This post is about the benefits of thinking positively and looking for the positive aspects of any and all situations. What you concentrate on you get more of. If you can stop your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones then it will soon make an enormous difference to how you view life and how life treats you.

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This post is about survivors of domestic violence and how their optimistic view of the world both helps to keep them in abusive situations and helps to sustain them when they leave. Many women remain with an abusive partner because they hope that things will get better. Eventually something catapaults them out of the relationsh

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If you want to improve yourself and your life then one of the first things you need to be able to do is to manage yourself and your use of time.

This post is about getting organized, not by managing time so much as managing yourself. Using a Moleskin notebook to keep track of your writing projects is a good way of keeping yo

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If you want to write a winning research paper or a great research proposal then you should read this post. It gives information on wriitng a proposal for a research project. This post will be useful for students and for anyone whose job might involve an element of research. The post begins with the research question and then ta

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If you have to undertake a project that involves focus groups and you're not quite sure how to go about it then this white paper is for you. Learn about the ethical handling of focus group members and the requirement to compensate them for taking part.

Find out what a focus group is, what it is used for and how it is

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This is a guest post at http://piggybankpie.com which charts the progress from blogging to freelance writing. The big question for many beginning writers is how on earth they are going to get the necessary writing done in time on their first freelancing gig.

If you write for a living or even if you just blog for pleasu

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Setting up a site on wordpress should be easy - or so they tell me. Getting a website up and running is not really for dummies like me. Although my site is now live it still needs a fair bit of work on it - and as for plugins well what the heck are plugins? They have me foxed every time, makes life fun though.

For those of y

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When you write an article you have to think like a salesperson because you need something that is going to draw your reader in and get them to continue reading. Try to answer a question for them or give them something you think they want. Then you can give them the meat of your article. Just as important is how you finish and article. Don't

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Disraeli was right you know, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Unless you can be sure where people get their numbers from then don't believe what you are told. Researchers sample populations i.e. 70 people from Texas over the age of 50 is a hypothetical population. Read research reports to find out where the figures come from befo

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This white paper attempts to provide a simple method for putting an evaluation project out for tender. It is intended for those people who have no previous experience of putting such a brief together.

I had a meeting with some clients yesterday who need to have their project evaluated (not the one in the article that is fictitious)- someti

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Are you a freelancer who drinks more than she writes? Then you need to take yourself in hand and leave the coffee in the pot. This post takes the lid of how much coffee a freelance writer might drink in any given day and how that might affect the amount of writing they do. When you spend too much time drinking coffee and not enough time writi

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Do you often find yourself trying to beat the clock. Do you run out of time or leave things unfinished? I know that I have spent too much time this last month trying to beat the clock. Time management doesn't always work, what you and I really need is self-management. We need to leave the poor old clock alone. If we can manage

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Doesn't it just set your wig on fire when you see some of the rates that people are offering to have their content written. $2 for a search engine optimized five hundred word article? Sure thing let me murder some language and grossly insult anyone's idea of grammar and I'll have it to you within the hour. Writers, the customer is not alwa

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Need funding to boost your career or to access grant money to establish yourself in a given field? Then this article is for you, Grant Writing and Proposal writing is clearly written guide to help those people who are applying for funds. Take a look at this post and I guarantee it will boost your understanding of this sometimes complex subjec

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