A few weeks ago, one of my friends came with his family to visit us over a weekend from Irving,TX. They stayed overnight with us and we had a great time cooking, watching movies and just talking about various things.

House On Fire - Firemen Working

As they returned to their apartment community the next day, they discovered that there had been a fire in their neighborhood during that night and two or three buildings around their building had turned into ashes. They just got lucky as their building was still standing and so their belongings were safe.

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How  many small business owners, especially home based business owners do you know who keep very low inventory levels of their products simply because they don’t have enough storage?

Business Storage Facilities

I have many friends who participate in distribution industry. Yet they do not keep any inventory of the products they sell. They do so simply because they want to avoid the cost. Cost could be the cost of products or even renting of a business storage facility.

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Whether in office, at home or in public places, we get to confront stress often. Dealing with family members, friends and colleagues at work brings stress. The thought of dealing with a new situation you have to face today or tomorrow may bring stress as well.

Girl Feeling Stressed When Car Broke Down In A Jungle

Stress, like anger, is not good for ourselves and others around us. Yet, since we get to deal with it on a daily basis, I want to share a few details on Stress, it’s symptoms, what causes it and how do I deal with it.

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Have you used Google+ Hangouts for video conferencing with your friends, family members or your business associates? When it comes to video conferencing, Google+ Hangouts are one of the top free choices available on the internet.

Google Hangouts Screenshot From Kate HarperNote: Image courtesy of Kate Harper's blog post on awesome tips on Google+ Hangout Etiquettes.

A few months ago, I shared some of the free conference services to conduct teleconferences involving international countries. Now, it's time to take the discussion up a notch by doing video conferencing for free.

Can you imagine how powerful it is to have 10 people from different places join LIVE in one video conference and talk to each other? And on top of that, isn’t it incredible that you can do it for free?

If that isn’t enough, it is also possible to put your video conference on live streaming to be viewable by public and also record and upload your hangouts to your YouTube channel . All this comes to you for free if you just have a Google Plus account.

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Whether you have a Positive Attitude or a negative attitude, it is contagious. Whatever is your attitude, people around you are catching it whether or not they desire. Therefore, it makes sense to have a great attitude,” said my business coach once speaking of attitude.

Keys To Developing And Maintaining Positive Attitude

Positive Attitude  is something we all desire to have. Consciously most of us want to be positive, be around uplifting people. However, subconsciously, we are very sensitive to negative, as Wallace D. Wattles writes in his famous The Science of Getting Rich  first published in 1912.

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If you have paid attention to the sidebar and the Products page of my website, you already know that I participate in the Amazon Associates Program, where I get paid when people click on my Amazon links and buy something from the Amazon marketplace.

AutoCompleteZone WordPress Plugin For Amazon Associates

I have been buying products from Amazon (especially books, CDs and electronics items) and mostly, you shop at Amazon too. I love recommending Amazon products I enjoy – to my friends, family members and also reference them in my writing when the topic comes up (especially books).  

Then, why not be a partner with Amazon and leverage my efforts to generate some passive income? This program made total logical sense to me and therefore, I joined a few years ago.

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List building and Email Marketing may not be something that a new website owner plans for initially when starting out. While setting up our new website or blog, most of us start out to build our brand identity online.

List Building And Email Marketing Using Autoresponder Services For Online Entrepreneurs

However, as we start to mature and begin to get confidence, we begin to commit a little bit more, and then a bit more.

A time comes when we begin to ask ourselves, “Can I also make money while I continue to do what I am doing online?” If you've had this question on your mind, what you are thinking really is – how to build an online business with your website.

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To become an expert at anything, I believe, we must truly believe that we are talented in that area. We must believe in our God given talents and abilities. More importantly, we must believe in ourselves.

Discover Your Talents and Become An Expert - A Successful Entrepreneur Explaining Something

Do you value your life? Then waste not time, for that is the stuff life is made of.   ~Benjamin Franklin [tweet this]

The value of anything that we desire to acquire is determined by how much of our time, our resources and our energy we are willing to invest to acquire it.

If we believe in ourselves, we also value ourselves. We value our God given talents and abilities. We value our life and in turn, others begin to believe in us, value us.

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When I heard about Toastmasters International a few short years ago, I didn’t have any business. I was doing my IT consulting job, had no website, didn’t have any ambition for any kind of public speaking. Yet, I was fascinated by the name and therefore, I decided to check them out.

People clapping and encouraging the speaker in a Toastmasters club meeting

Actually, at the time, my project manager recommended that I should consider joining Toastmasters as part of my personal development goals for that year. Credit goes to my open-mindedness, I immediately decided to give it a shot.

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