Cavric Chronicles - New Horizons Explored

  by: Ivan Cavric Success is a highly coveted and often elusive goal. While there is no one-size-fits-all formula for achieving success, there are certain attitudes and mindsets that can help to pave the way. In this article, we will explore 5 must-have attitudes for success. Positive Attitude: A positive attitude is crucial for success. When we approach challenges and obstacles with a positive mindset, we are better able to see opportunities and find solutions. A positive attitude also helps to keep us motivated and focused on our goals. Resilience: Successful people are often those who are able to bounce back from setbacks and failures. Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from disappointment and to keep moving forward. When we are resilient, we are better able to handle the ups and downs of life and to keep pushing towards our goals. Self-Belief: Successful people have confidence in their abilities and believe that they can achieve their goals. Self-belief...

By:  Ivan Cavric So you're trying to figure out what you're going to be when you grow up. The problem is you're 38, have two grown children and a husband, not to mention two cats and a dog named Sirius Black Dixon. Oh, wait, sorry, I guess I got distracted and thought we were talking about me. Back to you. You're physically "grown," but you haven't found your "one true path." You don’t know yet what you’re going to do with your life, and you’re feeling lost, confused, and worried. Okay, let's start with the brutal truth here. If you have spent a lot of time, effort and creative energy looking for your one true path, I have bad news.   You probably don't have one. You see, people who have one true paths know they do and they know what they are. This is not always true. Nothing is always true. But in general, people who “home in” on one career do it early and stick with it, or if they change careers, they do it in a reasoned, considered way...

We live in an amazing time and are afforded the luxury of opportunities to live intentional lives.  There is nothing to stop us from living our dreams except ourselves.  Do you know what your dream is, what your purpose is, what gets you out of bed in the morning?  If you do know all that, what is holding you back from your success? (p.s. How do you define success for yourself?) Once we can target where we are and how we want to proceed, sometimes it is a mystery that we find ourselves stuck.  ‘Stuckness’ can serve a purpose.  It can be a necessary percolating time to learn what we need to move forward.  When that percolating time has finished, it may be time to figure out what stumbling blocks we aren’t aware of.  One area to explore is thoughts we have stored and accepted as true, that have become limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs are many times unconscious messages that may no longer be valid or useful to us.  The messages we receive come from...

Stammering or as it is sometimes known as stuttering is a form of speech impediment. My name is Stephen Hill and I had a stammer for eighteen years. I went to various types of speech therapy which even though was of some use, never really offered me any hope of a "cure".   At the age of twenty two, after a lot of hard work I managed to overcome the stammer and I now help other people to achieve fluency. These are the types of situation that I found that I was most likely to stammer: Ordering food and drink at a bar Phone calls Introducing people Meeting new people Talking when under pressure Talking when tired or stressed On my first day at senior school, all of the first year pupils were shown to their form room, including myself. The teacher, who was to be our form teacher, introduced himself and welcomed us to the school. He then said "OK class, I have introduced myself. I don't know any of you in here and most of you won't know each other. So what I would lik...

There is really only one certainty in life. Life is uncertain. We often live as though nothing will change, but it does. This continuous battle between wanting things to stay the same and finding that nothing does stay the same creates something inside us. This creation of constant change is a movement, a force of nature, and a guiding path.  This movement within us and outside us is the spirit of living, of which, we all take part in. None of us can predict the future. This creates uncertainty on the human level, yet we all learn to trust and even welcome change in the deepest part of who we are. No one is perfect, we wake up each day with the opportunity to create something different in every moment. When we come to expect the unexpected, we are beginning to trust in a wisdom greater than knowledge to lead us through each day. Religious communities call this the path of God, science calls this higher consciousness, but for our purposes - let's call this the path we were meant to ...

By:  Ivan Cavric Mark Twain once said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.” True role models generate motivation. He or she proved that it could be done. And if he can do it, so can you.  Reading about how someone else achieved success creates beliefs in you that your goal is possible. It energizes you. Successful people have role models. Here are a few examples: Arnold Schwarzenegger found his role model, Reg Park, in a bodybuilding magazine. Reg was the most powerful person at the time, and Arnold dreamed of having huge muscles like Reg's. Arnold learned everything he could about Reg: his training routine, his diet, his lifestyle. The more he learned about Reg and followed his example, the more Arnold realized it was possible for him to become like Reg. (Source: Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey) Pete Sampras. Born in 1971, tennis great Pete Sampras grew up id...

By:  Ivan Cavric Mountains are built one pebble at a time and climbed one step at a time." This is a quote of mine that I personally put into practice each day as I progress towards fulfilling my WHY in life. The word pebble in this quote means that each action you take needs to be productive toward building your mountain of success. As I was retrieving a message today from someone who called me, I had to play the message 5 times to finally understand the phone number he left for me to call him back. We have always heard the smallest things – the pebbles - in life are the most important. Well, this week's tip from me is the importance of the quality of your phone messages, which I call your voiceprint. When you leave a voicemail message for someone, it is your "voiceprint." It may sound a little crazy that my motivating tip for the week is "How to Leave a Message”, but I'll bet that numerous people right now can relate to this. Everyone has had someone who c...

By: Ivan Cavric Direct digital marketing is using various platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Spotify and others to deliver your content to the consumer. It's a way of marketing that allows you to target your audience directly, without going through a middleman. This type of marketing is often more effective than traditional marketing, as it allows you to track results and adjust your campaigns accordingly. Direct digital marketing can be used for a variety of purposes, such as promoting a new product, increasing brand awareness, or driving sales. It's important to choose the right platform for your marketing goals, as each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. For example, social media platforms like Instagram are great for visual content, while platforms like Twitter are better for short, quick messages. No matter what platform you use, direct digital marketing is an effective way to reach your target audience and achieve your marketing goals. What i...

By:  Ivan Cavric Have you ever experienced anxiety? I wouldn’t hesitate to say that out of 100 adults surveyed, all 100 would tell you they have experienced some form of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal part of our existence. In the early years of man, anxiety and adrenalin served the purpose of keeping us alert to approaching danger. This kept us alive. Today, the anxiety that many of us feel is in response to ever increasing daily responsibilities and no increase in the amount of time available to take care of those responsibilities. Some people, however, experience a far worse condition of anxiety. Anxiety attacks, or panic attacks, as they are often referred to, rob individuals of their ability to function normally. Fear seizes their mind, numbing their ability to think and process thought clearly. They are afraid to even breathe at times and sometimes unable to breathe normally. This is a debilitating condition. Can you imagine being gripped by fear and panic, to the point that yo...

By:  Ivan Cavric For most people in our society, life will hold little more than a dutiful slog in the 9-5 rat race for forty years before retiring. Many will look back on their lives and wished they’d had an opportunity to have done something different. Some may have even had opportunities to do so but didn’t take them. One thought is very common: “I wish I could’ve done something else but I never really knew what I wanted to do.” Sounds familiar, yes? Relax. Because I can help you identify what it is you’d really like to do and I can show you how to begin. It all starts by asking yourself three very important questions and I believe these questions are the most important questions you can ask yourself. Here they are: 1. What, EXACTLY, do I want to do? This question gets straight to the heart of the matter and it requires SPECIFIC answers. Also, your answer should be something you have a passion for and are genuinely interested in and not something you think others would be impres...

By:  Ivan Cavric Goals are a great tool for motivation. But if you don't use them correctly, they can also be a source of frustration. Goals are only empowering if they are used properly. So how do you make a goal into something that is a benefit for you?  Goal-setting strategies are important especially for to help you create the type of success you desire and deserve. Here are five goal-setting techniques to help you realize them.  1. Balance Your Goals: In your life you will have personal development goals, personal finance goals and things goals. Don't neglect any of them. It is ok to want things, but don't forget to balance those pursuits with your own growth as a person. All of these goals are important so be clear about all of them and make them real for you.  2. Plan Actions From Your Goals: Goals are not items for your to do list. Your goal is what you are striving for. Plan specific actions that lead you towards those goals. Use the goals to provide your ...

By:  Ivan Cavric Email marketing is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of Internet advertising. This is because there are many distinct advantages to the concept of email marketing. However, email marketing does have some disadvantages as well. In this article we will examine the advantages and disadvantages of email marketing and will also provide some insight into how to plan and execute an effective email marketing campaign.   Email marketing certainly has a set of unique advantages over other types of marketing both online and offline. Perhaps one of the most significant advantages to email marketing is the ability to reach a worldwide audience with minimal effort. It is certainly possible to reach a worldwide audience with other types of advertising but traditional types of advertising such as television, radio and the print media are not nearly as effective for reaching potential customers around the world all at once.   Another major advantage to email ...

By:  Ivan Cavric If you've ever spent an entire day outside running around, chasing your children or taking a hike, you probably found it easy to fall asleep. Insomnia wasn't nagging at you after you'd exhausted your body through physical activity. For some people though that rule doesn't apply to them. Intense physical activity while working the muscles and getting the heartbeat up, can work as a stimulant and instead of drifting easily to sleep, a person can find themselves wide awake fighting insomnia. Keeping our bodies active is important. Not just for the obvious physical benefits but also because regular exercise can be a natural cure for insomnia. It's important to choose exercises that will work towards the goal of sleep as opposed to the exercises that energize you to a point that sleep becomes almost impossible. Yoga is a method of exercise that people have been doing for centuries. It involves a series of stretches and breathing exercises that work to t...

By:  Ivan Cavric Good luck? Maybe you have heard that luck doesn't exist, but you can see that some people seem to always have better things happen to them than others. Whatever you call it, would you like to have the secrets that these people have? Here is one of them. Be In The Right Place For Good Luck Good luck is often the result of simply being in the right place at the right time. Fortunately, you can choose to be in these places at these times.  A friend once told me "Did you see that truck John bought for $2,000? It must be worth at least $6,000. He's so lucky!" I mentioned to my friend that John bought it at an auction, where cars often sell for less. In other words, he was in the right place. "I went to that auction once," my friend answered, "but I didn't see any deals like that." John goes almost every other week, I told him. Of course he's more likely to be there at the right time to get the best deals. He's so lucky that ...

By:  Ivan Cavric  "Fear Factor" has been one of my favorite TV shows. It highlights the courage of the participants to engage in the most fearsome and disgusting acts.  Most of the contestants are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of the prize money. So what does that imply?  It implies that with the proper mindset, determination, and will power, you can conquer your fear.  Everyone has some sort of fear. It may be brought about by any one or more of the following reasons. by a traumatic past incident (like being bitten by a dog) by the influence of other people by their own negative way of thinking But are you going to let fear take over your life? Will you remain a hostage of your fear forever?   You must take the necessary steps to overcome your fright. It's all in the mind.   Do you envy other people when you see them enjoying wild rides, and you're just stuck in a corner because you're too terrified to give it a try? My sug...

By:  Ivan Cavric Who do you know that takes full responsibility for all their feelings and behaviours?  What would your life look like if you quit blaming others for what you feel and what happens to you?  What would your life be like if you decided that your life was yours and you could consciously create it any way you wanted to? Research findings by social scientists and psychologists have demonstrated that the belief systems of individuals have a profound effect on health, the mind, and success.  Cancer patients who believe that they can heal their bodies are much more likely to go into re-mission, students who believe that they can do well in school will do well, and people who believe they can succeed in business will succeed.  In other words, “They can because they think they can.”   Beliefs are assumptions, prejudices, judgements, ideas, opinions, and attitudes through which everything we experience is filtered.  Beliefs are not facts – ju...