tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46560397702149622772024-09-16T01:24:56.474-05:00Achieving your goals is one thing ... but it's the trials, tribulations, successes and failures that make them special. This is my journey.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-19555241757558333242012-04-23T10:35:00.004-05:002012-04-23T10:35:36.536-05:00

Ever wanted to learn what it takes to bring a business idea to fruition? Does it take a great idea to make money?  Does it take great marketing?  What kind of team do you need to bring together to create a great product?  At what stage do you create a business plan?  Where do we get funding once we can prove it will be profitable? A great group of guys and I were assigned a

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I've been out of touch lately. So out of touch I missed the Black Founders Conference "Ideas are Worthless 2012". This conference took place April 11th, 2012 and it's a "forum to connect, educate, and inspire every attendee towards execution. Hosted by Black Founders Startup Ventures and Goodwin Procter LLP, the conference will bring together a diverse perspective of tech

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"A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback"  - Willie Jolley What better place to restart this blog than Mr. Jolley's quote?  I don't know if he coined it or not but this is the first time I heard it.  I thought about restarting this blog many times but 'life' gets in the way so to speak.  Some people call them setbacks.  Me, I had to dig deep to remember Willie's quote! &

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-88856431853869859642012-04-10T23:29:00.005-05:002012-04-10T23:29:52.160-05:00

We have a million things on our plates, projects, plans, family, school, new ventures, etc.  My original idea for this blog was to keep it strictly finance and maintain other blogs for other things.  But over time those blogs have also fallen by the wayside. When things got crazy everything stopped.  So today an acquaintance showed me her blog and one of the themes was to K.I.S.S.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-20221590734226113912010-01-27T16:04:00.001-05:002010-03-13T22:30:13.951-05:00

Richard Bach has been writing the "Finish Rich" series for as long as I can remember. His latest addition to the series is "Start Over, Finish Rich: 10 Steps to Get you Back on Track in 2010." Compared to his other books, this is a short one and seems to be a quick start to getting back on track. Most of us in the USA have been affected in some way shape or form by the economic downturn over

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-44185992371226857682010-01-09T16:33:00.002-05:002010-01-27T16:07:21.925-05:00

I started the last post by stating that it feels like I've been experiencing life at a rate of WTFs, which led me to this post. How do you handle a setback? There are only 2 things you can do when faced with a setback: 1. Back down 2. Rise above Backing down, giving up, quitting, falling off, etc. No matter how you slice it, when you give in to defeat you are truly defeated. Just because

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Lately it feels that I've been experiencing life at a rate of wtf's per minute.  Yet, I am still grateful that I'm here to blog about it.  Which brings us to ..... Gratitude. Gratitude is the ability to be grateful for everything we have in our lives. So I've been trying to ignore the WTFs and make gratitude a daily practice.  Someone once told me that an attitude of gratitude

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-90323622078437237462009-12-21T18:08:00.001-05:002010-01-04T09:33:38.850-05:00

I've been on a credit kick lately and I think its time I start looking at a loan modification. I've been thinking about it for a while since all of this hoopla about homeowners losing their homes and others saving their homes. My home is worth less than what I currently owe and the minimum payments on my credit cards are going up due to the CARD ACT, so if the bank is willing to work with me

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-67510296959712922982009-12-09T22:52:00.001-05:002009-12-09T23:05:49.758-05:00

OK since we've been visiting and focusing on credit lately, I decided to get my affairs in order. Credit Report First of all I need to get my credit reports. According to the Federal Trade Commission there is only 1 place to go to to get your free annual credit report. http://www.annualcreditreport.com/ It takes a few minutes but when you are done you will have all the information that 3 of

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Since I've been posting so much about credit lately. I came across this Frontline investigation also available on DVD. As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national

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In Part 1 of "Crunch or be Crunched" we discussed the CARD ACT, what it is and some of the changes we have to look forward to. If you missed it go here. I wanted to address the letters that the card companies have been sending out. I got this one from "City" and it basically states: Dear Quest, We are making changes to your account terms. To continue to provide our customers with access to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-46165567929572401942009-12-07T21:40:00.003-05:002009-12-07T23:07:27.913-05:00

Did you know that most of the credit card companies are raising their interest rates by the end of 2009? If you don't read those letters and notices that you get from your credit card companies ASAP, you will not have an opportunity to stop those deadly rates from rising. Most credit card companies have been trying to find new ways to make make money because of potential hits they may take due

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-39666938659072480242009-12-07T15:24:00.001-05:002009-12-07T15:24:46.388-05:00

It is 24 days, 3 hours, 36 minutes and 35 seconds until Friday, January 1, 2010. What are you doing to start preparing for next year? It's not too early.

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One of my goals is to come up with a new business idea every day. Good or bad I have to come up with some thing that people need or want. The rules are: 1. There are no limits except my imagination. 2. It must be something that I can sell or a service that I can sell. 3. I need to keep track of this list.

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Out of all your goals for 2009 are there any that you can still accomplish? There are 27 days, 9 hours, 09 minutes and 09 seconds until Friday, January 1, 2010. Not too late to get them done. I will remind you daily Facebook. I still have 6 pounds to go!

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29 days until the New Year not to late to accomplish those unfinished goals!

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Is this the most awesome video of all time?  The muppets meet Freddy Mercury and Queen when Muppet Studios created a video remake of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and released it on November 22, 2009.  This music video spread like a virus and it's popularity continues to grow.  Google hot trends lists it at number 38 and gives it a rating of "Spicy" which is a 3 out of  5. 

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-8138683248167241282009-11-22T17:08:00.001-05:002009-11-25T10:15:52.203-05:00

Do you use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and are tired of updating each and everyone of them separately? Would you update more often if you could find an easy way to manage all 20 of your social networks? Manage All of Your Social Networks With One Tool!

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How to be a Twitter!A short easy to follow pictorial on how to create a twitter account.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-66628398715683019662007-07-08T10:48:00.000-05:002007-07-08T10:59:43.525-05:00

This blog is being moved to:WWW.WhyWeTri.comWe plan to be up soon.Check in periodically to get triathlon news and information from the perspective of a newbie.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-33900584662781422862007-05-25T21:29:00.001-05:002007-05-25T21:37:30.780-05:00

OK, so I haven't updated all month. What can I say? I've been slacking off. Haven't been feeling all that great, dealing with healing and coming back from vacation to find alot of odds and ends not being attended to ... so I've been picking up the pieces. I missed too many trainings and too many meals to take this race as serious as I intended to. I know I'll finish ... but I know I could

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-85603561740230439792007-04-30T20:50:00.000-05:002007-04-30T20:55:42.846-05:00

After almost a week of being sore, we had our final Simulator. For all the newcommers to this blog. A simulator is an attempt to mimic actual race conditions. This time we are supposed to do the full distance of each event. For those of us who are doing the Olympic distance, that means:1 mile swim followed bya 26 mile bike ride followed bya 6 mile runFor those of us doing the sprint distance

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-12016673283571416932007-04-22T11:34:00.000-05:002007-04-22T15:47:52.221-05:00

Holy crap, I hurt. I'm sore I'm tired and I had to drive an hour and change to do swim drills! Being in the water was soothing but I couldn't keep a steady kicking pace during my swim. We did drills today with 30 or 15 seconds of rest in between. I had to learn to work through the soreness. I'm still not sure how I'm going to put it all together for race day. Next week is the final

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-92047643309850438482007-04-21T20:05:00.000-05:002007-04-30T20:49:26.347-05:00

I'm able to swim about a mile.I'm able to bike 27.5 miles.I'm able to run 4.5 miles.How do you put all these things together? I've done shorter distances where I would swim then run or bike then run. Today I tried to bike the full distance then run the full distance.The weather was beautiful but a little windy. I couldn't run for more than a mile before my quadriceps started to "lock up". I

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656039770214962277.post-66827101398359659172007-04-19T13:56:00.000-05:002007-04-19T14:02:02.866-05:00

This is what we are trying to prevent. I got this from Pulitzer.org, the link can be found below. Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on June 21, 2005, successfully distracting him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction. Doctors want to determine whether

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