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Still More Advice for Ex-offenders looking for Jobs
You have been recently released and need a job to get on with the rest of your life. Hopefully you have learned that life is all about choices. The choices you continue to make will shape your life. The job search is all about choices too. Because you have a criminal record, you will be faced with different challenges than the average job seeker. Your record will make your job search more interesting. There is a choice to be made here too. You can do what many ex-offenders do and hope that a prospective employer will not hold your record against you. Another choice is, you can make yourself legitimately competitive in the open employment market by developing the skills and attitudes that will allow you to compete for a job. Can you tell an employer in five minutes or less what you can do and how your skills can benefit him? How is your dress? Do you look like you are going to a club or to hang out with some friends or do you look like a businessman with a product to sell? Do you have definite plan of action that includes of prospective employers to call on? Do have a resume that outlines you skills, experience or qualifications? If you answered “No” to any one of these questions, you have some work to do. Step One: Identify your skills. I bet if you really look, you have at least 30 skills that would benefit an employer. Step Two: Develop a resume that a prospective employer can look at and get an idea of what type of person you are and what you have to offer. Step Three: Decide what type of work you want to do and how your skills will help you be successful in the field you choose. Step Four: Develop a list of prospective employers to call on. Get help from friends, relatives, and members of your community to help you get leads for open jobs. That is called “Networking.” Step Five: Get your wardrobe together. The clothing you wear both on your job search and interviews should be neat, clean and professional. Your clothes should say “I am the person for this job!” Step Six: Practice you interview skills. Anticipate questions and practice answering until your responses sound confident and natural One additional choice you must make is to never give up! For more great advice for ex-offenders looking for work, visit http://www.JailtoJob.com

Eric Mayo specializes in professional and personal development with special emphasis on life skills and job readiness training. Eric has over 20 years of corporate and educational experience which he uses to help people improve the quality of their lives. Mr. Mayo has a degree in Business Administration from Seton Hall University where he was a standout member of both the Pirate football and wrestling teams. An author and lecturer, Eric is the author of the books, “From Jail to a Job", “The Teenager’s Guide to Getting a Job" , “The Secret to Getting Better Grades", and has addressed, among others, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice of the Harvard School of Law. He is an active member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and has spent his life committed to community empowerment. Eric has been studying, learning, applying and executing the art of personal achievement and leadership throughout his career. It is truly his passion and his gift. He combines a straightforward approach and real-world perspective with a presentation style that is inspirational and motivational. His primary message is, “Independence through Self-Reliance." You can contact Eric at http://www.Jailtojob.com

Readiness �" Creating Emotional Space in Your Life �" Part 2
Is there room in my life for another person? Be honest, do you have the time and energy, right now, for a deep, loving, healthy relationship? If not now, when? If you are not sure, try this: Close your eyes for a minute. Imagine you are sitting in a movie theater facing a large, black screen. As you are sitting in this dark theater, ask yourself to project onto the screen in big red letters the month and year you will be ready. If you got an answer, great. If you didn’t, don’t worry, it just means you aren’t meant to know this today. You may want to ask yourself: what people or projects must I attend to before I will be “ready?” You may find that there are some big, important projects to be completed as you are preparing to manifest your soul mate. Don’t fight the timing. I believe that timing is everything and that means we must become willing to work on God’s timetable. Timing and destiny are inevitably entwined and we must learn trust the Universe. In the book EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert there is a section on destiny that I really like: Destiny is a play between divine grace and willful self effort. Half of it you have no control over, half of it is absolutely in your hands and your actions will show measurable consequence. Man is neither entirely a puppet of the Gods nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny. He is a little of both. We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses. One foot is on the horse called “Faith”, the other on the horse called “Free Will” and the question you have to ask everyday is which horse is which, which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it’s not under my control and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort.” In preparing to manifest your soul mate there is an element of faith and destiny and there is also a big element of willful effort. It’s a combination of the three that will get you the prize.

Arielle Ford is a professional, previously unmarried woman who is revealing her secret to finding romance, love, marriage, and a perfect soulmate. She discovered how to take her professional success and apply it to her personal life, and she has never been happier. Now she wants to share that secret with you. Learn how to find your soulmate at http://www.SoulMateKit.com.

Get Your Act Together or Admit You Just Don't Get It
Get Your Act Together or Admit that you Just Don't Get It by: David Brooke As the clich� goes, you can kill someone with kindness. If you expect kindness from this article, stop reading now. You're a mess. And you're a mess because you can't stop thinking about what a mess you are, when you're thinking at all. Now cut the navel-gazing and self-indulgence crap. People depend on you, and if they don't you're in worse shape than I thought. Life isn't just about you. If you're financially in the hole, if you're killing yourself with prescription drugs, bad food, television and cigarettes or if you can't hold on to a job or relationship, chances are you're not just hurting yourself. You're hurting your family, friends and community, and you're certainly not making the world a better place. Start by doing one good thing on a regular basis. Give blood once a month. Put in an afternoon a week at a soup kitchen. Shovel your elderly neighbor's walk when it snows. Call your Mom. None of these things will change your life. They will change you. Not much, just enough to realize that there is a world outside of you, that when you give to it, it gives back. Immediately. If helping others, doing good, doesn't make you feel good, you don't get it. Again, stop reading now. Your one regular good deed won't get you the career, the girl, the dance moves or the early retirement you want but you'd be surprised at how far it takes you in the right direction. Doing good means feeling good, and feeling good is half the battle. In more direct terms, it helps you meet people and maintain relationships, and it's good for your reputation. As much as we think we don't need others, it's important to see ourselves in their eyes, and to like what we see. Once you're comfortable with your slight change in habits, try another. Then another. Take it slow, and make sure you're settled into one good habit before changing another. Not every good thing has to be an act of charity or benevolence. Once you start to like yourself a little more you'll "get" that doing good for yourself is the same thing as doing good for others. At that point, you'll have initiated the change you originally sought, and you'll be glad you decided to read to the end of this article.

David Brooke, aka �The Brooker� has been a coach, speaker, and motivator for over 25 years, specializing in coaching people to be more productive and overcome tragedies in their lives. To access his �How to be Great in 2008� strategies for getting your life back on track, visit: http://www.thebrooker.com

If You Wish To Come Home And Be Deeply At Rest In The Immensity Of Your Heart by Elysha
Once you get a taste of this immensity of your self, the heart of existence, the divine one of all time, the one that is who "you" already are, the one that is flowing through your very eyes right now, you will naturally and indubitably want to simply stay right where "you" are and never leave or forget this one ever again - that would be natural. You will be so attracted to the being of what this "you" of you actually and truly is. Unfortunately for you though, you will keep on reverting back to that which has been so familiar to you for ever so long. You will keep on being distracted by and running with who you think you are - this is also quite natural for you to do. A wave of the heart enters your life movement of trying to be who you think you are and you are desirous of being the clarity of this heart; this same wave recedes and you are left with the isolated and separated movement of trying to be who you think you are - again and again. This is what you suffer. You do not realize that there is actually something that you can consciously do to instigate this heart of the "you" of you into action. That there is something that you can do from within this stuck and repetitive groove that you find yourself consistently and constantly reverting to - even though many teach that there is nothing to be done about any of it; those that teach this have simply failed to see the greater richness that this "you" of you truly and already is and the play of this "you" as it enters more fully into the mindbody that you find your self flowing through with its purity and fullness. For you to do something, from within this play of where you are being distracted by all of this notyou-ness, will require a strong desire of you to be free - to be home; to be your heart without obstruction; to be the self that this "you" of you is; to awaken to the divinity of this "you" that is you; to be the freedom that is already true of "you". Without a clear desire to be at home and in the heart of existence itself, you will only whistle around in the wind with being distracted by whatever arises and comes along; with whatever takes your fancy in the given moment - a bit like what is currently going on for you already; the waves rolling in and then receding again, each time leaving you wondering where all of this clarity disappeared to. If you wish to come home and be deeply at rest in the immensity of your heart - to be what is already true of this "you" of you - then a very different mode of attention is required to the one that you currently get up to. You will need to find this "you" that already is standing free of all else and come to rest in the "motion of seeing" that is flowing through your eyes. It is here that you are immediately relieved of who you think you are. It is here that you will find your self unattached and unshaken by all the comings and goings of existence; by the play of the dualities of arisings. This "you" of you is alert and lucid, silent and forceful, still and aware, without desire or fear. It is already freely standing from all manifestation and it is flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find your self flowing through. Finding this "you" and stopping at and as this one is the only movement that is going to free you from the current predicament that you are suffering.

If you are interested in learning to no longer be lost in trying to be what is not true of you, try visiting Elysha’s website for more free information and self help products to help you step out of the suffering mind and enter your Heart. http://www.elysha.org/med.html

The Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is the universal law that can help you find your soulmate. It says that you will attract to you those people, events, and experiences that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for the love, companionship, and joy you have in your life right now, you will attract more of that into your life. If you focus on what you don’t have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life. In the movie “Conversations with God” the character Neale says to God: “I just want my life back.” And God says to Neale: “You can’t have anything that you want.” They then have an entire dialogue where God explains to Neale that by ‘wanting something (or someone)’ all you get to have is the experience, the feeling of ‘wanting'. I think there's something to be learned from that. As part of the preparation to manifest your soul mate I suggest that you begin the process of “living as if.” This means that your daily actions become congruent with your beliefs. For instance, I once heard a story about the great actress Della Reese. During the time she was waiting for her soul mate to arrive, she would set a place at the table for him each time she had a meal. Eventually, he arrived. Della sent a clear message to the Universe and the Universe delivered. Many years ago, there was a woman by the name of Gayle that was advised by her astrologer to put her intentions for a soul mate into the world by coloring a mandala. She took a black & white mandala and a rainbow of multi-colored pencils and began declaring her intentions while she colored in a space on the mandala. She asked for things like: finding the perfect spiritual friend and lover to go through life with; a man who is kind to animals; someone who would appreciate her sense of humor; a man who would be accepting and open to her spiritual quest. For each intention she used a different color until the entire mandala became a multi-hued Technicolor testimony to the qualities she desired in her future partner. Within weeks of doing this she met her soul mate and they have now been married for more than 20 years!

Arielle Ford is a professional, previously unmarried woman who is revealing her secret to finding romance, love, marriage, and a perfect soumate. She discovered how to take her professional success and apply it to her personal life, and she has never been happier. Now she wants to share that secret with you. Learn how to find your soulmate at http://www.SoulMateKit.com.