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Training: Buy and Apply

18 Jun

Training who needs it?
I haven’t seen this topic covered too much on the blogs or in general. The answer is EVERYBODY.
In every aspect of life you have probably had a teacher or a mentor. Someone generally illuminates the path for us. This is highly beneficial and should always be sought out.
And so-

-Training- BUY it.
WHY you ask?
I counter with why not?
In business you need a good cpa, no question. And the cpa in question should be proficient at a minimum. Same for your doctor right? Well these professionals. Accrued hundreds if not thousands of hours to obtain their licensing. And they also maintain their licensing by continuing education. To be the best you pay a price. And to excel beyond your last point you pay more. So why is it that some will assume they don’t need to cough up some cash to get ahead. What makes you different?
You are starting your own business or already have one if you’re one of my regulars. If you’re not you probably will. That being said if you could learn your business and skip hundreds of small failures for a small cash price wouldn’t that be worth it. Now failures make us stronger but there is a limit to finding inner strength and wasting time. Don’t you win if you skip ahead? Remember monopoly? You pass ahead of the guy with eight hotels with a simple roll of the die and you exhale in relief. Still not sure you want to duplicate that process on your terms?

-Training- APPLY IT.
This is going to sound ridiculous. I acknowledge many will say so and stop reading even. However many buy and ignore. More people buy to feel they are doing and never will. Let’s examine that.
Ever bought a gym membership you didn’t use? You paid the fee, made a resolution, and then life had other things in mind.
Or you dated a girl who prepaid her yoga classes so her and her friends could go and bond and grow? And in the end she was watching Sex and the City instead? A final favorite is the guy who joins a venture and it requires licensing so he pays out the refundable fee and decides he has better things to do than recoup that money and learn, aka MIND his business. I’ve seen a lot of this and its always the same thing. The back hurts. The engine wouldn’t turn over. But the sad truth is what we want we go out and get. So if you paid for a training series why won’t you take it. And then refresh it a few months later? If you don’t learn these basics you will get nowhere.
And you know what? I used to make this same mistake. I bought good training and didn’t use it. I took the next step only to sit down instead of running. And even worse- I did this twice! Yup I admit it. I bought programs that I knew worked from having seen it first hand. I spent my money, I talked about the freedom I’d gain, and then I turned on the you tube. Or I went out with the boys. People the time is now. Seize the day. Move forward. You spent the money. You invested in your freedom and your future. Now spend the one asset you won’t recover- TIME.

Buy your training.
Apply your training.
And then study it all over again.
And AGAIN.

Remember:
We don’t esteem that which we obtain too easily so earn your freedom and your wealth know and enjoy all of your days.

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Albert Einstein

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LOVE YOU or HATE ME

17 Jun

Love you or hate me.
So I’m going to keep it brief and reiterate some previous concepts – sort of.
What are you looking for?
Are you trashing the boss at water cooler, but you keep doing the overtime?
You talk about being the king, but won’t fight for the kingdom?
Great! Nice! Been there. Done that.
Truth be told I’m barely free from my self-imposed slavery.
And without further ado:

-What are you looking for?
Do you really want to be your own boss or just like to say it because, hey its the American Dream? No problem if its not for you. Many people don’t know what they want and that’s fine. However, don’t lie to yourself. Honesty is not overrated. And when you lie to yourself you kill your dreams, your esteem, and your ability to conquer the world around you.
If you like being a worker or a ceo or manager at someone else’s company that’s just fine. There is a position for everyone in the world. Someone has to change tires. Someone has to cook. And there is honor in an honest days work. So tell yourself the truth everyday and make the best of everyday.

-Do you simply talk the talk or do you walk it too? This is a big one. A lot of weekend warriors and armchair investors will hate me now- you’re phonies. Sorry its true. Let me explain. A lot of people do what they can with what they have. And that’s fine. You’re making do congrats. I don’t applaud you. Its one thing to save money and make a project to bond with your son and teach him the family craft. Its another to pretend to be your own man to have some nifty stories to tell and puff up your chest with. Sorry its true. You pour over the wall street journal daily and every now and then you make a “savvy” investment. Cool. After the buy and sell commissions, the other miscellaneous fees, oh and those pesky taxes you MUST pay- you made zilch. Thanks jack but what you don’t see is that what you do with your ten hours pretending is nothing. And the reason is:
IT’S NOT YOUR PRIORITY.
Point. Blank. Period. Right now your priority is your JOB. You get up on time. Arrive on time. Call out seldom, and speak the corporate jargon. You tow the line. And you do it well. And there in lies your failure.
When you don’t live, breath, eat and sleep your dreams you have already lost.
When your job is #1 because it pays the bills you have become a slave.
You pay the bills.
You make it happen.
You are the one being your best. You simply are putting your effort in the wrong basket.

-How do we fix this?
Stop living for a paycheck and start working for YOUR DREAM. Get your mind wrapped around the fact that if you don’t build your dreams now you will build THEIRS FOREVER. What do you really want. Will you love you and hate me for telling you the TRUTH? Or will you commit to getting your life on track here and now. Let’s build the momentum that guarantees success. Tap into my knowledge.
Tap into THE Infinite.
Tap into your fears.
Use your fears to move you to the life you need. Your fears can sink you or build you up. Timing is everything and It, is time.

Hitler’s Success Formula
“Tomorrow will Come Daily.”

But

“Today will Come Today only.”

So Finish Your Today’s Work
Today & Be Free Tomorrow.

Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
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@changeinadvance
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RT @rayhigdon: Replay from last night, 5 steps to an income producing blog –

17 Jun

From my indirect mentor- Ray Higdon aka @rayhigdon

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RT @rayhigdon: Replay from last night, 5 steps to an income producing blog

17 Jun

From my indirect mentor- Ray Higdon aka @rayhigdon

Love you or hate me.

16 Jun

Love you or hate me.
So I’m going to keep it brief and reiterate some previous concepts – sort of.
What are you looking for?
Are you trashing the boss at water cooler, but you keep doing the overtime?
You talk about being the king, but won’t fight for the kingdom?
Great! Nice! Been there. Done that.
Truth be told I’m barely free from my self-imposed slavery.
And without further ado:

-What are you looking for?
Do you really want to be your own boss or just like to say it because, hey its the American Dream? No problem if its not for you. Many people don’t know what they want and that’s fine. However, don’t lie to yourself. Honesty is not overrated. And when you lie to yourself you kill your dreams, your esteem, and your ability to conquer the world around you.
If you like being a worker or a ceo or manager at someone else’s company that’s just fine. There is a position for everyone in the world. Someone has to change tires. Someone has to cook. And there is honor in an honest days work. So tell yourself the truth everyday and make the best of everyday.

-Do you simply talk the talk or do you walk it too? This is a big one. A lot of weekend warriors and armchair investors will hate me now- you’re phonies. Sorry its true. Let me explain. A lot of people do what they can with what they have. And that’s fine. You’re making do congrats. I don’t applaud you. Its one thing to save money and make a project to bond with your son and teach him the family craft. Its another to pretend to be your own man to have some nifty stories to tell and puff up your chest with. Sorry its true. You pour over the wall street journal daily and every now and then you make a “savvy” investment. Cool. After the buy and sell commissions, the other miscellaneous fees, oh and those pesky taxes you MUST pay- you made zilch. Thanks jack but what you don’t see is that what you do with your ten hours pretending is nothing. And the reason is:
IT’S NOT YOUR PRIORITY.
Point. Blank. Period. Right now your priority is your JOB. You get up on time. Arrive on time. Call out seldom, and speak the corporate jargon. You tow the line. And you do it well. And there in lies your failure.
When you don’t live, breath, eat and sleep your dreams you have already lost.
When your job is #1 because it pays the bills you have become a slave.
You pay the bills.
You make it happen.
You are the one being your best. You simply are putting your effort in the wrong basket.

-How do we fix this?
Stop living for a paycheck and start working for YOUR DREAM. Get your mind wrapped around the fact that if you don’t build your dreams now you will build THEIRS FOREVER. What do you really want. Will you love you and hate me for telling you the TRUTH? Or will you commit to getting your life on track here and now. Let’s build the momentum that guarantees success. Tap into my knowledge.
Tap into THE Infinite.
Tap into your fears.
Use your fears to move you to the life you need. Your fears can sink you or build you up. Timing is everything and It, is time.

Hitler’s Success Formula
“Tomorrow will Come Daily.”

But

“Today will Come Today only.”

So Finish Your Today’s Work
Today & Be Free Tomorrow.

Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
Let’s chat.
Need a way to make money in your spare time?
I can help.
Changeinadvance@gmail.com
@changeinadvance
Or simply reply to this article.

Procrastinate, it helps.

16 Jun

Procrastinate it helps.
No seriously. Waste more time. Sounds nuts? Let’s examine that for a second. Do you still pay bills and balance your check book at the dinner table? With paper pencil and the proverbial checkbook? Are you still using stamps? So every month you waste time, about two hours being the well trained quasi accountant. Its 2012 people. Most banks have free auto pay. This let’s you preset or arrange your bill payments as your income is received. So you save time. You same money on stamps. You save money on overdraft fees and late payments. Sounds like a win win because it is. Time is now returned to you and cash flow.
Going to the gym five times a week? Working on that hard earned, super cut physique? Congrats. And you’re losing if you spend two to three hours daily doing so. Your body needs focused precise methodical steps. It doesn’t need long hours. After you pass a certain time threshold your body enters what I like to call the cortisol arena and you essentially help yourself create fat and or keep it. (More info on this? See wiki. You know you wiki). So to recap you work so hard to be Adonis you become the cow. Nice. Wouldn’t properly ordered and executed workouts that systematically build on your earlier efforts work better? Of course. So let’s leave the old school and hit books. You can do more in seventy minutes than you can in two hours. Breakout the stop watch and check the net. Or simply pay a trainer for five sessions. Learn the routine the right way because time is money.
Enjoying that history channel? CNN, you’re so informed. MMA. You’re the tough guy, I concede. Diy- nice! You’re building a Gazebo! And in the twenty hours you spend watching these shows could make you better. If you spent those twenty hours working at Kmart you could use those funds to make a dent in your school loans. Lowered debt and saved interest payments means you are debt free faster and breathing easy. Or maybe you take that meager check and apply it to the mortgage to be applied to the principal. Now you have dented your debt burden using the same strategy that is employed against you simply in reverse. One hundred dollars a month will take five to eight years off your mortgage. FACT. Ready for that retirement sooner now I bet. So don’t watch the diy guy who built his business. Mind yours. That basement apartment idea he shows, cool. But in this economy it goes to the kids who are the recession victims as they will have student loans and low to no employment. Don’t watch him build dream homes. Build your dream life. Cutting these simple steps out means you have upwards of forty hours a month to get your business off the ground. Work. And then build a future with no bosses. No meager forced ERISA 401ks. Build a dream that you own. That is your way. That feeds minds or whole towns. Only step left is to commit. Are you with me?
#thriveorsurvive
Thoughts?
Concerns? Questions?
Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite? Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you? Let’s chat.
Need a way to make money in your spare time?
I can help.
Changeinadvance@gmail.com
@changeinadvance
Or simply reply to this article.

QUIT YOUR JOB

15 Jun

Quit your job.
Seriously, quit your job.
Are you rich yet? Did your job get you to the 7 figure net you always wanted? Are you at least high gross? Did you actually wake up looking to be Just Over Broke?
Is your retirement bullet proof?
Got that Golden Parachute? You don’t ?
Insanity. Quit your job.
You are wasting time making money for other people.
Okay. I’m joking. Yet there is a large kernel of truth in the above mini rant. When you plug away day after day and don’t rise to CEO, or some equally lofty and financially well off position you’re merely a place card. The next you will be along soon enough.
Is that the life you dreamed of? No? Really?
Okay so you don’t quit.
Let’s do this instead-
Work your day job.
Mind your business.
Repeat.
-So you work for the city. Great hours. Great benefits. Union protection. Yet is that union job making you complacent? Is your job keeping you from your max potential. First answer is yes. Real answer-
NO.
When you don’t achieve it is you who loses. You lose the money, the freedom,the time- the Success. Is that the life you want? Of course not. If it was you would be on utube now and not reading this. So let’s embrace reality. Work. And work hard. Give your boss a 101%. Its what you owe yourself. You are always representing you so why would anything be less than amazing. Make your job your center piece.
-Mind your Business. In your free time- WORK. If you don’t build your kingdom who will? At work be the best. At your Business, Be BETTER. What you put in you will get out so do more never less. Vacation now or retire early. Your choice.
-Repeat. Yup. That simple. Repeat these steps until you can’t. And I assume only death will distract a serious business person. What do you want- Some coin now or freedom late? See, everyone makes a choice. What is yours. Mines is freedom. My WHY is toooooo big to give me peace. My WHY is my life. I don’t hope it works. I don’t hope it is enough. It has to be. It can’t be less. It WILL be.
There is nothing you can’t do.
Repeat that daily. Repeat your goals daily. Be the you that is productive hourly. When you aim for less than greatness you won’t even be the kings butler. You will be a slave. Even a butler can rise- WILL YOU?

“What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” 
~ Gary Ryan Blair

Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
Let’s chat.
Changeinadvance@gmail.com
@changeinadvance
Or simply reply to this article.

Liftport.com is amazing!

15 Jun

Liftport.com is amazing.

While not functional, the concept is amazing.  An elevator to space!
From their Empire Avenue profile:

Biography

LiftPort Group is in V2.0.

I started working on the Space Elevator in 2001, as part of a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts team. In 2003, I created LiftPort to pursue – commercially – the development of an Elevator to Space. In 2007, when the ecomony melted down, our company failed. This year, we are reforming and rebuilding – join us in this adventure!

Some people are surprised when I talk about building a for-profit company around this project. But the reasoning is quite sound – we don’t yet know if an Elevator can be built.

BUT – the technology development in the process of learning – is very valuable: robotics, nanotech, communications. So this is our plan, to commercially develop the components, and along the way discover techniques and eventually build an Elevator to the Sky!

Wanna learn more? Follow me @mlaine or email laine (at) LiftPort (.) com”
So why am I enthralled by this?  Simple
This company is trying to pass the status quo.
First they are trying to get where no one is going before anyone gets there.  this is a valuable business lesson.  Most people want the money and the freedom but that is where the dream ends.  They forget the work.  The planning.  And the rest is smoke and mirrors.  Maybe they get the Cadillac, and the house but they are usually over-leveraged. See people will buy their today’s with their tomorrows.  And the plan is faulty.  this company is playing their hand well.  By being first you get a tremendous advantage.  You not only set a precedent but you reap the rewards and profits.  You never want to be last to the party. 
Second they are not only trailblazing but they are looking where no one will.  By attempting the impossible they have created lucrative patents and copyrights.  these ancillary benefits weren’t there until they aimed for the impossible. Whats amazing is that profit can now be derived where none was even imagined.
Are you doing this in your ventures?
Are you literally aiming for the stars or just talking a good game?
Money and opportunity are found where no one looks and few dream to go.  if you will do what others wont you will be successful.  Decide on a course of action and be not dissuaded. 
#thriveorsurvive
Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
Let’s chat.
Need a way to make money in your spare time?
I can help.
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@changeinadvance

Procrastinate, it helps.

14 Jun

Procrastinate it helps.

No seriously. Waste more time. Sounds nuts? Let’s examine that for a second. Do you still pay bills and balance your check book at the dinner table? With paper pencil and the proverbial checkbook? Are you still using stamps? So every month you waste time, about two hours being the well trained quasi accountant. Its 2012 people. Most banks have free auto pay. This let’s you preset or arrange your bill payments as your income is received. So you save time. You same money on stamps. You save money on overdraft fees and late payments. Sounds like a win win because it is. Time is now returned to you and cash flow.

Going to the gym five times a week? Working on that hard earned, super cut physique? Congrats. And you’re losing if you spend two to three hours daily doing so. Your body needs focused precise methodical steps. It doesn’t need long hours. After you pass a certain time threshold your body enters what I like to call the cortisol arena and you essentially help yourself create fat and or keep it. (More info on this? See wiki. You know you wiki). So to recap you work so hard to be Adonis you become the cow. Nice. Wouldn’t properly ordered and executed workouts that systematically build on your earlier efforts work better? Of course. So let’s leave the old school and hit books. You can do more in seventy minutes than you can in two hours. Breakout the stop watch and check the net. Or simply pay a trainer for five sessions. Learn the routine the right way because time is money.

Enjoying that history channel? CNN, you’re so informed. MMA. You’re the tough guy, I concede. Diy- nice! You’re building a Gazebo! And in the twenty hours you spend watching these shows could make you better. If you spent those twenty hours working at Kmart you could use those funds to make a dent in your school loans. Lowered debt and saved interest payments means you are debt free faster and breathing easy. Or maybe you take that meager check and apply it to the mortgage to be applied to the principal. Now you have dented your debt burden using the same strategy that is employed against you simply in reverse. One hundred dollars a month will take five to eight years off your mortgage. FACT. Ready for that retirement sooner now I bet. So don’t watch the diy guy who built his business. Mind yours. That basement apartment idea he shows, cool. But in this economy it goes to the kids who are the recession victims as they will have student loans and low to no employment. Don’t watch him build dream homes. Build your dream life. Cutting these simple steps out means you have upwards of forty hours a month to get your business off the ground. Work. And then build a future with no bosses. No meager forced ERISA 401ks. Build a dream that you own. That is your way. That feeds minds or whole towns. Only step left is to commit. Are you with me?

#thriveorsurvive

Thoughts?

Concerns? Questions?

Think I’m wrong?

Let’s chat.

Need ideas?

Want to learn how to invite? Let’s chat.

Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you? Let’s chat.

Need a way to make money in your spare time?

I can help.

Changeinadvance@gmail.com

@changeinadvance

Or simply reply to this article.

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