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I began enhancing my personal energy level three months shy of my 40th birthday and after 2 years of struggling with clinically-diagnosed depression. During this same period, I was challenged, immensely by the debilitating effects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and being rendered permanently partially disabled as the result of being involved in two car accidents in six days (neither of which was I at fault). I recall an incredible sense of emptiness and a daunting feeling of being completely overwhelmed; especially when trying to figure out which pills went with what ills. Unable to return to the vocation I loved, I received disability payments and simply existed. Most of my time was spent in bed where I eventually became 48 pounds “over-fat.” When dreams and reasons for living are wiped out by the greatest, of the least unexpected, most people priorities typically change. My priorities? Well, they just disappeared. I was defeated physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and knocking on “Financially’s” door. Making the bed was not a priority; it simply went unmade. And when it came down to paying the bills, many went unpaid. One day I was moved enough to actually cultivate the emotion of being “fed up!” During this awakening, I made the decision to reclaim complete responsibility for my life. And I did.

37 months post accidents, I was 51 pounds lighter, and at least 52 times brighter. Following my “awakening” I set goals to become an author, speaker, consultant, educator, and private investigator. I quickly established myself as a successful personal energy consultant. I began to promote and practice life-altering strategies for change. My philosophy is that of a guerilla’s - not a guru’s. And, my approach is innovative, strategic, fun, proven and desired-results focused. I figured, if I overcame all of my physical, spiritual and psychological ailments, discovered how to run faster; jump higher; throw farther; look younger, stay up longer - manifest twice as much energy than I did when I was a “starting” NCAA athlete half my age - anyone else can do the “undoable,” too! Whatever the “undoable,” may be. When clients & friends counter and say, “Maybe it worked for you, Fran, but it won’t necessarily work for me.” I simply say: “Look, I have a central nervous system and so do you; I’m a child of God, and you are too!” They typically smile then sheepishly roll up their sleeves.

Miracles happen when you audaciously remind one of the Divine.

Paramount to enhancing my personal energy level was to identify, outline and write down my physical goals. Returning to playing competitive softball, being the team’s starting “short stop” and winning the league championship were my top three goals. I promised myself I would return to play softball at a competitive level if it killed me. It almost did! Playing softball on several teams simultaneously, is quite challenging - even in the so-called recreational leagues. It left me limping around with a blue, pain-alleviating ointment. I had soreness in muscles I never even knew existed! Nevertheless, by season’s end I had accomplished all of my goals.

As I continued following a disciplined program to attain goals in every area of my life, something just short of magical happened. My personality sparked with a resurgence of charisma, confidence and boldness. My muscles grew stronger, my energy increased and the fat melted off my body. Taking part in an activity not only became easier, but quite enjoyable. Suddenly, I was living life as I had designed.

Great goals make you stretch. They can take you well beyond anything you could possibly imagine! The most important part of setting great goals is not the goals themselves, but the person you become in the stretch!

Fran Briggs is the founder of The Fran Briggs Companies and is “a motivational speaker of the inspirational kind.” She is the author of several articles, manuals and books including her latest, “Seeds for Success.” This prominent voice of motivation speaks to audiences of children and adults of all ages and backgrounds with the aim of inspiring them to their respective levels of greatness. Fran can be contacted at http://www.franbriggs.com

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioural science that was developed in the 1970’s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. It is a powerful and explicit model of human experience and communication.
In practical terms NLP is a methodology for modelling human behaviour. Specifically, NLP is used to model examples of human excellence in every field of endeavour, and then seeks to find ways to replicate that behaviour in others. NLP has been used to model various forms of human interaction including communication, memory, motivation, behavioural patterns and relationships.

NLP may best be described as “the science of human excellence”!
So how does this NLP thing help me?
Training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) benefits people who wish to maximise the power of communication with others. It is ideal for those involved with training and presentation, education, human resources, management, sales and marketing, mediation and negotiation, performance coaching or counselling.

NLP can also be used to help understand and alter unconscious behaviours that may be unhelpful or limiting. Habits and patterns of behaviours exist at the unconscious level and are part of our programming. NLP provides us with knowledge and insights into how we operate as humans and how we process and store information and the most important of all - how we can change behaviours and feelings that no longer serve us.
Ultimately, NLP gives us tools to make changes for ourselves and to assist other people.

NLP is not Magic It just teaches you how your Brain Works
Most personal development courses and coaching programmes now incorporate NLP in some of their practices. NLP is infiltrating all areas of work places and peoples lives. As a result there are many differing uses that NLP is being applied to and many different views of its benefits and risks.

Claims for NLP range from “It will revolutionise your life” to “it is a pseudo-science used to prey on the gullible”. Any tool can be mis-used in the hands of the unwise or undisciplined person and NLP is no exception, hence less scrupulous uses of NLP have arisen including using it to generate “cult like worship” in large groups, as a sales tool for manipulating nave buyers and as a tool for “rapid seduction”.

We have seen and personally experienced extraordinary benefits being gained from appropriate use of NLP techniques. It is also clear that NLP is being adopted widely throughout teaching, self-help and corporate environments and therefore is worth understanding so that we can decide how best to use it for our own benefit and that of clients. We do not propose that NLP is a quick-fix solution for any issue. We do not suggest that every claim made by NLP proponents or trainers be accepted at face value.

The study of NLP is generally taught in an accelerated manner using direct examples and hands-on experiential training, as this is the way the natural mind and brain work. One of the best ways to learn about NLP is to experience it directly by working with an accredited NLP Practitioner. There are also many books written about NLP and its applications.

Chris Young is the founder of White Water Consulting (http://www.whitewater.com.au) and is a senior consultant with a broad knowledge and experience in financial services, change management and information technology. His areas of focus include delivering business-aligned IT strategy and implementing best practices in process improvement, project management and software development process. White Water Consulting provides practical solutions to designing and implementing information technology strategy. By remaining independent of solutions and solution providers White Water Consulting can concentrate on your actual business needs and recommend strategies that are pragmatic and cost effective.

The key to reach millions of people with your product or services is start writing your article right now and distributes it to hundreds of ezine publishers online. Currently there are tens of thousands of ezine publishers online and they are all looking for good content to publish in their ezines. If you write good article and not a sales letter that promoting your business, then your article possibility publish in their newsletter or web sites.

If your article publishes in their newsletter or web site, these will give exposure to your online business because every article you write you are free to include your business info in your resource box. So treat your resource box very useful.

Once you have your highly informative article ready to go, submit it to the online article directory. Go to search engine and type, free article directory or article directory.

Here are a few list of major article directory available on the net.
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Go to search engine and type, free ezine directory or ezine directory. Click on each ezine you search and browse for ezine accept article in their publication. Collect their name and contact emails. If you cannot find their name, try whois their web address. Alternatively, go to godaddy.com, type their ezine URL address, and click whois.

Send emails to these ezine publishers with a short cover letter and personalized paragraph at the top of your emails. Include your article in your email after your personalization. Personalization your emails are very important because most ezine publishers receive hundreds of these emails every day. Therefore, you must make your emails interesting and let these ezine publishers happy to read your emails and then take action to publish your article.

If it is hard for you to find those ezine publishers, use article announcement lists or groups. Announcement lists is a groups of ezine publishers and editors that subscribe to these lists and they are in double opt-in method. Each of these publishers is looking for good content in their ezine, e-books, or web sites. Currently each of these publishers and editors has subscriber or ezine reader between 1,000 - 10,000 readers. These subscribers or ezine readers are growing every each day. That is mean your articles are expose to millions of ezine or newsletter readers.

Go to search engine and type, article announcement lists. Here are a few lists of article announcement lists available on the net. To post your articles to these lists you must first be a subscriber.

http://topica.com/lists/freeezinecontent/
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aageneral/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article-distribution/
http://lists.topica.com/lists/free-reprint_articles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce_list/

Good luck with your advertising campaign.

Bhakra Gani is the owner of www.angelnewsletter.com
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Its crazy that laptop computers are now becoming a common thing, as if you should own one. So high demand but minute supply according to what manufacturers are forcasting. I think the worst thing for manufacturers is that it doesn’t look like any factor will hinder this demand for laptop computers. It’s a quick evolving business that is witnessing new trends all the time.

One of the growing trends is gaming notebooks. Prices are also dropping because the expected life has become so small for laptop computers. Laptop computers can now sensibly be used for gaming by us due to the increased performance of new computers. Smaller components that perform better and are operate at lower temperatures also means that gone are the times of the enormous notebooks for gaming. Desktops are greater in size and eat more electricity so no matter how great gaming notebooks have become desktops will always perform better. Gaming notebooks will without a doubt get streamlined and more powerful in the future and it will be fascinating to see.

A number of small companies provide custom built laptops to specialist markets. Sometimes with bigger brands the quality of the main components is not that good. With that in mind you commonly get to spec the processor, memory, storage and software. Prebuilt notebooks are aimed at consumers who have similar requirements and that may not be you right? So basically this is why you require a custom laptop computer. I feel you also get better customer service when purchasing a custom laptop. This too is an additional major selling factor.

It certainly will intriguing to see what gets released next. Basic ultra portables are the popular trend. This sector is already seeing stiff competition and is becoming saturated. If a brand makes a notebook that has a large screen but is also lightweight at a mass market price point I feel it would be a big success. I’m certain some brands are proactively working on such projects. Market trends suggest that gaming laptops will get more portable in the next couple of years. Even though laptop technology follows roadmaps theres forever going to be a gadget that transforms all that.

Using yoga for weight loss might not look effective to most people. I bet you they’ll go: “Naw, it’s just stretching…what can it possibly do to burn calories?”

Well, a lot my friend. Yoga can work for weight loss if you use it right and I’ll tell you what to do in due course.

“But how exactly can yoga work for weight loss Foras? (That’s my name by the way), ya’ll just stretching that’s it…!”

Boy, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that comment.

Well for interested parties, yoga as an option for weight loss is wise, safe and effective.
Remember, it is the oldest physical culture known to man and not only does this exercise work the body, it works the mind and soul as well. Hey, have you seen Madonna, Sting or Russell Simmons lately? (I can just see you go: “Foras…they were never overweight so don’t go there! Well…they never gained weight either and they actually all still look good for there ages right?

Okay, here are the poses I recommend you use when using Yoga for weight loss.
Now my friend, I will go over what I believe is the CORE of Yoga Poses.
Trust me, there have been times when I did this alone and still got the benefits that yoga gives from daily practice.

Let’s take notes:

The Sun Salutations When using Yoga for Weight Loss:

These exercises are a combination of Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises, Sun Bathing and Prayer. They have been practiced for centuries by Yoga Practitioners in India, Martial Artists and African Wrestlers and as a system to rejuvenate the body and soul are beyond compare. It’s been said in the Drugless Healing circles that one round of the Sun Salutations is much better than a week of exercises at the gym!

They are very simple to learn and just about anyone, regardless of their fitness or flexibility levels can learn these simple exercises. In actuality, if you are familiar with “burpies” (the calisthenics exercise), they do derive their origin from the Sun Salutations.

Here are some of their benefits:

-They alleviate disorders of the skin and waist.

-Flexibility increases and breathing is corrected, moreover, they mildly exercise the legs and arms, thus increasing the circulation.

-They are the best way to burn calories and reduce weight and are often recommended for obesity and depression.

-They are an effective way of loosening up, stretching and massaging all joints and internal organs of the body.

-They stimulate and balance all the systems of the body including the endocrine, circulatory, reproductive and digestive system.

Technique:

1. Stand straight with the palms together as in a prayer position.

2. Inhale and stretch the arms above the head.

3. Exhale and bend forward while touching the toes.

4. Inhale and stretch the right leg away from the body in a big backward step and keep the hands and left foot firmly on the ground. Bending the head backward the left knee should be between the hands.

5. Inhale and hold the breath. Move the left leg from the body and, keeping both feet together and the knees of the floor, rest on the hands (arms straight) and keep the body in a straight line from head to foot.

6. Exhale and lower the body to the floor. In this position, only 8 portions of the body come in contact with the floor: the two feet, two knees, two hands, chest and forehead.

7. Inhale and bend back as much as possible bending the spine to the maximum.

8. Exhale and lift the body of the floor. Keep the feet and heels on the floor.

9. Inhale and bring the right foot along the level of the hands; left foot and knee should touch the ground. Look up, bending the spine slightly (same position as #4)

10. Exhale and bring the left leg forward. Keep the knees straight and bring the head down to the knees as in the third position.

11. Raise the arms overhead and bend backward inhaling. As in Position 2.

12. Exhale and drop the arms and relax.

You have now completed one round.

Perform as many rounds as possible in multiples of 3. Ideally you want to aim for 6 rounds minimum and up to a maximum of 30. It only takes about 5-10 minutes, depending on your speed and intensity and is best practiced with as little clothing as possible before an open air window first thing in the morning.

Okay, we’ve gone over the core pose or combination thereof when using Yoga for weight loss in this part of the series of this article. I’ll go over SPECIFIC poses (asanas) that will target the trouble spots and some breathing exercises that would speed up burning up of calories. But my friends, note, when I say use yoga for weight loss; I mean ALL its limbs: the poses, the prescribed diet for practice and mind-set. If you were doing conventional exercise for weight loss, you’d know to eat a healthier diet right…?
Well the same applies to yoga for weight loss as well friends.

See you in part 2 of this article.

Foras Aje is an independent researcher and author of Fitness: Inside and out, a book on improving physical and mental health naturally. For more information on yoga exercises visit http://www.bodyhealthsoul.com/yoga.htm

Great unique gift ideas for that perfect 21st birthday present represent acknowledge of an obtained goal in life. Not only cultural but societal as well. 21st birthday is a landmark birthday celebrated extensively in the 21st century, and is considered to be one of the most important days in a person’s life. Eighteen is legal by law but Twenty-one is considered a legal adult. Searching for a 21st birthday present is easy when you know how to look in the right place. A life truth.

The present presented on this day is a symbol of love, and conveys your good wishes and blessings for a bright future of the 21 year old. Presents should be in accordance with the tastes and temperament of the birthday girl or boy. Next are some present ideas for the 21st birthday:

Gold Watch

If your finance permits, you can present the birthday chico or chica a gold watch with his or her name and date of birth imprinted on it.

Silver Jewelry

You can get him or her tickets to their first silver jewelry magic concert. It is a great present idea, natural and more available than anything its equal.

A Sports Present Gala

21st birthday calls for celebration and nothing can be more exciting than a sport gifts birthday party. Most households are several opportunities for sports present happiness.

Video Collections and Electronic Gadgets

The 21st birthday commemorate the commencement of early life transition and a stage of great responsibilities. Therefore, the gift to be had on this day should be special. Use your vision to give made to order or encouraging gifts as well.

Celebration of life is great to celebrated and wise to do so. To be savored, life is. It is and will always be a time of rumination of what was and a instinct into what will be. The receiving friend will think lovingly on the one that gives such 21st birthday presents. Discover 21st birthday present ideas here.

Conjoin man’s most important leisure actvities and you’ve got is something that’s commonly called a web based sportsbook. And what could possibly be more ingenious? If you visualize a large assembly of guys rooting for any given preferred local sports club, and almost all the time antes are placed adding to the noise. Wishing to catch a bit of the action, onlookers regularly endeavor to envisage who will make it the running game. Put together, all of this evolves into a friendly little game called web based sportsbook.

Ok, so it can seem overwhelming, but, rather sports gambling is, in reality, just diverting and to relate with fellow sports devotees. Here, you can wager a a negligible quantity of gravy and still enjoy an extravagant time. Beyond this, here are various basics to help you get started sports gambling.

If you want to place that bet, you’ll search for a web based sportsbook, i.e. a place which admits web based sportsbook. In the U.S.A., you have four states where everybody can go for sports gambling in a legal manner, but illegally you can attempt it wherever as long as you can pin down a bookie *and* you happen to be legally of age. Many of the sports events you’ll be able to bet on are professional plus, to boot, college football and college class basketball, pro hockey, pro hockey, plus, to boot, bets on both dog and horse racing. Visitors can bet money on the overall result of a competition, on what round the opponent will be knocked out, and even if a tossed coin in a competition comes out either heads or tails.

The odds maker establishment put their face in pure statistics to help you come to a decision which sports club you believe will make it. First off, there’s the likelihood, that’s points leverage given to a a weaker contestor that is presumed to lose by x number points. You will find plenty of varying types of bets– parlays i.e. combined wagers on sundry sports events, straight, over/unders, i.e. antes on the totalized points achieved in the challennge by all sides, teaser wagers and others, the straight being the dominating one in sports gambling.

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An Entrepreneur is an individual who chooses to go into business by himself. Often entrepreneurs decide to stay a one-person company to keep decisions and quality of work under control. These single entrepreneurs are often called solo entrepreneurs, too. These entrepreneurs are often referred to as free agents, freelancer, self-employed, sole proprietor, or home based business owner (although not all single person entrepreneurs are home-based). This often depends on the professional field they work in.

Being a one person business does not mean being completely on your own. These entrepreneurs often collaborate with other businesses or build alliances with other entrepreneurs or consultants. It all depends on their business needs. Outsourcing of basic work or certain project related work is the closest these businesses get to in regards to having “staff”.
Businesses run as one-person companies often have owners that meet certain characteristics. What are typical Solo Entrepreneur characteristics?

- The desire for personal freedom that allows them to adopt the lifestyle of choice.

- The drive and passion to implement the business plan and to fulfill their personal dreams.

- The willingness to go the extra mile and the desire to succeed

- They are very passionate about what they do.

- Being committed to their venture.

- Comfortable working alone and an above average usage of new technologies such as the Internet or Voice over IP (VOIP).

Why the “one-person company”?

Many entrepreneurs are “refugees” from the large corporate world, while others choose to be self-employed in a “one-person company” as a change from a traditional-based small business with employees and increased management responsibilities. Being unemployed after another wave of outsourcing to India can also trigger the desire in people to become self-employed and especially to stay a “one-person company”. Especially the political games played in larger corporations increase the desire to completely get a way from the same. Being flexible and able to implement decisions without having to worry about the “internal political players” is a driving force to work alone.

Other reasons:

- A general change in attitudes to be more in control of individual choices and actions that affect life.

- Getting out of the daily rat-race and away from working in large companies, climbing the corporate ladder in search of more money, and more (political) power.

- To be able to choose the tools of trade and not being forced to do things in an inefficient way.

What drives the “one-person company” owner to be successful?

Freedom: The biggest reason for leaving the corporate world is the freedom an individual gains when working for himself. Being employee makes the entrepreneur feel like being in a prison. The freedom to decide when to work, where to work, and who to work with makes all the difference.

About the Author

Christoph Puetz is a successful entrepreneur and international book author. Christoph Puetz lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. One of the websites he maintains can be found at Web Hosting Resource Kit.

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Even if the Property Index is seen as a recent organisation, they were established only in March 2007, they have achieved expert status very quickly. De facto, they are a fairly hassle-free organisation dedicated to offering guidance to everyone meaning to sell, buy, rent, etc. real estate assets in most popular areas of the world. Their assurance is to offer you assistance to find smack what’s looked for quickly as well as, of course, in a trouble-free manner. Real estate can be located all over the place at the moment, arguably the hippest area being properties available in Spain. It should really be an easy job to specify the ripping properties you can purchase in Spain, the rationale for looking for real property here is the houses and apartments for sale and the sensational chance to live together with this energetic people.

It is one of the most popular markets at the moment, and considering the beauty and sunshine surrounding you here, how can you go wrong… Real estate in Spain is steeped in history, art and culture, this realm of the world has always been home to a number of civilizations. Some 25 years ago there was a mere trickle of English people in search of properties in Spain. Ask any one person who has emigrated to Spain and they’ll certainly back this up. There are those who would describe it as a basically irrelevant fashion and others describe it as a that’s nearly a fixation… People who are willing to repair to this area may extend from young families looking for a bit of a new perspective to the retired looking to unwind.

Do bear in mind, however, that there may be obstructions when purchasing properties in a foreign country — you’ll have to cover a hundred actions to come to terms with when planning, popping in or finalising. If you only miss but a single step it is sure to easily generate wide-ranging obstructions plus, of course, preeminently, loss of money. Obviously and expectably with this well-liked location, properties may well be extraordinarily dear in this area which is, of course, purely a result of the peaking market demand. Yet, patrons are patently quite spoilt for choice in an area so determined by fun terrain and cheerful view. It can offer everything just about anyone might need and more.

There are many would-be entrepreneurs who never start their own business because of the risks involved. With any business start-up there is a risk of failure; choosing a well designed franchise business greatly reduces that risk. The best franchise business opportunities are those with a proven track record of helping novice entrepreneurs start and stabilize an exact copy of an already proven business plan. After all, if you already knew what you were doing, you wouldn’t need a franchise. If you already knew what you were doing, you would probably be starting your own franchise business - - and selling franchises to others.

Some franchising experts say that the best way to judge the quality of a franchise business opportunity is through the size of the franchise fee. Not in the simplistic sense of “a good one costs more”, or in another simplistic sense of “the cheaper the better”. Ignoring for the moment that the word “franchise” comes from the French word for “free”, they say that the franchising fee gives you a look into the motives of the franchisor. Are they trying to make a quick buck by selling thousands of expensive franchises? Or have they set a medium and reasonable price for their franchise that just covers their costs and discourages those who are insufficiently motivated to make the franchise work?

With the best franchise business opportunities you find a franchisor who thinks of his franchisees in much the same way he would think of an affiliate. In fact, a good franchise business and a good affiliate business have a lot in common. The good franchisor realizes that the better his franchisees do, the more money he’ll make. He is constantly looking for ways to empower his franchisees and thinks of them as his sales force. He spends money advertising the franchise, thinks up marketing promotions that will assist his franchisees, and employs a roving team of experts to help fledgling franchisees - - and those who are not doing well - - get their businesses moving.

As with almost anything these days, the Internet provides a free and useful tool you can use to help narrow down your search for the best franchise business opportunities. You can use it to track down other people who have paid the price and tried to make a go of it with any particular franchise.

In fact, with any successful franchise you’re likely to be able to go straight to their Web site and use a “store locator” to find franchisees all over the country. If you send an email to a few of them, and make it clear that you’re not in their area, some of them will get back to you and tell you everything you need to know about that franchisor. It’s really amazing how just little bit of research effort can provide a wealth of information these days.

Scott J. Patterson is a self-proclaimed Dunce, yet last month he earned $12,124 from one of his online businesses. To find out how YOU can do the same, download his free ebook- The Secret Guide to Online Businesses: http://www.duncemoney.com/ea1.html