grown lettuce, preferably fresh Romaine whenever available, and if you are careful about what you put on your salads you should start to lose weight, especially if used with other healthy lifestyle habits.

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As I walk’d by myself, I talk’d to myself And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee. - Bernard Barton

According to Rajesh Setty the third step in the inner game of distinguishing yourself is to look. Look both beyond what is expected of you and at places, ideas, people and other influences with which you can learn from and leverage. This includes such things as your schooling, religion, and your circle of influence among other things of importance to look at an examine your life.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. - Israel Zangwill

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. - Lloyd Alexander

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston

Do you know that through laughter you can help distinguish yourself? Not only that laughter can be helpful in fighting illness as you are more positive and encouraged by it.  Rajesh Setty says that the second step in the inner game on the course to distinguishing yourself is to laugh. The most important thing is to laugh at yourself, to not take yourself too seriously.

If you can laugh at yourself you are likely to make more friends and develop your character. To thrive in your work choose a place where everyone takes their job seriously, but does not take themselves too seriously.

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Morris Adler

This post is another based upon the book Beyond Code by Rajesh Setty. In the journey to distinguish oneself their are several steps in what is known as the inner game and the outer game. The first of these steps of the inner game is to learn.

Learning, which is an ongoing journey of building long lasting relationships, communication skills, identifying strengths in order to run with them, setting the right expectations, keeping a scorecard of this journey, and reading the right materials. Although there is a great deal more to this learning process, in summary of the chapter from Beyond Code on learning, is to remember to seek information, develop a powerful network, and be prepared for rapid context switches. Also, one must remember to learn by teaching what you want made clearly known to others.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. - Aristotle

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My apologies to Rajesh Setty the author of this fine book that is written as a means to let programmers and other high tech people distinguish themselves. The reason that I apologize is that it has been over two years since Rajesh sent me the book for me to write a review and due to personal circumstances I have put off doing so until recently. The purpose of his book as stated at http://www.lifebeyondcode.com is to provide a recipe for technology professionals to raise above the commodity crowd and become remarkable. So why am I reviewing this book on a blog about personal development and self-improvement? Read on and discover why.

There is so much information to digest from this book that you must first break it down into the 9 steps that author Rajesh Setty uses in this book and them more importantly look at this information in light of the big picture. In distinguishing yourself you are most importantly developing yourself. But is this book about business development, about computer software writers and programmers, or about personal development? Does it apply to the software developers and programmers or to people in general?

The answer to these questions is simple. In the constant journey to distinguish yourself professionally you develop characteristics that can and should be applied in both your business and personal life. Rajesh comes from a background of among other things being a computer software developer; however, in my opinion this book is not just for software developers, but it is rather for anyone looking to stand out from the crowd. In doing so a person engages in a journey through personal growth.

In Beyond Code Rajesh examines what he refers to in the journey to distinguish oneself as being steps in the inner game and the outer game.  Over the course of the next month these steps will be the focus of  nine to ten blog posts. I will mention Rajesh in each of these posts. If you would like to check out his blog that offers several of his insights on the subject of his book as well as helpful tips for online professionals I would suggest visiting http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com/

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