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Good
morning <$firstname$>,
Surprised
to see COMPASS in your inbox again ? Yes,
I know - you haven't received it for a while. I apologize.
Many subscribers have contacted me over the last few months
and enquired whether I was still alive : I am, and kicking,
may be a bit too much of the latter since the beginning
of this year.
There
were some gaps in my work, though - I have used them to
completely rebuild my BLUE CRANE website. It is more informative
than ever, solely about personal growth and I'd like to
invite you to take a look around there : please follow
this link or click on the header image.
A
lot of things have happened recently and I have discovered
some exciting new sources for self improvement. One of the
most fascinating revelations for me is Steve Pavlina's blog
: I'll introduce you to his work next week, an extremely
informative collection of articles from a brilliant man
in Las Vegas who is totally committed to exploring the boundaries
of his human potential.
Speaking
about potential : you must have noticed that the commodity
markets for oil, gold and other raw materials have started
a dramatic upward trend earlier this year. It made me wonder
what the most valuable commodity in the world actually is
- is it platinum around US$1300 an ounce, or diamonds ?
What is it that determines their value ? Why is lead so
much cheaper than copper ?
We
perceive some things to be in short supply, of others we
think there is more than we need. US$650 for an ounce of
gold is a lot of money, but many are prepared to pay that
because they think it's worth it, and the price may be even
higher in future.
Personally,
I believe that the most valuable commodity in the world
is information. Knowledge is power. If we didn't know what
to do with gold, why would we pay so much for it ? Without
relevant information, nothing is worth anything. Learning
from others, and learning from the past, in my view is the
most rewarding pursuit we can engage in - world leaders
and successful people in general have always built on the
experience of others.
In
comparison to precious metals, information has always come
cheap. There is no charge for good advice from family, friends
and colleagues; we easily part with a few bucks for a good
book. Sometimes we hire a specialist to help us with something
we don't know how to do ourselves; conversely, we often
pay a high price for making mistakes that set us back for
years because we didn't know better.
Today,
the Internet is the most comprehensive source of information
mankind has ever had access to. The vast majority of this
enormous amount of data is still virtually free of charge,
although the wheat is slowly separating from the chaff with
more and more research results, white papers and special
reports being charged for.
With
good reason : valuable information can be applied for benefit,
most of the other kind is useless, if not even detrimental
sometimes. Mind you, having a good laugh at least once a
day is very beneficial, too.
But
more than ever, we must choose what we want to know by filtering
out the useless to find the best information available -
when it comes to personal growth and self improvement, that's
exactly what I do for you in COMPASS. There are limits to
what we know, and we can only spend so much time on finding
what is beneficial for our particular situation at any point
in time.
The
benefits of learning how to improve ourselves are massive,
this kind of information is never wasted or outdated. Knowing
yourself is never detrimental. I hope that you will continue
to trust my judgment and explore to the best of your abilities
what I can find for us to grow as human beings.
So
please feel free to browse my new
website, and you might as well renew
your subscription for COMPASS while you are there
: that way you can download my award-winning article BEGINNING
OF A JOURNEY as a Thank You gift.
Don't
worry, my system doesn't allow double-registration, so you
won't get COMPASS twice at the same address, but it would
help me to stay up to date with the mailing list.
Until
next time, all the best from :
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June 2006
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