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6 Ways To Improve Your Psychic Ability:
It’s a shame that Hogsworth is not part of every child’s school curriculum, but then again, the chaos of flying broomsticks, leaping frogs, hooting owls and sudden “kapoofs” of wizardry would be overwhelming for any parent.

But, we all have the ability to sense things. When we allow ourselves, our intuition can often be right on the money. Your intuition can be developed further and here’s how.

6 ways you can improve your psychic abilities in the privacy of your own home...

1. Be Positive
You can’t tap into your psychic powers if you have a negative attitude. Stay open minded and give yourself permission to learn new experiences.

2. Relax
If you are feeling angry, tense, jealous or mentally cluttered, it is now time to unwind. Let go of those feelings and create a sense of peace around you. In this relaxed state and place of positivity, you will be able to develop your psychic skills.

3. Practice
They say practice makes perfect. Spend a few minutes each day practicing the following exercises. When driving around for a car park, visualize a spare car spot just for you. Over time a car park will always present itself to you. When the phone rings and before you pick it up, visualize who could possibly be calling you. Again, over time your accuracy will improve. Lay down six different colored pencils. Close your eyes and tell yourself to pick up the blue or red pencil. Open your eyes to see if you are right. Flip a coin and tell yourself whether it will be head or tails. This will improve your prediction skills. When a person is about to make a decision and has to choose option A or B, say in your mind the item that you want to choose. You will be surprised at how often people will choose what you stated in your mind, even when the likelihood of them choosing the other was more probable. When standing in the fast lane at the supermarket or fast food restaurant waiting to be served, select in your mind which cashier will serve you. Think of a person whom you haven’t spoken with in a while. Focus on them each day for a few minutes. Over the coming weeks they will either call you or you will bump into them in some way.

4. Use Tools of the Trade
There are a number of free online tools that will enable you to learn more about tarot, astrology, i-ching, numerology, crystals and more. These tools are used to help us focus on certain issues or questions at hand and channel our thoughts through. Do a search on Google or go to http://www.tarotreading.mobi for a range of tools.

5. Share Experiences
Don’t forget to share your experiences with like-minded friends. By talking about your psychic experiences you learn more about yourself and your craft. Keep a journal. You’ll be surprised at how far you have come over a short period of time.

6. Have Fun
Most of all, have fun and enjoy the journey. You are going to learn so much more about yourself, friends, colleagues and strangers whom you’ve just met. I’m not saying that you will now be able to foretell the lucky numbers for this week’s lotto with your newly developed psychic abilities, but these skills will certainly help you get more out of life. Whatever you do, don’t change your name to Harry, Hermione or Lord Voldemort… unless that is really your name.


Belief In Yourself:
What do you believe in?
Ponder that for a few moments...

The first and only way to fulfill dreams in any avenue of life is to have belief in yourself and what you are doing. Is that instilled in you? Before any steps are taken in a home business, you have to believe in yourself. This is the most critical element to your success! It is not what others believe, but what you truly believe! Doubters have no permission to shake or break your belief system. Believe you can and it will be so. I believe in Christ and I know through Him I can do anything if I truly believe. How can you reach the top if you are afraid of what might be there? Believe you can walk the extra mile or ascend the highest peak and you will! It is inside everyone of us and we all can attain it!

It does not matter what life you have lived up to this point. Maybe you have never believed in anything. What if all of the sudden you did? Things would change and your life would have no limits whatsoever on it's true potential. Try it! This is where any thing that you take on in life starts. What attitude do you have to develope, handle, and maintain a venture? When starting a home based business, attitude is the first key to any success. Do you know that you will be successful in it? Do you have the willingness to take all experiences and use them to your benefit? Do you have a confident, all-out attitude to realize your goals and make them happen?

You have your business plans set-up and ready to go. You have your goals and dreams outlined. Your attitude determines if you will overcome the massive amount of time invested, training, and doubts that will arise. Are you ready for it? 95% of home business do not become fruitful. Why? A give-up belief or attitude! Things don't go the way they perceived it would and they quit. They quit. Are you in the 5% that will rise above and stick to it through thick and thin? Of course you are, you just have to have the attitude and belief in you!

Believe in yourself and see what happens!
God Bless,



Break Your Bad Habits:
Having just looked at a list of bad habits posted on the internet, I can honestly say that whilst they are habitual repetitive behaviours, many of them are also disgusting! One site listed nail biting, throat clearing, lying, interrupting, chewing the end of a pen, smoking and swearing in its top 20 list of bad habits. And that’s not to mention knuckle cracking and thumb sucking.

Habits are formed when a behaviour is consistently repeated. Eventually, it becomes an unconscious behaviour, that is, that you can do it without thinking about it. In just the way your unconscious controls you blinking, breathing and walking without you having to remember to make it happen, it also takes over responsibility for activating the habit.

In a sense, the levels of competency goes some way to explaining how this unconscious activity is created:

Unconscious Incompetence- Not knowing about it and not doing it. (Ignorant)

Conscious Incompetence- Knowing what needs to be done but unable to do it, lack of skill required.

Conscious Competence- Knowing what needs to be done and have to think about how to do it, in order to do it.

Unconscious Competence- Knowing what you need to do, and being able to do it without consciously thinking about how it is done.

We can see by looking at the levels of competency process, how a positive behaviour such as learning to drive for example, is taken through the above stages so that it shifts from a conscious activity, into an unconscious one. The problem with this process is that the unconscious mind will not distinguish between a good habit, and a bad one. When learning to drive, this is generally a beneficial habit to master, and biting your nails for example is not. However the unconscious simply responds to the programming it is given. It does make a distinction about whether it is right for you or not. The more times you repeat the behaviour, the more hard wired the behaviour becomes, good or bad.

This means that in order to break a bad habit, the automatic function of it, needs to be bought back into the awareness of the conscious mind, in order to give the conscious a choice about whether to continue with the action. This could be enough for some to break their pattern, yet for other, even though when they are conscious of the habit, may continue to pursue it. For example, many people who smoke and know that they should give up, are aware of the cigarettes they light up and inhale. Worse than that, they are even conscious of what they are doing to their depleting immune system as they do it- and still they continue- why?!

The answer is that they get some sort of a pay off. An opportunity to be destructive and release some tension by biting your nails, or a moment to drift off and take a break from the busyness of work when having a fag. In the great scheme of things it’s important to note that these payoffs are of course only temporary. They only alleviate pressures for a short amount of time and usually come with a down side, such as ultimately damaging your health, the way you look, the way you feel, or the way people respond to you.

NLP techniques are great for helping to get “leverage” for applying pain to the unwanted problem and pleasure to the solution. Anchoring techniques can provide an instant desired state to relieve tension for example, so that it is no longer achieved from performing the habit. A Hypnotherapist can be consulted to reprogram the unconscious part of the mind, linking unsavoury feelings to the unwanted behaviour (for example feeling sick if you go to put your fingers in your mouth to bite your nails) and forming new habits to deal with stressful/ boredom situations in a new empowering way.

A Hypnotherapist in Hertfordshire can help you to achieve a state of well being and to be rid of bad habits. Hypnosis works because of the clients ability to focus on the hypnotherapists voice. Hertfordshire Hypnosis teaches hypnotherapists how to use their voices to create the best level of trance possible.


Disney Wedding Cake Toppers:
Your wedding could be the appropriate time to make your guests smile with some fun giving wedding cake toppers and novelty figurines. At the same time as your guests walk into the reception room one of the first things that they will see will be your fabulous wedding cake. In that case, what better way can there be to kick things off than to have one of the numerous Disney wedding cake toppers available to raise a laugh and get your guests talking.

Now things are changing rapidly as in past we used to see the traditional wedding cake with a round three tiered white cake decorated with white or pastel colored flowers. With putting of Disney wedding cake toppers, along with the guests, kids are sure to derive pleasure from these sorts of stuffs. Surely, Disney wedding cake toppers could be only available way to bring a very light moment to your grand occasion.

You will capture the magic of your Disney wedding with this charming precious ever after figurine. Disney wedding cake toppers of such extent could be an enchanting keepsake of your unforgettable day, this darling figurine features a newly wed couple in a loving embrace. Disney wedding cake toppers with ceramic figurine could well be a delightful memento of your Disney theme wedding and fairytale ending.

Disney wedding cake toppers might also include Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse dressed up in wedding clothes, ready for their vows. Mickey might be having a black formal tuxedo while you must locate Minnie is in a pearl white wedding dress. In such Disney wedding cake toppers, her veil is full and flowing almost to the floor.

In such Disney wedding cake toppers, she carries half dozen roses, and her dress is trimmed with pearl-like balls along the edges. This Disney wedding cake topper containing a figurine is perfect for the top of a wedding cake, as a present for newlyweds, or as a beautiful figurine for you to own and show proudly. Arguably, this is one of the most stunning sets by Disney for any wedding seating.


Six Steps To Beneficial Discipline:
Hmmmm. That's a thought provoking title isn't it?

One point that needs to be made from the start. Never discipline in anger.

I tell my daughter when things get too complicated, "You go to your room, I'll go to my room and I will come to get you when I have calmed."

Often times, she just went to sleep. There was a time when I found that very upsetting, how could she sleep when I'm so distressed?!?

In hind-sight, it was probably better for both of us that she did take a nap. It may have been her need of sleep that caused whatever the situation was in the first place. The situation may have been even better resolved if I had napped also.

But, alas, you know what they say about hind-sight.

Our first step in any situation is to call a family meeting. This is a solemn conversation, no TV, no CDs or DVDs; everyone sitting around the table face-to-face for the sole purpose of correcting this situation.

Our position is that our family is a team, if one of us has a problem, we all have a problem and we all will solve it.

Our second step is to let the family member with the problem explain it to the rest of the family in enough detail to come to a solution.

(The trick is to look very thoughtful, and not laugh, these stories take some interesting turns in order to cover the back side of the teller.)

Our third step is to ask the family member involved, what they think will best solve the problem.

This depending on the age of the child, usually involves beating up someone else's child, or the child's parent.

It is explained that the other family will take care of behavior problems in their family, and that is not our business. Families each have different cultures and rules that they are governed by and we have ours. We are concerned with behavior in our family. Each member of our family regardless of age will behave according to our morals and standards.

Our fourth step is to pray for guidance.

This is a short, to the point prayer, so that the person with the problem knows how much that they are loved and that we and God are always there for them to help them find truth and a good life. Thanking God for always being with the person with the problem and watching over them. (The child at this point is reconsidering their story.)

Step five is asking the person with the problem if there is anything more that they remember about what happened before we, as a family, decree what action we shall take. This will usually take you back to step three, now that the 'God is always with me' reminder has kicked in.

Step Six, finally.

My answer to beneficial discipline was to reinforce what the child was being taught in school at the time.

Our daughter only had one problem at school, when she was 6. She falsely accused another child of wrong-doing.

After going through the above process:

She had to write the alphabet X amount of times, presenting them to her father after each time for correction. If she skipped a letter, he threw it away without comment and it was redone.

I told her to write a story about a fictitious character who had done something that they shouldn't and what the consequences of that character's actions were. She then had to turn it in to her teacher.

The teacher told her that it would count for her grade for that marking period.

This is beneficial discipline, because it demonstrates to the child family support and values, religious values, and practical application of educational skills. By writing the story we were sure that she understood what was going on.

Discipline should not be violent, it should not be a show of dominance,it should be loving and educational.


How To Stop Drinking Alcohol: Take Back Control:
Feelings of self-loathing, fear and helplessness are only some of the emotions that accompany the alcoholic in his unhappy state. An alcoholic has no control, or not enough control, over his own emotions. It can happen that the drinker is unable to cope, emotionally, with the world, and may use other negative emotions - such as blame - to cope.

The alcohol is a way to numb feelings, but unfortunately it only works in the short term. The use of alcohol only adds to the feelings of failure and self-pity, which of course reinforces the need to drink. In the long term, alcohol addiction makes the problem grow steadily worse in a vicious cycle, because it simply hides the problem instead of solving it.

For the alcoholic to get free of the addiction, it becomes vital to take back control. Without control, he has no reason (in his perception) to change. But, when he has learned how to take charge of his own emotional and mental state - something that even many non-alcoholics find hard - then there is an excellent chance of lasting change.

And how can this be done? How can the alcoholic learn to take charge of his own mind and learn how to stop drinking alcohol and have a good time instead? The mere idea that this is possible will seem preposterous to a typical alcoholic, who is so wrapped in his own misery and self-shame that he cannot see the possibilities.

The trick is to learn certain mental skills. The right types of mental skills allow the alcoholic to change the way that he or she unconsciously views the world. It changes, sometimes subtly and sometimes hugely, the way that this person thinks and feels about things, and what he says to himself.

These skills, fortunately, are easy to learn and practice.

There are several different "styles" of mental skills that can be learned. Some examples are EFT (emotional freedom technique), NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and hypnosis.

Whilst therapists will "do" the work on the alcoholic, all of them should teach the skills for self-application. For example, self-hypnosis is easy to learn and do. Learning to use these skills for himself gives the alcoholic both the ability and the responsibility of getting better.

In other words, it gives back control to the sufferer.

With persistence and practice, and help from therapists, the alcoholic can learn to take back control and start to choose a better way to live.


Alcohol Addiction: On The Wagon Or Social Drinker?
Learning how to stop drinking alcohol for some people is a long and difficult process. If you have become dependent on alcohol to cope; if you drink in the morning or before work; if you are unable to cope in social situations without your "friend" (the drink); if you have hurt people while you were drunk - then you have some important decisions to make.

The most important decision, of course, is to get rid of that alcohol addiction. Unfortunately, without that decision, it all too often ends up on that "slippery slope", that "downward spiral".

Another decision to make, and this is an important one, is whether to aim at becoming a teetotaler, where you never drink alcohol again, or allowing yourself the occasional drink in social situations.

This is a controversial topic. Some people and organizations claim that once you are addicted, you are addicted for life. Just as an ex-heroin addict can become instantly re-addicted after just one dose, so the ex-drinker can become instantly re-addicted with just the one drink.

Other people, such as certain NLP practitioners (but not all), say instead that it's better to aim for choice. In every situation, the ex-drinker can choose to drink or not to drink.

I believe that it's a little more complicated. Firstly, there are degrees of addiction. An alcoholic needs to aim at total abstinence in the first place. Only when he or she has become an ex-drinker, and (with the help of mind skills such as NLP, EFT or self-hypnosis) can have a good time without drinking any alcohol, can the decision be made.

The ex-drinker would do well to always err on the side of caution. If there is any doubt at all, then the safe route is to avoid all alcohol. The problem is not that the person may be irresponsible, but that the first thing to disappear with a drink is judgment (that is why drink-driving is so dangerous). So, after the first drink, the ex-drinker is no longer in a position to judge whether another drink is safe.

Here are my tips for an ex-drinker as to whether a social drink is safe. If the answer is "no" to any of them, then stay on the wagon!

1. Are you enjoying yourself?
2. Are you in a safe environment, where you will not be subjected to stress or bad feelings?
3. Have you coped well with this situation before without drink?
4. Have you learned to take control of your emotions even in stressful situations?
5. If you have drunk in this situation before, did you do so in strict moderation and in good spirits?
6. Finally, are you absolutely sure that you will cope with just one drink and know how to stop drinking alcohol before it has any effect on you?


Getting Greater Results:
It is true that everyone would love to have more time, but no one can have more. There are only so many hours in a day. You are entitled to twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week not one minute more. The way you handle your time , the greater the difference will be in your life.

Yes! Everyone gets frustrated from not having enough time. Have you started checking into ways to get better results? Why not take your life to the next level? Learn from the techniques below on how to get better results.

Schedule everything.

Create a balance in your life.

Only deal with what you know you are good at.

Learn how to discipline yourself.

Block time for high payback projects.

There are several ways to achieve your success.

Quit looking for ways to explain why something can't be done. Just do it.

Take control of your attitude.

Dump everything that isn't helping you to get where want to be.

If you know you are better at certain tasks, increase your worthiness.

Always plan on going in the forward direction. If you find yourself going backwards , you are heading for a hard fall.

Have a vision.

Write down your vision, and understand that is the goal you are heading for.

Do the right thing.

You should spend your time during the day, doing what you are best at.

Make yourself productive in the short period of time you have.

If you are to succeed , you have to be willing to change.

If you are to become a leader, there are times when you will have to look bad and unpopular.

These time management tips have helped many to achieve their goals. You should always want to manage yourself more effectively. When you can manage yourself , your accomplishments will be much greater and your stress level will lessen. If you have a clear focus on your goals, you are better qualified to achieve your goals.

Don't let the many interruptions of your daily life cause you to waste valuable time. You have only one life to live and you should make every minute of the day count toward your perfection. Don't be one of those that let's their pride stand in their way.

Everyone at some point has wasted time. Haven't you. There is still time to make a change in your daily life. Learn to make every minute count. Avoid wasting time.


Three Sciences, No Straining:
If two heads are better than one, then what's better than that? A sweater with two necks? Actually, three heads is probably the answer, although I can't imagine how you'd get through the door. Three heads, or at least three sciences, are what have been put together to make the science of ergonomics.

By examining each of these specialties you can see how seamlessly they fit together to create the school of evidence and thought which tells us the best ways to sit, play, and work. Ergonomics is Greek for the "laws of work", so it makes sense why these understandings have combined to change the way we do things in our employment and beyond.

The Body As A Whole

Anatomy is the science of the body and all its hundreds of parts. From organs and tissue to muscles and tendons, anatomy is the science we look to help us know where things are and how they function. Anatomy is used in ergonomics to show how the posture and way we do things affects our individual muscles and bones. The anatomy of the spine shows what happens when incorrect pressure is put on it, and the muscles of the neck reveal how their tension can lead to headaches, eye strain and cranial-facial tingling and nerve damage. Anatomy is where ergonomic designers begin when they look for a better chair or way to sit.

The Body In Motion
Physiology, often the dancing partner of anatomy, is the science of the body's most kinesthetic form, movement. It is a science that studies the effects of movement on the body and how bodies create energy to move and work. Repetitive motion injuries are often the focus of study in physiology which has developed an understanding of what happens to the body when the same movement is undertaking, and what can be done to prevent damage before it begins. Physiology also helps engineers design chairs desks and keyboard to work with the body's flow of energy and reduce the stress on the joints and muscles of the wrists and arms.

The Mind And The Body

Psychology also plays in important role in the collaborative theories of ergonomics. By understanding how human beings process information, make and change habits and the mindset they use as they work, psychology helps designers and occupational therapists develop methods and instructions to get workers to use their body more correctly. Organization psychology, which studies how people function together as a group with a common goal, is often used in ergonomic development to predict how workers can respond and adapt to changes in the physical and physiological work environment. The hardest part of getting a work place to work with ergonomic efficiency is getting the people to change how they do things. Psychologists help with that process in invaluable ways.

Ergonomics did not just burst on the scene when people started complaining of sore wrists. Design engineers have been using this unique science for decades to assist them in making the work place better for all of us.


Are You Happy?
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, said, “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” So often we look to our successes to find that feeling of happiness. Yet, to find real success, we must find happiness first.

Research published in The American Psychologist reports that happy people have certain characteristics that separate them from unhappy people. Here’s what they say:

Happy people are less self-focused, less aggressive and violent, and less susceptible to disease. “They are more loving, forgiving, trusting, decisive, creative, sociable, and helpful.” Happy people have happy emotions and that’s because they are usually more sociable and they are more apt to set optimistic goals and strive to meet them. Consequently, their attitudes create healthier immune systems.

Happy people don’t suppress good feelings when they feel them. They laugh when they are happy, and they don’t hide their success or talents to fit in with the crowd. If they receive a compliment, they take it. If they have something happy to talk about, they share it.

Happy people are usually spiritual people. Though some studies show that some forms of active spirituality can correlate with prejudice and guilt, for the most part, a belief in God—and consequently, an active spiritual life—correlates well with several mental health criteria. People who are active in their church tend to be less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, divorce, or commit suicide.

Some say that money doesn’t make you happy. Not true. There is a connection between wealth and well-being, though it is not significant. Stress from financial disorder does make people depressed. However, wealth cannot be attributed to redeeming a depressed person.

Support matters. When we have a large support system of loving friends and family, we are much more happy and healthy and less likely to die prematurely. Physical support plays a key role as well. Research shows that an overwhelming percentage of depressed people are often cured by a change of diet (which includes a decreased intake of refined sugar and elimination of caffeine, drugs, tobacco, and alcohol), an increase in regular exercise, and improved sleep habits.

We have the choice to be happy by changing behaviors that make us unhappy. If you find that your behaviors aren’t in line with happy living, and you want to be happy and successful, it’s time to look at the root cause. Typically, self-worth issues rest at the core of dysfunction, and such issues most often find their roots at home.

Happy homes and families have one important thing in common—they are kind and loving to one another! Homes in which family members are overly critical, judgmental, and have tendencies toward perfectionism will produce generations of people who tend to struggle with depression. (See, "Healing Your Family History: 5 Steps to Break Free of Destructive Patterns," by Rebecca Hintze, foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Hay House, 2006, for help overcoming family patterns of unhappiness and depression).

We can begin today to resolve the reasons why we’re not behaving like happy people. As you heal, assess your behavior and see if you’re making choices that lead you to live a happy life—one that brings success.
Ask yourself:
Am I too self-focused?
Do I have happy emotions?
Am I sociable and able to express myself well?
Do I feel comfortable being myself around others?
Am I spiritually connected and have faith in a loving God?
Do I share myself with others?
Do I have healthy physical habits?
Do I surround myself with people who love and support me?
Do I spend a tremendous amount of time judging and criticizing others, including myself?
Am I a perfectionist?
Am I charitable toward others?
What underlying issues am I suppressing that may cause me to behave in ways that prevent happiness?

Use your answers to help you identify an area where you can improve. Set a goal for the week that’s realistic—one that will help you reach your goal of living a more happy and successful life.

If your answers (and your life) feel overwhelming, remember the words of the world-famous psychologist Carl Jung. He said, “There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” Your days in dark times serve a purpose. They provide the balance of opposition needed for growth and happiness. If you’re living in unhappy, dark times and want to be happy, just choose it. While we must past through darkness as part of our life’s experience, we don’t have to live there. Use the clues in this article to get you on track to a lighter, happier time.


What Are The Best Home Schooling Programs?
Most home schooling programs are fully comprehensive and provide everything you would need for your child's complete k-12 education. However, you should keep in mind that many experienced home schoolers do not stick to just one program. They pick and choose from what they believe are best of each of the various programs. I cover in greater detail how people mix and match in my home schooling newsletter.

There are many popular and respected home schooling programs. The ones I'll cover briefly here are Saxon, Center for Learning and Curriculum Associates.

Perhaps one of the more well-known home schooling programs comes from Saxon. Saxon is a part of Harcourt Achieve, a publisher that provides a variety of educational materials across various subjects. Saxon focuses on math, phonics and early learning. Many home schoolers like Saxon's math texts. Math is an area that children will need expert instruction in. If the parents don't have a math background, Saxon may be the right math program for your child.

The Center for Learning is another of the great home schooling programs. They provide curriculum materials to public, private and parochial schools. They are also a favorite choice of home schoolers. Just as Saxon provides good math texts, the Center for Learning provides materials on English, Language Arts, Drama and Social Studies. They provide religious materials.

Finally, another favorite among the various home schooling programs is Curriculum Associates. Their materials focus on Reading, Language Arts and Math. They also have materials on test preparation, study skills and assessment.

As I mentioned, most parents will not stick to any one of the home schooling programs. They will choose Reading from this publisher and Math from that one. They often find what they like best through experimentation or from what their friends recommend.

So, which of the home schooling programs do you choose? If it were me, I would contact your State's Department of Education Home School contact person. This individual will know what programs with which students are having the most success.


How To Find The Right Flight School:
So you want to start flight training. What do you do? First of all you should research all the flight schools in your local area. By just browsing the local flight schools web site you can get a good idea of what that flight school has to offer. Check out what type of airplanes they use for flight training. Are they new or old airplanes? How many airplanes do they have? It’s up to you if you want to spend the extra cash flying a new airplane. Remember an airplane is an airplane. They might not look good but they all fly. To make it easy for you to locate all the flight schools in your area, just go to flightschoollist.com. Flight School List.Com has one of the largest aviation school lists on the internet. Once you’re done browsing all the flight school web sites you’re going to want to call and talk to a flight instructor at each flight school. I suggest that you talk to one of the flight instructors at the flight school and not the secretary. The flight instructor will be able to answer your questions in detail; the secretary will only have a general knowledge about flight training. What should you ask the flight instructor?

How many flight instructors work here?
How busy is the flight school?
Will I be able to schedule a flight instructor and airplane any time I want?
How many of the same airplane do you have? It’s nice to have two of the same airplane just in case one of them is down for maintenance.
How many hours do the flight instructors have? Remember that hours don’t automatically translate into teaching ability.
What kind of airplanes do you use for training?
What kind of maintenance do you perform on your rental aircraft?
How much does the aircraft cost per hour?
Is fuel included in the price?
Are there any fuel surcharges? Most flight school will add a fuel surcharge when fuel goes up.
How much does flight instruction cost per hour?
How much is ground instruction?
Are there any other aircraft rental fees or taxes?
Do you have any discounts for purchasing a block of time?
Usually when you purchase a block of time, you purchase it in 10 hour increments or whatever the school offers. You put the money down right away and you get a certain percentage off per hour of flight time. It depends on the flight school, they are all different.
In general how many hours does it take to get your pilots certificate at this school? The national average is about 60 to 70 hours of flight time.
What type of training materials do you use?
What am I expected to buy?
Typically how long is a flight lesson?
When can I schedule a tour of your flight school and aircraft?

Once you get done talking to the flight instructors at all the flight schools in your area, you should go pay a visit to the schools that best answered your questions. Try to talk to all the flight instructors at the flight school. Sit down with them and ask them a few questions.

Here are a few examples:

· How long have you been flying?

· How many hours do you have?

· Do you like flying?

· How do you like teaching?

· How long are you planning on teaching here?

· How many students do you have?

· Do you want to work for the airlines?

· Are you a career flight instructor?

As you’re asking the flight instructors your questions, see how they react. Are they happy to answer all your questions or do they look like your bothering them? If they act like you’re bothering them you probably want to stay away from that instructor. Once you’re done with the flight instructors, try to talk to a few students. Ask the students how they like flying at the school. Do they like the flight instructors? How hard is it to schedule an airplane and instructor?

Checkout how the office looks. Is it neat? Are the airplanes in good shape or are they all beat up? Hang around the flight school for a couple hours if you can. You’ll be able to see how they run the operation. As long as your there ask one of the flight instructors if you can rid along on a training flight to observe. Ok, know your done researching all the schools. Sit down and decide which one of the flight schools you liked best. Which one of the instructors did you like talking to? Who had the cheapest rates? Remember just with anything, you get what you pay for! Cheap is not always better. Now call the flight school that you think is the best and schedule your first lesson. Remember this article is for reference only. There are a thousands of questions you can ask a flight instructor about flight training, I just can’t cover them all right know. If you have any other question about flight training please visit flighttrainingforum.com. Here you can ask all the flight training question you want for free. I hope this article will help you decide which flight school is right for you.


Living And Working Where You Want!
Living and working any where you want, sounds like a vision come true. Others are doing it, is it your turn?

We all come up with excuses that help us feel better about not going after our goals. Well isn't it time you stop making excuses and get on with your dream?

Living the life of your dream, what does it mean to you? Isn't a dream just a journey of sorts? A place where we would like to be. Step by step we can live in our utopia, living where we want and working in our dream job.

Could you be asking how can I continue my dream when I am stuck in my life?

With bills to pay, and barely making it by. What if I tell you that, where you are is a direct result of the decisions you have made? Ouch, that one hits home.... We are where we are, as a result of what we've done or have not done. A stark reality.

Do you find yourself stressed out and off your journey? Asking yourself, can I really achieve my goals? Just like being in a strange territory without a map... we would pass by on quite a few fun stuff to see and do. A squandered life.

Most of us want success, so many have tried. More importantly so many are getting their dream life. Isn't it your turn?

What is it, that those who are living the dream are doing, that you are not? What is their secret? How can You find out? Don't you wish you could just go and ask them to show you the way? I know I do.

Spending most of my adult life studying the success and set backs of others and having had success come and go in my life, I learned a lot along the way.

A essential point I learned was, when going to a new destination... set up a good plan or even better than that, get a good mentor who knows the field. Mentors will help you save time and money when pursuing your dream, living and working your way.

How we select good guides and mentors is nearer than you think. They really do want to help you succeed with your ambition, working online. Creating your dream!

You're About To Learn 'Secrets' That Most People Will Never Know About How To Really Succeed Online...follow me the guy with the map.


Add: Five Simple Tricks For Work That's Boring:
Even if you have an ADD-friendly job, you probably still have certain tasks that have to b be accomplished that you just hate to do. So, you procrastinate or you avoid doing them completely. But that's not good. You have to pay the bills to keep your business running, or you have filing as part of your job. What's an person with attention deficit to do?

Some of us have built our businesses up to the point where we're able to hire people to do the stuff we hate to do. But what happens if you're just starting your business or part of your otherwise ADD-friendly job bores the heck out of you? Here are 5 ADD tricks to keep you from ignoring them completely.

1) Listen to something. If you're doing something that's mindless, you could put on a self-help tape or some kind of educational recording that relates to your business. Or, you can play music as loud as you can stand it. If you're in an office environment, put these things on an .mp3 player or use other headphones to keep from distracting others.

2) Plan your schedule every day. Start by making a list of tasks that you need to accomplish that day. Having things written down is sometimes less intimidating, and very important for anyone with ADD. A great way to accomplish this is through Mark Joyner's Simpleology at http://www.simpleology.com/ where you can do it all digitally, if you like.

3) Snack on something while working. If you just get a tin of sugarless mints or some wheat crackers or something that's healthy for you, you'll distract your sense of taste while you work on the task you hate.

4) When the focus runs out---switch! Rotate the tasks you have to do. If you have 6 things to do, split your hour into 10-minute segments. Do the task you hate for 10 minutes, then do something you like to do for 10 minutes and so on, until the hour is up. Then, start all over again. This will keep you non-bored and actively focused on each task you have to accomplish.

5) Dress for success. Put on your best business suit, even if you work at home by yourself. Somehow, just looking the part makes you feel the part, and you'll be more productive.

You'll be surprised at how well these 5 simple tricks can work for you, and help you accomplish things your ADD bran rebels against. Try them, and see if they don't make your workday smoother and your ADD brain happier.


How You Can Tell He's Cheating On You:
How can you tell he’s cheating on you?

No one wants to think their guy is cheating, but if you’re beginning to be suspicious, well, there there’s smoke there’s fire. Of course we psychics get a lot of calls about this – does he have another woman? Is he cheating on me? I haven’t seen him in two days, where is he?

It’s wrong to cheat on someone you love. It hurts in the heart. But if you suspect, here are the top ten clues that someone is cheating. Then you’ll know when it’s time to find out for sure.

1. Too much time on the computer behind closed doors.

This is the No. 1 clue. I read for lots of people who are dating online, it’s the no 1 way to meet people these days. Well, those women who are dating online tell me all the time about the married men who write them, and how they start right in with indecent proposals, or want a picture of them naked. So if he’s on the Internet all the time, and doesn’t want you to see – look out. You can also get specific help from TheCloser (www.thecloser.cc. It’s discrete and sensitive and thorough.) Watch your Aries guy on this one. It’s not like a fire sign to spend hours in a room, with a computer, with the door shut!

2. Overtime or working later.

Especially if this is NEW and he didn't get a promotion or anything. It’s an easy way (they think) to cover up an affair. This is an easy way for Pisces to cheat, because they have more spare time on their hands to begin with. If suddenly he’s got meetings all the time, in the evening, or has to go out-of-town on the weekends, look out.

3. Hangups or dial tones.

Now tell me the truth, when you first fell in love, didn't you call the guy a lot if he wasn't available, and sometimes just to hear his voice on the answering machine? If the phone rings and when you pick it up and say “hello” you hear a click, uh oh. If your guy’s a Gemini, this is a good place to look. They’ll want to be in constant communication with the new chick.

4. Lack of interest in sex or sudden abnormal desires.

Anything different in this area, unless there’s a cause like medication, can mean trouble. Like suddenly he’s wanting you to wear something weird, or sex toys or something. Of course if your Scorpio guy loses interest in sex, it’s a major sign.

5. Hiding or “losing” the phone bill, cell phone bill or credit card bill.

A lot of the women I’ve read for who caught their man cheating found out through bills. I guess they get careless. You’ll find a bunch of calls to the same phone number and it’s a number you don’t know. One woman I read for found out he had charged $800 on the cell phone that month. Maybe you always paid the bills and suddenly he wants to. You know there’s trouble without having to go any farther. Watch your Virgo guy on this one. You KNOW they aren’t going to lose or misfile a BILL. Come on now.

6. Accusing you of having an affair.

Well that’s just one of the nutty things men do – turn it around. They start sneaking around, so of course they suspect YOU of sneaking around. Sometimes too they’ll just pick a fight hoping you’ll leave then alone or something. Find out early while you can still work on the relationship. This is all about early detection. From what I hear, this is an Aquarius thing.

7. Excessively critical or unbelievably nice.

Both of these are sort of coming from guilt. Guys know it’s wrong to cheat on their woman. Some become critical and pick on you about everything. Suddenly it seems like he’s never in a good mood, and you can’t do anything to please him. Other guys start being sugary sweet. He hasn’t given you a gift in a year and suddenly you're getting a dozen roses? Or worse, you’ve been after him to let you have a vacation and suddenly he’s telling you to go on a cruise and take your sister along, his treat, and make it a 2-weeker. Uh oh. A Leo often shows you they’re cheating this way, because flattery is their game. They will start flattering you like crazy and fawning all over you, or suddenly the pussycat is all claws and growls.

8. Taking off or “losing” the wedding ring.

This one is just pathetic, like you wouldn’t notice. Me and my girl friend had a flat one day and pulled over to the side of the road. Well this guy pulled over and came charging out of his car to help us and we were laughing because we could see the outline of his wedding ring in his shirt pocket. Well then they for get to put it back on. Guys don’t just lose a wedding ring. Think about it. I know guys who’ve hung on to the same wedding ring for 50 YEARS. Don’t be fooled by excuses, ladies. Watch a Taurus on this one. After all a ring costs something, and money’s what it’s all about with a Taurus. Not like him to, um, misplace something of value.

9. Taking pictures out of their wallet.

I don’t know why they do this, but they do. Maybe he feels guilty having the picture of you and the kids in his wallet when he’s cheating on you. Check his wallet every now and then, or ask him if he’s still got your wedding photo in there, and can you see it, pretty please. A Cancerian who removes photos of his family from his wallet is sending you a big, big message.

10. Last big one – new interest or hobbies, activities and even eating new kind of food.

One woman I read for, well they had always had pretty plain cooking, steak and potatoes. Suddenly he’s asking for things she can’t even pronounce. Or he starts talking about Harry Potter when you two don’t have any kids, or he wants to take up golf.

Think about when you were dating. Didn’t you always pick up some new interest from the guy? You can tell it with your girl friends, too. I remember once the girls were talking about weight loss and I told them the anecdote about Laffit Pincay eating one peanut on a plane trip – half at the beginning and half at the end. Who on earth are you dating? they asked me. I was dating a guy who was in to horse racing. (Laffit Pincay was a famous jockey.) Watch those anecdotes. If your TV-watching, video-game-playing Libra suddenly starts quoting Proust, uh oh Where do you think he got it from?

Well, I hope it doesn’t happen to you, but if it does, it pays to know the early warning signals.


Learn To Love Yourself First:
What is the first thing that you usually do when you wake up in the morning? Do you stretch and smile, eager to start your day? Or do you throw the covers back over your head, wishing that you could “fast-forward” past the day and all of the responsibilities that await you? When your feet finally meet the floor and you make your way towards the bathroom, do you smile at the person staring back at you in the mirror? You should, because that is the only person who you can truly depend on to make you happy. When you put your happiness in the hands of others, you will soon realize that you will be setting yourself up for disappointment.

You’d be surprised to find out how much joy you can bring into your life by simply treating yourself good. Self boosters such as smiling every time you pass a mirror and telling yourself how gorgeous you are can make a huge difference in the way you feel about yourself. Think of how good it makes you feel when a stranger pays you a compliment or when someone tells you how brilliant they think your ideas are. The truth is we don’t really need others to make us feel this way. Even though it’s nice to hear these kinds of things from others, we possess the ability to create this for ourselves, but only ten times better.

Just as others can easily make us feel good about ourselves, they can also say things that can easily lower our self esteem. For instance, overhearing someone mention how big your thighs are, or a group of kids on the bus laughing as they use you as an example of a whale. A person with a healthy self esteem would not be affected by such things. We are all aware of our personal flaws, and trust me, we all have them, but once we learn to accept the ones that can’t be changed as a part of who we are and make an effort to change what we want to change, only then will we see that others will accept us too.

Talk to yourself...

Don’t worry; no one will think you’re crazy--if they do just sarcastically invite them to try it for themselves. In a world where talking to ourselves would label us nutty, it is completely normal and extremely healthy in one particular sense. When we make it a habit to tell ourselves positive things, and use words such as “I can” and “I will” instead of words like “I can’t”; we simply eliminate any room left for negativity to affect our lives.

Positive thoughts and positive actions can only lead to positive results. Tell yourself how proud you are of you and don’t be afraid to give yourself a hug from time to time. Often times, our past can find ways to blind us from our promising futures. Always remind yourself that “yesterday is gone, forget about it--today is here, enjoy it!” Learn to accept each new day as a brand new adventure, with a brand new opportunity, to make it better than you could ever imagine. Even when times are not so good, understanding that you hold the power to make it better will grant you a sense of peace.

Patience enables our hopes and dreams to become a reality…

Living in this day and time, stress seems to lurk under everything we fix our eyes on. With matters of employment, obtaining a job is difficult within itself; but lacking a college education can bring a person to feel as low as the sugar settled to the bottom of a cup of coffee. Another thing, the cost of living often exceeds the average salary; forcing many of us to take on additional jobs in order to barely “get by”. Money has a tendency to greatly affect our happiness, wellbeing, confidence, and self worth; it can literally alter the way we view the world. When we are unemployed, we may feel worthless, we may feel like a failure more than anything else, and worry about how the rest of the world perceives us.

There is a saying that goes “Why stress what cannot be changed in a moment’s time”. Being hard on yourself will only make matters worse and will only put a damper on your spirit. Instead, do something nice for yourself that will help lift your spirits; even if only for the time being. The key is learning how to take a step at a time. Reducing stress will help you to focus more energy into the things that you are trying to accomplish. Some enjoyable stress relievers include warm baths, reading, listening to music, reading a book, taking a walk, enjoying the company of family and friends, cooking, meditating, and basking under the gentle glow of scented candles.

Nothing is EVER as bad as it may seem…

Our minds are powerful tools, and if we allow it, they can take us on irrational rollercoasters. Think back to when you were a child; did a monster ever actually come out from under your bed or come leaping out of your closet? I would hope not! Use that same general idea and apply it to some of your fears as an adult. The only differences are upgraded fears and wisdom due to age. The only thing you possibly have to fear about your life is fear itself. It is because of fear and doubt that we are so hard on ourselves. When you finally learn and make a choice to become your own best friend, every time you walk past a mirror, the words “I love you too” will surely find a way to escape from your lips.


Discover How To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality:
What do you want from life? Do you know, or do you just drift from day to day without any particular aims or sense of direction? It might even be that you feel defeated, or stuck in a rut from which there seems to be no escape.

Whatever your situation, unless you’re happy with it exactly as it is, there’s plenty of scope for change – and a powerful tool for changing our circumstances is to create a Dream Book or, better still, a Dream Sheet that is then placed on a wall where you can hardly avoid seeing it every single day.

I recommend buying the biggest sheet of card that you can find and covering it with pictures of your ideal life. Even if you’ve never taken time to think through the kind of life that might be perfect for you, this exercise is a simple one to adapt to – and great fun to do. If there’s somewhere you’d love (but can’t currently afford) to go on holiday, download views of that destination or get brochures from your local travel agent and cut out pictures to arrange on your Dream Sheet. Likewise, your ideal house, car, school for your children, bicycle, motorbike etc. etc – just get them all up there.

The reason why I believe a Sheet to be preferable to a Book is that it takes no effort whatsoever to see it up there. It’s simply there. It’s best, as I’ve said, to put the pictures on a wall that you’re seeing all the time because then the images can most easily be absorbed into your subconscious. And, once there, they begin to take effect. As familiar images they somehow come within reach. Not immediately. Nothing is that easy! And don’t ask me how it happens because I couldn’t answer with any degree of accuracy. All I know is that it does. It has happened over and over again for me, for members of my family and indeed for everyone that I’ve told about this method.

For example, my eldest daughter had pictures of Canada all over her sheet, along with a Mazda MX5. When she placed them there, she did so thinking in terms of ‘pie in the sky’. However, they became familiar territory and as time went by it began to feel as if a trip to Canada and ownership of the sports car of her dreams were part of her ‘reality’. She didn’t so much hunger for them as inwardly accept that they were there and that it was inevitable that she would go to one and own the other!

Sure enough, she did, with no cost to her …

Unexpected doors had been opening since she put her Dream Sheet in place and suddenly, one day, a family member ‘all out of the blue’ offered her a red MX5 for which they no longer had a use. Similarly, a year or so later, a dream trip to Banff and a train journey across the Rockies from Jasper to Vancouver came her way.

As I mentioned earlier, I can’t explain how Dream Sheets work. That part needs, I feel, to be taken on trust. But I could give many more examples of how they’ve worked for us – so what have you to lose by trusting them too?