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Best Small Business Ideas: Smart Women / Small Business FABGuides Outstanding

Overwhelmed by the thought of what goes into starting a small business these days? You definitely have the desire, the drive, but where are you going to find the time? And where do you get started?

Many people find it tedious, confusing, and often frustrating when researching potential small businesses. Are you one of these? Even though the Internet has a wealth of information, it also has a bunch of @#$% small business products that you need to be able to sort through. And we're not even talking about all those scams!
Small Business Ideas with Step-by-Step Blueprints

After spending hours upon hours searching for the best small business resources, we discovered these great guides from the folks at FabJob. In each of these comprehensive Smart Women, Small Business FABGuides, you get step-by-step advice including the Fundamentals of the Business, How to Get Started, Necessary Skills for the Business, How to Break into the Business, How to Get Hired, Strategies for Success, Sample Forms for the Business, and links to many key resources including professional associations, key business resources, recommended books and magazines of the trade. Written by real small business owners not hired writers, these guides literally take you by the hand and show you how to create and run your own successful small business.

Why do we like them?

* Very comprehensive...these are not general overviews of a business
* Customized for each business...not a template with a lot of generic information
* Authors are successful owners of the business they write about
* No risk, money back guarantee if you are not happy with the guide you bought
* Great value - a fraction of what is charged for more generic, template-based products

Who else likes them?

These small business guides have been featured or mentioned in the Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch.com, Entrepreneur.com, Woman's World Magazine, Woman's Day, and others main stream media. We're not the only ones that like them!

So if you're looking for small business ideas along with step-by-step advice in how to get started and what it takes to be successful, take a look at these Small Business Guides. They'll take your from crawling, to walking, to running your own small business. Oh, and they're a great value, too, which is important for those struggling in this tough economy.
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Let me rest tonight

I've got the children to tend
The clothes
to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.

Maya Angelou

a woman's work is never done

Although the majority of women chose to stay home, where society believed a woman should be, many ventured out into the working world either to begin their own business or to work for others in order to support themselves and their families. But whether a woman sought paid employment, or stayed at home to work in the domestic realm, she was always working. As Martha Ballard, a well-known eighteenth-century woman, wrote in her journal on Nov. 26, 1795, "A womans work is Never Done as ye Song Says, and happy Shee whos Strength holds out to the End..."
This exhibition brings together a selection of images from the Society's collections that illustrate many facets of American women's work, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution.

The Prevention of Breast Cancer

Each year in the United States, approximately 180,000 women will be told they have breast cancer. While there is ample information in the public about the medical aspects of treatment, by comparison, information on prevention is still lacking. This article will provide some current information on how Chinese women work toward prevention of breast cancer. While this article addresses women, breast cancer does rarely occur in men (less than 2% of the cases each year).
Diet

Diet plays a major role in prevention of breast cancer. Breast cancer rates among Japanese and Chinese women are approximately one-tenth of those of American women. The typical Asian diet is lower in fat and dairy products, and much higher in soy products, green vegetables, and whole grains compared to Western societies. Breast cancer rates have increased for immigrant Japanese women in California who have gradually switched to a more western diet. This also includes descendants. This does suggest that diet factors do play a big role especially while the body is still young and growing. An overweight female also has higher risk. Eating more fish instead of red meat can reduce the intake of saturated fat. Asians also tend to eat fresher foods, which have less preservatives. Farming in Asia tends to use less chemical fertilizers and pesticides due to the initial high cost of chemicals, though this has been changing rapidly as farming has increasingly become "westernized". Organic farming has become more popular of late and does provide a better source of produce.
Stress

Stress can stimulate excessive hormone secretion in the body, which can lead to higher rate of breast cancer. Evaluate your daily life. Busyness does not equal more stress. Worrying excessively can create tension in the body and should be reduced if possible. Look at having a more positive outlook in life. My mother always told me, "When you are angry, 10 million cells in your body die or become toxic; when you are happy, all your cells are happy and functioning."
Alcohol, smoking and coffee

Alcohol and coffee consumption and smoking have been directly linked to higher cancer rates. These habits tend to develop at a young age. It's important to teach our daughters very early on. It's also important to avoid persistent second-hand smoke.
Meditation and energy exercises

Exercises such as Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Yoga can be a good benefit in reducing stress and tension in our body. Meditation can relax our mind and bring our body to a more balanced state. These exercises are not difficult to learn and can be incorporated into our life style relatively easily. Since the 1970's, Chinese people have been experimenting with Qi Gong in the treatment of breast cancer. While the medical Qi Gong treatments have shown some effectiveness in controlling the cancer, more importantly Qi Gong does help delay the growth and the onset of cancer.