Friday, July 18, 2008
Don't Stop Believing; the Law of Attraction is Still Working
I hear people who were planning to live out their dream say things like "I'm doing ok, at least I'm not creating anything bad for myself." I personally can not think of a less exited or more bland way to look at your life. Ok, so you haven't lost anything, and life is pretty much what it used to be so everything is fine, right? Wrong! You didn't start out using the law of attraction to maintain what you had. You started out building your dream life and somewhere along the way you experienced either impatience, lack off faith or plain old fear of not succeeding so you kind of gave up and re-wrote your dreams to fit you level of enthusiasm.
I'm not trying to make you feel bad about where you are; I'm trying to get you to dig up your original dream and start creating on that again. If you are trying to tell me that things have changed and that you now realize that you don't really want that house or car or career that you first set your sights on, I don't believe you for a second. Stop lying to me, and most importantly; stop lying to yourself. The law of attraction operates on how you really think and feel, not on what you tell yourself to feel better about giving up or loosing faith.
Stop feeling bad about not having achieved it yet, and start using the law of attraction to create your dream again! You don't know how something is going to come about, that's not up to you. Your part of the job is to visualize yourself already having what you want and feeling good about knowing it's on its way. The rest is up to the universe.
My friend had a steady, well paying job but wanted something that gave her more challenges. Over the course of a couple of years she was considering leaving her job for more exiting but less secure ones but never acted because she was afraid of making a bad decision. I watched as she was more and more bored in her old job and heard her passionately talk about the life she could see herself having if she only took the jump and left her stabile job for a more exiting one. I tried to talk her into taking a leap of faith to realize her dream, but she was so caught in the paradigms of "safety over happiness" that she kept hesitating.
One day the universe acted for her. She called me up and told me she had just been let go from her stable well paying job; the company she worked for was closing down. As devastated as she was, she still acted fast and in five days she had a whole week of job interviews lined up. Here's the twist: she never even got to go to one job interview. Before the week was over she got a phone call from a company she had applied to yeas earlier but didn't get the job. She always referred to it as her dream job. The company told her they had heard rumors that she was back on the job market and wanted to snatch her up before someone else did. Not only did this girl get her dream job, it paid much more than her previous job.
Do you think my friend could see that the law of attraction was about to make her dream come true the day she was suddenly without a job? Of course not, but she was given a huge nudge from the universe and she acted on it.
Even though she was afraid to leave her secure job, my never lost faith that she could have the job of her dreams; she kept dreaming, she kept believing, and she was rewarded.
What are you so afraid of? Is failing really the end of the world? The way is see it, there is not such thing as failure if you really, really tried. The only thing stopping you from having what you want is you. Trust in your power to use the law of attraction, and welcome your dream. As long as you are doing your part right; as long as you are visualizing and feeling good about what is coming, you are on the right track.
The universe gives us nudges along the way too, and the law of attraction is always working. Keep your eyes open and you'll find the next step forward.
5 Proven Ways To Avoid Mental Blocks
Writing an article doesn't just mean putting down thoughts into words then typing and writing it. You have to capture the awareness of your readers, teach them valuable know-how and get them to keep on reading. To send your message across you have to get the attention of the reader and have a firm grasp of their interest and pique their curiosity.
The main ingredient in baking up an article is a large dose of creativity. While creativity may come natural to many people, some just gets into a block or something to that effect that can drive someone to feel slight at uneasy. Many writers have literally torn their hair out when they get writers block and just can't seem to get their creative juices flowing.
Putting words into images in the readers mind is an art. A clear and crisp depiction requires a certain flair that only creativity can provide. Similes and metaphors help a lot, but the way an article gets entwined word for word, sentence by sentence then paragraph by paragraph into a whole article develops the essence of the article.
So just what do you have to do when nothing comes to mind? There is no surefire ways to get the perfect ideas but there are easy ways to get your creative juices flowing. No one can guarantee you of having the perfect mindset but many methods may aid you in achieving that state of mind. Here are five battle tested easy ways to overcome such issues.
1) Keep a diary or a journal with you always. Ideas can be triggered by anything you may hear, see, or smell. Your senses are your radar in finding great ideas. Write all of them into a journal and keep it with you for future reference. You may also write down anything that you have read or heard, someone's ideas could be used to develop your own ideas and this is not stealing. Remember that ideas and creativity can come from anywhere; it's the development of the idea that makes it unique.
Not everyone are going to be able to remember to bring their journal or notepad along with them. However, it is highly likely that they would have their mobile on them. Today, mobiles has the capability to record instant audio and you can certainly take good advantage of your telephonic devices whenever that golden ideas start to kick in your head.
2) Relax and take time to sort things out. A jumbled mind cannot create any space for new ideas. Everyone must have a clear mind if one wishes to have their creativity in full speed. Get rid of all obstacles that can be a hindrance to your creativity. If you are bothered by something, you cannot force your mind to stay focused.
Try to relax every time that you can and think about your experiences and interactions with others. Your experiences are what shape your mindset and your opinions which could be reflected on your writings. Try to discover yourself, find out what triggers your emotions. Go back to the past. Discover what inspires you and what ticks you off. You can use these emotions to help you in expressing yourself and your ideas, with this you can grow creatively.
If it still fails, try to listen to calming music like the one you normally hear in the spa. You can easily buy these relaxing tunes from the music stores or download it off Itunes. You're bound to feel better in the end.
3) Create a working place that can inspire your creativeness. Your working place can be quite a hindrance if it doesn't make you feel happy or relaxed. Creativity comes from being in a good state of mind and a messed up workplace that causes distraction won't be conducive in firing up your creative flow.
Surround your working place with objects that makes you happy and relaxed. You may put up pictures, or scents, objects that inspire, or anything that can get your creativeness cranking. A clean and well organized workplace also rids of distractions and unwanted hindrances. With a good working place, you can work in peace and never notice the time pass by.
4) Set the mood. Setting the mood requires you to just go with the moment or to induce yourself to feeling what makes your mind works best. Finding out what makes you tick could help you find ways to get your creative juices flowing. Set the pace and tempo for your mood and everything else will follow.
There are many ways to set the mood. Some writers have been known to use alcohol, a little sip of wine to stir up the imagination. Some would like some mood music while others let the lighting of the environment create the mood.
5) Go on a getaway and just do something different. Letting yourself go and have fun produces adrenaline that can make your imagination go wild. Take an adventure or a solemn hike. Whatever it is that is unusual from your daily routine can take the rut out of your schedule. In no time at all, your creativeness will make use of that experience and get your imagination to go on overdrive.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Pro's Of A Custom Written Essay
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Custom essays are very helpful not only for the beginning writers, but also for those who have already gained significant proficiency in writing essays. Custom essays can guide through all the stages of writing an essay. In fact, a customer that orders custom essays can definitely improve his/her writing skills because custom essays can be used as samples for creation of a good work of his/her own.
However, what is probably most important about custom essays is the possibility to develop skills and abilities of professional writing since a customer acquires essential experience of the high quality writing.
Custom essays are written by experienced and qualified professionals whose writing mastership proves to be beyond a doubt and whose responsibility is unarguable. At the same time, custom essays provide excellent opportunities to avoid plagiarism, which may be a serious problem, especially for a beginner.
In fact, custom essays guarantee that all essays are written from scratch and free of plagiarism. The latter is extremely important because each customer naturally needs original and new ideas that could inspire him/her to write a work that would reveal his/her actual potential and ability to have a broader view on the subject researched.
In this respect, custom essays may be also extremely helpful since the writers of custom essays deal with thoroughly researched topics and their works meet all the standards regardless the level and the depth of the research. Therefore, custom essays can meet the needs and expectations of all customers regardless the grade and level of writing.
At the same time, the originality of each custom essay increases its educative value because it helps a customer to develop his/her own position in regard to the subject researched or problem discussed in the custom essay.
While writing an essay, it is extremely important to fully understand the subject researched in the essay, but often the common knowledge are not sufficient to write a paper of a good quality. Even experienced writers cannot always have time and possibility to research thoroughly the subject of an essay.
In such a context, a custom essay is a perfect solution of the problem of the lack of time and gaps in research of the subject of a customer's interest.
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Thus, custom essay is the best choice for a person who seeks a guide in writing an essay of the highest quality. Moreover, custom essay provide customers with ample opportunities to develop their own writing skills and reach proficiency comparable to that of professional writers.
7 Ways to Kickstart Writing Your Book This Year
Have you started your book yet? No. Don't think about it any longer. You know the words; now say it with me. Just do it! With the right focus and information, you can successfully begin, complete and even publish YOUR book within a few months this year.
More and more people are successfully completing their books in less time. Even your competitors are getting it done. Why not join them. Here's seven tips to kick start writing your book:
1. Make your mark in the world with a significant book.
Many hopeful authors tremble in their tracks wondering if their book will sell. That's a good question. Who wants to invest time or money into a sinking ship? Don't be afraid; here's how to test your book's significance.
You can know your book is significant if it presents useful information, answers important reader questions, and impacts people for the good. If it's entertaining or funny it could go further than you imagined.
It's significant, if it creates a deeper understanding of animals, humanity or this world. With one to three of these elements your book is worth writing. More than three, it has potential of making great sales and even to best seller status. Now, get started; write your book and make the world a better place.
2. Find out who will buy your book and sell it to them.
When you give your book a specific audience, it will hit the mark of good sales. Best seller books focus on a single topic per book. When you aim at one audience at a time, each tip, each story or how-to will be more effective. Point your message to someone specific and you gain a competitive edge on many book writers. For many authors just shoot their book out to the world without aim.
It would be helpful to create an audience profile. Are your potential readers male or female? How old are they? Are they interested in topic? What problems do they face? Are they business people or professionals? Are they techies or non-techies? Are they willing to spend $15-20 on a book like yours? Do this and you're on your way to selling more books than you dreamed.
3. Write your book's central thought and support it with your book.
Did you cringe at the words (thesis) central thought? For some, it brought back memories of school days and writing essays. No worries, a thesis simply means the main central thought of the book. Make sure your main central thought includes the greatest benefit to your book reader and you're done.
In other words, it should answer your audiences' question, "How will this book help, encourage or solve my problem for me?" Write the thesis before you write the book and stay on the path of focused, powerful yet easy to read content.
All chapters support your book's main concept. For "Win with the Writer Inside," the thesis is "How to write, complete, and publish your best book fast." The top selling titles often include the main thought in some form.
4. Make an inspiration cover early to encourage yourself.
Keep it nearby to inspire you. Remember, book covers are the number one selling point of a book. Of course, in the beginning this is only a working cover. Nevertheless it will help crystallize your thoughts and propel you toward the fulfillment of your dream. You have 10 seconds or less to impress your potential readers to buy.
Look around the bookstores and the internet to get a few ideas. Look for the covers most suited for your audience. Choose colors that attract them. For instance, consider red and blue for business books; aqua, yellow, and shades of red work for personal growth books. Even so, avoid too much red; it makes some feel suspicious.
5. Develop the back cover as a sales message before you write chapter one.
This benefit driven outline helps give your book direction and helps you focus on what's really important to your readers. Most books will only allow for 50-75 words. That gives you less than 20 seconds to impress your prospective reader. Make this message passionate. Focus only what sells: testimonials (reader, expert and famous), a benefit driven headline to hook the reader to open the book and read the table of contents, and bulleted benefits.
6. Compose your book's 60 second "billboard" before you begin writing.
Have you noticed a billboard lately? You only have a few seconds to get it as you drive by. So, the information is distilled into sound bytes to be effective. Make your 2-3 sentence book blurbs into sound bytes. Like a billboard where you only have a few seconds to get your message across, condense your sound byte into a 60 second tell and sell.
Use your mini billboard at networking meetings, in the elevator, in the grocery line, anywhere you only have a few seconds to tell about your book. Composing your ad should include your title and 3 top benefits.
7. Write your publishing goals down for your book.
Will you self-publish or shop for a traditional publish? There are serious pros and cons for either method. Find out the differences so you can make an educated choice that suits you. If you are self-publishing, consider the POD technology for your book. There are lots of good choices that will publish your book for you at an affordable price.
If you are opting for a traditional publisher, get an agent and a contract before writing the book. Then shop agents and publishers with 2 chapters and a knock-out book proposal. Invest in one of the current market guides and research the best fit for your work. It raises your chances considerably if you know what kind of manuscripts a particular company is looking for.
I admit it; getting started writing a book can be challenging to most. Even so, it doesn't have to stay that way. You can do like the author did; use the ten tips above and kick start writing your book. Start today; complete and release your significant message to the world. Then jump around, get excited for it won't be long before we see your name in print!
Express Your Feeling Through Love Letter Writing
Expressing love through letter writing shows thought and it is the thought that counts. Your beloved will be so touched that you put in the extra effort to create something they could proudly display on the wall. There are good chances that your love letter is probably the first love letter that he or she has ever got, which makes the letter even more memorable.
If you've been married for many years, you may want to write about how lovely it's been spending your life with your spouse. The increasing rarity and consequent emotional charm of personal mail may also serve to emphasize the emotional importance of the message. The decline of letter love writing,however, has interestingly lead to its effectiveness as a way to express love.
Some Tips For Love Letter Writing:
- "I will love you always," "Loving you forever," "My heart is yours," are all good possibilities.
- Build up your vocabulary to include a variety of words to describe the intimacy or the sensual nocturnal games you could share.
- Don't make promises you can't keep and don't write anything you may regret later.
- Don't forget to sign your love letter!
- Take the time to tailor your letter for the moment.
- Never feel that you have nothing to write about, as the simplest things can make a great letter.
- You want your lover to know that you love her for the emotional aspects, not just the physical.
- If you do not know her name, then a simple 'Hi' would do.
- Beginning the letter with words that flatter your chosen would let him know of what sort of naughty fun he can expect.
- Go on to express tender feelings and how it is for you when you spend intimate moments with your chosen.
Things To Consider In Writing:
- Collect Your Thoughts. Take some time to think about what you want to say before you start writing.
- Make An Offer She Cannot Refuse - Offer to do something that you know will make her really, really happy.
- Surprise Your Partner - Surprise your partner by sharing something very intimate with her, that maybe you didn't express in the past.
- Remember, There Are No Rules In A Love Letter - A love letter is an intimate conversation between two people and there are no rules to be abided by.
Writing A Love Letter- The Effective Way
The love letter can fire the imagination of the one who is writing it as well as the one who receives it. The decline of letter love writing,however, has interestingly lead to its effectiveness as a way to express love. The art of writing a love letter should be nurtured and perfected when one wants the romance to grow and flower.
Expressing love through letter writing shows thought and it is the thought that counts. The letter may describe what pleasures await when you next meet or feelings of love and tenderness. When writing a perfect love letter it's important to consider the status of the relationship.
Some Tips On How To Wite A Love Letter:
- End the love letter by saying that you hope to be able to have the opportunity to 'bump' into her again.
- You want your lover to know that you love her for the emotional aspects, not just the physical.
- If you are writing an erotic lover letter, talk about yourself as well.
- Spray the love letter with a light fragrance.
- Take the time to tailor your letter for the moment.
- Let your letters be as if you were there talking to your partner face to face.
- If you are handwriting the letter, use a very dark ink and be certain to have a few extra pieces of paper on hand.
- Perhaps a more primal experience is what is called for.
- Your own handwriting will be something new and probably a side of you he/she has never seen.
- Build up your vocabulary to include a variety of words to describe the intimacy or the sensual nocturnal games you could share.
Things To Consider In Writing:
- Make An Offer She Cannot Refuse - Offer to do something that you know will make her really, really happy.
- Remember, There Are No Rules In A Love Letter - A love letter is an intimate conversation between two people and there are no rules to be abided by.
- Clear your desk and your mind of distractions.
- Collect Your Thoughts. Take some time to think about what you want to say before you start writing.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Your Online Guide on How to Write A Good Book Review
First, what is a book review and why do people want them?
You have just read a book and are offering your opinion. Essentially, you are providing a mini-version of the book so someone else can decide for themselves if it's worth their money and time.
A book review is a description, analysis, and evaluation of a book. It talks about the quality, meaning, and significance of a book. It isn't just a short, 6 paragraph retelling. It's not a book report or a summary.
It's your reaction to the strengths and weaknesses of the material. It's how you felt about the book's purpose, content, and authority.
There is no right or wrong way to write a book review. Book reviews are personal and reflect your opinion. There is no minimum or maximal length. If you're writing one for an Amazon, you will need to be concise and to the point - but if you are writing for a magazine, you could run 1500 words or more.
One way to write it is to state what the author has tried to do, compare (in your opinion) how that author succeeded, and back it up with evidence.
Here's some guidelines:
1. Write an opening statement giving essential information about the book: title, author, first copyright date, type of book, general subject matter, special features (maps, color plates, etc.), price and ISBN. (In online reviews, this can be skipped, since it is part of the blurb for the book and that data is just a few paragraphs above.)
2. State the author's purpose in writing the book. You can often get this from their preface or first chapter. Where they don't come out and say so, you can ask yourself these questions:
a. Why did the author write on this subject rather than on some other subject?
b. From what point of view is the work written?
c. Was the author trying to give information, to explain something technical, to convince the reader of something?
d. What is the general field or genre, and how does the book fit into it?
e. Who is the intended audience?
f. What is the author's style? Did it suit your own tastes?
g. Scan the Table of Contents to see how it's organized sensibly.
g. How did the book affect you? Did you change any ideas you held because of it? How does it fit in with what you think or your own personal world view? Did it bring up old memories of yours?
h. Did the book achieve what it set out to do?
i. Would you recommend this book to others? How come?
3. Sum up the book in an elevator pitch - if you had to recommend this book to someone during an elevator ride, in the time between floors.
4. Explain how the author got his point across. What descriptions did they use? How did they tell the story - and did they keep you interested? Did their arguments make sense? Did they leave anything out or leave you unconvinced at the end?
5. Check into the author (this is fairly easy on the Internet) and see if what you find - reputation, qualifications, influences, biographical, etc. - establishes them as an authority. Do you see any relation between the author's philosophy, life experience and book you're reviewing?
6. If relevant, make note of the book's format - layout, binding, typography, etc. Are there maps, illustrations? Do they help your understanding?
7. Check the back matter. How's the index? Are the footnotes accurate and useful? What does the bibliography look like - long, short, haphazard? Make notes of what you find.
8. Summarize (briefly), analyze, and comment on the book's content and its summary. List the main topics, and briefly summarize the author's ideas about these topics, main points, and conclusions. Use specific references and quotations to support your statements. Once you have a good grip on that book, the conclusion will come simply.