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Time Management & Goal Setting Tools

While technology is at its most advanced state nowadays, there remains to be a lot of things to juggle for a typical job-oriented person. For most family-oriented persons, there is the burden of juggling work, friends, family and other factors involved in one’s social life.

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The answer is Goal Setting. Many highly successful people are often asked about their secret of success. And more often than not, they have the same response, and that is Goal Setting. However, although this is almost an expected response, many are still baffled at how Goal Setting really works.

Time Management is simply the proper allocation of time for certain priorities. First, the priorities have to be arranged in a certain way where it is clustered into sectors and listed according to urgency and importance. For example, the important parts of your life are career, your son, your home, your art, and your family. You have to know which one to drop first whenever you need to do something.

After that, you will need help from some Time Management Gear designed to aid you in the right process of prioritization AND remembering that order.

Quick-and-Easy Reminders

Goal Setting Tools & Time Management Techniques

There are a lot of persons who need lots of reminder when it comes to taking care of small businesses. Often, they are too home based that they are disregarded as unimportant. If you are one of them, buy some quick-and-easy Reminders. What’s good about science is you can probably put a tickler just about everywhere! Cellular phones nowadays have built-in organizing device of your choices, post-its are available in different sorts, and even the good old fridge door magnets have come in a lot of forms.

What is important is that the frequency of the reminding is now being increased. This is good for Goal Setting because it keeps you aware of the things which you have to do especially if they’re urgent.

The organizer + Watch Tandem

These are staples for just about every busybody from the college beadle to the corporate leader. The organizer is something that holds your appointments and it’s also a tiny little space for some writing. People who are busy all the time usually have contact numbers of random persons they meet, gifts for a not-so-relevant birthday party that he has to go to or some sudden brilliant ideas that come to mind. For these and more, you will need an organziing device of your choice. It has to be a little notebook, just enough to fit in a handbag, and should be made of durable material. You must bring your organizer with you every day, in case you need to list something down as a reminder.

Moreover, the perfect complement to an organizing device of your choice is a high-quality watch. You may have experienced running late for an appointment just because your watch didn’t work well.  What’s worse is that the person you’re meeting wouldn’t even believe you. This blunder can easily be avoided. Just get a high quality watch. Having a good sense of time is practically the first step in Time Management & Goal Setting.

The Perfect mindset

It’s pressuring to know that you have a lot of things in your hand and it seems like you can’t even do anything about it. Don’t tip over.

Moreover, keep a be on your toes kind of mindset as you maneuver your way into your busy life. Sure, there are times when you distance yourself from your organizer. It is a painful reminder of the busy life they lead for some. It’s perfectly alright to feel some sence of urgency but take some time off once in a while. You must never neglect yourself in your list of important tasks.

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Overcome Your Fears

Everyone has dreams of one sort or another, and most of us have dreams of living the good life, having an income that will let us spend quality time with our families and enjoy the finer things of life.

If you’re like me, you’ve tried a lot of things in the past that simply didn’t work, and that tends to instill a sense of hesitancy and even fear in our hearts.  Many of us are afraid to fail, so we limit ourselves when it comes to pursuing our dreams of success.

The rampant change makes keeping up with the latest internet marketing strategies very difficult.  So how do we find the wisdom and the courage to take the next step on our journey to realizing our dreams?

Mindset Is Important

Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Success is measured by your ability to maintain enthusiasm between failures.”

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Success Personality

One Gallup organization in-depth study of the “success personality” explored the attitudes and traits of 1500 randomly selected individuals from Who’s Who in America. The three most significant traits they found were:

1) Common Sense – the ability to simplify a complex subject by getting to the core of what matters

2) Knowing One’s Field – first-hand knowledge as well as support from experienced coaches, and

3) Self-Reliance

Noted author, Brian Tracy, has stated, “All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Success Formula

If you want to achieve your dreams, apply the following success formula:

1) Determine your desired outcome(s)

2) Be proactive – meaning, do something!

3) Notice and feedback results

4) If the results are not what you want, change your strategy

For home business owners, the ability to maintain enthusiasm between failures (or more likely, between massive sales) will, indeed, separate the successful ones from the unsuccessful ones.

And one of the best ways to maintain your enthusiasm is to associate yourself with successful people – teachers, mentors and other gurus who’ve “been there and done that” and are already successful.

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As a motivational speaker and consultant, (during my keynote speeches) I often ask: How often do you notice the side of your own nose? And, for those who wear eyeglasses, how often do you perceive the frames? I would guess that your answer to both questions is “not very often”. Am I right?

This observation is actually surprising when you consider that both your nose and specs are within your visual field. (My motivational speaker and training audiences are commonly extremely taken aback.) Which begs the question, because they intrude upon your field of view, how come your nose and glasses aren’t a visual distraction? Here’s the answer: It’s because your brain blocks them out.

In fact, only a minuscule percentage of the substantial amount of information detected by your senses ever impinges on your awareness. Trying to assimilate all this sensory input would be totally unfeasible. Filtering out all the ‘unimportant’ sensory information, including your nose and glasses, is a key brain activity.

So why – as a motivational speaker – did I bring this unusual visual phenomenon to your attention? Answer: Simply because (in basic terms) it raises a fundamental issue. This biological anomaly got me contemplating, does a narrowed perspective mean limited success? Fact is several of the characteristics of our brain filter have a immediate influence on our success. For example, it directs our attention towards our expectations. In this commentary I’m going to discuss a most important characteristic of the brain filter, how it tends towards the negative.

A Pessimistic Perspective

Your cerebral sieve lets the pessimistic aspects of a situation dominate your attention. Need proof? If so, have a go at this simple assignment. (Incidentally I frequently propose this experiment in my inspirational health care programs.)

Draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper. Then, each occasion you have a upbeat thought, draw a tick on one side of the line. But, each and every occasion you have a downbeat notion, mark a cross on the other side. Try this experiment and learn which half of the paper you cover first. Most test subjects cover the negative side of the paper much quicker than the positive.

Psychologists have suggested that what we could do with is a wider point of view. It’s vital we study how to balance the positive and negative characteristics of a situation. Why is this important? For the reason that persons who are skilled at looking at a frustration from multiple perspectives, and then able to direct their attention on the affirming aspects, are more successful.

A Motivational Speaker’s Solution…

The next time a pessimistic reflection pops into your brain, try these simple action steps:

Tip 1: Bring to mind your brain filter

Tip 2: Then, look at your frustration from different viewpoints.

Tip 3: Ask yourself simple questions. For example: Honestly, how awful this is problem really? Is it likely, I’ll even recollect this annoyance in four years time?

Finally, being aware of your brain filter will help you to take control of your emotional states. Take control of your thinking and keep an eye on what happens. Take it from a motivational speaker, you’ll be amazed!

Be Proactive

Dreams, without actions, will never generate the kind of success you’re looking for.

Action leads to success.

Becoming a success and accomplishing your dreams requires hard work – and action. Don’t let what others might say keep you from taking action. Your dreams are important to you, and realizing them is entirely up to you.

Thomas Edison is remembered as a great inventor, but before he succeeded, he invented a lot of things that failed. Abraham Lincoln was one of our most famous Presidents, but he suffered many failures in his life as well. Before Babe Ruth set the record for home runs, he struck out many times.

Likewise, we must set up to the plate and take our best swing if we hope to succeed.

Babe Ruth got some free walks because he was such a fearsome batter, but we’re not in his league. If we want to realize our dreams, we’re going to have to take the initiative and do the work that is necessary.

Don’t Procrastinate!

How many times have you heard someone say, “Don’t rush me, I’ll get around to it”, when all you ever see them actually do is sit around on the couch, or take long naps, or maybe, if they’re the active type – go off and play a round of golf.

But taking any action to realize their goals?

Oh, no, “I’ll do it manana”.

Couch potatoes don’t become heroes or successes.

Your dreams are important to you, but the only way to realize them and achieve success in life that you both want and deserve is to get up off the couch and take some action.

What could you do today to increase the chances that you’ll realize your dreams?

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Don’t wait for life to hand you success on a silver platter; it’s not likely to happen!

Cats know a great deal about recession: if there’s no food, they die, so they are great at learning new things, try it, ask one sometime!

Some people have no plan on how to get through the recession. Just some of the kind of things you’ll see across the Internet and blogosphere is advice like:

1. Protect your job
2. Move while others are distracted
3. Earn extra money
4. Squeeze that last drop of value from your home
5. Consolidate debt
6. Restrict spending
7. Haggle your way to savings
8. Conserve and reduce your energy bills
9. Avoid taking on any unnecessary debts

Do you really want another 99 deadbeat ways to get through the recession? We’ll here’s a shorter approach. I will not waste yout time. I know you can Google it for yourself and find hundreds more advice from every Tom, Dick and Harry out there.

I’m sure you would like me to get straight to the point.

With the abundance of ways to get rich, why is it not everyone does? Why is that even if you reduce your spending you still don’t get rich? Often the people with the better degrees work for those who have worse or no degrees, how about you, who do you work for? Most businesses fail within the first 4 years, why is that?

What you do is far less important than how you do it. If you want RESULTS, you can try skinning the cat 99 ways, but there is a RIGHT way that does work.

What is the formula for riches?

Bob Proctor has known the answer to this question and shown it to thousands, it’s now your turn. And he wants to tell you that there is a science — a formula — to get rich. There is a proven way that certainly brings riches. This is a centuries old blueprint that works today to make anyone get rich.

You can either waste your time with 99 unproven approaches or you can use a proven formula that will transform your financial future.

There is a free teleseminar on the 11 Forgotten Laws of Success here.

Affirmations Reprogram Subconscious Beliefs

Do reptiles get warm and fuzzy and fall in love? What on earth? Well, you have a reptile alive inside you now, so it is important to understand if it can. Yuck! We call it the “limbic system” but we got it from our dinosaur ancestors, but I’ve no idea what they called it.

Think like a reptile for a moment, what would you fear, what would you be interested in? If you saw a new thing, how would you feel? I imagine most reptiles only feel reproductive pressure, hunger and fear.

Imagine you are still that reptile, and you see something new. How would that reptile react? If it looked tasty, well chances are we’d try and eat it, or if it looked scary, we’d probably slither away.

Now step back into “you” again. Let’s be honest, our inner reptile has far more influence than we admit, wouldn’t you agree? We live in the illusion that we are one thing, a human being. But we are made up of thousands if not millions of different parts. Our brains are made up of three major parts, the stem or reptile brain, the mid-brain which deals with emotions and the rational brain. That’s just in our brain, but these LEGO set of life is in other parts of us too. If we zoom right into our cells, yes deep in there we have DNA, but DNA cannot directly interact with the body without RNA. So even the thing we think of as most representative of “us” our DNA, is in a sense foreign in our bodies since it needs RNA to communicate with the rest of the cells for it. Even our cells evolved from different primitive ancestors too. Our genetic “footprint” lives in a part of the cell called the mitochondria which we only get from our mothers. That raises some interesting questions!

Our being the sons and daughters of Eve is absolutely right. If you trace back any of our ancestors you arrive back in Africa about 6,000 generations ago. That is just the blink of any eye, so really, we are all African. The difference genetically between any two humans is barely measurable. The chimpanzee, our nearest relative, is only 2-3% different from us genetically.

So what’s with the evolutionary tour? Back to the brain, the limbic system is aware in a very vague way of other parts of the brain and frankly all it really cares about is survival. It does not care or even understand being rich, happy or fulfilled. Survival. Nothing else, just survival.

The subconscious is where the action is though. No one really knows which part of the brain it lives in, but it really does exist and much more importantly, it is where your accumulated beliefs live. Also, the subconscious does not understand negatives or have a sense of humor and is VERY literal in its interpretation of what you feed it.

The mid-brain has a richer emotional life and is aware far more than the limbic system, but it views life through an emotional lens. We were taught that our brains are completely rational and machine like. They absolutely are not. Thinking often acts more to stop action, that to prompt taking action.

Want an example, when you are at a store and the attendant comes over and starts to sell to you, if you are marginally keen, what’s the most common phrase people use? I’ll ____________ it.

Notice that interesting second word? Totally void of emotions there. Thought only tends to lead to more thought. May I give you the phrase anyway? I’ll think about it.

So in the end, we usually make emotional decisions and then justify them afterwards. For example, if we were to ask different people why they bought either product X or Y, we’d get very varied answers. In the end, they liked one more than the other. The decision was not made on the features of the product but on how it made us feel. We had a series of “filters” or beliefs that made one choice way more “logical” for us than the other one. Guess what happened next? Someone walked into the same store just after you did, and for them product Y was so obviously better than X, only a fool would by X. Is person A or B right? Either one take your pick. Take your pick. Both people made chances based solely on beliefs about the products, not the products themselves.

So what about our larger lives? Do our beliefs shape our world? Beliefs can also stop our actions as well. Let’s say you have a strong belief that you can’t swim (forget the “because’s for the moment”) well first off, you can’t swim because you have a negative belief around swimming which you can justify with lots of reasons and secondly, because you believe that chances are you’ll stop yourself from learning to swim. So of course it’s true you can’t swim!

Now let’s apply that to money. Goodness! The dreaded “M” word. Not THAT one boys, the one around the green stuff. There are probably more experts on money than anything else, and many of them are broke. Remember how “literal” minded the subconscious is. On this subject, everyone has an opinion, or ten. You could probably teach a course about sex easier than about money.

Why? Well, because money is an essential ingredient to living in the 21^st century, it is the means by which we can live our large dreams and achieve the kind of freedom deep down we all believe we can have. But up pop our beliefs and either say we do not deserve that life, or cannot have it because there is not enough to go around, or the rich are greedy bastards (and hey, who wants to be labeled a greedy bastard). Ever heard the phrase the “filthy rich”? In that world, to be rich you have to by filthy. Who deep down really wants to be filthy if that’s what it takes to be rich. How’d you like to be a filthy person? You have to be that before you can be rich.

How about “money is the root of all evil”? How many have heard of that one? I sure have. Bad is one thing, but evil is a whole different thing altogether. Bad is more of an attitude thing with a bit of non-conforming going on. Evil is a conscious and deliberate causing of harm to others for no purpose. It’s probably scary just reading that sentence. Imagine your reptile brain reacting to that one! Yup, that’s got “danger” written all over it, don’t you think?

It is our deepest, hidden beliefs that are guiding our lives. These beliefs seem so natural to us, like an old shoe, that we are scarcely aware of them. Our beliefs drive us to our target like a laser bomb. Do we end up with joy or sadness or worse? Depends on your beliefs about you, money, relationships and all the rest. If you are interested in changing those beliefs for more productive ones, The Science of Getting Rich is about wealth in more than just financial terms. You can also check out The Power of Simplicity.

You see, our reptile brain is alive and well, so are all the other parts of us. In our emotions, in our feelings, our thoughts and above all in our subconscious beliefs. With all this cast of characters, will the play of your life be a box office success or a flop?

Spiritual Growth is really just chucking out the junk we accumulate in life. Given that spirit is perfect already, we’ll leave that one to another post.

Would you like to proactively write a book and make money from it?

It is estimated that only 5% of authors become a bestselling author.

What is even worse is that around 1% of authors actually earn a living by writing . In fact most authors find it very difficult to earn back what sunk into their book.

How does that 1% do it? More importantly, how can you be one of them?

They’ve found the formula for how to write a book, make it a bestseller and earn lots of money.

And it’s not just luck, because some are able to do repeatedly.

There are many factors to writing a successful book, but I would like to focus on the three key success factors to writing a bestseller and making money from it.

If you figure out and implement these factors, you could receive an additional6 to 7 figures of income from each book you write from now on.

Key Factor 1 – Turn your book into a business so that you are creating highly desirable products that accompany each book.

A book is more than just paper with words all over it. Your book communicates your knowledge in a familiar format that others can enjoy and use. You will achieve more success when you realize that you can communicate the same information in other forms that sell just as well. When you’re thinking about your next book, proactively plan your other products so that your book fits into your business in an intentional way. Not only you have an additional income stream, but also a very effective marketing system, because everything sells the book and the book sells everything.

Key Factor 2 – When writing your book, add in all of the necessary ingredients and some of the enticing ones, and you’ll find your book is quite simple to advertise, market and sell.

There are a few ingredients which cannot be ignored when creating a bestseller, and some must be included from the start. There are also some highly desirable features which help to increase the marketability and value of your book. For example, you must have an ISBN number and a bar code, plus certain bindings and features so that retail stores can sell your book for you. There are also about 10 features that make your book much easier to promote. Some features that all New York Times Bestsellers have in common are: testimonials, resources listings, captivating stories that make a point, relevant quotes and an index.

Key Factor 3 – Be proactive and begin pre-selling your book while you are still writing and control pre-sales to as much possible so that your books will be purchased in the way and time that will do you the most good.

You need to learn what what criteria make your book a bestseller. For example, not all sales of books count toward becoming a bestseller and it’s crucial to know which ones do. Keep your attention to only those that matter and compress the sales during the best span of time and if you have done your homework and attracted the right amount of sales you’ll have a guaranteed winner.

ACTION POINT: If you want to learnhow to write a book that makes money and becomes a bestseller, then follow the secret formula that the top 1% use to successfully achieve that goal. Make a decision to use the Key Factors outlined above and keep your eye on the ball, and you’ll hit a home run every time.

For most of us who are business people, we love to improve our business acumen via reading and taking courses, but we lack the time to do so.

This is where audio books have come to play a very important role in our lives.

I'm assuming that if you're reading this, you're a businessman or woman, interesting in improving your business acumen - and now you can! Just use the amazing value inherent in listening to audio books. Another huge benefit of audio books is that you never have to worry again about not having the time to finish, or having the will power to actually turn the pages of a book.

You can get the same, if not more, enjoyment from listening to a business audio book, than you can from reading one, especially if you use your time effectively - listening on your commute to and from the office.

If you are at loose for the specific business audio books to go for, below are 5 of some of the best that any business person shouldn’t do without listening to:

1. How to win friends and influence people – by Dale Carnegie

I don't know about you, but the most important aspect of my business is PEOPLE. For almost every endeavor of life, especially business, we need people to keep the business going.

There aren't just the people that bring in the sales, these people are also the ones that make the sales a possibility in the first place. To be able to succeed at this, we all need to know "how to win friends and influence people".

That's why this incredible book by Dale Carnegie is a "must have" for any person in business.

With the power of the information contained in this book, you can learn not just how to influence people to bring in more sales for your business, but most importantly how to win your friends and staff that will help you make the sales possible.

Now in audio book, you can enjoy this book from the comfort of your car while commuting to and fro your job.

2. It’s not the big that eat the small… it’s the fast that eat the slow – by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton

In today's business, one of the single most common words that we need to embrace is "CHANGE". In a constantly "updated" world, we need to be ready to embrace and implement changes to our businesses.

This audio book is a fabulous resource for dealing with many day-to-day challenges in keeping your business afloat.

The fastest organizations on the planet today are the ones that will thrive. In this audiobook you will learn how to make sure your company is right up there with the fastest. You will be given examples of how to make these improvements, using numerous tried and tested methods, including the power of commerce, deployment of resources, and excellent people management.

3. Management Challenges for the 21st Century – by Peter F. Drucker

When it comes to business management and leadership, one name stands tall in any gathering of experts. That name is Peter F. Drucker.

Drucker is definitely not talking from theories, he is talking from a wealth of experience after being in and writing about the industry for an incredible eighty years. He has been there and done that, when it comes to business and management.

This audiobook title explores in depth how 21st century management challenges can be handled by business professionals.

4. Jack: Straight from the Gut – by Jack Welch

There's no denying the fact that Jack Welch is one of the world's most successful CEOs ever.

This audiobook will follow Jack Welch's steps through his career to where he is today, one of the most successful businessmen ever.

5. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap – by Jim Collins

You can't argue with the fact that "without the techniques and strategies, no company or business can excel beyond a few days, weeks or even months".

Businesses and companies that have stood the test of time for many years know what to do and have done them right.

The author has taken quite some time to collate the results from his extensive studies of companies who have had business success for many, many years - looking into what they are doing so right, that their counterparts are not.

The power of the information contained within this business audio book can help any business person to succeed.

These 5 audio books can do a lot for your business and career if you take the time to listen to them and apply what you will learn therein to your business and career.

An excellent source that I have found for audio book downloads is Spoken Network. You can find them at:

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Of course, I was taught French during my school days but never took it seriously. As far as I was concerned, it wasn't important to be and would never be.

After all, English was more popular and I could get along anywhere in the world with my knowledge of English language, right?

Oh my, how wrong could I have been.

It really became apparent how wrong I had been when I was sent to France for an assignment through my work. Talk about a fish out of water! I was completely out of my comfort zone.

Everywhere I went to, everyone was speaking French. Locating someone who could speak English was like locating someone in England who could speak Chinese.

Yikes, I just felt completely lost.

Even after the experience I had in France, I still wasn't really interested in learning the language, as I probably wouldn't ever be going back to France.

My boss told me when I got back that I'd be returning to France in 3 months. This time I would stay longer.

I argued, begged and pleaded, but she was having none of it.

There and then I made a commitment to myself to learn French before the 3 months was up.

Being a lover of audio books, I went right ahead and bought some “Teach yourself French” foreign language audio books which I played while preparing for work in the morning, while exercising, during my commute to and from work and any other time when my hands were busy but my mind was free.

To be honest, I didn't really pay too much attention to the "Teach yourself French" lessons in the beginning, because it was all very strange to me.

As the time wore on, it all started to sink in and make sense to me. What was really beneficial, and what really helped me to grasp the language in the end, was the translations to English for any of the words spoken in French.

This really confirmed what I had read sometime ago about the power of listening. No wonder God gave us 2 ears and just one mouth. You can learn virtually any language from just listening - it really is that powerful.

You wouldn't believe it but gradually I picked up and was able to speak some amount of French just 6 weeks after.

You can imagine the surprise on the face of my boss when, 10 weeks later, I spoke French to her without mixing it with a single word in English!

She couldn't believe it and asked me how I was able to do it. I told her - audio books!

My superior was so amazed and impressed that I had taken the time to learn the language, that she promoted me to the head of delegation for the next trip we had planned to France. I was going to represent our entire company.

She made sure every other member of my team got their foreign language audio books and did exactly what I had done.

Three months later, on my return to France, nobody would mistake me for the "a fish out of water" I had been on my initial visit.

It was incredible, but I was able to achieve this without taking any classes, without hiring any private French tutor, without reading any "French tutorial" books.

All of this was possible within 3 months just listening to French audio book lessons.

And do you know what was the most intriguing thing about all of this? All of this I did in my "free" time. I didn't commit any special time to this, but the same time I had wasted in the past.

If I could do this within 3 months, I am very certain anyone can do it too.

I can honestly say that if there is any foreign language that you are itching to learn, do exactly as I did and you'll be amazed by the results in just three months, simply from the power of audio books.

There are several audio book versions of many books on learning foreign languages that you can get on the Internet.

You can begin searching from SpokenNetwork.com direct, or through the many search engines. Simply type in the phrase or particular title you are interested in and you will be presented with the best results… within seconds.

www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0026

Like everyone, French lessons were compulsory during my school days, but I never really took them seriously. As far as I was concerned, it wasn't important to be and would never be.

Like everyone I know, you just figure that English is more popular and that you can get along anywhere with your own knowledge of the English language, right?

How dead wrong I was.

It really became apparent how wrong I had been when I was sent to France for an assignment through my work. I was like a real fish out of water.

Everywhere I went to, everyone was speaking French. Finding somebody who could speak my native tongue was like trying to find someone in England who could speak Swahili.

Yikes, I just felt completely lost.

Even after the experience I had in France, I still wasn't really interested in learning the language, as I probably wouldn't ever be going back to France.

My boss told me when I got back that I'd be returning to France in 3 months. This time I would stay longer.

I protested, but she didn't bulge.

Right that second I made the decision to make sure I had learned French before those three short months were over.

Being a lover of audio books, I went right ahead and bought some “Teach yourself French” foreign language audio books which I played while preparing for work in the morning, while exercising, during my commute to and from work and any other time when my hands were busy but my mind was free.

At first I didn't pay too much attention to what was being said in the "Teach yourself French" audio books because it was a strange language.

As the time wore on, it all started to sink in and make sense to me. What really helped was the translations to English for any word spoken in French.

It definitely confirmed the theory I had read some time ago about how powerful listening can really be. It is no wonder that the good lord gave us two ears and one mouth. You can learn virtually any language from just listening - it really is that powerful.

I couldn't believe it, but I gradually started to pick up the language and was able to master quite an large amount of French just six weeks after I had started.

You can imagine the surprise on the face of my boss when, 10 weeks later, I spoke French to her without mixing it with a single word in English!

She was amazed by my achievement and wanted to know exactly how I'd done it. So I told her my secret - it was audio books!

My superior was so amazed and impressed that I had taken the time to learn the language, that she promoted me to the head of delegation for the next trip we had planned to France. I was going to represent our entire company.

She made sure every other member of my team got their foreign language audio books and did exactly what I had done.

Three months later, on my return to France, nobody would mistake me for the "a fish out of water" I had been on my initial visit.

It was fantastic, and I was amazed that I had been able to do this without hiring a tutor, going to college or night school, or even reading any French tutorial books.

And it was all done in three short months, just from listening to my foreign language audio lessons.

Do you know what was most intriguing about this? I did this all in my "free" time. There were no extra committments of time needed from me, I just used the same time that I had wasted in the past.

Now, if I could do this within just three months, I am absolutely certain that anyone else can do it too.

If there is any language you would love to learn, follow my footsteps and you will be pleasantly surprised what can happen in just 3 months, with the power of audio books.

There are several audio book versions of many books on learning foreign languages that you can get on the Internet.

You can begin searching from SpokenNetwork.com direct, or through the many search engines. You just need to type in the phrase or title of the book that you are interested in, and you'll be given a whole host of results… within seconds.

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