To all my friends and family,

Christmas signifies many things to many people. For some, it's parties and gifts. For others, it's a way of helping the less fortunate, donating time, visiting those
who might be in hospitals or assisted living facilities, or just being with their families to exchange gifts, sharing a family dinner,singing Christmas carols and celebrating the birth of Jesus. There are also those who will mourn the loss of their loved ones and think back on happier times when they were here with them.

My wish for all of you is to be thankful for ALL the members of your family that are still with you in this life; to be able to not only make memories with, but to share what a family should share: Love, respect, and genuine caring. Someday you won't have that opportunity to do so anymore.

May you all have an enjoyable and Merry Christmas

Picking the Right Path

What should I do and how should I do it?
Those are the perplexing decisions that
are keeping me from advancing to making
a noticeable change in my life right now.

I work in an $8.00/hr security job. The hours are both convenient and limited at the same time. The company I work for is a family saturated company, complete with daily issues, and complicated drama.

My goal has been and will continue to be finding one or more ways to supplement my financial well being online. So many opportunities and methods, but nothing is as easy as it appears.
One of the difficult tasks for me is to decide what type of niche website to create and what type of affiliate links would work and be rewarding (?).

I'm skeptical and cautious about jumping on and into every bandwagon just because everybody else says it works. Everyone else may just be making money
off of the eager,naive victims that are willing to take that chance that it will
work no matter how it works or what they spend for it.

I love to read forums and message boards and go the websites of the signatures
of different members' posts. I get a lot of novel ideas for creating a number of
profitable streams of income, and some seem like they would be easy or manageable to get started. Then there's the marketing issue. Oh there are numerous ways to market and advertise. It's just a matter of what works and
how well for how long. I know a lot more enters into the overall goal of something
being successful. The good thing is, it's not just a single way; lots of methods work. My uphill battle for now is to find out what works for the ideas I decide on.

That's my crossroads for now

Looking for and finding a career niche

As bad as the economy seems right now,and as many people that are unemployed in this era of downturn, many people are unsure of what
will happen. Some people will continue to look for jobs they know they
are qualified for. Others will wonder what they will have to settle for in
a job. With so much competition for so few jobs available, maybe we as
the unemployed need to rethink our approach in evaluating how to prepare for what we may or may not find in the near future. I've outlined
just a few ideas to consider as we continue to struggle with re-entering
the job market.

1. Know what you're good at with respect to skills and abilities.

2. Know what you enjoy doing as far as hobbies,entertainment,
sports,etc.

3. Be open to being able to develop new skills, talents and abilities.

4. Experiment or try to learn new tasks, give yourself a second chance
to enlighten yourself about previous mental rejections of things
didn't interest you.

5. When you're not sure of what a new endeavor might include as to
requirements,education, physical abilities,dedication,etc, find
ways to investigate, find sources of expertise.

6. Give yourself the chance to do some internal soul searching regarding
ideas, expanding your horizons, or creative abilities.

7. Don't set your goals so high that you'll fear you won't reach them.
Give yourself a chance to see what level your ability you can start out
at. Don't be afraid of failure. Limit your failures to small ones, if any
at all seem to loom on the horizon. Small enough to not scare you
from trying anything else. One has to be able to branch out and uti-
lize whatever is effectively making us what we want to be in life.

8. Make use of whatever networking methods that you can implement
in your search for employment. Use your networking sources to
provide new avenues to explore when deciding what type of job
would appeal to you and what type you would excel at. Look for
networking support groups or events in your area to join and get
your name out in the open field. If they don't know you, they sure
can't find you.

9. Utilize as many job search engines as you can find to broaden your
search for whatever job that not only interests you, but that fit your
skills and abilities. Careerbuilder, hotjobs, indeed, linkedin, just
to name a few. Make as much available to your search as possible
and increase your probability of successfully finding your next
career.

One Man War

Hello all !!! This is something I decided to do after all the rounds of American Idol have arrived to this point of competition. I had been thinking of everyone who had made it to this point, then I started thinking about everyone who had not even been considered in the beginning for any of the following reasons: no talent whatsoever, silliness, outrageous off key performances, etc. So I came across this video from someone who, by the content of the song, pointed out the limitations of age having to do with creative ability. Anyone over a certain age...don't even consider wasting the judge's time or the performer's time. This guy still didn't make it to Hollywood, but he got his point across......I think. At least to me he did. And I'm one of those people who likes to sing,even though I'm not quite as marketable as a lot of performers,
and I AM too old to be on the show,but I just thought that for the benefit of us wannabe's, we might know by watching this that someone tried to stand up for us, however futile of an attempt it was. So here we go. Hope you like it.