“The only sure way for your people to lose is if they give up. Your lack of encouragement should never be the reason a person quits. A leader must always keep believing in people, no matter what.” No. 1 – Have confidence in your people. * See each person as a winner. * Expect...
I’m always talking about the attributes of successful people: - They set goals. - They are action-oriented. - They are willing to outwork the competition. - They are eager to learn. - They are persistent. Today, for a change, let’s talk about what you don’t need to succeed. - You don’t have to be...
Brain waves do not “determine” your state of mind – they are caused by it.” Source: Steven Novella, M.D. http://www.theness.com/neurologicalblog Brain wave training has been found to yield excellent results in facilitation of human memory, attention span, and relaxation (Hutchinson, 1994). Furthermore, this research has been demonstrating brain-wave training as an effective intervention in...
It is yet another book that tries to explain how and why people react the way they do. Initially, I thought it would be a re-hash of Blink and other such books. However, there were some new ideas. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, each of which is focused on different...
Remember what happened the last time you bought a new car? Didn’t it seem like everyone was suddenly driving the same make, model, and even color car you had just bought? You know why that happened? Because buying a car was an emotional experience that caused your brain to start focusing on that model...
I’m not someone who usually makes predictions for the future, but all signs indicate that in the year 2010 you’ll be hearing many smart business owners talk about their “WCS”. What does WCS stand for? It stands for “Worst-Case Scenario”. Just as technology companies around the world have people working in IT departments specifically...
“The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind; and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it...
There’s a deceptively simple tool that’s guaranteed to help you make breakthroughs in your online business. Google Analytics is a no-nonsense software that comes with a load of features that can give you important data and statistics about how your customers “behave” as they browse your website. This includes a tracking feature that allows...
In Less Than Two Weeks – The Same Experts Who Get Paid Millions To Mentor Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, & Starbucks… Are Now Willing To Give You The Same Expert Advice To Build Your Own Business… With One Difference. You Get It Absolutely Free! Discovery Session 1 Webcast October 29th, 2009 Michael Bosworth...
A while ago, there was a widespread outage on Google’s Gmail service for more than an hour. Google’s response to its customers was a good example of how every business should act. First, they acknowledged that there had been a problem and let their customers know that they understood how much it affected them:...
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” - John F. Kennedy “The higher your aims and vaster your desires, the more energy you will have for their fulfillment. Desire the good of all and the universe will work with you. But...
Guy Cohen's Flag Trader Stock System - OVI Index Flag Trader Stock Consolidation Chart Pattern Trading Secret Flag-Trading System
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I was recently asked to write the Foreword to Curtis Faith’s upcoming book, Trading from Your Gut, which is all about trading and intuition. This got me thinking about the different types of intuition that one can possess. Intuition is a concept with which I am quite familiar and which I believe is extremely...
I came across an article yesterday touting the release of Honda’s new personal mobility technology, U3-X (pictured below). Basically, the U3-X is a stool with a unique directional wheel system that allows it to travel diagonally, as well as right, left, forward, and backward – a robotic unicycle if you will. When I read...
The Fourth Turning is an amazingly prescient book Neil Howe wrote with the late William Strauss in 1997. The work, which describes generational archetypes and the cyclical patterns created by these archetypes, has been an eye-opener to anyone able to entertain the notion that history may repeat itself. At the time the book was...
The biggest and most reliable returns in the market come from the safest and most mature companies. These high-quality companies pay dividends. And they raise those dividends year after year. Buy their shares when they are cheap. Then reinvest the dividends. And Coca-Cola is the perfect example of how this strategy pays off: “Did...
“At GrupoAdm we’re so excited to receive this award, since we’ve been in business for just 3 years now. The participants were serious companies in different fields, so it’s been a pleasure to participate with them and get this incredible recognition. I just can’t imagine what we will do in the next 3 years...
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We all know that trans fats are horrible for your health right? But what if I told you that there is a specific type of trans fat that’s natural (not man-made) and actually helps you to lose fat faster and build lean muscle? Well, check out the excerpt from my new program that I...
Thinking about buying a new car, laptop, or television? Even if it’s something less grand like a music CD or book, most consumers check out detailed reviews from experts and feedback from people who’ve already purchased the item before making their decision to buy. This information is easy to find in the retail sector...
“The Great Formula For Creating Maximum Profit With Minimal Effort” by Mark Joyner Mark Joyner, the author of The Great Formula is one of my favorite experts and he has a gift for taking complex ideas, which may seem too formidable to do, stripping them down to the essentials and helping you to take...
ABB Ltd (ABB) continues to flex its global muscle. On Sept 18th, ABB announced it had won an order worth $25 million from Chile’s leading transmission utility, Transelec SA. Add this new contract to ABB’s pre-existing $25.9 billion backlog. The contract will call upon ABB to provide an SVC Light (Static VAR Compensation) installation...
A cashmap is “a well-planned and systematic approach to building your online business from the ground up… or from whatever stage you’re at right now. You simply plug into one of these detailed maps… follow along from point “A” to point “B” all the way to “Z” and beyond… and your business just continues...
Here’s the deal: My buddy Michael Rasmussen is one of the world’s #1 super affiliates, and what he has to show you is, quite frankly, mind boggling. Let me tell you, there is nothing, and I mean nothing, that feels as good jumping online and producing massive bursts of short-term cash on demand. It...
Four Easy Ways to Trade the World’s Top Commodities If you’re looking to add some great potential gains to your portfolio, then consider what commodities can do for you. Four Commodities… Four Explosive Moves Want some examples of how explosive commodities can be? Just look at these moves for oil, natural gas, gold and...
1. Have you in the last 10 days … visited a customer? 2. Have you called a customer … TODAY? 3. Have you in the last 60–90 days … had a seminar in which several folks from the customer’s operation (different levels, different functions, different divisions)interacted, via facilitator, with various of your folks? 4....
How will the world look in 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years? How will the continents look? Will it be hot or cold? And what kinds of fantastic creatures will be walking the Earth? These are the questions The Future Is Wild Set out to answer, by involving the world’s leading scientists...
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I’m a big fan of Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL). I’ve written about it here on several occasions. Apple is so far ahead of its competitors in product design and functionality that it’s hardly worth the comparison, except in a few cases. But what about Apple as a company? What sets it so far apart...
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit. by John Mackay “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” —Margaret Thatcher With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both...
In the latest book by Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall, Collins carefully outlines how great, thriving organizations can quickly and dramatically fall from prominence. While he spends a lot of time outlining what he calls the “Five Stages of Decline”, I was particularly motivated by his thoughts on what those who fall, and...
Forget Microsoft-Apple or Microsoft-Google. A new rivalry is developing in the tech world. Google and Apple are increasingly squaring off over lucrative markets like the mobile computing field. And there are many examples of the competition between the two for the mobile market heating up. Exhibit A is the launch of Android-based mobile phones....
Billionaire John Paulson’s hedge-fund firm, Paulson & Co, filed its most recent 13F (institutional managers who manage over $100 million are required to report their long positions in the U.S. markets each quarter) for the quarter ended June 30, and he’s making a huge bet on financials… Paulson gained fame in 2007 after he...
$678 Billion Tech Explosion There is a proliferation of a new breakthrough that Popular Mechanics calls a “highly evolved…technology… changing the way humans interact with machines.” It’s a “touch” technology that will soon let you feel the texture of an iceberg thousands of miles away… test the firmness of a mattress over the internet…...
Applications from Toyota to Internet Marketing Online Toyota has grown profits quarter over quarter for 50 consecutive years. Today, the company grosses over $200 BILLION in sales, and recently leap-frogged both Ford and GM in one fell swoop to become the largest and most profitable car company in the world. The Big Three have...
If you have massive coal reserves, an oil project in Kurdistan, or a boatload of gold bullion, China wants to talk to you. The Chinese government holds over $2 trillion in reserves. The dollar is an asset that has lost 33% of its purchasing power since 2002. And with the U.S. government creating boatloads...
The question as investors we have been focused on for some time is whether we end up with inflation, or deflation, and what that endgame looks like. It is one of the most important questions an investor must ask for the last 2 years, and getting the answer right is critical. The Crash of...
Gold Spot Price Analysis .1. Gold in USD (1 ounce = US$953.90) • It’s really getting interesting in the gold market. The big question is, “Will gold break through the US$1,000 level and advance to new all-time highs or will it once again fail while trying?” I am still quite skeptical at the moment....
John McAfee is, of course, the founder of antivirus software company, McAfee. His innovation was to give away the software for free, but charge fees for the upgrades and technical support. The company went public in 1992, and McAfee pocketed an enormous amount of money. Two years later, he sold his remaining shares. At...
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Change is like a pin to the balloons of conventional wisdom. Just when people settle into their views, here comes the pin. For instance, it’s become widely accepted when talking about emerging economies to focus on the so-called BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China. But there is a very important region that...
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” “Do you wish to be great? Then begin...
Economic bubbles are generally considered to have a negative impact on the economy because they tend to cause misallocation of resources into non-optimal uses. In addition, the crash which usually follows an economic bubble can destroy a large amount of wealth and cause continuing economic malaise. But, bubbles could be great for savvy investors...
Kudzu is a Japanese vine that was planted in this country a century ago to prevent soil erosion. It’s done that … and much more. It now covers 10 million acres in the South. And it’s killing off native plants. That’s your history lesson for the day. I’m interested in kudzu as a natural...
I’ve been reading “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M.R. Covey. So much of what he covers is extremely relevant. Especially today. In times of uncertainty it’s much more difficult for people to hide under the radar or just “skate by.” Whether in a job, running a company, looking for new work, or starting...
“Losing weight is a matter of simple arithmetic. You’ve got to eat fewer calories than you burn.” This may be the most popular truism of our ever-fattening society. It is repeated by doctors and health advisors on television, in magazines, and in the pages of bestselling books. It’s universally believed by sensible, educated people....
What is the cash map? You might have read about it, seen it on a video or heard the buzz in the internet circles. According to Rich Schefren: “A cashmap is a well-planned and systematic approach to building your online business from the ground up… or from whatever stage you’re at right now. You...
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Could your sales could use a boost? Try one of these 17 things: 1. Eat lunch at a diner and write a message to your customers on the paper placemat. Photocopy the placemat (stains and all) and mail it to your customers. 2. Send your customers an empty popcorn bag with a letter inside...
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain I just got back from a meeting my largest client held for its top brass. Although my role is to provide ideas, I take as many notes as the next guy. One good idea from anyone can mean millions in...
The path to greatness is called SACRIFICE. Imagine cavemen sitting in comfort before a fire in a communal cave being urged by their mates to go hunting for food on a cold, rainy, winter day. They are being called on to make a sacrifice. They are being asked to give up the comfort of...
Joomla is the content management system that I use to run all my membership sites (including this one), but admittedly it can be a bit cumbersome to use when you’re first getting started. Well here’s a site that will cut that learning curve in half! It’s call JoomlaTutorials.com and as the name suggests it’s...
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Much of the innovation that defined the American experience in our first two centuries stagnated during the past 10 years. But this innovation stagnation has created the greatest opportunity we’ve ever seen for people wishing to start a new business. Provided, of course, that their product or service either improves the life of their...
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalism A theologian, essayist, orator and poet, Emerson is variously described as America’s own philosopher, our first literary giant, the father of the environmental movement, and the founder of what literary critic Harold Bloom calls “the American religion,” a distinctive blend of individualism and self-reliance. Emerson’s philosophy, Transcendentalism, began...
A Little Knowledge Is a Very Dangerous Thing This kind of mistake is amazingly common, because nine out of 10 Internet marketers don’t know the first thing about the science of direct marketing. The wonderful thing about direct marketing is that you can precisely measure response and predict — with statistical certainty — the...
Women, and even men nowadays, spend a small fortune on creams and lotions to keep their skin youthful looking. But there’s something you need to know, says Total Health Breakthroughs Editor Melanie Segala. And you won’t hear it from the billion-dollar skin care industry. Taking care of your skin from the inside with a...
When my homocysteine levels were a bit high a few years ago, Dr. Sears recommended folic acid to bring them down. Studies had shown, he said, that high homocysteine levels increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In fact, they are a better indicator than high cholesterol. I started taking folic acid and...
Thom McFadden defines the six dominant personalities that make up human behavior, the six dominant emotions that will drive you to success, and reveals how to become present, passionate and successful in all areas of your life. What If the ‘Coach To The Stars’, who has acted alongside Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Tim Matheson...
It seems that we are in a period of economic decline. This might get a little tiresome eventually, and then maybe a few will start looking for solutions. If I could know the Magic Formula of economic success, what woud it be. Here it is: Low Taxes and Stable Money. If you look at...