The Secret has caused a stir worldwide, especially after the book was published. Some people love it and some may hate it but I does get people thinking differently. Maybe it is to simplistic and maybe its just the way it was always meant to to be. Both Larry King and Oprah has interviewed the teachers from The Secret and this helped create a tipping point in the mainstream media.
I bought the Secret DVD directly from their website soon after I first discovered it in 2006. Shortly after that I attended a talk by Dr John Demartini at Michael Mount Waldorf School and immediately signed up for his Breakthrough Experience seminar. In South Africa the Secret DVD retails for about R400 which is about 50% more than you pay when you order it online. I do not recommend the book because its simply a transcription of the DVD. You can gain much more from viewing the DVD than reading the book.
Dr John Demartini, a philosopher and international speaker presents an inspiring evening talk sharing wisdom and insights to help you to master your life. Be guided with straightforward, practical tips that will help you master and empower the 7 areas of life.
Learn the ancient and modern secrets to manifest the life you love! Practical strategies and applications of universal laws to unleash your innate wisdom and potential. Reveal your path to: Physical vitality, Financial empowerment, Clarity of your Vocational calling, Social prowess, Spiritual certainty and gratitude, Family support and security and expanding your Mental capacity. This is one talk you will not want to miss!
I’ve already booked two tickets. So join me for this event with Dr John Demartini because he is the most inspiring speaker I have ever met. You can read about my write-up on attending his Breakthrough Experience seminar which he is conducting again in South Africa in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Call Clarissa on 083 370-2201 for information.
Cost for Art of Mastering Your Life public talk: R 90 @ Computicket: or 083 915 8000 or R100 at the door. Registration: 7pm. Talk: 7:30 - 9pm. (duration: 1.5 hours)
By the way I’m also attending his Speed Reading and Learning Dynamics seminar on 6 July. Again email Clarissa on clarissa@drdemartini.co.za if you are interested in receiving notifications of his talks and seminars in South Africa.
Tonight I attended my first ever laughing meditation run by my friend Rasada Goldblatt. The laughing meditation is a interesting and unusual way to to reconnect to self. While we did different laughing exercises I realised the moment I start thinking something in my past or something in my future - I would not laughing as hard. So laughing is a way to be in this moment. It’s what Eckart Tolle describes in his book the Power of Now. This is something that I find very difficult to describe because we have so many constant distractions. We have thousands of different things that try to get our attention from people, to billboards, to cellphones, to email, to many other things. And all of this distracts you from being in the moment. Now something else I noticed as well is that the more grief you have experienced, the more laughter you can enjoy. It’s the opposites we live with, the duality of the the universe of time and space. The moment of “now” transcends time and space and is eternal. It’s like that brief moments of feeling completely free or awakened. And as they use to say in the Readers’ Digest: laughter is the best medicine!
Computer experts use the acronym GIGO- garbage in, garbage out-to illustrate the fact that the computer can process only the information it is given. The same is true with your mind. If you feed it healthful, nourishing “food,” it will grow strong and agile, but if you restrict it to a regular diet of mental “junk food,” your mind will become unhealthy, negative, and unproductive. It will return to you what you put into it. Feed your mind a balanced, nourishing diet. Study information from a variety of fields to help you keep up with the latest trends. You may find that the best ideas for your business come from a totally unrelated area.If you like this you may enjoy subscribing to the Napoleon Hill Thought of the Day here.
PC World has just releases a new list of 50 Most Important People on the Web. The people featured in this list have each made a significant contribution to development of the Internet. Notably missing is Bill Gates and that’s likely because of him announing his retirement. It is worth studying these people in greater detail because they are some of the best new business role models alive today. Truly exceptional individuals in most cases. Here’s my favourites:
Today, the person I would like to meet the most is Steve Jobs. However, when I was growing up I admired Bill Gates and followed his every move. The book Accidental Empires by famous industry columnist Robert X Cringely is a brilliant exploration of the early years of the PC industry and highly recommended. The funny thing is that Bill Gates the original poster child for paradodies with a now defunt website available as a book also, The Secret Diary of Bill Gates. More recently Steve Jobs has been the target of a hilarious parady blog: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. So would you rather be Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
In 2003 I met Mikko Hypponen # 43 on the list when I organised a series of IT Security Conferences in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. I was contracting to Y3K Group, now ISA and they used to be primary agents for F-Secure in South Africa. So we got to spend some good time together and I learnt a ton from this awesome speaker on how to convey the very complex technical message of anti-virus and Information Security into layman’s terms.
Oh and BTW, how did I find out about this list? My MySpace friend, Tila Tequila #50 sent a Bulletin announcing her position on this awesome list So the question remains…how do I make a significant contribution to the development of the Internet, to be listed on such a list? Maybe a 50 Most Important People on the Internet in South Africa is order. Let me know who you think should be on such a list.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings, created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
I don’t know if this is true because it was forwarded to me like most of these email chain letters or jokes. Most of these resonate with me so I’m republishing them anyway. And you may also be interested in watching this excellent hour long interview with Bill Gates on the Charlie Rose show on Google Video here:
This weekend I attended the most incredible event of my life: Dr John Demartini’s Breakthrough Experience seminar. And I learned the most powerful transformation tool, his Demartini method; also called the Quantum Collapse process. John Demartini is a international speaker, author, trainer and consultant. He has written over 25 books and is a chiropractor by training. The amazing thing is that he is an expert on over 220 fields ranging from quantum physics, dentistry, speed reading, psychology, etc, etc. And I first came across him on the excellent and free video interview on Conscious Media Network here. His ability to synthesize it all has a profound transformative effect on my personal development.
As a long time student of physics and quantum physics myself I appreciated his powerful summary of how the universe relates to the quantum world and how this in turn relates to the human experience. In short the human experience is filled with duality based on religion, society, philosophy, morals and ethics. What I mean is they teach is good vs. bad, white vs. black (chess), religion vs. religion, man vs. woman. And for we should strive for the good and suppress the bad. This is not possible. As example within the Catholic Church you find the highest incidence of pedophilia. When you suppress sexual urges which is a normal part of Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, in fact one of the most basic, it comes out in another form somewhere. We cannot escape it, ever.
At the core of the Breakthrough Experience is the Demartini method which is a series of quality questions. I found this very difficult at first. As I got into it the feelings on the extreme started to collapse and what is left is gratitude and unconditional love. This sounds new age or spiritual but its not. Completely grounded in quantum physics and the universal laws I have never encountered someone with such a fast understanding life, the universe and everything else.
The seminar cost me R5000 which I paid for with my credit card. Its was like they say, something I could not afford NOT to attend. And the ground people somewhere between 5-75 people was sufficiently interactive to really makes this a great experience. Download and listen to a free podcast interview with Dr John Demartini here.
For more detailed information please visit Dr John Demartini’s official website here.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish is the commencement address by Steve Jobs at Harvard University in June 2005. It’s one of the most inspirational speeches I’ve every come across and I believe it will go down in history along side Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream.”
I’ve already booked two tickets. So join me for this event with 
So the question remains…how do I make a significant contribution to the development of the Internet, to be listed on such a list? Maybe a 50 Most Important People on the Internet in South Africa is order. Let me know who you think should be on such a list.
