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do self improvement and success go hand in hand

davice — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:52:42 +0000

Success and Self Improvement go Hand in Hand or Do They

How do you know if a person is willing to work on their own self improvement? Is self improvement really important to achieving what you really want? This is a question with no definite answer. It will depend on the individual.
Many people have goals, dreams or ambitions but do not know how to go about achieving them. They may have thought about what would make up their ideal life, but they have no idea how to even begin to make the plans and take the actions necessary to make their dreams a reality.
Some people have a vague idea on how to go about improving themselves. These are the people who believe that if only they had a better job, or had been given better opportunities, or met the love of their life, or whatever else, everything would be just great and they would be happy. They seem to believe their happiness or lack of happiness is decided by external factors and what they think and do is of little consequence.
Some believe that if only they had more money they could have what ever they wanted and then they would be on their way to improving themselves.
They may have spent little time thinking about what they actually want from life, and do not really believe there is anything they can do to create their ‘fuzzy’ version of utopia anyway. That is, apart from buying more lottery tickets.
Other people do not even know what they actually want from their lives and may even have little, if any, idea of what would make them happy. They seem to just drift from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year. They seem to do little more than just get by.
They may have seemingly secure jobs and be earning enough to live relatively comfortable lives. They seem happy enough and have no great ambition to achieve anything more than what they currently have.
The reality is we are either growing as a person or we are going backwards. Nothing stands still. We are constantly in a state of flux. We are either growing and developing or we are losing ground. Circumstances can make us grow and develop but only if we make a conscious decision to change.
Up to about eighteen we learn through formal education and we can continue to learn the rest of our lives if we chose to do so. We can continue to learn from our experiences the rest of our lives. We can deal with anything that life throws at us and we can grow and change through these experiences if we so choose.
There is more competition in the job market now than ever before. Ever changing technology means that there really are few, if any “jobs for life” anymore. It is now normal for us to change jobs several times throughout our lifetimes. Some people have changed careers and industries.
Because the workplace is so competitive, people who are ambitious and hungry for more know they need to learn new skills. They know they must increase their knowledge and improve themselves to get to and stay ahead of ‘the pack’.
The people who work on their job skills and themselves will be the most likely to keep their jobs, progress in their chosen field and be easily employed in different organizations and industries.
A commitment to improve knowledge and skills and to grow personally may well be the deciding factor in how anyone’s future will turn out.
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davice — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:37:20 +0000

“The Web’s Best-Kept Traffic Secret”

- by Jim Edwards

Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a
simple technique to generate targeted visitors to their
websites without paying a dime in advertising? It’s true.

In fact, the technique works so well that many of them
don’t want you to discover how they get those thousands of
website visitors and make so many sales on virtual “auto-
pilot.”

Their method?

Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in
their ezines (online magazines and email newsletters) and
post on their websites. This method rates so powerful that
some even call it “the web’s best kept traffic secret.”

Now, you may ask, “Why would an ezine publisher or website
owner publish my articles for their subscribers?”

The answer: Content!

Over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters operate on the web
(along with millions of websites) covering everything from
pets and cooking to investments and real estate. Many of
them need tightly focused content and they simply can’t
produce all of it themselves.

Look at it this way… it’s the same reason newspapers use
the Associated Press. Individual newspapers often can’t
afford staff writers to cover every story, so they accept
articles from outside their organization.

You can do the exact same thing for various ezines and
websites catering to your niche audience!

You can get valuable publicity — exposure you often
couldn’t even pay for if you wanted to — by providing
valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline
and a link to your website (called a “resource box”)!

The following represent only a few of the enormous benefits
of writing and distributing simple articles online:

** Attain “Expert” Status **

Let’s face it! In the eyes of virtually everyone who reads
your articles you rank as the “expert” on the subject.

Just look at people who write newspaper columns. You
may disagree with their viewpoints, but they still have an
elevated status in your mind compared to the “average Joe”
off the street.

** Pre-sell Website Visitors **

If your article appeals to a niche audience hungry for more
information on a very focused subject, you actually pre-
sell them better than any sales pitch. In their minds,
you’ve already delivered content they really want so when
they click over to your site you already have a
“reputation” in their minds.

** Traffic Lasts Longer **

Even though the Internet changes very quickly, webmasters
are usually very slow to remove content from their sites.
Once you get an article posted on another person’s website,
you have an excellent chance of that article staying there
for weeks, months, even years.

** Increase Links To Your Site **

In a recent search I found just a dozen of my articles
posted on over 813 different websites! Not only do those
postings bring me traffic, but they also help my search
engine positioning because of my increased “Link
Popularity.”

** Builds Your Affiliate Base **

Fact: Affiliates always take the path of least resistance.

If you provide excellent articles they can easily post on
their sites or copy and paste into their ezines, your
affiliates will promote you more often and more effectively
compared to those who don’t give them tools.

Plus, as you make more sales and publish articles, other
people will see you providing excellent tools and will want
to sign up as your affiliate so they can use them too!

** Build a Huge “Opt-In” Email List **

You can use articles to build up a huge list of subscribers
by simply compiling several articles into a series and
delivering them at preset intervals.

Often called a “mini-course,” this technique allows you not
only to prove to your subscribers that you deliver great
information, but enables you to capture their name and
email adress so you can send them articles and special
offers in the future (with their permission).

** Requires No Special Skills **

People often think they need to be a “writer” in order to
publish articles, but that’s not true!

FACT: If you have a passion for a subject and can talk and
explain things like you would to a friend over a cup of
coffee, you can write articles people will love to read.

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of
product or service (whether your own or as an affiliate),
publishing and promoting with articles should rank high on
your list of traffic generation strategies.

No other method of generating targeted traffic to your
website provides the quality, quantity and steadiness of
traffic in such a simple, straightforward, and cost-
effective manner.

—-

Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-
author of an amazing new ebook, “Turn Words Into Traffic,”
that will teach you how to use free articles to quickly
drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or
affiliate link!
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