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Christmas is the most universally recognized holiday transcending language, culture and even religious beliefs. It is a time when people come together in acknowledgement, gratitude, forgiveness and love for one another showing good will and generosity to all. To be at our best, exhibiting the spirit of Christmas during the festive season we need to do some work on ourselves during the year to ensure we exhibit the positive powerful joyful spirit of Christmas wherever we go.

So what’s the best way to light up the spirit of Christmas? The number one most important way is to ensure your attitude (which comes from your thoughts) is in step with what the spirit of Christmas stands for. Below are 8 great principals and if you work on them you will ensure your attitude is at its best not only during the festive season but over-flowing throughout the year.

But first there are a number of areas that we need to be aware of including body language. Many experts tell us that non verbal cues are more important than verbal communications. Yes this may be a surprise to many but non-verbal communication or your body language is your major communication tool and not what comes out of your mouth. The non verbal often contradicts what we say in words.

The body doesn’t lie even when words do! Body language includes gestures, voice tonality, pitch, pace, hand and eye movements and much more it all contributes to a deeper understanding of your real thoughts and feelings. However rather than just learning how to try and control your body language (which will be almost impossible for most people), it is far better to learn how to be congruent. This way you will be thinking, feeling and meaning what you say and not masking good cheer during the Christmas festive season when deep inside you may be angry, in emotional pain or confused, unhappy or feeling unfulfilled.

So how do we do it you say? Well a great way is to incorporate some rituals into your life that will support you to focus on and bring out the best in you Rituals that help to get to the core of your feelings, by acknowledging and addressing them. When you are feeling on top of the world everyone else around you will be too. You will leave the spirit of Christmas where ever you go!

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However history remembers Joel Comm’s ambitious blend of reality TV and internet marketing, there’s no doubt that The Next Internet Millionaire (TNIM) is a production on a scale that most home business owners can only dream about.

Joel Comm, as the host of TNIM, sets challenges for the contestants and then, at the conclusion, decides who isn’t going to make it to the next episode. The overall winner will receive the opportunity to work on a joint venture with Joel which will likely result in millionaire status.

The obvious comparison for this show is The Apprentice hosted by Alan Sugar in the UK and Donald Trump in the US. Team challenges are made and the losing team is interviewed to decide who should be eliminated (read ‘fired’).

Some additional twists are added with the opportunity for one member to obtain “immunity” status by winning a particular challenge. Poker-style E-Commerce chips are also dispensed for members to use in purchasing additional help with their challenges.

The majority of the show is given over to contestant interviews and ‘fly on the wall’ views of the challenges in progress. The consequence is that nothing of significant educational value is offered and all that remains is the fun of watching the contestants pitted against each other.

This alone would be fine, except that friction, in the first episode at least, is virtually non-existent. Most of the fun from The Apprentice centres on the cut-throat competition between the contestants, but Joel Comm has managed to gather together a group of pleasant, friendly people that, for the most, are falling over each other to be kind and supportive of one another.

The interviews focus on one or two inflammatory comments, but they’re insignificant and the creators of the show are clearly desperate for some action.

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The Milton model forms the other part of the basis of NLP, the yin to the yang of the Meta-model, if you like. Whereas the Meta-model drives toward eliminating the fuzzy vagueness of language, the Milton tries to eliminate the specifics of language to attempt to unveil the underlying subconscious levels (unconscious model) rather than the conscious (cognitive) model. The Milton model was named after Milton Erickson, the founding President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis who is generally recognized as the originator of clinical hypnotherapy.

The Milton model is most often used to gain and build rapport. This is useful in many situations, whether they be casual social situations, meetings at work or in a sales type environment. In any of these situations you will have an advantage when you build rapport. To do this generalities are used instead of specifics and nouns are most often nominalized. This is another way of making your conversation as non-specific and non-threatening as possible.

If you are making conversation with someone and you ask about the previous weekend you would want to keep the conversation general and then try to steer them into defining the direction it takes. For example, if the person you are talking to says they were out with their friends, you might ask what friends they were with. Your end of the conversation would be more mirroring what they were saying to build the rapport and gain their confidence.

Application to Business In a business context the Milton model is very useful in public speaking. When one uses more generalities one has more rapport with a crowd. Think about the last speech you heard. Probably it was from a politician. If there was a press corps and the politician was taking questions, odds are very strong the answers were vague. This is classic Milton, where the politician can’t be too specific about ‘things’ because specifics might come back to haunt them. The same thing happens in many business meetings, especially board meetings and public meetings, such as annual stock holders meetings.

In more intimate settings individuals can match and mirror a client or colleague. You can try to match a person’s physical stance, their vocabulary, the tonal quality of their voice, and try to imagine what they might be thinking. If you are imitating them closely enough you will start to pick up on their general thought, at least minimally. As you are talking to the person you can lead them slowly and softly in the direction you wish to go, and if they are in true rapport they will go along with you. This is not to say that you are going down a path they would object to, but one that will benefit them. When in rapport the two of you will more likely see eye to eye.

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Do you remember in the beginning of this course when I said that Adsense wants you to be successful with their program? Well it's true! They have provided you with most of the tools you will need to make your Adsense business a success.

Tools like reports that you can use to track the performance of your ads. You will find all of the stats from your campaigns under the reports tab inside your Adsense account. There you will be able to learn things like the total number of clicks and impressions for all of your ad units\blocks. You will also be able to view your effective CPM (cost per thousand impressions).

Let me take a minute to clarify CTR's and CPM's for you. The CTR (click through rate) for Adsense is the total number of clicks that you receive for your ad units\blocks. It's broken down by individual ad units. The number of clicks is then divided by the total number impressions for that unit to return your CTR. The higher your CTR's the more revenue for you.

The CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) effective CPM is calculated by dividing your earnings by the total number of page impressions that you receive, and then multiplying the final figure by 1000. Be careful not to confuse your effective CPM with your earnings. Effective CPM is generally used for testing various channels to find out which ones are performing the best. If you need to know more about CTR's and CPM's login to your account and check out the help files.

The reports can be displayed several different ways. You can view them by the day, week, month or since your last pay check. You can also search for a specific date range. You can customize the reports for advanced performance and tracking by setting up different channels for more in depth results. For instance you can set up channels to test one page against another, one ad format verses another, keywords, or even whole websites to see which one performs the best. There are so many options available with channels that we can't go into them all, but I'm sure you get the idea!

You can also download your reports in CSV format (comma separated values format) for better record keeping. Plus get your reports emailed to you automatically so you don't have to login. Adsense usually updates the stats every hour, so you can be pretty sure that you are getting up to date reports.