ONLINE RESOURCES

BUSINESS PRODUCTS & TOOLS

Easy Reach: EasyReach products give you the ability to find, organize, manage, share and act on the information that is critical to your business and personal success. And it includes a one-year subscription to EasyReach's unique Remote Access service, so that you can retrieve information from any location - using your smartphone or any browser - and deliver that information wherever you desire. Click here to try, buy or learn more about EasyReach.

Paper Tiger Software -- Find ANYTHING you file or store in 5 seconds or less...guaranteed!

ACT! Contact Management - ACT! is a wonderful contact management software program that helps you manage all of your contact information, remember important follow-up, and keep record of all contacts in one easy place. It also can sync with a PDA. This is the contact management software that I use myself.

Stamps.com Reduce trips to the Post Office. Print postage right from your PC! Stamps.com enables you to print U.S. Postal-Service-approved postage with just your PC, printer and Internet connection. No more standing in line at the post office to send things weighing more than 8 ounces.

Online Shopping Cart & Merchant Account: Jump-start your online business and enjoy a hands-free income! You've got better things to do than search for the right online services to support your business. From merchant accounts to shopping carts to innovative marketing tools, this will make the business of running your business effortless and easy. Their integrated eCommerce tools allow you to sell products, services and communicate with your clients through your website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, automatically!

AccessGenie: Finally, affordable automated nightly backup for individuals! A recent survey found that 58.7% of independent workers NEVER back up their computer data, leaving them at risk for losing it all! AccessGenie is a complete and secure backup solution for PC's and laptops anywhere on the Internet. Never lose a file again! Try it free for 30 days.

Contribute -- Update web content yourself without knowing HTML.-- BONUS – Sign up for a free 30 day trial!

RoboForm – This software program remembers frequently-asked-for data to automate completion of online forms.

Email Stripper -- This is a FREE program for cleaning the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails. It restores forward or replied emails back to their original state so they're easier to read.

Linkman -- is a complete bookmarking solution to store, organize, annotate and check your favorite Internet links. Linkman efficiently handles tens of thousands of URLs by using a database to store your links, along with keywords you might use to search for that link later. You can easily add URLs from web pages you visit. It has the capability to import and synchronize from existing bookmark collections and export bookmarks in a variety of formats including IE Favorites, Netscape Navigator Bookmarks, Opera Hotlist, HTML Linkpages and XML. Linkman supports all major Windows browsers.

Equifax Consumer Services - Checked your credit report lately for accuracy? Check it online now!

Do Not Call List for Cellular Phones: Block telemarketing calls from coming in to your cell phone by calling the number 1-888-382-1222 from your cell phone. Or, you can add up to three cell phone numbers to the Do Not Call list by visiting www.donotcall.gov.

Free Survey Tools - A colleague uses surveys for post class evaluations or to ask R & D questions of people. The service she uses is Advanced Survey, which allows her to customize the survey with her logo and colors. Here are two other survey tools for you to check out: www.surveymonkey.com, www.Zoomerang.com.

Bestseller business book summaries arrive weekly in PDF, Powerpoint, PDA

and audio formats. Get the freshest business ideas & tactics in minutes.

SendThisFile® enables you to easily send a large file to anyone, anywhere! Use your free account to send audio recordings, home movies, CAD files, databases, graphics prints, accounting files and other data. SendThisFile® doesn't overload the email system. You won't have problems with fire walls, proxy servers and routers.

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Access Your PC from Anywhere - Free Download GoToMyPC is the easiest, most secure and cost-effective solution for your visitors to have remote access to their home or work PC - from anywhere in the world - for one low flat rate.

BUSINESS SERVICES & ADVICE

Solo Professionals - Fill Your Practice: Attend this free webinar and learn the secrets and strategies that have allowed the world's most successful solo professionals to fill
their practices quickly and simply. All you have to do is call into the seminar line and listen in to grab all the content-rich, action-oriented information. In this free webinar, Travis Greenlee -- my business design and development coach -- will share the secrets to creating a highly automated, very successful practice that took him years to uncover.

Great Resource for Small Businesses - Learn everything from where to get a patent to how to make cold calls to how to create a business plan…and it is all free on this incredible site!

SBA Resources - The US Small Business Administration's site provides a business-plan tutorial with sample plans, answers to small business questions, and local listings of SBA resources.

Search for Business Associations by Industry - If you plan to start a business, you'll find links to vendors, trade publications, and associations that will point you to the information you need for your industry.

Business Plans - Palo Alto Software's site has one of the most extensive collections of business plans anywhere on the Web.

Free Start-Up Business Tools - This site offers lots of forms, templates, sample policies, and a variety of free tools to help any start-up business.

Compare rates - My Rate Plan provides comprehensive, unbiased information to assist you in comparing your options for a variety of household and business services. The resources on this site will save you time and money as you locate the services and providers appropriate for your unique needs in areas such as wireless plans, wireless phones, long distance services, credit cards, loans, travel, satellite TV providers, Internet service providers, and insurance of all kinds.

Teleclass International: Work from the comfort of your home or office. Become a Teleclass Instructor. Teleclass International provides outstanding instruction to teach you how to create, advertise, and deliver effective teleclasses.

CAREER INFORMATION

Salary.com offers detailed salary ranges based on job field, zip code, and position. It also contains updated articles, career advice, and job board links.

SalaryExpert.com provides mean salaries based on position and zip code, plus corresponding "buying power" figures based on an area's cost of living. It also contains information on more than 800 positions, including some less common jobs.

HotJobs.com provides a place for employers and job seekers to meet online and learn more about each other.

JobsOnline is an online career resource site providing links for both employers and job seekers alike. By providing its services at no charge, JobsOnline is able to offer job seekers valuable career resources, including one of the broadest array of job listings on the Internet, while at the same time presenting employers with the most cost efficient alternative to advertise their positions to a large audience of potential candidates.

Career Builder - If you’re looking for a new job in your current field, this is the site for you. You can search over 70 job posting sites across the country. You can create and post your resume for potential employers to see. This site also has a neat feature called the "Personal Search Agent" which will send new job postings that match your search criteria directly to your email address. That way you know you’re seeing the latest postings without having to constantly check the site.

Current Salary & Hiring Trends in Your Career Field - Visit this site, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, when you’ve identified a potential new career and want to find current salary and hiring trends. You’ll also find advice on interviews, networking and job-search strategies. Includes tips for evaluating job offers of pay and benefits. This site also provides a complete library of career-related columns from the Wall Street Journal.

Update Your Resume - This site will actually generate a resume and cover letter for you. Just fill in the blanks with information such as your career objectives, work experience and educational background. This site will even email a copy of the resume and cover letter to the prospective employer.

Assessment Tools: Job satisfaction and performance are related to needs and expectations being met on the job. These tools help people discover and capitalize on their individual strengths and create success solutions for the whole organization. They also help individuals make the best.

www.HigherEdDegrees.com offers a comprehensive directory of online, distance learning and campus based higher education schools and colleges for serious career professionals. Find hundreds of higher education institutions and online degree programs offering job-specific career training and advanced career education.

Resume & Cover Letter Templates: This site offers resume and cover letter templates to download, writing tips and an interview guide.

COMMUNICATIONS - STAYING IN TOUCH

Teleclass International: Work from the comfort of your home or office. Become a Teleclass Instructor. Teleclass International provides outstanding instruction to teach you how to create, advertise, and deliver effective teleclasses.

ACT! Contact Management - ACT! is a wonderful contact management software program that helps you manage all of your contact information, remember important follow-up, and keep record of all contacts in one easy place. It also can sync with a PDA. This is the contact management software that I use myself.

Compare rates - My Rate Plan provides comprehensive, unbiased information to assist you in comparing your options for a variety of household and business services. The resources on this site will save you time and money as you locate the services and providers appropriate for your unique needs in areas such as wireless plans, wireless phones, long distance services, credit cards, loans, travel, satellite TV providers, Internet service providers, and insurance of all kinds.

Assessment Tool Generator: Create Your Own Assessment Tools in 10 Minutes or Less! Design custom self-scoring assessments to attract more prospects and give better value to existing clients. Click here to try it for FREE.

Free Invitation Service - If you want to send invitations to people and allow them to respond online check out this site.

Free Birthday/Anniversary Alarms & Cards - Simply send out a link to your family, friends and clients from and all who care to can sign up so that you are automatically notified before their birthday or anniversary (you set how many days before the event the notice gets sent to you). There is then an option to send them a free eCard.

Free eCards - These free eCards are sent to the recipient’s in box without having to click another link to read the card. They are beautifully done and quite simple. They are cards of encouragement, support and wisdom. There is only one drawback -- they do not allow you to send to AOL addresses.

CaringBridge provides a free online service connecting patients to friends and families. When you don't have time to update friends and relatives about a loved one's medical condition, you can rely on this free web service as a "check-in" place to get the latest update about their condition and any family needs. It also offers a guestbook page for people to leave messages on.

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Access Your PC from Anywhere - Free Download GoToMyPC is the easiest, most secure and cost-effective solution for your visitors to have remote access to their home or work PC - from anywhere in the world - for one low flat rate.

FINANCIAL & BANKING SERVICES

Paytrust or CheckFree - Imagine receiving and paying all your bills online! No more bills in your mailbox. No more stamps. No more checks. It's, secure, fast, and incredibly convenient - from your home, office or on the road!

Loan Applications Online - Fill out a single loan application for your home business and send it to multiple banks at one time.

Currency Converter for International Exchange Rates - Want to know what the cost of a product or service will be after you have converted it to your own currency? Click here and enter the asking price, as well as what currency you want to convert from and to. It does the math for you!

GIFTS

AAA Fruit Baskets - Fast, nationwide delivery of fresh fruit and wine baskets.

Amazon.com Gift Certificates - Amazon.com makes it easy to cover everyone on your gift list. They carry thousands of items for people of all ages. Great gift ideas for friends, family, and corporate gifts.

GiftBaskets.com - Free shipping on selected products!

GiftTree - GiftTree is one of the internet's leading online florists and gift providers since 1995.

Mrs. Fields Gifts - Delicious cookies, fudge and candy packaged to create a great gift. Shop for seasonal, special occasion, corporate gifts, or by a price range.

CelebrateSomebody.com - allows you to make a customized gift book and invite friends and family to make comments in it online! There is no charge to design a book or to use their Group Comment Service. If you want a printed version of a gift book, some of their print options require a fee for service.

www.BirthdayAlarm.com: This web site offers a free reminder service. Simply enter in names and dates for all important holidays, anniversaries, and birthdays you want to remember, and you will receive an e-mail reminder before that date comes up. You are under NO obligation to use their paid services. If you choose, you can purchase their one year membership of $13.95 for unlimited access to their eCards.

E-Greeting Cards - Free Services:
www.hallmark.com
www.123greetings.com
www.free-e-cards-online.com

Paper Cards (sent in the mail on your behalf)
BeThoughtfulNow.com Send real cards without leaving your desk! You can send a PAPER greeting card in the mail with your personal handwritten message and signature for about a dollar (including postage) ... without leaving the comfort of your desk! Click here to try it for FREE!

INTERNET SERVICES & PRODUCTS

Assessment Tool Generator: Create Your Own Assessment Tools in 10 Minutes or Less! Design custom self-scoring assessments to attract more prospects and give better value to existing clients. Click here to try it for FREE.

Linkman - Linkman is a complete bookmarking solution to store, organize, annotate and check your favorite Internet links.

LinkShare Referral Program - LinkShare is an e-commerce business solution for over 3.5 million online relationships. Become an affiliate of the LinkShare Network for FREE and earn revenue by linking to over 500 premier online merchants.

Network Solutions - Network Solutions offers a wide range of internet services, from domain names and web hosting to .name email hosting and more.

RoboForm - Still trying to remember that password? Let the Robot do it! Roboform fills out login, registration and other forms automatically.

Online Shopping Cart & Merchant Account: Jump-start your online business and enjoy a hands-free income! You've got better things to do than search for the right online services to support your business. From merchant accounts to shopping carts to innovative marketing tools, this will make the business of running your business effortless and easy. Their integrated eCommerce tools allow you to sell products, services and communicate with your clients through your website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, automatically!

Web Editing Software: I was introduced to Macromedia Contribute a couple years ago, and it has saved me a lot of time and money. Now, instead of sending every single web site change or addition to my webmaster, I make some of the changes myself. (I still choose to delegate the bigger jobs to her!) The interface looks very similar to what the page will look like when it is published to your site, as Contribute "translates" what you write into HTML code. Bottom line, you don't need to know any HTML code in order to publish to your own web site. It has paid for itself many times over in Webmaster fee savings.

Spam Filter: I now get about 500 spam a day, so it has become necessary to separate the spam from my good email, just so I can get through my email each day. SafetyBar is my favorite spam filter. It puts all suspected spam directly into a folder called SPAM (it creates the folder when you load the software), where you can quickly review the contents and then block those addresses from coming in again. It checks your address book, so none of the approved addresses in your address book will ever be mistakened as spam. The regular price is $4.99/mo. or $59.88/year. Use referral code 3tp34, and you will receive a special discount price of $3.99 per month or $39.90 per year (you get 2 months free when you pay yearly).

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LEGAL INFORMATION, PRODUCTS & FORMS

Dispute Resolution - Do you have a dispute with a client? Go to egripes.com, fill out a form, and name the price you'll pay for resolution.

Articles on Legal Issues - This site provides hundreds of articles on everything from bankruptcy to tort laws to incorporation, plus a searchable database of attorneys in your own city.

Legal Forms - Find free legal forms on almost any subject!

Pre-Paid Legal - Have you ever wanted legal advice on a credit matter or legal assistance with the purchase of a home? How about for writing or revising your Will? For just pennies a day, you can protect your legal rights. Pre-Paid Legal offers great legal service plans designed with the cost-conscious consumer in mind. I have been a member for years.

Basic Law Office Organizing - an eBook for Professional Organizers. If you've never organized a lawyer or a law firm before, this eBook will help you understand what an attorney's priorities are, how the work should flow, key definitions of legal terms and give you input on the various departments in a law firm. Once you finish this eBook and implement the suggestions contained therein, you will be able to gain access to this ever growing marketplace. This was written by someone who has 32 years working in the field, and she knows her stuff!

Legal Assistance: Nolo's mission is to make the legal system work for everyone -- not just lawyers. To help people handle their own everyday legal matters -- or learn enough about them to make working with a lawyer a more satisfying experience -- they publish reliable, plain-English books, software, forms and this website. Everything they publish is regularly revised, updated and improved by their staff of lawyer-editors. They pay attention not only to changes in the law, but to feedback from customers, lawyers, judges and court staffers. One of our clients formed her own LLC with tools found on this site...without hiring an attorney. Check out the hundreds of forms and other tools they offer.

MARKETING

Solo Professionals - Fill Your Practice: Attend this free webinar and learn the secrets and strategies that have allowed the world's most successful solo professionals to fill
their practices quickly and simply. All you have to do is call into the seminar line and listen in to grab all the content-rich, action-oriented information. In this free webinar, Travis Greenlee -- my business design and development coach -- will share the secrets to creating a highly automated, very successful practice that took him years to uncover.

GREAT free stuff from Marketing Guru Robert Middleton: Get Robert Middleton's free Marketing Plan Workbook and sign up for his free More Clients eZine. Robert's expertise is in helping service professionals develop effective marketing plans. Both of these free tools helped me to take my business from fledgling to fantastic. When you're ready for more, you may wish to consider getting Robert's InfoGuru Online Marketing Manual. (He offers $10 off if you get it when you subscribe to his free stuff, and he offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee.) This manual comes LOADED with lots of extras, including links to over 11 hours of teleclasses and discussions on marketing. Some even come with complete transcriptions.

Make Sales Without Selling - Here's a totally risk-free marketing approach that teaches you how to get paid well for doing what you love. Marketing Coach Kendall SummerHawk's three-tape series, "What to Say if You Hate to Sell," shows exactly how to have a respectful, authentic, thoughtful conversation with prospects, a conversation that results in people asking if they can hire you. I purchased her Marketing Makeover cassette series, and her ideas have made a huge difference in my business! And she offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Launch your website in 8 weeks! You don't have to be a professional writer to create your own website copy. Now you can write your own with expert tips, techniques, and insider’s secrets that guide you every step of the way. Kendall SummerHawk will coach, guide, mentor, and support you to write your own client-capturing website in just 8 short weeks with her WebWise Writing teleclass series — and at a fraction of the cost of what I paid to work with her one-on-one to develop the content of my website.

OFFICE ORGANZING PRODUCTS

Office Depot - Offering a complete office supply resource, including office supplies, furniture, technology, and a terrific business center containing lots of free information to help you effectively run your business. Free shipping on orders over $50.

Paper Tiger Software - Find ANYTHING you file or store in 5 seconds or less...guaranteed!

Office Supplies & Furnishings - Check out our affiliate links for a variety of online sources to fulfill your office supply and furnishing needs.

Records Retention Guidelines - Organizing, filing and retaining old records is a burden for many businesses and households. This site offers retention guidelines for various types of records. These general guidelines should be tempered by your own business and investment concerns, as well as the advice of legal counsel.

Corporate Designs by Hertz - (furniture)

DeskByDesign.com - has created a wonderful clutter-free desk called the Wall Street, which is ergonomically designed and pre-wired for computers and accessories.

The Mobile Office Outfitter - offers a full line of specialty automotive office products which include mobile desks and workstations, laptop stands and accessories, vehicle power supplies, cellular accessories, mobile organizers, filing supplies, and educational resources for the mobile professional. If you order from them, please mention that Paauwerfully Organized sent you.

Organize your cords & wires - A practical solution to the endless rat's nests of cords and wires! The easy-to-use Cord Control Kits and accessories immediately transforms the appearance of any office or home entertainment center by systematically labeling, bundling and concealing all electronic equipment cords and wires.

Medical Arts Press - offers products for healthcare office needs. They offer a full selection of quality printing and office products at low, discount prices. Their product line includes: Billing & Insurance, Books & Software, Forms, Filing Supplies, Furniture, Labels, Marketing & Appointment, Office Products, Practice Supplies, Stationery and much more.

Durable plastic file folders - Jeffco office supplies are made from extremely durable polypropylene plastic. Their filing products will stand up to years of hard use without tearing or becoming dog-eared.

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Easy Reach: EasyReach products give you the ability to find, organize, manage, share and act on the information that is critical to your business and personal success. And it includes a one-year subscription to EasyReach's unique Remote Access service, so that you can retrieve information from any location - using your smartphone or any browser - and deliver that information wherever you desire. Click here to try, buy or learn more about EasyReach.

Paper Tiger Software - Find ANYTHING you file or store in 5 seconds or less...guaranteed!

ACT! Contact Mangement - ACT! is a wonderful contact management software program that helps you manage all of your contact information, remember important follow-up, and keep record of all contacts in one easy place. It also can sync with a PDA. This is the contact management software that I use myself.

Assessment Tools: Job satisfaction, performance, and productivity are related to needs and expectations being met on the job. These tools help people discover and capitalize on their individual strengths and create success solutions for the whole organization.

CubeDoors — portable, retractable, mesh-weave panels block entry into cubicles, effectively saying "Busy" to those who stop by. They also sell the QuietLight, a do-not-disturb light that hangs on the wall or door. Visit their home page or cublcle photos for more information.

FranklinCovey - FranklinCovey products will help you focus on and execute your top priorities, leading you to greater success!

Linkman - Linkman is a complete bookmarking solution to store, organize, annotate and check your favorite Internet links. Linkman efficiently handles tens of thousands of URLs by using a database to store your links. It can call upon many powerful facilities that replace the browser's native bookmark management systems. You can easily add URLs from all opened browser sessions.

Mind Mapping Software: MindMapper is an effective and proven tool for visual thinking, organizing thoughts and ideas visually, decision making, making presentations, planning, brainstorming, outlining ideas, note taking, and more. This mind mapping software utility is one of the easiest mind map creativity tools to learn and use.

RoboForm - Still trying to remember that password? Let the Robot do it! Roboform fills out login, registration and other forms automatically.

Spam Filter: I now get about 500 spam a day, so it has become necessary to separate the spam from my good email, just so I can get through my email each day. My Cloudmark is currently my favorite spam filter. It puts all suspected spam directly into a folder called SPAM (it creates the folder when you load the software), where you can quickly review the contents and then block those addresses from coming in again. It checks your address book, so none of the approved addresses in your address book will ever be mistakened as spam. The regular price is $4.99/mo. or $59.88/year. Use referral code 3tp34, and you will receive a special discount price of $3.99 per month or $39.90 per year (you get 2 months free when you pay yearly).

Improve Productivity in Meetings: Learn the secret skills of the world's best facilitators and permanently increase your profits, employee morale, & job satisfaction. Miracle Meetings is a wonderful eBook that provides tools to help you eliminate dysfunctional behavior from your meetings. For more in-depth learning, invite presenters to come to your place of work and conduct The Effective Facilitator, a live two-day workshop on leading better meetings.

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REFERENCE LIBRARY

Online Reference Resources - This site offers an online dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, style guide, and book of quotations.

Online Libraries & Reference Desk - This site offers local libraries online from all around the country. It also has a reference desk which offers your answer for acronyms, almanacs, calculators, and specialized legal and medical information.

Free Translations - Forget foreign language dictionaries to make the translation. This site translates text and Web pages from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese to English.

Mega Reference Desk - Here you'll come across everything from encyclopedias to international phone directories to a roster of the FBI's most wanted, and Internet reference sites ranging from the U.S. Census Bureau and Gray’s Anatomy to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. This site helps visitors sort through the millions of resources on the Web, including books, artifacts, images, documents, and maps.

LifeTimeInfo.com - Free, professionally-produced articles, ebooks, ecourses and software on Self Help, Health & Fitness, Career & Business, and more.

Web-related questions - This site contains a collection of tutorials that can answer most Web-related questions.

Free Visual Thesaurus - Truly a unique resource, this free web site offers a complete thesaurus in a graphical interface that is easy to use and remarkably extensive in content.

Find great quotes - to use in public speaking or in your writing. This site offers the ability to search for the perfect quote by topic or author. You can also do a search to find out who the author is of a famous quote. Another great site for quotes is Inspiration Peak.

Find great articles - by going to this site and searching by topic or author through more than 300 magazines and journals dating back to 1998. Each search result gives you the author's name, date of the article, length, source, and first two sentences. You can then print out the entire article.

TAX & U.S. GOVERNMENT INFO

De-Clutter Your Environment AND Get a Tax Deduction! - Here's a tool that guarantees you will save at least $500 in taxes through donations. I have used this tool for at least 5 years, and I get it every year because it saves me so much money in taxes. Click here to find a charity near you.

Learn Valuable Tax-Saving Strategies - from a former IRS attorney. Discover how to legally and ethically cut your taxes in half! Sandy Botkin, Attorney and CPA, is CEO and Principal Lecturer for the Tax Reduction Institute. His eight-cassette lecture series, titled Tax Strategies for Business Professionals, contains valuable information and is also very entertaining to listen to. He also has a series called Tax and Financial Strategies for Residential Real Estate and Tax Strategies for the Home Based Business.

IRS Assistance - Tax questions? Go straight to the horse's mouth. The Internal Revenue Service offers an essential set of resources for tax preparation including advice on minimizing penalties, downloadable forms, and complete instructions.

Breaking Tax News & Updates - Want to be ready for next year's taxes? Get your 1040 forms, and read articles on breaking tax news as well as data like standard deductions, AGL limits, and state addresses.

Questions for a Government Agency - Want to know the latest postal rates or find tax forms? What about how to file complaints with the government, get a passport, or register to vote? You'll find the info here.

TIME / LIFE MANAGEMENT

Great weather forecasts - Get local weather reports, as well as information like pollen alerts, travel reports, and a 15-day forecast.

Time and Date Calendar: Create your own customized calendar with important dates on it. Find the duration between two dates, the countdown to the New Year, when you will be 20,000 days old, and other date-related information.

HowToCleanAnything.com - offers a wonderful stain removal guide for many different kinds of stains you might find on upholstery, carpeting, car interiors, and clothing.

WatchMinder - is a watch/device invented by a psychologist to help you remember what needs your attention next. If you find yourself getting distracted and you want to teach yourself to stay on task, try WatchMinder for 30 days. If it doesn't help you to improve behavior and form new habits, you can get your money back! WatchMinder comes with over 70 pre-programmed messages such as pay attn, go mtg, call home, meds, relax, exercise. It has 16 daily reminder alarms, silent vibration, and multiple fixed/random interval training alarms.

Mission Statement Builder - This FranklinCovey site walks you through a series of questions and creates a personal mission statement based on your responses.

Online personality questionnaire - (36 questions) which provides you with information about your Keirsey Character and Temperament.

Assessment Tools: Job satisfaction and performance are related to needs and expectations being met on the job. These tools help people discover and capitalize on their individual strengths and create success solutions for the whole organization.

Mind Mapping Software: MindMapper is an effective and proven tool for visual thinking, organizing thoughts and ideas visually, decision making, making presentations, planning, brainstorming, outlining ideas, note taking, and more. This mind mapping software utility is one of the easiest mind map creativity tools to learn and use.

CubeDoors — portable, retractable, mesh-weave panels block entry into cubicles, effectively saying "Busy" to those who stop by. They also sell the QuietLight, a do-not-disturb light that hangs on the wall or door. Visit their home page or cublcle photos for more information.

Purseket - The best purse organizer! More pockets and storage to help you get and stay organized.

TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

Expedia – Compare rates before you buy. Check them out for cheap flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and last-minute deals.

HotelGuide.com Online hotel reservations and discounts - Check out their recommended list of websites to the latest hot destinations, and then book your reservation at over 85,000 hotels worldwide.

Hotels.com - Best Prices. Best Places. Guaranteed!

Hotwire - Offering discounts on rental cars, hotels, airfares, packages, and weekend getaways.

Lowestfare.com - Great international rates. Check out their prices for flights, hotels, cars, vacations, and cruises. If price is more important than departure time, you'll find even better deals here. Their site also offers SkyAuction -- bids starting at $1 for select airline tickets, vacations, and cruises.

OneTravel - Featuring the FareBeater™ tool for air, hotel, car, vacation and cruise deals.

Orbitz - Trip planning, discounted rates for select destinations. Let their DealDetector search for your target price. Check out their students-only airfare deals.

Travelocity.com - Comprehensive US & Canada travel services in one location. Save money by booking a package or shopping for last-minute deals.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Lowest Gas Prices - This site tells you where to find the cheapest gas in your area, plus it gives you a perspective on gas prices in relation to other places in the US and Canada. AAA also provides a Fuel Cost Calculator to estimate the cost of gas for traveling from one point to another when traveling in the United States.

TripAdvisor - is one of the top 15 worldwide travel sites and the #1 travel search engine. They provide unbiased information on cities, hotels, and attractions in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the South Pacific. They are not a travel agent. They offer a great place to get helpful information as you make your travel plans. And there is no cost to you!

Passports & Visas - This visa and passport expert guarantees to have your visas and passports handled quickly, accurately, and professionally. Low rate guarantee.

Global Hot Spots to Avoid - A frequently updated report on global hot spots to avoid when traveling. For your safety, don't leave home without checking in here first.

Foreign Language Assistance - If you want to master a few useful phrases in a foreign language before traveling, go to this site. It even supplies sound clips so you can pronounce the words properly.

Free Translations - Forget foreign language dictionaries to make the translation. This site translates text and Web pages from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese to English.

Historical Weather Averages - Before taking off on a trip, check out the historical weather averages for thousands of cities around the globe. Find out when the rainy season is, or what the average high and low is before you pack.

How Far Is It? - Enter the names of two cities anywhere in the world and get the distance between them in miles or kilometers, with the option of printing out a map with driving directions.

Currency Converter for International Exchange Rates - Want to know what the cost of a product or service will be after you have converted it to your own currency? Click here and enter the asking price, as well as what currency you want to convert from and to. It does the math for you!

Track an Enroute Flight - Want to check on the status of a flight to see if your guest or loved one will arrive on time? With this site, you can track a plane's progress with either the flight number or the departure and arrival city. You'll get a real-time map of the plane and its progress, based on radar data.

Travel the Earth via Earthcam - This site provides images from digital cameras around the world. Visit hundreds of places without leaving your chair! The images are updated regularly, and some are live.

Travel the Earth via Satellite Images - This site provides images taken by satellite of the Earth at night.

Travel Insurance Comparison - Get a comparative analysis of 14 travel insurance companies. Simply enter a few facts about your travel plans and the system will present several policy options for you to compare.

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