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Do you know that not everyone is privileged to know the power of creative visualization? And are you aware that when you relax both body and mind in special ways you will have access to this amazing power to accomplish things that otherwise seems impossible? This process is called creative visualization. Creative Visualization Techniques When you are in a meditative state, you can use visualizations and affirmation to reprogram your subconscious mind and make it work to accomplish things that you want. You can use your subconscious mind to do it for you whether you want to improve your business, personal relationships and self image. Yogis have been doing this for centuries. Thru meditation and visualization they attain an altered state of consciousness that allow them to accomplish what most of us consider miracles. What Gandhi accomplished for his country seemed an impossible feat. Gandhi was known to practice meditation. By holding a mental picture of what you want you will feel emo...

Straight out of college I took over the family business. Learning new skills , earning and spending money were all first time experiences and a big turn on for me. Time passed. We aged and grow more mature. I noticed the motivation and drive I once had , were not there anymore. I felt the need to find personally meaningful work to have inner fulfillment. After many years of being in the same work you suddenly find yourself at a crossroads of new career choices. I’m sure you feel that too once in your lives. We need to understand that drive and motivation are all perishable commodities. Motivating forces are individually different for each person. What motivates us also often change overtime . Here are few self motivation tips you might want to try, to add zest to your career and your life. 1. Keep the challenge fresh. If you get to a point in your work or hobby, when there’s nothing to do but maintain what we’ve accomplished so far, there’s a big drop off on your drive. You get b...

Back when I was a young kid, I remember I used to think my father’s friends were loser guys. They hang around the house all the time. They were always available to do him favors. I wondered what my dad saw in them. Fast forward to the present time. I’m all grown up. I have prided myself to having friends in high places. I always feel that having richer friends than I, is what’s it all about. Then one day I was asked to house sit a relative’s house away from the hustle and bustle of the city. I was all alone in that big house. My loneliness was palpable. I picked up the receiver and called my friends. But lo and behold, they were not available for some bonding time. And that was the occasion I needed them most. And why wouldn’t they be available all the time? They have the means to do other stuff with other people than little old me. The moral lesson of my story is….ban the idea of having one kind of friends ( in my case my well-to-do-chums). Having a variety of friends who can EACH bri...

If we find ourselves annoyed, irritable, depressed, unproductive or simply confused then our thinking process goes along these lines of distorted thoughts. By identifying which categories we usually fall trap into, we can easily untwist our deceptively distorted thoughts. 1. Black and white thinking- you look at things in absolute all or nothing. There are no gray area for you. Ex. " I’ll be at his mercy once he finds out how inexperienced I am." 2. All Embracing- you look at a bad situation in your life and see it as a never ending pattern. Ex. "If rejects me I’ll never be able to overcome my inexperience, because everyone else will also reject me once they find out. 3. Mental Sponge-you soak up all the negative details, leaving out the positive ones or vice versa. 4. Disregarding the positive- insists that the negative weighs more than the positive .Ex." Even girls who have boyfriends look at me, make eyes at me and flirt. It makes it seem like I’m a home wrecker...

You don’t have to study formally a second language. If you are lucky enough to grow up in a family where Spanish, Russian, Italian, German etc. are spoken aside from English, then you are very much qualified for the job. Translators are in great demand in hospitals , schools and calls centers. Also in companies doing business overseas, for specialists who need foreign publications translated as well as foreign language schools. You could command top dollar depending on your fluency and the complexity of the material to be translated especially if it’s a sophisticated business translations involving scientific and technical translations. You can also give private lessons in a foreign language at you home. You can charge by the hour per student. Even if you have fulltime job you don’t want to give up you can give classes in the evening and free-lance translation of books and articles can easily be done on weekends. Run your classified ads in the literary or trade publications, scientific...

Consignment means people give you merchandise and get paid only if and when you sell the merchandise. By means of advertising in classified ads, you invite people to bring used items such as clothing, dishes, unmatched silverware , children’s toys, small appliances without paying out a cent until you have made the sale. Tell them how much you are willing to pay for the items and the terms of until when you are going to put them up for sale. Give them the option to claim those items back if they are not sold within the limited time. Usually, in consigning, u can have a markup profit of ninety percent from these items. You need a place to display the goods particularly a large room in the commercial district. Just scout for lower rental rates so you can have lower overheard when you have just started your business. You need lots of shelves and racks, corrugated boxes to hold clothing and inexpensive pipe racks to hold items like coats, dresses and suits that can be hung on hangers. You d...

Make more money by selling art. I had a brief stint selling a painting several years ago. It was like a whole new world was open to me. I have met interesting people. Met a professional poker dealer (yes from the Bicycle Club), Hare Krisna devouts , antique dealers etc. all because I was selling a piece of art they were interested in buying. I had a first hand experience that there is a lot money to be made in selling art. Owning a piece of art thrills people. But not everyone can afford a masterpiece. What we are talking about here is the kind of art that is not "mass produced". The kind that is saleable, but of good quality. Specially made by your local artists and painters. This less expensive art is in the form of lithographs, original etchings, woodcuts, sketches and of course paintings. The first that you should do is round up local artists whose works are, you think is worth representing. How do you do this? Attend art shows and art classes, join art clubs and distribu...