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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start-up – how much money do you need ?

Money is the big question runs through all the other ones. At the outset of setting up your own business the question tends to revolve around how much money you need to start the business up, both in terms of the funding that the business itself will need, and any money that you or your family needs to survive on whilst the business is being set up and before it starts to make any money in its own right. Again this is an area that is a big reality check that a lot of people, but it comes down to planning and foresight.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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Do You Think of Other People As Separate Individuals?

This is the sort of question that people will instinctively answer yes to, without really taking a moment to consider the real implication of what the question is asking, and why it is particularly important to any notion of personal development or self growth. At some level people think of other people as being different or separate from themselves.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start-up – Why you need a business plan

Anyone who is starting up a business or plans to set up and run their own business needs to have a business plan. Many people think they only need to have a plan if they are going to be seeking funding either from a bank or an institution or an investor, and as such they either leave it to the last minute or just put on paper a few ideas that they think will impress an investor or figures that they think the bank or institution would like to hear or see.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Car Buying Tips - Finance and Insurance

Anyone thinking of buying a new or used car has a huge range of options to choose from in terms of manufacturer, type of car, gas, diesel or electric etc. Whatever the individual chooses to buy in the end, it is important from the outset to understand the various additional costs that can be incurred by either choosing the wrong type of finance or not appreciating what insurance costs could be involved.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Work from home - web design

Making a decision to work from home can be done for many reasons and can be either a full time career or a part time fill up. Whatever the reason, there is likely to be a real sense of freedom, as well as a sense of either apprehension or complete panic at the idea of what lies ahead. Both are very understandable reactions, and tend to reflect a persons own confidence and ability to work outside a more conventual company. Working from home can involve many jobs, but essentially two job types.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How Good Are Health Articles?

Most people tend to appreciate that the internet carries a wide range of health article and related material, and most people would probably accept that some of this material is of a highly dubious quality. The paradox of the internet is that anyone can access virtually any type of information about anything, and at the same time that anyone can produce any piece of information about anything.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Why reflection matters

Reflection is one of those terms that can sound a bit pompous, but actually has a lot of value in it in for many people for different reasons. Most of the major religious and spiritual traditions advocate a sort of review of the day, where people take a bit of time out to look back over their day and assess what had been going on, what happened to them , how they reacted etc.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Car insurance basics – how motor insurance policies work

Car insurance basics – how motor policies workr Most people buy all forms of insurance, including car insurance on an emotional rather than a rational basis. What this means in reality is that people pay a company a sum of money, and in return expect someone to come along and look after them or put things right if and when things go wrong. This mindset meets a couple of the most basic human need there are and is an attitude that has been fostered by insurance companies and the insurance industry since the time of Edward Lloyd. There is some sense in this approach but also a real danger.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Honda Auto Finance - Value of Warranty

n buying or leasing any Honda vehicle, either new or used, there will be or at least should be some type of warranty, which can either be a manufacturer's warranty and/or a dealership warranty all of which can vary considerably in terms of what they offer and their terms and conditions. Many people simply assume that a warranty covers everything they need it to, in the same way that many people assume that any type of auto or home insurance will simply look after them if they have any problems. Sadly this is not the case.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How to make your website more attracrtive

Attractive is a word not normally associated with a website, partially because there is a sense that a website is something technical, things technical aren't thought of as attractive. Also there is a sense that while a website should be pleasing to look at, it almost doesn't really matter what it looks like. If people like it they will stay on it and come back.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start-up – Who is your competition ?

As a small business you need to know who your competition is. This is one of the first questions you need to ask yourself. Realistically who am I likely to be competing against for custom of my service or product. Many people think of this question and say to themselves that either there is no competition, or the competition is so bad that they don't really need to worry about it. Either of those assumptions could be true, but quite often they mask a reluctance to actually assess real levels of competition and where it is coming from. This is a real mistake.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start up - are you an entrepreneur ?

Many people have a real desire and inclination to start up and run their own business either as a sole trader, or as a small or potentially large company. Often they are put off even before they start by a number of sometimes well-meaning and sometimes not so well-meaning people who advise them that you need to be a special type of person to be an entrepreneur or to run the risk of setting up and running your own business. Sometimes this advice is touted by people who like to see themselves as somewhat of an icon in the business community, rather than anything that is actually based in fact.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How to make adsense more effective

Adsense was hailed as the savior of the internet world when it first became established as a significant force in internet advertising.Up until then, most internet advertising had really been fairly large banner adverts at the top and side of pages, which were often fairly large, and more likely to put you off the product than endear you to it. Adsense was a model that really worked.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Why web analytics are important

To many people just the term web analytics seems quite technical and quite daunting . Sometimes these figures are referred to as web metrics, an equally mathematical term that is actually fairly off-putting. Like a lot of things in technology, the language used is inevitably made to sound more important and mysterious than it actually is. When broken down into what it means it fairly simple.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Home Business Tips - Home Business and Personal Grooming

The issue of personal grooming may seem slightly odd in the context of running a business from home, or working from home, but actually aside from the physical practicalities and needs of personal grooming, it is a really important issue in terms of the individual's attitude to their work and their home.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Car Buying Tips - Arranging Finance

Anyone thinking of buying a new or a used car, or even leasing one, would do well to start off by investigating and arranging their financial credit. Knowing how much money they can afford to spend on any type of car gives them a much better structure both in terms of whether to buy a new or a used car, or type of model of a particular vehicle will best suit their needs.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Terms - How Do You Give Hope to Someone?

Giving hope to someone who needs it, whether their situation be a desperate one or simply a need for inspiration is perhaps the most important gift one can give, as well as in many ways being the most difficult thing to help instigate. It is often easier to give a false sense of hope than a real sense of hope, and this is often done as a reaction to a difficult situation that people find it difficult to cope with.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What Is the NHS?

To answer this question fully would require several extremely large volumes of written material including analysis and data as to the development of the health service in the UK. The point of the question, what is the NHS, is actually to provide a bit of background to the broader question of health insurance and health insurance costs, and who effectively pays for whatever type of health service is available where you live.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What is the issue about grey market tractors

Grey market tractors are often talked about, or written about ,in slightly hushed tones, as if there was something slightly under the table or under the counter about them. They also talked about often in very unpatriotic terms, as if someone buying them is undercutting people's jobs and livelihoods in their own country. It is properly worth clarifying what a grey market tractor is, and what the pros and cons are of buying them. In general terms, a great market tractor is one that has been built for another market, and then imported into a third country.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Terms - The Value of Listening

Quite recently there was television footage of a politician surrounded by his advisers, listening to a voter telling him what she thought about a particular subject. The commentary was about how this politician had been listening to this woman, and was designed to show him in a more human light in paying attention to and listening to what people were telling him.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What Is a Smart Home Security System?

Most people would probably give slightly different answer to the question of what is a home security system, let alone a smart home security system. Any security system in a home is often thought of largely as an alarm system, possibly coupled nowadays with various types of CCTV cameras and other types of technology that can alert and detect intruders. A home security system certainly can be that, but can also be a lot more.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start up - how to choose the best location for your business

Even when you are starting up or thinking about starting up a business there are a number of practical considerations both short-term and long-term that are worth having in mind. They may not be hugely relevant when drawing plans up or making plans for the business, but they are issues that will very quickly develop and which some forethought will help you prepare for.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

A Spiritual Awakening - What is it ?

The term a spiritual awakening gets bandied around quite a lot , and has perhaps get quite misunderstood for a number of fairly obvious reasons. The term itself has become quite well known through the twelve step movement, and in particular the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, where the twelfth strep reads, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps' . In trying to understand what the term means , it might be as well to look at it in the context of the twelve steps, because that gives it a sense of place and clarity that will probably help explain it.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Best place to buy a used car

For some people, the very idea of a used car brings up images that are inherently negative, and many manufacturers avoid the term nowadays, in favour of terms such as certified pre-owned etc. Having said that, the used car market is huge, and with a bit of thought and research it is very possible to buy a good car, which has been reliably driven and kept in decent mechanical order at a fair price. It is in many ways much more possible to do this nowadays given the size and scale of the internet and it was previously.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How To Keep Your Identity Safe Online

Identity fraud used to be a thing of James Bond films and spy thrillers that involved getting false papers and false passports and then killing the people who provided them so no-one knew. Sadly or not the world has moved on a lot from those halcyon days, and identity fraud is a real issue nowadays that people need to be aware of. Part of the problem is that no-one knows how real a threat it actually is.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Should You Worry about Google

To many people the obvious and unequivocal answer would be yes, big brother Google is watching you. Often questions like this arise because of the size and influence of an a organization, not because there is actually any threat from it.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What are the different types of car liability insurance?

Car insurance can provide a wide variety of differing levels of cover, but the most essential for everyone is what it provides by way of liability insurance. So essential is this for most people, that there is likely to some legal requirement where the person lives that they have at least some liability insurance in place for any vehicle driven on a public road or highway.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

cheap car insurance - high risk drivers

People quite often feel offended or upset if they perceive themselves as being classified as high risk. It is important however to understand the concept from an insurance point of view to understand what it means, how it affects them and why it can make a huge difference to what they pay for their insurance company. If people understand why they are classified as high risk, then they can do whatever they can to minimize that risk, and pay less of a premium accordingly.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Terms - What Does the Serenity Prayer Actually Mean?

The serenity prayer has a special place for many people, aside from its actual or little meaning, it has become something of a mantra for members of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step fellowships.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Why your business will benefit by having a website

ts easy to assume that every business has a website, simply because so many have, and their are so many websites for every conceivable industry. Truth is there are many small business's and sole traders who don't think they need a website, simply because they think they are too small as an organization to warrant one, or because they think it would be too expensive to have one. Sadly, people who think this way are completely wrong on both counts.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Small business start up - starting a green business

Starting a business that is deemed to be environmentally friendly is a big call for people nowadays and one that receives a lot of attention both in terms of support by state and government authorities as well as by consumers. A so-called green business may literally be a business that is in the work of the environment or doing something that will help the environment. It may also be any type of business where consumers or users of the product of the business want to know that the owners are doing all they can to be eco-friendly or green friendly.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Farm Safety - Workers Compensation Laws

Workers compensation laws are designed to provide some degree of financial protection or help, in the event that any employee of a business and injured at work, no matter whose fault the injury or fatality may be. These laws were introduced over time, as part of measures to help protect workers against employers, who often did not give them the protection they needed in terms of workplace health and safety. Nowadays, most employers are more responsible, and not only comply with these laws willingly, but it is both a moral and ethical responsibility to look after the people they employ.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Work from home - virtual assistant

The term virtual assistant sound a bit like a robot, but is actually an online version of a type of job or work that has existed for many years. The idea of a virtual office was born by offering secretarial other office functions like mail delivery and fax collection to individuals who wanted their own office , but didn't need or couldn't afford to have one all the time. It was an ideal arrangement for both sides.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Why Keywords Matter

If you've had any experience of trying to set up a blog or a website and tried to make money out of it, odds are you have come across the term keywords. Quite often there is a sort of mystique about what keywords are and how important they are. A keyword is very simply any term that anyone enters into a search engine box when they are looking for something.The search engine then delivers a number of results back to you based on their searching web pages based on that term.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Work from home - affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of those terms that has come to symbolize the enterprise culture of the internet, along with terms like internet marketeer etc. Essentially, an affiliate is a sales agent who takes a commission on sales or referrals that they make to you as a customer. If you walk into a store and buy a product, there is a good chance that the sales person will receive a commission as part of their remuneration. You as a customer don't really think about that, you're just thinking about the product, price, service etc.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How Do You Motivate People?

The question of motivation is one that has become much more widely asked with the rapid growth of the self-development industry over the last few years. The question tends to be asked in two different ways. Firstly, people are asked or told how they can motivate themselves in numerous different ways. Secondly, people are told how they can be motivated or inspired by other people, either directly or indirectly.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

cheap car insurance- how to reduce car insurance costs

Car insurance is usually a legal requirement for drivers of all vehicles, wherever you live. The legal requirement may be national or local or both, and will normally involve a minimum level of legal third party cover. This means that if you have an accident where you injure someone, including a passenger of yours, or their property, your insurance company will cover your financial liability up to a set limit, specified in the motor policy. Beyond this legal minimum, there are a wide range of options and factors that affect the cost of your car insurance.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What Is the Best Way to Deal With Anger?

Levels of anger and stress has increased hugely in recent times, especially in large urban areas and cities, resulting in increased tension and instability in many people's lives. The effects of anger can be seen very clearly in many domestic or work situation you care to imagine. Anger as an emotion has always been with people. What perhaps is new is a perception that it needs to be dealt with, and that often dealing with a level of anger is acutely necessary for people to have any type of internal stability or peace of mind.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Kubota Tractors - An introductory guide

Buying a used or new tractor is a major investment, both in terms of time and money. A tractor is most likely to be used as a part of farm machinery, and as such as part of a business. It is imperative therefore that you research thoroughly before you buy, because if you get it wrong, it wouldn't just be an inconvenience it could well have an adverse effect on your business profitability.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Farm safety -social, economic and political factors

Farm safety – social economic and political factors The nature of working on a farm and on safety is to an extent conditioned by the fact that farming is often seen as a way of life, rather than as a formal occupation or job. In many ways this is true, although not to undermine the huge amount of hard work and productivity farming entails. The view of farming being a way of life means that it does not have the framework or pressures that a normal occupational has to mitigate risk and reinforce a mindset of safety. Day care

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

A Life Coach - do you need one

When people first started talking about life coaches, there was quite a buzz about who they were and what they did – what exactly was a life coach. No-one really knew but the idea sounded appealing, a sort of grown up buddy system with someone on your side , guiding through the dramas of life. The problem was that although it was a good idea, there was no sense of anyone knowing what it meant. This of course allowed anyone to set themselves up as a life coach, with no qualifications because there weren't any and charge a lot of money for guidance that was based on who knows what.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

How to increase your website traffic

Many people, me included , obsess about how a website looks, if it has the right color scheme, if the copy is written properly , etc etc. All these things are important and do matter, as they are part of getting your site fully optimized in terms of getting ranked well for search engines.The point of wanting to get listed in search engines, is to get traffic.Without traffic, your site just sits there, looking really nice every time you check it, but with no real traffic levels. The real and perhaps most difficult question is how you get people to visit your site.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Honda Auto Finance – How to Finance a Vehicle

Whilst there are some people who will pay cash for a vehicle when buying it, this will typically apply to people who are buying a car in a private sale or a used car that is relatively cheap. When people talk about auto finance they are normally referring to people who are buying a new or a used car from a Honda dealer, or a Honda car from another type of dealership.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Home Business Tips - Home Business and Productivity

The very word productivity may be one of the main reasons why people want to start their own business or work from home. Productivity by its very nature implies getting the maximum out of an individual, often at the expense of their individuality and quite often at the expense of any decent monetary reward.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Home Business Tips - Working From Home and Leisure Time

Many people, when faced with the reality of working from home tend to approach it in quite a manic way, often with quite a high degree of burnout at some point either physical or mental. They may well be able to work with this burnout as they can adapt their home or family life accordingly.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Who is your target audience

At first sight this might seem an obvious question , but its the sort of question that is actually very difficult to answer, and one that most people prefer to answer in fairly general terms, like 'everybody' . Websites can have very different uses, and depending on who your intended audience is, your type of design , type of software and how the site is designed will be determined.r

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

What are mind games and what is mind control

Apart from a John Lennon song, mind games is an expression often used by football managers and others to imply some sort of psychological manipulation of another person to gain some sort of advantage over them.This is normally fairly innocuous stuff at press conferences to try and rattle their opponents. Mind control is really a much more creepy term and tends to be applied to any sort of situation or relationship where someone is trying to manipulate your thinking so it agrees with their own.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Internet security for kids

When the internet really started to become available for families, and kids in particular, it soon became fairly obvious that there were potentially real dangers. Part of the problem was that no-one really understood the internet, or at least understood its full potential. People stared to see the dangers of chat rooms and how the anonymity of the internet allowed people to lead dual lives and the potential dangers involved.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Why non profits need the internet

Many people and business's shy clear of technology because they either fear it or they don't understand it, often both. Non-profits are no different in that respect, but they are different in that they often lack the discipline of a market that eventually forces them to tackle the issue.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Peter MainRecently published1 topic

Work from home - resume writing services

Resume writing for other people is one of those jobs that there is a huge need for, and is ideally suited to individuals working from home. The biggest plus you bring to someone about writing their resume for them , is that you are not them ! A resume is some ones life -its not just a list of jobs, hobbies, cities lived etc. To anyone , a resume is a highly charged emotional document that people can naturally get very protective.

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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