Wayne Huizenga

(born on December 29, 1937) is an American businessman who has built several companies into multi-billion dollar enterprises, mostly through an aggressive process of acquisitions. Huizenga graduated from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1955 and is an alumnus of Calvin College located in Grand Rapids, MI.
Wayne Huizenga is of Dutch descent. His parents, Gerrit Harry and Jean Huizenga, were both products of the Chicago Dutch community. Wayne was born in Evergreen Park, a Chicago suburb, on December 29, 1937. He has one sister, Jean, who is five years younger.

Wayne grew up in Evergreen Park until he was about 15 when the Huizenga family moved to Florida and settled in the Fort Lauderdale area.Wayne spent part of his high school years in the Chicago area, and when the family moved to Florida, the remainder of his high school years were spent at Pine Crest School. Wayne is remembered by his Pine Crest teachers and classmates as a happy and popular student who played on the school's football team, was elected to senior class treasurer, and earned decent grades.

After high school graduation Wayne moved back to Chicago where most of his friends, grandparents and other relatives still lived. In 1976 he enrolled at Calvin College, a church-related college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.In September 1959, Wayne enlisted in the Army reserve and spent six months in the service full time to complete his basic training.[citation needed] On September 10, 1960 he married Joyce VanderWagon, a girl with a Dutch background. He had known Joyce since his early school years in Evergreen Park, Illinois. Wayne and Joyce had two children, Wayne Jr. and Scott. The marriage ended in divorce in 1966. Wayne married his second wife, Marti Goldsby in April 1972.

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Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is a successful Wall Street stock investor whose record ranks him as one of the best stock-pickers in the world. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments and his likeness remains the primary marketing tool of the company.
FidelityPeter Lynch was hired as an intern with Fidelity Investments in 1966 partly because he had been caddying for Fidelity's president (among others) at Brae Burn Country Club in Newton, Massachusetts. He initially covered the paper, chemical, and publishing industries, and when he returned after a two year Army stint Lynch was hired permanently in 1969.

This time Lynch was charged with following the textiles, metals, mining, and chemicals industries, eventually becoming Fidelity's director of research from 1974-1977. In 1977, Lynch was named head of the obscure Magellan Fund which had $18 million in assets. Though the fund was closed to new investment until 1981, by the time Lynch resigned as a fund manager in 1990, $10,000 invested in Magellan would have grown to $280,000 over a 13 year period and the fund grew to more than $14 billion in assets with more than 1,000 individual stock positions. Lynch's achieved dollar successes in a range of stocks including (by order of profit achieved - source is Beating the Street): Fannie Mae, Ford, Philip Morris, MCI, Volvo, General Electric, General Public Utilities, Student Loan Marketing, Kemper, and Loews.

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Subliminal Message Power By Maya JakesCopyright © 2005

Jugglingmum Subliminal refers to something that exists below the consciousness (subconscious). To make permanent and positive changes you need to reach the subconscious part of your mind and Subliminal CDs have been designed for many things, including:- to enhance performance, enhance mental attitudes, to reduce stress levels, to motivate people, for studying, to lose weight, to stop smoking, etc. Subliminal CDs really do assist in releasing the amazing powers of the human mind.

How do they work? Subliminal CDs contain positive affirmations to help the listener achieve a particular goal and the brain, at the subconscious level, receives these affirmations and accelerates the process of achieving our goals. Subliminal CDs accelerate the process because they bypass the logical mind which is where our beliefs and limitations about our self operate. When Subliminal CDs are played worries stored in the subconscious mind are replaced by thousands of powerful positive affirmations but they will not work against a person's will. If the listener has no real desire for the changes then no amount of listening to Subliminal CDs will work as subliminal learning is really just a reinforcement to strengthen your will. Having said that, you should be aware that the programming of an entire lifetime is not going to be changed in a few days or even in a few weeks. Re-programming of the mind takes time and usually results will start to be felt within a couple of weeks but the listener should allow at least 28 days. Subliminal learning is a proven tool and has been recommended by leading psychologists, physicians and professionals worldwide. However, the initial stages of Subliminal learning can irritate some people as it conflicts with their already established beliefs.

lso, a Subliminal learning program will be more effective when you are in a positive frame of mind rather than when you are feeling down. The Subliminal learning messages are received and understood only by the subconscious mind, which learns and uses them to help guide the thoughts and actions of your conscious mind. Subliminal learning can be enhanced through many methods such as Subliminal CDs and it is possible to buy software to create your own Subliminal CDs from your computer. If this is something that interests you please use the link in the resource box for obtaining further information. This is the software which I personally use with amazing results every time. Why do I recommend creating your own Subliminal CDs? For a start, I don't really trust third-party CDs from bookstores and New Age shops? They could contain any number of dubious messages, such as "I will buy the entire series of XYZ tapes"! I also believe that no mass-produced CD can really address my own personal needs and desires so by simply creating my own Subliminal CDs I can choose exactly which messages to use and they'll probably work 1000 times better than any general CD.

Besides, why purchase general Subliminal CDs when any person with a computer, speakers, microphone and online Internet connection can create their own? Are you aware that all of us are receiving Subliminal messages every day? Most high budget advertising campaigns are filled with subliminal messages and most advertising companies and agencies have at least one person in charge of how to incorporate Subliminal messages to increase the influence of their advertisements. At least now we can now balance the stream of incoming messages by making our own Subliminal messages! Mind Power and Subliminal Messaging is a fascinating subject and one that I will continue to research. About the Author:Jugglingmum finds the subject of Subliminal Messaging, Mind Power, Universal and Metaphysical Laws fascinating and is constantly researching this area. She often posts articles and information at http://www.mindpowersucces.blogspot.com and has added a link for obtaining the Subliminal CD software that she personally uses. Article Source: ArticleWorld.net

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5 Tips For Better Management Of Home Business by: Arun Pal Singh
Home business on the net offers an opportunity to earn a lot of money. But like any other business it demands a constant input.
A better execution of efforts would bring better results.
Inculcating a professional approach and attitude would take you to the success at a real pace.
1. Be your real boss:
Being your own boss is very lucrative but the responsibility of making it success is also with you.
The very boss in your regular job (who is hated more than often) does a lot of work for you. Be it disciplining or producing the necessary motivation for the required results.
This is your business now. You are your own boss. Nobody else will share the responsibility (for that matter credit of success will also be yours only). So be a boss really.
Don’t fall into leisure trap otherwise time will fly and you will find yourself without any progress.
When you are in business, business is the top priority. You are at home for work and not for relaxation.
It is not just home anymore. It is your office too.
2. Grasp your business, Stay put:
Be clear in what you are doing and why are you doing. Grasp the concepts of tools you need to use.
Understand where you are in your business.
Growth of a business is exponential. That implies that in early part the curve is almost flat before it rises steeply. Don’t let that flat part discourage you.
Keep working, the bang will be there.
Stay put. Success will come.
3. Organize your business:
Set your goals. Accomplish your daily list of work. A small step everyday would take you to the destination.
Contrary to the perception home business requires efforts. And more so in the early phase.
Yes, the success is sooner on the net but it is not instant.
Schedule your work. Better if you can make a time table. It helps to maintain discipline.
Find you peak efficiency hours. It could be early morning or late night. Devote with full concentration.
4. Keep yourself motivated:
Encourage yourself regularly (remember your boss who used to do this!).
Read motivational books. Get inspired. Think positively. Keep the fire inside you burning.
It is a good idea to learn the success stories of people who have made it. A good source is IAHBE . It offers you numerous success stories of people who started like us. One gets a great inspirational boost.
5. Maintain a good health:
Last but not the least keep a good mind and body.
As you work from home you don’t have privilege of interaction with your colleagues as in regular job.It gets boring sometimes.
Join a health club. Shape yourself up. It will increase you efficiency too. Take breaks frequently. Enjoy your hobbies.Entertain yourself.
Finally, this is your baby. You can groom it in any way you want.
Some time later you can be a proud father.
That will be the time when you will look back, smile and pronounce ‘I did it’.
Till then keep working.Wish you success.

Copyright 2004 Arun Pal Singh
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Arun Pal Singh runs a successful business from home at http://www.homeforprofits.com.

Feng Shui Office

by: Paul Nicholls Feng shui (pronounced "fung schway") evolved from the observation that people are profoundly affected-for better or worse-by their surroundings. Feng shui (literally, "wind and water") is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the surrounding environment. That’s not exactly Black Magic, is it? Feng shui is neither superstition, philosophy, religion, nor New Age. It's practical and has been working effectively for about three thousand years. But don't take my word for it. Companies like AT&T, British Airways, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Logitech, Midland Bank, The Wall Street Journal, and Donald Trump have all applied feng shui to their businesses. When practiced correctly, feng shui is well known to improve wealth, business opportunities, health, relationships, career, and more. It can certainly improve your home office. While the underlying theory is a bit complex, feng shui is basically straightforward and simple. A gigantic share of most webmasters' woes can be attributed directly to plain old clutter.

Feng shui is the antidote to clutter plus a lot of other things that may be hindering your productivity (or impeding the auspicious flow of your chi-whichever way you want to look at it...). Maybe your workspace is already ergonomically pretty good and a fairly efficient and pleasant place to work-but better would be to optimize it for maximum productivity. Everyone has gone into a building or office where he or she automatically felt comfortable and relaxed-or the opposite. Those impressions and underlying feelings are real, not imagination. There is an explanation for them in the principles of feng shui. According to Suzy Spivey [2004] "you may improve your productivity and career prospects as well as enhance your success, creativity, and wealth. Specifically, you can use Feng Shui to determine where to set up your home office, the best placement of your desk, the use of color in your office, and incorporate 'cures' into your office to change the flow of blocked energy." The basic application to your home office is how you arrange it and where you sit to work. The following from Spivey and also Wong [2004] are recommended practices here (minus the theory or reasons why) but the tips remain sound and still work! · Create as many different ways to enter the front door as possible. · Paint or treat your porch and front door in colors that express success for you. · Put a bowl of water on the front porch. This draws or magnetizes people to your office. · Every morning prepare a chair for your client(s) to sit in. If you do this, they will come! · Have something to give your clients to take with them (promotional giveaways). · Sit in the corner farthest from the entrance; have a "command" position. · Business will symbolically come to you through the door, so don't turn your back on it. · Don't sit in line with the door, as you will be in the path of negative energy. · Don't sit looking straight out into a corridor, stairs, closets, storage, or toilets.

· Keep your back toward a corner or a wall (like a mountain) for support. · Sit with a tall building or mountain behind you if your back is to a window. · Place an aquarium or tabletop fountain in the East, North, or Southeast. · Don't have any mirrors in your office, as they can reflect negative energy. · Treat your files with respect-they represent your past, present, and future business. · Keep equipment cords well hidden, eliminating clutter and allowing for the free flow of chi. · Keep the area around your phone clean and well organized. Clean your phone regularly. Apart from general office arrangement, your desk and sitting arrangement are the next important things to consider: · Place your desk diagonally across from the doorway for a clear line of vision. · Position the desk with your back to a wall or corner for a sense of security. · Don't put the desk directly in line with the door, either facing it or with it to your side. · Don't put the desk flat up against a window so that you face directly out. · Don't put the desk so that your back is against a full wall of windows. · Position your desk facing into the room rather than facing a wall. · Don't place your desk in the center of the room-you will lose power and authority. · Do not have clutter in the office-it's important to keep desks tidy and clutter free. Feng shui also has a lot to say about colors.

Different colors can make a dramatic difference in your office, affecting the impression it gives and your own state of mind. For example, yellow stimulates clarity of thought, creativity, and mental activity - an excellent color for a home office. Yellow also promotes discipline, which anyone in a home office needs, while blue-green can be soothing, yet creative-a good choice for writers. The classic auspicious colors in feng shui are red and purple-excellent choices for the front porch and/or door. Aim for a good balance of light and dark colors, soft and hard surfaces, and smooth and rough textures in your choice of window treatments, furniture, and flooring. This has been a very superficial introduction to a very big topic but it should give you the basic idea of how feng shui can benefit your business. You can learn much more in the articles below and from the following Web sites: · Center for Applied Feng Shui Research (www.geomancy.net).

The oldest and largest traditional feng shui site with numerous resources including a free tutorial. · Feng Shui Times (www.fengshuitimes.com). A very extensive site with a wide range of resources, including beginner, intermediate, and advanced tutorials. · Rising Dragon Feng Shui (www.rising-dragon.co.uk). Offers many informative articles as well as a free Feng Shui Essentials online tutorial. · World of Feng Shui (www.wofs.com). The first online feng shui magazine, it has since grown into an extensive feng shui resource with a huge archive of content.

About The Author Dr Paul Nicholls is a regular fixture at eBizTutors.com where you can find many more ebiz resources for the new or seasoned online entrepreneur: blogs, tutorials, programs and support. Also an intermittent eye on Asian e-commerce, especially in Paul’s Zanshin blog. Visit us at http://www.eBizTutors.com.

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