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- Flushing Out Frauds - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
"... ALWAYS carry out your own due diligence! Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Regular readers will recognize the above language. It comes from the "Caveat Emptor" section which appears towards the end of each issue of A Home-Based Business ...
Views: 787 - Choosing The Right Home Business For YOU - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Pay any attention at all to your email inbox and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only way to run a business from home is on the Internet. Sure, many people are running spectacularly successful Internet-based home businesses. Many, many more are doing so even more ...
Views: 766 - Personal discipline and the Home-Based Business Owner - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Allow me to let you in on a little secret you're probably already wise to anyway. As often as not, the inspiration for article topics comes from struggles with my own personal demons. Writing about them is my way of giving myself a good talking to (a.k.a. kick in the rear ...
Views: 675 - Health Insurance for the Self-Employed - Protecting Your Business's Greatest Asset - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
"I've been considering quitting my full-time job and getting a part-time job that would pay the bills [so I can start a home business] ... The one biggie my full-time job provides me now is health insurance. If I was to get a part-time job, I'd probably have to pay for my ...
Views: 808 - Ezine Publishing As A Business - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
If you have your own website, or are planning to create one soon, in the course of your research you will have read about the importance of publishing an ezine (electronic newsletter) as a way of generating traffic to your site.
-- Note to purists: yes I DO understand ...
Views: 1201 - Rites of Passage - by "I'm not sure what exactly my point in writing this is going to be other than to voice my frustration to someone who has been there, and would understand.
"Like many, I've been considering starting up some form of a home business. Or at least some way to boost the income. So over the past few ...
Views: 808 - The Money Value of Time - by You have, no doubt, heard the phrase "the time value of money". It means that a dollar in your hand today is worth more than a dollar in your hand a year from now. Why? Because of what you can do with that dollar over the next year. You can invest that dollar in an interest bearing account and ...
Views: 641 - The 10 Most Popular Myths About Running A Home-Based Business Online - by Several weeks ago I finally took the plunge into the world of network marketing. I had been running an online business for almost three years by then but knew that I would have to make the leap to network marketing at some point since it was such an obvious fit with Internet marketing. And I ...
Views: 995 - Article ... The Best Form Of Free Advertising - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Those of you reading this who run your own online businesses know that the aim of the game is traffic - qualified, targeted traffic - and lots of it.
There are a number of ways to drive qualified traffic to your site - some of it costs you money, some of it costs you ...
Views: 758 - The Truth About Affiliate Programs - by Affiliate programs are a brilliant idea. For the owner of the product, they're a way of recruiting a veritable army of salespeople to promote your product without having to pay them a dime unless and until they generate a sale. For the affiliate, they're a great way of earning extra cash from an ...
Views: 747 - Creating A Corporate Image From Your Spare Bedroom - by Like it or not, there is still a segment of the population who will erroneously conclude that you and your business are less than professional and competent just because you run your business out of your home.
Dumb? Obviously! Narrow-minded? Yes! Wrong? Absolutely! Unfair? No question! Want ...
Views: 1170 - how Do You Go Somewhere You've Never Gone Before - by Ready for analogy city? The problem is, if you want to do something you've never done before, then the steps to that, the milestones, will be unfamiliar. How do you go somewhere you have never gone before? Analogies are useful for explaining something unfamiliar in familiar terms. The most ...
Views: 3050 - DIGESTIVE ENZYMES MY HELP YOU TO FEEL BETTER - by Enzymes are catalysts. They change food to usable form and are produced in the mouth, stomach, pancreas, liver and the intestinal tract. The three categories are: l. Metabolic enzymes - work in blood/organs. 2. Metabolic Digestive Enzymes - work in digestive organs. 3. Food Enzymes, in all raw ...
Views: 946 - Over Fifty and Unemployed - What's Next - by What can you say to a 52 year old, laid-off, director in telecommunications? I never planned my career dreaming this would ever happen to me. Always a top performer, dozen of headhunters calling every week tempting me to a more lucrative job, life was focused on retirement and enjoying the ...
Views: 2922(1 vote) - Psychitric Update: St. John’s Wort as an Antidepressant - by During the past year, the use of extracts of Hypericum perforatum (St. John’s wort) for the treatment of clinical depression has attracted considerable attention in the popular press. Increasingly, physicians are being asked by their patients about this herbal medication: What is it? Does it ...
Views: 3252 - The Blocks to Employees' Productivity - by Many factors, separately and in combination with others, will build walls to block employees’ productivity. Most people intuitively and instinctively want to be productive. It makes sense. They will get more from life and so will their employer. My experience, after eighteen years of speaking ...
Views: 624 - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR CREDIBILITY AND BOOST YOUR CAREER: GET A BOOK PUBLISH - by For years, I've told my clients et. al. that one of the ways to improve their credibility and boost their careers was to get published. It certainly has worked for me. Start with an article or two or three or ten, and at some time go for a book.
Often, here's what folks say to me, "You know, I ...
Views: 772 - Business Writing in Plain English - by American businesses produce over 30 billion original pieces of writing yearly. Much of it is unnecessary, and much of it is poorly written. Everything you write puts both your thinking and your writing skills on display. To make your e-mail messages, memos, letters, reports, or any other ...
Views: 809 - YOU CAN'T MANAGE TIME - by Overloaded with work? Feel you need help with time management? You’re not alone. The push is on today to do Overloaded with work? Feel that you need help with managing your time? You're not alone. The push is on these days to do more, more, more, more. So in frustration, you turn to time ...
Views: 909 - Where art thou my Romeo? - by The idea of "TRUE LOVE" is by nature romantic. Everybody hoped, dreamed, desired and aspired for it to happen in their life. Some have been so lucky to find it earlier in life, others are struggling to keep it, and the rest are still in their relentless quest to find MR. RIGHT.
Our definition ...
Views: 917 - WHY DOES GOD LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE? - by One of the most often-quoted difficulties people encounter when approaching Unification, or even Recognition, is "How can I believe in, or trust, a God who lets bad things happen to good people?" This question is phrased in all sorts of ways appropriate to the evidence-for-doubt that people ...
Views: 2712 - DIVINE GUIDANCE - by In this short essay, we'll stick close to the tradition of Religious Science and if what we say fails to address your own particular experience of divine guidance, bear in mind Jesus' words, "It is done unto you as you believe."
We believe in the essential unity of everything. There is one ...
Views: 1023 - Cause for Alarm!! - by The headline reads: "Other churches have defects, Catholics say." A news report from "The Times News Service." London.
Quote: The Church of England and all other Protestant churches are not "proper" churches because they suffer from "defects", according to the Roman Catholic Church.
In a ...
Views: 1047 - Living Deliberately - by Living deliberately requires courage and wisdom. These equate to power. Courage is the ability to perceive what is. Wisdom is the ability to foresee the consequences of an action. Combine them and you have power. Power is the ability to remain present, aware and to shape reality.
All beings ...
Views: 2565 - Increasing Awareness - by The ability to shift consciousness has numerous benefits and can be taught. Our learning is integrated when we can shift our own consciousness. We achieve a level of self mastery ?recovery of our own attention. These are the tools taught on the avatar course. Some students integrate the tools ...
Views: 7570 - Think about thoughts... - by Think about thoughts.. meditation allows you to notice your thoughts and just let them go by.. they have little significance to the meditator.. there seem to be different types of thoughts.. ranging from crystal clear ideas (knowing) to plain dull thinking (repetitive ? been there, done that) to ...
Views: 1066 - The Avatar?Course - by The Avatar course, was written down by Harry Palmer, an educational psychologist, in 1986. He says it was created out of ‘perceived need' and that he wanted to give people tools to better handle the difficulties of life. The tools and techniques delivered in the course, he says, were IN ...
Views: 1675 - Seperated giving the vibe??? - by HI,Im recently seperated getting divorce for sure and I am trying to date. I am above average looks and confident, have money and really love to treat ladies good. Now I keep blowing it because of this stupid GAME we need to play. I was the master before I got married now Im a disaster. In NJ ...
Views: 803 - Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa - by From the Prologue of : Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa. by Gail Evans.
So ........ you have arrived in this Africa, in this love of mine my friend. Welcome home. Oh? You do not think that this is your home? Did you say that you are just a traveller here? Ummm, I ...
Views: 879 - Get This Wacky New Age Title Now!! - by So What's it all about??: Miriam goes on a spiritual quest where the time threads have been pulled out of the fabric of her days and she discovers the slip stream and the meaning of life. Join her on this journey through time, through space and through South Africa in the months leading up to ...
Views: 1021 - THE LAZY WAY TO TREAT - by We treat for "happiness and love". Sure, we add some "things" now and then, but mostly we treat for happiness and love. And since we've been doing that, we've never had a day go by without being thankful for it when we go to bed at night, nor wake in the morning without gratitude for another ...
Views: 1010 - Anatomy of Anger/Anxiety/Depression - by Anger: A label we attach to a series of symptoms that seem to be coming from either an internal mechanism (created in the past) or as a reaction to a perceived violation (seems to be occurring in the present moment) or a projection of fear(an imagined or anticipated violation expected to ...
Views: 7341 - Secrets of the Dating Gods - by I try and observe and learn from people who are very successful with the opposite sex. Recently, I had the privilege to witness one of these rare beings in action. He walked into a room walked straight toward the most attractive girl there and started talking to her. Unfortunately I couldn't ...
Views: 776 - Introduction to Self Help - by Above all, what we as Americans prize are magic elixirs: simple solutions, closed and totalizing systems of explanation, grand schemes at once easy to understand, applicable to everything and everyone, and which thereby reduce the heart-stopping complexity of the world to a set of nostrums or ...
Views: 877 - HANDLING REJECTION: The Secret to Sales Success - by Among the many sales people I've helped as a psychologist over the years, handling rejection by customers is often a major problem. Typically, they tell me how the motivational books and tapes they've read don't seem to work. As one man said recently," they always exhort you to be positive and ...
Views: 2970 - 3 Steps To True Happiness - by Let’s face it. We all want to be happy. And we all realize, sooner or later, that outer success does not produce lasting happiness. So what does? Loving ourselves and loving others. In fact, we can only love others authentically when we are loving ourselves. So why is it that some people ...
Views: 894 - What is Spiritual Parenting? - by Life is a sacred and spiritual journey, we are sacred and spiritual beings and we can choose to embrace the perspective of parenting from the sacred place of our spirituality - the heart.
Spiritual parenting is about parenting with a compassionate and giving heart.
As parents, family, ...
Views: 1006 - An Exponential Idea In Giving - by Here's an exponential idea for our time. What if, each time someone did a good deed for someone else, the good deed was paid back by paying it forward to three additional people? In turn, each day, each person, having received a good deed, did a good deed for three more people.
According to ...
Views: 1369 - Unleash the International Potential of Booklets - by Does writing a booklet make you an 'authorlette' ? Yes, it does. That is one of several key reasons to write an informational tips booklet - author status as an expert on your topic. It takes much less time, money, and stress to write a booklet than writing a full-length book, and can bring as ...
Views: 706 - Tips Booklets - 15 Key Questions About Writing Your Own - by Everyone has something they want the world to know about and a tips booklet is a great way to do that. More than 500,000 copies in three languages of a tips booklet called '110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life' have been sold, all without spending a penny on advertising.
Here are some ...
Views: 667 - Unleash the Potential of Booklets to Market Your Business - by Does writing a booklet make you an 'authorlette' ? It sure does. That is one of several key reasons to write an informational tips booklet - author status as an expert on your topic. It takes much less time, money, and stress to write a booklet than writing a full-length book, and can bring as ...
Views: 705 - Dream Stealers - by Who are the dream stealers? Dream stealers are the people who make you believe that you'll never reach your dreams. They're the people that encourage you to play it safe: to get a nice safe job, to marry the first nice person you meet, to vacation in Texas instead of Africa. Does this sound a ...
Views: 12445 - Dealing With The Truth - by One day I received an email from two members of my email list saying they didn't feel comfortable in sharing their opinions with the group because:
1) the posts seemed to be judgemental and angry rants.
2) members are suppose to be "happily unmarried" but many appear to be angry about their ...
Views: 1047 - The Angel Called "YOU" - by Michelangelo looked down at the boy and smiled. "Why," he said kindly, "I'm going to let the angel out."
Not only am I deeply impressed by the artist's perception that the angel already resided in the marble, but I also feel that by chipping away at our own rough edges, the angel within us ...
Views: 616 - Knock, knock ... - by My mother had a little throw-away line she would add to any statement that had to do with the future - holidays, babies on the way, money expected - that kind of thing. She'd say, "If it's meant to be." My dear mother died aged only 40, so perhaps she felt something the rest of us did not.
As ...
Views: 807 - Imagine a Perfect America - by Do you believe that you create your own reality? Do you know that the world around you, is YOUR reality?
Many people are feeling, in America and around the world, that what happened on September 11,2001 at the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, was outside of the control of their own ...
Views: 1165 - Premenstrual tension - by This feature will deal with the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone, how they affect the monthly cycle and mood, how imbalances can occur resulting in premenstrual tension or syndrome (PMT or PMS), and how essential oils and other natural products can help.
To most people, the term ...
Views: 3202 - Putting A Priority On Your Time - by Where does all the time go? Long hours. Late nights. Snatched lunches. Some people boast about their excessive work schedule as if it’s a badge of honor: “I start work at 7:00 a.m. and work right though until 8:00 p.m.” Some of their Herculean claims border on the absurd. “Last night I went ...
Views: 786 - What are panic attacks good for? - by There is much written about anxiety and panic attacks. Why? - because they are an essential part of being human. Panic attacks and anxiety are abilites that have kept us safe for millions of years, allowed us to survive, evolve and succeed as a species. When the world was a dangerous place, ...
Views: 6223 - Let stress work for you - Learn to worry well and benefit from stress - by Stress is a health risk. It can raise your blood pressure, cause you to suffer sleepless nights and affect your digestion, your immunity ?even your sex life. But stress isn’t all bad –the ability to stress, to worry about possible dangers and prepare for them, has been a crucial factor in the ...
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