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Attitude has a lot to do with how our life goes. We win the lottery
and we are happy or we lose our jobs and we are angry. However does it have to be that way we can decide how to feel about anything that
happens it all depends on your attitude.
You are responsible for all your experiences in life. We cannot control what happens to us for their are many other co-creators of life out there creating but we can control how we react to what happens to us.
Our attitude does have a great affect and can make a huge difference when dealing with our day-to-day experiences.
By changing our attitudes and beliefs we can create a new life. We will learn to perceive the same events, behaviors and phenomena differently so as to experience greater peace and more positive emotions. When I first realized the power of my attitude one thing hit me, If I wanted to change my life I would first have to change my attitude.

Let me give you my definition of attitude. Simply, attitude is your perception of life. It’s the way you view things around you.

It is your perception of the day that determines whether you have a good or bad day. You have a choice every day to respond positively to life’s circumstances or react negatively. The choice is yours.
You are where you are today because of the thoughts you have maintained up to this point in your life. James Allen says it as, “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

You cannot change your thoughts without changing your life in the process — either for good or for bad. Immerse yourself in the right thoughts and you will become the person you long to be, just as surely as the planting of an acorn yields an oak tree and not a pine tree.

The power of a positive attitude is always within your reach. You simply have to extend your hand and grab it.

Now I can give you an example out of my own life. I have been out of work for three weeks now. Today I was offered a job. It is a night shift and it is with a hospice patient. It also does not pay what I want for a wage. But I agreed to do the work. Why did I agree because I can’t see another alternative right now. Now my mind says I have to do this. My attitude is not so good. Now I applied at this agency and I dressed up and went there all confident that I would be given work. When they did that I was not so pleased. What changed my attitude.
So what can I do about it. I can change the way I think about this assignment and be grateful I have work now. I can also be grateful it is nights giving me my daytime hours to look for other work or to work on my internet business. If I keep thinking what a good opportunity this is and that I probably will meet more people who can help me find another job then within thirty days my attitude will change.
I have a choice how I react to life. I am where I am now because of my thinking and I can change my thinking. No one else thinks for me.

About the author
Judi Singleton publishes Jassmine’s JOurnal a daily ezine. There is a free edition and a paid edition of Jassmine’s JOurnal. You can subscribe at http://www.motherearthpublishing.com

If someone walked up to me right now and said, “Linda, I really think I’m going out of my mind. I’ve completely lost it!” I’d tell them, “Good for you! It’s about time. I can’t think of a better person for this to happen to. What ever you do, don’t go looking for it. I guarantee, it will find you again.”

At this point in time he or she may think I’ve lost my mind after hearing comments like that. Which is perfectly fine with me, because I’ve put in a lot of time and effort to make sure I go out of my mind as often as possible. Recently, I had the joy of recognizing how much the mind wants to hold on and be in complete control of even the silliest situations.

While on one of my daily walks I kicked a rock and it went straight ahead so I decided to kick it again, and then again, until it became a game to see how far I could continue kicking it without it going off to the side and out of easy kicking access. I noticed my mind telling me to stop this silly game but my Spirit really wanted to continue. I was having fun! Suddenly the rock went clear across the other side of the road and my mind screamed, “Give it up! Forget about it. This stupid game is making the walk even longer.” I simply chuckled and did what felt best in the moment. I chose to ignore my mind and walk over to the rock and keep right on kicking.

Before I knew it, I looked like a drunk making my way from one side of the road to the other, over and over again just to keep myself connected to this silly rock. I couldn’t help myself, I was having a blast! (Yes, it’s true, it takes very little to entertain myself!)

What I noticed during my rock kicking adventure was my mind became completely quiet and my Spirit took over. I no longer felt this tug of war going on inside and I was just Being in the moment. It was a very exhilarating and freeing feeling. I had gone out of my mind and allowed myself to do and be as I pleased. The war was over and my Spirit prevailed.

After kicking the rock for literally 2 miles, the gentlest voice from within said, “Now you can pick up the rock and look at it.” As I picked up the rock I smiled, because this was no ordinary rock, it was a perfectly heart shaped rock and extraordinarily smooth to the touch. I knew I would keep it forever to remind me of the importance of going out of my mind and moving into my Spirit.

Your mind is a very powerful tool and you absolutely cannot survive without it. It just wasn’t ever meant to be in charge of your life. It’s your Spirit that’s in charge of your essence and who you really are and how you want to show up in the world. Your Spirit wants to explore greater things for yourself. Your mind gives you the ability to take the steps to do the exploring to feed your Spirit.

Give yourself permission to listen to your Spirit more often and absolutely start going out of your mind.

Copyright 2005, Linda Salazar all rights reserved. This article may be reproduced in its entirety as long as all credits are included.

Linda Salazar
Certified Personal Life Coach, Author, Speaker
310-375-4800
Awaken The Genie Within®
Practical Strategies for Magical Results
www.awakenthegeniewithin.com
Linda@awakenthegeniewithin.com

First of all Let me tell you , It’s not that hard and it’s not
that expensive. The biggest misconceptions when it comes to
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surrounding it.

When I started my network of websites I already happened to have
the best hosting package I’ve heard of. DreamHost.com I bought
it because I wanted my own email domain, Unbenounced to me I had
just purchased the hosting package that would set my Adsense
campaign on fire!

6 Months Later when I started to get an interest in Adsense I
created my first few sites, and when I went to my hosting panel
to see what the deal was for adding additional websites I found
out I could add an unlimited unlimited! I couldn’t believe it ,
upon further investigation I realized I had 20 gb’s of web space
and enough bandwidth for an army of sites, A TERABYTE!

So I started creating like a mad man.To date I have 74 Fully
Hosted Websites they each have their own domain names and still
I only use less than 8% of my account resources.

Is it Hard to setup and manage the hosting of websites?

No, it is not, web hosts , DreamHost included make it very easy
to create and manage the hosting properties of each fully hosted
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hosting accounts is you can create sub domains. If you’ve
registered the domain example.com you can create free sub
domains which would look like site1.example.com and
site2.example.com. but call them anything you like. You could
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If you do not have web design skills but you still want be
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So it’s not hard and expensive like everyone says. You can
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If YOU Answered YES, Then Start An Online Newsletter…It’s Easy, Here’s How!

I’ve always praised the benefits of using a newsletter to promote your music, but this article give a bit more detail into how to go about it.

First, there are tons of different providers out there that can send out your email newsletter. Some are expensive while other like cafepress.com allow you to make one free if you sell products through them. Although this isn’t EVERYTHING you could do it is a good starting place.

Define the letter – is it going to be strictly about your band or other acts in your genre? You might be able to pick up other readers/listeners who weren’t aware of your music, but know other acts if you go broader.

Develop a schedule. Are you going to do it daily, weekly, monthly? Whatever you choose does not matter. The most important part is to stick to it, once people get to reading and enjoying your newsletter, they’ll expect to receive it on time, all the time.

How much content will it contain?

Are you going to have one page or six pages? Try to make the content the same size each issue.

K.I.S.S – Yet again, keep it simple stupid. That means staying on topic and writing in a tone that is both understandable and friendly.

Ask for reader feedback. Perhaps someone might have an idea for a new feature or they may have a hot news tip. Always answer your reader’s requests and emails regardless of if you use their idea or not.

Keep copy short and in the active voice. Avoid passive words if you can and give your articles some kick. You’re writing for people, not Harvard educators so keep your tone to one that people will enjoy looking at each week.

Extra set of eyes. Always have an extra set of eyes look over everything you send out. Even with our newsletter and sites, www.MusicIndustrySuccess.com , www.Order-Yours-Now.com and www.TheIndustryYellowPages.com we always have someone look the pages over for typos, spelling, grammar, etc. You want to inform people, but you also want to come off as intelligent when you do it.

A newsletter is not a difficult feat, in fact you can easily get started in an afternoon. If you lack the time and skills then hire someone to do the task or see that your manager and/or promoter informs your followers of all the news they need to know.

This article was written by Ty Cohen, the music industry’s most recognizable voice!

Ty is the C.E.O of Platinum Millennium Publishing, Platinum Millennium Records as well as owner of http://www.MusicContracts101.com and http://www.MusicIndustrySuccess.com .

Some of his work includes: books, directories, mini-courses and software programs including the titles: “How to Make a Fortune in the Music Industry by Doing it Yourself” and “How to Make $500,000.00 “or More” A Year in the Music Industry by Doing it Yourself”.

From Bill Gates at the end of the last century to John D. Rockefeller at the end of the previous century; from Rick Scott, founder of Columbia Health Care, to AT&T: from Richard Branson and British Airlines to Dan Peña and The Financial Times; from government, banking, insurance and every other facet of world commerce - to grow geometrically and stay around, litigation must be (prudently) used and mastered.

I will, as briefly as I can, memorialize the salient points of using litigation as a business tool.

Now before I start, I want it on the record, some 50% of my 30-year track record of litigation has had nothing to do with winning money, i.e., many lawsuits have been over principle, some were to right a heinous wrong such as slanderous remarks made about me; and some were because an entity just needed a good comeuppance and nobody else would carry the flag into battle.

I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill.

As you’ve heard me speak and write about, when building your ‘Dream Team,’ you want Big Five accountants and a large national or international firm of lawyers - the best representation you can’t afford!

Unlike the success-oriented fees I coach you to use when facilitating transactions, no law firm will litigate initially on this basis.

Perhaps if your case is especially strong, they will do it on a contingency basis. Unfortunately, you will be using, from time-to-time, litigation as a positioning tool and your case may not be something you can seriously leverage.

A year or two ago, being left with a pig-in-a-poke, I had to litigate a case having specious facts at best to support my desired outcome. Fortunately, our (my) apparent lust for litigation was stronger than their desire to fight a hard fight, so a reasonably good settlement was finally arrived at.

Of course, during this process my good lawyers counseled us, advising our case needed to be much stronger, etc. Even with great lawyers, it is their job to tell you the downside risks. Again, what happens is you are often scared from pursuing your case.

Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.

Three of my favorite litigators over the years are Steve Susman and Cyrus Marter IV of Susman Godfrey in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle and Tim Harris of Charleston Revich & Williams in Los Angeles. All three have dug me out of some pretty big black holes.

I’ve dealt with them 10 and 20 years respectively. They are worth every penny they charge!

Our judicial system works, but we grow up being afraid of it. It’s way out of our comfort zone so we preclude ourselves from benefitting from it. Normally the cost associated with it keeps us from using it.

In fact, I’m currently embroiled in litigation where the ancillary players to the litigation have rights which are being severely violated. A large group of people could bring great pressure to bear, but they’re afraid because of previous bad experiences. They could get what they deserve but aren’t pursuing their best interests.

There are lawyers who take on cases for humanitarian reasons, if the case warrants, in business as well, i.e., big major corporations taking advantage of the system because of their size alone.

Why do you want to initiate the lawsuit so you are the plaintiff? As the plaintiff, you pick where and when the lawsuit is fought and probably ultimately adjudicated.

This can be a huge advantage. And secondly, the plaintiff is allowed two closing arguments, meaning you (your lawyer) gets to address the judge and/or jury once and then again after the defendants’ closing argument. This can also be very important.

26 Unbreakable Rules of Litigation

#1 CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES

#2 CHOOSE THE VENUE

#3 BE THE PLAINTIFF

#4 HAVE THE BEST REPRESENTATION

#5 LISTEN TO YOUR HEART

#6 DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR SICK STOMACH WHEN YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

#7 DON’T LISTEN TO RELATIVES, FRIENDS, ET AL

#8 LISTEN TO EXPERIENCED LITIGANTS - LIKE ME!

#9 GENERALLY SPEAKING, DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE COST (THIS IS VERY HARD!)

#10 BIG LAWSUITS ARE BETTER THAN SMALL ONES

#11 ELECT JURY TRIALS, AS OPPOSED TO A JUDGE ONLY

#12 PREPARATION (YOURS) IS EVERYTHING - KNOW THE FACTS

#13 PRACTICE DEPOSITIONS AND TRIALS

#14 IF YOU ARE THINKING OF A BETTER STRATEGY, GET A NEW LAWYER (NOT TRUE IN MY CASE)

#15 NEVER GIVE UP

#16 DON’T BE INTIMIDATED BY THE PROCESS

#17 USE MOCK TRIALS (PRETEND TRIALS YOU DO IN FRONT OF A HIRED JURY)

#18 DRESS SIMPLE AND CONSERVATIVELY IN COURT - NO JEWELRY EXCEPT A WEDDING BAND; WHITE SHIRT, PLAIN TIE AND DARK SUIT FOR MEN AND THE EQUIVALENT FOR WOMEN; SHORT GROOMED HAIR FOR MEN

#19 DON’T LOSE YOUR TEMPER IN COURT - IT’S OKAY TO CRY IF IT’S REAL

#20 HAVE YOUR SPOUSE IN THE FRONT ROW EVERY DAY. CHILDREN ALSO IF POSSIBLE. OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN SECOND ROW IS OKAY

#21 NO QUOTES TO THE PRESS OTHER THAN ‘WE BELIEVE IN OUR CASE AND THAT IS WHY WE WENT TO COURT’. YOUR WORDS CAN EASILY BE TURNED AROUND.

#22 WHEN YOU BREAK FOR LUNCH OR A RECESS, REMEMBER NEVER TALK IN PUBLIC ABOUT THE CASE - YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT OVERHEAR

#23 WHEN YOU FIND A LEGAL TEAM THAT WINS, STAY WITH THEM

#24 ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH, NO MATTER WHAT. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

#25 DURING VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITIONS AND IN COURT, LOOK AT THE CAMERA AND THE JURY. MAKE EYE CONTACT.

#26 WHEN TESTIFYING IN A DEPOSITION/TRIAL, IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER, SAY YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER

It’s a closed world of top litigators. Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don’t have great litigators. You don’t always need a great lawyer, but sometime if you grow geometrically, you will.

Like any other project management, litigation must be managed. Unfortunately, like speech-giving, you become a great litigant by going through a learning curve.

I don’t mean you have to get involved in losing efforts (like making bad speeches so after some time you make good speeches) to get in a position to win in court. Large law firms will allow you to get ahead of the learning curve.

The Quantum Leap methodology talks ad nauseam about following your dreams. Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can’t fly. I wrote this newsletter because sometimes you’ll need litigation to follow your dream.

Go out and kick some butt, and don’t let conventional wisdom keep you from achieving your dream.

Conventional wisdom says Don’t Litigate.

All high-performance people and the great organizations of the last one hundred years did and do litigate as I write this letter.

Don’t litigate frivolously - but don’t be afraid to either.

To Your Quantum Leap,

Daniel S. Peña, Sr.

Mr. Peña turned $820 into $400 million market-valued energy company in 8 short years! Now he’s coaching others how to duplicate his success. Visit: http://www.danpena.com/docs/products.php

Many photographers probably have stared at a silhouette image
and pondered to themselves how exactly it had been taken and
composed. Silhouette images could contain a couple looking at a
sunset, a cityscape with the sun shining through buildings, or
just a normal horizon. In order to get an effective silhouette
image, a photographer must be in the right place at the right
time and have the right exposure settings.

Silhouette Definition

In the area of photography, a silhouette is defined as an
outline that appears dark against a light background. More
specifically, it is where your subject appears as a plain black
shape against a brighter background. It is an artistic
photography expression that many photographers like to refine
and perfect in their images. This effect can be achieved with
any bright light source with the sun being the most common. In a
sunset silhouette photo, the sunlight in the background is
exposed correctly forcing everything else in the photo to be
underexposed causing the effect.

Silhouette Techniques

When you are preparing to take a silhouette image, there are
many things to keep in mind. These tips are equally effective
for both digital and film photography. First of all, you need to
make sure that there is not too much light on your subject, even
if it is being reflected on to your subject the stray light will
ruin the effect. If there is not enough light in the background,
your subject will appear grey instead of black. The effect is
just multiplied when you have multiple colors of bright lights
in the background. Some photographers focus on artificial
lights, others focus on the sun at certain times of the day, the
possibilities are endless.

My Silhouette Tips and Techniques

I usually take my silhouette images when the sun is just above
the horizon. I prefer the time around sunset because the sun
causes the sky to be brighter than everything else for greater
contrast. Another technique I use is to align the sun directly
behind the subject so it causes a glow effect around the main
subject. I usually use a relatively big subject so it creates a
more drastic effect then a small insignificant subject.

I always use a narrow aperture (high f/stop) so the camera
captures the whole scene with a high depth of field so
everything is in focus. I usually use the aperture manual mode
on my camera so I can control what the aperture will be and then
the camera automatically selects the right shutter speed
necessary for the photo. If you are trying to create the effect
with a point-and-shoot camera make sure you compose the photo
with the background light by pointing the camera at the
background. If you compose the image by pointing the camera at
your dark subject, then the background will be over-exposed and
you will not end up with a silhouette.

There is no exact science to taking a great silhouette image. It
will take practice, luck, and experience to capture truly
amazing silhouette images. So keep practicing.

Step 4 - Choose a Domain Name

This sounds like an easy step, but you may soon find it can be surprisingly difficult. As mentioned before the majority of your traffic will hopefully come from search engines. To rank well in search engines one of the key factors is to obtain a domain name that includes one or more of your keywords. This can be a real problem because YourKeywords.com is most likely already registered. You can start by going to a domain registrar such as Go Daddy and enter the domain you want on the homepage. If it’s not registered already you can register it. If someone else has already registered it you will receive a list of suggestions of available domain names or and go back and try another domain. Depending on the term you chose you may or may not find a domain you want by doing this.

The second method I’d recommend is a domain name suggestion tool such as Name Boy. This tool will let you enter your keywords and come up with a large number of suggestions for domains based on those keywords. It will also show you which of those domains are still available. I used this tool to register the sample site TropicalArt.org. I normally do not register .org sites, and if this was a site I was seriously looking putting the effort into making profitable instead of a simple example I would make every effort to obtain tropicalart.com. For this example it will do though.

Finally if you just can’t find an acceptable domain using the first two methods you can buy one that is already registered from someone else. This can be much more expensive than the first two options but in some cases it makes sense to do. The two main sites for doing this are Sedo and Afternic. These sites work as a trusted third party to coordinate the sale and transaction between the buyer and seller, and collect a percentage of the sale from the seller for performing this service (much like EBay). I used these services to obtain this domain name, ArtAffiliate.com.

Step 5 - Build Your Website

This is a very important step and unfortunately one I can’t explain in enough detail in this section. For those of you who are already experienced web developers, you have most likely already decided how you are going to develop your site and can move on to the next section. The rest of this section is for those who do not have any experience in this area. You’re going to need to make a choice at this point to do it yourself or hire someone else.

Do it Yourself

If you choose to do it yourself and have no previous web development experience then you’re best bet will be to develop a static site. This means you will manually be creating pages for each product you wish to sell and listing them on your site. It will also require maintenance to make sure you keep the prices up to date and add and remove products as needed. There are several tools available for doing this and you can just search Google to find them, but most likely you already have one on your computer, Microsoft FrontPage. It is included with Microsoft Office and is a great tool for beginners.

Hire Somebody Else

This may sound like it would be way to expensive for some people, but you’ll if you are reasonable about the requirements it’s really not that bad and will definitely save you a lot of time of having to manually add products. The biggest benefit is instead of manually creating a page for each product, all the products can be loaded into a database and the pages generated dynamically. Periodically a new datafeed can be downloaded from the affiliate program website and you’ll instantly have the updated prices and current list of products.

So how do you find someone? You may already know someone who does web development, that will be willing to create a site for you for free or cheap. If so great! But developing the average art affiliate website will take about 15-20 hours worth of work and you may not be so lucky to find a volunteer. On top of that software development is typically a fairly high paying job so hiring someone locally to do it can cost a pretty penny. The method I would suggest is going to a third party website that pairs developers with clients such as RentACoder.com.

RentACoder and sites like it allow clients to list the requirements for their project and developers to bid on the project. You will be able to get your project done for a much better rate here because it’s typically individuals doing the work instead of companies and there is competition from overseas developers keeping the prices down. It’s very important that you be thorough on what exactly your requirements are. You also need to keep the requirements reasonable in order to keep the price down. Everything you ask for will add hours and cost to the project so if you don’t really need it, don’t ask for it. To give you a rule of thumb on what you should expect to pay, a no frills site such as the example Tropical Art should cost you somewhere around $300.

Step 6 - Find a Host

You are going to need a place to host your website. Your ISP may provide some web hosting space but typically this is a very small amount, so you’re most likely going to need to find a web host.

The first factor to consider when finding a web host is if they support the technology your website uses. For example if your site was created using FrontPage, ASP or ASP.NET you will need a windows host. For static html, php or Java you can go with a Windows or Unix host. If you site requires a database such as MS SQL or MySql you’ll need to make sure the host supports that as well.

There are several other factors such as price, bandwidth, reliability, etc that you’ll need to consider as well. You can simply search Google for “web hosts” and compare the results to get an idea of what’s available. I’d personally recommend StartLogic or PowWeb.

Step 7 - Optimize for Search Engines

It’s important that search engines know what your site is about. You want to emphasis the keywords you selected earlier to make sure they know that is the primary subject of your site. To do this you need to make sure those keywords are included as part of the title on every page. Every page should have a different title though. Notice how on Tropical Art the title on each page is different but includes “tropical art” as part of the title. You should do something similar.

You also should provide alternate text for all of your images. This not only helps search engines know what the site is about but also helps people with software to assist with vision disabilities to navigate your site. You’re keywords should also be contained within parts of the body text on your site, at least on the home page and preferably on sub pages. Just be careful not to overdue it, your page is made for human readers and should be designed as such. Search engines will detect over stuffing of keywords and rank your site lower as a result. It is also very helpful to have static urls such as /1234/subject.htm instead of urls with query string parameters such as /subject.php?subjectId=1234 . You can use url-rewriting to accomplish this with a dynamic site. It’s also beneficial to place keywords in the url.

There are many other on-site optimizations you can perform. I recommend visiting High Rankings for more advice. Also keep in mind that your primary phrase isn’t the only term you should target. If you have a subpage about a more specific topic, optimize that page for that topic not your main one. For example the page about the artist Carl Aagaard is optimized for his name instead of the more generic term “Tropical Art”.

This article has been provided by Art Affiliate.