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Why Some Women Will Never Be High Achievers by Jacqueline Miller

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There are people around us who are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Having to make daily decisions about whether to pay the utility bill or buy medical supplies; whether to save their last few dollars for gas for their "hoopty" or a meal for their family. When I hear someone like that use the term,"I can't afford it," I accept it. However, there are many more women who regularly sing the "I can't afford it." song. It typically involves purchases that would benefit them long term: the expeditures that fall within the self-enrichment or personal development areas. Women often find funds for material things, because to some of us these possessions represent affluence. Too often we get caught up on external appearances, while our inner self is crying for help. " The largest room in the world is the room for improvement ." We find money for everything and everybody else, however, identifying financial resources to invest in ourselves can be a ch

How Can I Be An Inventor? By Corvet Williams

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How can you be an inventor? Easy! Start thinking. Start logging all those subconscious thoughts you had about an idea to the forefront. How many times have you said, ‘If only this could do this or that?’ Or how many times have you thought ‘I wish this had a feature like this?’ That’s all inventing is. It’s really that simple. And how many times have you seen a new product and thought, ‘Why didn’t I think of that? Or ‘Oh my goodness, I had that same idea!’ “Invention is the mother of necessity”-Thorstein Veblen. I recommend you keep a pad just for ideas handy. Write them down as you think about them and write the date (this can come in handy later). Then you can research if it exists or not. What may surprise you, is that only about 2% of inventions make money. Which means most patented inventions are just that, an invention. There can be a number of reasons why inventions never see the light of day. It could be the inventor gave up on it, maybe they couldn’t find sourcing, maybe it