"We never dreamed we'd have a KB Home," exclaimed Hydeia Broadbent upon learning of her family's builder.Hydeia Broadbent, the oldest daughter at 20, contracted HIV from the drug-addicted birth mother who abandoned her and later was diagnosed with AIDS just prior to her fourth birthday. Without AIDS medication for children on the market at the time, Hydeia was not expected to survive past her fifth birthday. Hydeia co-wrote a book with her mother, "You Get Past the Tears," in 2002, a powerful story about growing up with AIDS. She later spoke at the 1996 Republican National Convention and received the prestigious Essence Award from Essence magazine in 1999 for her decade-long efforts to raise awareness for AIDS through speaking engagements. For more information, visit http://www.kbhome.com/extreme/ For more information about ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," visit: http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/ About KB HomeBuilding homes for nearly half a century, KB Home is one of America's premier homebuilders with domestic operating divisions in some of the fastest-growing areas of the country including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

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Because if you've lived as if every day were your last, as Thomas did, you'll leave a rich legacy, the fruits of your labor and the gifts of your heart and soul. You will have made the world a better place for others.6. Because all that's real is today, right now, this moment.The past is over. The future may never be.7. Because "What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship.

What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity." -- Thomas Leonard8. Because "When someone is doing something ... you must communicate immediately or forever carry the extra burden of your unspoken reaction." -- Thomas Leonard9. Because of this, "Just do what you can do, don't say what you can do." -- Thomas LeonardBecause we don't really have a future, and nothing is certain, don't talk about how you can help someone, or what you plan to do, don't make great plans and live in your head, pick up a broom and sweep their house. Do something.

Do it now.10. Because tomorrow may never come..

It is difficult to find Christian resources for this market and the sources available have limited their selection to less than 5% of store availability.Our customers are ecstatic, about the store and the opportunity to locate products that are otherwise hard to find or unknown. Verlyn Foley of New Orleans, Louisiana, comments, "I never knew there were so many African-American Christian children's books, what a blessing to locate a store with such a wide selection". The store was launched in September 2004, and has recorded over 1.7 million hits. PRAYbooks.com has targeted the spring of 2005 to open its first non-ecommerce store in Philadelphia..

They then focus their training on sharpening these skills with the goal of being the best they can be in their chosen area of expertise. Designing your career is no different. What are your gifts? What do you care about more than anything else? What work would allow you to connect to this purpose? This part of the process requires that you are honest with yourself. Once you have answered these questions you need to focus your attention on the "training". What steps do you need to take in order to design a career that honors your abilities? What is in your way that you need to overcome, as you strive for this goal? Remember that fear is a natural and inevitable part of this process, but that it does not have to stop you.

Identifying what keeps you from pursuing the career that you want is an important step. Knowing what may become a stumbling block allows you to move through it much easier when it occurs, rather than being stopped by it.An Elite Athlete has a four phase training program which can be incorporated in the Career Athlete plan.Phase I: Preparation. This phase is crucial in providing you with a firm base. What skills/strengths are fundamental to your success? Phase II: Pre-competitive. What is the motivation behind what you want to do? Have you connected it to your value system? Phase III: Competitive Peaking.

The point at which everything you have been working toward comes together.Phase IV: Active Rest. This is the phase of transition. A time when you are under no pressure. Use this time to have fun and celebrate the completion of phases I - III. This is also a good time for self-reflection, self-evaluation and future goal setting.

Shape your career, don't let it shape you! Decide what you want and create your opportunities accordingly. Positioning yourself in your career will happen one step at a time with planning..

"It's surprising the nuggets of wisdom you can learn about how to treat others by observing your pets' interactions and behaviors. My first cat literally popped out from beneath the bushes in our backyard and ran right over to me. She helped me deal with some issues I had as a child. I felt such guilt when she died. Unconditional Love, one of the stories in the book, was written with her in mind.

It was a catharsis for me when I wrote it." From living with cats since the age of three, she was able to create believable feline behaviors in each of the cats that play such an integral part in her stories. Each cat displays a different personality, with individual characteristics and quirks. The patient and quiet Roscoe, the curious and insightful Nosy, and the stubborn but kind-hearted Rocky are just a few of the felines you'll meet. "Regardless whether you're a cat lover or not, anyone can relate to the messages conveyed in the book," Dippelhofer says.Cat "Tails" to Soothe the Soul was published by Publish America and can be purchased online at www.publishamerica.com. ISBN is 1-4137-5841-X.

To learn more about the book and author, visit her website at www.drdippelhofer.com.The author is a Leadership Development Specialist for a major utility company. She's published several articles in magazines including ones about unique places she's visited while traveling with her husband on their Harley Davidson..

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Now drill down even further. Do you service only one country, State or city? Are you mainly targeting men in their twenties? Parents? Low-income earners? To give you an example, let's take a fictional florist located in Miami, Florida who specializes in wedding bouquets. Their target markets would be something like this: - women in their early to late twenties - people living in Miami and surrounding suburbs - brides-to-be living in Miami and surrounding suburbs - dating males - couples (especially around Valentine's Day) There are probably more potential markets than this, but let's stop there. Ok, now that you have narrowed down your target market/s, try to get inside their heads. If you were a single parent/ frequent traveler/ retiree, what would YOU type in to the search engines to find the goods and services offered on your own site? Start writing down these search terms as they come to mind.

Using our florist example again, relevant search terms could include: - flowers - roses - bouquets - Valentine's Day - wedding flowers - florists - gifts Now start adding qualifying terms that will help define your market even more closely, ensuring the chosen terms are extremely relevant to your geographic region, or specific product / service offering. Unless our fictional Miami florist sends flowers outside the State, they wouldn't want to attract any web site visitors from outside Florida right? Perhaps not even outside Miami. Also, if somebody searches the web looking for advice on growing roses, our florist wouldn't want them visiting either, agreed? Adding qualifying terms reduces the likelihood of these visitors. For example, let's add the following terms to our original list: - [send] flowers [Florida] - [send] roses [Miami] - [wedding] bouquets [Miami] - Valentine's Day [gifts Florida] - [Florida] wedding flowers - florists [Miami] - [send] gifts [Miami] See how a few selective terms narrows down the searches considerably? Visitors that arrive at the site after typing in such specific search terms are already highly qualified to buy from the site. This increases the visitor/sale conversion rate while reducing the 'click away' rate considerably.

Ok, now you know your niche markets and you've narrowed down your target search terms to reach these markets. What next? Well, now you scatter these search terms throughout your web pages, in a logical way so as not to interrupt the flow of writing. Then you replace keywords in your existing META keyword tag with your new target terms and use the most important ones within your META description and title tag too. If you're not confident enough to do this yourself, give the terms to your web designer or a SEO and ask them to do it. Now when the search engines index your site, they'll find it more relevant for these target searches and (hopefully!) rank you highly for these new terms.

The result: effective targeting of your online niche market, less 'click aways' and more real customers..

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The only thing you have to remember is that the change must come from you, not from someone else. And it can't be a gift to someone else, it won't work. Ultimately, recreating ourselves is a very personal choice and a very personal decision that others really can't help us with.Your wife thinks you drink too much and should quit. Your parents think you screw off too much and need to pull better grades. Your boss thinks you're a slacker and you need to be more professional.

If the people in your life are hammering you to change, then it may be time to take a long hard look in the mirror. To some extent you have to be open to the idea that they may be right. However, they aren't you. They can't walk in your shoes. Nobody can completely totally understand another person.

Only you really know what is right for you. Only you can pick your path in life, who you choose to walk with along the way, and what kind of person you are while traveling. Some people are misunderstood visionary geniuses. Others are simply rebellious and lazy. Most of us fall somewhere in between.

You cannot let others dictate who or what you are to become. The choice to recreate yourself must come from within.Now if you've looked deep within and you've decided that you want to change because you would be happier, then it's time to start. My personal moment came when I realized that I was only twenty-five and was never ever going to fall in love again and was going to be shattered and heartbroken for another fifty years or so before I'd finally get to roll over and die. A very morbid thought I know, but that's exactly my point. At some point you do the math asking yourself, "If I stay just like this - on this path - with this mindset - with this income level - with these people surrounding me - with this lifestyle - How will my life look in five years? In ten? In fifty?" It can be an incredibly sobering and depressing answer.

Mine was, so I made a decision to change who I was so that the next fifty years would at least be different with a chance of happiness. I think we can safely assume that if you're reading this, then you aren't one of those people who is happily moving through life on a path they love, with people they love, and an attitude that is a joy to behold. If that is you, thank you! Please continue to role model it for everyone else and whenever possible cheer someone on as they make the changes to do the same. As for the rest of us who've hit that point where after analysis we've decided to make a fresh start as someone else other than who we are, where do we start?The first thing I would recommend is looking at your natural gifts. In some other articles I've given some exercises and such to find some of the core pieces of yourself.

It doesn't matter if you take some of those personality tests like the Meyers-Briggs or any others. The idea is that there are certain core aspects of ourselves that are never really going to change very much. For example, you like to work alone or as part of a team. You may be extremely introverted or extroverted. You may be incredibly musical or you may be very mathematical.

Whatever the gifts and challenges you were born with are what they are. Recreating yourself isn't about denying the root of who you are. It's about molding and shaping the other things like attitude and such.I wanted to become one of those people who had lots of self-confidence and was dynamic and bubbly. I wanted to be one of those people who could laugh out loud at a joke and not feel self-conscious that I might sound like a donkey - hee haaaaaw!! Along with picking a new career path that flattered my real skills and the lifestyle I wanted to move towards, I began pretending that I was one of those women who walked tall and proud. I pretended that people liked me and found me fascinating.

I pretended that I had my act together. There came a day about a year later when I realized that I wasn't faking it anymore. I've been quite a character ever since! Now a word of warning... sometimes the people who knew us before we made all of the personal changes refuse to see us as new and improved. That's especially true of family members.

They knew you when you were a whiny kid. They knew you when you went through that really bad divorce and turned into a real nutcase. Sometimes they have their own ugly issues to work out and are bitter that you are role modeling positive changes. This is easier said then done, but believe me when I say this - It's none of your business what they think of you. You didn't change yourself so that they would like you better.

You changed so that you would like you better. Hold your head up high and laugh out loud with confidence and joy. Don't allow anyone to take your new life away from you.Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow's Edge.