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  • Boost Your Business With A Blog, A Book And A Speech
    These days potential clients and customers search for everything on the Internet. If you want your business to come up first in the search engine results pages, you need to develop a robust online presence with a blog. To impress your clients and customers, you also need the best business card available--a book. To round out that expert author status, become a professional speaker. In this way, you'll boost your business and beat the competition.
    Published 09Apr2012, viewed 181 times
  • 10 Reasons to Start a Blog-to-Book Journey
    Millions of people have a book inside their head. Blogging a book is the easiest and fastest way to get it out--and get it read. Here are 10 reasons to get started on a blogging journey now so you can either self-publish your book or seek a traditional publisher for your manuscript.
    Published 12Mar2012, viewed 40 times
  • 6 Things You Need to Do Before You Blog a Book
    Anyone can simply begin blogging. If you want to blog a book, you must approach the endeavor like you would any other book project, but you also must do some things unique to blogging. Here's a list of 6 things a book blogger needs to do before starting to blog a book. Once you've done these, you are ready to begin blogging your book, a technique that is the easiest and fastest way to write your book and promote it at the same time.
    Published 07Feb2012, viewed 114 times
  • How to Write a Great Short Book Fast
    Writers and bloggers have an abundance of ideas, but may run into writer's block when it comes to producing a full-lenght book. Instead, they can consider writing a short book - a booklet, tip book, small-sized short book or ebook. They are fast and much less intimidating to produce.
    Published 30Oct2011, viewed 160 times
  • 20 Things an Author Can Blog About
    A blog provides a great way to promote a book. However, authors don't always know how to tie their blog content to their book. This article provides 10 ideas for fiction authors and 10 ideas for nonfiction authors to blog about.
    Published 15Feb2011, viewed 166 times
  • 3 Tips for Writing Fast and On Point Every Time
    When you know you have a deadline to meet--a real or a self-imposed one, it's important to find ways to move through writer's block and the desire to edit as you compose and write a first draft quickly. These three techniques help nonfiction writers write fast and on point every time.
    Published 05Nov2010, viewed 328 times
  • Gear Up to Write Nonfiction In November
    Participating in a writing challenge in November will help writers complete a project quickly and easily because a deadline helps them increase productivity.
    Published 26Oct2010, viewed 304 times
  • Are You Ready to Blog a Book?
    Today many authors get discovered via their blogs. But who is cut out to be a blogger or to blog a book? This article offers some sound advice, including the fact that writers need to have enough information to fill a book and need to be good businesspeople and well as good writers to succeed at blogging books--and getting them noticed. A list of questions help readers discern if they are cut out to blog a book.
    Published 03Oct2010, viewed 347 times
  • How to Build Author Platform by Writing a Newsletter
    Every aspiring author needs a platform--a built-in readership to help sell books. One of the easiest and best methods for creating this platform is with a newsletter that helps build a mailing list.
    Published 16Sep2010, viewed 330 times
  • 10 Days, 10 Ways to Return to Your Best Self: A T'shuvah Guide for the High Holidays
    The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called the High Holidays or the Days of Awe. They are a time for Jews--or anyone--to go inward and consider how to "do t'shuvah," to turn back to God and to their best self. Here are 10-days of exercises for this introspective process and to give structure to the Days of Awe. This allows readers to consider their sins and how to rectify them and how to achieve their full human potential.
    Published 15Sep2010, viewed 301 times
  • Putting Meaning and Spirit into Memorial Day Observance
    It's important not to celebrate Memorial Day but rather to observe it, remembering the fact that others sacrificed their lives for our freedom. This article offers ways to do so in a meaningful and spiritual manner.
    Published 31May2010, viewed 387 times
  • Why Every Nonfiction Writer Needs to Write a Book Pitch
    Every nonfiction writer needs a book pitch. If you plan on traditional publishing, you'll need a pitch to gain literary representation and a publisher. If you plan on independent publishing, you need a pitch to help you hone your idea; then you can write a book that successfully sells to readers. A pitch becomes a promise you keep.
    Published 09May2010, viewed 367 times
  • Blogger Encourages Writers to Blog a Book
    Despite how difficult it has become to get a book traditionally published, many blogs are being picked up by traditional publishers. This article discusses why aspiring authors should consider blogging their book into existence.
    Published 26Apr2010, viewed 402 times
  • 6 Tips for Developing an Attitude of Gratitude All Year Long
    On Thanksgiving, people all over North America take on an "attitude of gratitude." However, there are many reasons to adopt to give thanks on a daily basis. This article explains why and offers tips for doing so.
    Published 22Nov2009, viewed 498 times
  • Tips for Achieve Your Highest Potential and Improving Yourself at This Time of Year
    While many people think that the theme of the Jewish High Holy Days revolves around the traditional concept of sin, it really has more to do with goal setting, personal growth and human potential. It's about being a better person. Thus, anyone from any religion can take advantage of its message, practices, tips and tools at this time of year -- or at any time of the year.This article offers tips for doing just that.
    Published 19Sep2009, viewed 699 times
  • Giving in Tough Economic Times
    During an economic crisis, it can feel difficult to give financially. However, many ways to give exist even when feeling monetarily strapped. Learn seven ways to give money and other things when financial times are tough.
    Published 22May2009, viewed 252 times
  • What We Can Learn From Moses about Spirituality, Achievement and Faith
    This article offers information on Moses as an inspirational character that we can all see as someone to inspire us to greater connection to God and increased faith and achievement in our lives. It's a great article to learn a little bit about Passover and about Moses as well.
    Published 30Mar2009, viewed 518 times
  • Spiritual Tips to Move Forward Courageously During Fearful Times
    If you are one of the 6.3 million American adults who harbor a specific fear or one of the increasing number of people in America or around the world who are becoming all the more fearful given the current world economic situation, this article offers spiritual tips for moving through your fear. Learn to live your life more fully and freely by not letting yoru fears keep you jailed and stuck on the narrow bridge called life.
    Published 28Mar2009, viewed 356 times
  • Tips for Celebrating Valentines Day on a Tight Budget
    Given the current economic situation, this year people may want to try and save money on Valentine's Day. They can alleviate the financial strain of Valentine's Day without missing out on its romance by trying these five tips for celebrating the day of love in a "non-commercial but meaningful" manner.
    Published 13Feb2009, viewed 188 times
  • Thanksgiving Provides Antidote to Anxiety Caused by Economic Crisis
    When depression and anxiety caused by the financial crisis keep you stuck in your current situation, feeling grateful for small things moves you towards postive action and change. Thanksgiving offers an opportunity to focus on gratitude and to stop being victimized by personal financial fallout from the economic crisis.
    Published 14Nov2008, viewed 372 times
  • Take the Challenge: Write Nonfiction in November
    While other writers use the 30 days of November to take the National Novel Writing Month Challenge, this essay challenges nonfiction writers to, instead, spend the month starting and completing a work of nonfiction. In addition, she send them to a blog where they can obtain information for guest blogging experts.
    Published 31Oct2008, viewed 356 times
  • Seal Your Fate This Jewish New Year by Visualizing Hitting the Bull's Eye
    As part of the Jewish New Year's focus on introspection, self-evaluation and repentance, the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur provides a perfect oopportunity to re-evaluate your personal, professional and spiritual targets. It's also a great time to reset them and to figure out how best to hit them in the coming year and to ensure that you are, indeed, written into to Book of Life.
    Published 11Sep2008, viewed 408 times
  • Kabbalists Say: Prepare for 2012 by Becoming a Giver
    Many people are discussing the world changes predicted for 2012. The Kabbalists have a their own ideas about the coming changes. Find out when they are coming and how to prepare for them. Their recommendations help you connect with God, change yoru consciousness and help achieve world transformation all at the same time.
    Published 28Jun2008, viewed 483 times
  • What's a "Platform" and Why Does an Writer Need One?
    These days every writer needs a platform. In particular nonfiction writers must build a platform long before they ever approach an agent or a publisher. Discover the numerous ways to go about constructing this publishing necessity and the one easiest one for most writers -- writing articles and publishing them on the Internet.
    Published 16Apr2008, viewed 680 times
  • Passover and Easter's Common Theme: Courage Comes From Faith
    The story Easter and Passover share not only a common origin but common themes as well. This article takes a close look at both the Old and New testmaent tales to find lessons in courage and faith that run between the two.
    Published 21Mar2008, viewed 479 times
  • Be the 100th Human to Create World Peace
    This essay ties the idea of creative thought, or the Law of Attraction, to the story of the 100th monkey, posing the argument that if enough people would think thoughts of peace peace would be created.
    Published 08Mar2008, viewed 483 times
  • Valentine's Day Reminds Us to Appreciate Those We Love
    For couples that have been together for a while, Valentine's Day provides a great reminder to appreciate each other -- and to express that appreciation. This article discusses why it is important to celebrate this holiday and the benefits of telling those we care that we love and appreciate them about on a regular basis .
    Published 07Feb2008, viewed 326 times
  • Instead of Writing Resolutions, Create Real Change
    While most people don't succeed in following through with their New Year's resolutions, this article offers a concrete process to create change in 2008 or any time.
    Published 04Jan2008, viewed 389 times
  • Seven Kabbalistic Steps to Achieving Your Goals and Resolutions this New Year
    If you want to actually follow through on your resolutions, achieve your goals and manifest your dreams this New Year, this article offers a process based in the Jewish mystical tradition to help you do so. This process parallels the Law of Attraction as described in Rhonda Byrne's book, The Secret.
    Published 03Jan2008, viewed 444 times
  • The Secret of Attracting What You Want for Christmas is Found in Giving -- Not Receiving
    WHile everyone wants to receive gifts at Christmas, and the Law of Attraction teaches us how to attract our desires, the Jewish mystical tradition -- Kabbalah -- tells us that what we should really want is a new desire. We should want a new consciousness that wants to receive for the sake of giving to others. Then we not only open ourselves to the Divine flow of goodness but to a spiritual experience of unity with God.
    Published 22Dec2007, viewed 373 times
  • Sometimes Lighting Chanukah Candles Leaves Us in the Dark
    Much like the other winter holidays, Chanukah is a festival of lights. When this holiday becomes one more about commercialism and less about spirituality, however, even the lighting of candles for 8 nights can leave people in the dark spiritually. Learn how to transform the celebration of this holiday from an empty observance into a meaning-full and spirit-full one.
    Published 20Nov2007, viewed 875 times
  • Six Ways to Invite God to Thanksgiving Dinner
    This article offers sound advice for making Thanksgiving the spiritual holiday it was meant to be. The author's six steps easily make those sitting at your holiday table feel the presence of God dining with them.
    Published 13Nov2007, viewed 935 times
  • Four Steps to a Large Serving of Gratitude This Thanksgiving
    An article offering helpful tips on how to transform Thansksgiving from simply a fabulous meal into the meaningful and spiritual holiday it was meant to be. Instead of just eating lots of food, the author recommends enjoying heaping helpings of gratitude and thankfulness.
    Published 12Nov2007, viewed 768 times
  • Write Nonfiction in November
    This article challenges writers to focus on starting and finishing a work of nonfiction during the month of November. The author encourages them to focus on simply writing, not editing, leaving this stage to December.
    Published 06Nov2007, viewed 389 times
  • Write Your Own Fate into the Book of Life During the Days of Awe -- and Every Day
    On the High Holy Days, the fate of Jews all over the world is supposedly written and then sealed in the proverbial Book of Life. Yet, the decree can be changed, leaving one wondering if we cocreate our destiny with God or not. And if we do, can we write the pages in our own Book of LIfe?
    Published 13Sep2007, viewed 425 times
  • What's Archery Got to Do With the Jewish High Holy Days?
    A discussion of the terminology used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur concerning sin. The author explains that the Hebrew word for sin comes from an archery term that means to miss the mark and that sacred Jewish text, the Torah, teaches Jews how to aim.
    Published 12Sep2007, viewed 427 times
  • Seal Yourself in the Book of Life this Yom Kippur
    This article tells you how to see the Jewish High Holiday process of introspection and repentance to "write" your own pages in the Book of Life for the New Year. It also looks at how we cocreate our life with God and how God has a hand in our destiny.
    Published 07Sep2007, viewed 417 times
  • The High Holy Days: A Time of Personal Change and Spiritual Return
    This article offers a look at the process of inner reflection and change that takes place during the observance of the Jewish High Holy Days. Focusing on the beginning of the "Days of Awe," the holiday of Selichot, the author discusses the opportunity Jews have at this time of year to activily change themselves and their lives for the better.
    Published 28Aug2007, viewed 450 times
  • Why Do We Have to Practice Being Spiritual?
    Much like athletic practice, spiritual practice allows your to strengthen the muscles necessary for feeling unity with a Higher Power. Learn how to incorporate small and short spiritual practices -- or larger and longer ones -- into your life, so your day becomes a constant spiritual practice and your life a continuous spiritual experience.
    Published 25Jul2007, viewed 422 times
  • The Secret Reason Why You Don’t Manifest Your Desires
    This article reveals the secret reasons why peple don't always manifest what they want despite the fact that they think they are using the principles outlined in the book/DVD The Secret. Find out why it appears that the Law of Attraction doesn't always work.
    Published 20Jun2007, viewed 431 times
  • Summertime is a Perfect Time for Rituals
    With the longer days and wamer weather, those who enjoy rituals or would like to create their own rituals have ample time and opportunity to do so. This article offers four easy-to-perform rituals that are perfect for summer,and encourages readers to creatively design their own as well.
    Published 14Jun2007, viewed 418 times
  • During “Shabbat Across America!” Light Sabbath Candle’s in Meaningful and Spiritual Way
    Many Jews need the shabbat candle-lighting ritual to feel meaningfull and spiritual to take on thiis observance on a weekly basis. When Jewish women see themselves as priestesses creating sacred space, inviting the Divine Feminine into that sanctuary, and presiding over their Sabbath rituals in a meanignful and spiritual manner, they are more likely to commit to weekly Shabbat candle lighting .
    Published 24Apr2007, viewed 895 times
  • The Secret is No Secret: It’s Just Kabbalah
    While the author of The Secret admits that the tools and principles put forth by the book and DVD are not new, they actually have existed for centuries in the ancient teachings of Jewish mysticism, called Kabbalah. You can manifest your dreams and desires almost magically by using the technology of the Kabbalists.
    Published 18Apr2007, viewed 477 times
  • Three Things Passover and Easter have in Common
    THis essay details three common themes running through both Pasover and Easter. It provides insight into both the origins of Christianity and Judaism and the reasons behind the observance of these spring holidays.
    Published 23Mar2007, viewed 905 times
  • Seeing the Miracle of Life
    When we rush headlong through life, we forget to appreciate the people, places and things in our lives or to see the miracle of their very existence. A simple change in the words we use to describe the various aspects of our lives can change our perception and make us aware of these miracles.
    Published 01Mar2007, viewed 1124 times
  • Make Valentine’s Day More Than Just a Hallmark Holiday
    This essay offers 5 ways to make Valentine's Day celebrations more meaningful and to observe the holiday without purchasing gifts, cards or candy. In addition, it offers advice on how to make every day Valentine's Day and to use February 14th as a way to rev up the romance and love in your relationship all year long.
    Published 15Feb2007, viewed 551 times
  • Move Through the Fear of Having a Spiritual Experience
    Despite the fact that we might want to have a spiritual experience, fear stops us from having waht we desire. THis essay poses some strong arguments for moving through fear and realizing that we are all connected to God, therefore, having a spiritual experience, every moment.
    Published 08Feb2007, viewed 598 times
  • It’s Never too Late to Make Resolutions and Set Goals
    Don't let the fact that January is almost over stop you from planting seeds of change for 2007. Change can happen at any time. Here are some tips and advice for making New Year's resolutions and setting goals and keeping them.
    Published 30Jan2007, viewed 499 times
  • Art Buchwald Lives On in Jewish Celebrity Cookbook
    In typical Buchwaldian fashion, the famous comic columnist, who died on January 17, 2007, contributed a humorous recipe for a "gourmet meal" and biography to a Jewish celebrity cookbook project.
    Published 26Jan2007, viewed 582 times
  • If God Joined You at Work, Would You Notice?
    This article provides information on how to bring God into the work environment. Readers will discover three easy ways to make their office into a sacred space and to keep God in their thoughts throughout their work day. With a simple change in consciousness, anyone can begin to "see" God in the office as well as in church or synagogue or during personal prayer and meditation.
    Published 16Jan2007, viewed 853 times
  • An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions: Four Ways to Plant Seeds of Change
    Nina Amir and Karen Stone explain how to successfully achieve the New Year's resolutions. Amir and Stone explain that much like a seed becoming a full-grown plant, the process of creating change requires time, care, attention, and nurturing. If given these things, the seed grows into a mature plant bearing fruit -- the successful accomplishment of our resolutions.
    Published 06Jan2007, viewed 700 times

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