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When you work from your home, your home can ujplift you or pull you down. You should strive to keep your home as nice as possible. Below are some inexpensive improvements that you can make to your home.

Fast And Inexpensive Home Makeover Tips
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Does your living room look dull and the kitchen uninspiring ? Does the bathroom look like it has seen better days ? If so, you might already be considering giving your home a makeover …

But if you are on a budget and short on time, then a home makeover may be a daunting project to take on. Here are a few tips that can help you give your home a makeover fast and with relatively little money …

Before you start refurbishing, you might want to take stock of every room and see if there is any clutter that might need to be disposed. Would you have to include additional storage space or buy more furniture ? Also, you might want to decide what should be the focal point of every room and then plan accordingly …

And it helps to browse through a home design catalogue for ideas that might appeal to you. By the time you look at a few dozen pictures, you might get a fairly good idea what you want your own home to look and feel like.

Also, it helps if you are a do-it-yourselfer with fairly good skills at using tools, or at least are willing to do a lot of what needs to be done yourself.

Living Room Refurbishing Tips …

. Think you need a new sofa ? See if you can get your current one reupholstered instead. Or just make loose slip covers to cover it up.

. Paint one of the walls in a contrasting color.

. Add a few new cushions and some small area rugs as well.

. Change curtains if you feel that would be a good idea.

. Adding a few paintings, lampshades, a good sized mirror, potted plants, a bean bag or a well framed wall hanging could be a good idea too.

. You might want to spray paint the furniture in case it looks a bit run down.

Bedroom Refurbishing Tips

. You might want to add a headboard and drape it with pretty lace.

. Change the lampshades.

. Change the curtains.

. Change the floor rug, and in case you are not using one then you might want to buy a new one.

. You might also want to consider painting the walls of the bedroom.

. Adding a couple of potted plants might be a good idea too.

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“Love is sincerity. Sincerity will accept only what is real,
and is always striving for facts. It is seeking the truth, and
endeavoring at all times to practice what is true. It is beg-
ging you at all times to be true to yourself, to your ability,
and to the power within you.”What power within you? It’s a secret. Watch the video below to learn the secret.

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Earl Prevette considered optimism a free way to boost sales. He put it this way:

“Infuse the spirit of optimism in your selling. It not only
lights your way, but it reflects on the prospect. A little light
makes a big difference. No matter where you are or what you
are selling, the minute you light up your consciousness you
light the spot around you. Look for the best, expect nothing
but the best, and you will always share the best.

Optimism is thinking straight. It is an excellent vaccine to
prevent failure. It is maintaining a sense of equilibrium, re-
gardless of what happens. It puts in practice an adage of
Marcus Aurelius: “Whatever happens at all happens as it
should happen.”

There is an old saying: “When you walk toward the light,
the shadows are back of you. When you walk away from the
light, the shadows are before you.” Practice and demonstrate
optimism in your selling, and you will always be walking
toward the light. The prospect has troubles of his own and
the spirit of optimism often dispels them and places you in
the limelight. Therefore, let your light shine.”

Think about it for a minute.

It is MUCH easier to recruit the perfect people into your organization
when YOU are the kind of person that others want to be around.

The fact is that people prefer to be around happy and optimistic individuals.

I have been reading an amazing book by Marci Shimoff called Happy for
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teaches you HOW to be the kind of person that prospects want to go
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Being happy for no reason literally can make you an MLM magnet.

I feel so strongly about the importance of the concepts in the Happy
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Being happy doesn’t cost you a thing. Learning how to be happy no
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By Randi Gerber

Have you ever eaten dinner at a restaurant that had such a wonderful feel that you just really enjoyed being there? Have you ever been in a day spa that had a serene and calming feel the moment you walked in the door? Have you walked into a quaint shop or boutique that displayed each item for sale in the perfect way?

On the other hand have you been in a or restaurant that was dirty, old, and had no décor? Have you been to a store that was unorganized, messy or dirty, or smelled bad? Think of the contrast of these verses the places above. How did you feel in those places and why?

The reason you feel differently in these environments is the different vibrations of those places. Vibration is a term used to explain the energy something gives off. People have vibration, things have vibration, rooms have vibration, and even cities have vibrations. Everything carries a vibration.

It is interesting that we tend to surround ourselves with people and things that carry a similar vibration to our own - or at least what we are used to. Wealthy people enjoy nice restaurants, five star hotels, and shopping in high end department stores because they carry a vibration that they are comfortable with and that is familiar to them. Think about what is familiar to you.

Where do you vibrate?

The Law of Attraction states that like vibrations attract like vibrations. If you really want to change your life, improve your business, improve your finances, improve your sex life etc., then you must raise your vibration. I have included some very simple tips to help you raise your vibration by raising the vibration of your home and work space. [Read more →]

By: Heidi Whitaker

On an Elementary School Playground, They’re Considered Name-Calling Bullies. In the Blogosphere and other Media Venues, They’re Journalists or “Concerned Citizens Exercising Their Right to Free Speech”.

In Viral Copy: Trading Words for Traffic, Brian Clark discusses eleven ways that bloggers can viralize their posts. (Obtain a copy of Brian’s Viral Blogging Free Report) Brian ends his report with a warning to “Avoid the Dark Side” when seeking attention for your blog. Brian then recounts the story of how the 1970’s fictional radio station manager Arthur Carlson, of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, arranged to have live turkeys dropped out of a helicopter as a Thanksgiving publicity stunt. Because turkeys cannot fly, dropping the birds to their deaths did not bring the radio station the kind of publicity that they desired. Brian’s message: Not all publicity is good publicity; Avoid attention-getting schemes akin to dropping turkeys out of a helicopter.

It was Brian’s advice that came to mind as I spent a few weeks in the blogosphere looking for information about the leading presidential candidates. My intention was to learn the candidates’ positions on issues that affect the self-employed. What I found instead left me feeling as though I was wading through miles of virtual turkey carnage.

My search made it painfully apparent that splatting certain turkeys is not only socially acceptable, it is as American as waving the flag at a Fourth of July parade. Turkeys practicing “weird” religions, turkeys married to guys named Bill, dieting Evangelical turkeys, or turkeys that happen to share the same middle name as a terrorist seem to be fair game. These unfortunate gobblers bring a gladiator colosseum-sized crowd anxious to watch the flightless birds plunge to their deaths from America the Beautiful’s spacious skies onto her amber waves of grain.

I suppose you could look at it as pure genius - Post an article to your blog poking a little fun at individuals, groups, or ideologies that readers love to hate. Then watch the site counter and number of bigoted comments rise. It is the seemingly perfect formula for successful and profitable blogging, but it comes at a greater price.

Words do not stay words forever. They lead to action. In a sense, hateful words will eventually become the proverbial sticks and stones that do the bone breaking. On a similar note, the Mormon chapel behind my home was vandalized a few weeks ago. Mormon buildings in various states have been vandalized and/or burned over the past month. I don’t know what investigators found as the fire catalyst of the house of worship burned in Arizona, but I believe it was fueled by a rising acceptance of Mormon bashing during this presidential campaign.

A climate of mean-spirited political bantering also encourages our children to tease and bully. Bobby Barvish of The MuslimForum of Utah calls this “trickle down bigotry”. In a recent interview with me, Mr. Barvish agreed that current prejudices blatantly expressed during our presidential primary campaigns have worsened the atmosphere for law-abiding Muslim Americans and their children.

Don’t particularly care about bigotry toward Muslims or Mormons?

Well, what about your own kids?

Don’t think for one minute that we grown-ups can go around name-calling and not expect our nation’s children to do the same. The message we are sending our children is that it is okay to tease, pick on, make fun of, discriminate against, or hate someone because of their name, their religion, their gender, their race, their general beliefs, etc.

According to Washington State Lt. Gov. Barc Owen: “Bullying occurs once every seven minutes on school playgrounds…By the age 24, 60% of identified childhood bullies (are) convicted of a crime.” -http://www.ltgov.wa.gov/speeches/OregonWaSheriffsConference.html

Perhaps a no less dangerous bully is now the cyber kind. Cyber bullying was brought to national attention with the suicide death of middle school student, Megan Meier, after being tormented on MySpace. According to polls, 90% of kids say that they have been hurt online in some way. (Source) In 2007 alone, 32% of teenagers claim to have been victims of cyberbullying (CNN.com).

If you want to see prime examples of cyber bullying, type Hillary Clinton’s name into a search engine. You’ll find sites whose sole purpose is to make fun of her. (And we wonder why kids today can be so mean…) While you are at it, check out how blogger Jane Genova treats Mike Huckabee’s sons. (Let’s not settle for belittling a candidate’s religion, middle name, heritage, or marital issues. Let’s beat up on their kids to make sure that we have completely desecrated everything that they hold dear.)

Certain subjects should be off-limits out of common decency. Running for office doesn’t give America the right to rip to pieces everything that is sacred or important to a candidate.

I am not implying that pointing out a candidate’s policies or behavior of which you do not agree amounts to bigotry or cruelty. I am simply saying that leaving comments in blogs or on YouTube proclaiming things like “all Mormons are bunch of #!*% idiots that deserve what they get”, “you can’t trust a candidate whose name sounds like a #&%* terrorist”, or “that woman is an ugly #&!* and needs an exorcism” is eventually going to lead to more prison over-crowding. (And cyber journalists/commentators posting articles to incite such comments for profit and personal gain are just as bad if not worse!)

Last week, I had a chance to discuss this topic with Scott Allen. Scott is the About.com Guide to Entrepreneurs. He is also the co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. (Click here to grab a free copy of Scott’s eBook.) Scott’s advice to me sums it up best: “In our business and in our lives, peacemaking cannot be a hobby. It has to be a way of business or it is not a way of life.” Scott also went on to say, “We spend more waking-hours working than anything else. You can’t work towards peace in the world if you take an antagonistic approach to business or support others in doing the same… If you are profiting off of bigotry, what does that say about you?”

NOTE: I have not included links to the most bigoted, vile, disturbing, or profane sites that I came across. I refuse to help spread their brand of hate.

Ever since the realease of The Secret, various news groups and personalities have tried to discredit it. What drives me nuts about their attempts is the way these groups and individuals twist the message of the secret.

In the video below, Katie Couric says that the Secret teaches, “…you can have anything you want just by wanting it bad enough.”

Anyone who understands the principles behind The Secret movie knows that this is not the case. You can easily attract what you want the least by your focus.

Videos: The Teachers of The Secret (on the Oprah show)

CNN Larry King & Oprah on Law of Attraction “The Secret“

If you loved The Secret movie, you will enjoy this law of attraction visualization tool featuring The Secret.

Video: The Secret Visualization Tools

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Bob Proctor, from The Secret, describes The Law of Attraction.