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<p>Welcome to Launch Effect v2.17 Lite!  Launch Effect Lite lets you create and customize a viral landing page at the click of a few buttons.  We&#8217;ve done some housecleaning in version 2.17 with a focus on making the theme more stable and fast.  Take a look around to see what&#8217;s new and launch something today!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re after a full-featured theme that still has the ease of customization and viral linking powers that you&#8217;ve come to love about Launch Effect Lite be sure to check out <a href="http://launcheffectapp.com/premium">Launch Effect Premium</a>!</p>
<p>Please feel free to <a href="http://tenderapp.launcheffect.com">contact us at our support forums</a> if you have questions about setup or are experiencing any issues with the theme.</p>
<h3>Setup in Three Easy Steps</h3>
<h4>Step 1 &mdash; Set Your Launch Page as your Homepage</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>Settings &gt; Reading</strong>.<br />
Where it says, &#8220;Front page displays,&#8221; choose &#8220;A static page,&#8221; and select &#8220;Sign-Up&#8221; from the dropdown menu.  When you refresh this page, it will disappear and your launch page will appear instead.</p>
<h4>Step 2 &mdash; Set Permalinks</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>Settings &gt; Permalinks</strong>.<br />
Select any options besides default. If your .htaccess file is not writable, instructions from WordPress will appear in a grey box below the &#8220;Save Changes&#8221; button for how you should set the rules manually.</p>
<h4>Step 3 &mdash; Start Designing!</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>Launch Effect &gt; Designer</strong>.<br />
Now for the fun part! The Designer is now divided into three sections: Global Styles, Sign-Up Page, and Theme (premium only). That submenu is located directly under the giant Designer/Integrations/Stats tabs. The best way to get started here is to just start playing around and gaining an understanding of what selections affect which parts of the design. Good luck!</p>

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		<title>50 Cent Interviews Like You’ve Never Seen Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 05:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the story&#8230; X-Street hustler has a dream of making it big, runs into obstacles (i.e. getting shot 9 times) and goes on to be a lucky, arrogant, and obnoxious superstar. (At least that&#8217;s what the hater within &#8230; <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/50-cent-interviews-like-youve-never-seen-before/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://jarmardupas.com/business-development/50-cent-interviews-like-youve-never-seen-before/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-385" title="50cent" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/50cent-215x300.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="240" /></a>We all know the story&#8230; X-Street hustler has a dream of making it big, runs into obstacles (i.e. getting shot 9 times) and goes on to be a lucky, arrogant, and obnoxious superstar. (At least that&#8217;s what the hater within might say.) Yet whether you love him or hate him you&#8217;re going to want to watch this video because you will see a side of 50 that you may have never seen before. The wild man/party machine/hit maker/bullet cushion/gangster has some words that you just may want to hear&#8230; In fact I may have to deem this as required viewing as <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/business-development/50-cent-interviews-like-youve-never-seen-before/">50 Cent interviews</a> like this rarely!</p>
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<p>What did you think?  Comment below!</p>
<p><a href="http://jarmardupas.com">Jarmar</a>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>

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		<title>You Only Get One!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to something so fragile and precious you would think that we would pay more attention to living a full life.  I believe it&#8217;s one of those things that very few people can actually say they did when &#8230; <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/you-only-get-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1940621.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-326" title="ONE" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1940621.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="260" /></a>When it comes to something so fragile and precious you would think that we would pay more attention to living a full life.  I believe it&#8217;s one of those things that very few people can actually say they did when they look back at their lives when it&#8217;s all said and done.  This post all came about because last weekend I lost a friend&#8230; someone who epitomizes living and loving (with a specialty in &#8220;TUFF&#8221; love.) to the fullest.  She is one of those people that forces you to reflect on your own life because you can now physically see all the people whom she has impacted.  So I decided to shoot a quick video to share with you what was on my heart and may it light a fire in yours&#8230;<span id="more-322"></span></p>
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<p>Now go take action!</p>
<p>Jarmar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>

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		<title>You Know Yoono!? My Social Media Secret Weapon…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to keeping up with the many Social Media outlets out there it can get a little daunting.  There are thousands of social media sites out there and if you&#8217;re marketing using social media or just trying to &#8230; <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/you-know-yoono-my-social-media-secret-weapon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/yoonologo.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-310" title="Yoono Free" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/yoonologo.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>When it comes to keeping up with the many Social Media outlets out there it can get a little daunting.  There are thousands of social media sites out there and if you&#8217;re marketing using social media or just trying to keep up with friends you&#8217;re in luck!</p>
<p>Today I&#8217;m going to share with you my Social Media secret weapon&#8230; When it comes to aggregating all that information from status updates, to videos, and images this is one of my favorite COOL TOOLS and I think you&#8217;re going to like it too!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So sit back and grab you someone popcorn and enjoy the video!<span id="more-309"></span></p>
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<p>The two browsers that I mentioned in the video are <a title="Get Fire Fox" href="http://www.getfirefox.com/">Firefox</a> and the <a title="Browser That Pays" href="http://jdupas.ijango.com/corp/servicefeatures/eosbrowser.aspx">EOS Rewards Browser</a>.  I personally use the <a title="Browser That Pays" href="http://jdupas.ijango.com/corp/servicefeatures/eosbrowser.aspx">EOS Rewards Browser</a> because it&#8217;s pretty much just a <a title="Firefox Browser" href="http://www.getfirefox.com/">Firefox browser</a> but you can get paid just for using and referring it so why not.  If you know me you know I believe in multiple streams of income and if I can make a little back off the revenue I generate for other people on the internet then why not!?</p>
<p>You can get the Yoono add on here at <a title="Yoono " href="http://yoono.com/index.html">Yoono.com</a> once you have one of the two browsers already.  Just click the add-on button and it&#8217;ll start to download and like I said it will work for either Firefox or <a title="EOS" href="http://jdupas.ijango.com/corp/servicefeatures/eosbrowser.aspx">EOS</a> so don&#8217;t worry if it only says Firefox.</p>
<p>So go for it and let me know what y&#8217;all think about it!</p>
<p>Jarmar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/1474924.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-302" title="Murphy Law Repellent" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/1474924-300x220.jpg" alt="Murphy's Repellent" width="300" height="220" /></a>Last time you visited we talked about Murphy&#8230; <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/personal-growth/murphys-law/">Murphy&#8217;s Law</a> to be exact and as a quick recap, for those of you who are lucky or young enough to not have met Murphy, Murphy&#8217;s Law states that what can go wrong probably will.  It really rears it&#8217;s ugly head most effectively right when you&#8217;re getting ready to make bountiful leaps ahead in your life.  Spotting Murphy is simple after the crime has been committed&#8230; have you ever felt like you took a step forward only to take two steps back?  YEAH?  Well&#8230; that&#8217;s Murphy!</p>
<p>But as always&#8230; there&#8217;s good news&#8230; Murphy is only as powerful as you allow him to be&#8230; You see Murphy can be stiff armed, held at bay, and even completely eliminated from your life (at least it&#8217;ll feel that way).  Here&#8217;s how!<span id="more-291"></span></p>
<p>You see Murphy doesn&#8217;t prey on everybody.  You&#8217;re probably already aware of this as you may know or have heard of people who seem to piss excellence and sweat greatness&#8230; Everything they touch appears to turn to gold.  Ring a bell?  Well Murphy doesn&#8217;t bother these people because he&#8217;s just not interested, it&#8217;s not worth the hassle.  Murphy preys on people with the following characteristics (see if you can recognize any of them) &#8230; they are the ignorant, the unprepared, and the wimps.</p>
<p>Some of us are and/or have been all three at once and that&#8217;s when life really brings the pain&#8230; So lets look at these characteristics one by one&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>First up IGNORANCE:</strong></p>
<p>Now before anyone gets bent out of shape or throws a tantrum&#8230; This is not an insult to anyone&#8217;s intelligence.  In fact ignorance is just a state of unknowing or being unaware and has nothing to do with the <em>ability</em> to be in the know or aware.  Most people just don&#8217;t know Murphy is out there.  They don&#8217;t see the duality of life&#8230; Prime example&#8230; The Good Book says that after a feast there&#8217;s a famine&#8230; everybody has heard what goes up must come down&#8230; or no?  So then why were so many people shocked, surprised, and in AWE when they began to lose &#8220;value&#8221; in their already record high priced houses?  That&#8217;s because they let Murphy move into that extra bedroom they built with that good &#8216;ol HELOC!</p>
<p>There will be times where you&#8217;re just going to ignorant on somethings&#8230; but see Murphy doesn&#8217;t really care about that.  He&#8217;s strikes when your ignorant about things your highly vested in&#8230;  So don&#8217;t go all in unless your fully aware of what you&#8217;re getting yourself into.</p>
<p><strong>Ignorance leads right to being UNPREPARED!</strong></p>
<p>They could probably be in the same category but I know for a fact that there have been times in my life when I was fully aware and KNEW that I needed to replace the tires on my car soon&#8230; Did I put money aside to purchase a new set?  Of course not!  I just kept putting it off and right around the time I needed to pay for some dental work, tuition, and rent was due and guess what!?  Tire blew out!  You see Murphy loves people who procrastinate and don&#8217;t prepare for non emergencies&#8230; Yeah you heard that right&#8230; a tire blow out isn&#8217;t an emergency.</p>
<p>Look the moment you buy new tires should leave you a clue&#8230; Tires don&#8217;t last forever!  They will need to be replaced at some point so prepare for them.  Christmas comes around the same time of the year on the same day as it always has and always will so quit acting like it&#8217;s an emergency.</p>
<p>We are in a new economy and the premise of J.O.B. security is long and gone.  I DON&#8217;T CARE WHAT YOU DO&#8230; IF YOU HAVE A JOB YOUR LIFE IS IN SOMEONE ELSE&#8217;S HANDS!  SO what are you doing to make sure you&#8217;re not on Murphy&#8217;s hit list?</p>
<p><strong>Now on to the WIMPS!</strong></p>
<p>These are absolutely Murphy&#8217;s favorite victims.  These are the people who cry, moan, and complain about their circumstances.  These are the people who quit when things get a bit tough.  These are the people who will never take responsibility for what happens to them and these are the very people who will make excuses as to why these rules don&#8217;t apply to them and people just don&#8217;t &#8220;understand&#8221;.  Sound familiar?</p>
<p>You see Murphy loves these people because just like everybody else Murphy loves to laugh and he loves entertainment, and it&#8217;s the wimps that provide the best show.  They are easily persuaded and moved&#8230; you can say just about anything to them and they&#8217;ll give up on their dreams.  Now if you look at the people who make things happen&#8230; well there you go&#8230; they MAKE things happen.  They don&#8217;t don&#8217;t complain, bitch, or moan&#8230;  they take responsibility for where they are in life and make decisions to get themselves to where they MUST be.  Murphy HATES these people because they can&#8217;t be shook and no matter how many times he hits them they keep going.  (Check out the <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/get-inspired/">GET INSPIRED</a> page for help in this area)</p>
<p><strong>MURPHY REPELLENT INGREDIENTS:</strong></p>
<p>Mix 1/4 cup of awareness, 1/4 cup of preparation, and an overflowing 1/2 cup of courage to take your life in your own hands and you have the ingredients for Murphy&#8217;s Repellent.</p>
<p>I know this is very simplified and seems easy and that&#8217;s because well &#8220;It Is!&#8221;&#8230; BUT here&#8217;s the problem&#8230; it&#8217;s even easier to not be aware, it&#8217;s easier to not prepare and for some it&#8217;s easier to cower than to fight for your life&#8230;  AND MY FRIENDS YOU DESERVE TO FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!  Seriously&#8230;</p>
<p>Get the best out of life&#8230;</p>
<p>Jarmar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>

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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-274" title="Murphy's Law" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Murphys-Law-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" />You may or may not have noticed a non typical absence of a new blog post here over the past couple of weeks&#8230;  Well even a guy who purposely lives his life drama and worry free runs into obstacles and jerks from time to time.  Which is the inspiration for this post&#8230; We&#8217;re gonna talk law&#8230;  that&#8217;s right law.</p>
<p>To live in a society and to get the best out of that experience it&#8217;s best that you know the law of the land&#8230; wouldn&#8217;t you agree?  I mean if you didn&#8217;t know it was illegal to drive 100 mph down a particular road that could potentially cost you some serious cash or worse.  If you didn&#8217;t know that flashing lights from the police car behind you meant to pull over you could be in for some serious pain!  So I think we can all agree on that to get the best out of life and reduce the amount of pain we&#8217;d go through we should probably know the law of the land&#8230;  This one could cost you your life so read on&#8230;<span id="more-267"></span></p>
<p>The law we&#8217;re going to talk about is a different type of law&#8230; it&#8217;s one of those unwritten ones.  Like if you ask your wife if you can go to the boom boom room with the fellas and she says &#8220;Do whatever, I don&#8217;t care&#8221;&#8230; you&#8217;re going to come home to one angry human being&#8230;  This law is very similar to that as it can cause you serious pain but it&#8217;s one very few have ever avoided.  The law is called Murphy&#8217;s Law&#8230;</p>
<p>Murphy&#8217;s Law, as defined by <a href="http://www.freedictionary.com" target="_blank">freedictionary.com</a>, is any of certain humorous axioms stating that anything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong.  Sound familiar?  I&#8217;ve heard about this so called law a few times through out my life and started to take notice a bit more later on as I began to take on more responsibility.   Some people call it the devil, some call it bad luck, <a title="My Honey" href="http://www.jonnellearnold.com" target="_blank">Jonnelle</a> and I call it Murphy&#8230; something we adopted from listening to <a title="Debt Trap" href="http://jarmardupas.com/financial-growth/debt-trap-what-you-dont-know-can-kill-you/">Dave Ramsey</a> for sometime.</p>
<p>But anyway Murphy is one of those things that is seemingly always lurking in the background and just when you&#8217;re getting ready to make great positive moves he jumps out of nowhere and hit you with something &#8220;unexpected&#8221;.  Things like, needed a new tire for the car, unexpected medical bill, stupid traffic ticket, kids need something for school, started a new business and distractions come out of nowhere, and the beat goes on.</p>
<p>Is it just me that these things have happened to!?</p>
<p>I mean everything just can be going PERFECT and you&#8217;ve got big plans for your money, life, and career and then BAM!!!  What the heezey!?  For some people it&#8217;s BAAAAAAM BAAAAAAAAAAAM KA-BLOOOOOOEY&#8230; FML!!!  Those people are the ones who sometimes appear to never get a break&#8230; You know, the &#8220;sh*t rolls down hill&#8221; or &#8220;when it rains it pours&#8221; crowd&#8230; Are you in that crowd?  Want to know who&#8217;s behind it all?  Well that&#8217;s Murphy and I wanted to give you a heads about him if you weren&#8217;t already acquainted with him.</p>
<p>As always there&#8217;s good news&#8230; You don&#8217;t have to be shook up by Murphy.  I&#8217;m serious!  You know how some people never really seem be effected by anything, have the best luck, and everything they touch seems as if something magical happens!?  You see Murphy HATES these people because believe it or not there is a such thing as Murphy repellent.  REALLY!</p>
<p>Murphy has allergies and you can get rid of Murphy if you know what they are.  In fact I&#8217;m gonna tell you all about them&#8230; I&#8217;m going to reveal to you just how you can never be bothered by a flat tire again, how to protect yourself from unexpected bills, and smile at Murphy every time he comes anywhere near you&#8230;  I&#8217;m gonna tell you that and more&#8230; just not now though&#8230;  We&#8217;ll save that for next time&#8230;  To know exactly when and to get tips and tricks on how to get the best out of life subscribe below!</p>
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<p>Jonnelle and I attended a great <a title="Dave Ramsey Live" href="http://www.daveramsey.com/live/home/">live event</a> this past weekend here in Houston about money.  We&#8217;re strong believers in reading books, going to events, and finding coaches that help us win&#8230; this event was an example of that.  There&#8217;s one cause we feel very passionate about that we wish more people knew about.  There is a silent killer amongst us that destroys more lives than anything we can think of.  The worst part?  You could be trapped in it&#8217;s clutches and not even realize you can do something about it&#8230;  Month after month people live paycheck to paycheck to paycheck and become rather comfortable with it.  The truth is most people are 2 weeks away from financial ruin and that is no way to get the best of life.  So today I&#8217;m going to share with you a 5 step proven process that anybody can follow to make finances worry free!<span id="more-250"></span></p>
<h4><strong>The Silent Killer? DEBT&#8230; and Debt is Stupid</strong></h4>
<p>So there&#8217;s no confusion these are examples of debt: Credit Cards, Car Notes, Mortgages, Student Loans, Installment payments (i.e. furniture payments).  Before some wise guy comes on here talking about the advantages of debt and how a mortgage is good debt let me say&#8230; SAVE IT!  One thing I know for sure is that 100% of foreclosures happened to homes with a mortgage&#8230; now tell those people who got foreclosed on that a mortgage is &#8220;good debt&#8221;.  (fyi: root of mortgage; mort means &#8220;death&#8221;, gage means &#8220;pledge&#8221;)</p>
<p>The truth about debt is that it robs your future funds to get stuff you want today.  Debt takes up your #1 wealth building tool&#8230; your income.  There&#8217;s a great book that I know of that says&#8230; &#8220;The borrower is slave to the lender&#8221;&#8230; sound familiar?  If you were to lose your income will the people you borrowed money from be forgiving or would they want their goods back?  If you wanted to quit your job to stay home with the kids, pursue a life-long dream, volunteer full-time, or just because you want to&#8230; could you?  Let that marinate&#8230;</p>
<p>Look, I&#8217;m not cynical about debt as a whole and I&#8217;m not saying you shouldn&#8217;t borrow money for anything but I know for a fact that it destroys homes like nothing else out there so I won&#8217;t continue on my rant here I&#8217;m just going to share some numbers&#8230;</p>
<h4><strong>These Numbers May Scare You</strong></h4>
<p>Wall Street Journal says, &#8220;Nearly 70% of consumers live paycheck to paycheck&#8221;</p>
<p>Gallup/Bankrate.com says, &#8221; 68% of Americans could not cover a $5,000 emergency with cash without having to go into debt for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Courts says, &#8220;Annual bankruptcy filings have almost doubles since the bankruptcy laws were reformed in 2005, bringing us back over the one-million-per-year mark.&#8221;</p>
<p>Federal Reserves &amp; Census Bureau says, &#8220;The average American household has $91,000 in debt, and the total consumer debt has doubled since 1980.  In 1980, the total consumer debt was $1.3 trillion; today, it is $2.6 trillion.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Marist Institute Poll Published in USA Today says, &#8220;55% of Americans &#8220;always&#8221; or &#8220;sometimes&#8221; worry about their money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christian Financial Concepts says, &#8220;In 1929, only 2% of the homes in America had a mortgage against them.  By 1962, only 2% did not have a mortgage against them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Multiple studies say that money conflicts is still the leading cause of divorce today.</p>
<h4><strong>5 Steps To Get Control Of Debt</strong></h4>
<p><strong>1. You must SAVE money.</strong><br />
Duh right!?  It&#8217;s a real simple formula&#8230; live below your means and not above!</p>
<p><strong>2. Quit borrowing more money!</strong><br />
Dave Ramsey says you can&#8217;t get out of a hole by digging the bottom out&#8230; so stop!</p>
<p><strong>3. Prayer really works.</strong><br />
When in doubt go to GOD&#8230; prayer works and if you don&#8217;t believe it then well try it anyway!</p>
<p><strong>4. Sell something.</strong><br />
One of the fastest ways to increase your income and or to get some extra cash for an emergency fund is to sell the junk you&#8217;ve already bought.</p>
<p><strong>5. Take a part-time job or start a home based business.</strong><br />
Need more money? GO TO WORK&#8230; like I said earlier your #1 wealth building tool is your income and increasing it, even if just temporarily, is a great way to get out of debt or at least get some breathing room.</p>
<p>Follow these 5 steps and you&#8217;ll immediately start seeing a change in how you view money and your personal finances.  To find out more about the event me and my wife went to or who we use as a &#8220;coach&#8221; when it comes to our personal finances go over to <a title="Dave Ramsey" href="http://www.daveramsey.com">DaveRamsey.com</a>, click on &#8220;new here&#8221;, and learn about the &#8220;Baby Steps&#8221;&#8230;  This is the very information that we have that has allowed us to handle our finances worry-free.  Go there now!</p>
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FYI:  We have no affiliation with Dave Ramsey or his products&#8230; He is simply a resource we use and feel as though he can help you or someone you know as well!  The 5 steps came from a small portion of his live event in Houston, TX.</p>

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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-233" title="Red Smith" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Red-Smith-188x300.jpg" alt="Red Smith Certified Personal Trainer" width="188" height="300" /> I tend subscribe to ideas, beliefs, people, and blogs that will increase my &#8220;personal power&#8221; and allow me to get the most out of life.  One of the pages I subscribe to on Facebook, <a href="http://www.Facebook.com/TeamUpPersonalTraining">Team Up Personal Training</a>,  is run by a heck of a guy and good friend of ours, Red Smith.  Red is an entrepreneur and certified personal trainer based out of sunny Tampa, Florida.  The page is full of helpful tips on weight loss and overall fitness that is written in freakin&#8217; English for a change&#8230; in other words Red just makes stuff make sense but in a clear, kind, and in a &#8220;get off your ass&#8221; sort of manner.  So I was reading one of the notes posted on the page that really made a lot of sense, like most of what Red says, but this one stuck with me.  I kept reviewing it and reminiscing about my &#8220;younger&#8221; days&#8230; the damn note wouldn&#8217;t get outta my head!  Well that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s that good and I always say <span id="more-232"></span>we can learn a lot from children&#8230;  so I decided to share it here with you and my other readers in hopes that it will strike a chord with you as well.  It&#8217;s entitled, &#8220;We Were Born To Be Fit&#8221; , ENJOY!!!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>As I sit here in the International Plaza mall, watching my grandson and about 25 others kids playing at the indoor play area, I realize that we&#8217;ve all messed this up.</strong></p>
<p><strong>As kids, we played and we played hard. I&#8217;m sitting here watching kids jump off of things that are higher than they are tall, climbing, running full speed, crawling, hopping, balancing, crashing into each other, laughing, smiling, and making new friends.</strong></p>
<p><strong>No matter how hard they play, nobody is gasping for air, sweating, getting hurt, or worried about what other people are thinking. They&#8217;re just having a great time.</strong></p>
<p><strong>We all started out this way, but somewhere along the line we just stopped moving. In doing so, we took something that came natural to each of us and made it difficult and uncomfortable. By the time most people are in their mid-thirties they can barely move anymore. Forget about having any balance or coordination. And falling down leads more likely to some type of injury instead of a huge smile on their face. My grandson has falling a minimum of 30 times in less than an hour already. That&#8217;s kind of a side effect of running full speed with a big head I guess, lol! But he get&#8217;s up just as fast as he falls down and he&#8217;s off to the next obstacle. In contrast, it can take clients several seconds to just get their body off of the ground and on to the next exercise during workouts.</strong></p>
<p><strong>My instructor at school used to tell us all of the time, that we are what we do to ourselves. He used that saying mostly when he was talking about muscle imbalance and weakness in certain areas. But I guess it could be said about our ability to move in general. We used to run, jump, hop, crawl, swim, pull-up, push-up, balance, fall and get back up for fun. Now we don&#8217;t, so most of us can&#8217;t anymore.</strong></p>
<p><strong>We&#8217;ve got to stop looking at exercise as something that we&#8217;ve got to do and start looking at it as something that&#8217;s fun to do. What I wouldn&#8217;t give to have a man sized Big Wheel with a power slide break like I did when I was a kid. That surely would keep me in shape. Can you imagine how fun it would be to cruise on down the bike path with a Big Wheel and jammin&#8217; to your favorite music blasting from your Ipod? But you know even if I had one I wouldn&#8217;t ride it. I&#8217;d be to concerned about what other people would think. In my head all I&#8217;d hear is, &#8220;Look at that idiot on the over sized Big Wheel!&#8221; You know it&#8217;s true. That&#8217;s what keeps a lot of us that are overweight from going to the gym for a workout now. We think people are going to stare and laugh at us. But you know what? Most of those people are fat, overweight, out of shape and unhealthy themselves.</strong></p>
<p><strong>That makes me think of a something that a financial advisor on the radio named Dave Ramsey used to say. It was something to the tune of, &#8220;The average person in America is broke, in debt, stressed out and worried sick. So why do you want be average like everyone else?&#8221; So the same could be used in our case too. The average person is in horrible shape, so why do we continue to care what average people think or say?</strong></p>
<p><strong>So to sum this all up, we were born to be fit. We just got in our own way. So now it&#8217;s time to do something about it. Like I tell my clients all of the time, I&#8217;m trying help you to become more fit. I&#8217;m not here to just make you thinner. If I help you to lose weight and all you do is go back home and sit in front of the tv for 6 hours a night. You&#8217;ll gain that weight back again in no time. But if I can help you to become more fit and you stay more active, then the weight will come off anyway. Plus then you&#8217;ll live a healthier, happier and more fulfilling life.</strong></p>
<p><strong>So keep this in mind when you&#8217;re sitting on the couch and wondering if you should get up and go do something today.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;We are what we do to ourselves.&#8221; ~ Paul Prather</strong></p>
<p><strong>Red Smith, NPTI, NSCA-CPT<br />
(813) 507-1553<br />
Tampa, Florida<br />
TeamUpInc@Yahoo.com<br />
<a title="Team Up Personal Training" href="http://www.facebook.com/teamuppersonaltraining" target="_blank">www.Facebook.com/TeamUpPersonalTraining</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>There you  have it&#8230; Is Red telling the truth or what!?  You can find more of him on Facebook and I encourage to go there now become a fan of his page, <a title="Team Up Personal Training" href="http://www.Facebook.com/TeamUpPersonalTraining">Team Up Personal Training</a>&#8230;</p>
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<h2><a href="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/water-grass1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-210" title="water-grass" src="http://jarmardupas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/water-grass1.jpg" alt="Watering Grass" width="266" height="400" /></a>The Secret To Greener Grass And Expanded Territory!</h2>
<p>After a fun <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/personal-growth/the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side-heres-why/">The Grass IS Greener On The Other Side</a> chat I could hardly wait to release this, part 2, version of the post.  Many people asked questions, gave praise, and some even took action.  One of the big questions was HOW to water your grass and exactly what the hell did I mean by that in the first place and we&#8217;re going to get into that now.  So if you haven&#8217;t read part 1 yet you might want to do that first <a href="http://jarmardupas.com/personal-growth/the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side-heres-why/">here</a>.</p>
<p>This is based on the concept of prospering where you&#8217;re planted.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually quite simple but people often underestimate the dignity of simplicity&#8230; In fact my life revolves around it&#8230; I&#8217;ve made a pledge to live by that very mantra and it has served and is serving me very well!<span id="more-199"></span></p>
<p>Watering your grass really boils down to what it sounds like,  nurture and care for the ground that&#8217;s under your feet.  While we&#8217;re busy gazing at other people&#8217;s grass we tend to neglect our own and neglect leads to death in any situation.   It is, however, a very innocent mistake we often make yet sneaky and paralyzing at the same time&#8230; especially for those of us that are highly ambitious.</p>
<p>I know one of my biggest problems was that I would have my eyes set on the next step before finishing the step that I was on&#8230; I wanted to run world class sprints before I could even manage to walk on two feet&#8230;  Do you find that your ambitions get ahead of you like that?  That battle continues in my head more often than I would like BUT the lesson I&#8217;m here to share with you has helped me tremendously.  This lesson as I told you before absolutely changed my life.  What&#8217;s that lesson you ask?</p>
<p>Learning to prosper where you&#8217;re planted!</p>
<p>It really comes down to making the most of what you have now by maximizing the potential of your current situation.  To do this takes an abundant and grateful mindset.  If you&#8217;re not grateful for the little patch of grass you have now you&#8217;re probably not going take care of it and if you don&#8217;t take care of it you won&#8217;t be given anymore to care for.  Even if you are given more you probably won&#8217;t take care of it if you haven&#8217;t developed a grateful mindset.  This is why a lot of &#8220;successful&#8221; people are depressed&#8230; accomplishment without appreciation is worthless.  We usually don&#8217;t learn from things we don&#8217;t respect or appreciate so we can&#8217;t expect to be ready for more of what life has to offer.</p>
<p>One real world example happened about 2 years ago: It was tax time and a good friend of mine was a bit bothered.  You see his accountant couldn&#8217;t account for $300,000 that somehow seemingly disappeared.  That&#8217;s right&#8230; THREE &#8211; HUNDRED &#8211; THOUSAND &#8211; DOLLARS!!!  The 2 year ago version of me flipped and was rather frantic for my friend.  YET&#8230; he wasn&#8217;t frantic at all, in fact he was quite calm and was in a weird state of confidence.</p>
<p>You see my patch of grass wasn&#8217;t as big as his acres of grass for a reason.  I wasn&#8217;t equipped to manage that much grass.  Sure I <em>wanted</em> his lifestyle and money but I didn&#8217;t have the tools, know how, nor the guts it takes to handle such a situation.  My $300 problems were causing major stress in my life&#8230; just imagine a thousand times that&#8230; LOL&#8230; The old saying is something like, &#8220;to whom much is given much is required&#8221;.  You&#8217;re not a millionaire because you don&#8217;t think, act, and respond like a millionaire.</p>
<p>So whenever I want to HAVE something or accomplish a feat I ask myself&#8230; &#8220;Am I who I need to be&#8230;&#8221;.  If I&#8217;m not, which it is in most cases, I figure out what things I personally need to work on and become better at in order to have and HANDLE said goal&#8230; and then things usually began to flow my way.  (Apply this is your relationships as well it&#8217;ll work wonders!!!)  There&#8217;s a post coming on exactly how I do this so I won&#8217;t go into the details right now but just know you should be careful to receive things before you&#8217;re ready for them.  (i.e. a house is a wonderful thing to have but there are tons of people losing them through foreclosure because of their inability to HANDLE their situation&#8230;)</p>
<p>So there you have it&#8230; the secret to greener grass and expanded territory lies in your ability to prosper where you are today so you can increase capacity to receive more.  Appreciate your life and where you are, focus on making it to best it can be, and then watch your grass grow.  I promise if you do this then you probably won&#8217;t have time to gaze at others people&#8217;s grass and when you do look you&#8217;ll start noticing weeds that you probably would have never seen before!!!</p>
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<p>At times I find myself in a state where things just doesn&#8217;t seem to be going my way.  I look at my life and I wonder what happened, (because &#8220;I&#8217;m suppose to be&#8221; 6 foot 3, 225lbs all muscle and worth $500 million&#8230; hehe).  I ask how did I get here, and know that there&#8217;s got to be more to life than what I&#8217;m experiencing.   Does that ever happen to you?  These are questions I ask myself often and seriously they are great questions to ask&#8230; but here&#8217;s where it gets shaky&#8230;</p>
<p>Do you ever complain about your circumstances?  Bitch and moan because life has been challenging you?  Ever ask why you don&#8217;t drive that nice newer car or why you don&#8217;t have that extraordinary dream relationship!?  If you&#8217;re anything like me <span id="more-172"></span>you&#8217;ve had or are having similar thoughts.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s the bad news&#8230;  You&#8217;re not driving the car of your dreams because you&#8217;re treating your current car like trash i.e. fast food bags and paper work all over the place.  Even if you bitch and moan life is still going to challenge you and it&#8217;s going to get even harder.  It&#8217;s no coincidence why the dead beat you&#8217;re with now is just like the dead beat you were with before&#8230; Chances are this isn&#8217;t the first time that&#8217;s happened either&#8230;</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the solution you ask? It&#8217;s simple&#8230; <strong>Water your grass</strong>!</p>
<p>WTF!?</p>
<p>Yeah I know that sounds crazy&#8230; some of you probably live in apartments or have landscapers so you&#8217;re probably confused.  I can understand that&#8230; but hear me out&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve found the reason we complain and feel inadequate about life is because we&#8217;re always looking at other people&#8217;s &#8220;achievements&#8221;.  We see what they have and we want it.  Many times we&#8217;re upset because we feel that it&#8217;s unfair for that person to have what we don&#8217;t.  Are any of these statements ringing a bell for you?  If so read on&#8230;</p>
<p>So we find ourselves noticing that the grass does appear to be greener on the other side&#8230; The harsh truth is that the grass probably IS greener!</p>
<p>Sucks I know&#8230; but with bad news there&#8217;s always good news&#8230; and the good news is that <strong>the grass is only greener on the other side because you haven&#8217;t watered the grass you&#8217;re standing on!!!</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I chuckle when I hear people say, &#8220;the grass ain&#8217;t always greener on the other side&#8230;&#8221;.  I find that many times it is but here&#8217;s the sneaky part.  We often, if not always, do go over to that greener side but then refuse to water that grass too hence the birth of the cliche.</p>
<p>You know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230; like that new job you landed with the bigger paycheck and nicer cubicle&#8230; that new business opportunity that was &#8220;better&#8221; than the last&#8230; like when you finally got out of that apartment and bought your first home&#8230; or like when you finally went from being single to being engaged/married&#8230; You just knew you wouldn&#8217;t have the same problems you&#8217;ve had before.  Let me ask you this&#8230; did you find all your troubles gone or did you notice the grass starting to look familiar?</p>
<p>For me the grass always started to die soon after I jumped ship but then I learned something.  I learned one of the most important lessons of my life.  This lesson taught me not only how to get my grass greener but also how to expand my green territory.  I&#8217;m going to share that lesson with you in part 2 of this post and I&#8217;m crazy excited to do so.  So subscribe below or check back soon for part 2&#8230; until then lets get the BEST out of life!</p>
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