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Is consolidating debt the number one solution for me? Being in a recession (according to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club Autumn forecast), it’s essential that persons with financial problems realise the differences between debt consolidation loans and the other debt solutions that are available – and know which one might be the best solution for them.

For a start, it depends on what the future holds. In a recession, it’s more likely than usual to be not very good news – when consumer spending falls and businesses start to lose money, many companies will resort to redundancies just so they can stay afloat. For any individual who’s pretty sure their company is thinking about laying off staff, a debt consolidation loan may not be a good idea.

What is the reason? One of debt consolidation’s most attractive advantages is the opportunity to reduce the monthly amount an individual pays towards their debt repayments. A consolidation loan is most effective when the person is in a fairly stable financial situation: when they are aware how much they’re making and how much they’re spending each month, they can figure out the ideal way of paying back their debt.

So a person facing the prospect of unemployment would perhaps be better off looking into a debt management plan, instead of debt consolidation. Debt management gives a flexible approach to debt: borrowers are allowed to ask debt management experts to get in contact with their creditors on their behalf, asking them to think about allowing lower monthly payments, remove charges and/or freeze interest.

IVAs take a high level of commitment and can require people with their own homes to free up some of the money in their house. Borrowers are required to commit to making fixed monthly payments for (most of the time) six years, based on the maximum they are able to afford once they’ve taken their must have monthly costs into account. Even so, an Individual Voluntary Arrangement is able to make a big difference – for individuals whose debts have steadily become out of control, as well as individuals faced with a severe drop in their earnings. Granted, Individual Voluntary Arrangements do need a level of financial stability: if the individual does not feel they are able to commit to five years of regular payments, an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) might not be the best debt solution for them.

Discover more about debt consolidation, debt management & IVAs here.

There’s a party going on in my backyard. Just beyond the goldfish pond you can hear the low hum coming from the bee ensemble. If you step closer, you can see them dancing on the tops of purple coneflowers dusting themselves in bright orange pollen. They seem intoxicated by the abundance of fragrant flowers. A vast treasure trove, I imagine, to a bee.

The butterflies gracefully pirouette onto lily tongues taking sips of nectar juice before moving on. Soon, sun-baked fields will yield native corn; varieties with names like Sweet Symphony,Silver Queen and Morning Star. Big, red, globe tomatoes kissed with summer’s sweetness will also be ready for picking and eating.

This is abundance, right here, in my backyard. My contribution was to set the “table” with everything that would attract “the guests” that I wanted to invite. This took planning and preparation. I needed to know what to feed the flowers and other plants so they would be healthy and yield a bountiful supply of bee, butterfly and bird food. I also had to learn the language of winged things. I sought coaching from experts that specialize in the areas of plants, birds, bees, butterflies and their preferred habitats.

Since there are hundreds of varieties of plants,I knew that I could not have them all. I was selective and chose what I wanted in my garden based on my preferences for color, fragrance,touch and taste. I also had to clarify my intention for my garden. Did I want to attract bees, hummingbirds and butterflies and/or feed my family?

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t prepare for what also shows up in a beautiful garden; the uninvited beetle or pest that creeps and clings on the edges of foliage and blossoms devouring everything including my joy!

In these instances, it is helpful to be prepared with a few strategies to take care of any unwanted party crashers.

Once again, with careful planning and preparation, clear intention, clarifying my personal preferences and
getting coached by experts, I was able to transcend obstacles to achieve a better outcome than I could have ever
imagined.

There’s a party in my backyard. And now, you have my simple recipe for creating a party in your own backyard.

Nancy Bishop is a Mid-Life Coach and inspirational writer. She collaborates with women at midlife to create recipes for living life to the fullest. For more information and to subscribe to her newsletter visit http://www.yourlifeyourway.com

We all know how important it is to have goals? But what is it that separates success and failure when endeavoring to achieve your goals? If I’m to point to one specific thing that can surely sabotage your goal success it’s ambiguity. It’s a lack of being specific. It’s that vague pale definition that doesn’t even sound believable when you say it.

For example, “I want to loose weight”. It doesn’t provide anything that I would deem able to stimulate passion , energy or excitement. It has no purpose, direction or timetable attached to it. It’s destined to fail. In fact, it was never really a goal in the first place , at best it was an ambiguous statement.

Goal setting is simple. Like anything, if you want to experience success, follow those that have been successful and copy them. Gary Ryan Blair aka ” The Goals Guy ” has a quick a simple method. All you have to do to properly plan your goals is to ask 3 questions.

WHAT? will help you define whether it’s something you wish to be, have or do.

HOW? will allow you to define with precision and exactness, what you must do to acheve your goals in a predetermined amount of time.

WHY? is the fuel you need to keep you going and give passion and purpose to your objective

Once you’ve answered these three questions in detail, you’ve got yourself a bona fide goal. Yes. It’s very important to right it down. Writing it down clarifies and crystallizes it for you It becomes a point of reference. Use it as a catalyst or trigger for the most powerful component of reviewing your goals – the power of visualization.

Make sure your goals are close at hand and make a point of reviewing your short term goals at least once a day. Although most successful people will tell you that they do it 2 or 3 times daily.

The problem is the onus is on you to remember to review them. But is 1,2 or 3 times daily enough to make them happen. Is it often enough to engrain with certainty, your goal objectives will be met? If you’re truly serious about your goals and achieving them, why would you even want to leave that to chance?

Why not put your daily goal review on autopilot. Imagine having your goals fed 1000’s of times a day to your subconscious mind unobtrusively while all the while you’re working, typing, playing or surfing on your computer.

If you want to have the most impact, you have to engage the other 5/6ths of your brain ( your subconscious) to work harmoniously with your conscious will (1/6th of your brain power). If you want the power to engrain your goals and objectives into your subconscious…….

Christmas is a holiday with a deep-rooted traditions whose origins many people don’t know. Here is a quick rundown of some of the most popular Christmas traditions.

Who started the tradition of the Yule log? There is traditionally a mid-winter festival called “Yule.” People would sit around the fire and wait until the “yule” log had burned out.

Have you ever stopped to think about where your life’s path is leading?

Is it leading you on a journey of ever increasing aliveness and self expression or is taking you to a place of conformity, mediocrity and discomfort?

My Reality Check

A year and a half ago I had to accept the reality that my life’s path wasn’t heading in the direction that I wanted it to.

On the outside, I had no doubt that I projected an image of success. I had pushed my way up the corporate ladder at quite a rapid rate given my age. I was obscenely well paid, wore tailor made suits and holidayed in exotic locations.

But on the inside, I felt anything but successful. Each day that I dragged myself into office felt as if I was selling another piece of my soul.

For 60-70 hours per week, I performed work that I found deeply dissatisfying in environments that I was completely unsuited to. Now believe me when I say that this wasn’t some kind of passing phase either. In my 8-9 working years since graduating from business school, I had managed to secure consulting contracts with some of the most prestigious corporations in the world. Funnily enough, I had similar work experiences in almost all of them.

To add insult to injury, there always seemed to be at least one person in authority that I would mysteriously come into conflict with in each workplace. They appeared to go out of their way to make my working life extremely awkward and uncomfortable.

Early on in my career, I used to fully engage in the drama of being victimised by these evil tyrants! But over time however, I came to the realisation that these people were actually not my enemies, but my teachers. By letting me know that I didn’t fit into their model of the world (and I must admit they did have a solid argument!), they were unknowingly pushing me forward to follow my innermost passion for doing bigger things in the world.

So What Was Going Wrong? Over the span of my corporate career I had plenty of time to think about what was going wrong. On many different levels it seemed as if I was following all the rules correctly. I got good grades, went to a very well respected university and had a CV that most aspiring corporate climbers would kill for. So why then wasn’t I experiencing a deep sense of happiness and fulfilment portrayed in the photos of all the corporate recruitment brochures? Why did I feel so empty?

After years of considered thought, I discovered that the reason why I was so unhappy with my professional life was the fact that I was following society’s preconditioned path of success and not my own. I was trying hard to fit into the corporate world by being someone else. Deep down, the only person I really wanted to be, was me.

I Visualised My Life Not Changing.

The thing that really helped me to make the changes that I needed to make was to visualise how unbearable the rest of my life would be if I didn’t find the courage to change. I visualised what it would be like to do the same uninspired job, in the same uninspired work place, with the same uninspired work colleagues, for the next 35 years of my life. It wasn’t a pretty picture let me tell you!

The great thing about following this process was that it created a scenario in my mind that was so painful that it propelled me to do whatever it took to make the necessary changes.

So how do you know if you’re on the wrong path?

As a society we are conditioned to look to external sources for guidance on what we should be doing with our lives. We are conditioned into mistrusting our own intuition. But when it really comes down to it, the best and most effective way to find out whether or not you are on the wrong path is to look deeply inside yourself.

Taking this kind of approach will take a lot of courage, particularly if you have spent any length of time masquerading as someone else as I had done. Not only that, the answers that you find may not be exactly what you want to hear either. But stick with it. It will be worth it.

Keep pushing yourself to greater and greater levels of self honesty. Let your actions be directed by your new level of self awareness. And most importantly, surround yourself with people that encourage, motivate and inspire you to be all you possibly can be.

Did you ever hear about that trial of flashing subconscious messages on a cinema screen that reportedly improved the sale of coke and popcorn without the viewers made aware?

Or maybe you’ve heard about songs where there is a message that can be transmitted to the subconscious mind without the listener actually being ‘consciously’ aware of it?

The latter popular fact (or fiction) hints at paranoia but nether the less open up the concept of subconscious influencing for good or for bad. There are hundreds of things in the world today that contain influential subliminal messages. Whether they be in a natural form occurring in our upbringing or immediate environment or whether they be synthetic or custom made. Examples of synthetic attempts to subliminally (to do with the subconscious) convey messages can be found in music, television, radio, internet advertising, hypnosis and forms of meditation. Of course if intentionally used in the media it would be unsettling seeing as we are at the mercy of commercial interests. But what if we could subliminally alter ourselves in ways that we want to improve and remove weaknesses?

I’m talking about subliminal messages helping us with things such as giving up smoking or being more confident. In basic terms, a subliminal message is aimed at altering a persons’ behavior, whether it a subtle or drastic change, and you can easily control the messages sent to your subconscious mind by simply being aware of the subliminal messages and controlling them to your advantage.

In the past audio tapes have been sold with the purpose of doing just this. Only they would be subliminally stimulating material to do with popular goals people try to achieve such as weight loss, public speaking, So there wasn’t really much latitude to cater for people’s unique individual goals.

Then what methods are there to create subliminal stimulus towards what each individual wants to achieve? Well the traditional places used to hypnosis and therapy sessions, and other forms of self improvement provided in private consultation. But the expenses that go with this can limit it’s viability.

But then again why does it matter to be able to custom make messages and not tap into the available library of problem fixers and motivation starters found in tapes, CD’s and books. The answer lies in the fact that we all have different habits, different reasons why we fear success and respond differently to different words and visual stimulus.

Enter subliminal software into the frame, now that computers are as common a household appliance as the television. Most subliminal software programs allow you to input what you want to tell you subconscious in your own words(i.e. words that you” easily digest and understand. Reprogramming your mind to have the belief and optimism embedded within, eradicate the habit you’re trying to overcome and choosing the way you want your body and determination to respond to a particular object, activity or event.

It’s indeed something to get curious and excited about, and the makers of this subliminal software claim that what they offer allows you to do just that. A company subliminalpc.com promote a software product that you download called Subliminal PC. They suggest through the use of their software users are helped to improve confidence, lose weight, drop bad habits, increase positive thinking, reverse depression, jealousy, intimidation etc… Subliminal PC is not the only software of its kind out there with Brain Bullet being another example.

Perhaps the real benefit of this kind of product is you have nothing to lose seeing as it requires no extra commitment in time from the user. You literally do nothing extra and just use the PC how you normally would with the program running in the background while you’re ‘dramatically improving the way you live for the better’. Most packages on the web can be purchased at minimal cost and there isn’t much to lose now that dedicated time is taken out of the equation.

When searching for this type of product, you need to be fully aware of your budget – generally speaking, you can find the best products for around the forty to fifty dollar mark. Any more and you could be spending more than you need to – and possible more than you can afford; any less, and the quality of this mind-changing product could be questionable.

Of course a conscious effort should be made to research the sciences and technologies promoted when purchasing any product of such a nature. But it just goes to show that if we recognize that our attitude towards success and failure stems from years of subconscious altering experiences and stimulus, the answer to reaching our goals would start with training our subconscious in a positive way.

Personal coaching is a therapy that has become incredibly popular over the last six years. The term first became popular in the USA where, together with NLP aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a redesigned phenomenal wave of extremely proactive therapy models.

In many ways both Performance Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are a reaction against certain factors of the person-centred therapy movement, in particular Humanistic and Person Centred Counselling. A problem of the humanistic and person centred approach is that it is decidedly reactive and not remarkably proactive. Although all that works good with some people, with other clients long periods of impasse or low return for time and effort occur. Coaching and NLP are both humanistic in stance, spending effort on improving a clients happiness rather than jumping into the depths of childhood, as in traditional psychoanalysis. Their emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and resolve issues.

Lifestyle coaching is not about telling the coaching customer what to do. This is a common misconception. Some therapists are comparably successful in their business careers and then make the cross over to coaching, thinking that they will at most be required to divulge their pearls of stunning business wisdom with the life coaching client. This is more like mentoring an apprentice in a specific environment. Coaching is instead about life as a collective. Easily Achieve offers coaching to help you Boost Confidence.

If you have ever visited a dentist and needed any work done then you know how important dental insurance is. Something simple like getting a filling can cost one hundred dollars without insurance, if you need a root canal and a crown you are talking about money over a thousand dollars. However, how affordable is dental insurance? Can you get discount dental insurance that will cover the things that you would normally need to get done? What about special cases, if there is an emergency are you going to have to pay full price to get service? You need to find out the answer to all of these questions before making your purchase.

I have four kids and I can tell you right now that dental procedures for them if we did not have insurance would be impossible. As it stands, we have insurance through my work, and when I took my two youngest into the dentist they discovered that they both have genetic problem which prevents enamel forming on their teeth, they are just rotting away. However, even with my insurance their treatments were going to be over two thousand dollars apiece. I immediately began checking into supplemental discount dental insurance to cover the difference. It is less expensive for me to pay for another insurance than to pay for the procedures.

Blue Skies has earned an amazing popularity aimed at delivering high quality personnel recruitment services. Blue Skies Careers make sure each and every one of Blue Skies Careers’ customers can enjoy access to much of the most gifted marketing candidates in just the push of a button.

The recruitment agents are specialised for loads of various markets including marketing, public relations, advertising and sales promotion. Blue Skies Careers see themselves to be very different in comparison to other recruitment agencies; the business do ensure that they regularly enjoy a perfect interpretation of precisely what the company is researching for, Blue Skies are beloved for their skill to inform both customers and also candidates on their special demands. This stems in the fact that the company use versatile recruitment consultants who have worked within the marketing market, bringing along with them knowledge and also experience. http://www.blueskiescareers.co.uk for marketing recruitment from the Blue Skies website.

Marketing has with time become one of the most fashionable job markets to start into after university and each and every sort of further qualification. With a market like advertising it could be deeply tough to join immediately unless you have been opportune plenty to enjoy the proper contacts. This can be the reason why marketing recruitment consultants have become thus popular; their help is necessary to enter the market and also discover suitable available positions.

Blue Skies source the company candidates both offline and online via their website. The site makes it straightforward for candidates to find possible vacancies and apply instantly via the site. There are also more critical elements to BlueSkiesCareers.co.uk method and these include; Developing a clear interpretation 5 said clients needs, Providing detailed reports for all retained assignments, Delivering consistent information during the whole of the the personnel recruitment period.

The experience of working with a large number of the worlds very best businesses and also agency networks has helped the recruitment agencies to become an industry best. Blue Skies recruit by both recognised trade figures and also little independent start ups.

One thing I have learned in internet marketing is you better have more than 1 income stream or you can kiss you butt goodbye.

I learned this in a big way about 5 years ago. In 1997 I started learning the ropes of internet marketing and made a few dollars here and there. Wrote a newsletter, wrote a training course. In the old days of SFI I helped develop their flagship product Full Circle Success. I had my ducks in a row. 3 streams of income coming in. My bank account was golden.

I few years later I started working with a partner in the lead generation arena. I plunged all my energy into that company and started to let my other stream of income dwindle until they were not even generating enough money to buy a “Big Mac” at McDonalds. I was still flying high until the worse case scenario happened.

In one swoop a group of brilliant but hugely mis guided individuals struck our web server hosting facility. They destroyed our database of close to 2 million leads. Our customer database of over 1000 customers and our programming. In the process they also took out the web site and databases of 9 other poor schmucks. Plus these guys were so smart that they started corrupting the backups before they took the whole system down.

I could have died. I just purchased our new farm, our family income was depending largely on my income and whamo I had no business left. My husband was standing outside my office door when the news came over the telephone. He didn’t quite grasp the concept of the server being hacked. The tears started to roll down my face knowing that a hacked server was similar to a office building getting burned to the ground.

I said the business is gone and I would not be able to make the mortgage payments. He said, “You don’t have a choice.” Seems sort of harsh. Isn’t a husband supposed to console you when your down. Not in our case. He knew what I had done to start my internet marketing success. He knew that if I gave up at that moment I would never find success again. He knew how to push my buttons to piss me off just enough to get me started again.

Within the hour I had a partial customer list. The phone was hot from the conference calls with programmers, lead suppliers and bankers. Within 1 month the company was operating at break even. With in 3 – 6 months we were turning a profit.

You’ve come this far so I better tell you what you should learn from the tale of woe.

1. Keep more than one stream of income going at all times. The Internet is a fickle place. It changes fast and moves quickly. What is hot today could be gone tomorrow.

2. Backups and Security are crucial to your web based business. If you get wiped out by a virus or a hosting provider it is your own darn fault. Back up once, twice, thee times if you feel better. Your web host is your life.

3. Keep your head above water. You will ride many, many waves in the internet marketing game. I think that’s what attracts me to it in some sick way. I can go from making nothing one week to cutting a deal for $10,000 the next week. You are going to get kicked in the teeth my more than one venture. The key is to keep moving forward as long as you do that you will continuously run into new opportunities.