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Dateline:  1/6/2011

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Demons and Progress:  
Essential Companions Or Mortal enemies?

by Dave Cleinman

The process of moving from one area to another, such as from a job to building a business, is generally fraught with challenges and personal difficulties.  This is true for even the most seasoned and knowledgeable individual.  A job provides an illusion of security that a business does not.  Yet in both cases there are illusions.  A job has little, if any security, unless there is a specific contract (which in the USA is exceedingly rare).  A business, however, properly built and run can provide a level of security unmatched by almost any job.  Despite the millions of people who come onto the internet to build a business each day only one out of a hundred will achieve true success.  A handful more will have some success.  Better than 95 percent will make no money at all and will likely spend much more than they ever recoup.  

Demons are those personal issues that keep us from progressing.  The little voices in our heads, the people who have strong opinions, the difficulty of the daily grind, the inner beliefs that we cannot succeed, and so on.  These demons must be conquered before we experience success.  Or do they?

Do we need to rid ourselves of demons before we can progress?  Most people think so.  So much so that they never progress because the demons have their way with them and they are unable to pass those personal roadblocks.

Here’s a different way to deal with the demons that will not eliminate them, but will render them powerless.  This is really all we can do.  Circumstances may change, but people usually do not.  The issues preventing success will not go away.  The tons of little things that require our attention will always be there.  The voices in  our heads?  These we can handle directly.

Six steps, very brief will empower us to progress, demons or not.

1.  Have a plan of what you want to achieve.  Be specific and develop a plan for achieving it.  Break it down into steps.  Break the steps into action plans.  One devil down:  knowing what to do.

2.  Avoid negative people.  If they happen to be family be straight with them.  If they insist on giving advice, ignore it.  If they constantly naysay, avoid them.  These are difficult demons because when we avoid them we tend to feel guilty.  So avoid discussions of business with family or friends who are not supportive.

3.  Structure your day so that you get enough sleep, exercise, proper nutrition, and have daily down time.  Most people are bad at most, if not all of these. 

4.  Research products/opportunities very well.  Promote only what you use yourself and believe in.  Self-doubt is a huge demon and can be overcome by making sure you believe in what you are selling.

5.  Follow good mentors.  Not the people who spam and scam, but business people who know how to market and build a brand.  Marketing properly is much more fun and rewarding than using ineffective and illegal methods.  Demon number five down, knowing how to sell.

6.  Get control of your thoughts.  Keep a log of what goes through your mind.  Our thoughts actually move faster than our conscious mind can keep up, leaving emotional traces and feelings that largely drive our behavior.  As we align our thoughts with what we need to do to achieve success, we conquer the biggest demon of them all, and success will come.

Finding out what your personal demons are can be accomplished by tracing your thoughts.  What upsets you?  What are you afraid of?  What things that people say really bother you?  Such clues will help you identify your demons.  You can even give them names, if you like.  Once found, their cover is blown and you can deal with them.

To some degree, success in business requires demons.  They motivate us, give us focus, provide us with counterpoint that keeps us on our toes.  They will not go away, but they can be managed.  And, in some ways our demons are the weights of life.  As we exercise dealing with them we get stronger.

 

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Comparing The Top Blogging Platforms

By: Vincent Tittel

Nowadays there are hundreds of different ways to create a blog. The blogging platform that you should use depends on your skill level and the purpose of your blog. We have reviewed a number of the top blogging platforms and reviewed them based on their strengths and weaknesses. In order to help compare these blogging platforms, we have also considered what each of the most popular blogging platforms would be best utilized for.

WordPress blogging platform is widely considered to be one of the best ways to start a blog. WordPress is so highly regarded because it is completely free and has a robust CMS backend that allows amazing customization. Likewise, the WordPress community has produced an abundance of free themes and plugins that make it a breeze to make your new blog look great and function impressively. The WordPress blogging platform also works great for Multi-User blogs.

The Blogger blogging platform, owned and operated by Google, is also free. Blogger blogs are easy to start, have a number of great themes to choose from, and have a clean, simple content management system. The blogs tend to get indexed by Google very quickly, and are easy to integrate with AdSense since they are both Google products. Blogger is great for personal blogs, but can be a bit lacking in terms of making a corporate blog or a whole website using the CMS.

Tumblr is a red hot phenomenon happening in the blogging world. A Tumblr is sort of a mix between a blog and Twitter. It allows you to easily and attractively publish posts in blog format, but also has a very active community that interacts with each other and re-blogs interesting content. Tumblr is certainly one of the most innovative of all the blogging platforms on this list. It is worth taking a look for all bloggers, although we suspect that it lends itself to personal blogging.

Posterous is a blogging platform that aims to be as minimalistic as possible. You don't even need to sign up for posterous: simply e-mail post@posterous.com from any e-mail account and the platform will automatically create a blog for you. Once you learn their backend, you will be impressed by just how robust this minimalistic blogging platform actually is, and whatever Posterous does sacrifice in function it certainly makes up for with simplicity.

A number of high profile bloggers prefer SquareSpace as their blogging platform of choice. It is a commercial blogging platform that costs as low as $8. Where SquareSpace wins is for making large-scale blogs. It makes customization coding very simple. Moreover, the templates are some of the cleanest out of all the blogging platforms. For serious bloggers, SquareSpace is worth a look.

It's easy to say that the most popular blogging platforms are all pretty good, and probably more than sufficient for most would-be bloggers, but nobody likes to hear that. If we had to pick out the best of all t4he most popular blogging platforms, the choice, to us, is clear: WordPress. You just can't match the level of customization and function that is possible with the amazing plugins and themes available for free in the WordPress community. Better yet, if you are willing to shell out a small fee, you can have access to truly jaw-dropping themes and plugins built incredibly well. For free, you can have the best website in your niche. For a few hundred dollars, that same website will completely and utterly blow away the competition. Check it out - for free! For more blog info, visit teach me to blog.

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About the Editor:

Dave Cleinman is an internet marketer and free-lance writer who specializes in helping network marketers have success in business.  A successful owner of two businesses, and manager of three others during a lifetime of service, he believes anyone can be successful if they have the desire, patience, and willingness to follow the lead of those who have done it.

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