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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born: February 2, 1977) known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who has been a major figure in the pop music scene of Latin America since the mid-1990s. She is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English, Portuguese, Italian, and some Arabic. In 2001, she broke through onto the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over thirteen million copies worldwide.Shakira is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, according to BMI.She has also won numerous awards worldwide, including two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, fifteen Billboard Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, a People's Choice Award and receiving a Golden Globe nomination. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart.
According to the United World Chart, Shakira is as of 2008 the sixth most successful artist so far for the last decade, in terms of single sales. She is also the first, and currently only, artist to have two songs in the top ten of the most successful singles since 1999.Los Angeles Times declared Shakira "the most completely adapted crossover performer in contemporary pop music".
Shakira will be awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, making her the first Colombian to receive this honor.
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some it may mean making lots of money, to others it could mean
achieving one's goals in life, and for still others, it is about
fulfilling one's potential. No matter how one may define success, one
of the best ways to keep oneself on track is reading the success
quotes written by some of the best thinkers and successful people in
the world. Given below are some of the most profound success quotes,
which can keep one motivated to strive to achieve it. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream
of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part
of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to success, that is the way great spiritual
giants are produced." - Swami Vivekananda "Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you
know you can lose." - Tom Crause "The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." Sven Goran Eriksson "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right
time." - Arnold H. Glasgow "They can because they think they can." - Virgil "Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to
become the person you believe you were meant to be." - George Sheehan "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong
mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect.
There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect
conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you
will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more
self-confident and more and more successful." - Mark Victor Hansen "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition
you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained
the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden "Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at
last upon yourself." - Theodore T. Hunger "You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and
act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your
thinking and subsequent actions." - Adlin Sinclair "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a
captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark
Caine "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." -
Robert Collier "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Herman Cain "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief
in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Loyd Wright "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play
better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein "There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own
way." - Christopher Morley "Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a
burning desire to achieve." - Wilfred Peterson "Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts" - Unknown Author "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack
of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." -
Vince Lombardi "Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the
doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a
personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming
all that we can be." - Zig Ziglar "The road to success is always under construction" Lily Tomlin "Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation,
perspiration and inspiration." - Evan Esar "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why
not me? Why not now?" - James Allen
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www.thefreecashreport.blogspot.com | | Quotes for Self-Motivation Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:42 AM PDT Quotes for Self-Motivation Self-motivation quotes can be used as important tools to help us reach
and obtains our goals. When talking about motivation, one of the main
things to do to make sure that you stay on the right path is to
constantly speak to yourself in an encouraging tone and use positive
words. And what better way to motivate yourself than by using
self-motivating quotes? People choose different types of self-motivating quotes to empower
themselves and to give themselves that much needed inspiration and
enthusiasm to meet targets and achieve goals. While some choose to
focus on inspirational and religious quotes, others prefer to listen
to quotes that solely deal with business success. The important thing
however is to choose those quotes that make a difference to you. Here are some quotes that work as self-motivation: "Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of
themselves." - Joyce C. Lock "Things will happen in your life that you can't stop, but that's no
reason to shut out the world. There's a purpose for the good and for
the bad" – Walter Sparrow, Now and Then. "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that
they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the
first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
have imagined."- Henry David Thoreau "If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."-
David Viscott. "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."-
Winston Churchill "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber."- William Mather
Lewis. "Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no
courage unless you're scared" – Eddie Rickenbacker. "One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself,
know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go." –
Sheila Murray Bethel. "For every person who doubts you, tells you you will fail, try twice
as hard to prove them wrong." – Anonymous. "Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what
strengths you have, what you can accomplish." – Cecile Springer. Don't' let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for
the high times." – David Wiemers. "Being committed to some goal in your life – a sense of having a
mission, a purpose, even a calling – is a very motivating, very
comforting thing. Some people's mission steps up to greet them, others
have to hunt theirs down." – Anonymous. "Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit; It's not
the load that weighs your down but the way you carry it." – Anonymous. "Accept everything about yourself. I mean everything. You are you, and
that is the beginning and the end; No apologies, no regrets." – Clark
Montanas. "If you believe in yourself, things are possible." – Shannon Macmillan. "The biggest mistake you can make is continually fearing you will make
one." – Anonymous. "If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back
and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen." – Chuck
Norris.
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www.thefreecashreport.blogspot.com | | Humorous Quotes on Love-Relationships Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:41 AM PDT Humorous Quotes on Love/Relationships: "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein "I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That
must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste." - David Bissonette "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." - Pearl Bailey "You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its
accessories." - Melanie Clark "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to
his success." - Jim Backus "I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.
Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two
plumbers, and a bartender." - Rodney Dangerfield "I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go
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www.thefreecashreport.blogspot.com | | Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:40 AM PDT Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals What prevents your from achieving your goals? Find out all about the
enemies of personal goal setting! Enlarge ImageEverybody on this planet has enemies, rivals and foes.
Call them any way you like, but nevertheless they exist, chasing you
at every step you make. Nobody knows where they come from, but the
fact of their existence was detected on the planet and still nobody
knows completely the effective remedy from them. They spoil our lives;
put the spokes in our wheel, making tricky endeavors to distract us.
The biggest nuisance they cause is that they prevent us from reaching
success in life. The only way out of this situation is to disclose
them and to wipe them out once and for all. You'll be surprised to know that those enemies live within you. Our greatest enemies, whom we must chiefly combat live inside of us.
So, what are those crafty enemies that hold us back from reaching our
goals? 7 Deadly Enemies of Your Goals Enemy #1
For 33 percents of people it is shortage of time. They claim that 24
hours are always not enough for everything they have planned. Time is
of the essence, they say. And they try their best with 24 hours and
manage their time vary carefully, but in any case they constantly feel
the lack of time. Time is an illness causing fatigue. Enemy #2
For 11 percents it is lack of motivation. These people feel that they
don't achieve their goal, because they don't know exactly why they are
aiming at it. As a result, they don't know how to persuade their mind
to achieve that goal. More often these people are satisfied with small
achievements. Enemy #3
For other 33 percents of people it is lack of persistence. These
people just go with the stream, because they lack decisiveness and
perseverance. They can't get over the difficulties, they easily give
up and refuse from their dreams. Enemy #4
For 22 percents the major enemy is their uncertainty. They don't know
what their goals are. These people just don't know what they want to
get from this life. Their life is one big question-mark for them. Enemy #5
For some people it is fear, because they afraid to fail and get
frustrated. They get angry with themselves when they don't fulfill
their goals. Enemy #6
For other people it is laziness. These people just idle and don't want
to make any effort to achieve their goals. Enemy #7
Finally, for some people it is a lack of opportunity. Some people are
deprived of the opportunity to exhibit their talents and gifts.
Success is people-dependent factor. Often most of aspiring people are
driven away form their dreams on account of opportunity factors. A common enemy of ours is the surrounding: jealous and envy people who
put obstacles on our way to success. Now you know your enemies by their faces, so it will be easier for you
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www.thefreecashreport.blogspot.com | | Benefits of Laughing Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:39 AM PDT Benefits of Laughing Everyday you must be laughing for different reasons. Have you ever
noticed, how you feel relaxed after laughing? There are a number of
health benefits of laughing and that's why, laughter is stated to be
the best medicine. Every person laughs several times a day for different reasons - after
hearing a joke, watching a comedy movie or reading a comic book. Humor
is one of the important senses that human being is blessed with.
Laughing expresses a feeling of happiness. Humor and laughter are
contagious and they cause a cumulative effect of amusement and joy. In
addition, they offer a number of positive health benefits. Laughter makes it easier for us to cope with different challenges in
life. It improves and strengthens our immune system and helps prevent
a number of diseases. Laughter therapy can be used to cure several
diseases such as hypertension, ulcers, arthritis, stroke, diabetes and
even heart diseases. It offers good relaxation and helps you relieve
stress and depression. Read on to know about benefits of laughing in
detail. Benefits of Laughing Laughing is not just related to facial expressions, but it causes a
number of chemical changes within the body. Good hearty laughter helps
release enzymes and hormones that are helpful for normal functioning
of various organs. This is due to a connection between laughing and
stimulation of brain and different glands. Laughter enhances the body
to release natural antihistamines. It also activates T-cells, a
natural anti-biotic produced in the body. It helps boost the immune
system and fight infections. It prevents numerous diseases by
strengthening the immune system. Laughter reduces the levels of certain hormones, namely cortisol,
growth hormone, epinephrine and dopac, which are associated with
stress response. Thus it helps relieve stress, depression, anxiety,
grief, anger and irritation. Laughing also decreases pain by releasing
a hormone, endorphins. It improves our attentiveness, pulse and heart
rate. Laughing is proven to be very beneficial for the people suffering from
hypertension. It helps lower the blood pressure to normal. Laughing
causes deeper breathing and increase in blood flow, due to which
oxygen and essential nutrients are supplied to all body parts. Laughter is a good workout for respiratory, abdominal, leg, back and
facial muscles. It tones intestinal functioning, massages abdominal
organs and strengthens abdominal muscles. This activity is
advantageous for digestion as well as absorption. Laughter also helps
burn calories and is beneficial for weight loss. In addition to physical health benefits, laughing offers several
psychological health benefits. It boosts self-confidence and gives
mental strength to cope with conflicts and challenges in life. It also
helps us come out of anxiety and depression. It improves out mental
health and makes us forget all the tensions in our daily busy lives. Laughing enhances our ability to connect with others. It also causes a
number of behavioral changes. It makes us energized and increases our
interest in daily activities. Laughing also offers many social benefits. A person with a smiling
face is always popular amongst a group. It lessens the distance
between two individuals and brings them together. It increases healthy
communication with others. Laughter positively affects many aspects of your life, including your
health, well-being and energy, leading to a healthy, quality life. So
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