I received an email featuring Jim Carrey’s comments about Oprahs online class with Echart Tolle on the New Earth.

Below that was a link to a supposed video on “5 Unspoken, SHOCKING Insights About the Art of Conscious Creation!”

What I got was a still photo of the two of you and an audio. Am I missing something or is this the presentation. Is this really a video or just an audio presentation? If it is an audio, please don’t mislead your visitors and call an audio presentation with a still photo a video. If I’m expecting a video and what I get is an audio presentation without even a PowerPoint slideshow, I’m a bit irritated by the apparent false advertising.

So, am I really missing something or is this it? Thanks.

Andrea McNeely

Hi Andrea,

Umm… yes, you’re missing something — definitely!

This video is nearly 40 minutes of a complete Power Point presentation with LOTS of valuable pertinent points that could be life-changing for some people.

I find it hard to believe, by your description, that you actually watched this — or even tried to.

Only one of two things could have happened.

So… did you stop watching after the first couple of minutes, and just ASSUME there was nothing else past the first slide?

Or did you watch it for 40 minutes and hear the audio playing flawlessly while the video stayed stuck on the first slide? (Something that is highly unlikely since, knowing how Camtasia is recorded and then encoded into Flash, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that this is a technical impossibility — the audio does not exist independent of the video, so if the video freezes, the whole thing freezes).

So if the latter happened, I suggest you reboot your computer, download the latest Flash player (the link is right under the video graphic) and try again — you will probably get a lot out of this.

If the former occurred, then I suggest you actually WATCH the video instead of assuming what it’s going to/not going to be.

After all, you know what they say about “Never ASSUME” … “It makes an ASS out of U and ME”

Heather

Hi Heather,

I listened to your PowerPoint presentation and found it very interesting. There was a lot of food for thought in what you and Barry had to say. However, I must say that I had the same thought as Andrea and was initially expecting to see a video and later deduced that the powerpoint presentation along with the audio component was what you meant by the “video”. I guess that it’s a matter of semantics.

Keep up the good work,
Anne-Maree Williams

Hi Anne-Maree,

Actually, it’s not semantics… it’s what Camtasia does. They’re called “screen capture videos”…

http://lwlurl.com/camcourse

Andrea knew that a PowerPoint presentation WOULD be called a video (audio + pictures = video) but she didn’t seem to get past the first slide.

And it says right above the graphic:

“Click the graphic below to watch
( It will bring up a PowerPoint Video Presentation )”

And yes, all over the web people are making and watching PowerPoint or web-based Camtasia videos, or even slide show presentations like Mind Movies, and calling them videos — because technically they are.

But anyhow, this is all kinda irrelevant… the point is that you found a lot of “food for thought” in what we shared.

Since that’s the case — if the big picture viewpoint is that you got value out of it — why focus on little insignificant things, like whether you personally call a screen-capture presentation a “video” or not?

We’re here to serve with content, not with format.

We produce that content in all forms available, and in the most useful format we can for that particular message, and we call them what they are based on the status quo terminology at the time — but again, the CONTENT is what is the important part, not how we decide to present it, or what that presentation is called.

So I’m glad you enjoyed it, and that we could give you some value… and I’m hoping for the rest of our content that you can enjoy it for what it is, and not get sidetracked by the little insignificant things at the same time.

Because in all honesty, doing that takes your focus away from the enjoyment, value, and gratitude you were feeling, and is one of the seemingly small habits we as humans get into that can stop manifestation in its tracks.

cheers
Heather

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I don’t care about whether your presentation is a video or an audio, but what I do find amazing is that you seriously seem to believe that a person has to be happy to be successful and that to be happy means you will be successful. How can you possibly believe that? The world is rife with successful people who are unhappy. I find it unimaginable that you’ve never encountered a successful person who’s depressed or angry or bitter or alcoholic or otherwise in psychic pain. Good grief, there are numerous cases of extremely successful people who committed suicide, who killed their spouses, who had rivals assassinated, who took entire nations to war. Marlene Dietrich was very successful. She died a rich but lonely recluse. Edith Piaf was successful. Her life was an emotional roller coaster, with many more downs than ups. Owen Wilson IS successful, but he tried to kill himself not that long ago. You can hardly be more successful than Winston Churchill, but the man downed a quart of scotch a day and complained of being dogged by bleak depressions his entire life. Mao Zedong was extremely successful from the age of about 30 onward. Would you consider him a paragon of happiness? Would you paint him as an example of happiness breeding success?

On the other hand, there are millions and millions of people with virtually nothing, who live in poverty, whose lives hang by a thread, but nonetheless find great joy in living. Yet their being happy doesn’t seem to lift them out of poverty. What it does do is make it easier for them to endure privation.

I’m not saying there aren’t successful people who are happy. There definitely are, but there are just as many (anbd maybe more) successful people who aren’t happy. And the number of happy people who aren’t successful is probably greater yet, by a very large margin. Happiness in no way guarantees success, nor does unhappiness block it. You can be happy and successful, happy and unsucessful, unhappy and successful and unhappy and unsuccessful. It’s all possible. And you have to be very self-deceived not to recognize that.

John, John, John… you sure do have a strange definition of both “success” and “happiness”, don’t you?

Do you honestly feel that suicidal, homicidal, depressed, angry, and/or bitter people are truly successful?

COME ON!!!!

What twisted logic are you basing that on?

Suicide is the ultimate sign of being UNsuccessful… because we came to this planet, to live this life, for a reason, and giving up or trying to book out before our time signifies a loser in this game we call life.

Find me a personal development teacher, or success expert in any capacity, who agrees with your definition of success, and I’ll show you a pig flying by.

And do you truly feel that people “whose lives hang by a thread” really honestly do “find great joy in living”?

By the way, the saying is, “You don’t need to be successful to be happy; you need to be happy to be successful.”

Too many people go through life saying, “If only I had x amount of dollars I’d be happy,” or “if only I was a doctor (singer, artist, accountant, you-name-it) I’d be happy,” or simply, “if only I was successful, I’d be happy.”

And they’ve got it completely backwards.

That in no way, shape or form says that “to be happy means you will be successful.”

However, I will tell you that the way manifestation works is, if you’re happy — truly happy with your life, not putting on a good face as your life “hangs by a thread” — then you are in a MUCH, MUCH better place to manifest what you want.

That’s because EMOTIONS are the power behind creating what we want, and happiness is a powerful manifesting emotion (along with gratitude and love).

And by the true definition of well-rounded success (not just money, or just health, or just a fulfilling career, or just a rewarding family life, but a COMBINATION of successes in various areas of your life, based on your own value system) does NOT come without happiness… and happiness first.

Nobody makes it to true success by being angry, bitter, depressed, suicidal or homicidal in order to get there.

If you don’t understand that, might I recommend some of the powerful interviews you’ll find inside the Manifest Life multi-media portal? Many of them deal with these exact topics in depth, and I think you’d get a lot out of them.

Also, just out of curiosity… I’m wondering if you consider yourself either successful or happy? You spent a lot of time writing this comment, and you don’t seem at all happy about it. In fact, it sounds like you have a bit of a tortured relationship with the topic, and are perhaps even trying to find both success and happiness to co-exist in your life. If that’s the case, then again, I think the interviews in the portal would be very valuable to you in finding that balanced and powerful symbiotic relationship between the two.

You can get access to the portal between May 20-23 only.

Enjoy!
Heather

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the eckhart effect??? whatever you may call it,for me it is the one book that
moved me like no other book and has changed my life forever. For the first
time in my life i am truly happy! thanks eckhart for showing me the way!