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The processing of waste has been around for some time, but today family members are taking a more important approach to there recycling. With talks swarming around about green house emissions and global warming, families everywhere are trying to reduce the effects that they are each having on the environment. The best help has come from awareness; the greatest awareness has been from education. Education through media, and in our class rooms, with environmental sustainability being a hot subject matter taught in our classrooms.
The world is being educated, people everywhere are learning. I know this for a fact, even people as far away as Southern Africa, a country called Swaziland. Swaziland is one of the smallest African continents. Even here, I saw evidence of the education worldwide.
This company has had this ingenious idea of making goods through recycled products. They get people in the nearby villages to collect the recyclable material; in this case glass products, namely bottles, in turn the company sponsors the local schools, and employs people from the local villages, which creates employment. Not only is it helping with keeping our world clean and tidy, it is instilling awareness about the environment.
The company in question makes the most amazing hand blown sculptures through recycled glass products. The company itself organizes clean up days in the nearby regions. Where adults and school children alike, are encouraged, to collect the recyclable glass products. The awareness this creates is not only encourage able it’s a valuable lesson to all.
Once the glass is collected, it then goes through a process, firstly the glass is crushed, and then it is melted down, in these large gas-fired, furnaces. When they glass has been melted, the artisans then blow the glass into amazing shapes to make these very attractive products. They use a combination of hand, and mouth blown techniques to create the individual designs. The artists create many products, which all have a very African theme. This is amazing to observe.
Their designs include glass animal figurines and sculptures. These gorgeous African animals: elephants, hippos, giraffes and lots more, come in all sizes, from very small to quite large. The artists also make intriguing bottle stoppers, vases, and glasses. Each item is unique and has its own individual character; no two items are the same. If your ever in Swaziland you can take a tour of the company, and watch these amazing artisans create these spectacular glass sculptures.
Buying the perfect gift for someone can be a difficult task. Looking for something that speaks sentiments can be hard to find. These sculptures captivate you. They speak volumes, not only are they outstanding workmanship, but the whole message that comes with each individual sculpture, the awareness of communities supporting each other, the valuable lessons to regions as far away as Swaziland on environmental awareness. This is something that needs to be recognized and encouraged.
This great wide world would be much better off, if more businesses took a more environmentally friendly approach.
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The reception is one of the most significant areas in a hotel. This serves as the face of the hotel’s interior, where the guests first see the physical interior of the hotel as well as first experience the hotel’s service.
This is why, it is indeed necessary for hotel owners to make sure that their hotel’s reception area is done right. A badly done reception area can easily send potential guests rushing to the exit door while the exact opposite will make them look forward to their stay.
One of the things that make up a good reception area are the pieces of furniture in it. Tables, chairs, reception counter, couches and so many more contribute to the overall appearance and efficiency of this area.
For this reason, it is important that you are able to find the right pieces of furniture that will make guests feel that they have come to the right place.
In the quest for finding the right kind of reception furniture, the question of whether form is more important that function or function more than form will always enter your mind at some point.
Somehow, it’s hard to weigh which has more value. Some will contend that form is more valuable since it is the physical appearance of the furniture that will attract and draw guests to go inside your hotel. While others will argue that function is the way to go since the efficiency of the furniture will make guests come back to your hotel again and again.
But if you really think about it, the reason why it’s hard to decide which bears more weight is simply because they are just equally important. Both form and function serves vital purposes that will make a piece of furniture a worthy investment.
What is form without function? And what is function without form? Truly, the two aspects work hand in hand to provide the guests with the right kind of service that your hotel stands for.
When purchasing tables, chairs and couches to be placed in the reception area, put yourself in the guests’ shoes and imagine what you will feel if you encounter furniture that has either of the two aspects missing.
For example, you may find this stylish couch very pleasing to the eyes, but you will be horrified to discover that it is bound to give you a backache because it is very uncomfortable to sit on.
While on the other hand, a dirty and hideous couch can easily turn you off and force you to make a mental note to book a different hotel next time. In your mind, you could be thinking that the bedrooms are probably worse.
So in order for you to make sure that the guests will feel comfortable and welcome in your hotel, opt for pieces of reception furniture that will not only please their eyes and give off an inviting atmosphere but also provide paramount comfort and coziness.
As with the aspect of form, it is important that you look for pieces of furniture that complement the theme of the hotel as well as go well together. With this tip in mind, buying furniture that will not clash with the color and design of the reception area and buying them in sets are the sensible things to do.
With regards to function, make sure you only opt for high quality brands that will assure you of durability, comfort and safety all at the same time. Examine and check the parts of the furniture before buying and try them yourself to see if they will indeed do good service for your guests.
Finding the right pieces of hotel furniture is one of the most significant steps you have to take into the ladder of success for your business.
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I think having a wine gift storage would be a great idea because you won’t have to be in rush for purchasing your close one a present. Also its better if you already know when is your best friend’s birthday and his/her wine taste too. There is wide variety of gifts like books, movies but I prefer wine. It’s a fancy, on budget gift with a nice wine bag or box suitable for any age range. Keeping 7-8 different bottles of wine on hand is perfect.
Which Wine to Give
You don’t have to be a wine expert or a sommelier to give perfectly suitable wine. The point is to know a few key things about wines. My suggestion is combination of red, white and a Rose.
White Wines gift
Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, or a Riesling can be your choice for white wine gifts. Chardonnays are world wide popular. Depends on the winery, may have a hint of butter, melon or citrus, they have a sweet taste. Sauvignon Blanc is good for a little more acidic taste and an insinuation of apples, pears, and grass. Reisling is a medium wine between sweet and acidic. So depends on your best friends taste, you can select the right one, Sweet, acidic or neutral.
Red Wines Gift
Red wine gifts can run the range from Merlots to Shiraz. I like Merlot, Zinfandel, or a Pinot Noir. I do like Merlots because they have very light and smooth with mixture of herbs and berries. Zinfandels, on the other hand, are hearty and are the ideal with pasta and pizza, an Italian style. The Pinot Noir as a red wine gift is hard to beat. Usually Pinot Noirs have flavor of tea leaves, plums, or cherries.
Blushes or Rosé
A good Rosé or Blush completes wine gift stash. Roses are very popular and have reputation of going with just about anything. So a decent wine gift basket would be complete with them. Blushes are festive and light and feel almost as celebratory as sparkling wines.
So I guess, there is a point to start. There is an idea to come up with fancy, nice gift. Now when your neighbor fixes your car and doesn’t take any money for that, or when all of a sudden remember it is your best friend’s birthday, or the neighbor’s wife procreates and you like to show your sympathy. You go to your gift storage, pull out the wines stash pick suitable bottle of wine, a wine gift bag, and a gift tag and you good to go.
Not only wine is a high class, portable gift, it can be the main piece of a gift basket combine with the pasta, pizza, cheeses, breads, and even chocolates. You can customize creatively your wine gift basket for any special occasion is nearly as satisfying for the giver as the receiver–even more so, if they offer to share. How beautiful is that.
If you need more tips and information about wine gift, you may want to have a look at my wine gift website.
Bankruptcy is a process governed by federal laws that will cancel many of your debts through an order of the court. It does not cancel ALL types of debt, however, and that is important to note before filing – if the bulk of your debt is unable to be canceled, will it really help you or simply cause your credit score to take a further dive and continue to haunt you for at least 7 years, if not more?
For creditors, when their debtors file bankruptcy, they are given a chance to get a portion of the money that the debtors are obligated to pay back, as designated by the court. If debtors do file for bankruptcy, creditors must immediately stop attempts to collect the debts which provides temporary relief and a period of less stress for the majority of individuals filing for bankruptcy, but it doesn’t stay for long! After a bankruptcy is filed, you’ll find it difficult, if not impossible, to gain any kind of credit for several years; your employer can let you go or a new employer can refuse to hire you based on your bankruptcy; and it can be difficult to find a place to live if you don’t already have a home.
Sell Your Stuff
The first thing you can do if you find yourself on the brink of filing for bankruptcy is to sell your “stuff”, otherwise known as your assets. Yes, this hurts, but if you go through with a bankruptcy you can pretty much say goodbye to everything you own anyway.
If you have a car loan, try to turn the vehicle in and get something used and without a car payment. If you already have a car without a payment, consider selling it if it’s worth much; and buying a less expensive car and using the rest of the money to apply towards bills. If possible, go down to one vehicle for the family for awhile.
If you have a mortgage and a home, consider selling the home to live someplace less expensive.
Sell any belongings you don’t NEED that can give you some much needed money right now and apply all money from the sale of items to your debt.
Increase Your Income
You may temporarily need to work more often and find ways to increase your income in order to relieve some of the money pressure you’re experiencing. This may include getting a night job if you work during the day; working weekends if you currently only work during the week; or finding ways to earn money from home on your computer or otherwise. There are many ways to earn additional income, and you can do many of them without any investment beyond your time. Yes, working more cuts into family time, but if you realize it’s temporary and the additional money will be used to repay your debt and avoid bankruptcy, you can get through this temporary period.
Consider odd jobs for neighbors (lawn mowing, dog walking, and errand service), writing articles online for website owners who pay writers, using the experience and skills you have at your current job as a side business opportunity.
If you aren’t sure how to get business from a side business, then head out for a part time job anywhere you can find one. Don’t hold out for a “high paid” position, because all the time you spend looking can be spent making $8 an hour or so at a part time job near your home. You can keep looking for something better in the meantime, but the idea is to find a part time job to start earning extra income as soon as possible.
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You’ve made the decision to buy a waterfront home. Now, it’s time to choose a real estate agent to help you find your perfect home. Many buyers looking for waterfront property rely on the agent to find qualified properties that fit their criteria since these buyers usually live in other states. Here are seven things you should know before choosing your agent.
1. Be Sure You Hire a Professional Agent:
Many agents work part-time and hold other jobs. Now there is nothing wrong with that and many of these agents are professional. The problem is these agents are generally new and lack the experience that seasoned full-time agents have. According to national averages, most agents are out of business in 3 years or less. Many agents get in when the market is high and leave when the market is low. A seasoned full-time career agent has weathered the storms and will possess the tools and contacts to help you find a home that is right for you. Some questions you should ask your agent are:
- Ask the agents you are considering hiring how many sales they close a year?
- How many hours of continuing education they pursue each year?
- How many years they have been in business full-time?
2. Education & Training:
Being a part-time agent is very different from being a full-time agent. Full-time agents do more than just show houses and sit at open houses. They are knowledgeable in areas like construction, mortgages, home inspections, and appraisals and know how to deal with these individuals. They actively seek education in these areas to be able to effectively communicate with these individuals.
3. Certifications:
While certifications are certainly important, it’s the combination of Experience, Education and Training that make the difference in the competency of your waterfront real agent. Nothing can replace these items and choosing an agent that is knowledgeable about the local community and all its in’s and out’s can make all the difference.
4. The Home Inspection:
Most professional agents understand the value of the home inspection process. You should always choose your own home inspector if at all possible. The home inspector will be your eye’s and ear’s in determining if the waterfront home you are looking to buy is in good condition. The home inspector should produce a computer generated report with digital photos. The report should provide “Summary Pages” with specific categories like Major Concerns, Safety Issues and Deferred Cost Items, etc.
Professional agents understand that satisfied clients equate into strong referrals. This fact rings true long after the sale is closed. The last thing they want is a buyer who get’s into a home and discovers many problems that a home inspection would have uncovered.
5. How Long Has The Agency Been In Business:
We touched on this earlier regarding the agent. Now let’s look at the agency. Is the agency locally owned and operated or are they some far away “faceless corporation” where no one is monitoring and evaluating the quality of their work? If it is a franchise, is the franchise locally owned and operated. Make sure the agency will be there to stand by you long term.
6. Ask To See What Other Home Buyers Have Said About The Agent:
A professional agent will ask their client’s to for feedback and testimonials about their work. A professional agent wants to know what they are doing right, as well as what might need improvement. If the agent can’t or won’t provide client referrals, it may be a sign that you should keep looking!
7. Ask Your Lender For A Referral To A Professional Agent:
The lenders sole interest in the transaction is seeing that You get a quality home that’s right for you and your family!
Hubert Miles is the owner of Waterfront Houses USA, a network of websites dedicated to bringing buyers and sellers of waterfront homes together. Featuring waterfront homes for sale in the US and Canada.
Why is it that some affiliate marketers rake in the commissions while others make very little money, or worse yet, no money at all? Those with dismal monthly commissions are more than likely missing several key ingredients.
Here are 10 essential affiliate marketing strategies that all affiliate marketers should pay particular attention to. They include elements that will help provide your visitors with what they are looking for, help you generate trust, promote you as an authority and create community, all key components for supersizing your affiliate commissions.
1. Be Genuine with Visitors
Create content on your site that makes your visitors feel you are speaking directly to them. Speak like you are talking directly to a friend. Don’t be afraid to be a little personal or make comments that reveal you as a real person. Always remain professional but add an element of personality, keep it light, to the point and interesting. Invite questions and comments. The idea is to create a community of visitors that look to you for information and feedback.
2. Deliver content and lots of it
Search engines and visitors alike want to see content. But not just any content, keep it original, factual, fresh and interesting. The more content the better. Having content that draws readership helps to establish you as an authority in your niche and direct viewers to affiliate resources that help them find what they are looking for.
3. Write comprehensive product reviews
Don’t simply bombard your viewers with affiliate links sending them directly to a product sales page. Your visitors don’t want to be forced to a sales page; they need to be sold from a source that is trustworthy. That’s why product reviews work so well. Take the time to purchase the product you are promoting and do a careful review of what your findings are. There’s no better way to promote something than if you use it and feel the benefits yourself.
This genuine tone will come across in your review and your viewers will completely see that.
4. Build a list of subscribers
This isn’t as hard as it sounds. Simply place a sign-up form on your site and request sign-ups for your newsletter, daily tips for email course. Offer an incentive such as a free e-book or something of value to entice sign-ups. You’ll soon begin getting subscribers which lets you directly communicate with visitors on a consistent basis while developing relationships, trust and allowing for an occasional promotion now and then.
5. Create a free small report, e-book or e-course
Creating an information product related to your niche or the products you are promoting creates trust, not to mention your viewers will thank you for the tips. It also offers you the benefit of including your affiliate links within the report. Giving away something of value that is free also provides a viral effect because it can get into more hands a lot faster. You can also use this to entice sign-ups for your newsletter or opt-in form.
6. Don’t send links to your home page
Unless your home page is your sales page, don’t send visitors there. Send your visitors to specific product pages. For example, many affiliate marketers spend hours and hours creating inbound links for their site by means of link exchanges, articles, advertisements, etc., however the most common mistake they make is to direct those links to their home page.
Instead, choose the most relevant page on your site for the link back. If you happen to submit an article on how to find the best running shoes, link to the running shoes page of your site, not the main page of your shoes site!
7. Select affiliate programs with quality promotional tools
Check affiliate programs out carefully. Affiliate with programs that offer good sales tools such as articles, brandable PDF’s, personalized emails, classified ad samples and of course quality banners and text ads. The more quality tools your affiliate managers provide, the more successful you will be.
8. Get to know your affiliate managers
Send a note to your affiliate manager letting them know who you are. Ask specific questions about the products you are promoting and if there are any tips or suggestions you can offer you. You would be surprised how effective this can be. The timeliness of the response you get or the lack of it is also a good indicator of whether or not the affiliate program is worth it.
9. Review the affiliate site carefully
Have a good look around the affiliate site. Would you buy from them? How compelling is the sales page? If they have lots of third party advertisements or Google Ads on the site, drop them like a hot potato.
10. Mask ugly affiliate links
Don’t promote ugly affiliate links. Firstly, it’s an easy way for unscrupulous buyers to avoid using your link and go directly to the affiliate site whereby you lose commissions, but secondly, it’s ugly. Find a way to set up a redirect for your affiliate link or use a link cloaker for creating a more professional looking link.
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Going to college for the first time can be a very overwhelming experience. Living in a new environment, making new friends, buying your books, and this is all before you start going to class! With all these new pressures, also comes the responsibility that will last a lifetime; money management. Because you will be concentrating most of your efforts on schooling, credit cards might be a wise financial option. More specifically, you might consider a student credit card, as your first credit card. Student credit cards are a sound choice for those looking to establish a credit history while not breaking the bank. Keep these things in mind when looking for a credit card.
Look For A Good Deal
Although it may be easy for you to secure a student credit card, it’s not as easy to also get a good deal. Make sure you shop around before applying. Compare things like interest rates, whether or not the card carries an annual fee, and rewards. Remember to look at rewards and extra benefits with a skeptical eye, as nothing comes without a cost. Above all else, when you are looking for a new credit card, you must always read the terms and conditions. It’s amazing how many people don’t do this, and the end up paying dearly. Always read the terms and conditions, completely.
Low Annual Fees
If it’s possible find a card with no-annual fee. These cards are very common, they just usually do not have as glamorous of a rewards program. If you must choose a card with an annual fee, make sure you know what that fee is, and when it is charged, you do not want to be caught with your pants down.
Student Credit Card Advantages
Buy now and pay later. Although this motto can get you into serious financial trouble, a modest and responsible approach to credit cards can provide substantial buying power and freedom.
The length of your credit history is a major factor in calculating your credit score and longer histories show lenders that you are a low-risk investment. The sooner you get your first credit card, the sooner you can establish a clean credit history.
Student Credit Card Disadvantages
A major drawback to obtaining your first credit card, is that you could possibly overextend yourself. Make timely payments and never spend more than you can afford. The ease of using a credit card can sometimes make it hard to stay within your limits, just remember that everything is going on your permanent financial record.
Along with this, remember that you will now have a financial obligation on a regular schedule and must think ahead as to how you will fulfill this reoccurring obligation.
Bottom Line
The student credit card can be a great stepping stone to a prosperous financial future. The bottom line – Shop around and read all the terms and conditions, don’t abuse your credit, and make your payments on time. Follow this advice and you will be just fine.
Copyright 2008; Claire Blake. This article may be reprinted on the terms that it remains unchanged and the links stay active. Claire Blake has written numerous articles on credit management and is the first webmaster of a site that offers news and information on credit cards. If you’re looking for more information and want to fill out a first credit card application, visit her site today.
Dropshipping gives an individual the same power as a large wholesale corporation. The average eBay entrepreneur has neither the access nor the funding to sell a large variety of products online. Dropshipping companies provide individuals with the tools required to successfully level the playing field. Dropshippers give a small business access to over one million items at below wholesale prices. You only have to pay for the product once it sells and they dropshipper will ship the item directly to the customer’s doorstep. There are several steps to successfully dropshipping a product on eBay or an online store.
The Right Dropshipper For You: Try Before You Buy
The first step to deciding what you will sell is to sign up for a dropshipping membership. Luckily, most dropshipping companies offer a free trial period to test out the service. While it is important to try several dropshippers, make sure to cancel any trials you start, so that you will not be charged for a service you don’t plan to use. Many dropshippers offer special exclusives that will help you find a niche in the eBay marketplace. While all legitimate dropshippers have fees, the costs can range from fifty dollars a month to well over one hundred per month. Make sure to examine your budget and volume goals to find the dropshipper that will work best for you.
Finding A Dropshipping Product: Research, Research, Research
Deciding which dropshipping product to sell can make or break your business. In order to make money on eBay or your own e-store it is essential to do your research. This begins by finding out what actually sells on sites such as eBay. Using the eBay completed auctions tool, you can find out what products have resulted in a large profit for the seller. You should focus on eBay items that have had both a high number of bidders and ended up sell for a price consistently above rate your dropshipper charges. Once you have selected your product, simply list it on eBay for at least seven days and wait for the auction to make you money
After The Dropship Sale: Ensuring Your Continued Success
After the auction has ended for a profit and you have been paid make sure to promptly log into your dropshipper account and input the winner’s shipping information. The chief advantage of eBay powersellers is their strong customer feedback levels. In order to be successful in future auctions you must offer the customer superior customer service so they will provide positive feedback to your eBay business. As you grow more experienced, your reputation as a excellent merchant will only increase your profits.
Dropshipping: Risk Versus Reward
The secret to the success of any young business is making sure your costs are minimized and the same is true of an eBay venture. Dropshipping is unique in that you have few up-front costs and no need to purchase and store large amounts of inventory. In the end, the key to your eBay business succeeding is you. If you are willing to put forth the effort, research and the patience to see the job through, you will find dropshipping one of your greatest eBay business assets
The author has been successfully selling on eBay for over 10 years and is the founder of DropshipHQ.net, the premier resource for dropshipping and starting an eBay business. Sign-up for a free dropshipping trial at http://www.DropshipHQ.net today!
Imagine trying to climb up a mountain laden with two heavy suitcases, all your belongings wrapped around your neck and a bucket of water perched precariously on your head. You wouldn’t get very far, would you! That’s just what it’s like trying to achieve your goals and ambitions weighed down with life clutter.
Whether it’s emotional, mental or physical, life clutter gets in the way of our true potential, preventing the clarity required to recognize opportunity as it arises. It could be emotional baggage from a previous business venture that went wrong and left you feeling like a failure or a comment from childhood when a teacher told you you’d never achieve anything. Or it could be mental clutter, the daily flood of thoughts about your marriage, job or endless lists of tasks you need to achieve that go round and around in your head. Or physical clutter could be blocking your potential, from a desk that’s full of unfilled papers or three years of back taxes that still haven’t been filed or sent off.
Whatever your life clutter, it’s important to free yourself of all this baggage. If you don’t, you’re limiting the infinite amount of wonderful experiences and events that are waiting just around the corner to enter your life and help you achieve your dreams and maximize your true potential.
Clear Your Physical Space
One of the easiest ways to begin to declutter your life is to work on your physical space. If you’re trying to manifest your goals surrounded by piles of papers, drawers that won’t close properly and a mountain of files hidden underneath your desk, this clutter not only impacts on efficiency but can also create mental barriers to your success. Many people get into the habit of hoarding endless papers, memories and unused items that have no purpose other than holding onto previous experiences.
The key to decluttering your physical space is to pick an area in your office or at home and set a target to deal with the clutter for 20 minutes per day. The mountains of paperwork may seem like an uphill battle, but by allocating a small amount of time everyday to achieve a clutter free work and personal space, the sense of liberation and freedom will be overwhelming once the job is done.
Buy yourself a shredder to get rid of old bank statements, aged tax forms and files you no longer need. Recycle all your old appliance manuals for equipment long since replaced. With the endless hoards of items you no longer use, sit down and ask yourself two questions: do I actually like these things and do I really need them?
By having a physical cleanse and releasing the clutter of the past, you’ll find an immense sense of freedom both mentally and emotionally.
Cleanse Your Mind of Clutter
Two of the prime causes of mental clutter are avoidance and procrastination. Your brain can become bogged down and your mental capacity restricted with lingering thoughts of endless tasks that need doing but you never complete or even attempt. As our mind wanders uncontrolled and focuses on everything we have to do and get done, we end up setting unachievable mental lists of jobs that should not be our primary focus. This constant “mental chatter” can cause tiredness and exhaustion, draining your energy and blocking your path to success.
Added to this there’s the endless emotional anguish and pain many of us put ourselves through on a day to day basis. We deliberate constantly over how our peers perceive us or what our loved ones are thinking, often creating strong mental barriers to seeing our goals clearly.
Clearing out mental and emotional clutter helps to quiet the mind and achieve focus and a sense of calm. One of the first steps to reaching mental clarity is to write down a short-term goal list every week, setting yourself realistic targets that can be achieved. Rather than allowing your mind to wander and create ambitious lists of everything that needs doing all at the same time, by setting realistic goals each week you can prioritize the essentials, preventing sleepless nights and endless worrying about the small jobs. Otherwise if you’re constantly stressed this can reduce your productivity and leave you feeling despondent and without direction - not a good mindset for achieving your goals!
Sit down and really think about what actually needs doing. Do you really need to paint the spare bedroom this week? Does the shed really need cleaning out today? Work out what you can realistically achieve and make sure you set aside some time for relaxation and quality time with your loved ones.
Clearing your emotional baggage is a task that requires constant work and even more dedication. However if you can release yourself from the pain of emotional anguish and constant worrying about what other people think then this creates the space and peace in your mind to focus and dedicate yourself to manifesting the life you truly desire.
One of the first steps to releasing your mind of emotional pain is to analyze the way you think. Byron Katie is one of the greatest teachers of thought analysis, through her groundbreaking program, The Work. She believes that if we let our minds wander aimlessly, giving space for unquestioned thoughts to run wild we can never achieve emotional and mental freedom. Katie’s work centers on writing down thoughts that cause stress in our life and questioning whether they are really true. She focuses on how the way we think about ourselves and others can have such a powerful impact on our manifestations of success. For example, in her book Question Your Thinking, Change the World she says:
“There is no way you can’t have the best business on this planet. No one stops you but you – that’s the only possibility. Your employees aren’t responsible for your success – you are.”
Once we take responsibility for our path to success and get rid of our physical, emotional and mental baggage along the way this clears the route to achieving our dreams and removes the barriers that could be preventing our goals from becoming reality.
Thomas Herold is the founder and CEO of Dream Manifesto. The quantum method for manifesting your dreams. To learn more about creating your goals and life dreams with the Dream Manifestation Wizard software visit: The Quantum Method for Manifesting Your Life Dreams
Experts tell us that perhaps 1 out of every 10 adults suffers from some type of dyslexia. Probably 95% of these are unaware that their differences, their problems with reading and manipulation of numbers,letters and words are caused by dyslexia.
When identified, these dyslexics can be helped and taught to overcome their difficulties. They can lead normal, even exemplary lives, achieving their full potentials. So how do you identify people who may suffer from dyslexia? What are the indications, the symptoms? This article explains. Read on…
Dyslexia is a neurological condition that manifests itself as a learning disability. This disability varies widely but is generally characterized by difficulties in spelling, sounding out and recognizing words.
Dyslexia is widely misunderstood. Dyslexics are not stupid, they just have information-processing differences and difficulties. Nevertheless they are often characterized as slow learners, put in special education classes and stigmatized rather than helped to overcome their challenges.
Once identified, dyslexics can be helped to overcome their difficulties, perform at acceptable levels and lead normal, productive (often super-productive) lives. But the social stigmatization for being “different” causes most dyslexics to be ashamed of their differences and try to hide them.
This makes identification and diagnosis of dyslexia more difficult. Here are some of the prominent dyslexia symptoms that may indicate underlying dyslexia:
A school-age child with dyslexia might exhibit any of the following dyslexia symptoms:
– Avoid reading or complain about the difficulty of reading.
– Display strengths in higher-level thinking skills, such as curiosity and imagination.
– Mispronounce complicated or unfamiliar words.
– Leave out parts of words or confuse the order of parts. For example, “aluminum” could become “amulium.”
– Pause, hesitate, often say “um”, “uh” or “ah” when speaking.
– Use vague words, such as “stuff” and “things,” instead of proper names.
– Confuse words that sound alike, such as “tornado” for “volcano” and “lotion” for “ocean.”
– Need more time to form verbal responses.
– Have trouble remembering isolated pieces of verbal information, such as dates, names and lists.
– Make slow progress in acquiring reading skills.
– Guess or make “wild stabs” at words when reading.
– Rely heavily on context to read.
– Fear, dread or resist reading aloud.
– Mispronounce and substitute words when reading aloud.
– Perform disproportionately worse on multiple-choice tests than on other types.
– Spell or write poorly.
[Source of the above list: “Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level,” by Sally Shaywitz]
Most elementary schools now screen for dyslexia, looking for dyslexia symptoms to identify possible dyslexics as early as possible. This is a relatively recent practice. Adults who finished elementary school more than 15 years ago may have never been screened. In fact, 95% of adult dyslexics are unaware of their condition.
Most have developed protective mechanisms, sometimes elaborate ones, to hide their disabilities. An adult dyslexic might exhibit these types of behavior, which are frequent dyslexia symptoms:
– Avoid jobs where reading and writing is involved. They might be found employed in positions way below what their intelligence would indicate they should be qualified for.
– Avoid reading, especially reading aloud.
– Feign common problems with eyesight (”…didn’t bring my glasses.”) or other excuses for not reading.
– Avoid newspapers and magazines in favor of television, movies or other graphic media.
– Have difficulty in transcribing telephone numbers or messages received over the phone.
The presence of any of these dyslexia symptoms does not prove that the person is dyslexic, but it does indicate the possibility. If there is any doubt, if the dyslexia symptoms are strong and repetitious enough, the person should undergo a full dyslexia test. For adults this can be done online in half an hour.
Once diagnosed, dyslexics can be taught how to overcome almost all of the problems they might have. With the proper training dyslexics can overcome their dyslexia symptoms and lead normal, productive lives, living up to and achieving their full potentials.
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For more detailed information about dyslexia symptoms, dyslexia diagnosis and dyslexia testing, visit: Dyslexia Symptoms - Dyslexia Testing For information about adult dyslexia testing online, visit: Dyslexia Testing Online Jorge G. Chavez is a researcher, analyst and writer at overcoming-dyslexia.com