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Here is this week’s selection of personal development articles from all over the web:

HighGrace presents The Power of 3: How to keep your relationship solid — Face to the Sun posted at Face to the Sun.

Jody T Fransch presents Increase your productivity; jody fransch posted at jody fransch.

David B Bohl presents Is Enough Ever Enough? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, saying, “Slow Down Fast Life Coaching and Lifestyle Design”

Health - Fitness

Alex Smith presents 50 Ways to Keep Yourself Safe from Sexual Assault posted at TBO-TECH.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents De-Stress Or Distress? posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Stephen presents How to Skillfully Deal with Suffering in the World posted at Balanced Existence.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Brain Teasers: Spot the Difference posted at SharpBrains, saying, “Want some brain exercise?”

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Money - Income

Ben Dinsmore presents 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Asking Your Boss for a Raise posted at Trees Full of Money, saying, “We all want to make more money. Some of us deserve to, while others may need to do a little more preparation. If you are prepared to take the next step and ask your boss for a raise, here are 5 question that I would ask myself first.”

maria gudelis presents Series II - Lessons learned from the Enlightened Wealth Institute posted at Maria Gudelis.

Wilfrid presents Making Money Online, Ten Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner posted at Your Finish Rich Plan.

Random

Patrick A. Sizemore presents Working in a Crappy, Interrupting, Distracting Place - The Fifth Dimension posted at College Information for Smart Students.

Alaia Williams presents 10 Minute Tips posted at One Organized Life Blog, saying, “Getting organized doesn’t have to take a lot of time. There are plenty of things that can be done in a few minutes that help you get organized and save time in the long run.”

Peter presents Six Scientific Ways to Create True Happiness posted at The Change Blog.

Security - Comfort Zone - Challenge

Richard Johnson presents Face Your Frightening Questions posted at Reaching A Better Place, saying, “Hi there,
This article is about the benefits of facing frightening questions.”

Alex Smith presents Vacations and Home Security posted at TBO-TECH.

Social Skills

David presents Active Listening Tips posted at Physician Entrepreneur, saying, “A recent study by the Rand Corporation found that the overall care of the vulnerable elderly - those with chronic conditions that are not living in a nursing home or other skilled nursing facility - is inadequate.”

Peter Murphy presents Easy Ways To Overcome Self-Consciousness posted at Communication Skills Power.

Louise Manning presents Strength or weakness? posted at The Human Imprint.

Success - Failure

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Working Through A Problem posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.

Chris Edgar presents Dropping Your “Procrastination Persona” posted at Purpose Power Coaching, saying, “When we feel the need to adopt a contrived, artificial persona in our jobs — perhaps with the goal of looking tough, submissive, outgoing or something else — we create the kind of frustration that has us put off our work. Dispensing with our “work personality,” I suggest in this article, helps us avoid procrastination and improve our enjoyment of what we do.”

Neelakantha presents 100 Tips and Resources to be a Happy, Successful Lawyer posted at JobProfiles.org - Job Descriptions and Online Schools to Start Your Career.

Rigdha presents 8 “Must Use” Free Time Management Tools to Save Tons of Time posted at Get Your Success Now.

Richard Onebamoi presents The Three Ps of a Test posted at SELF-IMPROVE-BLOG.

Sid Savara presents Positive Talk Creates Positive Action - How to Stop Talking Like a Loser posted at Sid Savara . com - Personal Development, Maximizing Productivity and Life Hacking, saying, “Every day we make many tiny decisions that affect our lives. One of the decisions we make almost unconsciously is the way we talk to ourselves, and the way our words affect our attitude and our action.”

Azelma Petit presents The Chuck Norris Guide to Self Motivation posted at Biz.Edu, saying, “A guide that uses Chuck Norris examples to give good advice on ways to motivate yourself in all walks of life, including entrepreneurship.”

Vidyut presents Self awareness and the self-coached climber posted at Footprints on the Mountainside.

Mike King presents Making Small Yet Measurable Progress posted at Learn This, saying, “Measuring progress is a process aimed at determining whether goals are being achieved.”

Ben Shewmaker presents Just Say No To Self Help Books posted at Life Begins @ 26.

Money - Income

Jonathan presents 10 Essential Keys on Building a Monavie Business posted at Health And Wealth With Monavie, saying, “10 Important keys for multi level marketing”

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If you are a bloger or an online editor or content contributer I’m sure you had this dream.  You write a killer peice of content, or create a killer online video.  You submit your site’s link for the killer article or peice of video to Digg (or any other social news or sharing website) and poof, you hit the front page, your content is featured, your getting so much freaken traffic that your site goes down from all the traffic ;)  Oh and you get lots of new readers to your site of course, generate more income either from ads or whatever you are selling on your site, and live happily every after

Now back to reality, it probably hasn’t happened yet.  You have probably wrote many articles that you thought were killer peices of content, or made awesome kick-butt videos.  Yeh they never got the traffic you thought they deserved.  How come?

Well maybe your content is great but I’m guessing your Headline stinked.  Yes this is a problem I noticed even with my content.  Which is why as I’m learning about headlines from copyblogger I wanted to share my notes and findings with you.

Writing that Killer Headline, start taking mental notes, or even better bookmark this list and come back to review:

• Usually 8 out of 10 people will read your content’s headline first and if their attention isn’t hooked they are off to the next site.  This is especially true for Stumble upon users, and others on social news websites.
• Start with the headline first.  Your headline should attract the reader by communicating what they’ll get out of reading or viewing it.  Writing your headline first will also help you stay focused when you write your post or make your video.
• Target keywords in your headline and content.  Don’t target the most popular keywords, target the variations instead.  These don’t have as much competition and will get you ranking high on the search engine in different smaller niches.
• How To type of articles are the best for hitting digg’s and del.icio.us front pages.  People want useful information.  Start your headline with “How To”.
• Your headline should be all about the benefits.  Everyone is busy.  As they are browsing the net they want to know the short and sweet end result before investing any more time in your content.  If the benefits are attractive, the browser’s attention is hooked and he becomes a loyal reader.  After the “How To” you gotta focus on one or two benefits. If you can link the two benefits it’s even better. A famous headline is “How to win friends and influence people”.  A few more are….
  • How to Save Time and Get Things Done
  • How to Get a Better Job and Make More Money
  • How to Save Money and Retire Rich
• Quick way to come up with such a headline is to use this formula.  How to [some boring task] That [Rewarding attention hooking benefit]
• Another formula that works is leaving out the to portion.  How [I got or to get] [an awesome benefit the reader probably wants].  Like “How I ranked in Google’s top 10 results from Day 1″.  This actually is true, my latest niche blog ranked #9 out of 3.5 million related sites in Google search results the first day it was indexed by Google bot.  Leave me a comment if you’d like to find out how.  If there is enough interest I will share my secrets
• List posts get attention.  The bigger the list the better.  10 reasons… 20 tips to… 10 steps to …
  • check out copyblogger for examples
• Copy blogger also has some more good headline formulas

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Feeling a bit drowsy lately?  Maybe you have been feeling sluggish and tired throughout the day.  Maybe you have been feeling sleepy during the afternoons at work.  Maybe you just want to feel more energetic through the day.  Well here are some Instant Energy Tips.

1. Take a Power Nap. Take a 5-10 minute power nap.  Sit back in your seat, close your eyes, and just let yourself fall asleep for 5-10 minutes.  You can do this on trains, buses, and even in cars as long as you aren’t driving.  You can also do it during your lunch break at work.The key is that you fall asleep sitting up on a chair.  If you fall asleep on a bed, you will be tempted to stay in bed, and it will feel like a huge hassle getting out.  However since chairs aren’t very comfortable you usually wont fall asleep for long, and will naturally wake up in a few minutes feeling refreshed and energized.  You can also try biphasic sleep if you would like to be more energetic throughout the day.
2. Eat Smaller More Frequent Meals.Eat a small meal every 2-3 hours.  This helps keep your energy levels more even throughout the day.  I’m sure you have the experience where you eat a huge lunch, and afterwords notice a huge decrease in your productivity.  You probably felt sleepy and just wanted to go back to bed.  Maybe you even were at work, and started dozing off staring at your computer screen, and kept making sure your coworkers didn’t notice
3. Modify Boring Activities.Often I noticed that certain activities tend to leave me feeling lazy, a bit tired, and even sleepy.  Usually those activities are the boring ones, things that “I Have” to do rather than want to do.  The solution I came up with was making those activities more exciting.If I was bored at work, then I’d take a break from working and read an interesting article, check out a cool online video, take a walk around the office and talk to co-workers, send a crazy text message or two to some friends etc.  Whatever boring activity you have to do you can usually modify to be more exciting.  The more exciting an activity is the more energetic your body will feel when you do it.
4. Use the Power of Full Focus.Often your body isn’t giving you the level of energy you need because you aren’t demanding it.  To demand more energy and more productivity out of your body use the power of full focus.  Whatever activity you are working on, give it 100% of your focus, skills, and cognitive ability.Often people fall asleep when reading because they aren’t reading fast enough.  Did you know that the faster your read the more engaged your mind is?  Your mind will increase your comprehension speed to adapt to your increased reading speed.Be fully present and focused on whatever you are doing.  Often we are either thinking about past situation or future events in our lives all the time.  This is very inefficient since we can’t control the past or the future.  This also drains our cognitive abilities, focus and our energy.
5. Eliminate, Eliminate, and Eliminate Some More.Often we are out of energy because we are trying to do too much with our time.  Instead of focusing on the few more rewarding activities in our day, we are very passive and let ineffective useless tasks waste our time.  Use the power elimination and increase your productivity.  This will help you make more time, and have more energy for the really important tasks in your day.

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This is a follow up to my Morning Ritual - Start Your Day Productive.  This post will conclude my morning ritual trial.  In this post I will summarize my findings about implementing a morning ritual, the good, the bad and the ugly

I have already discussed many of the benefits of implementing a morning ritual in my day 2 post.  So it certainly is a good habit that I’d recommend anyone try implementing.  The bad news is that it takes a lot of trial and error, and discipline to implement.

Just like implementing any other healthy habits, there will be days where you totally blow it and wont feel like doing your morning ritual.  I skipped my morning ritual on day 3.  What stinks is that on day 4 it was even harder for me to get back on track.

All in all this was a great experiment.  If you have anything to share about morning rituals please leave a comment

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