Finding Balance with Meditation | Thrive Personal Fitness

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I am convinced 2013 is going to be an amazing year. Every year I say that it?s going to be a good year but this year feels like it?s going to be really special. Professionally, I?ve accomplished some pretty amazing stuff in 2012 , things that have laid the foundation for 2013 to be the best yet:

I?ve moved into a new studio that I adore with more space, tools and comforts for my clients.

Thrive Personal Fitness is 3 years old! 90% of small businesses don?t make it that far.

I?ve been accepted as a FitFluential ambassador, which really makes me feel like I?ve come into my own as a blogger.

I feel confident that all the hard work is paying off. I feel like this year is the year it goes to another level.

Which also scares me to death.

I tend to have 2 speeds ? go and stop. And when I stop, I stop hard. I?m usually exhausted and hanging on to my frayed rope when a vacation or a holiday rolls around. I?ve done better recently, adjusting my schedule to allow for more time to do the things that I need to do for me, like have dinner with Brian or read a good book.

But I still have a long way to go. My personal goal for 2013 is to work on balance. Down time is hard for me, much like exercise is for those who come to me for help. Meditation was a sporadic endeavor, something to do on a ?free? day. Except I rarely have a day that is free. I put meditation on my to do list but it gets easily pushed to the side, much like a workout was when I was first trying to get fit. I need a meditation plan just like the exercise plans I create for others. Here is my plan to make good on my commitment to balance in 2013:

1. Something is always better than nothing.
   Meditation, like exercise, isn?t all about quantity. If I have 5 minutes, or even just one, I can use it to calm my breathing and mind, resetting my focus for the rest of the day.
2. Schedule it.
   It?s not just about being on the to-do list, it?s about having a small piece of my schedule set aside for the purpose of meditation. I will use my planner to schedule ?balance breaks?. I?m committing to 4 of these breaks a week.
3. Get the right tools.
   I?ve read the Idiots Guide to Meditation and I still use it?s techniques to help me sleep or to remember to be grateful at the end of the day.? But I need more structure, more guidance for my balance breaks. There are 2 tools I?m using right now that I love. The first is meditation podcasts; Meditation Oasis is my current favorite. The second is GaiamTV. When I won the 3-month trial I had no idea what I was going to do with it. Then I realized how much information they had to offer besides the yoga videos I expected. They have great guided meditation videos and instructional audio presentations. They have movies and videos on personal development from experts like Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson. They even have exercise videos, like the Firm and Jillian Michaels, for when I want to try something new.

I am proud to say I?ve been keeping my commitment to myself and I feel all the better for it. I don?t feel as tightly wound as I normally do. I?m able to take things more in stride, not freaking out over minor curve balls. I am generally happier and able to be more present instead of worrying about what comes next. My ability to focus on writing and other desk tasks is better. All of these things are going to help me make 2013 the exceptional year it is destined to be.

Posted on January 21st, 2013

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Life. Business. Balance. Accounting. Simple. | Gabrielle Luoma, CPA

January 21st, 2013 by admin Categories: Accounting, Blog, Business Advice, Tax No Responses

There are times in my life when I want things to just be simpler. I have two daughters and a very busy work schedule and most of the time my family life and business life collide. All business owners have this happen. Growing a business is not easy, not simple and you rarely find balance but that?s LIFE.

I read an article about a week ago talking about how if you are 5 years into your business and still working as hard or harder then you were your first 3 years then you are doing something wrong. No one likes to hear that. We all want to make excuses, say that all business owners work incredible amount of hours and don?t have a life with their family.

I REJECT that view point.

I believe that as a business owner you are going to work hard BUT you at some point learn to work on the things that make sense for you to do, what you are passionate about and what you can make money doing.

There are dozens of things you can do to open your time up so that you are more productive. Here are a few things you can outsource (basically not do yourself) that will make your life more simple.

1. Get rid of admin work by reducing mail, paper and filing. Everyone is going paperless. You will save time, money and the need to store all that mess.
2. Outsource your accounting function. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Tax compliance can all be given to your accountant and half the cost of hiring a full-time or even a part time person in some cases. Don?t become an accountant. Become a better lawyer, architect, designer or veterinarian.
3. Marketing tasks. Updating your blogs, writing blogs and even newsletters can be updated by contract employees. They will do it better than you ever thought possible so the small cost is worth it.

We specialize in simplifying business owner?s lives?. We are designers of systems mainly accounting systems and we get rid of all the dysfunctional processes that cost you money. We are passionate about helping you live the life you want and work so hard to achieve.

Live your life more simple.

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Real estate notes | TribLIVE

By Sam Spatter

Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 9:00?p.m.
Updated 24 hours ago

? The Brix at 26, an 87-unit apartment complex on the site of the former Goodwill Building on S. Carson Street in the South Side, will open for occupancy on Feb. 1 with more than 20 percent of its apartments pre-leased. ?We are very pleased with the interest the building is receiving, and the only problem is we only have a total of 87 units to lease,? said Jim Scalo, a partner of Burns & Scalo Real Estate Co., owner/developer. The building has environmentally friendly construction and is pet and smoke free, which has been popular, he said. One bedrooms are renting for $1,450 to $2,100, and two-bedrooms for $1,736 to $2,200.

? Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon University will seek approval Tuesday from the Allegheny County Higher Education Building Authority to seek tax-exempt revenue bonds. Duquesne seeks $17 million to finance all or part of renovations to Duquesne Towers, St. Ann?s Hall, Libermann Hall and for other capital expendures. Carnegie Mellon seeks up to $60 million for construction, furnishing and equipping the 105,000-square-foot Nano/Bio/Energy Technologies Building. The funds would also cover improvements to clean rooms, wet and dry labs and energy research space. A hearing is set for 10:30 a.m., 425 Sixth Ave., Suite 800, Downtown.

? EQT Corp. is adding 23,494 square feet to its space on the 12th floor of its headquarters, EQT Plaza, 625 Liberty Ave., Downtown. That will give it 235,994 square feet in the building. David Massaro of Massaro Properties LLC is representing EQT in the expansion. Pat Greene of CBRE Inc. represents the landlord, Liberty Avenue Holdings, affiliated with Highwood Properties of Raleigh, N.C.

? Heather Nally has opened the Micro Diner at 221 Shiloh St., Mt. Washington, thanks to a $29,060 loan from the Pittsburgh Business Growth Fund from the Urban Redevelopment Authority toward the total investment of $72,651. Six jobs were created. Micro serves breakfast all day.

? A request to demolish a building at 202 Rodi Road will be heard by the Penn Hills Planning Commission Thursday. Morris Knowles & Associates would then build a 1,600-square-foot addition to an adjacent building for a kidney dialysis center, DaVita Dialysis. A hearing is at 7 p.m., municipal building, 12245 Frankstown Road.

? A rebuilt Goodwill store at 89 Jefferson Ave., Washington, will hold a grand opening at 9 a.m. on Wednesday with prizes, refreshments and gift cards. The store is the fifth of Goodwill?s new prototype stores, said David Tobiczyk, vice president of marketing for Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania. It will have 9,300 square feet of sales space within the 15,000-square-foot structure and include a collection center with 20 employees. Burns & Scalo Real Estate Advisory Services Inc. was developer and general contractor. A temporary Goodwill store at 853 Jefferson will close at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Sam Spatter is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7843 or sspatter@tribweb.com.

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Small Biz Survival: Top small business blogging questions answered

When I co-hosted BlogChat with Mack Collier a week ago, it was a great chance to answer the most-requested questions about small business blogging. I thought you might like to see those answers, too.

The biggest reason why a small business should be blogging is to respond to customers; answer their questions. If you answer customer questions on your blog, you save yourself lots of repetitive phone calls, etc.

Good small biz blog content draws in more searches, more potential customers.

Good blog content also helps you train new team members. They learn by reading your archives.

Good content builds relationships. A small biz blogger out of Tulsa shared with me how her blog readers call her up, already feeling a relationship.

Is every small business right for a blog?
Are there any small businesses that would NOT benefit from a blog? @JudyLeeDunn asked. I can't think of any. (Just read over those benefits again, and name a business that couldn't use at least one of them.)

Would a small biz benefit from a BAD blog? @judyleedunn asked. Well, they'd benefit in a small way, depending on how it was bad. But a good blog is NOT that hard. A GREAT blog, on the other hand, really can be HARD.

@FinditFlathead said, "and every business needs a blog!" I replied, "Only if they need customers!"

But what will customers say? How will we answer them?
@MackCollier asked about small businesses people who are afraid of how they would respond to customers online. Small businesses already know how to respond to customers. They do it every day in person, by phone, by email. Blog, too

I just don't have time to blog!
1) When it's important to you, you'll make time.

2) When you have it set up right, it doesn't take much time. (You can email in your posts, use audio if it's easier, post from your phone, etc.)

3) When you answer customer questions in advance, you SAVE time.

4) When you see real value coming back, you'll make EVEN MORE time to blog.

I'm no writer!
Write more than twice a week, even if you don't publish it. The extra practice makes you better.

@RicDragon said, "I have LOT of blog posts half finished that I return to every so often. They get richer." I do this, too. You never know how your writing "scraps" will become useful in the future. Keep them.

OK, how do I get started?
1. Write down every question a customer asks for 2 weeks.

2) Set aside time every day to write or record audio/video answers to those questions.

3) Don't worry too much about the platform. WHAT you say matters more than WHERE you say it.

4) Figure out what's easiest for you: text, audio or video. Experiment enough to find out, then use it.

5) Talk about them (customers) more than you talk about you (small biz).

Every blog platform out there will let you use your own URL. Do that. (Thanks @heidicohen for the reminder)

If your business has no website at all, your blog can be your whole website. I do this myself.

For any small biz, it's important to know WHY you're blogging. Write out a clear purpose. Get help, if you need it.

Connect up with other small business people who are just starting. Share ideas.

But what would I say? After I answer questions, I mean.
Start telling your business stories: founding, history, people.

Share your local ties, your community, other businesses that matter.

Share your supply chain. Who do you buy from? Sell to?

Be a social media mirror. Use your blog to reflect ideas from customers to other customers. I stole the "social media mirror" idea from Mark Harbeke

Your customers are all different: use a variety of lengths, emotion/logic, stories/fact, different media like audio and video.

@patrparkinson asked about using a simple photo or video as a post. I added that *with a good caption* a photo or video can be a fine post.

How is small business blogging different from big business blogging? I mean, I read a lot of blogging advice that seems to be written for big companies.?
There are fewer layers of authority between writing and publishing.

It is more personal in that it's direct, and can be more human.

Should company blogs be in first or third person? @GRTaylor2 asked, saying he liked to mix it up depending on the topic. I said, the larger the biz, the more important an individual voice becomes.

@joebugbuster made a good point: if you're a one person biz, there is no need for third-person posts on your blog!

Using an individual voice to personalize the big company is one of the@smalltownrules.

Come to think of it, would you use third-person when talking to a customer face-to-face??

Do you have a small business blogging question I didn't answer? Ask it in the comments.

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Indicted Megaupload founder launches new site

SYDNEY (AP) ? Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website on Sunday, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the U.S. prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy.

The colorful entrepreneur unveiled the "Mega" site ahead of a lavish gala and press conference at his New Zealand mansion on Sunday night, the anniversary of his arrest on racketeering charges related to his now-shuttered Megaupload file-sharing site. Megaupload, which Dotcom started in 2005, was one of the most popular sites on the Web until U.S. prosecutors shut it down, accusing Dotcom and several company officials of facilitating millions of illegal downloads.

In Dotcom's typical grandiose style, the launch party featured a tongue-in-cheek re-enactment of the dramatic raid on his home a year earlier, when New Zealand police swooped down in helicopters onto the mansion grounds and nabbed him in a safe room where he was hiding.

"Mega is going to be huge, and nothing will stop Mega ? whoo!" a gleeful Dotcom bellowed from a giant stage set up in his yard, seconds before a helicopter roared overhead and faux police agents rappelled down the side of his mansion. Dotcom eventually ordered everyone to "stop this madness!" before breaking out into a dance alongside miniskirt-clad "guards" as music boomed.

Bravado aside, interest in the site was certainly high. Dotcom said half a million users registered for Mega in its first 14 hours.

U.S. authorities are trying to extradite the German-born Internet tycoon from New Zealand, where he is free on bail. Prosecutors say Dotcom made tens of millions of dollars while filmmakers and songwriters lost around $500 million in copyright revenue.

Dotcom argues that he can't be held responsible for copyright infringement committed by others, and insists Megaupload complied with copyrights by removing links to pirated material when asked.

"Our company and assets were taken away from us without a hearing," Dotcom said. "The privacy of our users was intruded on, communications were taken offline and free speech was attacked. Let me be clear to those who use copyright law as a weapon to drown innovation and stifle competition: You will be left on the side of the road of history."

Mega, like Megaupload, allows users to store and share large files. It offers 50 gigabytes of free storage, much more than similar sites such as Dropbox and Google Drive, and features a drag-and-drop upload tool.

The key difference is an encryption and decryption feature for data transfers that Dotcom says will protect him from the legal drama that has entangled Megaupload and threatened to put him behind bars.

The decryption keys for uploaded files are held by the users, not Mega, which means the company can't see what's in the files being shared. Dotcom argues that Mega ? which bills itself as "the privacy company" ? therefore can't be held liable for content it cannot see.

"What he's trying to do is give himself a second-string argument: 'Even if I was wrong before, this one's all right because how can I control something if I don't know that it's there?'" said Sydney attorney Charles Alexander, who specializes in intellectual property law. "I can understand the argument; whether it would be successful or not is another matter."

To Dotcom, the concept is very simple.

"If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service," he says, "you don't shut down the post office."

U.S. prosecutors declined to comment on the new site, referring only to a court document that cites several promises Dotcom made while seeking bail that he would not ? and could not ? start a Megaupload-style business until the criminal case was resolved.

"I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or establishing a similar Internet-based business during the period until the resolution of the extradition proceedings," Dotcom said in a Feb. 15, 2012, affidavit.

The Motion Picture Association of America, which filed complaints about alleged copyright infringement by Megaupload, was not impressed.

"We are still reviewing how this new project will operate, but we do know that Kim Dotcom has built his career and his fortune on stealing creative works," the MPAA said in a statement. "We'll reserve final judgment until we have a chance to take a closer look, but given Kim Dotcom's history of damaging the consumer experience by pushing stolen, illegitimate content into the marketplace, count us as skeptical."

Still, as much as Dotcom's new venture might enrage prosecutors and entertainment executives, it shouldn't have any impact on the Megaupload case.

"All it might do is annoy them enough to say, 'We're going to redouble our efforts in prosecuting them'," said Alexander, the attorney. "But I don't think it makes any practical difference to the outcome."

Dotcom denied the new site was designed to provoke authorities, but got in plenty of digs at their expense, saying that their campaign to shutter Megaupload simply forced him to create a new and improved site.

"Sometimes good things come out of terrible events," Dotcom said. "For example, if it wasn't for a giant comet hitting earth, we would still be surrounded by angry dinosaurs ? hungry, too. If it wasn't for that iceberg, we wouldn't have a great Titanic movie which makes me cry every time I see it. And if it wasn't for the raid, we wouldn't have Mega."

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Associated Press writer Matthew Barakat contributed to this report from McLean, Virginia.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indicted-megaupload-founder-launches-003938649.html

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