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The New Year’s resolution is an annual ritual for tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions more people around the world.  However, as many as 90%  of people never make their resolutions through.

How the 10% accomplish new year’s resolutions?  A New You Year is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to reach a new goal in the coming year. This guide to New Years Resolutions covers all the key factors in making resolutions or setting goals and achieving them successfully.

All the reasons why people can’t keep New Years resolutions boil down to a handful of causes, most of them simple, familiar, and self-inflicted. Once you know the reasons for this high rate of resolution failure, you’ll learn how to become a member of that elite 10% – a New Years resolution success story.

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The Way of Peace by James Allen is a classic work of New Thought and metaphysical truth. The context of this book reflects Allen’s New Thought Movement affiliations and discovered path to personal power and fulfillment through spiritual meditation and the divine referencing with Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.

In this book James Allen addressed the importance of meditation as a ‘pathway to divinity’. Whatever we meditate upon, Allen explains, we become. If you meditate upon ‘ that which is selfish and debasing, you will ultimately become selfish and debased’. Whereas if you meditate upon ‘ that which is pure and unselfish you will surely become pure and unselfish’.

This book describes the energy of our thoughts and reveals that emotions form the very basis of our lives, in the very real world of form and substance. This book along with Allen’s other works cover all you need to know to succeed in life as a healthy, wealthy, happy and wise individual.

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What skills are critical to my success in IT? What are the most important skills I must have? IT Skills Inventory gives you clear guide. IT is a huge dynamic field and skills are widely ranged. Depending on which area you want to work, there are certain core skillsets you should master. This short ebook groups core skills into the following 5 categories:
1. Application Development
2. Systems and Network
3. Database and BI
4. Packaged Software
5. Soft Skills
Each category provides several lists such as skills, tools, systems, etc. that you should get in order to master the skills in the area. Many readers found this ebook is very useful for preparing resume and interview.

For limited time only, this ebook is included in The Ultimate IT Resume Guide package as a free bonus.

Download: IT Skills Inventory (PDF)

Have you ever wondered, what are the high-demand IT jobs? what kind of opportunities I have? How many different types of IT positions might become available in the job market? These ebook gives you quick answers to these questions. This brief description of 50 most wanted IT jobs covers IT positions in all areas, — from development to implementation, from analysis to architecture, from desktop support to network security, from project manager to top CIO. From there you are able to find your niche, identify your strength, and surely land your dream job in IT.

For limited time only, this ebook is included in The Ultimate IT Resume Guide package as a free bonus.

Download: A Brief Description of 50 Most Wanted IT Jobs (PDF)

Many IT professionals don’t have perfect writing skills on professional level. It’s just fine if you don’t. That doesn’t mean you have to depend on professional resume writers to craft your resume. No matter what level of writing skills you are, by following certain rules, you can craft high impact IT resumes to optimize your marketability.

One of the important rules is to use action words. Action words empower your resume by increasing your creditability. When you describe your skills and experience as a past action, it sounds more like a true story, — something really happened, thus your self-claimed experience gets transformed into proven experience, that makes your qualification more creditable and trustable.  Resumes packed with tons of actions words always deliver high persuading power.

To make your IT resume action-oriented, write to describe your knowledge, skills, and experience by starting with a strong action word. Especially when explaining your previous works and experience, you should make everything you did a past action, which tells everyone, you did it. For instance, instead of saying “my responsibilities include database design and application development”, present it as:

• Designed logical and physical database on IBM DB2 Universal Database Server for enterprise-wide data management.

• Developed a web-based application for over 1000 users to report contract funding status in 10 western states.

Here you can see, the key to make your statement a high impact is to:

1. Use strong action words — designed, developed.
2. Make it specific — logical/physical, IBM DB2, web-based, contract funding status, etc.
3. Empathize scope, make it sound like an important task — enterprise-wide, over 1000 users, 10 states.

Also, always use a bullet for one sentence. The sentence should be as short as possible and packed with all important information specific to the action. That gives you best chance to draw recruiters’ attention.

In this ebook, over 100 action verbs are specifically selected for empowering IT resumes.  Each word comes with an example sentence to describe an IT related activity. Study these verbs carefully and pick up the best for your resume.

For limited time only, this ebook is included in The Ultimate IT Resume Guide package as a free bonus.

Download:  Energizing Your IT Resume  by Over 100 Action Words (PDF)

Cover letter is an important part in employment application process. It is usually sent with resume via either postal mail or email or fax. Many job seekers think the role of cover letter is not as critical as resume; this is only true to certain degree. In most cases, a good cover letter can certainly earn extra credits for you, and that extra credit may determine whether or not you get call for interview.

In most job postings, a cover letter is not required. The Job application requirements usually don’t ask for a cover letter, they may just require for sending resumes, sometimes along with application forms. If you follow the direction, you may just submit your best resume. Since you have studied The Ultimate IT Resume Guide, your resume got to be the best, thus your chance to getting the interview is high enough.

However, in today’s highly competitive job market, you cannot ignore anything that makes your edge. Whenever applicable, you should always send your resume with a well crafted cover letter. Cover letter is a good tool to help your resume shine; therefore you should prepare it and use it wisely.

The Ultimate IT Cover Letter Guide, a short ebook though, provides condensed tips to make your cover letter a big winner. In includes valuable information and practical advices like cover letter writing guidelines, IT cover letter sample, and cover letter’s power phrases that you can copy and paste to write your own quickly.

Download:  The Ultimate  IT Cover Letter  Guide (PDF)

The stresses and strains of our hectic lives means that sometimes we neglect the people who mean the most to us – our partners. But this exciting new eBook from Romance Guru Michael Webb aims to change all that. He describes 101 romantic ideas that cost little or nothing to do but speak volumes to the one you love. And as you don’t need to spend a fortune, you can start as soon as you have downloaded the manual.

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Romance her with gifts she really wants. This eBook features the results of surveys on women and very insightful articles and tips:

Women want getaway gifts, men want to stay and play.
Flowers mean more when they come as a surprise.
Gift preferences of women.
Surprise! Men gain by being unpredictable.
Mother’s Day gifts – The worst and best.
Women love chocolates.
Advice for desperate men.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
Gifts women really want.
A guy’s guide to giving flowers.
What’s right for her style and taste?
10 worst gifts a man can buy a woman.
The world’s shortest gift giving guide for men and women.
What women really want.
Tips for buying for women.
…

Note: This book is compiled HTML format as a .exe file rather than PDF.

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In this guide, the Dating and Relationships content discussed focuses on traditional male/female relationships. For supplemental material and resources with regards to significant others in same- gender relationships, simply key in words or phrases pertaining to the information you seek into your favorite search engine directory.

This guide presents an overall look at the basics of relationships and dating, both in the real world and online. Since the latest reports show that nearly everyone can learn the most important social skills needed for relationship building, this guide focuses on the ABC’s of Healthy Relationships. And so that you can be alerted to possible problem areas, the ABC’s of unhealthy relationships are also covered.

Download:  Healthy Dating & Relationship Tips

This 51-page ebook offers a practical guide to internet dating for love seekers. Online dating is not all fun and games and there are a lot of things that a person has to know about online dating before one gets into the intricacies of it. Online dating may seem to be the simplest thing in the world but it is not.

However, if you master each of the following 5 steps, you can win love:
Step 1: Getting Started
Step 2: Making Yourself Look Like A Million Dollars
Step 3: Letting The Relationship Blossom
Step 4: Meeting Face To Face
Step 5: Once Bitten

Download: Online Dating Bliss In 5 Simple Steps