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No, this isn’t going to be a sermon or anything … don’t worry about that! I’m no preacher, so I wouldn’t even think of trying; but what I do have is faith in myself and faith in the fact that I can be successful on the internet.

Now, I’m not talking about your regular, everyday take-it-for-granted-because-I-can-do-it” faith in yourself.

I’m talking about the faith in yourself that comes from TRULY KNOWING that you absolutely can and will achieve a goal that you want!!

That kind of faith in yourself is necessary so that you can conquer all the negativity that comes your way in a day. And it doesn’t matter where the negativity comes from; it could be from your mother-in-law, your husband, it doesn’t matter…as long as you have faith in yourself, you can block that negative energy and divert the danger of it away from yourself.

How, you say?

O.K…. here it comes … the old cliché …

THINK POSITIVE THOUGHTS! : 0 )

It works; believe me, it works. There is so much negative energy in our world today, why would you even want to add to that kind of energy? Because when you add to that (negative) energy, you help to magnify it! That’s right, it grows! And why on earth would you want to make more negative energy?!!

That doesn’t make much sense, now does it?

Conversely, when you have positive energy flowing, and others around you are doing the same, it also magnifies itself!! Positive energy begets positive energy and in turn, creates lots more smiles. : 0 )

So let’s get back to the subject at hand. What does faith have to do with marketing?

Hmm … good question.

If you are going to market your product or service, here, on the internet, you had better have faith in what you are marketing because if you don’t, it’s going to show through in your website and advertising and how you are presenting yourself.

If you have faith in yourself, people will see that. They will, in turn, have faith in you also. It’s all part of that positive energy begetting positive energy thing I was talking about earlier.

Don’t you agree that the person on the receiving end of your website/newsletter/advertisement has to have some faith in you, or they wouldn’t linger?

So you see, faith has lots to do with marketing and marketing has lots to do with faith. Pretty simple when you think about it, eh?

So go and think your positive thoughts for today, but don’t just think them. I want you to really believe those thoughts, so much so that they become reality for you.

Danielle Sanders - (positive thinker extraordinaire) : O ) http://www.e-books-store.com admin@e-books-store.com

P.S. If you really want to accelerate the way you can create those positive thoughts and get want you want in life, then I can’t recommend this book enough - “Think and Grow Rich” - in e-book format. (If I could get the rights to GIVE this book away for free, I would give it out to everyone!!) Get it here: http://adtrack.trafficwave.net/t.pl/5515/31987

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Those of you, who can fathom yourselves welcoming and enjoying a big, major change in your life right now, raise your hands! When I say, change, it might be a good change and it might be a bad change. Either way, we all don’t know what that change is going to be like, what aspect of our lives is going to change and we might not even be happy with it.

Still feel like raising your hand now?

Change, in everyone’s lives, is inevitable. It happens all the time. Imagine what people who used to ride in a horse-cart had to say when they were told that the carriage could move by itself, without a horse but with an engine. People have come to accept the fact that the car moves when it is pulled by a horse…or man. The change from riding around in a horse-pulled carriage to a car was…..ridiculous. The old don’t go, the new won’t come. The new could be better…or it could be worse. That’s what change is all about. You just don’t predict or forecast what that change is going to be like.

This reminds of the award-winning book entitled “Who moved my cheese?”. The book was not only expensive, but it was thinner than my kids’ coloring books! The concept was simple if not derived out of pure logic, and half the pages in the book were filled with pictures of mice and cheese and large lettering that you can read from a mile away! And this is the book that sold millions upon millions of copies all around the world. I could write a book about finger-exercise if I wanted to and it wouldn’t make me as much money. the concept of accepting change, however, is ancient. It’s as old as time. And the only reason why the book, Who moved my cheese, was so popular was not because the book was good. It was because of the fact that every one of us has an innate instinct to fight, defy, and prevent change. THAT’s why the book was good.

I’m going to tell you a story about a friend of mine, Feeb, who fought change all her life. She resisted it with all her might and even when she found out that her husband was not loyal to her, she resisted the change, denied the truth and hid behind a veil of denial.

Feeb is 35, have been married to Tom, 42, for the past 12 years of her life. She has 3 lovely children whom she loves tremendously. She used to be an accountant and loved her job (imagine that! I can’t imagine anyone liking accounts) excessively. However, things changed when she married her husband and conceived her first child. She suddenly wanted to stay home with her kids. Therefore, Feeb gave up her career and became a full-time mother to her kids.

Fast forward 12 years later, Feeb is still a housewife but because she found out that her husband, Tom, has been having more than one affair with younger women, she decided that enough was enough. This was the kind of change that she wants to see happening to her life. She spent the better part of her life denying her husband’s affairs, even when she suspected them and found clues about the affairs. But in the end, she had to file for divorce, for her own good. She had to leave the marriage to be able to find herself again - a part of her old self died when she married Tom. She dedicated her entire life to her kids and her husband. Now, her kids are grown up and her husband is disloyal. It’s time to move on.

She didn’t like the new change in her life. But within 2 short years, she started her own business and is now enjoying a life with her partner who loves her 3 kids. She keeps in touch with her ex-husband because they were still good friends. Just because he was a bad husband doesn’t mean he doesn’t make a fabulous friend.

The change has brought back dignity, confidence, completeness and happiness to my friend, Feeb’s, life.

We cannot deny that things change all the time - we evolve and even human nature and our biological make-up is changing every single generation. She become better (sometimes we become worse) but the key thing to remember is that not all change is bad. And even if the change is bad, you’ll need to take it in your stride and make a go for it. Roll along with the punches and don’t let the change get you down.

Happy changing!

Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic designer and copy writer who works from her home in Selangor, Malaysia. She loves nothing more than blowing bubbles in the park with her 2 kids, Joshua and Jared. She designs apparel and premium items at http://www.creativejooz.com and is the author of “Raising little magicians”, and the popular “The Lance in freelancing”. More information can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com

Astrologers have known about the wounded Moon for centuries, but
most psychologists, therapists, and psychiatrists are totally
oblivious to how this affliction affects the life of an
individual.

What is a wounded Moon?

When the outer planets of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto form
a negative relation to a person’s Moon in their birth chart,
they are emotionally wounded. This is not a rare occurrence. It
is often found in the charts of many people.

It is important to realize that the Moon in your birth chart
shows how you receive and give nurturing. When our Moon is
afflicted by the outer planets, we often feel totally unstained
emotionally by life.

A skilled astrologer can see these aspects immediately and can
determine how these planets impact your emotional life.

Here Are Some Indications of a Wounded Moon center>

When Saturn has a negative relationship to the Moon in the
birth chart: Saturn has often been called “the leaden
planet” because its dark energy leads a person to feel heavy,
emotionally depressed, and blocked from any sense of inner
nurturing. They are often unaware of the cause of this
depression. This person was born depressed, because their life
began in a depressing environment. The nurturing energy of the
mother (the Moon) was denied them. Even though the mother may be
present after birth, the child gets the message that she is cold
and uncaring. This Saturn aspect indicates that the mother does
not sustain the child emotionally. There may be karmic
conditions in which she has no choice. But, regardless of the
circumastances, the child feels unloved and unprotected by the
mother.

When Uranus has a negative relationship to the Moon in the
birth chart: When Uranus afflicts the Moon it creates a
volatile energy and indicates an emotionally rebellious
individual. They cannot tolerate any restrictions or boundaries
in their personal life. They may have had some traumatic birth
experience where they had a hard time getting out of the womb.
This experience could be the cause of why they have such strong
reactions to being restricted in any way. Their attitude towqrd
their mother or other family members may be unreasonable and
emotionally reactive. They seem to be very touchy individuals
and can “fly off the handle” in an instant.

When Neptune has a negative relationship to the Moon in the
birth chart: A Moon that is afflicted by Neptune often
reveals a deep sadness in the person. They feel that they were
abandoned by the mother and feel totally unsustained by her.
This condition creates very deep emotional needs and often leads
the person to become a caretaker of others in order to feel
nurtured themselves. They have a great “need to be needed” and
will often sacrifice their own life caring for others. In this
way, they feel connected emotionally. They have a strong feeling
that they have never had a home and feel cut off from any inner
nurturing.

When Pluto has a negative relationship to the Moon in the
birth chart: This is a very deep and painful affliction
which creates tremendous anxiety within the individual. When
there is even a hint that their security is threatened, they
will burst out in a most terrifying rage. Much of this exists in
their imagination, but nevertheless, very real to them. To most
people the event that triggered the rage seems like a very minor
one. The negative outburst seems totally uncalled for. This
person is always “putting out fires” which don’t really exist.
They often react with such intensity that people tend to avoid
their company. They can be very coercive and emotionally
demanding, and they find it practically impossible to adjust
their needs to the needs of others. They are simply too busy
trying to take care of their own security needs to be bothered
by those of other people.

If you suspect that you may have a wounded Moon, talk to a
skilled astrologer. He will help you understand how you are set
up emotionally and will provide you with suggestions on what you
can do to change or work with the energy.

© 2006 Randall Curits

Randall Curtis is a professional astrologer with world-wide
clients. Click on this link to gain
quick and valuable insights into your Moon, your relationships,
your true work, and your life purpose.

“Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!” (Exodus 32:24).

How preposterous! “You know the people, that they are prone to evil” (v.22). Aaron said nothing about the mold he made or the graving tool he used. Aaron blamed society and we’re still doing it. Give the crowd what they want and then blame them when the gold and what we in our finite wisdom thought was good for them finally destroys them. Actually, our progenitor Adam started the blame game: “The man said, `The woman you put here with me–she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it’” (Genesis 3:12). Eve took it from there.

We have all sinned, and we have all blamed nature and them. “They” made us do it. Society makes us murderers and adulterers because it makes such stringent laws, so we reason. Moses literally broke the commandments in indignation at the sin he witnessed; we break God’s commandments in indignation that our so-called freedom is curtailed and then we blame others when that so-called freedom grows a bumper crop of unexpected problems.

“But they all alike began to make excuses” (Luke 14:18). Everyone does it, so it can’t be too wrong for us to do it; We are victims of a corrupt society; God put us in the furnace of affliction and we came out burned. At one time, children’s shirts were sold that had emblazoned on them, “The devil made me do it.” That’s as good an excuse as all the others combined.

Someone described an alibi as an excuse that’s cooked up, but is always half-baked. Benjamin Franklin made a couple of observations that have stood the test of time and human nature: “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse” and “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

God is not going to ask us who made us do what was wrong in His sight! He is going to ask us why we didn’t have the courage to say no at the crucial moment of temptation.

“I couldn’t help it”

“The necessity of my situation”
“Compelled by circumstances”
“Customs of the trade”
“If I hadn’t done it, I would have lost my friends”

“If I don’t do it, someone else will”

“I would have lost my job”
Etc., etc., etc.

These may be all true: but the point is, Was the thing wrong? If it was, the case of Aaron teaches us that we cannot save ourselves by transferring the blame of what we have done to circumstances or others. It is not a plea which will be held valid on the day of judgment.