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Emma Harrison: Delivering on a Dream, The 30 Million Woman Who Won’t Get Out of Bed For Less

January 5th, 2010 | Author: admin

Harrison, 41, and a mother of four, has built up businesses that combine commercial opportunity with social change. Action for Employment (A4e) is her largest enterprise. It teaches skills to the long-term unemployed and gives support and guidance to small businesses. ‘If what I do doesn’t have a social angle, then I do not see a reason for getting out of bed,’ she says. ‘I have always seen business like that ? it is about creating new things and changing the world. ‘Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, they are the people who create something out of nothing. As long as I can remember, I was always finding new ways to create interesting enterprises. ‘My first tuck shop was just a little venture, you know, some small sweets sold to my classmates. But by the time I was 15, I had really changed the way it worked and I was making some real money out of it too. It was fantastic. ‘ Harrison admits that as a child, she was always up to something. ‘When I was growing up we had a great big, old house that we could ill-afford, so there was never any extra money. If I wanted a bike, it was off to the scrapyard to find the parts to build one. I used to think why me? Now I thank god for all the madness that was my household; for my dad, who always encouraged me to be self-sufficient and do what it took to get on in the world. ‘ At 18, Harrison abandoned her ambition to study medicine because of poor A-level results. ‘It was a big shock to everyone, including myself, but it made me realise that I didn’t actually want to become a doctor,’ she says. ‘I had spent my whole life fixing things or building things with my dad, but it wasn’t until my A-levels went wrong that I considered engineering as a career. After all, girls were supposed to be nursery nurses ? I was allowed to be a doctor because I was clever ? but really, boys were engineers and nobody would marry you if you did something different. ‘ Disarmingly, Harrison looks me straight in the eyes and declares: ‘I realised that the way to get ahead was to find a way round the rules. ‘ Then she rolls her head back with laughter. ‘To everyone’s disbelief, I simply called the university and told them how much I wanted to study engineering and asked if they would agree to see me. Of course, they did. ‘ A week later, a 19-year-old, leather-clad biker-girl, rode to Bradford University, ‘L’ plates attached, with barely time to wash the mud off her face. She excelled at university and had her own

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Ten Trap Beliefs That Hold Back YOu From Living Success

January 4th, 2010 | Author: admin

For the longest time, people believed that life is short, divided into two parts; bad and good. In traditional beliefs our mind were trapped that rich could make anyone fall into bad life. Rich is Sin! This myth make us skeptic to be rich hard to try new thing even that thing could make you success. Below I summarize skeptical beliefs that very crucial trapped us to do right and get us success life. . . Trap #1: You don’t have what it takes to be successful and wealthy. Successful people were not born that way. In fact, many of the most successful people today had very difficult lives. They were regular people who wished for more. And they decided to do something about it – to change their circumstances. Anyone can do the same, including you and I. Trap #2: You don’t have any experience or education in anything. Many successful people started with no experience. Many of them also flunked high school and never had any college education. The only way to get real education and experience in anything is by doing, by “starting. ” Once you start doing it, you learn very quickly. Think of all the things that you know how to do. Driving a car, riding a bike, playing sports, reading, writing, speaking. . . even walking. All of these things have one thing in common: at one time in your life, you didn’t know how to do any of them. And despite how impossible it seemed at the time, you decided to do it anyway. It’s the same with everything in life. You learn by doing. You get experience by doing something a few times. Get started. Do it once, twice, three times and you’re already on your way to becoming an expert in no time! Trap #3: To be successful, you have to start a business, and you’re just not cut out to be a businessperson. You don’t have what it takes. Listen. . . you know a few people who can barely read or write. Yet they’re running their own businesses. It’s scary, you know. But think about it. . . right now, at this moment, you’re already several giant steps ahead of them. The only difference between a person who’s thinking about starting a business and another who is running a business is just that. One of them is doing what the other is only “thinking” of doing. They both had the same ideas and dreams. They both probably had the same doubts and fears as well. But one of them decided to start anyway, to take action despite the doubts and fears. One of them decided that if other people could do it, then he could as well. Trap #4: Money isn’t that important. Tell that to the family who’s starving right now, or to the family who needs money for serious medical help for a member of their family. They’ll tell you how important money is. We’ve been conditioned from Day 1 to believe that money is not important. We have been conditioned to believe that wanting money is wrong and unethical. And yet the entire world seems to run on money. It is one of the biggest myths known to man. And it’s one of the main reasons why the majority of the people are not wealthy. Money is simply a way to measure the amount of value you create for others. If you have a lot of money, it means you have created a lot of value for other people. If you don’t have the kind of money you’d like to have, that simply means that you just haven’t yet found a way to produce the kind of value for others that you’re capable of, or the value that you’d like to. Just look around you at the countries or even cities that have lack of money. You’ll find that in these same places, there are usually more crimes being committed, more people taking advantage of others, more diseases, more suffering, more deaths, and none or very little education. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but let’s face facts here. . . Money is pretty darned important in this day and age. It’s how you support yourself! It’s how you buy food, water, shelter, and clothing. It’s how you pay the medical bills. It’s how you help and support others around you, including your loved ones. And we both know that those are very important things. And by the way, if you feel that it’s more important to contribute to others than to be rich, well guess what, when you have more money, you can contribute more! You can do much more for others and you can help a lot more people when you have more money. Only good things can come from having more money. Trap #5: Money must be made slowly. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! What good is money if you can’t enjoy it right now instead of 20 years from now? What good is money if you can’t contribute to others now as much as you’d like to, instead of 20 years from now? The quicker you make money, the quicker you can change your life and the lives of those around you – for the better. There are no rules stating that money should be made slowly. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! You will also find that the more money you make, the easier it becomes to make more because you begin to shift your focus from survival to abundance and contribution, in the process. And that shift in focus simply attracts more wealth to you. Trap #6: If you weren’t born into money, you’ll never be rich. Millionaires are made every day. Many of them are self-made millionaires ? people who started with nothing or close to nothing and amassed fortunes. Simply because they decided to and they didn’t let anyone dissuade them from their goals. If you believe that you have to be born into money to be rich, you’re missing out on all the riches out there, waiting for you to claim. Trap #7: If you win, someone else has to lose. This is absolute, high-grade, premium quality nonsense. There is enough opportunity and enough money in this world to go around so that everyone can be a winner. In fact, there is more than enough to go around. The only reason they’re not winners is because they don’t believe they can ethically and morally do so. (Remember “the earth is flat” story?) As soon as we get rid of that belief and take a step into the unknown, we begin to realize how much wealthier you can be. You also realize how your being a winner can only help others win as well! You can become rich by using ethical and legal means – without having to cheat or hurt others. In fact, that’s the only way I recommend that people do it. The easiest way to become rich is to create value in other people’s lives. There are no losers in that scenario. Trap #8: Making a profit is a sin. If you cheat or hurt others to make a profit, then yes, in that case, making a profit would be bad. But if you create value for others, then making a profit is always good. By creating more value for others, you’re helping them live better lives. There is nothing sinful in helping others, doing a great job at it, and getting paid for it. Money doesn’t turn good people into bad people. Money simply magnifies the qualities that are already inherent within a person. If you’re a good person, having more money will only allow you to do more good! If you’re a bad person, having more money will allow you to do more bad. And most of us really are good people. And we have a lot to offer others. And you can only do more good by having more money. Trap #9: Having more money will mean that you’ll have to work hard all day and not have time for my family, friends and leisure. There’s a huge difference between working hard and working smart. Successful people have learned to work smart! They have learned to find other successful people they can model after so they don’t make the same mistakes other people did. And by doing so, you can save a lot of time, money, effort as well as some major headaches. Getting your business started and running does require work. There’s no way around that. But, you can still take time out for your loved ones and for your leisure. In fact, it’s highly recommended that you do that. If you’re spending all your time trying to keeps your business afloat, you’re either not going about things the right way or you’re just in the wrong business. Trap #10: If you have more money, people will judge you, and they will not like you very much. People will judge you anyway. They are judging you right now! It’s what they do, unfortunately. Most people don’t know who you are anyway! They don’t know the “real” you. They only know who they think you are, based on what little information they have about you. So, let them think or feel what they want. They don’t know any better. And you really shouldn’t be concerned about those people. Remember, respect and friendship are earned. If they can’t appreciate who you are, then they don’t deserve your time, or your thoughts. Many of these myths that have been floating around for hundreds of years and were typically conjured up by people who didn’t know any better. Many of them got programmed into us when we were very young. But, we’re adults now. We can think for ourselves. We can choose to adopt only those beliefs that benefit you and drop the ones that are no longer useful or empowering. It’s all up to you. Beliefs are very powerful indeed. They, for the most part, are what dictate the quality of your life. Change your beliefs and you change your life. FREE your mind and success will follow! * Salman Alfarisi, a professional internet marketer and agent of internet cash building with a new sites http://www. biz4cash. net/besthomejob. http://moneyreaders. wordpress. com, http://productbazar. blogspot. com Here’s the Easiest and Quickest Way to Succeed! For most people, life is painful. Life is a struggle. A lot of people go through their entire adult life struggling for every single dollar that they make. Their life is a constant never-ending source of pain and frustration. They live in a painful existence where the bills are constantly nagging at them, the bill collectors are always calling them, the spouse is always complaining about the fact that there’s not enough money, the kids always want more money, and everybody wants to take a part of the paycheck. Can you relate to any of this? You work like a slave for a little tiny paycheck, bring it home, and now you’ve got everybody pouncing on you. Everybody wants the money! Where is your money? You’ve got no money! Where’s your peace of mind? You’ve got no peace of mind! Every day is an endless struggle to get by and barely pay the bills. You barely have enough money left over for anything that you want! FORGET WORKING HARD, YOU JUST NEED SMART WORK!

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]]>For the longest time, people believed that life is short, divided into two parts; bad and good. In traditional beliefs our mind were trapped that rich could make anyone fall into bad life. Rich is Sin! This myth make us skeptic to be rich hard to try new thing even that thing could make you success. Below I summarize skeptical beliefs that very crucial trapped us to do right and get us success life. . . Trap #1: You don’t have what it takes to be successful and wealthy. Successful people were not born that way. In fact, many of the most successful people today had very difficult lives. They were regular people who wished for more. And they decided to do something about it – to change their circumstances. Anyone can do the same, including you and I. Trap #2: You don’t have any experience or education in anything. Many successful people started with no experience. Many of them also flunked high school and never had any college education. The only way to get real education and experience in anything is by doing, by “starting. ” Once you start doing it, you learn very quickly. Think of all the things that you know how to do. Driving a car, riding a bike, playing sports, reading, writing, speaking. . . even walking. All of these things have one thing in common: at one time in your life, you didn’t know how to do any of them. And despite how impossible it seemed at the time, you decided to do it anyway. It’s the same with everything in life. You learn by doing. You get experience by doing something a few times. Get started. Do it once, twice, three times and you’re already on your way to becoming an expert in no time! Trap #3: To be successful, you have to start a business, and you’re just not cut out to be a businessperson. You don’t have what it takes. Listen. . . you know a few people who can barely read or write. Yet they’re running their own businesses. It’s scary, you know. But think about it. . . right now, at this moment, you’re already several giant steps ahead of them. The only difference between a person who’s thinking about starting a business and another who is running a business is just that. One of them is doing what the other is only “thinking” of doing. They both had the same ideas and dreams. They both probably had the same doubts and fears as well. But one of them decided to start anyway, to take action despite the doubts and fears. One of them decided that if other people could do it, then he could as well. Trap #4: Money isn’t that important. Tell that to the family who’s starving right now, or to the family who needs money for serious medical help for a member of their family. They’ll tell you how important money is. We’ve been conditioned from Day 1 to believe that money is not important. We have been conditioned to believe that wanting money is wrong and unethical. And yet the entire world seems to run on money. It is one of the biggest myths known to man. And it’s one of the main reasons why the majority of the people are not wealthy. Money is simply a way to measure the amount of value you create for others. If you have a lot of money, it means you have created a lot of value for other people. If you don’t have the kind of money you’d like to have, that simply means that you just haven’t yet found a way to produce the kind of value for others that you’re capable of, or the value that you’d like to. Just look around you at the countries or even cities that have lack of money. You’ll find that in these same places, there are usually more crimes being committed, more people taking advantage of others, more diseases, more suffering, more deaths, and none or very little education. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but let’s face facts here. . . Money is pretty darned important in this day and age. It’s how you support yourself! It’s how you buy food, water, shelter, and clothing. It’s how you pay the medical bills. It’s how you help and support others around you, including your loved ones. And we both know that those are very important things. And by the way, if you feel that it’s more important to contribute to others than to be rich, well guess what, when you have more money, you can contribute more! You can do much more for others and you can help a lot more people when you have more money. Only good things can come from having more money. Trap #5: Money must be made slowly. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! What good is money if you can’t enjoy it right now instead of 20 years from now? What good is money if you can’t contribute to others now as much as you’d like to, instead of 20 years from now? The quicker you make money, the quicker you can change your life and the lives of those around you – for the better. There are no rules stating that money should be made slowly. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! You will also find that the more money you make, the easier it becomes to make more because you begin to shift your focus from survival to abundance and contribution, in the process. And that shift in focus simply attracts more wealth to you. Trap #6: If you weren’t born into money, you’ll never be rich. Millionaires are made every day. Many of them are self-made millionaires ? people who started with nothing or close to nothing and amassed fortunes. Simply because they decided to and they didn’t let anyone dissuade them from their goals. If you believe that you have to be born into money to be rich, you’re missing out on all the riches out there, waiting for you to claim. Trap #7: If you win, someone else has to lose. This is absolute, high-grade, premium quality nonsense. There is enough opportunity and enough money in this world to go around so that everyone can be a winner. In fact, there is more than enough to go around. The only reason they’re not winners is because they don’t believe they can ethically and morally do so. (Remember “the earth is flat” story?) As soon as we get rid of that belief and take a step into the unknown, we begin to realize how much wealthier you can be. You also realize how your being a winner can only help others win as well! You can become rich by using ethical and legal means – without having to cheat or hurt others. In fact, that’s the only way I recommend that people do it. The easiest way to become rich is to create value in other people’s lives. There are no losers in that scenario. Trap #8: Making a profit is a sin. If you cheat or hurt others to make a profit, then yes, in that case, making a profit would be bad. But if you create value for others, then making a profit is always good. By creating more value for others, you’re helping them live better lives. There is nothing sinful in helping others, doing a great job at it, and getting paid for it. Money doesn’t turn good people into bad people. Money simply magnifies the qualities that are already inherent within a person. If you’re a good person, having more money will only allow you to do more good! If you’re a bad person, having more money will allow you to do more bad. And most of us really are good people. And we have a lot to offer others. And you can only do more good by having more money. Trap #9: Having more money will mean that you’ll have to work hard all day and not have time for my family, friends and leisure. There’s a huge difference between working hard and working smart. Successful people have learned to work smart! They have learned to find other successful people they can model after so they don’t make the same mistakes other people did. And by doing so, you can save a lot of time, money, effort as well as some major headaches. Getting your business started and running does require work. There’s no way around that. But, you can still take time out for your loved ones and for your leisure. In fact, it’s highly recommended that you do that. If you’re spending all your time trying to keeps your business afloat, you’re either not going about things the right way or you’re just in the wrong business. Trap #10: If you have more money, people will judge you, and they will not like you very much. People will judge you anyway. They are judging you right now! It’s what they do, unfortunately. Most people don’t know who you are anyway! They don’t know the “real” you. They only know who they think you are, based on what little information they have about you. So, let them think or feel what they want. They don’t know any better. And you really shouldn’t be concerned about those people. Remember, respect and friendship are earned. If they can’t appreciate who you are, then they don’t deserve your time, or your thoughts. Many of these myths that have been floating around for hundreds of years and were typically conjured up by people who didn’t know any better. Many of them got programmed into us when we were very young. But, we’re adults now. We can think for ourselves. We can choose to adopt only those beliefs that benefit you and drop the ones that are no longer useful or empowering. It’s all up to you. Beliefs are very powerful indeed. They, for the most part, are what dictate the quality of your life. Change your beliefs and you change your life. FREE your mind and success will follow! * Salman Alfarisi, a professional internet marketer and agent of internet cash building with a new sites http://www. biz4cash. net/besthomejob. http://moneyreaders. wordpress. com, http://productbazar. blogspot. com Here’s the Easiest and Quickest Way to Succeed! For most people, life is painful. Life is a struggle. A lot of people go through their entire adult life struggling for every single dollar that they make. Their life is a constant never-ending source of pain and frustration. They live in a painful existence where the bills are constantly nagging at them, the bill collectors are always calling them, the spouse is always complaining about the fact that there’s not enough money, the kids always want more money, and everybody wants to take a part of the paycheck. Can you relate to any of this? You work like a slave for a little tiny paycheck, bring it home, and now you’ve got everybody pouncing on you. Everybody wants the money! Where is your money? You’ve got no money! Where’s your peace of mind? You’ve got no peace of mind! Every day is an endless struggle to get by and barely pay the bills. You barely have enough money left over for anything that you want! FORGET WORKING HARD, YOU JUST NEED SMART WORK!

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Party Planning This Fall Made Easy With This Apple Harvest Party

January 3rd, 2010 | Author: admin

Autumn, to me is the most glorious season of the year. I am charmed by the hint of crispness that I feel in the evening air, not quite cold but not sticky hot either, and best of all this is when the apples come rolling in at my local farmers market. To me, apples are the best and possibly the most versatile fruits on the planet. And, I love that they have a varied and sordid history — from Eden to Snow White (they’ve been through a lot!) So naturally I channel all this apple-love into a fun apple harvest dinner party. I want to have fun at the party and not be exhausted from cooking and prepping all day so my plan is to keep everything simple. I’d like to have dinner on the deck, so I decide to keep the party to 8 guests total including my husband and me. Next, I make sure that my party space is ready for guests. I make a list of the things that need to refreshed after my summer dinner parties like: buy more citronella fuel for my torches, get a few more votives for the table, sweep the deck and give the cushions a fluff. I want to include apples in my table d

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Emma Harrison: Delivering on a Dream, The 30 Million Woman Who Won’t Get Out of Bed For Less

January 2nd, 2010 | Author: admin

Harrison, 41, and a mother of four, has built up businesses that combine commercial opportunity with social change. Action for Employment (A4e) is her largest enterprise. It teaches skills to the long-term unemployed and gives support and guidance to small businesses. ‘If what I do doesn’t have a social angle, then I do not see a reason for getting out of bed,’ she says. ‘I have always seen business like that ? it is about creating new things and changing the world. ‘Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, they are the people who create something out of nothing. As long as I can remember, I was always finding new ways to create interesting enterprises. ‘My first tuck shop was just a little venture, you know, some small sweets sold to my classmates. But by the time I was 15, I had really changed the way it worked and I was making some real money out of it too. It was fantastic. ‘ Harrison admits that as a child, she was always up to something. ‘When I was growing up we had a great big, old house that we could ill-afford, so there was never any extra money. If I wanted a bike, it was off to the scrapyard to find the parts to build one. I used to think why me? Now I thank god for all the madness that was my household; for my dad, who always encouraged me to be self-sufficient and do what it took to get on in the world. ‘ At 18, Harrison abandoned her ambition to study medicine because of poor A-level results. ‘It was a big shock to everyone, including myself, but it made me realise that I didn’t actually want to become a doctor,’ she says. ‘I had spent my whole life fixing things or building things with my dad, but it wasn’t until my A-levels went wrong that I considered engineering as a career. After all, girls were supposed to be nursery nurses ? I was allowed to be a doctor because I was clever ? but really, boys were engineers and nobody would marry you if you did something different. ‘ Disarmingly, Harrison looks me straight in the eyes and declares: ‘I realised that the way to get ahead was to find a way round the rules. ‘ Then she rolls her head back with laughter. ‘To everyone’s disbelief, I simply called the university and told them how much I wanted to study engineering and asked if they would agree to see me. Of course, they did. ‘ A week later, a 19-year-old, leather-clad biker-girl, rode to Bradford University, ‘L’ plates attached, with barely time to wash the mud off her face. She excelled at university and had her own

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Emma Harrison: Delivering on a Dream, The 30 Million Woman Who Won’t Get Out of Bed For Less

January 1st, 2010 | Author: admin

Harrison, 41, and a mother of four, has built up businesses that combine commercial opportunity with social change. Action for Employment (A4e) is her largest enterprise. It teaches skills to the long-term unemployed and gives support and guidance to small businesses. ‘If what I do doesn’t have a social angle, then I do not see a reason for getting out of bed,’ she says. ‘I have always seen business like that ? it is about creating new things and changing the world. ‘Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, they are the people who create something out of nothing. As long as I can remember, I was always finding new ways to create interesting enterprises. ‘My first tuck shop was just a little venture, you know, some small sweets sold to my classmates. But by the time I was 15, I had really changed the way it worked and I was making some real money out of it too. It was fantastic. ‘ Harrison admits that as a child, she was always up to something. ‘When I was growing up we had a great big, old house that we could ill-afford, so there was never any extra money. If I wanted a bike, it was off to the scrapyard to find the parts to build one. I used to think why me? Now I thank god for all the madness that was my household; for my dad, who always encouraged me to be self-sufficient and do what it took to get on in the world. ‘ At 18, Harrison abandoned her ambition to study medicine because of poor A-level results. ‘It was a big shock to everyone, including myself, but it made me realise that I didn’t actually want to become a doctor,’ she says. ‘I had spent my whole life fixing things or building things with my dad, but it wasn’t until my A-levels went wrong that I considered engineering as a career. After all, girls were supposed to be nursery nurses ? I was allowed to be a doctor because I was clever ? but really, boys were engineers and nobody would marry you if you did something different. ‘ Disarmingly, Harrison looks me straight in the eyes and declares: ‘I realised that the way to get ahead was to find a way round the rules. ‘ Then she rolls her head back with laughter. ‘To everyone’s disbelief, I simply called the university and told them how much I wanted to study engineering and asked if they would agree to see me. Of course, they did. ‘ A week later, a 19-year-old, leather-clad biker-girl, rode to Bradford University, ‘L’ plates attached, with barely time to wash the mud off her face. She excelled at university and had her own

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