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The Most Important Attributes For Achievement!

Dec 14

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Success in life has rules just like everything else in life. If there is hot there is cold if there is sadness then there is joy. If there is poverty then there is rosperity. Recognizing that everything in the universe has a set of criteria that defines it makes everything understandable and achievable. Success is no different. I have compiled six attributes for prosperity that can be utilized by anyone with the desire to achieve.

Rule #1
Potential

The First rule required for success is to recognize that you have the potential to achieve more in life in any area you choose have picked to focus your attention. Too many human beings sell themselves short. Most of us have not even begun to tap our true potential in life. Only when we recognize that we are capable of more, will we then move forward and achieve more.

Make a list of all your strengths and your faults/weaknesses. STOP HERE and do not read on till you have made your list!

Which list was easier for you to create? If you said your weaknesses, then you are like most individuals who do not focus on what they CAN do, they focus on what they cannot. If your lists were equal, then you have reached the stage where at least you can see what you have and what you have yet to perfect. If you say your strengths, then you have learned to recognize your potential OR you have a tendency to next accept that you have faults. Careful of the second, we all have areas that we need to improve upon. Being able to recognize them is also strength. By the way, for the first group, was that strength on your list?? I bet it was not.

Rule #2
Selflessness

One of the things that the universe also teaches is that in order to receive, you have to give. You cannot have fire without first creating a form of heat. You cannot have money without effort of some sort. Many criminals will tell you that money gained without any effort rarely has value. Easy come… so it is easy go and go it will! So what does this have to do with selflessness? Our universe fills voids. For example, to get rid of an old habit, I must replace it with a healthy one. I just can’t eliminate the bad habit. The bad habit met some need of mine and if it is not replaced, then once again, the need is not being met. If the need is not being met, the habit will either reappear or another habit (good or bad) will replace it.

If you apply this to success, then to receive you must give. What you give may vary; it might be your time, money or creativity. Many business people will tell you that you cannot make money without spending money. The basic precept is true, but you can make money without money if you have something to give in exchange. But Zig Ziglar had the precept down to a science, “I find success by helping others to find success.” I have found this precept to be true time after time. My biggest successes whether they were monetary or just personal joy have been when someone else achieved. MLM’s are built on this precept. The upline is only successful if the downline is successful. This is a forced version of a basic law of the universe. What you want in life, you must give away. Monetary compensation will follow if you learn to truly apply the law of selflessness.

Rule #3
Allowance

Allowance, what does that have to do with success? Ever ‘try’ to do something? Let us do an experiment. Drop an item of the floor and ‘try’ to pick it up. Okay, is it in your hand? Yes? Well then, you failed. I did not tell you to pick it up. I told you to try. Yoda from Star wars told Luke, do or do not. That precept is as basic as it gets. You cannot force success or life. We do not make the sun rise, it just does. The same applies to success. You cannot ‘try’ to get it, and you cannot force it. You must allow it to come to you through your daily efforts. The path of least resistance is always followed by nature for a reason. When energy is expended in a direction contrary to its nature, then there is no energy left for accomplishment. In the human experience, it is not uncommon to see businessmen frantically going about their day with high stress and no joy. They are so busy ‘trying’ for success that they cannot enjoy their own prosperity. Their family might enjoy the prosperity but often this forced effort is not enjoyed and often leads to medical consequences such as high blood pressure and heart attacks. Live life to the fullest every day. Live it to your potential. Success will follow. It has to follow because it is a basic law.

One note here: Define what success to you is. Is it a dollar amount? Freedom? Time? What is it and how will you know if you have achieved it? Once you have achieved it, then what?

Rule #4
Goals

The last note leads to the next rule. You must have goals. You do not get in a car normally and drive aimlessly. You have a destination in mind. You may need maps to get there. Depending on how far you are going, you might even have to plan stops, expenses and meals. Life is no different. A life without any goals is a life wandered and lived aimlessly. Your goals do not have to be mine. Your goal might be as simple as a small boat on the lake on warm sunny weekends and mine might be to fly into space before I leave this life. It does not matter how small or how extravagant, a life must have goals.

Make a dream board or book. This is a pictorial reference with notes of everything you want in life. Everything you want to do, see, have or be. Look at it often! Keep your goals in mind. Have at least one you are working towards at any given moment and mark it on your board or in your book. Then break that goal down into achievable and measurable steps. Let’s say my goal is to get promoted. I go and sit down with my boss and flat out ask. What do you need to see in me or what do I need to improve to get a promotion down the road. I take the list from my boss. It might be education, experience or even just showing that I have invested myself into the company. Next, break the goal down into achievable, measurable and time focused steps. For example, let’s say one thing I needed was better communication skills. I might set a date to join toastmasters, or a date to start a class at the local college to improve those skills.

Whatever you dream of should be in your book. Whatever you plan to actually work on should be your goals. Each goal should have ladder like steps to measure progress. If you miss a date, do not give up the goal. Go back and ask yourself was my timeline realistic? If it was, did I procrastinate anywhere? Identify what delayed your progress and rectify it. Once that is done, set a new achievement date and keep on going. We only fail in life when we give up!

Rule #5
Let Go!

Once you set your goal, - let it go. Do not spend every day measuring your progress. Even in weight loss they tell you to only weigh in once a week. It is the same with your goals. Pick a day of the week to figure out if you achieved your weekly goals and set new ones. Once that session of self-evaluation is done, then let it go! Live each day to the fullest. Remember the law of selflessness. Give of your time and your energy but trust that the outcome will occur as long as you are not trying to force it. Each time you force your goals, they no longer bring any satisfaction in the bigger picture because often basic building blocks of the foundation are not strong. It may look like you are making progress only to have it crumble near the top. Just trust in whatever higher power you have and move forward.

Rule #6
Purpose

I have a solid belief that everyone has purpose. If your chosen goals do not bring you happiness, you are contrary to your purpose. If your job is something you dread going to, it is not in line with your purpose. Now in this economy, I am not suggesting that you throw in the towel and quit your job. But what I am suggesting is that while you have that job, you start looking elsewhere. Do not think that winning the lottery will solve the problem if you are still not living to your potential (rule 1) and your purpose. More than one affluent person has committed suicide, been throw multiple marriages and so on. They are not happy, because they are not at purpose. Everything in this universe has a purpose. What is yours? You will know it when you find it. You could be out under the sun and sweating profusely and there will be a smile on your face if you are aligned with your purpose.

Living these six rules in life is difficult. I am not going to hint that they are not. Sometimes, I forget to look at my dream board and lose focus. How about you? Sometimes, I do not let go and try to force results only to spend money I should not have or energy that is wasted. How about you? Sometimes, I try to rush to the end of a goal and do not lay out a path that will actually get me there. How about you? Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy and cite to myself every possible fault I have and reason why I will not achieve a goal and forget I have strengths. How about you?

What I can tell you is when these six rules are in line in my life. I am happy. I do not worry about money. I do not dread getting up in the morning. My alarm clock, like Zig Ziglar often says, becomes my “opportunity clock.” Someday, and it IS in my dream book, I will live all six daily because with that day, comes not only success, but happiness!

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An Internet Marketer’s Problem With Underperforming Motivation

Dec 7

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

Motivations.

What are you motivations to launch a home based business? You should sincerely ask yourself if you can make the long-term and thankless commitment to building your presence on the global internet. There are no shortcuts to your ultimate goal of being ?found? by your desired website visitors, readers or viewers. I hope that part of your motivation is a passion for the product or service you are soon to provide to a mass audience. Having a passive interest or knowledge of the product or service you have decided to market is a sure fire recipe for failure.

If you are not motivated to succeed as a business person and treat your internet endeavors as real business activity then you will be unable to accept the small and large failures along the path to success, and there will be many failures along your learning curve to profitable decision making.

A key to determining your motivation is to review your past entrepreneurial projects; did you have enough patience to mature through your miscalculations that led to failure or dissolution of your project? Did you have a learning experience and not make the same mistake twice? Another point to consider is if you sought help and consultation from another successful entrepreneur or entrepreneur group dedicated to your chosen business niche. You can find such support groups at your local chamber of commerce.

If you join a local chapter of SCORE?which most Chambers have as a free outreach program, you can connect with former CEOs and business executives that can give you deep knowledge on how to successfully launch your own business and protect you from the most common pitfalls.

Having enough motivation will enable you to connect with more successful business persons in your own niche, and they should not be viewed as competitors. I have found that my competitors more often then anticipated were my greatest allies for success. Because when I am successful our entire niche is successful and the internet will not be cluttered with yet another useless website with no substantial content and thus weakening the value of other successful websites in my own niche. For example if you are an affiliate marketer and you have a new website selling replica high-end watches and jewelry.

You must study the sites that are located on the first 2 pages of your search results for the search term ?replica watches?. How many unique pages do these sites have? How many one way back links do they have, how many visitors and followers do they have? Are they socially bookmarked in client made fan-pages in MySpace , Facebook and Twitter? Do they have a blog connected with their website? Are you motivated to also create a separate blog for your affiliate website, or even a unique podcast that you will update weekly? Are you willing to contact the CEO of the website for advice?and sometimes they are willing to help you IF..IF you are willing to do something beneficial for them, perhaps, create a link to their site and also promote some of their non-competitive products that you don?t offer.

You see, there are many ways to grow your motivation support group. Your family and friends are the primary source of motivational support. However, the secondary level of motivational support will come from your peers in the same industry, they are not necessarily competitors. Many of my clients have been underemployed for many months, some even a year or more working only a part-time job or no job at all. I have countless stories of stay-at-home dads, and where the wife is bringing in the income and in the greatest paradox, these once career men desire to remain at home with the kids and dog and start their own businesses. They have the motivation but the need to recognize it and focus and connect this contagious motivation with like minded entrepreneurs.

Such is the state of jobs in Ohio, and I can write volumes of books on the theme of employment in Ohio . The uncertainty of new high paying jobs in Ohio for college graduates and experienced professionals has instilled a survivalist mentality in many Ohio job seekers. The idea that one job is never enough, or secure enough for any long-term future has permeated the state such that more educated people in-the-know are motivated to opt for second careers, what are called ?micro-careers?. These micro-careers are derivatives of their actual main job. Since there are no longer now hiring sings in every business window as was the case in 2005 when Ohio experienced a job growth boom, many Ohio job seekers are motivated enough to add more work hours to their demanding work week by working at home; either as some form of internet marketer, or free-lance consultant.

An internet business has been the most popular micro-career to grow simply because there is usually a lack of ?conflict of interest? that would be found if you were consulting in the same field you maintained your current job. For example , you would have a conflict of interest if you were a corporate employed civil engineer and you decided to launch an engineering consultancy on the side that offered lower rates than your present employer when biding on public projects?sure there is a conflict of interest and your employer may sue or terminate your employment. Whereas if you had an online site selling engineering manuals, books and software you might fare much better legally and financially since you are selling globally and not consulting locally.

Let?s talk about money motivations. If you are motivated to make six figures your first year you might be on the path for failure. My personal example, I only made a few hundred dollars the first six moths after I had tweaked my advertising campaign for my first affiliate site. Then a year later I was making $1200 a month off the site which to me was a fortune, considering that I already had 4 other sites only making a few hundred bucks a month. Your reality is until you have mastered marketing for your niche product or service you will not make any significant money for up to a year. There are some successful marketers I know that within two months are making hundred of dollars a day from just one website. There isn?t a cookie-cutter formula for advertising success and driving eager to buy website visitors to your website or blog.

We will talk about marketing in my future articles. Today , I want to focus on your motivations, and one aspect is your expectation for quick profits which has motivated you to enter the internet realm must be put in-check. I want you to be motivated to make a better website than your competitors, provide better content, a better sales pitch and price closing offer than your competitors, and I want you to connect with ready buyers more effectively than your competitors. If you can do these things repeatedly, especially the creation of better website content you have won half the battle. Lower your expectations BUT do not lower your motivation to learn, improve and eventually make money.

Do not quit your day job once you get your first wave of sales or big commission check. My first Google Adsense check paid off my rent, after that I was so thoroughly convinced that the next month?s check would be three times as much simply because my website made it to the second page in 2 different the search engine results for my chosen key words, so I went out and bought new clothes, CD?s with half of next months rent money and a wide screen television and a Bose theater surround-sound system on Lay-away. ..boy was I wrong ,the very next Google check was enough for just a six pack of beer and a Dominos pizza ( actually I got two pizzas for the price of one).

Huh?!? Lesson here my friends; don?t quit your day job, lower your expectations of instant wealth and stay motivated on creating a content rich site that is updated often and presents a better offer than your competitors. In my next article I am going to talk about creating content; from what you know and from what you research. All the search engines are fixated to fresh and relevant content. Your blog or affiliate websites will survive on fresh content, quality one-way backlinks and visitors who return to your site to be informed or make a purchase. Please stay motivated and keep your expectations in-check, and eventually you will achieve the marketing and business decision skills to be a full time internet entrepreneur. Be Motivated to learn and then your correctly place motivation will allow you to EARN.

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5 Great Tips To Handle Stress

Sep 12

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

Stress has always been a part of our lives. In this hectic time, people lead an increasingly stressful life. Experts state that a little stress can be good; it keeps you sharp and ready to move forward, and is sometimes vital for achieving optimum performance. However, medical research has determined that prolonged stress is very bad for the body, and can block the body’s natural ability to repair, regenerate and protect itself. Over 90% of disease is caused by stress. Stress is both a physical and psychological response. It can lead to chronic disease, obesity, insomnia, deteriorating relationships, depression, and more.

Stress is such a powerful and harmful force that it is vital that you learn effective stress management techniques to live a successful, happy, and healthy life. We must remember that we will always come across inevitable factors that cause pressure and anxiety on us. What we do not know is that it is not really the problems that are difficult to deal with, but our attitude towards them. So basically, the cause of stress is your attitude toward these things. What, then, is an effective way to deal with stressors?

Below are 5 great tips to handle stress.

1. Identify what makes you stressful and uneasy. Making a list of your stressful experiences is useful. Immediately deal with the issues that you can change, for instance waking up earlier for work in the morning, not leaving things till the last minute, and delegating tasks in case you are taking responsibility for everything. Forget about the issues that you cannot influence like being stuck in a traffic jam or not getting into the elevator because there is no room for you.

2. Calm down. A few minutes break would do you good. Wash your face, breath slowly and deeply, and notice if there is tension in any part of your body and release it. You can also listen to relaxing music, or call a friend. Releasing your inner feelings to a friend is healthy option.

3. It will pass and it will be over before you know it. Remind yourself that the stressful event will end sooner or later can make you see the positive sides of things. At the same time, calm down your emotions and think of what is the best thing to do rather than take your energy away from what needs to be done.

4. Know yourself. Ask yourself: What triggers your anxiety? If for example it is your job, then maybe it?s time for you to reconsider whether it would be best to find a less stressful job. You can also make your job more tolerable by allowing yourself to get that needed vacation or leave.

5. Learn to use your relaxation response. Just as we all have within us the stress response, we also have an opposite response, which is the relaxation response. A person should elicit that on a regular basis. The relaxation response involves two steps. Repetition, the repetition can be a word, a sound, an expression, or a repetitive movement. The second step is to ignore other thoughts that come to your mind while you’re doing the repetition, and come back to the repetition. The technique should be used once or twice a day for about 15 minutes. Sit quietly and choose a suitable repetition, like a prayer, the sound Om, or the word love, or calm. Or you can do a repetitive exercise, for instance yoga, jogging, Reiki. Additional repetitive activities are knitting or handicraft. When you incorporate this into your everyday life, you become calmer and better able to handle the stressors. Practice makes perfect and the more you practice relax your mind, the easier it gets.

The true causes of stress are not the problems or negative experiences that you encounter in your life; but your attitude toward them. So, the trick is to change your attitude and to develop a relaxed state, because you cannot be stressed and relaxed at the same time. It is important to understand that what we focus on, we energize. The more you continue to think about the factors that cause your stress, the more energy you give it. So it is vital to let go and focus on relaxation instead. Consequently, you’re less likely to be upset by a stressor, and thus less likely to have its harmful effect occur. Eventually, it is your choice. You could either continue to react in the same stressful way, or you could choose to improve your life by changing your attitude and becoming relaxed. There?s no other way around it.
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Reduce Your Cholesterol Thru Rigorous Exercise

Jul 31

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

Rigorous exercise reduces blood pressure and improves cholesterol levels.

Today, more than one apple a day for the doctor to his back.

The doc is good Pest on blood pressure and your cholesterol - Apple or not. And who can blame?

According to the American Heart Association, 100 million adults border at high risk of blood cholesterol. In addition, almost one third of the adult population suffers from hypertension. And that number increases every year.

So what do you do? Pop a pill and try not to think? Or maybe you do not even bother to have your blood pressure and cholesterol in check - you do not know, you can not hurt, right?

If you have your blood pressure and cholesterol, in the recent past or not, these conditions of control and deadly - many people do not realize the danger in his own arteries.

What is so severe high blood pressure and cholesterol? Briefly, these conditions, you increase your chances of stroke, renal, cardiac or myocardial infarction. Here’s the Lowdown:

Blood pressure is in double digits. The first describes your systolic blood pressure. This is the impression, if your heart is to press the blood. The second is your diastolic blood pressure. This is the pressure between heartbeats, when the heart fills with blood.

Ideal for blood pressure is 120/80 or less. Blood pressure between 120/80 and 140/90 is Prehypertensive - meaning that your blood pressure is above normal. If your blood pressure 140/90 or more, then officially hypertension.

Cholesterol is also on two points - high - density lipoprotein (HDL) and Low - density lipoprotein (LDL). The distinction between the HDL and LDL is very important - provides LDL-cholesterol in your body, while HDL-cholesterol in the blood. In other words, the HDL is good cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol is bad.

If it is extra cholesterol in your blood line your arteries, so it is too narrow. These deposits can block an artery in the heart - what a heart attack, or block an artery, the flow to your brain - which in a stroke.

Ideally, for cholesterol, is a number less than 200th Between 200 and 239, you will be like on the borderline of high cholesterol, and 240 or more from you in a danger zone is located.

Exercise actually reduce your blood pressure and my cholesterol? It is safe - as follows:

Weak heart muscles pump blood with little effort. With the exercise you strengthen the heart and muscles to pump more blood with less effort. Over the heart is less pressure on your arteries.

Exercise increases HDL certain people - ie a decrease in your risk of heart disease. Other risk factors for heart disease such as weight, diabetes and hypertension show with the steady improvement of movement.

We have quite honest for a moment. Of course, you can drug, but you must solve this problem, not just keep it.

If the exercise is not part of your life, you’ll be surprised how they improve your health if you start. I am sure that your doctor may be many success stories, people like you, who have dramatically improved their blood pressure and cholesterol in the movement.

Health. Is not that what we call in the new year?

Exercise is the answer.

The benefits of a coherent and ambitious program are many - Did you know that exercise is your sleep?

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Get Your Closets Organized In 3 Easy Steps

Jul 22

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

Imagine, you open your closet doors and all of your items are displayed neatly on shelves and hangers. You can see everything and simply select the items you want. This article contains three easy steps to help you get the closets of your dreams!

Step 1: Purge. Pull out everything you don?t love or find useful. In your wardrobe closet, if you are having a hard time figuring out what you love, flip your hangers around so that they are hanging on the rod backwards. As you wear each piece of clothing put it back with the hanger hanging correctly on the rod. At the end of a year you will know exactly what you have not worn because the hangers of those items will still be backwards. If you have not worn it in a year, you don?t love it or find it useful.

What to do with the clothes and items you have purged:

Have a Clothing Swap — Invite your friends to clean out their closets. You could forward them this article to help them get started. Set a date and time for every one to bring over their unwanted clothing and accessories and a dish to pass and/or beverage. You could also expand this swap party to include home furnishings, candles, beauty products or kitchen gadgets. Create the feeling of a ?store? in your living room featuring everyone’s items. Mingle, eat and shop - for FREE! You will get some new fun pieces to add to your wardrobe, get rid of all of your unwanted items that are cluttering up your closest and have a fun free party with your friends. Donate all of the left over items to charity.

Consign ? How about making some extra money? Some consignment stores will accept all seasons of clothing all year around which makes it easy to consign. A select few consignment stores pay upfront for clothing, although, those types of consignment stores are generally hard to find. One nation wide store that pays up front is Plato Closets. However, they only accept casual trendy clothing. I recommend that you first take your items to a consignment store. Any items the store does not take use for your Clothing Swap Party.

Consignment stores typically sell clothing on the same season schedule as regular retail stores. At the end of each retail season they will donate the items that did not sell for you and pay you a commission on your items that did sell. But you are usually in charge of knowing when a retail season ends and collecting your payment. Most stores do not automatically mail you a check. To make it easy, just put a note in your calendar on each of your deadline dates to call them so that you can pick up your check.

Step 2: Install a Closet System ? Most closets need more than a basic rod and pole. Installing a built in closet system of adjustable rods, shelves, drawers, hooks and accessories will usually double or even triples the amount of use-able space in your closet. Plus it makes it much easier to see and find your items. There are many great options available from inexpensive do-it-yourself systems to having a Professional Organizer / Closet Designer out to your home to design a system for you and have it built and installed for you. Closet systems range in price dramatically but many basic but effective systems are surprisingly inexpensive. A new well-designed closet system will make a big impact on your life.

Installing a Closet System is easy and will:
? Make your life easier by saving you time and money
? Double or even triple your closet space
? Make your home tidier because it?s easier to put things away
? Add value to your home

Step 3: This is the most fun step! Purchase matching hangers for your wardrobe and coat closets. They will give your closet a clean uniform look and will save space.

The best hangers to get are the sleek thin velvety soft hangers, usually known as Huggables. They come in a variety of colors. Your clothing “sticks” to the velvet so even tank tops and silky shirts won’t fall off the hanger. They have a thin space saving design and the best part is they prevent “shoulder bumps”. You can even hang sweaters and lightweight knit shirts on them.

In your non-wardrobe closets clear shoebox bins work well. Sort all of your miscellaneous items into categories (when there are more than one of the same type of item), such as, shoe shine supplies, first aid supplies, nail polishes, travel sized products and so on. Separate items into individual bins and label the fronts of the bins. This makes it easy to find what you need and put things away. You can label your bins by just using blank white labels from any office supply store and a permanent marker or with a label maker. Label makers make great household tools.

You could start by organizing one closet in your home every week or even every month. Before long, all of your closets will be perfectly organized!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Heidi DeCoux is the publisher of the Life Made Simple E-zine and is a speaker, author, and Professional Organizer in Minneapolis specializing in home organization and home office filing system. Heidi energizes her readers? lives by simplifying their homes and schedules. For more info, free home organization tips, and to receive her FREE e-Solutions Kit, Finally Revealed: The Fast & Easy Way to Get Organized and Stay Organized Forever, visit www.HeidiDeCoux.com and discover how to find what you want fast, end the frustration of endless searching, and have more fun!

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How Having An Organized Home And Life Positively Impacts Our Planet & Ourselves

Jul 21

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

Most people would agree that being organized gives you a sense of calm and more time to spend doing the things you love with the people you love. But did you know that being organized positively impacts the planet? As a result of being disorganized in certain areas, we consume more than necessary. For example:

? Purchasing a new plastic bottle of mustard while there are one or two half-full bottles hidden in the refrigerator.
? Purchasing new batteries because looking for them in ?junk? drawers is a daunting task.
? Purchasing clothing (perhaps necklaces, neckties, or belts) while there are similar garments hidden in your closet, which you have forgotten about.

The small things add up. Purchasing duplicate small items such as plastic containers of consumables may seem trite, however, not all plastics are recycled and the ones that are, typically are made into non-recyclable products such as textiles. Also, recycling plastic is very expensive in terms of energy-use and capital investment.

On a larger scale, consider that in the last 30 years the size of an average home in America has doubled while the number of people in the average household in America has decreased by half. We are collecting and consuming more and more and require more and more space. Furthermore, according to the Marine Sanitary Service, the US population comprises 5% of the world?s population but generates 30% of the world?s garbage. And, as it turns out, while recycling and reusing is certainly beneficial, consuming less has a larger impact1.

When organized, we can live more comfortably using less space. Consider the amount of utilities, land, and items consumed by a 6,000 ft2 home compared to that of a 1,500 ft2 condominium. If you choose to live in a smaller space, being organized makes it possible to live comfortably.

Living in a smaller home is not for everyone however, having an organized home (regardless of the size) and life helps reduce unnecessary consumption.

How much less driving could each of us do if we were organized about our schedules and errands? How often do we make extra trips to the grocery store for the item or two that we forgot? How often could we carpool to different events if we planned ahead?

In addition to having a positive impact on our planet, being organized gives you the freedom and time to pursue areas of life that give you happiness. An average person spends 55.2 minutes everyday looking for things2. That’s two weeks each year! Is there anything else you would rather spend your time doing?

Over the next week, consider what you are throwing away, what you are purchasing and what you are spending your time looking for. You may find that by simply better organizing certain areas of your home and life you and your family consume less, which will have a positive impact on our planet and on you.

Heidi DeCoux is the publisher of the Life Made Simple E-zine and is a speaker, author, and Professional Organizer in Minneapolis specializing in home organization and home office filing system. Heidi energizes her readers? lives by simplifying their homes and schedules. For more info, free home organization tips, and to receive her FREE e-Solutions Kit, Finally Revealed: The Fast & Easy Way to Get Organized and Stay Organized Forever, visit www.HeidiDeCoux.com and discover how to find what you want fast, end the frustration of endless searching, and have more fun!

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7 Super Simple Ways To Save Money

Jul 21

Posted by trafficblog in self help and motivational

#1 — Go out for dessert instead of dinner. Dinners out can get expensive but it’s not fun to stay in every night. Eat dinner at home and go out for dessert. To save time and reduce the temptation to go out to eat, make up large batches of food and freeze it in individual serving containers. This way you can heat up a homemade gourmet meal in minutes then go out for a yummy dessert after wards.

#2 — Borrow instead of Buy. Need a special tool for a project or maybe a hedge trimmer or tent. Go to NeighBorrow.com to find someone near you that will happily lend you theirs, free of charge.

#3 — Turn down (or up, depending on the season and climate you live in) your thermostat before you leave your house. Shut the vents off in rooms that you do not use during the day, such as, bedrooms or family room and keep the doors closed. No sense in heating or cooling rooms that are not being used.

#4 — Have a Clothing Swap with friends. Invite your friends to clean out their closets, bring over their unwanted clothing and accessories along with a dish to pass. Lay out everyone’s clothes. Eat, mingle and shop - for FREE! You’ll probably leave with at least a couple of new fun pieces to add to your wardrobe, and you’ll have a fun and free night out. Simply donate all of the left over items to charity.

#5 — Unplug items you are not using. Even if they are off they are still pulling current. This cost savings will add up to more than you think. If you don’t want to continually be unplugging items, invest in a Smart Strip (different than a standard power strip). It does not allow your items to pull electric current when off. You will probably cut your electric bill in half. For more info on Smart Strips go to clearsimpleliving.com/page/smartbuys.

#6 — Wash all your clothes in cold water. It’s better for your clothes, especially darks, and generally they come out just as clean. Just use a little pre-spot if needed. Also, stop running your water continuously when brushing your teeth or washing dishes.

#7 — Consider buying gently used versus new, check Craigslist.org, Ebay.com or HandMeDowns.com before paying retail. You can save a bundle!

Added bonus: It’s great for our environment when we re-distribute items instead of tossing things out and re-manufacturing new things.

Cheers to saving our planet and saving money!

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Heidi DeCoux is the publisher of the Life Made Simple E-zine and is a speaker, author, and a Professional Organizer in Minneapolis specializing in Home Organization. Heidi energizes her readers? lives by simplifying their homes and schedules. For more info, free Home Organization Tips, and to receive her FREE e-Solutions Kit, Finally Revealed: The Fast & Easy Way to Get Organized and Stay Organized Forever, visit www.HeidiDeCoux.com and discover how to find what you want fast, end the frustration of endless searching, and have more fun!

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Will Conversational Hypnosis Truly Produce Results In The Real World?

Jul 12

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Covert or conversational hypnosis is expression coined to produce a trance by use of hidden embedded commands in your speech. While some view it as unethical it is used everyday by most everyone in one form or another without them ever knowing it.

Some jobs will give you unique training in conversational hypnosis, such as a sales job. Armed with this knowledge you will most certainly have a higher sales rate compared to the people who is not aware of covert hypnosis.

In a sales job each potential customer will have a motive. This may me be something they want rather than something they actually need. Like they may want to live in a very large house, although they may live alone and a smaller house would be fine for them.

Part of conversational hypnosis training will illustrate to you how to get this type of information out of someone so you can hit their hot spots to give them just what they want. You will become a improved sales person with this type of training. The web is a wonderful place for hypnosis training to get you started.

Although covert hypnosis is a great selling tool, it can also be used for many things in everyday life. Conversational hypnosis can help you persuade someone or a big group of people to see things just the way you want them to.

How great do you think it would be to get someone else to do things you don’t want to do just because you don’t want to do them? Or, just to get someone to do something just to give pleasure to you?

Can covert hypnosis be used in unethical ways?

Yes, but you have to consider the number one rule of hypnosis is you can’t make someone do something they don’t want to. You are just persuading them with the correct words. Some even call this persuasion hypnosis.

Some people have a natural flair of conversational hypnosis. How will you recognize them?

You can recognize these people as the leader of a party. If someone has the natural gift of conversational hypnosis they will be a manager of others, no matter how large a group of people. I’m sure you can think of some rulers of countries in the past who have had possessed this ability and have used it for bad, or even to the point of evil.

Most people are not born with the natural ability of covert hypnosis. That’s fine, particularly this day in age. There are some great courses accessible to help you learn this skill, especially on the internet. Just be sure to look over the web page offering a course to see if it is right to what you are needing.

Some are for sales, some to assist your dating life, some to help you in your present job such as getting a raise. Most of them dabble with everything in general, which is typically the best so you can learn how it works overall and can customize it yourself to what your needs are.

Hypnosis is usually put in the new age category in something from subliminal messaging to the law of attraction for achieving what you most desire. Using all three is not a bad plan to get you on the fast track to where you want to be.

Wouldn’t it be better to always be the leader in a group or relationship so you will have things your way? With the knowledge of covert hypnosis you will always have the upper hand and as an added bonus you will be able to tell when others are trying to apply conversational hypnosis on you stop them.

These are the benefits covert hypnosis can bring to your each day life.

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The Important Issue Of Self Improvement Advice And Free Tips - Try This.

Jul 11

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I am sure that I am not alone in the fact that I have a large army of demons in my head. These demons are always talking to me and trying to advise me about how to react to different situations. For many years I listened and took their advice, these years were not exactly happy ones and I have now come to realise that these demons are not my friends but are actually my enemy.

I had many issues in my life that had a negative affect on my levels of self-esteem. The demons used these issues to get to me and to play their mind games. For this article, I am going to describe my stuttering demons and how I eventually destroyed them. The advice can be used for whatever type of demon you may have.

At the age of four, I developed a stutter which would continue to affect my speech for the next eighteen years of my life. I was aware of what I could and could not say and was also aware of the social situations in which I was more likely to stutter.

If I was asked a question by for example a friend, I would think of the answer but before I would have a chance to say it, a voice would appear. This voice or what I call my demons would advise me not to say that word and to substitute it for a different word.

If I was invited out to say a party, my demons would advise me not to go, as there would be a lot of people there that I did not know. They would remind me that I found it difficult talking to people which I did not know.

At one stage in my life, I decided that I wanted a career change as I was not happy in the role that I was in. My demons reminded me, that to find alternative employment meant going through the whole interview process again. They continued that I had always struggled to talk fluently at interviews, due to the pressure factor.

I would be able to speak quite well when I was drunk and this is when I would have the confidence to talk to the ladies. On several occasions a woman has given me their phone number and I would tell them that I would call them to arrange a night out. The next day though, when sober, the demons would remind me that making a phone call is what I find the hardest form of speech task and to simply not bother.

As previously stated, I used to listen to these demons and suffice it to say I did not go on my first date until I was eighteen years of age.

Things had to and were about to change. After reading many self-help books, I realised what I had been doing wrong. I should not be listening to these demons, in fact what I need to do is the opposite of what they tell me. Steve don’t go to that party, OK then I will. Steve don’t phone that lady up, OK I will, etc.

I am not trying to say that this is easy to do. I am happy to say that I have eradicated my speech demons and am now fluent, however I do still have demons in other areas of my life. There are not nearly as many as there have been in the past and I am slowly hopefully killing them all.

I treat it like a war. There are many battles and I have to say that I do not win them all. I talk to my demons all the time and especially when they win one of these type battles. I tell them that they may have won this particular battle but that I will win the overall war.

You may possibly think that I am a bit of a freak after reading this article. I frankly do not care, I am happier now than I have ever been. Good luck in your quest to improve your own life. Read more other articles about organic shampoo and curly hair cuts.

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Tips And Tricks About Life Is A Gift, Open And Enjoy It - Useful Article.

Jul 11

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There is a bottle of perfume sitting on my dresser that I was given when I was ten years old! As you can tell I have pack rat tendencies! For me that pattern started as a young child. I could never bear to throw things away. There was more to it than not wanting to throw things away. I loved the feeling I had when I would receive something new, and would not want to spoil it by using it unless it was for something special. I would want to save it for a special occasion. A new dress would sit in the closet, until a special event to wear it. Perfume would sit on my dresser, not to be used for everyday, but for a special ?something?. This was a pattern in my life for many years.

Recently though I?ve realized that this is not the best perspective to live life. I don?t want to be like that woman on the Titanic, who when was being lowered into the lifeboat said??If I?d known this was going to happen I would have had that Chocolate Mousse dessert.? This reflects a view of life that speaks a lie. It is a false belief that if I enjoy something now, I won?t be able to look forward to anything good like that in the future. This belief steals the joy from living in the present, and also lies to me about what the future might hold. Often it takes sad or traumatic situation to cause a person to stop and take stock their life?s perspective and lifestyle. For example, let me tell you how it happened for Ruth.

One day, out of the blue, Ruth got one of those devastating ?phone calls? that we all dread receiving. Her sister Jane had passed away unexpectedly. Ruth went over to the home to help her brother in law with the sad task of preparation for the funeral. They were in the bedroom deciding on clothes Jane would wear as she was laid to rest. He pulled out of the drawer some beautiful lingerie wrapped in tissue. Ruth gasped as she saw the astronomical cost on the price tag. ?Jane bought this in Paris 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. I guess this is it.? he said. It was exquisitely, handmade in silk, with a delicate cobweb of lace .As he slammed the drawer shut he said something that changed Ruth?s life for ever. ?Don?t ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day you?re alive is a special occasion!

After the funeral, Ruth began to evaluate her life from a different perspective. She began to see life as something to be enjoyed not endured. Ruth started to make changes, although small at first, for Ruth they had great significance. She sat in the garden more and didn?t worry about the weeds. She wore expensive perfume on ordinary days, after all co workers and cashiers have noses that function just as well as party goers! She lit that candle that had been sitting as a centre piece on the dining room table collecting dust. She got that cracked window fixed, that she?d been meaning to do for years. She invited those friends round for dinner that she?d seen at the last sixteen weddings, and said we must get together.

Ruth determined that she would live each day as if it was her last. Now every morning when Ruth opens her eyes, she tells herself that this day is special. Every day, every breath, every minute of her life is truly a gift from God.
Your life perspective changes when you start living each day as if it was your last. You start to look at all the things that you want to accomplish in life and actually get started!! You stop watching everyone else doing it. Have the courage to start thinking ?It?s my turn now? and do what is in your heart.
Grandma Moses began a painting career at age seventy six. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969 at age seventy one.
I recently met a lady in her eighties who, in the last two years, had been white-water rafting, and hiking in the Himalayas. She was excitedly planning her next trip!
Don?t wait years, or until something traumatic happens to get your attention. Start now to reflect on your life?s perspective and begin living without regrets.

I love this quote by Peter Sage, speaker and entrepreneur :

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow - What a Ride!” Read more other articles about plus size wedding gowns and wedding suits.

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