Today is go back Thursday and here is an article I wrote over a year ago and still hear from people that are just finding it today.
The link at ezinearticles is: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-I-Make-Money?-A-Beginners-Guide&id=9179909 or just click HOW TO MAKE MONEY I like things that are simple. Sort of a Beginner's guide, but you might find something you didn't know. Have a great weekend! best and be blest, Scott Hogue CChH
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Tomorrow night it will be colder here than in a long time. This is early to have a hard freeze here. We have five vehicles. I will check the antifreeze in them today. So my wife is leaving out early this morning and the wheels seldom stop turning on her van, in a minute, when the sun is up a little more and I can see, I will test the antifreeze in her van. I was a mechanic some thirty years ago and it is just easier to do some things yourself than to schedule it and then take the vehicle somewhere to be worked on. I can check all five vehicles before I could drive one to town.
I got to wondering, where is my antifreeze tester? Actually, I wonder that every year. You don't use it every day. It turns out it was where it is every year, in the top right drawer of my tool box. Why did I wonder where it was? Because I use that tool box every few weeks and I don't remember seeing it since last year. When I don't need it, my brain just filters it out. My grandson and I were looking at one of those activity books a while back and it had this picture with all of these cats. Cats on the mailbox, cats on the porch, cats in the car window, cats and more cats. The caption at the top of the page read, "How Many Cats Do You See?" We counted and counted the cats. Then at the bottom of the page it said, "Turn The Page And Answer The Question." What was the question? "How Many Dogs Are In The Picture?" Heck if I know, I was counting the cats. Were there dogs in the picture? We turn back and sure enough, there were lots of dogs. Ever buy a car you thought was a little rare, you just didn't see one every day and then when you bought it you found out everyone was driving a car like it? Your awareness for that car was turned on after it entered your sphere of interest. Before it just wasn't important. The point here is we overlook a lot in life. Our brain and mind filter out a lot of information. Usually they do a pretty good job, but often they filter out things that are important and we miss opportunities. A person coming to the United States from another country has four times the chance statistically of becoming a millionaire than someone born in the United States. Why? Because everything is new to them. They don't filter a lot of their world out as being old and unimportant. How do you see things? You look for them like my grandson and I looked for the cats. Look for opportunities and with a little practice you will get good at it. My grandson and I see cats everywhere now. best and be blest, Scott Hogue CChH I highly recommend the December 1st, 2016 episode of Freakonomics. You can find it at http://freakonomics.com/archive and on a number of podcast directories, such as itunes. Unfortunately their podcasts and even their website doesn't play well. You probably need to download it to hear it without stuttering or rebuffering. Beats me, I tried several podcast players and it often just repeats sections. On to the reason I mention the episode.
One of my pet peeves is the saying that antibiotics don't treat viruses and should not be given when you have a virus. This is hogwash. Well, you can at least say they give them to hogs with results. Years ago the animal food industry learned that even healthy animals given antibiotics gained weight faster and grew faster than those that weren't. I am not advocating antibiotics in our food or the food of our food, I am just stating a fact and running with it. It turns out we have something called total biological load. The body has to overcome a lot of things just to stay alive and germs are part of that. The issue here is that we have limited resources, so energy going into killing germs can't go into growing and in the case of an animal, getting fat. So you give a healthy animal antibiotics and they grow faster. Take that information and apply it to you with a bad cold or flu. First, antibiotics would lower your total biological load and give you some extra free biological resources to fight off the bad cold or flu. Secondly, antibiotics prevent secondary infections. Almost every time I get a bad cold it goes into a bacterial sinus condition if I don't do something to prevent it. In this episode of freakonomics, they have a doctor that points out he learned that contrary to popular belief, you should give antibiotics to children with the measles. It prevents secondary infections and even death in some cases. You just don't hear that truth spoken. I was amazed. You mention antibiotics for a virus and they are ready to tar and feather you. If you do an internet search you will see article after article about how antibiotics are not effective against viruses and you are worse than a thief stealing candy from a baby if you take them. Well, that brings us to my third point. Some antibiotics, good old bacteria killing or hindering antibiotics are effective against viruses. You won't hear that many places. Some of our modern antibiotics work by interfering with the dna or rna of bacteria. They may hinder the reproduction of the bacteria this way. It is too much to get into in a blog post, but guess what? Viruses have dna and rna too. We actually have dna viruses and rna viruses. Not a lot, but a few of our antibiotics work on these viruses. Surprise! This is actually how they came up with the antiviral drugs we have. They saw things interfering with the reproduction of viruses. Now, this all aside, there is a huge group telling you that if we take antibiotics that we are creating antibiotic resistant bacteria. This is true, but not nearly to the extent that they claim it. By the way, when you start fighting off an infection, you are creating resistant bacteria too. I spent some time in Africa and guess what? We found antibiotic resistant bacteria in places where they had never had antibiotics before. The truth is as bacteria change, we are going to run up on bacteria that resist our current antibiotics no matter what we do. We had better just decide to work on that and some people are having success in their research in overcoming the factors that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics. It turns out that garlic added to antibiotics shows promise. It looks to me like we are going to lose the effectiveness of many of our antibiotics even if we don't use them. So what does this have to do with wealth? It turns out many of the things we are told ain't like we heard them. It isn't just in health where eggs are good this year and bad the next year and good again the year after. When it comes to money and building wealth we get a lot of bad advice and they even reverse what they say. What do you believe about money and wealth? Write down what comes to mind. Then ask yourself, what would it look like if these things were wrong. Do this exercise over a number of days and get ready for a breakthrough. Einstein said, "We can't solve our problems with the level of thinking we created them with," best and be blest, Scott Hogue CChH Something bothered me for a while and then I found out why it was that way. Since then it is like I have a behind the scenes view of what is going on. I will share it with you.
Ever wonder why when you bought an internet product you liked, like a training or how to ebook, some course or program, that the person you bought this nice product from would later send you an email recommending some product that turned out to be junk? I did. Why would someone of this quality and caliber recommend something as crude as this other product? The answer is syndication. It turns out most internet marketers are members in one way or another of some internet marketing group or you might say syndicate. They work together, they share ideas and they promote each other's stuff. So someone new, makes friends, begs and pleads, is recommended, buys their way in or otherwise joins a group and members of the group send out recommendations for the newbie's products to their list. Usually a freebie is involved and you sign up to a new list. Sounds ok so far. The problem is this new guy or gal is now indebted to the group and has to now recommend the group's products to their list. Junk or not. Match or not. You might buy dog training and then get a recommendation for internet marketing products or ventriliquism or voice coaching or negotiating, maybe even old car restoration. Cool? Right? Well, now that you know what is going on, it might be funny. The worst part about it is you could buy a very professional product and then the person that created that product may recommend a product someone hired school kids in India to create. Not anything against school kids in India, I think that country has some outstanding people, but the school kids in India may not know much about restoring cars in the United States for fun and profit. I use a marketing email address when I sign up to things like this. It doesn't clog my work or personal emails, so friends and clients can get through to me without me taking twenty minutes of email searching to find them. I also see what other people are doing on the internet. If I don't like what they are doing or don't think it will work I ask myself with this in mind, how would I do it to make it work? I get a lot of ideas that way. Some I even get around to using. best and be blest, Scott Hogue CChH While I support the efforts to keep jobs and create jobs in the United States, it will only delay the inevitable and put off the suffering. Our next big threat to making a living in the United States is not foreign competition, but artifical intelligence and robots or automation. If you want an income source for the future, you need a business. Why more people can't see that jobs are becoming extinct, I just can't see. I believe it is cultural and perpetuated by our education system, as well as our government. You can't make someone hire you, but you can create a business. If you want control of your future, start a business.
This is a lot like raising tomatoes or even like growing trees for lumber, start now if you want it later. If you think you will want to eat in the future, then plant now. The best thing you can do for your children and grandchildren from a financial and security perspective is start a business and raise them in it. Stanford University has a course on Youtube on doing a start-up. It is a little slow and generic, the delivery is a bit choppy, but it probably has a lot of material that most people just starting in business have never considered, like "in a start-up you can probably change everything but your market, so get that right first" and it is free. Here is one of my rules, exhaust the free options before you start parting with your money. Just go to Youtube and search for Stanford Courses and it is there. be blest, Scott Hogue CChH |
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