Have you ever wondered how much money exists on earth?
It must be a whole lot, right? After all, so much of it changes hands - or rather, bank accounts - on a daily basis.
But, if there is so much money out there - WHY IS IT NEVER ENOUGH?
How does it come into existence?
And are there any limits to how much of it can be issued?
This 47 minute video answers these and so many more questions that NEED to be answered, but that you didn’t know need to be asked.
I cannot overstate how important it is that you watch this video and that you pass it on to EVERY HUMAN BEING you come in contact with.
It is your consideration for your fellow man and your generosity - not with your money, but with your time and your knowledge - that can make the difference between saving humanity or letting it continue to barrel towards self-destruction.
But, first, some important quotes from some thoughtful men.
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
- Kenneth Boulding, Economist
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“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money . . . I believe that the time will come when people will demand that this be changed.
I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with Congress for sitting idly by an permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, there is no human relation between master and slave.”
–Leo Tolstoy
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“The inability of the Colonists to get the power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.”
–Benjamin Franklin
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“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for over forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright light of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government.
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
–David Rockefeller in an address to Trilateral Commission meeting, 1991
It’s up to you and me and every other person who reads this post to make sure that the bright lights of publicity finally shine on this colossal scam.
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Thanks, Erospolier, for sharing it with us.
You may remember the "Simpleology Bestseller Blueprint" product we released
two months ago …
We closed down registration so that we could complete our 4 "Marathon
Coaching Calls" where Mark promised to stay on the line "until all your
questions are answered, or until I pass out."
Well, ask they did … Sheesh, these guys were ruthless!
In fact, these guys were so eager to squeeze every last bestseller-making
secret out of Mark’s mind that they kept him on for 5 hours at a time (!)
for a total of about 20 hours. (And Mark loved every minute of it.)
The good news for you:
1. We recorded every minute of those calls and you can listen to them
in their 100% uncensored glory. (there are marketing strategies on here
you’ve never heard anywhere else - we guarantee it)
2. Because these recordings are so extremely valuable, we are going to
raise the price of the Bestseller Blueprint to $1,497. (hey, that’s still
a bargain - Mark used to charge $2,000 an hour just to talk to him on the phone
and he won’t even accept that now)
3. We have re-opened the doors and you can purchase the Simpleology
Bestseller Blueprint again now (with the 20 hours of Mark dishing out the
answers to every meaningful question imaginable) - and for the first week you
can still pick it up
at the original price of $997.
If you’re trying to lose your potbelly by doing 1,000 or so crunches a day, you’ll probably be relieved to know that there’s no such thing as spot reduction. (Read: You can stop doing it because it’s not going to work.) Take it from Dr. Gabe Mirkin, author of Getting Thin: All About Fat - How You Get It, How You Lose It, How You Keep It Off for Good. “Exercising a muscle does not get rid of fat over the specific muscles that are exercised,” he says, “If it did, tennis players would have less fat in their tennis arms, but they don’t.”
Bottom line: all the crunches in the world won’t give you washboard abs. And what about the flood of gadgets promising you fabulous abs in just five minutes? Forget about them. Though we may all want to believe that strapping on a vibrating belt could melt away our belly fat while we’re at home watching TV - it’s just not possible.
Mirkin adds: “Exercises and ‘ab’ machines can strengthen sagging belly muscles, but they will not remove extra fat from your belly. The only way to lose fat from the place where you store most of your fat - whether it’s your belly or your hips - is to lose weight overall.”
If the good doctor’s words don’t convince you, get a second opinion from Mike Geary - a certified nutrition specialist and certified personal trainer - who says, “The perfectly chiseled fitness models in the [infomercials] did not get their perfect body by using that ‘ab contraption.’ They got their perfect body through real workouts and real nutrition strategies.”
By that, Geary means you should exercise at least an hour a day and eat wisely.
It’s best if we all get up from our couches and get moving. (Still, we can always dream of a gadget that’ll give us sexy abs while we sleep.)
Recommended Resource:Simpleology 103 - if you want to learn scientifically proven methods for quickly losing fat and sending your energy through the roof.
Ever had your older brother borrow a nickel from you back in fifth grade? It’s likely that he never paid you back - and you never asked him to. It’s either he forgot about it or he thought nothing about not paying you back since, well, blood is supposed to be thicker than money. But admit it. Though you love your brother, losing that nickel must’ve bothered you for some time.
“With three words, you can sum up the most common advice about lending money to your relatives: ‘Don’t do it,’” warns MSN Money financial columnist Liz Pulliam Weston. “People who’ve lent money to family members often complain about ingratitude, missed payments and strained holiday dinners. Even the borrowers grumble, especially when their benefactors start quizzing them about their spending.”
You can afford to brush it off if it’s just a nickel. But what happens when your relative asks for a loan that totals, say, half your paycheck? Again, Weston cautions: “Loans to your nearest and dearest usually aren’t a good idea. But if you feel compelled, do it formally - and put it in writing.”
But if that seems too heartless to you, consider the words of Suze Orman, a personal finance expert and author of books like Women & Money: “Never loan money that you truly need. The best litmus test before you agree to give a loan is to ask yourself if you would be comfortable giving the money away as a gift.” In other words, don’t expect your loved one to pay you back.
Orman then lets statistics speak for themselves, citing the findings of Circle Lending, a company that helps formalize loans between individuals. As it turns out, about 14 percent of loans between friends and family end up in default, compared to just 1 percent or so for bank loans.
Think of those numbers when a loved one asks you for a loan. And, more importantly, ask yourself if you can afford to risk it.
We could all learn a thing or two about office productivity from folks in the software industry. How do they prevent meltdowns in the face of heavy workloads? Simple. They just box time.
Time boxing is a strategy used in software development projects to plan out a project. They split up the project into stages - with each stage having it’s own deadline. By employing this one-thing-at-a-time strategy, they finish the project efficiently. This works well, too, when applied to other work environments.
“There are always several things competing for our time,” says software engineer David Cheong. “At any moment, each of us could have hundreds of outstanding things to do. This question immediately become important: How can we ensure we get as much done as possible?”
He then enumerates the benefits of boxing time:
1. By consciously being aware of time, it allows us to focus on doing the things that matter most.
2. It serves as a reality check on how much time we spend working on open-ended tasks.
3. Because of the fixed time constraints, it can be an effective tool against procrastination.
4. It allows us to work on things during the free gaps we have between our commitments and appointments.
So, if you’re tasked to write a report by your boss, you could time box it this way: write report outline (1:00 to1:30 p.m.), gather data needed (1:30 to 2:30 p.m.), write report (2:30 to 4:00 p.m.), and check report (4:00 to 5:00 p.m.).
Still, this technique isn’t exactly a cure for procrastination. Cheong emphasizes: “If the time available we have is limited, a rational person should immediately think about prioritizing their outstanding tasks based on what’s important and urgent.”
To find out if you’re “rational” enough to make time boxing work for you, answer the Time Management Survey devised by David A. Whetten and Kim S. Cameron, authors of Developing Management Skills. That is, if you really have time to spare.
My friend Matt Bacak had a seminar of his swiped by one of his students and
now to get "revenge" he’s giving away the entire
seminar for a dollar.
Is this a marketing ploy?
Well sure - of course it is. But it’s also one based in truth.
Knowing Matt personally (he and his wife are genuinely sweet people) I can
affirm he is indeed closing down his business to work for another company.
I also know that people "swiping" other people’s intellectual property is an
all-too-common occurrence these days. Heck, I’ve watched people swipe
entire charts, passages, and genuinely unique concepts from my books and claim
them as their own.
So yeah, it happens.
Matt could have allowed the event to make him bitter, but instead he decided
to turn it into something profitable for him and others.
I first met Matt years ago at one of my seminars. After that he made a
great success of himself in short order.
I took the above seminar he’s giving away two years ago and it was excellent.
The info wasn’t new to me because I’d been doing what he taught for years, but
to anyone who is new to e-publishing it is a fast method for learning how to do
it - from the ground up.
Last month we reported on a study at Johns Hopkins showing a strong
correlation between the amount of sleep a child gets and obesity.
Harvard’s
Project Viva, a study of 2,000 mothers and their children, has reported a
similar correlation between the amount of sleep a child gets (or lack thereof),
and obesity.
If the same children also watched a lot of TV they were even more likely to
be fat.
Now, the title of this blog post is deliberately misleading. See,
science deals primarily with correlations and not causalities.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that we can’t know for sure if the TV itself is causing the
obesity. It’s one of many possibilites that the correlation suggests.
Another possibility is that the obese kids chose a sedentary activity like TV
as their favorite leisure activity.
I’d love to see if the same correlation exists for kids who surf the net an
equal length of time.
Anyone know someone at Project Viva? I’d love to know if they are
gathering that data as well …
Suggested Resources: Simpleology 103 for a lifestyle change that
naturally boosts your
energy and shreds fat. Simpleology Wimiki to remind yourself to
get up and move, drink water, etc … (available for free to all Simpleology users)
In The Rise of the Author I
talked about how technology is changing our lives right before our very eyes -
and how the nature of the publishing industry is changing.
The printing press of the future is the computer monitor.
And delivery method of choice seems more and more to be the Adobe PDF file.
Why not just deliver your content via HTML?
Two reasons: portability and perception.
HTML will not render or print consistently across platforms, as much as we’d
love it to. PDF will.
And the perception of information delivered via PDF is one of higher value.
"Oh, this is a special file format. It’s a book." Not "just a web
page."
You could go purchase Adobe Acrobat for $300 and up (depending on the
version), or …
You can get Primo PDF for free.
Yes, it doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of Acrobat or other non-free
PDF converters, but do you really need them?
Depreciation is defined as a portion of the cost that reflects the use of a fixed asset during an accounting period. A fixed asset is an item that has a useful life of over one year. An accounting period is usually a month, quarter, six months or one year. Let’s say you bought a desk for your office on January 1, for $1000 and it was determined that the desk had a useful life of seven years. Using a one year accounting period and the “straight-line” method of depreciation, the portion of the cost to be depreciated would be one-seventh of $1000, or $142.86.
Knowledge of accounts can make life much easy. If you are to invest in a new business or joining your forefather’s business, planning to take some loan, looking for job in any marketing company, desire to be the manager of a multinational company or have the onus to manage your own assets and liabilities, knowing some basics of accounts becomes mandatory.
Broadly, accounting is bifurcated into two categories-
Cash Bases Accounting
Accrual Accounting
The Cash Based accounting pertains to the management of an individual’s personal monetary transactions. In this case, he keeps a track of the money he withdrew, deposited, gave or received from someone etc. This accounting comes to life when actual cash transactions take place.
The Accrual Accounting requires an accountant who notes the transactions even if no money has been actually exchanged. This method works on the principle of comparing or seeing the ratio of the expenses to expenditure. If the expenditure is more, you need to cut down your luxuries, if not then it’s always good to have some savings for future. This type of accounting tells you the amount that you owed; this might not match with the figure of your bank balance. Continue reading →