Self-Improvement for Astrology Sign Taurus
Self Improvement for the Astrology Signs
Taurus
Money, Financial Management, Possessions, Physical Pleasures, Personal Values, Tangible Assets
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Deciding What's Important
Page Four
Excerpt from
Seven Steps to
Making a Difference in an Indifferent World
We live in troubled times where our peace and safety are often in danger. Most feel helpless and unable to affect the unfolding events in our present world. And yet many are uniting their minds, energy and actions in order to create a peaceful and safe world with dignity for all.
Some groups work politically while others spiritually or socially. Some focus on the poor or refuges, others on human rights, some on the politicians themselves who seem to be making the decisions. During this period of our evolution, it is so important that each of us makes his or her personal statement through thoughts words and actions.

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Money Management
Page Four
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Seven Tips For Negotiating Your Next Raise
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Prosperity Consciousness: A Metaphysical Guide to Your Natural Wealth
By
Audrey Craft Davis
Before you enter a negotiation, find out if there are restrictions on what you can get. For instance, if a job is advertised at a certain title and salary, some companies will not negotiate beyond what is formally posted. If your company has a limit on raises, you can't get more unless your boss jumps through a lot of hoops.
Know what's important to the company and to your boss. I once heard a story about a person who was hired to promote a line of products. He was super-successful! Then he found out that the company just kept those products as a loss-leader for image. They had no desire to expand that product line.
Never mind what's rational. Companies reward people for doing what the company wants. If the company's values conflict with yours, you have a decision to make.

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Saving Money
Page Two
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Your Friends and Your Wealth
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21 Distinctions of Wealth: Attract the Abundance You Deserve
By
Peggy McColl
Do you know that your wealth is determined by the types of friends you spend most of your time with? This question raised some doubts in me when I first heard this statement but it turned out to be one of the most powerful statements I've ever known.
There is also a Chinese proverb says that if you mix with red ink, you'll become red; if you mix with black ink, you'll become dark. This proverb teaches us the importance of choosing friends. The influence of friends is so great that it can shape your destiny.
If you want to achieve success in life and business, you must carefully choose with whom you want to spend most of your time. If you surround yourself with friends in business, you talk about business. If your friends are employees, you talk about work. If your friends are in real estate, you talk about real estate ... and so on.

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Deciding What's Important
Page Three
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Be a Money Shaman!!
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Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
By
Sanaya Roman
"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life, before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave." Sound advice from Billy Holiday, one of the most soulful jazz singers of the 1950's.
Billie is wisely suggesting that personal abundance is necessary for social and spiritual advancement. It helps to have a car that works and a little money in your pocket to do what you came here to Earth to do. You've got to feel good about yourself and allow yourself to be loved before you can share love with others -- in whatever form that takes.
Native shamans teach, "Take care of yourself first, so that you can then take care of others." You've got to give yourself enough love, money and health, in order to have enough to share with others. You've got to be allowing love, abundance and vitality to be flowing into and through you, in order for it to be flowing out from you.
I'm reminded of this universal principle every time I fly in an airplane. This simple wisdom is loudly announced on the public address system before every take off: "In case of an emergency, put your oxygen mask on yourself first -- before you put it on your child or another person."

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Deciding What's Important
Page Two
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CRAVE Your Goals!
Five Steps to Attract What You Desire and Deserve
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Divine Wisdom at Work: 10 Universal Principles for Enlightened Entrepreneurs
By
Tricia MolloyWe all have work and personal goals that we're trying to achieve. It may be getting that promotion, attracting ideal clients and customers, losing 20 pounds or becoming debt free.
When we truly commit to our goals and crave them with our heart and soul, we engage the energy of the universe and receive what we need to make our dreams come true. This is known as the Law of Attraction. Commit to follow these five CRAVE steps to attract what you desire and deserve.
Clutter distracts and confuses us and drains our energy. It often keeps us from doing what's most important and gets in the way of our goals. There's a universal law that states: The universe abhors a vacuum. So, when we clear away the physical clutter, as well as the emotional and technical clutter, we make room for the universe to fill it with what serves our highest good. Commit to begin cleaning out the clutter today.

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Personal Values
Page Three
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Can You Make a Perfect Transition Decision?
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Changing for Good
By
James O. Prochaska, et. al.
Some folks believe there are no bad decisions ... If you turn left instead of right, you think you've made a mistake -- til you realize this detour is actually a shortcut to the destination of your dreams.
But if you're standing at a fork in the road, here are some guidelines that others have found helpful. At the same time, remember that few decisions turn into a life sentence. You can always review your new life, get out the maps, and chart a new course for your future.
Know who you are and what you want -- today. You spent a life as the quintessential urban resident and now seek the countryside. You enjoyed twenty years of law or medicine or sales, and now you find yourself writing poetry and making time to help a third-grader learn to read. Yesterday's decision rules won't work any longer.

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Personal Values
Page Two
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Zen Mind: How to Declutter
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101 Feng Shui Tips for Your Home
By
Richard Webster
One of the things that gives me most peace is have a clean, simple home. When I wake up in the morning and walk out into a living room that has been decluttered, that has a minimalist look, and there isn't junk lying around, there is a calm and joy that enters my heart.
When, on the other hand, I walk out into a living room cluttered with toys and books and extra things all over the place, it is chaos and my mind is frenetic.

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Money Management
Page Three
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The 11 Best Money Saving Ideas of All Time
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Your Infinite Power to be Rich: Use the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Obtain the Prosperity You Deserve
By
Joseph Murphy
At any time in history, no matter what the current state of the economy, no matter what the current trends, no matter what the unemployment rate is or where interest rates lurk, some money-saving ideas stay true.
Some of you may have heard of these ideas before, others may be entirely new to you. But whether you are familiar with these super secrets or not, it will be well worth your while to put them into effect in your own life.
The magic they will work on your financial life is guaranteed. I urge you to put them to work - any one of these could change your life! Big changes come from small steps. One plus one does equal two, so if you add one from eleven different places, you will see big results.
This is a series giving you advice on saving your hard-earned money in a variety of down-to-earth ways. Nothing here is anything that anyone can't do on a daily basis.

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Gift Giving and Gift Ideas
Gift giving and gift ideas -- articles on how to give a gift that will be appreciated and valued.

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Mothers' Day
Mothers' Day articles, rituals, gift ideas, information, history, stories.

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Money Management
Page Two
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Fun with Money
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The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
By
Catherine Ponder
Ah, a child's world -- full of magic and fun. As parents, grandparents, and other assorted relatives, a child's conception, understanding, and knowledge of money comes in many forms. There are birthday and holiday gifts, going shopping with grandma, and even helping a small child select a gift for mom and dad.
While on the surface all this is just fine and good, have you ever stopped to think exactly what you are teaching this small person about finances and money -- knowledge that will last them a lifetime and either make life easier to handle or more difficult.

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Saving Money
Page One
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Is Plastic Making You Happier?
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Freeing the Genie Within: Manifesting Abundance, Creativity & Success in Your Life
By
Debra Lynne Katz
If you're like most people, you probably own at least one. And like most people, you've maybe never thought what it's really costing you.
At a recent conference held by the Fabian Society at London's Imperial college, one of the issues discussed was happiness, and, more specifically, why it seems to elude so many of us. One of the conclusions reached was that one of the greatest causes of unhappiness in the last 50 years has been people's constant desire to raise their level of material wealth (especially in relation to others who have more).
As one speaker noted, "We're like children on a rainy Sunday afternoon, impossible to please. We have everything and nothing."
You may disagree, but I can't think of a worse modern symbol of this constant craving than the credit card.

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Container Gardening
Scientists and nutritionists insist that we pack in as many raw and organic fruits and vegetables for maximum health and vitality. But the humble herb's inner vigor is often overlooked. But not anymore, through the charms of organic container gardening, it's time to not only add a melody of tastes, but a great source of essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients.

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Fruits and Vegetables
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A Garden For All Seasons
Wherever you live, whatever the climate or the amount of sunshine or rain in a given season, it is possible to grow an abundant garden. Envision a garden filled with flowers of every color you can dream of, herbs that are both fragrant and hardy, and of course, a harvest that would be a portrait of all that Nature can lay claim to.
Bright berries, and fruit that is succulent and just dripping with juice, vegetables that glow in the sunlight with dew from the morning and lay heavy on leaves that cradle and protect them until they are picked and become part of a meal fit for royalty, this and so much more is possible.

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Trees
Articles about trees -- cultivating, growing, appreciating, mythology -- all involving trees.

Attracting Butterflies, Hummingbirds and Wildlife
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How To Attract Hummingbirds
One good way to attract Hummingbirds is by planting a Hummingbird garden. In addition to providing them a natural diet, a hummer garden is an excellent way to attract birds to your nearby feeder since hummingbirds feed by sight on regularly followed routes. This is called traplining. Their inquisitive nature will quickly lead them to investigate any possible new source of food.
Hummers, like most birds, have virtually no sense of smell, the flowers that attract them tend to have little or no fragrance, apparently directing their resources instead toward high visibility and nectar production.

Creating Wealth
Excerpt from
Wealth is a Worthy Goal
Ever since we were little children, we started learning the big lie. Wealth is evil. If you remember back, you have been bombarded with negative input like -- It takes money to make money, you have to be greedy to become rich, money is the root of all evil, it is not what you do but who you know that makes you wealthy, if you are wealthy, you must have done something illegal to get rich and unfortunately because our minds are young and malleable, we tend to believe these lies and half-truths as gospel.

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Making More Money -- Increasing Your Income
Excerpt from
Be a Money Shaman
Native shamans teach, "Take care of yourself first, so that you can then take care of others." You've got to give yourself enough love, money and health, in order to have enough to share with others. You've got to be allowing love, abundance and vitality to be flowing into and through you, in order for it to be flowing out from you.

Flowers and Plants
Excerpt from
A Japanese Garden is Not
Your Ordinary Garden
Japanese gardening is much different from the Western style garden. Most would say that a Japanese garden is far more soul soothing and inspires meditation. Japanese gardening is a cultural form of gardening that is meant to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as possible. Using trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and flowing water the garden becomes an art form.
The Zen and Shinto traditions are both a large part of Japanese gardening and, because of this; the gardens have a contemplative and reflective state of mind.

Developing Character Virtues
Excerpt from
Traits of Highly Successful People
That You Can Learn!
We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie... and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. These examples do not inspire me!
My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Paul Newman and Bill Cosby. In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls), and a local hardware store owner who is famous for the money he's give to children's charities.

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