Thursday, March 29, 2007

Attitude

Several friends sent me the following ariticle on attitude to my email and I thought it very befitting for seniors who are trying to learn the ropes of online marketing and working from home where help is limited to the internet. I hope you will enjoy it and be inspired too as I was.
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Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. If someone would ask him how he was doing he would always reply, “If I were any better I would be twins.”
Many of the waiters at the restaurant would quit their jobs if he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. Why? Because Jerry was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there telling him how to look at the poositive side of the situation.
Seeing his style really made me curious so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! No one can be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?”
Jerry replied “ Each morning I wake up and say to myself ‘I have two choices today, I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood’. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. Everytime someone comes to me complaining I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life to them. I always choose the positive side of life.”
“But it’s not always that easy,” I protest.
“Yes it is,:” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. It’s your choice how you live your life.”
Several Years later…………………I heard that Jerry did something accidentally that you should never do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open. In the early morning he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry was tryng to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily Jerry was quickly found and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied “If I were any better I would be twins. Do you want to see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds but I asked him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
“ The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices – I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
“Weren’t you scared?” I asked.
Jerry continued “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I really got scared. In their eyes I read ‘He’s a dead man’.
I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry, “She asked me if I was allergic to anything.”
“Yes, to bullets,” I replied. Over their laughter I told them , “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Jerry lived, thanks to the skills of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours ---- that no one can control or take away from you----is your attitude. So if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
You have two choices.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

How To Write Articles For Fun And Profit

Article writing is an awesome and easy way to make money on the internet. There is more than one way to accomplish this. You can create articles that generate free traffic to your website to get sales for youand they in turn can send traffic to your affiliate sites for commissions and residual income for a long time.

Fill your websites with good content and add google adsense ads to generate income from their targeted advertising. Start your own blog and fill it with good content articles and add google adsense ads to it for lots of free advertising. Your content needs to fit the google ads so this article would fit with ads on getting started on the internet or how to start a new business. The more pages you have about your niche topic, the more adsense ads you can have. There is money in adsense ads so write lots of articles. You can create your own ebooks and advertise them on their mini sites or your webpage and sell the resell rights ..That is another article to come.

It isn’t necessary for you to come up with good content or even write from scratch. Every possible topic has been covered by someone, somewhere on the internet and you simply have to delve for it. Many articles are written by people who just write for the joy of it and not for profit. You would naturally want to have our own article so you can learn from these articles and get great content ideas and write a new version of their article and add more content from your own knowledge or other articles. It does not take long to write an article containing from 350 to 700 words.

If you are writing for a particular niche, which can be the main idea or content on your website, you can then go to the internet sources for your idea, such as online bulletin boards, FAQ pages and Article directories. Try these places for anything you might want:
http://www.faq.org/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.groups.google.com/

You will have to do some searching on these sights but you will find some of everything you can think of. Then you simply collect the ideas you want on your word pad and rewrite your article in your own words. First go to Groups.google.com and type in your topic to see what questions people ask about your topic. You now know what people want to know. Then go to goarticles.com with your topic and see what articles are already written about it and collect some content for your article. Then go to FAQ.org and ask for your topic to find out what people are asking about your content topic. Now you know what people want to know you can rewrite the content ideas in your own words without copying verbatim as that may be considered stealing from copyright.

When your article is written you now have the big decision for a title. It should be catchy but give an immediate how-to answer to the question you have posed. Write and rewrite titles until you have one that you feel will grab attention for the content in your article.

Now it’s time to check and double check your article for spelling errors. You don’t have to worry too much about the grammer but your spelling can easily be checked. You can get a spell checker here if all else fails:
http://www.jspell.com/jspell.html or
http://www.spellcheck.net/

If you are only having trouble with one or two words, you can try:
http://www.dictionarl.com/
Reread your article to be sure you haven’t missed a necessary word or simply put a wrong letter into a word that changes the meaning. Now you might want to have someone read your article back to you or simply read it aloud to yourself. It’s a good way to know if you might have left something out that the reader would want to know.

There a many ways to make money with articles but the first thing you want to do is get your article out to all the article directories you can. Go to Google for directories you can send to. I would start with:
http://wwwgoarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com/
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.authorconnection.com/
http://www.zongo.com/

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Spring Has Sprung!

According to the time in my area Spring was Sprung last evening around dinner time. Have you seen the trees budding? Can you feel the warmth in the air and best of all can you smell the scent of spring rain? The air feels soft and fresh like clean clothes on the clothes line and there’s a promise of freshness and color from the crocus and daffodils peaking through the last remnants of snow.

Spring is messy too! The once glimmering white snow is now laden with road dirt and other indescribable litter. The run-off water mixes with dust and debris as it rushes across our pathways to ditches and sewers. Yet the arrival of Spring extends a welcome greeting that hears only the mating bird songs and feels the desire to fondle the warming Earth.
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The vernal equinox announces the first day of spring March 20 or 21 when the sun sits directly over the equator. As the earth revolves around the sun the top half called the Northern Hemisphere, which is where we are, tilts more toward the sun and moves us away from winter and toward Spring.
On the other hand, the bottom half, the southern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun bringing autumn and winter to people in Australia and South America and Africa.

“Equinox”, a latin derived word means equal nights. At this time, sunrises and sunsets are about 12 hours apart all over the Earth, give or take a minute or two when the days are a few minutes longer than the nights.

Spring can be rowdy too! It can get extreme in temperature and bring more of the dreaded snow or rains that add to the run-off and burst the banks of the rivers and streams. Lightning and thunder and winds can often preclude twisters and tornadoes.
There is a similarity between Life and Spring that gives us the determination and courage to renew us in the face of set-backs and misfortune. Human Beings rise up to adversity in it’s many forms from personal tragedy to the disasters of Nature. And Human Beings, being human in nature, rise to the aid of humanity.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Seniors In The 21st Century

Life may not have been the party you hoped for but while you’re here you may as well dance!

In this the 21st century, a graduall increase in life expectancy is seeing seniors live for two or more decades after retirement. The increase in medical advances and the growing interest in natural health and alternative remedies finds many more seniors are in better health than their predecessors of the 20th century. As a result, the percentages of working seniors is rising proportionately.

While working seniors are getting older they are often better educated than those of even 10 or more years ago. According to statistics the main occupation of seniors in the last century was farming, followed by retail positions. This was mainly true for women while men held managerial and higher professional positions.

As a result of more younger women entering the male job domain and rising to higher positions of authority, there is a greater percentage of women reaching their senior years in the work force. This trend is expected to continue and will open the opportunities for women to occupy almost any job that was in the male realm previously.

Due to the rising costs of living many seniors now find that their savings are not sufficient for the lifestyle they were accustomed to while they were working. Many jobs now available were once the choice of young people who now find higher paying jobs, not only for the educated youth but also the high paying labor jobs for those with limited education. While many Seniors are working for lower wages in the workplace, others are opting for the unlimited pool of opportunities on the internet.

In this century the 80’s are the new 60’s and seniors are looking for something to occupy their hands and their minds. While crafts and volunteering are often the choice, many now want the income that a job offers them. They find a wealth of these opportunties online with their computers. Here they can easily compete with the rest of the world and their years of knowledge are a great asset. They can enter training courses online and take their own time to become proficient in their choice of endeaver.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Work At Home On the Internet

The internet can be a very daunting place for many people when they first start out, but for many seniors who have never had the chance to learn about anything more difficult than typing while they were young and able to retain a lot of information, even the new picture cell phones can be almost insurmountable.

The computer itself is a big leap in learning for many who are in their later senior years. There are, however, a lot of courses available for seniors for only the cost of the books needed to learn them.

Many seniors from 50 up have been let out of the work arena due to layoffs, illness or businesses dissolving and they are then not able to get employment because of their handicaps or age.

This does not have to be the end of the work world for them though. With a little perseverance and a lot of help from the available training programs there are many opportunities to work at home online on the computer. Marketing yourself or products or information online can be very satisfying and rewarding both financially and personally.

A good place to start is to take inventory of your talents and interests and you can start by asking yourself some of these questions: What are your talents, characteristics, interests and abilities? What do people tell you that you do well?. What kind of compliments do you receive from others now and in the past? What kind of activities do you enjoy? Do you relate better to children, youth, adults, the elderly or to animals? Do you prefer to comminicate by phone, email, writing, speaking or teaching? Do you enjoy music by listening, playing, performing or writing? Are you interested in the arts, painting, drawing, crafts, quilting, sewing, decorating, writing, photography, scrapbooking etc, etc? What about gardening, cooking, entertaining, cleaning, organizing.

What motivates you? Do you have a secret wish you always wanted to accomplish but were too afraid to try ? You can get information on any subject you are interested in by going to the search engines on the internet and expand your ideas or join programs online where you can invest little or nothing to add to your income. Two well known Search engines are google.com and yahoo.com. There are hundreds more.

One of the most enjoyable activities is in making a blog online and entering all your personal information, pictures and stories or jokes simply for your own and your family’s enjoyment. If you want to make some money you might set up a website and use it to market whatever it is you most like to do, for instance, if you are into music, you can write about your achievements and you can join other related programs about music and advertise them on your website. You can also add your blog to your site. When you decide on your niche and continue to write and advertise about your niche you will rise to the top of the search engines and get literally hundred of clicks on your site.

You should be aware that once you start a work from home project online you could become addicted to your computer and the internet.

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Monday, March 5, 2007

Sweet And Spicy Health Remedy

Sweet And Spicy Health Remedy

You want to augment your income by working online at home on your computer and that can entail long hours of sitting in one place and you are not so young anymore. You are a senior or soon to be senior and you need to enjoy your new business or you wll soon give it up. To accomplish that you must take the best care that you can of your body without spending a fortune on it or overdoing the vitamins or the exercise regimes
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Here is an easy fun way to start out. I will be adding other ways in future artices.

Today’s science recommends a mixture of honey and cinnamon for relief of many problems.
Cinnamon is an extract from the bark of a small southeast Asian evergreen tree and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Ayurvedic, as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries. Ayurvedic medicine originated from India and is taught and prescribed in clinics around the world. The Ayurveda clinic in New Mexico being one of the most recognized. Banyan Botanicals offers an extensive line of Ayurvedic herbal remedies made from certified organic, sustainably sourced and fairly-traded Ayurvedic herbs.

Scientists today use honey as a very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases without any side effects occuring. They also claim that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage, it does not harm diabetic patients.

World News, a Canadian magazine gives the following list of diseases that can be helped or cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists.

Heart Diseases: make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder and spread on bread or chappati instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast.
It helps to reduce the cholesteral in the arteries to save patients from heart attack. In America, many nursing homes have found that as patients age the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged. Patients treated with honey and cinnamon have successfully revitalized their arteries and veins.

Insect Bites: Mix one part of honey with two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder to make a paste and slowly massage it onto the sore and itching area. Patients will notice the pain recede within a minute or two. When appplied to pimples, ringworm, exzema and other skin infections it yeilds miraculous results.

Arthritis: Arthritis patients may take one cup of hot water with two teaspoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder twice daily, morning and night. Research conducted at the Copenhagen University found that when doctors treated patients with a tablespoon of honey and a half teaspoon of cinnamon before breakfast, within a week approximately 73 patients out of 200 were totally relieved of pain and after a month, most of the patients who could not walk or move around started walking without pain.

Hair Loss: Persons suffering from hair loss or partial baldness may apply over the head a mix of one tablespoon honey, one teaspoon cinnamon powder and hot olive oil to make a soft paste. Leave on for 15 minutes and then wash the hair.

Bladder infections: Add two tablespoons cinnamon powder and one teaspoon honey to a glass of lukewram water and drink.

Toothache: Apply a paste of one teaspoon cinnamon powder and five teaspoons honey as often as needed.

Colds: One tablespoon warm honey and ¼ teaspoon cinnamon taken daily relieves most chronic coughs and colds.

Upset Stomach: Honey and cinnamon eases stomach ache and relieves the build up of gas. It also relieves acidity and allows easier digestion of food.

Immune System: Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts and if consumed regularily it strengthens and enables the white corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases. This in turn increases longevity and a healthy complexion as well as weight loss due to the inability of fat to accumulate regardless of the diet one eats. This increased immunity helps to deter any cancers from forming.
Seniors who take equal parts of cinnamon and honey are noticably more alert and flexible and maintain healthy memory.

Diabetes: Dr. David Williams reports on research he has discovered all around the world on the balance of blood sugar levels to support insulin function in the pancreas. Preliminary research has shown that aking at least one gram of cinnamon a day may help maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Cellular research indicates that cinnamon contains methylhydroxy chalcone polymer [MHCP] which can help activate the insulin receptors on your cells so the glucose can go in. The research dose recommended is one full gram. Ayurvedic medicine originated from India and is taught and prescribed in clinics around the world, the Ayurveda clinic in New Mexico being one of the most recognized.
I hope you will take this with a pinch of cinnamon and enjoy!

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Sunday, March 4, 2007

It's Tea Time

Join me for a spot o’………………………

What will it be --- black, oolong, green or white? Is there any real difference? Researchers all over the world are tooting the benefits of green tea. Are there any real benefits in drinking green tea and why is it better than black tea?

If you're a tea granny there is nothing more relaxing than a fresh brewed cup of tea. When you work at home on your computer for long hours, a cup of tea is a welcome break and can save you from burnout. Here is some info on the best varieties for yhou.

Black, oolong and green tea all come from the same Camellia sinensis plant but green tea leaves are not fermented before steaming and drying. As a result green tea is rich in a substance called catechins which are bioflavonoids. These catechins have been used successfully in the treatment of liver disease and hepatitis. Actually, all the colors of tea are beneficial for us in varying ways.

For thousands of years the Chinese people have been drinking green tea and they show the lowest incidence of esophageal and stomach cancer any where. In fact the Chinese had very little cancer until they migrated to the Americas and adopted the American way of living. Dare we dismiss these remedies from other cultures?

Researchers have performed many tests in recent years and found that green tea and green tea extract with catechin can trigger weight loss by stimulating the body to burn calories and decrease body fat. None of the research subjects experienced any side side effects or increased heart rates which is significant to those with thyroid disease who may be sensitive to stimulants [The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition].

Tests against a placebo over a 12 week period showed a 11% increase in total cholesteral but with a 16% decrease in the bad cholesteral [LDL] Another test done in Japan on 35 Japanese men who all drank oolong tea but half of them had their drink fortified with green tea extract and a high dose of catechins. The men who drank the fortified tea experienced a significant reduction in waist size as well as general body fat and a big decrease in the bad cholesteral [LDL]. Catechins have been very effective in patients with food allergies by blocking the formation of histamines. As well they have strong antiviral effects against herpes simplex virus and they work as powerful anti-oxidents.

Caffiene free green tea and green tea extract are available for those who prefer to avoid caffiene.
Many more research projects have been done and are ongoing that suggest many more menefits to drinking green tea. In what better way could we improve our health?

If the tea has steeped for five minutes as it should in order for it to release those antoxident qualities, let us now sit and relax while our blood pressure and blood sugar simmer down to help protect us from heart disease and cancer. Mmmmm!

Post script - I offer natural alternatives for disease prevention and in no way suggest that they are cures.