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Staging Diva’s Home Staging Tips for the Laundry Room
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| In this real estate market it’s important to romance buyers through every room in a home, including the laundry area. The Staging Diva®, shares her expert home staging tips for a basement laundry room that could otherwise scare off home buyers. |
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Lesson #2: Understand the Future and Your Place in It
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| “I’m a paper man, not electronic,” says Helu. “My children gave me a lap top for Christmas, but all I know how to do so far is push the on button.” In university, Helu studied engineering. He can process numbers and formulas at a speed impossible for most. But, when it comes to using computers and the like, Helu is uninterested. He prefers to keep to himself in the drab basement of his two-story headquarters surrounded by the paper ledgers he has been using since he was a boy. |
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Engineering Success: How Slim’s Pockets Got Fat
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| There is no one in the world quite like Carlos Slim Helu. Until his recent jump to the second spot on the Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest, he was something of a mystery to the business world. He worked in relative isolation, with no computers in the basement of his drab two-storey office building. But, his seclusion should not be mistaken for a weakness. Indeed, his power is so great, that when he did suffer a weakness in the form of heart surgery a few years back, his companies’ shares actually began to tremble. So, just how did this son of Lebanese immigrants become one of the wealthiest people in the world, and a household name across an entire continent?
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The Status Quo and Radical Ideas
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| What so many of us discuss about Africa is the desire to see things change. We apply the lenses that color our lives to the problem and come up with solutions that fit our world view. Challenges to that world view are hard for us to deal with, because it likely means a paradigm shift is needed in our own lives. |
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Feeling Ignored
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| Dear Jane,
I get lost in a crowd, like I’m invisible. I pretend not to care and I know I make things worse by dressing in drab clothes. But I feel like I don’t matter to anyone. What can I do short of screaming, “Here I am! Pay attention to me!”
Being ignored—not feeling special or valued—is one of the most hurtful experiences to endure. Unless we’re so Britney Spears-like famous that we lose all privacy, I think all of us have felt invisible and ignored.
Given that the way you dress reinforces your pain, it’s likely that you have an old belief that you are unimportant. |
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Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
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| You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold? |
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How to Analyze a Competitor’s Website
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| Competitors' websites, if analyzed properly, can give you all sorts of information that you can use to increase the traffic and the popularity of your site. Here is an article on how to analyze a competitor's website. Start off by identifying the major players. A good place to do this is Yahoo’s directory. It is good to view the major players in similar fields to your own so that you have a better view of your web site as perceived by others. |
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Magic Happens When you put on a Different Pair of Glasses
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| How we experience life depends on our point of view, our attitude. And our attitude and view is colored by our lenses of past experience, judgment and so on. How differently might we experience our life if we changed our "glasses" more often? |
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Hidden in Plain View
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| Why is your life the way it is, and not the way you would like it to be? The answer to this question is hidden in plain view. Before I give you the "plain view" answer, please allow me to explain something that will help you to understand your life better.
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The Importance of WhistleBlowing
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| Whistle blowing. While some may view it as “snitching”, others may view it as bravery and a dedication to proper ethics. In this issue of Astronology, we take a look at the importance of whistle blowing, along with the positive and negative benefits from it. |
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself before Investing in a Home-Based Franchise Business
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| As families continue to face rising commute costs, grinding traffic jams, and drab or dispiriting office environments, they are increasingly looking to home-based franchise opportunities as a possibility. However, while certainly attractive on the surface, working from home is simply not for everyone. There are several key questions you must ask yourself (and answer honestly!) before deciding to invest in a home-based franchise opportunity. |
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