Top Ten Things About Creating a Business Vision

To visualise where you are going, is deeper and more sensory than anything you have ever done before. And these are the skills of those who are able to create a vision you can really live and breathe. These people...

Are Focused They are able to visualise in a focused and very clear way what 'perfect' will truly look like in the future. Involve Others Bring others into the contribution, such that they might try things they might never have before. Realise Core Strengths Whilst being ultra-keen to grow and evolve, these people are true to the core strengths of the organisation and see the future through that. Take Time Out Make the time for themselves and help others to free up thinking room. And use it fully. Play the Game They encourage a creative environment and take full part personally. They themselves set out to find ways of generating novel and fun ways to make this live. Think Big Top class visions may even be unattainable within lifetimes and are often part of a bigger legacy. many major corporations have 50-year (and more!) visions. Use Their Senses A vital part of Visioning is to be able to use all five senses as fully as possible and alos that wonderful sixth sense, the one of intuition. Are Knowledgeable They keep their eyes and ears open and are fully aware of the possibilities. they suck in information and ideas to help form their thinking. Media, other people, non-business analogies and metaphors too. Put Aside Beliefs Great visionaries can shift themselves into a different dimension when looking at the future and leave their existing beliefs outside the room. Are Evangelists They shout the outcome vision from the rooftops, relating so well to all of their people. They explains it in words which mean something to all involved in future success.

And taking the time out to share these visions, better still, involve your people right in the thick of it - builds teams, encourages contribution. Generates motivation, engagement and commitment.

Tips When Buying Modern Office Furniture

Surveys done among corporate workers have shown that the workplace and its environment have a direct impact on an employee's productivity. It is just logical. You spend at least eight hours at work each day, five to six days a week in it. If it is an inconvenient place, how long could you last before giving up? How many mornings would you be willing to drag yourself to work? This is primarily the reason why many businesses have started re-decorating their offices with modern office furniture.

Pieces of modern office furniture are comfortable, functional, and pleasing to the eyes. You have to get rid of the idea that antiques are the only ones appropriate for your office so it will look professional. Contemporary office furnishings can surely add up to the looks of your workplace and they can definitely perk you up with their lightness and convenience.

There are some basic things you have to consider when planning to make use of some modern office furniture for your workplace. Read on and get to know about them.

o Available space - make sure that you know the exact space you have before buying any furniture for your office. You would not want to have a table delivered only to realize it won't fit through the door, right? Or when it does, it looks overly big or awfully small for the room. Before going to the furniture shop, measure the space you have and try to picture how big of an item you need for the space. Consider the space around it too. Will you be able to move around comfortably? Will there be enough room for you to sit or stand? Will it not hinder you for being able to reach other important materials you need for work?

o Materials - Take time to research about the materials you would like your furniture to be made of. Wood? Plastic? Glass? A combination of everything? Think of your business and what kind of people you are dealing with. Also consider the people that you work with. What would likely suit their tastes and personalities? Remember, redesigning your office could be a lot of fun, especially if you are modernizing it. Everyone would appreciate a change in the mood for the better. Say goodbye to your stiff office image!

o Cost- Changing the image of your workplace by buying modern office furniture may be quite costly. If you are changing almost everything, you may have a hard time finding ways to purchase them not only because of the huge amount of money, but the places you will get them from too. You may want to give second hand office items a thought. They may not be brand new but a lot of them are definitely still very usable.

o Where to buy - The options are endless when you try to visit local modern office furniture stores. However, you may also try to shop online. It is much more convenient because you will not have to drive anywhere neither will you have to jump from one shop to another. All you have to do is click and open a new webpage.

Infinite Hierarchy of Beings Theory

Some believe that there is an infinite hierarchy of beings that are greater than human beings, additionally they believe that you cannot know all these levels of life until your travel up the hierarchy. Indeed this is an interesting spin on religion and a fascinating attempt at religion. Surely there are those who might buy into this concept having been burned by other religions in the past. It makes for a very interesting story and Sci Fi writer's might chomp at the bit to take the ball and run with it.

Recently in an online think tank a gentleman threw his religion into a discussion on the speed of light and talked of infinite energy beings and then stated; "To be aware of them, you have to go up in the levels of life and hierarchy of beings, greater than human beings. And there are infinite hierarchy of beings!"

Well, you can imagine how the chicken crap and Bird Flu hit the fan on this one in a scientific think tank? This gentleman's ascertain was challenged immediately by another think tanker who stated;

"You cannot prove this therefore it cannot be accepted as truth. This line of reasoning is fascinating indeed and worthy of a cup of coffee and a sit down chat, but beyond that will not work for most due to the un-provable nature of the comment. Isaac Asimov and others had discussed this as well. Although had not taken it to the infinite. This is indeed somewhat irrelevant to the subject of traveling faster than the speed of light and you have used the technique of "Baffling with Bullsh_t" here and strayed from a very serious and really important point for human scientists."

It sure is interesting how such religions can filter into a discussion on traveling faster than the speed of light. Perhaps Gene Roddenberry might be proud of him for following the Star Trek Series so closely, who knows? My question to you is do you have theories or ideas on hierarchy of beings? Can you help this lost gentleman better his case, as he is getting pummeled in his belief system? Perhaps you might like to join in on these thoughts? Think on this in 2006.

Nursing Home Neglect, Nursing Home Abuse and Negligence

With the volumes of seniors that are now moving into assisted care facilities, there has been a rise in nursing home neglect cases across the nation. Because the demand for excellent and affordable care and housing has increased in the last decade due to many of the baby boomers now turning 65, it seems as though there are more incidences of abuse and nursing home neglect to elderly patients.

There has been much speculation as to the causes of nursing home neglect, including lack of qualified personnel to hire, poor management of facilities, and lack of funds or insurance payments being delayed, all causing frustrations and inexperienced staff members. All that withstanding, there should be NO excuse for abuse in nursing homes, assisted living, or home care.

If you have a loved one that you fear has been a victim of nursing home neglect, you should speak to your local police department about actions you can take against the facility. First and foremost, document all evidence of abuse so that if you do choose to hire a family lawyer to take on your case, you will have proof to backup your claim. Also, it is wise to move your parent, grandparent or other relative that is being neglected to a better facility immediately. Take a stand against abuse, and one step at a time we can eliminate this problem.

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If You'll Build It, They Will Come

When Kevin Kostner build his field in "Field of Dream", nobody even thought that he'll actually make someone to come. We all know the end - a massive car traffic was created near his house. Everybody came to see the new field. In the early 90's, very few people knew to build a website. So if you wanted traffic into your website - all you needed to do is to built one! Once you added your website into the search engines index, it flew!

Is it still so simple even today?

The answer is no! Today, the internet is flooded with millions of website pages, so the competition is very high. The technology of the last years allows every ten years old to create his own web page. To lead your business in the wild world of the internet today, you need professional skills and knowledge. With the right knowledge, your internet business will fly.

What should I do to improve my website?

A good website is one that many people knows. A great site is one that millions of people knows! You can improve your website to a great one by learning the rules of internet optimization, and act by them. There is a lot of articles, forums, blogs and other stuff you can learn from. This learning experience can take you months. There's a lot of great guides which gives a step-by-step information about how to improve your website and get more clients. Using a guide like this can save you a lot of expensive time and money.

For example, some sites have a great system which increase traffic and sales to your website. The beautiful thing in this system is the fact that it works like an autopilot! From the moment you've start it, it will run by itself! Many successful webmasters are using power tools like that one to improve their website performance. They are using a professional tactics they saw the guides, and doesn't pay a penny to an advertising companies.

Summary

If you have a website, webpage or just a blog you want to show the world, you must know the internet optimization rules. In case you're not recognized with them, buy a step-by-step guide in maximum price of $40 and start building your website pink future. Remember: even if you've built the most beautiful website in the world, it worth nothing if nobody know about it!

Forgiveness: Letting Yourself Out of Prison

I noticed the scowl on the face of a Vietnamese engineer as I taught about the impact of hardened anger and of the need to forgive. I was sure he wasn't the only one in this room of managers who felt the emotions his face seemed to reflect. After all, the company was about to go through downsizing, and many were unhappy with the edicts that had been handed down from Corporate.

He never spoke up in the group that day, though others were quite verbal. It wasn't until we sat together on the long ride back from the remote retreat location that I learned what he had been thinking.

"I heard what you said today about how grudges make you sick in your heart and body. But I can never forgive the Communists. They don't deserve to be forgiven."

"Tell me more about it," I invited.

"I had dreams," he said. "I left Viet Nam in 1982 in little 30-foot fishing boat with 60 people on board. We landed on Malaysian soil after four scary days and nights at sea. One year later I considered myself and my family very lucky to have been admitted to the U.S. under political asylum status. But I'm getting ahead of myself. You see, the horrible images of the past eight years keep coming back to me. All of my dreams would not have been just dreams if the Communists didn't invade my country.

"What kind of crime did I committed anyway? Were it a crime to be born in a religious family? Were it a crime to attend an American college? Were it a crime to work for a living?

"Unfortunately, it were from the Communist perspective. Religion were considered a tranquilizer to the People's Movement. Educated in American school was enough to qualify me as a traitor to the "people." Working with government-owned Air Viet Nam meant collaborating with the enemy.

"I had such a hard time trying to convince the political officer that I attended an American engineering college because I won a scholarship to have free schooling. I worked for Air Viet Nam just to make a living like anybody else does. I was a Buddhist because I was born in a family that believed in Buddhism for generations. The more I reasoned, the more I appeared not wishing to cooperate with the new government. It was not a surprise to see myself in the "re-education camp" (prison) shortly.

"Four years in re-education camp seemed decades. Days after days, I built the hatred in myself, I hate the Communists so much. They came and took away our future, our hope, our country's prosperity. I look at the guards like looking at monsters. No human would act the way they act... abusing people, treating people like animals, laughing on people's suffering. They tried to weaken our body by hard labor and undernourishing in order to control our mind.

"Out of 1200 prisoners in the camp, four hundred died in one year, average more than one a day.

"After 15 years, the hatred are still boiling insides myself as much as the time I was in the camp. All the years living in the U.S., I never touch a book on Communism. I refused to watch movie about Viet Nam. When I talk to someone who says one word that seems like favoring Communism, I walk away. My wife has begs me to go with her to visit family back in Viet Nam, but I cannot set foot there because of what happened."

This man's experiences are very different from ours...or are they? The setting is different, but the essential elements are the same.

1. LOSS OF POWER AND CONTROL.

He was literally in a prison. We can feel that way when "life" or certain people create negative experiences for us against our will.

2. UNDESERVED PUNISHMENT.

This man did not commit a crime, yet he received four years of cruel punishment. Some of the hardest things to forgive are those that are totally undeserved, things we did not directly bring on ourselves by our own choices.

3. LOSS OF THINGS WE VALUE.

The psychological losses were the ones that fueled this man's anger the most - the loss of freedom, the stealing of dreams, the horror of witnessing harm to others. It is also these deeper losses that haunt us. They often convince us that our lives have been snatched from us - and that someone needs to be punished for that.

4. DIFFICULTY LETTING GO.

My friend was still living in the prison from which he had been physically released years before. Are you?

WHAT THOUGHTS KEEP YOU HELD CAPTIVE?

Your thought habits exert a powerful influence on your emotions and behavior. Let's examine some of the "cognitive culprits" - myths that can paralyze you, embitter you, and keep you from moving forward in your life.

1. If I forgive, I'll be letting the person get off scot free.

Truth is, the other person is probably not the one held most captive by this. It's you!

You were already injured. You already had important things stolen from you.

Why perpetuate the harm by keeping yourself trapped in the never-ending reliving of the horror?

Forgive to free YOURSELF!

2. If I forgive, I'll be saying that what happened doesn't really matter.

No way. It DID and DOES matter. What happened was very, very wrong. Choosing to forgive does not make any statement to the contrary.

3. If I forgive, he/she will have won.

When you allow yourself to have an unforgiving spirit, you are always the real loser. The collateral losses continue, as the bitterness causes you to become a less effective worker, spouse or partner, parent, and/or friend.

You couldn't help what happened to you originally. You didn't cause the first losses. However, if you harbor the anger and revenge, you will create more losses than the perpetrator could inflict. It's your choice about whether to continue to inflict pain on yourself.

4. If I forgive, I'll be more vulnerable to harm in the future.

Forgiveness will not prevent your learning the lessons that are essential in your future. What has happened will make you more cautious, true enough.

Yes, your rights were violated. However, the reality is, some of the things we presume are rights are really privileges. Another fact is, some of the assumptions we have about, "This will never happen to me," are unfounded. No one is immune..not even "good people."

The difficult realization is, this world may not be as safe as you had previously assumed. However, with that loss of innocence comes a more mature realization that, though there is danger in relationships, in work situations, and in all of life, you can make the choices that make safer choices without becoming paranoid.

If you free yourself from the bitterness that can distort your thinking, perceptions, and reactions...you'll be able to see the world more clearly. Without the irrationality that accompanies hatred and bitterness, you'll become a wiser person.

I had planned to get to the "how-to" part in this article, but because of the foundation we needed to lay, that essential information will have to wait til the next Magnetizer. See you then!

Die My Love By Kathryn Casey (True Crime Book Review)

Fans of psychology and true crime will thoroughly enjoy this book. Die My Love tells the story of how one woman's obsession would lead to murder and the destruction of an entire family.

There's no time to catch your breath in this latest true-crime page turner from Kathryn Casey. With her unique voice style, the author paints a vivid portrait of Piper Rountree...petite, beautiful, attorney and murderer? Although those closest to the family were painfully aware of Piper's irrational, eradicate behavior, only her sister Tina truly understood the darkness that had enveloped her every thought.

Using her sister's identification for plane tickets and hotel reservations, Piper flew from Texas to Virginia, where she gunned down her estranged husband in the driveway of his home, as their three children slept in their beds mere yards away. Despite the sister's best efforts to concoct an air tight alibi and dispose of evidence, it was just a matter of time before justice came calling.

Extensive research takes the reader behind the well manicured facade that had been painstakingly constructed to protect the all important image Piper cultivated. With lyrical prose, Casey skillfully traces the Jablin-Rountree story - from their early days to Piper's strange, irrational behavior, to the series of events that would lead to the destruction of an already flawed marriage. Weaving a complex narrative of a family who, lived in a beautiful home, surrounded by friends and family but lingered in the shadow of dysfunction, Casey reassembles their shattered lives in the years and months before Fred's death, intimately describing what led this petite, educated, Texas lawyer to murder her ex-husband and the father of her children.

Filled with the most complete case facts available, Die My Love offers an unparalleled look at one of the most captivating murder cases in recent years, told by one of the most prolific crime writers of our time! I recommend this book to all who enjoy true crime novels, as well as, thriller and mystery lovers! I anxiously await Kathryn Casey's next novel!

Happy Reading!

How Much Is That Next Investment Home? - Real Estate - Calculating ARV or After Repair Value

What is ARV? I'm asked this question all the time from other real estate investors. So I'll try my best to answer them here so others can benefit from the answers.

After Repair Value (ARV): Basically, what would a house sell for if it was in a sellable condition? If you work with an agent on occasions, you can ask them to pull a Brokers Price Opinion (BPO) for you on the property. Before asking, make sure you have worked with the agent or a least you are planning to work with that agent in the future, their time is very valuable too. If you subscribe to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), you can pull a BPO on your own. It will give you a list of homes within a mile from your subject property and that has closed in the last 6 months or so. A BPO is like an estimated appraisal of worth. It's not an appraisal, it's just a close estimate of future value.

You can look for comparable homes that are within a mile of your subject property that are as close in square footage and amenities as your subject property. Amenities meaning, does it have a garage, attached or detached, fenced in yard, finished basement, etc. Try to find other properties that closed within 6 months of the current date or less, don't use closings that occurred over a year in the past for your estimates. In slower markets you might have to go further than a year and a mile to find your comparable, just try to keep them under a year from closing and less than a mile from your subject property if at all possible. The further you have to go the less accurate your estimate will be.

Once you have these numbers and addresses, drive by the comparable properties that you located during the above process. I've got some questions:

1. Do they resemble your subject property?

2. Does the neighborhood look comparable to your subject properties neighborhood?

3. Are they in the same type of neighborhood?

4. Always look at these properties as if you were planning on buying and living in the property, put yourself in your future buyers shoes.

5. Does your subject property's neighborhood look trashy compared to the comparables that were pulled?

6. Does the comparable have the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms?

7. Does it have the same amenities; garage, finished basement, or a fenced in backyard, etc.?

8. When was the comparable built compared to your subject property?

9. Is your subject property an older style home? Have all the other properties in the area been facially upgraded on the outside?

10. Does the area of your subject property have boarded, abandon, or trashy properties around it and your comparable doesn't.

11. Can you make your subject property look like the comparables you are using?

At this point you might have to pull different properties if your comparable properties are in a really nicer or worst neighborhood.

You can work up an average and this should be fairly close to what you can sell the house for after you have it fixed up. This should give you are fairly accurate estimate of the properties future worth. As I said, the further off your comparable is the less accurate your estimate will be. If you analyze your comparable neighborhoods, you can figure out how much more a property is worth if it has an extra bedroom or bathroom. At that point you can compare a 3 bed-2 bath and a 2 bed-2 bath just by adding or subtracting the amount of increase or decrease for having or not having the same amount of bedrooms or bathrooms. This is basically what an appraiser will do. They have the skill to compare a 4 bedroom home to a 2 bedroom home by knowing how much to subtract from the value of the 4 bedroom home to calculate the value of the 2 bedroom home.

In the next article I'll cover renovation or rehab costs of the subject property itself, the one you are thinking about buying.

Spy Gadgets that Can Help You Detect Infidelity

Spy gadgets are designed to help you uncover things that others might want to keep hidden from you. And one of the things that most people are anxious to hide is infidelity. In the past, it was common to do things like hire a private investigator to follow your spouse around or bug the phones or take pictures. This used to be reasonable. However, the fact of the matter is that with all of the spy gadgets and technology available today, there is no reason to go out and hire a professional. There are plenty of tools that are reasonably priced that you can use to get to the bottom of the mystery and discover for yourself whether your spouse is true.

One of the more common spy gadgets that can help in your investigation of whether or not you have to worry about infidelity is a GPS tracking device. These devices are great because they are covert. Some of them are small enough to hide in a purse or in the car. There are even cell phones equipped with GPS devices. Not only can you see where someone is right now, but you can also pull up a history of where the tracker has been. A fancy restaurant? A seedy motel? Or just to work and back? You can find out rather easily.

The main problem with tracking spy gear is that it is all very well to know where someone is, but it doesn't lend good insight on what someone is doing at that place. Maybe your significant other is always in a place that seems innocuous. But maybe something else is going on. This is where listening devices come in. Listening devices can be hidden in a purse (like a pen), or even be a cell phone. You can have a cell phone that is called automatically when the phone your spouse has is in use. You can also dial in and hear what is going on in the same room, even when the phone is not being used.

But the best spy gadgets are the kind that give you biological proof. There are kits that you can purchase that can find bodily fluids on sheets or underwear. You can also compare your test results to your own body fluids and see whether those are the only fluids associated with your significant other. Whether you substantiate your trust in your partner, or whether you find out he or she is not worthy of trust, you can do it yourself with spy gadgets.

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