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Do you remember when you were a kid and every day was new and fresh. All you wanted was to wake up and get going on whatever made you happy on that morning. Then along came maturity and slapped you in the face with the belief you had to be dependable, or at the very least predictable. Magnificent dreams gave way to being a solid performer at work, a good care giver at home, and always being “a good role model”, what ever that means.

Is it any wonder that millions of people now start the day wondering if there is something more out there? Did they make the right decision when they gave up dancing for accounting? Where did the last several years go? Wasn’t this just supposed to be the job that held me over until my big break happened?

It is not too late to go find what makes you happy if you start today!

Oh I see you sitting there thinking “Right I will just walk in to the office tomorrow and quit. I’ll just pack up the kids in the SUV and head for Borneo.” If that is what it will take to make you happy then my answer is yes by all means go for it. But the reality is that probably is not what you are really looking for.

I have a hunch that no matter how thrilling that prospect sounds it will not make you happy. After a few days you will start to miss the comfort of a fully stocked refrigerator, the kids will tire of frolicking on the beach and need to be entertained, the conversation of peers around the water cooler will not seem as inane as it once did now that you are talking to yourself in your mud hut.

In all likely hood what you really long for is one or more of the following. The adventure of discovering something new for the first time, the pride in having set a goal and made progress toward it’s accomplishment, the sheer joy of helping someone else, or the rush of creating something of your very own from scratch. When you look back weren’t these things the real joys of those early years.

So how do we get them back? The first thing you have to do is find a way to carve out some selfish time just for you. It doesn’t have to be a lot just an hour or so every couple of days. Get up early, stay up late, let the laundry go one more day (you have plenty of not so dirty cloths if you look). Do what ever it takes but find that time.

Now that you have that hour what can you do?

Well for adventure and discovery how about reading a book or better yet take a class. Not something goal related either, just open the catalog and pick the first title that sounds interesting. Hmmm why not spend 1 hour a week for the next 3 weeks learning about pigmy frogs in the Amazon? Or go to that lecture at the library on Great Architecture of North Carolina? Remember the whole idea is to explore something you don’t know anything about but sounds interesting. What if you are wrong, it cost you an hour and you at least got a great story to tell about how bad it was.

Another option is to go ahead and start that project you keep putting off. The difference is this time make yourself a schedule and use your 1 hour to dedicate to the effort. True it will take years to finish that novel you want to write, but each hour you will be closer then if you sit on the couch and do nothing.

For that extra rush of adrenaline why not volunteer. There are schools, parks and recreation associations, civic and social groups that always are in need of an extra pair of hands. You don’t have to be good you just have to be willing. It is amazing how much you will get in return for giving just a little time and effort for someone else.

The bottom line is it is never too late to get started. And who knows when you are out there exploring, working on your dreams or volunteering you may find your One True Thing that brings the joy back into your life. You may even find a way to make a living at it. If all else fails there is always Borneo.

Don’t die with your music still inside you.

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We will be making a special offering for residents Huntingdon Valley Pa. this next week. The only way to recieve it is thru our email alert. See below what we recently offered:

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The Early Bird Gets the Worm—Don’t Delay Free Tree Day Jan. 28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day

Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree Day…..All members of our email club can receive a free Higan Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12′ tall and in 24″ baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th, before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per family and you must have been a member on or before January 27, 2006 of our email club.

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January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would supply us for many years of sales. But we can’t move that number of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount, destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM. Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify. There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch baskets and are app. 10-14′ tall. We will help load them in your pickup.

We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.

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Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, but those moments were infrequent. He wanted more of those moments but had no idea how to bring them about.

Randall is an extremely intelligent man, but in some ways he was using his own intelligence against himself. The problem was that when Randall did have those brief moments of true connection, he immediately went into his mind to try to figure out how it happened. The moment he went into his mind, he lost the connection that he so desperately desired.

The reason Randall went into his mind was that, as much as he wanted the joy of deep spiritual connection, he wanted something even more than that - control over that connection. Randall’s ego wounded self believed that he could control the connection with Spirit with his intellect - if only he could figure it out then he could control it. The last thing Randall wanted to do, which is what is necessary to connect with Spirit, is to surrender his thinking. Randall was deeply addicted to thinking as a way to not feel his inner experience. Thinking was his way of controlling his painful feelings, such as his aloneness, loneliness, and helplessness over others and over his spiritual connection.

Many us of are addicted to thinking. We believe if we can just figure things out we can control others and the outcome of things. We want to control how people feel about us and treat us by saying just the right thing - so we have to think about it over and over to discover the right thing to say. This is called “ruminating.” Ruminating is obsessively thinking about something over and over in the hopes of finally coming up with the “right” answer, the right thing to say, the right way to be to have control over others and the outcome of things. Ruminating is also a way to have control over our own painful feelings, which is what addictions are all about.

In my work with Randall, he would immediately go into his head and analyze what was happening in the session the minute feelings came up. Over and over I would bring him out of his head and into his body, into his feelings. His feelings were so terrifying to him that he could only stay with his feelings for a few moments before he was back into his head - explaining, figuring out, intellectualizing. He was so terrified of the soul loneliness and aloneness he felt that he had learned to avoid these feelings with his mind. Yet until Randall was willing to feel his painful feelings, which had been there since childhood, he couldn’t stay out of his head. As long as his intent was to control his pain rather than learn from it, he would not be able to move into the spiritual connection he so desired.

The purpose of all of our addictions are to avoid pain, especially the deep soul loneliness that we all feel in this society. The problem is that our disconnection from our feelings - which is our Inner Child - creates aloneness as well. Our feeling self, our Inner Child, is left alone inside with no one to attend to the painful feelings. It is only when our desire is to learn about how we may be causing our own painful feelings that we open to our inner experience. Our desire to learn also opens the door to our spiritual connection, which we cannot feel when our intent is to avoid pain with our various addictions.

It took Randall many months to be willing to feel his painful feelings, but he discovered that when he finally had the courage to feel them, it was not as bad as he thought. In fact, when he was no longer abandoning his Inner Child by going into his addictive thinking, he no longer felt alone within. Connecting with himself allowed him to connect with Spirit more and more of the time. Rather than getting there through thinking and trying to control it, he was getting there by being present in the moment with his inner experience - surrendering to the moment. Randall found that while he could not control others and the outcome of things, he actually did have control over his misery - by choosing the intent to learn rather than protecting against pain. While he couldn’t control Spirit, he did have control his own intent, which eventually led to his being able to connect with Spirit.

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Many people today simply prefer the convenience of paying by credit card. If you want their business, you must be able to accept their credit-card payments.

In part one of this series we will discuss why you should accept credit cards, and the basics of getting merchant status. Part two will deal with objections you might get, which credit cards to accept, and the check paying option.

Obtaining merchant status, which allows you to accept credit-card payments, might seem like an unnecessary hassle, especially for those in business where the majority of their customers pay by cash or check. But by not accepting credit-card payments, you lose sales. This is especially true if yours is a mail order business, or consulting business. Just look at the majority of business today, all of them accept credit cards, and becoming more and more popular all the time are debit cards.

As many businesses have found, up to 70 percent of people never mail the check, so accepting credit cards is crucial. When the customer places an order, he’s excited and eager to buy. Faced with the prospect of sending a check, waiting for it to clear and then awaiting shipment, his interest is likely to wane. In the meantime, you lose sales.

The Basics of Merchant Status

In order to accept credit cards, you need to work with a bank that will transfer the money into your account within a day or two of the sale, and then collect the money from the customer. In return, you pay the bank a commission of 1.5 percent to 5 percent for each credit-card transaction; a set, per-transaction fee; and a setup fee. You will also have to pay monthly support or equipment-rental fees for a point-of-sale terminalthe machine used to swipe the carddepending on the contract.

The fee is based on two things, the average amount per transaction and the total volume for the year.

When you apply for merchant status, the banks evaluate your business based on its sales track record, the type of business it is, your credit record, the business’s credit record and your overall financial picture.

Apply for merchant status when you get your start-up financing. This accomplishes several things. First, it shows that you’ve thought ahead. And you will probably have customers that you wouldn’t have otherwise. In fact, some people don’t pay with anything but credit cards.

Second, you show you’re taking steps to minimize the time and expense involved in recovering bad debts. If someone writes a bad check, for instance, it will cost you time and money to recover the loss. If you swipe a customer’s credit card through a point-of-sale terminal, you can be sure you’ll get paid. The machine contacts the issuing bank to authorize the transaction and runs the account numbers through a variety of fraud-protection procedures.

In part two of this series we will deal with objections you might get, which credit cards to accept, and the check paying option.

Copyright 2004 DeFiore Enterprises

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Copyright is the writer’s security blanket. It just makes you feel better to know your words are protected. I once knew a writer who was so scared his work would be stolen, he never sent it anywhere. Talk about counterproductive! But if you can understand these four simple copyright keys, you can rest easy and submit at will.

1. Create!

That’s all you have to do to copyright something: write it. You don’t have to publish
it and you don’t have to register it with the United States Copyright Office, although
there are certain advantages to registration (see below). The moment a piece is
written down, it automatically gains copyright and that copyright is owned by the
author.

2. Give Notice.

That’s when you put that little encircled “c” on the work. You can also use the word
“Copyright”, then your name and the year of first publication. For instance, this
article is “Copyright 2005 Sophfronia Scott”. It tells the world that the work is
protected so someone can’t show up in court and claim they didn’t know it was.
Speaking of court…

3. Register Your Copyright.

Again, registering with the United States Copyright Office is really just a legality.
You don’t have to do it. But you do get a few benefits for the $30 fee that are worth
considering.

Registration makes your copyright a matter of public record and–get this–if you
register and someone later infringes on your copyright and you take them to court,
you will be able to sue for “statutory damages and attorney’s fees”. With an
unregistered work you can only get an award of actual damages and profit. To learn
more on how to register your literary work go to http:// www.copyright.gov/
register/literary.html.

4. Send Copies to the Library of Congress.

Once your book is published, you’re required to send two copies to the Library of
Congress. It’s called a “mandatory deposit of published works”. If your book is
produced by a traditional publisher, the people there will do this for you, but if you
are self publishing, keep in mind that you have to do this yourself. You have three
months after publication. It doesn’t hurt your copyright if you don’t do it but,
according to the Copyright Office, “failure to make the deposit can result in fines
and other penalties.”

That’s it! Pretty simple, really, but all the more reason why it should not become an
artificial roadblock to your continuing and submitting your work. One last note: you
can’t copyright an idea. I have heard writers say they submitted a story or book
proposal and someone else came out with a book just like it, so the agent/editor/
writer must have stolen their idea. Well, not quite. It is highly likely that someone
else just had the same idea. It does happen. And yes, it is possible for someone to
steal your idea–just make REALLY sure that they have done so before you make the
accusation.

© 2005 Sophfronia Scott

Author and Writing Coach Sophfronia Scott is “The Book Sistah”. Get her FREE
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Telling a joke, can be easy, but getting your humorous point out there can be difficult. Few sites only put up jokes. But you can find an Online Article Site, which allows you to post your story or humorous article. You will be smart to send in your articles to such a site. I particularly find this to be so when telling a joke on the humor category. Generally you can tell a joke to make a point as an analogy in 50-80 words and therefore your point is made, some with as little as 25-40 words. Everyone relates with humor. But Ezine Newsletters and Online Article Submission Sites have stipulations on size of articles and do not allow for such things as straight jokes and there are really no joke sites to submit to so your jokes can get picked up all over the Internet. And even if there were you could not put a substantial byline underneath to do you any good or recruit people to your website.

You will find that if you have a story type joke that you can in fact easily add to it to make it funny, captivating, ironic and put it into a reality based setting. Here is an example of a worthy try:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Saving-SpongeBob-Using-High-Tech&id=26174

I encourage you to try a few joke or humorous articles, it will help you relax and think and people need a good laugh, as when watching TV is all to serious sometimes. Humor articles are so often overlooked and yet so often read. Think on this.

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On the assumption you do not comprehend betting house gambling, feel free to read on.

Most commonly a gaming establishment is an edifice that focuses on wagering. Here, paying customers may take a wager handling the slot machines or different games of chance. Casino games habitually have mathematically derived odds constituting them that guarantee the gambling organization grasps on to its profit over the betting devotees.

Rather a lot of betting hall games can instigate you to get dependent very swiftly. Let’s scrutinize the infamous slotmachine, a cash operated appliance with 3 or more gears which spin once a crank on the side is tugged. The appliance by and large reimburses in accord with a distribution of designs shown on the front of the machine. Lamentably, betting saloon pastimes tend to push the fantasy of influence, effectively deluding the betting devotee — the victim is challenged with make a few options, but they don’t realistically nix the customer’s long term disadvantage. That is precipitated by the gaming room not paying the full wager as expected. This philosophy is frequently found in famous casino games like seven-card stud, dice games, roulette or blackjack.

Seven-card stud poker is really an immensely fashionable casino pastime. The players, studiously guarding their either fully or partially obscured hands, place their stakes into a principal pot that is ultimately awarded to the last player endowed with winning set of cards. (As everybody knows, the shameless bluffer can win as well.)

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Just like seven card stud, blackjack too is a highly trendy casino game. A lavish amount of its acclaim is caused by the mix of chance and talent and decision making, as well as a system dubbed card counting. It is a very complicated strategy through which visitors will change the chances of the game to lend them an advantage both by betting and systematic opetations corresponding with the hands dealt.

Craps is yet another acclaimed wagering game where punters may bet on the roll of two dice. Gamesters will bet on the outcome of of one spin, or on a sequence of cycles on two dice. Contrary to blackjack, there just isn’t any conceivable bona fide winning system people could utilize to improve the chances.

Roulette is a famous game of chance; a croupier whirls a roulette wheel which contains a set of thirty-seven (applies to French roulette) or thirty eight (American or Vegas roulette) uniquely numbered pockets in which a white ball will come to a stop, thereby deciding the winning number and its connected odds. If our punter bets on a particular number which actually is successful, in other words they’ve got a lucky hand, the set premium will be 35 to 1, the original stake itself being tossed back. Accordingly in totality it’s multiplied by thirty-six.

ADAPTATION 101

Brimming with confidence, you’ve just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe’s fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. “What was I thinking? How the devil am I going to convert this 400-page novel to a 110-page screenplay?”

The answer is: “The same way you transport six elephants in a Hyundai… three in the front seat and three in the back!”

Old and very bad jokes aside, how does one pour ten gallons of story into a one-gallon jug?

In this article, we’ll take a look at this challenge and a few others that a writer may encounter when adapting a novel to screenplay form.

CHALLENGE NUMBER ONE - LENGTH Screenplays rarely run longer than 120 pages. Figuring one page of a screenplay equals one minute of film, a 120-page screenplay translates into a two-hour motion picture. Much longer than that and exhibitors lose a showing, which translates to fewer six-cent boxes of popcorn sold for $5.99 at the refreshment stand. It took the author of your source material 400 pages to tell the story. How can you possibly tell the same story in 110 pages, the ideal length for a screenplay by today’s industry standards?

And the answer to this question is no joke. “You can’t! Don’t even try!”

Instead, look to capture the essence and spirit of the story. Determine the through-line and major sub-plot of the story and viciously cut everything else.

By “through-line” I mean, WHO (protagonist) wants WHAT (goal), and WHO (antagonist) or WHAT (some other force) opposes him or her? It helps to pose the through-line as a question.

“Will Dorothy find her way back to Kansas despite the evil Wicked Witch of the West’s efforts to stop her?”

The same needs to be done for the major sub-plot.

“Will Dorothy’s allies achieve their goals despite the danger they face as a result of their alliance?”

One workable technique is to read the book, set it aside for a few weeks, and then see what you still remember of the story’s through-line. After all, your goal is to excerpt the most memorable parts of the novel, and what you remember best certainly meets that criterion.

In most cases, everything off the through-line or not essential to the major sub-plot has to go. Develop your outline, treatment or “beat sheet” accordingly.

CHALLENGE NUMBER TWO - VOICE Many novels are written in the first person. The temptation to adapt such, using tons of voiceovers, should be resisted. While limited voiceovers can be effective when properly done, remember that audiences pay the price of admission to watch a MOTION (things moving about) PICTURE (stuff you can SEE). If they wanted to HEAR a story they’d visit their Uncle Elmer who drones on for hour upon hour about the adventures of slogging through the snow, uphill, both ways, to get to and from school when he was a kid, or perhaps they’d buy a book on tape.

The old screenwriting adage, “Show, don’t tell!” applies more than ever when writing an adaptation.

CHALLENGE NUMBER THREE - “LONG-THINKING” Some tribes of American Indians had a word to describe those of their brethren who sat around thinking deep thoughts. Literally the word translated to, “THE DISEASE OF LONG-THINKING”. Quite often, lead characters in novels suffer from this disease.

“Mike knew in his heart that Judith was no good. Yet she caused such a stirring in his loins, he could think of nothing else. He feared someday he would give in to this temptation named Judith, and his surrender would surely bring about the end of his marriage!”

If adapted directly, how on Earth would a director film the above? All we would SEE is Mike sitting there, “long-thinking”. That is not very exciting to say the least. And as mentioned previously, voiceovers are rarely the best solution.

When essential plot information is presented only in a character’s thought or in the character’s internal world, one solution is to give this character a sounding board, another character, to which his thoughts can be voiced aloud. Either adapt an existing character from the novel or create a new one. Of course as always, you should avoid overly obvious exposition by cloaking such dialogue in conflict, or through some other technique. Even better, figure out a way to express the character’s dilemma or internal world through action in the external world.

CHALLENGE NUMBER FOUR - WHAT STORY? Mark Twain is quoted as saying about Oakland, California, “There’s no there, there”. Similarly, some novels, even successful ones, are very shy on story and rely for the most part on style and character to create an effect. Some prose writers are so good at what they do, that their artful command of the language alone is enough to maintain reader interest. Such is never the case in screenwriting.

Successfully adapting a “no-story-there” novel to screenplay form is a daunting task. One approach is to move away from direct adaptation toward, “story based upon”. Use the brilliant background and characters created by the original author as a platform from which to launch a screen story. In fact, if for any reason a screenplay doesn’t lend itself to screenplay form, consider moving toward a “based upon” approach, rather than attempting a direct adaptation.

Congratulations! You’re now an expert on adapting novels to screenplay form! Well maybe not an expert, but hopefully you have a better understanding of how to approach the subject than you did ten minutes ago. And if the subject still seems too daunting, you can always get professional help as outlined on our web page http://www.coverscript.com/adaptation.html

Copyright © 2004 Lynne Pembroke and Jim Kalergis, Coverscript.com

Nobody in business can fail to have noticed the recent rise in the number of coaches and consultants offering their services. But how do you go about finding a coach who will give you a return on your investment? Executive coaching might be an option for you if you are running your own business or are in an employed management role, and have aspirations to achieve more.

I would advise you to initially identity an executive coach through recommendation, or by conducting your own research on the web or in trade publications, and then request a free session to ask questions and find out more about them. Most coaches will give you some time without charge at the outset to discuss what your objectives are in beginning coaching, and to establish whether there is sufficient compatibility between you.

If there does not seem to be a connection, or if the coach feels someone else can help you more, they will refer you on to someone who is more appropriate. Only commit if you feel excited and relaxed about working with that individual - if there are any doubts, go with your intuition. We are all different and what works for your friend or colleague may not work as well for you.

You will be asked to commit to an agreed period of coaching, not to protect the coach’s income, but to give the process a fair chance of taking effect. The period will vary from coach to coach, and will depend to some extent on what you are wishing to achieve. You may find you are getting cold feet once you have committed to coaching, and feeling nervous or negative about the outcome. This is entirely natural and will disappear once you have embarked on your regular sessions.

You and your coach will decide on specific goals to be attained, but don’t worry if you have none at the start of coaching, as they will soon become evident as you think about what you want to achieve in life. Often our goals shift anyway, as we learn more about ourselves and what we want, rather than what society wants for us. You will be expected to spend time between sessions on accomplishing the goals you have set with your coach and on reporting back to them so they are prepared for the next session.

An executive coach is a sounding board who allows you to understand your own strengths and realise where your comfort zone ends and how to move beyond it. It is like having a conversation with a friend who has only your interests at heart and who can contribute to your development in a completely detached way. A friend who has no emotional investment in you staying the same and will be purely delighted, and not at all threatened, if you start to achieve more of your goals.

As a coaching client, you will be required to be open and honest with your coach and tell them what you feel is and is not working. In order for executive coaching to really make a difference to you, you must be willing to look at yourself as objectively as possible and not become defensive or upset if it becomes apparent that some of your current behaviour is not the best response to the situation you find yourself in.

You will need to be able to change your behaviour in some circumstances to see if an alternative works better. You should also be prepared for changes throughout your life and not just at work - we do not operate in boxes, and a change in one area of your life will have a knock-on effect in others. You may well find family and friends remarking on the changes in you.

Try to be as open-minded as you can about executive coaching and what it may bring you. Many people are pleasantly surprised by the fundamental improvements it can help bring about at work and home.

Andy Britnell is an executive coach who works with businesspeople in both the public and private sectors who wish to achieve better results. There is more information at http://executive-coaching-for-business-growth.com/ and you can read some testimonials at http://executive-coaching-for-business-growth.com/executive-coaching-testimonials.html

Do you know that you are emitting signals that the universe responds to? It’s like we’re all emitting radio signals that go out into the universe and match us up with anything on the same wavelength, bringing to us the circumstances and events which make up our lives.

The signals you emit are made up of your thoughts, beliefs, and the emotions that these create within you. You’re experiences tend to match what you’ve got your focus upon.

You do have the power to affect your experiences by paying attention to what you focus upon. This is where your power is. If you are focused upon the negative aspects of your experience, you will create more of the same, which you then focus on and create more of, and so on in a vicious cycle. Fortunately, this works the other way around too! If you choose to focus on the positive aspects of any experience, you will create more positive aspects you can then focus on, and continue bringing more positive experiences into your life. Even if you can only find one positive aspect to focus on in a situation that has many more negative aspects, and you keep choosing to keep your focus on the one positive part, you will soon see improvement in that situation that will give you more that’s positive to focus on. It’s a gradual, continual process. And it works!

Just because something is how it is, does not mean it has to stay that way! Just because you’ve had a lot of it in the past, does not mean you’re doomed to have more of it in the future! If you don’t like it, know that you do have the power to change it. And if you do like it, know that you can create more of it, if you wish to.

Gradually shifting your perception to include more of what you do like, opens the flow so more like it can come to you.

Over the last few years I have found many incredibly helpful resources to help anyone along the path to greater joy. Now I’m setting up a website to share these resources with others.

Wishing you increased satisfaction and more joy!

Carrie McLain

For excellent tools to support you in creating the life you desire, please visit http://www.makejoyreal.com.