Tracy E Adams

They did not give up

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:33:00 +0000

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
~ Samuel Beckett

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62. He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never, Never, Never, Never give up." (his capitals, mind you)

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him. He drank the hemlock and died corrupting.

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe. He returned to his office and kept on writing.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class. His teacher commented that "there was a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another." Three years later Sternberg graduated with honors from Stanford University with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, he became President of the American Psychological Association.

Charles Darwin gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Clearly, he evolved.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn�t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
~ Confucius

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Even to do a little math.

Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 students in chemistry.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.

R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

F. W. Woolworth was not allowed to wait on customers when he worked in a dry goods store because, his boss said, "he didn't have enough sense."

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

John Garcia, who eventually was honored for his fundamental psychological discoveries, was once told by a reviewer of his often-rejected manuscripts that one is no more likely to find the phenomenon he discovered than to find bird droppings in a cuckoo clock. (sort of a cute critique actually)

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work in the rarefied atmosphere of outer space.

Daniel Boone was once asked by a reporter if he had ever been lost in the wilderness. Boone thought for a moment and replied, "No, but I was once bewildered for about three days."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly."
~ Robert F. Kennedy

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation." Lombardi would later write, "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Jordan once observed, "I've failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed."

Babe Ruth is famous for his past home run record, but for decades he also held the record for strikeouts. He hit 714 home runs and struck out 1,330 times in his career (about which he said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."). And didn't Mark McGwire break that strikeout record? (John Wooden once explained that winners make the most errors.)

Hank Aaron went 0 for 5 his first time at bat with the Milwakee Braves.

Stan Smith was rejected as a ball boy for a Davis Cup tennis match because he was "too awkward and clumsy." He went on to clumsily win Wimbledon and the U. S. Open. And eight Davis Cups.

Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh, and Jimmy Johnson accounted for 11 of the 19 Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1993. They also share the distinction of having the worst records of first-season head coaches in NFL history - they didn't win a single game.

Johnny Unitas's first pass in the NFL was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. Joe Montana's first pass was also intercepted. And while we're on quarterbacks, during his first season Troy Aikman threw twice as many interceptions (18) as touchdowns (9) . . . oh, and he didn't win a single game. You think there's a lesson here?

After Carl Lewis won the gold medal for the long jump in the 1996 Olympic games, he was asked to what he attributed his longevity, having competed for almost 20 years. He said, "Remembering that you have both wins and losses along the way. I don't take either one too seriously."

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay."
~ Eric Hoffer

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.

Charles Schultz had every cartoon he submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff. Oh, and Walt Disney wouldn't hire him.

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." He kept that memo over the fire place in his Beverly Hills home. Astaire once observed that "when you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion." And here is the reward for perseverance: "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."

After his first audition, Sidney Poitier was told by the casting director, "Why don't you stop wasting people's time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?" It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting.

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress in 1927, she was told by the head instructor of the John Murray Anderson Drama School, "Try any other profession."

The first time Jerry Seinfeld walked on-stage at a comedy club as a professional comic, he looked out at the audience, froze, and forgot the English language. He stumbled through "a minute-and a half" of material and was jeered offstage. He returned the following night and closed his set to wild applause.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." I'm sure you know that Norma Jean was Marilyn Monroe. Now . . . who was Emmeline Snively?

At the age of 21, French acting legend Jeanne Moreau was told by a casting director that her head was too crooked, she wasn't beautiful enough, and she wasn't photogenic enough to make it in films. She took a deep breath and said to herself, "Alright, then, I guess I will have to make it my own way." After making nearly 100 films her own way, in 1997 she received the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

"Flops are a part of life's menu
and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
~ Rosalind Russell

After Harrison Ford's first performance as a hotel bellhop in the film Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, the studio vice-president called him in to his office. "Sit down kid," the studio head said, "I want to tell you a story. The first time Tony Curtis was ever in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star." Ford replied, "I thought you were spossed to think that he was a grocery delivery boy." The vice president dismissed Ford with "You ain't got it kid , you ain't got it ... now get out of here."

Michael Caine's headmaster told him, "You will be a laborer all your life."

Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered "nonsense."

Enrico Caruso's music teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing. His parents wanted him to become an engineer.

Decca Records turned down a recording contract with the Beatles with the unprophetic evaluation, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." After Decca rejected the Beatles, Columbia records followed suit.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely deaf.

"No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."
~ Baudjuin

The Impressionists had to arrange their own art exhibitions because their works were routinely rejected by the Paris Salon. How many of you have heard of the Paris Salon?

A Paris art dealer refused Picasso shelter when he asked if he could bring in his paintings from out of the rain. One hopes that there is justice in this world and that the art dealer eventually went broke.

Van Gogh sold only one painting during his life. And this to the sister of one of his friends for 400 francs (approximately $50). This didn't stop him from completing over 800 paintings.

John Constable's luminous painting Watermeadows at Salisbury was dismissed in 1830 by a judge at the Royal Academy as "a nasty green thing." Name of the judge, anyone? Anyone?

Rodin's father once said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, he was rejected three times admittance to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His uncle called him uneducable. Perhaps this gave him food for thought.

Stravinsky was run out of town by an enraged audience and critics after the first performance of the Rite of Spring.

When Pablo Casals reached 95, a young reporter asked him "Mr. Casals, you are 95 and the greatest cellist that ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?" Mr. Casals answered, "Because I think I'm making progress."

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
but great minds rise above them."
~ Washington Irving

Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. He was described as both "unable and unwilling to learn." No doubt a slow developer.

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant by her family.

Emily Dickinson had only seven poems published in her lifetime.

15 publishers rejected a manuscript by e. e. cummings. When he finally got it published by his mother, the dedication, printed in uppercase letters, read WITH NO THANKS TO . . . followed by the list of publishers who had rejected his prized offering. Nice going Eddie. Thanks for illustrating that nobody loses all the time.

18 publishers turned down Richard Bach's story about a "soaring eagle." Macmillan finally published Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone.

21 publishers rejected Richard Hooker's humorous war novel, M*A*S*H. He had worked on it for seven years.

22 publishers rejected James Joyce's The Dubliners.

27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

Jack London received six hundred rejection slips before he sold his first story.

English crime novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

William Saroyan accumulated more than a thousand rejections before he had his first literary piece published. Way to not take a hint, Bill!

Gertrude Stein submitted poems to editors for nearly 20 years before one was finally accepted. See . . . a rose is a rose.

I bet you didn't know that John Milton wrote Paradise Lost 16 years after losing his eyesight

One of Professor Pajares's first research efforts came back with a review that began, "There are so many things I don't like about this article I just don't know where to begin."

There is a professor at MIT who offers a course on failure. He does that, he says, because failure is a far more common experience than success. An interviewer once asked him if anybody ever failed the course on failure. He thought a moment and replied, "No, but there were two Incompletes."

Let's end with Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Eighty percent of success is showing up."

"There is something to be said for keeping at a thing, isn't there?"
~ Frank Sinatra

Life is like a trumpet

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:29:00 +0000

"Life is something like this trumpet. If you don't put anything in it, you don't get anything out."

– W. C. Handy, blues musician

risk

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:51:00 +0000

"Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them."

– Clarence Birdseye, entrepreneur

dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:28:00 +0000

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

– Henry David Thoreau, essayist

Fear

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:23:00 +0000

"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

Looking dumb...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:26:00 +0000

"Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new."

– Epictetus, philosopher

Important..

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:30:00 +0000

"Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time."

– Mia Hamm, soccer champion

Your own path

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:46:00 +0000

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."

– Theodore White, author

Potential...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:42:00 +0000

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

– Richard Byrd, explorer, aviator

Destiny

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:48:00 +0000

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

– William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state

It comes down to...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:18:00 +0000

It comes down to....

1. Being clear on what you want to do
2. Doing what you choose
3. Recollect thoughts and repeat

Next Idea ..

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:35:00 +0000

"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."

– Rosabeth Moss Kanter, educator

Don't wait

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:42:00 +0000

"The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you."

– Derek Jeter, baseball player

Learning Annex Real Estate Expo - Day II

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:45:00 +0000

Robert Kiyosaki

Robert talked about investing and introduced various people on his team (his wife, executives at an oil company). He got quite upset at a guy who wouldn’t lower his hand, demanding that it was his turn to talk.

Reggie Brooks

Today was much much less crowded. Only 8 or so rows were filled in the seminar.

Reggie Brooks told his story … of how he fixed up his first house and made a 41K profit. And then he explained that he didn’t know how to look at comparable sales, and therefore left 40K of profit “on the table”, so therefore we should buy his program and learn more from him.

Ebay Riches – Duane Barney

Another room where only the first 5 rows were filled, but they insist we leave no empty seats so we have to touch arm to arm with neighbors. We also can’t move back to an empty row. He’s hasn’t gotten into talking about anything about eBay yet, so I’ll go check something else out.

David Lindahl

He was presenting in the keynote room. They keynote room has much much more space and they let you sit where you ant and the sound is better today….A good number of the non power-house speakers speak once in the keynote and then several times in the breakout rooms. So even through the first few seminars on Sat were extremely crowded and they had to exclude people, by Sunday, there are lots of seats. Since the same seminars repeat, I’m sure you can see whatever you want in the course of the weekend.

David partners will his students…. He matches up students with money and take a percentage for the brokerage. Owns the Lindog group. Acquisition teams buying up multi-families.

It begs to question that if these guys are so rich off real estate, why do they spend this time speaking to the mob and diligently preparing to making lectures that are masterpiece works at selling their product. Most addressed this in their lectures saying that they loved to help others. Another claimed that all his book, lecture and program sales went to charity. I suspect that the source of students leads not only to immediate revenue to others things…. One had setup a network of professionals he would make available only to his students, David partnered on deals with his students.

The speakers did seem to know their fields…. And if I was interested in pursuing that particular area, I’d would consider their program. The lectures seemed to focus very little on the quality of the program, but on the ease of how it will be to strike it rich with one particular area of investment. From the Tax Lien lecture, we are going home thinking it’s trivial to earn 25% back with no risk and a few hours of effort a week…. That’s the worse case and every so often you get a whole house for a few thousand dollars. Hey, it sounded so good, I’ll definitely investigate, but I’m going to fork of $2000 on the spot.

The speakers say that their offers are special Learning Annex deals. Or, a funny one, one claimed that only 50 people will get a special extra offer because there is limited room (which almost caused a stampede to the back) – I went back at the end of his next seminar and the same thing happened.

Tax Strategies –Patrick James (representing Scott Estill, a former Senior Trial Attorney for the IRS)

Patrick started out by saying he supposed to introduce Scott, but instead he had to do the seminar. He we representing Scott Estill, a former Senior Trial Attorney for the IRS.

After his story about his idol Scott, Patrick shared some good information

- Any meals or entertainment within 24 hours of a business discussion are tax deductible – as long as your intent for the meeting is to do business. It also must be reasonable.

- Minors can earn up to $5000 per year tax free. He suggests you set up an account to pay your kids for work and then use it for purchases for the kids.

- Put your corporate logo on your shirt, then it is considered advertising and tax deductable

- Have an “employee of the month” prise. Purchase a gift certificate from the company and give it to the employee (including yourself).

- Commuting miles are NOT tax deductable. However, miles that you drive too and from mailbox are. As are miles to go to the store to get business magazined.

James suggested having a C-Corp to hold your assets and a separate LLC. As I understand, he said the LLC would pay your C-Corp a management expense and then be used to disperse dividends (which are exempt from social security and the minimum tax rule).

He sold a package too for a little under $2000. This included 2 tickets to a 2 day seminar by Scott Estill, a former Senior Trial Attorney for the IRS, and an offer for Scott to do your 1040 for 3 years. I checked his site and the seminar was $900 per person. I was interested, but I wasn’t able to attend the January conference dates, though I’m going to keep an eye on the February Chicago seminar.

I popped into a few others with my friend and also compared notes with the sessions I missed, and then decided we were seminar and sold out so we left. I’m very glad I went as I got exposed to new things. For example, though I read a lot, I don’t think I would have picked up a book on tax liens. I also ordered Scott Estill’s book on taxes and have it on the list of seminars I’d like to attend. I’m also going to examine my corporate structure as Family Limited Partnership and C-Corp/LLC combination. And Tony Robbins was very relevant in giving me a new perspective.

My hairdresser paints ATGC painters

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:43:00 +0000

The only person I'll let cut my hair, Francis at Safar, paints ATGC genetic paintings. That's cool "contemporary art".

Learning Annex Real Estate Expo

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:47:00 +0000

A friend had an extra ticket to the Learning Annex Real Estate Expo, so I attended today. She had paid $175, but the prices went down. Yesterday the VIP pass (which includes the coffee and seats up front) for $99.

The keynote room was huge; big enough to hold 50,000 people and it looked like an airplane hanger. The floor was concrete, the chairs were touching each other. The back seats were all roped off so people would go up front. When we walked in, girls with tight T-Shirts) with “FUN” on their boobs (think Amanda on Rocketboom) were waving long balloons and jumping up and down. Pump up music was blasting. 30 minutes late, the host came out to rev everyone up – “who wants to be rich, jump up an scream!”. They are going to give away iPods. The crowd wasn’t that into it. With the sound reverberations, we had a headache.

The conference had speakers in the keynote hanger and split out into other rooms you choose. We left the opening pep rally a little early so we were sure to get in (if the room filled, you were turned away). We went to see Robert Shemin on “Good Deal or A Bad Deal”. It was entertainment…. He gave out money to people who raised their hands, had us thinking that he was going to give someone a million dollars, and wrote a “mystery check” for a charity and gave it to a woman in the audience. I’m still curious about the amount. He seemed credible and seems like a nice guy (he said he gave all his speaking fees and book sale profit to companies). The amount of information we learned you could count on your hands. A good fix-and-flip you should may 20%. Wholesale means you put down a contract and then sell writes to the contract before it closes. A bank will short sale a foreclosure for 18% under the mortgage amount. Lease to own is up and coming, not only if you live in the place, but also if you are going to rent it to tenants. He referred a lot to his CDs, his 3 day training, and a real estate network he ran.

George Foreman

We went back to the hanger to see George Foreman. George Foreman talked about his boxing career. He was very dynamic and charming. The echo in airplane hanger was so bad we couldn’t really understand what he was saying. There were people really into it, but I didn’t know enough about his fighting career to understand.

Robert Blumn – Legal Tools for RE Investors

We stayed in the hanger to hear Robert Bluhm on 6 must have legal tools for any investor: asset protection.

Three requirements to lower your takes:

Own a Business
C-Corporation (he said this was the best way to get tax writeoffs, including 100% of your family medical expenses)
“Key Words”

· Medical Reimbursement Plan

Sources of Suites

1. Divorce

2. Employee Actions

3. Guest Accidents at Home

4. Join Ownership Pitfalls (joint tenancy, tenancy by entireties, community property, other forms)

5. Involvement in General Partnerships

6. Service as Corporate Officer or Director

7. Implied Corporate Officer

8. Just “Owning an Asset” – Dangerous

9. A Suit Today for an Act Ten Years Agao

10. Insurance May Not Cover You

To protect yourself, Robert suggested a Limited Family Partnership. Some links to Limited Family Partnerships

· http://www.rjmintz.com/appch5.html

· Protecting a Family with a Partnership

· What protection is available through a limited family partnership?

· Family Limited Partnership

Robert had a program he was selling, with all the forms, for around $2000.

Wayne Gray – Earn 5-10K/Month with Tax Liens

Wayne explained the basics of the tax lien process.

He offered a program that had educational materials, contact information of counties’ tax liens, connected you to a network and had some software for around $1800.

Raymon Aaron - Automatic Prosperity

We entered the room to wait for another seminar and the room was a frenzy… people were running to the back to purchase the Monthly Mentor…. I think I might go to this tomorrow to how he got everyone into a frenzy.

Chris Johnson - Free Money from the Government

Number Programs Available

1453 Federal Programs
17,215 State Programs
30,089 Private Foundations
20,000+ Scholarship Programs

Programs:

www.cfda.gov – catalog of federal domestic assistance

Women Business Ownership – 59.043 – to help women own a business, last year the average grant paid out $75,000.
14.117 – Purchase a 2-4 Unit Builidn
14.112 – Build or Rehabilitate Condos ($2,000,000)
14.151. – Fix up Multifamily United ($2,000,000)
14.197 – Fix Up Apartment Building
47.070 – Computer and Information Science and Engineering
45.301 - Museums for America (also 45.302)
23.009 - Appalachian Local Development District Assistance
11.003 - Census Geography
11.002 - Census Government Agreement
11.001 – Census Bureau Data Products

http://hod.gov – takes back 1000’s of properties through foreclosure, then lists with relator. Most have sold after 6 months, but then they try to get rid of them (10 days), then (4^th) stage, you can get them for $1 (but also must do the repairs) Information about how to buy a HUD home.

HEMAP – Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program
Homeowner Rebate Programs
Community Development Block Grants
203(k) Rehab Program
Housing & Rehabilitation Grants
American Dream Downpayment Initiative
AmeriDream Charity Grant 5%
Future Home Assistaance Grant 6%
Partners in Charity Grant 10%
Home Quest Down Payment Fund (6% OF UP TO $300,700)

Business Grants and Loans

Sba.gov – small business administration
Gsa.gov – over half-trillion dollas in government contracts
Book – Free Money Grants & Loans

Government Grants for Real Estate

Books – Real Estate Free Moneyy Grants & Loans
www.students.gov – 1000’s of programs

At the end, Chris gave away his program to a single mom in the audience. Then he asked if we all wanted one free and if so, to go to the back. Then threw in some more items (email coaching with him for a year, a piece of software) and the explained that he’d go out of business if he sold it for less than $685. A lot of people bought.

Tony Robbins

3 Mandates of Leadership

1. See it as it is … but not worse that it is!

2. See it better than it is.

3. Make it as you see it.

Emotional fitness is the difference.

Have you ever failed to achieve your goal? When you ask people why, their reasons are:

Time
Money
Lack of Technology
Lack of Education
No Energy
Not Enough Research
Terrible management
Terrible people
Not Enough Supreme Court Justices

The most successful people on earth are the people that understand that the above is just resources. Resources are never the problem; it’s always a question sof RESOURCEFULNESS.

Emotions are the Ultimate Resource.

This is about creating an Extraordinary Quality of Life –

Definition: a life of meaning, a magnificent life, fulfilling and on your own terms.

The 2 master skills of life:

The Science of Achievement
The Art of Fulfillment

You can change your state in a moment.

Emotion comes from motion. The way you use your body can determine your state.

Two factors control how you feel in a given moment

Physiology
Focus – Focus = feeling = reality (even if it is not true)

You need to control your focus. At any moment, you are making 3 decisions

What are going to focus on
What does it mean?
What am I going to do?

A lot of this is timely as it reminded me of the “Flow” CD that I recently listed to. In particular, Tony was addressing how to influence your state of mind.

All of thought is asking questions. Changing focus in life can be done by reframing questions. Changing Physiology is faster than changing focus. Wherever focus goes energy flows.

Only way to change your life long term is to raise your standards. You need to change your “shoulds” into “musts”. When something becomes a must, that is when it changes your life. When something is a must for you , it becomes your identity. Strongest force is to be consistent with how you defined yourself. To changes things you got to shift your psychology, your musts, to raise your standard. When it is a must, you find the way.

The Success Cycle -

Potential à Action à Results à Belief/Attitude --

^ |

|-----------------------------------------------------------|

Raise your Standards –
Change your Should to Musts
Change Your Limiting Beliefs
Model the Strategies that Work, Model Success
Give more than you expect to receive

Day-One Wrap Up

It started out slow, but I did get a glimpse of things I’d like to research some more (Limited Family Partnership, Liens). I didn’t buy programs (they are much cheaper on eBay if I really wanted them). I saw some master salespeople get people to fork over several thousand dollars on a whim. And Tony Robbins was motivating, insightful, and practical.

Success...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:02:00 +0000

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

– Coco Chanel, fashion designer

Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:51:00 +0000

"The distance between you and your dreams is often the length of a single idea."

– Vic Conant, executive

Keep trunkin'

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:37:00 +0000

"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish – it is then that you must not hesitate."

– Dag Hammarskjold, statesman

Productively Talk with Dave Allen

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:39:00 +0000

David Seah - Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD’s David Allen

How to fight with other bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:33:00 +0000

Paul Boutin: How to fight with other bloggers.

When you know...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:57:00 +0000

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson

I see this all the time with my web application clients..... when
people don't have the skills and experience, they make costly decision
in terms of both time and money due to pure ignorance. With knowledge
comes the power to influence decisions, estimates and overall
direction and therefore save or cost a client time and money. It
takes a foundation of integrity to use the knowledge for positive
influence.

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:29:00 +0000

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward
making it happen."

– Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

Internet Deals

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:52:00 +0000

If you are looking for other good deals online try this website:
www.bradsdeals.com it has a comprehensive list of coupons and deals on
the internet. Very good and highly recommended.

Whatever you see determines what grows inside of you...

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Adams) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:10:00 +0000

Make visual pictures of what you want in your life.