How to overcome your “Obstacles”.

Written by graham and julie


……I realised that I really created my own obstacles in life, and if I just got out ofrepparttar way of myself and let my mind not hold me back, I could do things I never thought I could.” (Hilary Swank, as reported inrepparttar 109865 Sunday Times)

Hilary Swank puts her breathtaking performance in Million Dollar Baby down torepparttar 109866 way Clint Eastwood was able to get her to relax and stop her interfering with her natural ability to create such an awesome character.

What about you? How do you interfere with your natural ability. How do you stop yourself from progressing? What do you say to yourself that ensures you stay within a safe arena? In Hilary Swank’s words what is your “obstacle” to success in your life.

For most of us our obstacle isrepparttar 109867 same as Hilary Swank’s. It is our mind. The way we were raised. The area we lived in. The schools we went to. The education we received or not asrepparttar 109868 case may be. The first jobs we had. The people we idolised in our youth and in later life. All give us a way of being.

Think for a moment. What do you now do that can be traced back to your past. Have you ever said anything and a sibling or member of your family immediately responded “You sound just like……….”? If you have then you have just met an “obstacle” That thought was not a new thought. It is not even one of your thoughts. It is a response to a stimulus. It is a learned behaviour. A behaviour that isn’t yours it is someone else’s and you copied it. It is well and truly an “obstacle”

This is a small example but one that can be identified quickly. How many, other hidden behaviours do you have that are a carbon copy of someone else. All these “obstacles” ensure that you are ‘kept in your place’.

Have you ever thought to yourself;” I would like to do that” and quickly another thought enters your mind, “but I don’t think so”. The thought that comes says, “It is embarrassing” or “my (mother) wouldn’t like it”…or whatever your excuse is. It is this that Hilary Swank is talking about. Your mind is holding you back.

Why TV poker can make you wealthy!

Written by Ian McIntosh


There’s an awful lot of poker onrepparttar television these days. If you wanted to you could probably watch poker onrepparttar 109864 TV almost roundrepparttar 109865 clock andrepparttar 109866 big events likerepparttar 109867 World Poker Tour andrepparttar 109868 World Series of Poker receive massive coverage.

Poker is great to watch on TV, it is about psychology and people more than it’s aboutrepparttar 109869 cards and so it attracts a large percentage of non-players. People love watching other people in real situations and poker isrepparttar 109870 latest reality TV craze.

The apparent simplicity of Texas Holdem drawsrepparttar 109871 TV audience and holds them, like all great games and sports it is incredibly simple to understand but extremely difficult to master. Everyone from teenagers to grannies can work outrepparttar 109872 basics – three of something beats two of them! It’s only a short step to fill inrepparttar 109873 other hands onrepparttar 109874 ranking table.

TV Texas Holdem also has a very powerful addictiveness about it. Very quickly you will start to like some players more than others, in some cases people will become fans of certain players and follow their progress. If you start watching early on in a tournament, poker hasrepparttar 109875 ability to holdrepparttar 109876 attention in such a way that you need to stick with it untilrepparttar 109877 end to see who wins.

OK you’re asking, but how will that make me wealthy?

Well, remember all of these non-players who start watching poker onrepparttar 109878 TV and get hooked by it’s sheer entertainment value? Very soon some of them will be sayingrepparttar 109879 four little magic words to themselves,repparttar 109880 four words that will make you money.

“I can do that!”

Yes of course they want to join in. After all it looks so easy whenrepparttar 109881 professionals raise all-in with a Jack high and stealrepparttar 109882 pot on a complete bluff against two pairs. What they don't realise is that it takes years of practise to developrepparttar 109883 instinct to know when they can bluff like that. The other point they miss is that TV will edit outrepparttar 109884 majority of hands and will give a distorted view ofrepparttar 109885 play, it will look like these big bluffs can be pulled off every two or three hands!

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