ARTICLE ABOUT MOBILE COMMERCE

21 Ecommerce Apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry

Ecommerce business owners can use mobile apps to help run a website. Whether you are interested in blogging, social networking, marketing, customer support or even design and development, there is a mobile app tool for just about anything an ecommerce website may need.
I looked at the top seventy-five ecommerce-related apps with the highest user ratings and the most downloads for each of the top three mobile devices: Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android phones, and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. I then handpicked from that group of seventy-five to focus on twenty-one highly rated and popular ecommerce apps for each phone.
Download these apps and run your website on the go.

Social Networking

1. Facebook. Stay connected with your Facebook business page or Facebook commerce shop with Facebook’s proprietary app. Post comments on Walls, chat and upload photos from your mobile device. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android.
   TweetDeck app.
2. TweetDeck. Stay in contact and up-to-date with your company’s feed in the Twitterverse. Respond to customer questions and concerns, or post helpful tips and information for potential customers. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, iPad, Android, Not available on BlackBerry.
3. ShoZu. A one-stop-shop for social networking — connect to over 50 social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Photobucket, WordPress, MySpace and many more. Price: $4.99. Download for iPhone, BlackBerry, Not available for Android.
   

   Marketing

4. PPC Editor. Manage your Google AdWords ad campaigns from your phone. Monitor up-to-the-second statistics on current campaigns, edit budgets and pause or resume any campaign you have running. Price: $16.99. Download for iPhone and Android. Not available on BlackBerry.
5. iAdSense. A streamlined app with limited tools, but allows for a quick glimpse into the current earnings from any AdSense ad for any website you operate. Check the stats for today, yesterday, or monthly, with access to the past month of activity. Handy currency converter for international websites. Price: Free. Download for iPhone. Similar app called DroidSense for Android. Not available on BlackBerry.
   Elite SEM Calculator app.
6. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Calculator. Multiple calculators to aid in figuring out the cost of various SEM campaigns available, and to weigh the best options for your site. Calculate the cost for cost-per-impression (CPM) ads; analyze cost-per-action (CPA) ads for click-thru and conversion; run custom test scenarios and determine the cost of a theoretical banner ad or email campaign; compare the costs between CPM and pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns to find the most effective option for your site. Price: Free. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
7. Sense Earn. Browse and track your Google AdSense ad revenue by day, week or month, and across multiple AdSense accounts. Convert between dollars and euros instantly. Price: $3.99. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
   

   Blogging

8. BlogPress. Now you can blog in real time with this blogging app that is compatible with most of the major blogging platforms, including Blogger, BlogSpot, WordPress, TypePad, Tumblr, Drupal, LiveJournal and more. Solid integration with existing social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, as well as an ability to upload video into YouTube right from your mobile device. Price: $2.99. Download for iPhone and iPad. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
9. WordPress. A full-featured app from WordPress. Moderate comments, create or edit posts and new pages, add images or video. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android.
   WordPress app.
10. TypePad. Update your TypePad blog with new posts, add photos from your phone and automatically alert followers when your blog is updated with a handy Twitter integration tool. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, Android. Not available on BlackBerry.
    

    Customer Support and Tracking

11. Ego. Track web statistics from multiple accounts, including Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, Squarespace, Twitter, Vimeo and more with this centralized app. Quickly view hourly, daily or monthly visits to your website, feed subscription totals, and how many people are following you on Twitter, instantly. Price: $1.99. Download for iPhone, iPad. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
12. Analytics. Track visits, page views, bounce rates, time on site and more on multiple websites with this app that taps into your existing Goggle Analytics account.
    Price: $6.99. Download for iPhone, iPad. Similar app for Android called DroidAnalytics. Not available on BlackBerry.
13. BAM Analytics Pro. Access your existing Google Analytics report information with this handy app. Track new and returning visitors, screen resolutions, browsers used, traffic reports, ad campaign statistics, product SKUs, top revenue sources on your ecommerce store and much more. Price: $1.99. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
    Ego app.
14. Polldaddy. Get access to live customer data at tradeshows, conferences or wherever you might set up your ecommerce shop. Create custom questions and get feedback from potential customers as you tap in their answers into the mobile device screen. Download the data to your computer and analyze and use it to make better decisions. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, iPad. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
    

    Website Design and Optimization

15. SEO Search Ranking. Monitor your website's SEO performance using Google’s search data with this app. Track unlimited websites and keywords; graph trends in your website’s SEO performance over time; and even get country-specific results. Price: $2.99. Download for iPhone. Similar "SEO Keyword Checker" for Android. Not available on BlackBerry.
16. WhatTheFont. Identify any font in a photo, ad, poster or on a website. Snap a photo of the font in question with your phone and view the font details in the app. Then use the data to update your own website with your favorite font styles. Price: Free. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
17. Concentric Sky’s Code Cheat Sheets. Concentric Sky offers an entire suite of developer code cheat sheets from CSS to HTML to JavaScript to PHP to jQuery and more. Built by professional web developers. Easy-to-search specific codes, properties and values in an array of code styles. Download all apps for iPhone: CSS Cheat Sheet, jQuery Cheat Sheet, HTML Cheat Sheet, MYSQL Cheat Sheet, Python Cheat Sheet, PHP Cheat Sheet, JavaScript Cheat Sheet. Not available on BlackBerry or Android. Price: $.99 each.
18. FTP On The Go Pro. View and edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and others with this mobile FTP solution that has all the functionality of a desktop FTP client. Price: $9.99. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
    SEO Search Ranking app.
19. Source Viewer. Quickly look under the hood of any website and see the HTML, CSS or JavaScript that runs the website. Copy and paste the code to a clipboard or email it out. Price: $.99. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
20. Cellica Database. Read and write to your desktop database tables, views, queries and stored procedures with this app. Compatible with most of the major databases, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, dBase and any ODBC compliant database. Price: Free. Download for iPhone. Not available on BlackBerry or Android.
21. GoDaddy.com Mobile. Register and renew domains with GoDaddy.com on your mobile phone. It’s as full-featured as the GoDaddy.com website, but now in mobile app form. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android.

ARTICLE ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE

The Uses of Whole Life Insurance

If you are looking for whole life insurance, then you need to decide between whole and term life insurance. To do that, you should carefully study the differences between whole and term life insurance to determine which is best for your life situation. Term life insurance is a short term solution, which can last up to 30 years. At the end of that term, the policy expires and you are no longer covered. Instead of this possibility, it is good to have at least some permanent coverage in the form of whole life insurance.
Whole life insurance is an insurance policy that will cover you from the moment of inception until either you die or you stop making payments on the whole life insurance policy. If your payments lapse because of your death, which is discovered later, then your whole life insurance policy is considered valid and comes into effect to protect your family from the costs associated with your death.
Whole life insurance is best used as an insurance policy to protect your loved ones from funeral costs and final expenses. A good amount of money may be $30,000 or more, most of which will likely go to the funeral and to the bills that you have left behind. A whole life insurance policy will not protect your family from large debts or from payments on something expensive like a house, however it will help with the immediate costs associated with losing a loved one.
Whole life insurance is best bought when you are young and healthy. The way that insurance companies make money on whole life insurance policies is through the interest that they make on investing your money while you are paying it. For a young, healthy person, the hope of the insurance company is that you will live a long, long time and make payments on your life insurance policy for your entire lifetime. These payments, then, can be much smaller because the insurance company trusts that you will live long enough to make it worth their while.
If you are older, middle aged, for example, then the whole life insurance company may charge a bit more so that they can make enough money on the whole life insurance policy to make it worth their while. While this policy might be more expensive, it is still worth getting now if you are healthy and think that you can afford it, because it is almost impossible to get whole life insurance when you are much older, even if your health is otherwise good.

For the elderly, whole life insurance, where you can get it, is usually too expensive to be of much use. The best answer here is actually to find a term life insurance policy that will cover the length of time, at least, that you think you might live. This is rather a macabre guessing game, and can be avoided by getting a whole life insurance policy when you are much younger and much healthier.

ARTICLE ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The Compensation and Benefits Department

Agha Sadarrudin 

Work in a compensation and benefits department is often described as dealing with the most objective areas of a subjective field. As the name implies, compensation and benefits is concerned with paying employees and administering their benefits package. These tasks are by no means easy ones. First of all, job salaries are not paid on a whim; rather, dollar values assigned to positions come from elaborate investigations and analyses. These investigations run the gamut of simple, logical job rankings (i.e., the position of president of a company should be paid more than the position of a maintenance engineer) to extensive analyses. Once these analyses are finished, job ratings are statistically compared to determine the relative worth of the job to the company. External factors, such as market conditions, limited supply, arid the like, may affect the overall range of job worth. Additionally, analysis is conducted to ensure that there is internal equity in the compensation system. This means that as job rates are set, they are determined on such dimensions as skill, job responsibility, effort, and accountability-not by personal characteristics that may be suspect under employment law.

On the benefits side of the equation, much change has occurred over the past decade. As benefit offerings to employees have become significantly more costly, the benefits administrator (who may also have the title of risk manager) has the responsibility of piecing together a benefits package that meets the needs of the employees, while simultaneously being cost-effective to the organization. As such, much effort is expended searching for lower-cost products, like health insurance, while concurrently maintaining or improving quality. Additionally, various new products are often reviewed, such as flexible benefits programs and utilization reviews, to help in benefit-cost containment. 

The benefits administrator also serves as the resource information officer to employees regarding their benefits. Activities such as helping employees prepare for their retirement, looking for various payout options, keeping abreast of recent tax law changes, or helping executives with their perquisites, are conducted. This gives this individual a great deal of responsibility, but also high visibility in the organization.
Although I have presented four generic areas of HRM, I would be remiss not to recognize the changing nature of HRM in today's organizations. As organizations change structures (to reflect global competition and the like), there has been a movement away from centralization of functional areas toward more self-contained units. In companies where strategic business units, or market-driven units dominate, an HRM professional may be assigned to these units to handle all the HRM operations. In fact, it is estimated that on average one HRM specialist serves the needs of one hundred employees. While a headquarters HRM staff remains to coordinate the activities the HRM representative is expected to perform all the HR functions. Accordingly, the movement toward generalist positions in HRM appears to be on the rise.
Another trend is also closely aligned with the generalist-versus-specialists discussion. Thai trend is called shared services. In large companies that are geographically dispersed are finding it more cost-effective to share their HRM services among the division Under shared services, each location is staffed by a few generalists who bandit routine local matters like recruiting, policy implementation, grievances, employee training, and the like. Specialized services, like organization development and compensation and benefits are handled by a staff located at a centralized location. Each location, then, shares these services offered by the centralized unit, and uses only what is necessary for the division. As such, each location gets specialized care on an as-needed basis without the cost of having full-time staff.

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DI ANTARA TIDUR YANG MENDAPAT PAHALA DENGAN TIDUR KOSONG

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.....

Seseorang yang berusia 60 tahun akan menghabiskan masa lebih kurang 20 tahun untuk tidur. Sekiranya dia tidur mengikut sunnah Rasullullah saw, maka tidurnya akan jadi ibadah. Allah swt hanya akan menerima ibadah yang dilakukan dengan ikhlas. Tidur adalah ibadat yang paling ikhlas. Seseorang tidak perlu dipaksa atau terpaksa untuk tidur. Ganjaran Allah swt untuk orang yang mengamalkan sunnah sangat besar. Satu sunnah yang diamalkan berterusan akan diberi ganjaran 100 pahala mati syahid, sedangkan satu pahala mati syahid sudah cukup untuk menjamin seseorang untuk masuk syurga.

Di dalam tidur sendiri ada banyak sunnah. Sebaliknya, jika seseorang tidur cara selain dari cara Nabi saw, dia hanya akan dapat kerehatan. Kalau bernasib baik, selama 20 tahun mungkin dia dapat mengumpul 20 kilo tahi mata dan menakung 20 liter atau lebih air liur basi.

Antara sunnah-sunnah Nabi saw sebelum, ketika dan selepas tidur.

1. Sebelum dan selepas tidur baca doa tidur. Ramai orang memperlekehkan doa Masnun (doa harian) tapi hakikatnya harga yang Allah swt janjikan adalah syurga.
2. Jangan tidur menghadap kaki arah Qiblat. Ini adalah kedudukan tidur orang yang telah mati.
3. Barangsiapa yang membaca Tasbih Fatimah, sekiranya dia mati malam itu, dia akan dikira sebagai mati syahid. Apa itu Tasbih Fatimah? Subhanallah 33 kali, Alhamdulillah 33 kali, Allahuakbar 33 kali.
4. Baca 4 Qul (An-Nas, Al-Falaq, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Kafiruun) tiup ke tapak tangan dan sapu ke seluruh badan untuk menghindarkan sihir dan niat jahat manusia. Kemudian baca bismillahirrahmanirrahim 21 kali. Barangsiapa membaca bismillahirrahmanirrahim sebanyak 21 kali ketika hendak tidur, nescaya terpelihara dari godaan dan gangguan syaitan, dari bencana manusia dan jin, daripada kecurian dan kebakaran, dan daripada kematian terkejut.
5. Niat untuk bangun Tahajjud. Sekiranya tidak terjaga, Allah swt akan mengira seolah-olah dia bertahajjud sepanjang malam. Tahajjud adalah sebaik-baik pelindung daripada sihir dan buatan orang.
6. Ambil wudhu’ sebelum tidur dan Solat Sunat Taubat 2 rakaat.
7. Maafkan semua kesalahan manusia pada kita dan halalkan semua hutang piutang sebelum tidur. Bangun tidur boleh buka fail semula kalau mahu.
8. Tidur cara Rasulullah saw dengan mengiring badan ke kanan dan tapak tangan di bawah pipi.

Banyak lagi sunnah Nabi saw yang boleh diamal, semuanya mudah untuk dilakukan. Lebih mudah daripada bersolek atau pakai night cream sebelum tidur. Lebih mudah daripada buat senaman ringan sebelum tidur.

Pesan Nabi saw, dilarang tidur meniarap terutama lelaki. Sekiranya tidur dengan kain pelikat, ikat hujung kain supaya tidak menimbulkan fitnah.

Tutup aurat ketika tidur. Kenapa ya? Lelaki yang tidur meniarap, di bawahnya Syaitan/ Jin Betina. Tidur bogel atau tidak menutup aurat akan menghindarkan Malaikat Rahmat dan mengundang makhluk lain. Sekiranya bersetubuh tanpa membaca doa, Syaitan/Jin akan bersama-sama menjamah isteri kita. Kemungkinan besar benih yang masuk bercampur dengan benih-benih Syaitan/Jin. Jadi jangan marah kalau anak-anak ikut perangai bapa-bapa angkat mereka ketika kita bersetubuh dulu.

Imam Bukhari dan Muslim meriwayatkan daripada Aisyah bahawa Nabi telah bersabda : Jika salah seorang di antara kamu berasa mengantuk, hendaklah kamu tidur sehingga hilang rasa mengantuk. Jika seseorang bersembahyang ketika mengantuk berkemungkinan dia membaca istighfar sedangkan sebenarnya dia sedang mencaci dirinya sendiri.

Islam mementingkan tidur dan rehat agar ibadat dan aktiviti seharian dapat dilakukan dengan baik dan seimbang . Malah tidur dapat menentukan kesihatan dan menghasilkan kecergasan dalam diri seseorang . Bukan itu sahaja , tidur bagi seorang muslim juga dikira sebagai satu ibadat sekiranya ia memenuhi adab2 dalam Islam antaranya : -

1. Berwuduk

Sebaik-baik gosok gigi anda sebelum masuk tidur . Malah biasakan diri untuk mengambil wuduk sebelum tidur kerana menjadi amalan yang sangat dirahmati . InsyaAllah tidur anda akan sentiasa dilindungi daripada gangguan syaitan dan iblis .

2. Perut Tidak Terlalu Kenyang

Pastikan perut anda tidak terlalu kenyang ketika mengambil makan malam. Bukan sahaja tidak elok untuk kesihatan malah boleh menyebabkan perut anda cepat rasa sebu . Perut yang kenyang juga boleh menyebabkan anda cepat berasa mengantuk mahupun menghadapi masalah sukar untuk bangun .

3. Mengingati Kesilapan

Sebaik sahaja anda meletakkan kepala ke bantal , cuba anda ingat semula perkara yang telah anda lakukan sepanjang harian. Sekiranya anda melakukan perkara-perkara yang baik, tingkatkan keazaman untuk terus mengekalkan perbuatan yang baik. Tetapi sekiranya anda banyak melakukan kesilapan dan perbuatan mungkar, berazamlah untuk berubah dan beristighfar memohon keampunan daripada Allah S.W.T.

4. Membaca Doa dan Surah Tertentu

Ketika ingin melelapkan mata, amalkan membaca doa atau surah-surah tertentu terlebih dahulu. Pastikan kedudukan tidur anda mengiring ke kanan dan seeloknya menghadap ke kiblat.

Rasulullah S.A.W sering mengamal membaca surah Al Ikhlas, Al Falaq dan Al-Nas dan kemudiannya dihembuskan bacaan itu di kedua-dua belah tangannya lalu digosok ke seluruh badannya di mana tangannya dapat sampai. Bacaan dan perbuatan baginda ini diulang sebanyak tiga kali berturut-turut.

5. Berazam Untuk Bangun Awal

Anda juga digalakkan untuk membaca surah Al-Kausar sebanyak tiga kali sambil berniat di dalam hati mahu bangun awal. Berazam untuk bangun awal bagi membersihkan diri dan menunaikan solat subuh .

6. Bangun Pagi

Setelah terjaga dari tidur pada waktu paginya , ucapkanlah rasa syukur kepada Allah kerana telah memanjangkan usia lalu berdoa : Segala puji bagi Allah yang telah menghidupkan kami sesudah mematikan kami . KepadaNya kami akan dibangkitkan. Kemudian lakukan sedikit regangan untuk melonggarkan otot-otot badan.

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Dari blog Mutiara Hati*. Dipetik dan diubahsuai oleh WanWMA.

Wallahualam.....

TIADA JODOH BUKAN KEHENDAK KITA

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.....

Artikel ini dipetik dari blog rakan sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu. Saya sudah lupa dari mana ia diperolehi. Namun saya ingin kongsikan artikel ini untuk kita sama-sama mengambil iktibar.

Bacalah nasihat Mok Wan ni. Renungkanlah Sedalam-dalamnya. Tiada jodoh tiada kaitan dengan keturunan. Hanya belum sampai masanya. Ia bagai menanti jambatan untuk ke seberang. Kalau panjang jambatannya jauhlah perjalanan kita. Ada org jodohnya cepat sebab jambatannya singkat.

Usia 25 tahun rasanya belumlah terlalu lewat. Dan usia 35 tahun belum apa² kalau sepanjang usia itu telah digunakan untuk membina kecemerlangan. Nyatakanlah perasaan dan keinginan anda itu dalam doa² lewat solat. Allah mendengar. Wanita baik untuk lelaki yang baik, sebaliknya wanita jahat untuk lelaki yang jahat.

Biar lambat jodoh asalkan mendapat ‘Right Person’ dan biar seorang diri daripada menjadi mangsa lelaki/perempuan yang tidak beriman kemudian nanti. Memang kita mudah tersilap mentafsir kehidupan ini. Kita selalu sangka, aku pasti bahagia kalau mendapat ini. Hakikatnya, apabila kita benar² mendapat apa yang kita inginkan itu, ia juga datang bersama masalah.

Kita selalu melihat orang memandu kereta mewah dan terdetiklah di hati kita, bahagianya org itu. Hakikatnya apabila kita sendiri telah memiliki kereta mewah kita ditimpa pelbagai kerenah. Tidak mustahil pula org yang memandu kereta mewah (walaupun sebenarnya tak mewah) terpaksa membayar lebih tatkala berhenti untuk membeli durian di tepi jalan. Orang lain membeli dengan harga biasa, dia terpaksa membayar berlipat ganda.

Ketika anda terperangkap dalam kesesakan jalan raya, motosikal mencelah-celah hingga mampu berada jauh di hadapan. Anda pun mengeluh, alangkah baiknya kalau aku hanya menunggang sebuah motosikal seperti itu dan cepat sampai ke tempat yang dituju. Padahal si penunggang motosikal mungkin sedang memikirkan bilakah dia akan memandu kereta di tengah² bandar raya.

Bukan semua yang anda sangka membahagiakan itu benar² membahagiakan. Bahagianya mungkin ada tapi deritanya juga datang sama. Semua benda, pasti ada baik buruknya. Demikian juga perkahwinan. Ia baik sebab ia dibenarkan oleh agama, sunnah Nabi, sebagai saluran yang betul untuk melepaskan shahwat disamping membina sahsiah dan sebagainya, tapi ia menjadi sebaliknya bila ramai orang yang berkahwin hidupnya semakin tidak terurus.

Ramai orang menempah neraka sebaik sahaja melangkahkan kaki ke alam berumahtangga. Bukankah dengan ijab dan Kabul selain menghalalkan hubungan kelamin, tanggungjawab yang terpaksa dipikul juga turut banyak? Bukankah apabila anda gagal melaksanakannya, anda membina dosa seterusnya jambatan ke neraka?

Berapa ramaikah yang menyesali perkahwinan masing² padahal dahulunya mereka bermati-matian membina janji, memupuk cinta kasih malah ada yang sanggup berkorban apa sahaja asalkan segala impian menjadi nyata?

Jika tidak sanggup untuk bergelar suami atau isteri tidak usah berkahwin dulu.

Jika merasakan diri belum cukup ilmu untuk bergelar ibu ataupun ayah, belajarlah dulu.

Jika rasa² belum bersedia untuk bersabar dgn kerenah anak², carilah dulu kesabaran itu.

Jangan berkahwin dahulu sebab kenyataannya ramai yang tidak bersedia untuk melangkah tetapi telah melompat, akhirnya jatuh terjerumus dan tidak jumpa akar berpaut tatkala cuba mendaki naik.

Berkahwin itu indah dan nikmat bagi yang benar² mengerti tuntutannya.

Berkahwin itu menjanjikan pahala tidak putus² bagi yang menjadikannya gelanggang untuk mengukuhkan iman, mencintai Tuhan dan menjadikan syurga sebagai matlamat. Berkahwin itu sempadan dari ketidaksempurnaan insan kepada kesempurnaan insan – bagi yang mengetahui rahsia²nya. Berkahwinlah anda demi Tuhan dan Nabi-Nya, bukan berkahwin kerana perasaan dan mengikut kebiasaan.

Jodoh usah terlalu dirisaukan, tiba masanya ia akan datang menjemput, namun perlu juga anda membuka lorong²nya agar jemputan itu mudah sampai dan tidak terhalang. “

Seorang teman pernah berpesan..

“Kadang² Allah sembunyikan matahari..

Dia datangkan petir dan kilat..

kita menangis dan tertanya-tanya,

kemana hilangnya sinar..

Rupa²nya.. Allah nak hadiahkan kita pelangi..” ”

“Cinta yang disemadikan tidak mungkin layu selagi adanya imbas kembali.

Hati yang remuk kembali kukuh selagi ketenangan dikecapi.

Jiwa yang pasrah bertukar haluan selagi esok masih ada..

Parut yang lama pastikan sembuh selagi iman terselit didada…”

Semoga mendapat jodoh yang diidamkan dan dirahmati Allah, amin…

Wallahualam.....

How To Be A Good Person..

We live in a world in which basic values such as kindness and compassion are not often given the importance they are due In the media, selfish and arrogant behavior patterns are often glorified. Besides this, it is not uncommon for people to get so caught up in day-to-day responsibilities and personal insecurities that they lose sight of their goals for personal development. Recovering your sense of integrity, or goodness, begins with identifying your personal values.The steps are 1)identify what it is that being a good person means to you personally2)Accept everyone around you as your brothers and your sisters3)Don't criticize anyone because of their gender, age, race, sexual orientation,or culture.4)Stop comparing others with yourself5)Celebrate others' victories and good qualities, even when you do not feel as blessed as they do.6)Love yourself7)Pray and meditate to help cultivate the qualities you seek to embody8)Cultivate both compassion and good value through volunteer service.