It’s so easy to succumb to negative thinking, especially when things all around you seem to be falling apart, or you’re surrounded by negative people.

I read somewhere that most people have negative thoughts 75% of the time. That’s a scary thought. No wonder there is so much stress and illnesses among people today!

For the last year or so I have been taking baby steps to improve my life in a positive way. There are sites I visit every morning when I turn on the computer. I look for sites that have some positive message for me so that I can continue my day feeling upbeat and calm as I deal with all the things that I have to do.

I have been reading about the power of positive affirmations and how repeating them over and over with an emotional attachment to them can change your life. It seems your thoughts create the life you have. So of course, I decided to pay attention to all the things I think about during any given day. I am shocked to discover how easily it is to let thoughts in that don’t help me but make me feel sad, guilty or insecure. When that happens, now I write little positive sticky notes and paste them around my desk so that I can focus on them instead of the little nagging negative thoughts that pop up.

Last night I wrote one that I’m going to focus on this weekend:
I give myself permission to be happy, healthy and prosperous.

I’d love to hear from you about this subject. Let me know how you overcome negativity and stress and what works for you.

Here’s a graphic I created in Bryce today to give me a peaceful feeling. I hope you like it.

Take care and have a great day!

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One of the most important things a webmaster must do when launching a website is to figure out who their niche market is. A web designer is no exception. After years of struggling to accommodate everyone and anyone, I’ve realized that it’s virtually impossible to please all my visitors. I still will take on almost any project that is within my scope of ability, though lately I’ve focused on creating more and more designs geared to women.

Most of my clients are women who are small business or home business owners, artists, and musicians and it just hit me that this suits me just fine. This week alone I’ve received several emails from women launching websites and are using my Open Source template called Translucent Fluidity. This template is a very simple style thats super easy to customize and make your own, just like Shannon Carver of SavageHumor.com did. Shannon is an incredible 3D artist and she wrote me this week. I love what she did with her site.

Click here to download Translucent Fluidity.

Over the next little while I’m going to create more open source templates geared to women and all of them will have the added feature of being themed for WordPress. Stay tuned.

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Big Brother is not only watching you – now he’s barking orders too. Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.

The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts – from dropping litter to late-night brawls – to send out a verbal warning: ‘We are watching you’. Read full story…

My comments: I’m shocked that the British people, the same people who staged a tax revolt and succeeded in changing the tax system in Britain are actually putting up with this intrusive, Orwellian system of stopping crime. Since 9/11, people are living in fear and allowing our governments to slowly strip away all our individual freedoms. Fearful people can be controlled, and that is what is happening. Collectivism at it’s worst. And the majority of people think this is a good thing? That can’t be true.

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Big Brother is not only watching you – now he’s barking orders too. Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.

The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts – from dropping litter to late-night brawls – to send out a verbal warning: ‘We are watching you’. Read full story…

My comments: I’m shocked that the British people, the same people who staged a tax revolt and succeeded in changing the tax system in Britain are actually putting up with this intrusive, Orwellian system of stopping crime. Since 9/11, people are living in fear and allowing our governments to slowly strip away all our individual freedoms. Fearful people can be controlled, and that is what is happening. Collectivism at it’s worst. And the majority of people think this is a good thing? That can’t be true.

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Canada rocks!

Lukas Rossi is the latest Canadian Rock Star.

The 29-year-old from Toronto was chosen Wednesday to front the band Supernova, ending the TV talent search on Rock Star: Supernova.

Rossi beat out Dilana Robichaux, a transplanted South African now living in Houston. (she was my favorite!)

He follows in the footsteps of fellow Canadian J.D. Fortune, who won last year’s show and now sings with Australia’s INXS. Fortune and his band are currently touring Down Under.

see full story here!

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