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Are you satisfied with all aspects of your life right now? Are you happy with your career or business, finances, relationships, health, personal fulfillment and spiritual life? Or do you feel that you haven't fulfilled your biggest dreams and fondest desires yet? Allison Maslan's book Blast Off! is the answer to guide you with step-by-step strategies in achieving your ultimate life visions.

Allison Maslan is a life and career coach who has been the catalyst to help thousands of individuals reach their potential and attain a fulfilling personal and love life, inspiring career and healthy way of living that they never thought possible. Allison reveals her failures, successes, and the obstacles she overcame throughout her life with determination, passion, and purpose, and how she became the "supersonic" woman she is today. Allison has done—and continues to do—everything she advocates in her new book -- Blast Off!.

Blast Off! is a powerful book that will inspire you to envision your biggest dreams and fondest desires—your Big Picture Visions—and wholeheartedly go after them. Blast Off! provides the guidance and structure you need to stay on course and rapidly reach your intermediate goals. Blast Off! will give you the encouragement and skills necessary to assist you in designing the necessary changes while eliminating any roadblocks or obstructions.

The highly acclaimed book is available on Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble websites. It was launced last January 19th, 2010 and will soon be available in all other major bookstores. The price of the book is only $24.00, and even less if you buy on the Amazon website.

What are you waiting for, grab a copy right now and start creating a life of passion and meaning while fulfilling your deepest dreams and goals.

friend unashamedly asking for money? what should i do?

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When I was in grade school, I attended a public school in a small town in Albay, Philippines. I moved on to a private school in the city during my high school years. I took up Applied Mathematics in the most prestigious school in the country, the University of the Philippines (sorry La Sallites and Ateneans, UP is the best :) ) in my college days.

I still see my grade school friends when I go home in the province once in a while. I seldom do that though because RJ has sports activities during summer break. When I went home August of 2009 for my Lola's (grandmother) wake, a friend visited me. Let's call her JJ. She went to my house with her fourth child and with a big belly.

JJ: "My eldest, you're inaanak (godchild) is Grade 6 already."

Me: "My inaanak?" *confused* I visited you when you gave birth, but you didn't tell me I am the godmother. Of course I didn't say that, I didn't want to embarrass her.

JJ: "Everytime P comes home, he always give gifts and money to us. You know, we're very poor. Last christmas, when R was here, she also has pasalubong and gave me some money." P and R were our grade school friends.

Me: "So, how are you and your husband? How many kids do you have?"

JJ: "I am going to give birth to my fifth child soon. But we don't have money, I can't even afford to give birth in the health center. We don't even have rice for lunch today. My husband helps clean tombstones at the cemetery near our place."

Me: "Does RC live near your house? How is she?" RC is another grade school classmate. I wanted to change the subject because I don't want to be more depressed (we just had Lola's funeral day before).

JJ: "She works in the Middle East. She has a big house already."

Me: "Why don't you let your husband apply in an overseas job also?"

JJ: "We'd rather be together with our children."

Me saying to self: You'd rather see your kids go hungry that be separated from your husband for a few years.

We talked for an hour, she talking more about her poor, sorry life. I gave her rice and cakes for her kids. I also gave her some money but not without telling her, "Use that money to give birth in the health center/hospital. Stop getting pregnant also".

Fast forward to today. I received a text, "Manay this is JJ. How are you? I got your cellular phone number from R".

"Hi JJ, how are you?"

"I'm fine. I have a new baby.Your godchild is going to graduate from grade school this March. I want to ask for your help. I also asked help from R and she gave me your number. As you know, my family is poor."

Saying to self: If my godchild's tuition fee is only a thousand or two, I can help her if she really wants to continue high school. If and only if her grades in grade school are not failing and she won't quit until she finish schooling.

"How is my godchild? Is she going to continue high school? Does she have good grades?"

I got a reply from her asking for a cellular phone load.

Uh-oh, I got scared. Honestly! I am not kidding. I am not filthy rich to support a family of 7! She is not even ashamed to ask for money. Her husband is a big guy, not tall but big, he has the body to do hard labor to support his family.

Should I give her money again? My sister said that she might get used to asking money from me. What should I do?

what is your dream job?

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I want to someday set up an online tutorial for students who are having problems in math. I have mentioned a lot of times already that I am an Applied Mathematics graduate. I have been tutoring students who are having difficulty in math for a few years now. I am proud to say that I have helped students conquer their fear of math by tutoring math in a fun way. I wish to be able to reach out to students around the globe someday.

But before I can do that, I have to develop some other skills aside from being good in math. Through Elearning from Learn.com, I can obtain this dream job, this dream business. Learn.com is the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity. Recently, it became the first company in history to provide a single, integrated platform for those seeking skill improvement for a particular job profile and those seeking to hire skilled, "job ready" workers.

The platform is ideal for people, like me, wishing to increase knowledge and skills on any subject, or to share their knowledge and domain expertise with the world. It truly is the world's first and only on-demand knowledge network. I don't have to enroll in business school to learn about managing a business, setting it up or manage my workers. In just a few clicks of a button, I can just read about it online.

What about you? What is your dream job? If you already have it, I am sure you can still find ways to improve yourself through the help of Learn.com.

iPad?

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What is an iPad? The iPad, is larger in size but similar in design to Apple's popular iPhone. CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday said "so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone."

The iPad has a 9.7-inch touch screen, is a half-inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds and comes with 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes of flash memory storage. It comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity built in. Jobs said the device has a battery that lasts 10 hours and can sit for a month on standby without needing a charge.


The basic iPad models will cost $499, $599 and $699, depending on the storage size, when it comes out worldwide in March.

source: yahoo news