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		<title>How to Use Visuals to Achieve Your Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="Visualize For Success" src="http://ryanfitpro.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/visualize.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="233" />Having visual reminders of your goals, dreams, and aspirations helps keep you focused on what&#8217;s important to you.</p>
<p>Throughout life&#8217;s daily crises, stresses, and distractions, <strong><em>visual reminders can help you remember the big picture.</em></strong> They can help you overcome challenges and move forward each day toward achieving the life you truly desire.</p>
<p>Knowing that you&#8217;re always moving forward brings a confident, peaceful feeling. You&#8217;re sure that, no matter what life brings your way, <strong><em>you will achieve the success you crave.</em></strong> This feeling is an awesome motivator to keep you going even when the chips are down, and visuals can help you get it.</p>
<p><strong>Try these ways to use visuals as a means of achieving the goals in your life:</strong></p>
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		<title>Eight Ways to Inspire Yourself and Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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<p>It can be easy to get stuck in a rut and, once you get there, it can be difficult to get out.<strong><em> But you can find inspiration for yourself and others all around you.</em></strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to remember that inspiration means different things to different people. What someone finds stimulating, someone else may find little value or beauty in. If you&#8217;re going to find your own flash of creativity, you can look for what you&#8217;re interested in.</p>
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		<title>5 Ways to Set and Achieve Your Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" title="5 Ways to Set and Achieve Your Goals" src="http://www.headachecare.com/images/goals.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="166" />We all have things we would like to accomplish in our lifetime. Often, these aspirations are dismissed as unrealistic or outside the realm of possibility. But <strong><em>you can do and accomplish anything you believe in.</em></strong> With the right attitude, you can make your dreams come true and experience the fulfilling life you were born to live.</p>
<p>With time and dedication, you <em>can</em> find a way to get to where you deserve to be!</p>
<p><strong>Use these five strategies to set yourself on the path that leads to your success:</strong></p>
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		<title>Implementation Plan of A Home Based Business Direct Marketing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While a squeeze page itself will not directly sell your product or service, it is an extremely effective method for capturing leads that you can later convert into clients through the use of other marketing techniques. The primary purpose of a squeeze page is to build your company&#8217;s direct marketing list online.</p>
<p>The most basic definition of a squeeze page is a landing page for your company website that captures the visitor&#8217;s name and email address. A squeeze page can be all that is offered on the page, or a more subtle approach is to have it as part of another one of your company&#8217;s web pages.</p>
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		<title>6 Steps To Powerful Positive Self-Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grow Yourself]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px; border: 0pt none;" title="Practice Self Talk And Positive Affirmation Statements In Your Life" src="http://www.russellsmall.com/wp-content/uploads/cat-lion-253x300.jpg" alt="" width="253" height="300" />Most people in life are in a state of constant mental chatter. We talk to ourselves, in our heads all day  long and, unfortunately, this self talk is most of the time negative. Often it  is tainted with guilt about our past or anxiety about our future. The problem with this is that this  negativity can destroy any seed of hope that we may otherwise have in  striving for our dreams.</p>
<p>Positive self-talk means purposely giving yourself positive reinforcement, motivation, and recognition- just as you would do for a friend. Congratulate yourself when you do well, and remind yourself of your abilities, accomplishments, strengths and skills. Keep a to-do list, check off accomplishments, and review your progress periodically.</p>
<p>Make self-talk work for you. What you habitually say to yourself has a very profound impact on your self-image, your self-esteem, and your performance as well as eventual success.</p>
<p>Your subconscious mind triggers physiological responses to match the pictures and thoughts that you have of yourself to make them happen. Make this work for you by keeping your self-talk positive.</p>
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		<title>4 Simple Ways to Uncover a Profitable Niche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" title="4 Simple Ways To Uncover a Profitable niche " src="http://www.drostdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/magnifying-glass.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="149" />Aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners are often misled or misguided on the topic of how to properly conduct market research that uncovers a profitable niche.</p>
<p>The path most unsuspecting entrepreneurs take is by ending up at keyword tool or database to begin their search.</p>
<p>As a keyword research expert and founder of one of the leading keyword research services on the internet, I can say with firsthand experience that keyword databases are not the first place to look nor should be even considered.  Here’s why.</p>
<p>The primary keyword databases that are currently available to the general public only give search counts on a limited amount of data that accounts for 1% &#8211; 2% of the actual searches people do around the entire world.  They can only <em><strong>predict</strong></em> the real majority of searches that are being done on the big five search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL and Ask.com which hold 97%-98% of the keyword data.</p>
<p>Most importantly, keyword research only shows what keyword phrases people are using in the search engines to search for answers, not what people actually buy on the internet.  Just because a group of people search for specific terms or brand names does not mean that’s what they purchase.  That’s a key distinction many entrepreneurs and business owners tend to gloss over.</p>
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		<title>3 Most Popular Ways of Earning Income Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" title="3 Most Popular Ways of Making Money on the Internet" src="http://blogicthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sexy-Girl-With-Money-hoobycash-com-300x295.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="207" />Do you know that 95% of the people starting out in their internet businesses fail?</p>
<p>In the middle of all the noise and hype on the internet today, not many people realize that all the ideas and techniques you can find are useless if you don&#8217;t first understand what your business model is or how are you going to make money on the internet.</p>
<p>Even the most remarkable internet marketing technique will not work if you don&#8217;t understand how to apply it to your business.</p>
<p>The 3 most popular business models are:</p>
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		<title>The Easiest Way To Outsell Other Affiliates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px 5px;" title="The Easiest Way To Outsell Other Affiliates" src="http://www.reviewsresults.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/day-job-killer-staff.png" alt="The Easiest Way To Outsell Other Affiliates" width="302" height="209" />Below you will find a guest article from Jimmy D. Brown, developer of the <a href="http://www.ruddyortiz.com/recommends/jimmysblog">Mutiple Streams Theme wordpress blog theme</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For more information on turning on ten &#8220;built-in&#8221; ways to make money from your blog, visit <a href="http://www.ruddyortiz.com/recommends/jimmysblog">Jimmy&#8217;s Blog</a></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">The Easiest Way To<br />
Outsell Other Affiliates</h1>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you’re an affiliate marketer, then you’re always looking over your shoulder to see if the competition – your fellow affiliates – are catching up to you.  Or, worse than that, you’re looking up ahead trying to catch up with them!</p>
<p>At times any market can be crowded, so selling the same thing to the same group of people means you’re lucky to get just a small share of the market.  Imagine having thirty-five Wal-Mart stores in one small town, all competing with each other to get the local business.  You get the idea.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t have to be that way.  The easiest way to outsell other affiliates is this…</p>
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		<title>Success Begins In The Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="Success Begins In The Mind" src="http://www.mindtraining.net/images/key_success_small99.jpg" alt="Success Begins In The Mind" width="170" height="175" />Success is characterized in various forms, also has many meanings depending on what one is seeking for in his life, relationship and career.  To athletes, success can mean obtaining that gold medal, to parents’ success can mean raising children with good moral values, to doctors, success can mean saving a life and to some it can mean a job promotion or acquiring wealth. It actually depends on one’s perspective of the life that one has. Understanding and success perceptions are as abundant as there are stars in the sky.</p>
<p>One apparent thing about success is that every individual has to determine the true meaning of success in his own life. The one’s who walk through life making an attempt to accomplish “success” through someone else’s standards or through the standards of one’s society will continuously be lacking of that successful feeling.</p>
<p>The modern dictionary defines success as that certain measure or degree of achievement or accomplishment or as a desirable and favorable outcome.</p>
<p>One should make a decision on what one truly wants that can offer a desirable or favorable outcome that must be in each aspect of one’s life. To accomplish success, one has to set realistic goals for his life, meaning goals that can be achieved. One should measure success as to how close one comes to accomplishing one’s goals that one has set for himself based on one’s skills and abilities.</p>
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		<title>A Habit of Avoiding Pain? It Can HURT You Bigtime!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruddy Ortiz</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" title="A Habit of Avoing Pain?" src="http://www.ruddyortiz.com/wp-content/woo_uploads/6-head-in-the-sand.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="132" />I received a call yesterday from a young man who I connected with a little over 4 years ago.</p>
<p>He asked how I was doing and what I was up to. After a few minutes of small talk, an awkward pause came over the line and then I suddenly heard him say&#8221;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;You were right, you know&#8221;. &#8220;Right about what?&#8221;</em> I asked, curious to know exactly what he was referring to.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;What you told me a few years ago about pain and learning to push through it instead of avoid it&#8221;.</em></p>
<p>I then remembered exactly what he was talking about.</p>
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