Setting Powerful Intentions

By Emily Bouchard

Intentions Have Power In Them
One of the best ways to tackle a problem in your life is to set powerful intentions. Many people have the desire to be different, yet they do not know how to go about making the changes they'd like to see. Lofty goals are often set and seldom achieved, because of a lack of understanding of HOW to set the intention.

When setting an intention to do something differently, you must be specific and set goals that are measurable and attainable in order to be successful. The more specific you are the better!
Resolving to do something differently is basically saying that you will no longer resort to a habitual way of approaching life and will use a whole new set of behaviors instead. This is much like starting a new exercise routine- you'll be excited at first, and then the resistance will start, especially as your muscles ache and you experience pain as you develop your strength in a new area. And you are likely to return to old habits if you don't have a personal trainer to report to, or if you do not have clear, measurable, and defined goals to achieve so that you see ongoing results!

Here's how to set goals that will be successfully achieved: be clear, be specific, and have a way to assess on a daily or weekly basis your progress. And for those who need extra support, having an "intentions buddy" or a life coach can make a world of difference!

Many families I work with express a desire for better communication. This is a general goal.
Together we explore ways for them to get very specific. I ask them questions to help them define what they really want -- questions like: What would better communication look like? How would you know that your family is communicating at the level you want? What would be different? How would life in your family change?

Once these questions are answered, then the family comes up with specific, measurable ways to determine their "communication progress" on a regular basis. One family determined that they needed a daily ritual to encourage communication. They started playing a game after dinner where they spend time sharing their wins and challenges for the day. Another family came up with a weekly family event where they passed an ice-cream maker around a circle and whoever was cranking was the one who shared about their week and about how they were doing in general.

In both of these families, they set up a routine, a structure, and a way to determine if the goal was being achieved. If a family member wasn't showing up for the designated family times, then the other family members knew that they needed to check in with that person and find out what was going on for them - communicating more individually.

Another common complaint I hear from couples in blended families is that they get little to no time to themselves. These couples might set a general goal of "We're going to spend more time together alone this year." As their coach, I explore with them how to make their goal clear and specific so that they will actually follow through. Some couples decide to arrange for a weekend away once a month. Others have a date night every Friday night with a regular sitter scheduled months in advance - so it is a given. And, again, if the date night doesn't happen, the couple gets to immediately check in and look at their level of commitment to the intention that they set.
They explore what's not working about their original plan and how to adapt it to new circumstances so that their intention of regular, private time together is achieved.

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Emily Bouchard, has over 18 years of experience in working with children and families to deal with problems. Emily is also a loving stepmother to two young women who were teenagers when she entered their lives. She publishes a free Blended Families newsletter. Don't miss her Caring page.

How To Pick Up A Girl - 2 Most Powerful Tips To Impress A Girl That You are Interested In!

By Herman Tugimin

Do you know how to pick up a girl so that she can get impressed? Do you know how to start a conversation with a girl that you are interested in? No doubt, the subject on how to pick up a girl seems to be difficult for some guys. They are fear to get rejection while approaching any girl or woman. In my opinion, it is better to get rejected than not to try!

In this article, I am going to tell you the two type that is the most powerful pick up lines among others pick up lines type that have a high chances of success. Here are they:

1). Use Funny Pick Up lines
Women love to laugh. So, use it at the right time and make her laughing. It will impress them and she may think that you are an interesting guy. For examples: Excuse me, I think you have something in your eye. Nope, it is just a sparkle or may be you can say like: Oh My God, I thought I was gay then I met you. The key here is if you can keep her laughing, you will go far.

2).Use Romantic Pick Up lines
If you want to steal her heart and make it yours, then you should use romantic pick up lines. For Examples: I could die tomorrow and it would not matter as long as I knew that I could meet an angel like you in Heaven. Or you can say: Ever wonder why you have spaces between your fingers? So my fingers can fit there. The key here is you must look within her to find the beautiful part and tell in poetic comments.

Lastly, the two pick up lines that I just mentioned above will work if you use it properly at the right moment. The best way to make a pick up line work is to avoid it sounding like a pick up line. It is very necessary to concentrate on how you say it rather that what you actually say. All of the above mentioned lines are common and the most preferred ones. GOOD LUCK!
Do you know What Not to Say When Approaching Woman? Do you know How To Talk To Women and Hold Their Interest?

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How to Create A Powerful Headline

By Lassaad Gasmi

Headlines are one of the most influential factors in copywriting. Headlines are used to get your readers’ attention which will encourage your readers to read your copy or your message. They play a vital part in the copywriting process.

Internet users did not read all the copy word for word. People skim the copy. Hence, headlines must inform your visitors about your copy. Headline is the most important element to your letter, e-book, articles and all your web copy. Your headline job is to immediately get your prospects attention and draw them to read your entire copy.

Create a powerful headline need to combine different factors and here are a few tips for headline that sell:

1. Headlines Should Outline the Main Benefit
Headlines should outline the main benefits to your readers to learn your content or to buy from your web site.

People search about what are in your copy form them. Include your solution in your headline.
Make sure your headlines should answers your readers question about the specific content.

2. Headlines Should Give An Overview

Headlines should resume your copy content. Headlines and sub-headlines should offer the most important information related to your copy. Most people did not learn word for word but they skim your copy. Create a great headlines and sub-headlines will help them to understand your content and they will encourage them to read your entire copy or e-book.

3. Headlines Can Raise Curiosity

Curiosity is a very powerful human emotion. The headline should generate curiosity in the midst of your targeted audience. It should give the right impression about your copy to your readers.

4. Power Words
Use power words to force your readers to buy your e-book or to read your articles or ads. This strategy is used very effectively in advertisements.

Power words for instance “free” or “how to” or “proven” or “revealed” can make the same affect as a number of ways for example “7”or “101” or “77” to grab your readers.

5. Use your swipe file, where you have many proven headlines.

6. Use your swipe fileGet the most imporatnt headlines from others web sites and articles will help you to create a powerful headlines.

7. Use Verbs:
Verbs make what you say come to life with action, force and magnetism.

Using verbs such as turn, discover, explode or create are an effective way to create your powerful headlines.

8. Identify your ideal prospect:
Your headline needs to grab the person you want to attract and single them out. You should target a specific niche market looking for information or problems that you will offer a solution.

9. Test your headline
Test your headline before your start your sales letter promotion. Google AdWords or another pay per click advertising system will help you to drive traffic and to judge the power of your headline.

Finally, headline is the very important part to create your sales letter, ebook, ads or articles. The headline of your sales letter, ebook, ads or articles must grab your reader’s attention, because if your headline doesn’t catch them the sales letter, ebook, ads or articles will never get read.

Create powerful headline that can draw the reader into the rest of your sales letter is the most important key to increase your income and to get more readers to your sales letter.

Lassaad Gasmi is an internet marketer and seo experts. Learn more about affiliate marketing and how to set your affiliate business: affiliate marketing

'Stick' Or 'Carrot ' - Which Is More Powerful? - Tutorial For Politicians, Sales Managers & Dictator

By Robert Seviour

Which is the greater motivator, ‘Stick’ or ‘Carrot’? - I have put that question to approximately 6,000 intelligent, well-educated people and most of them don’t know. When they guess, they get it wrong.

First let’s be clear what is meant by the two terms. ‘Stick’ is the threat of something nasty happening to you. Generally it’s not physical these days (although it was at the school that I went to). Usually the penalty is financial or work-related.

‘Carrot’ is a reward of some kind; a better job, an award, more money, a competition prize, an annual bonus and so on.

‘Stick’ or ‘Carrot’ can be used in such varied situations as dealing with anti-social behaviour in young people, incentives for executives to achieve company targets or stimulating salespeople to reach a higher level of productivity.

But whatever the application, it is desirable to know which of the two inducements works better, the threat of something nasty happening to you or the lure of a pleasant experience?

For the answer, you only need to look at what is used by long-established - hence experienced - organisations which require people to do things they don’t really want to.

The IRS does not send out the kind of letters that charity organisations use. You won’t be told how much your donation will be appreciated or what good works will be paid for with it. Instead it’s, ‘Pay by return or we’ll see you in court.’

I put this point across in my seminars by asking a series of questions; ‘Do you drive a car?’ ‘Is it insured?’ ‘Do you like paying for insurance?’

They say that they don't.

‘Then why do you do it?’

The answer is that the likely outcome of not being insured is an expensive penalty and perhaps loss of driving license.

You'd get the same reply if you asked if people like to pay income tax or for servicing their car.

We are motivated to do these things because we know that not doing them invites a consequence which is worse than the nuisance or expense of doing them.

By contrast, ‘Carrot’ motivation is powered by the desire for ‘nice’ things and experiences. For that very reason it is weaker than ‘Stick’.

If you consider all the things that you would like to do or have, but haven’t yet taken action on, the reason that you haven’t is generally that what you have got or are experiencing is ‘good enough’, you can live with it.

It’s part of the human condition that most of us more prepared to tolerate an unsatisfactory situation than to do what is necessary to change it.

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Author

The understanding that ‘Stick’ has more motivating power than ‘Carrot’ can be used to make persuasive arguments by anyone who wishes to influence. Infants, politicians, leaders of countries employ the device. Political managers do so with negative campaigning. Salespeople and speech-makers gain the attention of their audience by describing a looming problem and follow by proposing a solution if you will only buy their product or concede to their ideas.

The greatest stimulus is obtained when ‘Stick’ and ‘Carrot’ are used together and there is both a pressure to move away from a penalty and also a driver towards a reward. This principle is highly-effective in people-handling of all types and is central to sales management.

To create a persuasive argument, talk about the problems your audience will face if they don’t take the action you are advocating then describe the benefits they will enjoy if they do.

Put the principle to work next time you make a speech or give a presentation.

Download a Free Sales Masterclass

Information on the Selling for Engineers manual and Seminar

Robert Seviour is a sales trainer specialising in business development for technical companies.

'Stick' Or 'Carrot ' - Which Is More Powerful? - Tutorial For Politicians, Sales Managers & Dictator

By Robert Seviour

Which is the greater motivator, ‘Stick’ or ‘Carrot’? - I have put that question to approximately 6,000 intelligent, well-educated people and most of them don’t know. When they guess, they get it wrong.

First let’s be clear what is meant by the two terms. ‘Stick’ is the threat of something nasty happening to you. Generally it’s not physical these days (although it was at the school that I went to). Usually the penalty is financial or work-related.

‘Carrot’ is a reward of some kind; a better job, an award, more money, a competition prize, an annual bonus and so on.

‘Stick’ or ‘Carrot’ can be used in such varied situations as dealing with anti-social behaviour in young people, incentives for executives to achieve company targets or stimulating salespeople to reach a higher level of productivity.

But whatever the application, it is desirable to know which of the two inducements works better, the threat of something nasty happening to you or the lure of a pleasant experience?

For the answer, you only need to look at what is used by long-established - hence experienced - organisations which require people to do things they don’t really want to.

The IRS does not send out the kind of letters that charity organisations use. You won’t be told how much your donation will be appreciated or what good works will be paid for with it. Instead it’s, ‘Pay by return or we’ll see you in court.’

I put this point across in my seminars by asking a series of questions; ‘Do you drive a car?’ ‘Is it insured?’ ‘Do you like paying for insurance?’

They say that they don't.

‘Then why do you do it?’

The answer is that the likely outcome of not being insured is an expensive penalty and perhaps loss of driving license.

You'd get the same reply if you asked if people like to pay income tax or for servicing their car.

We are motivated to do these things because we know that not doing them invites a consequence which is worse than the nuisance or expense of doing them.

By contrast, ‘Carrot’ motivation is powered by the desire for ‘nice’ things and experiences. For that very reason it is weaker than ‘Stick’.

If you consider all the things that you would like to do or have, but haven’t yet taken action on, the reason that you haven’t is generally that what you have got or are experiencing is ‘good enough’, you can live with it.

It’s part of the human condition that most of us more prepared to tolerate an unsatisfactory situation than to do what is necessary to change it.

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Author

The understanding that ‘Stick’ has more motivating power than ‘Carrot’ can be used to make persuasive arguments by anyone who wishes to influence. Infants, politicians, leaders of countries employ the device. Political managers do so with negative campaigning. Salespeople and speech-makers gain the attention of their audience by describing a looming problem and follow by proposing a solution if you will only buy their product or concede to their ideas.

The greatest stimulus is obtained when ‘Stick’ and ‘Carrot’ are used together and there is both a pressure to move away from a penalty and also a driver towards a reward. This principle is highly-effective in people-handling of all types and is central to sales management.

To create a persuasive argument, talk about the problems your audience will face if they don’t take the action you are advocating then describe the benefits they will enjoy if they do.

Put the principle to work next time you make a speech or give a presentation.

Download a Free Sales Masterclass

Information on the Selling for Engineers manual and Seminar

Robert Seviour is a sales trainer specialising in business development for technical companies.

Affiliate Marketing and Adwords - A Powerful Combination

By Michael M Rose

Affiliate Marketing is one of the easiest ways to start out online and making money.

There are many ways to earn a living online. However, the learning curve for almost all methods is so huge that most people just give up in frustration.

Affiliate Marketing is simple, although some gurus needlessly overcomplicate things...

So what exactly is this thing called "affiliate marketing."

Basically, a company has a product/products for sale. If you help them sell it, they'll give you part of the sales price. It's a very easy way of getting paid to sell a product without having to create that product. It's simple how it works.

There are only 3 things you need to profit with it.

1) A product (produced by someone else, not you)
2)
, I must add that while the basics of affiliate marketing is simple, it requires effort.
Nothing happens without taking action. It takes time to set things up, but it's not exactly hard.

It's also been bandied about that only 2 or 3 out of 10 affiliate product promotions end up winners (if promoting by Adwords or other pay-per-click methods). The rest would be losers, thereby making it difficult to turn a profit overall.

This is incorrect!

If you follow the right formula, over 80% of your affiliate products will end up winners.

And "how do I sell it, how do I sell the affiliate product" you ask?

You buy traffic. You can open an account with $5.00 on Google Adwords.

Within 15 minutes, you will get targeted traffic, people who are interested in exactly what you are selling.

The details of what goes into the actual setting up of a profitable Adwords campaign to get targeted traffic is beyond the scope of one article. It would take at least 10 articles to barely outline the mechanics of how this works.

But basically, this is what it boils down to:

You stand in front of that targeted traffic and proclaim:"I've got what you are looking for!"
It's as simple as that.

Do you want to learn more about it? Visit The Web Marketing Site

Michael Rose is a full time internet marketer who teaches "real" people the ins and outs of how to make "real" money online.

Powerful Copywriting Lessons I Have Learned From Sir Paul McCartney

By Lawton Chiles

Although I am looking forward to the new Macca album, Memory Almost Full, I am worried that many have taken his work as his best, and I think this a huge mistake.

He taught me a number of things about how to write great copy. More...

Copy Mistake Number One: Paul Got By OK, So Can I
Paul went from Rocky Raccoon to a series of solo records and hit singles. Life was well for Paul. He thought, I can be cute and still sell millions of records". This was his big mistake. In reading Claude Hopkins book, Scientific Advertising, Claude states that their is no room in copy for being funny, cute or clever. Money is a serious business.

Paul thought that he could be cute, but being cute does not sell records, at least when it comes to having song after song about Uncle Albert.

Making your customers laugh does not equal your customers giving you money. They want to know what is in it for them.

Mistake Number Two: Paul Thought He Knew His Customer Base
If you have a large enough list, your copy might convert a few people. This is natural and normal. So, you may be like Paul, thinking youv'e got a hit record, or in your case, a hit product, a hit website, etc. You'd be dead wrong.

See, Paul sacrificed great melodies, tons of cash, and a raving fan base all for the sake of being smart, clever and cute. He didn't really give his customers what they wanted. He gave them the leftover stories and melodies. Chances are, your headlines and body copy are doing the same thing as Paul did.

"The Best Prices in Town", "Memorial Day Sale", etc. Are these your headlines and bullet points? What if you wrote:
" 85% Lower Prices Than Any Other Shoe Store in Tampa"

"70% Of Our Customers Come Back Again and Again. Why? Because They Say We Treat Them Like Our Best Friend"

- Isn't that better than, "The Best Customer Service"?
Yes, it is. Don't make the same mistakes as Paul did.
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