As the last rays of summer’s warmth ebb away and the gentle breezes of autumn waft themselves upon us, we recognize once again, that change is inevitable. Nature is constantly changing and yet, so many people have the notion that change is frightening.
People are creatures of habit and some find it difficult to adjust to changes that are certain to come our way. Life is like an old, comfortable pair of shoes. We may realize that we need new ones and we may even find new ones we really like, but, we know that changing will cause us discomfort for a little while until we break them in.
Sometimes we need to realize that life isn’t always easy. What may be better for us is not what we are used to, but it is certainly worth the trouble of breaking in new habits and lifestyle changes.
Change does not have to be painful. Just look to nature and it will give you clues to how change can be effortless. The beautifully colored autumn leaves do not hang on to the old tree for dear life. No, they yield to the changes with ease and float gently off the tree.
With the coming of autumn we have been busy in our gardens pulling up the old stuff and getting ready for a time of rest. We know that the ground must rest and next year there will be more wonderful things in our garden to delight us.
Are there things in your life that need to be gently eased out of your life? Maybe there are bad relationships or habits or thoughts that need to be weeded out of your life. Don’t be afraid to do a little gardening in your own life.
Every gardener knows that unless we get to the roots, we really are not getting rid of the problem. It may go away for awhile but unless we get to the root, it will sneak back into the garden very quickly.
Although the harvest time is here there is no time to stop weeding the garden of our minds. This garden needs constant attention in order for us to flourish and be all that we can be. The only way to keep this garden in top shape is to make sure that no weeds are there trying to strangle any good we are trying to do. The weeds of our mind, of course are negative thoughts that like to creep in and keep us from achieving that which we are striving for.
William James said, “Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
How do we change the inner attitudes of our minds? By changing the way we think. We must put fear and negativity behind us. How, you ask? Just as the leaves of autumn gently blow from the tree, don’t try and make a change in your thinking over night and expect to get instant results. We cannot rip these thoughts out of our minds, as much as we would like to sometimes. No, we need to be gentle on ourselves and let positive thoughts replace the negative.
Yes it will take some work on your part. You must constantly fill your mind with positive thoughts. Proverbs 27: 3 says, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. We are what we think. When the negative thoughts come into your mind, you must be ready and willing to replace those thoughts with positive ones. Just say to yourself, no, I won’t let that thought take over my mind, I will think positively. Affirmations are good to have readily available so you can replace the negative thought with the positive one. It won’t be easy, it won’t be hard either, it will just be different, like that new pair of shoes we were talking about earlier.
The autumn leaves fall to make way for new life. We too must go through changes that will bring new growth to our bodies, souls and spirits.
Change is inevitable, so why fight it? Why be afraid of it? Yes, change will require us to do a bit of readjusting but it is always worth it. Don’t be afraid of change, a change will do you good.
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Advantages of Being Confident
Almost all successes and attainments in life come from your ability to feel certain that you can accomplish what you set out to achieve. Confidence is the gateway to success; to the life that you wish to lead and to the dreams that you desire to live.
With confidence you can boldly progress towards your ambitions and aspirations. With confidence you can rise up and handle life’s demands and challenges. You can tackle any hurdle and obstruction, and move on to the next step of your journey to fulfilment and achievement.
One of the principle requirements to anything you want to do in your life is confidence. Confidence is an indispensable part of your development, betterment, progress and success, both at a personal and professional level. With confidence you can forge ahead to fulfil your potential and perform at your peak level.
Having confidence is the crux that allows you to achieve your true potential in whatever situation; in your relationships, your work or career, your finances and your self-image.
When you experience a lack of confidence, it may stop you from striving for what you want. This feeling of lack of confidence can be the root of many complications and hardships that block you from achieving your desires. It can be like a large thorn that continually bursts the bubble of desire.
There may have been times when you have felt a level of confidence when you were engaged in an activity that you were good at; such as driving a car, being a parent or managing your team. At those times you would have displayed a high level of certainty, which is a form of confidence.
However, there may have been other circumstances where you found that you felt less confident. On these occasions, you would achieve a fraction of what is truly possible for you. With determination and focus to pursue and gain confidence, you can develop the strength and fortitude to climb out of the depths of any circumstances, and take advantage of the opportunities and successes that lay ahead of you.
In the same way that you have learned to lack confidence, you can also learn to have unlimited confidence. And the simplest and quickest way to kick-start the engines of your brain, is to know and accept that confidence can be an acquired process; it can be learned and formatted to suit all moments.
As your confidence increases, you can take a front row seat in mastering many areas of your life. You will find that you become more and more comfortable and confident in multiple areas, including:
• Moving ahead in your career
• Starting your own business
• Embracing the risks of every day life
• Refusing to be held back by fear
• Creating circumstances rather than waiting for them
• Smiling more and enjoying life
• Dramatically improving your health
Successful and dynamic people have gained mastery on how to feel courageous and confident. When you develop and build on your own confidence skills, you, too, will feel and become a different person. You will feel much more enthusiastic, motivated and determined in every aspect of your life.
Once you improve on the way you think and feel about yourself, your beliefs and your actions will follow. You will confidently overcome the challenges that life thrusts upon you and you will manage them with new-found belief and faith in your capability to do so.
As you become more confident you abandon worry, hesitation and, more importantly, you side-step fear. The focus here is on your whole being, every part of you; your thoughts, the images in your mind, your emotions, and ultimately your behaviour and the actual outcomes in your life.
Bear in mind that as you focus on change, change does begin to happen. It is fun, motivating and very rewarding to feel and see yourself growing and improving and becoming more confident and effective day-by-day and week-by-week.
There is great power in believing that you can succeed in your quest for greater confidence. With awareness and consistency, this is attainable. Your confidence can stretch beyond any measurable scale and further still, knowing no boundaries.
Just think what you can do with all the confidence that you can have!
With confidence you can boldly progress towards your ambitions and aspirations. With confidence you can rise up and handle life’s demands and challenges. You can tackle any hurdle and obstruction, and move on to the next step of your journey to fulfilment and achievement.
One of the principle requirements to anything you want to do in your life is confidence. Confidence is an indispensable part of your development, betterment, progress and success, both at a personal and professional level. With confidence you can forge ahead to fulfil your potential and perform at your peak level.
Having confidence is the crux that allows you to achieve your true potential in whatever situation; in your relationships, your work or career, your finances and your self-image.
When you experience a lack of confidence, it may stop you from striving for what you want. This feeling of lack of confidence can be the root of many complications and hardships that block you from achieving your desires. It can be like a large thorn that continually bursts the bubble of desire.
There may have been times when you have felt a level of confidence when you were engaged in an activity that you were good at; such as driving a car, being a parent or managing your team. At those times you would have displayed a high level of certainty, which is a form of confidence.
However, there may have been other circumstances where you found that you felt less confident. On these occasions, you would achieve a fraction of what is truly possible for you. With determination and focus to pursue and gain confidence, you can develop the strength and fortitude to climb out of the depths of any circumstances, and take advantage of the opportunities and successes that lay ahead of you.
In the same way that you have learned to lack confidence, you can also learn to have unlimited confidence. And the simplest and quickest way to kick-start the engines of your brain, is to know and accept that confidence can be an acquired process; it can be learned and formatted to suit all moments.
As your confidence increases, you can take a front row seat in mastering many areas of your life. You will find that you become more and more comfortable and confident in multiple areas, including:
• Moving ahead in your career
• Starting your own business
• Embracing the risks of every day life
• Refusing to be held back by fear
• Creating circumstances rather than waiting for them
• Smiling more and enjoying life
• Dramatically improving your health
Successful and dynamic people have gained mastery on how to feel courageous and confident. When you develop and build on your own confidence skills, you, too, will feel and become a different person. You will feel much more enthusiastic, motivated and determined in every aspect of your life.
Once you improve on the way you think and feel about yourself, your beliefs and your actions will follow. You will confidently overcome the challenges that life thrusts upon you and you will manage them with new-found belief and faith in your capability to do so.
As you become more confident you abandon worry, hesitation and, more importantly, you side-step fear. The focus here is on your whole being, every part of you; your thoughts, the images in your mind, your emotions, and ultimately your behaviour and the actual outcomes in your life.
Bear in mind that as you focus on change, change does begin to happen. It is fun, motivating and very rewarding to feel and see yourself growing and improving and becoming more confident and effective day-by-day and week-by-week.
There is great power in believing that you can succeed in your quest for greater confidence. With awareness and consistency, this is attainable. Your confidence can stretch beyond any measurable scale and further still, knowing no boundaries.
Just think what you can do with all the confidence that you can have!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A World of Infinite Opportunities
Many people feel that there is a limited amount of abundance, wealth, or chances to succeed in life. Furthermore, there is a solid belief that if one person succeeds, another must fail.
This might be true, in some cases, such as in a small company or school, where opportunity is limited by management. However, the world is a big place, and there are opportunities created from ideas that help people, and no one gets hurt in the process.
Below are two examples of success that have not taken anything away from anyone:
Danny Thomas: With his promise, prayers, and vision, for St. Jude’s Hospital, he received the help of friends in the Arab-American community to build a fantastic charity. Some of us also believe he received divine help – I know, I do.
There is much more to this story, but what did this hospital or charity take away from anyone? Aren’t the children who recover from cancer living proof that this idea, and prosperity, is for the pure benefit of mankind? There is no one who is hurt by this, and Marlo Thomas has picked up where her father left off.
Yoga teachers: Many unfulfilled members of the workforce have left their jobs to teach the benefits of Yoga to the masses. They teach their students to enjoy life, deal with stress, breathe properly, improve their posture, become aware of their bodies, and many more benefits.
Do these jobs take food away from anyone? When someone starts a business, do they take food away from another competitor? If you believe your competition is your problem, it will be. This is limited thinking, and you have to learn to think “outside the box,” in order to be successful in life.
Don’t waste time on bad thoughts. You can easily co-exist in harmony with them, become friends, and learn from them. There is enough opportunity for everyone. This should be your mantra: Observe your competition, learn from their mistakes, and when possible, copy their success.
This is why you need to take a mandatory vacation and get fresh ideas. This is why you should take a notebook with you. I still prefer the “old fashioned,” spiral bound notebook, with a pen in hand.
Everyone has a niche, make sure you cultivate yours, and develop your own identity, in life. Always remember, the sky is the limit, and you are only restrained by your own thoughts.
This might be true, in some cases, such as in a small company or school, where opportunity is limited by management. However, the world is a big place, and there are opportunities created from ideas that help people, and no one gets hurt in the process.
Below are two examples of success that have not taken anything away from anyone:
Danny Thomas: With his promise, prayers, and vision, for St. Jude’s Hospital, he received the help of friends in the Arab-American community to build a fantastic charity. Some of us also believe he received divine help – I know, I do.
There is much more to this story, but what did this hospital or charity take away from anyone? Aren’t the children who recover from cancer living proof that this idea, and prosperity, is for the pure benefit of mankind? There is no one who is hurt by this, and Marlo Thomas has picked up where her father left off.
Yoga teachers: Many unfulfilled members of the workforce have left their jobs to teach the benefits of Yoga to the masses. They teach their students to enjoy life, deal with stress, breathe properly, improve their posture, become aware of their bodies, and many more benefits.
Do these jobs take food away from anyone? When someone starts a business, do they take food away from another competitor? If you believe your competition is your problem, it will be. This is limited thinking, and you have to learn to think “outside the box,” in order to be successful in life.
Don’t waste time on bad thoughts. You can easily co-exist in harmony with them, become friends, and learn from them. There is enough opportunity for everyone. This should be your mantra: Observe your competition, learn from their mistakes, and when possible, copy their success.
This is why you need to take a mandatory vacation and get fresh ideas. This is why you should take a notebook with you. I still prefer the “old fashioned,” spiral bound notebook, with a pen in hand.
Everyone has a niche, make sure you cultivate yours, and develop your own identity, in life. Always remember, the sky is the limit, and you are only restrained by your own thoughts.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Motivation is the thrust trailing life-enhancing interchange. It comes from intentional precisely what you want to do and having an insatiable, blazing hope to do what’s essential to get it. It keeps your aspiration on track as it is the force of motive that keeps you going when the going gets tough.
Here’s 5 top tips to help you supercharge your motivation:
1. Make a mental picture board and fulfill it with pictures of your sought after goals. The motorcar you want to own, the mansion you want to live in, the country where you want to live yes, they’re the perceptible ones. Others gave notice of holiday goals, prizes, first-class travelling tickets, clothes you want to buy, fine eating place* you want to patronise – whatever you can think of that gets your heartbeat running.
2. GET furious. If you want to change your life for the more beneficial then get furious about wherever you’re at now. Having a bored attitude towards change isn’t what’s necessitated and it won’t create a substantial desire within you. So ask: “Why do I want to change?” Is it for you’re FED UP with debts? Does your job DRIVE YOU CRAZY? Is your life dumb AND PRECITABLE? Are you chuck up AND TIRED of doing the same thing week in week out? Are you tired on the far side impression by the dull, uninspiring, infelicitous people you companion with? THEN GET ANGRY ABOUT IT. And I mean genuine furious. Write it all down, all of the frustrative, unrewarding, pitiful lot of it that makes day-to-day a dull plug away until your final days. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
3. Addressing of your final days, start to take account the value of time. Time is one of the most precious resourcefulnesses you have and it is also a NON RENEWABLE resource. You can either use it to the full or waste it. If you want to make change you’re going to have to commit a lot of time to make it happen. Commencement to cut down the time you waste on irrelevances: TV, newsprints, lie-ins, weekends spent patronizing, partying, dining out, visiting an perpetual line of relatives and friends – these won’t help you get what you want and all of them will rob time from you. Worthful time that you can use much more in effect by investing it in YOU. Think of this: You have a finite number of time here on Earth. You don’t know how much time you have – no one does. But it’s how you use the time you have that reckons. So make your time count and that means beginning from right NOW.
4. Conformation. Are you a unmindful little sheep who’s way too fainthearted to pursue your own way? Do you have to follow where everyone else goes, doing exactly what everyone else does and therefore, who gets the same degrees of felicity as all the other little sheep? Seriously, does this describe YOU? Are you too affrighted to be different than all of the other sheep because they would not like it if you made up one's mind to follow a different path? So you dutifully jog along following all the other sheep because if they’re doing it then that’s how it is right? But if you do what everybody else does you’ll just get what everyone else gets. Do you want to be a senseless, timid little sheep who blindly follows all the other sheep? Or do you want to be a drawing card, a warrior who owns the courage to be unambiguously you and to do what you want to do and make your dreams happen? If so then this way you have to be more like a tiger than a sheep. Do you actually want to be a sheep? I mean, haven’t we got adequate sheep already?
5. Revere your fear. Fear is the force that is influenced to stop you in your tracks and fleece your aspirations from you. But it can only do this if you let it. Are you going to let this roughshod destructive mountebank tread down on your dreams, mouse your felicity and crush your spirit? Suppose this thought obsessing your final days: “I didn’t do the things I needed because I was too terrified to live”. And by then, it’ll be far too late to capture fear. Pass up to let fear spoil your life and start adopting activity – right away!
The world is ready and waiting for your unequalled empowers. How come keep it holding back any longer?
Here’s 5 top tips to help you supercharge your motivation:
1. Make a mental picture board and fulfill it with pictures of your sought after goals. The motorcar you want to own, the mansion you want to live in, the country where you want to live yes, they’re the perceptible ones. Others gave notice of holiday goals, prizes, first-class travelling tickets, clothes you want to buy, fine eating place* you want to patronise – whatever you can think of that gets your heartbeat running.
2. GET furious. If you want to change your life for the more beneficial then get furious about wherever you’re at now. Having a bored attitude towards change isn’t what’s necessitated and it won’t create a substantial desire within you. So ask: “Why do I want to change?” Is it for you’re FED UP with debts? Does your job DRIVE YOU CRAZY? Is your life dumb AND PRECITABLE? Are you chuck up AND TIRED of doing the same thing week in week out? Are you tired on the far side impression by the dull, uninspiring, infelicitous people you companion with? THEN GET ANGRY ABOUT IT. And I mean genuine furious. Write it all down, all of the frustrative, unrewarding, pitiful lot of it that makes day-to-day a dull plug away until your final days. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
3. Addressing of your final days, start to take account the value of time. Time is one of the most precious resourcefulnesses you have and it is also a NON RENEWABLE resource. You can either use it to the full or waste it. If you want to make change you’re going to have to commit a lot of time to make it happen. Commencement to cut down the time you waste on irrelevances: TV, newsprints, lie-ins, weekends spent patronizing, partying, dining out, visiting an perpetual line of relatives and friends – these won’t help you get what you want and all of them will rob time from you. Worthful time that you can use much more in effect by investing it in YOU. Think of this: You have a finite number of time here on Earth. You don’t know how much time you have – no one does. But it’s how you use the time you have that reckons. So make your time count and that means beginning from right NOW.
4. Conformation. Are you a unmindful little sheep who’s way too fainthearted to pursue your own way? Do you have to follow where everyone else goes, doing exactly what everyone else does and therefore, who gets the same degrees of felicity as all the other little sheep? Seriously, does this describe YOU? Are you too affrighted to be different than all of the other sheep because they would not like it if you made up one's mind to follow a different path? So you dutifully jog along following all the other sheep because if they’re doing it then that’s how it is right? But if you do what everybody else does you’ll just get what everyone else gets. Do you want to be a senseless, timid little sheep who blindly follows all the other sheep? Or do you want to be a drawing card, a warrior who owns the courage to be unambiguously you and to do what you want to do and make your dreams happen? If so then this way you have to be more like a tiger than a sheep. Do you actually want to be a sheep? I mean, haven’t we got adequate sheep already?
5. Revere your fear. Fear is the force that is influenced to stop you in your tracks and fleece your aspirations from you. But it can only do this if you let it. Are you going to let this roughshod destructive mountebank tread down on your dreams, mouse your felicity and crush your spirit? Suppose this thought obsessing your final days: “I didn’t do the things I needed because I was too terrified to live”. And by then, it’ll be far too late to capture fear. Pass up to let fear spoil your life and start adopting activity – right away!
The world is ready and waiting for your unequalled empowers. How come keep it holding back any longer?
Monday, March 15, 2010
Motivation is the thrust trailing life-enhancing interchange. It comes from intentional precisely what you want to do and having an insatiable, blazing hope to do what’s essential to get it. It keeps your aspiration on track as it is the force of motive that keeps you going when the going gets tough.
Here’s 5 top tips to help you supercharge your motivation:
1. Make a mental picture board and fulfill it with pictures of your sought after goals. The motorcar you want to own, the mansion you want to live in, the country where you want to live yes, they’re the perceptible ones. Others gave notice of holiday goals, prizes, first-class travelling tickets, clothes you want to buy, fine eating place* you want to patronise – whatever you can think of that gets your heartbeat running.
2. GET furious. If you want to change your life for the more beneficial then get furious about wherever you’re at now. Having a bored attitude towards change isn’t what’s necessitated and it won’t create a substantial desire within you. So ask: “Why do I want to change?” Is it for you’re FED UP with debts? Does your job DRIVE YOU CRAZY? Is your life dumb AND PRECITABLE? Are you chuck up AND TIRED of doing the same thing week in week out? Are you tired on the far side impression by the dull, uninspiring, infelicitous people you companion with? THEN GET ANGRY ABOUT IT. And I mean genuine furious. Write it all down, all of the frustrative, unrewarding, pitiful lot of it that makes day-to-day a dull plug away until your final days. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
3. Addressing of your final days, start to take account the value of time. Time is one of the most precious resourcefulnesses you have and it is also a NON RENEWABLE resource. You can either use it to the full or waste it. If you want to make change you’re going to have to commit a lot of time to make it happen. Commencement to cut down the time you waste on irrelevances: TV, newsprints, lie-ins, weekends spent patronizing, partying, dining out, visiting an perpetual line of relatives and friends – these won’t help you get what you want and all of them will rob time from you. Worthful time that you can use much more in effect by investing it in YOU. Think of this: You have a finite number of time here on Earth. You don’t know how much time you have – no one does. But it’s how you use the time you have that reckons. So make your time count and that means beginning from right NOW.
4. Conformation. Are you a unmindful little sheep who’s way too fainthearted to pursue your own way? Do you have to follow where everyone else goes, doing exactly what everyone else does and therefore, who gets the same degrees of felicity as all the other little sheep? Seriously, does this describe YOU? Are you too affrighted to be different than all of the other sheep because they would not like it if you made up one's mind to follow a different path? So you dutifully jog along following all the other sheep because if they’re doing it then that’s how it is right? But if you do what everybody else does you’ll just get what everyone else gets. Do you want to be a senseless, timid little sheep who blindly follows all the other sheep? Or do you want to be a drawing card, a warrior who owns the courage to be unambiguously you and to do what you want to do and make your dreams happen? If so then this way you have to be more like a tiger than a sheep. Do you actually want to be a sheep? I mean, haven’t we got adequate sheep already?
5. Revere your fear. Fear is the force that is influenced to stop you in your tracks and fleece your aspirations from you. But it can only do this if you let it. Are you going to let this roughshod destructive mountebank tread down on your dreams, mouse your felicity and crush your spirit? Suppose this thought obsessing your final days: “I didn’t do the things I needed because I was too terrified to live”. And by then, it’ll be far too late to capture fear. Pass up to let fear spoil your life and start adopting activity – right away!
The world is ready and waiting for your unequalled empowers. How come keep it holding back any longer?
Here’s 5 top tips to help you supercharge your motivation:
1. Make a mental picture board and fulfill it with pictures of your sought after goals. The motorcar you want to own, the mansion you want to live in, the country where you want to live yes, they’re the perceptible ones. Others gave notice of holiday goals, prizes, first-class travelling tickets, clothes you want to buy, fine eating place* you want to patronise – whatever you can think of that gets your heartbeat running.
2. GET furious. If you want to change your life for the more beneficial then get furious about wherever you’re at now. Having a bored attitude towards change isn’t what’s necessitated and it won’t create a substantial desire within you. So ask: “Why do I want to change?” Is it for you’re FED UP with debts? Does your job DRIVE YOU CRAZY? Is your life dumb AND PRECITABLE? Are you chuck up AND TIRED of doing the same thing week in week out? Are you tired on the far side impression by the dull, uninspiring, infelicitous people you companion with? THEN GET ANGRY ABOUT IT. And I mean genuine furious. Write it all down, all of the frustrative, unrewarding, pitiful lot of it that makes day-to-day a dull plug away until your final days. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
3. Addressing of your final days, start to take account the value of time. Time is one of the most precious resourcefulnesses you have and it is also a NON RENEWABLE resource. You can either use it to the full or waste it. If you want to make change you’re going to have to commit a lot of time to make it happen. Commencement to cut down the time you waste on irrelevances: TV, newsprints, lie-ins, weekends spent patronizing, partying, dining out, visiting an perpetual line of relatives and friends – these won’t help you get what you want and all of them will rob time from you. Worthful time that you can use much more in effect by investing it in YOU. Think of this: You have a finite number of time here on Earth. You don’t know how much time you have – no one does. But it’s how you use the time you have that reckons. So make your time count and that means beginning from right NOW.
4. Conformation. Are you a unmindful little sheep who’s way too fainthearted to pursue your own way? Do you have to follow where everyone else goes, doing exactly what everyone else does and therefore, who gets the same degrees of felicity as all the other little sheep? Seriously, does this describe YOU? Are you too affrighted to be different than all of the other sheep because they would not like it if you made up one's mind to follow a different path? So you dutifully jog along following all the other sheep because if they’re doing it then that’s how it is right? But if you do what everybody else does you’ll just get what everyone else gets. Do you want to be a senseless, timid little sheep who blindly follows all the other sheep? Or do you want to be a drawing card, a warrior who owns the courage to be unambiguously you and to do what you want to do and make your dreams happen? If so then this way you have to be more like a tiger than a sheep. Do you actually want to be a sheep? I mean, haven’t we got adequate sheep already?
5. Revere your fear. Fear is the force that is influenced to stop you in your tracks and fleece your aspirations from you. But it can only do this if you let it. Are you going to let this roughshod destructive mountebank tread down on your dreams, mouse your felicity and crush your spirit? Suppose this thought obsessing your final days: “I didn’t do the things I needed because I was too terrified to live”. And by then, it’ll be far too late to capture fear. Pass up to let fear spoil your life and start adopting activity – right away!
The world is ready and waiting for your unequalled empowers. How come keep it holding back any longer?
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