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- Inner Growth: The Maturity of the Soul - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Oscar Basurto CarbonellInner Growth is the force that awakens, grows, is fortified and mature in a very special way where each heart always has quite long moments that seem an eternity. Thus, Inner Growth may seem to be an unattainable effort, it is not something simple, it is not as to read a book and to learn the ...
Views: 4286(2 votes) - Gratitude Really is an Attitude! - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Gayle LaSalleOnce more in my life, I find myself realizing how fulfilling the attitude of gratitude is. As most of you, I could find many things to feel bad about and I could easily rationalize a way to focus on those things. But, then something happens that brings about the most profound sense of ...
Views: 1082(3 votes) - If Being Ambitious Makes Me a Bitch – Please Capitalize the “B” - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2010 from Gayle LaSalleAs I get older, and hopefully, wiser, I tend to become more of a rebel. The one way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t. I wish I could say I’ve always been this way but that’s not so. It’ a trait I’ve developed along the way, likely because I’ve had to take risks and I’ve found ...
Views: 2358(3 votes) - New Etiquette or Just Plain Laziness? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Gayle LaSallePerhaps I’m feeling a bit sensitive to this topic at the moment, as I recently had a holiday party at my home. A party to which numerous people did not RSVP and some who responded positively, didn’t attend – with no apology or explanation. But, my thoughts did not start with this event. I’ve ...
Views: 1731(10 votes) - Endings and Beginnings - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Gayle LaSalle“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST One year ends and another begins. It’s the way of the world. And it’s the way of our life. And, as always, we have choices as to how we view both the end and the beginning. Are you ...
Views: 951(1 vote) - Income Protection- Protecting You When You Are Unable To Work - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Albert SmithJust as it is important to buy home insurance and motor insurance, it is also important to buy income protection. You can never know what is going to happen in future. You can become sick or incapacitated and be unable to work. If you are unable to work, it means that you will not be able to get ...
Views: 781(1 vote) - The Sun in the Twelfth House: Suffering & The Father - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Carmen Turner-SchottThe Sun in the Twelfth House: Suffering and the Father by Carmen Turner Schott, MSW, LISW The Sun glows brightly in the sky reminding us of its power. Without the Sun there can be no life. In our astrological chart, the Sun represents our main identity, personality, and outward appearance. ...
Views: 3458(3 votes) - January's Planetary Forecast - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Dianne LawsonJanuary’s Planet ary Forecast Happy New Year! I hope that the following helps you create a good start in making this year your best ever. We don’t have much control over the world as a whole, but we are able to work on creating the lives we want. The outer world continues as it always has ...
Views: 1698(4 votes) - Are All Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients Harmful? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Teri DourmashkinAre All Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients Harmful? While many synthetic ingredients used in commercial skin and body products are toxic or potentially toxic, there are some synthetic ingredients that are considered to be safe and non-toxic. As natural ...
Views: 2442(3 votes) - Suggestions for Using PowerPoint Effectively – or Not at All - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Jim McCormickAs a professional presenter for over fourteen years, I’ve seen PowerPoint used well and poorly. Unfortunately, is seems to be used poorly more often that well. Here are some suggestions for making PowerPoint a positive part of your presentation. The secret to using PowerPoint successfully ...
Views: 2505(2 votes) - Five Intelligent Risks for Sales Professionals - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Jim McCormickAscending to a new level of performance in any endeavor is a matter of taking intelligent risks well. Sales is no exception. Having written a book on intelligent risk-taking called The Power of Risk and often speaking to sales professionals, I’m regularly asked by ambitious sale people what ...
Views: 2551(2 votes) - HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU SHARE OF YOUR SEXUAL PAST? - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallI recommend that “open communication” is not necessarily the same as totally honest communication – which I call “the overwhelming truth”. Open communication involves deliberately telling your partner how you feel, what you want and what you don’t want, but only in a positive and constructive ...
Views: 1735(3 votes) - Limiting Beliefs - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Rebecca EvansIn an episode of the Biggest Loser, the contestants were challenged to run a race. The race wasn’t designed to be a simple undertaking. Each participant was required to wear a special belt. Attached to these belts were weights in increments of the amount of weight they each had lost over the ...
Views: 1884(3 votes) - First Time Buyers: How To Choose the Right Home Inspector - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Christopher ShawIn view of the fact that you are reading this article, would it be safe to assume that you have made the wise decision to hire a home inspector? Great! As you probably realize buying a home is a big investment and you need to find out everything possible about it before you sign on the dotted ...
Views: 1385(3 votes) - Profitable Online Business; learn online marketing tactics to achieve success with your website. - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2010 from Justin MullinYou have finally published your affiliate website and its up and running. Are you wondering what to do next? Are you having trouble generating more traffic to your website? Are your online marketing strategies not producing a profitable online business? Be patient. Don’t give up before the ...
Views: 747(2 votes) - Change Your Life By Changing Your Beliefs - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from George HummelLife seems to have been against you from the start. You've had a lousy career and have spent countless 40 hour weeks at a job you despise. The chance for success and wealth seem to have long ago slipped from your grasp. It is exactly this kind of thinking that keeps you where you are--stuck ...
Views: 955(1 vote) - What Are The Best Investments For You? - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2010 from John HanlinThe "best investments" for an investment portfolio can and should vary by investor. In other words, "one size does not fit all". This is because each of us has a unique "investment personality" that is a derived from of our upbringing, investing experience, job history, economic climate, and ...
Views: 1499(11 votes) - Be Here Now Be Successful Now - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Tom WrightThere is a success we can attain that goes far beyond simple material success. This deep of success is attained only through the giving up our attachment to being "right" about all the illusions we have surrounding what it means to be successful. In the online seminar I do with participants, we ...
Views: 1179(3 votes) - LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MUSIC - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Susanna ZarayskyThese tips on how to learn a foreign language using music are excerpted from the book, Language is Music: Over 70 Fun & Easy Tips to Learn Foreign Languages (www.languageismusic.com), by Susanna Zaraysky Language is Music has been featured on MTV as a resource to use to learn foreign ...
Views: 1982(1 vote) - 7 Ways to Beat Post Holiday Food Blues with a Detox Diet - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Christine EstersThe holidays are a time where you can overindulge & throw all diet rules out the window. Bring on the turkey, cakes, cookies and pies! Those delicious holiday foods also come with a heavy price tag like, indigestion, constipation, gas and acid reflux. So, how can you restore your body back to ...
Views: 2337(2 votes) - 5 Hottest Trends to Get Targeted Web Traffic | Traffic Promotion Trends - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2010 from Carla BaldockIt's a harsh fact, traffic promotion today is different to traffic promotion of yesterday. However, you will definitely put additional money in your bank account if you adopt today's internet marketing trends. To drive massive targeted web traffic to your site, there's no question that these 5 ...
Views: 972(2 votes) - SEO tactics for an e-commerce website - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Dexter BoyleIt has been well known that consumers use search engines to research and buy products online. They read reviews and description, analyze ratings, and research pricing as they compare products and vendors. To be very specific, 75% of the total online sales are done on websites found through ...
Views: 418(2 votes) - EFT for Panic Attacks - by Submitted on May 10, 2010 from Puja KanthThis article was published on Gary Craig's newsletter.(Gary Craig is the founder of EFT) I am describing two sessions with my client Ria (name changed), who is currently undergoing EFT therapy from me for panic attacks and varied emotional problems. One of the tremendous benefits of phone ...
Views: 4707(2 votes) - MLM Management - Tax Deductions - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Darwin FarrIt is 2010. It's hard to imagine that we are already into the second decade of the 21st century. Some people look at this time of year as bad and others good. We all have our new years resolutions. I would like to submit that one of the resolutions that anyone involved in any kind of MLM ...
Views: 1486(1 vote) - How To Handle Negative Comments About Your Business? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Sabra EasterdayThe web has revolutionized a great deal since its advent. From simply being a store-house of information, it has transformed itself into an expansive platform that facilitates interaction and knowledge sharing. Blogs and forums are a crucial part of this new-age phenomena. They are excellent ...
Views: 901(2 votes) - Beating the Competition with Effective Internet Marketing - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Lily MarsdenA lot of companies have turned to the World Wide Web as a new ground for finding customers. This is an effective move since the internet is open to anyone from any country and can reach out to more customers, not just within a certain location but also globally. If you are a business owner with ...
Views: 584(2 votes) - Boost Your Metabolism Fast- this is important - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Jonny JonsonOne of the key principles of weight loss is finding ways to burn more calories and many people look for ways boost your metabolism fast. It might be seen that the body is not reaching full function for a variety of causes. The reasons why your metabolism is not reaching potential can include the ...
Views: 957(2 votes) - Data Entry Job Works - Why Are They Being Outsourced? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from Harsh ModyOne of the main reasons for outsourcing projects Versatility entered. This can help the companies that have a data entry operator rent regardless of the language and category. Today it is common in developing countries 'outsourcing' of this kind of treatment positions, because they get the ...
Views: 792(1 vote) - Does your New Year’s resolution include buying or selling your business? - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Andrew RogersonEveryone is familiar with the Christmas song, the 12 days of Christmas. Without going into every verse of the song, the carol works forwards with the first day of Christmas being a partridge in a pear tree, the second day of Christmas two turtle doves and so on. The song is full of optimism ...
Views: 1255(5 votes) - Becoming More Productive Through On-line Collaboration - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Kayte ConnellyNo one seems to have enough time to get things done. Goals, programs, products, services, customers, relationship farming, tending the herd, goals and family. Every minute of every day brings new demands on what little time we have to pay attention to them. As you begin to set your ...
Views: 1381(1 vote) - Why and How I Use LinkedIn? - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Kayte ConnellyUsing any of the social networking tools can be overwhelming. Initial questions come to mind: What am I doing here? How come people say this is so great? What's so great about it? There are so many people here - how do I get their attention? Who is an expert? How have they achieved that ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - A New Year… A New Decade… A New Strategy… A New You! - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Bridgette CollinsIf you’re like most people, each year, you lay out your strategic plan for living healthier. Once the year starts, the plan starts to change. Despite the best intentions, you can't always anticipate how life’s challenges, demands, obligations and relationships will change what you’ve outlined ...
Views: 555(1 vote) - ***Self-discovery to Attract Desired Outcomes from the Mental Plane and the Spiritual Plane - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSelf-Discovery to Attract Desired Outcomes from Mental and Spiritual Planes You are simultaneously physical, mental and spiritual here on the planet earth. We know this. You are living a life right now on the mental plane and a life right now on the spiritual plane; and self-discovery leads ...
Views: 3364(12 votes) - T Falcon Napier offers "Building A Career That Matters" - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Kayte ConnellyHuman resource development professionals are often stymied by their inability to hone their business skills. Like many other experts, they are really good with their product creation but do not attain the results they want within the first few years of operations. "Building A Career That ...
Views: 1754(1 vote) - Discover Surprising Reasons How Anyone Can EMBRACE ADVERSITY in Minutes! - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Miyoshi GrantIf you are experiencing an adverse situation, you may be embarking upon the greatest opportunity to have a breakthrough in your life! Surprisingly you're going to see how adversity is shaping you into being the person, happy and fulfilled, that you want to be. It happens through your perspective ...
Views: 1708(2 votes) - Positive, Possibility, Power Thinking - How To Integrate It Into Your Life - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Karl GruberPositive, Possibility, Power Thinking – How to Integrate It Into Your Life By Karl W. Gruber I have long been a disciple of the philosophy of Positive Thinking (beginning, of course, with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in the early 20th. century), and many other great inspirational thinkers and ...
Views: 1503(2 votes) - Because of a Rainy Day - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Fireflies TeamDrip! Drop! Drip! Drop! Drip! Drop! Everyday for a week, when Jack looked out his Delaware window, the same dreary sight greeted him . . . Grey clouds, grey skies, grey rain . . . Drip! Drop! Drip! Drop! Drip! Drop! . . . then in the midst of the drip! drop! came a ding dong! ...
Views: 1234(9 votes) - Emotional Eating--The Stress of Emotions - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Richard KuhnsEmotional eating has been identified as the single largest reason people gain weight back after they lost it and it's a well known fact that 95% of all those who lose weight gain it all back. Everyday I read articles or books featuring a means of overcoming emotional eating. At first I was ...
Views: 1289(1 vote) - What color is your Depression? Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness Therapy - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2011 from Peter StrongWhen we experience depression we often describe it with phrases like: “I’m in a black mood”, or “It smothers me like a heavy blanket”, or “Its like being in a thick fog”, or “I feel like I’m wading through treacle.” These and similar descriptions provide interesting clues about the nature of ...
Views: 1729(1 vote) - How Not to be a Victim of Your Emotions: Mindfulness Therapy - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2011 from Peter StrongWhen you really look closely at anxiety, depression, fear, anger or stress, you will almost always find recurring patterns of negative thoughts, traumatic memories and habitual emotional reactions. They are our tormentors, the pesky biting insects that annoy us throughout the day. They ambush ...
Views: 2345(1 vote) - Download audio books - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Pete WillsIn the age of technology, internet has become a great source of downloading things in a timely and cost effective manner. Before downloading anything you must check and make sure that the resource you are going to use is legitimate of providing that service and you are downloading legally. There ...
Views: 1313(1 vote) - Socrates and Neuro-Semantics - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Dr. Charles DesJardins“Neuro-Semantics” is it a new word, or is it a new concept? Dr. Hall states, “Neuro-Semantics is actualizing your highest and best. It is making real your highest meanings and visions, and it is implementing your best values and ethics.” How is that done? Again by Dr. Hall, “Neuro-Semantics is ...
Views: 2509(3 votes) - Can our Self-Actualization be limited? - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Dr. Charles DesJardinsCan our self-actualization be limited? Absolutely. Are these limits insurmountable? Absolutely not. Self-actualization is the actualizing of our full humanness. It is the unleashing of those things that hinder our growth into what ought to be. Self-actualization is the movement from ‘aught’ to’ ...
Views: 2798(1 vote) - "Are You Afraid to Open Up?" - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Sandra DawsonIf you are committed to finding true love or keeping your love relationship alive and well, you will need to overcome your fear of opening up so you can create true intimacy. Why is opening up so important? Relationships are based on the commonalities you have with your partner and your ...
Views: 6269(2 votes) - Seven Characteristics of an Authentic Leader - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Kristin RobertsonBeing an authentic leader is a cornerstone of building a spiritually intelligent workplace. To be authentic is to be real, to be genuine. If we consider that the opposite of authentic is phony or fake, then most people would vote for authenticity. It's like a counterfeit coin, which doesn't buy ...
Views: 8898(12 votes) - How to Win the Battle of the Fat at the Height of the Diet Season - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Anthony ChapmanA brand New Year dawns upon us and has no doubt cast the reality of the past year before our eyes. The binging, the lack of exercise and the lack of trying have come to light in the shape of fat. January is a time for change and the pinnacle for searching for an answer to zap the fat away in ...
Views: 1085(1 vote) - New Year Resolutions: Let's Get Realistic - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Larry HehnMy friend Mano Watsa is more than a basketball player. He was a four-time OUA Conference All-Star, two-time All-Canadian point guard and captain for the University of Waterloo. In 1999 he toured with the USA Athletes In Action team, was awarded the National TSN Award for combining excellence in ...
Views: 1467(4 votes) - Strategies For Marketing A Book in the Year 2010 - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Don McCauleyDepending on the source you believe, somewhere around 500,000 new books hit the shelves this year. What does this mean? If each book was but an inch thick, and all the books were placed on a single shelf, that shelf would be over 7.8 MILES long. Your book is but one of them. This does not ...
Views: 1045(1 vote) - Define Success: Achieve Success - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Tom WrightIf you went out to buy a television set, and didn’t really know what the best one was, oh, you had a general idea, but no clear picture, what would you end up buying? You would most likely end up buying something based on what others believed a good TV set should be. Might work for you then, ...
Views: 1143(2 votes) - LACK OF OXYGEN - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Annukka HuotariOxygen is one of the five basic elements of life. The other four basic elements of life are: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and sulphur. Oxygen is the source of life. There is oxygen everywhere around us. Lack of oxygen has many effects on our health. Professor Otto Warbur (Nobel price in ...
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