The naming of your business could be one of the most important decisions you will make. A name’s originality and legal availability will create a real asset value of its own, as it becomes marketed and gains market acceptance.
The name you choose will become the focal point of all the benefits and features that relate to your product or business. Customers will be able to find and refer others to it in the future. Established products or businesses realize the value of customer good will.
A well chosen name will provide an extra marketing advantage, which may mean the difference between failure and success.
The vital question is…is your company name truly available?
While the name may be unique and distinctive to you, there is a possibility that another party already has prior trademark or common-law rights to the name for your industry. Before you invest time, money and effort into your name, do some research. The first places to check are right at your fingertips - the World Wide Web - and they’re free!
Preliminary Search Sites:
- The Trademarks section on the USPTO Web Site
- Your Secretary of State to see if they have a searchable database of names. You can find a listing of all states here
- Major search engines - put your product name in quotes to find exact matches; use keywords with your product name to find relevant hits
- Yellow pages
However, please be aware that this is merely scratching the surface of what’s out there. Only comprehensive research will tell you if the name is truly available. But, these links are free & a great place to start, so try them first. If the name appears to be available, then you can move on to getting comprehensive research done by a private company or an attorney.
Shannon Moore is the General Manager, East Coast for TradeMark Express. Since 1992, TradeMark Express has met the needs of their clients with comprehensive research, application preparation, attorney referrals and trademark consultation. For further details, please visit us on the web at http://www.tmexpress.com or call Shannon directly at 800.340.2010.
Using the results from a domain search can help you to select a
good name for your online business. A domain name is part of a
website’s URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Essentially it is the
“name” portion of a website address.
Doing a domain search, to see what domain names are available
prior to naming your business makes good sense. If it is possible
for your domain name to give some indication as to what your site
is about or to contain your business name or brand identity, it
will much more memorable to return visitors to your website.
A domain search is the first step in selecting your own domain
name to purchase. If you are serious about doing business on the
net, it really is important that you buy your own domain name
rather than using a free one. Lots of web hosting companies offer
free domains that include their domain name with your name at the
end of it. While that may be advantageous for a personal website,
a business site will lose its credibility in a heartbeat if you
use a free domain. Your business can also be easily disrupted if
the web host ceases to exist or if you decide not to do business
when them anymore.
By choosing and purchasing your very own domain name after doing
a domain search, you will ensure the stability of your domain and
you’ll have a lot more flexibility. Once you’ve completed your
domain search and decided on the domain you want, you register
it. Even after it is registered, you can change web hosts without
having to change your domain name.
Search engines change their rules often about how much weight is
given to various components of a website. It’s a common belief
that the domain name is given some consideration in regard to how
a search engine ranks a website. For that reason, many website
owners try to include relevant keywords in their domain name.
To get some good ideas about keywords that may be useful for your
domain search, check out Wordtracker at www.wordtracker.com .
Wordtracker is a nifty online tool that tells you how popular
specific keywords are. It is undoubtedly the best keyword
research tool around. When you search for a particular word in
Wordtracker, you’ll get a list of suggested keywords and keyword
phrases that are similar. The reports Wordtracker generates will
tell you the popularity of the suggested keywords and keyword
phrases as well as giving you great ideas for niche phrases.
It is best if you can choose a name for your business that has an
available domain name in your domain search results. Otherwise,
people who are looking for your business by name, may be
misdirected to someone else’s website if they hold the registered
domain name. If you choose a business name or you have one
already that doesn’t use keywords or isn’t terribly relevant to
what your website is about, you should still register the domains
for your business name. You can also register domain names from
your domain search that are relevant and do contain keywords.
Multiple domain names can be set up to redirect traffic to your
active website when they are input into a browser.
If you really want a specific domain name that is not being used
but your domain search shows that it is unavailable, you may be
able to buy it from the registered owner. There is a “Who Is”
service that you can use to find out who owns a particular
domain. To access this resource go to www.whois.sc . Using this
domain search service you can find out who the registered owners
of a domain are and you can track domains to be informed when
they expire and buy them then.
Copyright Christopher J. Enders. Are you at the end of your rope,
fed up and confused by all the scrambled internet marketing
advice you’re getting? Whether you are new to internet marketing,
or a website owner who wants to make more money from your
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How to drive the right Customer Management software
By, Syed Ali, CyberQuest Solutions Inc.
Feb 21, 2006
As companies battle to win new customers and keep current ones,
more companies wanting to leverage their sales and marketing
strategies, strengthen their workforce, and utilize the best
tools available, are making Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) software choices. The problem is: Which choice is right?
80% of a successful CRM implementation depends upon the company
evaluating and actually using the chosen system, while 20%
depends upon the software itself.
Before searching for CRM solutions, you need to determine you
CRM requirements so you can select the best solution. Some basic
questions include:
What interaction takes place between customers and
salespeople? What is your lead tracking strategy? How do you
attract new customers and retain existing ones? How do you
manage long sales cycles or projects?
Translating Requirements into Features - Needs
A CRM package is worthless unless it meets most of your needs.
Some companies require a central database for sharing customer
notes, history and email, while others need to centralize their
customer data as well as ramp up their sales and marketing
process, lead generation, sales pipeline management and,
automate their sales work flow. Selecting the right CRM product
requires evaluation.
Start by looking inside your organization for people who have
been through the CRM selection process already. Next, talk to a
seasoned CRM consulting firm with no ties to CRM solution
providers and who has a track record of working with companies
in situations like yours.
Taking a Skills Inventory
The CRM solution will fail if the organization does not have
skilled staff to operate it. Vendor training addresses the
specific skills of operating the software, but your salespeople
and CSR staff still need the basic computer skills to understand
the concepts being presented.
Involve all stakeholders in the CRM solution vetting process
before you sign a contract and accept delivery. This ensures
that all staff members are comfortable with moving to a formal
CRM system as well as getting them emotionally on-board by
creating a sense of ownership in the project.
Determining Your CRM Budget
How much should you spend on a CRM solution? Spend as much as it
takes to procure and implement the optimum solution for your
company and not one penny more. No CRM solution provider can
tell you if their CRM package is worth the price to you. You
could buy the most expensive system there is and receive no
value in return. I recall selling a system to a small company (5
users) for close to $3000 with software, training and
installation etc. The first thing the client did was to execute
an email marketing campaign to existing customers who placed
over $7,500 worth of orders in the first week. That’s a pretty
good ROI from a system that cost less than 3k!
Not too long after that, with proper training and understanding
of the system’s capabilities, the CEO of that company was
generating reports and tracking information on new leads, follow
ups and managing the sales pipeline of his company. Within a
month he was able to stop leads from falling through the cracks
and customer follow-up increased dramatically. In short the
system paid for itself over and over again within the first
month.
However, I know of companies that keep investing thousands of
dollars on CRM initiatives without any clear objectives and no
methodology to test the ROI. In the end, all they have is a
giant ‘electronic Rolodex’, which leaves them wondering why they
ever got involved in CRM technology in the first place.
If you’re planning on implementing a CRM solution for your
organization, follow the tips and suggestions in this article
for the best chance of realizing the ROI that you hope to
achieve.
Copyright reserved - Syed Ali - CyberQuest Solutions Inc.
As many wise women have said, there’s no reason really that we should accept these symptoms as inevitable: menopause is not an illness, it’s merely another stage of life. So why do so many women experience distressing menopausal symptoms? This stage is when the female body ceases to produce eggs, and ceases to shed the lining of the womb. In fact the whole process that’s necessary for procreation comes to a halt. Hopefully, if all goes well, we’ll keep enough of our feminine hormones to keep us looking reasonable and to keep our emotions on an even keel as we glide into our later years.
Exercise and a healthy diet are the places to begin. Since women of menopausal age tend to gain weight rather easily, it’s of great importance to cut down on the amount of food we eat, in addition to monitoring the components of our diet to make sure that we don’t consume too many carbohydrates or too much fat, both of which will add to our girth. Concentrating on plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and a small amount of cold pressed virgin oils will make sure we have enough raw materials to feed our bodies wisely.
Alarmingly, in the past few decades, the medical profession has been encouraging women approaching menopause to supplement their hormones with artificial ones. More recently, they thankfully discovered how dangerous this can be when cancer rates rose significantly in women taking artificial hormone replacement. It’s a mercy to womankind that artificial hormones are now being phased out. Think very carefully before you decide to subject yourself to artificial hormone replacement therapy; natural is always best.
So what can women do to alleviate the worst of the moodiness, hot flashes and weight gain that often accompany menopause? To begin with, there are a number of alternative therapies that women have used successfully to improve their situations. Among them are massage, acupuncture, homeopathy and more. For many women though, these solutions are too time-consuming to be of much real use.
The good thing about natural versions of hormone replacement for menopausal women is that they don’t pose a threat to our health. To the contrary, carefully chosen natural ingredients that have been known for their benefits for centuries can enhance our endocrine systems, support our immune systems, and keep us looking and feeling younger and more vital. We can use these supplements to help us sail through menopause serenely.
If we also manage to keep our diets and exercise levels reasonable, we can expect better and better results. Are there any other supplements we can use to make sure we stay as healthy as possible? Significant supplementation with vitamin E has been known for some time to stave off heart disease in both men and women. Another wonderful reason for taking vitamin E is that it can end hot flashes in women going through menopause.
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Are you a natural when it comes to gardening? Do you simply wish your rose bush to bloom, and presto, roses appear? Well, if you are a green thumb, congratulations. As for me, it is an effort of biblical proportion, to get even the grass to grow. I would hazard a guess, and estimate that the remaining 90% of the general population share this problem. If flowers were so easy, we wouldn’t need florists and landscapers.
Flowers are without a doubt a gift from the gods. They surround us with beauty, remind us that some color in our lives can bring happiness to our drab surroundings, and often are a subtle reminder of that special moment we don’t want to forget. What about the basics of flowers? Do we really know that much about the science of flowers, what makes them so appealing, so colorful, and so sweet smelling?
Flowers are the reproductive organs for the plants that support them. The flower itself can be composed of male and female parts, only male or only female parts, or in some cases a combination of male and female parts. Some plants need pollination, and some are
parthenocarpic (big word that only means “virgin fruit) and make fruit without pollination!
The color of the flower and the scent of the flower are meant to act as attractants for the pollination process; as you can smell and see, it is an effective tool. The many colors of the rainbow can also be found in the many colors of the flower garden, also. Different colors attract different insects, as do different smells.
There are also different types of flowers. Some are perennials, some are biennials, and some are annuals. The perennials will return year after year, wherever they have been planted, but do not offer the greatest array of color or scent. The biennials will complete their entire life cycle in two growing seasons, or generally two years. Annuals are plants whose life cycle lasts only one growing season, or one year. The annual plants are some of the most brilliant and offer the greatest variety, color and scent. They are also among the most adaptable garden plants and don’t require much more than water and sunlight.
I personally prefer the perennials to any of the other types, simply because once I plant them, they are there to stay. Unless of course I manage to bring them to an early demise! Examples of perennials are azaleas, lilies, and of course, roses. Biennials are composed of forget-me-nots, foxgloves, and pansies. The annuals, are as I stated earlier some of the most brilliant in color and scent and are composed of marigolds, zinnias and snapdragons. Often annuals will drop enough seeds so that actually “appear” to be perennial flowers.
As you can see, there should be flowers for every type of grower. A special color or scent for every special occasion. Flowers are like the voice of song for the plant world. When we “humans” sing, it lifts our spirits and we soar on the wings of our dreams. This is also what the beauty and fragrance of the flower brings to the garden.
Frederic Madore is the founder of the Flowers Information Center. Get the best information about Flowers and Wedding Flowers.
Want to shed 10 pounds overnight? Need to drop a dress size before the big event? Odds are, the thought has recently crossed your mind along with many others’. This is no wonder when recent studies show that 60% of Americans are overweight. Let’s face it; more than half of us need to lose weight and because we’re Americans, we feel like we need to lose it fast.
Within the past few years, “fad” diets have exploded throughout America. Usually originating in or around Hollywood, these diets promise to help you lose an unbelievable amount of weight within a short amount of time. Sound too good to be true? Most likely, it is.
Because these diets are short-lived, your body will immediately gain its original weight back and sometimes, even more once you stop dieting. The logic behind this is your metabolism coincides with how much energy you are taking in and how much you are using. If you eat more calories than you use, your metabolism will slow down. The result: weight gain. On the other hand, if you use more energy and suddenly eat less, your metabolism will slow down as well. This is a defense mechanism your body uses in times of food shortage. When your caloric intake is far greater than your expenditure, your body will slow down in order to store as much energy it needs. As soon as you begin eating normally, your body is still in storage mode and instead of using the same amount of energy as before, it uses less. Your metabolism will first gain the weight back and then store extra because it has not yet recovered. The result: rapid weight loss during the diet and rapid weight gain after.
These diets are not meant to become a lifestyle. Who would actually want to drink 10 gallons of a special weight loss formula a day for the rest of their lives? If the malnutrition doesn’t kill you first, the expense surely will.
The only surefire way to shed those unwanted pounds and keep them off, is to find a healthy diet and exercise plan stable enough to continue throughout life without any detriment to your own lifestyle. You will still have to adjust to different eating habits if you are not used to a balanced diet (lie off the fast foods and expand your veggie horizons) and balance your food intake with some form of moderate exercise you enjoy and can do for the rest of your life. If followed correctly, you will actually be able to speed up your metabolism which will help you keep those pounds off and leave you feeling more energized.
For most people, developing and organizing a successful diet and exercise plan takes a lot of work. Fortunately, there are plenty of options and pre-developed plans online which will help you stick to a healthy lifestyle. Beware of fads. The idea of loosing your weight fast may seem tempting, but in the long run, a healthy diet plan will pay off much better than the latest craze.
Take your time, don’t exercise too much or eat too few at first, you won’t be able to keep that habit and will lose the battle quickly. Surround yourself with support. Diet along with some friends or with your spouse, the accountability and motivation will help greatly. Keep your confidence up. You may not see results right away, but once you begin to see a difference and feel more energized better about yourself, you’ll question why you didn’t start this sooner.
Briana Liebmann is a regular writer of original content articles for http://www.youseekit.com, where you can find original content on a variety of topics.
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Short break specialist Superbreak http://www.superbreak.com has teamed up with Niche Hotels, a luxurious group of four star hotels with minimalist styling to offer the very best in small and contemporary boutique hotels. These intimate, period hotels are amongst the UK’s finest and focus on the overall hotel experience a guest has rather than just the visit! Ideal for those who are passionate about perfect hospitality, hotels include ‘wyckhillhouse’ in Stow-on-the-Wold, ‘greystreethotel’ - Newcastle’s first boutique hotel and ‘thequeensgate’ in Kensington, London. Plus, the new ‘theroyalhotel’ opens in Cardiff this August.
For this summer, Superbreak is offering a range of special deals including four nights for the price of three and a free bottle of wine on arrival to make luxury now truly affordable.
4 nights for the price of 3 at the four star ‘wyckhillhouse’ hotel in Stow-on-the-Wold - £59.50pppn - Feel what its like to have lived in an English Manor House set in 100 acres of rolling Cotswold meadows. wyckhillhouse is a quaint 18th Century Manor with 32 bedrooms, small enough to feel at home, big enough to provide all of the spoiling home doesn’t afford. Enjoy a special four nights for the price of three offer for arrivals on a Sunday or Monday between 17 July and 4 September. The price of £59.50 per person, per night (£178.50pp for four nights) includes full breakfast and is based on two sharing. A free bottle of wine on arrival is also included.
4 nights for the price of 3 at the four star ‘greystreethotel’ in Newcastle - £55.50pppn -
This is Newcastle’s first boutique hotel. Grade II listed, this former old bank oozes period charm. Huge bedrooms are flooded with light from floor-to-ceiling mullioned sash windows. Bedroom interior design incorporates contemporary iconic goods, designer beds, 100% Egyptian cotton by Frette, bespoke toiletries designed in the States, drench rain-showers, flat screens and DVDs. Enjoy a special four nights for the price of three offer for arrivals on a Sunday or Monday between 17 July and 4 September. The price of £55.50 per person, per night (£166.50pp for four nights) includes full breakfast and is based on two sharing. A free bottle of wine on arrival is also included.
4 nights for the price of 3 at the four star ‘thequeensgate’ in Kensington - £59.50pppn -
A contemporary boutique town house thequeensgate has just 26 bedrooms. Relax in luxurious Egyptian white linen, oversized pillows and sash windows that flood the rooms with light. The hotel is set in chic South Kensington in the leafy avenue of Queens Gate and is adjacent to The Natural History and the V & A Museums, whilst at the top of the street is The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. It is an easy walk to Knightsbridge, Harvey Nichols, Harrods and Chelsea. Enjoy a special four nights for the price of three offer for arrivals on a Sunday or Monday between 17 July and 4 September. The price of £59.50 per person, per night (£178.50pp for four nights) includes full breakfast and is based on two sharing. A free bottle of wine on arrival is also included.
4 nights for the price of 3 at the four star ‘theroyalhotel’ in Cardiff - £57.50pppn -
Opening mid August 2005, theroyalhotel is the city’s newest and hippest hotel. This beautiful period property has all the trademark contemporary influences whilst the character of the period is celebrated. The original oak-panelled dining room was used by Scott to plan his trip to the Antarctic. The 65 bedrooms have interior design influences from the minimalist period. Enjoy a special four nights for the price of three offer for arrivals on a Sunday or Monday between 13 August and 4 September. The price of £57.50 per person, per night (£172.50pp for four nights) includes full breakfast and is based on two sharing. A free bottle of wine on arrival is also included.
Who are Superbreak?
Superbreak.com, incorporating Theatrebreak.com, is the internet division of Superbreak Mini Holidays Limited, the market leader for short breaks throughout the UK. Superbreak is part of Holidaybreak plc, a publicly quoted leisure company whose share price can be found in most major UK newspapers, or at http://www.holidaybreak.com.
Based in York, England, Superbreak specialises in booking 2-5 star hotel accommodation throughout Britain for the leisure traveller. Superbreak hold allocations of rooms at all hotels and we can book up to and including the day of departure.
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When you think New York, you imagine a city, full of taxis and blaring horns, right? Besides all of the skyscrapers, clubs and people in a giant city, New York has a whole other part to the state. New York is full of small towns, farmland and beautiful scenery that are often overlooked.
New York is home to many unique attractions, without having to load the kids up on the subway to tour. Here are some fun stops outside of the big city:
North Pole - No, you read that right. There is a North Pole in New York. It may seem like the North Pole since it is so close to the Canadian border, but it is in the New York boundaries. What is the North Pole without Santa’s Workshop? An amusement park by that name was built and opened in 1949 for kids to enjoy all year long. There are shows, gift shops, an arcade and costumed characters and a parade for all to see.
Albany - A giant statue of a white dog sits atop the RCA Building. He was placed there in 1954 and is named Nipper. Nipper has appeared as a real dog in versions of commercials for RCA on television. RCA has offices in Albany.
Oneida - Need a quick prayer to help get you through a family road trip? Stop in to Oneida, where the World’s smallest church is located. The church is actually a chapel, and sits on a small platform in a pond. It was built in 1989 and seats two people and a minister.
Jamestown - Lucille Balls hometown. There is a museum full of memories from her and Desi Arnaz’s life together. Her wedding dress, a hairbrush, TV set items and other personal effects are on display for the public. There is also a gift shop to take home little bits of Lucy history as souvenirs.
LeRoy - What’s that wiggling on your spoon? J-E-L-L-O? A museum dedicated to the history of Jell-O sits in LeRoy New York. It is full of all the promotions used by Jell-O in the past, as well as TV’s that constantly air commercials. Jell-O happened to be manufactured in the town of LeRoy for sixty four years.
Lake George - Does Uncle Sam have an overwhelming presence in your life? In Lake George, a 36 foot tall statue of Uncle Sam will make that feat a reality. The statue was built in honor of Samuel Wilson, who became known as Uncle Sam. He spent his adult life in Troy New York, and is buried there.
Cherry Valley - What is a vacation without buying a bunch of rubber tomahawks for the kids? Rubber tomahawks, in case you need a definition, is a term for cheesy, easily-falls-apart, memorabilia that the kids must have before going home. The TePee in Cherry Hill is full of such trinkets for every age. The fifty foot metal teepee replica signals to those highway bound - pull over! We have what you need to remember this vacation!
To find more information and resources about New York, visit: www.bnewyork.com
Giving items away for free is a great way to increase traffic everybody likes freebie. If you give something different away each week, you are sure to have a steady stream of repeat traffic. When you have freebies or giveaways on your site, your pages can also be listed and linked from the many sites on the Internet that list places where where people can receive free stuff.
To find these listings of free stuff, simply go to search engine and do a search on “Free Stuff Index” or “Free Stuff Links”. You will be amazed at how many people are giving things away online.
You don’t have to give something away to everyone. You could simply have a drawing everyweek. You could then ask entrants if they would like to notify them of the winner, which again gives you permission to email them.
If you want to bring only people from your target market to your site then don’t give away mainstream things like screen savers, shareware games, utilities, and so on. Try to give away something that only people interested in your industry would want. If you don’t care what traffic comes your way, and any traffic is good traffic, then give away useful things that everybody needs. Try to have your logo and URL displayed on the item. If your freebie is something that has your URL on it and is something that is generally kept around a computer, it’ll remind and encourage people to visit your site.
The best implementation of giving away freebies is by having a “Tell a friend about this” button near the freebie so site visitors can quickly and easily tell their friends. It’s the ideal viral marketing opportunities.
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Not 1 in 10 people can tell you where money comes from, what it is and what it is good for, let alone how and why we get it.
The most common error that most people make is to equate money with wealth. That is, they believe that if one has a lot of money, one is wealthy. The following little story will show clearly that money does not equate to wealth.
Street people are today a very common site in our wealthy society. However, when I was a teenager, growing up in Calgary, there was only one visible street person. A man, who had lost both legs in WW2, sat, on his modified mechanic’s dolly (kind of a wide skateboard), in front of a downtown department store every day, begging. He looked pitiful, no legs, dressed in rags, no wheelchair, no sense of usefulness or purpose. People gave him money every day.
One day, he died. Several hundred thousand dollars was found in his squalid and rundown home (given to him by the Government when he returned home from the war many years before). No relatives were found to give the money to. No friends were found to bury him.
Lots of money. No wealth at all.
You probably know this already: money is nothing more than an agreed medium of exchange that allows people to trade one perceived thing of value for another perceived thing of value. You trade your sweat, energy, time, creativity, productivity, skill or talent for an agreed upon amount of money and then you trade agreed upon amounts of your money for those goods and services that provide you with survival, security, comfort, pleasure, self-esteem, self-actualization and personal fulfillment.
Money is the agreed upon mechanism that facilitates the flow of wealth. You trade your wealth (value) as a human being (even if it is as basic as your physical labor) for some money that you then trade for something of value (wealth) like food and shelter.
The more value that you are able to create and contribute, the more money you can gain and the more things of value you can accumulate and enjoy (be wealthy).
Nothing that you can accumulate, however, is of any value unless you have the time freedom to enjoy it. Many people often make the mistake to trade ever greater amounts of their ever dwindling time in order to get more money. Some stop here, like the person in the story above, just keeping the money without actually exchanging it for something of value. A poor trade, indeed. Many do trade the money for valuables like a nice home filled with all the modern conveniences and toys. But how valuable is a top-of-the-line stereo system and 1,000 great music CDs in your fancy home, if you have no time to enjoy them because you are forever working (trading your time) to get more money?
Since the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time, the more time you have to sacrifice (give away) to get money to have the time to enjoy what life has to offer, the less wealthy you are. The less time you need to give away in order to have the time to do the things you want to do, the more wealthy you are.
If you have managed to create a situation (the circumstances) where what you want to do with your time also produces the money to allow you to do what you want to do, then you are truly wealthy.
If what you do with your time to produce money is not what you want to do with your life (your time on planet earth), then you are impoverished, no matter how much money you make/earn.
Let’s say that what you want to do with your time (life) is create music. Let’s imagine that your music is so good that millions of people around the world buy your CDs. You end up with a lot of money. But is that the true measure of your wealth? No. The true measure of your wealth is that you have the complete time freedom to spend your life (and your money) doing what you’d like to be doing; i.e. making music (and whatever else suits you on any given day). To quote one famous wealthy musicologist (Bob Dylan)… “What’s money? A man is a success (wealthy) if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
How did you gain this extraordinary wealth? Simple. By providing real (or perceived) value to the lives of other people. Want more valuables? Become more valuable. Or, provide more value to other peoples’ lives. Spend your time being a contribution. Your true wealth is not measured by what you are able to accumulate, but by what you are enabled to contribute. Become more valuable and you will be able to do or create more value and will end up having more valuables.
The amount of money that passes through your hands is just a measure of how open you are to the natural flow of abundance…the exchange of one form of wealth for another.
Never make the mistake of equating money to wealth. Your wealth is determined by who you are, what you can contribute (create) and the amount of time freedom you have to enjoy your life and all it has to offer. The how of life may be complex, but the why is simple: it is to revere, relish and contribute. If you choose to be free to do those three things with all your heart, you are indeed wealthy. To what purpose do you journey through life? Why do you do what you do with your time?
Time is money? No! Time is wealth. Spend it wisely. Waste or squander your time and no amount of money will ever buy it back.
Some questions to ask yourself…
What would you do with your life if money were not an issue?
What value are you creating with your time?
What value are you trading your time for?
Are you reverent? Sacred?
Are you relishing? Enjoying?
Are you contributing? Creating?
Are you wealthy?
© Leslie Fieger. All rights reserved worldwide.
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