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Have you read the book "Go For No?"  If not, it's a good investment for your personal and your business growth.  Here is a clip of some well know Entrepreneurs speaking on Talent vs Tenacity in regards to "Go For No."

Advice and Resources: Teach Your Kids to Get Out There to Nab Some Summertime Work By TORY JOHNSON Workplace Contributor May 31, 2010 To line up summer employment, it's all about old fashioned pavement pounding right now. Share these tactics with your teens to help them hear, "You're hired." Tory Johnson offers teens tips to get good summer jobs.Talk to friends and neighbors. Encourage your kids to start close to home by promoting their own skills and interests and telling friends and neighbors that they're willing to offer a helping hand. It could be baby-sitting, tutoring, music lessons, house painting, yard work -- whatever they feel comfortable and confident doing. If one person doesn't have steady work, teens can juggle multiple clients with the same needs. Ask directly for leads. When talking to the people in the neighborhood, kids should also ask directly for introductions and job leads. "If you don't need my time and talent, do you k

Good Morning and Great Day... You can have everything you want. No matter where you are on the learning line of life all the resources you need are always available to you so that you can reach the destination you are seeking powerfully. You just need to call them to you. Did you know that once you set your intention and speak it with conviction and hold a strong and unwavering belief the universe will set in motion the flow of LIFE so that you receive all that is already destined to make your desires manifest in all the ways you can think them into reality? By being the very thing you are intending to become there can be no other way than total success in the efforts you put forth for your goals to become real. When you Become Your Destination your destination becomes all of the presence and power you commit it to be. In life we all have ups and downs, feelings of being unsure about a course of action, ways in which we can talk ourselves out of doing something, being susceptible

Try the credit card companies' dedicated help lines to get your rate lowered. Each of the major credit card companies has a dedicated help line that is devoted exclusively to assisting customers who are having problems with credit card debt.  If calling the company directly does not get you a lower interest rate, the people on the dedicated help line may be able to do better.  There's no harm in trying. Here are the key phone numbers.  (You can also find them on http://www.helpwithmycredit.org/ ). 1.  Bank of America:  (800) 500-5306 2.  Capital One:  (866) 929-5303 3.  Discover Card:  (866) 567-1660 4.  FIA Card Services:  (888) 635-0776 5.  Citi:  (866) 936-4814 6.  Citi, for your Sears Card:  (866) 532-9532 7.  Citi, for The Home Depot Credit Card:  (866) 532-9689 8.  Citi, for your Macy's Credit Card:  (866) 785-1079 9.  Citi, for your retail and gas cards:  (866) 683-0924 Be sure to check the back of your credit card for their phone number if the credit

Whether you sell a product or service, write books, consult or run a small business, you will learn some of the most powerfu strategies to gain massive visibility on the Internet that Internet experts have been using for years. You can discover how to quickly and easily gain lots of recognition to increase your credibility, market influence and revenues while maintaining complete integrity in the way you do business.  Are you someone who deeply believes in what you do; so much in fact that you  KNOW you are meant to impact people around the globe with your mesage.  Do you KNOW that if you were a recognized name in your market you would hav more influence that ever before?  Are you ready to make 2010-2011 your best year ever - both personally and professionally?

The Secret's Lisa Nichols says happiness is verb. We depend on each other for happiness and the "Law of Attraction" is simply the law of happiness...when someone is happy, we all become happier.

You now know our type.  We're the kind of people who for whatever reason don't really know how to start up a conversation.  We'd rather hide under the table than start chatting with an unknown person or stsy  at home watching reruns than go to a party.  We're your awkward cousin or the kid that sat behind you in biology.  Is there networking hope for us?  There is hope and you will find comfort in knowing (for all of us procedural nerds) that it can be a process you can quickly and painlessly use.  Like many things in my life, I've had to figure this out on my own but have followed it up with study.  I know some people find it hard to believe that I am introverted since I have been known to speak to a crowd of 1000 people but it's true.  it's easier for me to do public speaking than make small talk.  The difference is the type of talk and the setting for when that talking takes place.  As a speaker, I develop and deliver content with a specific goal in mind.

Did you now that a resume sent through email is nearly similar to its print version?  Most people have a misconception about this and they end up spending more time making their resumes rather than aiming more employers.  The email and print version are the sem document yet with only different formats.  For applying online, you only require to modify the format of your resume.   The aim is to make it much easier for you to email your documents to the employers. In an oline application, it is critical that your resume has all the necessary keywords.  This is to pull in more attention from prospective employers.  Basically, you can improve your exposure online by using significant keywords that your prospective employers are most probable to use to search for likely candidates.

A successful career development strategy should consider a minimum of five strategies, including the definition of a career target, building of a personal network, use of online social netwrok tools, constant improvement of personal skills and the development of a personal brand. Presented in this article are five proven strategies for career development which most of the really successful people are applying.  You might find that it is just common sense, by applying these strategies your chanced of developing a successful career can skyrocket.  These are the five strategies: 1.   Define a Career Target  The first step in the career development process is defining a concrete career target.  What do you like to change in your career?  Where do you want to be in two and in five years?  Defining a career target and mean for some people trying to get to the next step on the career ladder, for other people it might signify doing something completely differnt.  In any case, you should ma

The Girl I Used to Be Author Unknown She came tonight as I sat alone,
 the girl I used to be,
 And she gazed at me with her earnest eyes,
 and questioned reproachfully,
 Have you forgotten the many plans,
 and hopes I had for you?
 The great career,
 the splendid fame,
 all the wonderful things to do?
 Where is the mansion of stately height,
 with all of its gardens rare?
 The silken robes that I dreamed for you,
 and the shining jewels in your hair?
 And as she spoke, I was very sad,
 for I wanted her pleased with me,
 This slender girl from the shadowy past,
 the girl I used to be.

Zig Ziglar has the ability to change one's perspective about things and make you think about yourself.

In today's world a lot of us are not doing what WE want to do.  We are doing what others want us to, doing what's comfortable to us for fear of stepping out of our comfort zone.  Invision "What would it feel like if you made the decision to do what it is that YOU want to do?" "What would if feel like if you were actually doing something that YOU are passionate about?"  Those are very good questions.  In the book, "Work It Girl! The Black Woman's Guide to Professional Success" is a book that showcases various women from all walks of life that have stepped out of their comfort zone and are now doing their passion. The co-author, Pamela M. McBride stepped and chose Work It, Girl doing her passion, and that passion is writing.  The book inspires others to do what they are being called to do.  The message of the book is, whether you are in a military career, corporate career, freelance career, or a professional career, you can Work It to

There's an article that states, "Kids' TV time linked to school woes, bad habits." Young children who watch a lot of TV aren't just missing out on more stimulating activities. They may also be destined for problems at school and unhealthier habits later in life, new research suggests. Each additional hour of TV that toddlers watch per week translates into poorer classroom behavior, lower math scores, less physical activity, and more snacking at age 10, according to a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "Kids should be doing things that are intellectually enriching: playing with board games, playing with dice, playing with things that will improve their motor skills, reading," says the lead author of the study, Linda Pagani, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Psychoeducation at the University of Montreal, in Quebec. "All that is replaced by sitting on the couch."

Teens need consistency.  Without it, nothing changes, but with it, you can enjoy a better relationship with your teen. Being a Connected Parent means being connected to something else other than your jobs, your cars, your blackberrys, etc.  It means tuning into your child, hence, tuning into their emotional and mental states.  Ask your self  "Do you really want to be there for your child?  Or are you just going through the motions?  Do you actually listen to your child, and not only hear them, but really listen to them when they speak or want ot talk to you?  Or are you too busy with other things?  These are questions that trigger the minds of our children and have some of them wondering if their parents actually care about them.