If it doesn’t make you happy then why are you doing it

If It Doesn’t Make You Happy Then Why Are You Doing It?

I’m sure that you have often heard people complaining about their life and about all the things they have to do that they don’t like doing. Perhaps you have even been guilty of this yourself on occasions. Let’s have a look at how you can change those unwanted patterns for good.

Life is full of choices and possibilities. It is impossible to do everything and so we have to have some system for deciding what we do and what we don’t do. This seems like common sense but in reality most people don’t have any system for choosing.

If you don’t have a system for choosing what to do or what not to do then you will end up as the victim of someone else’s system. You have lost control of your life and you have lost control of your potential for happiness.

Notice that in any group of people, whether it is a family, a social group, a workplace, or some form of club or organization, you always find that a few people do most of the work and some people contribute nothing at all, and get away with it.

If you are one of the contributors you may feel that the others are being unfair or lazy. The reality is that you are allowing yourself to be a victim and you can choose to no longer do that.

Here is a 5 step process for regaining control over your quality of life and your own happiness.

Step 1: Establish a Basis for Choosing

If you are going to develop a system then you need to establish a basis on which to evaluate your choices. The basis you use will go a long way toward determining whether you make good choices or bad choices. For example if you choose on the basis of guilt or a sense of responsibility then you are choosing for reasons that don’t necessarily enhance your life and so your choices are unlikely to contribute to your sense of happiness.

A healthy basis for choice making is whether or not the option that you choose will enhance your life and make you happier. If it will then choose it and if it won’t then don’t choose it.

Step 2: Increase Your Options

Even though the world abounds with possibility most people end up making choices between a very limited set of options. Often this set does not include any options that you really want to do. The problem is not that you don’t have good options; the problem is that you are limiting the possible options and by doing that you are not including your good options.

Make a habit of looking outside the box. Make a habit of asking yourself what other possibilities exist. If you take the time to brainstorm options you will be surprised just how many possibilities there really are. Keep brainstorming until your options include a number of possibilities that you like.

Step 5: Make a conscious choice

Once you have established your basis for choosing and brainstormed for more possibilities it is time to actually make a decision and choose. This is where you have to draw on your strength of character and stick to your criteria for choosing.

Resist the temptation to say «yes» to something you don’t want to do just to keep the peace. You are not keeping the peace by doing that. You are severely damaging your own inner peace. When you want to say no then say no. It may take some practice but saying no is the way to get that practice.

Your responsibility is to yourself and your own happiness. That means that in the case of choosing what you do and what you don’t do, your responsibility is to consciously make your choice according to the criteria that you set in step 1.

Step 4: Evaluate the Outcome of Your Choice

No matter what you do in life you should always evaluate your outcome to see what you can learn about the system that you are using. In this case you are evaluating your outcomes to see if they are meeting the objective you set in step 1.

Step 5: Improve Your Choice Making System

If your choices aren’t producing the outcomes that you want then maybe you need to modify the way you are making those choices. Over time you will develop the criteria that work best for you.

A word of warning though. Never sacrifice your long term happiness for the promise of short term peace of mind. The price for that short term peace of mind may be that you fail to achieve true happiness and self fulfillment in your life.

Increasing your adsense income now

Increasing Your Adsense Income Now

So you want to increase your Adsense income? Log into your Adsense account, and look at your last month’s stats. There are three key areas that contribute to your earnings: Impressions, Clickthroughs and Effective CPM. Improving your stats in any, or preferably, all of these three key areas will increase your Adsense earnings.

Impressions

Impressions are the number of times your webpages with Adsense ads have been viewed. You can increase Impressions by increasing traffic (preferably targeted traffic) to your webpages.

Some of the best ways to increase targeted traffic to your webpages include:

-create more webpages, with relevant, focused content -create more links to your webpages -list your website/s under relevant categories in more directories -set up a directory of relevant sites on your website and accept relevant reciprocal links -write relevant articles, with your site information in the ‘resource box’ at the end of each article, and submit them to article directories

Clickthroughs

Clickthroughs are the percentage of viewers who click on your Adsense ads. You can increase Clickthroughs by increasing the relevance of Adsense ads on your site, and by tweaking the format and placing of your ads.

Although you can’t dictat which Adsense ads show on your site, you can influence the relevance of the ads by maintaining a tighrly focused website. If every page on your site focuses tightly on the site topic, its more likely that the Adsense ads will too. For example, if every page of your site is about fishing, and the word ‘fishing’ appears several times on every page, its likely that your Adsense ads will relate to fishing.

The best way to tweak your ad format and placement is to invest in an Adsense Tracker, and test, test, test! People who have done this tend to suggest that the best format is the large rectangle, with background and border the same color as the page behind it, so that the ad blends into the page. The best placement is towards the center or top left of the first screen of the page. Try these suggestions first, and then track and test, to be sure of what works best for your pages.

Effective CPM

Effective CPM is a measure of your average earnings, per thousand clicks. You can increase your Effective CPM by selecting topics that attract high bids from Adsense advertisers, and building pages and whole websites on higher paying topics.

Although Google doesn’t release information on Adsense bids, you can get a good idea of the top paying topics by looking at information on Adwords bids, or, for that matter, bids on pay-per-click search engines like Overture. There are a number of keyword research tools available, both free and paid, that can help you find high paying topics.

The Formula

So now you have the basics of increasing your Adsense income. Its a deceptively simple formula:
-Build pages and websites on high paying topics for the best Effective CPM. -Format and place your Adsense ads for maximum Clickthroughs. -Promote your sites to drive targeted traffic to your Adsense webpages for maximum impressions.

Important facts to remember when shipping gifts abroad

Important Facts To Remember When Shipping Gifts Abroad

A lot of families spread out over time, sometimes this can be because of work or it could be retiring abroad to make the most of their free time without the stresses of work on their mind. These relatives may expect not to get anything more than a birthday card in the mail, especially if they have moved from the UK to some far off country like Canada or New Zealand.

But imagine the look of surprise on their face if they were to receive a parcel on their birthday or at Christmas from you with a gift inside, it would show you really care for them and be a very special present they’ll likely not forget. This situation is now more possible than ever with parcel couriers able to deliver to far away countries but without breaking the bank on shipping costs.

There are many courier companies we are all familiar with like UPS, DHL and FedEx who are experts when it comes to international parcels, usually for business reasons, but now these companies are branching out to personal use too, whether it’s selling goods on eBay or in this instance sending a present abroad.

There are a few things to bear in mind when shipping gifts; if it is a fragile object then you should support it correctly using insulating materials such as bubble wrap or polystyrene. Sending gifts internationally will need a customs form if it is going outside of the EU, clearly marked as a gift to ensure the recipient doesn’t end up with a bill for customs and duty.

Some countries do not have gift tax exemptions though so you must make sure you fill out the form correctly, clearly stating value so that the receiver doesn’t get billed instead of you, as well as ensuring it doesn’t get returned to you. Many countries have value limits on gifts, so make sure you are well versed in the customs and duty implications of the country you are sending to.

A good idea for sending gifts is to gift wrap the actual gift, then place it inside a sturdy cardboard box for shipping in. This way the gift is protected during transit as well as retaining the attractive presentation and excitement of unwrapping a present from a loved one.

Whilst many parcel couriers will be able to send parcels very quickly, you may find that it is cheaper if you send earlier, so making sure you send your parcel ahead of time and you could save money on shipping costs.

Sending gifts abroad is not nearly as expensive or complicated as you may think, make sure you choose a shipping service that offers worldwide parcel delivery to your chosen country and you’re already halfway there!

Learn internet marketing video training

Easy Video Player This software has changed the way many online business owners use video content to market their products and services online, and is slowly revolutionizing the entire video marketing industry. Many online marketers are not quite sure about how this program works and how it can help them, and I will tell you more about my experience and how this software can help you make more sales.

1. How Does The Easy Video Player Software Really Work?

This tool allows me to host all my videos for a very low cost and in private. Every gigabyte of video data can be stored online for just a few cents, and works very well with Amazon Web services. Prior to this software launch, it was very tedious and difficult to manage online videos using the Amazons video storage interface. By combining this program with Amazon’s video storage capabilities, you can have a system whereby you are able to host large volumes of videos and handle huge amounts of incoming traffic without any problems.

2. How Do You Use the Easy Video Player Software to Make More Sales?

I can now easily embed my opt-in boxes into my online marketing videos and also get people to purchase directly after watching them. This has led to the generation of more sales and leads with the same video after it starts to spread virally over the Internet. Besides all these, the software also allows you to track all the sales and traffic statistics of all your videos, including the amount of money that you have made, the percentage of viewers who watched the videos and the total cumulative number of views that every video has gathered. Once the video has finished playing, you can easily choose to redirect your visitors to any other sites that you wish.

Easy Video Player has an intuitive user-friendly web interface and is simple to use for both beginners and more experienced video marketers alike.

The software will guide you, step by step on uploading a video to your Amazon account, choosing how you want it to look and then giving you the embed code so you can plug the video straight into your blog, sales page or whatever else!

Plus, you don’t even have to worry about installing the software because there is also an option to have a qualified technician to install it for you upon purchase for a totally hassle-free customer experience!

Easy Video Player can supply you with comprehensive statistics so you can see exactly how each of your videos are performing.

You can see how many times your videos have been watched and the percentage which have been watched all the way through. You can also see how many sales your videos have made and how much money they have earned you!

Easy Video Player leaves nothing to chance and will tell you exactly how your video marketing campaigns are performing!

Visit to read a FREE report about this new Video Marketing Easy Video Player System.

Let me reduce your stress

Let Me Reduce Your Stress! — Productivity Tips

I got an email recently from someone saying, «I don’t have time to read your newsletters. It’s stressing me out. You need to turn them into quick tips.»

If you’re like me, your in-box is constantly ‘pinging’ you that another newsletter has arrived.

So I’ve given it a lot of thought and did some samples.

Here’s what that could look like:

«People and their organizations get further, faster and easier when they’re more productive. Since organizations accomplish nothing unless people are doing something, the people involved need to get more productive with their doing.

«So — Get MORE Productive… NOW!»

Hey, not bad! Next week I could put out this one:

«People are more productive when they’re focused.

So — FOCUS your attention!»

«People are more productive when they know why they’re putting the effort in.

So — Have a VISION and use it everywhere with everyone!»

«People are more productive when they have actionable plans

So — Have a PLAN and make sure it includes «who is doing what, by when?»

«People are more productive when they leverage the time, intelligence and efforts of others.

So — Direct, Delegate and DO everything efficiently»

«People are more productive when there is a repeatable system in place that reduces efforts.

So — Put SYSTEMS in place that you can use to train, evaluate and stabilize everyone’s efforts»

Gosh this is quick! I could knock these out and send out two lines every week!

But, you know. Now that I think of it, if that’s what you’ve been looking for, let me reduce that stress you’re feeling ~ just check in with the Catalyst Action Tips. And Meanwhile, just get your attention on your intention and pick an action and get moving!

Meanwhile, everyone else: tune in and ask yourself «What actions do I already know that would be High Payoff?» What makes it easy to put them in action?»

Your answers will help you recognize the patterns you use that get you the results you have today. And they’ll walk you through techniques that shift you out of your habits and patterns and find new ones that will work for you more productively so that you get the results you’re dreaming of.

In fact, the record shows that «People using Linda’s techniques increase their productivity 267%.»

In about 7 minutes a week.

Now that’s High Payoff!