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INSPIRATION

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:19:30 +0000

The word “inspiration” comes from the same root as “respiration.” To inspire has a number of definitions related to breathing, creativity, influence and aliveness. What we are all seeking is inspiration – to feel alive, energized, engaged in meaningful creative activity.
What Inspires You?
Inspiration I believe comes from something you love to do “passion.”
So why do so many of us do what we don’t love?
If you feel like you have no inspiration in your life, ask yourself, are you doing something that you love, something that will give you inspiration each and every day, and if you’re not, how do you start your creative juices flowing.

Inspiration:

1. Inspiration can come in the smallest form, in the most obvious places (places you’ve been, things you’ve seen, looking through old photos, your favourite song).

2. Connecting with other people with the same interests, passions and beliefs can also work to inspire one another.

3. Taking yourself back to a moment that inspired you in the past, what motivated you then, use it to help inspire you now.

4. Inspiration comes when you are open minded, being perceptive to new ideas ( being around new friends, new places of interest or just watching a movie you thought you…

Invisible

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:55:28 +0000

Written by Judy Clement Wall

You don’t know me. I live in the upstairs apartment. I’m the one who never turns the music on too loud. You like that, but it’s one of those things you don’t notice. Like your heart. You don’t notice your heart until it malfunctions, until it seizes up trying to find the next beat, shoots pain through your body like an electric current. Or until it breaks. You notice your heart when it breaks.
You don’t know me because I am invisible. I look like everyone else who is invisible. Not like the homeless woman who sleeps under the tarp at back of Benny’s music shop. She’s not invisible. She’s homeless. You see her and look away. She makes you uncomfortable. She makes you wonder how it feels to sleep on a sidewalk under a tarp in February rain. Or else she makes you frantic, eager to fill your mind with other thoughts – your to-do list, your meeting tomorrow, and your kid’s soccer game in the morning.
Either way, looking at her, or looking away, you see her, the homeless woman. She’s not invisible.
But I’m not out there on the street. Invisible people live in houses and…

Change

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:29:30 +0000

Everyone Changes

CHANGE…

Well as most of us can relate to not liking change, we all go through it, good or bad. We all get comfortable in our lives where we like where we live, where we work, and are content and don’t like the carpet being pulled out from under us.
Some of us change because the change is happening and we just go with it, some of us choose to change whether it is to move, change jobs, cities, or change relationships or friendships, these are things we all do but do we make the right choices for ourselves?
Change is not something we always have control over, sometimes we have no control at all but we do have a chance to change it later. How do we overcome the fear of change?
Change is good, change means we’re growing as individuals, change means we don’t get stuck in those ruts we all hate. Change means we are always learning and creating new ideas. Sometimes change is exciting, sometimes it’s sad and sometimes it just makes us so angry but it’s in all what we do with it. How do we handle change?
When change is thrown at you, what do you do to…

The Internet Project is now under way!

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:56:11 +0000

www.mysearchrobot.com has launched

After consulting with several HappySelf readers, we have gone ahead with our internet marketing project. With the help of a financial partner, and a web designer, we’ve gone and merged two search engines together and launched www.mysearchrobot.com
(It can also be reached via www.fastfreesearch.com)

Our goal with this project is to document each and every step along the way, to see if we can turn this project into a viable online business that can be run from the comfort of one’s home whether it is run by a teenage girl, a single mom, or simply a family looking to supplement their income.

I know from your response many of you are wondering what steps are needed to start an online venture, and will those steps result in a profitable online business. Let’s find out together, shall we?

Here are the stats:

Page rank: 0 (It’s a brand new site, on a 5 year old domain)

Alexa: 3,348,107 this means our site is considered the 3,348,107 most important site on the web! (Not so great)

Traffic: 10 to 15 visitors a day (pretty sure these are just from me)

Backlinks:

Google – 0
Altavista -1
Alltheweb – 1
Yahoo – 1
Inbound – 86
Outbound -1
Listed in DMOZ – NO
Listed in…

Points to Ponder!!!

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:00:36 +0000

points to ponder

Just a quick post to add some humour to your day!

(a collection of points from around the web)

1. Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways?

2. Do Lipton employees take coffee break

3. Can I yell “movie” in a crowded firehouse?

4. Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

5. How do a fool and his money GET together?

6. Why does Hawaii have interstate highways?

7. How is it that a building burns up as it burns down?

8. If a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?

9. If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

10. If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, how dangerous is a fax?

11. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

12. What hair color do they put on the driver’s licenses of bald men?

13. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

14. Why do banks charge you a “non-sufficient funds” fee on money they already know you don’t have?

15. Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines?

16. If Barbie is so popular, why do you…

Don’t Hold a Grudge!

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:00:52 +0000

Never hold a grudge

If you really want to be happy, DON’T hold grudges!

When you are holding a grudge, the hate that you are experiencing simmers inside of you and can suck the joy out of your life. It’s quite hard to be happy when all that is on your mind is the wrong that someone has done to you, and the baggage that a grudge creates can hold you down for years.
When you hold a grudge, you have to put energy into it; you have to keep on returning to the memory and feeding your resentment. Although your feelings may be perfectly justified, this process never gets anywhere. It drains your energy and your motivation and your ability to enjoy life. But it’s hard to let go of it because letting go feels like saying what happened was okay, and it wasn’t okay.
If you spend time looking in your rear view mirror at the bad memories you’re dragging behind you, you’re taking your eyes off the road ahead, and that’s an invitation to a crash, or not to be able to enjoy the things right in front of you, or progressing ahead in your own life.
Stop examining your hurt, turning…

My Bucket List

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:26:25 +0000

I think it’s important to have a list of things that we'd like to do or accomplish as we each journey through our individual lives. It helps keep us on track with some of the bigger, or even smaller things that we'd like to try at least once as we go through. Remember, we only go through life once, better to do it now rather than leave it till later

Be my Valentine?

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:33:21 +0000

Happy Valentine's Day

What is Saint Valentine’s Day?

Is Valentine’s Day another Hallmark holiday, or just another retailer’s way to make money or is there really something important to this day?

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
Another legend is Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today.
While some believe that Valentine’s Day…

Question of the day? Perhaps the year…

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:32:35 +0000

Would you be interested in participating in an internet marketing experiment?

The power of attraction, positive attracts positive, negative attracts negative.

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:47:19 +0000

Think positive thoughts!

I think a very powerful tool that a person can use, is one we all inherently possess within ourselves. It’s the power of positive thinking.

Each day, as we awake there is a moment when we can choose (albeit subtly), how our day will progress. It begins with those first waking thoughts. It’s in these moments when you get to choose to either pull positive energies toward yourself or negative ones. Start your day off negative and it snowballs into a day of events that just doesn’t seem to go right.

Have you ever started the day off by something as small as stubbing your toe?
And then swearing because it hurt so badly, and then not fifteen minutes later you spill your coffee down your freshly pressed shirt… This of course is almost certainly the day there will be an accident on the way to work causing you to be late! Bad just naturally seems to lead to bad, and good to good!
So why not try to wake up each and every day, projecting happy thoughts and you will attract positivity into your life.
Try starting tomorrow off a little differently, and see where the day takes you.
Here are a few…