How To Market Any Niche Imaginable

Tight Budget Strategies 4 (Cont'd) - Niche Marketing

Have You Found The Beef?

Are you old enough to remember the 70's?

There was a little old lady on TV commercials demanding to know, "WHERE'S THE BEEF?" She became a national icon. Everyone was using her catch phrase to ask where the good stuff was hiding.

Well, there are a LOT of would-be entrepreneurs on the Internet who want to know, "Where's the Beef?"

We keep hearing about these extraordinary Internet incomes - so why are there so many people who haven't made any money yet? Maybe they're looking in the wrong place.

Following the herd is NOT the way to go to find the money online.


The beef is out there, alright, but it's hidden all over the Internet...in NICHES. Weird niches. Odd niches. Tiny niches. Niches no marketer has effectively touched yet. Niches ripe for the picking.

And do you know how many niches like this there are?

And how many new ones are being created DAILY?

There are literally hundreds and thousands just waiting to be tapped. So how do you FIND these niches, and how much money can you make?

I've found someone who KNOWS, and is willing to share all this information that works with you. His name is Joe, and he's made $214,000 in just the last TWO MONTHS alone using his marketing techniques with these small niches. Average Joe Marketer Package

His very first niche pulled in $68,000 just from natural traffic, and that's when he was only beginning to discover the marketing system he uses now.

That same site is still pulling in money year after year. And the niche is - well...you're probably not going to believe this but, the niche is CARPET CLEANING!

He's since gone on to discover other even more profitable niches that are also paying him month in and month out. His marketing techniques teaches you:

~ Exactly How To Attack Any Niche Of YOUR Choice

~ How to Profit Within Days

~ How to Increase Your Initial Income Exponentially

(Additional details and proof are on his site)

Suppose all you ever did online was choose ONE niche like Joe's first niche (carpet cleaning) and make a solid five figure income from it every year.

What could that extra money do for you? Why not find out for YOURSELF!

How To Make Money In Any Niche - Learn From A PRO Here!


To Your Online Success,
Christine Range
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Q&A For Affiliate Marketing With Adwords

Affiliate Marketing With Adwords | Profit Generating & Business Building System: Tight Marketing Stratgies 3 (Cont'd)

Yesterday I wrote to you about Matt Levenhagen's program - The one that teaches you to build a REAL business online (making REAL money)with Adwords and Affiliate Marketing.

Here are a few Questions and Answers (Q&A) about the program that I though you might like to see:

Q. How current is this guide?

A. Very. He's just added another update that covers

• Easy action plan to get you started
• In-depth strategies
• Never before revealed techniques for list building
• 3 level bidding strategies for maximum profit
• Detailed insider info on campaign expansion techniques
• How to build and grow your campaigns toward higher and high
  profits - And even more.

Q. I'd love to use this to make my living online, but I don't know much about Adwords. Is this for me?

A. Yes. Matt includes Adwords basic training with the course. It takes you step-
by-step through everything you need to know, even if you've never ever used Google or Adwords before.

Q. Do I have to know how to build landing pages?

A. No. You don't need landing pages or a website to start making money today, but they should be part of your long term plan. That's why Matt also gives you Landing Pages 101.

Q. What about tracking different campaigns. Don't you spend all day just trying to figure out what's working?

A. Normally, yes. Google is limited in some ways, and tracking different campaigns in different markets used to take Matt a long time. That's why he developed the Campaign Clustering Tracking System, which makes it brain-dead simple to do. It's included in your package.

If you want to learn how to do something, and do it really really well, learn from a pro. Matt is one of the very best in the business, and he'll give you every tip,
trick, and insider secret he's developed.

Affiliate marketing with Adwords is one of those things you can set up and continue to make money on for a long time. A successful campaign doesn't need to end in a day or week.

Some campaigns go on for months and even years, depending on various factors in that
particular niche. So you can build more and more streams of income, monitoring the ones you've already started to ensure they stay profitable.

Do you see what this can do for you?

Here's a short re-cap of just a few of the things you'll discover in Matt's
program:

• How to find new niches and profits every single week
• How to gather numerous profit streams in endless markets all adding up to one gorgeous, ever-expanding business income
• The 9 Key Principles that Matt's students embrace to ensure their success with Adwords and affiliate marketing
• Matt's proven step-by-step system for launching campaigns
• How to spend your time finding winning campaigns while your competition is bogged down in a quagmire of disorganization

Bottom line, if you can follow directions, you can do this.

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Are You Losing Money With Adwords?

Tight Marketing Stratgies 3 - Affiliate Marketing With Adwords | Profit Generating & Business Building System

You wouldn't drive a car, buy stocks, or open a restaurant without having some idea of what you're doing, right?

Yet marketers fork out good money on Adwords like casino gamblers playing the slot machines. Do you have any idea why they LOSE so often?

Just think about it - if you're taught HOW to drive a car, HOW to pick stocks, or HOW to run a restaurant - you're much more likely to succeed. Adwords is no different.

In fact, with the right teacher, you can earn your entire living and more simply by running profitable Adword campaigns as an affiliate for other people's products.

Matt Levenhagen is teaching smart marketers exactly how to do that. Matt has been in advertising, both online and offline, for 15 years. He uses the exact same methods he's going to teach you to earn BIG with Adwords and affiliate marketing.

Look at Adwords as the doorway to a much LARGER world of profits. You'll be able to build a highly diversified and solid business like Matt's, that can support you for years to come. And isn't that what we all want... a SOLID income we can COUNT ON for the long haul? I know that's what I want.

Learn how to find the right Affiliate programs that generate immediate profits. Then take those profits and expand them to build YOUR business.

If you think you know all there is to know about Adwords, affiliate marketing, and making money, I think you're going to be Pleasantly Surprised to discover what you've been missing...Take a few minutes to read Genuine Testimonies on Matt Levenhagen's site. They are more than just a few Ah-ha Moments!

Here a just a few Hi-lighted NEW Updates covered in the Affiliate Marketing Adword Guide

• How To Get More Clicks
• New Strategies To Maximize Seasonal and Holiday Profits
• How To Get A Site Up So Fast You Can Grab Spots In The Best Networks
• How And When To Let Others Do The Work For You
  
• How To Turn Traffic Into Buyers
• More Profit Impacting Techniques

(I'll share some more with you tomorrow)

Don't want to wait - you don't have to... To Get Your Adwords Training Guide - Click Here!

Be prepared to "Learn How to Find the Right Affiliate Programs that Generate Immediate Profits". Then Learn How to Take Those Profits and Expand Them to Build YOUR Business.

To Your Success,
Christine Range
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Q & A For Tight Marketing Strategies 2

A couple of days ago, I posted "How To Turn $5 Into $150" which started my Tight Budget Marketing Strategies series. The upcoming days will be adding posts to continue this series. You will find techniques, methods, tips and advice useful for successful internet marketing.

Strategy 2:

To make money online, you need your own products and lots of money for advertising, right?

In fact, if you don't have money and products, you're not even qualified to make real money, right?

That seems to be what a lot of the "gurus" are telling us.

But many struggling to make money online, are sometimes getting wrong information from the "gurus."

That's right, I said it... The gurus are W-R-O-N-G (sometimes)!

And some readers who have already received and went through program have written they were thoroughly surprised by what they discovered in Who Loves Money

• You DON'T need products
• And you DON'T need money...To MAKE money online.
  

Here are some questions received from readers who have not received the program yet:

Questions And Answers (Q&A) - Who Loves Money

Q. Okay, just how much money DON'T I need?

A. Nearly all of the techniques in Who Loves Money won't cost you one thin dime. When they say you don't need money to make them work, that's exactly what they mean. You'll learn how to make money using your brain instead of your wallet. And isn't that the way it should be?

Q. Is this proven to work?

A. Yes. The creators were in college when they figured this stuff out, and they built themselves a $20K per month income. Since then, they've gone on to teach numerous other people to do the exact same thing.

And the creators provide you with PROOF and examples of everything they talk about.

Q. Is this info rehashed stuff that's been sold elsewhere?

A. The techniques are based on real-life campaigns the authors created. They use this info day in and day out.

Q. What's the guarantee?

A. If you can follow instructions, you can do this. But if for ANY reason you feel you can't, you'll get your money back, no hassle, no questions.

Q. Do I have to do any work to make money?

A. Duh. Yes, you do. And if you run across a program that says you don't, run. Run very fast.

Q. Can I try before I buy?

A. Yes. Go to the site, fill out your name and email address, and they'll send you the "How to Turn $5 into $150 Dollars Quickly" guide.

Get it, read it, do it, and then QUICKLY go back to the site and order it if you like what you see and read, because today they're offering a $20 discount.

Don't dilly dally or you will LOSE out on the discount.

This is one of the biggest no-brainers I've run across. You don't need money to make money online if you just know HOW, and this book "Who Loves Money" will show you step-by-step how to do it.

Yes, the program's name is hokey. Who cares, when it works.

To Get Started With Tight Budget Marketing Strategy Go Here

Don't forget, first sign up for your "How to Turn $5 into $150 Dollars Quickly" guide - NO COST!

Stay tuned in and make sure you subscribe to my blog so you don't miss any upcoming posts!

To Your Online Success,
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How To Turn $5 Into $150 Quickly: Tight Budget Marketing Strategies

If you believe that there are no get rich quick schemes that work (I'm talking about legal ones)...

If you believe that you'll need to do some work to make money (okay, duh)...

And if suspect that it does not always take money to make money, that sometimes simply knowing what to do, how to do it and where to do it is enough...

Then you'll want to check out this site I just discovered - Who Loves Money

Imagine two college students, with very little money to spare, building and working themselves up to a 20K a month income.

• Not overnight.

• Not without WORK.

• But they did it in SIX months.

• And with almost NO money to invest.

Sounds crazy, but it's true.

And Kyle and Carson have proven it's true time and time again, by coaching thousands of people who have built daily incomes of $100 per day, $500 per day, and even $2000 per day...

...with almost no money out of pocket.

Kyle and Carson recognize alot of people coming into the internet marketing arena do not have much extra money to spend, but they have the passion and drive that can lead to success.

And that's exactly why Who Loves Money was created. It allows folks on a tight or limited budget to take $5 per day budget and turn it into affiliate marketing revenue (example here is $150).

Their stuff is completely original, tried and true.

They do what they preach, and they preach what they do...

Because it just plain works.

Yes, you can make money online ... Quite a bit of money.

• Without products of your own.

• Without joint ventures.

• Without spending a fortune to make a fortune.

• At your own pace.

If you're willing to follow a tried and true method for making money online without spending a lot of money.

Again, the program is called Who Loves Money. Kind of a hokey name, but nearly all of the techniques they reveal won't cost you a dime.

So not only are you making money, you're not spending money to make that money.

They'll even give you a taste for FREE, sort of a try before you buy.

Go To Their Site And Get YOUR FREE COPY of How To Turn $5 Into $150 Quickly - Right Here!

Then use your $150 to buy their book, and pocket the rest.

See? You're in profit already.

Now that's something to love!

To Your Success!
Christine Range
CR Group & Associates, LLC

Sneak Preview of No-Pay Traffic Formula

I'm already hearing back from some of you who are Learning How To Get FREE, Targeted, Unlimited Traffic To Your Site and to say that you're thrilled with what you're learning seems to be an understatement!

If You're Not Learning This New Stuff Yet, Here's A Sneak Peak At What's Inside...

• How to never waste another penny on Adwords by using the free click formula instead
  

• How affiliates can get click-through-rates as high as 80%, without a single spend on Adwords
  

• Complete action plan for savvy webmasters to create a non-stop stream of buyers ready to purchase your products, with NO advertising costs
  

• The secret of small niches that are already making the "gurus" tons of money

• How to get started generating traffic in 15 minutes WITHOUT paying per click

• How your competitors have been making money off of your stupidity (ouch, sorry)
  

• The simplest venture of all to start with

• What those stupid keyword tools don't, won't and can't tell you. Even gurus get this wrong.
  

• The absolute DUMBEST thing you can do when you first start out

• Why some prospects are leaving your site the second they read the first line

• How YOU can easily beat BIG Fortune 500 CORPORATIONS. Yes, YOU!

• The world famous Google hoax and what that was all about

• How you can make money without owning a single website

• How to get all the top search engines scrambling to your site the minute you do this (and it is NOT what you think...)
  

• The so-called BIG secrets of SEO traffic revealed and deciphered on ONE PAGE!

• How to dominate the 1st, 2nd and 3rd position of any search engine

• Watch your Alexa Ranking shoot through the roof with more sales and clicks, leaving your competitors shocked and dumbfounded at how you did it
  

• How to choose an affiliate product and start profiting within hours

• How to get thousands of websites to promote your stuff for FREE (and they'll even give you the commission!)
  

Okay, here's one more...

• How to get a brand new website seen by THOUSANDS of visitors in as little as 60 minutes
  

Now Go Get YOUR Free Traffic HERE!


To Your Success!
Christine Range
CR Group & Associates, LLC

24 Hour Internet Marketing Miracle Grow For Traffic

Can you put up a site, get free traffic to it, and begin making money in less than 24 hours?

Some of my smart readers are discovering how to do exactly that.

I discussed yesterday about how to get consistent, targeted, unlimited traffic to your site without paying for it.

Here are a few questions I've received since then...

Q: Do I need cash to get this traffic?

A: No. You never, ever have to pay for this traffic. No gimmicks, no hidden fees. This just plain works. The author has been using this system for years, and he's made a boatload of money doing it.

Q: Do I need experience or special knowledge?

A: No. Follow the step-by-step blueprints, or instructions. Look at the real-world examples. Just do it.

Q: What do I need to get this traffic?

A: If you can build a simple website, or get one created, or redirect a domain, you've got what it takes. The rest is all explained in the book.

Q: My niche isn't Internet Marketing. Will this still work?

A: It doesn't matter what business you're in. If your niche has a market, that is, people who are interested in what you're selling, this will work for you.

Q: I'm an affiliate. Will I be able to get FREE traffic to my affiliate sites using these methods?

A: Yes. In fact, a blueprint is included especially for affiliates. Just follow the step-by-step plan.

And this traffic is long term. You'll eventually be getting payments from sites you set up months ago, wondering, "Where did this money come from?"

Now that's FUN!

Q: I'm not an affiliate, I sell my own stuff. How will this help?

A: Hmmm, let's see, how will a constant stream of targeted traffic (that you aren't paying for) help... How do you feel about totally dominating your niche? A step by step blueprint for doing exactly that is in the book.

As I said yesterday....

Traffic is THE lifeblood of your Internet business.

No targeted traffic = no business.

Expensive targeted traffic = low profits

FREE targeted traffic = LOTS AND LOTS of profits.

Kind of a no-brainer, don't you think?

When you know the real secret to getting traffic in any niche, you can DOMINATE any (and every) niche you set your sites on.

There are simply NO limits

Check it out now...


How To Get Traffic In Any Niche - Learn How HERE!


To Your Success!
Christine Range
CR Group & Associates, LLC

How To Get Rapid Targeted Traffic Without Paying A Dime

Traffic is the life-blood of your Internet business.

No traffic, no business.

So how do you get traffic?

With joint ventures and affiliates you're relying on someone else to get you the traffic.

Your business (and the size of your bank account) is in their hands.

With hocus pocus SEO techniques, you've got to stay a step ahead of the search
engines.

Good luck.

With pay-per-click, you're p-a-y-i-n-g.

Through the nose.

Forever and ever.

Ouch.

What if you can get INSTANT targeted traffic to every single one of your sites, courtesy of the search engines?

No, not Adwords.

You NEVER ever have to pay for this traffic.

There Is A Whole World Of Buyers Out There Looking For What You Have To Offer!

And you don't need to pay Google (or anyone) for them to beat a path to your website.

Think about it... you can actually earn 5 or 6 figures a year without spending a thin dime on advertising.

This means you can start earning NOW, without an investment.

And you can do this whether you have your own products, or you're an affiliate.

Doesn't matter.

What does matter is that YOU get the traffic you need to make your living online NOW, starting today.

No matter how much you're currently spending on Adwords, it's too much. Why PAY for traffic when you can get the same traffic for...
nada...
zip...
zero...
zilch...
diddly-squat...
and don't forget...
F*R*E*E?

Not paying for Adwords? Scrounging for traffic where ever you can find it? Stop wasting your time on the latest SEO voodoo, and stop chasing affiliates.

INSTEAD....

Get Your Own Steady Stream Of Traffic HERE and NOW!


To Your Success!
Christine Range
CR Group & Associates, LLC

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As more newcomers and current intermediate users are using the internet to locate ways to generate a stream of income, I wanted to have a media to address problems encountered and offer solutions within the internet marketing niche. Thus, this newsletter has evolved.

I have been slow in getting it off the ground, but... it's finally here.

I'm shaking things up in 2009, so get ready!

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I was getting ready to revert back to blogger's comment management system, when I learned that JS-Kit is introducing some very interesting comment features that are social network friendly. So I'm trying this new comment feature out today which is suppose to be visible as soon as I hit the publish button.

We'll see...

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I'll be back in a couple of hours with a regular post.

How To Make 2009 Your Richest Year Ever

I just finished reading an article by Jeremy Gislason, founder of Surefire Wealth and Learning to Earn Online that was so inspirational, I wanted to hurry and share it with you.

The article "How to Become Wealthy During This Time of Economic Crisis" discusses how the news media and people are talking about this economic crisis as the next depression. For many people, the only thought that they can think about is that hopefully they will keep their job through tomorrow. This is the time when people decide to be happy with where they are at financially and just hope to stay there.

Jeremy lays out, why this is not where you want to be in this time of economic turmoil.

Article Highlights:

• Millionaires are made in times of economic turmoil and now is no exception.
• You can be one of these people that can turn the dark skies into a brighter day tomorrow.
• The use of visualization will be key in achieving your wealth.
• The first step that you will need to take on your journey is to decide how much money that you want to make in a month.

Take a few minutes to read this full article - it's very insightful and motivational reading.

Read "How to Become Wealthy During This Time of Economic Crisis" HERE!

Don't forget to share it!

To Your Success!
Christine Range
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Site Flipping For Fast Money | Site Flipping Gold Review

A friend of mine ask me to review Site Flipping Gold. He has been looking for ways to make some cash quickly. He learned about this website flipping system that was producing very profitable results. Frankly, when he read the income claims, cost outlay, and fast timing of the system, he wanted to jump on it with both feet.

Website flipping is becoming a newer, popular money making practice. I've read it can be highly profitable if you know what you are doing.

When I first read the title of Mike Williams site, "6 Hours of Work = 2,387.48," my initial reaction was here's a hype headline that definitely grabs your attention. I was rather reluctant to give a review because of the hefty claims made.

As part of my research, I examined their Ultimate Site Flipping Guide. Truthfully, when I finished reading through it , my head was swimming with all kinds of thoughts about its possibilities. Anyway, below is my detailed review.




Site Flipping Gold | Review
By: Christine Range
January 4, 2009

Website Owner Viewpoint and Motivation
According to up and coming marketer and site owner, Mike Williams, he cites recently making over $2,000 in 6 hours personally and has even come up with a way to make similar income even faster.

Mike Williams claims emphatically the Site Flipping Gold System generating over $2,000 in working six hours is NOT fluff - it's a fact. Even the newest internet marketers using his system are experiencing the same type of results.

The product creators' motivation for developing such a system originated with him becoming discouraged watching other frustrated "online money seekers" getting tired of "courses" and "guides" and "systems that get you all hyped up but send you crashing down to reality when you realize you haven't achieved any REAL results.

So he set out to devise a system to teach internet marketers advanced site flipping strategies that takes them by the hand and walks them through the process with no missing pieces to have to figure out on their own.

The system's capability was also to include generating upwards of $2,000 in profit with only six hours of work. Mike Williams admits, the challenge was hefty. But he was prepared to make it happen because he had witnessed it in action for himself. Finally, the product he wanted for internet marketers to make money came into fruition.

Money Making Strategy Overview
The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide teaches advanced site flipping strategies to enable internet marketers to reach proposed income levels.

The site flipping formula taught is no different from marketing other products and services online except marketers get to cash in on future profits of a website in a much shorter time than some other online money making methods.

In the nut shell, the marketer buys or creates a site that makes $200 per month. If buying, the goal is to purchase the site at the cheapest price, between $25 to $100. The page rank is not an issue as long as the site can be optimized effectively to achieve good search engine ranking later.

Sites making $200 per month are conservatively expected to receive about $2,400 from the site quickly which is then paid into the marketer's Paypal account.

One positive aspect is the marketer does not have to worry about maintaining the site, conversion rates or providing customer service tasks.

The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide provides a REAL step by step system. EVERY SINGLE STEP of the process is on video which significantly minimizes the failure rate. You point and click with what's going on in the video and follow simple instructions provided. No special technical knowledge or HTML know-how is required.

With all that said, I hope no serious marketer out there believes you are going to make this kind of profit doing nothing. That's just not going to happen - period - dot. The system does not work by osmosis nor on autopilot. The marketer will have to put in the effort and follow the steps set forth in the videos.

5 Key Learning Tools and Strategies | Site Flipping Gold

1. How to get your site ranking #1 in Google in a firecely competitive market in under a week
2. How to significantly increase the value of your site 10 fold with simple, easy tweaking.
3. The quickest and cheapest ways to get high volume, quality backlinks to your site in the first week.
4. How to "piggy back" on the success of previous site flippers and profit very well from it.
5. Twelve step by step videos that goes through the entire process with you, including any technical difficulties encountered.

Who Is This System For?
The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide is for anyone from the most advanced marketer to the newest marketer trying to make money online.

How Long Will It Really Take To Receive Profits?
According to Mike Williams, he wants to be completely honest and upfront answering this question. It can take up to two months to actually go through the entire site flipping process and sell a site at the price you want. It can be much faster, but he does not want to provide false hopes so he'd rather be generous with profit timing.

I was very impressed with Mike Williams decision to offer a realistic time frame for making profits using his system. Results will most certainly vary from person to person in my opinion.

Reviewer Summary
I have not personally used The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide yet because I have full plate right now. I would be unable to focus on it as I would want to. However based upon my research, it is a system that I would definitely try out (and I intend to shortly) particularly at a cost of only $27.

The product creator does indicate at his site that he has not seen this type of breakthrough site flipping formula taught or recommended anywhere else on the internet.

My research did locate other site flipping websites with courses and recommendations. However the cost was higher. The ones I checked started at $77 some cost even more. I did not examine in detail competitors website flipping formulas. I can only surmise the statement of not to seeing this type of product was in reference to "the breakthrough formulas used" not that no one else was offering site flipping programs.

Additional research was revealing to the degree that website flipping is indeed becoming a popular money making practice. Referencing other websites as well this one I reviewed, I did not find any negative material or testimonies. I did observe screen shots of five figure profits being made. It appears to be an ethical and legal way to generate income at this point.

Recommendation
For those willing to put in the time and effort to implement the strategies, who have some funds to buy cheap websites, this does seem to be a way to make profits as described by the owner. My viewing of income generated screen shots definitely revealed extremely attractive profits - many displayed more than ten times the amount of the web site purchase.

Taking into account the potential ROI of a surprisingly low price of $27 and the ability to purchase cheap web sites, I do recommend Site Flipping Gold as yet another internet marketing avenue to generate income on a quick basis.

The product has a 100% Money Back Guarantee. You have 30 days to review material, complete training and try it out to see if it's for you. If you are not satisfied with the results, upon written request, a refund is returned to your Paypal account. So the risk of losing your money is actually zero.

Also the site does offer 3 very good Bonuses. See below to access more detailed information.

Learn How To Quickly Make Money Online Using The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide HERE

About the Author:
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Can You Hope Your Way To Happiness?

Entering into 2009, many Americans are facing harsh economic times. The new President Elect - Barack Obama will be sworn into office in a couple of weeks, four letters come to mind H-O-P-E.

Hope has brought sanity to many who otherwise could have truly lost it... OR have indeed lost it all; mortgages, businesses, automobiles, health insurance and the list goes on and on......



Personally, I thought back to when Barack Obama was promoting his book, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE - Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Some thought his title was rather trite, yet look where such hope got him today!

Then we have some people who simply do not see much benefit in hoping and prefer to see the dismal view rather than better days ahead.

Hope According to Wikipedia Definition:
HOPE is "that something wished for can or will happen."

(In Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1Cor. 13:13)

So... Can Hope Really Provide Help In People's Lives?

Interestingly enough, I came across an article that examines that very issue, I'd like to share it with you.



HOPE TO COPE
by: Beth Howard

"Can you hope your way to happiness? Apparently so. Investigators at The Ohio State University tested that idea by recruiting men and women who reported some dissatisfaction with their lives to take part in group therapy sessions that focused on learning how to hope.

"I am interested in discovering how we can learn lessons from people who are functioning well, and making those lessons available to people who are jhaving a harder time , " says study author Jennifer Cheavens, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State.

Over eight weeks, participants were taught to develop a blueprint for getting what they want out of life as well as motivation to make dreams come true. They used positive self-talk to keep moving toward their goals.

The result: Group members had higher levels of hope , self-esteem and life meaning, and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety.

"We may be able to teach people how to be more hopeful," says Cheavens.

Source of Article: Remedy Health & Wellness for Life, themix, Quick Fixes for Energy , Health & Beauty, pg 8, Winter 2008 issue , Website: RemedyLife.com







Today's Self-Improvement Resource:
Learn How To Hope Your Way To Happiness Here - One Day At A Time!


May Each and All Have A Hopeful and Blessed 2009!!


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