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How 12 Year Old Adora Svitak Taught The World A Lesson

Steven Aitchison — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:31:52 +0000

I had another post planned for today and it was going to be a great one , however, I saw this video on TED.com and it totally blew me away and I had to scrap my post and put this video up instead. I believe every person who is 21 or over, and everyone who is 20, or younger, needs to see this video:

REBT How to Control Irrational Thoughts and Beliefs

Steven Aitchison — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:00:05 +0000

I have been sent a lot of questions recently about how to control thoughts and beliefs in our life that are not good for us. This is something I deal with quite a lot as an addiction worker and we use a great tool to help people with irrational thoughts and beliefs.

The tool is called REBT which stands for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. In this video I wanted to go over the basics of REBT and show you how you can control, with practice, your irrational thinking and the resultant beliefs about yourself.

I truly believe if we can control our thoughts we can control the way we act and feel about life and REBT is a great tool for this.

Video on REBT and Controlling Your Irrational Thoughts and Beliefs

Here are a few links to find out more about REBT

An introduction to REBT

A more comprehensive look at REBT

As ever I welcome feedback on this topic and the videos themselves as I am always looking to improve them.

A Definitive 4 Step Process for Setting Goals

Steven Aitchison — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:58:16 +0000

This is the most effective way I know of to set goals in your life. It shows 4 steps to setting your goals.

I think a lot of us think that setting a goal is a matter of writing it down, thinking about it a few times and then getting on with our life. There is so much more to it than that and in this video I want to share with you the other steps involved in setting goals which will you you a much higher success rate at reaching them.

4 Step Process for Setting Goals Video

The Wealthiest Taxi Driver in New York

Steven Aitchison — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:13:10 +0000

Today I wanted to share a story with you about the wealthiest taxi driver in New York. First of all I wanted to thank every single person who left a comment on my post last Thursday The Night I Gave Up On Life and everyone who sent me an email about it, I was truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of emotion and everyone who shared their stories. Thank you.

I am testing a new camcorder, which is why I am doing a video tonight and another one at the weekend.

I can’t tell you too much about the video except it is only 6 minutes long and I hope you find it worth watching.

As ever, it would be great to hear your comments about the video itself or the content.

How To Know Your Are On The Right Path – Video

Steven Aitchison — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:08:40 +0000

There comes a time in your life when you are beginning to change it and you are starting to see things changing. Sometimes the changes are huge and sometimes they are small. With the big changes, and the gradual changes, how do you know when you’re going in the right direction?

This is what I briefly discuss in the video, the feeling deep inside of you when you are meeting the right people, reading the right books, synchroncities start happening all the time, and the right things just comes to you at the right time. Trust in the process of change,trust in yourself and believe that change can happen for you.

I’d like your thoughts on what I discuss in the video or if you think I am a little ‘out there’ let me know that as well.

Beliefs Where Do They Come From and How Do We Change Them

Steven Aitchison — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:00:21 +0000

This is a two part video, I didn’t realise I was rambling so long

These videos are all about beliefs, how they are formed and how we go about changing them. Remember time is limited in the videos so I couldn’t go as in depth as I would have liked but hopefully you will get the gist the topic.

Beliefs: Part 1

Beliefs: Part 2

How to change your life in a few seconds

Steven Aitchison — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:43:59 +0000

This is the first in a new series of quick personal development video tips. The aim is to have one every week and they will be 5 minutes or less.

Now this is my first video for the series and it is not brilliant quality so if you have suggestions on how to make this series better then please let me know as I am open to suggestions.

Hope you enjoy the video.

10 beautiful pieces of ambient music

Steven Aitchison — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:17:08 +0000

Music has the power to touch our very souls and none more so than ambient music. I have collected 10 pieces of beautiful music from my collection and found them on youtube and listed them all here. I hope you enjoy these pieces, they really do have the power to transport you to another world.

10 Beautiful pieces of ambient music	Artist/song
	Brian Eno – An ending Ascent This is one of my favourite pieces. I first heard it driving from Edinburgh to Glasgow on a beautiful summers night as the sun was going down, it’s simply amazing.
	Arvo Part – Spiegel im Spiegel This is another beautiful piece of piano music from the Estonian composer. I remember hearing this on a dark night in 1999 looking out the window over Glasgow city centre and I was hooked.
	Simple Minds – Shake off the ghosts Simple minds are not known for their intrumentals but they actually recorded quite a lot of them. This one I heard on a winters night, it was snowing and I was in my girlfriends house at the time. The lights were out, the orange lights outside showed the snow falling heavily and I was standing at the window alone. It’s a moment and a tune I will remember forever.
	Bach – Sheep may safely graze – performed by St. Martin-in-the-Fields I used to be one of those people who thought classical music was boring and a bit dull. However that changed about 10 years ago and this is one of my favourite classical pieces.
	Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Plateaux of Mirror First Light Two geniuses at work. This is a beautiful piano piece. I heard this over 10 years ago and appreciate more every time I listen to it.
	Vangelis – Hymne I love Vangelis’ work and this is one of my favourites from them. It’s a bit 80′s but it is still a beautiful piece.
	Pachelbel – Canon in D When I was married a few years ago we had a harpist playing this in the background and it was beautiful. One of my all time favourites even though it might be a bit cliched to classical music lovers.
	Brian Eno – Silver Morning There is something indescribable about this piece. It gets hold of you and transports you into another world, amazing.
	Full Sail by Ryan Farish: I heard this last year and think it is just a beautiful piece of music. It’s upbeat but ambient.
	Diatonis – Aurora I discovered this on youtube a few months back and fell in love with it.

Another 22 of the best motivational videos online free

Steven Aitchison — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:35:47 +0000

With the success of the the post ’22 of the best motivational videos online – free’ I have scoured the video sites for another 22 videos which will inspire you, motivate you, make you laugh, make you think. The videos I have chosen are an eclectic mix and I have added more ‘thinking’ videos. I again apologise for the lack of female speakers on this collection, please if you have any inspirational videos of women speakers send them to me for the next collection.

I hope you enjoy this collection as much as the last

Another 22 of the best motivational videos online

T Harv Eker – The millionaire mind

Dan & Jennifer – The secret to relationships

22 Of the best motivational videos online free

Steven Aitchison — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:44:12 +0000

UPDATE: There was a problem with this post for the last few days but it has now been rectified. It seems that tables cannot be put into the database, even though it has been there for 4 months, I think another problem with the server.

For the last week or so I have been scouring the internet for free personal development videos, one of them I showed you yesterday; Steve Jobs. Well I have finally managed to get 22 great videos from some great personal development speakers and inspirational figures. I could have spent weeks doing this as I watched videos until my eyes were square.

you will probably notice there is a lack of female speakers in this. This was not deliberate there were not a lot of female speakers out there, the ratio was about 20:1, that’s 20 men to every 1 woman. Not a good statistic.

Anyway I have spent all day putting this together and I am proud to present 22 of the best personal development and inspirational figures of today.

Bob Proctor – The Science of getting rich: 1 Hr 47 Mins

Deepak Chopra – The way of the Warrior: 1 Hr 8 mins

Jim Rohn – Your best year ever: 10 mins

Tony Robbins – Interview with Charlie Rose: 55 Mins

Oprah Winfrey – Interview with David Letterman, Part 1: 10 Mins

The Secret – The movie (with subtitles). 1 Hr 29 Mins

Nick Vujicic – Speech Preview: 24 mins

Malcolm Gladwell – Authors at TED Talks: 18 mins

Joe Vitale – Portable empire: 9 mins

James Arthur Ray – Live Presentations – 28 mins

Steve Jobs – Commencement Speech at Stanford: 14 mins

Mary Foley – AOL retiree at aged 33, turned Author and speaker: 6 Mins

Paul McKenna – Accelerated learning: 50 Mins

Ross Jeffries – Speed Seduction 1: 1hr 54 Mins

Brian Tracy – Sales mastery (part 1): 17 Mins

Les Brown – On Mastery TV: 44 Mins

Tim Ferriss – Authors at Google with Marci Alboher: 56 Mins

Michael Beckwith – Bridging heaven and earth show: 58 Mins

J K Rowling – Autobiography Part 1 of 5: 10 Mins

Jack Canfield – The success principles: 5 mins

Wayne Dyer – The power of Intentions: 2 Hrs 15 mins

Tony Buzan – Mind Mapping: 6 mins

If you have any videos you would like to share then leave a comment with the link and in a few months time I can hopefully make a top 50 list.