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Ever get that feeling? You know the one I’m talking about, XTZ Foundation’s deadline is next week, they’ve declined you once before and now you find yourself sitting there staring at a blank page.

It seems you’re not alone.

CharityChannel’s online forums, always a wonderful source of inspiration, ideas and practical thinking, are also a barometer of our universal fears. One recent thread that garnered widespread responses centered on fear, specifically “what scares you most” as a grant proposal writer.

Respondents pointed to a variety of common fears, from fearing the initial contact with a new foundation to fear of rejection to fear of leaving out a key component. However, the most basic fear cited was the one inherent in most writers, the fear of the blank page.

“I can only say that it does not matter how long you work in the filed, rather it is a new client, or a new proposal for a current client – a blank page is scary. The beginning of every new proposal is empty white space yet it is filled with so many opportunities to write the perfect proposal. “

How do you craft the perfect cover letter, create an opening, tell your agency’s story in a compelling way that makes the funder want to fund you? How do you get past the blank page syndrome?

Whether it stems from procrastination, frustration or just plain fear – here are a few tools that no grant proposal writer should ever be without.

Testimonials

Testimonials are all around you. They are in the thank you cards your program receives, the messages on the machine in your office, in emails, conversations, and in speeches at recognition events. If your program isn’t in the habit of collecting testimonials, make it a top priority! Actively seek them out by sending surveys to your clients and donors. Get in the habit of keeping a tape recorder handy, and set up a comment page on your website.

Storytelling shows why your donors keep coming back, year after year, and why your staff is so dedicated to your mission. Telling the story of your program through testimonials lets you bring a diversity of voices to your proposal in a way that numbers can’t and helps your application stand apart from the rest, long after the numbers have been forgotten.

Books

There are a number of great books out there on grant proposal writing. Any one of these would give you a little nudge in the right direction:

How to Write Knockout Proposals: What You Must Know (And Say) to Win Funding Every Time by Joseph Barbato A gem of a book – this one’s a precious jewel and just might be all that you need.

Storytelling for Grantseekers by Cheryl A. Clark Teaches you the narrative aspect of the grant proposal. Mine is dog-eared.

Grassroots Grants – by Andy Robinson This one’s full of examples – and great for getting past that blank page.

Five Days to Foundation Grants (available at www.writegrantproposals.com) Ok, this is my own book :. But it’s one that I turn to time and time again for a quick basic reflection on all the information covered in the aforementioned books – and then some. The accompanying grant proposal toolkit – basically a book of templates of successfully funded proposals – always gets me past the hump.

What else? Sometimes music works for me. I once based an entire annual appeal around a Sly and the Family Stone Song – Everybody is a Star!

What’re you waiting for? You’ve got nothing to fear but fear itself.

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The economic downturn has many people worried about recession, and inflation rates seem to be rising every other week. In light of such uncertain times, have you ever wondered if investing your hard earned dollars into the stock market is the prudent thing to do? Or are you already considering alternative forms of investment? If so, consider online commodity trading, because depending on your knowledge, risk appetite, and the commodities you choose, you have the potential to earn big returns on your investment.

But if you’re a greenhorn at the commodity market, or even at trading for that matter, you might be wondering what commodities trading is all about. Commodities trading is where traders trade contracts for goods, and not for the goods themselves; goods such as food like corn or malt, or metals like gold and silver. The traders don’t have to deliver the goods to some end-consumer at the end of the day, because they don’t have the goods to begin with, and most likely never will have them. A trader would instead buy a contract if he thought that the price for a commodity would be going up in the future. He would then sell the contract if he thought the price would depreciate. Think of it as a kind of insurance plan for the traders and investors; regardless of price fluctuations, both the buyer and the seller are guaranteed the price stated in the contract at the time of trade. Just like any business transaction, there is always a buyer and seller in every trade made, but neither the buyer or the seller is required to own a particular commodity in order for the trade to happen. The only thing that a trader has to do is to deposit enough capital with a brokerage firm to ensure that he would be able to pay for his losses if his trade loses money. This is known as commodity futures trading.

So now that the concept of commodities trading is out of the way, why trade online?

Online commodities trading involves the transmission of orders by customers to either buy or sell a commodity to a commodity exchange via an electronic marketplace. Unlike the traditional offline method of trading, no brokers are required to represent customers. However, having an online broker would cost you less commissions-wise than if you were to have a full-service broker. As such, you stand to be more profitable on your trades than if you were to trade offline.

Trading commodities online also provides you with almost everything you need the moment you log into your trading account. Most online brokers are equipped with real time information, ranging from futures news, price quotes, charts, technical analysis programs, and other research material that are made available for their clients. As such, those who wish to embark on online trading on their own are able to make more informed decisions when trading because the same tools have been made available for them online.

However, despite the apparent advantages of trading commodities online, one would also have to be aware of the pitfalls that are associated with online commodities trading.

For one thing, because you have the freedom to make your own trades online, there is no one watching over your shoulder to guide you along with your trades. Inexperienced traders usually lose money this way, because they think that the tools made available to them through trading online make great substitutes for experience. The fact is that nothing can substitute experience, and having an experienced broker by your side would most likely help you avoid such losses. Treat the broker as a mentor if you’re just starting out; learn by asking questions and having them answered within minutes instead of spending hours or days researching on your own.

Another issue to take note of is over trading. The temptation to be swayed from one’s original plan of holding trades for a period of time rather than ‘capitalizing’ on small breaks in the market trend are usually the cause of traders losing a sum of money, most often the considerable portion of it is by way of commissions. Even though commissions on every trade may be cheap, every commission compounds to every trade made; worse still if the trade results in a loss. So while it might be a good idea to seize a good opportunity when you see one, make sure you have a plan tailored for every trade you intend on making, instead of changing your strategies blindly just because you’re lured by the possibility of making a quick buck.

While online commodities trading may seem like a prudent investment option in these uncertain times, it requires discipline, the right mindset, and a sound trading plan in order for you to succeed in it. For beginners, the best way to trade commodities is through an online broker.

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People who want to start a Home Business are looking for more control of their life, and to achieve financial freedom, as millions people are doing. There is too much uncertainty in our lives today, and the only way to change this is to become our own boss. It’s never too late!!

There are many ways to make money from home. However, they are not all equal. Depending on your background, and skill level, picking the right home business for you will determine how successful you’ll be. Success comes from learning and sharing. There are several successful business people who are willing to help you, like Mike Klingler, Julie Salgado, Debra Morrison, Lisa Diane, and me. You just need to learn how to find them.

So you want to make money from home, but Network Marketing doesn’t appeal to you. You’re not interested in talking to a lot of people, and going to meetings. You don’t want to learn how to become a great Leader, and recruit people into your business. So what can you do to make money from home?

There are several ways to build a Home Business, but it all takes some form of marketing, except the type where you are handling rebates for a company, processing insurance, or other forms of clerical work. But these are more like a job, since you don’t build any residual income, and when you don’t work there is no income.

There are Affiliate Programs where you promote other peoples products through your website, which requires you to advertise on the internet, and other media. Even though an Affiliate Program is the easiest to get into, with no risk, you still need to learn how to market, and draw people to your website. You don’t need to recruit others, but you’ll want to have others join your program, so you earn a referral fee. You can get marketing training from Mike Klingler’s Renegade University program.

So how can a person make money from Home, if they don’t want to be a Network Marketer? The Internet offers great opportunities…

1) You can write a book about a subject you have some knowledge of, and a passion for, such as Landscaping, Cooking, Pet Care, and other topics. But you need to be sure you are writing about a subject people need, not want. You need to research the Internet to see what’s being promoted, so you’ll be able to sell your eBook. That takes time, so you won’t be generating any income for awhile.

So while you are working on your book, you’ll want to join an Affiliate Program to generate an income, and gain experience.

2) Look for an Affiliate program that has a step by step training program, where you are promoting eBooks, and CDs that Network Marketers, and other Home business owners need. I think Michael Cheney’s Affiliate Millions has one of the better programs. He takes you step by step, so you can make money right away. And has a great support program to help you if you have any problems. You can also use ClickBank. Below you’ll find the link to the site.

3) If you want to work towards becoming a millionaire you want a program offered by a multimillionaire who knows how, and will show you how to become a millionaire, such as Lisa Diane’s Millionaires Training Course. The website link is available at the bottom of this article.

You have read and heard the HYPE on becoming a millionaire, with this program, or that one, and want to know the TRUE STORY…

Well the story is there are a lot of people making one million dollars a year, or more on the Internet, and in Network Marketing. But there are more making less than $500 per month, which is fine if you just want some extra money each month. That would call it a hobby, not a serious business.

What’s the difference? Well it starts with selecting the opportunity that’s right for you, not just the right opportunity. There are a lot of opportunities, but which one is right for you is an important question. It starts with what you want to accomplish, and then understanding the business you select. You should join one that will be there all the way to help you reach your goal.

People who make one million a year or more, within two years are not new to Internet or Network Marketing. They have a track record of success, and have been big money earners in their current or past business. They know what to do to duplicate their success.

So whether you are a seasoned Internet or Network Marketer, you need to learn the method that will bring you the same result as the millionaires.

I’ll be posting additional information on my blog MillionDollarsDesired.com/blog designed to help you be successful in whatever business you are in or select to join. So bookmark the website below. If you would like to receive my Free Monthly Newsletter, email me at successcoach@rallierallis.com with MTC in the subject.

Meanwhile, don’t forget to get your free CD “Million Dollars Desire” from Lisa Diane.

If you wish a free 20 minute consultation, email me and we’ll arrange a time to talk.

Until next time… “Dream Big & Do”

Rallie Rallis is a home business coach assisting Internet & Network Marketers in using the latest attraction marketing methods to generate endless supply of leads on the internet. He coaches on Affiliate Millions, and Training to become a Millionaire

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I’m here to share with you a little about some of my powerful strategies and tips for trading. This is a big market and there is a lot of money exchanging hands every single day. Most traders are losing money. It’s sad, but true. The reason is that most do not have a sense of how to be a trader. Some people are born with it and some are not. The good thing is that we are all capable of learning it, which I hope to do with this article.

• Over Cautious Behavior: This can be a really bad thing to do. I know it feels like the right thing to do because it protects us from a financial loss, but a lot of the time this over cautious feeling comes from a real lack of confidence in what you’re doing. This will cause you to triple check your analysis and miss out on a lot of opportunities. It will also stress you out beyond comprehension while you’re engaged in the middle of the trade. I always say that people need to be grounded in reality. You need to do your analysis and act if it is good. You also need to learn trades play out and that means you give it a significant amount of time to perform.
• Demos: A demo account is a very good tool to learn on. A lot of people like to bad mouth them, but I totally disagree. Demo accounts won’t teach you to be rich, but they will give you the necessary skills and routines necessary to become rich.

The Forex Power Strategy Course is a hot new way of learning how to trade. A lot of people want that “quick fix” of automated software, well this is a course. This is designed to teach you how to trade and not have something trade for you.

Learn more at the Forex Power Strategy Course.

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A child’s experience with grief will be very different than that of an adult. They do not have the same resources and experience to understand what they are feeling. Getting some type of family counseling for a child experiencing grief is in order. A child might begin to move into some regressive behaviors like bedwetting or thumb sucking during their grief and will need help to move through the stages. There could also be some acting out behavior during this time. Remember, that the child could be very angry over their loss and they will express that anger in the only way they know how.

Everyone experiences grief in his or her own unique way and children are no different. There is no timetable for grief and a child should not be expected to move through the different stages with any kind of speed. They must be made to feel comfortable expressing their feelings during this time to avoid the acting out behavior.

A child might become depressed during their grief and experience all the real symptoms of depression. A parent should watch for these signs and symptoms and find depression treatments to help the child through this difficult period. If the child is withdrawing and experiencing changes in their sleep patterns and eating patterns they should be evaluated for a possible depression. Depression is a dangerous illness and must be treated.

The grief of a child is very complicated and must be handled appropriately so that the child can cope with their feelings of loss. A child does not have the capacity to understand the stages that they are going through. They do not understand that they will have times of feeling fine and then be suddenly overwhelmed with memories. That is something that an adult must help them with.

It is a good idea to find a registered therapist to help your child deal with their feelings of grief. Don’t underestimate the powerful feelings that they are having. A therapist can offer a child a safe place to unload their feelings and have them validated. Children sometimes feel more comfortable talking with an outsider instead of a parent, especially if the grief is the result of divorce.

If there are difficulties happening in your family that are leading to grief in the children, you must find methods to get your child help during this time. Every child is different and will handle their grief in different ways. Find out the many ways that children experience grief so that you will learn to recognize it in your children.

For more free resources, visit http://www.thecbtcoach.com Julia Sorensen is the author of “Overcoming Loss Stories and Activities to Help Children Transform Grief and Loss” Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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I’m going to share with you a currency trading how to guide. This should help you become an overall better trader, which will result in better profits over the long term. This is a great business opportunity for individuals to make a second income from their own home.

• Have A Game Plan: The worst thing you can do is hop in front of your computer in the morning, turn it on and figure out what you’re going to do for the day. You need to have a game plan to be successful in this game. A game plan offers a few very important points. The first is that it gives you action tasks, instead of thinking tasks. You don’t have to think about what you’re going to do, you just do it. The second point is that you need to evaluate and calibrate your strategies. You just do something for one day and figure out if it is good or not. That’s why you need a game plan you can apply day after day, so you can eventually figure out what is good and what is bad.
• Play With Good Margins: When starting out it is instinctive to do small trades with small margins. The reason is simple: you risk less and you can learn more. That is perfectly fine and I support that, but the problem arises when you look at your bottom line. You’re going to end up with distorted picture of what your real trading capabilities are. Your broker takes a cut, so if you make a small profit, a significant portion of that will goto the broker. As well, if you make a loss, your brokers cut will be added onto it. That means your profits are smaller and your losses are bigger. You get the idea that you’re losing, when in reality you could be ahead if the margins were better. Be aware of that.
• Keep It Simple: You don’t have to over complicate everything. Yes, you’re working to make an income from home. No, it’s not rocket science. The more simple you keep things, the easy it is to follow and apply correctly.

I’m currently giving a 7 day free forex course. Newbies and experienced are all welcome. If you’re interested in participating, check out the Casual Forex Trader.

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History of Japanese candlestick charting can be traced back to the eighteenth century. A Japanese trader of a speculative market known by the name Munehisa Homma first propounded it. He made many successful winning trades with the help of his new candlestick analysis. Candlestick charts usually shows the open, close, high or low for a security each day of a particular period. In format, it has similarity with that of a bar chart. However, its specialty is that it extenuates the relation between opening and closing prices.

A shadow or a wick indicates the price range of the day. When the opening price is below the closing price and the body is usually white or green. However, in the opposite case, the body is filled with black or red color. Japanese candlestick chart is a useful commodity price chart that is very easy to learn. Candlestick charts bring a different perspective on the table. They are usually more visually attractive and the information relating to prices are much easier to grasp.

Visual attractiveness is one of the major advantages of candlestick charts. A candlestick chart shows the open, low, high, and the closing prices within a particular period like a standard two-dimensional bar chart.

For the proper analysis of candlestick charts, it is important that you know about the components that make it. In a candlestick chart, the body is usually referred to as the real body and it signifies open and closing price ranges. A narrow vertical line that lies below and above the real body indicates the extreme low or high prices. To a Japanese candlestick chart-analyst, the open and closing prices are of utmost significance and therefore special attention is given to them. Whether the closing price is higher or lower than the opening price is easily distinguished by simply glancing at a candlestick chart.

No introduction to Japanese candlestick chart is complete without a mention of different terminologies involved in this method. When the opening price is above the closing price the candlestick chart is usually referred to as the black candlestick while on the other hand when the opening price is lower than the closing price it is called white candlestick. A candlestick chart that is devoid of any upper shadow, it is called the shaven head candlestick. Similarly, the candlestick chart with no lower shadow is called the shaven bottom.

Candlestick charts can be used by the traders to show double tops and bottoms, heads and shoulders etc. However, while viewing candlestick reversal patterns the background of its past activity must be kept in mind. Candlesticks apparently alike might be quite different in meaning due to differences in the background of their previous trends and formations.

For being a successful trader of the speculative market, the traders require assistance of some trading tools and a clear knowledge of the candlesticks if effectively applied goes a long way to help the trader to make profitable speculations and thus excel in his trade.

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A work at home greeting card business opportunity is a great vehicle to reach your financial goals as well as have a way to spend time with your family.

Those are the biggest reasons why several people are starting a home based
card business.

Let’s look at some of the reasons why a work at home greeting card business makes complete sense
to start.

1) More money – The greeting card industry is a billion dollar per year industry and regardless
of the economy, people will still send Christmas cards, birthday cards and mothers day cards. By starting your own card business you can be in a positon to make a considerable amount of money in this industry.

2) More time – Starting a home based card company allows you to work when you would like since you are running the show. You can work as much or as little on your business. What is cool about the card business is if people like your cards, they will reorder over and over again which means you won’t have to work so hard finding tons of new customers.

3) Fun – A work at home card business is so much fun. People love greeting cards. You feel good when you mail cards out to people and get calls back from them. The greeting card business is almost rejection free since just about everyone buys greeting cards.

These are just some of the reasons a work at home greeting card business makes sense to start.

David Dutton offers a free ecourse on starting a home based greeting card business. If you are thinking about starting a greeting card business then you should take his free ecourse at http://www.Fun-Greeting-Card-Business.com

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It can be said that successful trading is the sum of two parts:

1. A solid and reliable Forex day trading strategy
2. A strict, disciplined mental attitude

Often the first part is undone by a failure in the second area. You may have a great Forex day trading strategy but time and again it can be neutralized by one major flaw in part two. What is it?

COMPULSION TO TRADE

Any trader who is enveloped with a compulsion to trade will soon undo any profits a reliable Forex day trading strategy can produce.

Exactly what does it mean?

Here is a typical scenario:

The day trader approaches the trading session with enthusiasm and optimism and goes through habitual preparation steps which may include:

• Consulting the daily calendar for upcoming economic reports
• Reviewing major news items from the financial markets
• Preparing charts by inserting pivot points, drawing trendlines, marking key support and resistance levels, using the Fibonacci tool
• Doing a multiple time frame analysis starting with the daily chart, then moving down to the 4 hour, 1 hour, and perhaps 15 minute charts

Now, as the new session opens and progresses market conditions are flat. Price is for the most part in consolidation.

A Typical Scenario

The trader starts getting bored, or a little frustrated. Hours pass, nothing happens. The desire to trade starts getting stronger and stronger until it reaches compulsion level.

Now the trader starts looking at the charts through different eyes. His reliable Forex day trading strategy now takes a secondary position in his mind and number one is the need to find a trade!

Result?

The trader enters a low probability trade, the market then picks up steam and goes in a direction the trader did not expect and takes out the stop. The first trade of the day has been a loser.

What happens next can have more serious repercussions. Unless the trader employs strict mental discipline, there is now an even greater feeling of compulsion to trade in order to get back what was just lost.

As the mind is now in free fall, the stable, reliable Forex day trading strategy that works well when employed in a calm, analytical manner, now is cast aside and the trader is in the grip of powerful emotions.

What has just been described is a major flaw in many aspiring traders.

The question is: Do you have the honesty to recognize it in yourself? Or are you in a state of denial reasoning that this doesn’t happen to you.

You may be an exception! On the other hand, many traders will relate to the scenario just described.

What is the solution?

During the trading session there is a need to constantly monitor not only candlestick movements on the computer screen in front of you, but also your own mental state and emotional level.

Discipline yourself to recognize when COMPULSION TO TRADE is beginning to build up. Stop. Walk away from the computer. Read a good motivational article on Forex trading disciplines, and return with a fresh viewpoint to the trading station.

Employing this mental/emotional self-check whenever COMPULSION TO TRADE rears its ugly head will help ensure your stable, reliable Forex day trading strategy has chance to succeed!

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It has always been mankind dream and desire to seek Freedom – Freedom of thoughts, Freedom of speech, Freedom of belief, and Freedom of expression! Why then not Financial Freedom!

Wikipedia definition – “Financial freedom describes a well-planned lifestyle where one no longer is required to work for income to cover their expenses”.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad series and other books on personal finance really got me interested and wondered why school and college didn’t teach us how to be financially intelligence. Ultimately, whether all these books have been fictionalized or are real story are debatable. The important point here is that it advocates financial independence through investing, real estate, owning businesses, and other means of money generating and protection tactics.

Most of us are hunger and aspire to achieve financial freedom. When one’s work in an organization without decision making capability. Management will dictate your financial well being. You will bear the consequence of management failure, within or beyond their control. It could be external macro factors such as – market environment, competition, government policies, act of god…… intentionally or unintentionally. You will bear the fruits of management mistake – retrenchment, down sizing, pay cut, and stagnant pay.

What happen next…..? You start to look for another job. Maybe this time round, your lady luck is shining, you manage to secure…wrong words to use, get a job working in a big blue chip company, maybe better, work as a civil servant with an iron rice bowl. In your minds, you must be saying – I have finally made it in life….. !! Do some souls searching – do you really make it? Your income from salary may or may not to be able to support your daily living expense. Or may be you are one of the million out there still struggling to pay mortgage loan, car loan, credit card, utility and telephone bill…bills that without ending…….!!!!!

Maybe you are very fortunate, able to find a job that the pay check exceeds your current living expense. Maybe you are one of the fortunate few that earn good income working in the top echelon of an organization. But ask yourself this question – Are you happy? Are you out of the everyday’s rat race? Are you out of the merciless office politics? Are you out of getting stuck in the daily morning traffic jams that never seem to subside?

It could be true that you like your job. Excellent….! But are you growing your money? Are you using the power of compounding to accumulate wealth so that when there is a day that you finally decided to quit your job, you have a mountain of wealth supporting you? It is only when you have reached that financial stage that you can proudly say, “I do what I love to do because I want to!!”

Financial freedom does not simply mean free of debt, debt is another expenses. As long as one passive investment income is able to cover all expenses, one is consider as financial free. This large enough “nest egg” passive investment should also be easily be liquidated if there a need. In simplified term, financial freedom is where one does not need to work for money, but let money works for you!!

“How do you achieve it?” It could be achieved by finding, learning and putting time, effort and money into building something (passive investment) that creates income profitably and consistently, long after you have ‘completed the building’. There are many ways to build such money-making machine. It could be investment or trading of stock, forex, future, commodity or whatsoever financial instrument that can generate money. Internet marketing, MLM, business ventures and real estate ownership for rental/capital income are other forms of money-making vehicle.

The biggest obstacle to financial freedom is not everyone has the necessary skills, experience, know-how and money to build it. The key to wealth is to find something that suits one’s ability and build it. The “money generating machine” may be more than one, it could be multiple machines. How big or how many machines you intend to build will greatly depend on one’s desire, capital and risk tolerance level. Everyone is different. The important point is you must be the one in control of those decisions that affect your life!

Your chosen path to financial freedom will also greatly depend on your interest and the amount of money you have. It is true that you need money to generate money, but it is also true that you can create wealth with little money. Many wealthy men and women have proven that if there is a will, there is always a way!!

If you seriously want to achieve financial greatness, you must first eliminate all subconscious blocks you have towards money making. You must finally free your mind to create the wealth that you deserve!!

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