Create a Business You Love

So you have entrepreneurial aspirations, but you're stuck in a job working for someone else. You wake up, commute to work, work hard, pay your bills and then come home exhausted. You repeat the pattern for another four days, becoming increasingly tired as the week progresses. By the time Friday night comes around you are absolutely shattered requiring every second of your weekend just to recover! And just as you start to feel as if you have your life back, your alarm clock goes off on Monday morning, you drag your feet out of bed and you repeat the cycle. Does this scenario sound all too familiar? Is this the way you want to spend the rest of your working life?

Controlling your thoughts.

So how do you start to break this monotonous existence? You do so with a single thought. It is said that each one of us has 60,000 thoughts a day, 55,000 of which were exactly the same thoughts as we had yesterday. So I am going to place a simple thought in your mind right now;

" You have the potential to create a profitable business that you are truly passionate about, that fulfils you creatively and that delivers a lot of good in the world. "

If that message resonates with you, you may like to re-read it and hold the thought in your mind for a second time. Really try and experience the meaning in this message. Not just intellectually but emotionally as well. You may also like re-think this thought again tomorrow. And if it feels good tomorrow, you may like to add it to your habitual thoughts.

Give your new thought some support.

Once you have held the thought of running your own business in your own mind and you are comfortable with it, you need to start expanding the dynamics of the thought. Ask yourself the following questions

· What sort of business would you like to run?

· Would it be a full time business or just a part time one?

· What would you call it?

· How much time would you like to devote to it?

· Who would be your target market?

· Who can you get involved to help you get it started?

Take some action.

Once you have a few answers for the questions above, you've got to take some action straight away! Start off small. Get some business cards printed up (vistaprint.co.uk will give you 250 colour business cards for free!) and you may also like to register a web site domain name (you can register web names from as little as £2.59 per year through 123-reg.com). Once you've got the ball rolling you can start thinking about the bigger action steps that you will need to take.

Seek out other business people.

Take a look at your social network. If all your friends and family are employees, chance are any conversations about work will be about the 9-5 grind. If this is the case, start adding a few small business people to your social network. Buy them lunch, ask them questions about how they started out in business. I am sure that you will find plenty of inspiration as well as some words of advice about how to run a business. You may also like to consider joining up with groups so you can network with like minded individuals (Toastmasters is excellent start and for online Networking check out ecademy.com)

The most important consideration.

One of the most important things to consider when setting up a business is to choose a business that you are passionate about. There are so many different ways you can make money so you might as well do something that excites you.

 

Four Common Web Designing Mistakes

Web designing is not just about putting up a web site and hoping it will get enough traffic. And, while it is okay to reflect your personality through your web site, you need to remember that that is only a small part of web designing. Web designing is more about catering to your target audience and reflecting what it is they want to see. A person may stumble upon your website by pure accident but it is high-quality web designing that usually creates customer loyalty and keeps them coming back time and again. Here then are four of the most common mistakes made by amateur web designers:

Bad Search

Search engines are fine tuned and tweaked to such an extent that, in a way, their usability has been reduced. Such search engines are sometimes unable to process hyphens, plurals or typos, creating problems for its various users especially the elderly. Since most Internet users depend on searches to find what they what, it is best to keep it simple and easy to use. Use of PDF Files

Most people browsing the internet hate PDF files, preferring to skip the site altogether and it is easy to understand why. PDF files break the flow of internet browsing. They do not respond to standard browser commands and it is impossible to select data to save or print. To get even a tiny selection of data, the entire PDF file will have to be saved or printed. Retaining the Color of Visited Links

Links are an important factor when navigating the internet. With no color difference between visited and unvisited links, internet browsers could find themselves re-visiting the same sites again and again.

Web sites that look like advertisements

Most experienced web users have learnt to ignore banners, pop-ups, animation and any other flashing message that distracts them from their goal. Designing your web site to look like an advertisement only ensures that it will get shut down before it even loads on to the computer screen.

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Four Common Web Designing Mistakes by aman toor

Love Quotations


  • "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."
    -- Margaret Anderson

  • "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
    -- Barbara De Angelis

  • "We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first."
    -- Anonymous

  • "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
    -- Anonymous

  • "If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."
    -- Lynda Barry

  • "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"
    -- Bible

  • "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
    -- Amy Carmichael

  • "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
    -- G. K. Chesterton

  • "I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."
    -- Roy Croft

  • "Love, while you are able to love."
    -- A. Frieligrath

  • "Love and a cough cannot be hid."
    -- George Hebert

  • " True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. "
    -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

  • " Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. "
    -- Og Mandino

  • " Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. "
    -- Mark Overby

  • "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
    -- Agnes Repplier

  • " There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. "
    -- George Sand

  • "Live for love. Without love, you don't live. "
    -- Unknown

  • "Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
    -- Unknown

  • "Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
    -- Unknown

  • " Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do. "
    -- David Wilkerson

    • Giving Love, Getting Love, Giving To Get

    Love. We need it from the moment we are born to thrive. We might survive but we do not thrive without abundant love. No wonder we work so hard to get it. No wonder we try to be perfect and do everything right to have control over getting love. No wonder we get anxious, angry or depressed when we do not get the love we need. No wonder we use numerous substance and process addictions to numb the pain when we feel alone and unloved.

    When we were little, our parents or other caregivers needed to be our source of love. We were too young to access the love we needed by ourselves. Our parents were like God ? they were our source of life and love.

    As we grew older, we were supposed to shift our focus from getting love from our parents to receiving the love that is God. Yet, because most of our parents didn?t know how to do this for themselves, many of us never learned to access the love that is infinite and always available to us.

    As adults most people are stuck in trying to get love and avoid pain.

    ? Do you try to get love by giving yourself up to others, hoping they will give you the love you need? Are you giving to get?

    ? Do you try to get others to love you through intimidation and guilt? Do you get angry, manipulative, or blaming to try to get others to give themselves up and give you what you want?

    ? Do you shut down and numb out with food, alcohol, drugs, TV, gambling, sex, work, and so on, to avoid the pain of loneliness and aloneness? Do you use addictions to avoid the pain of not feeling loved?

    ? Are you trying to make people, substances, things or activities your source of love?

    There is only one true Source of love. The Source of love is the universe we live in. The Source of love is whatever is your concept of God/Spirit. God is Love, and that love is always around us and within us, but you will feel it only when your heart is open to learning about loving yourself.

    As long as you are trying to get love from others and avoid pain with your addictions, your heart is closed and you cannot feel the love that is always here for you. Only when you shift your intention from getting love and avoiding pain, to loving yourself and sharing your love with others, will you stop feeling so empty, alone and lonely. Only when you stop making people, things, activities and substances your source and turn to Spirit as your Source will you feel the fullness of love within.

    The key to this shift is to stop making others and addictions responsible for your feelings and decide to take full, 100% responsibility for your own feelings of joy and wellbeing. When your intent shifts to learning about taking loving action for yourself, you will learn how to fill yourself with love from your Source and share that love with others.

    Sharing love is totally different that giving to get love. Sharing love comes from a full place within, a place that does not need anything back from another person. When we learn to take loving action in our own behalf, we get so filled with love that it just overflows. When this is the case, we receive great joy in sharing our love. We no longer try to be the source of love for others, nor do we make others our source of love.

    Today, focus on opening to learning about what is in your highest good. Ask the question throughout the day, ?What is in my highest good right now?? As answers pop into your mind, take the loving action on your own behalf. Then notice how peaceful and fulfilled you feel, and how good it feels to share your love and joy with others.
     

    Home Based Business: Blogging Is A Great Business Idea

    If you are looking to start a home based business or perhaps for another angle to branch out your own existing small business then you should really consider blogging. Blogging is a great business idea. Before you dismiss the idea consider these five ways that you can profit from a blog.

    The simplest method you can profit from a blog is simply to add some pay-per-click or pay-per-lead program advertising on your blog. This way you can blog to your heart's content about the topic or topics that interest you and earn money from your visitors without any extra work.

    If you have products from your existing business or have plans to create your own products--anything from traditional goods and services to ebooks and other electronic products--then a blog is a great way to promote your product and yourself by establishing your expertise in this area.

    Even if you do not have your own product, you can easily use a blog to promote affiliate products to and programs that are related to the topic or topics you blog about.

    You can also use a blog to capture leads for an affiliate program or for your own programs, ezines, newsletters, or other information products.

    Finally, you can also sell advertising space in the form of banners, textual advertising, or text links on your blog. The higher your readership then the more money you can charge.

    This is not a new or unique method for internet entrepreneurs to make money on the web. It has been around almost as long as blogging, but that does not mean you cannot start your own internet blog business and quickly begin making money. Remember, if you can write (not professionally but rather comfortably) then you can still acquire articles and blog entries in a number of free or paid formats so you can get started very quickly and very cheaply.

    Blogging is a great business idea for a home based business or a small business. You can use any of these five suggestions, in any combination, to profit from your blog.

    Want Website Traffic? Start A Free Blog

    In the past couple of years, blogging has become increasingly popular . There are more and more blogs, both personal and business, created everyday on a vast array of topics.

    If you own a website, then you know how difficult it is to get exposure to it. Creating a blog is one of the best resources there is today for receiving that exposure. Like anything else?it takes hard work on creating interesting content on a new blog and getting traffic to it. Focus on your website or business when creating new posts and always try and add something new everyday. Try and connect with your creative side.

    Topics:

    Concentrate on what people may be searching for today on the Internet. A lot of people are searching for content for their existing websites, marketing advice, and/or finding work at home jobs and home businesses. While some people may be just searching for friendship, conversing about current events, funny jokes, and the like. Some people are interested in infant clothing, toys, various baby items, and parenting tips or advice. Try and make your blog posts as interesting as possible to try and keep people coming back for more.

    Tips On Getting Comments:

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    Simply invite people to join in on the conversations and encourage them to comment on the various posts within your blog description. *

    If you own a website and message board, and you have advertising space available for other webmasters or business owners?announce a contest on your message board offering free advertising for the person that posts the most comments on your blog. *

    Give people a chance to self promote their websites or businesses through their comments. *

    Offer something free?for example, a free ebook or some kind of software. *

    Participate in message boards, announcing your blog, and request their opinion. Ask them to place a comment post and share their thoughts and opinions about your blog.

    Promoting Your Blog:

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    Advertise your blog on various message forums. *

    Include your blog link in your signature within message forums and emails. *

    Submit your blog in blog directories. *

    Exchange links with other bloggers. *

    Write articles relating to blogging and submit them to article directories. *

    Advertise your blog in various newsletters and ezines. *

    Include your blog link on any websites you may have.

    One Last Thought:

    Have fun with your blog. If there is something (off the wall) that you want to share or you think is really amusing?share it in your blog. Write about anything you feel like writing. The possibilities are endless!

     

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