Here the continuation of the 7 allegories presented in the book the frog which did not know that it was cooked :

5. The magnetic field and filings: to modify the visible one while acting on the invisible one

The allegory of the filings and the magnetic field rests on a very simple experiment that one usually realizes at the elementary school. It consists in powdering with iron filings a Formica table under which one will have dissimulated a magnet beforehand. One then notes with amazement that the small black particles come to be laid out while following the invisible tension fields which connect the magnetic poles. If one is not satisfied with the reason obtained, one can renew the experiment then by using filings coloured in blue. However, even if the color changed, the particles will marry the same diagram invariably.

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The frog which did not know that it was cooked (and other lessons of life) is a collection of seven allegories which proposes to provide us for each one of them tracks of teaching to use for our personal development. This book with the advantage of being read very easily thanks to the concrete aspect of the stories and with the simplicity of the writing of the author. It was a delight to traverse it while imagining where all this could apply well in the life of every day.

Now that I arrived at the end, I propose to you to share with you the principles which I retained:

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One often speaks with admiration about these scientists or contractors of reputation made at the top about their art in a self-educated way, without significant diploma. That they are called Thomas Edison, inventor to the thousand and one patents, Charles Darwin and his theory of the evolution or Steve Jobs, the leader of Apple, all knew to be formed by them-even with the variation of the education institutions. And their success testifies to the effectiveness which this mode of training can have, which is however less easy to implement and with dimensions than the royal roads of higher education.

But which are thus the characteristics of this mode of formation which have permi to them to better succeed that the majority of the framed pupils? It is the question which one will try to answer in this article

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You know Web 2.0? It is a whole of technologies which make the Web more dynamic and more convivial, privileging the interaction between the users. A great revival which came to vacuum-clean our old Web pages statics and thus to bring a breath of fresh air to all the Net surfers.

Eh well for me, courage has a little the same effect on the life. It is a kind of lever making it possible to escape the air visci� from the routine to taste with the fresh air which reigns beyond that. One thus obtains a more dynamic life and richer relations thanks to the going beyond of oneself.

On Wikipedia, there is a definition of the courage which I like much: to make what is right . Does that want to say that people who miss courage make what is unjust? To tell the truth, they will not inevitably make evil at the company while remaining in their tedious cocoon. But it is with them-even that they will make some! They know pertinament that what they do does not resemble them. There is always this small voice which repeats to them, for example: What do I make in this trade? What do I make with him/it? What do I make in this village? What do I make in this community? What do I wait for him to speak? At the bottom one is not in our place, but one tries to convince of the opposite while being a whole heap of excuses and comforting occupations: the video games, the hours supp, television, But the voice does not die out, it is a faintness which one constantly feels in a diffuse way, almost unconscious. Later it will leave the place with the regrets, and even to the bitterness: But what do I have make of my life? If I had known.

It is true that the hedge to be crossed can seem very high. One was conditioned so much to think that it is insuperable. Moreover nobody take to us with serious when one proudly states to want to defy it. It is a true culture of the poverty, which contaminates of as much better than it is divided by the greatest number. The fear is relentless: one is afraid to be humiliated, to be rejected, to miss money, to suffer However, this barrier is not so frightening, when one tries hard to face him. It even arrives that it is imaginary, and than one crosses it without resistance a such shade. At the bottom, hardest in these cases there is to decide to act in spite of the fear. And courage will come after the fear

Admittedly the barrier can be ghostly and generate an unfounded fear. But it should well be recognized that the phantoms are rarer than the real objects Donc better is worth to take the fear with the serious one, at least initially. It is necessary to be conscious of a potential failure, more or less fatal. Certain times one will be able to be raised easily, and others less. And according to that one will be able to envisage an adapted preparation (more or less long). The fact is that the fear acts on our internal state in a harmful way, it limits our capacities and plays on our moral, it will thus be necessary to develop a certain resistance to with it. And as for the vaccines, nothing of such as a good virus weakened to develop the aforementioned resistance! The virus weakened in our case, it will be quite simply to place the bar less high than envisaged, until arriving gradually at the good height. For example, if I am timid, I can initially try to speak to people in the tails about waiting, to joke with the cashier, etc before going to approach a girl in the street.

Another rather obvious solution will be quite simply to get information, because after all, there is also the fear of the unknown which plays. In this case I will try to find a book, a mentor, a community, a blog on the subject in order to impregnate me wisdom of the others. And as long as to make, I will be able also to involve myself with them, to commit myself in a strong way on the way of the cure in order to facing this fear which terrorizes me.

In the long term, I will take the practice to use my courage to face with one my phobias more limiting in order to develop a life finally where my potential entirely develops. I will be more spontaneous, more direct, which does not want to say inevitably more aggressive. But I will have especially the force to find the words right which correspond to my thought. I will take short cuts which for formerly were inaccessible me. My relations will be more authentic, where formerly they were based on handling. And especially, my state interns will be permanently high to the maximum, privileging a creativity formerly reserved at my times of the most glorious grace.

It is only since recently that I consciously observe this concept of internal state among people. I try to decipher their body language, the indices in the tone of their voice, in their vocabulary, their level of creativity, all this in different situations. And it is rather enthralling to have fun to recognize those who approach this life 2.0!

And you, there do you recognize certain people of your entourage?

This article is my contribution to the festival In Crois�e of Blogs - edition of December on courage. You will find soon the article summary on the blog Booster your Influence

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The books are instruments of choice to carry a new glance on the world. There are those which make travel, those which divert, those which make reflect and those which do all at the same time! Some are so rich of teaching which one has desire for being inspired some, in particular certain books of personal development. These books can lead us to carry out a work on ourself in order to change and live a richer life.

It is on this report that Olivier Roland, author of Zen.fr Practices decided to create new a blog dedicated this time to these famous books. Under the explicit title Of the books to change life , he thus proposes to offer the reviews of his most outstanding readings to us. And Olivier is very motivated since it launched out the challenge of reading 52 of the best books of business in 52 weeks!

The books in question belong to a collection called Personal MBA, which is supposed to contain all the knowledge that one acquires when one studies in order to obtain famous diploma MBA (Master off Business Administration). Then obviously, one can wonder whether the authors of these books are able to replace experienced professors, and especially if all this accumulated knowledge in if little time will not leave in smoke. But Olivier is conscious of these limits and envisaged to apply to the maximum the evoked concepts. Through its personal company, that it has already managed for 8 years, it thus proposes to us to share its experience feedbacks throughout the operation. This ambitious project is thus presented in the form of a major turning in its career.

To also note the english language version of the site: Books that edge changes your life , translates via an offshore oil rig translator engaged by Olivier. Obviously, this version of the site starts to have a certain success since one of the authors of the books of the project, Erika Andersen, located it and benefitted from it to offer a dedicated version of its book!

You will have included/understood it, this site thus did not finish making speak about him. And it will be very invaluable for us to discover good reading tracks.

Good Olivier courage!

Here an article written at the time of the edition of the Festival With Crossed of Blogs of this month. Is the topic How to survive a desperate plight? , inspired of the current financial crisis which makes us plunge slowly but surely in a world economic crisis. You will find soon the summary of all the articles suggested on this topic at Pierre Morsa, thus subscribe you with his blog not to miss it!

He yes, us here in beautiful cloths, the crisis points the end of its nose and already more one in a difficult situation plunges from there. Then should this fate be accepted? Does one need morfondre in the torpor while the storm passes? Initially, let us cease dramatizing: much among us, me including, let us cross one period ostentation. Abundance is always there, but in other forms. For you to persuade and help you to relativize (if need be) I would like to reconsider the concept even of fate.

I believe deeply that fate is an increasingly rare thing nowadays. And to leave there, it is more often a question of knowing to be caught in hand than chance. Science is for much in the improvement of our fate, and it gives a choice increasingly broader in the manner of regulating our daily concern. I recently read a signal of the 10 discovered science which influenced us more these last years, here:

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I had announced last month to you that I launched out in a 30 days challenge aiming at improving my posture. And that the first stage would be to improve my sitting position. The time being past, I return to give you a small outline of my experiment.

I would have liked to say to you that I am held from now on right constantly, but I must admit that the part is not gained yet. I still too often begin to cross the legs to find a position more comfortable, or to contract me because I am stressed. However, I am now accustomed to correcting me each day. As soon as I feel a little too much softened, I jump slightly behind in the content of my chair to find a correct position, with a right back. In fact, the only moment when I am authorized to slacken me completely the muscles of the back is the evening when I work on my computer in my bed leaned with some cushions. It is all in all my small reward of every day.

The apparent benefit of the method is that I am longer able to hold me right when I am upright, in particular when I rise. The effort has seems it be notably reduced. And I think that the fact of having involved the muscles of the bottom of the back in sitting position there is for quelquechose. Of course, I have sometimes these moments of defeat favourable with the return of my bad habits, where to hold to me curved is the reflection of my frame of mind, but overall, one can say that these moments tend to decrease.

You also suspect that my degree of confidence had to increase. I will say that as the position upright with a right body seems more familiar to me, I have a little less the impression of me to force there. Blow, that starts to return in my nature. Consciously and unconsciously, I feel this pleasure of not too much making effort to obtain the silhouette full with confidence to which I aspire. It is a very pleasant feeling which justifies me much to continue. Moreover I will prolong this challenge still 30 days to see what that gives.

A small funny observation to finish: today, I was in a waiting room of a score of people, and I noted that almost all crossed the legs. Isn't a whole education to be remade?

One of the fear which one often finds among people is the fear of being expressed in public. So much so that in the prize list of the most current phobias, it even often appears in front of fear of dying!

The leading cause is that one is afraid to appear ridiculous in front of people whom one knows or certain important personalities. The hands are then put to tremble, the heart beats very extremely and the mouth is drained. Each one remembers very well its worst appearances in front of the black board of the college under the sniggers of the buddies. Inevitably, one does not want to revive similar mishap.

We thus will see today a whole of principles aiming at conquering this fear in order to transmit the message wanted under the best conditions

1. Accustom you to intervene publicly

Like any art, to be expressed in public is practised. You could not be good of outset. Look at for example in the emissions of telereality of the Star Academy kind, how the guests resulting from the back issues release this serenity that the new candidates do not have. They are quite simply ground and do not have anything any more to fear. It is the routine!

You will have to thus work a little your talents of speaker before hoping to shine in public.

The ideal is to go up gradually in power. Practise initially in front of a reduced and not very demanding audience, then little by little in front of a more impressive group.

With this intention, here some tracks to be explored:

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David Allen, author of Getting Things Gives, announced recently on the site of his company the nearest publication of a new book baptized Making It All Work: Winning At the Range off Work and Business off Life.

It will be the obvious result of Getting Things Done. But where the first opus was especially confined to describe a management system of the daily tasks, the second will tackle the question of success more. The author will describe in particular how to become his own coach and to give the means of achieving his goals to gain with the play of the life.

You will find this book on Amazon.fr, but it will not be available before December 2008!

Hold new a zapping, that made a long time, is not this? Here lucky winners of the 3rd zapping of the effectiveness of It flash!

[Fr] Achieve your goals with Goalz : DaN announced there is a few weeks the launching of the Goalz site. The principle is very simple: each one seizure its goals and the division with the others in order to work together with their realization. It is a little the French-speaking equivalent of 43things.com, a community launched by Merlin Mann, bloguor of 43folders.com.

[in] GTD and life hacking around the world : this article gives a list of some blogs which was created around the phenomenon of GTD and the life hacking around the world. They even thought of quoting It flash!

[in] Interview with Gina Trapani, Founder off Lifehacker - Morning Routine, Little Hacks with Big Results, and More : a very instructive maintenance concerning the methods of productivity of famous blogueuse of the site lifehacker.

[in] 105 Researched GTD Software Titles and Counting : the Priacta company offers to us here a list of 105 software GTD by detailing for each one its principal functionalities, the date of the last version, and the licence of use.

[in] Fifty Clothes off Highly Successful People : the ultimate reference to succeed in the life!

[Fr] 40 principles to reach its weight of form : in this series of articles, Fred takes as a starting point the method TRIZ to give us 40 councils in nutrition.

[in] 29 ways to curry out random acts off kindness every day : some ideas to show a little softness in a world the rough ones.

[Fr] The School of the Syst�miciens Strategists: Control of the human behaviors : Alexandre maintenance with one of its professors in human behavior to describe us here how the conscious one and the unconscious one combines to make us act.

[Fr] What Systemic Strategy : if you do not know what is the Systemic Strategy, you will find some brief replies in this article.

[in] Life Coaching : Steve Pavlina describes us here the meetings of coaching which it followed throughout its life and an good idea of gives us thus what one can await from this kind of practice.

[in] Low-Cost, High-Reward Minis-Retirements: Explore the World with International Volunteering : some very interesting testimonys people who chose international voluntariate to travel around the world all expenses paid.

[Fr] Going Solo, or how to make a success of its switch as a freelance : an article impassioning of Fran6art which reports a seminar for freelancers Web organized by Stephanie Booth and which is accompanied by many vid�os.

[Fr] 6 months assessment of Freelance : the bloguor of the Eclaireur site offers to us in this article the lessons of his the first 6 months as a freelancer.

[Fr] Freelances, one turns: 7 questions for 5 freelances Web : 7 questions to capitalize the wisdom of 5 freelancers Web.

[in] Finding Profitability - The Tipping Not for Expansion : the owner of blog PSDTUTS reports the evolution of his sites and described the critical point where its business became advantageous.

[in] Blogging for Money : in this article signed Steve Pavlina, the author uses his experiment to explain us the crucial importance of marketing to earn his living while bloguant.

And finally, here 3 new blogs French-speaking on the personal development lately discovered:

• Personal productivity and effectiveness
• Personnal Branding
• Center Neo - the blog

To follow

Here thus the second part of my 100 councils to build a blog with success (follow this bond to reach the first part). If you think of others, do not hesitate to supplement the whole in the comments!

Organization and management of time

52. You concentrate on the most profitable tasks: your time is invaluable, then concentrate it on the tasks which bring back the most benefit to you. For example, poster on 5 new blogs will certainly not have the same range as only one article on a blog with high traffic. In the same way for your ideas of articles: priorisez those which have the most chance to have success. Also think of saving time while renon�ant with your sterile activities more, of kind video games, television series, etc

53. Write during your moments of optimal productivity: to early write the morning or late the evening is often an excellent choice to be with calm and to avoid the distractions.

54. Devote 90% of your time to the contents: because it is the containing hydrocarbon one of your blog. You will have a very sophisticated blog in vain, it will not go far without contents.
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Always in the logic of the birthday of It flash! , I propose today a list of 100 councils to you to have success with your blog. And as the article started to take length, I divided the whole into 2 articles. This is thus the first part.

Foreword: my blog not being perfect, you will realize that certain quoted councils are not applied to It flash!. These are often points that I have the intention to follow but that I reserve myself for later.

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1. Use WordPress: very clearly most popular and most professional of the engines of script of blog.

2. Buy your domain name as soon as possible: you can always test your blog on a free shelterer of the kind wordpress.com or blogger.com, but do not lose too much time, because a change of field is always penalizing: all referencing will be to remake.
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There are two fields where the fair play does not apply: the war and seduction

The Range: the secrecies of a Virtuoso of the Dredger is a book on the seduction which I read on the councils of daN and which radically changed my way of conceiving the seduction. I literally swallowed the 450+ pages of the book in original version and I propose to you to summarize the points here most outstanding

If you are terrorized with the idea to approach a woman, that you r�tez all your approaches or are systematically relegated to the row of good friend, then you belonged to the basic nice fellows frustrated (in English: AFC: Average Frustrated Chump). But you reassure, all is not lost for you. Even if you did not develop your capacity of seduction naturally, you can still become a Virtuoso of the English Dredger (: PUA: PickUp Artist) thanks to the councils of those which became it. The author of the book, Neil Strauss, of it is the alive proof. And The Game describes its metamorphosis.

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Here a list very sympathetic nerve of councils to the originators of software found on the site The Great List Software.

The majority of the points are especially valid for the independent developers which develop commercial applications general public. But the majority are applicable also to other fields:

1.a. be prepared to lose, and do not think that you must be number 1 to gain. Success take time.

B. Take time to study competition in an exhaustive way before writing only one line of code. Locate the problems on which they concentrate, and find their defects and gaps.

C. Develop applications which you use regularly. If you use your own software each day, you will be likely much more to build a robust software. Otherwise, the majority of the developers have tendency to very quickly being unaware of or �ventuellent to sabotage their creations.

D. Keep sufficient energy to make the promotion of your software.

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Among all the anglophone blogs that I am, one of more attaching is without any doubt Zen Clothes.

That made about since April 2007 that I know it and its progression was fulgurating. Today in signal 100 of the world blogs after less than one year of existence, it has permi with its author L�o Babauta to leave his employment and to carry out its dreams.

I propose to you to reconsider the principles which made its success.

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