The Ultimate Balance

Empowerment – The power of Intention, Focus and Self -Sufficiency

2010-02-01T02:30:00.003-06:00

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Have you ever ask your self- What it would feel like to Be Self-Sufficient having the ability to bring forth Abundance of Peace,Joy and Happiness in your own life and those around you? Well this is what it means to Empower Yourself. It is up to you to Develop the necessary attitudes and skills that you are seeking. NO one can do this for you.

Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities. Empowerment is then the process of obtaining these basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to these opportunities. Empowerment also includes encouraging, and developing the skills for, self-sufficiency, with a focus on eliminating the future need for charity or welfare in the individuals of the group. Empowerment is probably the totality of the following or similar capabilities:Having decision-making power of one's own Having access to information and resources for taking proper decision Having a range of options from which you can make choices (not just yes/no, either/or).

Empowerment may be a long term process involving intense personal relationships with change occurring at a personal and structural level. Empowerment recognizes the value and validity of the cultures and processes of all people involved. Empowerment results in all the individuals and groups involved being more able to make real and life-affirming choices. Empowerment at an individual level is promoted by:developing a working partnership based on mutual respect, trust and shared responsibility between the consumer, carers and mental health professional from the earliest phase of service; actively involving people with a mental illness and their carers in the development of the Individual Service Plan; seeking ways to involve consumers even when they are unresponsive; writing the Individual Service Plan in an accessible way which is easily understood by the consumer and their family or carers; providing comprehensive and appropriate education to consumers and carers including information about rights, treatments for mental illness and the range of services available; and explaining consumer rights and responsibilities at the earliest possible phase of service in a variety of ways over time until the consumer demonstrates understanding.

Power is socially constructed within the organization and is not just commodity that can be taken from one and given to another. Power in Organizations The view of power in the re-engineering literature is reflected in the approach it takes to empowerment. Power is a relationship that is held between those with and those without power, it is symbolic. Power is often related to our ability to make others do what we want, regardless of their own wishes or interests (Weber, 1946).

Empowerment is probably the totality of the following or similar capabilities:Having decision making power of one's own Having access to information and resources for taking proper decision Having a range of options from which you can make choices (not just yes/no, either/or. A definition of empowerment at work from an MBA the is "The process of sharing information, training and allowing employees to manage their jobs in order to obtain optimum results". Consumer empowerment in treatment or service settings involves:providing consumers with full information on their treatment options and giving them the right to choose; providing consumers with full information on their rights, and identifying complaints mechanisms for reporting infringement upon these rights;. Essentially, empowered consumers are people who have the opportunity for control in their personal lives, have information and knowledge, are able to make choices about their own treatment, and are able (with support) to experiment with their treatment. Some consumers may not have the supports in place to assist them as active participants on committees due to social isolation, or lack of access to information about the consumer network. This includes: lack of information about rights, complaint and accountability mechanisms; treatment options and policy issues.

Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. Empowerment is ultimately driven by the individual's belief in their capability to influence events. Empowerment Training Programs is an International Training organization empowerment workshop woman empowerment self-empowerment personal growth training professional development. Empowerment seems to be a modern idea that would not have beenpossible 200 years ago when the idea of democracy and government of thepeople, for the people, by the people was something to fight and die for.
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Web Site Promotion-Advertising Your Website For Profits

2009-12-07T16:08:00.001-06:00

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Making money with your web site is the dream and goal of millions of webmasters all over the internet including myself. In order to reach this goal you need a variety of web site promotions running all at the same time.

Search engine optimization is still my number one traffic generator. I receive more traffic from Google than any other source on the internet. But it is becoming increasingly more and more difficult to achieve a top ten placement on Google or any other search engine as the internet grows and more webmasters compete for the same key words. There once was a time when I could rely on Google to provide me with all the traffic I needed but not any more. I need to promote and advertise my web site elsewhere if I expect to continue receiving good quality traffic to my web site.

Writing articles like this one is just one of the ways I use to promote my web site. There are literally thousands of sites on the internet that will allow you to submit articles such as this one. Your article will remain in their database or directory and as long as you allow re-print instructions along with your author bio you may also see your article on other sites that you did not even submit to. Make sure your web site URL is in your author bio and make sure the URL is active. Some sites will only post your article with static URL’s which will not be quite as effective. You can also use anchor text for your URL to help your search engine rankings. Use your targeted key words as your anchor text and you should see an increase in your search engine optimization efforts.

Number three on my list of web site promotions requires some cash. The majority of people I talk to about getting good quality traffic to a web site all want to do it for FREE without any advertising dollars spent. Although it is possible to promote a web site for FREE with no money, I highly recommend some form of pay per click campaign using Google adwords or Yahoo search marketing (formerly Overture). There are also a host of other smaller pay per click engines that I have used in the past including Findwhat and 7Search.

Press releases on the internet are gaining in popularity recently and you can actually get a press release published and listed on Google and Yahoo news search within 24 hours. For guidelines and how to get published visit the following web page. http://www.prweb.com/

Reciprocal linking has dropped off of my priority list of web site promotions but it can still be a very important means of web site promotion if done properly, and back links to your site are also essential to a good search engine ranking with Google. First of all you are not going to want to trade links with just anyone. Make sure the page’s your links are going to be on are actually indexed by Google. If you do not have the Google toolbar get it. It will tell you if a page has been indexed or not. Also ask the webmaster you are trading links with how many links they have per page. If they put more than 30 links on a page chances are your link will be lost and never clicked on.

Free classified advertising is another way to promote your site for free. But as the internet grows so too does the amount of webmasters submitting to these free classified sites. And the more people there are posting the less likely your ad will be seen. The key to good free classified advertising is testing your results. Test everything you do. When you find a good classified site that is giving you traffic keep using it but follow their guidelines on how often you should post.

Last but not least you need to be collecting e-mail addresses from your web site. Start a newsletter and ask your visitors to subscribe somewhere on your site. Once you have built up a good subscriber base you can e-mail your subscriber base a weekly newsletter that has to do with your web site’s theme or subject matter. Always include UN-subscribe instructions in case your visitors change their mind and no longer would like to receive e–mail from you.

I have just touched the surface on a few of the different techniques that I have used to promote my own web site. There are actually hundreds of other offline and online methods to promote a web site. Use your imagination and do not be afraid to try new things. Test everything you do and when you find something that works keep doing it.

Love the Opportunity

2009-10-31T20:12:00.009-05:00

Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door.
For example, a guy says, "I'm digging ditches. Should I love digging ditches?" The answer is, "No, you don't have to love digging ditches, but if it is your first entry onto the ladder of success, you say, 'I'm glad somebody gave me the opportunity to dig ditches and I'm going to do it so well, I won't be here long.'"

You can be inspired by having found something; even though you are making mistakes in the beginning and even though it is a little distasteful taking on a new discipline that you haven't learned before. You don't have to love it, you just have to learn to appreciate America, appreciate opportunity and appreciate the person who brought you the good news; that found you.
Appreciate the person who believed in you before you believed in yourself, appreciate the person who said, "Hey, if I can do it, you can do it."
If you will embrace the disciplines associated with the new opportunity you will soon find that your self-confidence starts to grow, that you go from being a skeptic to being a believer. And soon when you go out person to person, talking to people, you will find it to be the most thrilling opportunity in the world. Every person you meet - what could it be? Unlimited! Maybe a friend for life. The next person could be an open door to retiring. The next person could be a colleague for years to come. It's big time stuff. And sometimes in the beginning when we are just getting started we don't always see how big it is.
So, before you are tempted to give up or get discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

Formula for Success made Easy

2009-10-29T01:52:00.001-05:00

There is a secret to being successful. It is so simple though that when I tell it to you, many of you won't believe me. The key to success is to model the success of others. Now I can almost hear the questions and derision.

Some will ask where to find their strategy to model. And the answer to that is laughably easy. Most of the most successful people in the world have either written books or had books written about them. In any public library you can discover their "secrets." Read books on Onassis, Napolean Hill, Carnegie, Rockefeller if you seek to succeed in business.
Look at Einstein and Ford and the current scientific geniuses if you seek to make new discoveries to enhance societies technology.

You can also check the internet with quick queries on Google. And you can read the magazines in your chosen field to see what is working for others with your particular passion. The information is all there before you. You are not alone on your journey to greatness. All you have to do is model the success of others and take action with persistence, as they did.

Others of you will say that what you are trying to achieve is totally different than what others have done before you. And again I will have to shine the light on that misguided notion. You may be about to invent the newest, most brilliant gizmo to hit the market and yet the steps that you will take will follow the same path that inventors or business entrepreneurs have taken before you.

Yes, many of the marketing techniques today differ in delivery method than they did before, as does the technology available for any type of advancement, but the principles are all the same. Whether you are placing an ad in the paper or using twitter as your method of getting the message across, the key to turning your audience into actual sales is the same. Focus on your customer and give them above and beyond their expectations. Look at their needs and over deliver when you fill them.

Those who have succeeded before you are not necessarily brighter than you are. Nor are they luckier. What they have is vision, belief, persistence and just enough street smarts to know that they do not have to reinvent the wheel. Take a page from their book and your path to success will suddenly be illuminated.

By Caterina_Christakos
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A Glimpse Of Your True Nature...

2009-10-11T02:33:00.005-05:00

I believe that every moment of existence holds within it, somewhere, a key to your true nature. So as you read this article, do so as if this could be your key, and let’s see which doors it opens within you.

There is a simple fact of nature that I would like you to consider – YOU ARE ALREADY PERFECT!

All of nature, or existence, or reality, or whatever you prefer to call it, is already perfect.
There is nothing outside of you that you need to find to complete you. Yo...

I believe that every moment of existence holds within it, somewhere, a key to your true nature. So as you read this article, do so as if this could be your key, and let’s see which doors it opens within you.

There is a simple fact of nature that I would like you to consider – YOU ARE ALREADY PERFECT!

All of nature, or existence, or reality, or whatever you prefer to call it, is already perfect.

There is nothing outside of you that you need to find to complete you. You are already complete.

There is nothing you need to achieve. There is nothing you need to get, do or become. Everything you need to “be you” is already within you. You are perfect, as is all other creation.

A rock is a rock. It doesn’t try to be anything other than itself. It does not look elsewhere for its identity. It just is, and it’s perfect.

A tree does not try to be something it’s not. It’s a tree. And it spends its time just being. Without struggle, it is what it is- perfect.

I have a cat named Schrody. Now Schrody lives an incredibly free life, because he simply is who he is. He spends his time just being Schrody. And he does it perfectly.

There is not one example in nature, living or non-living, which is not already perfect. Including YOU! You are perfect right now- exactly how you are meant to be.

If you were meant to be something or someone else, then you would be.

If you were meant to have something else, then you would have it.

If you were meant to achieve something, then you would have achieved it.

You are already perfect, just as you are.

So why don’t you feel perfect? Why are you not happy? Why are you looking outside of yourself for that something else which will complete you?

Perhaps because you falsely believe you should be something else? Something other than what you truly are. You are refusing to accept reality. You fight what is, and that’s a fight you can never win. You believe you should be richer. Or have a better job. Or a different relationship.

These things are just your external environment. And if you wish to change them, you can certainly do it. The circumstances you live with now are a result of your choices so far, and you can create a new life for the future by choosing to make changes in your life, and taking appropriate action.

If that is your desire, you can change your finances. You can change your career. You can improve your relationships. And making these changes will certainly make your life different. However, they cannot make YOU better. It’s impossible to improve on perfection.

Personal development and growth does not improve you. It simply expands your awareness of the truth- that you are already perfect.

Until you recognize this fact, you will continue in your suffering. Happiness cannot be found outside you. Happiness comes from within, when you give up the illusion, and just love yourself unconditionally.

So! How about no more thinking, “I should be this…”, or “I should have that.” How about thinking, “I am exactly who I am, and no-one could do a more perfect job at it than me.”

Be happy being who you are.
Lance Beggs
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The Power Of Prayer - is - Focused Energy

2009-08-23T16:31:00.000-05:00

What is prayer really?

Think about it for a moment. Prayer. It is the moment of focusing your energy
( your thoughts, wishes, desires, needs whether for yourself or another).
Sure a lot of people don't see it like that. Most see it as a communication with Deity ( Dear God, Dear Jesus, Dear Goddess, Dear Shiva, etc). If you are religious I'm not going to tell you that praying ISN'T a form of communication or connection with your deity. I would just like to add to it.

I would like to touch base on the power of that focused energy. The Power of Prayer. No, you do not have to be Christian in order to pray and receive any benefits or see any results. Nobody has the monopoly on personal energy ( regardless of what others may say). Praying can help relieve stress and bring a calmness to oneself. Well, I bet many of you already knew that. It's not like THAT's a news flash.

Did you know that prayer can PHYSICALLY affect things?
No I am not talking about making the blind see, calling the autism out of someone or making quadriplegics whole again.
People tend to expect ALOT and fairly QUICKLY. Praying though ( directing your focused energy with an precise intent) has been documented to have an impact ( and of course it has been documented to be hogwash too; of course there are always two sides to any coin).

Prayer does not necessarily have to be a religious thing either. In fact I'm not even batting for it from that view point at all. And yes I am well aware of all the experiments that point to how questionable prayer can be ( that is why I think many people find it mysterious, religious, something questionable, uncomfortable or even a bunch of hooey).

I'm coming from this just from the point of view as describing prayer ( with or without religious intent) as focused energy. Focused energy has been proven to be a real thing, whether we are watching a martial arts master pound his head through four cinder blocks and survive without a scratch or we are watching a laser cut in the detailed facets to a diamond.
So why is it so hard for us to harness and utilize our own energy?

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