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Decorating a baby nursery can be one of the most enjoyable tasks that you have before your bundle of joy arrives. There are many baby nursery themes to choose from and narrowing it down to just one may be your most difficult decision.Many parents know the sex of the baby in time to tailor a nursery to a baby girl or baby boy theme. If you don’t know the sex of your baby there are many color combos that are gender neutral such as periwinkle and celery green. Or perhaps you would like a neutral theme with beiges and creams. You could choose and all white room with just splashes of color used in the accessories that can be changed to suit your child as it grows. Once you pick your theme and begin the task of decorating your nursery don’t forget about these essentials;• Cribs – Your baby will use the crib for 2 or 3 years but, if you would like to use it for longer, then pick one of the many convertible cribs on the market. These beds go from a crib, to a toddler bed, to a young child’s bed, with just a few quick changes. Of course, always buy a crib that is certified as safe. Most cribs on the market today will have that certification.• Changing tables – choose a changing table that matches your d?cor but as with cribs safety is important. The table you choose should have safety straps and rails to keep your baby from falling off the table. And of course the changing table should have a nice cushy pad to keep your baby comfortable while changing diapers.• Storage – determine how much storage you will need. Then pick baby furniture such as armoires, dressers, blanket chests and toy boxes that will blend in with your d?cor.• Seating – Of course don’t forget Mom (or Dad) and pick a comfortable chair or glider rocker which will be great for those late night feedings or when singing a lullaby to baby.After the theme is picked and the essentials for the room are decided upon you can begin to choose the accessories such as rugs, window treatments, wall d?cor, wallpaper and paint. Just remember when decorating your baby nursery keep it fun! This is your chance to do things you wouldn’t do in the rest of your house. Start with the essentials and then go for it!

If you”re active in real estate investing, you may already realize one of the biggest issues real estate investors face: Finding Great Deals. Foreclosures at a 52-year HighWith foreclosures at a 52-year high, there are thousands of deals available on the market, if you know where to find them and how to secure them. The first challenge you”ll face once you locate the property is that most of these homeowners are mortgaged to the hilt. They have no equity, and big loan payments. In fact, many actually owe more than the property is worth!Most investors will walk away from these deals because they see no obvious profit. That”s because they don”t know about the Short Sale.WHAT IS A SHORT SALE?The concept behind the short sale is simple: your goal as a real estate investor is to convince the bank to sell for less that is owed as payment in full. Of course, this concept is easy – buy the foreclosure from the bank at a big discount, sell the real estate, and make money! So how does it work?Success with short sales can be accomplished in the following steps: Step 1: Do your research. Many new real estate investors make the mistake of waiting until some subscription service sends you the list. The disadvantage is that a ton of other investors are also getting the list. If your first contact is to send a letter, forget it. Your letter will be lost in the huge pile the homeowner is getting from all sorts of other investors, credit repair etc. 99% of the time these go directly into the trash or a big basket unread. If you go directly to their door you”ve got a chance.So if you”re going to mail, be the first to act when the default notices are printed in the local newspaper. Or be the first at your courthouse, if that”s where they”re filed first. The key to finding investment-worthy properties is to act quickly. Be disciplined and mail out the letters the very same day-in fact take them to the post office. In this business, the early bird really does catch the worm.Tip for Success: If you don”t have a company that publishes your notices of default, check with local title companies or bankruptcy attorneys to see if they offer these services; you need somebody familiar with the subject that visits the courthouse often. Step 2: Develop your marketing strategy. When you have located foreclosures, make sure your timing is swift. Mail your initial letters of approach to the homeowner the same day you discover the property. Placing ads in your local papers also helps to generate leads and find homeowners eager to avoid the credit penalties involved with foreclosing. Tip for Success: A typical advertisement strategy taught in real estate training is to get listed in real estate or credit section of the classifieds. These ads typically have a bold, to the point headline, such as “Avoid Foreclosure” or “Stop Foreclosure, Today!” If you are…

William TanSimple Steps to Financial Freedom and Wealth BuildingSTEP 2: Achieve Financial Freedom – Choosing Your Escape VehicleDo you want to achieve financial freedom? For most people, this is constantly on their mind. If you are reading CashFlow Avenue’s 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom and Wealth Building, chances you are looking for ways to get out of the rat race and to achieve financial freedom. Unfortunately, it isn”t always as easy as it sounds.With your Financial Goals firmly defined in Step 1, you would now have to choose your “escape” investment vehicle. There are plenty of investment vehicles in the world. Let’s name a few most common form of investment – fixed deposits, gold, bonds, real estate, stocks, stock options, mutual funds, starting a business on your own, etc.From experience, you might probably be able to tell that every one of the above contains risk, except for fixed deposits. Profit, simply defined, is your reward for placing taking risk on your assets.On surface, fixed deposits, look the safest form of investment but are probably the most risky because inflation rates are consistently higher that what the bank would pay you – slowly eating away your purchasing power in years to come. So, in truth, while your bank account is growing in numbers, you are actually becoming poorer. If there is no inflation (which will never happen in the long run fixed deposits are still not the best escape vehicle because it takes just too long to appreciate. Who would want to wait 30 years before they can be rich?Without getting involved into too much detail, let’s jump straight into action. When choosing an escape vehicle, you probably would want to set a few criterions to screen out what will and will not work for you. The ideal escape vehicle or business should provide:Liquidity – allows you to cash out within a few days.Leverage on Your Capital – using only your capital can be slow. Select a vehicle that provides leverage that magnifies only returns but not losses.Fast Results – should see return on investment within the 1 st month.Easy to Set Up – should take no longer than 1 month to start.Predictable Monthly Return on Investment (ROI) – be able to forecast accurately your monthlyLow Risk – consistent and provides a high percentage for successProfit with Time – with each tick of the clock, you should be making money.Utilizes The Power of Compound Interest – snowball your returns to accelerate your wealth building process.After running these criterions over the choices of investment available, most vehicles don’t make the cut. Of all, only 2 investment vehicles would make the cut. Stay tuned for Step 3 for the Best Escape Vehicle.

Jon RicercaThis is another one of the controversial questions in many of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) forums, yet it is very easy to answer for any particular search engine. While popular belief seems to be that pages should be very short (less than 10K) to rank well with the leading search engine, this article conclusively answers that question… with a completely different answer.The methodology is really quite simple for this question. I gathered the results of the queries naturally performed last month by myself and three associates using Yahoo and Google. I then visited each page and wrote down the size of the body section of the page. Those sizes were then tabulated for the top 20 rankings and converted into a normalized “ranking correlation”. The resulting number shows each group of body section sizes normalizing into a number between –100 and +100 showing the likelihood of being ranked higher/lower. A value of +100 shows that all 10 rankings were in the proper order to show that pages of the studied size ALWAYS rank HIGHER than pages of another size. A value of –100 shows that all 10 rankings were in the proper order to show that pages of the studied size ALWAYS rank LOWER than pages of another size. Numbers in between show the varying likelihood of rankings proportionally between –100 and +100.That is the number you see on the Y-axis. On the X-axis, we have groups of page sizes varying from 0 to >100K bytes. Here are the graphs for Yahoo and Google:http://www.searchenginegeek.com/graphs/dey02.gifhttp://www.searchenginegeek.com/graphs/deg02.gif(Note to Webmasters: Feel free to hot link to the above graphs or even copy them to your own site. Also feel free to delete this note.)There is an obvious correlation on Google, which shows that body sections of a size between 50K and 60K generally rank much higher than shorter or longer bodies. The Yahoo graph is a bit more erratic, but also shows a nice peak at 60-70K (and another one at 20-30K). This goes against the popular belief that states that shorter pages rank highest. The popular belief is shown to be completely inaccurate with this study.Notes:1. For the purposes of this test, the actual body section size in bytes was used. The page was saved to disk and then everything before the body tag and after the end body tag were deleted. The resulting size of the file as reported by the operating system was used. Graphics and any other external references were completely ignored. 2. Over 1,000 queries and over 10,000 sites were examined for this study.3. There was no exercise to attempt to isolate different keywords. I merely took a random sampling of the queries performed by myself and three associated during the prior month.Conclusion:Pages with a body section size between 50K and 70K rank best on the two leading search engines!This is merely a correlation study, so it cannot be determined from this study whether the leading search engine purposefully entertains this factor or not. The actual factors…

If you are the typical enthusiastic golfer who thinks about the game all the time, even when you are in the office, then this golf instruction tip for exercises in your office will be of great help.But first it is important to appreciate the value of stretching exercises, which is what the golf instruction tip in this article is all about.The golf swing is resisted by the human body because it is a very unnatural movement, as far as the human body is concerned.Golf-specific stretching exercises help a great deal in conditioning your body to adapt to the golf swing as much as possible. The idea is to make the body comfortable during the golf swing so that you greatly reduce on its’ awkwardness. In simple terms the more comfortable your body is during a golf swing, the better the quality of your golf swing will be.This golf instruction tip is also for all those terribly busy business executives who have great problems creating the time to play their golf, let alone having some extra time to spare for exercises at a gym.Just 15 seconds at a time is adequate to execute this golf instruction tip that is bound to greatly improve your game.Actually there are numerous types of stretches you can do in the office.For example the seated twist has had an amazing record in reducing and at times even eliminating back pain. It has also quickly improved many golfers’s back swing and follow through range of motions. The result has mostly been a much higher club head speed and greater distance.To do this golf instruction tip on exercising, you need to start off seated upright in your office chair, with chest high and back straight. You can then reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body. While staying erect, twist as far back as you can go and then hold for about 10 seconds.You can then twist the other way and repeat. Go both sides 2-3 times, remembering to hold for 10 seconds, each time. This golf instruction tip will reap many rewards on the course.About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf fitness experts in the country, author of the Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Check out his new target=”_new” href=”http://www.performbettergolf.com/” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>golf fitness golf training site at Perform Better Golf.

Your reputation as a buyer (or ‘feedback rating’) is the most important thing people see when they deal with you on eBay. It is on the basis of this little number that they will decide whether they can trust you or not.Each time you buy or sell something on eBay, people can leave feedback for you, and you can leave feedback for them. This feedback can be positive, negative, or neutral, along with a comment. Your feedback rating, then, is worked out using a very simple sum: the number of positive feedback comments people have left for you, minus the number of negative ones. This means that someone with a feedback rating of 28, for example, might have 30 positive ratings and 2 negative ones.If you are a considerate buyer, then you should find that positive feedback will just appear next to your username, without you needing to do anything. If you want to help it along, though, there are a few things you can do.Always leave feedback for others: People will feel an obligation to leave feedback for you if you leave it for them (eBay will send you an email after each transaction to offer you the opportunity). Take the time to write a positive comment about sellers who do what they should and the chances are they’ll do the same for you.Pay promptly: Sellers love nothing more than to be paid promptly – paying as soon as the auction ends saves the seller all sorts of worry, especially if you pay by credit card or another electronic method. You will often find that your positive feedback appears within a few minutes of you paying if you pay as soon as the auction ends.Don’t be a difficult customer: Understand that your seller might take a day or so to respond to you, and perhaps a few days to send your item – harassing them is nasty and unnecessary, and won’t get you good feedback.Build relationships: If a seller sells a lot of a certain kind of thing you like, buy from them a few more times. They will be very happy to find a regular customer, and will go out of their way to leave positive feedback like ‘a joy to deal with as ever’. Also, they might offer you a few special deals!Sellers won’t generally be reluctant to sell to buyers without much of a reputation, simply because it is the buyer who takes most of the risk in a transaction. It is worth remembering, however, that transactions where you are the seller and where you are the buyer are counted towards the same feedback total – so if you ever want to start selling, being a good buyer is especially worthwhile.On eBay, people pay far more attention to sellers’ ratings than they do to buyers’ – most sellers can’t be bothered to check their buyers’ feedback, while bad feedback on a seller can (and should) be a dealbreaker. When you are buying, then, you need to…

As an AdSense sponsoring web site, your goal is to have contextually relevant ads displayed whenever a visitor comes to your site. That’s the goal, and it sounds simple enough, but sometimes it seems that Google is bent on not cooperating with you in the least.If there are times when your web site is displaying apparently random ads which have no relevance to your site at all or worse, it’s displaying non-revenue Public Service Ads (PSA then that’s a sign that you need to work harder to help Google make up its mind.Google uses a pretty effective set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to sniff the content on your site so it can serve up the most relevant ads out of its extensive inventory. However, since no humans are involved in this process, it’s actually pretty easy to lead the poor spider down the wrong path.It’s not enough to simply depend upon your site’s keywords to pull the right ads from Google; you have to pay attention to the context in which the key words are used as well or you could get some surprises. For example, suppose that you have some text on your page that reads “I love Guns ‘N Roses”. There is a good chance that you will either end up with PSAs, because “Guns” is a known Google “stop” word that triggers PSAs, or ads from 1-800-Flowers thanks to the key word “Roses”. But if you modify your content slightly to have it read something like “I love the heavy metal and hard rock bands like Guns ‘N Roses”, then you should start pulling ads that match your site’s theme.The words “heavy metal” and “hard rock” are called supporting keywords. Their job is to help define the context that the actual key word is being used in.When the Google spiders are fed both supporting and actual key words they are better able to make the right decisions on your behalf.The position of your key words also plays a part in pulling the right ads. Words that are closer to the top of the page have more “weight” than those that appear farther down. Tags are also important. H1 and H 2 tags have a higher precedence over P tags, and B tags are significant as well.The key to getting the right ads to appear on your site is to fine-tune the supporting key words and tweak your tags until you are seeing what you want to see.Once you reach that goal, you can read our article on Smart Ways to Attract Higher Paying AdSense Ads, and Tips for Maximizing Your Google AdSense Revenues for even better results.Sometimes it seems that the Google spider is doing all it can to not get along with you. The next time you have that thought, stop to consider the possibility that the Google spider is having the same thoughts about you!

TOP TEN SPYWARE AND ADWARE THREATS IDENTIFIEDOn December 8, 2004 Webroot, an award winning anti-spyware solution provider, released a press release identifying the ten most significant emerging spyware and adware threats. Most of these you probably haven’t heard of and a few may surprise you.It is estimated that 9 out of 10 computers are infected with spyware, also known as, adware, scumware, malware and many others. Here’s the top 10.1. PurtyScan – popup ads that trick users into installing by claiming to find and delete pornographic images. 2. n-CASE – Adware program that delivers targeted popup adds. This program is usually bundled with freeware. 3. Gator – adware program that displays banner ads based on your Web surfing habits. This program is usually bundled with the Kazaa file-sharing program, as well as other free software programs. 4. CoolWebSearch – hijacks home page, Internet Explorer settings, and Web searches. 5. Transponder – monitors sites visited and any data entered into online forms, and then delivers targeted ads. 6. ISTbar/AUpdate – spyware posing as a toolbar. Has been reported to display porn, pop-ups, and to hijack homepage and Internet searches.7. KeenValue – an adware program that collects personal information and delivers advertisements. 8. Internet Optimizer – hijacks error pages and redirects them to its own site. 9. Perfect Keylogger – records all keystrokes (including personal information, passwords, etc clicks and web sites visited.10. TIBS Dialer – hijacks phone modem and redirects to pornography pay by the minute phone sites. The following precautions are recommended in the fight against spyware: install Microsoft security patches, avoid downloading and using freeware; and disable ActiveX downloads in Internet Explorer. In addition, install at least one anti-spyware program, some experts actually recommend that you have two installed. For starters you can download one of the free spyware removal programs such as Spybot Search & Destroy or Ad-aware. There are also a few good anti-spyware programs on the market that proactively protect your computer (alert you before the spyware is installed). When purchasing an anti-spyware program you need to be sure it is from a reputable company as many of the anti-spyware programs available actually place spyware on your computer. They do this by offering a free scan, which places the spyware on your computer as it is scanning. Then they entice you to purchase the product to remove the spyware.If you take a few precautions and install anti-spyware software on your system you should be well protected in the fight against spyware. Don’t wait, protect your privacy today.Webroot Spy Sweeper offers a free trial of their award winning program. We use this program on our computers and it has found and removed over 1200 spyware fingerprints.

Only a few weeks ago, most people never gave much thought about having a security system for their home or business. But, after the looting and violence during and after Hurricane Katrina, sales have grown tremendously. Electronic Home and Business Security sales around the country are estimated to be around $28 billion per year. That number is estimated to increase by nearly 20% by the end of 2005.While the whole subject of looting has become a touchy (and even political) issue for most people, which is largely due to the medias portrayal of the situation, security systems show no descrimination to an individuals race, social status, age, or gender. They also do not subscribe to any political parties or even listen to talk radio.But, home and business security systems continue to play a large role in the rebuilding of homes and businesses in the devastated communities along the Gulf Coast. More homeowners and business owners than ever are planning on installing security systems ranging in sophistication. Kathy Lott, a home owner in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, said, “I”ve never given it much thought before, but after watching all the looting and fighting on tv, I figured it was worth a hundred dollars just to have the securiy it provides.”Although much of the spotlight has been on the local power and phone companies, local and online security retailers are busy trying to meet the demands of recent inquries in the aftermath of Katrina. Gaston Collins, owner of Home Security Superstore and online at www.Best-Home-Security.com, says that he has had more orders in the last 2 weeks, than the whole Christmas season last year. “Because of the long re-building process for the damaged communities, we”re not expecting business to slow down until probably next spring, which is good news for us. We”ll probably need to hire a few more people on top of the two we hired this week, he says. As long as guys like Rush Limbaugh and other people in the media continue to push the subject of looting and violence, I”m sure we”ll continue to see an increase in sales, says Gaston.So it seems as though preparing for a disaster has consisted of gathering food, water, and batteries in the past – It will now include installing and checking your security system.[ Submitted with ArticleSubmitter Pro – http://www.articlesubmitterpro.com]

The barbell military press is a great exercise for working the deltoids. This exercise can be extremely difficult for the new lifter. Back injury can easily occur if the proper form is not used during execution. Because of this, it is recommended that a spotter be present when doing this exercise.During this exercise, you’ll be lifting over your head. Keep this in your mind as you select the amount of weight you’ll be working with. This exercise can be performed either sitting or standing. If you are lifting alone, you may want perform the exercise sitting so that you can lift the weight off of a bench rack.To begin the exercise you’ll need to have someone hand you the weight, lift it off the ground, or de-rack it from a rack. Your hands should be positioned a little further then shoulder length apart. Your hands should be about the same distance, as if you were going to do a normal bench-press. The barbell should be positioned across the front of your chest with the bar about even with your shoulders. From here, keeping your back straight, lengthen the arms up over your head. Continue this extension until your arms can not extend anymore without locking. From the top position, lower the bar back down to the starting position in a controlled manner.

When you purchase term life insurance online, it is exactly the same as if you went into an office and sat down with an agent. In fact many of the online life insurance companies will give you a free quote online, but you have to speak to an agent to make the purchase. This way you are getting the benefit of shopping for term life insurance online, but still get to discuss the policy in person with an agent.By searching online for the lowest life insurance rates, you can choose the company from whom you want to buy the policy. There are so many companies online that you do have to be careful of which one you choose. When you find low term life insurance online, you should check the life insurance ratings for the company before you commit to anything.Just shopping for term life insurance online lets you request as many free quotes as you wish. You are not under any obligation to buy the life insurance online, but if you don’t want an agent calling you about the policy, you should indicate this on the application form. This lets you shop in the comfort of your home and search for the lowest life insurance rates that fit your needs and your budget.It may take you some time to get the term life insurance online that you need. Since there are so many life insurance companies with an online presence, you can visit all of the websites and compare the rates. You will also find several sites that do the comparison for you taking all the guesswork out of finding the lowest life insurance rates. With this type of service, you only have to enter your information once to get several responses on low rates for your term life insurance.It doesn’t matter what the weather is outside or if you don’t feel like getting dressed. Searching online in the comfort of your own home takes all the stress out of getting term life insurance. Online life insurance companies are open 24 hours a day, so you don’t have to make plans to look for the lowest life insurance rates during business hours.What do you get with term life insurance online?For a website totally devoted to Life Insurance visit Peter’s Website Life Insurance Answers and find out about target=”_new” href=”http://www.life-insurance-answers.com/whole-life-insurance.html” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Whole Life Insurance as well as target=”_new” href=”http://www.life-insurance-answers.com/life-insurance-agent.html” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Life Insurance Agents and more, including Online Life Insurance, Term Life Insurance and Life Insurance Companies.

Seeking the most up-to-date help pertaining to dog paw prints. When you”re trying to find superior advice concerning dog paw prints, it will be easier said than done extracting the best information from ill-advised dog paw prints suggestions and support so it”s astute to know how to judge the information you are presented with. Find Prints at AllPosters.comBuy Prints at AllPosters.com – The Worlds Largest Poster and Print Store. Choose from over 250,000 posters and prints in every genre. Framing and mounting also available.Here are several tips which we believe you should use when you”re searching for information about dog paw prints. It is important to remember that the guidance we give is only applicable to internet based information regarding dog paw prints. We cannot offer any assistance or guidance when you are also conducting research in books or magazines. Find dog paw printsYour relevant result is a click away!An excellent piece of advice to follow when offered information and advice about a dog paw prints site is to research who is behind the website. This could reveal the people behind the website dog paw prints identifications The quickest way to work out who owns the dog paw prints website is to look on the “about” page or “contact” page. Any reputable site providing information about dog paw prints, will nearly always have an “about” or “contact” page which will list the people behind the site. The info should make known some key points concerning the owner”s requisite knowledge. You can then arrive at a decision about the webmaster”s familiarity and qualifications, to offer guidance about dog paw prints.

Us the diet and exercise industry have our opinions on what diets work and which ones are just sales gimmicks. I believe this can be very discouraging to you the consumer. Unfortunately, a lot of people want to get on the band wagon of wellness and tap into millions of Americans desperate need to feel better, lose weight and get in better shape. Over my twenty year tender in the weight loss business I have seen every single program and have heard thousands of success and failure stories. The facts are that any dietary plan on the market has some portion of it that works, but the basic principle of any good eating program, no matter how sugarcoated, centers around calories IN— calories OUT. The eating “only one type of food diets” will not be effective, and such a restricted diet defeats you mentally. Most diets are just too unrealistic for a person’s lifestyle. Plus they don’t supply enough basic nutritional needs for people to stay with them. Balance is the key! Attitude is the key to keeping balance!!For what ever its worth, I would like to purpose this mental approach to you using four of the best plans out there. I want to point out the message, so do not shoot the messenger. Principle #1: CHANGE YOUR UNWANTED BEHAVIORS: For what ever you think about Dr. Phil he still has the best approach to weight loss when it comes with dealing with the beliefs behind the behaviors. Goal #1: Figure out your illusions behind your behaviors. Change them and you will change your life. Principle 2: HAVE AN ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. When Weight Watchers decided to put responsibility back into the consumers hands by connecting points and weigh-ins into your eating habits there business tripled. You need accountability. Goal #2: Incorporate a support and accountability system into your wellness plan. Principle #3: SUGAR IS KILLING YOU INSIDE OUT. Instant gratification is killing you. Sugar busters taught us to watch our sugar filled foods. Goal #4: Lose the sugar, lose the weight. That simple!Principle #4: AMERICA HAS A PROTEIN DEFIENCY. The South Beach Diet has been successful because it does two things. Increases the amount of protein in your diet and cuts done on the meats filled with so many preservatives. Goal #4: Start eating more protein in your diet and less complex carbohydrates. What ever your beliefs and success in these four programs your experience, however in mine after working with thousands of people – those who had this four principles in there diet plans were more successful. I call this the Changing from the INSIDE OUT mindset. Click here for a FREE MINI COURSE that has taken me twenty years to develop. www.resolutions.bz

The golf handicap system is implemented at golf courses, for golf tournament play. Trophies and prizes are awarded at the end of golf tournaments, based on golf scores. In order to make the golf game fair play, the handicap system is based on the ten lowest differentials of the last twenty games on an eighteen-hole course in one season. Some golf associations will accept fewer golf games. It can also be used for fair play outside of golf tournaments. The following is a short guide on how the golf handicap system works.Handicap numbers are recorded for golf players numbered one through thirty-six, the number one being the lowest handicap, and the number thirty-six being the highest handicap. A scratch golfer has no handicap, better known as a scratch player.Now lets take a look at how these numbers come into affect. If a player’s handicap is ten, and another player’s handicap are twenty. The difference between the two players is ten golf strokes. Therefore, to even up the match, the player with the lower handicap, which this case is the ten-handicap golf player, has to give out ten golf strokes to his opponent on eighteen holes, to make the golf game fair play. How do you identify on which golf holes they are going to be given out?Typically on most, if not all golf scorecards, you will find numbers 1 through 18 near the bottom of the scorecard beside Men’s HCP and Ladies HCP. The numbers 1 through 18, you will also find out of order. The reason for the disorder of numbers is, the number 1 being the hardest golf hole, and the number 18 being the easiest golf hole. The golf course, or architect of the golf course, determines the order of numbers on any given golf hole, by the yardage and slope rating, and or other difficulty of the golf hole.Now that we have determined how many golf strokes are to be given out, and where they are to be taken. The higher handicap in this case, which is the twenty handicap golf player, gets ten golf strokes for eighteen holes, on holes numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10. This should make the match a lot closer, if both players are playing within their game. It typically works out to one golf stroke on every other golf hole in this example, depending on how the golf course is laid out. Another example would be a scratch player and a thirty-six-handicap player, the scratch player having to give out two golf strokes on every hole.Keeping track of your handicap, and using a handicap system, will help make the game fair play in a lot of golf matches, when playing against other opponents.Check with your local golf pro, or golf association, on an official guide for the golf handicap system, and for maintaining a legitimate handicap. If you belong to a golf course, they should have a system in place to use for tournament play, which is recognized by most golf courses…

Imagine being in a crowded concert or bar. All of a sudden, a fight breaks out between two men who”ve had too much to drink.You happen to be a few steps away, and the next thing you know, one of the men turns to you and looks as if he”s going to take a swing at you.What”s your first instinct? Most of us will do one of two things. We”ll either try to step away, or we”ll raise our arms to deflect him and fight back, which can result in harm to you or to your attacker.But if you were trained in Aikido, the Japanese martial art that focuses on diverting an attacker”s energy, you could quickly diffuse the situation by immobilizing him without harming him in any way.In essence, you”re diffusing the energy that he”s using to try and attack you in a way that takes the conflict out of the situation.Unlock The Game and the philosophy behind Aikido have many similarities.Traditional cold calling and selling are designed to focus only on the “close” by presenting — or in too many cases, “pushing” — your solution onto prospects, sometimes even when they”re not interested. But if you focus only on your goal of making the sale before having a discussion about the problems that you can help your prospects solve, something happens.They start feeling that you”re “attacking” them. After all, you”re a stranger to them, and when you start talking about yourself and your solution rather than about them and their specific issues, you immediately trigger their suspicion and cause them to start “pushing back.”This pushback is the resistance or energy that Unlock The Game teaches you to diffuse. Then both of you can quickly “get on the same page” and open a natural dialogue that will let you determine whether it makes sense for you to work together.Let”s look at two real selling scenarios — cold calling and “get-you-off-the-phone” objections:Scenario 1: Cold CallingSuppose you”re at your desk and you receive a call from someone who says “Hi, my name is Jack Johnson, I”m with XYZ Company, and we”re a full-solution provider of…” Is your first reaction to welcome and be open to his call? Or do your mental defenses immediately kick in and you shut down against this stranger “salesperson”?Probably the latter, especially if you sense that the caller is focused on his interests and not yours.That”s why this old-school cold calling approach triggers the resistance and negative energy that prospects immediately throw your way.The Unlock The Game way to make a successful cold call — “successful” being defined as not triggering rejection — is by beginning your call with, “Hi, my name is Jack, maybe you can help me out for a moment?” That simple question is a very natural way of beginning a conversation with a stranger.But you can”t just read this word for word, like a script. It won”t work. That would be like an Aikido instructor teaching a first-time student the physical movements before…