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Wendy Betterini has spent much of her career guiding and empowering people to live their best lives possible. Her work has been featured in numerous self-help and personal development publications both online and off, as well as on her own web sites and blogs.

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Work at Home Jobs - Fee Or Free?
[Home-Based-Business] With so many options for working at home these days, it can often be hard to tell the legitimate opportunities from scams, especially when many of them charge some kind of fee. This article is going to break down various options and explain when it's okay to pay money for an opportunity and when it's not.

Legitimate Telecommute Jobs - How to Find Them
[Business:Careers-Employment] Finding legitimate telecommute jobs can be challenging, but it gets easier when you know how to avoid common work at home scams. This article shares some easy ways to tell when a job ad is legitimate, as well as tips on how to dig up the real telecommute jobs online.

Researching Legitimate Work at Home Jobs
[Home-Based-Business] When you first begin your search for legitimate work at home jobs online, you may have a difficult time determining which opportunities are real and which are scams. It can be hard to tell the difference sometimes, but there are several things you can look at to find out more.

Tips For Overcoming Procrastination
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Have you ever found yourself procrastinating on something you didn't want to do? It's no surprise that we want to avoid unpleasant tasks or obligations, but procrastination can also infiltrate other areas of our lives and stop us from doing things we really DO want to do.

3 Reasons Why Telecommuting May Not Be For You
[Business:Careers-Employment] Of the many thousands of people who have a desire to work at home, probably less than one-third of them are truly suited to it. In order to be a successful telecommuter, you really need to have certain personality traits that allow you to work independently, follow directions, and stay motivated.

Best Work at Home Jobs For Moms
[Home-Based-Business] Work at home parents face a unique challenge among telecommuters: how to keep an eye on the children while being productive at the same time. This article is going to share some helpful tips for doing just that.

Telecommuting Employment - Increase Your Chances of Being Hired
[Business:Careers-Employment] There are thousands of people seeking legitimate telecommuting employment these days, which can make it harder to get your application noticed. However, telecommuting employers are looking for specific qualities in their candidates and there are things you can do to increase your chances of being noticed - and hired!

How to Be a Successful Telecommuter
[Business:Careers-Employment] It can be challenging to find a good telecommuting job, but more and more companies are jumping on board and establishing telecommute programs - which means increased opportunities for aspiring telecommuters. This article will share some helpful tips for creating and maintaining a successful telecommuting career.

Top 10 Most Common Work at Home Jobs
[Home-Based-Business] Work at home jobs are becoming more and more popular, but there are still some that can be done more easily in a home environment. This article shares 10 of the most common types of work at home jobs you will find online.

Reducing Home Office Distractions
[Home-Based-Business] Working at home can be a dream come true but it can also hinder productivity if you allow distractions to interfere. If you live alone, you probably have the ability to work when you want and shut out external distractions. But what if you don't live alone? What if your home environment is filled with noise, traffic, and other interruptions? This article will share some easy tips for making the most of your work time.

Can Telecommuting Improve Productivity?
[Communications:Telephone-Systems] People are often under the impression that working from home would boost their productivity, but is that always true? This article addresses the pros and cons of working in a traditional office environment compared to working in a home office.

Telecommute Data Entry Jobs - Are They For Real?
[Business:Careers-Employment] One of the most sought after telecommuting jobs is data entry - but do these jobs really exist? Or are they all scams?

Lottery and the Law of Attraction - Avoid These 7 Mistakes
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Have you ever wondered whether it was possible to win the lottery using the Law of Attraction? There are plenty of "teachers" that say no - but I disagree and I share some compelling reasons why I believe it's possible, personal experiences that seem to back up my findings, and 7 mistakes that could prevent YOU from winning.

Learn The Law of Attraction With a Manifestation Journal
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Learning the Law of Attraction can be challenging at times because you get stuck in old habits of thought no matter how badly you want to change them. Keeping a manifestation journal can help you to overcome these old habits and become more focused in your manifestation exercises.

Attract Abundance With One Little Thought
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] One of the more common mistakes people make in trying to attract abundance is moving too quickly. They try to leap from chronic lack to massive abundance in a single day and get angry when it doesn't work. Not only is this approach incredibly frustrating - it cannot work!

Attract Money With This Fun and Easy Exercise
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Using the Law of Attraction to attract money and abundance is easy, but we often complicate it so it seems much harder. Today I'm going to walk you through a fun and easy exercise that shares one of THE most powerful and effective ways to attract money and other forms of abundance into your life.

How to Attract Money With the A-B-C of Abundance
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Attracting money with the Law of Attraction is as easy as can be with this simple A-B-C formula. If you have been trying unsuccessfully to attract money, see if you are forgetting one of these important steps.

Limiting Beliefs and Weight Loss - Five Limiting Beliefs That May Be Holding You Back
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Limiting beliefs are one of the biggest reasons people have a hard time losing weight and keeping it off. Here are five common limiting beliefs that may be holding back your own successful weight loss.

Easy Ways to Lose Weight With Law of Attraction
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight the traditional way usually involves a lot of hard work, struggle and sacrifice. Is there an easier way to lose weight? How about by using the power of your mind and the Law of Attraction?

Inner Weight Loss - Trusting Your Body's Wisdom
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you want to lose weight, you may be tempted to jump right into a traditional diet plan - but is that the best choice for YOU? You may be surprised to learn that your body knows exactly what it needs to become balanced and healthy again, and it will speak if you are willing to listen.

How to Lose Weight Without Dieting, Deprivation Or Struggle - Slim Down From the Inside, Out
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Is it really possible to lose weight without all the struggle and frustration that comes with traditional diet plans? Absolutely! This article will share some easy tips for making successful weight loss an inside job.

How to Be Proactively Prosperous During Tough Economic Times
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Bad news seems to be everywhere you turn nowadays - and this can cause a huge problem from a "conscious creation" standpoint because we continue to create more of what we focus on. This article is going to share some helpful information about using the Law of Attraction proactively to create a more prosperous future for you and your loved ones.

The Never-Ending Quest For Home Business Success
[Home-Based-Business] When most of us dive into our first home business venture, we are filled with visions of wealth, comfort, security and freedom. We have a general idea of where we'd like to end up financially, and we work hard to get there. But at what point would we consider ourselves to be "successful?" Once we're earning a million dollars a year? Once we can afford that mansion we've had our eye on?

5 Telecommuting Job Interview Tips
[Business:Careers-Employment] Finding good telecommuting job leads is only one step along the path to successful home employment. Once you find the leads, you also need to know how to portray yourself as a true professional and convince the employer that you are the right one for the job. This article shares 5 powerful telecommuting job interview tips to boost your chances for success.

Dealing With Manifestation Delays
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever found yourself hanging in limbo, waiting for something you desperately want - no, NEED - to manifest, but it's just not happening no matter what you do? You visualize, you imagine, you affirm, you believe - and yet it's still not coming. So you visualize a bit harder, more often, more intensely.

The True Power of Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement] One of the greatest gifts we receive as deliberate creators is an awakening to our true power to choose our life experiences day to day. Most of us are used to living our lives in response to the things we see and experience in our external surroundings. When everything moves along smoothly for us, we feel good. When things go wrong, we feel bad. We are constantly on a roller coaster of up and down emotions. In other words, we tend to take a passive role in our daily lives, rather than a proactive one.

Telecommuting Jobs - Salary and Benefits
[Home-Based-Business] Telecommuting jobs (work at home jobs) come along with a lot of perks, but most often that does not include benefits like health insurance, life insurance, pension, or 401k accounts. There are exceptions of course, but for the most part, a decision to work from home will require a few sacrifices in exchange for the advantages gained from telecommuting.

Law of Attraction - Limiting Beliefs and Low Self-Worth
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The longer I practice the art of deliberate creation in my life, the more aware I become of the massive limitations I have placed on myself over the years. You wouldn't think that beliefs could be so powerful - after all, a belief is just a thought, right?

Finding Legitimate Telecommuting Jobs
[Business:Careers-Employment] Working at home online would be a lot easier if it weren't for the thousands of scams that must be waded through before finding the legitimate telecommuting jobs! Still, it is not impossible to do with a little bit of patience and a whole lot of awareness and determination on the part of the job seeker.

5 Brilliant Rumi Quotes
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] I have a lot of favorite authors, but one that tends to spark a welcome wave of inspiration and renewal every time I read his work is Rumi. Such timeless writings hold true gems of wisdom that we can rediscover and savor each time we ponder them.

Law of Attraction - It's the Journey that Counts!
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] If you work with the Law of Attraction long enough, you start to experience a deeper shift, something bigger happening within you. You develop a new awareness that it's not about the "outer stuff" at all. It's about who you are becoming through the mastery of your inner power. It's about THE JOURNEY; the incredible journey to the center of yourself.

Planting Seeds of Prosperity
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] The more you study abundance and prosperity principles, the more you come to realize that your state of mind plays a very large role in your financial wellness. Even a tiny shift in perspective is often enough to change everything - from the inside out!

Law of Attraction - How Specific Should You Get?
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You've probably heard it said that you should be very specific when it comes to asking the universe for what you want because the universe can't deliver on vague intentions. This is true, but it is also possible to get TOO specific - and end up creating blockages for yourself.

How to Attract More Lack
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You've probably read countless tips for attracting prosperity and abundance into your life, but it's also important to have a clear understanding of the thoughts and activities that create the condition of lack - so you can be sure to avoid them! Below you'll find 5 common habits that create lack, along with effective solutions for turning them around: 1) There is never enough! Do you frequently affirm the condition of "not enough" in your life?

You Are the Law of Attraction!
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Have you been struggling to get the Law of Attraction to work for you? Do you feel like you must have some severe inner blockages that prevent you from attracting the things you really want into your life?

Attract Abundance - Easily
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Have you ever believed that attracting money and other forms of abundance was difficult? Most of us have at one time or another. Here's the problem with that viewpoint.

Living From Gratitude
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You hear it all the time; "Gratitude is powerful!" Have you ever wondered just HOW powerful?

Demand Prosperity and Abundance
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] One major stumbling block many people experience when attempting to attract more prosperity and abundance into their lives is the perception that they must wait for some power greater than themselves to give the go-ahead. It's very common to feel this way! Years ago, I used to ask for greater abundance all the time (beg for it, actually), and then I'd wait anxiously, growing more and more impatient when it didn't show up.

Law of Attraction - Boost Your Frequency
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] When working with the Law of Attraction, your energetic "frequency" is all-important! The higher and stronger your frequency, the more positive experiences you will attract into your life - and the more quickly they will arrive!

Call in a Wave of Fresh Energy and Progress
[Finance:Wealth-Building] Stagnant energy can be a major cause of blockages in all areas of your life, including financial lack, lethargy and confusion, relationship problems, and more. You may be familiar with the benefits of clearing stagnant energy from your living space by giving your home a solid "Spring cleaning" each year - but there's also a little-known activity that can work wonders to clear stagnation from your life at any time.

Where to Start with Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] If you're just learning about the Law of Attraction and wondering where to start, or if you're not seeing results and want to start over, I'd like to share a few tips on what I believe to be the best ways to get started: 1) Choosing more positive thoughts. Negative thinking is very much a habit, and it's one that has the power to control your life in frightening ways! Before you can change your outer circumstances, you need to learn how to choose better thoughts.

Boost Your Attraction Confidence
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Do you struggle with a lack of confidence where the Law of Attraction is concerned? It's a common problem that many people have - especially at the beginning when they're just learning how to use their power as conscious creators!

Need Prosperity? Get Peaceful!
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] It's pretty obvious that prosperity can promote peacefulness in our lives. When we have enough money, we automatically feel happy, calm, secure and comfortable. Financial lack, on the other hand, brings along unsettling feelings of anxiety, worry, fear, and chaos.

Have a Love Affair With Your Mailbox
[Self-Improvement:Success] Several years ago, I developed an irrational fear of my mailbox. At the time I was struggling through severe financial difficulties, and it seemed like each day's mail delivery brought new "horrors" in the form of mounting bills, late notices, shut-off notices, and general bad news.

Synchronicity Will Lead You!
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Have you ever considered the power of synchronicity when it comes to the Law of Attraction? Most often synchronicity is described as being the opposite of coincidence - coincidences being random and meaningless, and synchronicity being divinely orchestrated.

The Law of Attraction Fantasy Game
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Are you still struggling to get the Law of Attraction to work for you? Or maybe you've seen some results but want to take it to the next level? Either way, I'm going to share a fantastic game with you today that will drastically boost your ability to attract the things you want!

Avoid These Law of Attraction Mistakes
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] When most people first begin working with the Law of Attraction more consciously, they usually start by focusing on the things they want, such as more money, a nicer home, newer car, and so on. This is a great start! Just by moving your thoughts to a more positive place, you raise your frequency and begin attracting better circumstances.

"Knowing" Prosperity
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] One of the more challenging aspects of learning how to attract prosperity is the ability to "know" you're prosperous - even when you don't yet feel like you are!

Tips on Developing Your Intuition
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Intuition is something that EVERYONE has; but not everyone learns how to tune into it and use it effectively. In fact, many people have no idea just how powerful their intuition can be!

Self-Talk, Beliefs and Prosperity
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] One simple way to attract greater prosperity into your life is by choosing carefully the things you say to yourself on a regular basis. Most people have no idea how powerful their self-talk really is!

Top 10 Prosperity Tips
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Living a prosperous life is about much more than just having enough money. In order to be truly prosperous, you need to change your total mind-set from lack to abundance.

Creative Uses for Private Label Content
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Product-Creation] What can you do with private label content? Do you use it as is, or will the search engines cast your website into the pits of obscurity for having "duplicate content"? Will your visitors enjoy the content any less if it's not 100% original? The greatest thing about private label content is that it can be altered and customized to be truly unique for your business needs while still providing great value for your visitors.

Add Power to Affirmations with One Simple Step
[Self-Improvement:Affirmations] Affirmations can be a powerful tool in your personal development program, but only if they are used correctly. If you're like most people, you've been taught one part of the equation: reciting the words. Consistently changing your thoughts and words from negative to positive is a great first step because it helps you build a solid foundation for long-term growth. However, this approach alone may not bring about the change you desire.

Journaling for Personal Growth
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] One of the best ways to gain clarity about your life is by journaling your thoughts and feelings. Especially if you're feeling conflicted or confused about certain situations, writing your thoughts out can be incredibly enlightening!

How Can I Work at Home Without Experience?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Securing a telecommuting job when you have no experience can be challenging, but it's not impossible. Over and over again I hear people asking, "How can I get a work at home job without experience, when no one will hire me so I can gain experience!?" It's a perpetual catch-22 in which many telecommuting job seekers find themselves stuck.

The Mountain Behind the Mountain
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Some people think that financial lack is their mountain. Then, by some miracle, they win the lottery or inherit a large sum of money. But their problems don't vanish, do they? If anything, they experience more stress, family problems intensify, and everything seems to get worse. If their mountain was caused by lack, the money should have dissolved it.

The Importance of Action in Manifestation
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When we first decide to make positive changes in our lives, we usually underestimate the amount of effort it will take. It's easy to dream and imagine a better life, but we also need to give form to our thoughts with decisive action. And that's where most of us get stuck.

New Beginnings: The Gift of Starting Over
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] How much baggage do we bring to each new day in our own lives? How many grudges do we hold? How many disappointments do we cling to, and let them color today?

Ten Ways We Hinder the Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] "Why isn't the Law of Attraction working for me?" This cry of frustration is uttered often by people who are learning to consciously create better lives using the Law of Attraction. After spending weeks trying to raise their vibration, focus their minds and bring forth a better reality, they can't understand why they're not seeing results.

Successful Decision-Making Process
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Decision-making seems like it should be a simple process, but sometimes we can find ourselves vacillating back and forth between one or more choices, truly unable to make a solid decision.

Invisible Barriers to Home Business Success
[Home-Based-Business] When we decide to start a home business, most of us are eager to get moving and achieve the success we know we're capable of. Some of us go full steam ahead and immediately start seeing results, while others seem to keep running into snags and obstacles no matter how hard we try to get ahead. It's important to consider that we may have subconscious issues that are preventing us from moving forward and achieving the success we desire.

Wording Intentions: Asking for What You Really Want
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Have you ever asked the universe for something and gotten a result that wasn't what you intended? When wording our intentions and speaking our desires, it pays to be very specific!

Hey, That Was MY Idea
[Home-Based-Business] Have you ever had a really great idea and then later saw someone else putting it into action? Even more perplexing is when you never told anyone about the idea, yet somehow, someone discovered it and acted on it before you could.

Are You Serious About Working from Home
[Business:Careers-Employment] Are you so serious about working at home that you would pay money to prove it? If you answer yes to that question, you are a prime target for scammers because this is one tactic they love to use.

Invite a Flood of Prosperity with Visualization
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Visualization is one great way to activate the Law of Attraction in our lives, but we often go about it in such a serious way. Feelings like joy, love, excitement, and gratitude can emit powerful vibrations that act as a magnet to attract whatever we desire. But how do we generate these feelings over something that's "make believe"?

Writing Your Own Powerful Affirmations
[Self-Improvement:Affirmations] A common question I see from people just beginning their personal development journey is, "How do I write effective affirmations?" Often they will go in search of existing affirmations that they can apply to their own situation, but they may or may not find something that works for them. In my experience, it is much simpler to come up with our own personal affirmations because they'll get right to the heart of the matter like nothing else can!

Supercharging Your Affirmations
[Self-Improvement:Affirmations] In a previous article, I revealed a simple process for writing your own powerful affirmations. Today I'd like to share a simple three-step process that can greatly increase the power and effectiveness of any affirmations you use (whether you've written them yourself or use someone else's).

Law of Attraction: Expect What You Want
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] One of the most important steps in consciously using the Law of Attraction is learning to change our expectations. Why? Because the Universe delivers exactly what we expect to see. Our expectations are formed on the foundation of our existing beliefs.

Feeling Good and the Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The more we learn about using the Law of Attraction consciously in our lives, the more we understand that our emotional state determines our vibrational frequency, which attracts the quality of experiences we have. With this knowledge comes the understanding that feeling good (happy, joyful, enthusiastic, optimistic) will attract more of the same into our lives.

Setting Successful New Year's Resolutions
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] It's almost that time of year again – New Year Resolutions! Millions of people around the world are vowing to lose weight, quit smoking, stick to a budget, and more. How many will actually follow through with these changes? Probably not many. Have you done this before? Have you made promises to yourself and not kept them? You are not alone. Why does it seem so easy to make changes in our lives, until we actually begin to do the work?

Get Organized and Earn More Money
[Self-Improvement:Organizing] Trying to juggle work and family in one space can be overwhelming. There never seems to be enough hours in the day to complete everything that needs to be done. One debilitating result of a busy environment is clutter.

Detours on the Path of Life
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] The other day I was clearing out my home office in preparation for our upcoming move, when I stumbled upon a box of supplies left over from an old business opportunity I had undertaken several years ago. It was a perfectly fine business opportunity, but it wasn't for me. Looking back, I knew even then that it wasn't right for me, but I had determinedly ignored my inner voice and pursued it anyway.

Blessings Upon You
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] I find myself thinking about blessings a lot lately; more specifically, the concept of feeling blessed. In a recent article, I wrote about the bittersweet periods in life when we find ourselves struggling through difficulties at the same time we’re experiencing moments of joy, and the importance of focusing more on the happiness and gratitude we feel rather than pain and fear.

Bittersweet: When Bad Comes Along With the Good
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] In life, there are cycles of good and bad. Times when our lives seem joyful and easy, and times when we're struggling through what seem like endless difficulties. Then there are times when the two seem to co-mingle. These are the times I call bittersweet.

Allowing and the Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] As we learn more about using the Law of Attraction consciously in our lives, we become masters at visualizing, affirming, and attracting what we desire. We learn how to infuse our desires with emotion and power, we learn how to raise our vibrations through joyful thoughts and align ourselves more fully with the circumstances we want to bring about.

The Ease of Being in Flow
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Have you ever experienced moments when everything seemed to just flow? Moments when you didn't have to struggle or fight or force things to happen? It's as if there were a giant hand holding a magic wand a few paces ahead of you at every step, magically shifting circumstances so that everything goes your way.

Why It's Possible: Transforming Limiting Beliefs
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] If you could change anything in your life right now, what would it be? And why haven't you done it yet? If you're like most of us, the answer lies in your existing beliefs. We often forget the powerful role our beliefs play in creating what we want. We can visualize, affirm, set goals, and work hard till the cows come home - but if we don't believe something is possible, we will resist the formation of it in our lives.

Letting Your Light Shine
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] This week something interesting happened to me. I made a gift for someone, and they absolutely loved it. As they exclaimed over it and admired it, they asked if it had taken me long to make. I shrugged and said, "Just a few hours" - when in fact I spent more than 30 hours working on it. I poured alot of heart and soul into it. Why then, did I diminish it?

Choosing a Positive Attitude
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Do you consciously choose your attitude each day? If you're like most people, probably not. Most of us tend to let our circumstances choose our attitude for us. We're in a good mood as long as we get up on time, the kids cooperate and get to school on time, the car starts without a problem, we don't encounter any traffic jams on the way to work, the boss doesn't yell, our workload is manageable, etc.

Self-Growth: When Everything Falls Apart
[Self-Improvement] We often have the perception that self-growth will be simple, enjoyable, and rewarding. It certainly can be, but there is also another aspect of the self-growth journey that is rarely mentioned. And that is, when everything falls apart.

Work/Life Balance: Forming Healthy Habits
[Health-and-Fitness] A habit is an action or series of actions that we perform in a subconscious manner. We don't have to consciously think about doing these things, they seem to happen on their own. Habits can be good o...

Physical Wellness: Our Most Precious Possession
[Health-and-Fitness] What would you consider to be your most precious possession? Your home? Car? Book collection? What about ... your body? It is surely your most precious possession because without it, you wouldn't be ...

Are Your Comfort Zones Hindering Your Business?
[Business:Management] Let's face it, there are things that we don't always enjoy doing in our day-to-day business routines. Perhaps you are confused by accounting and have papers strewn all over your desk or stuffed in a ...

Nurturing Goals and Dreams
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is make a conscious effort to nurture our goals and dreams. After all, isn't nurturing care what makes everything grow? Think of the nurturing energy you provide to your children, your pets, your spouse, and even your own personal development. Without nurturing care, living things will die.

Trusting Your Own Inner Wisdom
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] While seeking advice and guidance from others can be helpful at times, it is not always the best way to help ourselves. Rather than relying on someone else to tell us our truth, we can instead choose to look within and find the answers inside ourselves. Each of us has been given the gift of an inner advisor that will never steer us wrong.

New Year Goal-Setting Review
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If you've ever had a yearly performance review for your job, you know it can be a tense experience that determines whether you receive a pay raise or not. While these reviews can be stressful, they are also helpful because they offer a bigger perspective than you would ordinarily see in your day to day job functions. You can also benefit from this same process by creating an annual New Year review for your life.

Tips for Home Business Motivation
[Home-Based-Business] From time to time during the life of our home business, each of us will find ourselves in a rut of boredom, disinterest and frustration. We seem to lose that excitement we once had, and find ourselves feeling tired, irritable and unmotivated. We want to hide under the covers rather than face the day. Perhaps you're frustrated because you're not seeing the progress you hoped to, or you are feeling overwhelmed by the number of tasks on your To-Do list. Perhaps you just need to infuse your business with a breath of fresh air.

Missing the Opportunity of a Lifetime
[Home-Based-Business] Have you ever missed out on a tremendous opportunity and felt that it was all over, your dreams would never come true? Here is a different way to look at opportunities.

The Incredible Power of Prayer
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, so many of us are feeling helpless. We've sent our donations and we grieve for what has been lost, but what else can we do to help the survivors?

Have You Thanked Your Competitors Today?
[Business:Small-Business] Competition in the business world is often viewed as a negative thing, but it doesn't have to be. Competition can benefit you, your competitor, and especially your customer!

Create Your Own Work at Home Job or Business
[Home-Based-Business] It is very possible to begin earning some income almost immediately by using your existing skills and abilities. The first step is to figure out exactly what your skills are. Don't say you don't have any. Everyone has things they are good at. Whether your skills have been learned in a job or everyday life doesn't matter.

Writing Quality Articles to Promote Your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] Writing and distributing articles is fast becoming a popular method of website promotion. However, if your articles are not high-quality, you defeat the whole purpose of using articles for promotion. Web publishers are looking for quality information to offer their visitors and subscribers.

How Scammers Prey on Your Desperation
[Home-Based-Business] I'm sure we've all seen the ads: "Earn $1000's weekly stuffing envelopes from home!" Have you ever been tempted to send in your money for that one? I have. Luckily I didn't do it, but I know many people have. It sounds so great, doesn't it? Sit at home watching television while stuffing hundreds of envelopes, and get a nice check every week. If only such a job existed! Don't fool yourself, it doesn't.

What Type of Work at Home is Right for You?
[Home-Based-Business] When you first decide you'd like to work at home, you may be tempted to search for a telecommuting job or join a home business opportunity right away. There are certainly benefits to those options, but stop and think for a moment, "Is that the right choice for me?"

Working at Home - What Options Are Available?
[Home-Based-Business] If you've just begun your work-at-home search, you are likely feeling confused and overwhelmed by all the options out there. How do you know what's legitimate? How do you avoid the scams? Are there really jobs you can do from home? Yes!

Taking Responsibility for Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Let's face it, no one likes to be wrong, or admit that we screwed up. Our society is obsessed with perfection. Just look at the ads on television and in magazines. All you see are perfect, airbrushed, white-toothed, smiling models. In this day and age, image is everything.

Things to Consider Before Joining a Home Business Opportunity
[Home-Based-Business] If you prefer to work as a representative for an existing company (as opposed to starting your own company), there are plenty out there to choose from! There are things you should think about beforehand, however. Too many people make the mistake of jumping into the first opportunity they see. Do your homework before signing on the dotted line!

Is Working at Home Right for You?
[Home-Based-Business] If you've just begun your search for a work at home job, you probably have a beautiful concept of what working from home is like. You probably imagine yourself waking up whenever you want, sliding your feet into fuzzy slippers and shuffling to the kitchen to get some coffee, then shuffling along to your office to put in another wonderful day at work, then later going to the mailbox to pick up your weekly paycheck of several thousand dollars. I hate to burst your bubble, but it doesn't work that way. Actually, let me clarify that and say it doesn't always work that way.

How to Spot a Work at Home Scam
[Home-Based-Business] With all the work at home opportunities advertised today, it can be difficult to pick out the true jobs from the scams. Here are some tips that will help you determine whether a job is legitimate or a scam in just minutes.

Releasing the Illusion of Control
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] It's amazing how easy it is to convince ourselves that we're in control of everything in our lives. When it comes right down to it, what we eventually learn is that we are in control of only two things: our own thoughts, and our own actions. We can fool ourselves into thinking that we can control our spouses, children, friends, employers, etc. But are we really in control?

Mind Over Matter -- The Power of Thoughts
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] One of the greatest challenges in life is understanding just how powerful our thoughts are. Many of us learn this the hard way -- myself included. After spending most of my early life caught up in negative thought patterns, it occurred to me that I had created exactly what I had been thinking about all those years.

Seeing Challenges as Opportunities
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Are you a person who loves challenges, or hates them? I must admit I've spent most of my life as a person who hates them. I've always thought of challenges as frustrating, maddening obstacles keeping me from where I want to be. I even used to take them personally, feeling like the universe must hate me and like to see me struggle.

Being Tender With the Ugly Parts of Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] We don't like to think about our "ugly parts," do we? By ugly parts of course I mean those aspects of ourselves we perceive to be less than perfect. For some it might be physical flaws like acne, jiggly thighs or a persistent pot belly no matter how many hours we spend in the gym. For others there may be emotional issues like fears, phobias or low self-esteem.

Why Character and Integrity Are So Important
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] It's been said that character is defined by what you do when you think no one is watching. What an illuminating concept that is. Most of us have a public face and a private face. There are parts of ourselves we don't want the world to see. Typically, we tend to hide the aspects that would not be viewed favorably by society.

Why "Idle Hands" Create Stagnation in Our Lives
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Every action has a consequence, either good or bad. Remember the concept, "like attracts like." Imagine that every bit of energy you put out is traveling the universe, gathering similar energy, and eventually being returned right back to you. If we do nothing, we get nothing back (or at least nothing very good). The very act of not moving, not doing, not creating causes stagnation.

Action vs. Apathy - Feeling Powerless? Get Moving!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] We are never powerless in any situation. It is only our minds that tell us we are. Sure, there will be circumstances that we truly can't change. Those are life lessons that serve to strengthen us in the long run. But many of us believe we are powerless in every situation, and that is simply not true.

Acceptance as a Path to Inner Peace
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] One important aspect of dealing with disappointment is acceptance. When we persist in fighting against our circumstances and disappointments, it can leave us feeling frustrated, bitter and exhausted. Especially during those times in life when everything seems to keep going wrong for us, we get more and more stressed as we try to resist the undesirable circumstances.

Spiritual Spring Cleaning, Making Room for More
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Many of us tend to cling to the familiar, even if we don't enjoy it or benefit from it anymore. We're afraid to let go of what we have, because even though it's not great, at least it's ours. Releasing these circumstances is a difficult process, like saying a permanent goodbye to old friends.

Honoring the Sacred in Everyday Life
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] How many of us rush blindly through our days, fall into bed exhausted, and wake up the next morning to do it all over again? For many of us, our lives are composed of millions of meaningless moments, all strung together -- perhaps with a sprinkling of sacred moments mixed in. Why do we wait for major events to honor these moments? Why can't every day be sacred?