When you work to develop your inner strengths, you: · polish your diamond and stop singing blues · will become more confident, optimistic and focused. The more developed your strengths, more likely you are to aspire to higher goals and achieve a life of great satisfaction and joy.

My favorite analogy is one used by Edward Anderson and Donald O. Clifton. In their book, Soar With Your Strengths, they say: “Talents are like diamonds in rough and strengths are diamonds that show brilliance after they have been carefully cut and polished. Just as finished diamonds start as diamonds in rough, strengths start as talents. And just as rough diamonds are naturally found in earth, talents are naturally found within you. But while diamonds are refined with blades and polishing wheels, strengths are produced when talents are refined with knowledge and skills.”

7. Let go of past

The benefits of letting go of past are enormous. Psychological research is finding that being a forgiving person is essential to happiness. Even when someone wrongs you, feeling anger or hatred only causes your life to descend into misery and resentment. You are one who suffers, not person with whom you're angry. Forgiving, on other hand, can lift burden. When Buddha and Jesus and other great spiritual figures taught us to forgive those who sin against us, they weren't just pronouncing holy philosophy, rather, they were giving practical down-to-earth life advice.

There is no question that you will be more satisfied with your life and will be less likely to experience symptoms of psychological distress, such as nervousness, restlessness and sadness if you let go of past traumas and disappointments. Researchers now believe that letting go of grudges may fortify heart and immune system. "When you're stuck in a grudge, you're isolated in your own suffering," says Fred Luskin, Ph.D., author of Forgive for Good and director of Stanford Forgiveness Project. "The long-term damage to cardiovascular system from bitterness and resentment is clearly established."

8. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

“If only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” ~ Meiser Echart

I discussed things like; if you design programs for a company that produces highly gory video games, and that company promotes those games to young people, do you bear any responsibility for violent behavior in those young people? Or do you bear any responsibility if your programming skills are used to slip pornography through filters that parents put on computers to protect their children from online porn? What about if you design programs that help online criminals steal from others, do you bear any responsibility even if you don't use program yourself?

In my summation I stated that I felt you did bear responsibility for these things. If you look at S & L scandals some years ago, and some of scandals in big corporations these days, you might draw conclusion that ethics in business is a thing of past.

I think those currently making their living in internet marketing arena, and those of us trying to break into that arena need to consider area of ethics very seriously.

It amazes me how many wonderful opportunities are offered to me each day. It's great; I can make tons and tons of money each month even if I'm a really lazy person. All I need to do is buy some ebook for a low $47 or put up some mini site and I'll have more money coming in than I'll know what to do with. What makes this so sad is that you can become so cynical from all unethical offers, that it makes it hard to recognize legitimate ones when they come.