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ARTArticleFrom Rejection To SuggestionTom WrightARTArticleGet-Rich-Quick Business VirusMy brother and I were fascinated with get-rich-quick schemes when we were in high school. We decided to buy one particular get-rich-quick scheme we saw in an infomercial. The guy in the infomercial touted he had made millions by starting a business in his one bedroom apartment with classified ads, and that he wanted to share this secret, which we purchase with three easy payments. We knew there had to be a catch, but we wanted to see for ourselves what it was.ARTArticleGetting In Sync with The Way of LifeGetting In Sync with The Way of Lifer
By
Bill Cottringer
“In anything, timing is everything.” ~Benjamin Disraeli.
During our lives we are all part of one main conflict, which is us vs. life. Of course, our everyday lives involve two other conflicts within this main one, which are us vs. others and even us vs. ourselves. The path of least resistance to resolving all these conflicts requires us to get more in sync with the Way of Life. Here are the seven behaviors that help us find this path so we can enjoy the benefits of being in sync with the Way of Life.
1. Slow Down.rARTArticleHappiness: Are Your Perceptions Creating Cataracts of The Soul?Happiness and peace of mind seems to be on many people's minds. After all, happiness and peace of mind are two elements that make for a life well lived. The challenge though is being clear enough to stay focused on principles that allow us to avoid getting pulled into the trap of "common knowledge".
Common knowledge is often simply hand-me-down opinions that have been accepted as "just the way life is". There is not a way life is that is universally true. What determines how you see life is the filter that you see the facts around you through, known as perception.ARTArticleHoliday Funk?
7 Steps to Rise AboveThe holidays are 'supposed to be' a time of love and laughter. Families and loved ones stop their frenzied lives to get together in peace, harmony and abundant gift giving. At least that's what much of the media and advertisers tell us how it should be each year.
Yet for many of us, the holidays come with its own dark heavy cloud of 'what the fuck is wrong with me? I SHOULD be happy.' Truth is, we're anything but. As the holidays get nearer and nearer we slip further and further into a holiday funk.
If this sounds familiar, then listen up. Its time you gave yourself a powerful gift.ARTArticleHow Does MLS Work? What You Need to KnowIntroduction
You can sell by owner and take advantage of Multiple listing services as well.
That’s the best of both worlds.
When you’re ready to sell real estate, many people think you have to list with a broker and pay outrageous commissions. Not true.
You have options. Let me explain how things work in the world of Real Estate. Compare then decide.
MLS Multiple Listing Service is simply an organization put together by Brokers to share and market their listings.ARTArticleHow Shy Men Act Around Women They LikeWant a crash course in how shy men act around someone they like? Put yourself in their shoes. Think of a time that you felt shy yourself. How did it feel? How did you react?
Shy people often have trouble making eye contact. They may tend to look down at their feet more than extroverts. Perhaps they get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. This is just how shy men act around women they like sometimes.ARTArticleHow Society Fails Our ChildrenThis article is written for the children who don’t have responsible parents. For the children that are being neglected and feel that they have no one. When a child is born there is only a limited number of people involved in that child’s life: the hospital where they were born, the parents, the family members and the doctor’s office. After a period of time, the community might become aware that there is a new baby that has just arrived.ARTArticleHow to Connect with People through their Values.Put simply, a value is something that is important to us. Values are the why behind any behaviour that we do as human beings. Whenever we take action and do something we do it for a reason. These reasons are what we refer to as values.
A value is an emotional state that we are either attempting to move away from or attempting to move towards. They reflect our beliefs about what is right and wrong and are the rules, principles and standards that we live by.ARTArticleHow to eat healthy: The Body Benevolence DietHOW you eat is just as important as WHAT you eat. And, when it comes to staying motivated to dieting or eating well, embracing a motivating mindset is the key to your success.
When you think of food, odds are you think about what you are “supposed to eat” or what you “can’t eat” or how much of it you should limit yourself. These are not necessarily bad ways to think about eating yet on a subconscious level this line of thought actually creates a negative association with healthy eating that may trigger “Little You™” into making “more convenient” and unhealthy choices.ARTArticleHow to Jump Start Your Own Organizing MakeoverI’ve had the opportunity to be part of several organizing makeover shows (as the organizer, not the client, mind you) and really enjoy seeing the client’s excitement as they view their transformed space for the first time. While you may be hoping there’s a television crew about to knock on your door to announce that you’ve won an organizing makeover, odds are that’s not about to happen. So here are some quick tips to help you jump start your own home organizing makeover:ARTArticleHow to keep a Job in Tough TimesHow to keep a Job in Tough Times
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William Cottringer, Ph.D.
“The quickest way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” ~Oscar Wilde.
In tough economic times, it is not a good thing to be unemployed. And if you are lucky enough to have a job, you don’t want to do anything to lose it by doing or not doing something under your control. In most states misconduct or quitting for no good cause will keep you from being eligible for unemployment benefits. And sometimes, you can even be proactive to avoid being laid off.ARTArticleHow To Know If a Shy Woman is Interested in a ManIs she sending out the signals? Or not sending out the signals? Maybe she is just shy. Perhaps you're curious about how to know if a shy woman is interested in a man.
It can be hard to "read" anybody, even talkative, outgoing people. But shy people can be doubly difficult. Because of their quiet, less communicative manner, it can be hard sometimes to understand what's going through their minds.
It isn't easy for the shy person either. She may have more trouble talking to people, making eye contact, and communicating the positive parts of her personality.ARTArticleHow To Know if a Shy Woman Is Interested in a Man by Taking ActionEverybody has certain verbal and nonverbal cues that indicate how they feel. Very rarely do people come right out and tell someone about their deepest emotional states. On has to learn how to interpret these nonverbal signals. Doing so is is the key to how to know if a shy woman is interested in a man.
But perhaps, rather than spending too much time obsessing over these nonverbal signals, if you are the man in question, you should take the initiative. If you are successful, it will become obvious whether the woman is interested in you or not.ARTArticleHow to Live a Long Healthy LifeWant to know a surefire way to increase your chances of living a long and healthy life? Exercise! Making excuses and procrastinating won’t prolong your life or get you off the hook from taking good care of yourself. Here is an empowering motto: Do TODAY what you can do tomorrow. Here are 7 Reasons Why Exercise is good for you!
1. Good exercise = good sleep. When you engage in an active lifestyle, you will sleep better at night.
2. Just 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a day will reduce mild to moderate symptoms of depression by HALF!ARTArticleHow to Love the Skin You're InNo matter our size or shape – long and lean, compact and curvy, top-heavy, pear-shaped… many of us seem to have a negative perception of our bodies. Instead of seeing our beauty, we focus on what we believe are our negative qualities making it more difficult to feel confident and fulfilled in our lives.
Without going too much into why, let’s briefly look at the culture we were brought up in. Television ads, magazines, radio, movies. Every day, we are bombarded with messages of what we SHOULD look like.ARTArticleHow to Save the Life of a Black EntrepreneurThe African American population has endured 500 years of existence in America. We have contributed to absolutely every aspect of life which supports the United States’ economy. African Americans of the 18th century endured an abysmal and depressing existence. It was a community of slaves with no civil, human, or political rights. Many people of African descent fought against the abolishment of slavery, many fought to be recognized as intelligent human beings, others fought for equality, and yet others fought to live as creative souls. From Crispus Attucks to Booker T.ARTArticleHow Would You “Live Like You Were Dying”?I recently heard the song Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw on the radio, and it got me wondering what I’d do differently if I took his advice. I don’t want to sound macabre, but I found this exercise to be refreshing and eye-opening. Here are the options I pondered:ARTArticleI Want To Be An Entrepreneur-So Why Am I So Stuck?Career transition is quite common considering that many people are searching for more meaning in what they do, or by sheer necessity, they have to make some hard choices. Why are they so hard? Life is really meant to be enjoyed, not one week of drudgery after another.
I heard someone I know say over the weekend how much she dreads Mondays because she hates her job and her boss. This is no way to live. So why is it such a common problem? At the core of the matter is mindset. We don't know what we even want as our soul's desire is often buried under a ton of "shoulds".ARTArticleI'm Stuck!Ever feel that way? Your feet have suddenly become cement blocks. You cannot focus on tasks that you’ve set in place to move you towards your goals. You find yourself doing everything BUT what you say you want to do. Irritation and frustration sets in.
“Arghhhhhh, I’m Stuck!!!
Or are you? What these emotions and actions may really be telling you is you’re about to push past the outer rim of your comfort zone. You’re ready to step onto a path that is so unknown and so far from anything you’ve ever done before that all your warning signals start firing off.ARTArticleIf I Could Say To YouIf I could say to you, “Touch your heart. Feel your heart beat; feel your blood flow through with every breath you take.” If I could say to you, “Take that tende
ess, that pulse and carry it with you. “ Carry it to all the places that it is so desperately needed. To the young little voices that are dying to be heard. Carry it to the lost souls that are searching to be found. Carry it so that it may dry a tear. Carry it so that it may shed light where there is darkness. Carry is so that it gives hope and opportunity to a place where they don’t exist.ARTArticleInnocenceIt was a long time ago, the age of drive-ins and driving around drinking. It was a time of young love. It was a time of going to school and learning about boys. It was about fun and growing up.
I remember meeting him at the local mall. He was a little older, had his own car and he was very handsome. He started coming by my work everyday. He always had this huge smile on his face. I guess I had a huge one on mine too.ARTArticleJob Depression CuresThe season or merriment has rolled around again. Everywhere you turn your eyes will be flooded with messages to buy, consume, and give. And if you are one the millions of people out of work, searching for a job and just holding on to the basic necessities of life, the messages saturated with the buy, consume, and give mantras can run your idling spirit to an absolute stall. Several times in my life I have had to experience the stranglehold of joblessness. No doubt about it, being jobless is a miserable and depressing state of being.ARTArticleKindness for Kids: Kindness starts with you.CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE, TEACH THEM WELL
Numerous songs abound exhorting the importance of treating and teaching children well, because they are our future. If we want children to be kind then we must first be kind ourselves and extend our kindness out toward others.
FOLLOW MY LEADERrARTArticleKNOW THE ABCs of Blessings for an Always Blessed Charmed life.A: Actively bless everyone, everything and Always remember to bless yourself as well. Avidly love to bless and Aim to bless as much as possible.
B: Bless you, Bless you, Bless you. Blessings, Blessings, Blessings. BE BLESSED ALWAYS
C: Compassion, Care, concern, conviality, and charity are blessings you can bestow on yourself and all living creatures. Creature comfort is a blessing you can bestow every day.
D: Dare to dream big blessings for yourself and others. Dream your blessings into reality.
E: Extreme benefits come from believing that your life is just one long blessing.ARTArticleLOVE YOUR BOSS, it could work wonders for your careerLIFE IS NOT FAIR
Sometimes we can be so right yet so wrong. This philosophy applies in the work place. In parts of Asia, there is the belief that the Boss is always right or more accurately, The Boss always thinks he is right!
TAKE A LEAF OUT OF THE BOOKS OF LAW STUDENTSARTArticleMirror, Mirror On The Wall-Why Compare Myself At All?If confidence and self-esteem does not come from the inside out, we are bound to seek it from outside in. This is a never-ending bottomless pit. Who cares, you may ask. Why even conce
yourself with confidence or self-esteem issues?
Well, for one thing, what the French author Anais Nin said many years ago is true:
"We don't see things the way they are; we see them as we are"ARTArticleMoney and Career: The Real Truth About Manifesting Your BlissCareer transition has money and career on many women's minds lately. Since many women are sensing the change in the air, I've heard several comments about using this time of workplace instability to "find your bliss".
What I've noticed is that often it is believed that if you "just do what you love", you will be successful and your hobby will morph into a business that can take the place of your job. It would be nice if all we had to do were "build it and they will come".ARTArticleMONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND: Make sure you have your fair share around you!MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE
Love it or hate it, we need money. Money is just a thing, although we have to admit a powerful thing. Thoughts are things, and money is a thing. We have a relationship with everything in this life and money is no exception.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY
Money is a fact of life – we cannot run away from it, but should we make money our God? – the end all and be all. Well whenever I have discussions about money, the concluding view is that we cannot really have a good life without money. In fact, life is often limited by the amount of money we have.ARTArticleNeatening Isn’t OrganizingI recently encountered a situation with my client, whom I’ll call “Ann”, which exemplifies how some people think neatening is the same thing as organizing, and how detrimental that can be. Ann has several chronic medical conditions that generate lots of paperwork, leaving her buried in piles and overwhelmed. She also tends to be an over-shopper, buying things because they’re fun or pretty, not because she’ll necessarily use them, although she says she intends to give them as gifts someday.