07-03-09_One of My Friends Died of Cancer Yest[erday]
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Jul 3, 2009
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM, wrote:
One of my friends died from cancer yest. She will be in a better place now. It was sad to see how she dwindled from life.
My response:
I was part of an online membership and on it I was led to a resource that has had a profound effect on my life. I might say that having become a member of this program was the very entity that has brought about this change…
There is a difference between that which is truth and that which is the illusion of truth.
I am beset by many problems mostly due to economic hardship.
At one time - not quite so long ago I saw life as a constant downgrading process and it caused much of the negativity you and others have known me for…
What was in that book I read - just a few statements in it in one place has made me see life in a completely different light.
One of the mediators had me read the book and comment on it. I hit it squarely on the head and it amazed him that I found the very message he wanted me to get out of the entire book in the first reading and posted my comments about it (he wanted me to read it over several times to get the message.)
I have always been told what to do…but never how to do it with regard to living life.
So I continued on as I was going with a void between me and that other way.
I’ve always complained - it was the only way I knew to cry out for help. It continued right on into the blog posts of Steve Little’s “The PerfectBizBuilder” program until one of the mediators, Mike Stone challenged me to read the book, “Science of Getting Rich.” In it was that message for me.
This program teaches people how to determine which business would be the best one for them to pursue…that perfect fit. I was bringing my personal difficulties into the forum area and Steve Little added a discussion board for “anything else.” I promptly brought my issues from the lessons discussions to this new discussion board and it was here where I really found the missing pieces of my life!
Ironically (and sadly) I had to discontinue my membership there (because it is a recurring charge subscription) due to financial hardship. Every penny I paid into it was absolutely worth what I got out of it! I never even finished the course but I can do so any time on my own.
I have been very busy working on that which I have found to be my purpose. I have not pursued this because of the limiting core beliefs I had developed from when I was very young. The voice was always there but I listened to other people’s advice and admonitions on how my life should be lived.
I have a lot of catching up to do!
Over the last couple years I have come to realize that life is not just a “happening” thing. There’s purpose to it and there is a Master Mind behind it. Even though we are given free choice, as it was said to me, Have you considered that your circumstances are pushing you in a new direction for your greater good? Have faith, believe in yourself and listen.
The posts went on until the mediator brought the book to my attention.
The above statement brought on a whole new meaning of life to me.
Doors slam shut in our faces…and other doors open. Sometimes we don’t notice them even though slamming doors are very apparent to us to the point where they startle us. The greater good is behind these quietly opening doors, even if one of them is the Door of Death.
I went to the forum to get the above quote so I could present it to you as Mike Stone wrote it. I was surprised to find I could still log in after I canceled my membership weeks ago. Several times when in the membership I was said to have been an asset to the community there and provided value for the other members.
I have the unexpected opportunity to put this letter on that forum because it does express my appreciation for Steve Little’s program. It also has a lesson in it. I will also post this on my own website for July. I will return to the Forum as a paying member as soon as I regain my ability to support doing so.
Why I wrote this?
You said it yourself…”She will be in a better place now.” but that she “dwindled from life” may have actually been that climb upwards to that place.
A Most Disturbing Dream…
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Jun 28, 2009
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Written earlier this month, I’ve entered the recording of a dream I had having gone to bed with issues on my mind into what I call: The Book of Dreams. That the subconscious sends messages in sometimes the strangest and most surreal forms, this one is worthy of print…at least as far as I’m concerned because lessons can be learned from it. Sure in posting it here I may leave myself open to criticism, sometimes negative at that, it provides an unusual twist to lessons that can be had in even the fewest of lines.
But I’m not always known for being laconic. It’s the way I write. Albeit, this is a story, a fictitious one at that, because it has indeed come from my mind in a waking dream. …What an awakening it was!
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06-13-09_’Swart Has Nothing to Do!’
I had a dream…This one MUST go into my regular Journal and NOT just in the Book of Dreams…the nighttime visitation strongly reflect what’s going on in my life right now! It has to do with Sharon, my place in life, what I find myself doing these days, what has always happened in my life since I was brought here…it could be the most important dream I have ever had in life - my subconscious mind sending my conscious mind a message - that must be recorded in print…
I found myself in an ultra sleek bowling alley with candle pins and was with the bowling champs, bowling on their league. These people were pirates and played the game with all seriousness and hands down on the table! They took no foolishness and ignored all negativity. They strove for success. It was the name of their game!
Everybody in the play rushed to the balls to collect theirs. I wound up with the last picks…
The lanes were zig-zagged and the starting run was also tricky. It had some sort of elaborate three-step run! I had to watch the first few play it before I could understand it and know how to play it myself. It began…the lights changed! I wound up with green stripe number 13 balls and realized I only had two of three balls I needed. The balls were numbered and looked like billiard balls but were the size of candle-pin bowling balls.
I began frantically looking for that third ball! There were balls all over the floor but none of them were a green stripe 13 ball! All the other colors and numbers were spoken for.
The first round came…the first player came up, and the second, and the third. They all did pretty good! I could only find a much smaller ball for the third ball. It was literally the size of a billiard ball! I could not find that ball anywhere! It was just nowhere to be found! I needed that green stripe 13 to go with my other two!
It came up my turn I did the trick and rolled the first ball I had…only to find out I was given only two standing pins to start with - it was a strong roll but the ball hit only one of the two pins! Either I stepped in someone else’s turn or…
That’s just plain all I was getting! “You get what you get!”
I could hear the other players and the spectators going, “Ooooooh!” I threw the second ball…in the gutter! No sound could be heard from anyone watching…
Nothing remarkable!
Where’s that third ball!!!
I looked all over the place!!! I got skipped my third run of the frame! The show had to go on! I could not use that little ball I had and I inquired about using one of the other numbered balls…
Some authoritative voice echoed throughout the bowling alley, “Not Allowed!”
When my turn came around again I lost one of my two existing balls somewhere! I went all the way down the alley looking for it…holding up the game! The ball I was looking at from afar was a red stripe 14! I came back up the alley to the start…missed my turn!
The mood changed. The lights went down as if in a roller-skating rink. It went down to a dark psychedelic deep blue-purple hue to increase the challenge and raise the excitement. In the darkened lighting the mood amongst the players changed to solemnity. They were ready for it and I had not even begun! One of the players got a strike!
I could hear the wild cheering from the spectators!
I’m still looking for my second ball that I somehow misplaced and that third ball for the set! I had a bunch of coins in my hand and threw them down in my frustration. I could hear the jingling as they dashed amongst all kinds of clutter on the sideline. They couldn’t be retrieved again!
I went to the other side of the bowling alley looking for that green stripe 13 ball! Nobody ever heard of such a thing. Nobody would even listen to me! It was as if I didn’t exist or belong in that bowling alley, let alone the league or that championship game!
The game proceeded on without me…I was completely unprepared nor did I move fast enough. Not a soul would help me! I was up a stream with no paddle! The only thing I could do was drift aimlessly with no direction, no control…any way the wind blows…
That ball was not to be found anywhere!
I went behind a bar at that other end of the joint. Nobody else was behind it but people were drinking at it. None of them paid no attention that I was behind their bar. I could hear the playing going on and every spectator’s eyes were on that league I was supposed to be in.
Suddenly, out of nowhere came great boulder-sized bowling ball at me and I ducked out of its way to avoid getting injured by it! I went back out from behind the bar…
I went back to the league. They were announcing the progress of the game…this one is smoking, this one is slamming, that one cooked up another strike! The last announcement from the commentator…”Swart has nothing to do!”
I awoke…looking at the ceiling of my camper in bewilderment…
I wrote in my Journal years ago what Mother said of me on October 10th, 1992, “…she hugged me and called me her son, but that I am a loser, and will never amount to anything.”
I got down off my bunk and went straight to my computer to see if Sharon had responded to any of my many messages I sent to send her trying to get her attention…
I never got that far!
On the email queue I left open all night - euergetes3 - was plastered with six Tellman emails…the fourth one down suddenly caught my eye…
Tellman(2) Daniel - Still stuck at step 1? - Daniel - What’s the first step Jun 12
Aaaaaaaah!!!
What’s the message?
Some people make it happen…
Some people watch it happen…
Some people say, “What happened!?”
Do not let others live your life for you!
Do not let others do your thinking for you!
To do that delegates them to control you!
Don’t complain and don’t whine!
Do keep your head up and NEVER look down!
Take account for everything in your life; don’t go around blaming everybody and everything for circumstances in your life.
This most definitely strips you of self-control!
Get in control and stay there!
Life is too precious to waste - and it goes on whether you are with it or not!
If you are not prepared - you will get left behind and in all likeliness, nobody’s going to help you!
Life is a game and we’re all in a race…
This game is serious business!
Nobody knows more about life than the One who created it!
…Now the final impact of this visitation…
There are no champions other than the ones who are in that game, are ready, and take action!
So Much Disdain For the Wealthy Out There
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on May 22, 2009
I inadvertently bumped into the blog at Gator-Byte.com and what I found there was not too appetizing to say the least.
I couldn’t let this pass without posting to the blog…
Some of these posts make me sick! I mean it!
Booulaaagh! Now I’ve got to clean up the mess…
How Tellman Knudson’s The Listbuilding Club relates to this post,
“The last time an internet opportunity reeked this bad was when the RFS was floating heavily around the internet. The famous ‘beach bum’ pulling in millions an hour by suckering poor individuals into coughing up a $50 “tire kicker weeder outer fee” and then being told that in order to make money they had to pony up another $2995.”
…is a sheer mystery to me! I absolutely see no correlation between this and LBC!
The person who wrote this haggled over one dollar! Pretty damned good deal for the price and it might as well be as if it were free!
Was surprised that he had to whip out his credit card! I don’t believe that dollar is any sort of profit!
Puts the information given in the LBC lessons down because that’s supposed to make everybody who comes into it rich…but forgets the fact that it’s not the information at fault - its the members who have varying degrees of financial prowess, work ethics, determination, ambition, etc. Some will and some won’t - it’s reality!
Wants to do little work and make a lot of money anyway. Forgets that Tellman had to work very hard to get to a condition like this - and is usually the case with any other wealthy person at first! That’s the trouble with the Internet - Unscrupulous marketers prey on this human flaw and is why so many get-rich-quick schemes abound. Really give programs like this a bad name.
I hardly think Tellman’s programs fall in this category! Go to college and get a good education so you can land a great career - some do and some don’t…whose fault is that?
Yes, some of the first few videos are pretty basic! Get a domain name from GoDaddy and hosting from HostGator. Yes, that’s basic but it sounds like this writer did not bother to go into the “Lessons” menu clearly seen in the tabline at the top of the website. It abounds with some pretty challenging information well done in a clear fashion by Brian Edmunson.
It also sounds like the writer already had a negative outlook on this program before he even looked into it.
Gaouleee! I won’t even go into the resulting posts left by other people who were attracted like a magnet to such misinformation.
I will say to those who posted in defense of Knudson, “My hat off to you!”
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I went for the one-dollar LBC deal and this thing about “hidden forced continuity programs…”
Not so with this program! You will find that if you pay closer attention to programs like this you won’t get burned like you think you have…
I remember when my mother subscribed to the Columubia House Records & Tape Club. In the 1970s when 8-track cartridges were king she went ahead and got her initial stack of country and western tapes. Wow! What a deal!
But then came the time when she had to fill out that card denying the “house selection” so she wouldn’t get it that month. However sometimes she totally forgot about the card and lo and behind!
…here comes that tape with the country and western band she didn’t like - or that she didn’t have the funds to pay for it that month. Sad to say, I used to get a kick out of her getting that tape and cussing over it!
“Goddamit!” I would hear her day as she cussed at it when she came home from work and found it in the mail.
She knew the implications. It was all right there in writing when she signed up for the deal.
It’s the same thing with Tellman Knudson’s The ListBuilding Club. This is for you people who are complaining about the subscription that comes with the one-dollar deal!
It’s even better than the Columbia House Record and Tape Club! Whose fault is it if YOU don’t read the sales page? Why, you could have just used the thirty days and canceled! Couldn’t do that with Columbia House in the 1970s or now for that matter until you satisfy your agreement of buying x amount of units at regular club prices.
I had no problem knowing these concessions! It’s right there in black and white. People just want stuff for next to nothing! Golly! I see nothing wrong with this program! It did me a world of good helping me put stuff on my blog and I have indispensable knowledge now because of that program. Yes, I did stay in it for a few months until I felt I had enough of it down to proceed without it. Had I the funds I would probably continue with it.
The video and audio banks are getting progressively larger and I don’t think the addition of a single lesson per month (which includes anywhere from four to eight videos and a couple teleseminar recordings) is worth paying the $67 but for the first few months digesting all the materials, in my opinion, it’s well worth it.
I had no problem canceling my subscription. I did it the way they wanted it done and it was a done deal. I can’t get into the Member’s Area now but they didn’t charge me either.
For you complainers out there…
OVERCOME EVERYTHING EVEN TOLD ME THAT IF AND WHEN I COME BACK TO THE CLUB THEY’D GIVE ME TWO MONTHS FREE!!! How’s THAT for a deal? No, if you are in the club now, don’t be canceling just so you can have them bestow something like this to you. Too many people do it, well you know what would happen.
With several, if not many thousands of people subscribed in the various programs they can’t possibly attend to each and everybody personally!
That’s common sense.
It’s not Overcome Everything’s fault if some of you could not delay gratification long enough to READ the sales page or where ever the concessions of joining this club was written! Remember this and you will go farther…
Some people make it happen…
Some people let it happen…
Others say, “WHAT HAPPENED?”
The entitlement mentality has surely grown like cancer!
Learn how to be accountable for your actions and DON’T blame Tellman Knudson because all the sudden you are being charged $67 and you’re going, “WHAT????”
It’s not very often anything like this comes without a price and for goodness sake, you get such value for a buck for a month! What more do you want?
Yes, I hate the email I get from Overcome Everything. It’s pretty hypish like you find with some of these new millionaires. They’re a tad too slap-happy, but wouldn’t you be if you suddenly began bringing in a fortune? You can always unsubscribe from the list or do like I do - delete them.
I’ve been subscribed to this company when it was known as “the ListCrusade.” The guy was living in a crowded apartment with other people sharing it and dogs and cats, a crappy cobbled-up computer and a crappy car.
I’d love to be in his place right now - not having to answer to a company that I work for and be controlled by it even in my “spare” time - if there’s such a thing spare time in the life of a wage slave. I’m sure if I were to break out of this crummy lifestyle I’d have people badmouthing me because I have freedom that they only dream of.
If this company did anything unethical I’d be right in there with you all. I read it before I entered the deal.
If you read it you’d know better. If you did read it and knew there was a charge and then shot off your post like some of those above then you are the unethical one and very mean too!
They did nothing wrong.
Now I’ve finished with my rant hopefully one of two of you will reconsider what you said. Slam me and flame me all you want if this angers you but if you do it then it is a further reflection on you.
I will end this with one more statement from the writer above,
“When all is said and done, it’s up to each person to decide if they want to partake in a system like this; after all it is possible that I’m wrong in my assumptions about Mr. Knudsons [sic] integrity. Check out the information, form your own opinions and feel free to discuss it here in the comments section. I look forward to reading what you have to say.”
I wonder how long my post will stay up on this blog if it even makes it to where it is visible to the public.
If it does then I do have to take my hat off to the owner of this blog or whoever wrote the pilot post because he’s exercising good sportsmanship.
Thus I posted in the blog at Gator-Byte.
On Employment and Labor
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on May 5, 2009
05-05-09_New Blog Post for ‘If a Man Will Not Work’
My blog activities have gone on hold for four months now. It is time to put something here -
The fact that I do take a stance that I do with regard to employment still gets certain individuals worked up over the my apparent disregard for laboring. I do not have anything at all against laboring. I strongly feel it is good for all to do this. We were designed in our very physical beings to perform labor.
Nor am I against employment.
What???
What I do not like to see is the wasting of talent and creativity that gets lost in certain kinds of employment that occurs when a person’s passion and purpose in life gets mismatched with his or her position. Generally speaking, employment for most people means getting caught up in a rut, doing a routine they would rather not do, but do it because it never occurs to them that there is more to life than such a lifestyle. Far to often passion gets pushed back with intention that one day they will be pursued. For some this gets pushed right off their lifespans. That’s sad!
I’m not knocking people nor their intelligence.
If you are reading this post and get offended by some of what I write here, I will be quick to say that the reasons why you are tired and broke (like me) is because in your early life you were “programmed” to believe the way you do with regard to getting a job. I am targeting those of you who work in low income jobs you had to endeavor out of necessity. I know you are out there and can relate to the feelings you have deep inside yourself. I see it every day where I work.
I am fully aware that there are cases where employment is both fulfilling and rewarding. About 21% of the entire population of the working class are passionate about their job positions.
What about the 79%?
Very few are all out eager to get up, leave their homes, and do the mundane work they do each and every work day. Many of you have applied religious work-around to your situation and that works fine. I have no qualms about that. What I do have a problem with is many of you have been led to believe that it is a virtue to live this way. This belief puts you in a prison needlessly. God never said you have to do what you do for the sake of “just passing through” this life. When I talk about virtue here I refer to that belief where the attainment of wealth on the earth is wrong. If this were so then Solomon was dead wrong! I strongly believe that it is not the act of being wealthy that is wrong but the wrong attitude about it when having attained wealth.
In my own words, without consulting a dictionary, wealth is synonymous with “blessings.” Many, when they hear the word “wealth,” think money. This is not all there is to wealth. If this were so then people who have wealth in this regard are miserable. Now I may be wrong and way off with my definition of wealth being blessings, but I do know that wealth has much more to do than with money alone.
Another way to look at wealth is “abundance.” Few will argue that wealth does take this attribute. One can be poor monetarily but yet be wealthy! The virtues of human existence fit nicely under this thing we call abundance. Yet there are people out there who believe that lack and poverty are traits of virtue. NO SUCH THING! Anybody who believes this have been brainwashed in some way.
Today I had a conversation with “Slavica,” a supervisor I had when I worked for Sodexho at Florida College. We talked about employment and attaining wealth. The very first thing she brought up was the idea that it was wrong to be wealthy, that only certain people are privileged with such an existence. “You’ve got to be born into wealth.” she told me. All I could do was sit there and have compassion for her and then attempt to explain that this was a figure of a limiting belief that many people hold.
This belief definitely will keep otherwise highly successful people in mediocrity.
The common beliefs that being wealthy is wrong, rich people are bad, that they steal from the poor and attain their wealth in other insidious ways to such who believe this way makes scarcity and victim mentality virtuous. Sure, there are individuals out there who have gotten rich monetarily through such means but this does not in any way mean they are wealthy! The media has also played a tremendous role in the formulation of such erroneous beliefs amongst the masses. To hold such beliefs about all wealthy people whether or not it is intentional does injustice, moreover, prejudice, against those who have truly and ethically acquired wealth.
The belief that being rich or wealthy is insidious is widely held by the working class, especially low wage and is one of the characteristics of employee mentality. Schools generally teach little or nothing about the subjects of money and wealth outside of standard business education and mathematics. How to manage money, risk management, investing are all vital to the proper understanding of wealth but that is not all there is with regard to education that gets left out. Self discipline, gratitude, the responsible management of resources, creativity, and many other subjects form the well-rounded education that it takes to become wealthy. These things typically do not have high priority in the standards of education as administered by our school systems which is geared more towards producing working-class citizens.
Employment does have its place for without it business as we know it could not stand. It is vital to commerce. There will always be a working class and there always had been one in every culture. Employment and laboring for a living is inescapable for most people. However, wealth, being rich, employment, the employee, victim mentality, employee mentality, abundance, poverty, scarcity, education, and many more topics need to be viewed in the light that they truly are and not what they are commonly believed to be.
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Such passages as, “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat.” hinge on being apathetic about labor, being lazy, irresponsible, individuals who refuse to “fill their space.” It does not mean one must get a job and live the life of employment if he has the desire to go beyond this. All too often biblical passages like this are imposed on those who seek entrepreneurial or proprietorial lifestyles but are in process of self education in such attainments. I do believe, however, that if employment is expedient for the time being for such who are endeavoring to educate themselves for such attainments until such time these become viable and profitable, the passage is applicable.
What Happens to Our Creativity?
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Mar 11, 2009
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I have long recognized that one of the attributes of the employee mentality is the general lack of creativity. When we were young we’ve been told that our creativity and passion alike must be saved for a later time when we would be at liberty to pursue them. It is as if we were to “earn” these privileges. There are certainly number of sources from which we were conditioned to think like this. One of the sources come from one of the things we hold so dear to our hearts - our educational systems.
This post is not long. It is not meant to be. This is the first video I have presented on this blog and it will tell a sobering story with a humorous twist. No, what this presentations is all about is not funny. But in this case we need a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
Further, I must include here that I am not knocking instructors who believe that creativity indeed has an important role in the proper education of our children, and not just children, but all of us.
Presenting, Sir Ken Robinson’s Do Schools Kill Creativity? This will make you think…
I hope you enjoyed today’s post and do what you can to reawaken the creativity that may be slumbering deep within you! This is all for today.
“You Can Even Do It In Your Underwear”
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Feb 26, 2009
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I added the following post to Rich Schefren’s blog. Why the title I used for it in this blog won’t become evident until the postscript at the end. The important message here draws attention to certain reports Rich offers freely to struggling Internet marketers abroad.
Rich is a super successful entrepreneur who has marketed both off, and on-line. Some of the most famous internet marketing experts with wildly successful businesses consult Rich Schefren. He is known as the “guru of gurus!”
I get no compensation to write a post like this. I aim to bring great benefit to my readers. It is what my chosen name, “Euergetes,” means. I strive to be your benefactor in bringing you the best possible information gold nuggets you could ever find.
With no further adieu, the article I published on Rich’s blog…
It’s information like this that I love to share with my friends! The very idea that marketers know there are opportunity-seekers and try to shove their garbage up their yin-yangs. I’m not one of those who fall for the usual hype found plastered all over the Internet. Adjectives and power words do not fool me. Nor do the headers full of yachts, Lamborghini cars, falling money, mansions, hammocks, ocean beaches, and exotic moods.
I could not describe the feeling I get when I see the rubbish just everywhere, the hyped-up sales copy, empty promises, large numbers, the little or no work involved. C’mon! I’d say…common sense tells you…and it stops right there.
Yes, I know what this is but I can’t put a handle on it. There’s a name for it but what is it??? I’ve seen this before in television ads, in junk mail letters meant to look personal, exclusive.
Offer after offer after offer…”it’s the buzz!” It’s what’s happening…now…tomorrow’s another story! Better get it now because tomorrow the price will go up…and it’s going to get sold out. It all makes me sick and sadly, this is the way of the Wild Wild Web.
Millions of “newbies” and intermediates alike get suckered in to this course, that program, and this other opportunity over here! This one’s cutting down these gurus, pointing out the flaws of each one in a long list…and then unveils the ultimate no-brainer opportunity that defies all logic! Nothing like this has ever happened before…so cash in in this new and exciting program and make more money than you know what to do with!
Yes, I’ve seen it all and who hasn’t if he’s been on the Internet for any length of time. I’ve got ten email accounts full of b.s. marketers pushing the same old crap in their messages…this teleseminar, that free report, promises of great luxury for the taking…
This is not to say there are no great courses, e-books, and other absolutely worthwhile content out there! However, it can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack (if I may use a rather quoted to death expression.) Great educational materials can be found on the Internet if you know what you are looking for.
The door of truth is plain and as a consequence many many people walk right on by it not knowing it is there. Some people stand right in front of such door and not even bother to open it even when it doesn’t require a key! Yet they’ll use battering rams to bust down down locked doors which feature elegant gold-trimmed motifs…often in return for small fortunes of their hard-earned cash to get on through!
The same goes for the secret door to success…Very few fortunate souls will ever find it. There’s really not one door, but several, all leading to the same truth, the same success. There’s not really any difference in the content behind each. However they stand, unchanged, sometimes with peeling paint, forbidden-looking, outright ugly at times.
There are a few good products out there. They’re to be found behind such doors. It takes a lot of effort to find them but once found, will put those who enter in “unfair” advantage over the masses. The Business Lyceum is one such door. ‘Ol Jim Straw can’t be beat! I invite you to explore his website! It offers free reports you won’t be able to put down for more than one sitting! He’s had the same opportunities and educational features on this website for some time. The reason is very clear - they are timeless and still work better than the garbage products and opportunities that won’t sit still much longer than the twinkling of an eye! They’ll be there tomorrow and you have time to make decisions on them you deserve to do for yourself. Any of his products for sale are well worth every penny you will pay for them.
Rich Schefren is another! The free reports he passes out freely shock and reform those who find them! But they can be hidden like the plain door they are! The Business Manifesto sat on my hard drive for many months until I found one of those “guru” review sites which did offer an excellent positive review on Rich. Curiosity got to me when I noticed that most of the other well-known high-ranking gurus were given negative reviews. So I looked up the report on this hard drive…
The contents blew my mind! They made me very angry!! I sat there with feelings of helplessness which gave way to empowerment! Indeed this is information which is suppressed from the millions of souls out there who think they are entrepreneurs but are really opportunity-seekers sitting like ducks in the scopes of voracious hunters bent on doing whatever they can to separate them from their money!
This is no come-and-go product launch! It behooves anybody who reads this to look into these free reports! Don’t let the “free” fool you that these are a throw-together of more rehashed and out-dated junk content. You are in for a real pleasant but eye-opening surprise! Get ready to wake up! It’s your wake-up call and the time is ripe.
There’s no strings attached. There’s no ulterior motive behind them. If you pan for gold you’ll be very fortunate to find any gold nuggets. Yes they are there, but they are very hard to find especially if you don’t know what you are looking for…
All I can tell you after this long post is that it behooves you to get ahold of these reports and read them for yourself! You will get set straight! It will pop out at you like you never thought possible. You will change the way you are doing business forever. Get Rich Schefren’s Business Manifesto and the companion reports as well. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find “Reports” in the in-line selections. All his available free reports are found in the short menu under this heading. They won’t cost you anything except the confusion you now have in the overall puzzle you’re now trying to piece together. Want the solutions?
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P.S.
You’ll notice many opportunity websites will tell you that you can do what so-called little it takes to make massive windfalls of money. Spend four hours a week and make thousands per day, or week…
…and you can even do it in your underwear!
Get this and get it now! If you follow through with most of these offerings and opportunities all you will be able to afford IS your underwear!
So put your pants on!
It’s good business practice anyway even if it’s in your own home office. You wouldn’t run around in a corporate office in your underwear would you? Why do it in your own home business? It really shows the same kind of disrespect for your own business as it would in any corporate setting.
If you see such expressions in sales copy, turn around and run like hell! …and make sure you have a belt on too, shirt tucked in, etc.
Get these reports and you’ll see what I mean about some of the important things being kept safely out of your sight and mind!
P.S.S.
Another important thing to bear in mind…
Unlike many of these “Better get it now because tomorrow it may be gone…” spiels, great and timely offers that have real value will still be there tomorrow. It’s not going anywhere soon. True it is not wise to wait forever, but be ever on the look-out for offers which feature such pressure to get-it-quickly-or-else-you’ll-miss-out. These are designed to push your impulse-buying buttons.
You want to shield these buttons so they cannot be pushed! Don’t let scrupulous marketers do this to you. It behooves you to sleep on something before you act on it. Most of the time offers like these are for things you don’t need!
A Four-Letter Word Employees Fear Most
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Feb 19, 2009
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Most working people rely on a single income to sustain their lives on. They become so dependent upon this source that they go to far length to protect and maintain it. Any disruption in income for about 40% of the entire workforce will cause total ruin and disruption in life that is almost unimaginable. The one and absolutely ominous reality to being employed is that there are numerous reasons an employee can lose his income.
It can be an economic decision on the part of the company when sales plummet and amongst the first people to feel the crunch are employees. In a layoff however, the employee usually has some sort of income to fall back on, such as unemployment benefits offered by the state when such emergencies occur. The layoff may be temporary or it may be permanent. Albeit this does cause major disruption in the lives of employees putting them in positions where they must restore their income. This situation is usually beyond their control and can cause great suffering and financial hardship.
The very nature of employment in the usual sense is that when a person cannot work for some reason or another, his income also stops. This certainly doesn’t take a rocket-scientist or even a firecracker-scientist to figure out. Sickness, relationship problems, and scores of other reasons cause interruption in face time of an employee that directly affects income. So far I have mentioned the more temporary conditions here. There is one other condition anybody could figure out reading this article - termination.
More of a slang word to denote termination is being fired. As early on as I am in the publishing and writing career I’m building on, I’m still in the position where I must rely on employment to obtain most or all of my income. There are perhaps thousands of people like myself trying to set up businesses in order to achieve what it is they feel they’ve been called in life to do. Like myself, building a business is not easy when having to work around a job and having limited financial resources, etc.
Today I’m subject to termination from my minimum-wage job over a very silly incident that happened yesterday. A coworker took immediate defense when I pointed out something he did that causes a problem for others in the workplace - loading a trash compactor incorrectly, causing it to jam up. The incident led to a loud confrontation between us in the kitchen where I work which caused management to intervene.
Today I’m sitting at this computer writing this article waiting for the decision of upper management to determine whether I will have my job anymore - all for the most part, over a personality conflict. I’m not here to say who was more wrong than the other. I’m attempting to show why it is imperative not to place all your eggs in one basket, to rely only on your employment. I suggest that in doing so you are subjecting yourself to wage-slavery and vulnerability to income loss.
When you get fired from a job it has a prolonged and undesired effect on you than you may bargain for. Again this is not rocket science but something many people do not want to think about. Deep down inside the souls of employees there is always this imminent fear of being fired. This fear is usually buried in the subconscious mind, “in the back of the mind” as some would have it. It may occur over something serious they may have done or over something so pathetically silly that it would make one really wonder. Being fired also destroys your reputation and makes it that much harder to become re-employed.
One of the other pitfalls of being employed is that many times you do not have control over who your coworkers will be. You get yoked up with whoever the company feels should be there. A company is not always in the business of putting its employees in situations that provides the most comfortable condition for them. Unfortunately being so yoked means having to work with others you may not like or can even deal with. Unlike employment, you meet someone in the entrepreneurship world you do not like you simply turn your back on that person and go another direction. Try and do that to your boss and see how far you get even if the boss is in the wrong. Very fortunately having a bovine for a boss has not been a problem in my case.
Employment is essentially like being caged up with other employees and you have little control over the actions of such employees and how they can affect your standing with the company. If you find yourself in a position of unpopularity amongst certain fellow employees this can adversely work against you. A wrong move on your part with regard to how you may have handled a situation at work can also put you on the street, lose your family, spouse, home, car, and go hungry. Today I’m sitting here waiting for the telephone to ring with the answer to what my fate is concerning the disruption at my place of employment. I work around some pretty foul-mouthed and uneducated individuals who could care less what happens to me. Maybe getting fired is a blessing in disguise. There is no way at this point to know this for sure.
There are no better words to describe the feeling I have now than “lack of control.” This is most every employee’s story. My strong suggestion to you who reads this article is to begin working on alternative means of income, preferably something you have strong passion for. Relying on just one income and having to force yourself to go to your place of employment is no less than wage-slavery. There are things you can do that produces passive income - that kind of income that works for you when you do NOT work.
On the Difference Between Making Mistakes and Failing
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Jan 15, 2009
01-15-09_Hello Debbie:
You commented on my wall about the chat project and what a great feat that was to compile the chat posts whilst paying attention to the presentations in Ross’ Seminar. I relied very heavily on the replays. I also had to work which severely interrupted my attendance in the Seminar. I had “scribes” help me. Our combined efforts literally brought together in print about 98.9% of the entire chat! I am happy to have met you because you do see what I also see.
Just a few words here…
The chat ebooks were a failure! Now before you wonder what I meant by that… When Ross gave me the idea to SELL the ebooks, I set out with this and I failed. I did not know what I was getting myself into. Originally they were meant to be given away and timing was not so important. The project bombed right from the get-go because there was no planning. It was an idea I got very soon after the chat started. I learned my first marketing lesson from this project … better get it whilst it is hot! I didn’t know that in the internet marketing, or in any marketing, you must move very quickly! Selling the the ebooks went out the window faster than I could turn my head - or complete the first one! However they are not a failure if looked at in the original sense. I had intended to give them away. It is still not too late to do that. I don’t need Ross’ list, I have my own - Twitter.
I never realized how long it would take to assimilate all the fragments into a continuous manuscript from beginning to end. That was phase one - a great big puzzle! Color-coding the names and bolding them became the other enormous task I had no idea would be so voluminous. I’m STILL doing this. Ross letting it be a free-for-all for members to log in any way they pleased from day-to-day, even moment-to-moment resulted in the creation of many hundreds of macros to achieve the desired effects in the ebooks. I’m not kidding when I say this…one name in the list is verbatim, “guess who!” It would literally take months to do this by hand! Wonderful thing this Visual Basic…that I had to learn on the spot!
Ross got heavily involved in his product launch and told me he couldn’t do anything with regard to letting his list know about the project until after the holidays. I had a hunch this would affect sales and stopped. I now had other things pressing and could no longer account for the “irresponsible use of my time” to people around me in the physical world who insisted I needed to be out pounding the pavement looking for work rather than being at this computer all this time playing around with foolish things.” After the holidays I told Ross that I stopped the project and he said that was the most foolish thing he’d ever heard! I went back to the project and plugged away at it again, telling Ross my progress from time to time. Little did I know stopping the project had caused him such despair and that my short messages were annoying the tar out of him. I did not know the gravity of a “$1,000 product launch” until he bluntly told me off to stop bothering him. My last message to him was, “OK. I’m gone!” I brooded in the fact that I “brought out the worst in such a kind person which is something I am great at doing!”
But I looked at it completely wrong!
Why all this? We are taught in school that mistakes are terrible, ugly things to do! We got punished, sometimes pretty severely for making mistakes! That’s why you will never get anywhere if you think it a terrible thing to make mistakes. As you can see, I’ve made a lot of mistakes with this project already and it isn’t even finished yet! I’m going to plough forward with it still because I promised people, I will deliver on it if it is the last thing I do! A mistake is one thing, failure is another. I learned recently that a failure results when you quit something. I don’t believe in the saying, “fail forward.” When you fail, you fail. That’s not nice if it is unavoidable. If you continue in something you have not failed. Yes, in regard to the project, it was a failure — in sales — but not in its original intent, though I’ve made loads of mistakes.
It would have been a failure if I deleted my work and unsubscribed from Ross’ list, like I thought about doing after Ross dumped on me. But even the reason he dumped on me is a learning experience. I had no idea what was involved in a product launch because I’ve never done one and had no idea what he was going through at the time. I would have hurt myself by doing the above. Mark Strickland helped me here. It was another lesson — negativity. And I’ve even written articles on negativity myself!
Let me share with you what I found when I ran upon a video Ross did. One of the points in it concerns subscribing to as many newsletters as possible. Someone responded with a video telling the world what a dumb idea that was. It was even a bit sarcastic about the name Immortal” and the lightening in the header image. As one would expect, Ross had a response to that video with yet another of his own.
I wanted to see Ross tear this person apart but you know what? He didn’t! He admitted his error instead which shocked me and said nothing about the deriding of the content in the header! He then turned out a report which clarifies both points of views and who would and would not benefit from subscribing to as many newsletters as possible. Ross teaches a great lesson to the world with his example of dealing with negative criticism.I must say I re-learned a great lesson. When I was very young I saw our next-door neighbor, Steven Yahn, put a rock (or a baseball) through a window of the one-car garage. I thought to myself, “Wow! Wait till his father gets home and sees this! I thought from my own viewpoint of what my own father would do to me for breaking a window. I’d gotten a beating for it and would have hidden myself. I watched when his father came home and the young Steve walked right up to his dad - the owner of an asphalt paving company - a man great in stature and quite powerful in physical strength. He boldly said,
“Dad, I broke the garage window.”
Thinking his father would lay him out right there, I was shocked that all he got was that he would have to pay for the damage. That same voice still resonates within the annals of my memory forty years later…
Now, do I take the cake for having the longest facebook post on your wall?
Go at it Debbie! We all have 24 hours per day. No, I don’t like how some of my time is spent. I’m employed and is exactly what I am now writing a book on! We can change but that means MISTAKES. Please don’t let this stop you in anything you do that is new and unfamiliar. If you died trying at something that would not be a failure. But if you quit…that’s another story. And if you never get started because you are afraid of making mistakes…it’s the same another story.
Thanks to you I have an article for my blogs!
With love, Daniel
If a Man Will Not Work…
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Jan 2, 2009
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The following is a letter I wrote today to a close friend who attended Florida College when I did during the mid 1990s.
Hello again Mike:
I need to elaborate more on my last letter…
Foremost, the file I sent you is a result of quickly writing out thoughts so what you have a bare bones and crude representation of what will be put into the book and it is subject to editing.
This letter will serve as additional notes for the book as well as more thought for your consideration.
As for the apparent stance on Christianity, I’m writing the book to the general public which includes unbelieving individuals. I would like to write a book especially written for Christians. The current book is not about Christianity though I found it necessary to bring up certain biblical passages as they are associated with certain implications regarding employment. The issues here are not particularly those of Christianity as it stands in its pure sense, but on people’s beliefs in what it teaches.
The book for Christians would explore what God has to say about the implications found in my current book. I thinking of using a title much like this, If A Man Will Not Work: Implications of Employment and It’s Alternatives. That’s a crude throw-together of a title, but may be a good one. The passage (along with others) would be extensively studied and their what they mean carefully considered.
The book would also serve as a back end product for the current one I am now writing.
The way I am writing my current book is very much the same way a campaign on evolution vs. divine intelligence was recently held at USF. The best way I can relate to that is like that of a chameleon. It changes its color to match the environment it is in, but it is still a chameleon. The meeting at USF was conducted very differently than it would have been in front of an audience of Bible believers. So if my treatment to Christianity appears watered down in my book, it is an answer to the respect for readers who are not religious.
Among the churches of Christ there are people who strongly feel that the passage in the Bible, “If a man shall not work neither shall he eat” means that the one ethical thing to do is to secure employment. I have not elaborated upon this fact in the file, that some people have not known anything more than securing income via employment for a multiplicity of reasons. Therefore when they see the passage, they interpret it such that this only implies going out and getting a job like you would working for a company, commuting, and all that. This brings up the fact that sometimes people are inadvertently closed-minded about other possibilities which may be acceptable alternatives to obeying commands associated with the passage.
That there are other alternatives out there for which folks can secure income is the very core of why my book now exists though still under development.
Other issues that come up as a result of beliefs of what the Bible says are such notions that it is unethical to dream (because this is considered childish) and that poverty is a virtue. I’m now paraphrasing but Paul says, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13:11) When talking about my aspirations to some bretheren, I’ve had this passage thrown in my face as if my discourse on pursuing dreams and imagining is an immature thing to do.
I would add that, unlike ancient Greek educational systems, imagination does not come into as high a priority in today’s educational systems and I say that to its shame. One only need to look at the curriculum of most school systems and how budgets affect it.
Yet another issue comes up when others tell me such things that it is the poor who will inherit the earth, etc. I realize priorities being out of line and poor attitude about wealth can apply here, but again, the historical implications come into play here again. Furthermore I do not believe the Bible teaches that poverty is a virtue like others claim. Even the appearance of those who attend worship testify to this fact though occasionally that poverty is virtuous is silently taught.
For people who hold such beliefs, employment perfectly fits in. You will not get rich from it, you will, in most cases, be very controlled and the ceiling of prosperity is indeed very low. For the undisciplined, it is the perfect answer to controlling idleness. I have run into opposition right in the church that I’m looking at employment very negatively and that I need to change my beliefs on it. If employment keeps a soul from Hell, I recommend it. Otherwise, no.
That I dislike working for a company does not make me an undisciplined or irresponsible person. I have never fit into that kind of lifestyle very well and have been accused of not having my life right with God. I suggest that some people do not do very well being under such constraint. That the different modes of occupation in life does not necessarily take high priority in the Bible doesn’t mean it’s wrong to concern myself with it. In fact, breaking off from employment in my life would give me the withal to put out books and let them earn my money for me while I develop myself for better service to God and to humanity. I believe in letting the books work for me, thus money working for me rather than putting in vast quantities of my time working for money. It just does not fit who I am and it is only out of expedience I now am employed.
If I can prod people with my book to do the things in their lives that they aspire instead of the drudgery of doing something everyday that is mismatched with their purposes in life, I’ve accomplished what I meant to. This does not mean I’m totally against the existence of employment. I realize it has its place and not everyone has the ability or wants to assume the propositions found in my book.
There are many reasons why people believe this. It is not to say they get their beliefs from the Bible, but how they interpret it with respect to their beliefs previously formulated by others around them..
They go so far as to bind these things upon others. This is the issue here. Before the book gets released it will be carefully scrutinized to make sure what I say here is accurate. In fact, I’m attempting to show virtues that indeed come from God though the direct sources filtered so as not to turn off folks who have an aversion to the biblical view of things. In the mean time I can use biblical insight without offending them.
I appreciate the great things you have said with regard to my book. Whatever you do not agree with I’d appreciate the feedback. There may be things there that need clarification, rewritten, and downright omitted if it is indeed out of line with reality. All your thoughts are welcomed. You are the first to submit some sort of testimony about the book. I would include you in the Acknowledgments for your contributions in thought to this book.
Gratefully, Daniel
P.S. You can see my blog at http://www.euergetes-publishing.com I am proposing a separate blog for Christian readers for the purpose of discussion on the topics I bring up. I happily say you have caused me to come up with the idea. I’m thinking of giving the domain name the title of this post.
Jack and the Beanstalk Revisited
Posted by Daniel Euergetes on Dec 26, 2008
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Have you ever experienced coming up with a great idea, gone to tell loved ones, friends or family about it only to hear, “You can’t do that!?” These people are well-meaning, look at the practical side of life, and hold dearly to security. And after all, your great idea would come with inherent risks.
Many great ideas, when carried out, require steps that go outside of the realms of the ordinary. Considered “different” to ordinary people, those who act upon their dreams take steps they see as inconvenient; uncomfortable; out-of-reach; or unnatural. To those who live their lives happily risk-free, security-bound, such notions can be perceived as outlandish; ridiculous; and downright threatening.
Thus nay saying results when you disclose your great ideas. When I speak of a great idea, I don’t mean that ingenious idea that led to the quick repair something that was broken or finding the cause of a leaking roof. I’m referring to the brainstorming mind that comes up with big idea - starting a corporation and dropping out of the employment world; an invention of something unheard of before; or the suspected presence of some great fortune to be had only through some calculated risk.
Sometime around the age of seven I had read the famous story, Jack and the Beanstalk. I became so fascinated with the story it I “walked and talked” it everywhere I went. On a mid-summer day I had visited the vegetable garden of a neighbor to discover large plants with sturdy-looking stalks. They towered way over my head. I ran home to my mother who was in the kitchen and beamed that I had seen some beanstalks growing!
These were actually sunflower plants that had not yet blossomed. My brother, in dismay, uttered: “Oh you and your beanstalks!” While my brothers and sisters spent their time watchng the black-and-white television in the living room, I spent my time collecting rocks and minerals and learning about geology. “Oh you and your rocks!” My real education did not come from schools.
Throughout the 1970s the counter culture movement replaced the fairy tale. It was more real, replacing the fairy tale, yet was colorful; vibrant; and definately out-of-the-ordinary. To me, it was fascinating for such a thing to exist in the drab world of the “regular” life everybody else around me was living. I adhered to the movement long after it died out. I learned a lot about life most people didn’t care about. It left its mark in my life and served its purpose. Eventually it gave way to my exposure entrepreneurship.
Have I stopped living Jack and the Beanstalk? Recently I contemplated about my direction in life as it has always gone in some other direction than the rest of the herd. I’ve seen a lot of opposition and had been pulled aside by many well-meaning souls who counseled me to put away childish dreams and get focused on my job (or get out there and pound that pavement to get one.) I must put the childish things in their proper perspective and act like a man.
Many thought there was something very wrong with me. There are those who still do. I didn’t do very well socializing, grew to hate small talk, big talk, and just plain mediocre talk. I had not realized my potential until after a long while living around people who offered no support for what I have come to believe in life.
The real issues in my life came from the bombardment of criticism that I didn’t like work, was stubborn, childish, even downright devious. Eventually this did break my spirit and I reluctantly took my place in the turning of the wheels.
I had to. The day the Internet caused my eyes to be opened had not yet happened. So I tore myself out of my home every day…Kachunk! Kachunk! Kachunk! Again…and again…and again. I did it in the same quiet desperation everybody else around me was doing it. Today I still do it but no longer in quiet desperation! For the day came when I met entrepreneurs on the Internet and caused me to rediscover my early passions in life. Yes, I still am employed but I don’t hate work. They’re not one in the same.
I reflect upon that old fairy tale, and as I get older, can see how I can relate to Jack. Any of his peers back then knew to get down and put their nose to the grindstone to help their families buy bread and keep the cow fed so she would keep giving milk. However Jack did not like doing grunt work, making someone else rich. Like Jack, I have climbed that beanstalk and found the treasure above the clouds in the castle. I have not yet seized the treasures but I’m now mustering myself.
How many times have you been “punished” for what you thought was a great idea? Jack traded his mother’s only possession - a lean cow for a bunch of multicolored beans from a total stranger. Being branded a “foolish, foolish boy” Jack was sent to bed with no supper and his mother angrily threw the beans out the window.
You know the rest of the story…
We all know “Jacks” who lived their lives in times past. Guglielmo Marconi is best known for the invention of radio we now take for granted. What we may not know about him was that he was thrown into an asylum for believing he could send signals through the air!
Many of you know there’s got to be more to life than to be a wage slave, grind your life away to get the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table.
But you get the picture. There’s a price to be paid when you dare to take the least traveled road in life, one which most members of the masses will not take. Those who will walk where others will not go and live the life others will not are more likely to get to where others can’t. Those who insist on living the “default” life are not likely to find the giant’s castle where can be found the money bags, hen which lays the golden eggs, and the enchanted harp.
Despite the wake of ridicule and admonishment to take your head out of the clouds, I challenge you to find your passions and dreams, visualize them and bring them into fruition. For in so doing you will find the life you have dreamed about and learn the real meaning of freedom.
Welcome to my blog and hope you find it to be inspiring as well as stimulating to you to find yourself and learn of your power within.
