The Rocky Story Told By Tony Robbins

Sly Stallone makes up todays clip of the week. An amazing story of how he made Rocky a huge success.

Personally I would have went for the first offer. I think anyone would be crazy not to. But, I hope you enjoyed it anyhow, have a great weekend people?

Wives and Standards

For those of you who’ve wanted me to be more personal in my blog here’s your chance to get to know me and my life better. Well, my wife is pregnant with our first baby. And she’s experiencing some pubic pain. We are planning on getting Mother-to-be Maternity Support. My mind’s been going bonkers. Needless to say, she and my soon-to-be-born daughter are the loves of my life. I’ve been trying to keep myself available to her while at the same time, trying to find more ways to provide for them.

I haven’t been able to concentrate on the article I planned for today and I realize I need more material for it. So, I pulled it for today. The other reason I’m not publishing it is because I want to maintain a higher level of standard for my posts. The heart and soul of this blog is personal development, goals and success, let’s called ‘Monkish Posts’. Of course, I add featurettes, like my Top 10s, and Clip of the Week. But, I want to make sure I do a little more research and work on these Monkish posts. They won’t be perfect, but I really want my readers to get something out of it. I am actually coming up with a standard that my monkish posts must adhere to before publishing. I hope all of you notice and appreciate the difference and I hope the blog grows even more because of it.

Anyways, I need to tend to my beautiful wife. To whet your appetites my next monkish post will have something to do with fear. See you in my next post.

Announcements 12-3-2007

A three announcements today.

* First off a winners name was drawn, currently I am making efforts to contact the reader so they can claim their prize. Once I get contact I will announce their name here.

* At the beginning of November I started at 12 readers. As of December 1, 2007 I reached 32 readers. More than half way to my goal 50. I didn’t make 50, but that’s ok considering I more than doubled my readership. Once I reach a steady 60 I’ll put up the Feedburner chicklet.

* My blog was launched on Oct 15th as of December 1, 2007 I have had 500 page views. Not too bad. I wouldn’t mind breaking that 500 page views number on a daily basis. Hey I could always dream!

Clip of the Week: Say It’s Possible

Ever wonder what it would be like if you posted your own song on YouTube.com and turn around and become a huge hit? Terranaomi, does… YouTube’s Music Video of the Year 2006. Viewed 2.7 million times, hundreds of video responses of other artists mimicking her song.

She got a professional music video deal soon afterwards. In true form, Terranaomi, didn’t forget her fans, she asked them to send her video messages of themselves with a short message written on a piece of paper. Things like ‘Save the Seas’, ‘Be myself’. See for yourself.

That’s it for my clip of the week. Have a great weekend everyone!

“The Secret’s” Own Cloverfield

What is Cloverfield?

Cloverfield is a new giant monster movie coming out by JJ Abrams. It’s a movie with many secrets. Enormous efforts were made to keep the monsters look, a secret. When the first teaser trailer came out Abrams didn’t even name the movie. The audience was left guessing. He kept it a secret!

Still More Secrets

This article isn’t about Cloverfield the movie. It’s about another movie, a DVD movie called “The Secret”. This movie also has a huge gigantic monster of a secret. It’s own Cloverfield, if you will. Rest assured casual readers and true subscribers I’m going to give you a glimpse at “The Secret’s” own Cloverfield.

But, Wait! A Word of Warning

Sometimes mysteries are best left unsolved because the imaginary explanation behind the ‘mystery’ is often more powerful than the real ‘explanation’. It’s often more fun to believe there really is a Loch Ness monster underneath murky waters. So if you don’t want to be told that Santa Claus does not exist stop reading. Or if you’re the kind of person that loves to know how magic tricks are done then read on.

What’s “The Secret” about?

Want more spice in your life? Money? Love? Success? By following “The Secret” you can easily get everything you dream of. Literally speaking by using “The Law of Attraction”.

What is The Law of Attraction?

In a nutshell, “The Law of Attraction” insists that your feelings and thoughts are powerful and can attract real events into your life. Anything from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional and professional affairs are controlled by our thoughts.

Basically all you have to do is believe and I mean believe intensely on what you want to attract into your life and the universe will bow down to your will. You can even cure life threatening ailments by just believing.

What happens if you don’t get what you believed in?

Well, according to the secret, you didn’t believe enough. It’s entirely your fault. “The Law of Attaction” is off the hook.

Finally Cloverfield Revealed

If you haven’t guessed by now. Ok, here it is. The Gigantic Monster Cloverfield secret is… it’s all bunk, BS, a smelly lie. That’s right it’s all a sham. Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Larry King, they’re all suckers.

Ok I take back what I said about Larry King

Despite the DVD selling at a tremendous pace and gaining worldwide attention and reaching the New York Times Best-Seller List there has been an avalanche of criticism towards the “The Secret” for good reason.

According to Wikipedia, Larry King rightly pointed out that if the Universe manifests abundance at a mere thought why is there so much poverty, starvation and death?

There is no scientific basis for “The Secret” claims. All evidence is anecdotal and subjective and highly susceptible to misinterpretations.

We also live in a country that allows for people to overcome adversity, which would allow a impoverished homeless man to attain the American dream. This would not be the case for much of the world.

It has been criticized by Time, The Guardian, Slate, Newsweek, the Chicago reader the Los Angeles Times, the Dayton Daily News.

You know it’s bad when its own stars criticize the movie

Even ‘The Secret’s own interviewees on the DVD claim they were taken out of context and they didn’t agree with the “The Secret” main premise. Here is an excerpt from one of the interviewees themselves from the Community of Excellence.

You Can’t Escape

Mark states how I truly feel about the whole thing. I believe in laser focusing on your goal through whatever means, be it visualizations, goal setting and most importantly actions.

Of course some things take patience, making a non-action or not making a move until the most opportune moment, but for the most part it takes action to achieve your goal.

When focusing on how to get to your goal ideas eventually come to mind. But, it’s up to you to take the heartfelt actions to achieve them. There’s no way around this fact. It’s in the 90% perspiration not the 10% of inspiration. You must roll up your sleeves, put on your magic armor, brave the dark realms on your path and slay the dragons to reach the golden treasure. No one will do it for you.

Epilogue

Who knows how Cloverfield the movie will do when it’s released to the public. Hopefully it won’t be ignored like an old dust collector sitting on a shelf for years. Just like I hope “The Secret” Cloverfield won’t be ignored either. Remember folks it’s ok to visualize, meditate, do your mantras and its even good, but ultimately accomplishing your dreams is in your actions.

State of the Blog 11/27/2007

My readership sunk back to 30 on Monday. I’m not so sure I’ll hit my goal and even if I did it would probably sink back down again. But, that’s ok. Considering my blog is only about a month old its not too bad. Anyways, I wanted to post some success. I really want my readers to read more than one post upon visiting and it looks like that is what is happening.

As laughable as my readership numbers are I do hope they rise!

Blog Announcements

The last time I checked I was at 38 subscribers. Only 12 more to go to make my goal! I’ve been trying something different with my posts as you will begin to see on Wednesday. Also, I’m still having trouble with my drafts publishing without my intending them to be. So, if you are seeing them I’m sorry. Those are mistakes that somehow don’t get deleted on some readers.

Don’t forget to sign up! At the end of the month I’ll be passing out a prize on a lucky winner! As I said I’m trying something different with my posts so let me know what all of you think when you read it on Wednesday!

Top Ten Things I Learned From Watching 300

For todays top ten I selected ‘300′. Enjoy everyone and have a great Monday.

1. To prevent a million foreigners into your land all you need is 300 people.
2. Corpses make a great wall.
3. If your child isn’t perfect throw them off a cliff
4. The act of saying “No” to someone isn’t as effective as kicking that someone, in the chest, down a very deep pit.
5. Your enemies will look Nigerian, Chinese, South Asian, Arab, Russian, Italian or deformed
6. Don’t waste time building incredible armor all you need is an awesome six-pack.
7. Hell is a popular place to eat for dinner
8. A volley of arrows is a great way to create shade
9. The best way to win over the Senate is to find the most vocal leader of the opposition and run him through with a dull blade
10. Bad things happen when someone bows down

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’ll be back with another top 10 on Monday.

Clip of the Week: FreeRice.com Feed the Hungry

Every once in a while someone comes up with a innovative idea. Here is our inspirational clip of the week promoting a way to feed the hungry while getting smarter. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

To help donate and maybe add a few words to your vocabulary go to freerice.com

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