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BE YOUR OWN BOSS
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If you are a Clickbank associate who has earned over $600 this 
year make sure you contact Clickbank very soon! Any affiliate 
who earns $600 or over in a calendar year must have income tax
documents filed. If you have earned over $600 this year and 
have not yet given Clickbank your Social Security Number or
EIN number don't expect another check until you do! Clickbank
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they may hold back payments if you have not kept up with your
end of the deal! Tax time is coming and Clickbank isn't the
only company that may be asking for Social Security Numbers if
you had a good year. Be ready to report that information to
your opportunities before they are forced to report you to 
the IRS! 


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Reflections--A Top Ten List of Year-End Questions
By Michael E. Angier

In order to embrace the new, we must release the old. A trapeze
artist cannot swing from one bar to another without letting go.
An important part of preparing for the New Year is to review the
past year--to release it--and to learn from it. 

To go where we wish to go and be whom we wish to be, we need to
know where we are and who we are. An honest self-analysis is
always helpful to gain clarity. As we end the year, the decade,
the century and the millennium, it seems particularly fitting to
devote some time to reflecting on the year past and where we
find ourselves as the new century dawns.

The following questions should stimulate your thinking for this
process. I hope that you take time out of your busy schedule
this holiday season to ponder where you are and where you've
been. Enter into discussions with people you care about. Write
out your thoughts and feelings. Do some journalling. Consider
writing a letter--an end-of the-year-epistle to yourself. It
could be profound to write it and valuable to read it in the
years ahead.

Reflect upon what you did, how you felt, what you liked, what
you didn't and what you learned. Try to look at yourself and
your experience with as much objectivity as you can-much like a
biographer would.

Here are some suggestions to get you started in mulling over the
past year-perhaps the last decade. Feel free to add your own.

1. What did I learn? (skills, knowledge, awareness', etc.) 

2. What did I accomplish? A list of my wins and achievements. 

3. What would I have done differently? Why? 

4. What did I complete or release? What still feels incomplete
to me? 

5. What were the most significant events of the year past? 
List the top three. 

6. What did I do right? What do I feel especially good about?
What was my greatest contribution? 

7. What were the fun things I did? What were the not-so-fun? 

8. What were my biggest challenges/roadblocks/difficulties? 

9. How am I different this year than last? 

10. For what am I particularly grateful? 

Another Suggestion: Consider listing all the things in your life
of which you'd like to let go--anything you no longer want. Give
thanks for what they've brought you in terms of learning and
usefulness and then burn the list. It's a symbolic gesture to
help you release the old and be open to the new. The next step
is to list what you DO want-experiences, knowledge, material
things, relationships, healings, whatever.

In doing this, you'll be using the principle of
vacuum--releasing what you don't want and embracing what you do.
On New Year's Eve, my wife and I, along with several friends and
close family members will light a bonfire and burn our lists as
well as a few other articles that represent something we no
longer desire in our lives. For example, I plan to burn an old
(and too big) article of clothing to symbolize a less-than
impeccable wardrobe and garments that belong to a heavier person
than I am and will be.

I'm confident that anything you can do to make this year-end
more dramatic in terms of your own personal and spiritual growth
will be valuable.

Make it a great New Year by ending this one well.


Editor's Note: We're planning a "101 Best Questions to Ask
Yourself at Year-End". If you submit your suggestion(s), we'll
provide the final 101 list to you. Send your suggestion to
101BQ@SuccessNet.org mailto:101BQ@SuccessNet.org

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Copyright 2002 Michael Angier & Success Networks International.
Used with permision.
Michael Angier is the founder and president of Success Networks.
Success Net's mission is to inform, inspire and empower people
to be their best--personally and professionally. Download their
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DOWNLOAD OF INTEREST 
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that you clean some of the junk from your system. Although you may
think that extra files and/or programs on your computer aren't
doing any harm, that may not be the case. Unnecessary extra files
may slow your system, may cause file conflicts, and in some cases
may leave your system vulnerable to attack from hackers. Now is
the time to give your computer the once over and remove all the
programs you haven't used in a few months. Don't be a pack rat
here! If you haven't used a program in a few months the odds are
that you aren't going to use it again. WAIT! Before you start
deleting like mad make sure you're doing it right. Don't simply
delete a program from your system, use either the uninstaller
provided with the program itself or within the Windows control
panel.


WHAT ARE THEY THINKING
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Why is it that most people seem to stop thinking logically when
they run across a problem? Since we are humans, and do make the
occasional mistake, we sometimes get an email from a client asking
us to fix the problem. If the problem is obvious to us we fix the
problem right away, however if we can't determine what the nature
of the problem is it will obviously take us longer to fix. Why
is that so difficult for some people to understand? I'm not about
to say that all our customers don't think logically, but why are
there so many who don't? We obviously can't fix a problem if we
don't know who the advertiser is, but that's what seems to be 
expected of us on a weekly basis. What are these people thinking?


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