Archive for July, 2009
I Lost
I did something recently that I rarely do. I played the Lotto. I don’t normally play because I subscribe to the idea that as my nephew put it ” The lottery is a tax for people who can’t calculate odds.” Your odds of winning the Florida lotto are 1 in 22,957,480. According to the the National Weather Service your odds of being struck by lighting are 1 in 5000.
I decided to play becasue it is fun to imagine what you will do with all that money!
What would you buy?
Where would you travel?
What kind of really cool things would you do?
Now its no surprise I lost. Above is my losing ticket. Lucky for me I have a better plan for Financial Freedom than the lottery.
Unfortunately by the things I hear people say their plans for wealth are based on winning the lottery. Ever hear somebody say yes we will do that when we win the lottery. This is just a way of saying we will never do that.
Do you have a plan for Financial Freedom? If you do are you actively working to manifest it? When you do manifest it what will you do with all that money?
Get Yourself konnected(part 2)
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.If you look at the biography’s of the worlds most successful self made entrepreneurs and business people they where not self made at all. Just about all them had lots of help at multiple points and in multiple areas along the way. The right connections at the right times can make or break you.
No matter what you want in life in life somebody has it or knows how to get it.
The great thing about this is that we are literally inter-connected with everyone in the planet. In book six degrees of separation we are shown that we are within six jumps of everyone. In other words you know someone, who know someone, who knows someone who knows somebody…and if you take this out to six places that covers just about everybody.
If you know connectors. People that have turned being connected into a skill. You can cut those jumps down from six places.
Do you want to become more connected? Maybe even be a connector yourself?
Enter the Super Konnector Steven Klein. Steven Klein is a master of networking both face to face and online as well.
I have uploaded the complete interview I did with Steven. It was recorded live and is unedited. It is also lower resolution than the above excerpt due to file size restrictions. It is so full of good information I had to give it out. If you would like to watch it <CLICK HERE>
You can also visit Stevens website at www.superkonnector.com
Get yourself Konnected (part 1)
You have heard it so many times it’s a cliche. It’s not what you know it’s who you know. Well some cliches are true. Think about it most of the best jobs don’t get advertised in the paper or on Monster. They are found by somebody who knows somebody. The same holds true for most of the best business opportunities, best real estate deals-you name it they are all found through having the right connections.
When I first read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell I was fascinated by a group of people called connectors. If you have not read this book by now you should have. In fact I have made it easy for you: click on the picture of the book- it brings you straight to Amazon. Go buy it and read it.
Um…where was I? Oh yes I was fascinated by the group of people called connectors ”…people with a special gift for bringing the world together…” Or people who know a lot of the right people. I decided it would be a good idea have a few of these people on my side. Amazingly enough shortly thereafter one of them called me up out of the blue. This in turn lead to the meeting of several others.
This post is getting a little long so I want to pick this up later in the week because making connections is one of the most important skills you can learn. Talk to you soon.
Celebrate Your Independence with a boom
The Forth of July is one of my favorite holidays. No, not just because it’s one of the few times I get to blow stuff up.
It is the one holiday that we get to celebrate our Freedom. I am so glad to live in a place where I have such freedom of thought and of expression. You can truly be anything you want here. Even be a slacker if you want.
If you read about some of the things our forefathers went through or travel around the rest of the world you begin to get an understanding this freedom thing isn’t something to be taken for granted. There are a great many people in the world that don’t have freedom. More people than not have lived out their lives in poverty and under Tyranny.
Celebrate your Independence
Continue to work TO GIVE YOUR SELF MORE FREEDOM! What kind of freedom? :
- FINANCIAL FREEDOM
- FREEDOM FROM LIMITING BELIEFS
- FREEDOM OF TIME
- FREEDOM TO TRAVEL
- and most important FREEDOM TO LOVE and BE LOVED
