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		<title>The Secret Summaries</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secret Revealed The Great Secret of life is the law of attraction. The law of attraction says that like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also atracting like thoughts to you. Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret Revealed</strong></p>
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<li>The Great Secret of life is the law of attraction.</li>
<li>The law of attraction says that like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also atracting like thoughts to you.</li>
<li>Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source &#8212; you.</li>
<li>You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.</li>
<li>Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.</li>
<li>Your thoughts become things.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret Made Simple</strong></p>
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<li>The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law of gravity.</li>
<li>Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.</li>
<li>To know what you&#8217;re thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.</li>
<li>It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.</li>
<li>Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.</li>
<li><em>Secret Shifters</em>, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favorite music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in any instant.</li>
<li>The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>How to Use the Secret</strong></p>
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<li>Like Aladdin&#8217;s Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.</li>
<li>The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.</li>
<li>Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.</li>
<li>Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you&#8217;ve asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive.</li>
<li>Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.</li>
<li>To lose weight, don&#8217;t focus on &#8220;losing weight.&#8221; Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will sumomn it to you.</li>
<li>It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it its to manifest one million dollar.</li>
<li>Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action. Powerfully intend to attract something small. As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.</li>
<li>Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Powerfully Processes</strong></p>
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<li>Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don&#8217;t expect the things you don&#8217;t want.</li>
<li>Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for waht you already have, and you will attract more good things.</li>
<li>Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desires and sends a more powerful signal into the Universe.</li>
<li>Visualization is a process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, ou generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. THe law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.</li>
<li>To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.</li>
<li>At the end of everyday, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you want them to go.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Money</strong></p>
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<li>To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.</li>
<li>It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about money, as you feel better about it, more will flow into your life.</li>
<li>Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.</li>
<li>Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to yourself, &#8220;I can afford that. I can buy that.&#8221; You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money.</li>
<li>Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying, &#8220;I have plenty.&#8221;</li>
<li>Visualize checks in the mail.</li>
<li>Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Relationships</strong></p>
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<li>When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don&#8217;t contradict your desires.</li>
<li>Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give to anybody.</li>
<li>Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.</li>
<li>When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you.</li>
<li>To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints. When you focus on the strengths, you will get more of them.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Health</strong></p>
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<li>The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes that the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and and is cured.</li>
<li>&#8220;Focusing on perfect health&#8221; is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside.</li>
<li>Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.</li>
<li>Disease is heald in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little unwell, don&#8217;t talk about it&#8211;unless you want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in health.</li>
<li>Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.</li>
<li>Do not listen to society&#8217;s messages about diseases and aging. Negative messages do not serve you.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to the World</strong></p>
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<li>What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings.</li>
<li>You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world&#8217;s negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.</li>
<li>Instead of focusing on the world&#8217;s problems, give attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.</li>
<li>We will never run out of good things because there&#8217;s more than enough to go around for everyone. Life is meant to be abundant.</li>
<li>You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.</li>
<li>Praise and bless everying in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discard and align yourslef with the highest frequency&#8212;love.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to You</strong></p>
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<li>Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.</li>
<li>You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be created nor destroyed&#8211;it just changes form. Therefore, the pure eessence of you has always been and always will be.</li>
<li>The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own destiny but also of the Universe.</li>
<li>An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, awaiting for the hman mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness.</li>
<li>We are all connected, and we are all One.</li>
<li>Let go of difficulties in your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.</li>
<li>A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact.</li>
<li>Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, &#8220;Remember to remember.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Life</strong></p>
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<li>You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.</li>
<li>The only thing you need to do is feel good now.</li>
<li>The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you.</li>
<li>The time to embrace your magnificence is now.</li>
<li>We are in the midst of a glorious era. AS we let go of limiting thoughts, we will experience humanity&#8217;s true magnificence, in every area of creation.</li>
<li>Do what you love. If you don&#8217;t know what brings you joy, ask, &#8220;What is my job?&#8221; As you commit to your joy, you will attract to an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.</li>
<li>Now that you have learned the knowledge of The Secret, what you do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.</li>
</ul>

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		<title>The Ghosts Book</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the dawn of the human race, people have been fascinated by the term of &#8220;Ghost&#8221; or by the thought of any paranormal or super natural activity. Almost everyone, believers and non-believers alike seek more and more information that would quench their thirst of curiosity about the bewildered world. From the presenter of the &#8220;Most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Since the dawn of the human race, people have been fascinated by the term of &#8220;Ghost&#8221; or by the thought of any paranormal or super natural activity. Almost everyone, believers and non-believers alike seek more and more information that would quench their thirst of curiosity about the bewildered world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the presenter of the &#8220;Most Haunted&#8221; comes the book &#8220;Ghost Hunters&#8221; which captured <a title="Keeping a Journal – One Of The Three Treasures To Leave Behind" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2006/08/06/keeping-a-journal-one-of-the-three-treasures-to-leave-behind/" target="_blank">my reading attention and the time spent with the book</a> has been wonderful. The authors have dealt with the subject in a fairly balance way and have put in a lot of effort to pen their thoughts in words. At stages they simply call the &#8220;Ghost&#8221; as an act of the mind, or the sub consceince referring in their write-up to <em>SickMan Fraud</em>, that&#8217;s what I would personally call him, as these fellows are practically creating short circuits for the perfect human brain and making it go haywire, by explaining their sick theories. That said, the other side of the &#8220;<a title="Ghost Hunters" href="www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340899794/ekhwan-20" target="_blank">Ghost Hunters</a>&#8221; comes with some scientific explanations, explaining the apparitions as electrical impulses or the soul as being such, while on the other hand the authors have also tried to explain these unknown mystical happenings using the time theory and the existence of a  parallel worlds and planes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The authors have also taken pain to refer some deliberately fraud ghost stories as well to being about the balance needed in their work. Some unexplained and fascinating events have also been brought up from the files of investigators.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All in all, the book is a good read and have found it worth having. Though a portion of the book still remains incomplete in my read, I would surely return back to it. For me, the existence of paranormal beings and activities is a subject related to faith and therefore unquestioned, along with intensive studies into the subject, but the book&#8217;s neutral way of putting things up for inquisitive mind is very much appealing and sheds light on both sides of the coin, for a subject that has never been given it&#8217;s justified place in the real world of education, science and logical examinations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The books is indeed <a href="www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340899794/ekhwan-20" target="_blank">THE guide to investigating the paranormal</a>, and that too with some practical implications. And please do not judge it by its cover.</p>

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		<title>The Book Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2011 has been quite dull in terms of writing good blog posts and now as the year 2012 rises bright and shiny, I just look forward to punching up some material on my blog. Thoughts come and fly by but when reduced to writing are saved for a lifetime. A few days back [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The year 2011 has been quite dull in terms of writing good blog posts and now as the year 2012 rises bright and shiny, I just look forward to punching up some material on my blog. Thoughts come and fly by but when reduced to writing are saved for a lifetime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A few days back I stumbled on a twitter account thebookshelter and found that two young ladies in the Emirates have literally started and orphanage for BOOKS!! There are so many good things you could do one might wonder and better buy a new one rather then hording old stuff and also spending on the maintenance of the so called Book Shelter. Apart from that, since the flow of eBooks have begun people have just begun to forget the touch, feel and scent of paper. These are the first few thoughts that same up my mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Being a book lover with so many sitting on my bookshelf, personally I would not even think of parting with my books with any one. I love them. Just looking at the shelves filled with them makes me feel my hunger for learning. I took a breath and emailed <a title="The Book Shelter" href="http://thebookshelter.ae">thebookshelter.ae</a> that I would like to donate. They replied promptly and had the few books that were ready with me, picked-up.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I started surfing their website and found a book that I had been wanting to have a glimpse at since some time but had not dared buy it for the simple reason that time would not permit to go through it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People who love the written word would not part for it even though the digital world grows faster and feel of paper, its wonderful smell that one breathes in being engrossed in the book opens the doors of imagination, creativity and knowledge. Homes are growing smaller, and the price that once pays per square feet nowadays its much larger for someone to actually fall in love with having a library at home but then I would not dare speak the same having more then 150 books lying on my bookshelf and having known people who have collected newspapers and weeklys over years. The lust and hunger for knowledge in these people cannot be explain in words, for the written word would fall short of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For those who would like to know more about the work done by the two Emarati ladies or even have a book for yourself visit http://thebookshelter.ae</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoping to write more blog posts then the past in 2012. <img src='http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has just been a few months since the launch of Google&#8217;s Social Media Service, the widely talked about Google+ and just a few days since its launch of Brand Pages. Google has tried and tried again to plunge into the social media business to get a scope of it highly lucrative and viral reach [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">It has just been a few months since the launch of Google&#8217;s Social Media Service, the widely talked about Google+ and just a few days since its launch of Brand Pages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google has tried and tried again to plunge into the social media business to get a scope of it highly lucrative and viral reach but has withdrawn most of its products after the much enthusiasm with which it was launched was never met. Google Wave was withdrawn from the product line and so is Buzz being turned down in a few weeks time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google does have to understand that FaceBook has already done its trial and error thing and understands the user&#8217;s needs from its age and learn from the trends set by such a successful venture, from its pros and cons, rather then build from scratch and then keep people waiting for the most needed features yet to come. The wait turning tiring and the enthusiasm fading out.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What Google simply lacks is its integrity with existing social networking media. Google+ would have rocked if it were to have feeds from twitter and facebook, from multiple accounts off-course. Better and tighter privacy options and since Google+ does not allow profile pages for Businesses and in turn has launched pages, they should have focused on allowing people to reserve their brands in the URL rather then having to ask then to remember some funky digits.</p>
<p>I recently plunged into the pages thing to get pages reserved for the organizations I am associated with and then kept wondering as to how I could add other contributors and admins to those pages on Google+. At the end of the day I realized they are still working on it. Its quite simple, can&#8217;t they learn from FaceBook that this is supposed to be a basic function for a page that represents an organization or a business entity or does Google+ seem to have a single employee, LOL.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The entire game about so many people running into, what I would call, an immature network, is the mere fact that googleplus accounts tend to get listed on google&#8217;s search engine faster then a facebook one, but what about other search engines like Bing. Let&#8217;s face it Google is still number one and synonymous when it comes to Search Engines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It needs a lot of patience to educate people on new tools and time is scarce when it comes to the speed of the Internet, so lets wait and watch what how rapidly Google+ makes its way to into the Social Media.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As for the short URL I did manage to get an easy to remember URL for all my Google+ pages as well as my profile.</p>
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		<title>How to Get Up Early</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting up early in the morning takes discipline. But it’s an essential top performer skill that will take you and your business to the next level of excellence. Waking up early is a great gift. Give yourself a 60 minute personal leadership hour. Robin shares 5 essential keys to help you get up early in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Getting up early in the morning</strong> takes discipline. But it’s an essential top performer skill that will take you and your business to the next level of excellence. Waking up early is a great gift. Give yourself a 60 minute personal leadership hour. Robin shares 5 essential keys to help you get up early in the morning.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em></em></strong><strong>5 Tips On How To Wake Up Early</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Get Fit<br />
2) Every Single Week Get A Massage<br />
3) Eat Less Food – Don’t Eat After 8pm<br />
4) In The Morning Write In A Journal<br />
5) Learn to Find Ways To Love Your Current Job</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>How to Get up Early<br />
</strong><br />
My whole life is really about teaching people exceptionalism and one of the real strategies for high performance and leading without a title is getting up early.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You might say getting up early is not really relevant to you and yet if I look at the best of the best, whether it’s in business, in science, in the arts, in sports, these are people who have trained their brains to show up and discipline.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And getting up early is not only an incredible competitive advantage because most of your competitors are asleep, but getting up early is a great gift to give yourself. You get more life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ben Franklin said it really well; he said, <em>“There will be plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead.”</em> So getting up early and giving yourself that 60 minute personal leadership hour, you practice and prepare just like how Bekham practices to be world class as a footballer, or Hamilton Lewis practices on the track to be a world class car racer. Or Mozart practiced to be a world-class composer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You give yourself one hour from 5-6 and you do your practice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But here’s the thing I really want to focus on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>How do you get up earlier? A few quick practical ideas:</strong><br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1) Get Super Fit:</strong><br />
When you’re in world class physical condition you just need less sleep. Your metabolic rate is higher; you have a lot more energy, a lot more stamina and a lot more passion. Get super fit and you’re just going to need less sleep.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2) Every Single Week Get A Massage:</strong><br />
Getting a massage is not a waste of time. Its not a cost. It’s an investment. Why? Because it will increase your circulation, it will help you get by on a lot less sleep. Its something that every peak performer should do every 7 days just to allow yourself to play at your absolute best</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3) Your Diet, Eat Less Food:</strong><br />
You’ll have more energy. Don’t eat after 8:00 and eat every 4 hours. Little bit of protein, a little bit of carbs. Manage your diet but the key is to eat less food and you’ll need less sleep.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4) Get Up In The Morning and Take The Time To Write In A Journal:</strong><br />
In other words, dump the worries on your mind onto a crisp white piece of paper. When you worry you lose energy. I call it dissipation and the more things you worry about the less energy you will have and the more sleep you will need.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5) Learn To Find Ways To Love Your Job:</strong><br />
Lead without a title. I have met room cleaners who have cleaned hotel rooms like Picasso painted. So find ways in your current job to be passionate about your job. Be the absolute best in your job. Why? Because few things create more energy than going to work everyday and feeling that your work is meaningful. Feeling that you can show leadership in your area of responsibility. Feeling that your work is a craft whether you flip hamburgers or work in human resources but one of the great secrets to passion is purpose in your work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Getting up early would be one of the best moves you make for leadership, success and having a great life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">by Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439109125/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ekhwan-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1439109125">The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ekhwan-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1439109125&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em>,&#8221; a book that is causing transformation in many of the best businesses in the world.</p>

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		<title>5 Ways To Protect Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Have a Board of Advisors. Find people who have built great companies and ask them to sit on your advisory board. Meet every quarter. Show them your numbers. Share your struggles. Listen to-and act on-their advice. 2. Set Up A Peace of Mind Fund. Install a reserve fund with at least 12 months (and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Have a Board of Advisors.</strong> Find people who have built great companies and ask them to sit on your advisory board. Meet every quarter. Show them your numbers. Share your struggles. Listen to-and act on-their advice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Set Up A Peace of Mind Fund. </strong>Install a reserve fund with at least 12 months (and ideally 24 months) of operating expenses. Set it up so a portion of your monthly sales automatically goes into this account. You’ll sleep better at night knowing your business can run even if income slows down.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Focus on People and Culture. </strong>The single best way to protect your business is to hire top talent and invest in training your people so they  amp up their performance in good as well as hard times. And work on your culture. That’s the “special sauce” that brings out the best in a team.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. Work On Your Business vs In It. </strong>The old Michael Gerber distinction is key here. I spoke at a YPO/EO event last week and met a young entrepreneur who’d just sold his company. I asked him for the single best move he made. “I worked on my business vs in it.” He explained his core concentration was on building systems and processes so the business ran superbly without him.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5. Become Obsessed with Value Creation.</strong> This is not some pie in the sky idea. It’s a hard-hitting business growth tactic. Obsess (yes, obsess) over how you can add more value to more people and the revenues will take care of themselves.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">by Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439109125/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ekhwan-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1439109125">The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ekhwan-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1439109125&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em>,&#8221; a book that is causing transformation in many of the best businesses in the world.</p>

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		<title>22 Ways to Become Spectacularly Inspirational</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin Sharma, author of the #1 bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life” 1. Do important work vs. merely offering opinions. 2. Lift people up vs. tear others down. 3. Use the words of leadership vs. the language of victimhood. 4. Don’t worry [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Robin Sharma, author of the #1 bestseller “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439109125/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ekhwan-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1439109125">The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life</a><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ekhwan-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1439109125&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />”</p>
<p>1. Do important work vs. merely offering opinions.</p>
<p>2. Lift people up vs. tear others down.</p>
<p>3. Use the words of leadership vs. the language of victimhood.</p>
<p>4. Don’t worry about getting the credit for getting things done.</p>
<p>5. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.</p>
<p>6. Take your health to a level called superfit.</p>
<p>7. Commit to mastery of your craft instead of accepting mediocrity in your work.</p>
<p>8. Associate with people whose lives you want to be living.</p>
<p>9. Study for an hour a day. Double your learning and you’ll triple your success.</p>
<p>10. Run your own race. “No one can possibly achieve real and lasting success by being a conformist,” wrote billionaire J. Paul Getty</p>
<p>11. Do something small yet scary every single day.</p>
<p>12. Lead Without a Title.</p>
<p>13. Focus on people’s strengths vs. obsessing around their weaknesses.</p>
<p>14. Remember that potential unused turns into pain. So dedicate yourself to expressing your best.</p>
<p>15. Smile more.</p>
<p>16. Listen more.</p>
<p>17. Read the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.</p>
<p>18. Reflect on the words of Eleanor Roosevelt who said: “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”</p>
<p>19. Persist longer than the critics suggest you should.</p>
<p>20. Say “please” and “thank you”.</p>
<p>21. Love your loved ones.</p>
<p>22. Do work that matters.</p>

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		<title>Robin’s 73 Best Business and Success Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can really Lead Without a Title. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do. Give away what you most wish to receive. The antidote to stagnation is innovation. The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having. Leadership is [...]]]></description>
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<li>You can really Lead Without a Title.</li>
<li>Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.</li>
<li>Give away what you most wish to receive.</li>
<li>The antidote to stagnation is innovation.</li>
<li>The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.</li>
<li>Leadership is no longer about position – but passion. It’s no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.</li>
<li>The bigger the dream, the more important to the team.</li>
<li>Visionaries see the “impossible” as the inevitable.</li>
<li>All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.</li>
<li>The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you’ll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.</li>
<li>To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.</li>
<li>The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.</li>
<li>The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.</li>
<li>The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.</li>
<li>The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It’s their energy. Manage it well.</li>
<li>The fears you run from run to you.</li>
<li>The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.</li>
<li>The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.</li>
<li>Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.</li>
<li>Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.</li>
<li>You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.</li>
<li>It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.</li>
<li>Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.</li>
<li>A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.</li>
<li>Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.</li>
<li>Saying “I’ll try” really means “I’m not really committed.”</li>
<li>The secret of passion is purpose.</li>
<li>Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.</li>
<li>To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.</li>
<li>Go where no one’s gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.</li>
<li>Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.</li>
<li>Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.</li>
<li>To triple the growth of your organization, triple the growth of your people.</li>
<li>The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. Investing in your self-development is the best investment you will ever make.</li>
<li>Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.</li>
<li>Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.</li>
<li>Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.</li>
<li>Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.</li>
<li>Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it’s so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.</li>
<li>The best leaders blend courage with compassion.</li>
<li>The less you are like others, the less others will like you.</li>
<li>The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.</li>
<li>Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.</li>
<li>The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.</li>
<li>Passion + production = performance.</li>
<li>The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.</li>
<li>Stand for something. Or else you’ll fall for anything.</li>
<li>Say “thank you” when you’re grateful and “sorry” when you’re wrong.</li>
<li>Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.</li>
<li>Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.</li>
<li>Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.</li>
<li>Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself.</li>
<li>You can’t be great if you don’t feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.</li>
<li>Doing the difficult things that you’ve never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.</li>
<li>As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.</li>
<li>Your daily schedule reflects your deepest values.</li>
<li>People do business with people who make them feel special.</li>
<li>All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.</li>
<li>Treat people well on your way up and they’ll treat you well on your way down.</li>
<li>Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.</li>
<li>The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.</li>
<li>One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.</li>
<li>To have everything you want, help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.</li>
<li>Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).</li>
<li>Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.</li>
<li>The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.</li>
<li>Lucky is where skill meets persistence.</li>
<li>The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.</li>
<li>The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.</li>
<li>Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).</li>
<li>Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.</li>
<li>Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.</li>
<li>The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Note: </em></strong>Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439109125/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ekhwan-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1439109125">The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ekhwan-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1439109125&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em>,&#8221; a book that is causing transformation in many of the best businesses in the world.</p>

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		<title>The 50 New Rules of Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robin Sharma The global economy is in a state of acute disruption. Competition has never been more fierce. Consumers have never been so well-informed and loudly demanding. And what worked yesterday just might be obsolete today. But this time is also a great time, for the astonishing few who are ready to show leadership. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Robin Sharma</p>
<p>The global economy is in a state of acute disruption. Competition has never been more fierce. Consumers have never been so well-informed and loudly demanding. And what worked yesterday just might be obsolete today.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But this time is also a great time, for the astonishing few who are ready to show leadership. Leaders are at their absolute best during messy cycles versus during the easy ones. And messy cycles bring with them gorgeous opportunities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I sit quietly on this airplane at 40,000 feet, away from the rallying cries of a wired world filled with endless interruptions, I’ve distilled what I’ve been sharing in my presentations to clients across the planet over the past months, from Kuwait and Dubai to Paris, London and Dusseldorf.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are 50 powerful rules to amp up your game so this business cycle is one of your best business cycles yet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The 50 New Rules of Work</strong></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li>You are not just paid to work. You are paid to be uncomfortable – and to pursue projects that scare you.</li>
<li>Take care of your relationships and the money will take care of itself.</li>
<li>Lead you first. You can’t help others reach for their highest potential until you’re in the process of reaching for yours.</li>
<li>To double your income, triple your rate of learning.</li>
<li>While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.</li>
<li>Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.</li>
<li>Surround yourself with people courageous enough to speak truthfully about what’s best for your organization and the customers you serve.</li>
<li>Don’t fall in love with your press releases.</li>
<li>Every moment in front of a customer is a moment of truth (to either show you live by the values you profess – or you don’t).</li>
<li>Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.</li>
<li>Become obsessed with the user experience such that every touchpoint of doing business with you leaves people speechless. No, breathless.</li>
<li>If you’re in business, you’re in show business. The moment you get to work, you’re on stage. Give us the performance of your life.</li>
<li>Be a Master of Your Craft. And practice + practice + practice.</li>
<li>Get fit like Madonna.</li>
<li>Read magazines you don’t usually read. Talk to people who you don’t usually speak to. Go to places you don’t commonly visit. Disrupt your thinking so it stays fresh + hungry + brilliant.</li>
<li>Remember that what makes a great business – in part – are the seemingly insignificant details. Obsess over them.</li>
<li>Good enough just isn’t good enough.</li>
<li>Brilliant things happen when you go the extra mile for every single customer.</li>
<li>An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production. Enough said.</li>
<li>If you’re not failing regularly, you’re definitely not making much progress.</li>
<li>Lift your teammates up versus tear your teammates down. Anyone can be a critic. What takes guts is to see the best in people.</li>
<li>Remember that a critic is a dreamer gone scared.</li>
<li>Leadership’s no longer about position. Now, it’s about passion. And having an impact through the genius-level work that you do.</li>
<li>The bigger the dream, the more important the team.</li>
<li>If you’re not thinking for yourself, you’re following – not leading.</li>
<li>Work hard. But build an exceptional family life. What’s the point of reaching the mountaintop but getting there alone.</li>
<li>The job of the leader is to develop more leaders.</li>
<li>The antidote to deep change is daily learning. Investing in your professional and personal development is the smartest investment you can make. Period.</li>
<li>Smile. It makes a difference.</li>
<li>Say “please” and “thank you”. It makes a difference.</li>
<li>Shift from doing mindless toil to doing valuable work.</li>
<li>Remember that a job is only just a job if all you see it as is a job.</li>
<li>Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.</li>
<li>The only standard worth reaching for is BIW (Best in World).</li>
<li>In the new world of business, everyone works in Human Resources.</li>
<li>In the new world of business, everyone’s part of the leadership team.</li>
<li>Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.</li>
<li>You become your excuses.</li>
<li>You’ll get your game-changing ideas away from the office versus in the middle of work. Make time for solitude. Creativity needs the space to present itself.</li>
<li>The people who gossip about others when they are not around are the people who will gossip about you when you’re not around.</li>
<li>It could take you 30 years to build a great reputation and 30 seconds of bad judgment to lose it.</li>
<li>The client is always watching.</li>
<li>The way you do one thing defines the way you’ll do everything. Every act matters.</li>
<li>To be radically optimistic isn’t soft. It’s hard. Crankiness is easy.</li>
<li>People want to be inspired to pursue a vision. It’s your job to give it to them.</li>
<li>Every visionary was initially called crazy.</li>
<li>The purpose of work is to help people. The other rewards are inevitable by-products of this singular focus.</li>
<li>Remember that the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.</li>
<li>Keep promises and be impeccable with your word. People buy more than just your products and services. They invest in your credibility.</li>
<li>Lead Without a Title.</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I encourage you to share + discuss + debate these with your team and throughout your organization. Within a quick period of time, you’ll see some fantastic results.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Note: </em></strong>Robin Sharma is the author of the #1 international bestseller <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439109125/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ekhwan-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1439109125">The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life</a><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ekhwan-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1439109125&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em>,&#8221; a book that is causing transformation in many of the best businesses in the world.</p>

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		<title>Noah&#8217;s Ark</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah&#8217;s Ark. ONE: Don&#8217;t miss the boat. TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat. THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn&#8217;t raining when Noah built the Ark. FOUR: Stay fit. When you&#8217;re 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. FIVE: Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah&#8217;s Ark.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ONE: Don&#8217;t miss the boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn&#8217;t raining when Noah built the Ark.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">FOUR: Stay fit. When you&#8217;re 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">FIVE: Don&#8217;t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SIX: Build your future on high ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SEVEN: For safety&#8217;s sake, travel in pairs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">EIGHT: Speed isn&#8217;t always an advantage&#8230; The snails were on board with the cheetahs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">NINE: When you&#8217;re stressed, float awhile.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there&#8217;s always a rainbow waiting.</p>

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