Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Getting Gratitude Abundance

By Deanna Collins

You hear a lot about the power of gratitude. On paper it makes sense, right? If you're grateful for things then you begin to focus on what you have rather than focus on what you don't have. However, when things are tough and life is full of challenges, it can be tough to keep gratitude at the forefront of our minds.

Why Gratitude is Important

Gratitude changes your perspective on the life that you've been given. When you have gratitude in your life you:

See other people in a different light. Instead of counting their faults, you see mistakes as possible blessings. Instead of wasting time on what you don't have, you formulate a plan to use what you do have to move forward.

View others with an open heart rather than a closed heart. This means that you feel compassion for others regardless of whether you have anything in common with them or not. A life filled with compassion is a happy and abundant life.

Forget about judging others. We all have faults and make mistakes from time to time. Acknowledging that fact helps other people to put their faults in perspective and play to their strengths.

Feel merciful towards others who are not in their best place or have not reached a place where they can look at the world from a place of gratitude.

Look at what you do have and be grateful. Concentrating on the positives in your life attract more positive energies. How is that? Whatever you cultivate in your life will begin to grow. If you want a good life, change your focus.

How Do You Attain Gratitude Abundance?

Always know what you are grateful for in life. If you want, make a list. Each day, read the list and add more to it as you feel the need. Some of your blessings that you may easily overlook: breathing each day, having food at every meal, and the good people in your life. Blessings are all around us if we choose to see them. Learning to recognize your blessings renews your hope in life and your role in it.

Practice. No one becomes grateful overnight. It takes time and consistency to develop an attitude of gratitude. Instead of falling asleep worrying about your challenges, concentrate on the people and situations in your life that you are grateful for so you can get a good night's rest and wake refreshed and without a care in the world.

Incorporate it into your daily life. There are many rituals you can incorporate into your life and your daily routine to bring gratitude abundance into your life. Gratitude jewelry, journals, rituals like taking a bath every night or having a massage weekly, meditation and good food and friends also help us recognize and celebrate the positive.

Help another person. We find deeper meaning in our lives when we make someone else's life better. Volunteer with the homeless, give to charity, or do something nice for a stranger every day.

Clear away those things which are not important to you. Finally, to invite more gratitude into your life consider removing those things which do not make you feel good. Eliminate those things which make you feel negative about life and which detract from your life.

You can attract gratitude to your life if you want it. Learn to embrace your gracious nature and change your life and the lives of those around you. - 15790

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Internet Marketing With OnlineBannersNow

By Benjamen Johnson

OnlineBannersNow, a Los Angeles based website marketing company, provides a full suite of online website marketing solutions directed to the internet community.

(PRWEB) April 21, 2004 -- www.OnlineBannersNow.com has built a strong technical and sales force aimed at providing the best online marketing services at the most affordable costs in order to service a wider array of online clientele. Their experience goes back 10 years in the Email Marketing arena and another 6 years in the Search Engine Optimization field. www.OnlineBannersNow.com has most advanced by perfecting a quicker and easier Internet navigation system called Online Banners Now for those who no longer want to navigate using long complicated and hard to remember domain names, or hunt through thousands of search engine results to find what they are looking for.

With OnlineBannersNow.com they can put your website on the front of all the major search engines. You can also then choose your desired keywords or phrases you would like to appear under. They put your website on the top of all the major search engines and actually open your website in the results. Once registered all traffic derived from your words will now be delivered to your website. You will have access to a login area were you can track your visitors.

www.OnlineBannersNow.com is intuitive, familiar words and phrases, such as generic phrases and names or a short description of the websites goods or services. For example, if the searcher types "Bank" into the Search bar of any major search engine on an upgraded computer, they are instantly connected to the respective website.

OnlineBannersNow.com are used in conjunction with search engines to provide direct access to websites, giving users the ability to navigate from any point on the Internet directly to our client's website, or even a specific location deep within their site.

To avoid many of the problems of the current domain name system, OnlineBannersNow.com manage the assignment of Internet Keywords with the goal of avoiding misdirection of users and misappropriation of trademarks and trade names.

According to a recent Forrester Research study, search engines are the top method for accessing customer sites followed by e-mail, and Search Engine Optimization.

www.OnlineBannersNow.com is currently the largest provider of keywords in North America and is developing standards with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). To rapidly expand this technology, the Company has leveraged its existing customer relationships and is aggressively pursing new distribution relationships around the United States through ISPs, as well as providers of search, directory, e-commerce, portal and content services.

Client's acceptance of the Online Banners Now product is almost intuitive. For anyone marketing on the Internet, keywords are foundational to online marketing strategies. Keywords are used in every websites meta-tags (these are hidden text descriptions) to notify search engines which words describe the site. There are also a number of sites that now sell keywords under what is known as a pay-per-click (ppc) model. Search Engine Optimization also focuses strictly on Keywords and meta-tags to increase a websites natural ranking on the major search engines.

Online Banners Now Search Engine Optimization service offers the guarantee that you will not find with most of the other SEO services online, a guarantee of first page placement. They will do everything in their power to place their clients website to be ranked in the natural results on the first page of those major search engines. Where other companies shy away from guarantees in order to stay safe, OnlineBannersNow will put their name on the line for their clients. - 15790

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The Magnitude of Sufficient Retirement Planning

By Patricia Flowers

It has never been more important to think about the right type of financial planning. Economically, there is no doubt that we are in a recession. Experts predict that we will soon bounce back from it - but they have been claiming that for a year. Who knows when it will really happen? And is it really worth it to adopt a "wait and see" attitude when it comes to your future? Absolutely not. Every little bit of money counts right now. You need to learn how important it is to have a good financial plan.

You need to start with personal finance. The best way to start saving money is with yourself. The best way to do that is quite simple. However it is surprisingly hard for a lot of people to actually do. Of course, we are talking about creating a budget. This means sitting down and taking stock of what you spend versus what you make.

You have to begin with the essentials. What do your bills amount to every month? Credit card bills, utilities, what you spend on gas, what you spend on groceries, and all of your other essentials - you need to tally up all of these amounts. Then, you need to figure out how much money you bring in each month. Set aside money for each thing. You will be surprised at how much you ultimately save.

Of course, your personal finances go well beyond this. You also need to think about retirement planning. This is a somewhat sticky situation. People are losing money out of their retirement funds these days, in increasingly worrisome amounts. What can you do to stop that?

First of all, realize that you cannot necessarily rely solely on your 401K. This is undoubtedly important of course. But sometimes, it can let you down with no warning whatsoever. You should always set up and pay into your 401K whenever it is possible. However, if it is not sufficient or if your job does not offer one, you need to take matters into your own hands.

For instance, what about opening up an IRA? This is an abbreviation for an Individual Retirement Account. It allows you to open up a retirement fund yourself. You get to choose how much money goes into it. This allows you a little leverage and control. Plus, you can be pretty sure that nothing is going to happen to it.

It is absolutely vital that you plan for your future. You simply cannot leave it up to chance. Nor is it necessary for you to do so. Take matters into your own hands, be in control. It will make your life much better in the long run. - 15790

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Diasabled? Work at Home with Private Label Ebooks

By Steve Blalock

There are millions of people who are classified as disabled. While many of those are able to go about their normal activities, such as working, there are others who cannot. A disability does not mean that you shouldnt be able to generate income or support yourself; however, it does mean that you may have to find other ways to do so. One of those ways is a business opportunity that is taking the internet by storm, private label resell rights.

Private label resell rights are offered on a number of products. These products most commonly include, but should not be limited to, e-books, software programs, and content articles. If you are looking for an easy way to generate income, you are encouraged to further examine private label resell rights for e-books. Depending on your disability, you may find that this is the business opportunity that you have been searching for.

To take part in this opportunity, you must first find an e-book author who is willing to sell you the rights to their work. Simply by performing a standard internet search, with the words private label e-book resell rights, you should be provided with links to various different offers. Each of these offers will vary; therefore, it is important to fully examine them. In addition to examining the cost of obtaining the e-books resell rights, you will also want to examine any restrictions imposed by the original offer. These restrictions are most commonly listed in a user agreement or a contract.

As previously mentioned, many of the e-book offers you will come across will vary. There are a number of authors who prefer that you leave their work as is and with their name as the author. In most cases it is only a request, but you must agree to follow these terms if they are outlined in a user agreement or contract. If you are able to find an offer that allows you to edit the e-book or claim it as your own, you should take it. These types of offers may allow you to make more money because you can alter the e-book to create numerous versions, all of which you can easily sell online.

One of the many reasons why obtaining the resell rights to an e-book is a good idea, especially for those with a disability, is because of the lack of travel. For many disabled workers, the hardest part of working is getting there, especially if extra accommodations need to be made. With selling e-books, which you have legally obtained through private label resell rights, you do not have to leave your home to work, unless you want to. Not only can you buy the resell rights to an e-book online, but you can also sell that book online.

In addition to travel accommodations, you may also find it easier to work at your own pace. Whether or not your disability limits your performance ability, you do not have to respond to orders from a superior. By making a living buying resell rights to an e-book and then selling that book to consumers, you will be working as your own boss. It is true that the more you work, the more money you will make, but, that does mean that you have to put in long hours. In fact, many e-book resell right buyers are more than happy only working part-time.

Limited travel and limited work hours are just a few of the many reasons why selling e-books may be an amazing business venture. Of course anyone can make money buying the resell rights to an e-book, but if you are disabled, you may be able to reap the most benefits. If this sounds like a business opportunity that you are interested in, you are encouraged to get researching. There are a large number of e-book resell offers currently available. To make the most money with this opportunity, you are urged to find an e-book that is not only well written, but one that is in high demand. - 15790

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Cultural Division

By Ian Kleine

With accordance to the Census Bureau's figures concerning Nevada's population estimate during 2007, the state of Nevada has a population close to two million five hundred thousand people. Immigration had increased the population a few folds more, thus Nevada earned the title of 'fastest growing state in the country'.

The actual place of mass density and concentration is Las Vegas. This small gambling center had grown from one hundred people, figure squared after 50 years and multiplied by ten after 20 years. By the present time, most of the two million five hundred thousand that makes up the population of Nevada can be found in this city.

The racial distributions in Las Vegas is: sixty five percent White American, twenty percent Hispanics or Latinos, seven percent African-American, six percent Asian-American, and two percent with the minority groups. The state also hosts a lot of families with Mexican ancestry, some other counties (like Nye County) have those of German blood, and Washoe has those of Irish ancestries. Las Vegas is home to Italians, Armenians, American Jews, Scandivanians, Polish and the likes.

The Californian Gold Rush of the mid 1800s had also brought a lot of Asian miners (mostly Chinese), especially in Washoe county. These American-turned-Asians were then succeeded by Japanese farm workers by the late 1800. This century, most of the immigrants are from Korea, Japan, China and the Philippines. Because of this, Asiatown and Chinatown was conceptualized to serve the needs of Asian customers.

Nevada has a largely female population, with the ratio of men to women at a close 1 : 1. The state lives off mostly through the revenues of Las Vegas, thus most of the immigrants from South East Asia and the Southern Americas came here in hopes of work in the gaming, gambling and hospitality industry. Still, farming and construction work still make up for the largest employment with the immigrants living in Nevada. - 15790

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