Setting weekly goals for your article writing could prove more useful than daily goals. The thing is that no matter how noble our business goals may be, life gets in the way sometimes, we are not living to work after all-we should be working to live, ideally. So where as it could be really fine and dandy to have your schedule finely tuned to enable you write everyday, it just does not always happen that way. The good news, however, is that with weekly goals you could still achieve your desired output, often more flexibly.

I found that to be true in my own case. I once set for myself the goal of writing two articles every weekday, and engage in other forms of writing on Saturday and Sunday nights. However, I discovered that there were days during the week when I wrote a lot more than two articles, whereas on a few other days I may not write at all.

It turned out that there were days when I was ‘in the spirit.’ On such days I rolled out one interesting article after another-effortlessly. But on off-color days, I seemed to labor just to get one article going. Fortunately, those off-color days were always fewer that the days I wrote well. And that gave me an idea: rather than aim at 2 articles every weekday, I decided to target ten or maybe even twelve articles for the entire week. And it worked!

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Walk by Faith not by Sight

Every morning I grab my coffee, turn on one of my favorite worship CD’s, open up The Word and wait upon the Lord. So few days ago I heard the Lord say “Don’t let what you can’t see keep you from my promised treasures that exist”.

“What”? I prayed. “Lord I do have faith in what you have promised me.” As I prayed that the Lord brought to my memory the words I had been speaking to myself just a week earlier. I doubted the promise, I was giving up, even questioning the gift God gave me. I sit here in my mid 40’s and it still had not happened. I had lost my faith!

A friend of mine says that “Faith is taking God at His word! It’s that simple, Right?

Well it wasn’t for me. I know God placed this dream or treasure in my heart when I was a child. However, I still had not seen evidence of it; therefore, I doubted that it even existed.

The Lord showed me we are in a fierce war that is a continuous struggle for our faith. Satan is determined to destroy the faith of Gods beloved. The stronger your faith is the greater Satan’s attack will be against it.

When our faith is shaken, shattered or lost, we become weak and turn to the world for something we can make happen. Just as Abram and Sarai did, I absolutely love this story.

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Finding time to reduce stress repays you with greater focus, energy and creativity. Don’t wait another minute to exercise your power to increase your pleasure!

Stress Reduction Technique #1: Setting boundaries: Make this a game. Every boundary you set that wins you time ‘earns’ you that amount of time for something you truly enjoy. For example, by checking your email only once a day, how much time will you save? Dedicate those saved minutes for a time treat, something you enjoy that fits within that time frame. Make a list of time treats in advance, and reward yourself immediately after each success. You will be pleasantly surprised how much easier it will be to set boundaries when you know you’ll benefit right away! Do this daily for a month to establish a healthy habit.

Stress Reduction Technique #2: Glass half full: For a new twist on cultivating optimism, buy a set of small note cards. At the beginning of each day, jot a quick thank you note to someone who has brightened your life in some way. You will relive the kindness as you write about it. And you maintain healthier connections when you let people know you appreciate them. To further enhance this powerful exercise, use ‘dead time’ (while waiting at a stoplight, for example), to think of people you’d like to thank. Focus on the sending out. If you get a response, consider that an extra!

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Dating advice columnist and author Lisa Daily can tell you why he didn´t call, the color you should never wear on a first date, and even where to snoop for evidence if you think your guy´s been fooling around. Millions read her dating advice column or tune in to see her every week on Daytime, and the early buzz on her debut novel Fifteen Minutes of Shame says it pops with the same signature quirky humor and fresh, irreverent voice that made her dating advice book, Stop Getting Dumped! a bestseller.

Women from 16-60 flock to Lisa´s popular Dream Girl Academy at the Learning Annex in New York City and events across the US. Lisa is a dating coach, speaker and popular media guest — she has done more than 2000 interviews on top radio and television shows, including iVillage Live, MTV Live, Entertainment Tonight and top UK national morning show, This Morning, and she appears as a real-life dating expert on the HITCH movie DVD starring Will Smith. A frequent source for reporters, Lisa has been quoted in hundreds of publications, from the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men´s Health, Christian Science Monitor and US Weekly Magazine.

We had a chance to interview the new author of the bestselling book, Fifteen Minutes of Shame (Plume/Penguin, March 25, 2008) and to find out more about this dynamic author whose books keep us yearning for more!

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Kansas City, MO is the home to the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs football team. With a capacity of over 79,000 seats, Arrowhead Stadium is the place to be during the fall in Kansas City. How did the Kansas City Chiefs football team get its start? Here are some interesting background facts on this popular team.

The Kansas City Chiefs actually began as the Dallas Texans of the AFL. Owner Lamar Hunt later moved the Texans to Kansas City in 1963. The Dallas Cowboys were already in Dallas and the area just couldn’t support a second professional football team. After moving the team to Kansas City, Mr. Hunt was looking for a new name for the team. The mayor at the time the Chiefs moved to Kansas City was nicknamed “Chief”. Lamar Hunt took the nickname and renamed the Texans, the Chiefs.

The Chiefs have been a successful franchise over the years. They have made the playoffs 14 times. In 1967, the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in the very first Super Bowl. Even though they lost the game 35-10, the Chiefs are proud to have been a part of history. Later, in 1970, the Chiefs again reached the Super Bowl and this time they defeated the Minnesota Vikings to become the world champions. That was the last time the Kansas City Chiefs have been to football’s Super Bowl.

Over the years the Chiefs have had many Hall of Fame players on their roster. Here are just a … Continue Reading ...

Horoscopes are read by majority of people to find out what the future holds for them. They feel more empowered to deal with the unknown when they are mentally prepared to face those circumstances.

Horoscope for the native is prepared by using the position of the planets and stars with relation to one another, at the time of the native’s birth.

When writing general horoscopes for a number of people, Sun signs are taken into consideration. Such horoscopes give you a general idea of what kind of personality you have and predict significant events in your life.

Earlier, one had to be in the presence of an astrologer to find out what the future held for them. It was not feasible to check what the day would be like, as astrologers would only predict some of the major happenings in the native’s life.

Today, thanks to technology, one can read their horoscope on the smartphones by downloading apps that are very easily available on the internet. While many of these apps are paid ones, there are plenty of good apps that also provide free horoscope readings at the touch of the fingers. These horoscopes give daily, weekly, monthly and yearly predictions.

Daily horoscopes are updated on a daily basis and reading it at the start of the day can help one be prepared to face the day in a positive manner. An added charm to them is that these are free horoscopes.

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