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Must Have Blogging Tools for Bloggers

The number of blogs keeps growing everyday, and they deal with every subject under the sun. Of course, if you are like me, you have more than one blog and sometimes you run out of ideas. This is especially true if these blogs are on different and unrelated subjects. The tools that every serious blogger should have in their arsenal should include those for helping to create ideas for topics as well as helping to garner traffic. The number of these tools, both free and paid for, is overwhelming. If you are serious about your blog, you need to put time aside to test these out so as to find the ones that best suit your needs. Some of these tools that I think are definite must haves are discussed below. Content Idea Generator : A tool from SEO Gadget , it is great for keeping abreast of what’s happening on the web so that you can come up with ideas for your blog or website. Diigo :  If you are like me, you want a tool that allows you to mark, make notes and highlight fo...

Being Single isn’t the Worst Thing That can Happen

“Being single isn’t bad. What is bad is giving up hope on finding that someone special .” – Anonymous I have lots of friends, some single, some married, a few are in-between relationships, while others are ‘kind of single’. What I’ve found is that many of my single friends are always seeking that special someone. There is nothing wrong with that, but settling just to be with someone is definitely not the way.  Some reasons why being single are not the worst thing that can happen: You see that couple that you admire so much? You just may never know that behind closed doors they are like strangers. That husband/boyfriend/lover you see holding the car door for her, may just be the one beating her when you cannot see That adoring wife, may be the most disrespectful person ever when no one sees or hears Ever wonder why your friend has no time for you? It may not be that she or he is so smitten they don’t like to leave each other’s side, it’s because he or she is forbi...

Being Grateful and Never Giving Up

I've found that with practice you can learn to appreciate life with all its valleys and hills. Yet, being miserable and unhappy is such an easy thing. Being human we tend to take the easy road…and for many that means being unhappy and thinking that life is just too hard. Over the weekend my son, Jalen made the statement that life is neither hard or easy, its just weird. I told him I was just thinking about life and that we just have to make the most of it. In true 9-years old going on 90 he said, " I'm not going to make the most of life, life better make the most of me. There'll never be anyone else just like me. I'm special and crazy and unique ." That statement got me thinking. There I was worrying about income, bills and everything in between and questioning why life had to be so hard. As if to take me out of my funk even more, I read the following from Sid Savara , “ It takes a lot to win at this thing we call life. But it takes even more to lose ....