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It seems that for every major holiday, there’s a particular group of movies we connect to them.

The easiest examples are the Christmas movies with famous titles such as “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

But when you get to other holidays such as Easter and Thanksgiving, the list grows shorter.

Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner, one of the greatest thanksgiving movies of all time is the 1947 classic, “A Miracle on 34th Street”.

Set during the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade, this excellent piece of cinema brings the joy of both Thanksgiving and Christmas together to warm every viewer’s heart.

For years, the Thanksgiving holiday has been one of my all-time favorites.

I can’t pinpoint the main reason because there are many.

For me, it’s the combination of good family, good food, healthy fellowship, and a few football games to boot.

Thanksgiving is a great holiday for sure.

As the years continue to forge ahead, the thanksgiving date is beginning to take on a new set of reasons to savor it.

Being thankful is slowly (I feel) becoming a lost art in our hustle-bustle, gotta-have-it-now society.

We need to take time to remember all we’ve been blessed with; not just on one single day of the year, but all year round.

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1. Be grateful: start or end every day by appreciating what you have rather than what you don’t have. Make a ritual of it: “I’m grateful for ..” Do this 5 times, listing a different thing each time.

2. Put your fork or your sandwich down between mouthfuls. This way you are likely to eat less and enjoy your food more.

3. Talk to a friend – not by email, but over the phone, or better still get together.

4. Sit at the table to eat, but clear the table of bills, things to do, etc. It doesn’t help your digestion, looking at your unpaid bills while you eat.

5. Walk (or jog or run) a little more. You should be taking 10,000 steps a day, but most people are only taking 3,000 to 4,000. Buying a pedometer will help to keep your motivation up.

6. Drink more water. It’s good for your skin, helps you to avoid constipation, and may help you to lose weight as we often misinterpret the body’s thirst request as a food request.

7. Volunteer to help someone else. Research shows that we live longer and happier lives if we spend time helping others rather than just thinking about ourselves.

8. Have a laugh. Buy yourself a child’s joke book, and indulge, or buy a bubble making machine and run around after the bubbles (see tip 5)

9. Look at the sky. Research has shown that people in hospital make a better recovery if they can see the sky from their hospital beds. Why wait to be ill? Enjoy it now.

Jane Thurnell-Read is a writer and researcher on happiness, health and alternative medicine. Go to her web site at http://www.healthandgoodness.com for self-help tips, information and inspiration on how to be happy.

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I usually am not one to make bold predictions of events that may transpire. Still, the proliferation in the number of article submission sites leads me to conclude one thing: a shake out is in the making. How so? There are too many sites, too many poorly designed sites at that, and only so many sites quality authors will submit their work to. Is this a bad thing? No, not when you consider what an author gets in return for when he or she submits their work to a quality site: free publicity. Let’s take a look at sites that win v. sites that just won’t make it:

Excellent Page Rank. A page rank of five or better is very good. Several sites are in this bracket, but even some of these sites have only one page that ranks this high. You know that a site is highly regarded if their blog is indexed and ranked high by Google. Ezine Articles is a prime example of one such site.

Regular Feedback From Management. Granted, a lot of my email messages get tossed, but those coming from high performing article submission sites get read by me. Not only read, but studied. Yes, I look at the trends that the site manager is talking about and consider those trends for when I write my articles, shape my web sites and blogs, etc. Most people are naturally attracted to a winner…is your article directory manager a winner?

Author Camaraderie. I consider a site successful if there is good natured banter between authors as well as with the site’s manager. There is nothing healthier about an article directory site that contains active blogs and forums, visited by authors who pepper the site with their quips, suggestions, comments, etc.

Where Are You Going? Many of today’s article directories are little more than sites meant to harness pay-per-click schemes. No, this isn’t an unethical practice but you have to wonder what would happen if their scheme ended. Would they close down their directory too? Just thinking about all that time wasted on submitting work to a now defunct directory…ugh! I prefer to go only with those sites that have a promise of continued growth and expansion. As I am aggressive with my use of the internet, I would expect the same from them.

No, I am not naming which directories I think will not make it. In some ways it doesn’t matter. Authors will “vote with their feet” and send their work only to the highest quality sites, just as it should be. The coming article directory shake out may not be entirely obvious either…the number of directories that close up may be unnoticeable but the number of new article submissions they receive will be, as well as their relevancy with Google and other top search engines.

Turn Gigs You Already Get Into More Writing Income! By David Geer

Seven practices to give yourself a bonus!

ASK FOR A BETTER CONTRACT Ask for a better contract when you’re giving up too many rights, you can’t figure out what you’re getting paid or when, or you are an authority or have a demonstrable specialty. Just ask, “Do you have a better contract?” Let them ask you why you want it. Be prepared with an answer. They may not ask. They may ritually give better contracts only to those who ask. It can be as simple as that.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS If you see an expense reimbursement clause, use it. Adhere to the publication’s instructions on how to get reimbursed. Items taken seriously include phone charges for interviews or research; postal mailing charges; travel expenses (discuss before signing) and costs for other goods or services vital to the assignment. Don’t forget to invoice separately.

ASK FOR A RAISE AFTER FOUR ARTICLES The consensus seems to be that if you have turned in about four acceptable pieces without a hitch, you have just become a known quantity, a measurable asset, and probably worth paying more to keep. Here’s a little secret. Call at 10 a.m. on hump day (Wednesday). Your editor has had time for coffee and it’s mid-week. He or she isn’t getting over Monday or looking longingly for Friday’s arrival. Call and say hello. Ask how they’re doing. Confident and cool, in mid-conversation, just say “I want to negotiate a raise.”

PITCH A FOLLOW-UP OR SERIES Be aware of related stories that break just as your piece is being published or thereafter. Get the story and pitch a follow-up or series, first to the same publication, then as a scoop on that publication to their competitors if they refuse to publish it. In your query, cite not only the first article but also its popularity by sharing reader mail. When writing the piece, compare information from the first story – this will enlarge the readership for both.

TURN INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWS INTO PROFILES You take an informational interview for an assignment. You already know a lot about the person. Depending on their import, fame or popularity, you may be able to publish their profile in a national magazine. If not, you shouldn’t find it difficult to publish in a smaller magazine or better-paying newspaper. Properly written, profiles don’t become dated as easily as other stories, and that’s nothing a minor revision won’t cure anyway. This built-in “freshness guarantee” means you can pitch profiles endlessly until you get published and paid!

KEEP A JOURNAL AS YOU WRITE AND WRITE YOUR MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCES INTO SALABLE CONTENT By keeping a journal of your professional writing life, you store up a slew of material for courses on writing, or even a book! More than memoirs, these slices of your writing adventures can become articles, features, fiction, or meat for your bio or query letters. Journaling is impassioned, eager writing about what you know well. You generate twice the material with zero research and then you can cherish it, learn from it and get paid for it too!

YOUR EDITOR, YOUR FRIEND, YOUR NEXT LEAD! On one occasion when calling an editor who I really hit it off with, I got a lead right away to write adjacent material for the editor’s friend! Another time I queried an editor who, unbeknownst to me, happened to work in a building full of editors in a publishing district. She gladly volunteered to give my information to all the other editors in the building! The lesson here is to be proactively personable with editors.

By default, Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ‘ or ” ) to curly (smart or typographer’s) quotes as you type. This is fine if you are only authoring your works for applications not relating to article marketing. When smart quotes are converted to HTML, the quotes are converted to non-standard characters which end up littering your document with question mark symbols and/or other garbage code.

When in doubt, don’t allow your Ezine Articles to contain smart quotes:

Most articles that are put into article marketing distribution eventually end up being sent to an email newsletter audience. Email newsletter servers have near zero-tolerance for MS Word smart quotes; they will not recognize them as valid ASCII characters (because they are not valid). They are a figment of the Microsoft ASCII imagination. In most cases they will show up as garbage code; thus making you, and your article, look like a real novice lacking proper formatting skills.

At risk are: quotes, apostrophes, double dashes, and 3 periods in a row.

This is what smart quotes looks like when properly displayed:

“smart quotes” aren’t very smart…

This is what STANDARD quotes looks like when properly displayed:

“smart quotes” aren’t very smart…

This is what smart quotes looks like when NOT properly displayed:

smart quotes arent very smart

Do you see the downside potential of leaving smart quotes in your articles that you put into distribution? Standard quotes use the lowest common denominator in the ASCII character standards world and this ensures that your articles will look great in any HTML or TEXT format.

How To Disable Microsoft Word’s Smart Quotes:

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.

2. Under Replace as you type, select or clear the “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” check box.

Alternatively, you can copy your entire MS Word document over to a non Microsoft text editor (EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc) and do a simple search and replace. Search and replace the smart quotes into standard quotes, apostrophe’s, dashes and dots if applicable.

Caution For Authors Who Do HTML Code For Their Articles in MS Word:

Unless you have smart quotes disabled, it should be noted that smart quotes are not valid HTML code. Therefore, don’t even consider using MS Word to do HTML code unless you have the smart quotes feature disabled.

Article Marketing Smart Quotes Conclusion

Smart quotes are best left for e-books, physical books in print, PDF documents and any non-HTML related document. If you want to increase the portability of your ezine articles, do the smart thing and turn off Microsoft Word’s smart quotes or do a search/replace before you upload your next article to the web.

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic EzineArticles.com directory. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links in tact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

Most people have no idea where their money goes. They earn it and they spend it.

That’s fine if you want to live from week to week and are not concerned about your financial future. However if you want to increase your wealth and have more options, action needs to be taken by you otherwise you could end up like most people further down the track, totally dependant on a pension.

Karen’s Story

Karen is the Marketing Manager for a well-known organisation. She’s 39 yrs old, single and earns over $80k a year. She is paying off a mortgage and that’s all the debt she has.

Karen buys whatever she likes and says she has more than enough money for her lifestyle…or so she thought. And that’s a very important point – Karen ‘thought’ she had plenty of money to splash around yet she had no real idea of where it went.

She was at the stage where she wanted to achieve more in her life including taking charge of her financial future.

One of the exercises I gave her to do was to sort all her financial statements – visa card, bank accounts and any cash receipts and list her income and expenditure under specific headings ie: loans, clothing, utilities, food etc. Karen recorded everything that occurred for the past 6 months . She nearly fainted when she saw how much money she had wasted and how much she was overspending! She was going backwards fast and only realised it by doing this simple exercise.

In the past Karen hadn’t put a high priority on her financial well-being as it was just too hard. Being a marketing manager, her life was busy at work and she had a hectic social life. She didn’t want to bother doing something that wasn’t exciting like working on her financial future. After all, she had a well-paid job, didn’t she?

Karen has now come to her senses and knows her true financial situation. If she lost her job, financially she couldn’t afford to be off work for more than a month. She realises that she is responsible for her future.

The area of wealth creation hadn’t been of great interest to Karen in the past. Now that she was undertaking coaching, she was serious to making a change. Prior to writing down where her money was going, Karen was completely closed to any suggestion to read more about how she can accelerate her wealth (or lack of it), so I didn’t pursue this with her. Her attitude had now changed so she was ready and willing to move to the next step.

The next move…I referred Karen to an organisation who would look at her total financial picture and be able to recommend what she could do. The reason I chose these people is because they take a holistic approach to wealth creation. They look at every aspect and provide an on-going education as well as a hand-holding service.

We met after her first session and Karen said she nearly had a heart attack at the meeting. She realised how much money she had been giving away to the tax office. Being on such a high income she was being taxed 47c for every dollar earned. She now realised that by making some small changes she could keep this money and have investments that over time would accelerate her financial situation dramatically.

She now had enough knowledge to make decisions and take actions that could make her financially independent over the next few years. Karen couldn’t believe how simple it was!

Your Financial Future – Who’s Responsibility?

Unfortunately you cannot leave your financial well-being in the hands of anyone else except yourself.

Of course, you can seek advice from professionals in that field like accountants and financial planners; however, it really is up to you to lead the way …to be proactive!

Having attended many seminars, spoken to wealthy people and to the financial professionals (many of whom aren’t independently wealthy themselves), and read many books on the topic of wealth creation, I have found you cannot rely on any one person to delegate your financial affairs to. You need to be proactive and take control of your own life.

How to Take Control of Your Financial Future

Get your finances in order first: You need to know what you spend, what you earn, how much you owe and how much you own…Not in your head but in writing. What you think your situation is and what is reality, will more than likely be two totally different scenarios.

If you know where you are right now you can then seek out appropriate solutions to your specific financial needs.

How to Get Started

Speak with your accountant on the best way to set up your recording system.

Ask them how you can increase your wealth.

Ask your accountant and/or your financial advisor how they have created their wealth. What do they invest in?

Talk to people who are wealthy. Ask them how they accumulated their wealth.

Question everything.

Read books and attend seminars on wealth creation…the more informed you are the easier it is to make sound decisions.

Don’t believe everything you hear, see and read, particularly if the person advising you reaps financial benefit from you accepting their advice.

Only listen to people who “have rungs on the ladder”.

Once you’ve have done some research (and this can happen in a matter of days or weeks, depending on your efforts) then:

Take action

The Final Word

Looking after your financial well-being should be a top priority. It’s about having choices in your life. Do you really want to work from dawn to dusk to support the lifestyle you and your family have become accustomed to? Wouldn’t it be great to go to work because you want to, not because you have to?

If financial freedom is something you want in the not too distant future (and it doesn’t happen overnight), you have to take action sometime… like right now!

About The Author

Lorraine specialises in working with businesspeople showing them how to dramatically boost their productivity, reduce the stress and the mess in their lives and have more time for enjoying their life. www.office-organiser.com.au, lorraine@office-organiser.com.au

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