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Successful New Year Resolutions
 by Linda Binns
We all start the New Year with good intentions. How many of us have resolved to get organized, exercise more or lose weight, starting on Jan. 1? These extremely common -- and truly beneficial -- resolutions are some of the hardest to keep, often because they require fundamental changes in lifestyle and shifts in our well-worn paths of daily routine.
To help you start the New Year right, here are some suggestions that can make the difference between success and frustration:
I'm Going To Get Organized!
Getting rid of clutter is one of the primary tenets of Feng Shui, an ancient art that focuses on creating a flow of positive energy to benefit the inhabitants of an environment. Yet, clearing your home or office of anything you don't want, need or love and ensuring that everything is in its proper place can be overwhelming. How can you successfully ...
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Why Your Articles Should Be Part of
Dreams Alive Magazine
Why should you submit an article? Whether the next article you submit to us is your 1st or your 10th, they are all welcome and they will all bring about positive change for you. Better yet, let's take a look at some concrete and real reasons why you should submit articles to Dreams Alive Magazine on a regular basis.
- Global Exposure
Having entered our 5th year of publishing Dreams Alive Magazine online, one of our original goals of the magazine is now becoming real. We always have and always will say:
"Dreams Alive Magazine exists to provide valuable resources and pleasure for our readers and also to provide an avenue of self-expression and world-wide exposure for artists, writers, decorators, cooks, businesses and anyone who has a message to convey through our home and garden articles."
In the past few months, our capacity to provide ""world-wide exposure" has become more apparent and real because we now have magazines and newspapers that are starting to use Dreams Alive Magazine as a resource for finding quality content for their online and offline publications. Our commitment to quality and our desire to make every article a virtual work of art, has earned our magazine and your articles, the recognition that they truly deserve.
Some recent e-mail excerpts:
"... My husband and I do a Canadian magazine that features various successful real estate agents. ... What is difficult (due to time constraints) is finding good articles to use as fillers and getting reprint rights to use them. The reason for my email today is to request reprint permission ... to use the same information in print form - with the appropriate credits of course."
"... I am the editor of Home and Design Magazine, supplement to the Philadelphia Inquirer. I am wondering if you are a content service...Are your articles and visuals available to us for use in our monthly? The info looks like exactly what we need."
"... I am a writer and Publisher ( Golden Times Magazine)in Prince Edward Island. The magazine is a bi-monthly targeted to " active people fifty years plus " and distributed free in 10,000 copies throughout the province . I will be interested in reprinting occasional articles following the directions you have included."
- Exposure Across Multiple Websites
Every article we print also gets an entry added to our "Article Feeds" database. This enables our "Article Feeds" javascript program to dynamically create an introductory paragraph, title and picture of your article. When clicked upon, the visitor is taken to that article within Dreams Alive magazine.
Take a look at how easy it is to set this up on our Free Content and Article Feeds page. Dozens of website owners have already placed our Article Feeds program on their websites and are currently displaying over 45,000 article feeds each month. Visit a few of these sites to see this in action:
- Long-Term Exposure with Increasing Traffic
Each of our preceding issues is still online in the exact directory it was originally placed in. They are not archived or buried away...they are open and available for individuals and search engines to explore. This generally translates into older issues getting 2 to 5 times the traffic of new issues since the older issues have had time to be digested and indexed by the search engines.
This same effect holds true for advertisements in each issue. Unlike your standard paper magazine where you have to depend on a small 30 to 90 day period where you will only ever see any measurable results, our online magazine provides this initial measurable result, but as holidays and events occur, people will be scouring these older issue for stories and pictures and they will find your ads for quite some time to come. For more on advertising with us, see our Media Kit.
Overall, taking the time to create and submit an article to Dreams Alive Magazine, will bring about wonderful results in many ways and for many reasons. Submission Guidelines are simple and easy to follow. Please visit our Submissions Page and send us your gardening, home decor, life event, spiritual or holiday related articles, recipes, press releases, poetry and art.
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Posted by: Valérie
we want to know where to stop our wains coating when we reach the down stairway out of our bedroom and the up stairway into our master bathroom. Please see pictures provided.
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What color to paint the walls?
Posted by: Sue
Hi. I'd like to paint the walls in my formal living room. Presently, the room has a pastel pink and cream look going. The carpets pink, and area rug has purple and blue in it. The couch has a textured print which is basically light pink (almost white). The drapes are cream with a strip of mauve/darker pink on it.
Which color should I paint the walls??
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Any article within Dreams Alive Magazine that is written by an author who has agreed to be included in our Pre-Approved list, may be reproduced without further need of approval, as long as you follow some very simple guidelines, such as providing reciprocal links, holding onto bio info, etc.
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Spice up your website and provide a professional and visually appealing impact on your visitors. Each time the page loads, a different selection is provided from our vast array of articles. All you need to do is place some Javascript code on your page and we take care of everything else for you. Not only do the articles change with each page load, but we are always adding new articles to the list, ensuring that your visitors always find something new of interest.
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Our Next Issue - Winter-2 2005
* Release date: Week of Feb 20th *
For information about placing Business Card Ads or Inline Ads in this newsletter or placing Classified Ads or Dynamic Vertical Ads in the magazine, see our
Advertising Media Kit.
Also, please send in your stories about your dreams come true...about your Dreams Alive. Also, send your art work, poems, recipes.....anything that is an expression of who you are. Provide pictures as well if you can. Here's your chance to show your room, home or garden to the world, share your accomplishments, promote your business or just show off the gardener, cook, artist or decorator in you. To find out more, visit our
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If we already featured an item of yours, you can add this cool graphic to your site:
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