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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096743709819369970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902833529393255084.post-85118152838751302352015-05-20T07:33:00.000-07:002015-05-20T07:41:05.999-07:00Kindle: How It Has Changed the Face of Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2011, for the first time, Amazon, the world’s biggest bookseller, sold
more books in electronic format (Kindle) than in paper formats. How did
this happen ? A number of things came together to make this possible –
the increasing availability of, and acceptance and use of, smartphones
and tablets has created a social culture that, more and more, wants to
do things on the move. This happened at the same point that the
technology advanced to the point where products such as the Kindle, or
the apps for Kindle reading used on phones, became possible. Traditional
books are great, but they are bulky. If you are already carrying a
phone or Ipad, or you choose a dedicated Kindle reader, you can carry
hundreds of books with you, in less than the space of one paperback.<br />
The appeal was instantaneous and obvious. Concurrently, Amazon made it
possible for anyone to self publish for Kindle, and have their book
visible for sale on Amazon – so, over a three year period, the number of
books available in electronic format has increased exponentially. Add
to that a royalty structure and rules that ensure that most Kindle books
are priced very cheaply, and everyone (but especially Amazon!) wins.<br />
All this is fairly visible – what is less visible is how Kindle has
changed the way in which we read, and what we read. When you had to
carry a paperback around with you to read, this introduced certain
constraints – you generally only carried one at a time, for a start, you
paid a fair bit for it, so you wanted a sizeable read for your money,
and if you carry a book, people always say “what’s that you are
reading”, whilst curiously picking it up, or taking a long look at the
cover. That last one rather tends to limit what you read in public, or
take to work to read at lunchtime. Sometimes you just don’t want others
to know what you are reading, whether its erotica (although 50 Shades
of Grey has rather shifted the ‘acceptable’ boundaries on that one
recently!), or your secret addiction to children’s horse stories, or
trashy tell-all celebrity biographies.<br />
But with Kindle, all that changed – now you have immense choice –
carry a couple of hundred books if you want (they are cheap enough after
all – at $2.99 each not $29.99 it’s a very different budget equation!) –
change from one to another depending on your mood. Read your erotica,
or feed your embarrassing secret addictions – no one can see what you
are reading unless you show them, and you can get it closed to an
innocent home screen with the push of one button, if someone is trying
to be persistently nosy. Its quick and easy to pull out your phone,
Kindle reader or your Ipad in all sorts of places, if you have a minute
to spare – they are usually just in your pocket, or the top layer of
your handbag. So many people actually read much much more now than they
ever did before.<br />
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what they read is different in structure and format, not just topic and
price. When you can read in short stolen moments, you are more likely
to want something short to read – no ongoing concentration needed, rip
through it fast on the bus for immediate satisfaction. When it only
costs $2.99 you don’t mind if its short – a 20 page story can be quite
satisfying for that sort of money. And that way, if it turns out that
you don’t like that author’s work, no great loss, no book to dispose of
either. And with Kindle, there are none of those “oh god, I left my
book at work” moments – your book is always with you – just use your
Kindle app on your phone, Ipad, or PC even if you left your Kindle
reader at work, or at home – the Amazon cloud will keep them all
synchronised for you, and even know where in the book you were up to!<br />
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authors are publishing more and more ‘little books’ – the sort of thing
that traditional publishers would never have considered as a standalone
product – way too much cost and not enough return to be worthwhile.
And consumers are buying them, in their millions, because they are cheap
and easy to consume. This trend is likely to accelerate, in all topic
areas, making the electronic book market a multi, multi billion dollar
economy that did not even exist 6 years ago.<br />
What does this mean about the way in which people view books now ? More
of us read, we read a much more varied selection of topics, we are less
likely to read a great ‘epic novel’ (in fact, many just do not have
that sort of concentration span these days), we spend just as much if
not more on ‘books’ but get a lot more of them for our money,
traditional bookshops are going out of business, and traditional
publishers are struggling, and are trying to mandate prices for Kindle
books which are similar to the pricing of their physical books (and
Amazon tells you quite clearly on the book listing that the publisher
set that price, not them! – their marketing people have got that one
right…) and, lastly, millions of ordinary people, who would never have
been able to get their work published in the past, have become published
authors, and many have become outstanding bestsellers, with their works
also made into film and TV.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096743709819369970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902833529393255084.post-86876124437111304342015-03-10T04:10:00.003-07:002015-03-10T04:10:30.033-07:00Perfectionism places limitations on our self worth, our self-belief system and holds us back from achieving our goals.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Perfectionism can be the way that we look at ourselves in the mirror
with body image, wondering why our body and looks don’t match certain
criteria that we hold for ourselves. In our home the way we place
everything in a certain way. At work rechecking everything multiple
times before submitting your latest report. Perfectionists are usually
over-achievers and have extremely high values that they place on
themselves in their daily lives. Often a perfectionist’s goals are too
high to be achievable but failure is not an option, because this thought
doesn’t exist in the perfectionist’s mind.
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So I want to dive in and look at what perfectionism really is and see if this is you?<br />
As a life coach I have learnt all about what happens with our belief
systems as part of my coach training, which included working on my own
belief system. Perfectionism is a belief system and something that we
have learnt from a young age, through sources like our parents. As
children we are like sponges so we pick up, and learn, beliefs from
others that surround us. When we become adults these beliefs are carried
with us and the impacts of these don’t get addressed until we start our
personal development journey.<br />
If you are a perfectionist, and things don’t go “perfectly” for you
this leads to judgemental thoughts within yourself. This, in turn,
affects your self worth, creating thinking like I’m not good enough,
smart enough, worthy enough and many others too numerous to list here.
Everyone has some perfectionist tendencies, as that’s part of been
human, but I’m talking about when this is taking over your life.<br />
Perfectionism can also be described as the situation where,
underneath everything, we are looking for approval from external sources
– from our partners, family, friends, colleagues and people we meet.
This is building our self worth based on things outside of ourselves,
which isn’t healthy.<br />
The aim is to change our belief system to look inward instead, which
is much healthier. Then we can start to address how our current belief
system works. We want to be choosing self-love, self-acceptance and
happiness within.<br />
Transformation can be fun, so lets embrace this and find a few things
that you can do to get started on your discovery journey today!<br />
<ul>
<li>Grab a journal or computer and have a belief discovering exercise.
Start by journaling things that are currently holding you back. Here are
a few suggested questions to get the ball rolling.
<ul>
<li>What do you currently control in your life and, if control was taken away, what would your life look like?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>We need to recognize the expectations that we currently have of ourselves.
<ul>
<li>What expectations have we placed on ourselves? Is this realistic for what is achievable? If not what is achievable instead?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Accepting where we currently are in our journey with no judgement –
<ul>
<li>we are all at different points in our journey so just have a look
where you currently are, with no judgement, and be accepting of
yourself.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Be realistic with your thoughts and actions.
<ul>
<li>Accept what is within your control and recognize what you can’t control, acknowledge that, and let it go.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Be kind to yourself during your discovery journey</li>
</ul>
Embrace your imperfections, you will start seeing your life change
for the better and you will have a lot more fun in the process too. I
would love to hear from you what can you do today to start flipping your
perfectionism to embracing imperfection instead?<br />
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<a href="http://lifechangetherevolution.com/perfectionism" target="_blank">http://lifechangetherevolution.com/perfectionism</a></h4>
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