Several days ago we joined an awesome network of really cool like-minded bloggers.

This group of very select blogs is called the Positive Blog Network. All of them have an exceedingly positive view on life and possibilities, and they all share our goal of truly wanting to help people help themselves and lead happier, more fulfilling lives.

You’ve got to check out the other great sites in this network.

Here are just a few of the recent highlights from other blogs in the Positive Blog Network.

• Steve Aichinson
  50 of the best personal development blogs
• Craig Harper’s Renovate Your Life
  Too Old, too Fat, too Dumb,
  and HEY! Can’t you Shut those Kids up?
• John Wesley’s Pick the Brain
  Resist the Temptation to Submit to Authority,
  Einstein’s Theory of Religion,
  and Overcoming a Loss of Motivation
• Genius Types
  How to Start a Bulk Candy Vending Business for Passive Income
• Steve Olson – On a Quest for Personal Freedom
  Do you know what is real?
• Life Optimizer
  5 Reasons Why Doing What You Love Can Optimize Your Life,
  5 Reasons Why Less Internet is Good for Me (and You)
• Cultivate Greatness
  See Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, and other Teachers from The Secret on Larry King Live!
• WiseBread
  Seven everyday scams you need to watch out for  
• Balanced Life Center
  Relationship Problems? Ask Dan and Jennifer, Becoming Transparent

Also check out the amazing image linked at the very bottom of the Cultivate Greatness blog. I really love this! I’ve always said "Can’t we all just get along?" and this image says it so much better!

Here is the full list of the blogs in the Positive Blog Network as of today. The list is growing every day as more like minded folks join in.  

Steven Aitchison – Change Your Thoughts

Craig Harper – Renovate Your Life

Brian Lee – Genius Types

John Wesley – Pick The Brain

Travis Wright – Cultivate Greatness

Sales Motivation

Steve Olson – On a Quest for Personal Freedom

The Dragon Slayer’s Guide to Life

WiseBread

Balanced Life Center

Life Optimizer

Talent Development

Scott H. Young

Ask Dan and Jennifer – Dating, Relationships, Love, and Sex

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Are you ready to create history, and have the best year of your life?

If you answered "Yes," then you’re ready to create your Big BANG.

What is a Big BANG?

Big BANG is an acronym for Big Bold, Ambitious, and Noble Goals. Applying the Big BANG formula to your life or career can allow you to create monumental, quantum-leap performance and profitability gains.

Watch the Video.

Here are the characteristics of the Big BANG formula and how it works:

Bold…

A Big BANG is saturated with boldness. It requires a fearless, daring, and courageous spirit, nerves of steel, and a massive dose of self-confidence. It’s roll-the-dice-and-bet-the-house boldness. It can mean taking extraordinary risks, and, when you decide upon a course olfaction, boldness demands that you execute it aggressively.

Boldness alone isn’t enough to create a Big BANG.

Creating your own personal Big BANG also requires that your goal be:

Ambitious…

A Big BANG requires a strong, intense, passionate, and singular ambition to achieve a particular goal. That means settings goals that are as grand in scale as they are bold in formulation.

It was ambition that created the Seven Wonders of the World, and it is this formidable force, which provides the psychological mojo that screams faster, higher, braver, further.

Finally, creating your own Big BANG involves adopting goals that are:

Noble…

A Big BANG is championed by a noble cause that inspires and challenges people to perform at an uncommon level. After all, when you strive to better the lives of others… your family, your colleagues, your customers… you have a purpose worth pursuing, even when you might otherwise quit.

Shining with exceptional and noteworthy qualities, a noble goal is grand and impressive in both appearance and thought. Noble goals unleash the human spirit, and our world has been greatly blessed by men and women pursuing bold, ambitious, and noble goals, goals that created a Big BANG!

It’s Time for You to Shine

Right now, this instant, you are capable of exponential growth. You have the ability to multiply your performance, dramatically exceed your best expectations, and achieve goals on a scale that in the past seemed impossible. You can do all of this once you focus on defining and pursuing your Big BANG.

But that means you must stop settling for things as they are, and surrender the belief that change is only marginal and incremental. Life is prepared to give you a breakthrough… a spontaneous creation experience any time you become willing to allow it.

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

Few people ever come close to reaching their full potential. Most do not even come close, and barely scratch the surface of what they can possibly accomplish.

Maybe, just maybe, the time has come for you to study the face in the mirror and decide once and for all that you are ready to rock the world.

Let me be perfectly clear about this, we are not talking about getting to the next level, what we’re talking about here is getting to the next orbit!

I’m talking about increasing sales by 500%, about dominating your market niche, worldwide distribution and consumption of your product or service, about winning the Gold Medal in the Olympics, about finding a cure for the incurable.

How to Create a Big BANG

A Big BANG calls out for a monumental goal that is transparently clear, amazingly simple, and tenaciously spirited. This type of goal requires an internal sense of urgency about results that even high-performers struggle to comprehend.

The level of discipline and intensity of focus required to achieve this type of goal requires that you say goodbye to your comfort zone. A profound and unwavering commitment to achievement is mandatory; once you set a Big BANG you’ll be working without a net.

And the process begins with having your own Personal Strategic Plan in place to guide you throughout 2007.

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Having a strategic plan for your life separates you from the 85% of the people who never accomplish a single resolution they set for themselves.

Visit this site and discover how to create your own Personal Strategic Plan for 2007and set in motion your own Big Bang year. http://www.PersonalStrategicPlan.com

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One word of advice when choosing your new years resolution.

Don’t try to accomplish all ten of them this year. Pick one – yes I said just one – to accomplish this year and focus all of your energy on accomplishing that one goal.

Too many of us try to solve ‘world hunger’, when we could make the most difference by feeding a single family. That’s just an analogy, but you get the picture.

Once you’ve chosen your single resolution for the year, don’t let anything else get in your way. Pursue that one single resolution as if you life depends on it – depending on the resolution you choose (like stop smoking or lose weight), it just may… 

As you read this entire article from beginning to end, think about not only how these resolutions to your personal goals, but to your love and family relationships. Have you given them the attention they deserve?

By the way, I couldn’t resist adding my own thoughts to a few of these…

The Top Ten New Years Resolutions…

And How To Achieve Them This Year.

By Gary Ryan Blair, The GoalsGuy

New Year’s is the only holiday that celebrates the passage of time. Perhaps that’s why, as the final seconds of the year tick away, we become introspective. Inevitably, that introspection turns to thoughts of self-improvement and the annual ritual of making resolutions, which offer the first of many important tools for remaking ourselves. The following list is the result of our extensive survey, which consisted of over 300,000 responses worldwide.

1. Lose Weight and Get in Better Physical Shape

Physical activity builds physical vitality. With every year of your life, you have more to gain from being physically active; as your age-related risks of chronic disease increase, regular exercise generally slows or reverses that trend. In fact, you’re even more likely to notice the benefits of regular exercise if you already have a chronic condition.

Are you ever going to be fit again as long as you live? The answer is unless you make a resolution to get fit – you’re never going to be fit – ever. The choice is yours; it begins by opting for the stairs instead of the elevator, fruit in place of chocolate, and active rather than sedentary activities.

Dan and Jennifer: We made a very simple commitment this year to do some sort of physical activity (that actually gets our heart rate up) for 10 minutes every day. Walking from the sofa to the mail box doesn’t count! One of our favorite activities is walking our two really awesome doggies, Cujo (a 10 pound Yorkie), and Sasha (a 90 pound German Shepherd). Can guess whose dog is whose?

2. Stick to a Budget

It’s been said that the best defense is a good offense. Developing and sticking to a realistic budget is a brilliant offensive move as it prevents overspending and ensures peace of mind. Many people find it very difficult to stick to a budget. It does take hard work and a lot of self-discipline, at least in the beginning. The good news is that most people find the longer they can stick to a budget, the easier it becomes.

Dan and Jennifer: We actually addressed this one last year. Neither of us has ever been very good at creating, much less sticking to a budget. 

Last August we read a really great book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and attended a free 3 day seminar, the Millionaire Mind Intensive, from Peak Potentials, founded by T. Harv Ecker. Ecker is a very well known guru in the area of personal development / betterment.

I’m not going to go into the details here, you’ll have to read the book to get the very simple strategies that have helped us triple our savings and always have more than enough money to pay our bills and have fun at the same time. I highly recommend at least reading the book…

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Dear John,

You probably already know what this letter is about. You’ve seen it coming; I know you have. It’s about us, John. It’s over. I’m leaving you!

Why have you neglected me? Why have you made so many excuses? Your inaction and addiction to procrastination is tearing me apart. I simply must move on…

As you read this entire article from beginning to end, think about not only how it applies to your personal goals, but to your love and family relationships. Have you given them the attention they deserve?

Are You Going To Receive A "Dear John Letter" From Your 2007 Goals?
by Gary Ryan Blair

The genesis of "Dear John" letters can be traced to World War II. 

They usually began, "Dear John, I have found someone else whom I think the world of. I think the only way out is for us to get a divorce." These letters, which broke the hearts and dreams of our servicemen and women, soon became known as "Dear Johns."

I developed this lesson to provide a different type of "Dear John" letter. 

It’s a private note from your hopes and dreams, and it speaks loudly through your subconscious.

I trust it will be powerful enough to get your attention, and more important, compelling enough to get you to take action and make this coming year the best of your life.

The purpose is to provide an outlet, a voice for all of those hopes, dreams, desires, and goals that you’ve neglected. If your goals, hopes, and dreams could talk, what would they say? Let’s hope that they wouldn’t write you the following letter, especially at the end of 2007…

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Will it bring you greater wealth, better relationships, a healthier body with less fat, and a reduction in your blood pressure…

Or will it be more of the "same old same old". It all begins with a choice. Make the decision that this year will be better than last year.

Right now, at this moment, you may not know how it will be better or how to make it better… But that’s OK. What does matter is deciding it WILL be better – in fact that it will be the best year, ever, for you.

Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan… 

If you HOPE to increase your income this year. Or HOPE to pay off debts. Or HOPE to lose weight and get in shape or to find the love of your life… 

…then stop right now, you might as well forget about it. It’s not going to happen. Why?

Because HOPE is not a plan.   

Maybe your problems or goals involve your business, or your job, or your relationships, or your health, or how you spend your time… or ANY number of the things that make up YOUR life.

The fact is, every successful person I know finally hits the breaking point… where you either overcome your obstacles or be a slave to them forever.

If you want to start a business, increase your income, get out of debt, stop working so much, lose weight, get in shape, quit smoking, pick up a hobby… or whatever it may be… it’s time to take action. 

Don’t fall victim to procrastination. Fear. Loss of motivation or whatever else keeps you in check.  

If there’s something, or someone, out there you really want. If you want 2008 to be your best year yet… then you must reach out there and grab a stranglehold on your goals. 

This is an excerpt from and incredibly gifted and talented man, Gary Ryan Blair. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He is The GoalsGuy and he has created a fool proof way that you can create your Personal Strategic Plan for 2008.

You’ll definitely want to read the following article by Gary!

Create a Personal Strategic Plan!
by Gary Ryan Blair

Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan. You can and will achieve more in the next year than you have in the past ten with a disciplined Personal Strategic Plan.

Personal strategic planning is a disciplined thought process, which produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide who you are, where you are going, what you do, and how, when and why you do it. All of this is done with a focus on the future.

The purpose of personal strategic planning is to help you:

- Provide direction, meaning, and purpose for your life.
– Make decisions that positively affect your future.
– Focus your energies on what’s most important.
– Achieve the greatest results in the shortest period of time.
– Significantly increase your level of performance.
– Enjoy more time, money, balance and freedom.
– Eliminate uncertainty, anxiety, doubt and fear.
– Leverage your skills more effectively.
– Enhance your quality of life, and overall peace of mind
– Be more, do more and ultimately to have more from life.

Personal strategic planning is based on the premise that life will not go according to plan, if you do not have a plan.

A successful plan must include the following…