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The Potential
So this week I’ve been talking with a new friend in my life this lady Charlene. She is a very cool person, very much like myself. I mean VERY MUCH like myself. We have quite a few similar character traits that I haven’t found in many people. She seems to have potential. Tomorrow we go the Colbert Report. That should be very interesting. She has unique religious views which intrigue me. Her optimism is contagious. A truly great person.
Elliot Spitzer resigned today after his sex scandal. The only thing that makes his scandal worthy of disgrace is the fact he is married with kids. Other than that, so what. Far too much attention is on him and not enough on how Bush and his cronies are ripping up this country for their own benefit. He should of resigned in 02. But media focus never “spins” that story. They just “spin” predetermined easily sensationalised topics to distract public perception from what is really important. Shame on them. The potential the media has to make people wake up is astonishing, but due to corporate masters, it won’t happen.
Bill Gates is pushing for a massive outsourcing of highly skilled jobs to foreign countries. I can’t blame him. The majority of Americans are weak, lazy and unambitious. It’s our own fault the rest of the world will dominate the world economy in the upcoming years. We had the potential to control the future due to America being one of the primary birthplaces of innovation, but due to nationwide pacification turning potentially critical thinking people into MTV zombies, we missed our opportunity.
Just what I thought
I remember when I used to look at all online businesses as scams, or collosal wastes of time that people did who were too dim witted to get a real job. I can see how people who don’t put their hand in these businesses would think that.
Creating an income online to most people is foreign. Even if they give it a shot then the fact they don’t see an immediate turnaround turns them off.
Most people look at things like that. That’s why most people aren’t wealthy.
You need to do extraordinary things to have an extraordinary life.
I’m not making this statement to encourage you to join some online business. I’m making this statement so you can realize you have to think outside the box in order to achieve uniqueness and greatness. Realize that todays taboos are tomorrows norms. Think of all the people that thought electricity was a fad, or America could never be an independent country much less a super power, or that a black man had a chance at being the president of the united states. Prematurely writing something off as unreasonable and unrealistic results in people often missing out on making theirs goals reality. Better yet, don’t think outside the box, realize there is no box.
Popular held beliefs aren’t alway accurate. A lot of social norms are in place to keep things orderly and civilized, keeping thing under control. That is a good thing. Not everyone is responsible enough to act on their own. A lot of people needs guidelines and rules, not to inhibit their life, but to in fact make it easier. Social norms give direction to the directionless.
With that said, there are a lot of us who have earned the right to govern our own way of living through vast knowledge of what is already out there. The problem is that social norms tend to discourage us from what is an otherwise rational decision.
Always remember, “If it was easy, everybody could do it.” The real question is do you have what it takes.
What does it take? Well it doesn’t take superhuman skills. It doesn’t take paranormal activity. All it takes is something we all have. A little bit of determination.
“A man who has never made a mistake, is a man who has never made anything” A great quote I heard a while back. It still rings true. It takes repetition in a lot of cases to become successful. More importantly, it takes a journey down the untraveled path. A journey few are fit for and others are born for. They just need to realize there is no box. All there really is, is freedom and opportunity to explore it.
Life’s defining moments
I was reading an article today about this guys defining moments of his life. It made me think about mine. The most defining moment of my life so far has been, Jan. 4 1998. The day I started interning for Big Dog Films. This event set a chain reaction of knowledge learned, experienced gained, and people met that has both blessed and cursed my life to this day. Blessed, because it opened the door to learn how to edit and got me involved with the creative process of film making meeting a bunch of great people. Cursed because I have been dogged out so badly by so many, if I were to tell you all about it, you’d have the makings of an Academy Award winning drama that no one would believe.
That’s pretty much it. no other big defining moments.
Understanding the gun before pulling the trigger
This is a continuation from a discussion I started yesterday. I thought it deserved its own discussion. Here we go!
To what level of depth does one need to understand the gun before pulling the trigger?
Does dumb luck ever play a place in contagiousness, or is it always created through precise action?
I think that’s a big question a lot of people need to know. I mean, If you are trying affiliate program after program, business model after business model for years, then all of a sudden, some obscure thing you did takes off, was it the work you put in or luck?
Are there people in this forum or out there that made millions after literally one month. I mean, not the exagerated half true stories that flood the net of
“Learn how I made 80 million dollars in 17 seconds from home in my underwear without wiping the drool from my mouth or taking my morning pee.”
A lot people can do numbers like that I suppose, but it usually takes years to figure out the strategy.
I wanna know, who are the real internet prodigies. No experience, no inclination, no idea what they’re doing, just dumb luck, making fortunes. I heard of some girl that made myspace layouts for her high school friends. No marketing experience. Not thinking about money. Now she does 1 million a year, employing her family. She probably has no idea to this day what SEO stands for.
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” True statement. But not always true. I know people that sometimes over analyze things so much they never get a chance to take action because someone else exploited the opportunity before them or, they analyzed it to the point where they diluted the opportunities essence and the core of the call to action is no longer the focus of the strategy, which usually turns out to failure.
Geometric progression, the power of compounding, the fact that the more content you put out there for a long period of time, the more it works in your favor with exposure, is an amazing force to reckon with on the internet but still. Is that what is solely responsible for success?
This more of rant than anything else but I felt it needed to be said.
So what do the novice to the experts think. The floor is yours
Spam Me!?, No, Spam You!
I mean, aren’t commercials and all advertising spam. If I’m watching my favorite episode of “Lost” and there is an interruption and I see some advertising for some product, isn’t that spam. It’s content administrator approved spam. Which means the people who brought me “Lost” approved it. Why am I giving these people so much power over what I need to see. What if something I really need to see isn’t approved by the people who brought me”Lost” and I miss out on crucial information for my life.
What about when I decide to go outside and walk around. Look at all the spam there (at least in New York). Billboards for anything and everything everywhere. I can’t even ride in a cab without an electronic “spam box” spewing spam at me.
I never asked to see these ads.
Who has control over that spam?
Do they really know whats best for me or do they just listen to whoever cuts the fattest check?
I get pre-approved credit card spam at my front door twice a week. Where is the real life Spam-assassin?
Spam is part of life no matter what name it goes by. The sad part is there is some great info out there beneficial to us but because of our spam over exposure and overload we will probably tune it out, leaving only the most wealthy spammers to get our attention, Coca Cola, Nike, McDonald’s, etc.. This happens with ideas too. Mental Spam. Religion. Trends. How many guys wore tight leather pants in the 80s and look back and say “What was on my mind”. I’ll tell you what, Fashion Spammers spammed you into believing in there trend. I see too many religious folk confused about there religious beliefs turning to me for answers and advice and I’m not religious. It’s a shame because there are lesser known and accepted beliefs that would make sense to a lot of people and help out a lot of people if they were exposed to it objectively.
Anyway, spam isn’t going anywhere. Matter fact we need spam. Spam regulation. There needs to be a third party spam governing body making sure all spam and advertising of public benefit gets to the people on the same level. Put the power back in the peoples hands to choose. Give the little guy a chance. He may change the history of mankind. He may have a lifestyle that decreases cancer by 90%. He may have a program to keep drugs off the street. He may have way to make prisons rehabilitation centers where felons become P.H.D lawyers with a 100% success rate (in actually this kind of program has already been started in NY but most people will never hear about it).
In closing, remember, listen to the little guy. 
Zeitgeist, The state of the world
This week I saw “Zeitgest” the movie, an incredible film all should check out. It’s amazing how power corrupts. If people want to turn a blind eye to what is really going on since the beginning civilization fine. One of the most shocking things was the way they broke down the Federal Reserve and how it is nothing more than a power elitest corporation that makes money off of nations by creating their own currency, then lending a nation that currency, and then charging interest to use it. Namely, the US dollar. Not even the mafia can get away with that.
I was watching George Carlin earlier today talking about our human rights on how we really don’t have any that are granted by God or country. One need look no further than 1942 Japanese American detainment, when American born Japanese American were put into camps without reason or suspicion or access to lawyers. Rights are another one of those ideas that those in power use to control others. It’s a shame how blind people are.
Also, I learned that an interesting fact was released. America leads the world in the most people imprisoned per capita. More than, China. 1 out of every 100 people are in prison in America or have been. Quite alarming.
Another interesting thing worth mentioning, the “US Religious Landscape Survey” was completed this week. Among many things it showed that 44 percent of Americans have switched religion s in there life. The poll also showed that “unaffiliated” is the fourth largest religious group. That can be interpreted to mean these people believe in God, but none of the religions. Score one for the home team.
Can’t wait fro the wire final episode!