I developed a better understanding of what I need to do to promote a website in various search engines.

I learned how to locate and join various affiliate programs that complements theme of my site.

And most importantly of all, I took a step forward in right direction rather than just sat back and dreamt about my goal, which is more than most people do.

The above example uses a business-oriented website, but surely you can see how this would apply for any task or goal. If after a week of dieting you lost no weight, you know you've done something wrong and should tweak your formula. If after a month of studying a foreign language you still don't have any of basics down, you know you're too distracted or undedicated at your current pace and thus need to up ante a bit. No matter what your goal may be, failure is never end of road – it's a lesson that will lead to future success.

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3. Listen to radio and television talk shows. By listeningto others' communication we learn to formulate our ownopinions, understand our own awareness in world, in ourown life, and what we want and don't want. You don't alwaysneed to agree, in fact, by disagreeing with speakeryou're awareness is even more heightened.

4. News. Listening to news or reading news canincrease your awareness about world, your community, andother people’s opinions. This results in an increasedawareness of what you want and don't want.

Probably by now you have guessed why it’s important to wantto increase your awareness. If we live in a vacuum then theair inside us and all around us gets stale. Eventuallythere isn't any air left and we die from toxicity of ourown breath. Awareness stimulates us into knowing andunderstanding ourselves at levels we could never do on ourown. But it can only do so if we ask question, "Whatnew awareness are we taking away from this?" Yet, we mustalso listen and hear answer. When was last timeyou asked question?

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