• Write at least five major “pillar” articles
• Write one new blog post per day minimum
• Use a proper domain name
• Start commenting on other blogs
• Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts
• Encourage comments on your own blog
• Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival
• Submit your blog to blog directories
• Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com
• Write more pillar articles

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Upgrade to a touch-screen iPod, get your home wired, or focus on fantastic photography.

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"To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is — and rise above it."
– Michael Korda, Publisher

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"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter."
– Dan Reeves, Football Coach

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- Author, Ken Blanchard, Williams Oncken and Hal Burrows / The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

You may be appalled to discover some individuals are able to live on $24,000 a year or less. You may think they are living in poverty until you conduct a cost of living comparison. It is very possible that they are living in a location that offers a low cost for homes, vehicles, daycare, groceries, and other necessities. Due to the lower cost of everything they are easily able to live comfortably on their $2,000 per month income.

It can be tricky trying to complete a cost of living comparison on your own. There are too many variables to factor in. There are plenty of tools online though that quickly complete the comparison for you. All you need to do is select two areas that you want to compare and the computer will do the rest of it for you. These cost of living comparison tools are offered free of charge.

If you are considering relocating for work, retirement, or other reasons completing a cost of living comparison is a good idea. You may quickly discover that you simply can’t afford to live in some of the areas you were considering. The grass isn’t always greener somewhere else even if you will be earning a great deal more of money.

In many instances you will find that even though you will be earning more money you won’t have any more of it to spend on anything else. Even in your own area you may be shocked at the cost of living. I know just four hours away from me homes cost three times as much as they do where I live. When we plan a trip that direction I know it is going to cost more for food and hotels. I also fill up on gas before I get there to save money.

Taking the time to conduct cost of living comparisons can help you to make informed choices about where you want to reside. You can use this information to your advantage because you want to live in an area that is affordable for you and your family. It is shocking that there are people out there earning triple digits annually and they still struggle financially to meet their basic needs.

 Staying motivated is an important part of any successful self help program. You may not have the support or encouragement you need from other sources so providing that for yourself is important. Many websites, calendars, and books offer self help quotes that can be helpful and many of them can be funny as well.

When it comes to the issue of the best self help quotes you will find quite a controversial debate erupting. This is because everyone has had different events take place in their life and the self help quotes that are going to reflect those events will be different. What you feel is the very best self help quote you have ever read may not mean anything to me based on my own individual circumstances.

That is the value of self help – while the concepts can be incorporated for everyone they are incorporated differently for people based on their needs. Therefore, you can’t write a book and tell people exactly how to handle a particular issue in their life. All you can do is layout the different tools and let them take what they will .

Another way of looking at it is to think about a buffet at your favorite restaurant. While everyone will have access to the same items the plate of food they have served at the end will be very different. Some of them will have a few of the same food items but even then in different amounts. Think of self help quotes as food for thought that a person picks up as they go through the buffet of life.

It is a good idea to write down the self help quotes that you find particularly helpful. This way you can refer back to them when you find you are having a hard time staying on track. It is easier to look back at those you know are effective than to search for one that will work when you are feeling like you are regressing into old patterns of behavior. Write these self help quotes in a notebook or on index cards and keep a couple of them with you at all times. They can offer you the support and motivation you need to get though any circumstance.

Bob Love’s childhood in rural Louisiana wasn’t easy. He ran away from an abusive father at age 8, then lived with his grandmother as the youngest of the 16 children and grandchildren she was raising in her tiny home. They were poor. And on top of everything, young Bob stuttered—sometimes so severely that he couldn’t articulate a single word.

To help him escape children’s vicious taunts and the generally bleak outlook of the family’s situation, Bob’s grandmother suggested this antidote: Get a dream and hang on to it.

So the boy fantasized about being a basketball star. His initial setup required some resourcefulness: a coat hanger stapled to his grandmother’s house for the basket, and a sock stuffed with grass and other socks for the ball. But he took his dream seriously and hung on to it until, against all odds, he became a three-time NBA All-Star. Love played 11 seasons—eight of them with the Bulls, where he ranked second on their all-time scoring list with 12,623 points. And then the dream came to an abrupt halt. Love hurt his back and after surgery his doctors told him his playing days were over.

Not only did Love’s career leave him; so did his ability to walk properly, and so did his wife (taking with her nearly everything they owned). The only thing that remained with Love was his stutter, and a refusal to give up.

He learned to live around his back pain, but his stutter prevented him from getting anything but menial jobs. He finally landed a position bussing tables for $4.45 an hour at a Nordstrom restaurant. And instead of children taunting him about his stutter, he heard a new breed of unintentionally hurtful remarks from customers: “Hey, that’s Bob Love! He used to be a great basketball player. What a shame.”

But just as he’d done as a boy, Love persevered. He decided that if he was going to be a busboy, he was going to be the best one around. His diligence paid off when one of Nordstrom’s owners took an interest in his career development. John Nordstrom paid for Love’s speech therapy, a move that cleared the path for the former basketball star’s second climb to success—this time toward the unlikely position of company spokesperson. Then the Bulls organization caught wind of Love’s new skills and called him with the offer to be their director of community affairs, which he accepted.

Today the former stutterer and NBA All-Star is one of the top motivational speakers on the circuit. He gives hundreds of speeches and presentations each year, many of them to teens about the importance of education and overcoming adversity. He encourages others to rewrite their life stories by telling them how he rewrote his own. How does he do it? It’s easy—he just speaks from his heart.

“All my life I dreamed and prayed to be able to communicate normally with people. I would have given up everything else in my life to do it.”
—Bob Love

ok, Stephen Pierce rocks! - he has made a post at his DTAlpha Talk Back Blog about what Napoleon Hill believed to be the greatest asset - FAITH. Make your decision today, renew your faith. This decision alone will allow you to use applied faith for the attainment of whatever you desire in life.

About Applied Faith from the Napoleon Hill Foundation website

• Faith is awareness of, belief in, and harmonizing with the universal powers.
• Faith is a state of mind which must be active not passive, to be useful in achieving lasting success.
• Close the door to fear behind you and you will quickly see the door of faith open before you.
• Fear is nothing more than a state of mind, which is subject to your own direction and control.
• Faith will not bring you what you desire, but it will show you the way to go after it for yourself.