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Do you sell something online? Do you have a business in the Internet? Have you read the “How to generate more traffic and convert it to sales” articles? Have you played the “Be #1 in SEO” game?

Now, you are ready to believe - nobody knows how to do it absolutely right.

Nobody can know everything.
Everything changes.
Everything changes every day.

How can you win the world if you can see it as a whole? The world is too big.

You can’t make a plan, test it, and repeat. The world can change while you are doing it.

Trying to find the way to success seems like blind hunt. You can’t see the result of your actions immediately - you can see only long-term effects. You add a forum to you site - and in a month your traffic has grown up. Why? Maybe they come from one topic in a news group of an unknown observer? You do the site optimization for Google - but your page rank has fallen down. Why? Maybe your optimization was adapted to an old page rank algorithm, and now it should be done differently? Somebody creates a new outstanding XML-ADO-XDML-XYZ technology. Should we use it? Questions are everywhere!

In this situation, you can only rely on a few things:

1. Listen to the leader. If they win, they must know the secret. But leaders become obsolete too.
2. Use the human psychology. People are still people.
3. You never can exhaust all trying options. Keep trying! Everything is possible!

Good luck!

About the author.
Software developer and vendor with 10 years experience. Please, visit http://www.qunom.com for contact information.

The Federal Trade Commission has set forth an agenda to revamp the Franchise Rule. Actually not revamp and get rid of the unnecessary over regulation and over disclosure, but to re-define it and pile on more minutia. The Federal Trade Commission ought to re-consider all these potential rule changes and advise from attorneys in the industry because such comments and advise are self serving and do not help consumers. Attorney firms might hire Federal Trade Commission staff in the future and therefore many see vast amounts of abuse of power and conflict of interest. Basically you cannot trust them anymore; the regulators today who will be attorneys in private practice tomorrow in a constant revolving door, serving no free American.

It should be noted all those Law Firms who commented in the rule making period and got their wishes; then correlate where Federal Trade Commission staff go to work in the future. Any Federal Trade Commission staff, attorney going to such law firms ought to be fined, imprisoned and have their pensions immediately revoked, or in a more perfect world simply shot for treason against the country.

We seem to have a complete double standard here, which is quite obvious from anyone on the outside looking in. Government must be held completely accountable for their actions, abuses of power and should be jailed, made example of in the media or shot for treason, if we are to have a fair system. Any referee who purposely calls foul of a team, which has not broken the rules should be discharged with out monetary consideration from the current game and barred from ever playing in any game, related industry or admission to the hall of fame.

Conflict of interest, abuse of power and prostitution of truth and justice are common at the Federal Trade Commission and no one will fix the problem. We should demand absolute integrity from this agency. Think about it.

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

Understand the tax consequences of flipping houses, rehabbing houses, and how to defer taxes with the 1031 Exchange before you get into real estate investing. Problems arise when real estate investors don’t follow federal and state tax laws. This is why you need professional advice. Although I am not a tax advisor, here are some common mistakes beginning real estate investors make by not understanding tax liabilities:

Flipping Houses

The reason flipping houses is a mistake for some beginners is that they don’t know the income tax consequences. One problem with flipping houses, or selling too many properties too quickly, the IRS could say that your real estate business is your trade, subject to ordinary income and self-employment taxes.

Self-employment tax, a social security and Medicare tax primarily for individuals who work for themselves, is similar to the social security and Medicare taxes withheld from the paycheck of most employees. The self-employment tax rate costs you 15.3% of your profits. (However, this may provide retirement benefits.)

Rehabbing Houses

Another common mistake that beginning investors make is selling a property after holding it for almost a year. Some rehabbers work part time on a fixer and take six months to get the house ready. Add on two months to sell with a 60 day closing, and they’re up to ten months. To take advantage of the low 15% capital-gains tax rate, you must keep the investment property for at least a year before selling. If you sell before a year, your tax rate, the usual capital gains rate of 35%, could eat up a significant amount of your profits.

If you’re rehabbing houses, be patient. You could save thousands in taxes by holding your property just a few more weeks.

1031 Exchange

However, the Internal Revenue Code provides real estate investors away to defer capital gains taxes indefinitely. Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a tax-free exchange. Also known as a “like-kind” exchange, this code allows you to sell a business or investment property and defer capital-gains taxes by immediately reinvesting the gains into a similar piece of property. The key, replacing a business or investment with similar property, means that no gain gets paid to the investor. Any profit taken out of escrow gets taxed. This means that beginning investors might take out a portion of the profit after they carefully explore their tax liabilities. In other words, talk to an accountant and find out what your tax would be according to your current usual income. Many business owners take advantage of this because they have many business deductions.

The big mistake beginning real estate investors make doing a 1031 tax-free exchange, taking possession of the profits, voids the tax deferment. You must declare the sale of your property to be a part of a 1031 exchange before you sell the property. Then you have the money placed in a trust account held by an intermediary until you purchase the new investment property. You have 45 days to identify a replacement property and 180 days to close on the new investment. You can’t purchase a primary residence or a vacation home with funds from an investment property and defer taxes in a 1031 exchange.

The best advice for beginning real estate investors:
Talk to an accountant.

Would you be better off making extra money, even if you must pay taxes?

© 2005 Jeanette J. Fisher.

Jeanette Fisher teaches beginning real estate investors her system to make more money fixing houses with Design Psychology. For a free ebook “Design Psychology for Selling Houses,” see http://doghousetodollhousefordollars.com/

In today’s hectic world, learning to meditate can bring a sense of calm and inner satisfaction. The practice of meditation is a gateway into your inner consciousness, resulting in an enhanced awareness of your own existence and your overall relationship to the cosmos.

Whether you are looking to answer the age-old question, “Who am I and why am I here?” or simply to implement simple relaxation techniques meditation may just be the answer for you.

Although there are hundreds of established techniques how to meditate is really up to the individual. You can pick and choose amongst different schools of thought and find a technique that best suits your personality. However, although meditation has many different cultural contexts, there are certain general facets which transcend the bounds of any one specific culture.

According to Eastern philosophy, to meditate means to think on the eternal, or rather to expand your consciousness until you are at one with the cosmos as a whole. Transcendental emotions like grief, euphoria or even love can fade away, but the universe is forever. Eventually, with practice, learning to meditate can bring you in closer attunement with the very root and purpose of existence itself.

Even if you are not interested in the metaphysical implications of meditation, meditating has undeniable health benefits. Learning to meditate can have positive effects on stress induced illness such as heart disease and high blood pressure. In conjunction with traditional Western approaches to medicine, meditation can target the root causes behind stress-based conditions by calming and clearing the mind.

Jamie Lynn has dedicated herself to teaching others the Power of Meditation and how a simple 10 minutes a day can radically alter your life for the better. Imagine finally feeling an utter sense of serenity that washes your problems away. Start each day rejuvenated and ready to tackle anything!
http://www.meditation-techniques-and-alternative-healing.com

How many times do you find yourself making decisions that are not in your best interests?

Well to make it more clear reflect on all of those behavior patterns that you have been trying to break. As you do you will recognize the extent to which you feel control over your mind, your body and your life have been usurped by some invisible force that takes you to places that are highly undesirable to you.

How is this possible? After all aren’t your mind, your body and your life supposed to be yours? Well of course! So how can you explain the fact that you seem to have so little control over them throughout most of your life?

Well it’s as simple as saying that you are making choices to become unconscious during these times. Let me explain what I mean by this.

You probably remember if you are old enough, the time in your life when you learned to drive. During that time you found yourself having to pay attention to all of those things you had to do in order to avoid having an accident. At the time it likely felt overwhelming if not a bit taxing.

Today however you probably drive hundreds of miles a week without even thinking about the hundreds of decisions you make to avoid having an accident.

That is because all that “learning” caused your nervous system to become imprinted with a complex program that one might call the “this is how I drive safely program”. It feels easier to simply let the program do the work rather than have to be fully conscious of everything you need to do, doesn’t it? In other words the program is supposed to help you conserve energy and make your life easier.

So whenever you get in the driver’s seat you automatically bring up this unconscious program and it allows your conscious mind to attend to other things. In other words it frees you up.

Now suppose however that this “driving program” had a flaw in it. For instance, suppose that it had a “virus” in it that caused you to never check your blind spot.

Would that unconscious program serve you? Well I think you’ll see that it could cause you a great deal of agony each time you had to change lanes because you wouldn’t “know’ to check that blind spot and hence that would leave you vulnerable to the occasional accident.

Now let’s take this metaphor to the higher level of life decisions.

Your beliefs about your self, your capabilities, others, and your reality are pre-programmed inside of you at an unconscious and emotional level by the time your are 6 years of age.

This is because during that period, according to neurophysiologists, children are walking around in what is called a “delta or theta brainwave state”. That is equivalent to a state of deep sleep. In this state we are highly suggestible or hypnotizable.

Hypnotizability implies that we are highly programmable. It also suggests that we are in an unconscious state. During these early years we become programmed with many dysfunctional or “virus embedded” programs that we fall into the habit of relying on later in life.

Another way of saying this is that whenever we encounter a situation in adult life that makes us uncomfortable or that strains our conscious attention there is a tendency to want to go into “auto pilot” mode and relieve some of the strain with pre-programmed unconscious “software”.

Many of us do this regularly without even realizing it. We make decisions about our health, our careers, our relationships, what we believe we are capable of, what we believe about others, what we believe about our reality, etc. and all based on unconscious programming. Much of it however is based on the limited experiences we had while we were children.

Another way of saying this is that we become “unconscious” or that we live “habitually”. When we do this we find our lives going in directions that are severely limiting and unfulfilling to us.

What is most interesting however is that many individuals are not even cognizant of the fact that this situation even exists. That is they are afraid to admit to themselves that they are “not fully in control of their lives”.

What they are also afraid of is revisiting and releasing the old dysfunctional programs of their early lives. That is they are afraid to become fully conscious!

Now I ask you does that sound like a viable alternative?

Well if you see that to be “alive” and therefore “viable” is equivalent to being conscious then being unconscious is not viable is it?

In fact to live in a programmed state is equivalent to being a machine, isn’t it?

If you would like to reawaken from your unconsciousness and reclaim your Life kindly visit the web link below for an introductory consultation.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

Web Site: http://www.telecoaching4u.com/IntroConsult.htm

It is no secret that communication is key to survival for small business. The advantage to small busineses of using a VoIP solution is that the market is very competitive. While there are relatively few companies from which to choose for normal phone service, many VoIP providers will gladly offer VoIP phone service at a very competitive rate and with unlimited long distance.

But….you need to do your homework first.

Phone service features indispensable to your business, such as voicemail, conferencing and call waiting, allow business to flow smoothly and efficiently. So….how do you decide if a VoIP solution is best for your business?

One of the first steps when analyzing your current service is to decide what features your business needs. Does it need multiple lines to accommodate the sales force? What about a toll free number for customer service? Make a list of all the features your office uses and think about others you might want to try.

The next step is to make an estimate of all intrastate (in- state), interstate (state-to-state) and international calls. An easy way to estimate these numbers is to view a recent phone bill. You might be surprised at how large or small your call volume actually is. If you rely heavily on fax machines, consider the number of incoming and outgoing faxes. As you review these numbers, remember to consult growth projections for the rest of the year.

Once you’ve done all this…you’re ready to go comparison shopping.

Here’s some resources to help you do that:

* VoIP Comparison Reviews

VoIPReview does a good job comparing feature sets from each of the providers. Its user reviews seem a bit skewed, but otherwise the site looks good.

* ZDNet Reviews

ZDNet usually has objective reviews. Read through its commentary on any of the providers you are considering.

* Broadband Reports

Broadband reports has a specific area for review by users…with a regularly updated scoring system. It’s often skewed with a tad bit of emotion….and reviews are mostly residential. But it does give you an idea for business use.

* Google

I’m sure most of you already do this, but once you’ve figured out what you’re looking for, perform a search on companies on Google to see what others have said about it.

If you’re willing to do a bit more work, contact various providers and create your own comparison chart. You can begin your research by visiting voipreview.org. The site offers VoIP facts and reviews of various broadband phone service providers. Compare the business plans for different providers and research the various features offered with each plan. Also, make sure your current Internet connection can handle VoIP calls. The Web site testyourvoip.com will evaluate and score your Internet connection. You’ll know if it makes sense to run your phone traffic over your broadband connection.

Here is a list and description of the top ten (supposedly) VoIP providers (includes home plans for telecommuter staff).

- Axvoice

Axvoice has many plans for you to sign up. Unlimited call to USA/Canada plan costs $ 18.99 per month. Unlimited international & USA/Canada plan costs $29.99. Axvoice also has business plan starting from $ 39.99 per month.

- INVIVNI

INVIVNI has three plans, Residentials, Small Office, and Business. The Residential plan costs $24.95 per month. The Small Office plan costs $32.95 per month, and the Business plan costs is negotiable.

- VCInetwork

VCInetwork has three plans, Unlimited Long Distance :Home, Unlimited Long Distance: Business and 500 minutes to USA/Canada and Europe. Unlimited Long Distance : Home plan costs $28.95 per month. Unlimited Long Distance : Business plan costs $49.95 per month and 500 minutes to USA/Canada and Europe plan costs $14.50 per month.

- Skype

Skype is famous for their slogan, “The Whole World can Talk for Free”. Skype is a free download and users can make free calls via, Skype to Skype. For a fee, you can advance your Skype to Skype Out and make calls to landline phones. Skype In will let your choose your area code and phone number. This way, friends and relatives can call you locally, if you select the same area code. Skype is compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux, and Pocket Pc operating systems. Not really a good business solution.

- Vonage

Probably the most well known VoIP providers, you may be surprised to discover that Vonage is also one of the more expensive providers. Vonage offers two plans, residential and small business. Residential users may choose between the Basic 500 plan and Unlimited. The Basic 500 plan offers 500 minutes of talk time for $14.99 a month. The Premium Unlimited residential plan costs $24.99 per month.

The Small Business Basic plan costs $39.99 per month and allows 1500 minutes. The Small Business Unlimited plan costs $49.99 a month and provides unlimited calls throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

- Dialpad

Dialpad and Yahoo have merged services. Currently, Dialpad offers three plans- Dialpad Monthly 300, Dialpad Monthly 500, and Dialpad USA. The cost for Dialpad Monthly 300 is $7.50 per month, Dialpad Monthly 500 costs $9.99 per month, and Dialpad USA costs $11.99 per month.

- Broadvox Direct

Broadvox Direct offers residential and small business services. Their residential services include the Residential Choice Plus plan for $9.95 per month. The Residential Choice Plus plan includes 100 outbound minutes and unlimited incoming minutes. Their Residential Unlimited Plan costs $29.95 a month and includes unlimited calling anywhere in the US and Canada. The SoHo Small Business Regional Plan costs $34.95 per month and includes 1500 monthly minutes in the US and in Canada. The SoHo Small Business Unlimited Plan costs $44.95 per month and includes unlimited calls in the US and Canada and also includes a free fax line and Yellow Page listing.

- Galaxy Voice

Galaxy Voice offers two plans, Residential and Business. Their residential plan costs $19.95 a month and includes unlimited calling, Voicemail, Caller Id, Call Waiting, Call Return, Three Way Calling, and Call Forwarding. Their business plan costs $39.95 per month and includes unlimited calling, Free Voice Mail, Free Call Transfer, Free Call Forwarding, Free Repeat Dialing, and Free Caller ID block.

- Voice Pulse

Voice Pulse has three plans, America Unlimited, Local Unlimited +200, and Business Unlimited. The America Unlimited plan costs $24.99 per month. The Local Unlimited +200 costs $14.99 per month, and the Business Unlimited costs $45.99 per month.

- VoIP American

VoIP American has three different plans. These are the VoIP American PBX plan, the VoIP American Voice plan and the VoIP American bVoice plan. The VoIP American PBX plan cost $19.99 a month for a private line and $44.99 a month for unlimited calling. The VoIP Voice Residential Basic plan costs $14.99 per month and the VoIP Voice Residential Unlimited plan costs $29.99 per month. The bVoice Business plan costs $34.99 per month.

- Packet 8

Packet 8 not only offers phone plans, but they also offer videophone plans. Their residential plans are the Freedom International and Freedom Unlimited. Both of these plans cost $19.99 per month. [note: currently they’re running a special for $9.95 per month for your 1st 3 months.] The Videophone plan is the Freedom Unlimited and that too is $19.99 per month. Their business plans consists of three different plans. These are the Virtual Office service plans, the Virtual Attendant Service plans, and the Business Phone Service plans. The Virtual office phone plan costs $39.95 per month, the Virtual Attendant service plan costs $14.95 per month, and the Business Attendant service plan costs $34.95 per month.

- Sun Rocket

Sun Rocket offers their signature service for either $24.95 per month or $199.00 per year.

- Speakeasy

Speakeasy offers many different plans ranging from Home Office, Small Office I, Small Office II, and Small Business. Their Home Office plan costs 79.90 per month, the Small Office I plan costs $560.00 per month, the Small Office II plan costs 1,039 per month and the Small Business plan costs $2,349 per month.

Analyzing phone service is often a real headache. However, unreliable line quality, which results in poor customer service and huge monthly bills are even worse. In the end, doing your research will pay dividends for your business. Personally, I have no reservations recommending Packet8 for your business VoIP solution right now. However, go through the above steps first for your own peace of mind…..you’ll likely reach the same conclusion.

I bet every one of you readers is familiar with message boards. Probably you’ve been joining in most of the discussions provided by these boards online or you probably have designed a message board for your group. Well, the concept for message board has long been commonly heard among many people. Children and adults alike are familiar with this concept. However, if you haven’t heard about message boards yet, then note the following facts.

The Basics

Message boards are also known as internet forums or discussion boards. They are basically a web application that serves for online discussions. They are also considered as the modern heir of the bulletin board systems as well as existing Usenet news systems that were far-flung in the 1980s and 1990s.

What does a bulletin board system means lies on the idea that it is a computer system running software that allows users to have contact into the system through phone line and then carry out actions such as downloading software and data, reading news, exchanging messages with other users, and uploading files.

Speaking of computer system, the message boards generally appear to be part of a website. They encourage the computer users to involve or participate in the online discussions. This simply means that that the computer users have the chance to start topics and discuss issues with one another. If we will look at it as a whole system, it seems that “team work” is present there.

Message Board and Wikis

There are some times when message boards comprise most, if not all, the content of a particular mise-en-scene. Also, most of the time, the users are not allowed to edit or to change the one’s post on the forum. However, since message boards are usually controlled by the known site “administrators” and “moderators”, these people have access to the posting as well as on editing. It is this feature actually that compares message boards to wikis, a website that allows the users of the forum to add content. Unlike message board, the wikis gives the full authority to the users in editing the content written on the pages.

Message Board and Weblogs

Aside from wikis, message boards are also often compared to weblogs. I guess most of you are familiar with weblogs or blogs. Well, these are but another form of internet application that contain periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. The difference between weblogs and message boards basically lies on the fact that message boards mainly grant the board uses to employ and discuss topics that are sometime referred as “threads”. Weblogs, on the other hand, only permit one or few users to post an entry. In addition, most of the message boards apt to be more spiked in focus, while weblogs apt to be more particular to a particular topic or issue.

Generally speaking, a message board or internet forum has certain characteristics that differ greatly from the other web applications. It can be flat, which means that each response from the other user within a particular topic is listed in chronological order. It can further be threaded, where every post is linked from a parent post.

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One of the surprising truths about marketing a product - a book, workbook, booklet, recording, etc. - is that the most effective marketing begins before you even decide which product to create.

It’s easy to be successful if you remember the ART of marketing:

A - Ask what your customers want

R - Review your strengths and interests

T - Tailor your product to capitalize on both

In this article, we’ll take a look at your strengths and interests - to ensure that the product you create for your customers will bring YOU big benefits, as well.

1 - What topics or subject areas are you really knowledgeable about?

Here’s your chance to flaunt your experience, your knowledge, your areas of expertise. When you think about it, be as specific as you can (organizing a Table of Contents vs. writing books).

Grab a sheet of paper and right now (yes, now!), list at least 10 things you know a lot about.

2 - What are you really terrific at?

Go outside your ‘routine’ answers to this question - and go outside your coaching business.

Maybe you’re terrific at teaching … calming people down … bringing humor to tense situations. Or organizing. Or writing. Or….

Once again, time for a list. Write down at least 10 things you’re terrific at, before you read on.

3 - What do you really love to do?

Again, stretch yourself. Look for the things that get you excited, make you smile, and so on. (Yep, you’re on to me! Write at least 10 things, right now.)

4 - Head back to your lists

Look over the lists that you’ve just written, and circle your top three in each section.

Any surprises? Similarities? Chances are, if you went all out writing your lists, your strengths and interests are really beginning to emerge.

5 - What product formats interest you most?

Unless you have a very unique niche, with very particular requirements, your clients will generally care much more about how well your product answers their questions, or fills their needs, than about the physical format of your product.

So why not develop your new product in the format that excites you most? Which of the following get your creative juices flowing:

• book

• e-book

• workbook

• booklet

• e-course

• audio CD

• audio cassette

• RealAudio or MP3

• client-only web page

• teleclass

• live workshop

• seminar

• something else?

6 - May I share a secret?

Most people who develop a new product do one of two things:

• They either create the product around the needs of their clients - OR -

• They create a product simply because they’d like to work on it

If you’re going to choose just one, go with what your clients want.

But why stop there? Chances are you can find a project you’d love to work on that your clients are asking for, too. Get the right combination and you’ll not only have fun, you’ll have a
product that your clients will love - and purchase!

(More on this in my article, “How to Get from Market Niche to Passive Income in Three Easy Steps: Step 1, Your Customers,” also available on this website.)

Best-selling author Kathy Gulrich helps clients get from idea, to action, to results - more quickly, and more easily - whether they’re looking to write a book, develop a new product, or market their product or business. Clients love her direct, no-nonsense approach - and her gentle insistence on great results. Find out for yourself: Check out one of Kathy’s teleclasses, or pick up a free worksheet, at http://www.smARTbusinessCoaching.com

Does that title make you cringe? It made me cringe when it popped into my head a few days ago.

We don’t like to think about our “ugly parts,” do we? By ugly parts of course I mean those aspects of ourselves we perceive to be less than perfect. For some it might be physical flaws, like acne, jiggly thighs or a persistent pot belly no matter how many hours we spend in the gym. For others there may be emotional issues like fears, phobias or low self-esteem.

One lesson I keep having to learn over and over in my own life is that the more I resist these aspects of myself, the more I hate them and push them away and try to ignore them, the bigger and more dominant they become. My resistance gives them power over me.

What if we stopped pushing away these aspects of ourselves? What if we (gasp!) accepted them, loved them, embraced them? What happens to them?

For most of my adult life, I’ve been a cat owner (or I should say, they owned me). Several of them were strays when I took them in, and they were in terrible shape. Covered in fleas, worm infestations, coat and eyes dull. Part of it was their physical health and lack of proper diet, which I remedied over the following weeks. But on a deeper level, these animals were starving for love and affection. I eased that too, by petting them, talking to them, conveying with and without words that they mattered, they were worthy of being loved deeply and fully. And they responded to that.

As the weeks went by, a light would begin to shine in their eyes. They would become more playful and seem happier and more content. Eventually, they no longer resembled the tattered creatures that had come through my door. They were glowing with life and vitality. Their coats became soft and silky, their eyes were bright and alert and they seemed genuinely at peace. Love Transforms. It’s as simple as that. Anyone who has loved deeply or has been loved deeply can attest to that.

So how does that apply to our “ugly parts?” What would happen if we loved them and embraced them? Would they transform into something more beautiful? Maybe, maybe not. Those parts of ourselves may exist for a reason, and we may not be able to change them. However, if we can’t transform those, maybe we can still transform our perception of them. They will no longer appear “ugly” to us. They simply become one small aspect of our total selves. These individual aspects are not good or bad, they just are.

Loathing certain parts of ourselves is like refusing to look at a rainbow because we don’t like the color green. If you like the other colors, you can accept the green at least, right? A rainbow wouldn’t be complete without the color green. If we are to accept ourselves, we need to accept ALL parts of ourselves. Some of them we may be able to improve over time, and others we might not. And that’s okay.

The important thing is to become at peace with ourselves, rather than fighting these ridiculous battles day after day. We need to embrace ourselves, nurture ourselves and love ourselves. In doing so, we will be transformed, on one level or another.

Wendy Betterini is a freelance writer who strives to motivate, uplift, and inspire you to make your dreams a reality. Visit her website, www.WingsForTheHeart.com for more positive thoughts to help you on your journey.

For US Postal service postage or UPS selling labels printing you should have a Paypal account. The size and weight of the item package should also be known. Go to the ’sold view’ and click the checkbox near the sold item to be printed. Click on the ‘print’ button. Then select the checkbox near the US Postal service postage or UPS shipping label and click continue. Now log on to your Paypal account and then select US Postal service or UPS. In the next opened page enter the shipping and packaging information. Clicking on the ‘print’ button will print the required document.

When you want to print individual invoices, packing slips or address labels, go to the ’sold view’ and click on the checkbox near the sold item for which you want to print an invoice, packing slip or address label. Next click on the print button. The print page will be opened, here, select the type of printout whether invoice for your own records, packing slip or address label or, in combinations, like invoice / packing slip combo etc. There would be a pop-up window with a scroll bar for previewing the page to be printed. After reviewing, click on the ‘print’ button to get the printout. If you want changes in your next printouts you may edit on the corresponding sales record and save, then repeat the steps for printing.

Donny Lowy runs http://www.closeoutexplosion.com an online wholesale and closeout business that supplies eBay sellers, retailers, and flea market vendors.

He also manages http://www.wholesalecloseoutforum.com an online wholesale and closeout forum.

Donny can be reached at 718-389-5502