In celebration of 60 years of publishing in South Africa, the June edition of Reader's Digest South Africa features 60 reasons for us to remember why South Africa is unique.

South Africa's 60 Best - South Africa - The Good News
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Also known as "RSS chicklets", RSS buttons help visitors to your blog quickly and easily add your RSS feed to their reader.  I've just added a bunch to my blog using a free rss button tool provided by TopRankBlog.  Highly recommend it!
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So you've watched the secret, you've been visualising but, somehow, you're just not rolling in it yet. How do you actually DO this attraction stuff?

Well, if you're anything like me, you find it difficult to imagine things that just aren't there yet. I'm a born sceptic so it's a little more challenging for me to follow the, "Believing is Seeing" thing but, I know that when I DO manage, it works. So I'm on a mission to find things that make it easier for me to do that.

Enter the 12 Steps to Creating Consciously...

(It's 25 minutes long so go make yourself a cup of tea before sitting down to listen )

 

Listen for free above or download the full thing yourself by signing up for the (free) newsletter at CreatingConsciously.com. Enjoy!<!-- technorati tags begin -->

Tags: thesecret, law of attraction, creating consciously

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Some neat stuff from the master, Joe Satriani. 

Includes:

• A co-ordination / warm-up exercise
• Tidbit on the symmetrical scale and using it in a bluesy context
• Using open-strings to make your stuff a bit more interesting (Pedal-noteish stuff)
  
• Interesting blues techniques
• How Albert King, Hendrix & Buddy Guy influenced JS
• And some cool improv :)
  

I've been using Flock for a little over a month now and it really makes blogging an absolute breeze!  The extra good news is that Ed and the team will be using Flock in this year's 30 Day Challenge.



Now if you're not familiar with the 30DC (for short), it's a 1-month event that basically takes you from zero to $1.  In other words, Ed and his team will, for free, show you how to make $1 online, using nothing that costs any money at all.

And the theory is that if you can do it for $1, you can do it for $100.  If you can do it for $100, you can do it for $1,000, and so on :D

I took part in last year's challenge and learned a LOT.  I'm a bit of an online marketer and I certainly know how to make money but these guys are MILES and MILES ahead of me so if you've got the bandwidth available to watch lots of videos and the time available to do some work each day for the next 30 days, I HIGHLY recommend you get started with The 30 Day Challenge here.<!-- technorati tags begin -->

Tags: 30day challenge, flock, making money online

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A lot of gurus say that you should focus your attention on the 20% of your efforts that bring in 80% of your results.  Essentially, instead of strengthening your weak-points, focus more attention on your strong-points.  Why?  Because it's easier to make R100 out of R30 than it is to make R100 out of R5.

In other words, if you're good at something specific (legato playing) and you focus all your energy on that, you'll soon be GREAT at that specific thing (legato) while others are mediocre at a lot of different things (legato, speed-picking, etc).

How does this apply to wealth-creation?  Simple!  Focus on what brings you in the most money!

My site, freearticles.co.za, brought in $52.67 last month from a single purchase of an affiliate product I'm promoting.  So, today, I'm going to work at getting a LOT of traffic to the specific article that brought that money in. 

I got 100 views on that article last month which means that if I can get 200 views, I should (in theory) make $105.34.  Contrast that with the other articles that only brought in $10 last month and it's clear to see that I'll make more money working on something that ALREADY brings me the most money.

To further simplify:  Doubling R100 may take the same amount of effort as doubling R20 but the former will yield greater profits!

If that makes sense to you, then go ahead and see where you can apply it in YOUR business!<!-- technorati tags begin -->

Tags: pareto, affiliate income,

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We could have a battery-operated car in SA really soon!  Cool!  Weird.  But cool!<!-- technorati tags begin -->

Tags: fossil-fuel, fuel crisis

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I wrote this eBook in December, 2007 - while I was getting my head around the modes of the major scale. I totally "get" the concept but it's in applying the theory that you get the best results so this eBook is a bit of a cheat sheet to help me and others practise the application of modes a bit better.

Check it out here:

http://www.guitarforum.co.za/index.php?topic=149.0
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Tags: guitar, guitar modes, guitar ebook

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"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Too much currency is being "printed" right now. It's not backed by silver or gold anymore and we potentially have a hyper-inflation ahead of us. True for the US and Europe, maybe true for SA too?

"Every 75 years there's a depression. The last depression was in 1930." - Robert Kiyosaki

And if you watched Carte Blanche tonight, you saw how many of us Saffers are losing our homes and how an economic expert predicted that the very rich won't be affected at all -- they know how to invest in equities. The middle-class will certainly suffer and the poor will feel it the worst.

It's already started with our poorer South Africans having a much harder time buying the bare necessities than they did 6-12 months ago.

Robert and his team predicted these things for the US and Europe in early January this year. It's time we wake up, get rid of debt and invest in something solid, something with real, constant value.

Precious metals and real estate don't gain or lose value -- they just get under- or over-valued!
If you can afford to buy small investment properties now, go around to local auctions and try snap some up. You're bound to find SOME deals where you can actually make a tiny profit on the buy and if you follow Robert's teachings, then you know that you make your money when you buy!

If you're like me, and you can't do that, then focus your energies on getting rid of your debt until you CAN do that. Start educating yourself, read the Rich Dad series of books and start being aware of your financial decisions.

Lastly, if you'd like to be put into contact with someone who can help you buy silver and gold, let me know. I have a contact who runs seminars and advises people on how to invest in Gold, specifically.

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Tags: silver, gold, precious metals, rich dad, kiyosaki