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Guest author David Cameron Gikandi:

IMAGINATION: THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE

Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: ‘greatest creative force’. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth’s), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley’s), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.

Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.

Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief. Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth. Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on. And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world’s greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination. The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.

The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he become’. It also says ‘Without vision we perish’.

Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different ‘limits’?

Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world.

Life expresses your mental images into physical reality. To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world. You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow. This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.

Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.

Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.

As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.

Many things influence your imagination – past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals – any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success. If you would like to know more about these things visit David Cameron Gikandi's website to download free eBooks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Cameron Gikandi, CEO ImagesOfOne.com and author of A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Your Quantum Leap into the Understanding, Having and Enjoying of Immense Wealth and Happiness. Available for download at http://www.ImagesOfOne.com.

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Business Opportunities

PART III: - FISH FARMING'S ECONOMICS

There are two ways to establishing fishing-farms: 1- Labor-intensive and 2- Capital-intensive.

In the first case, the cost of labor is, most of the time, the main factor to consider to keep production costs at bay. In capital-intensive ventures high feed costs are the primary limiting factor in terms of production costs.

A fishing-farm venture will be economically feasible if products can be produced and sold at competitive prices against other animal-protein sources (meat and chicken meat).

Economic considerations (particularly for capital intensive operations) can be divided into: 1- Preliminary Investment and Costs; 2- Production costs and 3- Processing and Marketing costs. Click here for more

Depending on the size of a fish-farm, Preliminary Investment and Costs could require large capital input. However, the resulting high productivity level could help lowering production's costs. Therefore, a comprehensive feasibility study (and a detailed Business Plan) are necessary before any large capital investment in fish-farming is made; that is the need to have a detailed evaluation of the biologic, and economic constraints

A STRICT RECORD KEEPING

Onshore fish farming is carried out in ponds (small, large and huge ponds up to 4,000 sq. meter for industrial farms); marine (sea, lake and river) fish farming are based on immersed cages or nets.

Therefore, to yield steady production a fish-farmer needs to have an absolute control on the biologic and economic constraints - based on a strict record keeping of all variables involved - as briefly exposed on above table and in previous delivery

Record keeping could be easily performed when the operation is on small-scale basis (one, two or three ponds - 10 to 20 sq meter each - for fingerlings and fry breeding, alevins and fish fattening). It becomes more difficult to carry out when the business is vertically integrated, comprising ten to hundreds large ponds (several hundreds up to thousand sq. meter in surface) including fry production, feed formulation and preparation, growing fish to market size of 700 to 900 g, and processing fish into fresh skinless boneless fillets, on site.

In such case, and even in small-scale operations, a fish-farmer would perform better if it could rely on a productivity tool that takes into accounts the slightest variation in the several criteria that have an impact on productivity and therefore on profits.

AQUACULTURE DECISION SUPPORT SOFTWARE / POND

Pond (Decision Support Systems) is a computer program developed to guide decision making processes pertaining to warmwater pond aquaculture. It is a valuable productivity tool that assists educators, managers, planners and researchers to quickly and accurately analyze aquaculture systems under different management regimes.

Pond helps simulating production scenarios (feeding variation, temperature discrepancies during production period, fish-densities and/or species combinations, specify stocking and harvest dates of individual lots, and either specify or allow the model to generate feeding and fertilization schedules, and water balance/flow descriptions through pond facilities.) In short, Pond assists in the development of optimal management and production strategies.

These strategies can be simulated by the use of either the simple or more complex models. Simple models are expected to be useful for planning/management purposes, and more complex models for short-term management and research applications. A graphics module is available for viewing the results of simulation runs. Click here to visit Pond makers' website and download the software for free.

Based on previous deliveries' contents, the next issue (January 15, 2006) will consider a small-scale Tilapia fish-farm's organization and economics.

MORE ON FISH FARMING

1- How to Start and Manage a Fish Farming Business by Jerre G. Lewis 2- Integrated Fish Farming by Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming 3- Catfish farming handbook by Jerry Mack Johnson 4- Commercial Catfish Farming by Jasper S. Lee 5- Cage Culture Of Tilapia In Rural Farm Ponds An article from: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science [HTML] (Digital - January 1, 2000) 6- Backyard Fish Farming by Paul Bryant

7- Intensive Fish Farming by Jonathan Shepherd, Niall Bromage 8- Second International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture: by Thai International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture 1987 Bangkok, et al (Hardcover - January 1990) 9- Tilapia Culture by Abdel-fattah M. El-sayed, A. F. M. Sayed (Hardcover - February 2006) 10- Tilapias: Biology and Exploitation by M.C.M Beveridge (Editor), B. McAndrew (Editor)

Control Your Desktop

HOW TO PREVENT UNWANTED PROGRAMS TO LOAD AT START-UP?

When you start your system, a lot of programms load. Programmers like to "force" such loading to be sure of the visibility of their products on the desktop. That's fine for them. However, the problem is that said programs by loading consume a certain amount of CPU. And some may prove to be RAM / CPU guzzler. If you have plenty of RAM, that may not be a problem. Even so, multi-tasking may become difficult if too many programs are loaded at start-up.

Then, you may need to impede some programs to load at start-up.

Take for instance Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. If you are running Windows XP PRO or Windows 2000, you certainly noticed loading-conflict between Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. The former is the one packed with Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or 2) and the later had been developed as a "stand-alone" add on by Microsoft.

Windows Messenger lacks all the new capabilities of MSN Messenger (video voicemail in particular) and could be dumped. To know how to do this once and for all click here to read a comprehensive article by guest author Balraj Dhaliwal

Freebie Of The Month

GALORE OF CALCULATORS AND CONVERTERS

Who does not need a specific calculator or a converter? Whatever your line of business, one day you shall need a calculator or converter. That for sure.

Hundreds of calculators are available on the World Wilde Web, for everything from converting European shoe sizes into American ones, to figuring out complex scientific problems, to choose (winning) lottery numbers, to calculate investment rates, sports performances, computers related problems. And so on.

However, there is only one place where you will find all of them available right away. It is on CSG Calculators and Converters, and some are especially useful for importers and exporters.

Just go to the home page and scroll down to Grouped Converters and Calculators, then click on Business and Financial in the drop-down box. That brings you to a page with lots of great business calculators. Scroll down to Export Price Index (XPI) Calculator. This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year to another using the International Price Index (IPI) inflation index as a foundation, and is a useful tool for exporters worldwide. There's also an Import Price Index (MPI) Calculator, and many other handy business calculators.