Psalms 18

Psalm 18 (King James Version)

This is how I felt about the criteria for the book review that has a 1000 word limit. It seemed impossible to meet the standards in only 1000 words, but with God nothing is impossible.

1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Unhub

Just started using Unhub today and it is awesome!
Okay it added the URL shortner feature and a profile
bar that stays glued to the top of your browser
featuring links to all the profiles or places that you
visit frequently on the web. I love it. Now I just need
to get acquainted with ping.fm

These sites are designed to make the socials lives
much easier!

Happy I Figured Out My Fatigue Issue

Capital M, Capital S, Capital G

M S G

Also know as monosodium glutamate and many other names. I was having some chronic fatigue issues in the last couple of weeks, and I could not figure it out. Turns out that I am especially sensitive to the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG). I figure that my father must have used an abundance of it on the chicken breast that he made for dinner because it knocked me right out. I was down for four hours and I did not pig out on the food. I had a average serving. One chicken breast, a little spinach, a fourth of a peice of corn, and a little rice. I immediately started to become tired after eating the chicken. My mother told me that it was all in my head. But, I have been drinking jungle juice and taking extra vitamins to combat this problem for weeks. I've even mixed up some of the trusty Super Green Food powder that we have sitting around, and nothing has worked.

Now, I understand. If Chinese food restaurants have been forced to put "No MSG" on the front of their places of business, then this chemical must be a serious health threat. I sent my dad an email with all the potential side effects. The most scary one for me was grostesque obesity. Not just obesity - grotesque obesity. Wake up America. Food additives are a big reason why you're fat. Then there are the minor side effects like cancer and heart disease. Makes you not want to eat any processed foods.

I had to copy this table just for people to see it:

REACTIONS TO FREE GLUTAMIC ACID IN SENSITIVE PEOPLE

Cardiac

Arrhythmias

Extreme rise or drop in blood pressure

Rapid heartbeat (tachycardia)

Angina

Circulatory

Swelling Muscular

Flu-like achiness

Joint pain

Stiffness

Neurological

Depression

Dizziness, Light-headedness, Loss of balance

Disorientation, Mental confusion

Anxiety, Panic attacks

Hyperactivity, Behavioral problems in children

Lethargy, Sleepiness, Insomnia

Migraine headache

Numbness or paralysis

Seizures

Sciatica

Slurred speech

Gastrointestinal

Diarrhea

Nausea/vomiting

Stomach cramps

Irritable bowel

Bloating

Respiratory

Asthma, Shortness of breath

Chest pain, Tightness

Runny nose, Sneezing

Skin

Hives or rash

Mouth lesions

Temporary tightness or partial paralysis (numbness or tingling) of the skin Flushing Extreme dryness of the mouth

Urological

Swelling of prostate Nocturia

Visual Blurred vision Difficulty focusing

These ALWAYS contain MSG:

Glutamate, Monosodium glutamate, Monopotassium glutamate, Glutamic acid, Calcium caseinate, Gelatin, Textured protein, Hydrolyzed protein (any protein that is hydrolyzed), Yeast extract, Yeast food, Autolyzed yeast, Yeast nutrient

These OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:

Flavor(s) & Flavoring(s), Natural flavor(s) & flavoring(s), Natural pork flavoring, Bouillon, Natural beef flavoring, Stock, Natural chicken flavoring, Broth, Malt flavoring, Barley malt, Malt extract, Seasonings (the word "seasonings"), Carrageenan, Soy sauce, Soy sauce extract, Soy protein, Soy protein concentrate, Soy protein isolate, Pectin, Maltodextrin, Whey protein, Whey protein isolate, Whey protein concentrate, anything Protein fortified, Protease, Protease enzymes, anything Enzyme modified, Enzymes, anything Ultra-pasteurized, anything Fermented

Soldiers of Light Seoul Korea & it don't stop, won't stop, planet rock dis nation 4 GOD! LetsGO! | TweetPhoto

Soldiers of Light Seoul Korea & it don't stop, won't stop, planet rock dis nation 4 GOD! LetsGO! | TweetPhoto

My first visit to Tweetphoto.com because I don't have a camera built into my phone. Sad I know, right?

A Close to Crazy Decision

So I've been giving away my services for a while now. Marketing consulting, English tutoring...and now I'm giving away investment training. Now, that I have started all of this I realize it was a near crazy decision because it is yet another excuse to procrastinate on my school work. Like right now for instance.

I dunno. I read somewhere that you are suppose to give in the direction that you want to go. I read that you are suppose to be generous because eventually it will be returned to you by those people or by others because it's a law that God created. But, at the moment, all I feel is pressure. And yet, I can't think of anything that seems more right to drop than the Master's degree program in TESOL.

Step back. Breathe.

I'm supposed to be making music,
not supposed to be making Ds.
Just kidd'n
I'm making As and Bs.
Don't make that second one plural,
'cause it's the one I gotta keep
as one B, one B.

--

It's funny people looking at me.
Tell me I'm all sophisticated
I'm like please.
They call me professor, smart,
"Oh, you're educated."
Educated enough to know that it means
nothing next to the Gospel of the King.

--

You see I'll be teaching English, but
music I've gotta teach, 'cause if you
block what flows from your soul you
life story will be weak.

Get up, rise up, it's time to shine.
I've been shining all along with my ability to rhyme.
But, now I've got a purpose to work this
the lyrics on a page
now I've I got a reason to keep timing
like Johnny Blaze.

Oh I Figured Out Why I Procrastinate

I was just talking with my mother about this; it might just be the same state of millions if not billions of other people. We have gone through a school system in which other people decide if we are good enough. They grade us. And then after we graduate and we pursue our dreams we no longer have that system to help us stay on course.

Besides that, I realized that I have a unhealthy, perhaps crazy attraction to things that I'm afraid of. The last few years I have designed my life around doing things that I'm terrified of doing. For example, cliff diving/jumping, rock climbing. And because I have become somewhat addicted to that rush of being in danger--rising to a challenge, etc.

So it is simply exhilarating for me to wait until I have precisely enough time left to do something and then to rise to the challenge of completing it before the deadline. This is why there is a market for life coaching; they keep you accountable, give you deadlines for things that you want to do and that you would never give yourself a deadline for.

For many years I have been trying to fabricate these circumstances. Little challenges for myself, but the problem has consistently been that my "accountability partners" have little interest in themselves or much less my dreams and so with that lack of commitment the relationship falls apart.

If only I had a big exam coming up on PPC. If only I had a teacher hanging over me while I struggle to finish another book. I have been waiting a long time to be able to do this. I started a spoof channel on Youtube about this, and now I know it is essential to do again. I need to get another coach because I'm terrified of not keeping my word.

Why Do I Procrastinate?

For the last three days I have sat at my computer to write my final papers only not to write them. Only to watch more Frank Kern trainings. To outline my papers and rewrite me "to do" list several times. I exercised, drank caffeinated beverages, asked my mother to bug me about it, even informed my teacher (earlier in the week) that I was having this lagging issue, and I still procrastinated.

The one day that I worked on my papers before they were do was last Wednesday, and that was after I sent my teacher an email telling her that I would be sending a rough draft of one paper and an outline for the other. I keep my word. It seems that deadlines are everything. Unreasonable deadlines are even better for me.

I wrote a book about this. Coach Aneirin's Guide to Living Your Winningest Life Ever! You can get a copy at: http://lifebeat.ning.com/ Ignore my horrid picture there. Procrastination is very irritating to me, but now I just have to figure out how to avoid procrastinating on setting deadlines...

Inspired at Sugar Bar NYC

Just got back from a ten day trip to New York, and I got to do many things. I'm sharing a little bit on Facebook, a little on YouTube, and a little here.

I wanted to blog about Andre Henry's concert at Sugar Bar in New York, New York because I was afraid to make the trip by myself. I wasn't scared of the city. I was scared of getting lost on the subway...again.

So this is me and Andre in the photo. A picture of triumph for me, a picture of "Are we going to get the shot right this time?" for him.

I had asked my friend Ralf to go with me. I asked my one of my cousins, and I was waiting that night for another cousin to show up at church to ask her to go with me. One of my aunts was suggesting that she could drive me, but really didn't want to.

Then I remember hitch-hiking to Sturgis in 2004. I remembered how everything just worked out. That situation was way more extreme and God brought me home, so I lollygagged a little and finally went to the subway. I had my Blackberry and the Google Maps app to guide me...until I made the mistake of pushing the back button. Ooops! No directions anymore.

I was distraught for a couple of minutes until I remembered that I could still read emails. I had saved Andre's email in my mailbox which happened to have the directions to Sugar Bar. The directions were kind of vague, but I remembered my cousin had showed me to how to read the subway map a couple of days prior. Lesson you've probably heard 1000 times: do what you're afraid of.

Here's some embarrassingly poor I took video of Andre performing:


Oh and don't forget to check Andre's best stuff out at: http://www.andrehenrymusic.com
If you live in NYC you're lucky, 'cause you can go to his shows.

The Mind - A Great Analogy

I know that I did not come up with this analogy, but I have been meditating on it lately, and I know that observing this saying will help so many people. The mind is like the rudder of a ship that steers the entire body in the way that you desire. Unfortunately it is an invisible rudder. There are many ways to reach it. Some people listen to tapes while they are sleeping. Some people listen to positive tapes everyday to keep a "positive mindset". I have started sharpening my mind with the Holy Scriptures. I had dismissed this idea a few years ago, but since it was suggested by a missionary friend of mine, I have heeded to the power of "renewing" the mind. The mind has a preset course, usually that course is to run your ship aground. The mind has a sin-consciousness. It is plagued by darkness, fear and lies. Outside of these three things is abundant life: light (illumination or clarity about life), faith (the ability to trust God above all), and truth (the opposite of much that you see, the invisible realm, the opposite of much that you've learned).

I have steered my rudder away from an unhealthy relationship that was going nowhere. It was not an abusive relationship. Quite the contrary, both of us were always very supportive of each other, but I came to realize that I was in love and my significant other was just loving the attention. It took all my strength and the help of God to walk away from that. I felt needed, worthwhile and important because of this relationship. But, in the end, the relationship was going nowhere. It was not going to end in marriage, and I needed to be free in order to welcome new relationships into my life. I spent four years feeding this addiction to sweet affectionate words.

So I have been reading Scriptures from two separate programs (if you can call them that.) One is called The Mind of Christ and the other is a few verses from Joseph Prince's Destined to Reign Devotional. After a few weeks in each, I was able to recognize my worth outside of this semi-loving relationship and walk away.

New Money Masters + Teaching English Grammar

The last five weeks have been the least fun weeks that I can remember since my final semester as an undergrad. No complaining. I keep reminding myself that some people "can't afford" to go to school so they don't get to complain about the teacher or the course load or the all-nighters. I love it. I consider myself very blessed to be able to complain that I don't like a particular brand of bottled water or that the air conditioner is set to low. These are things that are not in some people's lives so they don't get to complain about them.

They get to complain about dirty drinking water, lack of educational opportunities, and the lack of a breeze (because they don't have air conditioning). Oh, that just reminded me it's the official month of giving clean water to people for Charity Water www.charitywater.org. Very cool I donated last year and I plan to donate again this year at the end of the month.

Oh, I wanted to talk about New Money Masters. It's a program that Tony Robbins just started because he wanted to analyze how people that make a lot of money online think and because he wanted to learn the Internet Marketing Game. I signed up for the "free trial'' because the first person that he interviewed was (the evil genius behind most product launches) Frank Kern. So I really liked the material, but again, I am a little bit stuck. Yo necessito el capital de lanzamiento.

It's cool. I got other plans brewing since I went through this giant shift from trying to learn everything and do everything myself to just paying others to do it and actually getting it done:)

Finally Robert Allen Launches Cash in a Flash

Yay! There should be celebrations in the street over this book that been years in the making. Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen have probably been planning this since 2000.





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A small observation

I just noticed that my clothing tag was particularly itchy. I looked at it closely and noticed that that half of that little plastic thing that the stores use to affix the price to the shirt was still there...chaffing my back; it had been there for years.

Are there little ideas, things left undone, or habits that you have that are chaffing you? Tackle a few today. I feel much better that I have removed the offending itch-inducing piece of plastic.

I actually did a little bit of this last week. I was having trouble sleeping so I thought of all the things that I had not made a decision on. After I gave myself an answer to all these 'little' questions that had been chaffing at me, I went to sleep.

You might not even realize how much something is affecting you. Every time I have a headache, my first thought is if the little things that I've been ignoring have piled up and begun to physically affect me.

[On a separate note: pay attention, you can learn so much by being aware of what you are doing or of what's going on around you. It took me twenty-three years to learn that everything is connected and that every thing informs every thing.] A silly example would be I learned about African culture by looking at my hair.

Wisdom is a weapon

So I want to share this quote from some dangerous reading that I've been into lately.

"Success is inversely proportional to hard work. As you move towards effortlessness, success moves towards infinity."

Now I know y'all know that I love the Four Hour Workweek, but I needed this essential paradigm shift in order to get more stuff done. Most everyone has been complaining that there isn't enough time in the day to get everything done, but what do we do about it besides complain and stress ourselves out thinking about it.

I was fortunate enough to have one of my cousins visiting me this month for two weeks. The first week I had a lot of school work to finish and not enough time or energy to do it all. After just reading about this effortless way to success I realized that I was doing the world a disservice by not employing people to do the work that I hated. So I asked her to type my transcript for this interview up for $20. I don't remember how much I ended up paying her in the end, but the point is that I have many more projects that have been sitting on the back burner because I've had the philosophy that hard work equals success. Faulty philosophy = faulty results.

So from now on I will always be looking for ways to 'ethically' outsource my life.

What is Crowd Marketing?

What is Crowd Marketing? I was introduced to this interesting term by the 30DC and I still don't know what it is, but this presentation helped a bit.

Crowd "Marketing Becomes Horizontal"

View more presentations from Yuswohady .

43 Things Quiz

I'm not really sure how I ended up on this sight when I was looking for social network creation. Anyway I joined, because there was this really cool kid on there that I had to connect with. They have this awesome quiz on the website, sort of challenging, I was honest, and then amazed by how many things on the list I could honestly say I had done like visit four continents. Anyways here are the results:

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Self-Knowing Extroverted Believer

Cash in a Flash: Fast Money in Slow Times

So I had to make a post about Robert Allen's new book, because I had emailed him about tips for making fast cash and his response was that it was the topic of his new book. Now finally two years later (I guess he knew I wouldn't die, although I was drowning in debt) it's finally being released. I think it was probably finished but he was timing the release for just when the economy was at it's worse. Clever boy.
What's this? This is me meeting Allen at one of his Wealth Retreats. He's giving away copies of his books to people that donated to charity. The funny thing is...that donation was never deducted from my account. I was given priority seating, selected by Marshall Sylver to eat fire as a result, and the donation was just an invisible ploy to see who the enlightened millionaires were?

The Renegade Network Marketer - What It Did for Me

The Renegade Network Marketer was the beginning of my online education. At first glance it only appears to be a e-book, educating network marketers on how to create leads and make sales over the Internet, but it really is the manual for attracting people to you and building a brand that ensures that you really don't have competition because you are so valuable.

A purchase of the e-book also give you access to marketing tools. You have the choice to use Ann Sieg's system and tools for creating leads and sales right away. I was surprised to find out that this is how Mark Kingler the now famous partner of Ann Sieg got his start online with the Renegade Network Marketer. It makes me think that I should have taken it more seriously.

Anyway, I'm a Renegade Professional so it only makes sense
for me to offer access to that system for half off until July 23rd:
CLICK HERE To Get Your Complete Copy For HALF OFF!

This is obviously an affiliate link. When you join through the link I will be able to follow-up with you and assist you in getting started online. If you purchase without using an affiliate link you will be on your own, like I was at the beginning. Thank goodness I have access to the right mentors now!

(Questions? Comments? Let me know.)

Four Hour Work Week Expanded and Updated, Where Have I Been!

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New RichThis is my favorite business book of all time. Not only is Timothy Ferriss funny and very intelligent. He also includes links to everything that he talks about in the books so that you can really start saving time.
I suffered a lot because I ordered the ebook version of the original Four Hour Work Week. I'm jumping in line and preordering a physical copy of the updated and expanded version being released this December! If you loved this book like I did share your favorite parts in the comments and click the link to preorder with me! (Sorry for all the exclamation points, but I'm really excited!)

Collaboration

Let me start with my focus as a patron.
The Facebook Causes App has become a useful tool that
I helped Glory Power Ministries begin to successfully use.
Oh, what I can see from here!
A chance for everyone to give a little, to spread the word...
a little and achieve massive results together.
Let the donors be trusted to organize themselves.
Just give them the tools; they are given genius and ideas by God.

Non-profits can either catch on to this vision or die a slow and
agonizing death.

--

I was doing my market research for an information product as
outlined by Jeff Johnson. And I ran across what would be the
competition, but as I looked at her excellent sales letter and
observed that she was a student like me (or at least that was
her story) I decided to sign up as an affiliate.

Once I get my video promotion going.
(I have only cleverly designed the sales copy and saved it.)
And I finish my product.
I will seek her out for a JV.
Her product is excellent. Very professional looking, although
I did not learn many new things from it. I'm not very typical.

There's just some buzz with Ann Sieg and that Ferny guy
about collaborating with the would be competition. It doesn't
always work out, but it's much better to build together or in
larger industries buy them out instead of competing.

--

I have a highly competitive nature.
In fact, it's the only thing that kept me at my sales job
a couple of years back. So when the last instructor, professor,
facilitator, teacher, whatchamacall'em advised the class that
part of our requirements was to review and comment on our
peers work to help them improve. I was like, "What?!!"

The textbooks I'm reading too: Brave New Digital Classroom
and Technologies in the Second Language Composition Class-
room both encourage this strange idea of students collaborating
on their assignments. With the onslaught of digital plagiarism
this one of the proposed solutions. Hmmm...

The world is really changing. I wish I could have gotten help
writing all those AP English papers back in high school.
And what now that students have the ability to hire a
freelancer to write their papers for them? We've graduated
on to new tactics for cheating!

I Finally Get It! Pilates 101

Okay so the last few weeks have been scary for me as far as effortless weightloss goes because I've gone from 135 to 123 and I didn't start really weighing myself until the beginning of this week. I did not have a weightloss goal. I had a fat loss goal and as far as that goes I'm still borderline fat according to my scale.

So what's been going on? Lack of sleep, running on caffeine, and not having time to eat. Disastrous! At first I was like yay 125! And then this morning at a little under 123 pounds I was like...this is bad. But, that's not what I wanted to make this post about anyway.

I was a practitioner of Pilates for 5 or 6 years and then I stopped after I learned about it's partial origins in Yoga. One of my spiritual advisors told me that practicing Pilates was not praying to the Hindu gods because it was not designed with that it mind.

Anyway, I had only been to classes briefly and at the classes the instructor was overweight and made us do the exercises with a large number of repetitions. In the book The Pilates Body by Brooke Siler which I used as a manual, Siler recommended a low number of repetitions and to imagine your body as various objects like a rope and pulley.

Anyway, this morning I was doing a little ab workout. My abs and lower back still need help okay. And it finally clicked for me. It all came together because I was thinking about this group of radical exercise freaks that had been on Oprah. They all did their exercises in a slow methodic manner while concentrating on using the body to create resistance instead of machines.

So I had read in Brooke's book or somewhere else that a workout is not complete without the mind. And this morning I was finally able to bring my imagination into the ab workout (which included a few Pilates moves). I had to close my eyes to imagine my body as some object stronger than it was, but at the end of my workout I was satisfied that I had challenged myself sufficiently without overworking my muscles. Over-training causes muscles to break down! I can remember the days of doing 400 crunches a night. Now I have finally mastered the mind-body connection.

My Avatar From Voki.com

So my instructor game me a number of podcasting website tools to look at, and I thought why not make a post about Voki.com?

Much Ado About Renegade Breakthrough

So I have an ad on eBay running to build a list for the relaunch of Renegade Professional and Renegade Breakthrough. I realize that I planned to have at least 100 running at a time. Seems like I've been distracted with graduate school. I'm happy though because I'm putting together two killer marketing/promotion campaigns for Glory Power Ministries and BCS, Christian Fioravanti's company.

Glory Power is launching a product without a product launch (*shakes head), but the founders are not schooled in marketing and I do not have the time. Perhaps I can find someone that offers that service and connect them. Eureka.

I'm plugging away at my Renegade Lessons. If anyone wants free lesson or more info on this check it out: (Renegade = Attraction Marketing (Brand Building) 101)
http://budurl.com/renegadesignup

Front Loading

This is a skill that I have been thinking about for a while. I read about this group that described one of their friends. He had this odd habit of spending the first two weeks of his classes in the library doing all of his work for the semester. He would even miss some of his classes. I have started doing this on a smaller scale. I have not gotten to the point of doing all of my reading before a class starts, but I have begun to do all of my reading at the beginning of the week.

Reading can be spaced over three days. I cram it into one day and with good reason. I want so spend more time on infopreneuring. I took a big step towards into creating a muse (according to Timothy Ferriss' definition) today. I spent a little time talking to God on what I am suppose to be giving the world. Now I know what to write about. I made a table of contents for a book, and I know it will not be difficult to complete. The book will include the conversation.

Clarence Wooten on Entrepreneurship

I realized that I had the mindset of an employee
while I was trying to start a business. Today was
my biggest aha moment ever! When Clarence
Wooten said,

"A paycheck is an addiction. Not unlike crack."

my mindset was altered forever.

See the video I watched that brought about the change:
(So short, but so dense with information.)

Fun and Pointless Post

I just found a fun new photo manipulation tool so I decided to
blog about it. Interestingly enough it was created by this guy
Chris Pirillo that I find amazingly annoying.

Rich Dad Poor Dad Reacurring Thought

So this thought keeps coming up in my mind about how my current education is pulling money out of my pocket and therefore not an asset by Robert Kiyosaki's definition. Actually, this education is costing me more than I can calculate. I understand the principle of creating assets which he presented. Multiply the things that are putting money in your pocket or cashflow, and reduce the things that are taking money out of your pocket.

This education right now is a huge liability. In fact, it might be considered too costly if 80% of it wasn't being covered by the VA. So my meditation for these last three months has been create assets or create possibilities for more income streams. I make online videos. I write articles, press releases...whatever, but my focus should be on bigger deals.

I recently ran across this guy's program called Million Dollar Licensing. I watched all his videos, and I am seeking to apply his stuff in between reading my textbooks and making discussion posts. You guessed it. I opted for the online format for my degree in TESOL because I thought that it would give me more time to pursue marketing...boy was I wrong.

This Million Dollar Licensing idea is somewhat like a technique that I learned as one of Robert Allen's Mastery students. It's called Transaction Engineering, and the class is taught by Lorenzo Spencer (The Undercover Millionaire). The technique is to set yourself up as a contractor for companies that interest you and to make sure that you get a finder's fee.

All of this is turning over in my head because I know it is a better way to do business instead of focusing on giving out informational reports and hoping that people join your business opportunity. Why is the second business plan so much more prevalent than the first? Anyways back to the original juxt: Create Assets.

How to Make Screen Captures

I just learned a cool trick that I've been dying to share. And it's so simple that it is almost embarrassing. I can see how I can use screen capture for school. I mean who really wants to go through the whole downloading process or copying of website code to reconstruct a message for students.

This process is ideal for constructing a PowerPoint presentation or a WordDoc handout.
1) Push the button after F12 labeled "PrtSc" (it is on my Toshiba anyway). I see it labeled differently on my Dell "Prnt Scrn". It's also above the function keys instead of after them. In any event push the "Print Screen" button.

2) In MSWord you can edit the screen capture by using the crop feature on the Picture Toolbar. (View->Toolbars->Picture) (You have to click the little black dots to move the edges in or out.)

3) Copy and paste your picture into Powerpoint for further editing or Paste into Paint or any other photo editing program on your computer to save as a image file (.gif, .jpeg etc.) for later use.

What's Facebook Have To Do With It?

Today I realized that as much as I claim to love to network that I had not done much to connect with my old friends on Facebook. Today after finding someone that had similar interests like traveling and building a business out of it I realized my lack of a network on this favorite networking web site of mine.

So I went on a friend adding blitz. Basically, I used the dreaded automatic adder, the one that you plug your email address into with your password. I was like, "So much for security." Security is an illusion anyway.

So I had been emailing this stranger back and forth for about an hour and then I added him as a Facebook friend and...nothing. No response. Maybe I need to say hello, but it definitely woke me up a bit to my lack of networking. I put the Facebook App on my I-Pod and then actually visited a few other websites that I've been neglecting (i.e. Twitter).

All of this has been a great way of procrastinating on the 100 or so pages I have to read by tomorrow night. What am I doing up at 3 in the morning anyway--procrastinating--I'm still telling myself that I will do my work after I do a few other things. Where did this behavior start?

Journey of an Infopreneur

It's sort of funny. I think Robert Allen coined the term Infopreneur and I'm selling his stuff on the subject on Craigslist. So I decided that I will have 100 ads running at a given time, no less. 100 just sounds like a good number. I will be marketing this guy Mark Ewing's course on becoming a professional group travel organizer. It's something that I might go into in the future so I thought that it would be cool to market it for now.

School sucks so much outta ya. As I am blogging I'm sort of procrastinating on reading my chapters for this last week and writing my papers. I love school:)

Speed Reading

Yesterday I found out that I can read at least 70xs faster if I fix my left eye on the left side of the text and read with my right eye only. Half of the time that I have been doing school work it has been reading. I prefer writing so much more, and with so many words to look up taking speed reading courses or at least figuring out little tricks to read faster are essential to doing well in graduate school.

The Power of Focus

I think I should have read that book that shares the
same title as this post. I'm just going to share some
insight from the training that I plugged into to get
my Infopreneuring business up and running. I
promised myself that I will have one product up
for sale by the end of this month.

RECAP 5/12/09

What is the most important resource you have?
Time
Money
Energy

I'd argue that focus is, with focus you create better
ideas of how to leverage other people's time money and
energy and how to use you own time and energy better.

Guard your focus with your life and you will do wonders.
Focus will determine the kind of result you get more than
anything else.

Learn how to say no and focus on what you start; there
will always be a new system, tool, or product coming out
that you will want. File the email or ad away and focus.

This is a link to get access to the training I plugged into:
Click to Get Access to How to Do Business on the Internet

The Journey of a Patron

I've decided that rather than seeking out different organizations to become involved with that I will instead increase my involvement with the organizations with which I am already associated. For me, right now this means putting energy into building Glory Power Ministries' online presence.

I was conducting an interview of a man that had immigrated to the States about nine years ago. After hearing my story the man said that America should not be involved in other people's civil wars or wars period. I suppose we are not God's sovereign hand and this country's people suffer because of the expense.

When he made the comment I actually started thinking about myself. There are many people that I have helped and sought to help over the years while ignoring myself in the process. This has slowly caused me to value myself less. The cause is important and the individuals behind the cause are more important.

I will have to remember as I am raising funds and helping to organize events for charities that I must first take care of myself.

Recounting my journey here

So I've started several books that I've never finished in my life. Perhaps the problem was that I did not have the resources to complete them. So, this blog will be about all the things that I have begun that I welcome input on. At one time I was afraid to share my thought, but now I just believe that if someone if helped in the process any amount of criticism I might receive for my words doesn't really matter.

There are three journey that I will write about here:
1) The journey of an Infopreneur
2) The journey of a graduate student
3) The journey of a patron

I have access, right now to all the information I need. But, hopefully as I write about each of these topics I will find those that know more about them.