http://www.personalbrandingsummit.com/2007/11/recordings-now-.html
Recordings Now Available!
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Recordings of “A Brand You World – 2007 Global Telesummit” teleseminars are now available. Select the MP3 link to the left of each teleseminar to download the recording or listen online. You can also access the podcast with iTunes.
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a ton of great advice!
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“Network Drafting” as defined as noticing that someone you trust in your network connects to another person, and you attempt to connect as well. You’re drafting in the sense that you follow their lead to improve your situation – drafting the race car or bicyclist in front of you.
— Steve Glaiser, Product Quality Executive Management
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Early To Rise
The Internet’s Most Popular Wealth,
Health and Success E-Zine
Issue #2201
“It’s Just So Much Tougher for Kids These Days.”
By Michael Masterson
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That’s the view of Tamara Draut, who works for an agency that promotes government action and whose book, Strapped is subtitled “Why America’s 20- and 30- Somethings Can’t Get Ahead.”
I read the book because I was curious. Her assertion didn’t seem true.
Draut argues that escalating college costs, high rents, and a tough job environment have forced our young people into an endless cycle of borrowing. The result? A generation that simply can’t make it in today’s economy. She supports her argument with anecdotes. And she concludes her book with a short chapter urging governmental reforms and running credit card companies off campuses.
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I tried to put everything I know about starting out and becoming successful – as an entrepreneur and as an employee – in Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out. If you get the book (and I hope you will), you’ll see that I put a heavy emphasis on what has worked for me:
Don’t fret about your problems. And don’t wait for the government to solve them. Create a personal plan for success and follow it.
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This is probably not the kind of advice that Tamara Draut would like to hear, because it doesn’t do much to solve the “starting-out problem” on a global level. But I’d like to think it can help individual people – college grads and young people – become wealthy despite the challenges posed by our shaky economy.
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I think anyone, who looks to the gooferment for “helping” getting on track, is going to be sadly disappointed.
In my warped world view, when we help our fellow man, we are awarded certificates of appreciation (i.e., money). Help lot’s of people and get lots of certificates. These are really IOUs that promise to be redeemable at a future date for a like contribution.
[They should be aware of “inflation” aka gooferment counterfeiting. Running the printing press causes inflation and it is an unavoidable tax on money. At least, the old kings had to physically clip coins to steal from the people. Today, it’s a silent hidden tax.]
I see “children” of many chronological ages wasting their attention, time, money, and energy on frivolous things. Probably the biggest waste is attention. When I watch a college football game and they intro the players and identify their major, I’m stunned. Majors like “Sports management”, “Government Studies”, and “Peace” give me the greatest shock. At least if they say “undecided”, I have some hope.
No, as I have said before, I think the model for success in the future generation starts with: (1) ruthless financial discipline. And, maybe it should be shortened to just “ruthless self-discipline”.
In the days of an agricultural America, children grew up quickly. Chores and the harsh realities of life taught discipline. That has been lost. Today, children are allowed to be dilettantes. Unfortunately, there’s no national trust fund to keep them in the style they’ve been accustomed to.
So, I hope that all the young people can see their way clear of the “smoke” that people are blowing up their a…… in their collective eyes making them “blind” to the realities and possibilities of life. They have a lot less room for error than I did when I was a kind.
It’s a global world and their are a lot of hungry people who will eat their lunch unappologetically.
Sigh!
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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle444-20071118-02.html
The River Rubicon
by L. Neil Smith
The Libertarian Enterprise
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Seven years ago—although thanks to the horrors of George Bush’s reign of state terrorism it seems vastly longer than that—the Waco Willy Clinton administration, ever fearful that Americans might be equipped for and capable of defending themselves from its predations, served up a list of 83,000 human sacrifices on the altar of victim disarmament.
“Victim disarmament” is the accurate term for “gun control”, as its principal purpose and effect is to render the act of self-defense impossible. Its visible effect on gun-grabbers in public debate is soul-satisfying.
Those 83,000 names belonged to military veterans suffering from disabilities like “post-traumatic stress disorder”, a phenomenon as old as war itself—it’s been called many different things: “shell shock”, “combat fatigue”—but which genuine science (as opposed to the primitive religion known as “psychology”) knows very little about. The names were added to the National Criminal Information System (NCIS) presumably so they would be red-flagged by a Brady background check and their owners could thereby be deprived, for highly dubious pseudomedical reasons, of their Constitutional right to buy or own firearms.
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Do you think perhaps that the congress critters might be a little afraid of having such a large segment of the population armed and unhappy? The fact that the gooferment has screwed over “the troops” in various wars has been well established. This war is no different. Leaving aside the media biases, which during the Clinton era swept “vet gets screwed” stories to the dust bin of history and now regales us with “vet gets screwed” stories on the front page because the White House is held by the “other team”, leave that aside, it’s an article of faith that the first casualty of war is truth. And, boy, do we have a lot of wars going, foreign and domestic. War on Drugs, which is really against our own people. War on Terror, (how does one make “war” on a “tactic”?) which covers anything the gooferment wants it to cover.
Sigh!
I’d say the experiment — as in the American Experiment with a republican form of government — is over. It failed. Shall we try anarchy?
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A LINKEDIN QUESTION I POSED
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Does anyone ever have a “career plan”? What tools do you use to support that plan?
I’ve been counseling my “turkeys” ((i.e., out of work fat old white guys usually in the IT field; you know COBOL guys in the RUBY age) about having a written plan for what they want. Everyone has heard that urban legend about 97% of successful Harvard graduates had a written plan when they graduated. (Have to research that particular urbanity!) But I haven’t found any web tools that support developing a “career plan”. Not that I need one now. But for my fellow turkeys. There’s execunet (www.execunet.com) for executive job search. There’s jibberjobber (www.jibberjobber.com) for personal network management. But what helps plan the career? What is the “Microsoft Project” for turning a string of jobs into a career plan?
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071119/D8T114E00.html
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The Kindle device is shown in this photograph released by Amazon.com on Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. The $399 electronic book device will allow downloads of more than 90,000 book titles, blogs, magazines and newspapers.
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All I know is what I have read in the press.
$400!
Are you kidding me?
It should read the book to me, serve coffee, and do tricks.
Nahhh, I don’t think so.
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One of the most common items of misinformation about Ron Paul’s positions is that he wants to go “back on the gold standard” or “return to the gold standard.” And, this is often used as criticism against him by misinformed and careless reporters and bloggers.
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For those who follow Ron Paul closely, this is absolutely correct. Not being crazy, he realizes that we need time to adapt. His statements that I have heard indicate to me that he wants to merely remove the restrictions on “commodity money”. A “commodity money” is a store of value that backed by something like copper, silver, gold, platinum. A “fiat currency” is also a store of value backed by the full faith and credit of the printer. Gooferments use “legal tender” laws to ensure that their fiat currency MUST be accepted. In America’s early days, prior to 1913, the American dollar greenback was redeemable in gold. During that time, many currencies circulate simultaneously. If he begins to closely supervise the Fed with an eye to its demise and begins to unwind the “legal tender” laws, then he will have initiated the Third American Revolution. Just doing what he has said are his priorities will set us on the track to peace and prosperity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies
List of hobbies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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* 1 Amateur science related
* 2 Animal-related
* 3 Arts and crafts
* 4 Collecting
* 5 Computer-related
* 6 Cooking
* 7 DIY (Do It Yourself)
* 8 Electronics
* 9 Film-making
* 10 Games
* 11 Gardening
* 12 Historical reenactment
* 13 Interactive fiction
* 14 Internet-based hobbies
* 15 Literature
* 16 Model (scale model) building
* 17 Music
* 18 Observation
* 19 Outdoor/nature activities
* 20 Performing arts
* 21 Photography
* 22 Sports or other physical activities
* 23 Toys of some sophistication
* 24 Transportation
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For those who follow my model for future success:
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(6) a free time hobby that generates income;
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So what’s your “hobby”?
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My maiden aunt, who’s in her mid-70s and in a nursing home, had some medical problems. Throwing up blood was reported. The home sent her to the hospital. Initially, the ER didn’t believe, but her problem was made obvious, when she did it for them. So a “stomach scope” test was scheduled. As her proxy, I consented under the gun.
So, here’s my rant. None of these caring professionals gives a damn outside of their little specialty.
We arrive to “check up” on her and we found her back in her room. Getting a nurse to talk to me was a chore. Nurse seemed like it was a bother. I asked about getting her something to eat now that there was “no trouble found”. No doc orders. Dig up doc for orders. Order food; no one in the food prep to deliver food. Food arrives (and it was nice), but no silverware. Find silverware, but the aide had time to take a personal cell phone call in her room while we all waited. I feed the aunt by cutting up the food and cajoling her.
There is a silent disrespect to the patient and the family.
It’s hard to put your finger on. Maybe they are overworked. Maybe they feel they are underpaid. Maybe it’s because we don’t pay the bill directly and they don’t see us as the consumer. Maybe, maybe, maybe. As I said it’s hard to put your finger on it. But it’s there. It palpable.
If this is an example of medicine of the future, then we are in big trouble.
Sigh!
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