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This is a follow up to my Morning Ritual - Start Your Day Productive.  This post will conclude my morning ritual trial.  In this post I will summarize my findings about implementing a morning ritual, the good, the bad and the ugly

I have already discussed many of the benefits of implementing a morning ritual in my day 2 post.  So it certainly is a good habit that I’d recommend anyone try implementing.  The bad news is that it takes a lot of trial and error, and discipline to implement.

Just like implementing any other healthy habits, there will be days where you totally blow it and wont feel like doing your morning ritual.  I skipped my morning ritual on day 3.  What stinks is that on day 4 it was even harder for me to get back on track.

All in all this was a great experiment.  If you have anything to share about morning rituals please leave a comment

Here is this week’s selection of personal development, and self improvement articles from all over the web, check them out and leave some comments

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Sara Ost presents 10 Ways To Feel Great About Yourself Today posted at Sara Ost.

Wally Bock presents Life is some journeys posted at Momentor.

Thorsten Bonn presents How You Can Make Today The Best Day of Your Life posted at Self Improved Life . com.

Hustler Moneyblog presents 10 Quick Hustles to Save Money posted at Hustler $$$ Blog.

Wanda Grindstaff presents Going from Surviving to Thriving - A Clear Choice posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Health - Fitness

Sagar Satapathy presents 100 Healthy Habits You Should Start in College | NOEDb posted at NOEDb: Nursing Online Education Database.

mediamonkey presents How to improve your Health: Healthy tips and tricks posted at How to: tips, tricks & recipes, saying, “Small changes to your lifestyle will benefit your overall health in the long term. Once you begin to feel the benefits of your lifestyle changes, you will want to include even more healthy habits. Here are 5 easy steps you can take towards leading a healthier lifestyle.”

Health Blogger presents My Plan To Get Rid Of My Excess Stomach and Lose The Pot Belly Fat posted at Health and Fitness Blog.

Liz Rosenbaum presents Self Acceptance Is Like A Muscle posted at Liz Rosenbaum Fitness, saying, “Exercise and resistance training is important for our physical bodies, but finding love and self acceptance for ourselves is just as important.”

Alvaro Fernandez presents Neurogenesis and Brain Plasticity in Adult Brains posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “Adults may have a tendency to get set in their ways – I’ve been doing it this way for a long time and it works, so why change? – Turns out, though, that change can be a way to keep aging brains healthy.”

Heather Johnson presents Debunking The Diet Myths posted at 60 IN 3.

Money - Income

Tammy Powell presents Enlightened Wealth Institute - Don’t Dream About Making Money, Make It posted at Majestic Tech by an Enlightened Wealth Institute student.

Erica Douglass presents Entrepreneurs: Is Extreme Frugality A Waste of Time? posted at erica.biz - Erica Douglass challenges you to change your life! What is holding you back from your dreams?, saying, “Are frugal activities like making your own laundry detergent worth it for entrepreneurs? Includes a formula to help you figure out which frugal activities make the most sense!”

Random

Sally Huss presents NO HOLDS BARRED, NO LIMITS! by Sally Huss posted at Sally Huss - Addicted to Happiness!.

Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Getting Things Done with Chandler posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “Chandler The Note-to-Self Organizer is a free GTD app running on Linux, Windows and Mac. Read the full review…”

Security - Comfort Zone - Challenge

Sam presents How to find happiness. Twelve Tips from the Happiness Coach posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “Happiness is a State of Mind. Remember that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status in society or the size of our bank account. As long as we are not in poverty, as long as we have the means for adequate food and shelter, our level of well-being is determined by what we choose to focus on.”

Anand presents 3 Easy Ways to Change Your Emotional State Instantly posted at Anand Dhillon . com, saying, “The quality of our lives is the quality of our emotions. This article details 3 unique ways to instantly put yourself in a positive emotional state when you are feeling down.”

Success - Failure

Rena Williams presents A Positive Attitude Is Key For Success posted at Balanced Success.

Shamelle presents Career: 62 Tips To Make Your Job Terrific (Lessons Learned) posted at Enhance Life.

Avani presents How to get clarity in thoughts posted at Avani-Mehta.

Ted Reimers presents The Secret of Time Management posted at CampusGrotto.

James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation, saying, “This personal development article weighs focusing on strengths versus improving one’s weakness.”

Donald Latumahina presents Being Happy: Secrets of Happy People posted at Life Optimizer.

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Maybe you are a blogger.  Or maybe you have your own personal site that you want to promote, and get more traffic for.  The following Tips will help you get more search engine results for your website.  They will also teach you how to get backlinks to your site.  In other words get other websites linking to yours.  These will raise your search engine ranking, and bring you lots of good traffic also.  Here are the tips:

1. Submit Your Site to Google. Visit google webmaster tools, login with your google account, add your site and verify it.  After verifying site, it will usually take a week for google to crawl your site.  Check the diagnostics section for google’s crawling results.
2. Submit Your Site to Yahoo.  Visit Yahoo to Submit Your Site.  Add Your Site.  Authenticate Your Site. It takes Yahoo a little longer than google to verify that you own the site, usually a day or two.  After authentication it takes Yahoo another 7 days to start crawling your website.
3. Submit Your Site to MSN. Go to MSN Webmaster. Sign in with Your MSN account. Add Your site.  Upload XML file provided to you by MSN to verify your site.
4. Add Your Website to Web Directories. This will help you get lots of backlinks.  Backlinks increase your search engine ranking.  Visit The Strongest Links which lists lots of web directories you can submit your site to.   Read these common web directory submission mistakes.  With many of the directories you have to dig down into their categories before you’ll see a “Submit URL” or “Submit Your Site” link.
5. Get Backlinks from Similar Sites
   Step 1 - Build List of a few keywords that you think users will search for to access your site.

   Step 2 - Also think of related terms and keywords that users might alternatively use when searching for your site.

   Step 3 - Search google for your terms or keywords.  Note url’s of those sites.  Visit each one of those sites.  Use Firefox SEO plugin to learn more about each site.  Find contact information for each site owner.  You can usually find this in the contact page.  If you can’t find the contact information on the page enter the website’s url in a whois site.  If you can find a phone number in the whois site, it’s best to call rather than email.  Calling is much more dependable.

   Step 4 - To get site to link to you it’s better to get a one-way link: A link from their site to yours without your site linking back to theirs.  Sometimes the only way to get a link is to pay for it.  If that’s the case then try to pay for a permanent link and have them sign a contract.  Most websites will give you a permanent link for $50.  If you don’t or cant pay for a one-way link, then do a link exchange where both your site and theirs link to each other.

   If you want to get a one way link for free from another site, here is how to do it.  You must create a friendship with the webmaster.  Write an introductory email, build a friendship before asking for link.  Another way to do it is to contact webmaster in a very honest direct way including your link in your email.  The best way is to call webmaster and talk to them in person.  It’s much harder for people to say no on the phone.  Let them know that you enjoy their site, value it, tell them about yourself, how you can help their site, maybe by writing content (that their site is currently missing and would be helpful).

   When getting a back link, try to get a deep back link.  Instead of just linking to your homepage, try to get links to deep portions of your website.  This helps the search engine make other sections of your website more popular and give them a higher rank.

   Also when getting a back link, try to get the webmaster to put a phrase or keyword that you want to rank for in your anchor text.  Make sure to change the anchor text for different backlinks.  If you don’t and Google sees that you got a 1000 backlinks with the same anchor text they might think you are spamming.

This is a follow up to my Morning Ritual - Start Your Day Productive.  While getting up in the morning and jumping into my morning ritual right away can be a bit challenging, I’m really enjoying the experience.

I find that when I first wake up, I have the tendency to get distracted.  Whether I want to check my email, reply to some text messages on my phone or read the news.  These are many of the way I used to start my day in the past.

However once I push myself to get going on my morning ritual, and especially start the physical activity portion of it, the rest takes care of itself.

I’m also finding that it’s a bit easier with some preparation the night before.  If you are planning on taking a walk in the morning, it will help tremendously if you prepare the night before.  Lay out your walking clothing and shoes.  Maybe find your water bottle, and your music player.  This way when you first wake up, everything you need to start your morning ritual is right there and you have no excuse to skip out on it or be distracted.

Some Benefits of the Morning Ritual:

• Getting your physical activity or exercise out of the way first thing in the morning.  This is probably the biggest benefit.  It sets you up for a healthy active day, leaves you feeling energized and ready to take on whatever comes your way.
• Starting the day in a Positive Mindset.  Doing your physical activity and eating a healthy breakfast as part of your morning ritual gets you in a positive mindset.  If later on in the day negativity or laziness tries to sneak in, you will most probably ignore it.  That positive and healthy momentum that you build in the morning tends to stay with you all day.

Some Morning Ritual Issues to Watch our for:

• Perfectionism.  This will certainly make implementing a morning ritual very difficult.  Things will come up.  Maybe you are planning on doing a morning walk, you wake up and it’s raining heavily outside.  If you are a bit of a perfectionist and get angry about this, you will probably just give up on your morning ritual.  Instead be flexible, do your best, try an alternate psychical activity at home, or even skip the physical activity portion of your morning ritual for that day.  Alternate physical activities could include cleaning your house, doing sit-ups, doing push-ups and so on.
• Waking Up Earlier.  You might have to wake up a little earlier than usual to do your morning ritual.  Waking up earlier can be tough.  An easy way to do it is to wake up earlier slowly and gradually.  Maybe wake up 15 minutes earlier everyday this week.  And then next week wake up 30 minutes earlier, and so on.