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Choosing the Right Program for Tax Return Preparation and Filing
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| In recent years every aspect of our lives has been transformed by technology. Just as Google and Online Shopping have become part of our life, preparing and filing Tax Returns is no exception to the internet revolution. Almost 75% of individual tax returns are paperless and received by the IRS through the electronic filing (E-file) service and $180 Billion in tax refunds is paid electronically through direct deposit. Paper Returns are quickly becoming a thing of the past, but there is still the difficulty of choosing the right tax program and getting maximum tax refund from the IRS with peace of mind. |
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Inspiration for troubled times
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| In troubled times we all need some inspiration to lift us out of the hole we may find ourselves in and give us hope for the future. Words of inspiration shine a light in the dark corners of our mind and dissipate the fearsome shapes and shadows our imaginings have created. |
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Worklife harmony are you on the treadmill
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| Measure, harmony balance.. Simple to say but what does it mean? To achieve and maintain it is difficult today. How will lack of it affect you? |
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All Work-No Life? Organize for Productivity, Profit and Peace-of-Mind (Part 1)
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| Pain, stress, burn-out, information fatigue and severely eroded work-life balance. These are just some of the syndromes caused by our technologically accelerated society. In this introductory part of a series of articles we ask whether there is any hope of ever restoring sanity to our “crazy” world. |
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Learn to Organize - Learn to Live
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| Why is it that "9:00 to 5:00", regular vacations, playing with the kids, reading for enjoyment and the likes are no longer in our vocabulary? Why is it that more often than not it seems like it's all work and no life? Is it just the sign of the times or could our problems, possibly, be self-inflicted? |
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Time Management & Productivity: Can You Really Manage Time?
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| Time Management is an oxymoron. We can't manage time. Time moves at a relentless, constant pace. Productivity and time are closely related. If time can't be managed, how do we increase productivity? This article offers a radically different view of "time management". |
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What If YOU Were Front Page News? Four Steps to Freedom from Secrets
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| Tips to achieve peace of mind and freedom from secrets |
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Enjoy Debt-free Living!
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| In tough times the truly tough and frugal get tougher. By avoiding debt, they reduce worry and stress, maintain peace of mind, consistently maintain great credit reports, and save thousands of dollars not lost to high interest rates. Read on to discover key issues you can address to gain and maintain a debt-free life. |
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Lesson #5: “Work and live to serve others.”
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| “Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can,” advised Sarnoff. “This is happiness.” |
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David Sarnoff Quotes
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| David Sarnoff Quotes |
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Give Clients What They Really Want
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| Build real personal relationships with your clients--so they'll reveal to you what they really want, what could really drive their decision but can't be written in an RFP. |
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Forget the Planner - Get a Plan!
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| When was the last time you took a vacation—not just a weeklong getaway to a luxury resort on some remote island, but actual time off from your job to do whatever you like? If it’s been longer than you can remember, you’re not alone. |
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Making the Time
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One time we were keeping Timmy, a young cat with a long, fluffy tail for our granddaughter, Sunshine. Somehow he went missing and we spent a considerable amount of time and energy looking for that cat before he was found. That’s typical. Most people pull out all stops to recover a pet or a treasured relationship. We would “do anything” to change some things or to have them back. |
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What Is Success?
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| Very frequently I'm asked to give my definition of success. Here is one of my responses: I believe success is getting a reasonable number of the things money will buy and all of the things that money won't buy. (People who say they're not interested in money will lie about other things, too!) |
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Don’t Just Spend Time; Take Time
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| There’s always something to do, right? Somewhere to be. Someone to meet. Commitments to fulfill. We all have our reasons, but the one thing we need to ask ourselves is this: is this really taking me toward my idea of success? |
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Finding Success In Any Economy - Network, Add Value, Learn!
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| Choosing the right focus and setting the right priorities now can be the difference between success and failure. While we cannot control a lot right now, there are areas we can control and impact. Choosing wisely will contribute to our success and our peace of mind. If you want to grow in this economy, you need to learn from those that are experiencing the success you desire. Where are they spending their time and efforts? Expanding their networking, adding value to their clients, and making sure they prioritize their own personal development. |
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Taking a “Processing” Break
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| What do I mean by processing? Evaluating, judging, blaming, comparing, worrying, 'trying hard' to think one's way out of a problem, analyzing, getting caught up in the why’s - all are ways that, as humans, we can process with our minds. |
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Reasons To Have Your Own Personal Development Plan
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| One purpose of having your own personal development plan is to have a map to show you where you are as far as self-awareness and self-growth are concerned. Many individuals found inner peace upon completing their development plan. |
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Beer is Good & People are Crazy Not Starting a Work From Home Business
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| If you ask me I think all people are crazy for one reason or another. I am the craziest with a work from home online business, doing internet marketing, people tell me I am crazy all the time. I just say "thank you" and actually relish the fact that I am not normal. I am never content. Now don't get me wrong, I live a life of gratitude and am blessed with good health, the greatest wife, family and friends. I am talking personal growth, it is never ending. |
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Home Stagers and Liability Insurance
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| Expert home stager, Staging Diva, offers advice to home stagers concerned with obtaining liability insurance for their business. |
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5 Ways to Get Your Business Organised For Christmas
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| If you’re unprepared and don’t get your act together early enough, you can find that you can lose golden opportunities to increase business because you’re so stressed out trying to keep up. You know what happens at this time of year? Everyone seems to want everything done by the third week in December. |
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Financial Peace: Living from the Inside Out
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| Financial peace is possible anytime, regardless of the amount of money we have. Our awareness of sufficiency frees up our focus to see opportunities for growing what we have. If we believe there is enough and are grateful for what we have, we feel empowered to contribute and serve the needs around us, which is always what increases our earning power. |
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Are you believable?
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| Being believable is not just getting people to follow you - it's also their willingness and peace of mind during the process. Being believable is easier to achieve when you truly believe in what you are selling - so sell something or be a part of a business that you truly believe in. |
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Establishing Your Work At Home Business Hours Of Operation
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| From day one, establishing your work at home business hours of operation are key to a successfully run enterprise. Your clients need to know when they will be able to reach you. Most importantly, you need "off time" established for your own peace of mind. You will not be doing anyone any favors by working overtime, stressing yourself to the max, and taking your workload "home". |
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The Groovy Mermaid Finds Treasure In Legitimate Work From Home Opportunity
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| While more and more people find themselves with time on their hands, they are taking a more innovative approach to the unemployment problem, and are deciding to work from home. This can be quite a nerve-racking endeavor, and along with all the other unknowns in the entrepreneur arena, there is also the added anxiety over finding a legitimate work from home opportunity.
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Position Yourself as a Leader
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| To be a top-performing sales professional, you must be a great leader... |
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How to Lead the Masses
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| A Leader's Guide to the Galaxy - Part 2 |
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9 Reasons To Chose an Online Payroll Service
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| Online payroll solutions can quite often be a better option for small business payroll. Clients can get more convenience and control from an an internet payroll company. |
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Constipated by information
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| I confess, like most sales people I do not like - no I hate - paperwork and administration, because in my experience most of it is unnecessary. |
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Keep up with online shopping trends or risk becoming irrelevant on the web
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| The steady rise of online shopping is creating new oceans of opportunity for ecommerce websites and e-retailers. The dual factors of consumers’ online savvy and their fear of online fraud and identity theft create unique demands of the web retailer. And even if your business is not set up for online shopping, there are valuable lessons to be learned from online consumer experiences and feedback. |
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Are Customers begging you for discounts?
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| When a customer begs you for a discount you can simply reply with yes or no, or you can employ a strategy to address the request and reposition your offering in a more valuable light. |
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Recession-Proof Your Mind (Part 2)
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| What is a recession? Does it really mean that times will be tough for the entrepreneur? Learn the secrets to profiting during economic tough times when you recession proof your mind. |
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Who Is Responsible For Your Choices?
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| Who is responsible for your life - your career - your choices? That may seem like a silly question, but often there is a victim mentally from people who choose to blame others. The others may be your parents; or the spouse that left you broke and broken-hearted. The other to blame for your hardship might be an employer who let you go for whatever reason; or a friend who betrayed you; or whatever calamity you choose to blame on another.
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A Modern Hermit
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| Jan Opdyke gave me her story of living alone as an entrepreneur, deep in the woods of Michigan. She not only poses as a model for a way to live and work, she also is the person who typed my Ph.D. dissertation back when we were classmates at The University of Michigan. The year was 1977. Without her help, I could not have gotten my doctoral degree on time. |
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Group Insurance Benefits – Get Expert Advice to Avoid the Traps
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| Ask any business owner and they’ll tell you that the cost of medical and related insurance for their employees is one of their largest expenses. Every business owner is looking for the best coverage at an affordable cost. In this article, we discuss tips for deciding on the coverage you want for you and your employees and for making sure you get the best plan at the lowest cost. |
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Hottest Small Business Opportunities For The Summer
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| Thinking about starting a summer business? Embarking on a business journey during the summer is a great idea for students, graduates, moms and retirees. Here are a couple of hot small business franchise ideas that would thrive during the coming summer days. |
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Home Business Expert: Demystifying Visualization & Meditation
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| There is a lot of mysticism, devotion and religion that has become attached with visualization and meditation over the years but let us not go into all that here. Leaving the religious aspects out of this, let us take a look at whether meditation and visualization can still benefit the professional, particularly the small business entrepreneur. And if it really can, let us find out exactly how this happens. |
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Where You Look Is Where You Go! True or False?
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| Why do so many people blame their circumstances for their unhappiness or lack of success. The truth lies between their ears. This article highlights the incredible power of recognition and appreciation as tools for changing the circumstances of our lives. |
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When Does Training Become Learning?
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| Have you ever been in a situation that was so difficult you could not wait for it to be over?
Learning happens when you experience every moment to the fullest, without dwelling in the past or anticipating the future. I learned something about the meaning of training and learning from an ancient Sufi tale called, Fatima, the Spinner and the Tent. |
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The Fearful FLSA Audit
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| In this issue of Astronology, we take a look at the Department of Labor audit, and the steps you can take in order to avoid one. |
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Plan for Success
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| The new year is such an exciting time for businesses. Owners normally find themselves rejuvenated after the holidays and ready for an even BETTER new year. The desk gets cleared, the blank pages come out, the pen is poised and the first question that comes to mind is, “where do I start?”
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Living the Balanced Life
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| Family life is always in flux, and sometimes these changes can be subtle, or take place over time. It is easy to say that we all need to achieve balance in our lives, but it can be hard to do-especially when we think balance means spending equal time in each area of life. Mothers can't comprehend how to achieve balance with just one child, let alone three or four. Likewise, career people often feel that they are too busy to achieve balance-that their job controls too much of their time.
Once you know your Core Desires and understand what balance really is, you'll more readily attain it. A balanced life should be the kind of a life where you have achieved a high level of harmony and satisfaction in all areas-at the same time. |
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5 Holiday Tips to Get Organized & Energized this Holiday Season
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| Get organized and energized with five practical holiday tips that take you from making your list and checking it twice to joy, laughter, and meaning this holiday season. Read on to get organized fast and get things done.
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Productivity and Power, Freedom, and Peace of Mind
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| You might ask what Power, Freedom, and Peace of Mind have to do with productivity; and that is a good question. We usually do not relate Power, Freedom, and Peace of Mind to productivity. We might assume that Power, Freedom, and Peace of Mind could be the result of being very productive. Having done Mission Control and being trained as a Mission Control coach I am going to elaborate in the following article on the connection between the above state of mind and productivity.
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How to Say It Quickly and Still Make Your Point
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| You've prepared for a meeting and when you get there, the time for your presentation has been cut in half. Or even more. How can still make your point and reach your goal, while appearing unperturbed and in control? |
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The Greatest Depression
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The economy is bad. Nobody is buying homes. The recession’s coming. Every time you turn around Economists predict doom and gloom. That’s enough to get you into a great depression, if you let it.In this article Billy Cox gives you specific action steps you can take to guard your mind from the negatives and keep clearly focused on the results you want to achieve.
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Tapping Into Intuition
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| Tapping into intuition goes way beyond stress management. Read the article and dream a little dream with me. You could change your life in a flash of intuition. |
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One Simple Way to Make Marketing Easier
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| As a business owner your work environment is intertwined with your effectiveness. It is critical to be able to find things quickly and easily and make use of what you have (but may have forgotten about). |
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An old refrigerator will show you how to INCREASE YOUR PROFITS
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| INCREASE YOUR SALES IMMEDATELY
When you are selling to your customer talk to them about the benefits. Never talk about the features unless you talk about the benefits too. |
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3 Deadly Mistakes that Can Kill Your Ecommerce Website
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| If you've been doing business online, but haven't been getting the sales you'd hoped, there could be several reasons why. In this article, you'll learn about the three major "sales killers" that can cause your ecommerce website to lose money - and what to do about them. |
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Howling Dog
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| If you have made a poor choice of employment do something about it. For your own peace of mind do something! Anything is better than remaining in an unpleasnt situation. It is, of course, a different story if your current employment is necessary because of the economic situation. there is not much that can be done about this in the short term. You may have to put up with employment that you would not normally choose or which is possibly unpleasant. Internalise the fact that this is a temporary situation. |
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Renter From Hell: What Every Landlord Should Know
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| Owning a rental property can be a profitable investment. However, there are certain pitfalls which should be avoided when choosing a prospective tenant. Read this article to find out more. |
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Get Rid of the Toxins in Your Life
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| Negative energy can pull you down faster than anything else. If you have negative people in your life, you need to get rid of them or, at the very least, insulate yourself from them. |
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
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| Your life can be compared to the garden in your backyard. What are you growing in your garden of life? |
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Poor Chicharron Vendors Expand Their Business
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| Feliza and Margarita - Bolivia |
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