If you're curious here's how/why it works...
On the one hand you have the people who would get the program anyway. A 30 page sales add is not going to deter them. If you're a dude who follows the company and you're psyched out of your mind to get "Transformations" (for example), nothing can deter you -- you'll just scroll down and get it regardless.
Now on the other hand you have the majority of people who know very very little about RSD, the program, or whatever. If I just put up a cool looking graphic and a few videos that's not going to give them the information they need. There is literally no chance, as in 0%, of them breaking out their credit cards and getting the program just based on a short blurb.
A good sales page gives you absolutely everything you need to know about the program. All the features, all the benefits. EVERYTHING. If you look at www.becometransformed.com and www.jeffyshow.com you see that I do three things in there:
1- I put up a graphic of the product, along with the 3 bullets at the top explaining what the program is. This way people who are "already convinced" don't need to read through everything, can quickly get an idea of what they're looking at, scroll down to the bottom and get it.
2- I put up a page explaining *everything* about the program for people who have absolutely no clue.
3- I also put up the "salescopy within the salescopy" by making JUST THE RED SUBHEADLINES into a mini-salescopy so that people who want to "skim" it but not read it carefully can also skim down the page and get the information that they need.
So basically this covers all bases, and gives all the information necessary for whoever is looking for it.
Bear in mind that most (not all, but most) people who express frustration about a long detailed sales page are those who will never, ever purchase anything.
If you're about to plunk down $1500 for a bootcamp for example -- you probably WANT those 30 pages so you can read them over and over perhaps 20 times before you decide on how to invest your money.
Now you guys on the forum here know enough about the bootcamp not to have to read it, but bear in mind that the active users on this forum are only 1-2% of the total RSD mailing list.
The other several MILLION people who check out our site, and the HUNDRED THOUSAND PLUS people on the mailing list -- these dude have never been to RSD Nation or the blog.
So they need to have a resource to find out all the details, all the information that they could possibly want. That's what a good sales page is for.
Remember that we're a borderline "mainstream" company which means that 90% of our website traffic doesn't come from hardcore community-heads -- it's coming from people who haven't been exposed to long sales materials before, as opposed to most of you guys who've seen all the fly-by-night seduction companies and their silly sales adds so many times to the point of being numb to it.
Lastly, you'll also notice (and I get compliments about this all the time) that the salescopy that I personally write is authentic. It reads a lot like a blog post. I'm explaining the program without all the nonsense that you see in most sales adds. I'll use marketing-languaging sparingly (and when I do so it's relevant and makes sense), but the vast majority of it is the straight goods on the program.
If you want to know about any of our programs, you can read any of the pages that I wrote and get a really crystal clear idea of what they're all about -- and without being bombarded with all the nonsense that's typical of these types of promotional materials.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
RAS not tuned in
I have habit of reading tons of books on every subject possible. But since I have been trying to read 2 books Jesus Lived in India and Veronica decided to die.
My mind hasn’t been able to focus on the book. I felt even though I was reading the book my mind was somewhere else. After 2 minutes when I would buzz out of my trance for some XYZ reason and I wouldn’t be able to figure out what was the Last word I read. I would try to reengage attention to the book and hell I don’t know if I just read last 2 paragraphs or not. I can’t recall any of it. You know when you read same thing twice, your head is trying to race ahead of the predictability factor and you read faster because you know what is there.
This is when I realized that my RAS wasn’t tuned in. I was lost in series of thoughts, which I couldn’t even remember due to illusion that I was reading the book and not thinking. This is when you realize your brain want to do something else. Most people would just shut down the book or try to re focus to get the job done.
What actually worked for me was when I questioned my mind what does it want to do. I started writing out the flow of my head. It was full of rambling. Try this method out. When you feel you have no clue what you want to do at that very moment. Start writing.. Just see you have series of unclear thoughts buzzing you. You will feel sense of clarity after you have done it.
Don’t worry if your thoughts are repeating again and again. Just keep on writing till your brain can’t write anymore. You will realize that brain is trying to concentrate where your RAS is tuned in and only when you finish that task you will be able to do the work you were trying to do or otherwise it won’t be the work you were trying to accomplish
Though I would be researching on topic that how to do you tune your RAS into task, which you want to get done and then accomplish, what your brain was buzzing you about. May be this is the way you can get your 100% focus to something.
My mind hasn’t been able to focus on the book. I felt even though I was reading the book my mind was somewhere else. After 2 minutes when I would buzz out of my trance for some XYZ reason and I wouldn’t be able to figure out what was the Last word I read. I would try to reengage attention to the book and hell I don’t know if I just read last 2 paragraphs or not. I can’t recall any of it. You know when you read same thing twice, your head is trying to race ahead of the predictability factor and you read faster because you know what is there.
This is when I realized that my RAS wasn’t tuned in. I was lost in series of thoughts, which I couldn’t even remember due to illusion that I was reading the book and not thinking. This is when you realize your brain want to do something else. Most people would just shut down the book or try to re focus to get the job done.
What actually worked for me was when I questioned my mind what does it want to do. I started writing out the flow of my head. It was full of rambling. Try this method out. When you feel you have no clue what you want to do at that very moment. Start writing.. Just see you have series of unclear thoughts buzzing you. You will feel sense of clarity after you have done it.
Don’t worry if your thoughts are repeating again and again. Just keep on writing till your brain can’t write anymore. You will realize that brain is trying to concentrate where your RAS is tuned in and only when you finish that task you will be able to do the work you were trying to do or otherwise it won’t be the work you were trying to accomplish
Though I would be researching on topic that how to do you tune your RAS into task, which you want to get done and then accomplish, what your brain was buzzing you about. May be this is the way you can get your 100% focus to something.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
4 Basic Management Lessons
Lesson Number One:
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered: "Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a
fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Management Lesson
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
Lesson Number Two:
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of
that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull.
They're packed with Nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough
strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some
more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight,there he was
proudly perched at the top of the Tree.
Soon a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree, promptly spotted him.
Management Lesson
Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
Lesson Number Three:
When the body was first made, all the parts wanted to be Boss.The brain said, "I should be Boss because I control the whole body's responses and functions."
The feet said, "We should be Boss as we carry the brain about and get him to
where he wants to go."
The hands said, "We should be the Boss because we do all the work and earn all the money."
And so it went on and on with the heart, the lungs and the eyes until finally
the asshole spoke up. All the parts laughed at the idea of the asshole being the
Boss. So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work.Within a short time the eyes became crossed, the hands clenched, the feet twitched, the heart and lungs began to panic and the brain fevered.
Eventually they all decided that the asshole should be the Boss, so the motion
was passed. All the other parts did all the work while the Boss just sat and passed
out the shit!
Management Lesson
You don't need brains to be a Boss - any asshole will do.
Lesson Number Four:
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!
Management Lesson
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut!
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered: "Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a
fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Management Lesson
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
Lesson Number Two:
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of
that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull.
They're packed with Nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough
strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some
more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight,there he was
proudly perched at the top of the Tree.
Soon a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree, promptly spotted him.
Management Lesson
Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
Lesson Number Three:
When the body was first made, all the parts wanted to be Boss.The brain said, "I should be Boss because I control the whole body's responses and functions."
The feet said, "We should be Boss as we carry the brain about and get him to
where he wants to go."
The hands said, "We should be the Boss because we do all the work and earn all the money."
And so it went on and on with the heart, the lungs and the eyes until finally
the asshole spoke up. All the parts laughed at the idea of the asshole being the
Boss. So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work.Within a short time the eyes became crossed, the hands clenched, the feet twitched, the heart and lungs began to panic and the brain fevered.
Eventually they all decided that the asshole should be the Boss, so the motion
was passed. All the other parts did all the work while the Boss just sat and passed
out the shit!
Management Lesson
You don't need brains to be a Boss - any asshole will do.
Lesson Number Four:
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!
Management Lesson
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut!
Guys reveal: The worst turn-down I ever got was... By Caitlin Ascolese
Rejection is never fun, is it? Comfort yourself with
A) the harshly worded "thanks but no thanks" that some poor guys got, below, as gathered in a Match.com survey, and
B) the knowledge that some of the women who dole out these turn-downs are, well, a little bit nuts. We asked Lillian Glass, Ph.D., communications expert and author of I Know What You're Thinking, to assess these women's excuses. And for once, guys, it might really be them and not you!
"I was told that I'm too neat. Neat?!" —Gary, 56, Toronto, ON
Dr. Glass: "She probably has sloppy tendencies, and she's worried that he'll judge her."
"She told me it wasn't a good idea because she was anemic and was having her period." —Joe, 54, Justin, TX
Dr. Glass: "Oh, God! I'm embarrassed just hearing that. That's too much information. She doesn't censor herself, so she could be a true embarrassment in front of other people."
"She didn't think her father and I would get along." —Curtis, 43, Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Glass: "Daddy's girl! The rejection was a blessing in disguise. There would be too many family issues that would intrude on a relationship."
"One woman told me I was too intelligent for her. Sure." —Ray, 37, Raleigh, NC
Dr. Glass: "Kissing only takes up half a percentage of the date time-wise, so you have to talk, and she seems either insecure or hostile. But let's note that no opinion is formed in a vacuum, and he probably said something that made her feel insecure about herself and brought out the worst in her."
"A woman told me she was probably going to be too tired the night I asked her out…but she told me this two days ahead of time." —Kevin, 41, Dallas, TX
Dr. Glass: "Barring any medical difficulties, because a lot of people do have health issues, this is passive-aggressive and, really, pretty hostile."
"A girl I liked said she wouldn't date people born the same month she was." —Greg, 22, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Glass: "If she was being truthful and is such a strong believer in astrology, it'd be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the relationship wouldn't work. So why even bother?"
"A girl said that her car broke down and gave me a big, long story about what was wrong. Only problem? I have a car and could have driven her. Plus, I'm a mechanic." —Wally, 20, Chicago, IL
Dr. Glass: "Simply put, she may well be a liar and her car may not have been broken. When you talk too much—when you give too many details, too much information—you're lying."
"She told me she had to go buy the donuts for her Singles with STDs group. Point taken." —Greg, 32, San Diego, CA
Dr. Glass: "That's evil! I mean, come on—she really wanted to keep him away. She's got a great sense of humor, but she's on a power trip and uses it as a weapon. The hair-washing excuse is like using a fly-swatter on a guy; this is like using an Uzi."
A) the harshly worded "thanks but no thanks" that some poor guys got, below, as gathered in a Match.com survey, and
B) the knowledge that some of the women who dole out these turn-downs are, well, a little bit nuts. We asked Lillian Glass, Ph.D., communications expert and author of I Know What You're Thinking, to assess these women's excuses. And for once, guys, it might really be them and not you!
"I was told that I'm too neat. Neat?!" —Gary, 56, Toronto, ON
Dr. Glass: "She probably has sloppy tendencies, and she's worried that he'll judge her."
"She told me it wasn't a good idea because she was anemic and was having her period." —Joe, 54, Justin, TX
Dr. Glass: "Oh, God! I'm embarrassed just hearing that. That's too much information. She doesn't censor herself, so she could be a true embarrassment in front of other people."
"She didn't think her father and I would get along." —Curtis, 43, Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Glass: "Daddy's girl! The rejection was a blessing in disguise. There would be too many family issues that would intrude on a relationship."
"One woman told me I was too intelligent for her. Sure." —Ray, 37, Raleigh, NC
Dr. Glass: "Kissing only takes up half a percentage of the date time-wise, so you have to talk, and she seems either insecure or hostile. But let's note that no opinion is formed in a vacuum, and he probably said something that made her feel insecure about herself and brought out the worst in her."
"A woman told me she was probably going to be too tired the night I asked her out…but she told me this two days ahead of time." —Kevin, 41, Dallas, TX
Dr. Glass: "Barring any medical difficulties, because a lot of people do have health issues, this is passive-aggressive and, really, pretty hostile."
"A girl I liked said she wouldn't date people born the same month she was." —Greg, 22, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Glass: "If she was being truthful and is such a strong believer in astrology, it'd be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the relationship wouldn't work. So why even bother?"
"A girl said that her car broke down and gave me a big, long story about what was wrong. Only problem? I have a car and could have driven her. Plus, I'm a mechanic." —Wally, 20, Chicago, IL
Dr. Glass: "Simply put, she may well be a liar and her car may not have been broken. When you talk too much—when you give too many details, too much information—you're lying."
"She told me she had to go buy the donuts for her Singles with STDs group. Point taken." —Greg, 32, San Diego, CA
Dr. Glass: "That's evil! I mean, come on—she really wanted to keep him away. She's got a great sense of humor, but she's on a power trip and uses it as a weapon. The hair-washing excuse is like using a fly-swatter on a guy; this is like using an Uzi."
Did You Know? Blood
Bloodtype and Rh How many people have it?
O + 40 %
O - 7 %
A + 34 %
A - 6 %
B + 8 %
B - 1 %
AB + 3 %
AB - 1 %
Does Your Blood Type Reveal Your Personality?
According to a Japanese institute that does research on blood types, there are certain personality traits that seem to match up with certain blood types. How do you rate?
TYPE O
You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, loyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive.
TYPE A
You like harmony, peace and organization. You work well with others, and are sensitive, patient and affectionate. Among your weaknesses are stubbornness and an inability to relax.
TYPE B
You're a rugged individualist, who's straightforward and likes to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakne ss.
TYPE AB
Cool and controlled, you're generally well liked and always put people at ease. You're a natural entertainer who's tactful and fair. But you're standoffish, blunt, and have difficulty making decisions.
You Can Receive
If Your Type Is
O- O+ B- B+ A- A+ AB- AB+
AB+ YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
AB- YES YES YES YES
A+ YES YES YES YES
A- YES YES
B+ YES YES YES YES
B- YES YES
O+ YES YES
O- YES
O + 40 %
O - 7 %
A + 34 %
A - 6 %
B + 8 %
B - 1 %
AB + 3 %
AB - 1 %
Does Your Blood Type Reveal Your Personality?
According to a Japanese institute that does research on blood types, there are certain personality traits that seem to match up with certain blood types. How do you rate?
TYPE O
You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, loyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive.
TYPE A
You like harmony, peace and organization. You work well with others, and are sensitive, patient and affectionate. Among your weaknesses are stubbornness and an inability to relax.
TYPE B
You're a rugged individualist, who's straightforward and likes to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakne ss.
TYPE AB
Cool and controlled, you're generally well liked and always put people at ease. You're a natural entertainer who's tactful and fair. But you're standoffish, blunt, and have difficulty making decisions.
MOST IMPORTANT INFO NOW:
You Can Receive
If Your Type Is
O- O+ B- B+ A- A+ AB- AB+
AB+ YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
AB- YES YES YES YES
A+ YES YES YES YES
A- YES YES
B+ YES YES YES YES
B- YES YES
O+ YES YES
O- YES
Friday, May 18, 2007
FUll One liner STASH
"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy.
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye.
"Never waste a lie when the truth will do." - Jack Clancy
"Stupidity, if left untreated, is self-correcting." - Heinlein
43% of all statistics are worthless.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name.
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
A bad plan is better than no plan.
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A gentleman is a patient wolf.
A good pun is its own reword.
A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl's complexion seem what it ain't.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
A weekend wasted isn't a wasted weekend.
A witty saying proves nothing.
According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
Adult: One old enough to know better.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
Attitude determines your altitude.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
Batteries not included.
Be good - and if you can't be good, be careful.
Be good; if you can't be good, have fun.
Be naughty - save santa the trip.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
Beer - the reason I wake up every afternoon.
Best viewed on my computer.
Better late than really late.
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried.
Biology grows on you.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Carpenter's rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
Clones are people two.
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
Criminal Lawyer - a redundant phrase.
Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
Don't believe everything you think.
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Don't let yesterday take up to much of today.
Don't steal a police car unless you're prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch.
Drive defensively - buy a tank.
Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can't remember.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Earn cash in your spare time. Blackmail your friends.
Earth first! (We'll strip-mine the other planets later).
Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
Elevators smell different to midgets.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
Everyone leaves the world a little better - some by leaving.
Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
Excuse me, is there an airport nearby large enough for a private jet to land?
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
Failure is not an option - it's a lifestyle.
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.
Failure teaches success.
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
For a good time, call (415) 642-9483.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen.
Friendly fire - isn't.
Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Frog blast the vent core!
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in kansas anymore.
Getting screwed while everybody else is getting laid.
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God made us brothers, but prozac made us friends.
God will forgive me. That's his job, after all.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Half the people you know are below average.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
Hey Santa, how much for your list of naughty girls?
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
Hey, you want to go out for pizza and some sex? What, you don't like pizza?
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
I am not single, I'm romantically challenged.
I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
I can't spell and beer doesn't help.
I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
I don't mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is a bitch!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I drink to make other people interesting.
I have a strong will but a weak won't.
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better.
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
I'd buy you a drink, but i'd be jealous of the straw.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.
I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
I'm not paranoid, they really are after me.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far.
If a man tells a woman she's beautiful she'll overlook most of his other lies.
If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them.
If all the girls in Australia were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
If god is inside us, then I hope he likes Fajita's, cause that's what he's getting.
If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work 'gay'?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger.
If oranges smell like chicken, why are tomatoes blue? Think about it!
If the early bird catches the worm, what about the worm?
If the opposite of pro is con, then what must be the opposite of progress?
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If we don't protect freedom of speech, we will never know who the assholes are.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.
If you are not committing any sins, you are probably not having a lot of fun.
If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
If you can see this, you're not blind, which is a very good start.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed towards you.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
If you're happy, you're successful.
If you're not having fun, then you're not doing it right.
Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?
In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove any lingering doubt.
It's like deja vu all over again.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
It's people that give drinking a bad name.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
Learn from my parent's mistake. Don't have kids!
Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.
Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Life exists for no known purpose.
Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain about the draught.
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
Life's a bitch, and then you're reincarnated.
Life's a bleach and then you dye.
Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Love is atemporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Lunix... Because i'm better than you.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
Marriage. An expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
Married men live longer than single men, but they're a lot more willing to die.
Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. 'No' is the answer.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Money should be utilized as a tool. You just gotta know which nuts to screw.
Most people don't act stupid - it's the real thing.
Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.
Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
Never buy a car you can't push.
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
Never eat yellow snow.
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never, ever make absolute, unconditional statements.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No life is totally wasted, one can always be a bad example.
No one dies a virgin, life screws them all.
No-one suspects the butterfly!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Not all men are fools... Some are bachelors.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
Old age is nothing to worry about, except if you're a cheese.
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Optimist: Someone without much experience.
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist!
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Quando omni flunkus moritati - when all else fails, play dead.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
Rehab is for quitters.
Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Save water - take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
Send lawyers, guns and money!
Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
Sex on tv can't hurt unless you fall off.
Sleep: a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Smith & wesson: the original point and click interface.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
Spelling is a lossed art.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost.
Sure, when... - oink flap oink flap - well I'll be darned!
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Take it easy, and if you get it easy take it twice.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
The Killer Ducks are coming!
The Stock Market always does what you think it will, but rarely when.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The best things in life aren't things.
The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
The only certain thing in life is death.
The only job you start at the top is digging a hole.
The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
The problem with the future is it turns into the present.
The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
The revolution will not be televised.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
The web isn't better than sex, but sliced bread is in serious trouble.
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
There are three types of people - those who can count and those who can't.
There are two types of people - those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
There is no time like the pleasant.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
There's too much blood in my alcohol system.
They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
Think much, Speak little, Write less.
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it's dimwit resistant.
This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Today's children would be less spoiled if we could spank grandparents!
Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Too much of everything is just enough.
Tracers work both ways.
Trying is failing with honors.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Veni, vedi, visa. I came. I saw. I did a little shopping.
Viewer discretion may be advised, but it's never really expected.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Wasting time is an important part of living.
We all can't be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
We found Jesus - he was behind the sofa all along.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
Welcome to Hell. Here's your copy of Windows ME.
Welcome what you can't avoid.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
When I was young I was told that anyone could be president. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When all else fails, admit i'm right and kiss my ass.
When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
When in doubt empty the magazine.
When in doubt, do what the President does. Guess.
When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
When someone points skyward, it's the fool that looks at the finger.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. grenade is not our friend.
When vultures fly, are they allowed carrion luggage?
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom?
Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free.
Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
With a rubber duck, you're never alone.
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
You don't have to explain something you never said.
You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
You're just jealous because the little voices only talk to me.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
"I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy.
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye.
"Never waste a lie when the truth will do." - Jack Clancy
"Stupidity, if left untreated, is self-correcting." - Heinlein
43% of all statistics are worthless.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name.
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
A bad plan is better than no plan.
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A gentleman is a patient wolf.
A good pun is its own reword.
A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl's complexion seem what it ain't.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
A weekend wasted isn't a wasted weekend.
A witty saying proves nothing.
According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
Adult: One old enough to know better.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
Attitude determines your altitude.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
Batteries not included.
Be good - and if you can't be good, be careful.
Be good; if you can't be good, have fun.
Be naughty - save santa the trip.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
Beer - the reason I wake up every afternoon.
Best viewed on my computer.
Better late than really late.
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried.
Biology grows on you.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Carpenter's rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
Clones are people two.
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
Criminal Lawyer - a redundant phrase.
Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
Don't believe everything you think.
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Don't let yesterday take up to much of today.
Don't steal a police car unless you're prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch.
Drive defensively - buy a tank.
Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can't remember.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Earn cash in your spare time. Blackmail your friends.
Earth first! (We'll strip-mine the other planets later).
Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
Elevators smell different to midgets.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
Everyone leaves the world a little better - some by leaving.
Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
Excuse me, is there an airport nearby large enough for a private jet to land?
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
Failure is not an option - it's a lifestyle.
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.
Failure teaches success.
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
For a good time, call (415) 642-9483.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen.
Friendly fire - isn't.
Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Frog blast the vent core!
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in kansas anymore.
Getting screwed while everybody else is getting laid.
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God made us brothers, but prozac made us friends.
God will forgive me. That's his job, after all.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Half the people you know are below average.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
Hey Santa, how much for your list of naughty girls?
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
Hey, you want to go out for pizza and some sex? What, you don't like pizza?
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
I am not single, I'm romantically challenged.
I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
I can't spell and beer doesn't help.
I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
I don't mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is a bitch!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I drink to make other people interesting.
I have a strong will but a weak won't.
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better.
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
I'd buy you a drink, but i'd be jealous of the straw.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.
I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
I'm not paranoid, they really are after me.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far.
If a man tells a woman she's beautiful she'll overlook most of his other lies.
If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them.
If all the girls in Australia were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
If god is inside us, then I hope he likes Fajita's, cause that's what he's getting.
If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work 'gay'?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger.
If oranges smell like chicken, why are tomatoes blue? Think about it!
If the early bird catches the worm, what about the worm?
If the opposite of pro is con, then what must be the opposite of progress?
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If we don't protect freedom of speech, we will never know who the assholes are.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.
If you are not committing any sins, you are probably not having a lot of fun.
If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
If you can see this, you're not blind, which is a very good start.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed towards you.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
If you're happy, you're successful.
If you're not having fun, then you're not doing it right.
Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?
In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove any lingering doubt.
It's like deja vu all over again.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
It's people that give drinking a bad name.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
Learn from my parent's mistake. Don't have kids!
Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.
Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Life exists for no known purpose.
Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain about the draught.
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
Life's a bitch, and then you're reincarnated.
Life's a bleach and then you dye.
Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Love is atemporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Lunix... Because i'm better than you.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
Marriage. An expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
Married men live longer than single men, but they're a lot more willing to die.
Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. 'No' is the answer.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Money should be utilized as a tool. You just gotta know which nuts to screw.
Most people don't act stupid - it's the real thing.
Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.
Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
Never buy a car you can't push.
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
Never eat yellow snow.
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never, ever make absolute, unconditional statements.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No life is totally wasted, one can always be a bad example.
No one dies a virgin, life screws them all.
No-one suspects the butterfly!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Not all men are fools... Some are bachelors.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
Old age is nothing to worry about, except if you're a cheese.
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Optimist: Someone without much experience.
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist!
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Quando omni flunkus moritati - when all else fails, play dead.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
Rehab is for quitters.
Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Save water - take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
Send lawyers, guns and money!
Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
Sex on tv can't hurt unless you fall off.
Sleep: a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Smith & wesson: the original point and click interface.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
Spelling is a lossed art.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost.
Sure, when... - oink flap oink flap - well I'll be darned!
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Take it easy, and if you get it easy take it twice.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
The Killer Ducks are coming!
The Stock Market always does what you think it will, but rarely when.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The best things in life aren't things.
The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
The only certain thing in life is death.
The only job you start at the top is digging a hole.
The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
The problem with the future is it turns into the present.
The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
The revolution will not be televised.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
The web isn't better than sex, but sliced bread is in serious trouble.
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
There are three types of people - those who can count and those who can't.
There are two types of people - those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
There is no time like the pleasant.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
There's too much blood in my alcohol system.
They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
Think much, Speak little, Write less.
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it's dimwit resistant.
This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Today's children would be less spoiled if we could spank grandparents!
Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Too much of everything is just enough.
Tracers work both ways.
Trying is failing with honors.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Veni, vedi, visa. I came. I saw. I did a little shopping.
Viewer discretion may be advised, but it's never really expected.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Wasting time is an important part of living.
We all can't be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
We found Jesus - he was behind the sofa all along.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
Welcome to Hell. Here's your copy of Windows ME.
Welcome what you can't avoid.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
When I was young I was told that anyone could be president. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When all else fails, admit i'm right and kiss my ass.
When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
When in doubt empty the magazine.
When in doubt, do what the President does. Guess.
When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
When someone points skyward, it's the fool that looks at the finger.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. grenade is not our friend.
When vultures fly, are they allowed carrion luggage?
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom?
Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free.
Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
With a rubber duck, you're never alone.
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
You don't have to explain something you never said.
You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
You're just jealous because the little voices only talk to me.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Monday, May 07, 2007
Natural leader skills
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wow I am natural leader.
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wow I am natural leader.
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Interesting!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Help Yourself
1. Begin writing a list of issues you think might be affecting you in the area of your life that is experiencing some trouble.
2. Consider your scores on the core issues discussed in the "Issues impacting your subconscious" section. Did you score high on any that are affecting the challenging area of your life?
3. Choose one issue to focus on.
4. Bring the issue into your conscious mind in a variety of ways. Leave a note on your bathroom mirror to remind yourself; meditate on where the issue came from and how it impacts your life; talk about it with a friend or partner.
5. In a month or two, ask yourself how/if this issue is still impacting your life in that one area, and then consider whether it's been resolved in all areas of your life. If it still seems like the issue is affecting your well-being, you may want to enlist the help of a therapist. Once everything has shifted for the better, you may want to use the same techniques on other issues.
Finances
Health
Work
Sex
Love
Family
Personal growth
Frndship
2. Consider your scores on the core issues discussed in the "Issues impacting your subconscious" section. Did you score high on any that are affecting the challenging area of your life?
3. Choose one issue to focus on.
4. Bring the issue into your conscious mind in a variety of ways. Leave a note on your bathroom mirror to remind yourself; meditate on where the issue came from and how it impacts your life; talk about it with a friend or partner.
5. In a month or two, ask yourself how/if this issue is still impacting your life in that one area, and then consider whether it's been resolved in all areas of your life. If it still seems like the issue is affecting your well-being, you may want to enlist the help of a therapist. Once everything has shifted for the better, you may want to use the same techniques on other issues.
Finances
Health
Work
Sex
Love
Family
Personal growth
Frndship
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Scientists Demonstrate Best Way To Use Caffeine
Here is some useful news you can use. Morning "big gulp" coffee drinkers are misusing the power of caffeine. Researchers at the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago along with colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have shown that caffeine is best admnistered in a larger number of smaller doses with the doses coming later in the day.
Chicago - People who take small amounts of caffeine regularly during the day may be able to avoid falling asleep and perform well on cognitive tests without affecting their nighttime sleep habits.
Researchers from Rush University Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have discovered that caffeine works by thwarting one of two interacting physiological systems that govern the human sleep-wake cycle. The researchers, who report their findings in the May issue of the journal SLEEP, propose a novel regimen, consisting of frequent low doses of caffeine, to help shift workers, medical residents, truck drivers, and others who need to stay awake get a bigger boost from their tea or coffee.
"I hate to say it, but most of the population is using caffeine the wrong way by drinking a few mugs of coffee or tea in the morning, or three cups from their Starbuck’s grande on the way to work. This means that caffeine levels in the brain will be falling as the day goes on. Unfortunately, the physiological process they need to counteract is not a major player until the latter half of the day," said James Wyatt, PhD, sleep researcher at Rush University Medical Center and lead author on the study.
Though many studies have measured caffeine’s sleep-averting effects, most do not take into account that sleep is governed by two opposing but interacting processes. The circadian system promotes sleep rhythmically—an internal clock releases melatonin and other hormones in a cyclical fashion. In contrast, the homeostatic system drives sleep appetitively—it builds the longer one is awake. If the two drives worked together, the drive for sleep would be overwhelming. As it turns out, they oppose one another.
Caffeine is thought to block the receptor for adenosine, a critical chemical messenger involved in the homeostatic drive for sleep. If that were true, then caffeine would be most effective if it were administered in parallel with growing pressure from the sleep homeostatic system, and also with accumulating adenosine.
To test their hypothesis, the scientists studied 16 male subjects in private suites, free of time cues, for 29 days. Instead of keeping to a 24-hour day, researchers scheduled the subjects to live on a 42.85–hour day (28.57-hour wake episodes), simulating the duration of extended wakefulness commonly encountered by doctors, and military and emergency services personnel. The extended day was also designed to disrupt the subjects’ circadian system while maximizing the effects of the homeostatic push for sleep.
Following a randomized, double-blind protocol, subjects received either one caffeine pill, containing 0.3 mg per kilogram of body weight, roughly the equivalent of two ounces of coffee, or an identical-looking placebo. They took the pills upon waking and then once every hour. The goal of the steady dosing was to progressively build up caffeine levels in a way that would coincide with—and ultimately, counteract—the progressive push of the homeostatic system, which grows stronger the longer a subject stays awake.
The strategy worked. Subjects who took the low-dose caffeine performed better on cognitive tests. They also exhibited fewer accidental sleep onsets, or microsleeps. EEG tests showed that placebo subjects were unintentionally asleep 1.57 percent of the time during the scheduled wake episodes, compared with 0.32 percent for those receiving caffeine. Despite their enhanced wakefulness, the caffeine-taking subjects reported feeling sleepier than their placebo counterparts, suggesting that the wake-promoting effects of caffeine do not replace the restorative effects gained through sleep.
Coffee, tea, and other caffeine-containing beverages are tools. Don't drink more than you need to and slow the rate of your drinking to spread it out. Keep in mind that once you reach the point where you don't need to maintain a high feeling of wakefulness that you should immediately stop drinking it. If you need something more powerful then consider Provigil (modafinil). My strongly felt advice is to stay away from methamphetamine or other amphetamines because they cause brain damage. I don't have any specific knowledge about toxic effects of caffeine or modafinil on neurons. But sleep deprivation is definitely harmful. A life lived with a constant need for anti-sleep stmulants is a life that is in need of some serious restructuring to allow for more sleep time.
Details from FuturePUndit
Chicago - People who take small amounts of caffeine regularly during the day may be able to avoid falling asleep and perform well on cognitive tests without affecting their nighttime sleep habits.
Researchers from Rush University Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have discovered that caffeine works by thwarting one of two interacting physiological systems that govern the human sleep-wake cycle. The researchers, who report their findings in the May issue of the journal SLEEP, propose a novel regimen, consisting of frequent low doses of caffeine, to help shift workers, medical residents, truck drivers, and others who need to stay awake get a bigger boost from their tea or coffee.
"I hate to say it, but most of the population is using caffeine the wrong way by drinking a few mugs of coffee or tea in the morning, or three cups from their Starbuck’s grande on the way to work. This means that caffeine levels in the brain will be falling as the day goes on. Unfortunately, the physiological process they need to counteract is not a major player until the latter half of the day," said James Wyatt, PhD, sleep researcher at Rush University Medical Center and lead author on the study.
Though many studies have measured caffeine’s sleep-averting effects, most do not take into account that sleep is governed by two opposing but interacting processes. The circadian system promotes sleep rhythmically—an internal clock releases melatonin and other hormones in a cyclical fashion. In contrast, the homeostatic system drives sleep appetitively—it builds the longer one is awake. If the two drives worked together, the drive for sleep would be overwhelming. As it turns out, they oppose one another.
Caffeine is thought to block the receptor for adenosine, a critical chemical messenger involved in the homeostatic drive for sleep. If that were true, then caffeine would be most effective if it were administered in parallel with growing pressure from the sleep homeostatic system, and also with accumulating adenosine.
To test their hypothesis, the scientists studied 16 male subjects in private suites, free of time cues, for 29 days. Instead of keeping to a 24-hour day, researchers scheduled the subjects to live on a 42.85–hour day (28.57-hour wake episodes), simulating the duration of extended wakefulness commonly encountered by doctors, and military and emergency services personnel. The extended day was also designed to disrupt the subjects’ circadian system while maximizing the effects of the homeostatic push for sleep.
Following a randomized, double-blind protocol, subjects received either one caffeine pill, containing 0.3 mg per kilogram of body weight, roughly the equivalent of two ounces of coffee, or an identical-looking placebo. They took the pills upon waking and then once every hour. The goal of the steady dosing was to progressively build up caffeine levels in a way that would coincide with—and ultimately, counteract—the progressive push of the homeostatic system, which grows stronger the longer a subject stays awake.
The strategy worked. Subjects who took the low-dose caffeine performed better on cognitive tests. They also exhibited fewer accidental sleep onsets, or microsleeps. EEG tests showed that placebo subjects were unintentionally asleep 1.57 percent of the time during the scheduled wake episodes, compared with 0.32 percent for those receiving caffeine. Despite their enhanced wakefulness, the caffeine-taking subjects reported feeling sleepier than their placebo counterparts, suggesting that the wake-promoting effects of caffeine do not replace the restorative effects gained through sleep.
Coffee, tea, and other caffeine-containing beverages are tools. Don't drink more than you need to and slow the rate of your drinking to spread it out. Keep in mind that once you reach the point where you don't need to maintain a high feeling of wakefulness that you should immediately stop drinking it. If you need something more powerful then consider Provigil (modafinil). My strongly felt advice is to stay away from methamphetamine or other amphetamines because they cause brain damage. I don't have any specific knowledge about toxic effects of caffeine or modafinil on neurons. But sleep deprivation is definitely harmful. A life lived with a constant need for anti-sleep stmulants is a life that is in need of some serious restructuring to allow for more sleep time.
Details from FuturePUndit
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
Test talk
Cody, you're a Soother!
You're a Soother. When trouble strikes, you somehow seem to avoid being hit. Those around you may encounter crises, of course — which is when you launch into action. You're best at helping others ease their stress, offering a kind word or a well-timed "everything's going to be okay." You're a walking affirmation!
Of course, wearing a smile all the time can be exhausting. We're all only human, and stress happens to the best of us — including you. When you find yourself under stress, you may have to fight the tendency to shut off the phone, crawl under the blankets, and hide from the world. But it's worth it to show your true feelings, even when they're less than upbeat. Let the people you've nurtured in the past help you out in your time of need. You deserve the attention. And tomorrow is another day! So take it easy.
You worry most about Finances
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Cody, your career personality type is ESTJ
That means that based on the standard measure of personality traits, you have a quiet determination and sharp mind — you're very focused and buckle down when it comes to work. You are the type of person one looks to in a crisis. While others may provide emotional support in a situation, your clear and logical thinking allows you to solve the problem at hand.
You may be firm, but your actions are generally fair. You believe in putting in the work and don't expect favors to get ahead. Additionally, you want objective feedback to determine your success. You are a careful thinker and get all the details before making any decisions. You don't jump to conclusions and stick with the facts provided. In other words, you're the go-to person for the real story, not the spin or gossip. While others may sometimes see you as stubborn, they begrudgingly respect your ethics and straightforward approach.
The reason employers and recruiters might be on the lookout for you is that only about 12% of the U.S. population shares the unique characteristics of your personality type. Research shows that businesses succeed when employers create a good balance of personality types in the office. And since only 12% of the U.S. population shares your type, that means employers are looking for you.
But, to truly show employers what you have to offer, you need to understand a little more about traits that make up your type.
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Cody, your confidence level is high
As a result, you may tend view yourself as a wonderful, lucky, or energized person. However you probably also have your days when you don't feel so hot. After all, you're only human. Because of your usual high level of self-acceptance and belief in yourself, you're generally open and accepting of others. People who come in contact with you likely appreciate this generous nature and may seek out your company.
Your intelligence seems to be the trait that you most value in yourself of the five main traits that affect confidence. You also seem to appreciate this characteristic in others.
Want to find out how you scored on the other four traits crucial to confidence?
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***You Are Bart Simpson***
Very misunderstood, most people just dismiss you as "trouble."
Little do they know that you're wise and well accomplished beyond your years.
You will be remembered for: starring in your own TV show and saving the town from a comet
Your life philosophy: "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!"
Cody, your connection type is The Networker
There's no doubt about it: You like to be in the know, and you spend a lot of time checking in with friends and family to find out what they're up to. You're a networker in the most natural sense and probably are better at keeping other people in touch than they are. What is it about you? Your easy-going style, your sincere desire to hook up the people you like in your life? You're just someone who doesn't take relationships for granted. You're probably still in touch with the kids you met at camp years ago — and you plan on keeping the friends you have now forever.
You love hooking your friends up with one another, and your friends might tease you about your obsession with matchmaking — but they know when they need a place to crash in Chicago, or a lead on a cool new job for the summer, that you're the person who can really connect them with a place to stay, some free concert tix, a new friend, a new job...
Cody, you're driven by what's hot now
Talk about in the know. You're on top of the current trends, even if the current trends are throwbacks to days past. You know the latest lingo and can probably rattle off a list of movies that are currently showing in the theaters, as well as the latest "it" place to grab a bite after the show. Chances are, you pay attention to the news and current events, too. Basically, you're on top of your game. You can change with the times and are on to the next best thing before others even know what hit them.
So what's the perfect car companion, the vehicle to fit your hot lifestyle? Maybe it's the new Beetle or the Mini Cooper. Or maybe your interested eyes should be falling on the new breed of transforming trucks like the Chevy Avalanche. You could be riding with a new style before you know it!
You're a Soother. When trouble strikes, you somehow seem to avoid being hit. Those around you may encounter crises, of course — which is when you launch into action. You're best at helping others ease their stress, offering a kind word or a well-timed "everything's going to be okay." You're a walking affirmation!
Of course, wearing a smile all the time can be exhausting. We're all only human, and stress happens to the best of us — including you. When you find yourself under stress, you may have to fight the tendency to shut off the phone, crawl under the blankets, and hide from the world. But it's worth it to show your true feelings, even when they're less than upbeat. Let the people you've nurtured in the past help you out in your time of need. You deserve the attention. And tomorrow is another day! So take it easy.
You worry most about Finances
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Cody, your career personality type is ESTJ
That means that based on the standard measure of personality traits, you have a quiet determination and sharp mind — you're very focused and buckle down when it comes to work. You are the type of person one looks to in a crisis. While others may provide emotional support in a situation, your clear and logical thinking allows you to solve the problem at hand.
You may be firm, but your actions are generally fair. You believe in putting in the work and don't expect favors to get ahead. Additionally, you want objective feedback to determine your success. You are a careful thinker and get all the details before making any decisions. You don't jump to conclusions and stick with the facts provided. In other words, you're the go-to person for the real story, not the spin or gossip. While others may sometimes see you as stubborn, they begrudgingly respect your ethics and straightforward approach.
The reason employers and recruiters might be on the lookout for you is that only about 12% of the U.S. population shares the unique characteristics of your personality type. Research shows that businesses succeed when employers create a good balance of personality types in the office. And since only 12% of the U.S. population shares your type, that means employers are looking for you.
But, to truly show employers what you have to offer, you need to understand a little more about traits that make up your type.
http://web.tickle.com/tests/classiccareer/paidresult.jsp?test=classiccareerogt
Cody, your confidence level is high
As a result, you may tend view yourself as a wonderful, lucky, or energized person. However you probably also have your days when you don't feel so hot. After all, you're only human. Because of your usual high level of self-acceptance and belief in yourself, you're generally open and accepting of others. People who come in contact with you likely appreciate this generous nature and may seek out your company.
Your intelligence seems to be the trait that you most value in yourself of the five main traits that affect confidence. You also seem to appreciate this characteristic in others.
Want to find out how you scored on the other four traits crucial to confidence?
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***You Are Bart Simpson***
Very misunderstood, most people just dismiss you as "trouble."
Little do they know that you're wise and well accomplished beyond your years.
You will be remembered for: starring in your own TV show and saving the town from a comet
Your life philosophy: "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!"
Cody, your connection type is The Networker
There's no doubt about it: You like to be in the know, and you spend a lot of time checking in with friends and family to find out what they're up to. You're a networker in the most natural sense and probably are better at keeping other people in touch than they are. What is it about you? Your easy-going style, your sincere desire to hook up the people you like in your life? You're just someone who doesn't take relationships for granted. You're probably still in touch with the kids you met at camp years ago — and you plan on keeping the friends you have now forever.
You love hooking your friends up with one another, and your friends might tease you about your obsession with matchmaking — but they know when they need a place to crash in Chicago, or a lead on a cool new job for the summer, that you're the person who can really connect them with a place to stay, some free concert tix, a new friend, a new job...
Cody, you're driven by what's hot now
Talk about in the know. You're on top of the current trends, even if the current trends are throwbacks to days past. You know the latest lingo and can probably rattle off a list of movies that are currently showing in the theaters, as well as the latest "it" place to grab a bite after the show. Chances are, you pay attention to the news and current events, too. Basically, you're on top of your game. You can change with the times and are on to the next best thing before others even know what hit them.
So what's the perfect car companion, the vehicle to fit your hot lifestyle? Maybe it's the new Beetle or the Mini Cooper. Or maybe your interested eyes should be falling on the new breed of transforming trucks like the Chevy Avalanche. You could be riding with a new style before you know it!
Sunday, March 04, 2007
The secrets of buying
I’ve long considered myself a fantastic buyer. Notice I don’t say shopper - that alludes to a hobby or form of entertainment. To me, buying is serious business.
Even before I had any serious degree of financial success, many people assumed I was rich because of my material posessions. I guess most people could pull that off by maxing credit cards, but I was actually socking money away for later.
How do I do it? Read on…
The most important thing to remember is value. Sounds obvious, but nearly everyone ignores value on a daily basis. Value means that you’re getting the most for your money - not that you’re saving the most money necessarily. A Rolex at $1000 might be an incredible value, but a Timex could be a rip off at $150.
Ok, ok… you’re not an idiot. I get it. Moving on… I find that in general the best values can be found at the end of the spectrums. A $20 bicycle is probably a good value even if it sucks because at the improvement over not having a bicycle is huge. For example, I needed to hang some speakers a few hours ago. I went to Wal Mart and bought speaker mounts for $9 each. That’s dirt cheap. They’re not fancy, and they’re kind of annoying to set up, but it’s WAY better than not having speaker mounts.
At the other end of the spectrum is the super high quality. In many cases the MOST expensive item isn’t the highest quality, but the next cheapest or third cheapest is. In this range, there is so much attention to detail that you are likely buying something that is genuinely valuable. It has higher quality materials, more features, and better worksmanship. There is always a demand for these items, so they retain their value.
In the middle, is a lot of garbage. Usually a few steps up from the cheapest you’ll find something 10% better for twice the price. The reason is that they have a large marketing budget and they have to pass that cost on to you. Higher than that are the items that are posing as top tier items - they have the flash, but not that quality. Resale on these is usually awful, leaving them with poor value.
So, rule #1 - Always buy the Best or the Cheapest. I follow this rule religiously. Basically everything I own is either bought at Wal Mart or has been researched and ordered online.
Next, it’s extremely important to determine what is the best. It’s very common for companies to try to trick consumers by outpricing the actual best in class, or spend more money marketing. If you have two products, equal in price and one is marketed much more aggressively, it’s usually worse. Why? That marketing money has to come from somewhere.
For example, take Bose speakers. To people in the know, it’s common knowledge that they are not very high quality. No true audiophile would be caught dead with them in his home theater. However, most people perceive Bose as being the best because of their aggressive marketing. Have you ever heard of Outlaw audio? Probably not, but they are incredibly high quality products priced much cheaper than Bose. They do almost no advertising.
Another good example is high end blenders. There are really only two companies that produce them - BlendTec (also known as K-Tec) and Vitamix. Many people have heard of Vitamix, but few people know about BlendTec. Both are priced at the same level. For the most part, they are the same - they’re both very powerful and have the same high quality type of assembly. The difference is that the BlendTec is 3 horespower versus the Vitamix’s 2 horsepower, and the BlendTec has more advanced programming (although I think Vitamix may have caught up on that by now). Which would you rather have?
The best way to find out the best product in a category is by searching on the internet - specifically in forums. People in forums are totally crazy, and in many cases spend their entire lives researching to find out what the best of something is. Let them do the work for you.
Sometimes you’ll be surprised - the one you think is the best may actually be the best. For example, Rolexes really are superior watches. Before I lost it, I had one and I would take it to black tie events (if I went to any), as well as scuba diving and sky diving. Cartier, Tag Heuer, and many other competitors are more expensive or equally expensive, and are far inferior. However, if you did your research you’d also find out that Omega watches are on par with Rolex and come in styles that may be appealing to you.
Thus, rule #2 is Know what the Best is. I’m always interested in knowing what the best is, even if I’m not interested in that particular item.
How do you decide whether to buy the cheapest or the best? The goal is always to end up with the best - if you care. If you don’t care, then just buy the cheapest and save your money for the best of some other item. For instance, I don’t really care about vacuum cleaners, so I bought the cheapest bagless one. I’d like a Dyson or Kirby, but it’s not important enough for me to spend the extra several hundred dollars.
Sometimes you can’t afford the best, in which case you buy the cheapest to tide you over until you can. That way when you can upgrade, you don’t mind getting rid of the cheap one. If you spend more money you might be tempted to not upgrade.
Of course you also want to make sure that you’re getting the best price possible. Except on the cheap items, this will almost always be online. The best sites to look for deals are Fatwallet Forums and Ben’s Bargains. I probably get 50% of my purchases from there.
Always check ebay for a reference price. Make sure you pay attention to what things are actually being sold for. A completed auction for $300 means a lot more than an auction at $400 with no bidders. If this price is cheaper than you can find on Fatwallet or Ben’s Bargains, just buy there. If not, you know that you can always resell on ebay later if you change your mind about the product. A lot of people have the misconception that ebay is sketchy or that you are getting used or damaged products. The truth is that ebay is now, more than anything, an easy way for small businesses to make sales. 90% of what you buy will be brand new, and if it’s not, it will be labeled as such.
I also check Craigslist as well as Froogle. Froogle is Google’s price search engine. It takes a little getting used to, but you can find some great deals. For example, last night I wanted to buy a food dehydrator (the best one, the Excalibur 2900). Ebay showed me a price of around $210+ shipping. Other stores sold it at $210. I dug through Froogle a bit and found it for $185.
Rule #3 - Always pay the best price. Groundbreaking, right?
Actually, I then used one of my advanced tips to get the dehydrator even cheaper… but (you guessed it) those will come next time. For now I have to take a nap early so that I can go to a tea party. Also, I’m straight. Honest.
-Tynan
Even before I had any serious degree of financial success, many people assumed I was rich because of my material posessions. I guess most people could pull that off by maxing credit cards, but I was actually socking money away for later.
How do I do it? Read on…
The most important thing to remember is value. Sounds obvious, but nearly everyone ignores value on a daily basis. Value means that you’re getting the most for your money - not that you’re saving the most money necessarily. A Rolex at $1000 might be an incredible value, but a Timex could be a rip off at $150.
Ok, ok… you’re not an idiot. I get it. Moving on… I find that in general the best values can be found at the end of the spectrums. A $20 bicycle is probably a good value even if it sucks because at the improvement over not having a bicycle is huge. For example, I needed to hang some speakers a few hours ago. I went to Wal Mart and bought speaker mounts for $9 each. That’s dirt cheap. They’re not fancy, and they’re kind of annoying to set up, but it’s WAY better than not having speaker mounts.
At the other end of the spectrum is the super high quality. In many cases the MOST expensive item isn’t the highest quality, but the next cheapest or third cheapest is. In this range, there is so much attention to detail that you are likely buying something that is genuinely valuable. It has higher quality materials, more features, and better worksmanship. There is always a demand for these items, so they retain their value.
In the middle, is a lot of garbage. Usually a few steps up from the cheapest you’ll find something 10% better for twice the price. The reason is that they have a large marketing budget and they have to pass that cost on to you. Higher than that are the items that are posing as top tier items - they have the flash, but not that quality. Resale on these is usually awful, leaving them with poor value.
So, rule #1 - Always buy the Best or the Cheapest. I follow this rule religiously. Basically everything I own is either bought at Wal Mart or has been researched and ordered online.
Next, it’s extremely important to determine what is the best. It’s very common for companies to try to trick consumers by outpricing the actual best in class, or spend more money marketing. If you have two products, equal in price and one is marketed much more aggressively, it’s usually worse. Why? That marketing money has to come from somewhere.
For example, take Bose speakers. To people in the know, it’s common knowledge that they are not very high quality. No true audiophile would be caught dead with them in his home theater. However, most people perceive Bose as being the best because of their aggressive marketing. Have you ever heard of Outlaw audio? Probably not, but they are incredibly high quality products priced much cheaper than Bose. They do almost no advertising.
Another good example is high end blenders. There are really only two companies that produce them - BlendTec (also known as K-Tec) and Vitamix. Many people have heard of Vitamix, but few people know about BlendTec. Both are priced at the same level. For the most part, they are the same - they’re both very powerful and have the same high quality type of assembly. The difference is that the BlendTec is 3 horespower versus the Vitamix’s 2 horsepower, and the BlendTec has more advanced programming (although I think Vitamix may have caught up on that by now). Which would you rather have?
The best way to find out the best product in a category is by searching on the internet - specifically in forums. People in forums are totally crazy, and in many cases spend their entire lives researching to find out what the best of something is. Let them do the work for you.
Sometimes you’ll be surprised - the one you think is the best may actually be the best. For example, Rolexes really are superior watches. Before I lost it, I had one and I would take it to black tie events (if I went to any), as well as scuba diving and sky diving. Cartier, Tag Heuer, and many other competitors are more expensive or equally expensive, and are far inferior. However, if you did your research you’d also find out that Omega watches are on par with Rolex and come in styles that may be appealing to you.
Thus, rule #2 is Know what the Best is. I’m always interested in knowing what the best is, even if I’m not interested in that particular item.
How do you decide whether to buy the cheapest or the best? The goal is always to end up with the best - if you care. If you don’t care, then just buy the cheapest and save your money for the best of some other item. For instance, I don’t really care about vacuum cleaners, so I bought the cheapest bagless one. I’d like a Dyson or Kirby, but it’s not important enough for me to spend the extra several hundred dollars.
Sometimes you can’t afford the best, in which case you buy the cheapest to tide you over until you can. That way when you can upgrade, you don’t mind getting rid of the cheap one. If you spend more money you might be tempted to not upgrade.
Of course you also want to make sure that you’re getting the best price possible. Except on the cheap items, this will almost always be online. The best sites to look for deals are Fatwallet Forums and Ben’s Bargains. I probably get 50% of my purchases from there.
Always check ebay for a reference price. Make sure you pay attention to what things are actually being sold for. A completed auction for $300 means a lot more than an auction at $400 with no bidders. If this price is cheaper than you can find on Fatwallet or Ben’s Bargains, just buy there. If not, you know that you can always resell on ebay later if you change your mind about the product. A lot of people have the misconception that ebay is sketchy or that you are getting used or damaged products. The truth is that ebay is now, more than anything, an easy way for small businesses to make sales. 90% of what you buy will be brand new, and if it’s not, it will be labeled as such.
I also check Craigslist as well as Froogle. Froogle is Google’s price search engine. It takes a little getting used to, but you can find some great deals. For example, last night I wanted to buy a food dehydrator (the best one, the Excalibur 2900). Ebay showed me a price of around $210+ shipping. Other stores sold it at $210. I dug through Froogle a bit and found it for $185.
Rule #3 - Always pay the best price. Groundbreaking, right?
Actually, I then used one of my advanced tips to get the dehydrator even cheaper… but (you guessed it) those will come next time. For now I have to take a nap early so that I can go to a tea party. Also, I’m straight. Honest.
-Tynan
How to make it to top
1. Identify the leaders
2. a. Shake things up ( do something unrealistic)
b. Take power
3. Cement your role.
2. a. Shake things up ( do something unrealistic)
b. Take power
3. Cement your role.
Value, Price, and Cost
The concept of Value vs. Price is one that I am inexplicably fascinated by. Maybe it’s the fact that most people ignore it entirely, or maybe it’s because following its principles virtually guarantees success in any area.
Most people do not understand the difference between value and price or, at the very least, greatly underestimate it.
So, what is the difference between value and price? Value is the benefit derived from an action, and price is the benefit lost by performing an action. What makes this such a profound concept is that every action has a value and a cost associated with it, and it is usually fairly easy to measure. Our unconscious minds are constantly evaluating the price and value of every possible choice, which ends up governing many of our actions.
Example #1 - Wealth
Take the purchase of a computer as an example. If you buy a computer for $1000, the price is simply $1000. But what’s the value? Let’s assume that you’re a writer, and you are replacing an old computer which has suddenly broken. You have a book due the next day, and will be penalized by $10,000 if you do not turn it in on that day (yes, I know this isn’t a realistic penalty). In this case, the value is about $10,000.
For me to buy that computer, however, the value is far less. I have several computers. I don’t use the computer that much anymore. The value isn’t $0, because I could potentially sell the computer (probably for less than $1000), with an additional price of my time. So the value may be $700 to me.
In this example, the decision of whether or not to buy a computer is obvious for both me and the writer. The writer should buy it, and I should not. The cost of an item is the net effect it has on us, after considering the price and value. For the writer the cost of the computer is -$9000, meaning that he is essentially gaining $9000 by completing the transaction. To me the cost is $300, meaning I am losing $300 by buying the computer.
An interesting phenomenon to note is that sales often don’t REALLY affect the cost of an item. For example, if there was a $200 off coupon for that computer, it wouldn’t change my decision to buy the computer or not. It obviously wouldn’t affect the writer either. The only possible effect it would have is to make us more likely to purchase that product AT THAT STORE, rather than at all. I see many people (I used to be very guilty of this) buying things with low price, but significant cost. Doing this is a sure path to financial scarcity.
Of course, price isn’t simply the number on the pricetag. What if the computer was for sale at $800 100 miles away, and $1000 2 miles away? A round trip drive to get the cheaper computer would take me 4 hours rather than a couple minutes. If four hours of my time (plus wear and tear on the car and gas) is worth less than the $200 difference in price, the writer should drive and get that cheaper computer.
This seems like a simple concept, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people (myself included) spend hours searching for a lower price on something which only ends up saving $20 or so. Often times dealhunting isn’t worth the cost.
Example #2 - Relationships
More interesting is this concept applied to non financial matters, because most people don’t even begin to consider it. Let’s take, for example, the choice of going out to clubsor staying in.
If I go out to a club, the intention is to meet women. I don’t drink, I don’t dance, and I don’t particularly relish the club atmosphere. Sometimes I’ll go downtown to hang out with friends, but that’s a different decision.
In any given night I might talk to 9 different women. Three groups of three. For me to be significantly interested in a girl, it takes time for me to get to know her (mainly because I’m picky and have a list of things which will disqualify her). I would estimate that I am seriously interested in one out of three hundred girls that I meet downtown.
If I’m interested in a girl and have a good opportunity to get to know her, I believe that she will be attracted to me almost 100% of the time. However, I’d say that getting a good opportunity to get to know a girl only happens around 40% of the time. The club atmosphere makes it difficult to get a good opportunity, but it is possible to increase that percentage to 100% with skill. In LA it was probably more like 70-80% for me when I was well practiced.
So let’s boil these numbers down. If I’m only able to attract 40% of the 300 girls necessary to find one I’m interested in, that’s 750 girls I must meet before finding one who I will be compatible with and will develop a relationship of sorts with. If I am meeting 9 girls per night, that means that it will take 84 nights out to “meet someone”.
On an average night, including driving and getting ready, I probably spend 5 hours to meet those 9 girls. That means that the price of meeting a girl is 420 hours of my time. That’s significant.
Of course, I do have fun when I go out and meet all those people. Some might become friends. I’m also going out with my friends and we joke around and have a good time. However, I would probably be doing something fun if I wasn’t going out as well, so those two effects can cancel each other.
What’s the value of beginning a relationship with a girl? It’s tough to say. If I had no other means of meeting a girl, I would probably go out religiously. The cost of NEVER having a girl is monumental, so I would be willing to spend the 420 hours of my time to meet that girl.
The reality, however, is that I do meet girls in other situations. Whole foods, friends of friends, and even through my blog. This is why I rarely go out anymore - the price I pay is simply not worth the value I receive.
Example #3 - Health
One last example is eating healthy. Eating raw food is expensive. I went to the grocery store last night and spent $150 buying 4-5 days worth of food. That’s probably about $7000 more per year than regular food would cost me. It’s also a pain. I can’t eat anything more than a plain salad at most restaurants. Some of the foods aren’t as tasty as conventional foods. That represents a significant price to pay for eating raw food.
What is the value of eating raw? For one, longevity. I believe that I will not only live for 10-20 years longer than the average person, but will be active and healthy for at least 10-20 additional years. I also need less sleep (to be determined by my break from Polyphasic sleep), which gives me more usable time. Let’s say that I go from 8 hours to 5.5 hours, which I feel is conservative. That’s 912.5 hours per year, or around 50 extra days. I also feel a lot better on a daily basis and look better thanks to lower bodyfat percentages and better skin.
For the sake of convenience (and because we don’t have years to make every decision), let’s cancel a few things out. Let’s say that the value of feeling and looking better is roughly equal to the cost of not being able to eat out, and not being able to eat tasty things like egg rolls.
The average lifespan is 75 in America, so let’s assume I will live to 90. I believe that’s very conservative. Since I am about 25 now, that means that I will be alive for another 65 years. At 50 extra days per year thanks to decreased sleep, that gives me an extra 3250 days of life, or almost 9 years.
The additional $7000 price of eating raw multiplied by my remaining 65 calendar years adds up to $455,000. That’s not insignificant.
So, when it all boils down to it, I am paying $455,000 for an extra 24 years of life, or $19,000 per year. To me that’s obviously worth it. To others it’s not. How about you?
Living Your Life
Living your life by the concept of Value vs. Price is essential. By constantly increasing the value of your habits, relationships, and posessions, you are constantly moving forward, and increasing your pool from which you are able to pay the price of new value. For example, with all my extra time, I can SPEND more time to gain more value.
Being a lawyer, to me anyway, would be the opposite. The value I would receive would be high (a high salary, power, prestige, etc.), but the price would be far too dear. Giving up my waking life for the majority of my productive years is not worth $100k, $200k, or even $1mil per year.
-Tynan
Most people do not understand the difference between value and price or, at the very least, greatly underestimate it.
So, what is the difference between value and price? Value is the benefit derived from an action, and price is the benefit lost by performing an action. What makes this such a profound concept is that every action has a value and a cost associated with it, and it is usually fairly easy to measure. Our unconscious minds are constantly evaluating the price and value of every possible choice, which ends up governing many of our actions.
Example #1 - Wealth
Take the purchase of a computer as an example. If you buy a computer for $1000, the price is simply $1000. But what’s the value? Let’s assume that you’re a writer, and you are replacing an old computer which has suddenly broken. You have a book due the next day, and will be penalized by $10,000 if you do not turn it in on that day (yes, I know this isn’t a realistic penalty). In this case, the value is about $10,000.
For me to buy that computer, however, the value is far less. I have several computers. I don’t use the computer that much anymore. The value isn’t $0, because I could potentially sell the computer (probably for less than $1000), with an additional price of my time. So the value may be $700 to me.
In this example, the decision of whether or not to buy a computer is obvious for both me and the writer. The writer should buy it, and I should not. The cost of an item is the net effect it has on us, after considering the price and value. For the writer the cost of the computer is -$9000, meaning that he is essentially gaining $9000 by completing the transaction. To me the cost is $300, meaning I am losing $300 by buying the computer.
An interesting phenomenon to note is that sales often don’t REALLY affect the cost of an item. For example, if there was a $200 off coupon for that computer, it wouldn’t change my decision to buy the computer or not. It obviously wouldn’t affect the writer either. The only possible effect it would have is to make us more likely to purchase that product AT THAT STORE, rather than at all. I see many people (I used to be very guilty of this) buying things with low price, but significant cost. Doing this is a sure path to financial scarcity.
Of course, price isn’t simply the number on the pricetag. What if the computer was for sale at $800 100 miles away, and $1000 2 miles away? A round trip drive to get the cheaper computer would take me 4 hours rather than a couple minutes. If four hours of my time (plus wear and tear on the car and gas) is worth less than the $200 difference in price, the writer should drive and get that cheaper computer.
This seems like a simple concept, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people (myself included) spend hours searching for a lower price on something which only ends up saving $20 or so. Often times dealhunting isn’t worth the cost.
Example #2 - Relationships
More interesting is this concept applied to non financial matters, because most people don’t even begin to consider it. Let’s take, for example, the choice of going out to clubsor staying in.
If I go out to a club, the intention is to meet women. I don’t drink, I don’t dance, and I don’t particularly relish the club atmosphere. Sometimes I’ll go downtown to hang out with friends, but that’s a different decision.
In any given night I might talk to 9 different women. Three groups of three. For me to be significantly interested in a girl, it takes time for me to get to know her (mainly because I’m picky and have a list of things which will disqualify her). I would estimate that I am seriously interested in one out of three hundred girls that I meet downtown.
If I’m interested in a girl and have a good opportunity to get to know her, I believe that she will be attracted to me almost 100% of the time. However, I’d say that getting a good opportunity to get to know a girl only happens around 40% of the time. The club atmosphere makes it difficult to get a good opportunity, but it is possible to increase that percentage to 100% with skill. In LA it was probably more like 70-80% for me when I was well practiced.
So let’s boil these numbers down. If I’m only able to attract 40% of the 300 girls necessary to find one I’m interested in, that’s 750 girls I must meet before finding one who I will be compatible with and will develop a relationship of sorts with. If I am meeting 9 girls per night, that means that it will take 84 nights out to “meet someone”.
On an average night, including driving and getting ready, I probably spend 5 hours to meet those 9 girls. That means that the price of meeting a girl is 420 hours of my time. That’s significant.
Of course, I do have fun when I go out and meet all those people. Some might become friends. I’m also going out with my friends and we joke around and have a good time. However, I would probably be doing something fun if I wasn’t going out as well, so those two effects can cancel each other.
What’s the value of beginning a relationship with a girl? It’s tough to say. If I had no other means of meeting a girl, I would probably go out religiously. The cost of NEVER having a girl is monumental, so I would be willing to spend the 420 hours of my time to meet that girl.
The reality, however, is that I do meet girls in other situations. Whole foods, friends of friends, and even through my blog. This is why I rarely go out anymore - the price I pay is simply not worth the value I receive.
Example #3 - Health
One last example is eating healthy. Eating raw food is expensive. I went to the grocery store last night and spent $150 buying 4-5 days worth of food. That’s probably about $7000 more per year than regular food would cost me. It’s also a pain. I can’t eat anything more than a plain salad at most restaurants. Some of the foods aren’t as tasty as conventional foods. That represents a significant price to pay for eating raw food.
What is the value of eating raw? For one, longevity. I believe that I will not only live for 10-20 years longer than the average person, but will be active and healthy for at least 10-20 additional years. I also need less sleep (to be determined by my break from Polyphasic sleep), which gives me more usable time. Let’s say that I go from 8 hours to 5.5 hours, which I feel is conservative. That’s 912.5 hours per year, or around 50 extra days. I also feel a lot better on a daily basis and look better thanks to lower bodyfat percentages and better skin.
For the sake of convenience (and because we don’t have years to make every decision), let’s cancel a few things out. Let’s say that the value of feeling and looking better is roughly equal to the cost of not being able to eat out, and not being able to eat tasty things like egg rolls.
The average lifespan is 75 in America, so let’s assume I will live to 90. I believe that’s very conservative. Since I am about 25 now, that means that I will be alive for another 65 years. At 50 extra days per year thanks to decreased sleep, that gives me an extra 3250 days of life, or almost 9 years.
The additional $7000 price of eating raw multiplied by my remaining 65 calendar years adds up to $455,000. That’s not insignificant.
So, when it all boils down to it, I am paying $455,000 for an extra 24 years of life, or $19,000 per year. To me that’s obviously worth it. To others it’s not. How about you?
Living Your Life
Living your life by the concept of Value vs. Price is essential. By constantly increasing the value of your habits, relationships, and posessions, you are constantly moving forward, and increasing your pool from which you are able to pay the price of new value. For example, with all my extra time, I can SPEND more time to gain more value.
Being a lawyer, to me anyway, would be the opposite. The value I would receive would be high (a high salary, power, prestige, etc.), but the price would be far too dear. Giving up my waking life for the majority of my productive years is not worth $100k, $200k, or even $1mil per year.
-Tynan
Thoughts
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all
Capital isn't scarce; vision is
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose
stay hungry
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all
Capital isn't scarce; vision is
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose
stay hungry
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Laws
1.Look at the things as they are, not as your emotions color them.
In strategy you must see your emotions responses to events as a kind of disease that must be remedied. Fear will make you overestimate your enemy and act too defensively. Anger and impatience will draw you into rash actions that will cut off your options. Overconfidence, particularly as a result of success, will make you go too far. Love and affection will blind you to the treacherous maneuvers of those apparently on your side. Even the subtlest gradation of these emotions can color the way you look at events. The only remedy is to be aware that the pull of emotion is inevitable, to notice it when it is happening, and to compensate for it. When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.
2. Judge People by thier action.
Most people estimate themselves what they can do while other people estimate you by your action. Actions speak louder than the words. Best record anyone can have is summary of their past. Most of the people have habit of following same pattern all their life.
3.Depend upon your own arms.
Any technology or any support may backfire or not work on right time. Be ready to carry out task with other sources or atleast have backup plans for what you do.
4.Don’t imply same strategy all the time.
Some people have habit of doing same thing again and again because it worked sometime. They fail to notice other objects which may give better results and end up in same zone. They also become predictable to their competitors and stop using their own mind. There may also be variance in situation you are applying certain type of strategy.
5. End goal should be peace not the war
End of every struggle should come to peace and joy. War is done for bringing peace not other way round. If you feel peace than you are on right track or you are going to butcher of someone hand.
6.Be strategist not tactician.
Tactics may fail but good strategy never fails. If you know your end goal and what is chain of steps, you are going to succeed but if you are tactician and your tactic backfire, you don’t have any option but to submit to circumstance.
7. Be warrior to own battles of life.
Without war human beings stagnate in comfort and affluence and lose capacity for great thoughts and feelings, they become cynical and subside into barbarism.
8.To dominate anything you require Power, Charisma, leadership and no shit attitude
Power
Power is a classical over dominating trait. If you see a very
powerful guy, it makes largely irrelevant what the rest of him is.
You see powerful men of all types
Push your shoulders as far back as you can, so that they're even tense.
Push your chest as far out as you can.
Suck your stomach in.
Tilt your head upwards - your chin should be slightly above
parallel to the ground.
Now take a deep breath... hold it...
...now exhale, and let your muscles relax and be not tense. Keep
your shoulders "back and broad", your chest pushed out, stomach in,
and head up.
Charisma.
Charisma is a classical over dominating trait. If you see a very
charismatic guy, it makes largely irrelevant what the rest of him
is. Even though he's only 5'6, Tom Cruise absolutely glows.
9. Never compromise your values.
Whenever you compromise, you suffer in long run.
10.Sex.
Sex = Mind + Physicality i.e. where Mind plays larger role than Physicality.
In strategy you must see your emotions responses to events as a kind of disease that must be remedied. Fear will make you overestimate your enemy and act too defensively. Anger and impatience will draw you into rash actions that will cut off your options. Overconfidence, particularly as a result of success, will make you go too far. Love and affection will blind you to the treacherous maneuvers of those apparently on your side. Even the subtlest gradation of these emotions can color the way you look at events. The only remedy is to be aware that the pull of emotion is inevitable, to notice it when it is happening, and to compensate for it. When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.
2. Judge People by thier action.
Most people estimate themselves what they can do while other people estimate you by your action. Actions speak louder than the words. Best record anyone can have is summary of their past. Most of the people have habit of following same pattern all their life.
3.Depend upon your own arms.
Any technology or any support may backfire or not work on right time. Be ready to carry out task with other sources or atleast have backup plans for what you do.
4.Don’t imply same strategy all the time.
Some people have habit of doing same thing again and again because it worked sometime. They fail to notice other objects which may give better results and end up in same zone. They also become predictable to their competitors and stop using their own mind. There may also be variance in situation you are applying certain type of strategy.
5. End goal should be peace not the war
End of every struggle should come to peace and joy. War is done for bringing peace not other way round. If you feel peace than you are on right track or you are going to butcher of someone hand.
6.Be strategist not tactician.
Tactics may fail but good strategy never fails. If you know your end goal and what is chain of steps, you are going to succeed but if you are tactician and your tactic backfire, you don’t have any option but to submit to circumstance.
7. Be warrior to own battles of life.
Without war human beings stagnate in comfort and affluence and lose capacity for great thoughts and feelings, they become cynical and subside into barbarism.
8.To dominate anything you require Power, Charisma, leadership and no shit attitude
Power
Power is a classical over dominating trait. If you see a very
powerful guy, it makes largely irrelevant what the rest of him is.
You see powerful men of all types
Push your shoulders as far back as you can, so that they're even tense.
Push your chest as far out as you can.
Suck your stomach in.
Tilt your head upwards - your chin should be slightly above
parallel to the ground.
Now take a deep breath... hold it...
...now exhale, and let your muscles relax and be not tense. Keep
your shoulders "back and broad", your chest pushed out, stomach in,
and head up.
Charisma.
Charisma is a classical over dominating trait. If you see a very
charismatic guy, it makes largely irrelevant what the rest of him
is. Even though he's only 5'6, Tom Cruise absolutely glows.
9. Never compromise your values.
Whenever you compromise, you suffer in long run.
10.Sex.
Sex = Mind + Physicality i.e. where Mind plays larger role than Physicality.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Why women can't forget thier first love
There was this question by female friend of mine which really confused me. It was no matter how hard you try, you just can't forget your first love. I thought there has to be some scientific reason behind it and I landed up with this answer.
click on the title to read the article.
Oxytocin
Vasopressin
click on the title to read the article.
Oxytocin
Vasopressin
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Books I want to buy
1. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
2. Assholes finish first - Tucker Max
3. Dangerous Passion- David M. Buss
4. Gentleman: A Timeless Fashion - Bernhard Roetzel
5. Start late, Finish Rich - David Bach
6. Black Mass - John Gray
7. The Interloper- Robert Antoine Wilson
8. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women- Jayne Ann Krentz
9. Manipulated man - Esther Vilar
10. No B.S. Time Management - Dan Kennedy
11. All the Money in the World: How The Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes--Peter Bernstein and Annalyn Swan
12. The present - Spencer Johnson
13. The ever Transcending spirits- Toru Sato
14. Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them- Carole Lieberman
15. Panasonic way
16. HOw to think like CEO
17. Tao Te Ching -Stephen Mitchell
18. The Story of My Life - Giacomo Casanova
19. The Joy of Sex -Alex Comfort
20. The Craft of the Warrior - Robert L. Spencer
21. How come that idiots rich - Robert Shamin
22. Never be boring again - Stevenson
23. Network magic - Rick Frishman and Jill lublin
24. Improvisation Inc - Robert Lowe
25. THe fantastic voyage - Ray Kurzweil
26. Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS --Steve Forbes
27. Millionare ounce - Mark Allen
28. Future Management - Gary Hamel
29. Winning through Intimidation - Ringer
30. Seven Years to Seven Figures - Michael Masterson
31. The alchemy of love and lust - Theresa L. Crenshaw
32. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game --Michael Lewis
33. The Soul of a New Machine-- Tracy Kidder.
34. Ideas that change the world
35. Cracking the millionare code
36. Sharper mind - Eric Jenson
37. Investment Biker -- Jim Rogers
38. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
39. Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner
40. The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between a Little Craziness and a Lot of Success in America -- John D. Gartner;
41. The Cult of the amateur - Andrew Keen
42. Road to success - Robert Keller
43. Top Grading - Brad Smart
44. McMafia - Misha Gleny
45. Stranger than fiction: True Stories - Chuck palahniuk
46. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
47. Jack: Straight From The Gut - Jack Welsh
48. Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody -- Fake Steve Jobs
49. Banglore tigers
50. G.D. Birla
51. The Twilight of Sovereignty -- Walter Wriston
52. Fascinating Womanhood - Helen Andelin
53. The Way the World Works -- Jude Wanniski
54. Bling Addiction: - Kylie Adams
55. Deadly Deceits - Ralph McGehee
56. One Small Step Can Change Your Life:The Kaizen Way - Robert Maurer.
57. The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love - Don Miguel Ruiz.
58. The War of Art - Steven Pressfield.
59. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Alan Greenspan
60. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
61. Wealth and Poverty--by George Gilder
62. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction -- Thomas K. McCraw
63. On the Wealth of Nations -- P. J. O'Rourke;
64. Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike - Kenny Moore; Bill & Dave
65. Sex - Madonna
66. The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe.
67. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin;
68, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance --Ron Chernow
69, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression -- Amity Shlaes.
70. The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk -- Roger McNamee
71. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail -- Clayton Christensen
72. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us -- Robyn Meredith;
73. Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market -- John Mauldin
74. The Road to Serfdom -- Friedrich Hayek
75. Boomtown USA: The 7 1 / 2 Keys to Big Success in Small Towns-- John M. Schultz;
76. The Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham;
77. The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't --Kenneth L. Fisher;
78. The Elements of Style -- William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White;
79. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets -- Andy Kessler
80. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle- Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything -- Guy Kawasaki
81. Hughes - Richard Hackman
82. In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best-Run Companies -- Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
83. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques From the Best Damn Ship in the Navy --Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
84. Speed of Trust - Stephen Covey
85. The Acts of the Apostles -- Luke;
86. The Purpose-Driven Church -- Rick Warren;
87. Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking -- Robert Schuller;
88. The Greatest Salesman in the World -- Og Mandino;
89. The Richest Man in Babylon -- George Clason;
90. What the dog saw -malcolm gladwell
91. Lords of the rings
92. The great indian novel.
93. Globality
94. Ecological intelligence-daniel goleman
95. Future of internet
96. Super freakonomics
97. The scam -debashis basu
98. The professional- subroto bagohi
99. Go Givers Sell More - Bob Burg
2. Assholes finish first - Tucker Max
3. Dangerous Passion- David M. Buss
4. Gentleman: A Timeless Fashion - Bernhard Roetzel
5. Start late, Finish Rich - David Bach
6. Black Mass - John Gray
7. The Interloper- Robert Antoine Wilson
8. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women- Jayne Ann Krentz
9. Manipulated man - Esther Vilar
10. No B.S. Time Management - Dan Kennedy
11. All the Money in the World: How The Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes--Peter Bernstein and Annalyn Swan
12. The present - Spencer Johnson
13. The ever Transcending spirits- Toru Sato
14. Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them- Carole Lieberman
15. Panasonic way
16. HOw to think like CEO
17. Tao Te Ching -Stephen Mitchell
18. The Story of My Life - Giacomo Casanova
19. The Joy of Sex -Alex Comfort
20. The Craft of the Warrior - Robert L. Spencer
21. How come that idiots rich - Robert Shamin
22. Never be boring again - Stevenson
23. Network magic - Rick Frishman and Jill lublin
24. Improvisation Inc - Robert Lowe
25. THe fantastic voyage - Ray Kurzweil
26. Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS --Steve Forbes
27. Millionare ounce - Mark Allen
28. Future Management - Gary Hamel
29. Winning through Intimidation - Ringer
30. Seven Years to Seven Figures - Michael Masterson
31. The alchemy of love and lust - Theresa L. Crenshaw
32. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game --Michael Lewis
33. The Soul of a New Machine-- Tracy Kidder.
34. Ideas that change the world
35. Cracking the millionare code
36. Sharper mind - Eric Jenson
37. Investment Biker -- Jim Rogers
38. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
39. Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner
40. The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between a Little Craziness and a Lot of Success in America -- John D. Gartner;
41. The Cult of the amateur - Andrew Keen
42. Road to success - Robert Keller
43. Top Grading - Brad Smart
44. McMafia - Misha Gleny
45. Stranger than fiction: True Stories - Chuck palahniuk
46. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
47. Jack: Straight From The Gut - Jack Welsh
48. Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody -- Fake Steve Jobs
49. Banglore tigers
50. G.D. Birla
51. The Twilight of Sovereignty -- Walter Wriston
52. Fascinating Womanhood - Helen Andelin
53. The Way the World Works -- Jude Wanniski
54. Bling Addiction: - Kylie Adams
55. Deadly Deceits - Ralph McGehee
56. One Small Step Can Change Your Life:The Kaizen Way - Robert Maurer.
57. The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love - Don Miguel Ruiz.
58. The War of Art - Steven Pressfield.
59. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Alan Greenspan
60. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
61. Wealth and Poverty--by George Gilder
62. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction -- Thomas K. McCraw
63. On the Wealth of Nations -- P. J. O'Rourke;
64. Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike - Kenny Moore; Bill & Dave
65. Sex - Madonna
66. The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe.
67. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin;
68, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance --Ron Chernow
69, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression -- Amity Shlaes.
70. The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk -- Roger McNamee
71. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail -- Clayton Christensen
72. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us -- Robyn Meredith;
73. Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market -- John Mauldin
74. The Road to Serfdom -- Friedrich Hayek
75. Boomtown USA: The 7 1 / 2 Keys to Big Success in Small Towns-- John M. Schultz;
76. The Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham;
77. The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't --Kenneth L. Fisher;
78. The Elements of Style -- William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White;
79. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets -- Andy Kessler
80. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle- Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything -- Guy Kawasaki
81. Hughes - Richard Hackman
82. In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best-Run Companies -- Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
83. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques From the Best Damn Ship in the Navy --Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
84. Speed of Trust - Stephen Covey
85. The Acts of the Apostles -- Luke;
86. The Purpose-Driven Church -- Rick Warren;
87. Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking -- Robert Schuller;
88. The Greatest Salesman in the World -- Og Mandino;
89. The Richest Man in Babylon -- George Clason;
90. What the dog saw -malcolm gladwell
91. Lords of the rings
92. The great indian novel.
93. Globality
94. Ecological intelligence-daniel goleman
95. Future of internet
96. Super freakonomics
97. The scam -debashis basu
98. The professional- subroto bagohi
99. Go Givers Sell More - Bob Burg
Books I have but to be read
1. Secrets of attraction - Sandra Anne Taylor
2. Evolution of Desire - David Buss
3. Walmart- don soderquist
4. Fear it and do it anyways- Susan Jeffers
5. HOw to read person like a book - Gerald Nierenberg
6. Da vinci notebooks- Leonardo Da Vinci
7. the six value medals- edward de bono
8. how to have beautiful mind- edward de bono
9. How to sell anything to anybody - Joe Girard
10. The Toyota Way - Jefferey K. Liker
11 Execution - Larry Bossidy
12. Why men can't listen and women can't read maps - Alan Flusser
13. HOw a man stays young
14. Genome - Matt Ridley
15. Silent Power - Stuart Wilde
16. Unaccustomed Earth - Thampa Labizi
17. The Starbuck experience - Joseph a. Michelli
18. The selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
19. Comedy writing secrets - Melvin Helitzer
20. YOu can win - Shiv Khera
21. Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal
22. Why we want you to be rich - Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki
23. The power of subconsious mind -Dr. Joseph Murphy
24. HOw to make esp work for you - Harold Sherman
25. Super power memory - Harry Lorayne
26. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
27. The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
28. 7 habits of effective people - Stephen R. Covey
29. Success in 30 days - A.P. Pereira
30. Talk and grow Rich - Ron Holland
31. 50 success classics
32. The magic of pscyhograms - helyn hitchcock
33. Ultra Psychonics delaney
34. It takes one minute to change your life - Delaney
35. Hypnosis for change
36. The new leader - Daniel Goleman
37. The social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
38. How to read better and faster - Norman Lewis
39. Deception Point - Dan Brown
40. War - Robert Greene
41. Sexual Palmistry - Nathaniel Altman
42. Think and grow rich - Napolean Hill
43. The automatic millionare - David Bach
44. Optimal Thinking - Rosalene Glickman
45. Awaken the giant with in - Anthony Robbins
46. It's Not about the bike - Lance Armstrong
47. Mind your manners - John Mole
48. Mexican American folklore - JOhn West
49. Stratergic Management - Robinson & Pearse
50. Vital Factors - Lee Frochheiser
51. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
52. Built to Last - Jim Collins
53. Lean Solutions - James P. Womack
54. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress- Free Productivity - David Allen
55. Finding the next starbucks - Michael Moe
56. How to talk to anyone - Leil Lowdes
57. Point and figure charting - Heinrich weber
58. Fedex Delivers - Madan Birla
59. What you don't know may be killing you - Don Colbert
60. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rvshdie
61. Women's best kept secret - Dawn Yanek
62. Art of closing the sale - Brian Tracy
63. Executive success - Rodale center for executive development
64. The 10 second kiss - Ellen Kreidman
65. 52 ways to live success - Jeanne Sharbuno
66. Your Unlimited potential - Roxanne Louise
67. Power of 5 - Robert Kooper
68. Meeting the shadow- Connie Zweiy
69. The complete I Ching - Alfred Huang
70. HOw to argue and win everytime - Gerry Spence
71. Inspiration - Dr. Wayne Dyer
72. The mind of stratergist - Kenichi Ohmae
73 The art of war - Nicolo` Machiavelli
74. how to get what you want from almost anybody - T. Scott Gross
75. HOw to win any negotication - Roberty Mayer
76. Philosophy - Ayn Rand
77. the quick and easy way to effective speaking - dale carnegie
78. The sigma six way - Peter Pande, Roland Cavanagh
79. Microtrends - Mark Penn
80. How you can be more interesting - Edward De Bono
81. Kellogs
82. How To Grow Fresh Air - B.C. Wolverton
83. Everything you want to know about investing - Kotak and CNBC
84. Secrets of Millionare Mind - T. Harv Eker
85. Net success 2.0 - Christina Ford Haylock
86. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't -- Jim Collins
87. Blue ocean stratergy- W.Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
88. World is flat - Thomas Friedman
89. 4 hour workweek - Timothy Ferris
90. 4 hour cookbook - Tim Ferriss
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.
Rich dad poor dad series
1. cashflow qudrant
2. Prophecy
3. loop holes of the rich
4. guide to investing
5. retire young and retire rich
2. Evolution of Desire - David Buss
3. Walmart- don soderquist
4. Fear it and do it anyways- Susan Jeffers
5. HOw to read person like a book - Gerald Nierenberg
6. Da vinci notebooks- Leonardo Da Vinci
7. the six value medals- edward de bono
8. how to have beautiful mind- edward de bono
9. How to sell anything to anybody - Joe Girard
10. The Toyota Way - Jefferey K. Liker
11 Execution - Larry Bossidy
12. Why men can't listen and women can't read maps - Alan Flusser
13. HOw a man stays young
14. Genome - Matt Ridley
15. Silent Power - Stuart Wilde
16. Unaccustomed Earth - Thampa Labizi
17. The Starbuck experience - Joseph a. Michelli
18. The selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
19. Comedy writing secrets - Melvin Helitzer
20. YOu can win - Shiv Khera
21. Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal
22. Why we want you to be rich - Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki
23. The power of subconsious mind -Dr. Joseph Murphy
24. HOw to make esp work for you - Harold Sherman
25. Super power memory - Harry Lorayne
26. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
27. The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
28. 7 habits of effective people - Stephen R. Covey
29. Success in 30 days - A.P. Pereira
30. Talk and grow Rich - Ron Holland
31. 50 success classics
32. The magic of pscyhograms - helyn hitchcock
33. Ultra Psychonics delaney
34. It takes one minute to change your life - Delaney
35. Hypnosis for change
36. The new leader - Daniel Goleman
37. The social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
38. How to read better and faster - Norman Lewis
39. Deception Point - Dan Brown
40. War - Robert Greene
41. Sexual Palmistry - Nathaniel Altman
42. Think and grow rich - Napolean Hill
43. The automatic millionare - David Bach
44. Optimal Thinking - Rosalene Glickman
45. Awaken the giant with in - Anthony Robbins
46. It's Not about the bike - Lance Armstrong
47. Mind your manners - John Mole
48. Mexican American folklore - JOhn West
49. Stratergic Management - Robinson & Pearse
50. Vital Factors - Lee Frochheiser
51. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
52. Built to Last - Jim Collins
53. Lean Solutions - James P. Womack
54. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress- Free Productivity - David Allen
55. Finding the next starbucks - Michael Moe
56. How to talk to anyone - Leil Lowdes
57. Point and figure charting - Heinrich weber
58. Fedex Delivers - Madan Birla
59. What you don't know may be killing you - Don Colbert
60. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rvshdie
61. Women's best kept secret - Dawn Yanek
62. Art of closing the sale - Brian Tracy
63. Executive success - Rodale center for executive development
64. The 10 second kiss - Ellen Kreidman
65. 52 ways to live success - Jeanne Sharbuno
66. Your Unlimited potential - Roxanne Louise
67. Power of 5 - Robert Kooper
68. Meeting the shadow- Connie Zweiy
69. The complete I Ching - Alfred Huang
70. HOw to argue and win everytime - Gerry Spence
71. Inspiration - Dr. Wayne Dyer
72. The mind of stratergist - Kenichi Ohmae
73 The art of war - Nicolo` Machiavelli
74. how to get what you want from almost anybody - T. Scott Gross
75. HOw to win any negotication - Roberty Mayer
76. Philosophy - Ayn Rand
77. the quick and easy way to effective speaking - dale carnegie
78. The sigma six way - Peter Pande, Roland Cavanagh
79. Microtrends - Mark Penn
80. How you can be more interesting - Edward De Bono
81. Kellogs
82. How To Grow Fresh Air - B.C. Wolverton
83. Everything you want to know about investing - Kotak and CNBC
84. Secrets of Millionare Mind - T. Harv Eker
85. Net success 2.0 - Christina Ford Haylock
86. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't -- Jim Collins
87. Blue ocean stratergy- W.Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
88. World is flat - Thomas Friedman
89. 4 hour workweek - Timothy Ferris
90. 4 hour cookbook - Tim Ferriss
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.
Rich dad poor dad series
1. cashflow qudrant
2. Prophecy
3. loop holes of the rich
4. guide to investing
5. retire young and retire rich
My small library
1. You can negotiate - Herb cohen
2. Iwoz - Steve Wozniak
3. We are like that only - Rama Bijapurkar
4. The house of Klein - Lisa Marsh
5. How to be a teenage millionare - James Moore
6. The art of deception - Kevin Mitnick
7. Anyone you want me to be - John Douglas
8. Digital fortress - Dan Brown
9. Crimes and criminal -
10. Worlds greatest secret
11. Wings of fire - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
12. how dell does it- steven hoizner
13. Harry Potter and prisoner of azkaban
14. Unofficial guide to ethical hacking - ankit fadia
15. the ethical guide to corporate security - ankit fadia
16. network security - ankit fadia
17. mobine hacking - ankit fadia
18. Hacking exposed 3rd edition- stuart mcclure
19. Emotional intelligence - Daniel goleman
20. working with emotional intelligence - daniel goleman
21. vital lies simple truth - daniel goleman
22. The game - Neil strauss
23. 48 laws of power - robert greene
24. laws of seduction - robert greene
25. seduce( 100 tips to arouse)
26. Eureka - Willian Diehl
27. Harry potter and goblet of fire
29. The perfect store (ebay) - Adam Cohen
30. It's my life - Harsh Bharwani
31. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
32. 11 minutes - Paulo Coelho
33. State of Fear - Michael Crishton
34. Da Vinci Decoded - Michael J. Gelb
35. How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci - Michael J. Gelb (borrowed by Satyendra [vishal])
36. The rules- Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
37. Jesus Lived in India - HOlger Kersten
38. Everyone worth knowing - Lauren Weisberger
39. Diary - Chuck palahniuk
40. Fight Club - Chuck palahniuk
41. Lullaby - Chuck palahniuk
42. Choke - CHuck palahniuk
43. Invisible Monsters - CHuck palahniuk
44. Haunted- Chuck palahniuk
45. Rant - Chuck palahniuk
46. Alexander book 2: Valerio Massimo manfredi
47. Alexander book 3: Valerio Massimo manfredi
48. Atlas shtrugged - Ayn Road
49. The cracking codebook - Simon Singh
50. It happenned in India - Kishore Biyani
51. Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger
52. The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetal Bhagat
53. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
54. Clash of Titans - Richard Hackman
55. Freakonomics - Seven D. Levitt & Sephen J. Dubner
56. We the living- Ayn Rand
57. The road ahead - Bill Gates
58. Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
59. The google - David A. Vise
60. the apple way - jeffery l. cruikshank
61. Cold Steel - Tim Bouquet & Byron Ouser
62. HP way - David Packard
63. Fashion Brands - Mark Tungate
64. Sony - John Nathan
65. The romance of Tata Steel - R.M. Lala
66. Losing my virginity - Richard Branson
67. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
68. Business Stripped Bare - Richard Branson
69. Angels And Demon - Dan Brown
70. Deception point - Dan brown
71. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
72. Driven from within - Michael Jordan
73. Albert Einstein - Alice Calaprice & Daniel T. Jones
74. Napoleon - Emil Ludwig
75. The lost symbol - Dan Brown
76. Third Wave - Irvin Toffler
77. BPO Sutra
78. Don't lose your mind Lose your weight - Rujuta Diwekar
79. Dreams from my Fathers - Barack Obama
80. Sex Sells - Rodger Streitmatter
81. . The warren buffet way - Robert G. Hagstorm
82. Emergency - Neil Strauss
83. Coca Cola - Frederick L. Allen
84. Banish your belly - Men's Health
85. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
86. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
87. Picture perfect weight loss - Dr. shapiro
88. Disney War - James B. Stewart
89. Mcdonald - John F. Love
90. Secrets of Meluha trilogy
91. The tipping point - malcom gladwell
92. Business @ speed of thought - Bill Gates
93. E- myth mastery - Michael E. Gerber
94. Screw it, Let's Do it - Richard Branson
95. Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
96. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
99. Nestle
100. Every second counts - lance Armstrong
101. Flashboys - Michael Lewis
102.
2. Iwoz - Steve Wozniak
3. We are like that only - Rama Bijapurkar
4. The house of Klein - Lisa Marsh
5. How to be a teenage millionare - James Moore
6. The art of deception - Kevin Mitnick
7. Anyone you want me to be - John Douglas
8. Digital fortress - Dan Brown
9. Crimes and criminal -
10. Worlds greatest secret
11. Wings of fire - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
12. how dell does it- steven hoizner
13. Harry Potter and prisoner of azkaban
14. Unofficial guide to ethical hacking - ankit fadia
15. the ethical guide to corporate security - ankit fadia
16. network security - ankit fadia
17. mobine hacking - ankit fadia
18. Hacking exposed 3rd edition- stuart mcclure
19. Emotional intelligence - Daniel goleman
20. working with emotional intelligence - daniel goleman
21. vital lies simple truth - daniel goleman
22. The game - Neil strauss
23. 48 laws of power - robert greene
24. laws of seduction - robert greene
25. seduce( 100 tips to arouse)
26. Eureka - Willian Diehl
27. Harry potter and goblet of fire
29. The perfect store (ebay) - Adam Cohen
30. It's my life - Harsh Bharwani
31. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
32. 11 minutes - Paulo Coelho
33. State of Fear - Michael Crishton
34. Da Vinci Decoded - Michael J. Gelb
35. How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci - Michael J. Gelb (borrowed by Satyendra [vishal])
36. The rules- Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
37. Jesus Lived in India - HOlger Kersten
38. Everyone worth knowing - Lauren Weisberger
39. Diary - Chuck palahniuk
40. Fight Club - Chuck palahniuk
41. Lullaby - Chuck palahniuk
42. Choke - CHuck palahniuk
43. Invisible Monsters - CHuck palahniuk
44. Haunted- Chuck palahniuk
45. Rant - Chuck palahniuk
46. Alexander book 2: Valerio Massimo manfredi
47. Alexander book 3: Valerio Massimo manfredi
48. Atlas shtrugged - Ayn Road
49. The cracking codebook - Simon Singh
50. It happenned in India - Kishore Biyani
51. Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger
52. The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetal Bhagat
53. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
54. Clash of Titans - Richard Hackman
55. Freakonomics - Seven D. Levitt & Sephen J. Dubner
56. We the living- Ayn Rand
57. The road ahead - Bill Gates
58. Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
59. The google - David A. Vise
60. the apple way - jeffery l. cruikshank
61. Cold Steel - Tim Bouquet & Byron Ouser
62. HP way - David Packard
63. Fashion Brands - Mark Tungate
64. Sony - John Nathan
65. The romance of Tata Steel - R.M. Lala
66. Losing my virginity - Richard Branson
67. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
68. Business Stripped Bare - Richard Branson
69. Angels And Demon - Dan Brown
70. Deception point - Dan brown
71. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
72. Driven from within - Michael Jordan
73. Albert Einstein - Alice Calaprice & Daniel T. Jones
74. Napoleon - Emil Ludwig
75. The lost symbol - Dan Brown
76. Third Wave - Irvin Toffler
77. BPO Sutra
78. Don't lose your mind Lose your weight - Rujuta Diwekar
79. Dreams from my Fathers - Barack Obama
80. Sex Sells - Rodger Streitmatter
81. . The warren buffet way - Robert G. Hagstorm
82. Emergency - Neil Strauss
83. Coca Cola - Frederick L. Allen
84. Banish your belly - Men's Health
85. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
86. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
87. Picture perfect weight loss - Dr. shapiro
88. Disney War - James B. Stewart
89. Mcdonald - John F. Love
90. Secrets of Meluha trilogy
91. The tipping point - malcom gladwell
92. Business @ speed of thought - Bill Gates
93. E- myth mastery - Michael E. Gerber
94. Screw it, Let's Do it - Richard Branson
95. Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
96. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
99. Nestle
100. Every second counts - lance Armstrong
101. Flashboys - Michael Lewis
102.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Cut Down Comparison
Have you ever found yourself at an industry event and suddenly you are comparing yourself to everyone else in the room?
You know. You get a bunch of people together who are in the same field (actors, writers, real estate agents, marketers, coaches, fitness people - doesn't matter) and all of a sudden people have a lot of awareness on who's 'made it' and who 'hasn't'.
Thoughts like "I wish I was successful as she is." or "His career is really soaring and I'm still stuck in nowhere land." can run rampant.
Here's the problem. Comparison is a KILLER of your well being and productivity.
While it's normal to compare, if you don't become aware of it - you can waste loads of time and energy comparing yourself to others and not getting anything of YOUR OWN done.
You'll also leave industry events feeling somehow 'less than' or 'drained' without knowing exactly why.
Here's the truth. There are over 6.5 billion people on planet earth. There is only ONE YOU in the entire universe. No one is better or worse than you -nor are they 'ahead' or 'behind' you. We've each got our own little journey called our life and our own unique gifts to share with the world.
There's no one right way to live or one route to success. Your path and timeline is as wonderful and glorious as the next guys (or gals!).
Furthermore, since no two things can occupy the same space at the same time, when you are locked in comparison mode - that's all you can be doing. You cannot be creating, producing, sharing or enjoying.
If you chronically compare, don't worry. All it takes to kick the habit is a little awareness.
So remember. Next time you're about to place yourself in the imaginary hierarchy of life, cut it out. Preserve your well-being and simply live YOUR life. It's much easier to appreciate and enjoy what others do when you don't compare yourself to them.
-Marie Forleo
You know. You get a bunch of people together who are in the same field (actors, writers, real estate agents, marketers, coaches, fitness people - doesn't matter) and all of a sudden people have a lot of awareness on who's 'made it' and who 'hasn't'.
Thoughts like "I wish I was successful as she is." or "His career is really soaring and I'm still stuck in nowhere land." can run rampant.
Here's the problem. Comparison is a KILLER of your well being and productivity.
While it's normal to compare, if you don't become aware of it - you can waste loads of time and energy comparing yourself to others and not getting anything of YOUR OWN done.
You'll also leave industry events feeling somehow 'less than' or 'drained' without knowing exactly why.
Here's the truth. There are over 6.5 billion people on planet earth. There is only ONE YOU in the entire universe. No one is better or worse than you -nor are they 'ahead' or 'behind' you. We've each got our own little journey called our life and our own unique gifts to share with the world.
There's no one right way to live or one route to success. Your path and timeline is as wonderful and glorious as the next guys (or gals!).
Furthermore, since no two things can occupy the same space at the same time, when you are locked in comparison mode - that's all you can be doing. You cannot be creating, producing, sharing or enjoying.
If you chronically compare, don't worry. All it takes to kick the habit is a little awareness.
So remember. Next time you're about to place yourself in the imaginary hierarchy of life, cut it out. Preserve your well-being and simply live YOUR life. It's much easier to appreciate and enjoy what others do when you don't compare yourself to them.
-Marie Forleo
What are you NOT saying?
Do you withhold communications? Do you have things to say to people but simply don't?
Do you tell little white lies to keep the peace, or look the other way when you notice something 'slightly' dishonest is happening?
If the answer to any of the above is 'yes' - you're not alone. A study by Dr. Micheal Lewis states that "In a single day, most of us lie a minimum of 25 times."
While 25 times may seem like a high number, when we take a closer look, he's probably in the right ballpark.
For example:
1. If your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend asks you "What's wrong?" do you quickly reply "Nothing," but have a laundry list of things you could speak about?
2. If people ask you how you are doing, do you answer "Great!" even when you may be feeling a little off or have something you'd like to talk about?
3. Do you hold back from having difficult conversations for fear of what the other person's reaction may be - even though you KNOW you need to say something?
Like it or not, these are all forms of lying and have a deadly effect on your aliveness, productivity and ability to make money.
Every time you lie or withhold a communication, it's as though you are pro-actively killing off your life force. Symptoms include growing grumpy, less clear, sick, tired and overwhelmed.
Don't get suckered in by the idea of 'white lies' or 'little' untruths. There's no such thing!
Now that you know how important what you're NOT saying is, do you need help finding the right way to say it best?
Do you tell little white lies to keep the peace, or look the other way when you notice something 'slightly' dishonest is happening?
If the answer to any of the above is 'yes' - you're not alone. A study by Dr. Micheal Lewis states that "In a single day, most of us lie a minimum of 25 times."
While 25 times may seem like a high number, when we take a closer look, he's probably in the right ballpark.
For example:
1. If your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend asks you "What's wrong?" do you quickly reply "Nothing," but have a laundry list of things you could speak about?
2. If people ask you how you are doing, do you answer "Great!" even when you may be feeling a little off or have something you'd like to talk about?
3. Do you hold back from having difficult conversations for fear of what the other person's reaction may be - even though you KNOW you need to say something?
Like it or not, these are all forms of lying and have a deadly effect on your aliveness, productivity and ability to make money.
Every time you lie or withhold a communication, it's as though you are pro-actively killing off your life force. Symptoms include growing grumpy, less clear, sick, tired and overwhelmed.
Don't get suckered in by the idea of 'white lies' or 'little' untruths. There's no such thing!
Now that you know how important what you're NOT saying is, do you need help finding the right way to say it best?
right questions
Are You Asking Yourself The Wrong Questions?
If you’ve ever found yourself upset, overwhelmed or in a funk and had trouble trying to ‘reason’ yourself out of it, then this article is written especially for you.
In fact, when life gets a little wonky, most people have trouble quickly getting over it because they ask the wrong questions. They use ‘why’ questions to try and figure out the upset – as though the logic based mind can reason itself out of an emotional and energetic state of being.
That approach is as effective as politely asking an untrained dog to stop peeing on the living room floor. Wrong approach = poor results.
Here’s some common ‘why’ questions that typically lead to the land of nowhere: Why do I always get angry? Why didn’t he call? Why am I so frustrated at work?
Here’s a fact: If you want to quickly regain your center so you can have great relationships, make more money and enjoy your life - forget about ‘why’ and start asking ‘what’.
‘What’ questions pull you into the moment and interrupt your well-conditioned logic system. They help you bypass the analyzing mind and compel you to observe. By neutrally observing what’s actually happening, you can dissolve your upset or funk.
Here are 3 WHAT questions to get you started.
1. “WHAT am I experiencing right now?”
Describe the actual sensation. Where is it located in your body? How big is it? Does it have a color associated with it? If it were a number from 1-10, 10 being the extreme, what number would it be. Here’s a hint: Pretend you are a scientist looking at an experiment and simply notate your discoveries. (Important: I said notate – not judge!)
2. “WHAT am I engaging in at this moment?”
Are you stewing in your mind about how overwhelmed you are OR are you actually getting something done? Remember, no two things can occupy the same mind at the same time. You’re either complaining or you’re producing. This is one the easiest ways to get yourself back on track.
3. “WHAT are my thoughts saying?"
Notice your thoughts instead of personalizing them. Say, “Hmmm…isn’t that interesting.” In my book, Make Every Man Want You, I have an entire chapter devoted to the fact that you have a mind, but you are NOT your mind, so I won’t get into that here. But once you get that your thoughts are not you, and not necessarily true, you can easily unwire upsets and funks by learning to non-judgmentally observe them.
Now here’s another great ‘what’ question to ask yourself: WHAT would you accomplish in your business – and life - if you discovered how to quickly dissolve every upset or frustration that comes along?
WHAT would your life look like without any drama at all?
If you really want to find out, then sign up for private coaching before my January 23 rate increase. Note: Only contact me if you are SERIOUS about having your life transform. If you are committed to whining, complaining or victimization – please go elsewhere.
If you’ve ever found yourself upset, overwhelmed or in a funk and had trouble trying to ‘reason’ yourself out of it, then this article is written especially for you.
In fact, when life gets a little wonky, most people have trouble quickly getting over it because they ask the wrong questions. They use ‘why’ questions to try and figure out the upset – as though the logic based mind can reason itself out of an emotional and energetic state of being.
That approach is as effective as politely asking an untrained dog to stop peeing on the living room floor. Wrong approach = poor results.
Here’s some common ‘why’ questions that typically lead to the land of nowhere: Why do I always get angry? Why didn’t he call? Why am I so frustrated at work?
Here’s a fact: If you want to quickly regain your center so you can have great relationships, make more money and enjoy your life - forget about ‘why’ and start asking ‘what’.
‘What’ questions pull you into the moment and interrupt your well-conditioned logic system. They help you bypass the analyzing mind and compel you to observe. By neutrally observing what’s actually happening, you can dissolve your upset or funk.
Here are 3 WHAT questions to get you started.
1. “WHAT am I experiencing right now?”
Describe the actual sensation. Where is it located in your body? How big is it? Does it have a color associated with it? If it were a number from 1-10, 10 being the extreme, what number would it be. Here’s a hint: Pretend you are a scientist looking at an experiment and simply notate your discoveries. (Important: I said notate – not judge!)
2. “WHAT am I engaging in at this moment?”
Are you stewing in your mind about how overwhelmed you are OR are you actually getting something done? Remember, no two things can occupy the same mind at the same time. You’re either complaining or you’re producing. This is one the easiest ways to get yourself back on track.
3. “WHAT are my thoughts saying?"
Notice your thoughts instead of personalizing them. Say, “Hmmm…isn’t that interesting.” In my book, Make Every Man Want You, I have an entire chapter devoted to the fact that you have a mind, but you are NOT your mind, so I won’t get into that here. But once you get that your thoughts are not you, and not necessarily true, you can easily unwire upsets and funks by learning to non-judgmentally observe them.
Now here’s another great ‘what’ question to ask yourself: WHAT would you accomplish in your business – and life - if you discovered how to quickly dissolve every upset or frustration that comes along?
WHAT would your life look like without any drama at all?
If you really want to find out, then sign up for private coaching before my January 23 rate increase. Note: Only contact me if you are SERIOUS about having your life transform. If you are committed to whining, complaining or victimization – please go elsewhere.
Racism
The following scene took place on a BA flight between Johannesburg and London.
A White woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a Black man. Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess.
"Madam, what is the matter," the Hostess asked."You obviously do not see it then?" she responded.
"You placed me next to a Black man.I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group.Give me an alternative seat."
"Be calm please, " the Hostess replied.
"Almost all the places on this flight are taken.I will go to see if another seat is available."
The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later.
"Madam, just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the Economy class.I spoke to the Captain and he informed me that there is also no seats in the Business class. All the same, we still have one seat in the First class."
Before the woman could say anything, the Hostess continued: "It is not usual for our company to permit someone from
the Economy class to sit in the First class.However, given the circumstances,the Captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting."
She turned to the Black guy, and said,"Therefore, Sir,if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage,
a seat awaits you in First class."
At that moment, the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.
A White woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a Black man. Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess.
"Madam, what is the matter," the Hostess asked."You obviously do not see it then?" she responded.
"You placed me next to a Black man.I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group.Give me an alternative seat."
"Be calm please, " the Hostess replied.
"Almost all the places on this flight are taken.I will go to see if another seat is available."
The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later.
"Madam, just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the Economy class.I spoke to the Captain and he informed me that there is also no seats in the Business class. All the same, we still have one seat in the First class."
Before the woman could say anything, the Hostess continued: "It is not usual for our company to permit someone from
the Economy class to sit in the First class.However, given the circumstances,the Captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting."
She turned to the Black guy, and said,"Therefore, Sir,if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage,
a seat awaits you in First class."
At that moment, the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.
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