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Love’s Focus Should Be What?

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The Bible command to love is never unqualified.

Make Sure You Look
Where You’re Loving

Everybody loves. Not some, but all. There is no person who doesn’t love.

Every saint loves. Every sinner loves. Good citizens and criminals both love.

The question is never, “Do you love?”

The capacity to love is engaged every waking moment by every person but is sometimes focused in the wrong direction. The important lesson is that we learn to love somebody else. Somebody other than self.

There was never a time when Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t love. He loved before his transformation and he loved after. The difference was “What” he loved, his focus. The people or things he was attached to. [Read more…] about Love’s Focus Should Be What?

4 Things Failure Is Not

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Sitting around doing nothing is waste, not failure.

Failure Catalyzes
Clarity And Focus

Is failure a good thing or a bad thing? When does it happen? Should I avoid it? How does it work?

Failure provokes many questions and it’s common. Is there anyone who hasn’t been body slammed by its after effects?

Some think failure is synonymous with loser. Not a nice idea. Also not true. People who succeed greatly also fail badly.

In order to get through failure effectively, and use it to win rather than lose, we need to manage it like popular winners. The first step toward doing that is understanding what it is not. [Read more…] about 4 Things Failure Is Not

US Open Still The Best Test Of Golf

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The US Open's mind game: acknowledge the problem without obsessing over it.

It’s More
Than A Test
Of Your Golf Swing

The 2015 US Open was another episode in what has become one of the most exciting and entertaining golf challenges ever.

The mind game in golf, which everyone knows exists, is never more apparent than in the Open. Scoring is perennially low because course conditions are intentionally messed with. The primary cut of rough is always left longer than usual and the speed and slope of the greens can be quite treacherous.

But this year’s Open added even more difficulties to the mix. [Read more…] about US Open Still The Best Test Of Golf

x.vindicosuite.com Is An Unwanted Redirect (Intrusion)

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Take nothing for granted!

A Quick Search
Revealed The Solution

I recently noticed some unusual click-thrus on my site, and being the curious person I am, I investigated further.

The clicks were actually a redirect, which means people were attempting to navigate to one page but instead being taken to a completely unexpected page, a page that had nothing to do with anything on my site: x.vindicosuite.com.

The last time I checked, that URL delivered a blank page.

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I did a search and found several posts explaining what was happening. It involved Sitemeter, a visitor tracking service for websites. Any site that had their code installed was vulnerable to the redirect.

The bad news is, even though Sitemeter was notified well over a year ago, they’ve done nothing about it.

I only discovered the problem in May 2015 so there is no telling how many visitors this glitch has run off. Frustrating! [Read more…] about x.vindicosuite.com Is An Unwanted Redirect (Intrusion)

7 Guidelines For An Amazon Book Review

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You don't need to assassinate an author to disagree with his or her ideas.

Reviews Are
The Lifeblood
Of Book Sales

Amazon’s online review portal provides a great benefit for anyone looking to buy books but only because people say what they think.

And anyone can write a review. Anyone! The only qualifications are you bought – or borrowed – the book and read it.

But as with anything in life, there are Do’s and Don’ts that every reviewer should keep in mind, especially when it comes to books. Several are listed below.

These guidelines apply mostly to non-fiction but can be modified for fiction. [Read more…] about 7 Guidelines For An Amazon Book Review