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BE YOUR OWN BOSS
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Tax time is over 5 months away, but if you're the boss you had 
better start preparing now! One of the worst parts of working
for yourself is often the shock involved in paying your own 
taxes for the first time. Keep in mind that all the money you
earn from affiliate programs, website help, consulting, or
whatever it is your do, is subject to the same income taxes 
that you probably had automatically taken out and paid by 
your previous employer. If you're thinking that dinners with
your husband or wife are going to be deductible, think again!
If you're thinking that a deduction for "office in home" is
a simple calculation you're in for a rude awakening. And if
you're expecting a big deduction because you're paying for
your own health insurance, you had better check with your
accountant! Tax time often hits the home business owner hard
so start getting your questions answered, and your documents
in line now. 


FEATURED ARTICLE
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Characteristics To Help Find The Work Of Your Dreams
by: Gloria Dunn

"Why am I not happy?" "Why is life a struggle?" "Why doesn't 
work, work?" We probe our soul with questions like these, but 
we will never hear the answers if we don't take time off in 
our hectic days to listen. Unless we slow down and take a deep 
breath, we cannot hear the subtle responses that come from within. 

As we get older, the questions about the nature and quality of 
life come up. By then, though, we are so mired in the car 
payments and the mortgage and the daily routine, and we are 
so used to looking for answers outside ourselves, that we fail 
to recognize the simple truth: We need to find enough quiet 
space so that we can listen to the answers locked deep inside. 
We need to stop and let them surface. 

Once we take that time, we can reflect on all we have done and 
all we hope to do, and decide if we are living the life we want 
or if, instead, it was programmed for us by others. Only then 
can we listen to our own voice, our own intuition, our own 
inner wisdom. Only than can we tap into our inherent skills, 
talents and inner creativity, which form the work for which 
we were individually designed. Then we will truly reap the 
rewards of joy and fulfillment as well as a paycheck. 

Afterward, when we go back to our busy life, we find that we 
are whole beings again, not walking machines. If we have 
chosen to take a break from our careers, the work we choose 
when we return will be right and satisfying. 

Regardless of how we use it, time goes by and then it's gone. 
The combined power of every ruler in the world could not 
change that by decree. So, in the end, the only thing that 
counts is how we used the time. Is what we're doing meaningful 
enough that if we were still doing it 10 or 15 years from now, 
we would be satisfied with that? 

If you just keep going the way you are, ask yourself what you 
will miss and how it will affect you and the ones you love. If 
you are losing some of your spirit every year, what kind of 
husband, wife, father, mother or friend will you end up as 
after half a lifetime goes by? If you need to take time off 
to stop the downward momentum, isn't it worth it? 

It takes time and perseverance to find the work and life of 
your dreams. Here are some characteristics to cultivate that 
will support you: 

Vision -- great clarity about what you want. Describe your 
vision in detail and visualize yourself in your new condition. 
The more you do this, the more possible, even probable, it 
seems that you will get there. 

Strong intention -- determination to get what you want. Pursue 
your goals when you are thinking, writing, talking, exploring, 
reading and being, as well as in your actions. Be resolute that 
you will achieve your objectives. Stay focused and don't let 
anything or anyone stand in your way. 

Unwavering belief -- a belief so strong that it stands up 
against challenges. Other people, sometimes believing they 
are being helpful, try to persuade us to be realistic, 
meaning that we shouldn't aim too high. Successful people 
keep their goals high and their expectations inline. People 
may tell us we are being a dreamer. Successful people are 
practical dreamers. They have dreams, and they figure out 
how to make them come true. 

Action approach -- know what you need to do and do it. If a 
person wants to drive a car, he gets behind the wheel. To 
dance, he moves his feet to the rhythm. To find a new job, 
career or better skills, he researches his options, decides 
on a plan and implements it. Everything requires movement. 
Moves toward your goals. 

Focus -- stay on course. Don't stop on the way or get 
sidetracked by fear or the myriad other things that hold 
one back. Even the best get waylaid now and then, but those 
who are sure of the path they are on don't let themselves 
procrastinate for long. They just put themselves on fast 
forward and fly. 

Faith -- truly believe you will get it. Know it is just a 
matter of time. If things don't move as fast as you would 
like, if something goes wrong, if you get unavoidably 
sidetracked, it doesn't have a permanent effect. When you 
fall off the horse, simply get right back on. 

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(c) 2002, Gloria Dunn, all rights reserved. 
Gloria Dunn, President, Wiser Ways to Work(r), Speaker, 
corporate trainer, retreat facilitator, organizational 
behavior specialist, consultant. Develops winning corporate 
cultures by teaching leaders to lead, managers to manage, 
and work teams to play. Author of "From Making a Living to 
Having a Life." You can reach Gloria at 
mailto:gloria@wiserwaystowork.com or 
http://www.wiserwaystowork.com and 
http://www.workingchallenged.com. 


DOWNLOAD OF INTEREST
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The download of interest this week is a program that all of the
webmasters out there simply MUST HAVE. If you're a webmaster, 
or even if you're just playing with web design you have to have a
copy of Netscape on your computer. Although Netscape only has
about a 12% market share right now, that 12% translates into
millions and millions of potential customers! Although I'm not 
a big Netscape fan anymore, I always have a copy of each of the 
last 5 versions on my computer at all times. There isn't a 
business on the net that can afford to throw away or ignore 
12% of their potential clients, but if you're not checking your
websites in Netscape before you publish them that's exactly what
you're doing! Get Netscape now! I'm not saying you have to love
it, I'm not even saying you should need to regularly use it, but 
you simply must have it to make sure that Netscape displays 
your website correctly! To get Netscape free simply go to
Netscape's website at http://www.netscape.com 


WHAT ARE THEY THINKING
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Why in the world can't any MLM or affiliate program seem to keep
their word when it comes to dates? They'll say that "Pre-launch 
is ending on XX-XX-XXX", but when that date comes you'll see a
lot of companies extend their "pre-launch" date. They try to tell 
their affiliates that extending pre-launch is to their benefit. Or 
you'll hear that you have until "XX-XX-XXXX" to pay your membership
fees or be dropped from the program before a matrix compression. 
Of course when that date comes the program owners extend that date
and claim is "Due to overwhelming demand by members to extend the 
date by which payment must be made". Do all of the affiliate 
program, and MLM program owners out there think that none of us 
know what's really know going on? When affiliate programs don't 
hit their pre-launch date we all know it's because they don't 
have their products ready. And when payment dates get extended 
we all know it's because the program owners are shocked by the 
small percentage of their free members that have actually paid 
the fees! To all of you affiliate program owners out there,
GET YOUR ACTS IN GEAR! What are you all thinking?


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