"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers."  *-- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)

"Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry.  Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up."  *-- Jane Yolen

"Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory."  *-- Osho

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"The only thing constant is change."  This is true today as when Heraclitus first said it 2,500 years ago.  The only difference now is that the rate of change is far more rapid than ever before.  If you are standing still, you are actually slipping backwards. 

Life today is a stream flowing slowly against you.  To stay in the same place, you must occasionally step forward.  To get ahead, stay ahead and thrive, you must move forward consistently, regularly and consciously every month.

How do you do this?  The answer is the fourth, MAINLY pathway of life, choosing to do something NEW every month.  Your world will collapse in on you if you do not consciously expand your horizons.

The rate of discovery and the rate of releasing new products is so rapid these days that if you stay within your BOX, your BOX will just get relatively smaller and smaller.  There will be fewer and fewer options within your shrinking box.  There will be fewer ideas for success.  There will be less and less flexibility.  Ways to overcome obstacles will become continually more restricted.  It is your duty to yourself and to your family to continually expand your horizons by doing something new every month.

Let me give you some examples.  In your business life, it could be to:

• Develop a new product or service.
• Improve an existing product or service.
• Get a new computer software program to allow you to do something new.
• Create a web site.
• Offer something new to a client.
• Advertise in a new way.
• Offer a contest or some special new inducement to your clients and so on.

• Try a different type of restaurant.
• Meet new people.
• Read a new book.
• Read a magazine that you would not normally buy.
• Update your wardrobe.
• Try a new hair style.
• Have some new experience.
• Join a club.
• Begin participating in a new sport.
• Go somewhere new and so on.

Also, because you do this every month, you can be assured that some of your new experiences will hit the bull's eye.  Relentlessly pursuing a path of investigating something new each month will open your horizons, broaden your scope of options, allow different people to enter your life, eliminate fixed thinking and in many other ways open you up to the exciting diversity of our planet.

Written by:
Double Your Income Doing What You Love : Raymond Aaron

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