The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

cuil the new search engine is dead on arrival…

Boasting 120 million indexed pages cuil falls apart with a simple search query–like my name: Bob Baran.

Eager for a deeper more substantial search of their claimed 67,000 plus references to my name, I was sadly disappointed with the results–and I’m not the only one disappointed with their search results.

All kinds of mp3 sites (including itunes) featuring my music. A lot of it with free downloads of my songs which is a part of my record label’s marketing–yeah it’s legal but it’s all so 2006!

The problem is nothing showed up on cuil, from the last two years, within the first few pages– relevent to what I’m involved with now: Intentional Prosperity. Not even bobbaran.com which is the number one search listing in all the other search engines.

Oh, I appreciate all the publicity it gives my music.

Thank goodness google, yahoo and msn and all the others get it right. I’m not interested the hundreds of online stores carrying my music around the world. I get a full report on that stuff every time my royalty check arrives in the mail.

My main focus is Intentional Prosperity and cuil failed miserably to pull up what was really important (to me) on the web.

By the way if you haven’t yet, take advantage of getting my music free online–but don’t waste your time with cuil (believe it or not it’s supposed to be pronounced “cool”–you’re only going to get part of the story.

cuil–another promise undelivered.

-Bob Baran

Why Delay the inevitable?

Everything has its own time. Whatever your dream or desire may be, it will arrive at your doorstep only once in an ideal form. What I’m talking about is the combination of things, situations and relationships that align themselves in a “perfect storm”. In this case we’re talking about the elements necessary for you to make whatever it is you desire become a reality.

This perfect alignment only happens once.

Quite frankly, the majority of us never prepare ourselves to recognize the “perfect storm”. The time comes, the opportunity presents itself and then passes us by. Over time our dream or desire turns into a fantasy. An interesting story we tell others over tea and coffee…

Do you ever get a second chance?

Yes. But once you’ve turned your back knowingly or unknowingly on the ideal set of circumstances, you have short-circuited the process you initially set into motion. Keep trying from this perspective and you will end up with a second or third rate version of what you desired. It will be full of compromises, much more difficult, have many more unintended consequences and require an enormous amount of time and energy. It won’t be easy and the outcome won’t be the same.

This is how you grow.

It’s ironic that your inability to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate, actually triggers the inner-growth process. That is, as long as you don’t give up on your dream or desire. Now begins the inner growth which will one day allow you to recognize when everything you want is being handed to you on a plate! This time you’ll trust yourself and take action.

What I’m saying here is, sometimes you choose (consciously or unconsciously) to do things the hard way. You want something in life but your ego keeps getting in the way. “It’s my way or the highway!” happens to be the first rule of the ego. It’s the “my way” part that causes you to be blind to the obvious and then follow the path of the “hard way”.

Just remember: If you let yourself learn from your “hard way” experiences, it gets easier. You stop making the same mistakes over and over again. You begin to “see” more and you trust yourself to a greater degree.

You’ll never get the same “perfect storm” of an opportunity twice in your life for a given dream or desire. That’s impossible ..but you may be able to recognize a second chance that will still get you to where you want to be. With more time, effort and expense on your part. Yes, a second chance is always possible. It will be different than the original “perfect storm”.

It will appear to you in direct relation to the degree in which you allow yourself to recognize and act upon your truth. Getting yourself to the point to where you’ve evolved to where you can recognize the second chance is what’s going to be the challenge.

Your ability to see the truth of any situation, relationship or thing always mirrors the quality of your intent.

-Bob Baran

I’ve talked about gratitude before and I’ll talk about it again. It’s one thing you can always do. If you’re looking to improve your life, your outlook or even someone else’s attitude toward you.

Yesterday, I said I was grateful for the life I live and asked if you were grateful for yours. Well, are you? Have you tried being grateful for your life?

Gratitude! Such a simple and yet effective tool. It is one that you can easily use everyday. All it takes is a moment to stop and say to yourself, “I am grateful.”

Make a list.

• I am grateful for a sunny day.
• I am grateful for the rain.
• I am grateful for (blank).
• I am grateful for (so and so).

You get the picture.

Or you can just look around you and exclaim your gratitude for what you see that maybe you didn’t notice before.

• I’m grateful for that tree.
• I’m grateful I made that traffic light.
• I’m grateful I didn’t get in a wreck.
• I’m grateful I got to see the sunset.

Again, you get the picture.

The power of gratitude is in recognizing that your life isn’t all doom and gloom. There are many things to be grateful for. Look around your life and see what you haven’t noticed lately. Recognize and be grateful for the good in your life or your challenges.

Just be grateful. I’ll bet you’ll have a different outlook on your life after a few days of consciously being grateful and really looking at what is good about your life. The strange thing is… You may even find the people around you responding to you in a different way.  You will feel differently about your life.

If you’d like more details about gratitude you can go to an article that Bob wrote located on our site at: http://www.intentionalprosperity.com/gratitude.html

Take care and have a grateful day,

Gwen Baran

Back in November of last year, Bob wrote about John Kanzius and his possible cure for cancer. It uses radio waves instead of radiation.

I was wondering what had happened with that and in a Google search found an article from 60 Minutes about Kanzius and his machine. It was done in April of this year and he, John Kanzius, hopes to live long enough to see his machine cure humans.

I hope he does. The machine vibrates the cancer cells to death without harming the surrounding tissue.

Read Bob’s article “Raising Vibrations” about it…

Google to read more about John Kanzius.

The reason I was thinking about cancer cures, is that this weekend I’m taking care of the spurge challenge I have on the land we live on. What is spurge? It’s a weed, considered noxious and very aggressive. It does what it does so well. It grows and crowds out other more friendly grasses and indigenous plants.

I’ve said, ever since I bought this place, that I bet there’s something in spurge that could cure cancer. Maybe some bright scientist will look into that.

But in the meantime, we have the amazing machine developed by John Kanzius, which, not only, is proving to kill cancer cells but if I’m reading the articles correctly, may even provide us with a new energy source from salt water.

Have a healthy happy day,

Gwen Baran

Is it just me or is time moving faster?
I’m not talking about some kind of incremental one zillionth of a second thing because of the expanding universe. What I’m talking about is our daily allotment of time. You know, the amount of time we perceive we have during the course of a day in which we are able to accomplish things.

Like many people I have a routine.
I wake up, have a cup of coffee check emails, news, etc and then commence my work day. The problem is I’ll work on a couple of things look up and five or six hours just passed by!

Then I go back to work, look up again and another two and half hours have gone by! …And I don’t feel like I really got a lot accomplished.

Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon?

I consider myself highly focused and productive. It’s just that over the last few months I’ve “felt” a slowing down of productive activity on my part while my perception of time seems to have sped up.

I feel like it’s taking more and more time to get less and less accomplished. The unnerving part is that the days really do seem to be going by faster. My perception of what used to be a week has now turned into two or three weeks.

I noticed this because I may have to put a project on hold while attending to something else and then have this rude awakening that it’s been two or three weeks when I finally get back to it.

I’ve talked to other people who have been having similar experiences. I am very curious as to whether or not this is a widespread phenomenon.

Looking back over the past few months I’ve put out more quality work than at any time in my life. Yet, I feel like I’m operating in slow motion while the days are going by faster. I’m going to investigate this phenomenon and see if it’s job related, age related, actually happening on a large scale or just me.

If this has been happening to you let me know. It would be interesting to see what the common threads are!

-Bob Baran