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2012-12-08T17:22:00.001-08:00

Message of Being a Winner and a Human Being

Be careful who you listen to, and take advice from when it comes to making money in your business.

Recently, I read a critical review of Empower Network as a business model.

(so this person can save face, I'll leave their name out of it)

The review was extremely well written as a review, criticizing our marketing training, skewed entirely towards the negative. To be
exact, it had around 3,000 words, was 2 pages long, and had one positive thingt to say about us.

In the comments, the author was responding to every single comment, with responses like "if only people knew the better way... the real online business model... they would never fall for this sort of thing..."

Here's the thing - the site actually LOOKED like someone who makes money.

(By the way, it's rare for people who ACTUALLY make money to directly spend a lot of time criticizing other businesses)

It had good design, decent lead capture functions, and was ranked in the top 12,000 most trafficked blogs online.

It SEEMED like the person was an expert at making money online through blogging... and I even thought they must.

After all, back my 3rd month online - I was making $30,000 a month selling stuff that was impossible to sell, that payed from 20-40% commissions - with a shitty design, a slow loading site, database issues, and working out of a tiny spare room in my parents house in Alaska.

So this site - the top 12,000 online, beautiful design, a list of 19,000 subscribers - this person is an EXPERT at running a business online, right?

Well, I thought so, which is why I was perplexed by the review... until I poked around on the site for 5 minutes and found... (get this) this person ACTUALLY reports how much money they make.

I saw that, and immediately clicked on the most recent report, from October of 2012... I figured - man, this lady must be banking!!!

LOL!

Net income for the month of October? LESS than $700.

Less than $700!

When I had 1,000 people on my list, selling affiliate products, blogging from a shitty design, my income was $30,000 a month - and here is a person, with 20,000 subscribers - blogging for 3 years, who isn't making an AVERAGE American income, criticizing our training!

LMAO!

Seriously?!?!?!?!???? Your going to criticize a business model that has done $20.4 million in sales in 12 months blogging - when you're a blogger that makes LESS than $700 a month with a list that's 19 times the size of my list when I was making $30,000 a month? YOU are going to criticize ME?

"Everyone, save the people from that aweful Empower Network, where people make money blogging... Do it my way!!! It's better! After all, they had way over 500 people last month make more than me, 50 employees who make more than me... ALL of whom know less technical skills... and work less hard at this... but - my way is better! Listen to me! Give me attention, too! I'm an expert... and I can teach you how to be a guru, too... a guru who ALMOST is making $700 a month after my third year... Follow me, and maybe you'll make $700 in 3 years, too!"

How about the unethical practice of criticizing a business teaching people to make money online, and pretending you're an expert, when you can't even make an AVERAGE American income? Last month - we had nearly 700 people make more money than you, mystery blogger.

So here's my advice:

Take your criticism on how we run our business, roll it into a ball, and shove it up your ass. Keep being broke.

"Nobody ever built a statue to a critic." -unknown

Again, this affirmed several things that I've known, and taught for years:

1. People who make money don't directly attack each other generally. It's a waste of our time. (notice how I left this person's name out - and please, leave it out of the comments if you know who it is - this is not a bad person, they just have some poverty issues.)

2. Critics are generally broke.

3. Technical skills do not make money. Pretty sites don't make money. Good marketing makes money.

4. What we give people at Empower Network is extraordinary, in both value, community, our products, and our ability to make money blogging, and marketing. There isn't really anything like what we do online.

5. It's best to ignore the complete, absolute, total losers out there, who spend hours, weeks, and days being negative, criticizing others, and pretend that they're being 'fair' and 'unbiased'

Why? It's because of the truth:

There is no such thing as an 'unbiased' opinion. All perceptions in life are controlled by our beliefs, focus, and perception - when we have a belief - it is by definition biased.

6. It's important to realize, if you're going to be biased, be biased and rich - control your attention, and focus on people who can ACTUALLY help you get what you want.

Here's who those people are not:

People who are not making any money, and are spending an enormous amount of time criticizing others to get attention, who can't make any money with all their 'guru hood' and wisdom.... can only help you have what they have - which is..... (drum roll):

A crappy, miserable existence, that they are doing their best to project on to you. Protect your mind. Ignore the wussies.

I think when we first launched, people thought when I made fun of Gurus, it was people like Dillard, Seig, Ray and Fernie, Budd, etc. Not the case - those guys know what they're doing.

I'm slamming the people who think that they are a guru, and that you need to be like them - who don't know what they are doing, don't know how to sell, have never made a lot of money in their life in this business - who lead you astray.

It's time for YOU to get a massive, unbelievable result in your business.

Hit 'like' if you think people making $700 a month have no right in business to criticize the marketing effectiveness of a business that's doing $5 million in sales a month.

Hit 'share' if you think it's important to listen to people who ACTUALLY know how to get what you want.

Love you all.

2012-11-21T09:41:00.002-08:00

EZ Money Method Funnel System – Why The EZMM Creating Quite A Buzz

Another program has graced the internet. So why is the EZ Money Method creating quite a buzz? That’s what I will share with you in this article.

What Is The EZ Money Method?
Mike Hobbs and Adam Whiting, creators of the Daily Income Network, have teamed up again to create this unique product. They are leveraging their knowledge and have joined forces with one of the most successful affiliate programs online today, My PC Backup.
My PC Backup is an established and well respected program that has been around for more than eight years. By partnering with EZ Money Method they are focused on marketing a quality product.
With this product is attached a CPA offer, but not one where they are only interested in getting people signed up through a trial offer.
The terms of this commission structure are that people can take this product for a test drive by downloading the free version. Once they realize how crucial it is that you should back your computer up on a daily basis, most people will upgrade.
This product really makes it very easy and My PC Backup is confident that people will fall in love with their system. Because of that they are willing to pay a little higher commission up front.
The EZ Money Method Marketing System
Included with this product is a marketing system. This system was set up to help everyone who joins learn how to market not only this CPA offer but also two other back end programs as well.
More commissions are generated because of these two back end programs. These programs will benefit anyone in the online industry, especially those who are brand new. If you are already part of either of these programs all that is required is to put your login information in the specified areas.
Proven ways to get in front of your target audience are shared here as well as an opportunity to introduce your network marketing opportunity to your new members who join under you.
Help your new members by building those relationships and this is the best way to sign up new business partners in your primary business.
The EZ Money Method Is Creating Quite A Buzz
The initial cost to join this program is extremely low and the marketing system itself if free. The benefits of this particular system are that you make great commissions all while learning from two very successful online marketers.
Could you use another source of income? This is why the EZ Money Method is creating quite a buzz.
Are you interested in taking a peak at the EZ Money Method? If so, come on by for a test drive and we’ll be happy to explain everything in much more detail.

Network-Referral Marketing and Health-A Recommendation That Redefines "Holistic"

2012-11-18T12:59:00.000-08:00

Many times people feel overloaded with recommendations - alternative therapies, such as chakra balancing, colonics, counseling, electromagnetics, facials, hypnotherapy, massages, seaweed wraps, spas, vacations, etc. - and they throw up their hands, "How can I afford all that?!" Actually this is all part of holistic health, and being able to afford all of this is part of holistic healing. The term holistic includes social balance as well, how we relate to each other in our personal relationship, our family, our community, our society, and our planet. And, the medium of "energy exchange" that we have for all these aspects of our being - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social - is money. So true holistic well-being must also include financial health.

The Story Begins and Ends with Minerals

"From dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." (Genesis 3:19) The Hebrew word ahfar has been translated as: dust. The real meaning is:minerals!

During my years as a health enthusiast, one thing has become crystal clear. Even if we eat organic foods, we may still be mineral starved, because our soils are lacking many trace elements.

On average 40-60% of traditional supplements contain additional ingredients that possess no nutritive value. The majority of makers of pills, tablets or capsules have standard-sized molds for their supplements - meaning that after the small amount of "nutrient" is added, non-nutritive materials, called excipients, are then added to make up the difference. To have a certain sized tablet, other things beside the nutrients must be added to fill up the space. What is added may be surprising. These excipients act as insoluble binders, lubricants, colorants, preservatives and flavoring agents. Their purposes include filling up space in the mold, helping the machinery run better, or aiding in the preservation of the tablet. These fillers may help the machines run smoothly and help keep water out of the products, but do not usually benefit human cells and tissues. Many of these excipients interfere with digestion because they are not water-soluble. These substances bind and coat nutrients, making them virtually insoluble in water, and actually interfere with the normal digestive process. Furthermore, recent studies have shown these substances are used so commonly in so many products, people are actually developing allergies (food intolerances) to them and may not even be aware of it. Even the plastic molds used for traditional tablet manufacturing must be sprayed with a releasing agent - another form of wax or grease that allows the pill to "drop" out of the mold!

As an example, look at the ingredients of the best-selling calcium supplement on the market: 1) Calcium carbonate is nothing more than blackboard chalk or crushed limestone. It is insoluble in water and unusable by the body. This may well contribute to bone spurs, calcification of joints, kidney stones, hardening of the arteries and even gallstones! 2) Maltodextrin is a type of sugar that gets sticky when wet and helps glue the product together. On average 50% of tablets aren't even nutrients. They are filled with glues like providone or some type of sugar, as well as flow agents like magnesium stearate or calcium stearate to help the powders run smoothly through the machine. 3) Cellulose is a common non-nutrient filler to help take up space. The majority of pill, tablet and capsule manufacturers have standardized molds for their supplements with specific size requirements, hence the need for fillers. 4) Soy Polysaccharides are another sticky substance to help hold it all together. 5) Hydroxymethyl propyl cellulose is a waxy coating agent to help keep water out. Similar substances like magnesium stearate, calcium stearate, and stearic acid, are all wax-like substances that coat nutrients, making them virtually insoluble in water. Obviously, these substances interfere with the normal digestive processes, making it nearly impossible for the body to use. 6) Corn starch is another filler. Fillers are excipients, which act as insoluble binders, lubricants, colorants, preservatives and flavoring agents. The majority of these fillers are derived from sugars, starches, yeasts or powders of which the consumer is unaware. 7) Polyethylene glycol is a compound that is related to antifreeze. It is a waxy substance used extensively in the cosmetic and toiletry industry. It is also used to stabilize wood to prevent cracking or shrinking. If this is TMI or otherwise intimidating, indeed bordering on insanity, there is an answer that may be contrary to popular opinion.

Size Does Matter...Smaller is Better

Each tablet taken or colloidal mineral consumed has nutrients that are crushed and bound to other substances. One of the biggest challenges for nutrients to be used by the body is their particle size. Nutrients in the body must be in the appropriate size to enter the tissues and, more importantly, the cells. Minerals in their recognizable and most usable ionic form are angstrom-sized particles. If particle sizes are too large, they can circulate throughout the body and be deposited in the soft tissues, contributing to such things as cardiovascular disease and bone spurs. Research indicates the particle size in supplements on the market may be prohibiting consumers from receiving positive benefits. Crushed up minerals, minerals bound to other substances and bound up by fillers are much too large for the body to use without significant modification. Unfortunately, supplements evaluated containing oyster shell, dolomite, calcium carbonate, limestone, colloidal, and sea-bed minerals are all of questionable size when it comes to the body assimilating these large particles. Nutrients must be "recognized" by the body for proper absorption and use. For most minerals, this recognition process involves the mineral possessing an electrical charge, or being "ionic." This ionic state is a physical characteristic of the mineral that helps the body recognize it as a nutrient. However, for this process to effectively occur, the mineral must be water-soluble. The single biggest challenge in ionizing tablets, pills, chelates, or colloidal mineral products is the fact their mineral ingredients are many times simply crushed up rock or artificial nutrients. In addition, they may be permanently bound to fillers or binding agents and cannot be ionized by the body due to their insoluble nature. The mystery of nutrition and good supplementation has been solved. Enlightened consumers today realize that 1) water-solubility, 2) an ionic charge, and 3) correct particle size, are the preferred characteristics for nutrient delivery to the cells. While chelates and colloids are measured in microns, Eniva has refined the technology to bring pure elemental minerals to the angstrom size. This has been compared, roughly, to the difference between a watermelon and a bb; more accurately, it is similar to the difference between a mile and a 16th of an inch! Being at the angstrom size, (some minerals are 50-100 angstroms or more; even at that 6 inches is still just a fraction of a mile!) the body is able to mimic the action of the rootlet hairs of plants, and absorb the minerals directly into the cells. Bypassing the digestive system, these angstrom-sized minerals absorb directly through the upper portion of the stomach. The number of cell-ready parts per million (ppm) is what makes the Eniva products an outstanding value. All the standard recommendations of RDAs and mg's are virtually tossed out the door; they are based on 6-10% absorption!

Why Network Marketing?

A few years ago, Donald Trump appeared on the David Letterman Show and David asked Mr. Trump, "You have been involved in real estate for many years and have made millions and millions of dollars; tell me, if you had it to do over again, would you?" And he answered, "Actually, no; I would get involved in network marketing!" The reason is simple. You get the largest return for the smallest investment. Invest 7-10 hours a week for 2-4 years (double the hours, divide the years), and a couple of thousand dollars, and you can set yourself up with a residual income in the range of 3-5 thousand per month, with the actuality of a growing network that will bring exponential growth to your monthly check. To comprehend how this works, look at arithmetic growth and geometric growth. Would you rather have: $200,000 per day for thirty days or a penny doubled every day for thirty days. The first is an example of arithmetic growth: $200,000 times 30 equals $6,000,000 - a pretty chunk of change, indeed. If you opted for geometric growth with the penny doubled for thirty days: At the end of week 1: you would collect $1.27; at the end of week 2: you would collect $162.56; at the end of week 3: $20,807.68; at the end of week 4: $2,663,382.70; day 29: $5,326,765.40; and day 30: $10,653,530.80. So for a penny doubled every day for 30 days, you would have over $18,000,000! Network Marketing is based on the pattern of geometric growth. The Eniva Corporation has chosen Network Marketing, or Referral Marketing, for many reasons. Traditional marketing allocates 60% of the retail price to advertising, warehousing and "middle men" distribution. Network Marketing allocates that 60% of the retail price to the Network: those who have done the word of mouth advertising. This brings financial security to those who choose to work smarter rather than harder. It also brings large amounts of money to conscious people, those with a Vision who are working to manifest their dreams, making this world a peaceful, prosperous place. You can establish independence from "the system": rush hour, 5 or 6 days a week, trading hours for dollars, unsure of the future - and cash in on the growth in health care consciousness and the exponential growth of residual income. Professionals, even doctors and lawyers, who are known to get a considerable sum per hour, know that if they take an extended vacation, or if family matters require them to be away for awhile, they are not paid; they get paid only when they work. They realize the potential with referral marketing and many of them are preparing for a marvelous future.

The Benefits

With Network Marketing, you have the opportunity to:

* Be your own boss: when you own your business, you are in control of your work and your life.

* Choose the hours you work: a minimum of 7-10 hours per week when you are comfortable working.

* Work with those you choose: family, friends, those you admire and respect.

* Realize the potential of a lifetime, walk-away residual income: whether or not you choose to work, or go on an extended vacation, the checks keep coming.

* Enjoy great tax advantages: a home-based business is the last form of tax relief available to the average person.

* Travel at the "expense" of your business: establish a business branch in cities you enjoy, and travel there with tax write-offs.

* Succeed by empowering others to succeed: this is one of life's most satisfying and rewarding experiences.

This is an excellent example of what Richard Poe speaks of in his classic The Wave 4 Way to Building Your Downline. He also wrote Wave 3: The New Era in Network Marketing. The most important chapter in this "must read" book is the last one: It's More Than Money. An example of residual income is found with actors, musicians, singers and writers, who live off the royalties from their works. Others are born into wealth. They live off the rent from their real estate; or their stocks and bonds bring interest and a monthly (quarterly) residual check. If they have $120,000 invested and earn 10% annual interest, they will realize $1,000 monthly income. If they have $600,000 invested, they will realize $5,000 per month. If they have $1 million invested, they will realize $8,333.33 per month. This kind of income is relatively easy after a few years in Network Marketing. Are you ready to live like a millionaire? Most people are caught in the "time for money trap." They trade their time for dollars. The only way to make ends meet is to work harder and longer. Many are working 60-70 hours per week, and in most families both parents are working. Even if they dearly love what they do, they get paid only when they work. If a family emergency arises or if an extended holiday of a month or two is beckoning, do they get paid? They don't own their jobs; their jobs own them. This is the "time for money trap" producing "temporary income." This situation is compounded by the fact that people typically spend more than they earn, pay exorbitant interest rates and have little money set aside for retirement. Most live under the double shadow of "downsizing," as well as teetering Social Security. It is wonderful if you have the good fortune to live off your royalties and / or investments, enabling you to fulfill your Dreams. If you are well compensated for your work and truly enjoy what you do, and look forward to the future with security, wonderful. If you are currently in the "time for money trap" you have choices. One choice requires $100,000 or more to purchase a franchise. In addition to the initial investment, it also requires a bit of time to set yourself up with trustworthy workers who can manage your business. You can then "more or less" retire. Few realize that the "franchise system" was almost defeated at the Federal level; by a narrow margin, it was eventually declared to be a legitimate way of doing business in our free enterprise system. Another choice requires a couple of thousand dollars over a few years time to create residual income through Network Marketing, that also, by a narrow margin, was declared to be a legitimate way of doing business in our free enterprise system.

Some have a negative concept about Network Marketing or Multi-Level-Marketing because it is seen as a pyramid scheme. While it is true that some schemes are scams, most are perfectly legal. In fact the British use the word scheme to describe what our dictionaries tell us: "a systematic plan of action," "an orderly combination of related parts or elements." It is simple to distinguish the schemes that are scams from those that are legal. The scams will ask for money to pay for "commodities" that lack a basis in reality - such as buying "seats" in the Airplane Game, or sending $100 (or even $5) to the name at the top of the list, adding yours to the bottom and sending the letter to twenty people, with the promise that abundance will follow. Or the scams will ask for money up front to "assure" you that you will be in the "executive position" and that your business will rapidly grow - such as "investing" $3,000, buying 30 "FundAmerica" credit cards, that are then to be re-sold at $100 each, with the promise of 1% royalties on every purchase, forever! Legitimate networking revolves around real products or services with a minimal distributor fee, if any. You are on the first level in your sponsor's network and you are set up as the CEO of your own business - it is up to you to work your business, with your sponsor's support, your upline support, and with the support materials provided by the company. Your network will spread as wide as your imagination will allow, and, if you build wide and strong, as deep as the infinity bonus. The notion of a pyramid structure is familiar to most of us, whether it's the Pentagon with the President as the Commander in Chief, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the most decorated general down to the brigadier general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, etc. down to the enlisted soldier. Or in business, it's the CEO at top with several presidents overseeing the various aspects of the business, vice-presidents, managers, etc, down to the workers and custodial staff. The usual procedure is to "start at the bottom" and "work your way up." It sounds almost romantic, certainly empowering, to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps." The reality is fierce competition that necessitates "stepping on others' toes," all the while haunted by insecurities based on the knowledge that others would do almost anything (cheat, lie, sabotage, steal) to get your position. With Network Marketing you start at the top as the CEO, and create your own network by empowering others and teaching them to do the same. You can be successful only when others in your network are successful. It is a classic example of a win-win situation.

Network Marketing works because we listen to our friends and those we trust. Being massively bombarded by Madison Avenue's slick advertising, our buying resistance is up. We are ready for a change from the old, tired system. We are ready for commerce based on communication and trust, rather than manipulation and sensory assault. Network Marketing works because with word of mouth advertising we can usually assess sincerity and truthfulness. Network Marketing is one of the most powerful ways to distribute goods and services in the 21st century. In fact, Network Marketing recently accounted for over $100 billion in sales, more than the Big Three automakers combined! Let's take a look at our traditional marketing system and see the difference.

With the traditional distribution system, when we buy products in a store, 35% of the total consumer cost goes to the manufacturer, for parts and labor. The other 65% goes to advertising executives, artists, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, manufacturer's representatives, shipping, warehouse, jobbers or salespersons, distribution centers and the store. The price goes up each time the item changes hands. In Network Marketing the manufacturer still gets 35%, transportation accounts for 5% and the remaining 60% goes to the consumers, the distributors who did the work: word of mouth advertising. This is far from a get-rich-quick-scheme. It takes discipline, effort, punctuality and accountability. Stand with perseverance in your wish fulfilled, and eventually your Dream will manifest. With the Eniva Corporation you are in business for yourself, rather than by yourself.

This is an example of the best win-win working relationship of all time. I get to be successful when you succeed, and you will become successful by assisting others to succeed. It's actually fun to be in this business. Imagine when someone asks what you do for a living, or what you do to make life interesting. You can answer: "I help others establish a home-based business, connected with an established company, helping restore balance on the planet. I am part of a team, training and assisting people until they become financially independent." The true Networker sorts rather than sells. Rather than talking someone into something, the true Networker is looking for those who are looking for an alternative to the way things are currently going and a company that offers quality products for radiant health - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The greatest stressor today that erodes health is a feeling of a shortage of time and money.

Referral Marketing offers an opportunity to step outside the present economic environment, an opportunity to step into a new way of doing business that creates permanent, walk-away, "drink from a coconut," residual income. This is your access to true financial independence and personal growth through assisting others to succeed. This is an opportunity to Design Your Destiny.

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Global Information Network and Their Affiliate Program

2012-11-15T22:46:00.000-08:00

The allure of private elite societies has been seductive long before you and I were here. What is better than joining an elite private club? Joining one that not only offers knowledge and secrets, but offers you the opportunity to make money through your membership. This brings us into taking a deeper look at The Global Information Network (GIN) and how you can make money with The Global Information Network. But first, what is The Global Information Network? Who is behind The Global Information Network? How much does it cost to join GIN? Can you really make money with GIN?

What is The Global Information Network?

The Global Information Network is dubbed as a "secret society" for the rest of us. Or in other words, a private exclusive club keen on achieving great health, knowledge, and wealth. You join a global network of members who are supposedly bent on sharing ideas and knowledge along with advice of the secrets of life. Members include top leaders in the private sectors, finance and banking, and from the political sectors, to name just a few. There are different levels of membership, all of which gain you more access to more coveted information like that of the Law of Attraction.

Who is Behind The Global Information Network?

Kevin Trudeau. Some of you may know exactly who I am talking about, and may have formulated opinions of him already. Kevin Trudeau is an ex-Brotherhood member, a billionaire, infomercial king, and best-selling author. His most notable books are Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, More Natural "Cures" Revealed, The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Debt Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About. Being a former secret society member of the Brotherhood, he claims to be revealing all the elite secrets about life: great health and wealth.

Joining The Global Information Network

To join GIN at Level 1, there is a $1,000 initiation fee, and $150 in monthly dues. You must be referred to GIN by an affiliate or member in GIN. The other levels of GIN are "classified" but it appears to cost more and more at each level and you must meet certain goals and criteria before you may upgrade your membership.

The Global Information Network's Affiliate Program

For every member you refer to The Global Information Network, you make $200. You also make $200 for every member they enroll, as long as you are continually enrolling at least one member a month yourself. You can refer people worldwide, regardless of the country they live in. However The Global Information Network appears to operate in only one language - English, so anyone you refer would have to read and speak English it seems like. If you only bring in one person a month, and you are a part of their membership program, you would only net $50/month (after the $150 monthly dues) - so figure out how many people you would need to bring on board, to meet your personal financial goals. Don't count on making $200 from the sales of the people you refer, as they may not choose to participate in the affiliate program, or they may not be successful with the affiliate program should they choose to market The Global Information Network.

Can You Make Money with The Global Information Network?

If your goal is that of seeking knowledge from a global group of successful people, you may learn tips, strategies, and techniques to making money on your own. You also have the fall back option of utilizing their affiliate program to make a couple hundred bucks for referring people, and the members your people bring on. This is by no means a get rich quick program, and you have to budget in $150 a month, but if you can learn to utilize online and attraction marketing, you should be able to make money quickly with this or any program. The key again though is to master marketing on the Internet.

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Veronica Yager is an Internet Marketer and Success Mentor helping others find financial freedom working from the comforts of their home. Veronica Yager teaches her team members how to use the power of the Internet and become a top income earner online. To learn more about Veronica Yager and to join her team, visit Veronica Yager's website at [http://www.AchieveFastWealth.com] now!

Life Based Upon Food, Breath and Sex!

2012-11-13T21:29:00.000-08:00

Reviewing the state of being human means allowing ourselves to look directly at the fact that we have three major bodily survival processes to our species.

They are:

1.) Intake/output (food / water),

2.) Breathing, and

3.) Sex, none of which we have been highly educated on throughout our present evolution.

Today there is research and knowledge that helps us know how much we still need to know.

We do not have a focus on foods and their nutritional value and resources. There is a constant emphasis on weight, being thin and fitting a social size, instead of health as the focus. So the marketplace for an adult is a huge selection of books of perspectives on how to be thin. Facts about the body's needs of nutrition were not there when our major growth and body development from birth through childhood was happening. Parents ate whatever ethnic food conditioning they had or what they could afford.

Water. We know so little about how vital water is to us that we are slowly but surely destroying its availability. Did anyone tell you when growing up that your physical body consists of over 70% water? That you need to keep hydrated? Water was not determined by amount, but by demand, and if you had been drinking other liquids, then chances are you did not know your body was dehydrated! Liquid was the thing, to drink coffee, pop, anything but water! The fact is, many of those liquids create dehydration. Water is what the body needs. Good water, clean water, drinkable water, and lots of it.

Breath is yet another ignorance we have socially. We pollute our air and atmosphere due to this ignorance. Breath is not a choice we make, pollution is. And when we have depleted the benefits in the air, we seem perplexed and puzzled. Then we do not connect our weak immune systems as having anything to do with air.

We need more understanding and knowledge on how to breathe correctly. Research shows children stop breathing correctly for health between five months to four years of age. Our population stopped breathing for health and body needs by four years old! Think about this. All physical and mental development depends on correct breathing.

Our most powerful time of development is from conception to nine years old. Biology books may not have caught up with the outcome of research of the cells, but our brain has been programmed by our environment, not our genes, and that determines how we will live the rest of our lives. The fact that brain neurons change after nine years old is not likely in our present system of education and lifestyle that is ruled mostly by media and social level standardization. So the majority of the world at large is still in the mindset they were in at age nine!

Breathing like a newborn is abdominal breathing, and allowing the entire respiratory system to work, even the lower lobes of the lungs. Shallow breathing comes from fear and early childhood anxiety. Early physical activity where deep breathing is accomplished is good. Yet most children today are held to sedentary lifestyles. Few chores or responsibility for family needs and living conditions are shared with them. Early understanding was achieved by earlier and healthier generations through family bonding and being involved activity.

Sound and practical psychology are grounded on a person feeling capable and educated. Babies and toddlers are like mocking birds - they imitate the people who make up their immediate influence and daily range of bonding. If we want them to be responsible teenagers and have a full role in family benefits and income, then it has to happen at an early age.

Children want to do what you do. They want to clean, cook, garden and work. So when you treat them like they are not capable, do not expect there is a switch that turns on when they are of whatever age you think they should kick in and do their part! It happens in the beginning.

Parents who work outside the home and the children who stay home have a disadvantage. So whoever is doing the home care needs to include and teach them daily. Chores and routines are grounding and assist in providing stability for children. Attention spans will be short if you are not creative and show excitement and joy of your work and service.

Children in rural communities have a greater sense of what it takes to live than urban community children. There is an exception if parents have a better focus on early childhood education. Home schooled children have a better and more grounded level of education than institutionally taught children. And a greater number of them maintain higher scores in college entrance testing. Why, you ask? It is due to living is learning and home schooled children learn as life unfolds. Basic educational needs such as numbers, letters, math, spelling, sciences, etc. are part of everyday ordinary living. These skills are mastered by living them, seeing them, and the manner of how they are applied during the course of a day of living.

Institutionalized learning is taking children out of their normal, hopefully home-safe, living activities and it makes education a chore and an activity outside the ordinary state of life. Children use their survival codes to deal with each other. The emotional field of dealing with an unfamiliar environment causes children to be unkind and more challenging to each other. Flight or fight instincts prevail more than a desire to learn educational basics. I think sending a young child off to such an environment is one of the cruelest things we do today. And obviously it is not working! Look at the results: drugs, premature parenting or conceptions, anger, and loss of communication with family.

So inevitably, the young person's environmental challenges create emotional reactions of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, insecurity and abandonment. So breathing follows. The breath of survival code is shallow and brief or a non-breath state, all unhealthy. The brain, as well as every cell in our body, shifts to flight or fight mode, hormonal balance is shifted, and then we alter our state of evolution.

Teaching people to breathe as adults is a lucrative business and health care must! Stress release practices are all based on breath. Save your money on the massage and get a Breath Therapist, you will live longer and healthier. All good things in life come with good breathing. Mindsets and outcomes to our activities are all breath related. Science is just on the brink of releasing the research that they have on the powerful importance to correct breathing.

Our societies and religious influences are lacking a sound perspective to the importance of sexual evolution as well. An uncomfortable subject to most people, I am always amazed even at this age of sixty-four years, how ignorant the mass is regarding the importance of sexual relations to us as beings. Yet it is the most powerful experience we have in life. With the emotional extreme that is put on it and all the rules and restrictions around it, we seem to forget it is the very nature of our existence. And it is the highest experience to being Co-Creators to the One That Is In All Things/God or whatever Sacred Name you use.

Sexuality is the very base of our life source. It is the spiritual fire that is the source of our physical existence. The effects our hormonal balance triggers are to maintain youthful and life-sustaining forces. Sexual activity can improve our aging outcome. If women find their sex drive and their activity dwindling after menopause, they age much faster. Instead of exploring it from a more mature and exciting viewpoint and activity, they withdraw. This is more of a social standard of belief. Being beyond child conception can be a more liberating time if you are exploring sex as the fires of creativity and pleasure! There is a whole chemistry here that I will not go into at this time, but it is the very essence of vitality and longevity. Creativity is enhanced with sexual activity. There is a personal level of need that is unique to each of us, some more, some less. And I am not referring to sleaze and abuse here, of these parts of our nature.

Sexual knowledge is still pretty much held to biological terms for most, unless you have explored Tantric Yoga practices of this life force. And that is exactly what it is, life force, to explore in a caring and loving manner, a giving and a taking of pleasure and inner exploration.

Today we see more of our lower animal and aggressive natures being set off with this powerful life force. We appeal to the weaker and less knowledgeable part of sex appeal. Sex is first triggered in our minds and reactionary processes which brings us to the physical climaxing that is the enviable goal of sexual activity. Thus, we can trip through our own fantasy and manipulate our own pleasure by masturbating, an exercise totally stimulated by thought and mind. Ads and media play with this natural base of operations by using sexually seducing models and suggestive reflections to stimulate product interest. It works; statistics prove it through sales reports! So a connection to all material products or services we use in our daily life is promoted by stimulating our interests in sexual expression. It often is done tastefully and there are some that are exploiting as well.

The point is that sex is a vital part of life, and it is the least taught or known wisdom. We have extreme severities, religious celibacy, sexual rapes and exploitation. The fact that there are such extremes with the subject makes no one comfortable with it generally. Children do not get early sexual education; is this in hope of avoiding interest? Well, that may sound ridiculous, but that is the plan in most instances! Parents do not know how to go about sex education, and they usually do it in a clinical sense and the young therefore realize they are not tuned in or don't have a clue! They are not willing to consider the children know something, in as much as they know they were born. So the drama goes.

Sex is a gift of life and pleasure. For us to approach it as a means of being truly caring and loving is a good base of practice, not as a duty, or service expected, nor punishable if not complying. Female suppression and male dominance roles do not make this the way Nature works it. Religious regulation is not working well and guilt-ridden teachings do not help an already failing system to regroup.

In my life and observing the ways of being human, I have come to see something I want to share. There is no need for you to agree, just think on it. We have a male dominated society almost throughout the world. So sex is harsh and restrictive. Obedience of the female and subservient, submissive behavior is asked or demanded from woman. Sex is her duty to her mate, and temptation her sin. Pretty grim stuff. She is asked to conceal her body as man cannot control himself, or handle the temptation. Man's sin or woman's? Someone is to blame and something is wrong, is what this all sounds like. So sex is going through some kind of abusive history.

Women who use this for their own agendas are placing themselves in a game of male aggressive behavior. Soon the psychological process creates a painful inner reaction for both man and woman. Then sex becomes the battleground and emotional anger and abuse prevails; just look around you.

In my life I have studied the Goddess teachings of many cultures. Also Ancient civilizations where woman was recognized for her gifts of beauty and love-making. She was an agent of caring and creativity. A life giver and Mother. Matriarchal civilizations were better balanced and men were honored more in them than women in patriarchal societies.

No doubt about it, gender differences are biological and chemistry based, but our sexual natures blend in the making of love, versus having sex. A man can naturally have sex without emotional connections, just pure sex drive and it's done. Woman brings more to it emotionally. Her hormonal base gives off a chemistry that directs this, it is called oxytocin and she cannot not personalize her partners. She chooses to be alluring and sublime and build to a thunder and plateau of sexual fire and breath. Pleasure is her goal, for herself and partner. To act out her fantasy of beauty and dance, her energy field feeds this to her partner. She draws forth passion and climax and the renewal of life forces are kindled. Man can accompany her or just exist within the dance. Either way she exposes herself and gives of herself from an inner place. If man is touched by it, he is moved to emotional connections of his own. So much for sin and punishment. What is the religious fear of sex? A given of such magnitude can only be such from Creator. We co-create with sexual pleasuring. We bring forth the fire of the Kundalini or Creation Fires in our sexual joining. The divine trine, Father, Mother, Child, all this and then some is sexual exchange of pleasure, nurturing, and healing. Only divine force can give this.

So as we look at all the "crazies" we do with the most powerful of all life-giving source, is there no wonder we are bringing ourselves to the door of extinction if we do not reconsider our priorities intelligently? If Life is a cycle, and in the cycle is a cell of life, can we turn this one around? I believe, yes we can.

And I believe enough of us are asking the questions that make for higher thinking. And children of God are maturing and growing up...to be....?

Sexuality is all about how we believe and what our mind set and perception are. It will only be as we make it. We have seen what guilt, shame, abuse and denials do. Let's take the position and act accordingly, let's truly be God's children. Let's look at these three sources of life truly as our keeping. What's your action plan?

By Parisha Taylor

Grandmother Parisha, an Elder and Peace Keeper of the Eastern Cherokee tradition, teaches the path to health, wealth and happiness.

Original content at: Parisha Taylor [http://parishataylor.com]

How to Stop Thinking Like an Employee and Make More Money

2012-11-11T03:04:00.000-08:00

Starting a new career at home involves thinking differently. Not all opportunities will be a job. Ensuring that you make the type of money you desire, will involve being open to other ways to make money. Here are some practical ideas to help you slowly move away from a nine to five job.

Know Yourself

Think about what your personality, strengths, and weaknesses. Are there a few things that people call you about several times a month? Examples could be to fix something, solve their relationship problem, or even to ask about their fashion choices. Make a list that is truthful, this list is only for your eyes to see.

Positives

Focus on the skills that you do have that can bring in income for you. Perhaps you are great with children, organizing, or cooking. These are skills that can immediately be used to make money in the community while a new full time or part job from home is searched for. It may take time to obtain a new degree that would replace a job that was just lost, or even to find a job at the same salary level.

Training

Purposely learn new skills that will increase your value. Your value is simply anything people will pay for. Think about how much someone would pay for help around the house if they are injured or recovering from an illness. People will pay an on call plumber to stop leaks before it destroys their home or business items. Skills that solve problems are invaluable.

These are examples of problems that will always need a swift resolve, but the person with the problem may be ill-equipped to handle it alone.

Washer and Dryer Repair
Air Conditioner and Heating Repair
Life Management Help
Organization of home or office
Tutoring Children or Adults
Learning a Second Language for Trade Purposes
Music Lessons
Electricians
Alternative Energy Experts
Home Health Care - Basic Medical Skills
Bulk Meal Preparation of Healthy Meals for the Family

Think about things that you can quickly learn that will pay you far more than an average wage with an employer. Moving away from traditional work often happens in layers. It may begin with working a few part time jobs online when you have time, and providing a service to a few people a week. Skills learned to give knowledge or help other people solve problems can be used to make money through consulting, repair, or given services in person or over email or telephone. Having a few streams of income is a great way to become free of traditional employment. Use these tips to help you navigate self-employment and internet income.

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Feng Shui Classes For Knowledge and Power

2012-11-08T14:28:00.000-08:00

Enrolling yourself in Feng Shui classes is one way of learning the art, and will surely change the way you see your entire life. You see, the energies in the environment are affecting your personal energies stored inside your bodies. The Ancient Chinese people who developed this idea believe that change should be done first in the external then it will make its way to the internal. So, if you want to change a specific life area in your life, you have to change the corresponding space for that life area in your house or office space.

The actual application of Feng Shui ideas into reality is only one part of the equation. What you should also do to help yourself out in the quest of attracting more positive energies in your life, is to have pure intentions of your specific actions. Making changes to your environment without conscious intention will not bring many results. Know what you're aiming to accomplish when performing certain actions is the key to effective Feng Shui.

If you are really interested in learning as much as you can, then I suggest that you enroll yourself in some Feng Shui classes. Or even learn at your own pace by following a guide book and learn how use it correctly in your very own home and in your own time to reap the huge benefits it has offer our lives. You will save a lot of money by teaching yourself rather than hiring a consultant. Plus, your knowledge will always be with you, even when your wallet or purse is empty, you will know what to do to help make it full again without paying a single penny.

If you have the time to devote to going out and are willing to meet new people in order to learn more, joining groups may be the answer for you. To see what places are offering Feng Shui classes, you can do your own research and ask around your community. The local college can possibly have a course about this subject. If your local community has a Feng Shui club then you can sign up and be a member of it so that you will learn more about the practice.

If you can't find Feng Shui classes available in your community and you don't want to teach yourself, then crack open your purse or wallet. You can enlist the guidance of a master or professional and have a personal consultation with him/her so that they can impart their knowledge and expertise to you. Although generally expensive, their knowledge will be sound and it will save you a lot of time (but not money).

Alternatively, here's a sample of what you may learn in Feng Shui classes: introduction and history, five elements, understanding of the yin and yang energies, Bagua map and its corresponding cures and general Feng Shui application that you can do to your home or office. The Feng Shui classes will leave you with a basic understanding of how to do things the right way. Using it incorrectly can have very negative effects, it's important to get the right guidance.

Using the Bagua map enables you to divide your living space or office space into nine areas, with each area corresponding to a specific area. The nine life areas are wealth and prosperity, fame and reputation, love and marriage, health and family, creativity and children, knowledge and self-cultivation, career and helpful people and travel. It is believed that if you are having troubles with one life area, you can make it better by employing Feng Shui cures to that area. Common cures can be done by hanging mirrors and crystals or by using the productive and destructive cycles.

When learning to fully understand this ancient art, you will become familiar with clutter and will see the importance of keeping it away. Clutter is public enemy number one. The best thing to keep positive energies flowing is to move the clutter away from any area in your house and make sure that all broken things are fixed.

Once you have an environment which invites positive energy, you will definitely imbibe the positive energies inside yourself. Maybe you'll get there by taking the Feng Shui classes, paying a consultant, or even taking the journey yourself to discover how to enrich your own life. The results will bring you a happy, harmonized life and the knowledge to keep it that way.

Lin Mai is a Feng Shui enthusiast. For more expert advice, tips or even try her online Feng Shui classes, visit http://www.waytofengshui.com and learn the secrets to start Feng Shui-ing your life.

Astrology for Love, Luck, Money - Jupiter

2012-11-06T05:44:00.000-08:00

Astrology for Success - Jupiter

The largest 'planet' in our Solar System - Jupiter has always been associated with good luck so let's see where he can bring a little 'luck' into our lives. In the natural/flat chart 'he' 'rules' the sign Sagittarius and is the landlord/owner of the 9th house - the house of the Superconscious Mind. Wherever you have Jupiter in your Natal Chart you're being asked to have a little faith, a little confidence and assurance. He 'visits' each house in turn every 12 years or so yet, in 2011 he'll zap through Aries in under six months! What can you expect when he visits your house?

Transiting Jupiter into the 1st - Your health will improve, (if you've been feeling low, he's coming out of your 12th!) Both physically and psychologically you should be feeling good, for this is the beginning of something new in your future. You'll have success in dealing with people in authority. You could receive good news, or a gift from unexpected sources. You're bound to feel more optimistic, and you'll want to expand your life, whether through new ideas or new experiences. Look after your weight for Jupiter is known for increase or decrease! Having Jupiter transit your 1st keep in mind he'll be here for about 12 months so plan for the future. To give you another example: Let's suppose you had Neptune in the 1st well, your dreams, imagination and spiritual life are likely to expand in some way. If you were an artist or musician, this can be a very creative period. You may become involved in a church or religious group, undergo a religious conversion, or go on a long journey. You could be associated with a hospital or large institution of some kind. Keeping in mind, Jupiter expands/enlarges/increases whatever he conjuncts, all being well this should be a time for personal and spiritual growth.

Transiting Jupiter into the 2nd - This is a good time to enjoy music, romance remembering, Jupiter will remain in this house for up a year so don't expect all of what you read to happen immediately. You can be lucky with money and many celebrations will come your way; make the most of the perfect times ahead, and enjoy the party atmosphere. You may even find yourself lucky in love, with the horses, or the stock exchange! You'll have some happy times if you go with your instincts, rather than worry about what might happen. Things can turn out to be more expensive than you first thought so think carefully about the value of things - needs versus wants. Positively, you'll feel very happy at this time, so take advantage of this where your good spirits can bring cheer to others for everybody needs a little cheering up...

Transiting Jupiter into the 3rd - A good time to increase your understanding of the 'world' around you for Jupiter increases your curiosity at this time, you can and should plan, organise create many different events for business and commercial activities are favoured - don't be sloppy with details! You'll have increased enthusiasm, a good time for travel, visiting foreign countries, or applying to a university. Writing, teaching, and making speeches are favoured, submit your manuscript to a publisher, or convey your point of view to others and success will be yours, publicise your product, or yourself. If you're not practical your ideas will prove too big for the amount of finances, knowledge and other personal resources you have at your disposal - don't promise what you cannot deliver. Buying and selling - seeking a bargain - selling off that which you no longer need - all are good during this transit, keeping in mind this lasts about a year...

Transiting Jupiter into the 4th - You'll feel good, and in general, things should be going well for you at this time.

Your relationships with friends, especially female are kind and mutually supportive. This is a good time for dealing with the public and for changing your residence, or buying something for the home you've always wanted. It's also a good time for business and financial dealings - don't be overly sentimental if you want this success to last. On the flip side unpleasant visitors may appear, so try to be a little tactful in their presence, keep peace and harmony within the home environment. This is a favourable time to negotiate with superiors and civil authorities. You are persuasive, and should have it 'all together.' You may hear of a forthcoming happy event with your associations and friendships becoming more expansive, enriching your life in the process. You'll feel concern, and want to care more for others, go for it...

Jupiter visiting your 5th - Confidence to do the things you want to do and saying no to the things you don't! Try out what you wouldn't ordinarily try to do, all of which is good. You'll discover you have a lot of energy, use common sense in your undertakings however and don't take on too big a load or too much responsibility, don't overextend yourself. Be compassionate/ understanding of others and try to look at things from their points of view. This transit will take 12 months so relax and let Jupiter do his job, if your health has been a little low - it'll improve, physically and psychologically. You'll have success in dealing with those in authority and could receive good news or a gift; even a win of money for this is generally a good period! You'll feel or should endeavour to be optimistic and you'll want to expand your life, whether through new ideas or new experiences (even marriage or commitment with someone foreign!) for this transit usually means the beginning of something new in for your future.

Transiting Jupiter into the 6th - This transit tends to bring improved health where any health problems caused by extravagance and over-indulgence have knocked you for six! You'll be helpful towards others, a dependable worker with a sense of loyalty, inspiring cooperation and goodwill amongst your fellow workers, enjoying your work and giving of your time willingly. Watch that you do not overwork or overindulge in eating or drinking. Expand your consciousness by going to new places, both in thought and in person. You can now plan and organise many different events with business and commercial activities being favoured, if involved with travel or any kind of mental work don't be sloppy about details. Constructive intellect is the key phrase where you can make advantageous acquaintanceships conducting business negotiations that will be beneficial for a long time.

Jupiter visiting your 7th House: Benefits, opportunities and wealth come about as a result of friendships, marriage or partnerships in general. You'll be seeking people who can expand your visions, offering you opportunities for expansion and helping you grow. If Jupiter is badly aspected in your natal chart, your partner may be somewhat opinionated, lazy, self- indulgent, extravagant and self-willed, sometimes untrustworthy, immoral, shameless and wasteful (you've been warned!)! This is a good time to enjoy music and romance and you might be lucky with money as well. Lucky in love, with the horses, stock exchange - luck is all around you and what is luck but being in the right place at the right time - accept ALL invitations -if you go with your instincts, rather than worry about what might happen, happy times and lasting success are yours to enjoy - have faith in this for what we fear we attract - what we dwell upon we create - be positive. Negatively: there could be legal conflicts giving you cause for concern, and causing you or your partner (business or marital) to behave in an incorrect manner!

Transiting Jupiter into the 8th - Your dreams, imagination and spiritual life are expanded - any projects you've been working towards will finally be realised. There's a tremendous need (within) to achieve something that will make you a better person, or that will better your position. You can successfully conduct important business and legal affairs now - use this time to transform your life. Don't exploit others financially; and keep away from crooked activities. Use this time to regenerate your life, not ruin it or bring about your own failure! Be patient in your dealings with authorities be willing to compromise; resist forcing your will onto others, and if you are being coerced, resist with all your strength. Now is the time to succeed for your efforts will be far-reaching, and geared to you becoming the best at whatever it is you want to do, don't be lazy, and put in the effort. Your energy level is tremendous, so channel it constructively...

Jupiter visiting your 9th ("he's coming home") - Your life is expanded and enhanced in some way for it's a time for new beginnings in your personal growth - Jupiter belongs here. Educational opportunities or travel will broaden your horizons increasing your contentment, success are yours almost for the asking so listen to your instincts, and think 'timely' in everything you do. Some form of recognition will be offered to you, and a lovely gift or golden opportunity will be the result. This is an excellent time to begin any new enterprise. On the flipside there may be problems with schools, religious differences or the law - taking too much for granted -problem with the authorities, and your credit rating might be questioned. Don't invite trouble, by taking on too many projects or by getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes...

Transiting Jupiter into the 10th - The part of your life that represents your structure or personal achievement (career?) will be expanded in some way, where you'll want to break free of restriction, or alternatively, choose to expand within the framework you have already built. It all depends on how happy you are with your present circumstances for this can be a time of important new beginnings (remembering that Jupiter stays about a year in each sign/house). During this period you may need help or advice from lawyers; or those in authority - (same sex parent) patience is rewarded for you will succeed in property deals, or through older peoples' advice. On another level (the flip side) unpleasant changes abound, aggravated by indecisiveness and worry over little things, making everyone around you miserable and depressed. It's important to be careful in making business and financial plans for the near future, keeping within your financial limits, even though you'll resent having to do so! Be patient, and prepared to cut your losses if necessary, wherever they occur...

Jupiter visiting your 11th - You're in for a big surprise that will change your life! Enjoy yourself in this period by avoiding any kind of hypocrisy. You may now buy or do something connected with computers! Whatever this is it will give you a lot of pleasure, and possibly financial gain later! Unexpected good fortune will bring money, exciting opportunities for study, travel and unusual friendships. Are you ready? You'll want to be free and independent, without any responsibilities. If self-doubtful seek advice from those whom you respect for you know you need a change but don't quite know what - be patient and the right opportunity will emerge (in an unusual/unexpected way). Wanting to break free from the mundane make sure you don't throw the good away with the bad New friends and groups could enhance your life.

Transiting Jupiter into the 12th House: Your dreams, imagination and your spiritual life are expanded now - if you're an artist, musician, writer, etc, this can be a very creative period. You may become involved in a church or religious group - undergo a religious conversion, or go on a long journey. You could be associated with a hospital or large institution of some kind! Don't gamble or invest in anything risky at this time, and take extra care in choosing your business associates. You are idealistic now - try to ground this in the real world of reality. Avoid excessive drinking or drugs - spending time daydreaming about unrealistic things - are all possible making you susceptible to disappointment for you're not able to distinguish clearly between what is realistic and feasible and what is false! If your resources are low, don't take foolish risks - the only ones who will get rich are those who are taking you for a ride!

Next article: Astrology for beginners: Saturn

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Medical and Health care Equipment for Hospitals and Homes

2012-11-03T06:56:00.000-07:00

Medical Technology increases day by day as the human go further to search some interesting about universe. Human beings have the highest IQ from any other living thing. Thus, they are important persons who develop technology for their usage. Technology in the medical field is also increasing quickly as the need is also increasing. People related to medical field said that need of medical equipment are recently increase from last five years as the technology is also increase. Recently some new cases of patience are come outsides. Technology consultants certainly have acquired knowledge about what kind of medical and hospital equipment would be appropriate.

The research section is carried by scientists of the medical field. They research for new problems and crises. Many scientists would be needed to successfully bring a new medical device to fruition: system design experts, risk management experts, and device registration experts. Managers do not have time to round up all the necessary consultants. People have to take care of their health own. Doctors only give you ideas of prevention not prevent you from the diseases. You have to save you and your family from disasters. Keep your house clean. In today world only a healthy person become wealthy person. In medical technology instrument are important for big surgery. In big hospital medical instruments are mostly used. Technology is mainly used fro making advanced medical instrument.

Many families have concerns about their health. They may worry more about their children. Everybody is concern more about their health that's why they are more interested to purchase healthcare equipment for their safety. In the previous time Home healthcare supplies are mostly used by those families who have small children and aged people, but today these are used by young one also. Home healthcare equipments include some equipment for exercise

The good news is that you can find a variety of home healthcare products and systems online. Many of these systems provide effective coverage for your home at prices that will surprise you. Of course, you will need to find the system that will best meet your needs. You may, for example, be concerned about your baby health you can find it in low rates. If you want to make your child future secure than you have to use Home healthcare supplies. A good supplier can only supply you good quality. They some times ask for higher money and some times they sell you in lesser price. It is often easier to shop online.

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Write E-Books and Make Some Money!

2012-11-01T05:35:00.000-07:00

One of the most lucrative businesses online is that of spreading information in the form of e-books. If you have some specific talent as how to do a particular thing maybe cooking or sewing or some crafts or a particular thing relating to business or stock markets, capitalize on your talent. Writing a book even a short one targeting a niche of customers who would really appreciate such a book of instructions or advice or information, this is a definite money spinner. To begin with one can price them competitively so that people get attracted and purchase the book. Eventually once you have gained popularity, you can increase the prices and the demand will still be there.

One need not be an expert in the field but good knowledge will help write in a convincing manner. By identifying the correct target audience for the virtual books it can become a fast selling piece. It is also necessary to gauge the market and pick topics which will have a universal appeal and not get outdated with time. This helps keep it a popular e-book through time. Some topics are timeless such as health related topics.

If you have a good network then getting some collaborators to contribute with the topics is also a good idea. Diet related and health eating are the top projects that everyone wants to read about. Writing a well informed all encompassing book about it in simple language that appeals to everyone can be a major best seller.

Another topic that can be written about is anything related to money. Be it about investing in stocks or insurance options or even how to handle money and save wisely people are always looking for tips. And if you have some background in money related matters sharing your expertise can be a great way to make an extra buck.

It is also important to pick a good title that has a eye catching appeal. The best way to publicize the books is through putting up some excerpts on some social networking site giving a sort of teaser to the readers.

Even if the topics are tried and tested ones, it is important to bring a fresh perspective to the entire topic. It is not about recycling the same information in new words. Some new perspective to the entire subject must be brought to it.

Writing a book is not an easy task. Sufficient amounts of research about putting out valid information that's has solid evidence backing it must be only used. Deciding how much to price it at one must take a good look around at the niche markets for such books. There is a need to price it in such a way that it is available to everyone.

You can even offer a monthly installment paying scheme. This makes it easier to purchase. The first effort may not be a grand success but one must persevere. Marketing its potential is very necessary. Hand out some free copies via email to some friends. This can help spread the word about the quality of the writing and information. E-books are easier to pass around. Try your luck at it.

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Future Knowledge Worker Management - From Work-For-Hire to Intellectual Capital Co-Ownership P1 of 2

2012-10-29T08:40:00.000-07:00

Abstract

The last 50 years caused a major transformation in the industrial landscape. The manager's emphasis shifted from technology and manufacturing management to service and ultimately to knowledge management. The internet has revolutionized the way business is conducted across borders and cultures and it also made knowledge easily available. Entrepreneurs now have a way to reach markets worldwide at little cost. This places them at a new stronger position due to lower capital requirements to establish a business and has given more bargaining power symmetry to knowledge workers than in the past. Knowledge workers are therefore different and need to be managed differently as they tend to be more loyal to their professions rather than the organizations they work for. One major challenge for human resource managers apart from recruiting and retaining knowledge workers is to find a way to motivate them. This paper rejects work-for-hire arrangements and instead advocates shared knowledge ownership scenarios which can generally result in a better outcome for all stakeholders.

Introduction

The rapid technological advances of the 20th century and the massive changes in the global political landscape have dramatically changed the environment for every organization today. Before and shortly after World War II (WWII) managerial focus was mainly on manufacturing efficiency but the successive opening of international markets that lead to a globalizing economy confronted organization with far more complex issues, such as managing human factors, different cultures, and a rapid increase in competition (Wren, 2005). Even though the shifts from manufacturing excellence to service excellence and from national focus to global outlook started after WWII, management's adaptation to these changing forces remains an ongoing process.

Several coping mechanisms were deployed by managers to cope with new risks and dynamics of today's complex organizational environments. Some of these coping mechanisms have failed and some have worked in the past but will not continue to work in the future because the underlying assumptions are no longer valued. Diversification, for example, was long touted as a promising risk management tool; however, the recent economic meltdown and failure of dozens of financial institutions worldwide are an indication that there may have been too much reliance on diversification after all. Drucker (2006) suggested that organizations can only be effective if they focus on one task only. By diversifying, as stated by Drucker, the organization's performance capacity is destroyed. Possible explanations for this contradicting outcome are the greater switching costs between concurrent activities within the organization as well as the increased administrational overhead of managing several endeavors.

As the organizational environment becomes more complicated, organizations responded by collecting more information. Drucker (2006) criticized, however, that most often companies used information only to trace the past rather than to base future action on it. Today the sheer volume of information collected and drawing the quality conclusions from it constitutes an additional challenge to management. Rather than simply responding to information, tomorrow's organizations will have to be designed around information and create value and wealth in order to survive (2006). One of the critical information an organization should constantly monitor is the set of underlying assumptions around which the organization has been built.

Drucker (2006) also asserted that business crises often originate from the fact that organizations were built on assumptions that no longer hold true. Businesses, hence, need to constantly reassert that their assumptions still hold true and revise their internal structure to accommodate changes in their environment when this becomes necessary. This form of intelligent adaptation that Drucker favors can be interpreted as a form of organizational critical thinking and self-awareness.

As a great thinker in the field of management and a practicing consultant, Drucker realized that the human factor has become more important than ever before. Because of the transition from touch laborers to knowledge workers, the relationship between management and workforce needs to change from command-and-control to leadership by employee empowerment. Drucker's main criticism is that managers tend to be too isolated from their workforce and do not spend enough time communicating with their employees. The failure to listen to employees is why managers have it difficult to build trustful relationships with their workforce and consequently have trouble motivating their teams. While these forces that are internal to organizations will need to be managed appropriately, there are several external forces as well that will affect the human resource management discipline of the future.

Future organizations will be exposed to higher degrees and frequencies of change (Aghazadeh, 2003). Competition rooted in globalization and technology will continue to intensify and businesses will increase their emphasis on the creation of intellectual capital. Furthermore, as many organizations will seek to increase their profitability through growth and consolidation, the new knowledge economy will need to find new ways to nurture and protect intellectual capital in the light of these developments (2003). In order to cope with these organizational forces that started to build up in the last two decades, a new form of organization emerged. Virtual organizations, powered by technology and low-cost communication, brought some relief to these forces but also several new challenges.

Virtual organizations have already started to influence managerial practice and their impact will certainly strengthen due to their wide deployment, especially in hybrid form, that is traditional organizations which have virtual components. One hybrid form is the partial virtualization of traditional offices known as telecommuting or teleworking (Sparrow & Daniels, 1999). Companies realized at the turn of the millennium that technology can result in several cost savings and flexibility even in traditional office settings. Telecommuting reduces or eliminates commuting times, and gives greater job autonomy to workers. Workers can save money by having to spend less on lunches and clothing and benefit from less work-related stress. Unfortunately, the virtualization also brought negative side effects, such as an increase in working hours, higher levels of home-related stress, and a change in social relationships between team members (1999). Sparrow and Daniels found that individuals varied greatly in their ability to adapt to the home office work environment and that working from home requires different skills than traditional office work. The impact seems to be stronger on purely virtual organizations and entrepreneurs, however, because telecommuters usually spend only part of their time at home and the majority at the office. Virtual work settings were found to promote routinization, longer hours, increases in work demands, decreased role clarity, poorer physical working conditions, fewer career opportunities, and less social support from colleagues.

Many of these negative effects will diminish due to improvements in technology and worker computer skills in the future; however, human resource departments will need to find ways to motivate and train workers to become productive in virtual settings. Setting up virtual organizations can be a great tool to benefit from globalization. For example, companies can reduce travel expenses and benefit from lower labor rates and uninterrupted operations by dispersing their workforce around the globe. Since competitors will be readily setting virtual organizations to seize such opportunities, ignoring or circumventing virtual work environments will not be an option in the future as it may be at the moment; rather, managers will need to reflect on their management styles and communication skills and find new, improved ways to handle work environment that lack of face-to-face communication.

Another trend affecting human resource management is that the U.S. economy has gradually shifted from manufacturing to services. In 1970, 27% of the workers were employed in manufacturing, whereas by the turn of the century that percentage dropped below 15% (Konrad & Deckop, 2001). At the same time, the female workforce participation rate approximately doubled from 31 to 63%. Konrad and Deckop further uncovered that incentive pay schemes have gained popularity and that skill shortages will continue to pose a threat to U.S. companies. Furthermore, there will be an increase in outsourcing even for small and medium sized enterprises and the workforce will continue to become more diverse (2001). The shift from manufacturing to service in the industry resulted in a shift of managerial focus from managing technology to managing people. What new issues will tomorrow's managers face and how should human capital be managed?

One new challenge to today's organizations is the internet. As foreseen long time ago by Ettorre and McNerney (1995), the internet has already strengthened employee bargaining power because the internet empowers people to become self-employed by reducing the costs for entrepreneurs and exposing them to worldwide markets. Employers are losing their grip on employees because there are many opportunities to make money as an entrepreneur online. To a certain degree and by establishing certain types of businesses on the internet, people will not have to work for organizations at all in the future. Technology has enabled entrepreneurs to reach customers globally at a very low cost and for many types of products and services individual entrepreneurs are now competing directly with large multinational corporations. The possibility of individuals competing directly with corporations imposes a great risk to many industry sectors; hence, managers will need to find strategies to protect their businesses as well as to attract and retain key employees.

With the transition from manufacturing to service, several new types of businesses emerged and existing professional service industries became stronger players in the market. As these professional service companies, such as law firms, designers, and software companies, become more common in the future, human resource management will need to adapt to such knowledge intensive firm environments.

Knowledge intensive firms are characterized by employing people with higher education who deliver knowledge intensive services and products (Teo, Lakhani, & Brown, 2008). Often there is a link to scientific knowledge within the area of expertise of the company and the products and services tend to be customized and delivered by experts in the firm. Another important characteristic of knowledge intensive firms is that they engage in intensive interaction with their clients in order to perform their services (2008). Because of the level of interaction required and all the other unique features of professional service firms, human resource management will need to develop place more emphasis on social intelligence of their workforce. In addition, because knowledge intensive companies have a complex internal and external structure, human resource departments should use performance management systems which require employees to set goals and align to the firm's environment. Moreover, employees of such companies, the so-called knowledge workers, should be recognized and rewarded for their contributions, ideally using continuous feedback (2008).

Knowledge Workers in the Present

The future will bring lots of new challenges to the management theory and practice. The three main trends affecting the management of knowledge workers are likely to be globalization, technology, and the shifting workforce demographics (Ruona, Lynham, & Chermack, 2003). The success of knowledge workers as well as the organizations in which they operate will depend largely on their learning ability. The competitive advantage of the future is therefore likely to come from superior human resource development. It will need to be faster, more efficient, and across nations and places. Human resource departments will need to find ways to learn and deliver results more quickly. As the pace of business will be even faster in the future than it is today, the responsiveness of organizations will be more critical in the future (2003). Organizations, however, can only be responsive when their people are understood and motivated appropriately.

The knowledge age as we know it today has just begun. In developed economies after WWII, workers have migrated from farming to manufacturing and then from manufacturing to service-based work. (Despres, & Hiltrop, 1995). In OECD countries more than 60% of the workforce is employed by service industries (1995). After WWII, management theory transcended from bureaucratic and engineering perspectives to psychosocial and humanistic concepts before ultimately reaching the notion of systems. At the same time, the information revolution stimulated the creation of knowledge in the industries.

Today knowledge is often the major aspect of production and rather than being sold, it is shared; however, as it has been known since beginning of time, it is impossible to separate knowledge from whoever created it (Despres, & Hiltrop, 1995). In addition to the inseparability of knowledge and worker, human resources will need to promote several work practices that are peculiar to knowledge intensive firms. Workers need to challenge accepted wisdom and be intuitive, experimental, and knowledgeable about all systems within the company. Furthermore, incentive systems should be installed which promote the sharing of knowledge and information throughout the organization. One successful form of appraisal system which has been shown to achieve these goals takes into account all interface points of workers, such as superiors, peers, customers, as well as subordinates. Given that more than 50% of all workers report that they are unhappy about their pay and bonuses in general, human resources will need to work on its schemes and improve the framework in the future (1995).

More recently, Ehin (2008) proposed a more radical approach to solving the knowledge worker management problem. From an interdisciplinary viewpoint, Ehin made several observations which are crucial to the management and understanding of knowledge workers. Ehin noted that knowledge workers cannot be managed via traditional methods. The analogy from anthropology is that all biological systems are self-organizing and that their behavior adapts to environmental stimuli. Ehin pointed out that hierarchical social systems are manmade and do not support self-organization; hence, the rigidity of hierarchical systems is rooted in their inability to self-organize and adapt to changing environments. When organizations promote self-organization, so Ehin, more social capital will emerge from greater group interactions. Consequently, such organizations benefit from more commitment and intraentrepreneurship activities (2008).

Anthropological studies revealed that 200,000 years ago humans lived in self-governing groups with high levels of reciprocity where members were autonomous and would lead interchangeably based on their expertise instead of their rank or seniority (Ehin, 2008). Since all human interactions reflect self-organization principles, it is necessary to promote these principles in organizations and gradually shift from hierarchical means of control towards self-regulation of the group. Ehin predicts the intensification of knowledge work in the future will lead organizations to rediscover the principles of self-organization; however, this "un-management" of the knowledge workforce in the so-called Knowledge Age will require different skills than the common superior-subordinate setting in hierarchical systems. As companies try to deploy self-organization today, there are many internal conflicts due to a mismatch of ideology, practice, and reward schemes. Given Ehin's observations, are organizations and society currently in a transition phase towards self-organization?

Knowledge intensive firms have existed for quite a long time; however, mostly in particular industries, such as law, medicine, architecture, etc. Since the Knowledge Age starts to affect most industries today and companies are constantly consolidating and growing, it becomes more difficult to motivate the workforce. Knowledge, however, being the most important asset today for many organizations, needs to be shared; otherwise, the company will not be able to capitalize on it. But how can organizations facilitate the exchange of knowledge? Apparently this is one of the main hurdles today and human resource departments can do a great deal about it. Forstenlechner and Lettice (2007) found that cultural differences can pose a great obstacle and make the exchange of information and knowledge very inefficient, especially in industries and cultures where individuality was expected in the past. For example, in the past, lawyers and general practitioners were working on their own but as competitive forces increased these medical and law offices discovered economies of scope and scale in consolidating.

The mentality of the associates, however, apparently has not followed that trend and lawyers tend to remain individualists (Forstenlechner & Lettice, 2007). Much of the knowledge management fails in those industries because of a lack of time, lack of incentives, and the individuality of workers. In individualistic cultures, which are typical for Western countries that score low on collectivism, it is therefore no surprise that 74% of the workers in law offices only feel motivated to share knowledge if knowledge sharing activities are considered in the appraisal system. Peer recognition and one-time rewards, on the other hand, scored lower with 59% and 43%, respectively (2007). The willingness of individuals to share information is therefore fundamental to the company's success and companies need to find ways to reeducate the work style of their workforce to embrace knowledge sharing. Companies need to build internal knowledge and intellectual capital in order to survive but they will not be able to do so if knowledge workers fail to cooperate. The selection of suitable personnel and the motivation to share knowledge will hence become one of the main challenges to future human resource departments and theorists.

Adelstein (2007) took the point to an extreme with her analogy in comparing the knowledge worker to Icarus. Adelstein notes that as the world economy continues to change and grow together, manufacturing will move to third world countries and so-called first world countries will need to set themselves apart by the quality and quantity of the knowledge they posses and create. Adelstein holds that knowledge is an important asset and that the owning organization needs to be protected against knowledge theft and misuse. This ideology is unfortunately very common and reflected in the practices of most corporations today. Another point of view, which might have not gained yet much popularity in the press, is the opposite notion; the organization wants to protect and own what is actually the knowledge worker's property. If knowledge was protectable per se, there would be legal instruments, intellectual property laws in particular, similar to copyright and patent law, to protect that knowledge. It appears that our society has recognized the need to protect the investments of inventors by granting them patents; however, by explicitly limiting patent life to at most 20 years and limiting the scope of patentable apparatuses the law has implemented a policy to strike a balance between keeping up strong levels of competition and protecting inventors and investments to a certain degree. One could argue, hence, that organizations may have an interest in the knowledge created by knowledge workers but there should not be an automatic claim to it because of mere employment.

The question then remains of whether organizations pay for the work that knowledge workers accomplish or for the knowledge they created. The rhetorical question is then where is the limit of knowledge property? It would be ridiculous for an organization to charge its employees for the experience they gained while working for that organization. Similarly non- compete clauses that are legal in some states target to protect "trade secrets" and other information; however, many states and countries do not uphold such clauses and other states only do so if consideration was received for it by the worker and only if there is a substantial interest to be protected by the company.

The treatment of non-competes in current legal discussions in effect reflects our transition phase as a society. The Knowledge Age will most likely bring unforeseeable new challenges to management theory and many old ones are likely to reappear as well. For example, Wren (2005) noted how workers retaliated by deliberately reducing their work output, such as limiting the number of pieces per hour. It is then to be expected that knowledge workers, who perceive they have reason to retaliate, will reduce the quality of their work to a minimum, just enough to pass "quality control" and meet requirements. Such knowledge workers will intentionally interfere with processes and fail to cooperate and hoard instead of sharing knowledge. As knowledge becomes a valuable asset and workers perceive a high risk of layoffs, they may try to secure their position by engaging in politics and by treating knowledge as what it is: an asset. This situation is very common, especially in companies that do not reward their knowledge workers for their achievements. The challenge, hence, is to better understand the Knowledge Age and knowledge workers and their idiosyncratic needs. Human resource departments can tailor specifically to the needs of knowledge workers and greatly affect how they perceive and succeed in their work environment.

Knowledge Workers in the Future

So what do knowledge workers want and need? As the above discussion has shown, the Knowledge Age has brought many new opportunities such that the need to work for an organization begins to diminish altogether; hence, attracting and retaining knowledge workers as well as their knowledge will depend on a thorough understanding of the situation.

The study conducted by Yigitcanlar, Baum, and Horton (2007) took a very broad perspective by looking at cities in which knowledge intensive organizations operate successfully. They found that knowledge workers need environments rich in retail and professional sports and music. In addition, childcare, school, and higher education as well as health care are also primary considerations of knowledge workers. Furthermore, knowledge workers demand affordable housing costs and seek affluent retirement. Knowledge workers prefer urban, cosmopolitan environments that a rich in time and offer good transportation facilities (2007). Organizations aim to attract this particular type of workforce should therefore focus on environments that satisfy these requirements; however, many of these requirements change as organizations set up on a large scale. For example, housing costs can be expected to rise when several large organizations establish offices in a particular area; hence, it is difficult for an organization to manage its environment. The organization can, however, try to offer additional incentives such as childcare in areas where such facilities are short in supply.

Contingent work, as a subclass of knowledge work, is a practice expected to gain more popularity in the next decade (Redpath, Hurst, & Devine, 2007). Redpath, Hurst and Devine's survey of contingent workers revealed that most of them would prefer work that is not contingent but find it nevertheless rewarding. They enjoy working in different industries, projects, and companies and benefit from higher wages and generally more interesting assignments. Increasingly contingent workers are given greater independence and can choose how and where they complete their work. This additional flexibility also helps them to reduce the stress in their private life, for example by having more time to spend with their children.

It appears that gradually organization begin to realize that more value needs to be passed down to the worker and higher pay and additional flexibility in the work environment are just a two examples of a new wave of bargaining between organizations and workforce. The other transition taking place today is that human factor is found to be far more important with knowledge workers than with touch laborers in the past. Pyöriä (2007) argues that human relations should be therefore valued much higher by knowledge intensive firms than technology. Technology can be bought; however, talent needs to be nurtured and cultivated. Pyöriä found that technology has generally been overvalued and that it merely aids automation and coordination. This could explain in part why many knowledge management initiatives have failed because organizations overlooked the human factor by overemphasizing on technology. What can be done in some larger companies is to appoint knowledge facilitators who can help other workers to learn, organize, conceptualize, and share their knowledge. Given that many knowledge management systems are unsuccessful because of a mismatching organizational culture, such facilitators can help gradually changing culture and perceptions within companies towards a more cooperative environment.

Human resource departments need to also keep an eye on the variables influencing the job satisfaction of their knowledge workforce Lee-Kelley, Blackman, and Hurst (2007) found that shared vision, systems thinking, and team learning are skills that should be looked for in new recruits but organizations should also offer opportunities for knowledge workers to develop their skills. This can be achieved by assigning work that is challenging and requires the workers to come up with new ideas. In effect this is actually a form of employee involvement and also helps reduce turnover and increase job satisfaction (2007).

The lessening bond between knowledge workers and the organizations for which they work should also be a major concern for human resource practitioners. Knowledge workers have non-substitutable knowledge and are less dependent on their employer given their rare skills and knowledge (Donnelly, 2006). In addition, so-called psychological contract is no longer between employer and employee but the loyalty of knowledge workers slowly shifts towards their career and profession rather than the employing company (O'Donohue, Sheehan, Hecker, & Holland, 2007). As successful knowledge workers reach seniority, they seem to develop self-actualization needs that exceed the individual and the organization. Knowledge workers feel they need to make a contribution to the body of knowledge of their profession and industry; therefore, it can be expected that the workforce of the future will be much more autonomous and independent. Since command-and-control structures, which still dominate today's organizational landscape, seem to go against self-sufficiency, how can human resources go about managing such individuals?

Successful knowledge workers are intrinsic learners, need less structure and more flexibility to thrive. Courtney, Navarro, and O'Hare (2007) proposed the Dynamic Organic Transformational (DOT) team model to support high-performance teams of knowledge workers. There are five dimensions in knowledge worker teams: purpose, people, partnerships, process, and performance. The DOT model is built on three major assumptions about such teams. First, knowledge worker teams are dynamic and need to have a holistic view of the organization. Second, teams consisting of experts can only thrive when they are self-directing and therefore need an organic environment. Third, such teams need an organizational culture of learning creates an environment that encourages innovation, high-performance, and effectiveness.

This dynamic view of teams was recently extended and applied to the concept leadership by Karl and Helgo (2008). According to their research, the concept of leadership will need to become more dynamic in the future. At the present time there is too much of a fixation on the leader in management theory rather than the followers. Because leadership is a transient phenomenon in groups, it appears from the internal group interaction; hence, a leader cannot be understood in isolation from the group. The social interaction within the group is a feedback mechanism and it also shapes the leader as well as the group. Trying to analyze leadership without focusing on the followers, hence, shifts the emphasis of the analysis away from the group. The group, however, is actually the nurturing ground for the group activity and the dynamics within the group are what leaders achieve to exploit. A better understanding of the group dynamics should then help the human resource discipline of organizations identify individuals who are better suited to lead departments and teams.

Copyright 2009 by Savas Papadopoulos, FastNeuron Inc Savas Papadopoulos is a software business consultant with FastNeuron Inc http://www.fastneuron.com. He can be reached at 410 571 5950 or via email: savas@fastneuron.com

Be More Competitive With Business Process, Product Knowledge and Accounting in NetSuite

2012-10-26T09:34:00.000-07:00

There are three business areas that NetSuite can help your business make more money:

1. Business Practices
2. Product Knowledge
3. Operational Accounting

Business Practices

Business practices are the skills, know how, and procedures that comprise your business operations. In a fundamental way, customers trade their money for the practice your business produces which may show up as either a good and/or a service. A superior business process produces better goods and services and this will lead to more profit.

NetSuite excels in that it can track and coordinate business processes. For example, if a marketing initiative is going well (or not), you can see this in NetSuite's analytics area, and this will allow you to design new action for further spend, or new initiatives. NetSuite's integrated ERP and CRM function gives you a window into your business practices, allowing you to decide, minute-by-minute, where you are succeeding, and where you need improvement.

Product Knowledge

When talking about product knowledge, we are suggesting that your superior understanding of your good or service makes a marginal difference to your customers. The marginal difference is that you win the sale. Your knowledge will be seductive to prospective customers and will lead to more sales versus your competitors. For example, we have a client that sells air-cleaners via eCommerce. Their understanding of allergies, pollutants, smoking, and health conditions help them listen better to customers and suggest the best product from their inventory. This leads to more sales.

NetSuite's capacity to organize information about your products and services through its robust item master can help you demonstrate your superior knowledge. For example, our client can track the typical ailments in a custom field in the item master which makes it easy to search and organize. The eCommerce website can then key on this information to present the best product to the customer. This triggers the customer to trust my client and be willing to purchase their goods.

Operational Accounting

Operational accounting is different from financial accounting when it comes to being more competitive and making more money. Whereas financial accounting tracks the "GAAP" results of employing assets through fulfillment, operational accounting is much more forward and real-time looking. For example, counting the number of leads in the CRM system relative to the number of phone calls made today is an operational accounting practice. This has very little to do with finance. It has everything to do with assessing if action is powerful for opening and closing new sales. Hence, operational accounting is an extremely useful practice for gauging the effectiveness of our actions.

NetSuite performs very good financial accounting functions, while it offers superior capacity to track and measure operational functions. Since everything from marketing to order entry to collecting cash is integrated within NetSuite, all business action is tracked and can be measured in real-time. Email alerts can be generated that trigger people into powerful action depending on key events that can be defined based on your imagination. Information dashboards can bring important measures into the foreground keeping management on track.

In summary, NetSuite is the premier tool that allows you to be more competitive. You become more profitable because you can seduce customers to buy your goods and services with your superior product knowledge, you can offer your business process by delivering on your promise in an effective and efficient fashion, and you can account for all the action in your business to help you continuously learn and improve.

Marty Zigman, founder of Prolecto Resources, the leading Southern California consultancy leading companies to advanced growth through NetSuite based implementations and innovations. Marty's organization has developed scalable eCommerce systems for companies such as Time Warner and Bank of America which processed over $1.6 billion in order revenue within 12 months. Marty Zigman, a previous CPA and Deloitte & Touche consultant, brings a unique perspective to how business systems can lead to increased enterprise value and competitive advantages. http://blog.prolecto.com.

7 Things to Teach Your Kids About Money

2012-10-24T00:36:00.000-07:00

Did you know that many people retire broke?

It's true. After a lifetime of hard work and having earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars, they end up with nothing. So where did all their hard-earned cash go? The answer is, it passed right through their fingers. While schools are great at teaching algebra, calculus, and geometry... how many of us learned about the basics of personal finance and creating financial security for ourselves?

The truth is, the earlier you learn to handle money, the more likely you are to manage it properly and live a prosperous life.

So why not provide a little home schooling for your family and teach them the basics? Here are 7 important lessons to instill in your kids about money:

1. Save something of what you earn

Acquiring the savings habit is one of the smartest things you can ever do. If you're reading this now as a middle-aged parent, imagine how much you'd have in the bank today if you'd saved 10% of everything you'd ever earned. (It's almost scary to think about, isn't it?) Teach your kids to save a little of everything they earn.

2. Don't borrow what you can't pay back

Debt is one of the greatest social diseases of our time. The price to pay for the "have now, pay later" philosophy is that you certainly will pay later. Debt imprisons you in a job you don't like, creates stress and anxiety in your life, and erodes your wealth creation program. You will never become rich while you're in debt. Period. Teach your kids the value of delayed gratification. "If in doubt, go without".

3. To give is to get

Managing money doesn't mean hoarding it and locking it away in its own purpose-built high security jail. It simply means being careful, spending wisely, and acquiring a regular savings habit. Teach your kids that donating money to worthwhile causes is a noble thing to do, and that the money returns to you in more ways than you can imagine.

4. Money isn't evil

"Money is the root of all evil" and "filthy lucre" are phrases you'll hear banded around. Ignore them. Money actually brings enormous good into the world. For example:

- Creating wealth helps create jobs for others

- Investing in business helps to bring solutions into people's lives by way of innovative products and services

- Acquiring a great fortune allows you to donate more money to charity - or even start your own trust fund

Teach your kids that money is neither good nor bad - it's what you do with it that makes the difference.

5. If you don't spend much, you can't lose much!

One of the oldest wealth-creation maxims is, "It takes money to make money". Unfortunately, it also takes money to lose money. Teach your kids the value of caution when entering into financial affairs. And let them know that many self-made millionaires started with literally nothing.

6. Get the best price for everything you can

Your financial health is really the difference between how much you earn and how much you spend. It therefore makes sense not to pay any more money for something than you have to. Teach your kids that bargain-hunting doesn't make you a "miser" - just a sensible individual.

7. The fast buck is your last buck

Sooner or later everyone gets offered a "surefire" method of making a fortune, whether it's the three-card trick, a once-in-a-lifetime investment plan, or some time-limited business opportunity only available to a select few... Don't fall for too-good-to-be-true scams. Teach your kids that wealth creation is a simple and timeless process based on common sense.

If you had learned the above principles when you were 10 years old, and had applied them every day of your life, would you be financially healthier today? You betcha!

Teach your kids the timeless truths of acquiring and keeping wealth. Knowledge truly is the most precious gift you can give.

http://www.101moneymatters.com/personalfinance/things_to_teach_your_kids_about_money.php

Yoga and Health - Yoga For Profit

2012-10-21T05:37:00.000-07:00

The number of people practicing Yoga has probably never been higher. People are increasingly realising that there is a branch of Yoga that suits the vast majority regardless of their age and general state of health.

If you have been practising Yoga for some time, and have the commitment, there is no reason why you should not consider teaching it. As with any business there are many levels and Yoga is no exception. If you are highly experienced already it would make sense to take a teaching qualification. If you are slightly less experienced and without a qualification you can still make money.

The entry level into teaching Yoga could perhaps be teaching what you know to friends and acquaintances in the comfort of your own home. This won't make you rich but may very well bring in the extra money that would make a positive difference to your income. The beauty of doing it this way is that you would have no overheads to pay. Working with friends you will be more at ease than if you immediately started teaching strangers.

A far riskier strategy, one that requires a great deal of thought, would be to open your own studio. Any new business is most at risk in its first year because of bills like rent and local taxes. There is also the fact that as a new business, coming from a standing start, you will have to find clients quickly. To do this you will have to advertise, which in itself is expensive. My own view is that the route to your new studio should be via a teaching position with another studio. Having prior knowledge of how things work can only be to the good and will definitely save you money.

If you have ever considered teaching Yoga, whatever ever level you are at, you may benefit from looking at the resource below. There are many article there that cover almost the whole spectrum that is Yoga. On visiting the site you will find a whole host of Yoga articles. The last two of these deal with teaching Yoga for a living. Be sure to read them.

Yoga for Profit [http://www.yoga-and-health.info].

Money Answereth All Things!

2012-10-18T08:54:00.000-07:00

You certainly would have come across this phrase at one point or the other in your life. Many have criticized this as not being true or as being an exaggeration. My dear friend, the truth is this; you cannot live without money! And the reason is not far fetched;

(1) Money gives us options:These options are what make our life colourful; they literally help us live out our dreams and heart desires. What could you possibly do without money? Have you ever given it a deep thought? Yes, I know many who subscribe to the school of thought that the best things in life are free. Of course, I do subscribe to that also, but what about the necessities of life? Do they come free? When was the last time you had a free meal? When I talk about free, I mean it in all sense of the word. This means, you didn't have to work for the food, neither did anyone else. The food came as 'manna' from heaven as was recorded in the bible. Certainly not, somehow, somewhere, someone did something to get that food which you might regard as free. Even if it came from the government as welfare service, or from a relief program; it still came from the sweat of some people.

While it is true that the best things in life, such as; air, oceans, trees, natural resources, happiness, health, sanity, friends, talents, and family are free, which implies that we don't need money to attract, acquire or enjoy them, they are provided by nature itself for the benefit of mankind. How about those that are not literally the best things of life but are vital to our existence here on earth? Things such as; food, clothing, shelter, education, security, health care and so on. These are things that are not luxury but necessities, they are what we cannot live without if we as humans must grow and develop mentally, socially and even physically. The funny thing about anything you get for free is this; you are not open to any option whatsoever. You either take it or leave it. Remember the phrase - "a beggar has no choice."

(2)Money is an Instrument: most people who have a bias for money are no other than those who have a wrong perspective of money. You see, money is neither good nor bad; it's only an instrument and like every other instrument, the knowledge of good or bad can only be determined from its usage. Money can either be good or bad, it depends on how we use it. Owing to the fact that no one is entirely self sufficient, money was introduced as a store of value and medium of exchange. Money is that which makes it possible for us to exchange what we are freely given by nature for those which are needed for our survival as humans here on earth. Money was created to be used. There is nothing wrong with money; the problem is how people go about getting it and how they handle it. Miles Munroe was right when he said; "when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable". If you don't know why money exists, then abusing it is easily achievable. The only reason why you would consider life without money is because you've lost your right to control money. Think about it, money in the hands of good managers are not considered bad. Why? Because It opens up more doors and gives us more rooms to fully maximize our stay here on earth. Money is essential to man as air is natural to life. The lack of it can be very dangerous and the excess of it can lead to danger also. The key is to strike a balance in our usage!

How is Money created?

In your spare time. The truly rich and wealthy made all their fortune from their spare time. You'll only be as rich as how you spend your spare time. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in his spare time while in his dormitory at Harvard University. Bill Gates and his founding partner, Paul Allen, began the Microsoft project in their spare time. Sir Richard Branson of Virgin began creating wealth from his child hood at age 16 when he left high school to publish a student magazine he created in his spare time. Google was a pet project which Larry Page and Sergey Brin started in their spare time. And the master of them all, Warren Buffet began creating wealth in his spare time by selling packs of chewing gum at a tender age of six. From each pack he sold, he made two cents profit. They became the first few snowflakes in a snowball of wealth to come.

Still at age six, Warren Buffet during his spare time at night sold coke from door-to-door. He made a net profit of a nickel from every six bottles he sold. He was also distributing door-to-door newspapers and magazines still at age six. By the time he was fifteen, still a kid but now a young businessman, Warren Buffet had accumulated more than two thousand US dollars throwing papers. No one else in high school was a businessman, not alone has two thousand dollars to their name. Just from throwing newspapers a couple of hours a day during his spare time, young Buffet was earning 175 dollars a month, more money than his school teachers! His passion for making money which occupied most of his spare time is what made Warren Buffet the world's third richest man alive today.

The simple question of 'how is wealth created?' is answered with another question; "how do you use your spare time?" If you're serious about creating wealth, a good place to start is by answering the above question. Why? Because the answer to the question of how is wealth created? is this; in your spare time. Wealth is created in your spare time. Yes! You read that well. The simplicity of that sentence has a far reaching impact than most of us would like to come to terms with. Being wealthy begins with watching how you spend your spare time. Knowing how to create wealth begins with knowing how to spend your spare time. You cannot be wealthy if you are not spending your spare time on activities that create wealth. The answer to the question of whether you will be wealthy or not; is found in the use of your spare time. How do I mean?

Of all the resources available to mankind, time is the most crucial. Whatever it is we all wish and dream of becoming is first determined by the use of our time. Whether rich or poor, black or white, we've all been given equal amount of time daily; 24 hours, no more, no less. The outcome of our lives is dependent on how we use our time. At the core, the primary difference between the rich and the poor; winners and losers; those who succeed and those who fail is how they use their time. Time is mankind's most valuable resource. The gravity of this last sentence may not be quite clear at a glance, so permit me to go a little bit deeper.

A resource is simply anything that can be converted into the creation of something else other than itself. A resource in essence is an instrument or tool that can be used in the creation of something new. A resource is not useful all by itself or for itself; it must be applied to the creation of something else other than itself. The creation of anything other than itself is the purpose and essence of a resource. A resource therefore exists to be used in the creation of something uniquely new. A resource must never be wasted. Other forms of resource include; money, people, life, knowledge, idea, thoughts etc.

Having this clear understanding of what a resource is form the basis of how we ought to be using our time knowing what a valuable asset it is to our lives. The outcome of a person's lives can be predicted to an extent by merely observing how they spend their time. Our life is predictable through the use of our time. The rich become rich as a result of how they spend their time. The same is true of the poor. Our future is created today from how we use our time. Time is the currency through which life is spent. Take control of your time and gain full control of your life. Creating wealth begins by having full control over our time. Whoever or whatever controls your time owns your life.

How are you spending your spare time? Sleeping? Watching TV or movies? Discussing sports, guys, babes, fashion or politics? Drinking? Clubbing? Or even Facebooking? There a million and one things to do with your spare time, what you decide to do with yours is entirely your choice. However, you must understand that the choices we make determines the decisions we take which ultimately defines the quality of life we live or would live. The activities you spend your spare time on will reflect and determine the quality of life you live. People can tell what you do when there's nothing to do by simply looking at the kind of life you lead. If your goal is to be financially free and wealthy, then your spare time must be dedicated to the learning, practice and discipline of creating wealth. Wanting it is never enough; your habits which are expressed in your spare time must reflect what exactly you want.

Wealth creation is a function of habits; those things we do during our spare time. If you can form the habits of the rich, you will ultimately acquire the wealth and fortune of the rich. The rich know how to make use of their spare time for wealth creating activities (habits), while the poor engage themselves in wealth draining activities (habits). Knowing the difference between these two realities is the first step to acquiring great wealth.

What is a spare time?

A spare time is anytime you have all to yourself. In other words, it's a time you are in control of. A time free of external control or influence; a time you can totally call your own. It's a time whereby you get to decide what you choose to use the time for. Spare time is anytime spent for yourself. It is your time, use it well. Examples include;

· Sleep time

· Idle time

· Toilet time

· Travelling time (e.g. driving, flying etc.)

· Waiting time (e.g. in a client's office, before an interview/appointment)

· Laundry time

· Exercise (work-out/gym) time

· Cooking time

· Office time (yes, believe it or not, there are spare times during working hours e.g. break time)

· Etc.

How can you tell it's a spare time?

Firstly, observe yourself; are you in a conversation? You can't have a spare time when you are talking or listening to someone else talk. Spare time is when you have the control to keep your mouth and your ears shut. This means that you have to critically examine your conversations and fish out those idle talks which yields no productive result.

Are you all by yourself? This does not necessarily mean being alone (no one physically around). What this means is that you're mentally alone. People may be all around, but you don't have an obligation to them; either to speak or listen.

Secondly, observe the situation/environment; is there no better place for you to be at that particular time? Even though you are obligated to be physically present in such a place at that time, must you be mentally present too? Can't you be physically present but mentally elsewhere; either thinking, reading or daydreaming?

Thirdly, observe your emotions; what is your body or mind telling you? Is your spirit, soul and body fully present and aware? Are you being reminded from within of something else you could be using that time for? Are you feeling uncomfortable or absentminded at that particular time? Are you feeling pressured or restless? These are all indications of boredom signifying that you should find something more exciting and challenging to engage yourself and your time.

Fourthly, observe your schedule; is the activity you're currently engaged in a priority? A priority is an activity that is both urgent and important. Urgent in the sense that it requires immediate attention, delay could mean disaster. Important in the sense that it constitutes a vital part of a much bigger whole.

The key thing to bear in mind when trying to detect or maximize a spare time is this; always ask yourself how the present activity you're engaged contributes to the future goal you're targeting. Remember what has been said about time; a resource used for the creation of something uniquely new. There are countless number of things that would signal to you acting as reminders of how you ought to be spending that time.

The 2 things you must do in your spare time to create wealth

Having discovered how to identify and seize our spare time; how do you know if what you're spending your spare time doing is productive or not? On what kind of activities do the rich and wealthy spend their spare time? There are basically two broad classifications of activities that constitute wealth creating activities and they are;

· Preparation

· Execution

Preparation: this constitutes all the required activities that equip and empower you for the goal, dream or vision you've predetermined for yourself. As the great inventor and businessman Henry Ford once said; "before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." They are the behind the scene habits that constitute external success or victory. As a matter of principle, preparation is the most vital of the two classes of wealth creating activities. As former coach Bobby Knight once put it; "the will to succeed is important. But I will tell you what's more important; it is the will to prepare!" After all is said and done, fortune will only favor those who are fully prepared to seize opportunities when nature makes them available. The first use of your spare time is in preparing to become the qualified person for the goal, vision or dream you seek. You the dreamer must first and foremost grow and develop yourself to match the size of the dream you seek.

What then are some of the habits that constitute preparation? They are basically three and come in this order; Learning, Thinking and Planning (LTP).

Learning: our ability to do is constantly limited by what we know. Therefore, in order to be able to do more, we must perpetually expand our knowledge through learning. Knowledge is therefore the power to do. Without knowledge our ability to do is limited. So the first kind of habit to develop in order to equip and empower yourself for where you want to go and who you want to be is learning. Learning is the willingness to acquire the knowledge, attitude and skills required for the dream, vision or goal you seek. Learning is perpetual; we are never through with learning. It's a lifelong habit!

How do you learn? Learning basically comes from two sources;

a. Studying: this describes knowledge or skills obtained mentally. It could be done through one; personal reading of books and two; being taught by someone else.

b. Observing: this involves knowledge or skills acquired socially. They are obtained from the environment in which you find yourself and the experience, either yours or that of others. The environment comprises learning from your immediate surroundings and they constitute both positive and negative experiences and events. That means you should be learning from your mistakes, successes, failures, victories and loses as well as that of others.

What should you be learning? They are basically three dimensions of learning;

1. The why: is the purpose for the kind of dream, vision or goal you seek. Do you have a reason for wanting what you so desperately seek? Do you know why you want to achieve that goal, dream or vision so badly? Why is it so important for you to be wealthy for example? Do you know why creating wealth is so important? Why do you want to build a wealth generating system and make so much money without ever having to work? What is the purpose of wealth to you? Why do you need so much money? The why is the first kind of knowledge you should seek, because it brings into perspective all other things which you still have to learn. Without a healthy reason for chasing a dream, vision or goal, we end up becoming victims and prisoners of our own dreams, visions or goals. We compromise on the right principles, standards and values that naturally would have preserved whatever it is we so desperately seek. The 'why' serves as a fuel (motivation) to propel you towards learning other things you need to know in order to have the dream you seek. The 'why' ignites your passion to endure the whole preparation process. It constantly keeps your dreams, visions or goals in check making sure your actions, attitudes and thoughts are all in line with what you desire. If the 'why' isn't big enough, the 'what' (dream) will appear too difficult for you to achieve and the 'how' (process) will appear too difficult for you to endure. Your reason (the why) must be big enough to give you the required energy to embark and stick to the process (the how) in order to fulfill your dream, vision or goal (the what).

2. The what: is the vivid knowledge of what you seek. The 'what' is the clear picture of the desirable future you so desperately seek. Do you know what exactly it is? It answers the question; "what exactly do I want?" "How well do I know this dream, vision or goal?" "How will I know when it is eventually achieved?" "How am I so sure this is what I really want?" Knowing the 'what' helps to clarify your focus. It puts your dream, vision or goal into the right perspective. That is; the way it ought to be not the way you perceive it to be. Many of us want and pursue dreams, goals or visions we don't even fully understand, how then do we intend to achieve them? For example, most people don't understand what it means to be wealthy yet they hunger and thirst after money. Without a clear understanding of the goal or vision you seek, there's every possibility that you won't recognize it when it comes or worse still settling for something lesser than what you originally set out to accomplish. If you're going to spend your life pursuing a goal, dream or vision, wouldn't it be wise to first spend ample time learning about the goal, dream or vision? Pursuing a goal, dream or vision you don't fully understand, is like chasing thin air; you would only be busy doing nothing. So learn about that particular dream, goal or vision you seek. What would it look like when it's finally achieved? What are the obvious characteristics of the dream, vision or goal? What will be the signs of the dream, vision or goal once achieved? In this case, what does it mean to be wealthy? What are some of the challenges of being wealthy? What will you do with so much money when it eventually comes?

3. The how: is learning about the requirements or ingredients needed to make your dream, vision or goal a reality. The 'how' is the price tag of the 'what' and a test of the 'why'. The 'how' is having an understanding of the essential skills and knowledge commensurate to the dream, vision or goal you seek. The 'how' involves learning what it takes to make your dream, vision or goal happen. Without the 'how' what you seek will only remain an imagination. Dreams, visions or goals don't just COME through, they are WORKED through. You must be prepared to learn all that it takes to do the work of making your dream, vision or goal a reality. The truly successful KNOW what it takes and DO what it takes, no wonder they are the only ones that HAVE what it takes to make their dreams, visions or goals a reality. While the unsuccessful ones still dream, they LEARN, DO and ultimately HAVE and LIVE the dreams the unsuccessful are still busy imagining. Show me the size of your dream, vision or goal and I will tell you to go begin developing your muscles. The 'how' is often three times bigger than the size of your dream, vision or goal. So the next time you lay on your bed dreaming and imagining what your life would look like once your dream, vision or goal becomes a reality, check your muscles to be sure they are three times bigger than what you seek. You want to be sure you have developed enough mental, emotional, spiritual and physical muscles needed to deliver the dream, vision or goal you seek. For it takes consistent hard work and perseverance to make dreams, visions or goals a reality. Many are ill-prepared for the dream, vision or goal they seek. How prepared are you? In this case, do you know what it takes to build a system that generates so much wealth with or without your physical input? In other words, do you know how to create enduring wealth?

Thinking: this is the second habit of preparation. After learning comes thinking; the digestion and internalization of knowledge or skill acquired. In my opinion, this is about the most dreaded habit of many. What many refer to as thinking is simply worrying. Success in the pursuit of a dream, vision or goal will only happen once we are all able to tell the difference between thinking and worrying. The successful think while the unsuccessful worry. Thinking is that rare ability of coming up with unique and useful solutions or ideas to challenging situations or problems by using our mind to creatively ANALYZE, ORGANIZE and INTERPRET information received from our five senses. Thinking is the art of making sense of reality; how we interpret the information received from our five senses. Thinking is how we form our perception (understanding, opinion, belief, and mindset) of reality. It is how we interpret the world around us (reality) and come up with our own definition or meaning to things. That means, how we analyze, organize and interpret (think about) the information supplied by our senses from the world around us (reality) forms the basis of our perception (understanding, opinion, belief, and mindset) about things (issues, problems, events, experiences, circumstances, environments etc.). And that is why it is such a very delicate matter. Thinking has the power to change our perception (understanding, opinion, belief, and mindset) of the world around us (reality). And once it begins to change our perception (understanding, opinion, belief, and mindset) of the world around us (reality) our life begins to change either positively or negatively depending on the kind of information we received from our five senses. That is thinking can totally alter how we analyze, organize and interpret what we see, feel, hear, taste and smell.

Worrying on the other hand is not trying to make sense of reality. It's more of trying to deny reality by focusing more on the issue, problem, situation, experience etc. rather than trying to understand it so as to gain the power to overcome it. Worrying is not analyzing, organizing and interpreting the information we receive from our five senses, it's complaining, labeling and ignoring the information we receive from our five senses. Instead of trying to analyze the situation or problem (this is the first step of thinking), worrying focuses on complaining about the situation or problem. Instead of trying to organize the facts obtained from analyzing the situation or problem (this is the second step of thinking), worrying focuses on labeling; attributing blames and assigning names to the situation or problem. Instead of trying to draw up solutions or ideas by interpreting the organized facts obtained from analyzing the situation or problem (this is the third step of thinking), worrying simply ignores all the information presented by the problem or situation hoping that the problem or situation will take care of itself somehow.

The goal or objective of thinking is to gain adequate knowledge or insight of the problem or situation so as to be able to uncover a suitable idea or solution to overcome the problem. It's like looking at the problem or situation through a microscope; you want to see the patterns, the cause and effects of the problem or situation by dissecting and magnifying it. Thinking helps us discover solutions by understanding the problem or situation. Until the problem or situation is fully understood through deep thinking, the suitable idea or solution required to overcome the problem or situation will keep eluding us. The goal or objective of worrying is to SAY everything humanly possible to make the problem or situation go away except to DO the right thing which is; spending time to analyze, organize and interpret all the information you are getting from the problem or situation. Problems don't go away by simply talking, they go away by taking actions. After 'the saying', 'the doing' must follow. This is the essence of thinking; it helps us know WHERE to begin to do. It gives us an idea on how to tackle the problem or situation. Since the role of learning is to equip us with a reason to pursue our dreams, visions, or goals (the why); a vivid understanding of the dreams, visions or goals we seek (the why); and a knowledge of what it takes to make our dreams, visions or goals a reality (the how), the role of thinking is to help us identify with our present problem or situation so as to be able to discover a way out of it (the where) and begin the journey towards the dreams, visions or goals we so desperately seek.

Planning: is the formulation and presentation of knowledge and skills acquired through learning guided by the ideas or solutions generated through thinking into a strategic series or course of action. Planning is the intelligent organization of our knowledge, skills, experiences, ideas and solutions into a set of strategic actions. By strategic, I mean each action carefully developed and executed as a vital part of a much bigger whole. That is every action in the plan builds on previous actions and sets the tone for future actions. The outcome of your preparation stage is a finished and detailed plan that will be used as a guide in your execution stage. In this case, you want to have a laid out series of strategic actions that will deliver your dream, vision or goal of a financially free future. Your plan should include the following;

1. Timeline: how long will it take you to go from here to where you want to be? In other words, what is the expiration date for your dream, vision or goal? For example, what date do you plan on retiring from active duty?

2. Deliverables: how will you know you are gradually approaching the accomplishment of the dream, vision or goal you seek? Dreams, visions or goals don't happen as a whole, they materialize in tiny little parts that when put together makes the complete whole. Deliverables are the tiny little parts of your dream, vision or goal and you've got to have a list of what they are. For example, how many businesses must you build to be financially free for the rest of your life? How much in residual income (income earned without working) do you want to generate monthly or yearly for you to be wealthy?

3. Tactics: how do you want to play to win? What are going to be your tools for delivering your dream, vision or goal? In this case, how do you want to create your wealth? What wealth creating instruments or tools do you want to adopt? There are several ways of creating wealth such as profits from businesses, capital gains and dividends from investments, cash flows from real estates, royalties from intellectual properties, etc.

Tito Philips, Jnr. is a young Nigerian who is MAD-Making A Difference. He's a People, Business and Life developer who is passionate about helping you become SIGNIFICANT -different (being Unique) and Making a difference (being useful). You can read more about his thoughts on Business here; http://www.naijapreneur.com, and his thoughts on People and Life here; http://www.MADphilips.com

Christian Health - 15 Reasons Your Prayers For Healing May Be Blocked

2012-10-15T22:58:00.000-07:00

You've thought you've been a "good" Christian. You go to church, have devotions and are active in church events. You pray - well, especially now that you're sick and neither the medical community or alternative medicine has been able to help you. You've exhausted all avenues known to "man" and came up empty. So God is your last hope.

Like many "good" Christians you're not alone in taking this route first. In this modern age we've come to rely on human physicians instead of the Great Physician. After all, God has blessed doctors with knowledge and a gift for healing. But, many times we go to them as our gods for healing and many of them readily take on that persona and to go against their directives they feel may even qualify as blasphemy.

I'm not against doctors mind you. God has raised them up to be blessings. But, we are to seek God and His wisdom first and not set up other human beings as a replacement for God the Father, Son and Spirit.

And when conventional medicine comes short we seek alternative medicine.

Proverbs 3:5-8 talks about trusting God even more than you trust your own instincts for trusting God will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

God's will is not that of miraculous healing for your body and mind but that you walk in His will first and by doing so live in divine health. It would be vain to miraculously heal a smashed thumb if the carpenter does nothing to prevent the possibility of hitting it with a hammer again thereby injuring it consistently.

So why isn't God listening to your pleads of anguish and your cries for healing? God is waiting for you to quit swinging the spiritual hammer. Sins prevent God's work in our lives and sometimes we don't even realize that we are sinning. The number one hindrance to being blessed is disobedience.

The following may be some reasons it seems as though your prayers are falling on deaf ears.

1. Holding a grudge or unforgiveness toward another.

God is not a bubble-gum machine. In Mark 11 we are told that we can pray to even have a mountain removed and be thrown into the sea and if we don't doubt it will come about. People so often want their prayers for health answered so badly that they fail to keep reading. Just the next two verses tell us to forgive so that our heavenly Father may forgive us. If we don't forgive neither will He. How can we be healed of a chronic disease if we fail to forgive others as we have been forgiven?

God's love is not conditional but He won't bless sin. He also isn't fooled. He knows forgiveness for us is sometimes difficult. But, forgiveness is an attitude of the heart and a choice. You don't forgive people who have wronged you because you feel like it. You make the choice to forgive and because we have the Spirit of God dwelling in us, He gives us the ability to forgive. We won't necessarily forget, but the bitterness of being wronged can be removed from the memory of the wrongful action.

2. To be ignorant or to lack knowledge.

God created your body with the ability to balance it's functions and to heal itself if given the optimum circumstances. Your body operates at a cellular level. If large numbers of cells fail to communicate then the created balance is upset and symptoms of disease manifest.

Disease is the miscommunication of cells. What we have to find out is what is causing the miscommunication. God knows all things and to come to Him in prayer to ask for understanding and wisdom should be foremost. Wisdom is knowledge in action. Proverbs tells us that the beginning of knowledge and wisdom starts with the fear or respect of the Lord.

3. Knowing of God but not having a relationship with Him.

Do you need to accept Jesus in order to be healed? Will He heal you anyway? Yes, God will heal people who do not accept Jesus. We see this in scripture from Mark 7 when the woman from the border of Tyre and Sidon asks for her daughter to be healed. She was not a believer but Jesus healed the daughter anyway.

And take the ten lepers for example. All were healed but only one came back to give thanks. But if you can be healed physically isn't it up-most to be healed spiritually for salvation? In James 4 we are told that we don't receive what we ask for because we ask amiss. Our motives for asking are not right and our motives aren't right because we don't really know the one we are petitioning to. When Jesus healed He preached the gospel first then He healed.

Now you say that there are those who are not Christian and receive healing. They may be instinctively following God's truths by their own reasoning in their heart. Their rewards will be of this world.

In reading through Leviticus it shows us how serious God is about sin. The penalty was high in the Old Testament. Sacrifices had to be made. Much blood from animals was shed. Jesus Christ paid the penalty for all of our sins with His shed blood. We no longer need to kill animals for forgiveness. But God still views sin as serious. It causes physical and spiritual consequences.

4. Personal sins (unknowingly or flagrant) and inherited generational sins.

In Isaiah 59 we are told that the Lord's hand can save and his ear can hear but, our iniquities have separated us from God and our sins have hid His face from us so that He will not hear. In Exodus 20 it says God holds the fathers responsible for the spirituality of the family and that consequences of sin can go on for generations.

So we not only have to consider the sins we commit ourselves but also inherited family tree sins. Diseases run in families and so do spiritual dynamics; fear, worry, anxiety, resentment, bitterness, negativity also run in families.

Temptation is not sin. But if people habitually practice those things that God has said is wrong with a hardened heart as a way of life then the God's word in Galatians 5 says that the Kingdom of God is not theirs. As with forgiveness it's a matter of the heart. It's a matter of knowing it's wrong and doing it anyway or knowing it's wrong and desperately wanting to change.

5. Not having faith that God is able to do what He says.

Praying and not really believing God can heal you is a major block for healing. Even Jesus was unable to do mighty works because of people's unbelief and doubt. As we trust in Him to work in us and with us we see His power revealed. Many books in the Bible talk about having the faith in God to know that He can do what He says; Mark, Hebrews, and Matthew. Take your belief to point of commitment!

6. Needing to see a miracle or a sign first.

How many people won't believe until they see a miracle or a sign first? They wouldn't believe Jesus was the Messiah unless He came down from the cross and delivered Himself. Thomas wouldn't believe until he saw the scars in Jesus' flesh. But Jesus said blessed are they who haven't seen and yet believe.

We are not to look to other humans for health and healing. We are to look to God, to the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, and to His Word. Doctors may be looked upon as miraculous healers when in fact it is God, who made your body, who heals.

We must seek God and His Word, and not wonders and signs for the foundation of our faith. Disease is a fruit of separation from God in some area in our life. Faith in God and His Word is the key to a relationship with Him not if you see miracles or signs and wonders.

7. Thinking God should heal you on your own terms not His.

First of all we are not to be impressed with our own wisdom as told to us in Proverbs 3. And if we respect the Lord and turn away from evil (sin) we will have healing for our bodies and strength for our bones.

A great illustration of this takes place in 2 Kings 5:11-14. The commander of the king of Aram's army, Naaman, had a spiritual problem of pride. Pride in thinking he knew what was the best way for God to heal him of leprosy. Elisha the prophet had sent a messenger to Naaman to tell him to wash seven times in the Jordan river. But Naaman got irate that first of all Elisha himself didn't come out to heal him and secondly that there were better rivers than Jordan to wash in. He left in a rage.

Naaman's officers confronted him with the fact that if Elisha had given him something complicated to do he would have done it. So why was he being stubborn in doing something simple like washing in the Jordan and be cured? Naaman conceded and washed in the Jordan river 7 times and was healed of leprosy.

8. Looking to man to be the source of your healing.

Are we running from one doctor or expert of a medical modality to the next trying to find the answer to our healing rather than turning to God in prayer and to seek a relationship with Him first and then His wisdom?

Psalm 118:8 says it's better to go to the Lord than to trust in people. We find this in 2 Chronicles 16 when King Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet and even though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the LORD, but only from the physicians. He died two years later.

The Lord tells us that cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. Our salvation through Jesus Christ may be secure because we we trust in Him for forgiveness of sins but we can still suffer physically if we don't trust in Him for guidance in healing.

9. Trying to hide sins and faults from God and not being honest with one another.

Why do people lie about doing something they think is wrong? Why do they try to hide it? Because of pride and fear. Fear of what others will think, fear of rejection, fear of failure and fear of not being loved and too proud to admit that even you can make a mistake or have weaknesses.

Yet we are told to confess our faults to one another and pray for each other in James 5. God sees it all anyway so there's no hiding anything from Him. We need to bear one another's burdens as in Galatians 6.

Proverbs 28 lays it out on the line by saying that he that covers his sins shall NOT prosper: but if you confess and turn from them you shall have mercy. We all sin and fall short of the glory of God. But we are to help each other build one another up. Team mates.

We are not to be angry and resentful of ministers of God's Word when they speak the truth to us regarding sin and turning our lives around. That's truth when it hits an open wound of pride. Destruction closely follows pride as a fall also follows a haughty spirit.

10. Not giving to God what is rightly His in tithes and offerings.

Everything is God's because He made it all. Malachi 3 talks about robbing God. When we neglect to see that all of our blessings come from Him and take and take and take and not respond in kind, then we rob from God. If you're a manager of a store,a department, or an executor of an estate you want to know how the owner or boss wants it handled. Your job is a steward of what you were given. But, to do the best job you can you ask how it should be managed. It's called embezzling if you take it as your own.

God has given us time, talent and money. To show our trust and gratitude for His blessings we are to give back a portion. Not just any portion, however, but the first portion of what He has given us. If we do that He promises to pour out blessings that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

11. Looking to the symptoms and not to The Healer.

Anytime you concentrate on the problem instead of how to solve it you get nowhere. I know it's difficult to look past the symptoms especially when pain is involved. It consumes our present life and gives us the fear of pain in the future.

But just as Peter started to sink because he took his focus off of Jesus Matthew 14 so we must remain focused on the author of our faith and the creator of our bodies. We are to put on the FULL armor of God as in Ephesians 6. The enemy does not want to easily give up a stronghold. To distract you with symptoms is a great tactic to hold you in fear and paralyze you - maybe literally.

Look to the Healer that we see in Romans 8. If He can raise Jesus from the dead surely He can heal you. Don't negate that Christ took your sickness as well as your sins to the cross and by His stripes we are healed as 1 Peter 2 tells us.

12. Harboring fear in your heart.

Fear quenches faith. Fear put your focus on you and your problems and tells you that God isn't who He says He is. Fear produces doubt and doubt makes you think that God isn't omnipotent. God can't handle your disease. God wants you that way. Fear quenches prayer. After all God must not be listening to pitiful you.

Fear doesn't come from God. As a matter of fact over 300 times in the Word of God we're told NOT TO FEAR or FEAR NOT! God's antidote is His Spirit. His Spirit is found in reading His Word and hearing the truth of who God really is; creator, redeemer and sustainer of our lives. God gives us peace as in John 14 and a spirit of power, love and a sound mind in 2 Timothy 1.

Discern where the spirit of fear is coming from as it is keeping you from prayers being answered. Even in the secular realm we've been told we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

13. Neglectful lifestyle.

You expect healing when you neglect the care of your body. Unhealthy and risky lifestyles are directly opposite of God's command to take care of your body, His temple. We were bought with a price; we are not our own. We are to honor God with our bodies and to present them as a living sacrifice to our Maker. It is our spiritual act of worship.

So not getting the right nutrition, drinking enough water and getting enough sleep and rest have a natural consequence. So does watching vile media, taking in unhealthy substances and listening to negative and counterproductive music.

Don't keep blocking your own healing with a lifestyle choice you won't give up.

14. Not resisting the enemy and just giving up thinking God wants you that way.

Your premature death doesn't help God build His Kingdom one bit. Your being in disease doesn't fulfill God's purpose for you in the least. Can you declare His truth to others if you're dead? Can the dead arise and praise God as it states in Psalm 88 and 30?

God doesn't need disease to get you to heaven. We are of no earthly good to God if we die without ministering to other souls that need to hear His Gospel of Salvation! We are to spread the Good News and how can you do that if you are totally concentrating on your own physical health? We fail ourselves and God if we don't ask for wisdom for healing and stop being in His Word.

We are told to fight the good fight and give God ALL glory.

15. Past and continued involvement in occultism or other spiritualities.

There are a lot of healing practices and medical modalities. From acupuncture, meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), yoga, diets, reiki, energy healing, biofeedback, tarot, New Age, angelology, breathwork, Chinese herbs, hypnosis, healing touch, imagery, reflexology, shamanism and the list goes on and on. We get so caught up with the finding THE answer or THE cure that we stay on this medical-go-round and totally miss who gives us life and health in the first place.

We look to other gods running from one thing to the next to relieve our fear or pain instead of to the One that has had the answers all along and has been patiently waiting for us to come and ask Him. To rely on Him only. Psalm 118 reminds us to trust in God and not in human means that will let us down. We also are not to turn to idols and that includes ourselves.

God has given us an inborn yearning for Him; a spiritual tug. But we must not confuse that yearning for anything other than the One true God; Father, Son and Spirit who created, sustains and saved us from spiritual death and carried our diseases to the cross. To do so may mean earthly rewards but spiritual sabotage.

Don't be deceived. God is foremost concerned with you going to heaven but He needs healthy soldiers who give Him ALL glory to carry out the spiritual warfare to win others to Christ. We must clean up our spiritual act so we have the energy and zeal to fulfill our purpose in His Kingdom. Times of trial and pain test our commitment, faithfulness and trust in a God who loves us dearly and gave His Son so we may have life, and have it abundantly.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. ~3 John 1:2

God is dealing with you; His body in this world. If you are Christian in your beliefs and know that God raised Jesus from the dead then He surely can bring healing and health to your body and mind as well as forgive your sins. But just as Jesus followed His Father's will so must we.

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Feng Shui and Money Symbols

2012-10-13T21:53:00.000-07:00

Are you happy with your situation in life? Invite wealth into your life using Feng Shui money symbols. With the right knowledge of how to use it, you can attract abundance, good health, and good relationships to your life.

Health and Relationships come first, because money can't buy good health and good relationships. Once you have avoided any negative energy (chi), then you find ways to improve Wealth and Success.

The first step is to clear all the clutter from your home and office, it is important to set your intention, otherwise the space you clean up will fill right back with the same bad energy. Second thing to do is get yourself a good compass and determine your home.

Feng Shui has money tools (wealth, fortune, success and abundance) to help us manifest anything we want and need. It needs to be positive, (focused on what you want, rather than what you don't want). The key as always is to create the balance into your life.

This three colors purple, red and green support prosperity (a never ending flow of giving and receiving) energy in your home or office.

The Feng Shui or Money Frog (this is a three legged statue of a frog or toad with a coin in his mouth)

The frog can bring good fortune, happiness, longevity and good health! And also called Three Legged Toad or Frog, "Chan Chu" as the money frog is called in Chinese is associated with the moon. This is because it is believed that the frog transforms with the moon. The Feng Shui money frog represents wealth, good health. Place the Money Frogs to enhance the southeast. To double your cash flow and the income of your home, you may put two Money Frogs on each side of the entrance inside but their heads must looking in and not out because if they walk out the door they will never return. Place as many fogs as you feel in your living room, but not too high, as frogs lives on the ground.

The Money tree (botanical name Pachira)

Just like other indoor plants, it needs some sun light and periodically watering. It can grow as tall as seven feet. The money tree have thin branches with five big green leaves on the top, like human hands with five fingers, which symbol the five fundamental elements of Feng Shui: Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth. It is also known as the good luck or good fortune tree. It brings prosperity (a never ending flow of giving and receiving) to your home.

The Good Luck Golden Cat of Abundance and Protection is a unique Feng Shui symbol.

On one side the cat is smiling and holding his paw up which in Feng Shui represents good fortune and the attraction of wealth. On the other side the cat is frowning for protection and holding a broom to sweep away trouble. Place this cat in your wealth sector, South-East.

Chinese Coins

Imperial Coins, round with square hole in center, also called Feng Shui Coins or I-Ching Coins, are an excellent symbol of wealth, prosperity, and security especially when tied with red thread and also attract money to your home. They are tied in multiples of 3, 6 or 9 with red thread. Hang the coin sword on the wall in the living room, with the tip facing down and towards the entrance or windows

The laughing Buddha of Wealth

The Happy Buddha is a symbol of happiness and abundance. You will find him sitting on a huge gold ingot or dancing on a money bag. The gold ingot is considered a very lucky symbol of wealth. Place the Buddha of Wealth on your desk or in the wealth sector of your home to bring wealth to the family.

Goldfish

"Yu", is the Chinese word for fish it also means success. The best location for your aquarium is the North wall or the South East wall. The best shape for an aquarium is rectangular or round.

The Chinese place three orange or yellow gold fish (energy) and one black goldfish (protection) in an aquarium to attract money. They believe that if misfortune hits your family, the black goldfish will die and receive the misfortune.

The Pearl Dragon

The Dragon is the symbol of absolute power in Feng Shui. Dragons are the most striking creature in Chinese mythology. The Pearl Dragon stands for power, and abundant wealth. He can be placed anywhere in your home, (buy not in your bedroom bedroom), it brings good luck. Place this dragon in high-activity working areas, on the East of your desk.

If you are considering bringing Feng Shui into your life, you must think about it before purchasing any products. Your intuition and your own energy will lead you to the right product of Feng Shui money symbols that is right for you. And the energy flows where intention goes.

Health! Whose Responsibility - Yours or Theirs?

2012-10-11T04:52:00.000-07:00

What turns a person into a patient?

Have a think about it.

Is it a choice that turns a person into a patient? The choice to hand over power for one's own health to someone else. The handing over of power seems mutually beneficial. It maintains the doctor's status, it means the doctor's customer can abdicate responsibility for healing.

I'd like you to play with this thought for a moment. When you visit a doctor you are a customer rather than a patient.

How does that feel? What do customers do? They go into a shop, have a look round, if they need some advice they ask for it and an expert, or someone who thinks they're an expert, happily gives it. If the salesman is experienced the customer will probably make a purchase. If the salesman is ethical then the customer will be pleased with the purchase and feel they have received value for money. But if they are ignored, or made to wait an unreasonable amount of time, or treated rudely, the customer simply takes their business elsewhere.

What do patents do? They arrive five minutes before the agreed appointment time. They go into the reception. They give their name. They are told to sit in the waiting room. Anything from 20 minutes to two hours later they hear their name called. They try as best they can to describe the problem they want taken away. They are given a piece of paper, which they then have to take to a pharmacy to exchange for drugs, and that's the end of it. The whole process generally lasts less than 5 minutes. If/when the drugs don't produce the desired effect the whole process is gone through again. This is all endured stoically, or stressfully, by the patient who feels powerless to bring about the outcome they desire.

And what exactly is this outcome?

The desired outcome is healing. The desired outcome is freedom from the pain, freedom from the discomfort, freedom from the stress, unhappiness or anxiety; freedom from concern that this is something life threatening.

Although the last time I visited a doctor was around 5 years ago, in my life I've spent many, many hours in doctor's and hospital waiting rooms. In all that time I have never once heard a doctor mention the word 'healing'. I've heard about symptoms and diagnoses; I've taken the latest wonder drug on several occasions filled with hope that this was the miracle I've been waiting for only to have that hope dashed as the miracle made me feel worse than I already did.

The miracle that I'd been waiting for was the realisation that I was responsible for my own health and well-being. Only when this happened did I start to heal.

Now I need to make myself clear. Being responsible for your own health does not mean doing your own surgery. It does not mean, selecting the drugs you think you need and buying them from an internet pharmacy. Doctors have valuable knowledge. When I broke my wrist I was very grateful for the knowledge and skills they used to assist my healing. I used their x-ray machines to find out what the damage was. I used their plaster to support my wrist. I used their skills and knowledge and listened to their advice on exercise. But I didn't use their drugs for the pain. I used my own mind to deal with that. And having made that choice the pain was never intolerable and was a useful feedback mechanism to let me know if I was pushing my wrist too fast.

Being responsible for your own health means:

1. Acknowledging there is a physical or psychological problem that you'd like to change.

2. Getting advice from several expert sources, such as... Doctors, Other health practitioners like... Herbalists, Nutritionists, Psychotherapists, Hypnotherapists, Counsellors, Healers, Chiropractors, Past-life regressionists, or Books and of course the internet.

3. Making a choice

Making a choice means going with what feels best to you, and trusting your decision despite pressure from vested interests to follow their particular healing system. I know people who when they have a problem are quite happy to have surgery as soon as possible to get it sorted. I know others who are happy to live with the problem while they explore mind-oriented techniques to see if they can find the emotional cause and release it, thereby healing the problem.

You can even make a different choice every time. There are no rules here, other than to go with what feels right or comfortable to you. Doctors and hospitals are brilliant in emergency situations, but if it isn't an emergency then you probably have some time to consider options. The moment you open your mind up to a different approach to healing you will find that the information you need comes to you in an almost magical way. Coincidences are an indication that you are making the right choices for you.

A selection of self-help books are available on my web site. I particularly recommend The Journey by Brandon Bays.

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How to Compare Low Cost Health Insurance in Oregon

2012-10-08T09:19:00.000-07:00

Oregon has an excellent health care system; in fact, one of the best in the nation according to U.S. government figures, but regardless of how good the system is at saving and prolonging life, the fact is that Oregon's heath care, like health care everywhere in this nation, is expensive.

In fact, according to figures released by the Oregon Department of Insurance, almost half of all citizens of Oregon find health care costs a financial burden and fully one quarter of all adults in Oregon report spending up to twenty-five percent of their monthly income on health care.

Clearly for the majority of people something has to be done to bring down the cost of staying well.

The most formidable weapon at the consumer's disposal is knowledge. Become knowledgeable about health care and your health care choices. Go online and compare policies and prices - the difference in cost for the same basic policy from one company to another can be truly staggering.

Before going online sit down and figure out what you and your family need out of a health care plan. What is important to you - and what isn't? Are doctor's visits more important than hospital stays? Are prescriptions more important than visits to the emergency room? Do you need a policy that covers you when you travel? Do you have a new baby - or are you expecting one in the next year?

Write your answers down on a piece of paper and play around with them when filling out your online comparison forms. Remember, when you are looking for low cost health insurance here in Oregon there are bound to be trade-offs. Don't expect to find the perfect policy - unless you can afford a high premium or your needs are simple.

And of course the main trade-off that many people use to create an acceptable health policy at a price they can afford is their deductible. This is money you have to pay from your own sources for your health care needs before your insurance begins to pay. The greater your deductible the lower your monthly insurance premium.

Health insurance is costly, there's no getting around that - but if you spend some time online and ask some tough questions of yourself, the answers you come up with just might make health insurance a lot more affordable than you ever thought possible. The key is to compare low cost health insurance plans side-by-side until you find the one that's right for you.

The sites that I recommend

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Make Money Easy Online Writing Articles - Health and Fitness

2012-10-05T15:03:00.000-07:00

"Make Money Easy Online," is the mantra that you hear a lot, but is it easy to do so? Any average person can use article marketing to make money easy and making money at home will seem more of a reality than a distant thought.

The economy has even given a lot of people more reason to scout the Internet to see how they can create an income for the job they may have lost or to supplement their current income. Well, I am here to who you how to make money fast free online.

People use the Internet for different reasons, but the main focus right now is to use it to make money. There is a lot of making money scams online, so you have to be careful. The best way to start making money easy online is to start with article marketing and affiliate marketing.

The Internet is easy because you can access targeted audiences who may be interested in what you are offering. You are also able to use your writing skills to put out quality information that people are searching for.

This is how it works:

You go online and find an affiliate marketplace where you search for a product that you either like, believe in or have some knowledge about. However, I do suggest that you do some keyword search first before selecting your product. This way you will know if anyone is searching for that product. You can even select your product from the current trends. Your next step is to write articles that will provide valuable information about the product, which includes the benefit of the product to the person that his reading your article.

You are not going to send the prospect directly to the product owner's website from your article. You are going to send them to a blog, Squidoo lens or to your own domain. I encourage you to start out with a blog or Squidoo lens first so you can test the product before investing in a domain. However, this is just my opinion, but it does make sense because you don't want to spend too much time creating a domain that will bring no customer.

The keywords that you use in your article will be a reference for the search engines that when people search for those keywords they should find you. However, if you are in a competitive field, it may be harder for your customer to wade through the many pages of the search engine to find you so you have to be very strategic in compiling your article and use the appropriate keywords that will get you discovered.

This is it in a nutshell. The Internet is your friend if you know how to use it properly for article marketing and getting prospect to read what you have written and to click on the link in your resource box because of the value that you have already provided in your article.

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Access To Information And Knowledge In Post-War Reconstruction In Sierra Leone

2012-10-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

Introduction

It is frequently said that we live in an 'Information Age'. The leaders of the USA talk of an Information Superhighway; the EU of an Information Society; academics talk of a network society, and knowledge economy'. Leading business strategists argue that Knowledge is replacing financial capital as a key resource for companies. The current realization is that any society that strives to develop requires increasingly more information and knowledge activities as these facilitate the measurement of change in every fabric of society. What do we understand by the terms INFORMATION and KNOWLEDGE?

Information and knowledge

Two schools of thought exist. We tend to think that Information and Knowledge are synonymous and are thus used inter-changeably. However there is a difference. Information is usually a selection of documents/ideas in a particular subject or range of subjects which may or may not have been digested necessarily. It therefore has the potential of becoming Knowledge. Knowledge, on the other hand, can be of two kinds: tacit and explicit, the latter having greater similarity with Information but not exclusively so. A collection of books, for example, may be described as a body of knowledge and each document representing informed ideas that are likely to influence others when digested. Such knowledge, when acquired serves, among others, as experiences, ideas and skills in the form of Tacit Knowledge.

Information is one of the principle sources of knowledge. It is shared knowledge, having been communicated and usually obtained by study and investigation. Abate (1988) referred to information as intelligence and knowledge that contributes to the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of society, irrespective of the form it is inscribed (eg text; figures); medium stored (eg paper, magnetic tapes); mode of dissemination (eg oral, written); societal activity that gives rise to it(eg research, census); and the institutions that organize and disseminate it( eg library and information centre).

Knowledge, on the other hand, is what one knows. Davenport and Prusak (1998) defined it as a fluid mix of framed experiences, values, contextual information and expert insights that provide a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information. That is to say Knowledge involves human reaction to information. For instance if one is able to understand simple written description to a particular illness, that is information. However, if we thought that someone was suffering from that illness, most of us would suggest that the person went to see a medical doctor. This is because the doctor has a body of knowledge which is a combination of information about that illness, information about the human body, about other illnesses and experiences of similar cases and training.

Information and Knowledge are among the world's most important resources needed daily to solve problems and make decisions affecting the future. According to Mchombu (1995),for any community to function efficiently and productively, a basic minimum stock of usable information is essential. Aboyade (1987) posited that adequate information is essential for strengthening the link between the indicators and the beneficiaries of development effort, and for making rural people understand and appreciate the benefits of the development programmes to their lives. What people accomplish in organizations, he added, depends largely upon the information and knowledge they possess. Increasingly the degree of success enjoyed by organizations and the people who work for them depends on how well they manage their information and knowledge. These are the strategic assets of the enterprise.

The Civil War

The decade long civil war (1991-2001) which caused untold suffering to the people of Sierra Leone was rooted in many years of injustice, bad governance, corruption and mis-management. Currently the country is in the throes of post-war reconstruction with government's most developmental challenges being democracy and good governance, improved economy, health, education, mining, human rights and food security, rural development, anti-corruption and improved road infrastructure. These challenges require:

o effective public administration and economic management

o development of viable manufacturing, service and foreign trade

o harnessing of Science and Technology including Indigenous Knowledge.

These form the basis of the country's Vision 2025.

To facilitate the afore-mentioned access to information and knowledge assumes a central role. A cursory historical reference is enough to substantiate this view. When the civil war broke out in 1991 the official explanation shared by Sierra Leoneans was that it was a skirmish between Charles Taylor's NPFL fighters and Sierra Leone soldiers over a business transaction. Hardly was there any information on the true identity of the RUF, their ideology, ultimate objectives and operational strategy and the international dimension of their activities. Consequently the war was not given the attention it deserved. The lack of knowledge or sufficient information was reflected on some of the terms used to refer to the RUF even when the war swallowed up the country. In fact, regrettably, even the root causes of the conflict were not properly understood or analyzed to form the foundation for peace initiative. Thus the country was destroyed to reckless abandon.

Access to information and knowledge is indispensable to individual advancement as well as to national growth. The right information provided when it is needed, where it is needed and the form in which it is needed, improves the ability of an individual and business, a government agency or some kind of organization to make informed decisions and achieve particular goals. The added value that is derived from access to information and knowledge is that the nation will benefit and it will take less time to be reflected in our output as individuals, as institutions within a country, and as a nation as a whole. What we produce, consume and exchange as a nation determines our status in relation to others across the world. It is the extent that we are able to be creative in our respective spheres of activity that determines how well or badly, we perform against others. The UNDP says it all.

The concept of access to information and knowledge in Sierra Leone has restricted application and interpretation. It is concerned with the machinery of promoting journalists and other media agencies with access to those constituent elements in news making and delivery. Hardly any mention is made about access to information and knowledge outside these parameters. Sadly this much talked about access is severely constrained by many factors to include weak communication systems, low literacy level, poverty, passive and stereotyped services offered in libraries centered on donated book collection, language barriers and above all the lack of political will to bring certain kinds of information to public knowledge.

The library scene in Sierra Leone

Libraries command respect in society as storehouses of knowledge. Their value is acknowledged without reservation as huge sums of money are spent on them especially in advanced countries for the provision of timely and accurate information. Sierra Leone's library scene is made up of public/national, school, academic, teacher training college, polytechnic and special libraries, documentation, information and resource centres. These institutions vary in size and complexity and collectively they are the foundation on which a nation-wide information network is to be built if they are to provide effective access to information and knowledge in the country's post-war reconstruction era. It is, however, unfortunate to state here that these institutions are not developing according to national plan and consequently their growth continues to be uneven and lacks cohesion. Also financial support is not keeping pace with increasing cost; the libraries are under increased pressure to give a service in more breath and depth to a wide range of clientele that vary in age, education and interests.

ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN PROMOTING ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE

Not withstanding these problems librarians have a part to play in order to put the country on a sound developmental footing, especially with the provision of access to information and knowledge. Librarians see themselves as equipped for consideration as integral partners in national development. They regard themselves as knowledge-oriented professionals trained not only to process what we often refer to as Explicit Knowledge i.e. printed and audio visual materials, but also to take active interest in their clients to the extent of providing services that could be of interest to them. Over and above all they are adept at providing order in an otherwise disorderly collection of material to facilitate easy reach.

Sierra Leone is faced with a range of issues like environmental sanitation, democracy and good governance, poverty alleviation, food security, health, drug abuse, unemployment peace and reconciliation, trauma healing and crime rate. Coupled with these is an array of discrete groups of users to include ex-combatants, war amputees, women and children, farmers, carpenters, market women, the elderly, herbalists and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), all of whom need information and knowledge of varied kind on how to acquire and improve their skills, information on the economics of their trades, marketing strategies, access to social and political information. Political information is of paramount importance as come July 28, 2007 the country will have a General Election to vote for a new Head of State and his Vice, Parliamentarians and a Referendum to amend the 1991 Constitution. The adult population are all voters and most of these are non- literate and depend for information on what they hear. Unless easy access to information is available such people remain vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation by persuaders with selfish agenda. This brings librarians to adhere to the concept of outreach.

As information brokers librarians should be able to provide accurate and timely information and very liberally too, so as to reach all sectors of the population. Information should be provided at all level, in the rural areas and at national level, if not beyond. Development can only be achieved when people have the right perception of what, or how to develop; and the provision of the right information and knowledge will improve people's quality of life. In their dissemination of information and knowledge to their respective clientele librarians should take a proactive stance. They should organize a range of services and activities in their libraries to sensitize the public on topical issues like voter education, poverty alleviation, democracy and good governance, the IMF and World Bank and their conditions, Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and food security. Also they should organize exhibitions and give public lectures and Talks on development issues, mining, economic integration, adult literacy and environmental sanitation in the local language widely spoken in the community. Documentaries on topical issues like economic reform programmes, foreign trade, health, the Constitution and the Public Order Act should also be done and availed to clientele for use in their communities as awareness raising measures. In such programmes librarians need to work collaboratively with opinion leaders like chiefs, religious leaders, teachers, social and extension workers and NGO officials working with the grass roots. Since there are community radio stations located in all the districts librarians should partake in radio programmes (Information on Air Programmes)where by developmental issues affecting their communities could be discussed.

As professionals, librarians should ensure that they support and promote nation building activities and this could be facilitated with the provision of resources at their disposal to policy makers, researches, those working with the grass roots and even interested members of the community. Provision should be made in the form of print and non print materials like books, magazines, directories, reports, guides recorded cassettes, films, video recordings, educational packs to rural communities and database. They could even use ICT facilities at their disposal and where possible they should place this stock either on separate shelves or close to stock that is frequently used in their libraries. Equally so librarians should use their libraries as publicity centres where posters, notices, job adverts (to cite but a few examples), and meetings could be displayed and held to discuss key community developmental issues. In this regard librarians should be masters of the contents of their holdings. Each should make him/herself something of a specialist over at least some part of the library holdings and should be in position not only to assist users but also to advertise the potential of their libraries.

In a largely non-literate society like Sierra Leone the librarians' role in stimulating people's desire for access to information and knowledge is crucial. In the rural areas for example, where librarians deal with non-literates, they need to redesign their programmes to meet the varying needs of their clientele. These programmes should aim not only at improving the quality of life of rural people but efforts must be made to mobilize them. The programmes should, inter alia, guide the rural people to opportunities in occupations, health, housing, education and employment. Libraries should become centres of information to lure patrons to be using their holdings targeting such groups as the economically and socially disadvantaged groups e.g. children, women, the elderly, prisoners; people that want to improve their abilities through self-education like industrial workers, farmers, community leaders and religious groups. Special techniques should be applied to facilitate access to information and knowledge. This could be attained through the establishment of Learning Centers for adult literacy learners and Village Newspaper/ Reading Centers, performance services and theatre groups, groit, praise singers ('Yeliba') and other traditional forms of entertainment. The knowledge thus gained could help raise their standard of living such as agricultural techniques, land fertilizing, improved health care, improved livelihood as well as better understanding of their civic rights and democracy.

Networking activities should be developed among librarians for the provision of adequate, relevant and timely information and knowledge. Librarians should, for example, work collaboratively in organizing training sessions for staff, book fairs, exhibitions, production of reading materials for new literates, conducting book donation campaigns and encouraging professional writers and publishers to write and publish for the rural poor, children, women and new literates, and persuading the government to lower tariffs on printed paper to reduce the cost of production. They can even come up with jointly published library manuals and an abridged edition of DDC Scheme. Librarians should also support awareness raising activities, research and advocacy in their communities as a means of attracting support from the government and the international community. These programmes should be constantly reviewed for effectiveness of purpose.

Librarians should provide well designed programmes for specific information so as to bring such groups as women together to discuss topics of common interest such as gardening, health-related issues and their civic rights. They should also make provisions for the youth and those that work with this vulnerable group in society to discuss their problems. Since all these moves are centered on finances librarians should be able to market their provisions and services by introducing public relations services in order to promote their services and garner financial support. Staff engaged in the afore-mentioned activities should be hard-working, dedicated and constantly trained to meet the challenges that may arise. Hence staff should be allowed to be attending conferences, workshops, seminars and even formal courses to keep them sensitive to new roles. By so doing librarians will be able to turn their institutions to focal points through which government and other agencies can be informed about concerns, problems and reactions of the communities they serve. This will enhance development.

CONCLUSION

Indeed in order to provide access to information and knowledge in post war reconstruction librarians should play a leading role. Their role should not only be limited to the provision of book and non book materials but should go further to help their numerous clientele to make meaningful use of these materials for self enhancement. The fact in the main is that information and knowledge are essential ingredients in the Knowledge economy and for society to develop it is the duty of librarians to bring to bear their skills for individual self enhancement. This therefore calls for collaborative effort to bridge the information /knowledge gap in society.

Author Note: John Abdul Kargbo is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Library,Information & Communication Studies. Email can be sent to him on johnabdulkargbo@yahoo.com

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Money - Higher Benchmarks To Achievement

2012-09-30T20:07:00.000-07:00

Besides being an econometrics unit, money is mostly a symbol of achievement. Making the first million dollars is a defining moment of success for many entrepreneurs, ready to capitalize on winning ideas. As per Kiyosaky´s rich father "True freedom is never possible without financial freedom".

Benchmarking, is a process used in management in which organizations evaluate various aspects of their processes in relation to the best practice, usually within their own sector.

By looking at 2007 annual rankings Forbes 400 richest Americans, it it is very difficult to imagine a shaky American economy.

As per Forbes, the collective net worth of America´s plutocrats rose by $290 billions to $1.54 trillion, a new benchmark for successful people in America and the world.

Are you dreaming about living the good life as a millionaire? Entrepreneurs are keeping the pulse of what is hot in today´s marketplace. Entrepreneurs are the trends setters, pioneers who know that the sky is the limit. Opportunities are everywhere: baking, gardenng, healthcare, weight loss, food and beverages, franchises. Says Eckert, "We're in for an exciting array of possibilities and real opportunities for people who are creative, innovative and have entrepreneurial sense."

For those with a maverick spirit, the exciting world of web 2.0 have turned the dot com industry on its head. Social networking, blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, chat, forums, polls are the innovators tools to bring the end users the information and the applications needed to build content and build the new websites which are based on sharing information and building networks of communication and information services. Information is a great market and an awesome source of opportunities.

The website is the new equalizer. The web is the only place where small business compete nation wide. Solve a problem or fill people´s needs and you are on your way to success. By solving market needs and conquering that niche is a good start for great results. There are many niches in which to start a profitable business: pet lovers, baby boomers and over weight people are niches whose needs open great opportunities for those of us who are able to keep our eyes wide open to opportunity.

Online marketing campaigns are using audio and video, which opens new windows to opportunity and success. Creative use of technology creates top producers and new markets for us to become real success stories. It is important to keep ourselves ahead of rapidly changing markets. There is always a trend going on, and whoever creates a trend and go ahead of the market ends up being the winner.

Many of us have a constant desire to go ahead in life, personally or in our business careers. There are two areas we should keep an eye on: Marketing and product or business development. We are always developing. We develop ourselves, our products and our business. We want development because we want money. We want money to travel, invest, buy our dream car or dream house, explore opportunities and most of all, because we want freedom.

Life situations arise from images in our minds. Our dreams fears and aspirations are the basic reason for us to become real success stories and achieve the Life style we dream about and deserve.

To achieve success and get the money needed for our financial freedom we have to understand that every dream might come true. There is no limit. Let´s start the process to achieve our dreams and let´s our dream life style become reality.

Age is no problem to become wealthy: 33 of the 400 richest men in America today are under 40 years of age. Location is no problem either. Forbes pinned down 948 billionaires around the world, including 178 newcomers and 17 who returned to Forbes rankings after being absent for a year or more.

The age span of Forbes 400 starts at 33 years of age and $1.5 billion up to 98 years and $3.6 billion. Quality products and services, commitment and constant presence in the business and the community are successful strategies. Product differentiation and fulfillment of consumer needs are also good strategies to become successful both online and off.

There is a large segment of people who are creating a demand for assistance, both medical and non medical: the baby boomers. Entertainment, communications and home business are open opportunities as they have to preserve their health and they need a constant income stream as an important segment of these people do not have a family to support them or they want to have their own income.

For elderly and low income people as for upper levels of income earners, the benchmarks are higher and higher as they demand more and better services, opening new windows of opportunity. The plutocrats of America and the world are building their incomes by solving problems and giving solutions to the general public.

Knowledge is power. We have to build knowledge , as applied knowledge bring us business which bring us the income and economic freedom we are looking for when we build our business. To succeed online and off we need knowledge and determination to become real dream achievers.

We should work towards higher benchmarks, which are representative of our dreams and the levels of achievement we want for us. By solving problems and building solutions to peoples needs, we build our way to success and achievement. Act now, be persistent and be unique. We are rewarded in direct proportion to our uniqueness.

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Health is in the Hands of the Beholder

2012-09-28T12:52:00.000-07:00

I moved here to Florida from Georgia in 2005. My OB/GYN there had been my doctor since 1994, so of course she knew me and I felt very comfortable with her. I guess upon this writing, I now know why I long for her. I spent eleven years in her care. But my doctor in Georgia would address me with a smile and a warm sincere greeting. She would exam me and talk with me, not to me. After the examination, we would both go into her private office and actually sit down and talk. Even if I'd waited over two hours to see her, due to a couple of babies being ready to see the world, she'd still sit and talk with me. It might have been a little rushed, but she'd still take the time. So, I guess you could say that I'm spoiled. Spoiled or not, I really do miss her. In a sense, I guess you could say that I'm trying to replace her.

Now, Dr G and Dr L are both very nice, but there was still something missing. I realize that I have to take my time in getting to know them. I have to spend a number of years with them just as I did with my doctor in Georgia. I am sure over time, I will come to love my doctor here just as I did my doctor in Georgia. But the thing is this, my appointment with Dr L was at 3:00. When I'd gotten into the car to leave, the time was 3:48 and I wasn't seen at exactly 3:00. Now, for those who've never had an OB/GYN visit, it's not the most comfortable. First of all, you have to get entirely naked, and even though my doctor is female, she's still a total stranger who will be placing things inside of my body and touching me. So you can understand why you'd want a more personal approach. But, I feel upon the initial visit, the doctor should at least sit down with you and address any issues that are past, present, and future. Dr L didn't even ask me about birth control and whether I desired to have children. I mean, this is my health and she is my healthcare provider, so shouldn't she be providing me with the best possible healthcare that my money is paying her for? I understand that doctors have a lot of expenses, but they also have a lot more money in their bank accounts than I do. And the funny thing about this is the fact that I know my body better than she does. I know how my breasts feel and whether they're lumpy, smooth, heavier feeling than usual, and also if I've detected something that seems out of place. So when we visit our doctors, what are we really seeing them and paying them for? I can truly understand why some people don't go to doctors. They tend to have the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. But, we hear reports each day about seeing your doctor to prevent disease and get treated for any medical issues you may have. But I wonder, how important is it that we see a doctor if there's nothing bothering us?

Upon my experiences and the experiences of others, I have been thinking a lot about our healthcare system. Of course we'd hate to think that it's only about the money, but the more I look around and think about things, the more it seems that we're just a dollar sign waiting to happen. Which brings me to the conclusion that, "health is in the hands of the beholder." This topic is somewhat broad and there are multiple topics in regards to different specialties in healthcare that I could write upon. I will be addressing other issues, such as how we can prevent disease by making better food choices in the very near future. But for now, I'll try to sum this up.

The bottom line is we are in control of our healthcare. We cannot rely upon any doctor to provide us with all of the information there is to prevent disease and to even learn of disease. With today's technology, there are too many resources at our disposal for us to remain ignorant of any issue. Another thing is, are we doing our best at taking good care of ourselves? I can honestly say that I don't practice self breast examination as I should. I don't eat the best diet either, so why would I expect my doctor to spend so much time on my body and me if I don't do it myself. And it's not because I'm paying her. Doctors have a huge responsibility, especially if they're the only doctor in a particular office. They've got to see everyone that walks into the door and with this being known, time is money, and each patient represents more money. A doctor explained to me that doctors who have office practices have to see a patient every 15 minutes. Times have changed and so has the responsibilities of our doctors. It's no longer just about the patient. It's about the mortgage on the building, the light bill, insurances, and staff salaries. How can we improve things? We need to take back the power that's been given to physicians for our care. We need to take a more active part in our own healthcare. There are a lot of issues behind the scenes that we are unaware of. At times, I wonder if doctors are there to treat, prevent or cure?

It may seem as if I'm contradicting myself, but there are two sides to every coin. Yes, I do feel the doctor should have taken more time with me, but I also understand why she didn't and maybe couldn't. But the big picture for me is that I need to do my best to prevent disease. I need to do my best to take proper care of my body. I should view my doctor visits as simple check-ups. I should go in with the knowledge and pride that my body is in great condition and she won't find anything wrong. I still feel she should've taken more time in getting to know me and talk with me in regards to any issues that I may have had. She could've at least asked me if there was anything that I needed to discuss. But also, I shouldn't look to be in her office for a lengthy period of time. I should be secure in myself and with myself to say "I really don't need to be here, because I'm fine and I've seen to it that I am." Your health and my health is truly in the hands of the beholder. You and I both hold the key to our own healthcare. Power is knowledge, and knowledge is the key to prevention, and prevention is the key to great healthcare. Will I go back to Dr L? I'll tell you what, we'll see how I feel about it next year. I want to have a good relationship with Dr L and I understand that it will take time, but it's more important to me to have an even better relationship with my own body and feel secure in the fact that I've taken good care of it and that 15 minutes with her is all that I need. Do I still long for my old doctor even though I only saw her once a year and for less than an hour, of course I do! What can I say, I love her and even when I would see her, my health was still in the hands of me, the beholder.

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Is IQ (Intelligence Quotient) The Product Of Inherited Knowledge And Acquired Knowledge?

2012-09-26T05:55:00.000-07:00

What is IQ? IQ is the product of inherited knowledge and acquired knowledge.

What is inherited knowledge? Inherited knowledge is knowledge inherited from our parents, our ancestors and our Creator from our birthrights. This is the most wonderful gift we receive from our parents. We should be excited and feeling grateful that we have this inherited knowledge. All of us are born from the union of our mother and father and not cloned like a robot or machine. All of us inherit some of our ancestors' knowledge and skills and these are stored in our brain.

Our inherited knowledge stretches far into our great ancestors and from our Creator! Our Creator is the source of all knowledge and wisdom. We are humans, not animals. We have brains that can think well and evaluate. We are intellectually gifted in our own ways, though it varies. No two brains are identically alike. Each have our own abilities and capabilities, tapped and untapped.

All of us are so excited in the process of tapping all these abilities and capabilities. The best is that all tapped IQ can bring us more advantages than ever. All of us can possess this valuable Q, yes, an extremely wonderful asset that can move a mountain or fill up an ocean! One should never underestimate what our brains when tapped are capable of doing.

Thoughts once an imagination are creations of today! We can fly, we can swim, we can go to the end of the world, explore the four corners of the earth and go to the outer space. All of us are unique and special in our own ways. All of us inherited every possible thoughts and experiences. These are recorded inside our DNA cells. One should learn to tap this valuable knowledge through practise, meditation or quietly listening to our thoughts. Learn and master this skill of creative thinking.

Our acquired knowledge is knowledge that we obtain from external sources that start from the moment we are born till the day we breathe our last. Learning is a lifelong process, maturing into our different stages of life. Acquired knowledge can be from abundant sources, like schools, institutes, universities, mass media, all articles printed or written or from the net. We have spent so much time, so much money and so much effort in our lives to add into our inherited knowledge from all possible reliable sources. Acquiring knowledge is an extremely big and wide field! It covers all possible languages all over the word and no libraries are big enough to fill in written articles and notes.

That is why all of us are so excited about being learned, and will continue to learn.... to master.... to acquire those skills and knowledge that can upgrade us as a better intellect. IQ, be it inherited or acquired combined are well established now. Many are now equipped with every possible certificates depicting the degree or height of one's intelligence.

Our brain....what contains in our brain is what makes the difference. Does it end here? What else do we not know? What else do we want? How far can we go? Where to learn? What can we get?

IQ is also a Q that sometimes make some learned egoist and proud of their certificates. Being equipped with IQ, but without EQ or MQ or just any other Qs, he/she is also considered as a total failure! Pride will go for a fall, that is what we always describe their failure. It is not that one should listen just to our brain with its domineering IQ that we follow without applying inner conscience.

There are actually many topics to be shared on how to tap our IQ, how to use our IQ productively and how to maximize our potentials of all these wonderful Qs. You can read more articles at http://ezine-articles.org/ezinearticles/alternative-health/.

Lucy Wong is a health and nutrition consultant. Her interest in health related issues include the development of mental health. She has written many articles on this subject in her personal column under "alternative health" in http://ezine-articles.org Read more about mental health articles in her personal column and discover the secrets of maintaining good mental health.

Robert Allen's Expert Knowledge and Multiple Streams of Income

2012-09-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

Why is Robert Allen's expert knowledge so sought after?

There are very few individuals that possess successful backgrounds in multiple areas of business. Typically, a marketer stays within the realm of marketing, a real estate enthusiast competes in the real estate market, etc. Robert Allen is a businessman and author who has a multi-faceted and highly successful career. Mr. Allen possesses over 20 years of experience in various entrepreneurial areas of business. He has written many books on his experiences and has an uncanny ability to communicate in simple and effective terms, that provide an overview of the avenues in which individuals can create income for themselves.

Allen's approach to sharing his expert knowledge is sincere. This is apparent in his writings as he continually mentions that individuals must create multiple income streams for themselves and their family, but that this should not be at the expense of one's happiness. Furthermore, he illustrates exactly how one can go about creating income streams, in addition to working at a job that they actually enjoy and get fulfillment.

What is Multiple Steams of Income?

Multiple Streams of Income is Robert Allen's most popular book. This work focuses on bringing wealth into one's life via multiple income streams. Furthermore, that these incomes streams would be most efficient if the income derived is, or eventually becomes, residual meaning long term and fairly secure. The book is broken up into chapters that deal with money management, investment opportunities including the stock market, real estate opportunities, network marketing and internet marketing. Multiple Streams of Income, for download, is available as well. The work is almost 10 years old however, the principles and strategies are still very much effective. Entrepreneurs and established business people continue to seek Robert Allen's best tips for income streams and information on how exactly to implement them correctly.

Robert Allen's ability to project future money making opportunities is impressive as well. It is almost as if through some sort of osmosis, Allen can feel what specific areas of business will do well and what areas have potential to fail. It is interesting that, when commenting on internet marketing in the Multiple Streams of Income book, he suggests (keep in mind this is 10 years ago) that online marketing is "the ultimate money machine".

What separates Allen's approach to teaching from other authors?

In Allen's books there are many interesting stories that he tells that are part of his past experiences and also relate to the given topic of each chapter. For example, in his book "Nothing Down" which focuses on real estate investing, Mr. Allen tells many stories that help to build the concepts that are behind smart real estate investments. Furthermore, he draws from his experiences and discusses in detail more than 10 strategies that he has implemented successfully himself.

Information and expert knowledge is not difficult to find in this day in age, even my seven year old son tells me to simply "Google it" whenever we need an answer to something. However, expert knowledge that is delivered with the degree of class and sincerity that Allen exemplifies is often sought out, but rarely found.

"This is my hope for you: a life overflowing with abundance of all kinds - multiple streams of income, joyful relationships, boundless energy and health, a quick mind, and a strong spirit." - Robert G. Allen

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