Charles Haanel - Master Key System - Part 9:Certainty

This is the summary of part 9 of Charles Haanel "Master Key System"

Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as an already existing fact. This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves. We are actually changing ourselves; are making ourselves what we want to be. Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, and joy or suffering will be the reward.

AFFIRMATION "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy"

If you require Wealth, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal mind which is all substance, and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the law of attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation.

Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. If you require Love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet. Lincoln is said to have begotten in all who came near him the feeling awakened when one approaches a mountain, If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives. We can readily predict the result of any action that is based upon a true premise. But we can form no conception of the results which may ensue on a false premise.

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Gradefix - Get your own Personal Secretary !

GradeFix is a nice service which lets student manage their time better. You simply have to put in your schedule and it will move things around on its own if they are not completed. Its like having your own Personal Secretary;)

There are two plans available free and premium. The only limitation in the free plan is you can have upto a maximum of 10 tasks. When you signup you get to experience the premium version for 30 days.

During sign up in study time i put 7 hours for everyday. And in my classes I added MATH 202, PHIL 101, CHEM 202, CS 111 and ECE 212. The main screen lets you Add Tasks, Customize you Schedule, Use filters to view only specific course tasks and set email reminders. You can also get RSS feeds of your schedule as well.

When you add a task you have an option to add it as Homework, Reading, Quiz Study and Exam Study. I added 6 tasks in the following order:
PHIL 101 - Reading Assignment Due on Feb 14th
MATH 212 - Homework Assignment Due Feb 15th
CHEM 202 - Quiz Due on Feb 15th
CS 111 - Midterm Due on Feb 16th
ECE 212 - Midterm Due on Feb 16th
PHIL 101 - Reading Assignment Feb 23rd
If you want to see all you assignments then set the filter to 180 days. By default it is set to 7 days and it took me sometime to figure out how to display the assignment due on 23rd. Make sure you click the Due Date checkbox to see all due dates in the specified time in the filter.

But the cool thing is it breaks down the time assignment for each day. Once i set the study time to 7 hours each day, GradeFix still showed me study times of 14hrs on 7 hr days. Then I went to the schedule adjuster and adjusted the times there for it to show times of little over 7hrs.

I am sure that means that i have to put in more than 7 hours of study time if I wish to complete my assignment on time. The schedule adjuster does not mention the time units which makes it a little confusing but I assumed it were minutes and it worked well.

Some nice to have features will be to see the time in a calendar like interface so it shows me what time of the day I should be studying rather than just the hours of study. It will also help out to see everything integrated like my study time, class time, activities time and give me a better look at my overall schedule and help me balance work and school.

Overall this is a great tool for students and is priced optimally, not drinking one beer a month will help you manage your schedule and know when to work and when to play. I was wondering if this could be integrated into Outlook or Gmail and further help out so I emailed GradeFix and received an email from Mark Polson, CEO and CoFounder of GradeFix and he mentioned that they are working on an export to iCal, gCal, and Outlook so people can use it for non-school functions. If you are a student with difficulty managing your schedule then go ahead and try this tool at GradeFix.com

Master Key System: Part 8 - Imagination

This chapter is all about the importance of imagination and the power we command by our imagination. It is evident that we are to hate nothing, not even the "bad," because hatred is destructive.

Successful men make it their business to hold ideals of the conditions which they wish to realize. They constantly hold in mind the next step necessary to the ideal for which they are striving. Thoughts are the materials with which they build, and the imagination is their mental workshop. Mind is the ever-moving force with which they secure the persons and circumstance necessary to build their success structure, and imagination is the matrix in which all great things are fashioned.

The cultivation of the imagination leads to the development of the ideal out of which your future will emerge. Mistakes are the result of ignorance. Knowledge is the result of man's ability to think. The ideal held steadily in mind attracts the necessary conditions for its fulfillment.

Exercise: Take an object and follow it back to its origination, see of what it really consists. If you do this you will develop imagination, insight, perception, and sagacity. These come not by the superficial observation of the multitude, but by a keen analytical observation which sees below the surface.

Take the same position and visualize a Battleship; you know that by far the largest part of the vessel is under water; you know that the ship is as large and as heavy as a twenty-story skyscraper; you know that there are hundreds of men ready to spring to their appointed task instantly; you know that every department is in charge of able, trained, skilled officials who have proven themselves competent to take charge of this marvelous piece of mechanism; you know that although it lies apparently oblivious to everything else, it has eyes which see everything for miles around, and nothing is permitted to escape its watchful vision; you know that while it appears quiet, submissive and innocent, it is prepared to hurl a steel projectile weighing thousands of pounds at an enemy many miles away; this and much more you can bring to mind with comparatively no effort whatever. But how did the battleship come to be where it is; how did it come into existence in the first place? All of this you want to know if you are a careful observer.

Follow the great steel plates through the foundries, see the thousands of men employed in their production; go still further back, and see the ore as it comes from the mine, see it loaded on barges or cars, see it melted and properly treated; go back still further and see the architect and engineers who planned the vessel; let the thought carry you back still further in order to determine why they planned the vessel; you will see that you are now so far back that the vessel is something intangible, it no longer exists, it is now only a thought existing in the brain of the architect; but from where did the order come to plan the vessel? Probably from the Secretary of Defense; but probably this vessel was planned long before the war was thought of, and that Congress had to pass a bill appropriating the money; possibly there was opposition, and speeches for or against the bill.

Whom do these Congressmen represent? They represent you and me, so that our line of thought begins with the Battleship and ends with ourselves, and we find in the last analysis that our own thought is responsible for this and many other things, of which we seldom think, and a little further reflection will develop the most important fact of all and that is, if someone had not discovered the law by which this tremendous mass of steel and iron could be made to float upon the water, instead of immediately going to the bottom, the battleship could not have come into existence at all.

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Inside Google: Innovation and Collaboration

Kai-Fu Lee the president of Google China gave a presentation in Seattle about future of Google in 2007. The video can be watched here(53 min). It gave some wonderful insights in the working of Google and how it is expanding in China. Although these days the story is quite different for Google in China, but still the presentation gives a good look inside the search giant.

How did Google Build a Great Team
1. Hire Great People
2. Focus on Strengths
3. Uncover PR oppurtunities
4. Focus on Google Values
5. Localize Jobs
6. Make it fun

R&D Centres and Innovation
Google has opened 30 R&D Centers in 3 Years which span across Europe, Russia, Eatern Europe, Israel, US, Canada, Australia, India, Japan and China

How does Google do it?
Avoid Redundancy - All projects, milestones and progress are kept in the PDB(Product Database). Before you do anything, you search if someone elese is not doing it. If they are then you can maybe do it together.
Reasonable Work Distribution - Each R&D drives a major project. Collaboration is encouraged, a project is divided between two R&D(each responsible for a component of the project instead of each doing parts of the same component)
Communication - This is key. Every Conference Room has Video tele-conferencing units, lot of executive travel, mailing lists, meetings and gatherings are scheduled.
Clear Top-Down Directions - "Organize the World's Information", that is the primarry message to be kept in mind when approaching any project. There is also a Rule of 70:20:10 to focus employee time. (70% Search and Ads, 20% Related to Search,10% Brand New Search)

Google's Innovation Model
Hire people who are innovative and get stuff done. People who come up with ideas and have strong engineering skills at the same time. Management's job is to merely recruit those kind of people(innovator+engineer=Googler).

Google Product Life Cycle
1.  Employee Idea
2. Internal Democratic Voting System
3. If enough support people get together and build a prototype(using their 20% time)
4. Release for internal Use
5. If successful, then Google Labs
6. If successful, then Beta Release.
7. Keep evolving using Customer feedback

This was a look into the Search Giant and how it operates and innovates. This research was motivated by a book called Google Wants to Pay You which talks about how to use the Google Marketing Power to promote products. It made me curios to look more into Google and how does it manage to create a company which has helped normal people make money.

Anyways hope you have a better understanding of the force and domination of Google.

Related External Articles
- How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows(fastcompany.com)
- A glimpse inside Google's secret sauce(cnet.com)
- Google's Culture of Innovation(innosight.com)
- Marissa Mayer on Google Innovation(curiouscatblog.net)

Master Key System: Part 7 - Steps to Manifestation

This part we talk about steps to manifest your desires.

The first step is idealization - The most important step. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details,
Then comes the process of visualization - Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, before it can take form in the world without. Your brain cells attract to themselves the substance necessary for perfect development and they secure it by silent demand, the Law of Attraction, Earnest Desire will bring about Confident Expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by Firm Demand. Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will. Money, power, health and abundance, are effects and come only when the cause is found. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition which you have within. Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you do not want. Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.

Law is Impartial
If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack and every form of limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and power. We are too anxious; we manifest anxiety, fear, distress; we want to do something; we want to help; we are like a child who has just planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes and stirs up the earth to see if it is growing. Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate, and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world. We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing, by no means; we will do more and better work then we have ever done before, new channels will constantly be provided, new doors will open;

Exercise: visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest, tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress.

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