The Flower of Life

https://youtu.be/RHuvW7YaGjQ Start at: 0:17 Published on Sep 19, 2013 Help us create a studio! Support Spirit Studios on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/spiritstudios If you're interested in where alot of this information came from, check out the book "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life", one of the most incredible reads you shall ever gaze your eyes upon! The flower of life is not only a pattern that is repeated everywhere through everything, it is also the means in which we come together as people and create our realities. Imagine that you are a circle, and your friend is another circle. Through your coming together with someone, you create a current of energy between you two and the potentials double infinitely so. It's a pretty spectacular thing, the more you be with it, the more you study it, the more you realize that all is One, and One is All. Category Education License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) Source videos View attributions SHOW LESS COMMENTS • 1,182 Oscar del Rosario Add a public comment... Top comments Kevin Kazi. Kevin Kazi.1 year ago This fucked my mind so hard Reply 133 View all 36 replies dez M dez M1 month ago agreed Reply I pee on you I pee on you4 weeks ago Kevin Kazi. Yeah Reply monkeysfly13 monkeysfly138 months ago When I was tripping on lsd I saw the flower of life fabricated all over my walls and other objects. That's before I knew what that was. Kinda crazy Reply 107 View all 20 replies dez M dez M1 month ago wow Reply gemma manning gemma manning1 month ago I had a similar experience and also didn't know the significance at the time. its like i had the answers to everything and it was so blissful everything made sense but then i forgot everything no matter how hard i tried to remember.. i wonder if there is a way to remember... Reply Casey Southards Casey Southards1 year ago Only an open and expanded mind can understand complex ideas. I find it no surprise that most of the threads are full of childish slander. Reply 104 View all 34 replies Hermetic Parkour Hermetic Parkour2 months ago ZoroconStudios you act like college means anything regarding intelligence... cover up, your ego is showing kid. Reply 2 Hermetic Parkour Hermetic Parkour2 months ago ZoroconStudios not to mention, who the fuck cares what you think? nobody here. spend some time researching these ideas and you will find them to be true.. you will find you can learn more from doing your own research on the things that surround you than you can from 7 generations of indoctrinated, dogmatic, phds. Reply Taylor Blythe Taylor Blythe1 year ago (edited) Seeing how it is national donut day today, my non expansive mind can't stop thinking that if all the circles were actually donuts, the first might have been glazed, then cake, then jelly stuffed, creating the donut trinity. When expanding fully creating the yeast of life. And when you connect the centers it creates a perfect donut box. Reply 61 View all 8 replies Roni Reeves Roni Reeves3 months ago lol! Reply jjmalone1966 jjmalone19662 months ago Donut holes perhaps would work better as circles--donuts would more accurately represent toroidal forms in electro-magnetic energy fields. But reading your post has got me thinking... about coffee and donuts. Reply Twin Bme Twin Bme3 years ago crop circles are well known to be man-made -___- Reply 52 View all 51 replies Twin Bme Twin Bme2 years ago +magmadragon92 Im not saying anything is wrong with the possibilities, Im saying without proof I will not view those possibilities as occurrences.  Reply 1 Kimmeh Boo Boo Kimmeh Boo Boo2 months ago Dude there are some seriously extreme crop circles that would need hundreds of people to do overnight, and also have magnetic charges, and the crops are still alive, AND they are of very distinct patterns that would need aerial measurements. Reply 1 funknotik funknotik3 years ago If you smoke alot of pcp or angel dust you start to believe shit like this.  Reply 55 View all 44 replies 3000marco1 3000marco12 years ago Plus if you know how the body works, it would make no sense that we only use 10% unless the brain is on power saving mode. They got the 10% from areas of the brain that were more active than others. I mean we breath manually if we use the other side of our brain...lol. With the five sense, heart beating, brain processing it's surrounding, etc. ultimately 10% makes no sense. Read more Reply 2 funknotik funknotik2 years ago +Vince SC That's ridiculous first it was left brain right brain now it's "two conflicting mentalities in our consciousness." It never ends this is like an onion of bullshit you peal back one layer and it all does is reveal a new layer bullshit. How is it a technicality when they are completely different statements? I'm done here I'm un-subbing from the comments. Holly mother of contradiction!  Read more Reply 1 V WaterWhippin V WaterWhippin1 year ago This is a lot of information, I somewhat understand it but idk what to do with it Reply 40 View all 5 replies Edward billard Edward billard8 months ago draw it yourself, bees do it all the time, hexagons out of circles Reply 1 Gabriel Gonzalez Gabriel Gonzalez1 month ago Read about anything, about cosmic,the universe,philosophy. Just read and dig deeper, things will make sense. "Read,study lessons and build your inner power" Guru from Gangstarr. word Reply Mvano Abraham Mvano Abraham1 year ago The makers of this are geniuses. It really connects the dots Reply 34 View all 5 replies Dragler Dragler8 months ago Angolin I laughed so hard on this. Reply 2 Mimikyu Mimikyu1 month ago Yeah, they're geniuses. The people buying into their clever lies are morons however. Reply 1 anthemlog anthemlog1 year ago It's like writing science as poetry. Reply 31 View all 3 replies Hermetic Parkour Hermetic Parkour7 months ago Angolin actually though... most of this stuff comes straight out of euclid's elements, which is considered the oldest math textbook on the planet, and is still taught today. nobody really seems to know where metatron's cube comes from, but many say it comes from jewish mysticism, or egyptian mystery schools. Reply 1 Angolin Angolin7 months ago +Hermetic Parkour Math isn't bound to the real world, though. It's about as purely abstract as it gets. Science must, by definition, relate directly back to reality. The science may have errors in methodology or conclusion, but it's supposed to directly reflect reality. Math isn't bound by that restriction. Read more Reply 1 AlphaNova AlphaNova1 year ago I know it is all bullshit coming out from his ass, but it is fun to watch. Reply 48 View all 31 replies Mustaki Mustaki10 months ago +AlphaNova you don't know if its true or not. have a open mind. Reply 1 Fascist Swan Fascist Swan3 months ago AlphaNova it's fun just like physics just a bunch of theories supporting each other in a la la land of bullshit. Reply Holy Aura Holy Aura2 years ago Being sort of into human history there is a lot of things that connect cultures that otherwise seem completely different. I find the tree of life unique as it's been all over the place without each place being aware of each other. It is an example of how that human thoughts do have a connection Reply 25 View all 7 replies Kenshiro_199X Kenshiro_199X1 year ago +Ethan Tarr is that Hiko Seijuro ? Reply Rockafella218 Rockafella2182 years ago Death is the same as religion. We fear the unknown, so se try to use logic to ascertain our beliefs. That being said, I'm tired of being afraid.  Reply 22 View all 6 replies phoenix rising phoenix rising2 years ago Let go of the uncontrollable like the Stoics, it's the key to happiness. Reply Gyspy Rose Gyspy Rose2 years ago No need to be afraid. Reply Michal Grebosz Michal Grebosz2 years ago Everyone who thinks that this video is bullshit, seems like they have an ego in which their opinion is the only truth. Seriously, you're going to preach that this shit is false, then claim your version is real. Nobody knows, and nobody will ever know, that is fact.. You think you know, yet you don't but you believe that your presumption is correct because your ego and your "all-knowingness" leads you to believe your correct based on evidence you find in a physical world about something that's clearly above physicality. Please save your bullshit for later, it's all theories and getting butthurt about another person's theory is ridiculous. There might be God, there might not be, there might be extra-dimensional planes, there might not be. Point is we don't know, and making people think that you know just makes you a douchebag. Read more Reply 17 Darryl Dasalla Darryl Dasalla2 years ago I actually believe them to be people set out to deliberately try and sway people from this knowledge, as this type of thing has been going on for a long, long time. The dark forces will do everything they can to keep people away from this knowledge. Personally I believe it best to just ignore them and instead put focus and power on what our hearts tell us to be true. Read more Reply 8 Sacha Murphy Ives Sacha Murphy Ives2 years ago I have been startled about the hate in the comments to but this is a good way to over come them thanks you  Reply 3 Patso Patso7 months ago Not all aliens are here to "help", though. Reply 16 TheAwesomeArlen TheAwesomeArlen7 months ago Pasto Yea I believe that as well, I've heard some fucked up stories, watch monsters and mysteries in america, the alien abduction one scared me haha Reply 6 dahighbar dahighbar1 year ago I fucking love this page!!!!!!! Reply 15 edosgirl edosgirl2 years ago I learned in chemistry that the molecular structure of all the natural elements takes one of those 5 shapes. I loved making that connection. 😊 Reply 14 Bash Bashfulsson Bash Bashfulsson1 year ago +edosgirl That's... technically not necessarily accurate. Moon's model of the nucleus fails to account for experimental data from spectroscopy, which is not a good sign. Spectroscopy is a highly reliable and accurate procedure, so any disagreement with spectroscopic data must be scrutinised closely. Reply kaysen morzelewski kaysen morzelewski2 years ago the flower of life is real. science is real. religion is spirituality but made in a context of a story.(kind of corrupted since the beginning if you ask me) I believe in facts and geology. People who come to these videos and write their opinions and arguing points on the fact that this is bull shit, are the people who think that we aren't slowly destroying our general way of life as a species... SOME of the information from these videos are not all 100% true... But i'll tell you what, I would back these videos all day. These videos are to enlighten us to make life better........ fuck the bull shit Read more Reply 13 View all 8 replies Sophia Rivera Sophia Rivera2 years ago This is the most intelligent comment I've seen on any spirit science video. Thank you for being one the very few that actually get it. Reply 1 KnivesNGunsBoy KnivesNGunsBoy2 years ago Amen Reply Jane Doe Jane Doe1 year ago Ever since I've watched these videos I feel so much more content with life. Not because of ear of the unknown, but more to think about and ponder! Thank you for sharing your positivity. Reply 12 Trevin Colburn Trevin Colburn3 years ago Look, I'm usually very open-minded to things like this, but it jumps too much. How do you go from the shapes found in Metatron's Cube to coupling them with elemental states? And how do these shapes relate to the elements on the periodic chart? I understand that this video was condensed and therefore lots of info. had to be let out, but the point of this video was to spread awareness of this subject right? Well extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Read more Reply 11 Marxist Alpha Marxist Alpha3 years ago I agree completely with what you are saying. He does not formulate a theory in order to explain observed anomalies, but rather devises a completely abstract theory based on abstruse reasoning for his own purposes. If there is nothing which cannot be explained by our current SCIENTIFIC model, why bother constructing a new one? And what is your source? The Bible? This is laughable in and of itself; the Bible is not considered a valid document for extrapolating factual information by any professional and scientific institution. But furthermore, it contradicts everything you say - the book is harshly oppressive of polytheism and idolatry, and all the Hindu ideas you borrow would come under scrutiny. You glorify the flower of life far beyond its worth. It is a very simple geometric configuration, and as far as I could find, it was only found in the form you depict in a few places, relatively close to each other, in the Near East. You expand your criteria to allow just about any image showing congruent and radially symmetrical circles be used as proof. Then, you do something absolutely incredible - you construct new pictures from old ones. There is literally an infinite number of points on both the flower of life and the fruit of life (of which the method of the extracting from the former shape is completely arbitrary), and even if we are looking only for centers, points of tangency, or points of intersection, there are still a good couple dozen. You can make it appear to be almost anything. Not to mention that there is an infinite number of unique shapes in the universe; seriously, even if we are only using two dimensions, just make a regular polygon and add another side. Repeat until you get a circle, which has an infinite number of sides. There are only five Platonic solids, which could be considered the three dimensional counterpart of regular shapes, but you could just add an irregular face anywhere, or truncate and corner of it. New shape. Repeat ad infinitum. There is no relevance in so much of what you say. So what if you can map one perspective of each of the only five Platonic solids to the massive number of lines in Metatron's Cube? And why do you even say that Metatron's Cube is known universally as such? Where besides New Age schools and possibly Hebrew scriptures, may I ask, is it even so much as mentioned? You've done all the work for me, and even then give me the honor of watching you spit on your own grave with that ridiculous conclusion describing the extremely well described phenomenon of crop circles. Read more Reply 5 perydwyn perydwyn3 years ago This is so dumb. The fact that so many people are taken in by this rubbish is a sad indictment on our education system. This is so stupid. I give everyone a chance, but there is not a scrap of evidence supporting this stuff. If you make such huge claims, you must be prepared to back it up with reality. Sorry dude, but that is the way the world actually is...you know, in reality. Read more Reply 11 View all 78 replies magmadragon92 magmadragon922 years ago To me it sounds like you want me to prove that the people around me exist. No, I can not prove that this world is real. Though I have proven myself to many people in the past. 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You can sign up for free and choose from different types of journals. Some of them are public, others are private. You can tweak the settings in any way you like and let your thoughts take form on the page. If you’re trying to form a schedule, there’s another great feature here that lets you receive email reminders when you’re supposed to post. By default, the journal entries you have are private, but you can choose to make public. You’ll have options for your cover, background, and font to make the journal unique to you and your personality. Who Should Use Penzu Someone who wants to have a blog for journaling purposes. A beginner looking to try out blogging. Someone who loves journaling, but wants to go digital. 10. SVBTLE SVBTLE immediately captures your attention when you arrive by saying that it was designed to work like the human brain. It’s a platform that not only gives you the ability to blog, but also the inspiration you need to come up with new ideas. It all starts with a dashboard designed to help you curate ideas and guide you through the process of seeing them come into fruition. Unlike many free blog sites, SVBTLE also promises that they will never take down your blog. The design of the text editor is geared towards a distraction-free experience that allows you to focus while you work. Finally, the final product is clean and easy to read for your visitors. It’s slick, simple, and suave. A great platform for bloggers and a great way for writers to grow and develop their ideas. Who Should Try SVBTLE? Writers who want a free-flowing platform Bloggers who struggle with writer’s block People who need a distraction-free experience The Ultimate List of Blogging Tools and Resources When I first started blogging several years ago, having a comprehensive list of the best blogging tools would have been invaluable. So, I figured it would be beneficial to put together a list of blogging tools that you can reference regularly for your blogging needs. Blogging Tools It’s important to make sure that you’re using quality blogging tools that can scale appropriately as your blog continues to grow. This list of resources (i.e., blogging toolbox) is updated often as new blogging tools are released and existing tools are updated. I recommend that you bookmark this page for quick reference in the future as you continue to improve the quality of your blog. Blogging Toolbox: My Favorite Blogging Tools The first section toolbox includes blogging tools that I find myself using over and over again for nearly every blog that I build. If you decide not to review the entire list of tools, these are the ones that I consider most helpful or highly recommended. ConvertKitBlog Basics recommends ConvertKit for bloggers looking to substantially grow their income. ConvertKit is an email marketing product designed for professional bloggers. The entry level plan is only $29.99 per month and includes a 60-day refund policy if you’re not completely satisfied with the service. This is the same service that we use at Blog Basics. LeadPagesIf you want to create mobile responsive web pages, whether it is a squeeze page, sales page, launch page or an upsell page, you cannot go wrong with LeadPages. In fact, I believe it is the easiest tool available at this point for generating these type of pages. With its user-friendly, point and click interface, you can get a new page up and running in 10 minutes flat. Now, that is what I call efficiency at its best. WordPress: One in every 10 websites is made using the WordPress Platform. In fact, I would go so far as to say that WordPress has revolutionized the way in which websites are made and online businesses are managed. Not only do the websites of my clients use WordPress, but also my entire business is built on the WordPress Platform. WordPress is everywhere from our blogs to our sales letters, membership sites, squeeze pages, launch pages and more. This tool has single-handedly simplified the task of website creation. Now, I cannot imagine how we handled things before the advent of WordPress since we would have to manually write code one page after another with HTML and believe me that was no easy task. Domain Names Godaddy.com: This site needs no introductions; famous for offering affordable domain registration, Godaddy provides the added benefit of a user-friendly control panel that will help you to handle multiple domains. Those were my most recommended blogging tools. The next several sections will highlight blogging tools that I use by category. Continue reading for the full toolbox that I use to manage my blogs. Blogging Tools, Software, Themes and Frameworks WordPress: This is the best (in my opinion) blogging platform available. The software is completely free and it is very easy to customize to your liking. Every website that I own currently use the WordPress platform, including Blog Basics. StudioPress: The Genesis Framework is a WordPress framework that allows you to rapidly build an attractive website and make very powerful changes to the design and functionality without needing a web developer using several different themes. The Genesis Framework powers more than 60,000+ websites. I use the Genesis Framework for several for my niche sites. BlogBasics.com is powered by the Genesis Framework. THESIS Theme: DIY Themes offers a topnotch WordPress framework called THESIS. This framework provides a solid foundation for any WordPress based website. Over 40,000+ websites rely on the design flexibility, quick loading times and solid search engine optimization (SEO) capabilities of the THESIS framework. I have used THESIS for several different projects in the past. It is one of the best WordPress frameworks available. WooThemes: The team at WooThemes offers high-quality WordPress themes that have a professional look and feel. Similar to StudioPress and THESIS, WooThemes are powered by a framework that makes customizing your site very easy. One of my favorite WooThemes is the Canvas theme due to the incredible amount of flexibility and customizable features that it includes. Website and Blog Hosting Solutions Bluehost: This is one of my favorite web hosting solutions. They have been in business since 1996 and offer really good customer service with very reasonable wait times (typically). Quality of customer service is one of the most important criteria to use when selecting a web host – especially when you’re just starting a blog. HostGator:HostGator is another shared hosting solution that I recommend. They have the shortest wait times for customer support of any web-hosting provider that I have ever used. I highly recommend checking out HostGator. If you are looking for cost effective website hosting, you need not go beyond HostGator. This is one of the best hosting companies around and I have tried nearly all of the big players. The advantage of using this service is that they offer hosting which can be scaled up with minimal effort when required. Blog Basics was hosted with HostGator for several years. Learn how to start a blog that generates traffic, revenue, & popularity. However, if you are starting with a popular website that receives serious traffic, you may also want to consider WebSynthesis or WPEngine.com. UptimeRobot.com: This is a real simple site, but one which can perform a crucial task. It tells you when your website goes down, so you can take immediate steps to correct the situation. The best part is that the service is absolutely free. FileZilla: This is an FTP program; one that I use frequently to get files and pages uploaded to my website. Learn how to start a blog that generates traffic, revenue, & popularity. Analytics & Split Testing: Tracking Blog Statistics and Results Without analyzing and tracking your blog visitor’s behavior and actions, you will be totally lost in the world of online marketing. Improving your conversion rates is one of the best ways to increase profits, which is essential for any business, online, or offline. So, you need to continually test your marketing and advertising tactics. Your subject lines, sales letters, squeeze pages and call to actions all need to be tracked for effectiveness in terms of how many clients they manage to pull in. If you are not testing, you are very likely wasting your resources and time. Google Analytics: This is free tool offered by Google to track blog statistics.Nothing offers deeper insight into the actions and the surfing behavior of website visitors than Google Analytics. By using this tool, you can find out the sources of your traffic, how much time visitors are spending on your site and where they end up clicking. In fact, with analytics, you can also analyze traffic that gets converted by pinpointing the sources that send you the most number of buyers and subscribers. Clicky: This is an alternative to using Google Analytics. The Clicky interface is more user-friendly and offers several cool features that aren’t available in Google’s offering. I use both, but if you’re looking to save money early on, then go with Google Analytics. Product Distribution Tools and Shopping Carts E-Junkie: I use this excellent shopping cart system to sell eBooks on some of my other blogs. E-Junkie supports the most popular payment solutions including PayPal Standard and Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, TrialPay, ClickBank and 2CheckOut. ClickBank: This is likely the most popular retailer of digital products. You can utilize this solution to distribute digital goods that you create for your audience or you can find digital products to promote on your blog. Clickbank also offers a very robust affiliate program for digital product sellers. PayPal: This is another option that you can use to sell products on your blog. I only utilize PayPal as a means of accepting payment for my digital goods. Regardless of how you decide to use PayPal, you will likely want to setup a PayPal account for accepting payments using one the shopping cart solutions discussed above. Graphic Design 99designs: This is a unique site, a marketplace where you provide information on your project to their database of designers and they compete to win the assignment. So, you get to check out the best work from hundreds of designers, but you only pay for what you like and take. I rely on this site for several of my graphic design requirements. The blog basics logo was created using 99designs. It is also a fantastic place to beat a designer’s block because you get to see some of the most creative minds in the business putting their best foot forward with fresh ideas and concepts. Impress: This site is another great place to get top of the line WordPress designs, but it is a bit more expensive. However, you can trust the quality of the work. Dimple Art: Affordable and fabulous is the only way to describe the high quality caricatures that you can get from this service for your website, branding literature and squeeze pages. Canva: It is surprising that they aren’t charging people for this truly amazing tool. Yes, it is 100% free and it can be used to create extraordinarily good graphics without designing skills. You get the option to pick from built in templates for a variety of tasks such as creating Facebook and Kindle covers, posts for social media, graphics for blogs, photos for Pinterest, online ads, including for Facebook, Twitter headers and much more. Video Hosting Wistia: This site can be used to create video players that can be included on your site as well as to host videos. Among its numerous features are: iPad/iPhone support, video analytics, social sharing, customization of video players, video heatmaps and more. The fact that popular websites like Mailchimp, HubSpot, RiseToTheTop and SEOMoz.com are using the service is in itself a testament to just how useful this service can be. The fact that popular websites like Mailchimp, HubSpot, RiseToTheTop and SEOMoz.com are using the service is in itself a testament to just how useful this service can be. The best part is that you could increase the brand value of your videos by customizing them. You could add social sharing buttons and even opt in forms to the videos. But, that is not all! Since most videos are made to attract the attention of potential clients or subscribers, you could also insert a call to action at the end of the video clip. Now, if that isn’t effective marketing, don’t know what is. Social Media Tools Buffer App: Managing social media: You no longer have to be in front of your computer to post your social media content. This app allows you to pre-schedule publishing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and also LinkedIn. Content Creation Content remains the king when it comes to online marketing, and this is unlikely to change in the coming months or even years. So, it would be safe to call it one of the core activities of online marketing. Creating new blog posts, articles, emails and Podcasts is crucial to keeping your business in the spotlight. However, new ideas can be hard to come by. In the last few years, I have created my own, tried and tested system for generating content that gets noticed and here are the tools that I put to use: Creating new blog posts, articles, emails and Podcasts is crucial to keeping your business in the spotlight. However, new ideas can be hard to come by. In the last few years, I have created my own, tried and tested system for generating content that gets noticed and here are the tools that I put to use: Scoop.it: This is a search engine specifically meant for content, and boy does it work! Simply type in the topic that you are interested in and the results will include hundreds of top rated articles on that specific topic/niche. Quora: Nobody can argue over the fact that Quora rules the Question & Answer sites on the internet. Of course, there is Yahoo Answers but a lot of questions on there are utterly ridiculous as are the responses. In contrast, the questions on Quora are unique, they make sense and people are actually looking for answers. So, you get an interesting and intelligent point of view which is being currently discussed to start writing on. For a niche driven website, simply go to Quora find out the questions that people are interested in. Now, provide answers to these on your own blog or site and watch the traffic flow in. This site has long been one of my hotspots for discovering interesting and never before used article, email, podcast and video ideas. Dragon Dictation: Did you ever have a ‘Eureka’ moment in the shower; well, it has happened with me several times. In fact, I have several of my moments of enlightenment right when I am away from my computer screen. Fortunately, I have Dragon Dictation. It does exactly what its name says; it allows you to simply speak and record all your mental musings. This is an easy to use app that helps you to turn your speech into text. So, you do not need to type out documents or emails. This is not only the most convenient way to capture information when you are on the run, but it also works very well when you have put in a hard day’s work and just cannot bring yourself to toil over the keyboard. Let the software create articles, emails and more for you! Blogging Training Start a Blog That Matters: There are literally millions of blogs online. There are thousands of new blogs started every single day. Unfortunately, many of those blogs go unnoticed by most people. If you want to grow a popular blog, then it’s important that you start a blog that matters. This blogging course teaches you many of the strategies used by some of the most successful bloggers online when they start new blogs. Write Like Freddy: If you struggle to create content for your blog or if you want to start guest posting on other blogs to increase your traffic and subscribers, this is a course that can really help you develop a structured process to writing content. 31 Days to Build a Better Blog: This is an eBook that you can download immediately. It’s designed to help you take your current blog to the next level – one day at a time. Email Marketing and List Management AWeber: This is easily the best email management solution on the market. Their email delivery rates are consistently among the highest in the industry. If you plan to monetize your blog, the first thing that you’ll want to do is create an email newsletter. I use the AWeber email management solution exclusively on all of my blogs. Article Marketing Tools The Best Spinner: This is the best article spinning software available. The software allows you to create unique versions of your existing articles, so that you can submit unique versions of your articles to other websites as guest posts, article directories, and various other places without worrying about duplicate content. Unique Article Wizard: This tool allows you to create even more unique versions of the articles generated by The Best Spinner software to generate thousands of backlinks to your blog. Outsourcing Work Upwork: I use this website to find inexpensive resources to hire for several blog related tasks that I don’t have time to complete. Fiverr.com: This is a really cool marketplace where you can outsource many services starting at only $5. Legal Considerations LegalZoom: I use this service to quickly create legal entities (ex. LLC ). Note: I have direct experience with each blogging tool listed above and actively use these tools in my business. It is important to mention that many of the links provided on this page are affiliate links. This means that I will earn a commission if you decide to purchase one of these products using my links. This means that I will earn a commission if you decide to purchase one of these products using my links. There is no additional cost to you when you purchase using these links. I only make product recommendations for blogging tools that I actually use in my business. You will notice that I will reference this page and these products often throughout the content presented on the blog. Your Blogging Checklist This checklist should help you to ensure that your blog is launched with a resounding bang, and that your blog continues to perform with stellar results as time goes on. 1. Establish a publishing schedule so that your readers will know when they can find new content. Ultimately you should do what works best for you, but by posting fresh content at the same time each week, your blog visitors will know when they should click on over to your blog. 2. Your blog posts should be just the right length. Now this can vary, naturally, but make sure that your posts are a minimum of two paragraphs in length, but not so long that readers can’t be bothered to slog through the whole thing. 3. Constantly work on building your blog’s reputation. Comment on other established blogs, write guest posts for other blogs, and interact with other bloggers in your market. 4. Take the time to look at your blog analytics. This will tell you valuable information about the performance of your blog, the areas that your blog is succeeding in, and where you could benefit from some improvement. How did your audience find your blog? Which blog posts get the most attention? 5. If things are slowing down or you aren’t seeing the traffic you’d initially hoped for, you may need to re-evaluate who your target audience actually is. Has your blog focus shifted in recent months? Even a subtle shift can lead regular blog visitors to look elsewhere for the content that they want. 6. Periodically check on just how well your blog is operating. This means making sure that you are using the most current version of your blogging software, and making sure that your blog loads swiftly in all browsers. If you have any plug-ins on your blog, make sure that they are the most effective plug-ins and make sure that they are actually working and not serving to slow your blog down for guests. 7. Delete comments that are nothing but spam, or may even be abusive or slanderous. All too often blog guests engage in verbal battles on the comments of someone’s blog. This can get you a fair bit of traffic while the squabble is going on, but it will not serve any good practical purpose in the long-run. 8. Make sure that your copyright and disclaimer sections are up to date and at the very least have the right year on them. 9. Tidy up your blog design. What worked for the first few months of your blog’s life may not necessarily work today. Refreshing your blog can breathe new life into it, and just make it look cleaner. 10. A great way to freshen up your blog is with new photos. Your bio photo could use a good update, so get creative and make sure your new photos are representative of your brand. 11. Make sure that any other changes you have made are in support of your topic and in support of your overall brand. 12. Continually seek out new ideas to help drive relevant traffic to your blog. This could be in the form of a giveaway or even a poll. Giveaways are always popular, and have been known to increase blog readership by more than 200%. Blogging can be a tough world to break into. With the right preparations, however, you are sure to thoroughly enjoy embarking on this new journey. SHARE THIS ARTICLE 12 Email a Friend COMMENTS BlogBeats August 8, 2016 at 1:30 pm Blogging with BlogBeats (web 3.0 blog publishing platform) allows users to exchange information about places and interests by tagging location and time specific. This on-demand features for blogging platform helps the bloggers to beat loud their views, thoughts and opinions at the right audience [e.g., it could able to provide the trending information from Electronic City at Bangalore and able to show the trending information from Bangalore, India and worldwide even]. This diversified features for blogging, able to provide a value added for blogging platform as well as at social platform. And this unique features for BlogBeats make worthy to raised an undisclosed amount in its pre-Series A funding round from a Michigan-based investor. REPLY Betty Linn September 2, 2016 at 10:54 am I prefer to use Google Analytics Counter Tracker plugin on WordPress. 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Paradoxically, if you want to cultivate greater influence, make your leadership less about you and more about others and the cause.

6 Non Negotiable Traits You Need To Increase Your Leaderships Influence By Carey Nieuwhof on Mar 30, 2017 based on 1 rating (rate this article) | 275 views As harsh as it sounds, here’s the truth: if a leader doesn’t buy you, they’ll rarely buy your idea. Scripture: None (Suggest Scripture) Tags: Humility, Leadership, Influence, Competence (Suggest Tag) Ever wonder why some people are influential, and others, well, aren’t? Take getting others to buy into your ideas, for example. Some people seem always to be able to win the day with their ideas. Others, not so much. I get asked all the time by leaders how to get their team members to take their ideas (and their leadership) more seriously. What’s fascinating to me is that the conversation almost always begins from the angle of how to pitch ideas. It’s as though most of us have convinced ourselves that we just need a better argument, point or insight and then our ideas will catch on. Sometimes that’s the case, but more often than not it’s deeper than that. It’s easy to think leaders buy (or reject) our ideas. But I’m not sure that’s what is really at play most of the time. At a deeper level, it’s often a question of whether leaders buy you. As harsh as it sounds, here’s the truth: if a leader doesn’t buy you, they’ll rarely buy your idea. Leadership, as John Maxwell says, is influence. So the question about whether your ideas or viewpoint catches on quickly becomes a discussion about influence. Your influence as a leader is never static. It’s either advancing or declining. If you’re struggling to get your ideas adopted, you’ve likely got an influence issue as much as you have a communication problem. If you have a strong influence at work, leaders will usually race to embrace or adopt your input. Conversely, if you’re not respected in the workplace, your ideas will likely get ignored no matter how logical or persuasive your ideas seem to you. So how do you gain influence in the workplace? Here are 6 non-negotiable traits of leaders who have influence. 1. Be Sensational At What You Do Not surprisingly, there’s a direct connection between competence and influence. Leaders instinctively develop a habit of listening to their highest performing team members, even if they might initially disagree with their approach on issues. When I talk to leaders who never seem to be able to get their ideas adopted, I often wonder if it’s because their teammates don’t respect them. If you want more influence at work, be sensational at what you do. Your ideas are always attached to you. If people respect and admire you, they’ll tend to respect and admire your initiatives. 2. Grow Your Character Being great at what you do is one thing. But we’ve all met competent people who we don’t like spending time with. Character impacts your influence as much as competency does. And long term, it even matters more. Ultimately your character, not your competency, determines your capacity. Why? Because character is still the ultimate lid on leadership. Every day, highly competent leaders lose their jobs, their careers and their families because their character imploded. Your competency will take you only as far as your character can sustain you. So work hard on your character. It’s the last cap on your leadership. 3. Cultivate Humility The only person who likes a know-it-all is the know-it-all himself. Paradoxically, if you want to cultivate greater influence, make your leadership less about you and more about others and the cause. Prideful leaders are incredibly reluctant to share the spotlight. After all, you’ve worked so hard and so long, why share this moment with anyone? So if you’re a proud leader, you want the stage as often as it’s available. You want to chair everything and are reluctant to let anyone truly lead or get credit. But humble leaders willingly push others into the spotlight. They share credit. They share the stage. And they don’t have to lead everything. In fact, they intentionally develop others leaders and even replace themselves in many key roles because the mission is more important than they are. A humble leader rejoices in the success of others. A proud leader resents the success of others. If you want to overcome envy and insecurity, do what proud people fear doing: push others into the spotlight. It will break the stranglehold of envy in your life. 4. Do What You Said You Were Going To Do When You Said You Were Going To Do It Honestly, if you want more influence starting tomorrow, just do what you said you were going to do when you said you were going to do it. So few people do this. Missed deadlines and excuses are the staples of the vast majority of people, including people in leadership positions. Do you have any idea how many bosses/employers wake up every day to a string of phrases like: I’m sorry I didn’t get it done Sorry, I had a bunch of things come up Oh, I didn’t think it was that important I’m so slammed right now I just forgot If you simply do what you said you’re going to do when you said you were going to do it, you’re ahead of 98% of the population of planet earth. Furthermore, people will gain confidence in you. And confidence, of course, is the basis of trust. If they know they can trust you, they’re far more likely to trust your ideas. 5. Initiate A surprising number of people sit around waiting to be told what to do next. The best leaders never do that. They see what needs to be done, and they do it. If you’re not sure whether you have permission, ask. An occasional “Hey is it all right if I reorganize this entire system?” is better than “I went home early because I couldn’t find anything to do.” Leaders look for self-starters. Self-motivated people always have more influence than people who sit around waiting for their next assignment. You likely have more permission than you think. 6. Finish It’s great to start things. It’s another to finish them. So many projects get started and then get abandoned. You and I can both point to hundreds of blogs and podcasts that started well and died a dozen posts or episodes in, because leaders had a lot of passion to begin but none to finish. Ditto with projects at work. So many great new initiatives fail to see daylight not because they were bad ideas, but because team members never finished what they started. Shipping beats dreaming. Finishing trumps starting. Completing beats planning. What Do You See? These are 6 non-negotiable traits I see in leaders who are increasing their influence. How about you? What have you seen influential leaders Scroll down and leave a comment! Carey Nieuwhof (website: CareyNieuwhof.com) View Articles In addition to serving as Lead Pastor at Connexus Community Church north of Toronto Canada, Carey Nieuwhof speaks at conferences and churches throughout North America on leadership, family, parenting and personal renewal.

The Anatomy Of A Group Selfie

Home > Relationships > Friends & Me The Anatomy Of A Group Selfie Santu Misra 31 Mar 2017 facebook twitter reddit twitter 2K SHARES Group selfies a.k.a the photograph Ellen Degeneres at the Oscars took to break the Internet—is something millennials (we) are pretty used to. We take them at weird reunions, fashion week parties, office farewells, and what not. And there is usually a bunch of characters you’ll ALWAYS find in an imperfect-perfect group selfie. thumb From the 'Poo' a.k.a Kareena Kapoor in the making to the 'Bro' who's always sulking... yeah pretty much everyone. To give you a better idea of these characters, we at iDIVA HQ took the amazing beauty-mode in the new OPPO F3 Plus for a spin. The result? A comprehensive breakdown of the 10 types of Indian people you'll always find in a group selfie. Hit it! 1. The Misunderstood Goth 1_oppe_idiva Her three favourite colours are black, black, and black. 2. Kareena Kapoor Pregnancy Aesthetic 2_oppo_idiva No, she is not pregnant. She is just channeling Kareena in easy, breezy, and beautiful Pero look-a-likes. Pouting required. 3. The Judgemental Bong 3_oppo_idiva This one is self-explanatory. 4. The I-will-email-the-HR chick 4_oppo_idiva Her bob’s immaculately in place, and she’s definitely not playing with you. 5. The Boy That Got Lucky 5_oppo_idiva Also, the boy who is responsible for running errands. ‘Poor thing!’ 6. The Goofball 6_oppo_idiva Mental age: 12! 7. The Perfect Party Girl 7_oppo_idiva She is always happy, always glowing, and always ready to hit the pub. 8. The Pop-Culture Enthu 8_opp0_idiva Can name all the Kardashian Sisters under 30 seconds or less. 9. The Intellectual 9_oppo_idiva Also, known as teacher’s pet. 10. The Mean Girl 10_oppo_idiva She’s the cat-liner lovin’ South-Delhi version of Regina George. These selfies were shot with the new Selfie Expert OPPO F3 Plus. Thanks to its 'one for selfie' and 'one for group selfie' dual front camera, you can now capture some great selfies and group selfies. The best part? A group selfie with the Selfie Expert OPPO F3 Plus doesn't cut anyone out of the frame no matter how big the group. So, now your friends can't complain. The Selfie Expert OPPO F3 Plus has got you covered!