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Drop That Pen and Step Away From the Keyboard!
Know Your Market Before You Write Your Book. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet it's amazing how many writers don't follow this principle. Unless you're writing a family history book or are simply writing just for your own enjoyment, you need...
Drop That Pen and Step Away From the Keyboard!
Know Your Market Before You Write Your Book. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet it's amazing how many writers don't follow this principle. Unless you're writing a family history book or are simply writing just for your own enjoyment, you need to have some idea as to: Who...
Envisioning the Future:
Creating a Working World
The next world war will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein Someday, hopefully soon, the shooting will stop and it will be time to create yet another lasting peace. I hope we can bring military action to a halt before the words of Albert...
Family Journals
Keeping a journal cannot only be beneficial to you as an individual, but it can also be a benefit to your family. Do you remember the family vacation to Disneyland when you were 12? What about your parent's 20-year anniversary? Or your birthday party when you turned...
How Did That Happen?
Have you ever asked yourself questions like these? Why don't I do things I love to do anymore? Why do I feel so alone? Why am I afraid of so many things? Why can't I pursue my dreams? Why don't I leave my job and do what I want to...
How to Escape Being Downsized
In days gone by, a student completed his education and found himself a job. The company he joined would then take care of his financial needs in return for his services. This would continue until his retirement when he would receive ample provision for his twilight...
Is Your Lack of Marketing Skills Holding You Back?
Effective marketing customized for your business is the most important factor to creating cash flow and having control over your destiny. I've coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and many believe a product or service of high quality will sell itself. Not...
Life as a Meditation
Is meditation only sitting quietly, eyes closed, communing with 'that which is larger than us in the universe'? Can meditation only be accomplished alone, in a cave, high in the Himalayas? What about an open-eyed meditation on this thing we call life?...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Rancho Mirage was the site of the national men's senior 60+ hardcourt championship tournament sanctioned by the USTA (United States Tennis Association), April 7-11. However, the most amazing competition was for men 90+ called Super Seniors. Note there was not a...
Three Amazing Secrets to Make Old Age Wait
Are there secrets to feeling and looking young? And do these secrets have anything to do with what you and I do on a daily basis? You probably will not be surprised if I tell you that one secret involves what you allow to go into your mouth. The right nutrients are...
Make Love Your Business
Most people love being in love. Feeling truly passionate about another person, a favorite hobby, a beautiful place, or even an ideal takes us beyond our mundane daily existence and transports us to a realm of happiness where there are endless possibilities. It makes...
Marketing 101
Welcome to Marketing Basics 101!! Over the next seven issues I'm going to give you my very best ideas about how to make your business Ultra Successful! These ideas are broken down to the basics and have been PROVEN to work for people in many fields of...
Putting a New Face on Business
The Creation of a Caring Corporation No one, who has ever followed a dream, has taken a direct, unobstructed path and arrived at his or her destination effortlessly and on time. Following a dream is not a direct highway but a bumpy road full of twists and turns and...
The Benefits of Being Unreasonable
You succeed when you are unreasonable. You neither give nor accept excuses. You insist on success. L. Ron Hubbard defines reasonableness as "faulty explanations." When you agree with faulty explanations, you are too reasonable. Examples of faulty...
The Courage to Take Action
Perhaps the greatest challenge that you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of the habit of courage. Winston Churchill once wrote, "Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend." Fear...
