Archive for November, 2008
Time Proven Tips About Planets in Astrology
In Astrology, every planet is connected with certain functions.
The Sun: Your ego, your basic character. What you are at heart. How you relate to men in general, especially the father. If the Sun is strongly placed in your horoscope, you will tend to be outgoing, authoritative, maybe even a bit theatrical, and you will be more likely to seek attention. The Sun rules the sign of Leo.
The Moon: Your instincts, habit patterns, and unconscious drives. What kind of home you prefer. How you relate to women in general, especially the mother. If the Moon is strongly placed in your horoscope, mood swings tend to be more pronounced and you will be more likely to consciously make decisions on the basis of hunches or feeling. The Moon rules the sign of Cancer.
Mercury: Your ability to think, communicate, and gather information. If Mercury is strongly placed in your horoscope, you will have an increased need for communication and variety. Mercury rules the signs of Gemini and Virgo.
Venus: Your ability to express affection. Artistic taste. Love, possessions, and happiness. People with Venus strongly placed more likely to be considered charming and they will tend to be strongly attracted to the arts. Venus rules the signs of Libra and Taurus.
Mars: Aggression and energy. If Mars is strongly placed in your horoscope, you will tend to be active, energetic, assertive, even aggressive. Mars rules the sign of Aries.
Jupiter: Your ability to grasp general principles, as opposed to the specific sense data of Mercury. It also charts our optimism. The sign position of Jupiter shows where we feel most safe and secure and can therefore take advantage of opportunity. Jupiter rules the sign of Sagittarius.
Saturn: Caution and fear, contraction. Also ambition and determination. Without the obstacles of Saturn, we would never grow. Saturn is strongly placed in the horoscopes of doctors, research scientists, and business people. The sign position shows what we need to feel safe and secure, and what we fear that we will never have enough of. Since this is where we tend to be fearful, we become nervous and tend to “mess up”, or never try at all. This is the quality that frequently comes across as “bad luck”. Saturn rules the sign of Capricorn.
Uranus: Your originality and drive for freedom. This is the “Rebel” planet. It opposes the established order simply because it is an established order. Besides, it thinks it can do a better job. When Uranus is strong in the horoscope, we get people who are considered geniuses, eccentrics, cranks, or insane by the society they live in. These people have a strong tendency to shock and upset others, even when they don’t seem to want to. Examples are Isadora Duncan and Lenny Bruce. Politicians with Uranus strongly placed tend to overthrow the “establishment” only to build a new, frequently more oppressive order. Don’t vote for them! As an example, take a look at the horoscope of Adolph Hitler. Uranus rules the sign of Aquarius.
Neptune: Where we see the world through “rose-colored glasses”. Where we see what we want to see. This is the planet of imagination as well as illusion. If Neptune is strongly placed in the horoscope, the person is most likely to be considered imaginative and sensitive. Neptune rules the sign of Pisces.
Pluto: Sex, death, and regeneration. Extremes. Where we tend to pull out all the stops and never compromise. Pluto strongly placed in your horoscope generally means you are a person not to be messed with. Pluto rules the sign of Scorpio.
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Business Change Management - How Using Proven Techniques Will Ensure Success In Your Organization And Your Career
If you are like most peopleyou and your organization are in the midst of fundamental change - or you very soon will be. What businesses are beginning to understand is that - given competition, customer expectations, changing laws, supply upsets, and new technology - change is no longer the exception. Today, change is now the Rule.
And if change is now the rule, then we need to be able to change effectively to survive and prosper!
Yet 80% of change projects fail.
This includes IT projects, six sigma implementations, re-engineering projcts, mergers projects, sales force automation projects, etc. etc.
Only 20% of these change implementation projects succeed. So the ugly truth is: Everywhere you look businesses must change, yet few people and few organizations implementchange successfully.
But don’t give up hope.
Although not widely practiced, the science of organizational change is very well understood. And by applying what are proven methodologies in your own organizations you can dramatically improve your chances for success. Imagine what this could mean. Even moderate levels of success can provide vast competitive advantage for your organization and for your career.
Why do so few organizations apply these principles? They don’t think all the fuss is necessary; most organizationsdo not realize how difficult strategic change can be, and when they learn what it takes, they immediately think that it cannot possibly be that complicated.
Well, if it’s easy, why do so many people fail at it?
. Learn the systematic approach to implementing organizational change by applying best practices, and you and your organization can beat the odds and rise to the top.
If you would like to learn more, please see our free online video tutorials and tools on our website: Business Change Management Library
Unbiased Guidelines to Understanding Relationship - Foundational Meditation and Chakra Breathing
Foundational meditation
1. Sit in a comfortable chair or lie down on a comfortable spot and relax.
2. Imagine and will, with each inhale, not only your lungs are breathing, inhaling air, but also your whole body is breathing in energy. You inhale with your entire body. The breath acts as a focus for absorbing energy.
3. Know that along with your lungs, each single inch of your body simultaneously absorbs energy. Like a dry sponge when dipped into water absorbs, your body should absorb energy with each inhalation.
Since everyone is individual, how each of us feels the energy will be different in some respects.
To reverse this, exhale energy out. This can make you tired and shouldn’t be done regularly other than to get a grip on how to do it.
* Exhaling energy is for empowering talismans, healing, and just about everything when you want to put energy into something or to direct it.
Energy can also be inhaled and absorbed and then directed to a specific area of your body for healing.
In a very short time, you should be able to feel the energy when you breathe it in. As you advance, you will be able to see it without trying to visualize it.
Feeling in this exercise is most important, especially when you are new. Do not try to see the energy as this can be a distraction. Just get a feel for it.
This exercise is the most important for working with your mind and manipulating energy.
As you advance, you can use this technique of energy absorption to absorb energy from the Sun and from just about anything you choose.
Chakra Breathing
To perform this meditation, you should already be experienced with the Foundation Meditation which is posted.
Relax and enter into a trance state, then, instead of breathing in energy into your entire body as with the energy meditation, breath in energy into each one of your chakras, for seven breaths each. Seven breaths is only a guideline, you can do more or less, but it is important to keep your chakra’s in balance. It is important to not only breathe in the energy, but also to visualize it.
You can breathe in colour of the sun energy (the most powerful) or the color energy of the chakra.
When you are finished breathing each of the chakras, breathe in energy through all of your seven chakras, front and back to meet in the middle.
After this, perform the Foundation Meditation.
This meditation can also be done on just one chakra that is lacking in energy or that is blocked. Just apply the breathing one or more times a day. The rest of the meditation is unnecessary if you are working on a specific weak chakra.
Some may be familiar with drawing down energy from the moon and other planets. The sun is hundreds of times more powerful. The energy of the sun contains all of the colors of the spectrum in their purest forms. Performing this full meditation out of doors under the sun can give you incredible energy and is also very healing. Just affirm “I am breathing in powerful whitey-gold (or whatever color) energy from the sun, into my ______ chakra.” Repeat this several times and then visualize yourself absorbing the energy and brightening your chakras with it.
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Marketing Your Dental Website, Does It Really Matter?
Let me ask you this, Does putting gasoline in your car really matter? I know that’s a pretty silly question and your
probably wondering how in the world does that have to do with marketing your dental website, but stick with me for a minute
and you’ll see where I’m going with this.
How many of you would like a brand new car? Any car? Your dream car?
Okay, so now picture yourself at the car dealership sitting in your dream car, your hands on the wheel, the seat
perfectly forming to your behind… pretty cool right?
Now for the best part…you get to drive it home!
You can’t wait to show your friends and family your dream car. You climb inside, start the engine and the dealer
was so kind to give you a 1/164 of a tank to get you home.
You pull in the driveway and honk the horn. Your family and friends come out and are just going crazy over
your new car. They all take turns sitting inside, holding on to the steering wheel, playing with your new
GPS navigation system, cranking the stereo testing out the new 8 speaker surround sound, rolling up and down the windows,
moving your seat back, up, down to fit them just right. Opening and closing your sun roof and playing with the rest
of the gadgets and gizmos in amazement.
Everyone loves your brand new car and tell you you look absolutely awesome in it and they are totally jealous.
You hop in one last time just to make sure it’s still real before heading inside your house. The second you get inside
you go to the closest window and look outside just making sure it’s still in your driveway.
For the next few hours you about every 5 minutes you keep looking out the window, even sometimes going back outside
just to touch your new car. Things are pretty exciting.
The next day roles around and you just can’t wait to go for a long drive with the sun roof open and the radio blasting
your favorite tunes.
You climb in your car, fasten your seat belt, put the key in the ignition, turn the key…
And nothing. At first your shocked. Maybe you didn’t turn the key far enough so you try again even harder.
Still nothing.
You check your gauges and everything looks perfect… Except one little yellow light that’s telling you..
OUT OF GAS!!
It dawns on you that the dealer only gave you enough gas to get home and show your family and friends, but not enough
for that long afternoon drive along the beach.
You’re a little bummed at the moment, but still extremely excited you have your new car.
You remember that as part of the “Extended Warranty” the dealership promised you gallons and gallons of gas free of
charge as long as you kept paying your monthly payment.
So you give the dealership a call and tell them you need gas really bad so you can take your afternoon drive along the
beach. They tell you they are doing all they can and will get you some gas as soon as possible.
So you wait around and a few days later someone shows up, puts in 1/164 off gas a leaves. Your excited, you got your
first bit of gas, but not enough to go anywhere. So you continue to wait, and wait, and wait and you then realize
your brand new car looks awesome, but your not able to take advantage of all that power, speed and gadgets.
Weeks, Months, Years go by and your still only receiving 1/164 off gas maybe once a week.
You’re now sick and tired of it and decide to look up companies that specializes in delivering gas. There are a few
to choose from. Which one is the best one? Who will offer the best gas? Who will offer gas the quickest?
You have your choice of regular unleaded or premium unleaded with power boosters.
Regular Unleaded might get you around town, but doesn’t offer quite enough torque to get you where you really want to go.
Premium unleaded with power boosters will do everything you need. Give you all the power you can handle. And most
importantly, fill up your tank of gas everyday. Your tank will never run dry again. Some days gas will even spill
all over the place because there so much was delivered that day.
So which would you choose? Regular Unleaded Gas or Premium Unleaded with Power Boosters?
Okay, enough with the car theory, let’s break this down into Office Website and Online Advertising.
If you caught on during my car scenario you realized that your dream car represented your brand new website you
built weeks, months or even years ago.
I’m sure when you finished your website you told your family and friends all about it. They all went to your website,
clicked on all the buttons, looked at all the pictures, read all the material and thought it looked awesome just like
when you brought home your new car for everyone to see. It was an exciting time.
The only problem was, when you went to drive your car there was no gas. Your car was beautiful, but stuck in your
driveway.
Your website could be the most coolest website in the world, but without traffic (gas) it will just sit there and do
nothing.
So is Online Advertising important? I think through this demonstration we’ve proved how important online marketing
truly is.
For whatever reason, businesses with websites seem to neglect Web Promotion. For some reason they think since
they have a website traffic will just start flooding in overnight.
Online Advertising is so complex it usually overwhelms everyone and so they just forget about it and “hope” traffic
just falls in their lap.
Marketing your website is an absolute must if you want to drive in quality new patients. If you have a website just
sitting their collecting dust, I suggest you call your web design company and cancel your $59 monthly payment and put
that money to good use somewhere else.
There is absolutely no reason why your website shouldn’t be flooded with traffic. Millions of people are searching for
dentists on a daily basis. It’s not like your in a business with zero demand or searches.
Dentists are in huge demand by millions of people everyday. The dentist that puts himself in front of those millions
of people are the dentists reaping the rewards.
In the past dentists would use their marketing budgets for yellow pages, radio spots, direct mail and even some tv
commercials.
Back then that’s what people used, but guess what? Things have changed.
The internet is sweeping the world by storm. Even yellow pages, radio, tv are all taking things to the internet.
Just think about it, when you want to find information or do research where do you go? Let me guess…the internet?
I could go on all day talking about this, but I think by now you get my point.
Internet marketing is, and will be in the future for many years to come, the best form of advertising out there. Your
website can be seen by thousands of people each and every day 24/7. You can’t say that about any other form of advertising.
Internet marketing is like everything else, you get what you pay for.
You need to look at it on a business standpoint. Usually when you purchase something for $50 you don’t care much about it.
You put it on the back burner and just let it go. If it does something great, it only cost $50. If it doesn’t do anything,
great I only lost $50.
If you are serious about your dental practice you’ll invest in things that bring back a return.
Why do dentists spend $250,000 on digital x-ray units?
Why do dentists spend $100,000 on Cerec Crown machines?
Why do dentists spend $120,000 on Biolase Lasers?
Why do dentists spend $1,000,000 on a new practice? or remodel?
The answer is quite simple, it makes you money. It simplifies things, makes things easier. Attracts New Patients!!
For those of you who own some of those things I listed how much is your monthly payment? My guess is your paying
$5000 or more for each item each and every month for the next 5-10 years.
How much is your Million Dollar practice costing you? I’d say around $15,000 a month for the next 30 years.
So, if you are willing to spend all that money to simplify things, make things easier, keep technology current, attract
new patients, then wouldn’t it make sense to invest in a solid dental marketing company that will simplify your
online marketing, keep current with hot trends and techniques, and attract new patients?
I think the answer is pretty simple…YES!
No matter who you are, people will always pay for quality.
There is a reason why you purchased the $250,000 x-ray unit instead of the $50,000 unit. There is something about
quality that wins every time.
Smile America Dental Marketing is all about quality. We take our dental marketing strategies very seriously. We like
to think of ourselves as the $250,000 x-ray unit that comes with all the bells and whistles that produce the best
results possible.
Grab dental marketing by the horns and run with it. You’ll be amazed at the results.
Thanks for hanging with me with all my analogies. For those of you who stuck around I have a special bonus for you…
Copy this promotional code, 12350, and I will take $100 off of our Xtreme Pro internet marketing package for you. Just
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See you all next time,
J. King
Guru Mania!
Smile America Dental Marketing
Achieve An Online Accounting Degree
If you’re good with numbers and you like the idea of keeping your own bookkeeping records or completing your own tax returns, you just might have what it takes to be an accountant. But, if you’re fearing that earning an accounting degree will demand too much schooling, you will be ecstatic to know that you can get] an online accounting degree If you already have a full time job and might have family obligations, you may be thinking that attending actual classes may be too much. However, all you need to do is to log onto the Internet to earn your accounting degree, whether it be a masters of accounting online degree or an accounting bachelor degree online. This is the perfect way to get ahead in your career and to find that dream job without having to put your life on hold for three or four years.
Finding a Great Online University
To achieve an online degree in accounting, all you have to do is find a reputable online school and sign up for the required classes. It’s really that easy! An accounting bachelor degree online is so popular with online students that finding universities offering these business programs is a real breeze.
There are several online universities available to you that specialize in business and accounting degrees. After performing a little research, you shouldn’t have any concerns about finding a school that looks attractive to you. But if funding your online degree is a major concern, never fear — there are often financial aid options available to you. These financial aid options can be a tremendous aid in achieving your online degree without being reduced to a underfunded college student in the process.
The Advantages of Online Degrees
The beauty of taking online classes is that they can be completed in your spare time. You can do it when you first wake up in the morning, right before you go to bed at night, or anytime in between. The reality is that it’s just like attending an actual school without having to worry about parking and getting to the classroom on time. In fact, if you need special help on the course materials, there are people standing by online to provide that help.
As you desire to advance your education, an accounting degree online makes perfect sense. The convenience of online courses makes this option a perfect choice for those with other lifestyle commitments, like jobs and family. So, why not start enjoying the benefits of earning your accounting bachelor degree online by researching the various course options and universities that offer these convenient and flexible online degree programs? It will allow you to not only improve your career, but also your future and success in life, as well.