Inspiration for your day

Welcome to "Inspiration for your day"

2012-07-26T12:17:00.000-04:00

Happy new year 2012. May you make many of your dreams come true this year.

My aim in this blog is to inspire you. I think that we all need to be inspired daily in this fast paced world where we tend to lose sight of what we work for and who we work for.

Beautiful Art

This blog is for personal development and it's intended for

those who can think and are willing to challenge themselves and change for the better. The purpose of this blog is to offer you as many tools as possible for self improvement by sharing what has worked for me and many others. What could be more inspiring than that?

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Nature never ceases to inspire me

"When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal. From this realization of their own religious nature individuals can again come to an awareness of God and become more themselves.

Medicine, psychiatry and psychology “solved” the whole problem of “human nature” simply by dumping it into the classification of material nature—body, brain, force. As they politically insist on monopoly and use social and political propaganda to enforce their monopoly, they debar actual search for real answers to human nature.
A society gets what it concentrates upon. By concentrating on spiritual values instead of criminality a new day may yet dawn for man."

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder of Scientology Religion

Get started below by clicking on this great series of inspirational videos:

This blog It is intended for smart people, for those who do make a difference in current affairs, their lives and that of others. It is dedicated to the able, the artist, the mover and shaker and anyone who has made contributions to this world and made it spin a bit better. You are therefore my inspiration!

You will see me mention throughout this blog that writing is my passion. But writing for the sake of writing is senseless. My writing is intended to inspire you. It will be up to you then to take action through whatever motivates you. You will then be happier as you will give your life more meaning.

These are some of the areas in which you can grow through self improvement:

Persistence and courage: Both terms are actually interchangeable, without persistence and courage, few of us succeed. It is one of the ingredients of success, perhaps the main one.

Spiritual awareness and advancement: Yes, there is a lot more to you than just a meat body. I will not attempt to prove it to you. This is something you will discover in your journey for your self. I won't try to impose my religious beliefs on you, but will share with you what I've used to grow spiritually. You may want to look into this post: "Who are you really?"

Better physical health and stamina: True strength comes from within. Being inspired and staying inspired can proof you up against disease or physical ills. I'm not a Doctor, but you will find that many of these posts can help you achieve a better physical state.

Intelligence: No. I'm not going to give you "brain tests". Although the brain has something to do with
the relay of information, you will find that intelligence can be improved simply by following some tips I give you. Click on "How to increase your I.Q." to find out more

Relationships: We live in a world where we're not alone. Over six billion people share the same globe. Being in good harmony with your fellow man is a must to good survival. You can have better relationships at work, the family, your spouse and your friends. Learn "How to choose your people".

Money: Money is a hot issue, especially in today's world economy. But it is possible to earn a lot more money than you are making now, if that is a problem to you. I've had many visits to "How to make tons of money". I suggest you follow that link.

Truth: Perceive things without veils of confusion or false information. The world is full of false data, false information. There are too many false gurus, too many supposed "solutions" that create more problems. Learn to see and think for yourself: "If it isn't true for you, it isn't true." LRH. This is just one post that covers the subject of truth: "The bliss of ignorance."

I will quote many philosophers, mainly L Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology. If you don't know much about these subjects, I have plenty of links throughout my posts so that you can find out more. If you are against L.R.H., Scientology or Dianetics, too bad. You should take another look and get rid of false information you may have on the subjects. Again, the purpose of this blog is:

"For personal development and it's intended for those who can think and are

willing to challenge themselves and change for the better. "

If you don't reach (have interest) for Dianetics or Scientology, fine. But at least I give you the information for you to look up the data and decide for yourself. I'm sure you will find the information useful as millions have throughout the world. Learning and applying both subjects takes hard work and constant application to say the least. I've found that, one for one, those who claim "it doesn't work" haven't made an honest effort to learn or apply them. When I've listened to other sources of "truth" or "workable technology" and applied these, knowing better, I've had a tough time of it.

How to read this blog

    There is a lot of information on this site. Don't try to take it all in at once. The many posts, comments and outbound links would make up several books of inspirational materials. I've included thumbnails of posts on the right side of the page. By just clicking on each corresponding thumbnail, you'll be redirected to the desired post. As you can see, I also have categories such as: "Inspirational", "How to Series", "Money", etc. Clicking each category will bring up all related posts. You can also use the search box on the top right of this blog.

    Look up your words:   If the material seems confusing to you as you read on, or you just can't seem to grasp it, there will be a word just earlier that you didn't fully understand. Look up the word in the context being used in a good dictionary or online. By making a few sentences with it, you'll now grasp the meaning of the word. Reread the text and you'll see that it makes sense now. Study Technology is a big subject in Dianetics and Scientology.   It helps us to understand any subject, no matter how complicated it seems at first. It will open up your understanding of many things that you may have thought you couldn't understand before.

Study Technology is completely non religious in nature. I'm sharing it with you because I know it will be vital in any area of life or endeavor.

    Here's a useful link: looking up words and Study Technology

    I invite you to bookmark this blog. You will want to come back to it.. you can also follow it. It is rich of inspirational materials: "the food for the soul".

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Yes, I kept the picture picture of Rocky Balboa which, at a glance, describes well how we all would always like to feel

Rocky's inspiring workout

If most of us could feel that way all of the time, life would be wonderful indeed. But life is not "designed" that way. It has its ups and downs. Sometimes it seems like more "downs" than "ups". Is there anything that we can do to increase our chances of just being happier more often? Having better "luck"? Or, is destiny predetermined and "there's really nothing we can do about it?

    I think that as you navigate through my blog, you will have the answer to these and many other questions that you may have. I believe that the human spirit is unlike any other and has a very special place in this planet. Some of us discover that early in life and become filled with purpose and realize it early. Others, even though they know theirs, bloom later and become a true source of inspiration. Examples of these are "late bloomers" such as Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison. I'm sure you can come up with more names.

    My point is that "It is never too late". Even though it's a cliche it's still true and will hold true till the "end of time". I will do my best to bring you as much inspiration as you are willing to have from me.

How we get inspired:

A lot of us get inspired by just living life and watching the world around us. Others do this, and read books, blogs, articles or just watch "Feel good movies". I like all of the above. I think that the best ways to get inspired are living a good life and mingling with similar minds that always seem to have something good to say, no matter how adverse their situation maybe. Sharing with others your wisdom can also be very gratifying. I love doing the latter. If I can positively affect another life and not just my own, I get an incredibly feel good reward.

Money can open the door to many opportunities

About money: It is a challenge in this workaday world to stay ahead and just keep up with your family, finances and work. During tough economical times a quick "pick me up" can be as simple as looking up inspirational material on the internet, buying a book on the subject or just talking to your favorite friend. "Money is not everything", many would seem to say. And they're right. But money opens the door to many opportunities and keeps those nagging bills down and the belly happy. With an empty stomach few are happy. In this blog you may even find the inspiration that you've needed to make more money--- all for free.

Money should be looked at as a reward and a means to an end. Money is a unit of exchange and is usually received only after a good or a service is satisfactorily delivered. Only the criminal minds look for a quick or a free buck. In the long run, there is no such thing. Most criminals wind up in jail or worse: stoned to death. Having the proper mindset only comes when one finds the inspiration within (or without) and decides and acts to produce better at what one does. A poor product = poor money; a mediocre product= mediocre money; a superior product= abundant money.

Don't get me wrong. You may have already plenty of money and you could care less. But this blog is mostly geared for the average Joe who is faced every morning with having to go to work and bring home the bacon. Sometimes such is arduous to do, especially when one is burdened with a dead end job and seemingly no way out.

There is always a way out

But the mapping of such a route comes from within. No guide, no teacher, no mentor will ever be as wise as an inspired you. I hate to break it to you, but all of the happiness you'll ever have comes from you. This a paraphrase borrowed from the works of L Ron Hubbard.

L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology and I

     I have been studying Scientology for more than two decades. Not all of my works are based on it, although I must admit that Mr. Hubbard and his writings have been a continuous inspiration. Where possible, I'll give you a reference link. It's better to go straight to the source of information to maintain it free of alterations. Where I am the source of the information I give you, I'll make it clear. I'm not shy about taking full credit for it, otherwise I'll either paraphrase or quote.

    Quite frankly, there is very little I could add to Mr. Hubbard's works. As far as I can see, this stellar researcher and lover of truth left very little if anything uncovered in the field of philosophy and many others for that matter. He was an advent researcher and lived life to the fullest. He wasn't afraid to tell it like it is. Many envied him and attacked him out of plain ignorance or malice. After all, his life's work has changed people's lives by giving them a way out of misery and pain. Even so, he kept going and fully developed a route to enlightenment and total freedom. It's called: "The bridge to total freedom".

    My "job" as the writer of this blog is to share the many wins that I and others have had as followers and practitioners of Dianetics and Scientology. I will also add my own views on the subjects as well as inspire you with unique articles not found anywhere else on the web.

    If you don't know much about Scientology and want to find out more about it, just follow the links I give you. If you have fixed or negative ideas about it, I suggest you still follow the links and find out for yourself what it's all about. Find out who is behind the attacks. Unfortunately there are way too many wrong opinions and pundits out there. Realize that they are not the source of the information on the subject, just like I'm not. I will strive to keep my views on the subject objective. Forgive me if I get a bit "overenthusiastic" at times. That is my nature. I'm usually a very inspired fellow and love to inspire others.

    I can tell you without hesitation that Scientology and Dianetics require hard, serious and earnest study. Any worthwhile study is not devoid of a little "blood sweat and tears". I can't tell you that all has been honky dory in my life. Serious study and application of what I have learned has helped me to pull through many difficult situations. I have shared this knowledge with others and they too have had much success. But it doesn't come without hard work and dedication to say the least. There will be many who wish that some magic hand would come out of the page and hand them with one simple wish the key to happiness. That only happens in children's fables. But if such were possible, I'd be the first one to share it with you. Believe me. I'm not one to have to work harder than I have to. Yet I do. That seems to be the nature of any worthwhile pursuit.

This blog is content rich

I'm going to leave this introductory page as the Home Page. Therefore, it will be somewhat unchanging. Google doesn't appreciate, in my opinion, ever changing Home Pages. But you will find rich inspirational content in various posts. I've lost count how many I've added. This blog has a lot of material about inspirational or motivational subjects. Some postings may surprise you. You may even find some articles controversial. I suggest you use the search box on the top right hand corner of the page. Oh...and I've been getting lots of comments from readers lately. These are rich and hot (not an overstatement). Check these out as you will find more content and more links to other super sites.

Many posts about one single subject

For those inspirational articles that have many comments such as "How to increase your I.Q"., I'm going to be making a Series out of it. I realized after writing it that this subject is a very broad one with lots of information. One posting doesn't do it justice. Inspiration can happen with one sentence or just one phrase, but oftentimes it requires a much deeper discussion. Let me know what you think about that.
I may also delete certain posts that I don't find relevant to our inspirational purposes as time goes by. Remember, this blog evolves.

More benefits from this blog

You can use these inspirational articles to help yourself, your family, friends, associates and even those in the workplace. Wherever possible I'll give you links to other incredible sites for even more inspirational materials. You can make your own contributions by commenting. I will be adding a comments box, instead of the "pop up" form. I think readers like the box better. For now, just click on "Post a comment" in the comments section below and a box will appear. There you can comment as much as you like. I don't use the comments moderation for this site. So please be kind and don't add comments of offensive nature. This is a clean site. No spamming please. It will be detected and deleted.

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I browse with Mozilla Firefox. I like it because I navigate pages faster and can open multiple tabs without having to minimize or maximize. With Explorer you are allowed to maximize (get full view of page) only once (the last tab you have opened). Firefox will "remember" what you want to do do and will have all the tabs you opened at the top of the page. I like that. Such allows me to compose my posts faster. I can zigzag back and forth.

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    Now that I have formulated the purpose of this blog you now have a direction with it. May you always be true to your goals and most importantly reach them.

And may you always be inspired!

I continuously post. Look for my new posts on the side bar.

    Have a great day,

    Carlos



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The power of your own thoughts

2012-01-12T16:04:00.002-05:00

Tom Cruise on top of the tallest building in the world

As much as we would like to attribute our loss of earnings to "the economy", it still remains that thought is boss. There is a lot of power in your thoughts. Yes, it's true that for most of us we must hustle a bit more to make the same amount of money we did back before the 2007 economic bust. But thought is still boss. Thought has a lot of power.

Our thoughts monitor how we feel, how we are, how we treat others and even how we lead our daily lives. When we approach our usual tasks with a feeling of foreboding, or dread, it could be said that our day may not come off too well. When we pitch into our tasks with a more energetic and positive attitude, we usually have a better day. But am I talking about "positive thinking?' Yes and no. We could have the most "positive" outlook and yet have a lousy day.

I'm talking about thoughts such as wishes and intentions. When we intend or wish to have certain good things in life, such as a good mate, a nice house, a nice car, whatever, counter thoughts get in the way.   For example: "I really want a new white Mercedes with a leather interior." But a counter thought enters in: "And just how am I going to do that?". Many reasons pop into one's head as to why this shouldn't happen: "I don't have the money; I don't have a good job; I don't have a rich daddy". It's pretty hard to get inspired like that. Your own thoughts can "betray you", even though you want good things.

Thoughts have a lot of power, conscious or unconscious.

When we desire something somewhat "difficult" to acquire, a battery of counter thoughts begin to plague the original desire. This is why most "'difficult" things are usually difficult to get. You could say that we give up before we even try. But Tom Cruise above had a burning desire to be on top of the world and did it at age 50.

Many inspirational or motivational C.D.'s or courses fail miserably because they fail to spot this counter thought phenomena or even what to do about it. They fill you with enthusiasm and bravado, but you fall flat on your head not long after the starting gate.

I'm speaking to you from experience. You see, usually Christmas is difficult for business, that is: my business. I have sort of "agreed" that this is how it is and that "I can't change it". I get a bit of a gloomy attitude when it comes to money. And it's deadly.

I hadn't spotted that in me until I decided: "That's it. It doesn't have to be this way. I can actually make tons of money. All I have to do is change my thought about it (change my mind) and blow through the counter thoughts that appear. I'm happy to say that I did that and it totally works. Money started flowing in like crazy again and without much effort. Therefore: "The power of thought."   In this case it was my own.

When your thoughts are: "I'm too tired, too old, too poor", that is what you'll get. You sort of vibrate in a lower undesirable harmonic and people and money stay away from you. You basically get what you wish. It's very simple but it's true. When you think: "I'm full of energy, I'm young, I've got money, I've got health", you will feel energetic, young and have money.

Now, when you begin to have these good wishes, remember that you'll run into counter wishes, counter thoughts. So what do you do? Turn your wishes into burning desires, visualize them as happening now, not in the future and make your wishes attainable. Don't wish to be a pro football player this life, if you're 62 years old years old, very short and have no knowledge of the game or desire to train hard and become one.

But, you could very well wish to retire early at 50 or 62 and have a burning desire to achieve it through what you do best and you will do it.

I wish I could bring you all of the material that I have learned and apply successfully on this subject. It is a rather large one to go into. I'm doing my best to bring this to you in the most simple manner. I have been able top learn it from L Ron Hubbard, Napoleon Hill, Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie and Kevin Trudeau and many other great minds of the 20th Century. Some of these have were members of The Illuminati: an elite club of intellectuals who became very rich and inspired many others.

Some of them were reluctant to share this knowledge. But L Ron Hubbard stated that knowledge is only as valuable as it is shared. He shared a lot of what he knew. He was the most prolific writer and lecturer ever with thousands of recorded lectures and millions upon millions of words written.   His works have been read by millions.

To recap:

1. Make your wish something attainable, something you believe you can achieve, even if difficult.

2. Put a burning desire behind this wish. This will be your fuel, your purpose.

3. As your counter thoughts pop up-- and they will-- put more fuel on your wish, build up that burning desire. This will help you greatly in surmounting barriers.

4. The how you do it is secondary. Your wish will begin to materialize, even if you didn't see how before, because things will seem to "magically appear". How you do it will become secondary once your thought is on the right track. Your thought will be boss. The power of your own thoughts precede your actions.

Have a great New Year,

Carlos

how to get inspired to start your online business

2011-12-09T19:56:00.001-05:00

You can make wheelbarrows of money by following these tips

For most people, getting inspired to start an online business can be very difficult. Many believe that the internet is simply filled with riches and that all one has to do is get a domain name, web hosting for your website, an OK website, a Paypal widget and Voila! Lots of money will just start to roll in. That's very nice, but I wish it were that simple. If it were nobody would wait on tables, work construction, or do jobs that are required to get all kinds of goods and services into the hands of consumers.

Believing in this pipe dream is not the difficult part in starting an online business, after all there are thousands of websites, blogs, capture pages and as many money making scams as there are letters from scammers who claim your e mail address just won 26,000,000 dollars. We all want a piece of the online pie, nothing wrong with it really. I do.

Where people get stuck

Most people don't get stuck at the starting gate. That is to say, they get their domain name, web host, dabble a bit with the website and it just gets parked there. No further activity. After a while, sometimes months later, the person realizes that he's spent about $100 and has to come to a decision: "Do I take this all the way or give up?"

Most give up and don't give their website a chance, or should I say they don't give themselves a chance. They have come to a stuck point and most rather quit than keep going. But where's the problem?

Picking a niche

I have surveyed quite a few people and the above just keeps coming up worded in many different ways: "If I just knew what I wanted to sell"; "There's too much competition out there. I can't think of anything!"; "I've tried many different things and nothing seems to work"; "If I could just find that 'perfect' niche, I'd be doing Internet marketing!"

Do any of the above apply to you? If you're reading this post, I would say that it is so. But don't worry. There IS a solution to this problem. You can easily overcome it.

Just pick a niche and go with it

This may sound very overly simplistic. Trust me. It is not. Most people will not do that. They get caught up in the four examples I gave you above about niche discovery and establishing their website presence.

Let's pick the last example of the list above: "If I could just find that 'perfect' niche, I'd be doing Internet marketing!" A good friend of mine actually got caught up in this one and didn't do anything for years, even though he knew what Internet marketing was about. He had the basics down, but this stumbling block became just that a "block".

I had a talk with him and gave him an analogy: "Do you eat?" He said: "Of course I do, but what do you mean?" I replied: "When you go hungry you don't look to go to 'the perfect' restaurant, or the 'perfect' supermarket. You establish where you'll go and then plan out your route, resources, etc. and just go." There's not much thinking involved here.

Believe it or not. Niche building and site construction and maintenance are a very similar activities.

1. You determine there is something you're interested in that you wouldn't mind having a website or blog about (Here's the food: People may find your site and "eat your words", sort of speak).

2. You then figure out whether you need a paid or non paid domain name (Google Blogger allows you this). This is your store address: where people will go to read and buy your words or information (more on this later).

3. You then get web hosting to contain your goods (words and info). This is your store. You then hire a builder to build your store the way you want it. You can be your own builder or hire one. There are many do it your self web editors (some good, some not so good), or you can buy software to make your pages more professionally. But don't get stuck on this one. I use Blogger for some of my blogs. They may not look fancy, but thanks to Blogger's advances, blogs are beginning to get fancier and have a more professional look these days.

4. You now begin to add your unique content. It's like adding merchandise and frills at a store, so that customers have something to buy. Without content, how can anyone expect to get clients? I have seen some very crappy sites that have lousy content and very little of it, to boot. I guess whoever built the site or blog bought into some guru's "advice" of set and forget it attitude. You know, those that have Piña Colada under the balmy palm laying on their romps with Hawaiian flower shirts, while they collect millions from their "auto pilot websites".

5. You now mind your website. Autopilot sites disappear eventually. Google's ever changing algorithms make sure of that. This is possibly the hardest, but it's actually the funnest. This comes in many ways: You tweak your content, correct errors, add more content, re tweak if need be, add advertisers ( if an info site), add gadgets and even a shopping cart (very similar to what supermarkets do). If you forget most of this, you'll refresh it by just remembering this supermarket analogy and you won't go wrong.

Sounds like too much work? Well, sorry to tell you this, but that is what it takes. Supermarkets that don't have all their ducts in a row simply don't succeed or stay in business long. Think of how many you have gone to that later decided not to go back to. Their produce wasn't fresh, their isles were too narrow, product selection was poor and it was a pain to hand your money at the check out: long lines of impatient customers.

A website or blog is very much like this. Provide lousy content, make your site difficult to navigate by adding too many affiliate gadgets and links, pop ups, hover ads, general B.S. and don't make it easy for your public to pay and they won't come back. It's that simple.

If you find yourself running out of steam go to my post: "How to remain productive when you feel like giving up". It will pick you up again. If you require further inspiration or technical expertise, chances are that I've covered the subject in this blog. Just do a search on the search box on the upper right side of this blog.

Getting inspired to pick your niche

A niche is a specialized field of endeavor that you'll embark on. By definition it implies a field where you'll have a special advantage over your competition. For example: if you pick the Make Money Online niche, you may get frustrated easily. It is heavily competed and I doubt that it deserves to be called a niche anymore. Just do a search on that term and you'll find the search results in the billions! So you better be good at it or you'll work very hard, get little return for your efforts and quit very soon.

How do I know? I've been there and done that. I bought into some very crappy systems that painted pretty pictures, like the guy in the Hawaiian shirt and eventually wised up and picked other true niches that actually make me money for real. I've created many "online supermarkets". One of these is the shutters business, Make Money Blogging and this site. I don't make millions, but when I work hard at it I do make decent money and have a clear conscience knowing that nobody got ripped.

When you pick a niche, don't strive for perfection, just figure out what you like doing, are fairly good at and is in demand. My friend above is good at Home Improvement, Real Estate and knowledgeable of "The ducts in a row" that you need to create a website. He was just stuck on the "Perfect niche" problem. We went back and forth and now he's inspired to get his own website to be an Internet Marketer.

I know that the idea is to make money online. But oddly enough when you put that there first and not a good product or service that buyers will want to buy, you won't make money. You must add value and lots of it in the Make Money Online equation. Work on your product value and service first and the money should come once you set up your site correctly.

Don't concentrate on "Make Money Online" as your niche per se. Instead mix it up with other keywords such as "Make money selling cookies online", or "Great ideas to making money from home", and turn these into your domain names, areas of expertise and then blogs or sites.

You can create, if you use Blogger or Word Press (they're both free) hundreds of quality blogs which you properly monetize. The only limit will be how much time you'll want to put in initially to get it all going and eventually make money with them.

Once you see some cash in your mailbox from these, you'll know you're on the right track and repeat and rinse. The money at this point will be well earned and you'll feel an immense sense of pride. use it as you wish and reinvest some of it back into the process. It will grow exponentially, along with your earnings.

Some Internet Marketers will then encounter another problem: "How can I keep all of this going? I'm only one person!" Well, that's the subject of another post which I'll bring to you soon. Stay tuned.

As an aside, people see very easily through scams these days or even those sites that lure you into buying into their bogus "systems". I highly suggest you don't follow this dead end stream.
You'll know if it's potentially bogus when you land on a very well written "capture page" that won't let you leave. Click bank is full of these and I HIGHLY don't recommend buying anything there. Buy at your own risk and ONLY once you know what you're doing and have a few scam searches or review searches on the "product".

I know that niche picking can be intimidating. But the most intimidation actually comes from all the voices in your head that tell you what not to do instead of what you should do. So just DO IT!

Niche picking examples

Let's say that you love animals and know how to take care of them. You are actually passionate about this. You do an online search under "Proper care for your pet" and realize that there are 200,000 million results or so (not bad) and that there are sites that actually pay Google to be listed. This is called Adsense. This tells you 2 things: It's a specialized niche that doesn't seem to have the overwhelming competition of the Make Money Online "niche". And if you get advertisers for your site or blog, you can make money with their ads by placing them on your site.

If you are building an info blog or site, the above 2 points are of the utmost importance. If you do a search on say: "20 ways to skin fish" and find tons of results with few or no advertisers, skip it. This is one way of eliminating pain and agony later, that is unless you're rich and just want to communicate about your fish skills.

You know a lot about Latin food and wonder if there is a market for Online Latin recipes that people are willing to pay a buck or so to get from you. You find out using the two pointers above that there is a potential to make money at this, so you just do it.

You may then get a domain name such as www.FantasticLatinRecipes.com. Go ahead and register it if you wish. It maybe available.

OK, I see that some light bulbs are already going off in your head. I could belabor this post some more by telling you how to structure your pages, keywords selection and all that good stuff. But you got all of this for free from me. Click on my Go Daddy Affiliate gadget to get started:

Or, if you are on a very tight budget, just start with Blogger or Word Press.

I hope I have inspired you to start your online business. I will add links to tools on this post later (free and paid designer software, keyword tools, etc.) that will help you to build killer sites. Such will give you better online presence and help you to make money and have lots of fun helping others.

Tune in again soon,

Carlos

The power of your own decisions

2011-11-24T10:33:00.001-05:00

Your own decisions could get you in perilous situations but it's a lot better than letting others make them for you

I've written about responsibility and how not being responsible can lead one down a path of problems. After all, how can anyone fix anything when he refuses to have anything with it? But this has a much more hidden aspect to it: the power of decision. And more specifically: "the power of your own decisions".

When we let others decide for us, any course of action, we're simply saying: "I don't want to be responsible. Let someone else take the rap for it if something goes wrong!" Well, that, of course, is an extreme example. But you commonly have: "You cook. I'm not very good at it.", or something of the sort.

This can get as bad as having to have someone's decision to get out of bed in the morning. Momma used to do it for you when you were a kid. But many adults completely depend on the alarm clock to wake up. If it doesn't go off, you blame it. Actually, we all have a "built in clock", an inner perception if you want to call it, that is even more accurate than the alarm clock. I haven't used one in years!

Fundamentally, there is a decision behind the statement or course of action. Do you know that if you choose to decide your own actions, your own consequences, good or bad you will increase your ability? Your own happiness? Letting others decide one's lot can have dire consequences. Minimally we can begin to blame others for our own circumstances. Very interesting.

We then begin a sort of compulsive: "Well, how can I do something about it if I wasn't responsible?" Oddly enough you are. You decided to allow another person to be in the driver's seat. You opened the door. Se how that can be?

Now, I'm not talking about: "You have to decide everything or else..." No. Others also have a right to decide on their own affairs without your interference. I'm talking about deciding on your own affairs, your own actions and your own consequences, including your own environment.

This has become a very insensitive world. We leave many decisions that we could make to the authorities--"We could get sued if we move him!". How can one simply leave an injured person who is incapacitated to the authorities, who won't get there for the next 30 minutes? And yet it is done.

In my younger years I used to brave thugs who would do harm to helpless victims such as old men or bums. It was a bit dangerous, but I'm still here, many years later. I decided that I better do something fast. The police would not have been able to help in time. I didn't want to have a guilty feeling about this later on that would haunt me. So I decided on my own and acted. I feel good about it now.

Personal involvement has become a rare thing. Only those that disagree with "I don't want to get involved" and DO get involved by their own decision actually and eventually become successful. Do you think that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs sought permission from the establishment or IBM to come up with their innovations?

Did you know that Thomas Salva Edison (inventor of the light bulb) experienced incredible opposition to most of his inventions and even powering New York City with electricity? The heating and lamp oil company moguls of the time wanted his hide. He had to fight the big boys in court.

Here's an excellent excerpt that I received today in my e mail, written by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology who describes this phenomena very eloquently:

"SELF-CONFIDENCE is nothing more than belief in one's ability to decide and in one's decisions.

"MOST PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE UNCONSCIOUS MINDS OR BACKGROUNDS OF MOTIVATION SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE REFUSED THEIR OWN POWER TO DECIDE.

"Negation of decision, refusal of decision, letting others decide are the most powerful sources of aberration. They apply to any and all subjects."

-- LRH, Handbook for Preclears, pg 241

I thought this was a brilliant description of the power of one's own decisions. It inspired me to bring you this post.

What do you think?

Let me know.

Carlos

One life to live?

2011-11-15T11:25:00.001-05:00

The future's a lot brighter than you were lead to believe

Ever since time immemorial we have asked this question: "Do we only have one life to live?" In the modern world this seems to be the current consensus. After all, we live in a very material world where the worth of a man is usually measured by his material possessions and how much money he has in the bank.

The "One life to live" equation actually creates quite a bit of neurosis in us. Many are the goals that must be achieved in this short time or we're done for. Choosing between two or three options can be nerve wrecking. "Do I become a Doctor and save lives and make lots of money?" Or, "Should I just continue being a carpenter. which I love, even though I'll never be rich?" As you can see, the short time factor does in fact create anxiety in the choosing and achievement of our goals. But are they really your goals?

I've been listening to a fascinating lecture by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology called "Dead man's goals". Do you know that many of the goals that we desperately try to achieve are actually the un- achieved goals of dead people? I know, kind of a grim subject, but nonetheless true. We carry the life continuum of those that have departed this world by taking on their never achieved goals. We seem to take them on and try to carry them out with a vengeance. Actually with more dedication than even ours.

"Poor aunt Agatha. She was such a great woman. She never got to get her dolls company off the ground." A person may say this and then take on the gruesome task of making sure that company really takes off, even though it maybe an activity which he hates, but does anyway! Why? The one life fixation. "We only get to live once!" "If only she had lived longer...." We have been fed these lines for so long: "You only live once". "Life is short!", etc. etc. I've even seen in Facebook all kinds of advice on what your philosophy should be, because "Life is short". Come on people, open your mind a bit!

Well this creates quite a bit of neurosis. We become frantic about achieving our goals. "We're running out of time!" What a joke. There really is nothing but time. Just look ahead into the future! It's a dirty trick we have been fed and bought hook, line and sinker. We even have a soap opera called; "One life to live".

Does this mean that you simply relax and don't do anything? After all "we have an eternity of time!" No. It doesn't mean that, but I though you should know that you can now relax about this to a large degree and actually achieve more goals by not being frantic about them. Some of those goals are not even yours and based on "the one life" mindset. You can now orient your goals more toward the future. You will be in it, whether you believe it or not.

But thinking that the only thing that we have to look forward to in our lives, good or bad, is the grave, is simply dreadful. It's enough to put you in apathy or sub apathy (below apathy, where you don't even fell a thing) and don't even think about it. It actually makes living one's life a very serious thing indeed! "Man, I better be ultra careful when I drive. Should I go up that elevator? Should I fly in airplanes, what if....?" What a cruel trick has been played on us!

I know. The past life proposition or the reincarnation thing has become taboo these days. Many laugh at the mention of it. But maybe they do so out of fear and ignorance. In this modern materialistic world, an afterlife is something not really talked about, especially when you can't readily prove it. But I wonder how these boys react when they finally kick the bucket and realize they do go on and get another chance?

"Is there an afterlife?" " Why can't I remember my past life, then?" I wish I could answer that for you in one post. Such answers are there to be found, however. You can start by going to the "Suggested videos" page. There I show a video of a little boy remembering a past life. But don't be shocked. There are many accounts of this occurrence. We seemed to have stopped believing that we have lived before and that we will live again. If ever there was a cruel lie that topped all lies, this one would be it!

You can find the full lecture by L Ron Hubbard in Advance Procedure and Axiom lectures if you want to get the whole story on how this works.

One life to live? What a well perpetrated lie on humanity that has degraded man to the level of materialism.

I hope this was eye opening,

Carlos

You create time

2011-10-21T18:51:00.003-04:00

Time

Time could be said to be our friend or our enemy: being locked up for 20 years would give us a view of "time as an enemy", or barrier; being able to win the lottery would make us rich in little time, it would be our friend then.

I define "time" as "change through space", whether it be a moving object through space, or a vibrating one in a static position: a vibration gives change and even motion. So nothing's really static, even if it moves back and forth "sitting still".

But can we create time? This seems rather "impossible" within our understanding of reality.   And yet we can.   Before I tell you how, I wanted to share a great realization that I had on this subject by listening to a lecture. It's called: "An Analysis of Memory and Human Aberration, Part II", given by L Ron Hubbard founder of Dianetics and Scientology back in November 26 of 1951.   I realized that we can in fact create time. And it's a lot simpler than I thought it would be. I guess I just had to listen to this lecture to find out.

When a person postulates: "I don't have time", he in essence collapses his experiences and such begin to not have a time reference. It's like removing all of your labels from your files in your file cabinet and then hoping to find your files later. It will be a terrible ordeal indeed. A person actually files by time frame his experiences, good or bad. But he can "postulate" ( assert and consider) that "he doesn't have time for anything".   People are actually quite able. What they postulate actually comes true. It's a lot more technical than "You get what you wish for", but it'll do for now.

So time then could be considered to exist or not. You could consider that you won't have time in the future and you probably won't. I made a passing comment in one of my posts about Steve Jobs. He didn't think he would live very long. Well, he didn't. Those who live a long time actually consider or postulate that they will. Yes, there is disease, there are "accidents" and other factors that cut a life short. But oddly enough disease and accidents seem to be invited by those who don't consider they'll live long. There are other factors at work here and the subject of another post, but in essence we seem to live as long as we wish.

In this vein, how do we create time? Number one, stop saying: "I don't have time", because you will be "right". You do have time and the proof of it is a good look into the future. This universe is theorized as existing for the past twenty billion years. That's an awful long time, seems like an eternity. But do you want to know what eternity looks like? Look into the future. That's eternity!

And the past is gone. L R H says in the same lecture: "Try to eat the memory of yesterdays' dinner". What matters to us is the future. So number two: organize your future by setting your self targets and goals. Instead of wasting valuable days watching the same old on T.V. or spending endless hours on Facebook, hoping someone will "like" your status or comment, plan out your future.

As an aside, I realized why Facebook has such an appeal. What keeps a lot of people going in life is "being able to create an effect". If no one "likes" or comments on a person's status, he will stop posting. It's like putting a buck in the waitress's jar when she's not looking. No recognition.   I guess I have some of that as I enjoy getting hundreds of page views a day to my posts.

Anyway, a plan is an organized look into the near or long term future. A good plan will be systematized. It will have a goal you want to achieve with sequential steps that will eventually, once done, will get you your goal. Attain your goal, experience joy and happiness. Then keep going, create another goal, make it, and another goal and make it and so on and so on.

People that "don't have time" get very little done. You ask them: "What did you do today?" Many will make up stories about how busy they were, but didn't achieve much. Truly busy people get stuff done. They are productive and not idle. I believe L Ron Hubbard says: "You want to get something done? Give the task to a busy man". How true. In this case, of course, the man is busy doing productive things.

So you create your future by putting it there. It's your time that you are creating. You create motion and life!

If you want to get the full data on creating time I suggest you get the lectures by L Ron Hubbard called: "Thought, Emotion and Effort". Go to Bridge Publication and buy them there. They will give you a brand new look on life and what you can do as you.

Let me know this was helpful,

Carlos

True wealth

2011-10-13T11:15:00.003-04:00

What is "true wealth"? Is it the amount of money that we have in the bank?; our total assets?; or a lot more money coming in than we have going out?

I'm sure that if you Google this, you'll find millions of different results. Many if not most will be a variation of the three above. But true wealth is not really a large amount of money that one has at any given time. It's true that money may play a part on wealth. Those that don't have money in today's modern society will surely have a tough time without it.

But let's take a closer look. Steve Jobs of Apple computer was a true billionaire. But as much money as he had could not prevent his early demise. Michael Jackson died fairly insolvent. But he went through millions and even bought the rights to The Beatles songs. He died young nonetheless. He must have been relatively wealthy as he had his own heart doctor. I don't have one.

True wealth is a relative concept then. Amazon jungle natives actually told James Cameron, director of Avatar, the movie, that they thought he was a genius for portraying "their lifestyle"-- their spirituality and connection to nature. I'm not sure how they saw his movie as they're really primitive. But Mr. Cameron paid them a visit.

He revealed during an interview when asked if these natives wanted modern conveniences such as H.D. T.V's. He said: "No. They just want what they already have." These natives of the jungles of Brazil are very concerned about incursions into "their jungle" by the modern world. They are afraid that they will no longer have their wealth which is their way of life, such as that portrayed in Avatar.

Billionaire Warren Buffet gave an interesting view of wealth not long ago. He said that about 100 years ago the richest man in the world didn't have T.V., Air Conditioning, an automobile or even a cell phone. Nowadays even factory workers carry cell phones, MP3's and other gadgets that would have even the richest man of yesteryear drool with envy and awe.

But to the natives in the Brazilian jungle these things do not constitute riches. Their way of life in a natural setting is true wealth.

L Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology talks quite a bit about money and wealth. His definition of true wealth doesn't even include money as part of the definition. He says that true wealth is measured by the number of true friends that one has, how wide is his sphere of influence and how extensive are his lines of communication.

When you think about it, the natives of Brazil live by this. They are friends with all the other life forms in the jungle. They have a communications network with all living things that surround them. They take what they need and give back to nature. They are now taking great steps to prevent their earth from being destroyed, such as inviting James Cameron to help them. He allied them in their cause and is taking steps to make sure they can go on surviving.

Here's what Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich dad Poor dad, says about wealth: “The ability to survive a certain number of days forward”.

A cool website I stumbled on covers wealth and survival quite a bit it's called Health Wealth and Money.

What good is all the money in the world if you can't take it with you, as with Steve Jobs? What good is all the money in the world if you use it to enslave others economically, such as is being done by the power elite who control and manipulate money by speculation?

You want to be truly wealthy? I suggest you work along the lines of extending your own survival and that of your loved ones-- and that includes the planet that you inhabit. Yes, money doesn't hurt, but it doesn't define true wealth.

This is another viewpoint on wealth that you may not have thought about before. If you haven't got much money to think about, but a whole bunch of friends, are influential and work along survival lines, then you are truly wealthy. You are a giant amongst men.

Have a great and inspiring day,

Carlos

How to blog correctly and make money

2011-10-06T11:32:00.002-04:00

Make money with your blog

Alright, it just so happens that I have been pretty busy with my hurricane shutters business and have had little time to post, but I couldn't resist taking a bit of time out and write a short post about How to blog correctly and actually make money from it.

I stumbled on an incredible blog where the author actually explains and gives a chronological account--his-- about how he started, his learning curve and what he does to blog correctly and actually make money from it.

I have brought you many articles on how to make money. One of them is called "How to make tons of money", and if followed in its entirety, can actually do what it says. The only pitfall is that it's written in a three part series, takes quite a bit of reading in your part, as well a good grasp of the English language.

Well, I have good news. If you are in a hurry like most of us are, i can give you a short rundown (summary) of important points that you can implement in as little as 15 minutes in your blog, to create a killer blog and start making some serious money at it after a few months. No, you won't make money instantly. If that is what you want, then this is not for you.

But if you can spare a few minutes out of your busy schedule, apply these tips:

1. Pick a platform to blog. I use blogger.com. It's free and has many upgrades, such as dynamic templates that allow your readers to view your blog in many different ways.

2. Pick a subject that you like and that has some demand. It's easier to write posts about subjects that you like. I like "Inspiration" and I like "Money". You may like "Dogs" or "Pets". Whatever it is that you like writing about, just make sure that there is a demand for it.

3. Use the right tools to build your blog or site and buy some if you need to. I found that it's better to get your own custom domain from blogger, than to just use the one assigned by blogger. The search engines have more "respect" for .coms, .nets, etc. Go Daddy is a great place to get these. I have a banner ad on the right of this blog that you can click. You'll be re directed there. Bottom line is don't be too cheap. Cheap people will never make money online as a rule.

Use The Google Keyword Tool extensively as well as Google Trends to find out what keywords get results, the volume and what's trending now.

4. Build traffic. After you've added some good content that is unique --very important--become a guest blogger in different directories such a Technocratic, Article Base, etc. You can write about your niche subject and give your blog or site back links from high ranking sites such as these.

I use FeedJit. This is basically a world map that shows you who is coming to your site or blog. You can watch your traffic in real time. It doesn't give you tons of traffic per se. But you can pay $49 and get six million impressions. This may give you abou 500 hits to your site and a few followers.

You can also use Google Adwords, their paid advertising program. Here you will have to pay. But it's a good paid tool to at least find out what keywords convert and which ones do not. You then tweak your content based on the keywords that worked and avoid those that don't work. Remember. If you want to make money online, don't be cheap.

I can give you a few more tips. But I think it's best if you just follow this link I give you: "How to make money with a blog" by Christian. He's making some good money with his blog.

I hope this has been helpful.

If you have a few tips that have worked for you, please share them.

Have a great inspiring day,

Carlos

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2011-10-06T10:03:00.002-04:00

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Some helpful tips to making more money

2011-08-30T17:35:00.001-04:00

Human Emotion and Reaction

These helpful tips to making more money are not often easy to follow as I cover the biggest barrier to producing anything: "Human Emotion and Reaction". Of all barriers to getting anything worthwhile done, this is the biggest. L Ron Hubbard, an organizational genius and founder of Dianetics and Scientology covers this at length. He wrote over 15 tomes on the subject of organization.

At first glance, you may not believe it or possibly dismiss it. Even though the above is now widely held, it takes a closer look to be able to help one realize how this gets in the way. That's why I'll give you a few examples. I'm sure you'll see it. Once you do, you'll spot many in your life or work environment and apply a few tips to overcome Human Emotion and Reaction.

Example: You come in full of enthusiasm in the morning to your office and decide you are going to handle that order right away that came in yesterday. This is a big client that you landed. Handling this order just right may just bring you a very large contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. You sell and ship Plasma T.V's to commercial establishments such as hotels and restaurant chains.

The initial order is for two hundred 56" plasma T.V's. You must ship such expediently. You already have an in with the manufacturer and place the order quickly. You call the manufacturer the next day to make sure that your order was well received. To your amazement, you discover that the fax was "never received". You look at your fax confirmation and "Yep, you did send it and was well received". So you re-send it, stay on the phone, to make sure it comes through at the other end.   It doesn't. You ask the receiver if they put paper in the fax machine. You're told that they have a virtual fax and that it will come in on the internet.

You ask them, then, to check again. No fax order. You try to debug, but the receiver begins to get impatient. You try to smooth things and tell him that this is a very large order, that you don't want to mess anything up. You know you'll receive a big commission and the manufacturer will do very well too. The receiver checks again and says "Nope!". You get a bit impatient now and try to figure out what could have gone wrong and insist the receiver check again.

By now, he begins to make you wrong and tells you: "Are you sure that you sent it? Maybe you're doing something wrong at your end!". You know you're not. You raise your voice a bit and the receiver gets angry and hangs up the phone. You call the manufacturer again and ask to speak to the receiver. He won't come to the phone as he's mad at you.

Now it's another day and you decide to go up the chain of command. You speak to the V.P. of communications. After a bit of persuasion, he looks for the order. He finds it. he realizes that the internet fax has a spam filter. Your fax was sent to the spam section. With relief, you finally get the V.P. to start processing your order.

Example:   You ask for a coffee "without sugar". The waitress gives you a coffee with "little sugar". You taste it and realize she got the order wrong. You get her to come over and tell her about it. She maintains "That's what you ordered". You know you didn't and get a bit upset. She gets even more upset and darts off to handle another order. You want your coffee and try to get her back. She finally comes back, brings you the coffee without sugar, but it's cold.

You reluctantly tell her about this and she snaps: "Well, I'm busy: you have to wait!". You are now upset and say to her: "No. I don't have to wait!" you leave a buck on the table and go elsewhere.

As you can see from both examples above, production was delayed or didn't happen at all due to Human Emotion and Reaction, the biggest barrier to production.

I gave you two somewhat extreme examples above. Events in life are usually a bit more subtle, such as someone rolling their eyes when you're not looking, after you ask for something. But life is full of these incidents. These get excuses such as: "Well, we're human!" This is a rationalization and is needless.

Solutions:   It has been said through time that "manners is the grease that makes human relations possible." This is true and one of the tools to use in avoiding as much as possible Human Emotion and Reaction. But manners alone can fall short as you're dealing basically with human aberration ( irrational thought and abnormal behavior).

Communication is the biggest factor in getting things done, without it no casual contact, short project and much less any major project will be possible. Check out my post: Three tips to living a better life. Here I cover communication more at length. It has a formula. You will see how applicable this is.

I'll reiterate the formula:

The full formula is as follows:

"Communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source-point across a distance to receipt-point, with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt-point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source-point." The Scientology handbook online

In the first example above, you can see that the formula was violated. The communication was not received initially. You add to this the reaction of the receiver and you begin to have a mess.

In the coffee example, the waitress mis-duplicated the intention. It didn't get across to her.
The person requesting the cup of coffee could then do the following to get a cup of coffee "without sugar":

1. Use his best manners possible to grease the communication and
2. Make sure that the communication is duplicated. He could test the waitress's understanding to make sure she duplicated what he wanted. We do this all the time in normal life.
3. Use communication properly as well as the rest of the components of understanding. These are Affinity and Reality. Together they form an interdependent triangle: Affinity, Reality and Communication. The more you communicate, the more you'll raise the affinity and the more you'll raise reality (agreement).
4. Learn to use the emotional tone scale. What is the person's emotional tone? Is he angry most of the time?, sad, apathetic? By speaking to people at their tone level, you can get more agreement.

I'm sure that if you apply these tips above, you can get more produced and with a lot more joy. There's much more I can give you on this, such as the full use of the ARC triangle (Affinity, Reality and Communication), the use of the emotional tone scale, etc. You can find a more in depth description of these tools by doing a search in the search box above.

For now, I'm sure you can use what I've brought you above to get more production done and therefore increase your income. You can make a lot more money than you may have previously realized. Don't let Human Emotion and Reaction get in your way. You can do something about it.

Carlos

Knowledge Responsibility and Control

2011-08-06T16:21:00.001-04:00

Knowledge Responsibility and Control are the component parts of a very important triangle in Scientology.
L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology and Dianetics discovered the relationship of these components and covers it at great length in many issues.

My intention in this post is to help you in understanding how this works by bringing you a few examples of this subject as well as a video by a very successful consultant called Luis Colon, who founded M.G.E., a training and consulting company to many top businesses throughout the globe.

But first let me ask you a few questions and please be honest:

1. Would you like more Knowledge ?

Well, who wouldn't. Better knowledge of a business of ourselves or a loved one translates to better understanding and possibly more control.

2. Would you like to more Control? When you have more control of things, such as a basic thing as a car, chances are you won't have accidents. If you can control your money better, you get to spend it or invest it more wisely and keep more.

Now we come to the tough one:

3. Would you like more Responsibility? Chances are you don't. Very few people actually want to take on more responsibility. To many Responsibility= "more work, that's bad". If you want more responsibility, congratulations and well done! You are amongst the very few who choose to do so. You will therefore find that what I say following will ring true.

Let's go back to this triangle. Each part: Knowledge, Responsibility and Control are interdependent to one another. The more Knowledge you want to take on, the more Control you'll have to exert and the more Responsibility you'll have to have. You will not have one without the consequence of the others.

Conversely, if you become less Responsible, you become less Knowledgeable and the less Control you'll have.
If you decide, for example, that this planet is not your responsibility, the less you'll know about it and the less you'll be able to exert control over it.

Whether you believe in global warming or not, scientists who were dead set against this theory are now admitting that this is actually happening. The great Icebergs in Antarctica are now receding, not myth or legend, but true.

But let's scale this down a bit. Let's pick an example of a grouchy neighbor who only complains about the crime in his neighborhood. many thugs sell drugs and home break ins are more prevalent. He has been asked to contribute to the Police Department so that more Officers can do foot Patrols. But he has refused to do so, even though he can afford to do a modest donation.

A couple of months go by and his home is broken into while he's inside. The trespasser and invader holds him up at gunpoint and demands he break open the floor boards to get some cash. Now he has given up his cash (that could have prevented this in the first place) and is scared stiff. Due to lack of resources, the perpetrator doesn't get the long arm of the law. Life just catches up with him a few years later and is found in a dumpster.

I know it's a graphic and ugly example, but all too common in cities like Detroit or East Los Angeles. More commonly, many people just litter the streets and then complain of higher taxes. It seems that the lack of taking of responsibility leads to an array of ills, including but not limited to people just being plain dumb and not a pleasure to be around. Talk to the chronic litterer and you'll discover a person who blames many others for the ills in society: "politicians this and politicians that". He possibly doesn't even vote to deserve complaining about politicians.

Let's take someone who is responsible. His daughter has trouble in school. He realizes that the school system is wanting in many ways, as well as his daughter. He straightens up his daughter's attitude and hires a good tutor. He also makes good recommendations to the school and volunteers as a tutor to teachers who are lacking in teaching skills and rehabilitates their sense of purpose. The school straightens up and he can send his daughter there eventually. Many call this "get involved". Well he did.

Modern society, I hate to tell you exhibits symptoms of being on the way out. Man takes little responsibility for his fellowman. It's sort of an apathetic: "I pays me' taxes..not my job!" That type of attitude has led to our world wide recession and the recent Down Jones crash. Call it "The blame game", or whatever else. It all boils down to a lack of Responsibility, Knowledge and Control. If paying your taxes was enough, don't you think the problem would've been fixed by now?

I could go on and on with this subject. I'm sure you got the point.

I leave you now with a video with:

Arte Martin and his interview of Luis Colon of M.G.E.

Have a great week end,

Carlos

A tidbit of inspiration

2011-07-28T17:43:00.002-04:00

A great oil painting. Who is the artist?

Sometimes a long post is not required to inspire you. A fine quote or some words of wisdom might do. I decided that since I've been busy, actually swamped, I could at least inspire you by changing the picture behind the title description of "Inspiration for your day", from time to time.

Since my business requires me to work 2 shifts right now: hurricane season, I figured at least a bit of research of inspirational images or pictures would give your day a boost.

I will only be posting once a month, or more if time permits during this busy time.

Your favorite posts are still in the archive. Use the index of posts on the right or the search box I provided. If you don't see what you're looking for, comment and make a suggestion.

I'll leave you with a great definition for a Poet that I thought of today on a very inspired minute:

"Poet": Someone who doesn't require notes to make his words sing."

Have a great day,

Carlos

Bill Gate's biggest inspiration

2011-07-14T23:18:00.004-04:00

Bill gates

I love watching biographies of successful people on T.V. One such program on CNBC called "Titans" featured the biography of Bill Gates. It was actually an interview done about 3 years ago, by one of the prominent NBC interviewers. I forget his name (Charlie Rose, I think).

I must confess I had sort of a biased opinion of him. I have heard that he basically made it all the way to the top as one of the top billionaires of the planet, by being a sleek and cunning entrepreneur. As the interview/Bio unfolded, I was thoroughly disabused of this idea. But I did have an inkling, based on simple logic that there were quite a few qualities, not readily visible that helped to propel him into stellar success. One of them was a refreshing surprise. He is a true titan.

Bill gates was gifted from childhood with a superior intellect. Before graduating High School, he had a big passion for computers. He reasoned that computers should be and could be made affordable, so much that every household should and could have one. So he began programming. His initial goal was to just double the size of his fledgling company. He never envisioned a multi-billion dollar company. But mainly thanks to his initial goal of the computer becoming as affordable as a common appliance, his success surpassed his wildest dreams.

Microsoft became so large over the years, surpassing AT&T and IBM, that the U.S. government sued the company under The Sherman Anti Trust law and accused it of being a monopoly. Bill Gates got tired of this long battle and eventually settled with them out of court. He just wanted to be left alone and continue to create within his activity.

The interviewer asked Bill about his 75 million dollar mansion and hinted at the extravagance. Bill pretty much brushed off the innuendo by stating that if you included the house contents such as art and other thrills, maybe. But he was not interested in extravagance as he thought such would be a waste of resources. These could be otherwise used to bring about a greater good to mankind.

He has donated billions of dollars to charity and persuaded the likes of Warren Buffet to do the same (ten billion dollars). He is very passionate about doing the greatest possible good in this planet with is money. His Bill gates Foundation is probably the most generous charitable institution in existence. Many apply for grants and many are endowed with money if they show good cause for the funds.

He was asked what he valued the most. I was floored when he honestly answered: "My marriage." This brought a near tear to Bill as he fought the words and said that his biggest inspiration was his wife and beamed a smile. He added that he valued her and his family more than his money. He didn't even have her sign a pre- nup, despite false accusations that he had done so.

So there you have it: Bill gates biggest inspiration is his wife and family, far above money. Pretty neat huh?
I was touched and moved by this interview and wanted to share it with you.

Carlos

Income versus Outgo

2011-06-30T17:59:00.001-04:00

I'm not a financial wizard and don't claim to be one. But I bet you that I can tell you quite a bit about Income versus Outgo that you may not have known about. We are taught in school early on, to "Bring that debt down!". "Reduce it any way you can!" That's all fine and good, but relative to what? Relative to how much you make? Relative to how much you owe?

As you can see, this "lesson taught" about "Get out of debt fast!", doesn't give a complete picture. But understanding Income versus Outgo does. It gives one not only the proper perspective, but something very important to concentrate on and that is Income. Income has been, is and always will be more important than outgo (bills). When you concentrate on "bills", you stop being creative about money. You become a cheapskate as the picture above illustrates. I'm not saying to not pay attention to your bills. By all means do so! But they are NOT more important than income.

I'll give you an example. Would you really care much about one million in debt, if your payments were $10,000 a month, but you easily made $20,000? And could keep going for the next 30 years making even more? Of course not. You would still have ten thousand a month to live very happily on. Most successful people are not afraid of debt. They only become fearful of debt, when they lose their ability to create income. Then debt can be somewhat intimidating.

Even so, Donald Trump was heavily in debt (I'm talking billions of dollars). The economy back in 80's tanked in N.Y. The banks began to call him in on all his payments. He was in arrears with many. His monthly payments, just to amortize debt, was about 53 million dollars. He did the unthinkable. He went to the same banks that were hounding him for monthly payment and got another loan! I know that we're not Donald Trump. He is one incredible human being who has surmounted tremendous odds, including bankruptcy, and became one of the world's top billionaires.

By all means have a good accountant, a savings plan, a 401K, good investments, etc. But Income is always more important than outgo. Why? Without income, there is no outgo.

About two weeks ago I was worried about my debts and kind of cheap to my favorite charity. A financial adviser gave a seminar on this subject and I was floored. I changed my mindset and the income is just rolling in without much effort. Now I have plenty of money to take care of most of those nagging bills.

Put "The bad economy" scares aside. You are the boss with money as long as you apply some of the tips I give you here, as well as follow my other posts on money.

L Ron Hubbard wrote this incredible Policy Letter called "A comment on Finance", and I quote just a paragraph: "I answer money problems with lots of money, not with worry or sadness or impractical hope. I never count on any one source. I always plan to get the total sum of all the money I need from each one of three ways or sources.

But most important, I don't run up bills if I don't have the cash in sight to pay them."

Do you have to be a genius to know about Financial Planning? I'll give you another piece of data by L Ron Hubbard from his Policy Letter on Financial Planning: "Financial planning means: how to handle money and assets of an org {organization}so as to maintain outgo below income."

Ron was a genius on finances, far above any "financial guru" out there who might have predicted that the .com boom would never go bust. His works are timeless and I highly recommend them. They're as applicable today as they were back in the 50's. It takes a bit of work in making sure you clear he words. But once you do, you'll be totally amazed how your life can change.

Since I began studying his works, I never cease to be amazed as to how much this man knew, and most importantly, how much he shared with us his wealth of applicable materials. I'll always be grateful for having made me a better man. With that said, I highly recommend that you don't worry much about a few bucks to get his books if you have the cash in sight. Don't be cheap on yourself!

So always concentrate on Income a lot more, far more than you concentrate on outgo. It is far more important, without it, there is no outgo.

I hope this was helpful,

Carlos

Exchange in abundance

2011-06-28T15:30:00.007-04:00

This may be a new concept for you: "Exchange in abundance". After all, we are usually "taught" by our colleagues or "friends" that "It is holier to receive than to give", or some variation of it. It sounds good and even easier to fall for. But what if I told you that it is holier to give a lot more than expected when one is paid for a good or service? I know. This may not sound right? Why should we exchange in abundance? There are actually quite a few advantages to this, including mainly your own well being. Such actually depends on it.

What is meant by "exchange"?:

"Definition:
Verb: give something and receive something else in return.
Noun: an act or the action of exchanging; a short conversation or argument; the giving of money for its equivalent in the currency of another country; a building or institution used for the trading of commodities; a set of equipment that connects telephone lines during a call.

Ref: Compact Oxford English Dictionary"

Per L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology, there are four conditions of exchange. These are:

"First consider a group which takes in money but does not deliver anything in exchange. This is called rip-off. It is the “exchange” condition of robbers, tax men, governments and other criminal elements.

Second is the condition of partial exchange. The group takes in orders or money for goods and then delivers part of it or a corrupted version of what was ordered. This is called short-changing or “running into debt” in that more and more is owed, in service or goods, by the group.

The third condition is the exchange known, legally and in business practice, as “fair exchange.” One takes in orders and money and delivers exactly what has been ordered. Most successful businesses and activities work on the basis of “fair exchange.”

The fourth condition of exchange is not common but could be called exchange in abundance. Here one does not give two for one or free service but gives something more valuable than money was received for. Example: The group has diamonds for sale; an average diamond is ordered; the group delivers a blue-white diamond above average. Also it delivers it promptly and with courtesy."

– L. Ron Hubbard –

It may be hard at first to do the latter, as I mentioned earlier. Actually, very few people or businesses practice this as witnessed especially during a recession. Most businesses cut back and give terrible "customer service". Just try to get a human voice to answer your call when you call the electric company or phone company. You get the usual pre-recorded message to go to their websites. What is this fascination these days of being referred to automaticity? Most people hate with a passion holding through the muzac, just to be able to talk to a customer service rep, when you do manage to get through.

So most businesses do the opposite of what you're supposed to do during difficult economies. They first cut back on their promotion; then they cut back on employees; on hours and finally on any service being worthy of the name "service". This is the wrong way to go about it. During good times and especially during hard times exchange in abundance.

When you do so on a continuous basis, you will begin to stand out, get recognized for your efforts and create goodwill. When eager clients who are looking for your goods or services get tired of the "automated-I'm-afraid to spend money on promotion or employees and good service" types, they'll call you! You see, you will have earned a referral from a satisfied customer earlier. He raved about your service.
Your income graph will look like the one above..

If you were in the car wash business, maybe you just made sure that the car interior was completely clean, the rims were sparkling and the tires shining with Armor All. These are extra frills that you gave your client at no extra cost. You exchanged in abundance. You disagreed with the boring, not dead yet companies who are on the way out. The economy tanks a bit more and a sneeze from any element is enough to close them down for good.

You already know that "Production is the basis of morale". So how can you lose by being productive? It pains me to see and hear people complain about "having to work". Yet, they are miserable when they don't do so. Who invented this paradise of "Doing nothing under the palm trees while drinking rum and cokes?" I've done that-- not much really-- and I've gotten bored to death after 1 day!

No wonder we don't see much of an improvement in "the economy". It is not "the economy" that is suffering. It's this mindset of "partial exchange" above that is ruining "the economy". It's this loser mentality that is bankrupting businesses and people. "The economy" doesn't think, doesn't feel, doesn't act, people do and they are the ones that can change it.

Did you know that a person who is a great example of application of "exchange in abundance" is Bill Gates? Yes...of Microsoft. Think about it. Because of windows, we can all have economical access to our personal computers. Back in the days, only a few of us had access to computers. And they were huge and clumsy. His company has produced more multimillionaires than any other company. He is continuously developing new software and hardware. He has given away billions to charity and persuaded other multi billionaires to do so.

How do I know? I just attended a seminar by a financial adviser who personally knows him and he told the audience so. Despite any bad things you may have heard about him, you can rest assured he has done a lot more good things than bad things. He has at least bettered this world in a big way by exchanging in abundance.

One of the ways that I exchange in abundance is to write on this blog Inspiration for your day. My direct income from it is peanuts, literally. But the money returns to me in other activities plentifully. When I don't post regularly, my income slacks. In April of this year I wrote 4 fairly long articles, even though my time was limited. Not only did I enjoy myself thoroughly, but I had the highest weeks of the year!

You could say that I'm not 100% selfless, and you would be right. I am not. But I can assure you that the keynote is EXCHANGE. I make sure I get it in FULLY and in ABUNDANCE.

That keeps me and my friends and associates very happy.

Any business that you are in, I highly recommend that you exchange in abundance. Your finances will skyrocket and you'll be very happy. Just do the opposite of what these lazy cats recommend: a slow death. Get the picture?

I have a few more tips on making money during a bad economy. I've covered some of these in my earlier posts and will bring you some more.

Let me know if this was helpful.

Carlos

How to start a business with no money

2011-06-07T16:47:00.009-04:00

I know that the title of this post sounds almost impossible "How to start a business with no money". Yet it can be done. "Everybody knows" that to start a business, you need "a lot" of money, advertising, a product or service that is in demand, the ability to deliver and plenty of eager customers. Right? Well, not really.

To create a business of your own with no money, you just need what you already have plus some ingenuity. I'm going to assume that you already have a computer, some basic knowledge of it, access to the internet and a lot of desire. Without this desire, you'll never have enough persistence to push through what lies ahead for you, which is not really all that complicated, once you know how to do it.

You first need the desire to be in business, a business that you can call your own. After that, you need an idea, then you survey to make sure that this idea of a product or service is needed or wanted. Then you must figure out how to produce that service or product and then get it into the hands of eager customers. After you get the product or service into the hands of clients, you figure out how to improve it by streamlining it and making it more affordable.

I wish I could tell you that with "desire" alone you can create and be in your own business. I've tried that and failed. But I can tell you that you don't need: A financial guru adviser, 8 years of college, your daddy's money, a bank loan or buy into the latest internet craze, or even your friends and family. You have not landed in one of those sites that will pester you to empty your wallet and buy into a "system" and then reveal a lot less than I'll show you here.

To start your own business, however, you do need to pay attention to what I'll cover here as well as click on some banners and links that I will make available. Don't worry. I'm not going to send you into La La Land, where you click my affiliate link and good bye. I do suggest you Bookmark this page, as you'll what to refer to it often. This post offers over 30 years of my business know how and practical experience-- a lot more than what you'll get by paying up to $3,000 for some full of hoopla internet course.

Let's go over the steps I gave you above in a more detailed way:

1. Decide fully that you want to be in business for yourself. Many people call this the "Proper mindset". Someone in business for himself is an entrepreneur. If you don't know what this term means, I suggest you open another window and use the online Google dictionary, not just for this term, but for others that you'll come ac cross. Not knowing what words mean is a major barrier to learning. It's like trying to play the piano and not knowing what the proper sequence of notes is. You'll never play the tune! So don't be surprised if you can't apply what you learn. How can you? You don't know the basic building blocks of the idea you want to apply.

With the above in mind and knowing what an "entrepreneur" is you'll know that you need some qualities that many others don't have. For example, there are two types of people in business: The business owner and the employee. The business owner has the proper mindset of an entrepreneur. He knows that there will be blood sweat and tears in his journey to success, but then a big pay off. He thinks in futures. The employee type is usually looking for a paycheck and may not really care where it comes from, as long as every Friday there is one. A business owner knows that his success depends on his own sweat. An employee may rely on the sweat of others and does not know how to generate business, unless he's a salesman.

There's nothing wrong with being an employee. After all they are needed as essential elements of the big picture, which is the company . But if you are, then this post may not be for you. Of all the points I cover, this is the most important one. A business owner must push aside the fears of possible starvation. He knows he may go hungry a while, but a feast is just waiting for him if he just persists.

2. Come up with an idea for business, the brighter, the better. take a good look around you. There is not one single business around that did not come from an idea. I'll give you a an example here. There's a very famous tale called "The doorman of the brothel ". It's the true and very inspirational story of an illiterate man who could not get another job, because he couldn't read or write. The ownership of this brothel changed hands and the new owners refused to keep him as his new duties demanded that he read and write. Bear with me, I know it's a brothel. But it's a great story.

He didn't know what to do. With some time in his hands, he decided to go to the city from his village and buy a hammer and nails to fix his wooden deck. His neighbor asked him if he could pick up another hammer and nails for him, so he could do the same. The road to travel was long and the neighbor didn't want to take it and offered more money than what the "doorman" would pay for. With the profits, he was able to buy his own hammer and nails without dishing out any of his own money. He also bought some glue and other odds and ends that he knew would be in demand at his village.

He sold all the odds and ends. Then we went around town and asked what they were willing to buy for home improvements. To his surprise, the list was long, along with cash at hand. He went back to the city, came back to distribute the goods and now had 10X what he started with. He kept repeating the process, streamlining his operation, until he could afford a big warehouse and eventually bought all wholesale and distributed all hardware goods to many distant hardware stores in other villages as well as his own. He had now established 2 separate hardware stores in his own village as well as his distribution warehouse.

Many years later and super rich, he was asked what was the secret of his success. He said: "I saw a need and I filled it". When I read this story, I almost wept. Sometimes I forget that one man's ingenuity can go a long way, affecting the lives of many others. His idea carried him far, because it was a bright idea. He expanded because he delivered well and even streamlined his operation, all with the object of filling a need.

When you're in business for yourself you can't make your priority "To make money". Of course we all want to make money. But you must first deliver what is needed and wanted, then the money will follow. It may take a while to get this right, especially in this jet age of a "fast buck". But you will eventually make lots money if you get the sequence right.

3. Make yourself known and find out what is needed and wanted. How? Make a list of possible products or services that you're interested for your business and leave blank space underneath to write down and then later tabulate your answers. It's preferable -- not a must--to select an area in which you're an expert and like. Pick up the phone! Cold call if you must or stop people in the street or ask them at your favorite coffee shop. If the thought of speaking to strangers is more than you could bear, then call your friends! Remember that you have no money for this, only what you already have. I'm sure you at least have some paper and a pen... oh yeah, hopefully the gift of gab.

I caution you on surveying your friends or family. Friends and family often shoot down great ideas you may have by saying something like: "Well, if it's such a great idea, why hasn't anybody come up with it?"; or: "Have you seen the type of competition you're up against?" Check out "How to get NOTHING done" post. I'll tell you something about "competition": This post alone already ranks on page one of Google out of 252 million results! I'm confident that I know what I'm doing and know how to optimize my pages so that they get ranked high by the robots.

I've been asked quite a bit to help companies optimize and rank their web pages high. I've helped them and they have. It's not very hard to do, but the subject of another post. If you'd like some help, just e mail me, or subscribe.

O.K. let's continue. Your survey might look something like this:

A. What can't you get at the grocery store that you'd be willing to pay for twice online?

or

B. Would you be willing to invest under $100 for a device that could save you up to $1,000 a year in your home electric cost?

I thought of these 2 survey questions above as they establish a need. In A. above, do you know how many people order anti wrinkle potions online because they're embarrassed at the checkout counter? That's just one item I can think of. I can think of a more obvious one, but it's not fitting for this blog. I'm sure you know what it is.

In B. There is actually a device called "The Electric Saver 1200". It sells for under a hundred bucks and does just that. I have one for my business and one for my home!

Figure out ways to deliver.

Let's say that your buddy sells anti wrinkle cream that works (most don't). You approach him and tell him to let you have about 10 on consignment at about $15 each. You already did your survey and know who is interested. These folk told you that if you did sell something like this that they would buy it from you. You'll be surprised how many customers you line up while doing surveys. I love doing them, but since I'm busy running my business, I have someone do it for me now.

So you now go to your eager customers, sell the potion for $35, collect the cash and pay your supplier. You do more surveys to line up more clients and repeat the process. This is just one idea.

A long time ago I noticed that a whole floor in a big building didn't have snack machines or canteen service. I asked them if they would like snacks, coffee, etc. They loved the idea and even told me how much they'd be willing to pay. I had about 5 bucks on me, bought some cookies and a pound of coffee. I made fifty bucks in about 2 hours. Not too bad for a kid. I then repeated the process and grew the canteen to a one thousand dollar a week business! I made so much money with it that I bought all the staff uniforms.

I actually miss those days of blood sweat and tears as a fledgling entrepreneur. My only regret is having an older body that can't handle the grueling and intensive schedule I used to have (I kid you not). The character "Spock" in Star trek once commented to a foolish and eager wannabe: "Many times wanting is a lot better than having." How true. Many times once we have, it just grows old. It seems that the memory of the struggle when one is young and eager is the best one has to "look forward" as one gets old. How odd.

Alright. Remember that this blog is called "Inspiration for your day". I do get philosophical and that is why I got a bit poetic above.

Now that you have read this long post--- congratulations!--you've probably come up with many ideas of your own. The sparks are really flying around your head. Therefore, you may take this further, that is you may want to take your business online and not fall prey to unscrupulous operators. You won't if you follow my links and banners:

Already have a business idea and want to take it to the web?

Now that you have a domain name and web hosting, what do you do? You advertise for free!

Go to my other blog called "Free advertising for your business". It was banned by Merchant Circle as they felt cut out of profits they could have made.

After you've done that and want me to optimize your site, send me an e mail with a link to your fledgling site. Don't worry if it looks rusty. That's where my team comes in. I'll give you a quote for the cost to get it to the top of the search engines. But do this only after you've gotten a domain name, hosting and tried some of the free advertising I suggest above. I want to hold true to the title of this post which is "How to start a business with no money". Only after you've gotten some results and gotten a bit cocky should you submit your site.

I suggest you start with Google blogger like I did. It's free. With Blogger you can even buy a domain name if you wish. Your blog will tend to rank higher. A caution with blogs: They are very dynamic in nature. You need to post continuously to see them rank somewhat decent, otherwise they fall off to the bottom of the search pages. That is why they are a "Blog", which is short for "Web Log".

A regular website such as the .coms, .orgs, etc. are usually more static. That means their content changes little. They tend to require more work initially and money and less "maintenance" later.

O.K. I've given you quite a bit for free above. All that I ask is that you buy a hosting package above or at least donate a modest amount via Paypal. I really appreciate it. Your contributions help to keep this blog free= more information coming your way.

Have a very inspiring day knowing that you can start a business with no money!

Carlos

Three tips to living a better life

2011-05-15T09:01:00.003-04:00

In this busy and changing world we live in, it can be difficult to know what to do on a constant basis and live a better life. Just when we "knew" exactly what to do one day, it may not be the correct thing another day. Things change. Life just keeps going with or without us. We may feel a bit lost in this business. There may just be too many things to remember and much less to apply. can we keep up?

Yes we can. I'm going to give you three tips for a better life that have always worked for me, and work very well for many others who follow them and they are as follows:

1. Stay in present time. 2. Know how to communicate well, and 3. Follow a good moral code.

Number one above: Stay in present time, may take a bit of doing. But once it is done on a continuous basis, life goes smoother. People who are not in present time are a great liability to themselves and others. "Staying in present time" means just that. You are aware of what is going on in your present time environment. You pay attention. A person not in present time is paying attention to some past incident or even contemplating the future and somewhat blind to the present. Just try to get the attention of some unhappy cashier who has another five minutes to the end of her work shift. Good luck! She's usually contemplating what she'll be doing the rest of her day.

When you talk to someone who is thinking of some past painful incident or "stuck" in it, it is a difficult thing to do. You get the feeling that they're not paying attention to you. They are not really. They are viewing a past environment. It's most too common. Yesterday for instance, on two different occasions, while driving home two different drivers came close to crashing my car. One suddenly shifted lanes and another one just went through a red light. Had I not been in present time (paying attention to the environment in front of me), I might have crashed.

This is avoidable, by just staying in present time. The receipt of bad news, an argument with the spouse, an injury, drugs, or a close call, can make one go out of present time. The best thing to do is to avoid these as possible. But when they do happen, take a moment to just take a walk and re-familiarize yourself with your present time environment. Taking a walk has great therapeutic value. You'll again be in great communication with your present environment. But in this "modern world", it's usual to just take a pill to "calm" the nerves and a terrible way to deal with problems. T.V ads are full of messages that urge you to "ask your doctor" about anti depressants. This is false data. The only ones who "benefit" from psychotropics are the stock owners of these companies.

2. Know how to communicate well.

You can be a great communicator and this is very well done. But communicating proficiently and effectively carries with it some knowledge. You should know good communication follows a "communication formula".
It's not difficult to learn and master". Below is a simple diagram of it:

The full formula is as follows:

"Communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source-point across a distance to receipt-point, with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt-point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source-point." The Scientology handbook online

I'll give you an example here (I suggest you follow the link I gave you above, to get a full discussion of the subject):

Joe has a thought. He wants to say "Hello" to Jane. He sees Jane and says "Hello". He impelled a particle, the word, from source point (Joe) across a distance to receipt point, Jane. Joe put enough volume in his voice so that Jane could hear him (he had the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from source point). Jane simply acknowledges with a smile or some other gesture or word and one can say that the communication formula has been followed.

It may seem complicated, but it's not. make a few examples of this and you'll soon have it. In order to fully understand how this works, I suggest doing a course in Scientology called "Success through communication". It's a very simple but powerful course. People who have done it rave about it and often comment on life changing experiences.

Communication is a very important and vital factor of life. People who do not communicate can be likened to dead people. A corpse doesn't talk. Reversely, he who can communicate can be said to be alive. L Ron Hubbard states: "A person is as alive as he can communicate". How true.

3. Follow a good moral code.

Knowing and applying the two tips above, will make this last one easier to do. Following a good moral code is a must in this planet. Obviously not all do so. Many don't out of some confusion on the subject and some are just plain criminal and couldn't care less. They seem to have their own moral code with false data such as: "Do onto others BEFORE they do onto you", a perversion of one of the golden rules to life.

A good moral code is a code that obtains the best possible survival for all concerned. This would include: yourself, your sex partner and children, your group, mankind, all animals, the physical world in which we live, spiritual beings and spiritual things, and eternity. These are what are known as "Dynamics" in Scientology and the component parts of life.

A good moral code would bring the best possible survival, to all the dynamics above on a constant basis. A bad moral code would do the opposite. Such is evident in worn torn countries who at the drop of a hat have their chiefs and chieftains drawing their weapons and blood. There is no true or workable moral code that would to a large degree guarantee the survival of its people.

A moral code is actually a set of rules that we all agree to follow to have better survival. The better the rules for all contained, the better the group or the race survives with the other dynamics taken into account.

There is a project called "The way to happiness". L Ron Hubbard wrote 21 precepts that can be followed by any person in society to survive better and therefore be happy. That's why it's called "The way to happiness"

Since moral codes can differ from person to person or society to society, I think it was a brilliant and essential step in creating a better world, that LRH took to write and publish this simple inspirational guide. It's based on common sense and not religious in nature. Anyone who can read, can apply it.

To recap:

1. Stay in present time. 2. Know how to communicate well, and 3. Follow a good moral code.

I got inspired to write this on my way home the other day and finally got time to hit the keyboard. I hope it was helpful. I will not know if you don't comment. So please do so.

Have a great week end,

Carlos

How to get NOTHING done

2011-04-28T19:28:00.003-04:00

I'm doing nothing

I have to warn you: "How to get NOTHING done" I would never advocate. I just thought that I should share in a humorous way "How to accomplish NOTHING", or "How to get NOTHING done. I have often done absolutely nothing (if that is truly possible), but in an intended way. I prefer to call it: "I was just willing effect-- as opposed to cause--for a change". I was willing to just lay there (wherever) and just be a couch potato. It felt good for a while, but then I got that nagging feeling of guilt that I should be doing something; and I just go on with it and got busy and productive.

But do you really want to know how to get nothing done? You do the following: First of all just "Think about it." Whatever it is you are trying to get done just think it over and then you probably won't do it. I'm not kidding about this. Do you know how many sales I lose to those that tell me: "I'll think about that."; or: "I'll think it over" ? About 99.9% of them are really telling me: "I just don't have the heart to tell you upfront that I want to deal with another company."   Those who tell me: "I'll talk it over with the wife" are more believable. About 1/3 of those actually call back and proceed with the contract. The other 2/3, I just think that they want to "think it over".

Thinking it over doesn't just apply to production. Anything worthwhile that you really want to get done, don't "think it over". That is just stalling and a terrible way to live. All the inspirational people you will ever meet or have ever met have had as a common denominator "Just do it!". The "Think" part of the action process wasn't there. They just decided to get something done and then did it. "Thinking it over" is not part of a decision. It is more of a low level computation that we have been fed to believe and "operate" with.

When you talk to someone who feeds you the "I'll think it over" bit, just realize that you are dealing with a person who has a hard time making the decision right then and there. I have this to ask you: "If you already KNOW that something needs to get done, why think it over?" It doesn't make sense!

I'm not talking here about acting on impulse such as: "I really want that car that I can't afford: The hell with it, just do it!" Who says that knowing what the right thing is and then deciding on it has to take a looooong time? Only neurotic or insane people live in an intolerable world of indecision, the "I ALWAYS have to THINK it over types. The happiest times I've ever had in my life have been the ones when I just knew what to do, decided and just did it. I didn't stall with constant procrastination. I just did these things and then moved to other worthwhile things to get done and just did them.

There's actually quite a bit to cover on this subject. I've read much about what LRH covers on this subject. Much of this is gone over by him in a C.D. Lecture called "The route to infinity".   You will be able to get it from this site in the near future. It is an awesome lecture. He discusses at length what indecision is, which is basically a "maybe". I remember that after I finished the lectures (I think there are 6 of them), the "maybe's" were practically gone from my life and I felt great! It was wonderful to be able to just know what to do, and then decide if wanted to do it or not.

Do you know why most business meetings are soooo BORING? Well, you gather around a whole bunch of people who supposedly gather data to then "think it over so that they can decide". Stay with me here: How many of you have actually had productive meetings? Some folks actually have a saying: "Do you want to kill production and get nothing done? Just hold a meeting!"   I don't fully agree with it, as some meetings are actually productive, but I have to say there is some truth. Boring meetings are as painful, almost, as driving a 10 penny nail through your forehead!

People who procrastinate are in a continuous "maybe". People who "Think it over" are in a continuous "maybe". What's wrong with a quick "Yes" or a quick "No"? Nothing really. I think that we as humans tend to butter things up too much and they just get too slippery to handle. We are obviously good people who don't like to offend and then hesitate to say "No" or "That's enough!" I've had my share of not wanting to offend somebody and held the words in (indecision). I later regretted as did the person to whom the words were intended in the first place. An example of this can be to fear to hurt someone in a just cause, such as not reminding someone to pay you back money owed. "I just wanted to be nice and not hurt his feelings"... you know. That could be the thought.

Do you want your business to fail? Just hire a salesman who is too timid to get a check when he makes the sale, or worse yet: too timid to get that signature on that contract. I know a very successful salesperson, who's been doing sales for over 30 years. Her favorite line is: "Give me the check."

In other posts I've talked about "Control equals income". When you are afraid of rejection or getting a check or cash as a salesperson, you've had it. Why do you think some of the most successful and high earning people are in sales? They're not shy about getting your money, that's why. Donald Trump is one of the greatest salesmen in the planet. During the 80's he took a lot of chances with investments, then New York City went into a deep recession. He lost billions, not millions, but billions. He needed something like fifty one million dollars for one month, short term, just so that he could make payroll and keep the doors open to all of his enterprises.

He didn't have it. Nobody wanted to lend him anymore. He was already in default with banks. His Trump casino in Atlantic City was about 1 billion in the hole. What did he do? He went straight to the bank that he owed the most money to. They had the most to lose. He proposed a short term cash flow loan on top of what he already owed and assured the banks he would pay them back. He reasoned that since he was so well known and associated with making money that he was "bankable". The bank took another chance on him and lent him another fifty one million.   You already know the rest of the story.

I bring up Trump, not because I particularly think he's great. But he is a great salesman. That's for sure. He's not shy about getting that check. he didn't "think about it". He just made the best possible decision he could with the available data and took action. There was no "thinking it over" involved really. Even the banks acted without "We'll think about it". Had they done so, who knows? A lot of bankers might be sweeping New York City streets.

"Thinking it over" can be deadly. Life is dynamic and fast. many times it just cannot wait for an answer. Hesitation is excusable and a justified mechanism at times, but "Let me think it over" as your modus operandus? No! Why demonstrate little or no hesitation only during emergencies? A gun pointed at one can make a very convincing argument when it comes to "your wallet or your life".   Many people "live their lives" by barely if ever making decisions, minor or major and then wonder why "God" or fate dealt them such a lousy hand. Life is what you make of it, my friends. And you make or break your life by the decisions you make. Hate to break it to you, but I'm sure that's how it is. You can "play the hand" or "let the hand play you".

Once I led a good woman on by not telling her I didn't love her. I was miserable. She knew something was wrong, but I was too afraid to tell her the truth. I didn't want to " hurt her feelings". Eventually, the inevitable happened. I gathered up enough nerve to tell her how I really felt. I couldn't take it anymore. Then, she was really hurt!   My life turned upside down as well as hers.   It wasn't easy at first. But we both moved on with our lives and improved them. We didn't live the lie anymore. We were free of the "maybe". Her respect for me really grew after this, as well as her appreciation. This happened a long time ago.   We are still friends.

Here's another way to get NOTHING done. Have you ever been filled with great excitement with a great idea? Quite frankly, who hasn't? Well, this is what you do: share your wonderful idea with your friends. You will begin to get unsolicited opinions.   "I don't know about that!"; "Are you sure?", will be the usual introductions. Then your friends may add something like: "Everything's already been invented or tried. "; Or: "If it were such a wonderful idea, don't you think someone else would have already done it?"

I'm not suggesting that you should never share an idea. But I am saying that your chances of acting on a great idea after you tell your friends will probably be next to nothing. It's a lot better to just do it, have a few successes with it and then share it. There's an old expression: "Nothing succeeds like success". Most people need to be shown that something works before they believe it.

A business concern will of course have its board members examine new ideas. These need to be shared. But the board members are usually highly qualified "decision makers". That's what they get highly paid for. Your friends, even if they mean well, are not highly qualified to give you opinions on great ideas. If you must share your great idea because you just can't hold in your enthusiasm, share it with your tried and proven business partner. And even then make sure you watch for his eyes rolling or brows raising.

So, do you want to get NOTHING done? Just "think it over", or tell all your friends all of your wonderful ideas. You'll stay in "maybe land". You'll see that you will act on absolutely NOTHING! And you will be absolutely miserable. So, just do the opposite. O.K.? Get busy getting rid of all your "maybe's" and "I'm still thinking it over" and you'll be freer and happier than you have ever been.

I hope this was helpful.

Comment and let me know,

Carlos

How to Improve your life

2011-04-22T12:18:00.004-04:00

Improvement on a gradient

If you are sane, intelligent and able, you can improve your life. Life can be improved by one giant leap, such as the windfall of inheriting a large sum of money or suddenly achieving a major goal that you once set out to achieve. This could be: you found your soul mate or finally got approved for a mortgage. The sudden or unexpected receipt of news is a great boost to your survival potential as well as your mood. But life achievements more often than not are achieved gradually as illustrated in the graph above.

Frustrations arise when we don't achieve our goals or things in general begin to go sour. I should know. I've sometimes been in an emotional roller coaster. On the down side of such, I've often wondered: "What happened to some of those goals I had that never came true?" After many years of trying to build an "online empire", I realized that I have only scratched the surface of what can be done in this area.

But I haven't done too badly. My online marketing campaigns with organic listings and Adword campaigns bring me thousands of dollars monthly. One website alone receives over 30,000 hits a month. This blog; "Inspiration for your day" receives over 1,000 page views on a good month. Combine all websites and blogs and the hits are about 50,000 per month. This has been achieved in less than 3 years. And yet: no "online empire". So I realized that I could get lots of traffic, but somehow I had stagnated in a level of contentment. This is where my frustration came from: I was content to survive at a fairly good level of income, but still no "online empire" (please see below, I'll define "online empire").

But realizing this surface "why" didn't quell my frustration until a good friend of mine pointed out a simple but powerful maxim: "Life is improved on a gradient", L.R.H wrote about this. If you don't know what a "gradient" is, I'll define it: A gradient is a gradual step of ascent or improvement and it goes from from simple to more complex. Just like you can't run before you can walk, so it goes that you can't walk before you can crawl. We as human beings have a tendency to want "instant gratification". We seem to not want things later or gradually after we set out to do them. We want them NOW.

There was a survey done by The Internal Revenue Service. They wanted to know why people defaulted on their taxes and wound up broke in their later years. The why was "instant gratification". Most people just couldn't wait to be gratified. If they had credit cards, they would tend to max them out to get that new big screen T.V. or new furniture in their living room, etc., etc. And so it goes with many things: we seem to want things RIGHT NOW!

That's why many "Make money online" sites boom (but later bust). Most people tend to need money right now and are willing to spend that last $37 on their maxed out credit card to get that "system" that will get them out of the poor house. These online "systems" are full of capture pages with hover ads and auto responders that will drive you insane if you don't unsubscribe. But their sales letters can be very convincing and one can be lured into buying that "unique-now-it-will-work-system".

I have fallen for it in the past. I'm sure that the desire or impulse to be instantly gratified rubbed off on me and I seemed to forget that just like life is improved on a gradient, so is any worthwhile activity. Well, my friend's wise indication as to how life is improved renewed my desire to build an "online empire" and I again felt a sense of purpose. Mind you, that when I say "online empire", I'm not talking about some huge greedy activity that will take someone's money an run and disappear. I'm talking about a large enough online activity that will be at the top of the search engines in many niches, help thousands of people daily and bring in enough income to maintain a very prosperous lifestyle.

The information that I have been providing, I'm sure has helped many. The voluminous positive comments are proof of that. But like I said, I've only scratched the surface. To make a big difference in the world wide web, any web master or developer needs at least 500,000 hits a month. That means I have to reach out to ten times more audience than I am right now. I confess that my estimation of effort has not been adequate to say the least. But reaching the goal of an "online empire" requires doing it on a gradient, just like one should approach the improvement of one's life in any given area: Money, love, friends, spirituality, etc.

I've also gotten impatient with my own spiritual ascent through Scientology. I've often felt that I should be further along. Another friend of mine who has advanced quite a bit told me: "Just take one step at a time. Put one foot in front of the other." That's another way of saying: "Life is improved on a gradient." It's good advice. He's now doing highly advanced Scientology spiritual procedures and is doing great.

And how do you do it?

Well, ignore the losses and concentrate on the wins. That will inspire you. Realize that the past is the past and that you have a whole eternity ahead of you. You will be in that eternity whether you believe in it or not. "One life to live" is only an illusion that we have come to believe through massive materialism dissemination of information, and is a soap opera title in The U.S. Just because you don't remember your past lives, doesn't mean you didn't live before this life or will come back to live another. Watch some of my selected videos on this subject in "suggested videos" page, if you require proof.

Did you know that during the era of chivalry, knights and swords, men knew that they would come back after possibly dying in battle? They showed no fear. Only in the last two centuries have we been sold on the idea that we are nothing more than recycled dirt. Spirituality is not a new concept. It's actually been around for thousands of years. Materialism is relatively new as a philosophy, though. Scientology brought spirituality back to our view, after almost two centuries of vested interests disavowing the spirit with materialistic explanations that left much unanswered.

Concentrate in this present life and visualize the future. Again, you will be in it. But don't make "instant gratification" your maxim. That is just agreement that you only live once ("I must have it NOW, as I'll only live 80 years or so and then...."). But this is no license to procrastinate either.

You can improve your life and any area of it. Improve life on a gradient by simply putting one step in front of the other. You'll eventually get to where you are going.

Have a great and inspiring week end,

Carlos

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What is management by statistics?

2011-04-16T17:15:00.005-04:00

I did a search on the internet to find out what online content would best describe "management by statistics". To my surprise, I didn't find much on the subject, except a company called "Mastertech" which shares quite a few success stories by many users of their software program. Maybe I was impatient, but I couldn't find much written about the subject, even in this site. I believe their software is based on LRH management technology. Here's their link if you want to check them out: Mastertech. Now I know why one of my readers and followers, Eternity (he regularly comments), wanted me to write something about this.

The word "statistics" is not a commonly understood term, even though it's used loosely, much less "management by statistics". L.Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology covers the subject in length. As a matter of fact, were it not for it possibly Scientology and Dianetics groups would not have expanded as much as they have in the last 60 years.

Management by statistics is a technology all of its own, but think of it more like a tool than an esoteric or difficult subject, which is not. It is not philosophical in nature. Once one has grasped a few basics, the rest of it becomes rather easy. When it is understood and used, one often wonders how one did without it. Many non Scientologists actually use it quite a bit. It is not religious in nature. It is referred to as a "secular" subject and activity.

The non religious sector of Scientology is called WISE: World Institute of Scientolgy Enterprises. It is not for profit and it seeks to help different business organizations that have an interest in and apply LRH Management technology. It is a membership organization and only individuals and groups that uphold high moral and ethical standards are accepted. I am a member of it and have many benefits as well as obligations.

But what is a "statistic"? "By statistics is meant numbers of things, measurements of volume, all relative to time. A statistic not compared to the same type of statistic earlier will not predict any future statistic. A single statistic is meaningless. Statistics are always worse than, the same as or better than they were at an earlier period. Graphing and the reading of graphs is a vital necessity, then, in monitoring an org [short for organization], department or person and applying condition formulas to it."
Reference Introduction to Scientology Ethics, page 72 by LRH.

Weekly statistical graph

Above is a picture of a single graph. You may not be able to make it out too well, but the vertical divisions are numbers that stand for quantity or volume. This could be money being measured or bushels of wheat or whatever. The horizontal divisions stand for elapsed time. The higher the incline (approaching vertical ascent), the better as such shows improvement. The steeper the decline (reading from left to right), the worse off the condition or statistic being measured.

I explain the condition formulas in one of my earlier posts: "How to handle doubt." Just scroll down to the pertinent area that covers the subject. A good understanding of the conditions formulas is a must to be able to manage by statistics. If you find that such are not covered to your satisfaction, just follow the links that I do provide to the official Scientology or Dianetics sites.

What is "management by statistics"?:
"There is a way to predict and control growth; there is a way to spot and prevent slumps ahead of time and a way to strengthen affluences." Quote taken from the above WISE site.

So how do you manage by statistics? Well, you first have to:

1. Have a product or service that can be measured daily, or weekly. Such could be-- if you're a taxi driver-- "money booked in a day or week". If you clean homes: "number of homes satisfactorily cleaned and tidied up in a day or week."

2. Jot down the numbers you come up with for your product or service daily or weekly.

3. Graph accordingly: You may want to refer to the book Introduction to Scientology Ethics, to learn how to correctly scale a graph.

4. Once you have graphed at least 2 points on the graph, you'll have a line and a comparative: yesterday and today or last week and this week.

5. Your line will go up or will go down (in some cases it will remain the same). The slant of the line up or down (or staying the same) will determine the Condition that you find yourself in. Such then gives you the steps to follow. You may be in a condition of Affluence or even Danger. whatever that condition is, you follow the steps to strengthen your gain or correct the slump.

Each condition has a formula: sequential steps that you follow. These then give you a "blueprint" to follow. management by statistics is simply that. You use stats to manage, not rumor or say so.

There really is no more to it than that. One can have many stats or even complex situations. They key is to use true stats which measure actual production. Doing this will take the guess work out of 90% of the equation. I suggest reading the Introduction to Scientology Ethics book that I mention and applying it daily and weekly, to get the most out of Management by statistics and even your own personal life. It is even possible to come up with a stat for successes and failures in one's life and various areas. Application of the condition formulas is then a map that you can follow to improve conditions.

Update April 19, 2011

I'm giving you here a bit more information about Management by Statistics. I'm including some graph examples as well as an example of how I've applied one of the formulas by using a statistics graph.

Many weeks of Affluence condition

Many weeks of Normal condition

A one week Danger condition

The first time that I ever applied a personal Danger condition, I was a bit terrified. After all, being in personal Danger is not a light matter. You get an inkling that you are in Danger when somebody other than you begins to do your job for you. This is called a "bypass". Somebody other than you is "wearing your hat", when you should be wearing it yourself. That's why it's called "bypass".

Anyway, I was late for classes continuously and my senior had intervene to make sure I would make it to class on time. She got a bit frustrated that I couldn't "keep my own Ethics", which was something I needed to do myself. That's why Ethics is a personal thing. It's something that you do yourself without intervention. She was in essence bypassing me and assigned me Danger. My statistics were obviously in steep decline, just like the graph above. I was late for course. So the stat of "number of times that I was on time for course" was in sharp decline.

I was handed The Ethics book and did the Danger formula as follows:

"1. Bypass habits or normal routines."

"Bypass" above means: "knock it off". So I knocked off or "bypassed" taking all these breaks of coffee and donuts and chit chatting with my friends.

"2. Handle the situation and any danger in it."

Well, I was getting reprimanded by my senior. This was not pleasant. I decided that I better put my own ethics in by making sure that I understood the formula, could apply it and not have someone else "wear my hat" for me. I became responsible for my own condition. I showed my senior that I could do this on my own, so she wouldn't have to take further disciplinary action. I showed her I had knocked out doing the above as proof.

3. "Assign self a Danger condition."

I did that as a reinforcement of the reality of the situation.

4. Get in your own personal ethics by finding out what you are doing that is out-ethics and use self discipline to correct it and get honest and straight."

I just knocked out the chit chat, the coffee and donuts breaks and placed the proper importance on study.

5. " Reorganize your life so that the dangerous situation is not continually happening to you."

My chit chat was done on authorized breaks, as well as the coffee and donuts and it was actually good as I cut down on them.

6. "Formulate and adopt firm policy that will hereafter detect and prvent the same situation from continuing to occur."

"Study comes first and allow nothing to interfere with it. After all it's for my own good anyway."

It wasn't harder than that to do. I did this formula a long time ago. But I'm pretty sure that's how it went. I had a lot of realizations and felt incredible as it was one of my first actual applications of this incredible technology.

I hope this has been helpful. Let me know.
Have a great weekend,

Carlos

When you're too busy during an emergency

2011-04-12T20:37:00.003-04:00

When you're too busy, the worst thing you can do is go out of communication. Such creates a vacuum: no data. The temptation then is to fill the void with suppositions. Data can be assumed: "Is he alright?"; "Is he still writing?", etc., etc. It is possible that some of you who follow this blog looked for new posts and...nothing! So I apologize for not communicating. My excuse was "I'm too busy!" And such is the norm these days for many who find themselves coping like mad to handle emergencies. They then don't communicate.

And I did have an emergency at work. The trade off was "not having the time to write", which I love. Well, I proved myself wrong! I found the time, albeit a short post such as this one. The emergency is almost over. I can say that it took quite a bit of persistence to handle, as well as blood sweat and tears. One of my clients simply refused to honor a large debt. I first had to "out create" the situation by making tons of extra money. When you own a company such as mine, the show must go on despite adversity and unexpected snafus. It requires a constant and continuous supply of cash. Well, the show did go on and does go on and then some.

I expanded my company in the face of utmost suppression on the money lines. I have now proudly added a salesman and interviewed 20 candidates for different positions. My website for hurricane shutters which I created, generates about 28,000 hits a month! The phone rings off the hook many times and it's hard to keep up with new sales despite "the economy" and rising gas prices.

Because we're swamped, we waste some clients. We created a new policy of eliminating potential trouble. Some clients simply won't convert into a sale despite many questions that are satisfactorily answered. Even when they do convert, they will be a nightmare to deal with. So we simply waste them and make room for more desirable clients. This may sound a bit ruthless, but it must be done if you are to stay in business and serve those other who are very willing to pay for our services without hassles.

Even though the pace to generate the extra income has been break-neck-speed, and I have few that can keep up with me, we've managed to do the following: pay back bills, increase sales, increase reserves, hire and establish new and existing personnel and expand the size of the company. You could say the feat has been "straight up and vertical" as far as rise in stats.

As a very needed action, I also retrained my materials on suppression and suppressive persons. Do a search in the search box of this blog to find out more on this subject. I can succinctly tell you that the only reason a person makes mistakes or is ill to any degree is because he is under suppression. And I was! When you're handling fairly large quantities of money and have some power to wield like I do and have, you will "pull in" (attract) those who will do whatever they can to attack you and put you down.

So when you're too busy during an emergency and feel you don't have time to communicate, don't go out of communication, communicate! I did it.

Oh yeah. As far as that client that didn't pay, don't worry. We even found the time to handle this and we will be collecting. That money will go to back bills and reserves as it should.

When you're too busy to communicate and don't, do the opposite of what you usually do (don't communicate) and DO SO. You will feel a lot better, even if it's on the 25th hour of the day!

Stay inspired,

Carlos

Happiness, is it possible?

2011-03-11T20:31:00.005-05:00

A very happy family

    During some down time 2 days ago, I decided to re-read "Is it possible to be happy?" by L Ron Hubbard and I realized that such is not guaranteed in this world, but it seems to be the ultimate goal that we have in life. After all, who wants to be unhappy? "Our main problem in life is happiness", he adds.

    Let's not kid ourselves. We all go through great lengths to be happy and such can be very elusive in this very fast paced society of ours. Even those who have reached their goal of 1 million dollars can be found to be unhappy. But many of us can say in awe: "Oh what I would do with one million dollars!" Well, many T.V. shows now have new Lottery millionaires being worse off after their millions than they were before. I, for one, have gone through many millions of dollars in sales in my businesses and have had quite a bit of money put away and have been very unhappy, nonetheless.

     As a matter of fact I can remember when I fell madly in love with a woman 2,000 miles away. I quit my high paying job, paid all my bills and bought a jalopy with what I had left over and had 250 dollars left over in my pocket. Nothing could deter me from traveling the distance that far away to meet her, not even a beat up Toyota Corona (this model is obsolete by the way) that even had a bad exhaust system and stalled out during heavy rains.   I put the pedal to the metal down Interstate 95 doing about 90 miles an hour (risking a speeding ticket) so that I could be with my sweetheart in a couple of days.

    Once I arrived I had to get a new job at a young age in Florida and it was very tough. This was during a bad recession, but I got a job digging ditches. I didn't care. That was all I could find. But I was determined to be with my loved one, even if I was nearly broke. Funny thing though, she could care less how much money I had and never made any money demands. I was very happily in love, was busy volunteering my time, had many new warmhearted friends and actually started making very good money in a short time. A couple of years Later I was in business for myself. As money rolled in, I was enjoying lots of wealth, prestige, status and reputation. But was not very happy.

    I broke up with this woman a year later, had purchased my first home and then my second, bought some land and expanded the business with over 30 employees and sub contractors and 2 partners. This took about 7 years. I was now married to a different woman and forgotten about the earlier one. But I always remembered and wondered why when I was nearly broke, hopelessly in love, an incurable dreamer, an insatiable enthusiast and an "incorrigible" insouciant I would often make observable gestures of pure joy, that others would be "contaminated" with. I remembered with some nostalgia beaming with such ebullience that others couldn't help but notice. I was observably a little 2 year old kid in a big body, but with full command of a grown up and muscular build as well as experience.

    So "What happened?", I asked myself this question a while back when talking to a good friend of mine who is a successful chiropractor in Florida. We had attended a business meeting where business owners who use L Ron Hubbard business technology, network and share ideas. He confessed to me that his clinics had grossed about 10 million dollars for the year, which was way up from the year before. But he wasn't happy. Now, bear in mind that most chiropractors would drool at being able to gross only half of that. Yet he knew he was missing something. The thing that really makes him happy is being able to contribute to the group, in this case Scientology and business owners. He wasn't doing enough of that and decided that it was time to get more involved.

     He was up to his ears in work, making good money, but felt that he wasn't doing enough. He has gotten incredible gains as a long time Scientologists, has a great family, is married to a beautiful woman and they are both very advanced spiritually and in their training. He wasn't happy though and I completely knew what he was talking about. The same thing had happened to me! Needless to say, we both decided to do more and get more involved and we did. I took on the leadership of this business activity in the Miami area called WISE (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises) and ran it for a while. I was incredibly happy when I ran it and got back that "2 year old kid in a big body" ebullience. I was beaming as a person. I knew that I was making a positive difference in people's lives and not just "making money".

    I eventually turned this over as I wanted to be able to write. Doing so now makes me incredibly happy, especially when I receive positive comments from readers. I realized that all the money in the world would not make me happy. Money comes and goes. All the best pleasurable moments that I can recall are not associated with money. Having a strong pro- survival purpose and pro-survival goals do so. Helping others is what drives me. When I stop doing so, I begin to have money issues. These are not necessarily lack of money. They are just issues such as money mismanagement and not enough to expand or donate or help out as much as I'd like to. I've learned that these issues iron themselves out when I concentrate on what makes me truly happy.

    The achievement of happiness comes as a result of achieving one's goals. "Happiness is the overcoming of not unknowable obstacles toward a known goal". L.R.H. Happiness is not a permanent thing actually, you overcome obstacles, get your goal and then it's time to set a new goal and then get it by overcoming more unknowable obstacles:

"Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals. There is an instant of contemplation of the last goal in which one is content. But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view. There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life." — L. Ron Hubbard

    At a relatively young age, I achieved many of my goals: looks, good health, money, love, a booming business and status. Yet I wasn't happy.   I didn't set new goals. I didn't achieve all ends in my life, but I did achieve many. I became bored as I didn't immediately have new goals to view. I kind of thought "This is it! Now what?"

    So, is it possible to be happy? Of course it is! But it's a continuous create. Happiness is transient, not permanent and you will be as happy as you yourself create it. When you think about it, even though we seem to get some faint joy and appreciation of our achievements, it's a lot better than statically being in a state of bliss forever where there is no good/bad, fantastic/terrible, hot cold-- you know, dichotomies. How boring would it be-- to not have a comparative?

   But we have been sold a bill of goods: "Go to school, get a good job, work like a dog, save a lot of money for your old age and retire rich so that you can play golf."   I like the rich part and the golf part. But I've been there and done that. The "happiness" didn't last.

    L.R.H writes in his brilliant article: Is it possible to be happy?:

    "You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day-- and it was a very, very beautiful day. You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty five years later, you get up in the morning, you look at the flowers-- they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what's changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.

    One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change as much as you...

...The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand...

"...The truth of the matter is that all the happiness you will ever find lies in you"

    Click here for the full article: Is it possible to be happy?

    I'm sure you liked his article. I've read it many times.

    Well, it's time for me to get some happiness by spending time with my loved ones.

    So what are you waiting for? Do you want to be happy again? Start waving your own magic hand and you will soon find that "elusive" happiness.

Have a great weekend,

Carlos

What is your most valuable asset?

2011-03-05T13:53:00.002-05:00

Creative inspiration

    I got inspired to write this post after talking to a close friend of mine, who is a Scientologist and does very well for himself money wise. He's also a successful family man and ethical in many ways. So what comes from him, you might say "You can take to the bank". We were talking about money, business and life in general. I'm not sure who asked this first, but the question was: "What is your most valuable asset.? Is it you, money, family, etc?

He surprised me by saying, without hesitation: "It's your creativity!" I quickly agreed and this is why: You can lose your money, building/s, house, car/s, your business and even your family, but when you still have your creativity, you can get all of that back. Creativity even has a lot to do with how healthy you are physically and mentally. Just observe those who robotically pop pills at the first sniffles symptom, or mandate from a Doctor-- no creativity really.   One should at least check out holistic or natural medicines before surrendering to drugs. This takes some creativity.

    But this post is not about medicine or your physical health really, it's about creativity and how it plays a major role in the viability and survival potential of an individual or a group. The environment can be very challenging, actually it is most of the time. When something in it changes or gets upset and poses a hardship on you, do you have a sort of built in "mechanism" that will help you get through tough times? Yes you do. Its called creativity! Read on. I'm sure you'll enjoy this post and better yet get very inspired.

   A person with little or no creativity will have a horrible time of it when his environment changes and presents challenges. For the past three years we have had the global economic recession.   I laugh when I
hear of someone who lost his job in the news and now says: "What am I supposed to do now at 55 years old if all I know to do is be a school teacher?"   Then I hear the reporter "cordially" pity this person by uttering some pathetic nonsense statement that alarms many listeners even more. That's why I rarely listen to the news. I seem to only get upset.

    But hey, this school teacher can use his imagination and print fliers and hand them out which read: "School teacher with 30 years experience. I offer my tutoring services for your young ones. Lots of references." I'm sure that if you surveyed how many kids need help with their homework, you'd find that about 80% do. It's a no brainer.   See? All that's required is a bit of creativity. If the environment changes and hands you a stinky hand, strike back at it with creativity. But if you get on the bandwagon of sympathy, you've had it!

    About six years ago I got sued for about U.S.$75,000. I was making quite a bit of money back then, but this was a curve thrown at me that I didn't expect or was prepared to just write a check for. It was unwarranted, but I still had to defend myself. I wasn't going to just lay down and watch a Steam Roller drive over me. Oh no! So I hired a very expensive lawyer who didn't do a good job at all. On top of this he wanted more money. I said: "The hell with him!", so I picked up the phone and directly contacted the lawyer for the company that was suing me.

    It was handled with one simple question: "Why are you suing me personally when you should've sued my legally instituted corporation?"   That's all it took!   He knew he had legally screwed up and had to withdraw the law suit. I won't go into any more detail than that, as the purpose of this true story is to show you what your most valuable asset is: Creativity.

If you have lots of it, use it. That's what inventors do and they are some of the riches people around. If you don't, work on it. I can't promise you that you'll be the next P.C. Operating System inventor, but it can grow. Research, study and develop it. And if that fails, copy success. That's what I do when I tap out of ideas. But I'm sure it's in you. We all have creativity. No kidding!

    Yes, money is very nice, cars, houses, boats, pretty girls and status. But what do you do when disaster strikes despite all the proper preparation and foresightedness at hand, such as the financial crisis? Rise above it with Creativity. That's what you do. Such is probably the trademark of all successful and even famous figures in our history.

I told you you'd enjoy this post and get inspired with it.

Let me know your views and experiences on this line. I will publish them!

Carlos

how to manipulate the economy to create slaves

2011-02-28T18:31:00.005-05:00

The economy: what a great field to manipulate and create modern slaves through economics! Yet many of us are completely unaware of how this is being done by governments today. We realize, however, that something is wrong. We work like mad to pay our bills and seem to be behind on most or all of them. We may blame the world recession for this problem. It may have something to do with it. But the world recession is just a symptom of a darker machination of our income.

I thought I had a handle on the subject of "economics". After all I went to College, studied it and other fields in the humanities, including psychology. Then I just kept myself informed, productive and ignored any rumors that there has been a conspiracy on our economy. But is there a conspiracy?

The economy should be naturally regulated by supply and demand. When we have a lot of supply and many suppliers, it would stand to reason that there is competition, or a natural system of keeping prices competitive, if the demand is up to par with the supply. If demand is low, then one would assume that supply would lower prices. Conversely if supply is low and demand is high, then prices tend to go up.

When there's a glut of cars in the market, prices tend to be low. When cars are scarce, then prices go up. That is the natural law of supply and demand.

So where is the conspiracy? When the government levies undue taxes on car manufactures, they produce fewer cars. Then government turns around and taxes your income unduly. That creates a greater demand for income.    If you make $1,000 dollars a week and you get taxed 40%, you really are only making $600, when you in fact need $1,000. So you need to work a lot more for less, possibly another 1/2 a week just to make up the difference. But another problem ensues, you are now in a new "income bracket" and have to pay more income tax, ergo it's more like 2/3 of a week as you now have to pay taxes for the new income bracket. It seems to be a never ending vicious circle: the more you work to "cover the hole" the bigger the hole you seem to create.

In England, there is a 90 % income bracket. If you make so much or over and above that, you keep 10% of your money. That is why Ringo Star of The Beatles got fed up and moved to Monaco, I believe. The lingering feeling then is "why work?"   The more of it you do, the more that you in essence get penalized. The less you work, the more you seem to be rewarded. And that is why we have welfare. In the latter we may get confused and even blame a race or a group as "lazy", when in actual fact there is a government conspiracy at work here: domination through economic slavery or starvation.

It gets even better than that. In this modern world, if you don't have money you are actually an undesirable and in extreme cases "criminal". Let's take a divorced dad who must pay $500 a month in child support, yet he only makes a gross income of $1,700. After taxes that is about $1,300. That means he must provide financial support for his kid or kids, have enough to go to work, pay his bills and feed himself and a roof over his head. If he doesn't, he goes to jail.   He's considered a "Deadbeat Dad". Such is quite a derogatory term for someone who is struggling like mad to do the right thing.

So both supply and demand get taxed and create a shortage of supply and an increase of demand for those that need money to buy goods or services. The latter must now hustle like crazy to be able to afford goods or services desperately needed.

Manipulation of the economy is done with economics.

Inflation and taxation go hand in hand. When Ronald Reagan was in power, I remember him talking about this in a televised address to the nation. I was shocked to hear him say that a person who makes $20,000 a year would only pay about 15% in income tax in 1985 or so, but with inflation, 10 years later he would need about twice as much to maintain the same standard of living. But he would now move to the 40% income tax bracket. So he would in essence, take home less income than 10 years earlier. He then went on to say that he wanted to reduce government, by reducing the bureaucracy within it. His intention was not to do away with government, but to get government off the backs of people.

This was the first time that I ever heard a President have the cojones to speak out in that manner. I actually liked and admired Reagan and became fearful for him. I thought: "This great man might be shot for what he just said tonight." About two weeks later he was! Unfortunately my premonition was correct. I don't remember anybody making the "logical" connection. But I did!

Alright, so this is depressing. It may make it difficult to get inspired about work or getting ahead in life. So, is there anything we can do about this?

There most certainly is. Just don't play that game by working in a suppressively run economy. How can we work in a society like America and yet survive? You produce like crazy and give the government only what you have to give them and not a penny more. Do this legally, of course. Be alert about it and do anything possible to not fall victim to their game.

If you are self employed like many of us are, hire a good accountant who will comb the books for any and all legitimate deductions. You'll be surprised how much you can write off and how much you can put back into your business without having to pay out in taxes. Have this money work for you and your company and create more wealth. Wealth is not how much liquidity is in your pocket, but how much in assets you can turn into productive leverage. liquidity is nice, but it comes and goes rather quickly. And when there is currency deflation (another manipulative scheme), your cash may soon be worthless.

I realize that you've possibly gotten gloomy on what I've covered above. Believe me it wasn't my intention to do so. You know that I seek to inspire you. But when I finally confronted it, I got a bit gloomy.   I finally realized that not confronting it would actually be worst. It would be like having pumping money into an account like mad and not seeing the cash grow. You know something's wrong. Upon inspection you realize that someone's been taking it out just as fast or faster than you can put it in. Well that is what happens in essence with suppressive governments. You work like mad and don't really see the fruits of your labor. Sooner or later people will protest and rebel, if only silently and just not work.

But this is not the answer. In a super suppressive government, the best thing to do is to just leave, like Cuba.
In a government that still allows you to have your business and deduct as much as possible as a legitimate business expense, then do so. Senators in America for example fly first class, stay at hotels first class and wine and dine first class. Most of them don't even carry cash. What for? they don't really need it. All the above, if business related is paid for not by them, but the government.

I'm not advocating to become a senator and "beat the system". You can actually do the same and have your business pay for this, as long as it's business related. Obviously your business has to be able to absorb luxury. Well, then produce luxuriously so that you can deserve it and have it. The point is that if your system of government allows such, then by all means do it! Don't be shy about it. Why should senators be the only ones to live it up?

Yes, it takes work. I'm sure you can figure this out. And you can do this honestly.

Want to know quite a bit more on this subject? I just scratched the surface. This is the full scoop on the subject of economics, as given by L Ron Hubbard. It inspired me to bring you the above. No one can tell it like it is like him. Click on this link: Economics.

I hope this was helpful in you recognizing that there are other factors present to you having to work extra hard, that you may have had no control over. Now at least you have some tools by which you can be more at cause over the situation.

Note: I revised the post above on the 2nd of march 2011. I felt I needed to expand on it, as well as add a picture.

Flourish and Prosper and always stay inspired,

Carlos

Who makes money and who doesn't

2011-02-21T22:46:00.002-05:00

Making money in today's economy has become a bit more challenging for most, but "easier" for others. Many are those who have lost fortunes, but many are those who have made them as well. I won't make a list of yesterday's millionaires and today's millionaires. What for? You can just copy and paste the latter and I'm sure Google will turn up millions of results. I'll leave Google as the authority on revealing this trivia. And it IS trivia. After all, does it make you feel any better to know that Bill Gates just made another 10 billion this year; or that Warren Buffet suggests "Buy now" that the market is hot? I don't think so.

If you're struggling for money as many are, perhaps you'd rather know what is the common denominator of those who DO make money, vs. those who don't. It's a pretty good thing to know as such opens the door to a handling for you at least. Let's face it. If the economy is crappy, the worse thing to do is to go on the internet and do a "Make Money Online" search. There are so many websites out there that claim that only through their methods will you make any money. Nonsense. The only ones who make any money by those claims are the ones making the claims, especially those who want you to BUY NOW!, or they retire the offer. Clickbank is full of those.

But if you'd really like to know what the common denominator is (that or those qualities or traits are that are in common), then listen up. Only 3% of the population anywhere make big money while 97 % barely survive and this is why: 3% of the population really learns and has the persistence to apply what it takes to make a lot of money, while 97% don't take the time to learn and have the persistence to apply what they learn to make a lot of money. The group in the 97% category have only the Lotto or the hope that a rich uncle passes and leaves them money, ouch! With that said, now you know who makes a lot of money and who doesn't.

Of course there's luck, being born into money and other factors that make the exceptions, but the above is a good general rule to go by, which actually opens the door to a handling or that at least allows you to make a lot more than you are right now. Just join the 3% of the population and do what they did or do on a consistent basis, without relying on luck.

The following points that I list out are actually all links to my other posts, where I cover the subject of money extensively. If you want to make time and read the following and apply them, you will make a lot of money. If you only want to peruse through these points, you're still welcome to. I'm sure some sparks will fly in your head and give you ideas at least.

They remained productive when they felt like giving up.

They knew they could create their future.

They knew that what they believed could come true.

They produced in abundance.

They do things now as possible and don't procrastinate as their operating basis.

They can make tons of money by knowing the dynamics of money.

They have a goal and a purpose and you will THEN make money

If you expected a hover ad to appear on your face nagging you to leave your e mail address, so that I could later blast you with tons of emails urging you to buy junk, sorry... not gonna happen here. But if you like what you've read so far, I invite you to follow this blog like many others have and then share it with those you care about. There are plenty of gadgets on the right column that allow you to do that and thank you.

By the way, THAT IS how I make money, maybe not tons, but I do alright and such allows me to keep bringing this blog to you for free.

To your much deserved success and make a lot of money,

Carlos