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Lawrence: Semper paratus. What every boy scout knows will he...: “Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.” I wish to thank each and everyone of you who re...
Semper paratus. What every boy scout knows will help you create blog copythat can be used forever while you (and rightly) congratulate yourself, smart
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Semper paratus. What every boy scout knows will help you create blog copythat can be used forever while you (and rightly) congratulate yourself, smartie.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. My mother used regularly to bring down the house when she'd say "When I was a cub scout (when Abe Lincoln was president)..." and then her usual sharp-as-a-tack observation on any subject under the sun. We'd all laugh and knew POM (Poor Old Mother) was chipper indeed, all being well.
So I can affirm that when she was a cub scout, when Honest Abe was president, every one of those scouts, as a matter of urgent priority, knew at least two words of Latin... "semper paratus," always ready.
And I am glad to tell you that our ship-shape lads and lassies of the United States Coast Guard know these words as well. Which is why this vital part of the nation's defenses uses them, enshrined as they are in a bouncy composition, as peppy and upbeat as America itself. It seems the lyrics were written first by Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck in 1922. The music was composed later, in 1927, on a "beat-up old piano" while his ship was stationed in Unalaska, Alaska, which is no doubt this burg's undying (and perhaps only) claim to fame.
But here the puzzles and conundra begin. Why did Homer Smith, that busy body, change the lyrics in 1943, jarring the spirit and eternal serenity of Captain Francis, only to have his words rewritten again in 1969? Perhaps "paratus" wasn't as "semper" as they thought.
And here, I must add yet another "semper", an admonition to all writers, artists and composers who value the calm and peace of their auditors and readers: please, I implore you, having finished your opus, record for inquiring humanity the facts about it, who wrote it, your birth (and sad to say death) date, the circumstances of its creation, etc. anything, in fact, which will impart to all eternity key facts about your inspired work. If you do this, you are sure to get -- and keep -- the undying credit you deserve. And isn't this, after all, what you want?
Before commencing this article, go to any search engine and play that rousing "Semper Paratus" march... sing along, too, with the lyrics that will help turn your blog into a great money machine, the cynosure of every discerning eye:
" 'Semper Paratus' is our guide, Our fame, our glory, too. To fight to save, or fight and die!"
The vital importance not merely of having a blog... but of having a growing archive of material you can use in your blog, re-use, and use yet again.
This article was inspired by an article I wrote August 22, 2011 on Moammar Khadafy, the collapse of his murderous regime, and my commentary on what this important event meant for Libya, its peoples, and the world. It was blogged just as the capital city of Tripoli was freed, for the first time in over 4 decades of barbarism. The article was timely, powerful, valid, prophetic. As such, it generated widespread interest and tens of thousands of reader comments and heartfelt reactions. It also provided a means for the people allowed to blog it to publish their ads along with this insightful article, just as any other publisher bringing this story to their readers... and making money simultaneously; the essential formula for successful blogging.
For these traditional publishers their article on the fall of Tripoli and the regime of repression and death, was run once and once only... but for the blog publishers running this article, these wise folks acquired not merely an article... but a tool they could use for weeks, months and even years to come... with only the need to write a new, timely preface and their own observations matured as events progressed and developed.
Your first task is to stop thinking of yourself as a traditional periodical publisher and think instead of yourself as an innovative blog publisher, supremely knowledgeable and clever about, first, writing and publishing, and, then, updating and re-using every single word you write.
Here then are the crucial steps you must take to take advantage -- remember, for months and years ahead -- of your golden words.
1) Write regularly. Personally, I write at least 18-20 new blog articles each and every month. Each article is approximately 1,500 words in length and fits into one of the over 25 subject categories in which I write blog commentary. These subjects range from American politics, to literature, music, world history and events, appreciations for the lives and achievements of famous people... and people you have never heard of... and many more. The more topics you write on, the more people will be glad to receive your blog... and read and respond to the ads which you simultaneously send. And, remember, sending these ads... and reaping the rewards that accrue as a result... is a prime reason for publishing your blog in the first place.
2) Develop a file of headlines and prefaces to accompany each (re-used) article. Use language like this:
Back by popular demand!
Our readers loved this article the first time round, you'll love it, too.
We received thousands of responses from this article. Here it is again... read it and please respond at once.
New developments on (subject). That's why you'll want to read this and respond at once.
Get the picture?
You need to open a file and regularly add verbiage designed to motivate, excite, and enthuse your readers... and you must always be alert to motivating configurations of language... and, of course, adding them to this file at once... never trusting to frail and fallible human memory.
3) Now pay attention to the world and its events by following the well-known all news channels and, of course, online sources. Your job is to be aware of what's happening... then pull articles on the same or related topics from your archive, update, then blog them.. along with your ad copy... as fast as you can. One of my esteemed and smart colleagues, Alan Schmitt of San Diego, California is a whiz at this.
He was watching CNN when the news broke about the death of dictator Khadafy. He went to my blog at jeffreylantarticles.com as he was authorized and entitled to do... and within 5 minutes had pulled the article, read it, made his comments and blogged it... to gratifying and profitable results. He just informed me that he did the same thing today using an important article on the New Hampshire primary I wrote some months ago, as part of my series on American politics. Again, simply by adding a few words, he squeezed more gold and benefit from this timely article. Bravissimo!
Now get started! Because now you are indeed "semper paratus"... ready to jump on and profit from a constantly growing number of articles which can easily be updated... and so turned, time and again, to money in your pocket. For in the words of that perky march, today's occasional music, "We're always ready for the call."
" High shall our purpose be, 'Semper Paratus' is our guide."... along, you may be sure, with the acute guidelines and recommendations of this article, too!
--> Your response to this article is requested. What do you think? Let me know by posting your comments below.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Income Times Ten -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=jh66cFqL
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P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Semper paratus. What every boy scout knows will help you create blog copythat can be used forever while you (and rightly) congratulate yourself, smartie.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. My mother used regularly to bring down the house when she'd say "When I was a cub scout (when Abe Lincoln was president)..." and then her usual sharp-as-a-tack observation on any subject under the sun. We'd all laugh and knew POM (Poor Old Mother) was chipper indeed, all being well.
So I can affirm that when she was a cub scout, when Honest Abe was president, every one of those scouts, as a matter of urgent priority, knew at least two words of Latin... "semper paratus," always ready.
And I am glad to tell you that our ship-shape lads and lassies of the United States Coast Guard know these words as well. Which is why this vital part of the nation's defenses uses them, enshrined as they are in a bouncy composition, as peppy and upbeat as America itself. It seems the lyrics were written first by Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck in 1922. The music was composed later, in 1927, on a "beat-up old piano" while his ship was stationed in Unalaska, Alaska, which is no doubt this burg's undying (and perhaps only) claim to fame.
But here the puzzles and conundra begin. Why did Homer Smith, that busy body, change the lyrics in 1943, jarring the spirit and eternal serenity of Captain Francis, only to have his words rewritten again in 1969? Perhaps "paratus" wasn't as "semper" as they thought.
And here, I must add yet another "semper", an admonition to all writers, artists and composers who value the calm and peace of their auditors and readers: please, I implore you, having finished your opus, record for inquiring humanity the facts about it, who wrote it, your birth (and sad to say death) date, the circumstances of its creation, etc. anything, in fact, which will impart to all eternity key facts about your inspired work. If you do this, you are sure to get -- and keep -- the undying credit you deserve. And isn't this, after all, what you want?
Before commencing this article, go to any search engine and play that rousing "Semper Paratus" march... sing along, too, with the lyrics that will help turn your blog into a great money machine, the cynosure of every discerning eye:
" 'Semper Paratus' is our guide, Our fame, our glory, too. To fight to save, or fight and die!"
The vital importance not merely of having a blog... but of having a growing archive of material you can use in your blog, re-use, and use yet again.
This article was inspired by an article I wrote August 22, 2011 on Moammar Khadafy, the collapse of his murderous regime, and my commentary on what this important event meant for Libya, its peoples, and the world. It was blogged just as the capital city of Tripoli was freed, for the first time in over 4 decades of barbarism. The article was timely, powerful, valid, prophetic. As such, it generated widespread interest and tens of thousands of reader comments and heartfelt reactions. It also provided a means for the people allowed to blog it to publish their ads along with this insightful article, just as any other publisher bringing this story to their readers... and making money simultaneously; the essential formula for successful blogging.
For these traditional publishers their article on the fall of Tripoli and the regime of repression and death, was run once and once only... but for the blog publishers running this article, these wise folks acquired not merely an article... but a tool they could use for weeks, months and even years to come... with only the need to write a new, timely preface and their own observations matured as events progressed and developed.
Your first task is to stop thinking of yourself as a traditional periodical publisher and think instead of yourself as an innovative blog publisher, supremely knowledgeable and clever about, first, writing and publishing, and, then, updating and re-using every single word you write.
Here then are the crucial steps you must take to take advantage -- remember, for months and years ahead -- of your golden words.
1) Write regularly. Personally, I write at least 18-20 new blog articles each and every month. Each article is approximately 1,500 words in length and fits into one of the over 25 subject categories in which I write blog commentary. These subjects range from American politics, to literature, music, world history and events, appreciations for the lives and achievements of famous people... and people you have never heard of... and many more. The more topics you write on, the more people will be glad to receive your blog... and read and respond to the ads which you simultaneously send. And, remember, sending these ads... and reaping the rewards that accrue as a result... is a prime reason for publishing your blog in the first place.
2) Develop a file of headlines and prefaces to accompany each (re-used) article. Use language like this:
Back by popular demand!
Our readers loved this article the first time round, you'll love it, too.
We received thousands of responses from this article. Here it is again... read it and please respond at once.
New developments on (subject). That's why you'll want to read this and respond at once.
Get the picture?
You need to open a file and regularly add verbiage designed to motivate, excite, and enthuse your readers... and you must always be alert to motivating configurations of language... and, of course, adding them to this file at once... never trusting to frail and fallible human memory.
3) Now pay attention to the world and its events by following the well-known all news channels and, of course, online sources. Your job is to be aware of what's happening... then pull articles on the same or related topics from your archive, update, then blog them.. along with your ad copy... as fast as you can. One of my esteemed and smart colleagues, Alan Schmitt of San Diego, California is a whiz at this.
He was watching CNN when the news broke about the death of dictator Khadafy. He went to my blog at jeffreylantarticles.com as he was authorized and entitled to do... and within 5 minutes had pulled the article, read it, made his comments and blogged it... to gratifying and profitable results. He just informed me that he did the same thing today using an important article on the New Hampshire primary I wrote some months ago, as part of my series on American politics. Again, simply by adding a few words, he squeezed more gold and benefit from this timely article. Bravissimo!
Now get started! Because now you are indeed "semper paratus"... ready to jump on and profit from a constantly growing number of articles which can easily be updated... and so turned, time and again, to money in your pocket. For in the words of that perky march, today's occasional music, "We're always ready for the call."
" High shall our purpose be, 'Semper Paratus' is our guide."... along, you may be sure, with the acute guidelines and recommendations of this article, too!
--> Your response to this article is requested. What do you think? Let me know by posting your comments below.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Income Times Ten -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=jh66cFqL
Please leave a comment!
I personally reply to all !
Come on in at
http://www.worldprofit.com Sign in as a FREE associate. See what we do! Meet and chat with the Master himself!
Let US add you to our VIP list for our DAILY LIVE WEBCAST!
FREE now to the first 20 comments, I will GUARANTEE you
50,000 visitors to the website of YOUR choice!
You do need to come on in and visit us, for this phenomenal
offer!
Please include some kind of commentary, saying only
“Thanks for posting” is not a comment on my articles!
Chance of a Lifetime to actually meet and chat with Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Any questions? email me personally at lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com
Could you use 50.000 free visitors to a website of Your choice?
Give me a call and Find out How!
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
phone:310-561-2580 http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Thank you for stopping by, and Please Come again!
Lawrence Rinke
Business Coach
President : ActionEqualsProfit.com
Join Me On Skype: lawrence.rinke
P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
Thanks Again
LCR
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Letter from Grandpa
Subject: Letter from Grandpa
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 8:15 AM
Very well said
A letter from Grandpa
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
John G. is 63 years old and owns a small business. He's a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, John assumes now that he will work to his dying day.
John has a granddaughter. Ashley is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, and loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants. Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a big I told-you-so earful on how the world is going to be a much better place now that her party is taking over.
Having lost both roommates, Ashley recently ran short of cash and cannot pay the rent (again) on her 3 bedroom townhouse... Like she has done many times in the past, she e-mailed her grandfather asking for some financial help.
Here is his reply:
Sweetheart, I received your request for assistance. Ashley, you know I love you dearly and I'm sympathetic to your financial plight. Unfortunately, times have changed. With the election of President Obama, your grandmother and I have had to set forth a bold new economic plan of our own...."The Ashley Economic Empowerment Plan." Let me explain.
Your grandmother and I are life-long, wage-earning tax payers. We have lived a comfortable life, as you know, but we have never had the fancier things like European vacations, luxury cars, etc... We have worked hard and were looking forward to retiring soon. But the plan has changed. Your president is raising our personal and business taxes significantly. He says it is so he can give our hard earned money to other people... Do you know what this means, Ashley? It means less for us, and we must cut back on many business and personal expenses.
You know the wonderful receptionist who worked in my office for more than 23 years? The one who always gave you candy when you came over to visit? I had to let her go last week. I can't afford to pay her salary and all of the government mandated taxes that go with having employees... Your grandmother will now work 4 days a week to answer phones, take orders and handle the books. We will be closed on Fridays and will lose even more income.
I'm also very sorry to report that your cousin Frank will no longer be working summers in the warehouse. I called him at school this morning. He already knows about it and he's upset because he will have to give up skydiving and his yearly trip to Greenland to survey the polar bears.
That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc., etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.
If you need money now sweetheart, I recommend you call 202-456-1111. That is the direct phone number for the White House.. You can also contact the White House here:http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/%C2%A0;...
You yourself told me how foolish it is to vote Republican... You said Mr. Obama is going to be the People's President, and is going to help every American live a better life. Based on everything you've told me, along with all the promises we heard during the campaign, I'm sure Mr. Obama will be happy to transfer some stimulus money into your bank account. Have him call me for the account number which I memorized years ago.
Perhaps you can now understand what I've been saying all my life: Those who vote for a president should consider the impact on the nation as a whole, and not be just concerned with what they can get for themselves.What Obama supporters don't seem to realize is all of the money he is redistributing to illegal aliens and non-taxpaying Americans (the so-called "less fortunate") comes from tax-paying families.
Remember how you told me, "Only the richest of the rich will be affected"? Well guess what, honey? Because we own a business, your grandmother and I are now considered to be the richest of the rich. On paper, it might look that way, but in the real world, we are far from it.
As you said while campaigning for Obama, some people will have to carry more of the burden so all of America can prosper... You understand what that means, right? It means that raising taxes on productive people results in them having less money; less money for everything, including granddaughters.
I'm sorry, Ashley, but the well has run dry. The free lunches are over... I have no money to give you now. So, congratulations on your choice for "change." For future reference, I encourage you to try and add up the total value of the gifts and cash you have received from us, just since you went off to college, and compare it to what you expect to get from Mr. Obama over the next 4 (or 8) years. I have not kept track of it, Ashley. It has all truly been the gift of our hearts.
Remember, we love you dearly.... but from now on you'll need to call the number mentioned above. Your "Savior" has the money we would have given to you. Just try and get it from him.
Good luck, sweetheart.
Love, Grandpa
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 8:15 AM
Very well said
A letter from Grandpa
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
John G. is 63 years old and owns a small business. He's a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, John assumes now that he will work to his dying day.
John has a granddaughter. Ashley is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, and loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants. Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a big I told-you-so earful on how the world is going to be a much better place now that her party is taking over.
Having lost both roommates, Ashley recently ran short of cash and cannot pay the rent (again) on her 3 bedroom townhouse... Like she has done many times in the past, she e-mailed her grandfather asking for some financial help.
Here is his reply:
Sweetheart, I received your request for assistance. Ashley, you know I love you dearly and I'm sympathetic to your financial plight. Unfortunately, times have changed. With the election of President Obama, your grandmother and I have had to set forth a bold new economic plan of our own...."The Ashley Economic Empowerment Plan." Let me explain.
Your grandmother and I are life-long, wage-earning tax payers. We have lived a comfortable life, as you know, but we have never had the fancier things like European vacations, luxury cars, etc... We have worked hard and were looking forward to retiring soon. But the plan has changed. Your president is raising our personal and business taxes significantly. He says it is so he can give our hard earned money to other people... Do you know what this means, Ashley? It means less for us, and we must cut back on many business and personal expenses.
You know the wonderful receptionist who worked in my office for more than 23 years? The one who always gave you candy when you came over to visit? I had to let her go last week. I can't afford to pay her salary and all of the government mandated taxes that go with having employees... Your grandmother will now work 4 days a week to answer phones, take orders and handle the books. We will be closed on Fridays and will lose even more income.
I'm also very sorry to report that your cousin Frank will no longer be working summers in the warehouse. I called him at school this morning. He already knows about it and he's upset because he will have to give up skydiving and his yearly trip to Greenland to survey the polar bears.
That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc., etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.
If you need money now sweetheart, I recommend you call 202-456-1111. That is the direct phone number for the White House.. You can also contact the White House here:http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/%C2%A0;...
You yourself told me how foolish it is to vote Republican... You said Mr. Obama is going to be the People's President, and is going to help every American live a better life. Based on everything you've told me, along with all the promises we heard during the campaign, I'm sure Mr. Obama will be happy to transfer some stimulus money into your bank account. Have him call me for the account number which I memorized years ago.
Perhaps you can now understand what I've been saying all my life: Those who vote for a president should consider the impact on the nation as a whole, and not be just concerned with what they can get for themselves.What Obama supporters don't seem to realize is all of the money he is redistributing to illegal aliens and non-taxpaying Americans (the so-called "less fortunate") comes from tax-paying families.
Remember how you told me, "Only the richest of the rich will be affected"? Well guess what, honey? Because we own a business, your grandmother and I are now considered to be the richest of the rich. On paper, it might look that way, but in the real world, we are far from it.
As you said while campaigning for Obama, some people will have to carry more of the burden so all of America can prosper... You understand what that means, right? It means that raising taxes on productive people results in them having less money; less money for everything, including granddaughters.
I'm sorry, Ashley, but the well has run dry. The free lunches are over... I have no money to give you now. So, congratulations on your choice for "change." For future reference, I encourage you to try and add up the total value of the gifts and cash you have received from us, just since you went off to college, and compare it to what you expect to get from Mr. Obama over the next 4 (or 8) years. I have not kept track of it, Ashley. It has all truly been the gift of our hearts.
Remember, we love you dearly.... but from now on you'll need to call the number mentioned above. Your "Savior" has the money we would have given to you. Just try and get it from him.
Good luck, sweetheart.
Love, Grandpa
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Lawrence: Of pumpkins planted, grown, carved, smashed and re...
Lawrence: Of pumpkins planted, grown, carved, smashed and re...: “Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.” I wish to thank each and everyone of you who re...
Of pumpkins planted, grown, carved, smashed and remembered.
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Of pumpkins planted, grown, carved, smashed and remembered.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. It is October time around America and that means the ubiquitous appearance of pumpkins. They are everywhere these days... small ones up Massachusetts Avenue at the Montrose Spa where Tommy, el jefe, has at last shaved what was striving to become a beard; we are all relieved, since it didn't suit him.
You can get bigger ones up at Shaw Market in Porter Square. But for the big ones, the really good ones, the ones with heft (the best ones for carving), you need to go out to Lexington and Concord, the towns of the Revolution; they always look particularly spruce and tidy this time of year... and the pumpkins do their bit to create the right effect. I shall no doubt ask my driver Aime Joseph to drive me out for the afternoon. We shall stop at any number of road side stands along the way and I shall, such is my habit, over buy and make a valiant effort (some times successful) to eat all before anything spoils. I have learned to give away the extra before that happens.
Much to write, but pumpkins first.
This season of the year is rich in subjects for articles... but before I can write these, I must tackle the pumpkins. They have, after all, always been a part of my life, and it would be rude to ignore these old friends...
... but first, let's designate the incidental music for this article. It's the tune "Today" by a group which called themselves "The Smashing Pumpkins" (formed 1988). I selected them for several reasons. Because they are Illinois folks, as I am, and sometimes you must boost the locals just because they are proximate. I have also selected them because, like all the pumpkins of years past, they no longer exist. It isn't just that they fought and argued amongst themselves; that's the way of these nomadic groups. I think it's because they weren't good enough... and therefore estrangement made more sense than counseling and hard work.
There is one more reason, too, and that, of course, is their name. It is a name more appropriate than most selected by such groups which think that the anti-social heights to which they all aspire can be scaled by purple hair, black lipstick, a paucity of bathing and a maximum of little pills of various sizes, shapes, colors and intensities...
... but in truth these boys and girls are often charming and well spoken when you meet them. And why not? Contrary to the impression they wish to leave, they are, after all, often the product of middle class homes and middle class parents who wonder what they did that lead to what their off spring are doing, these young folks, I say, know nothing about radical behavior, much less the whys and wherefores of revolution.
And as for "smashing pumpkins", that was always a factor in the life of pumpkins, long before this evanescent group selected the nom de guerre they found so cool.
I have selected their tune "Today" ( released 1993) for this article. Go now to any search engine, find it and listen. It's a pity there's absolutely no poetry in the lyrics, but the pain of its author is evident and makes the listener want to say that "this too shall pass" and provide some comfort and hot chocolate, not, perhaps, the response any revolutionary would like... but they'll take it and say polite thanks, for they have manners, though they are loath to admit it.
Pumpkins planted, grown, and considered.
While researching this article, I discovered that Illinois is one of the top pumpkin producing states in the union. I'm not surprised. When I planted my first garden in the 50's in the good earth of the prairies, the first seeds I planted were pumpkin seeds. They would have come in a small packet from the local gardening center and, being me, I would have followed the directions on the back religiously, brooking no opposition from more experienced folks who aimed to help; it said do "X", and "X" I would do.
That would have meant working with a ruler... each seed so many inches in the earth. This was the earth never turned by man before in its millions of years. I was the first, the very first, to put my shovel into its richness, thereby putting it at the service of mankind. The garden was small but the idea was not.
Thus, I considered each seed and its placement, so many inches from the next; each direction followed with care and exactitude, for I respected the seed and wished to do it homage, so that my crop of pumpkins would grow and be a credit to itself.... and to me.
It was all very reminiscent of Robert Frost, who respected nature and knew the hard -- and rewarding -- work of gardens. He wrote a poem in 1916 about a person I could identify with. It is called "A Girl's Garden."
"A neighbor of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father To give her a garden plot To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, 'Why not?'"
Every word in this poem spoke to me...
She planted many things, as in due course I was to do. And we both planted -- how could we not? -- pumpkins.
"It was not enough of a garden Her father said, to plow; So she had to work it all by hand, But she didn't mind now...
Her crop was a miscellany When all was said and done, A little bit of everything, A great deal of none."
But there were pumpkins... a glory to me because they grew at all; a glory to see because they looked like they were supposed to. I had kept the seed packet... and made sure. However, the important thing was this: I had taken the unturned sod of the immemorial prairies, turned it in the first days of springtime when all was mud and when the winds of Winter still chilled... I had done this thing and brought forth life! And pumpkins, of the genus Cucurbia pepo. The day I cut them from the withered vine was a day of proud significance... and gifts of what I'd grown to the lucky ones.
"The Smashing Pumpkins" must have known such a day. In "Today" they sang it out, thus
"Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't wait for tomorrow...."
I told you they had no poetry about them. Perhaps growing, rather than smashing, pumpkins would have helped. It worked for me... and no one ever smashed one of mine.
A Dedication. This article is dedicated to Elizabeth English of Hastings, New York, whom I call "Miss Eliza." She will read it with pleasure and give, I know, a compliment to its appreciative author.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out e Master Classes -> http://silver45b.vnd131145.hop.clickbank.net
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Of pumpkins planted, grown, carved, smashed and remembered.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. It is October time around America and that means the ubiquitous appearance of pumpkins. They are everywhere these days... small ones up Massachusetts Avenue at the Montrose Spa where Tommy, el jefe, has at last shaved what was striving to become a beard; we are all relieved, since it didn't suit him.
You can get bigger ones up at Shaw Market in Porter Square. But for the big ones, the really good ones, the ones with heft (the best ones for carving), you need to go out to Lexington and Concord, the towns of the Revolution; they always look particularly spruce and tidy this time of year... and the pumpkins do their bit to create the right effect. I shall no doubt ask my driver Aime Joseph to drive me out for the afternoon. We shall stop at any number of road side stands along the way and I shall, such is my habit, over buy and make a valiant effort (some times successful) to eat all before anything spoils. I have learned to give away the extra before that happens.
Much to write, but pumpkins first.
This season of the year is rich in subjects for articles... but before I can write these, I must tackle the pumpkins. They have, after all, always been a part of my life, and it would be rude to ignore these old friends...
... but first, let's designate the incidental music for this article. It's the tune "Today" by a group which called themselves "The Smashing Pumpkins" (formed 1988). I selected them for several reasons. Because they are Illinois folks, as I am, and sometimes you must boost the locals just because they are proximate. I have also selected them because, like all the pumpkins of years past, they no longer exist. It isn't just that they fought and argued amongst themselves; that's the way of these nomadic groups. I think it's because they weren't good enough... and therefore estrangement made more sense than counseling and hard work.
There is one more reason, too, and that, of course, is their name. It is a name more appropriate than most selected by such groups which think that the anti-social heights to which they all aspire can be scaled by purple hair, black lipstick, a paucity of bathing and a maximum of little pills of various sizes, shapes, colors and intensities...
... but in truth these boys and girls are often charming and well spoken when you meet them. And why not? Contrary to the impression they wish to leave, they are, after all, often the product of middle class homes and middle class parents who wonder what they did that lead to what their off spring are doing, these young folks, I say, know nothing about radical behavior, much less the whys and wherefores of revolution.
And as for "smashing pumpkins", that was always a factor in the life of pumpkins, long before this evanescent group selected the nom de guerre they found so cool.
I have selected their tune "Today" ( released 1993) for this article. Go now to any search engine, find it and listen. It's a pity there's absolutely no poetry in the lyrics, but the pain of its author is evident and makes the listener want to say that "this too shall pass" and provide some comfort and hot chocolate, not, perhaps, the response any revolutionary would like... but they'll take it and say polite thanks, for they have manners, though they are loath to admit it.
Pumpkins planted, grown, and considered.
While researching this article, I discovered that Illinois is one of the top pumpkin producing states in the union. I'm not surprised. When I planted my first garden in the 50's in the good earth of the prairies, the first seeds I planted were pumpkin seeds. They would have come in a small packet from the local gardening center and, being me, I would have followed the directions on the back religiously, brooking no opposition from more experienced folks who aimed to help; it said do "X", and "X" I would do.
That would have meant working with a ruler... each seed so many inches in the earth. This was the earth never turned by man before in its millions of years. I was the first, the very first, to put my shovel into its richness, thereby putting it at the service of mankind. The garden was small but the idea was not.
Thus, I considered each seed and its placement, so many inches from the next; each direction followed with care and exactitude, for I respected the seed and wished to do it homage, so that my crop of pumpkins would grow and be a credit to itself.... and to me.
It was all very reminiscent of Robert Frost, who respected nature and knew the hard -- and rewarding -- work of gardens. He wrote a poem in 1916 about a person I could identify with. It is called "A Girl's Garden."
"A neighbor of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father To give her a garden plot To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, 'Why not?'"
Every word in this poem spoke to me...
She planted many things, as in due course I was to do. And we both planted -- how could we not? -- pumpkins.
"It was not enough of a garden Her father said, to plow; So she had to work it all by hand, But she didn't mind now...
Her crop was a miscellany When all was said and done, A little bit of everything, A great deal of none."
But there were pumpkins... a glory to me because they grew at all; a glory to see because they looked like they were supposed to. I had kept the seed packet... and made sure. However, the important thing was this: I had taken the unturned sod of the immemorial prairies, turned it in the first days of springtime when all was mud and when the winds of Winter still chilled... I had done this thing and brought forth life! And pumpkins, of the genus Cucurbia pepo. The day I cut them from the withered vine was a day of proud significance... and gifts of what I'd grown to the lucky ones.
"The Smashing Pumpkins" must have known such a day. In "Today" they sang it out, thus
"Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't wait for tomorrow...."
I told you they had no poetry about them. Perhaps growing, rather than smashing, pumpkins would have helped. It worked for me... and no one ever smashed one of mine.
A Dedication. This article is dedicated to Elizabeth English of Hastings, New York, whom I call "Miss Eliza." She will read it with pleasure and give, I know, a compliment to its appreciative author.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out e Master Classes -> http://silver45b.vnd131145.hop.clickbank.net
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Please include some kind of commentary, saying only
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Chance of a Lifetime to actually meet and chat with Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Any questions? email me personally at lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com
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Thank you for stopping by, and Please Come again!
Lawrence Rinke
Business Coach
President : ActionEqualsProfit.com
Join Me On Skype: lawrence.rinke
P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
Thanks Again
LCR
Monday, October 10, 2011
Lawrence: Blunt assessment: why you're fooling yourself if y...
Lawrence: Blunt assessment: why you're fooling yourself if y...: “Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.” I wish to thank each and everyone of you who re...
Blunt assessment: why you're fooling yourself if you expect Internet success...and the one word that can turn it around for you at once.
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Blunt assessment: why you're fooling yourself if you expect Internet success...and the one word that can turn it around for you at once.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. Since 1993, I have been building an online business with my two admirable partners, Sandi Hunter and George Kosch... and we've each made a tidy fortune. There are reasons why this has happened... and you're going to learn them here, now... because you have been deluding yourself as to your chances for success, and it pains the three of us just how unrealistic you have been, are today and, unless you heed this wake-up call, you will continue to be... and wouldn't that gall you? Well, then let's dig in to what you must do...and the crucial word you must tattoo on your heart, mind, and spirit.
... And to set just the right mood, listen as the force known as Jennifer Hudson show you how to pour yourself -- everything that's in you -- into the demanding journey each of us must make to achieve success.
Chances are, you've been stinting on the essential ingredient that makes it all possible... and that ingredient is YOU... and if you are not willing to make that commitment... that investment... that contract with yourself, then you cannot achieve success... and you are not worthy of the name entrepreneur.
Now... go to any search engine. Find "And I am telling you..." (released 2008). Turn up the sound to maximum decibels and strip yourself. You are going to encounter a force of nature... and let every note uplift you as you focus at last on what you must do... at once... and
EVERY day!
Okay, the crucial word is out of the bag... and that essential word is EVERY! Your business, whatever it is, is as demanding, as necessitous, as all-absorbing, as exciting as a new born baby... and you must approach it in the same way as a new child... with never-ceasing focus, with constant application, with a prayer in your pocket, a song in your heart and a "nothing's going to stop me" attitude, fueled by planning, tempered by all the realities of any business, and an unstoppable desire to soar.
Is this a lot to ask? If you answer yes, then you better keep your day job, because you'll need all this -- and more. Now ask yourself whether you approach the job of building your empire with this unblinking determination and joyful perseverance? If not, bail now... for you are the problem that cannot, with such an outlook, be solved.
Excuses, self-delusions, fatuities, absurdities.
Each day I sit in our interactive Live Business Center and listen to a never-ending stream of "reasons" posted by people -- people who say they want an online business and online success. Here are just a few of what these implausible, unlikely, indeed cannot be seen in any way, shape, or form as business builders and profit makers say... as to why they cannot start today, followed by a jaw-dropping saga of previous missteps, errors, miscalculations and horrors great and small.
They tell me these things, as they would tell you if you gave them half a chance, so that their auditor will feel sorry for them and allow them to stand before the world as a poor thing whose failures somehow sanctify them and are worthy of empathy, understanding, and, if the world was just, a pension that would absolve them from any further effort at all, ever. Oh, yes, and a hammock, two margaritas, and a Jimmy Buffet parrot hat.
This is, of course, ridiculous.
People succeed in business because they master the well-known and proven essentials for success... the first of which is constant focus, then assiduous application, and just plain hard work.
Then you must master what seems a never-ending list of precise tasks which are of the essence and absolutely required for success, especially on line. These include (and not a single one is negotiable or can be thrust aside as insignificant)...
... a clear understanding that the business world doesn't care whether you live or die; it has no interest in your turbulent, unsatisfying memoirs, so important to you, so trivial to everyone else.
Business -- and every successful business person knows this -- cares about one thing and one thing only: what have you got for the customer that is superior to what is available elsewhere... and at a price they can afford, and cheerfully do?
It doesn't matter whether you are a "nice" person; it doesn't matter how hard you have thought you worked. It doesn't matter that you feel you deserve success. All this... and all the other astonishing misperceptions you utter you may actually believe. Business is about value for customers and the way you identify these customers and make the best possible case; the case that makes you rich IF and ONLY IF you master the essential list creation and marketing tasks which must be done EVERY day, EVERY day, EVERY day... and no amount of self-justification and special pleading will change this fundamental reality.
You must know what your business demands of you... get on with the crucial business of doing each and every necessary task, promptly, thoroughly, correctly. And none of this is negotiable, not a single thing. Business waits for no one... and it will never, ever wait for you... whatever jejune responses you may feel justified in offering. In short, as Don Corleone and his "God Father" henchmen said, "Nothing personal"... it's just the way it is... and you'd better get that through your head right now... before you start justifying not doing this, avoiding that, and all the myriad of excuses of which you are the past master.
And this is where I advise you, yet again and in the strongest possible way, that you succeed to the extent that you do your online business EVERY day... without fail... without cavil... without regret... and do it always with pride, energy, enthusiasm, and a clear understanding that you are a very fortunate person indeed to have this chance which can so orchestrated deliver so much and so happily.
How much do you need today?
In the early days of Worldprofit, Inc., our online company, George Kosch, our technical wizard, would tape a twenty dollar bill to the top of his computer and announce just how many of these we needed on any given day to keep the doors open and make a profit. That was our focus for the day... first paying expenses... then making the profit for which we were in business in the first place.
Some days were easy; there were even days (wonderful days!) that we'd achieve our objective even before we'd finished the arduous task of going through the email. But there were also days, long, long days, when we had to work late to achieve the objective... because we had an immutable company policy that we would never charge the next day with covering the deficiencies of the last. And so we stayed late, worked hard, and, holding our noses, made deals to bring in the cash we had to have.
And here's the clincher: we did it gratefully because each action, every deal built the company and our clientele... and so appreciably moved us to our goal.
Is this how you approach your business? Because if not, you need to reassess just what your are doing... and just how you are doing it and you need to do this NOW... and EVERY day until you profit. This is what entrepreneurs do... this is what you must do.
Now turn on Jennifer Hudson again and listen to the pulsating sound that should be the current of your business day. And listen, now with a new ear, to her words and make them yours
"I'm not livin' without you. I don't wanna be free I'm stayin' I'm stayin'"
Now you, too, can soar.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out e Master Classes -> http://silver45b.vnd131145.hop.clickbank.net
Please leave a comment!
I personally reply to all !
Come on in at
Sign in as a FREE associate. See what we do! Meet and chat with the Master himself!
Let US add you to our VIP list for our DAILY LIVE WEBCAST!
FREE now to the first 20 comments, I will GUARANTEE you
50,000 visitors to the website of YOUR choice!
You do need to come on in and visit us, for this phenomenal
offer!
Please include some kind of commentary, saying only
“Thanks for posting” is not a comment on my articles!
Chance of a Lifetime to actually meet and chat with Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Any questions? email me personally at lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com
Could you use 50.000 free visitors to a website of Your choice?
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http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
phone:310-561-2580 http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Thank you for stopping by, and Please Come again!
Lawrence Rinke
Business Coach
President : ActionEqualsProfit.com
Join Me On Skype: lawrence.rinke
P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
Thanks Again
LCR
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Blunt assessment: why you're fooling yourself if you expect Internet success...and the one word that can turn it around for you at once.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. Since 1993, I have been building an online business with my two admirable partners, Sandi Hunter and George Kosch... and we've each made a tidy fortune. There are reasons why this has happened... and you're going to learn them here, now... because you have been deluding yourself as to your chances for success, and it pains the three of us just how unrealistic you have been, are today and, unless you heed this wake-up call, you will continue to be... and wouldn't that gall you? Well, then let's dig in to what you must do...and the crucial word you must tattoo on your heart, mind, and spirit.
... And to set just the right mood, listen as the force known as Jennifer Hudson show you how to pour yourself -- everything that's in you -- into the demanding journey each of us must make to achieve success.
Chances are, you've been stinting on the essential ingredient that makes it all possible... and that ingredient is YOU... and if you are not willing to make that commitment... that investment... that contract with yourself, then you cannot achieve success... and you are not worthy of the name entrepreneur.
Now... go to any search engine. Find "And I am telling you..." (released 2008). Turn up the sound to maximum decibels and strip yourself. You are going to encounter a force of nature... and let every note uplift you as you focus at last on what you must do... at once... and
EVERY day!
Okay, the crucial word is out of the bag... and that essential word is EVERY! Your business, whatever it is, is as demanding, as necessitous, as all-absorbing, as exciting as a new born baby... and you must approach it in the same way as a new child... with never-ceasing focus, with constant application, with a prayer in your pocket, a song in your heart and a "nothing's going to stop me" attitude, fueled by planning, tempered by all the realities of any business, and an unstoppable desire to soar.
Is this a lot to ask? If you answer yes, then you better keep your day job, because you'll need all this -- and more. Now ask yourself whether you approach the job of building your empire with this unblinking determination and joyful perseverance? If not, bail now... for you are the problem that cannot, with such an outlook, be solved.
Excuses, self-delusions, fatuities, absurdities.
Each day I sit in our interactive Live Business Center and listen to a never-ending stream of "reasons" posted by people -- people who say they want an online business and online success. Here are just a few of what these implausible, unlikely, indeed cannot be seen in any way, shape, or form as business builders and profit makers say... as to why they cannot start today, followed by a jaw-dropping saga of previous missteps, errors, miscalculations and horrors great and small.
They tell me these things, as they would tell you if you gave them half a chance, so that their auditor will feel sorry for them and allow them to stand before the world as a poor thing whose failures somehow sanctify them and are worthy of empathy, understanding, and, if the world was just, a pension that would absolve them from any further effort at all, ever. Oh, yes, and a hammock, two margaritas, and a Jimmy Buffet parrot hat.
This is, of course, ridiculous.
People succeed in business because they master the well-known and proven essentials for success... the first of which is constant focus, then assiduous application, and just plain hard work.
Then you must master what seems a never-ending list of precise tasks which are of the essence and absolutely required for success, especially on line. These include (and not a single one is negotiable or can be thrust aside as insignificant)...
... a clear understanding that the business world doesn't care whether you live or die; it has no interest in your turbulent, unsatisfying memoirs, so important to you, so trivial to everyone else.
Business -- and every successful business person knows this -- cares about one thing and one thing only: what have you got for the customer that is superior to what is available elsewhere... and at a price they can afford, and cheerfully do?
It doesn't matter whether you are a "nice" person; it doesn't matter how hard you have thought you worked. It doesn't matter that you feel you deserve success. All this... and all the other astonishing misperceptions you utter you may actually believe. Business is about value for customers and the way you identify these customers and make the best possible case; the case that makes you rich IF and ONLY IF you master the essential list creation and marketing tasks which must be done EVERY day, EVERY day, EVERY day... and no amount of self-justification and special pleading will change this fundamental reality.
You must know what your business demands of you... get on with the crucial business of doing each and every necessary task, promptly, thoroughly, correctly. And none of this is negotiable, not a single thing. Business waits for no one... and it will never, ever wait for you... whatever jejune responses you may feel justified in offering. In short, as Don Corleone and his "God Father" henchmen said, "Nothing personal"... it's just the way it is... and you'd better get that through your head right now... before you start justifying not doing this, avoiding that, and all the myriad of excuses of which you are the past master.
And this is where I advise you, yet again and in the strongest possible way, that you succeed to the extent that you do your online business EVERY day... without fail... without cavil... without regret... and do it always with pride, energy, enthusiasm, and a clear understanding that you are a very fortunate person indeed to have this chance which can so orchestrated deliver so much and so happily.
How much do you need today?
In the early days of Worldprofit, Inc., our online company, George Kosch, our technical wizard, would tape a twenty dollar bill to the top of his computer and announce just how many of these we needed on any given day to keep the doors open and make a profit. That was our focus for the day... first paying expenses... then making the profit for which we were in business in the first place.
Some days were easy; there were even days (wonderful days!) that we'd achieve our objective even before we'd finished the arduous task of going through the email. But there were also days, long, long days, when we had to work late to achieve the objective... because we had an immutable company policy that we would never charge the next day with covering the deficiencies of the last. And so we stayed late, worked hard, and, holding our noses, made deals to bring in the cash we had to have.
And here's the clincher: we did it gratefully because each action, every deal built the company and our clientele... and so appreciably moved us to our goal.
Is this how you approach your business? Because if not, you need to reassess just what your are doing... and just how you are doing it and you need to do this NOW... and EVERY day until you profit. This is what entrepreneurs do... this is what you must do.
Now turn on Jennifer Hudson again and listen to the pulsating sound that should be the current of your business day. And listen, now with a new ear, to her words and make them yours
"I'm not livin' without you. I don't wanna be free I'm stayin' I'm stayin'"
Now you, too, can soar.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Who's picture should appear on the next batch of postage stamps?Why yours... and mine, of course! An audacious proposal.
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Who's picture should appear on the next batch of postage stamps?Why yours... and mine, of course! An audacious proposal.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. The United States Postal Service is in deep doo doo. There's no question about that. The question is what are they doing to clean up the mess and run in the black again? Elvis Presley has already helped the Postal Service out once before; he was featured on the 29 cent stamp in June, 2004. So, I'm again calling on the King to assist... this time with his catchy little ditty, "Return to Sender" (released 1962)). You'll find it in any search engine. Enjoy! And, remember, if the Postal Service cannot solve this problem, His Majesty's words will be prescient indeed -- "no such number, no such zone." At least in that case the USPS will have an excuse for non-delivery. They won't be so lucky in general.
Crisis at the USPS.
As I have written before, the lumbering United States Postal Service, founded in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin, is reeling from crisis to crisis. I have reported on their pressing problems, problems which have been worsened by the tortoise-like speed with which they react, slow, slow, aggravatingly slow.
It took them far too long to react to the advent and significance of the Internet and e-mail. While the world was flocking to these and other methods of communication and fast delivery -- (quick! can you say "Federal Express"?) -- the postal service maintained an establishment that any emperor would envy. It was immense, costly, unnecessary and the whitest of sacred cows, politically sacrosanct, untouchable.
Sure, they cut jobs... but too few, too slow.
Sure, they closed post offices. Again, too few, too slow.
It was all reactive, always too little, too late.
And while they fiddled, Rome burned... money... huge amounts of it, too. They needed -- had to have yesterday -- at least ten billion bucks, not least for pensions for their overworked employees! Their general attitude seemed to be the same as Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman: "What me worry?"
Until now...
I don't know whether this idea came in from an overpaid consultant or was put into the suggestion box by a bright lad or lassie... but, at last, someone is brainstorming ideas not just sitting around figuring out how many days remain until they can retire and get their pension.
The idea goes like this.
Living people should be placed on stamps for the first time ever.
Sounds logical to me. The USPS needs money. Put the living to work by placing them on stamps -- thereby helping the dead who are, you'll admit, past the business of helping otherwise than by using their mugs on the stamps.
Of course, the minute this idea was floated by USPS, the venerable Boston Globe, sure to be on the wrong side of any progressive idea, weighed in with its usual ponderous, pompous, and (may I say) downright silly response.
I quote from their sonorous, sententious editorial of September 28, 2011, thus
"... its decision to abandon a longstanding policy by allowing living people to appear on stamps in hopes of boosting sales is short-sighted. The service concluded that it could no longer afford to pass up the opportunities of, say, an Oprah commemorative stamp, or perhaps a first-day cover for the season premiere of 'Glee'".
But the Globe-ists are just warming up. "But for a modest financial gain, the service is sacrificing a rule that has kept disreputable characters off stamps -- imagine the Pete Rose commemorative, circa 1985 -- and more importantly, helped insulate the agency from political disputes." It then concludes with that orotund flourish for which it is famous: "The Postal Service should let history render its verdict before delivering its own." They all but said forsooth and nevermore. It is for such an organization with such insular thinking that the word fustian was invented.
What we need is to extend the recommendation... not kill it. Here's how we do just that:
1) It should be the policy of the USPS that people should appear on postage stamps, whether living or dead does not signify.
2) Worry about whether some living person placed on a stamp later is found to be disreputable in some way or another is a complete waste of time. For one thing, there are plenty of dead folks with skeletons in their closets who have been honored (Thomas Jefferson and his forced liaison with Sally Hemings comes immediately to mind)... and if the public disapproves of one person or another, that's unimportant. The postal service needs the money and that's that. However, I suspect that given the usual propensities and proclivities of stamp purchasers and collectors, the more notorious the crime, the more that stamp will sell. Elvis is a very good example.He was hardly a model citizen.
Thus, let's develop a list of, say, 100 currently living Americans who are, each and every one of them, contributors to American life, culture, and welfare. This should include authors, scientists, inventors, statesmen, athletes, entertainers, business titans, and a catch-all category for other worthies and notables.
Now let's make this proposal truly audacious, bold, and ground breaking. Let's go for broke and completely change the basis for appearing on stamps, just like the Blair Ministry in the United Kingdom changed the basis on which the royal honors are given out, so that anyone could get an honor... if deemed suitable. And that's the way it should be for our postage stamps. Sure, Bill Gates should be on a stamp... but so should the executive director of a vibrant, helpful historical preservation society. Equally, while Patriot Tom Brady should be honored (especially if he retains his wind-blown locks) so should a hero helping polar bears survive or running a rescue league... and, of course, if you and I have a claim... we should be allowed to put our reasons in writing and say so... It's only right and proper.
The only category of folks who should be excluded is... current office-holding politicians holding any elected post whatsoever. They can -- and should -- wait to be honored until dead... and etch that prohibition in stone, or they most assuredly will find a way around it. And that's a fact.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Affiliate Ownage -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=ap3AHggG
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Who's picture should appear on the next batch of postage stamps?Why yours... and mine, of course! An audacious proposal.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. The United States Postal Service is in deep doo doo. There's no question about that. The question is what are they doing to clean up the mess and run in the black again? Elvis Presley has already helped the Postal Service out once before; he was featured on the 29 cent stamp in June, 2004. So, I'm again calling on the King to assist... this time with his catchy little ditty, "Return to Sender" (released 1962)). You'll find it in any search engine. Enjoy! And, remember, if the Postal Service cannot solve this problem, His Majesty's words will be prescient indeed -- "no such number, no such zone." At least in that case the USPS will have an excuse for non-delivery. They won't be so lucky in general.
Crisis at the USPS.
As I have written before, the lumbering United States Postal Service, founded in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin, is reeling from crisis to crisis. I have reported on their pressing problems, problems which have been worsened by the tortoise-like speed with which they react, slow, slow, aggravatingly slow.
It took them far too long to react to the advent and significance of the Internet and e-mail. While the world was flocking to these and other methods of communication and fast delivery -- (quick! can you say "Federal Express"?) -- the postal service maintained an establishment that any emperor would envy. It was immense, costly, unnecessary and the whitest of sacred cows, politically sacrosanct, untouchable.
Sure, they cut jobs... but too few, too slow.
Sure, they closed post offices. Again, too few, too slow.
It was all reactive, always too little, too late.
And while they fiddled, Rome burned... money... huge amounts of it, too. They needed -- had to have yesterday -- at least ten billion bucks, not least for pensions for their overworked employees! Their general attitude seemed to be the same as Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman: "What me worry?"
Until now...
I don't know whether this idea came in from an overpaid consultant or was put into the suggestion box by a bright lad or lassie... but, at last, someone is brainstorming ideas not just sitting around figuring out how many days remain until they can retire and get their pension.
The idea goes like this.
Living people should be placed on stamps for the first time ever.
Sounds logical to me. The USPS needs money. Put the living to work by placing them on stamps -- thereby helping the dead who are, you'll admit, past the business of helping otherwise than by using their mugs on the stamps.
Of course, the minute this idea was floated by USPS, the venerable Boston Globe, sure to be on the wrong side of any progressive idea, weighed in with its usual ponderous, pompous, and (may I say) downright silly response.
I quote from their sonorous, sententious editorial of September 28, 2011, thus
"... its decision to abandon a longstanding policy by allowing living people to appear on stamps in hopes of boosting sales is short-sighted. The service concluded that it could no longer afford to pass up the opportunities of, say, an Oprah commemorative stamp, or perhaps a first-day cover for the season premiere of 'Glee'".
But the Globe-ists are just warming up. "But for a modest financial gain, the service is sacrificing a rule that has kept disreputable characters off stamps -- imagine the Pete Rose commemorative, circa 1985 -- and more importantly, helped insulate the agency from political disputes." It then concludes with that orotund flourish for which it is famous: "The Postal Service should let history render its verdict before delivering its own." They all but said forsooth and nevermore. It is for such an organization with such insular thinking that the word fustian was invented.
What we need is to extend the recommendation... not kill it. Here's how we do just that:
1) It should be the policy of the USPS that people should appear on postage stamps, whether living or dead does not signify.
2) Worry about whether some living person placed on a stamp later is found to be disreputable in some way or another is a complete waste of time. For one thing, there are plenty of dead folks with skeletons in their closets who have been honored (Thomas Jefferson and his forced liaison with Sally Hemings comes immediately to mind)... and if the public disapproves of one person or another, that's unimportant. The postal service needs the money and that's that. However, I suspect that given the usual propensities and proclivities of stamp purchasers and collectors, the more notorious the crime, the more that stamp will sell. Elvis is a very good example.He was hardly a model citizen.
Thus, let's develop a list of, say, 100 currently living Americans who are, each and every one of them, contributors to American life, culture, and welfare. This should include authors, scientists, inventors, statesmen, athletes, entertainers, business titans, and a catch-all category for other worthies and notables.
Now let's make this proposal truly audacious, bold, and ground breaking. Let's go for broke and completely change the basis for appearing on stamps, just like the Blair Ministry in the United Kingdom changed the basis on which the royal honors are given out, so that anyone could get an honor... if deemed suitable. And that's the way it should be for our postage stamps. Sure, Bill Gates should be on a stamp... but so should the executive director of a vibrant, helpful historical preservation society. Equally, while Patriot Tom Brady should be honored (especially if he retains his wind-blown locks) so should a hero helping polar bears survive or running a rescue league... and, of course, if you and I have a claim... we should be allowed to put our reasons in writing and say so... It's only right and proper.
The only category of folks who should be excluded is... current office-holding politicians holding any elected post whatsoever. They can -- and should -- wait to be honored until dead... and etch that prohibition in stone, or they most assuredly will find a way around it. And that's a fact.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Affiliate Ownage -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=ap3AHggG
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P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
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LCR
Friday, October 7, 2011
First autumn ice, a man named Matt who spoke of God and blessed me, and a gladness for chance encounters.
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..First autumn ice, a man named Matt who spoke of God and blessed me, and a gladness for chance encounters.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's Program Note. How's your knowledge of Korean pop music? I thought so and yet Song Gol Mae produced in 1981 the perfect song for this article. It's called "Chance Encounter"... and in this dangerous world most of us assiduously avoid them, the odds of catastrophe going up, we reckon, as we -- and the earth -- age together.
http://youtu.be/SRKgnvML9T4
And yet... chance encounters intrigue us... entertain us... bemuse and make us wonder whether there is a thing called "fate"... and what else it has in store for us.
Why I went out so early today, well before the dawn...
My colleagues, my family, my friends and even some of the millions of people who do me the honor of reading whatever's on my mind as it morphs into electronic and paper printed articles... these folks have been ganging up on me for some time now. Here's just a sample of what they pepper me with early and late; all for my own good of course:
"All work and no play..." (an aphorism so well known in our overworked day that no one ever finishes it; so I shall: "make Jack a dull boy." (I wouldn't know, since I prune dull boys from my acquaintance with deft alacrity, especially those named Jack).
"You know you ARE over 60, old man; slow down and smell the roses"... or the coffee... or whatever they deem worthy of slowing down for and sniffing. For the record, I detest coffee, always have, and think that a substance silent but deadly should shroud all who imbibe it, the more so because those who drink it cannot resist discussing it, reliving every drop they have ever had... ad nauseam... As for roses, ever since the florist industry had the brainchild of breeding roses without scent, I have transferred my respect, admiration -- and nose -- to other flora which shall not be mentioned here, lest the florists again take aim at that scent, too. Mum's the word.
"You've got more money than God. Why don't you spend some it, Scrooge?" They little know that I'm wildly extravagant about what I like... and parsimonious to a degree about things I don't. Clothes, for instance, being in my book a complete waste of money; I buy them solely to help the economy and to spare the sensitivities of my delicate neighbors who most assuredly would carp and cavil at the horror of seeing too much of me; a man who thought he was completely satisfactorily (un) dressed at birth. And has never wavered on this point, making sure to seize every opportunity to look one's best and most natural by shedding clothes like so many autumn leaves.
You get the picture.
I have become a "cause"... something discussed... considered... evaluated and -- horrors -- advised; advice being something which I alone own and have the right to proffer, as a commentator. It is insufferable... and so to get the discussion back where it well and truly belongs -- to my always limpid, insightful, and, yes, lyric prose... my particular forte, I resolved to get up and out of my curial arm chair; the style developed for the consuls of ancient Rome, and thus entirely suitable for me, for whom every gesture of the imperial Caesars is holy and revived.
The hour was early, early, the weather deleterious and wet.
I own I did consider the matter (fleetingly but completely) about whether to venture out, but I concluded that the well meant yapping of all and sundry would never cease until I made a gesture (however insincere) to the well-meaning, something to close the case and shut them up.
Then, earlier than usual, I saw the Boston Globe at my door and two stories on the front page any other day I would have stopped to read, whether I was wearing a towel -- or not. Commentators have their rights and privileges, you know. And so I left the Honorable Sarah's decision not to burden the nation with a campaign which, above all else, would have caused national regret that we ever bought Alaska, "Seward's Folly" well and truly named. She could wait.
The death of Steve Jobs, of Apple fame, screamed out for my erudite comments, one of my celebrated "Appreciations for the life and work of...." But this, too, would have to wait. He, at least, deserves the best of which my pen is capable... though I never owned or wanted his celebrated machine.
Out I went.
The first thing I noticed how, well before the dawn, the streets are as busy as rush hour. That was a revelation... and a double caution. For openers for the season's first black ice. Then, secondly, for the need to look carefully to avoid either falling into one of the deep crevasses of the side walk which, when covered by the snow whose arrival will be all too soon, could be deadly ... or being crushed into eternity by the all-too-numerous traffic. I had no idea...
But the traffic forced me to heed the traffic signals... and one glance compelled another. These signals, glazed with the rain of the night and the mists of the morning, glistened; thereby proving that even in the most utilitarian of objects there is beauty... if one takes a minute to pause, observe -- and sniff.
I walked into Harvard Square which, our own Times Square, never sleeps, not least because it harbors a wide population of the homeless and down trodden. One perhaps sensing (with the practised eye of one who lives or dies by such observations) that I was a "friendly" stepped out of the alcove of the Harvard COOP, a bold movement at any other time I would have ignored.
... But he looked cold, hungry and (important) harmless. How fast such decisions are made for all that they can change lives.
I asked him the superfluous question about whether he was hungry and, not having a penny on me, invited him to breakfast chez moi, audacious for me to offer; audacious for him to accept. And so my encounter with Matt, aged 31, (I guessed 23) commenced. It was a story of better times; then actions and events which cost him everything. But the story I saw was in the bafflement in his eyes and a smile which was once entirely compelling; now just a residue. He came, he ate, he talked of his journeys. Then he told me that God is in each charitable act and that God would bless me this day.
And so he went, and though I gave him my card and told him to return if necessary, I sensed I should never see him again; thus he will never know of this article.
But he was right, God blessed me today with these words, and I was, therefore, not irritated or insulted when he, at the door, asked for $5; I gave him $10. He said it would pay for washing his weary clothes. May it do him some good and me, too.
Now go to any search engine and find "Chance Encounter". One is coming soon to change your life, too.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Affiliate Ownage -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=ap3AHggG
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P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
Thanks Again
LCR
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..First autumn ice, a man named Matt who spoke of God and blessed me, and a gladness for chance encounters.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's Program Note. How's your knowledge of Korean pop music? I thought so and yet Song Gol Mae produced in 1981 the perfect song for this article. It's called "Chance Encounter"... and in this dangerous world most of us assiduously avoid them, the odds of catastrophe going up, we reckon, as we -- and the earth -- age together.
http://youtu.be/SRKgnvML9T4
And yet... chance encounters intrigue us... entertain us... bemuse and make us wonder whether there is a thing called "fate"... and what else it has in store for us.
Why I went out so early today, well before the dawn...
My colleagues, my family, my friends and even some of the millions of people who do me the honor of reading whatever's on my mind as it morphs into electronic and paper printed articles... these folks have been ganging up on me for some time now. Here's just a sample of what they pepper me with early and late; all for my own good of course:
"All work and no play..." (an aphorism so well known in our overworked day that no one ever finishes it; so I shall: "make Jack a dull boy." (I wouldn't know, since I prune dull boys from my acquaintance with deft alacrity, especially those named Jack).
"You know you ARE over 60, old man; slow down and smell the roses"... or the coffee... or whatever they deem worthy of slowing down for and sniffing. For the record, I detest coffee, always have, and think that a substance silent but deadly should shroud all who imbibe it, the more so because those who drink it cannot resist discussing it, reliving every drop they have ever had... ad nauseam... As for roses, ever since the florist industry had the brainchild of breeding roses without scent, I have transferred my respect, admiration -- and nose -- to other flora which shall not be mentioned here, lest the florists again take aim at that scent, too. Mum's the word.
"You've got more money than God. Why don't you spend some it, Scrooge?" They little know that I'm wildly extravagant about what I like... and parsimonious to a degree about things I don't. Clothes, for instance, being in my book a complete waste of money; I buy them solely to help the economy and to spare the sensitivities of my delicate neighbors who most assuredly would carp and cavil at the horror of seeing too much of me; a man who thought he was completely satisfactorily (un) dressed at birth. And has never wavered on this point, making sure to seize every opportunity to look one's best and most natural by shedding clothes like so many autumn leaves.
You get the picture.
I have become a "cause"... something discussed... considered... evaluated and -- horrors -- advised; advice being something which I alone own and have the right to proffer, as a commentator. It is insufferable... and so to get the discussion back where it well and truly belongs -- to my always limpid, insightful, and, yes, lyric prose... my particular forte, I resolved to get up and out of my curial arm chair; the style developed for the consuls of ancient Rome, and thus entirely suitable for me, for whom every gesture of the imperial Caesars is holy and revived.
The hour was early, early, the weather deleterious and wet.
I own I did consider the matter (fleetingly but completely) about whether to venture out, but I concluded that the well meant yapping of all and sundry would never cease until I made a gesture (however insincere) to the well-meaning, something to close the case and shut them up.
Then, earlier than usual, I saw the Boston Globe at my door and two stories on the front page any other day I would have stopped to read, whether I was wearing a towel -- or not. Commentators have their rights and privileges, you know. And so I left the Honorable Sarah's decision not to burden the nation with a campaign which, above all else, would have caused national regret that we ever bought Alaska, "Seward's Folly" well and truly named. She could wait.
The death of Steve Jobs, of Apple fame, screamed out for my erudite comments, one of my celebrated "Appreciations for the life and work of...." But this, too, would have to wait. He, at least, deserves the best of which my pen is capable... though I never owned or wanted his celebrated machine.
Out I went.
The first thing I noticed how, well before the dawn, the streets are as busy as rush hour. That was a revelation... and a double caution. For openers for the season's first black ice. Then, secondly, for the need to look carefully to avoid either falling into one of the deep crevasses of the side walk which, when covered by the snow whose arrival will be all too soon, could be deadly ... or being crushed into eternity by the all-too-numerous traffic. I had no idea...
But the traffic forced me to heed the traffic signals... and one glance compelled another. These signals, glazed with the rain of the night and the mists of the morning, glistened; thereby proving that even in the most utilitarian of objects there is beauty... if one takes a minute to pause, observe -- and sniff.
I walked into Harvard Square which, our own Times Square, never sleeps, not least because it harbors a wide population of the homeless and down trodden. One perhaps sensing (with the practised eye of one who lives or dies by such observations) that I was a "friendly" stepped out of the alcove of the Harvard COOP, a bold movement at any other time I would have ignored.
... But he looked cold, hungry and (important) harmless. How fast such decisions are made for all that they can change lives.
I asked him the superfluous question about whether he was hungry and, not having a penny on me, invited him to breakfast chez moi, audacious for me to offer; audacious for him to accept. And so my encounter with Matt, aged 31, (I guessed 23) commenced. It was a story of better times; then actions and events which cost him everything. But the story I saw was in the bafflement in his eyes and a smile which was once entirely compelling; now just a residue. He came, he ate, he talked of his journeys. Then he told me that God is in each charitable act and that God would bless me this day.
And so he went, and though I gave him my card and told him to return if necessary, I sensed I should never see him again; thus he will never know of this article.
But he was right, God blessed me today with these words, and I was, therefore, not irritated or insulted when he, at the door, asked for $5; I gave him $10. He said it would pay for washing his weary clothes. May it do him some good and me, too.
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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Two brothers, one knife, a lifetime of unbearable regret.
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Author's program note. For this story of love, white hot rage, murder and unending, pitiable, heart-rending grief, a suite from Prokofiev's profoundly moving ballet "Romeo and Juliet" (1935) is necessary. You will want the scene between Romeo and his best friend Mercutio, the scene in which Romeo's ungovernable passion and rage overcome every sentiment of affection, friendship and humanity. The music is strong, pulsating, insistent...
Mercutio attempts to bring peace between squabbling Tybalt and Romeo, only to be stabbed by Romeo.... an outrage with an ocean of consequence. For Tybalt, Mercutio's kinsman, soon to be killed by Romeo... for Romeo himself ... for Juliet... for the families... and for history.
"Mercutio's dead; That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth."
Whereupon Romeo responds:
"This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end."
(Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet.")
And so it was for the best of brothers, Andrew, living, andhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Richard, untimely dead.
Go to any search engine. If you can, find the selection featuring Rudolf Nureyev in his role as Romeo in the 1989 Bolshoi production. It is overpowering, just like the adolescent rage you are about to discover, appalled
Two brothers, two friends.
Any man with a brother knows this: that such brothers argue, even if they are the best of friends. They argue about who's turn it is to take out the garbage. They argue about whose sweater it was and who was responsible for ruining it. They argue about the dog that needs walking... and who left the water on in the bath tub (that notable flood)... they argue about everything, about nothing, because they like each other and because (just now) they don't.
They are brothers... and so they argue. And make up. Only to argue some more. Yes, it is what brothers -- all brothers -- do.
So the events of October 2, 2011 did not seem odd, unusual, or different in any way. Brothers exist. Brothers argue.
And so this normal occurrence might have stayed unexceptional until with the devil's own inspiration Andrew, 18, picked up a large steak knife... wielding it with adolescent swagger... adolescent vigor... adolescent insolence... adolescent thoughtlessness... and absolutely no understanding that the deed he was about to do, felt compelled to do, could never be undone... and thus pierced his brother's heart... and in that instant broke his own, radiating pain and, in that instant, forever changing the lives of parents, friends, relations... all caught off guard and unprepared for the terrible news and its terrible consequences.
There was blood everywhere. And Andrew snapped back, in an instant jumping from the boy of purpose and resolution mad with the determination to do the most terrible thing of his brief life... to the horrified individual who had in his blood-soaked arms his brother....
And now he saw what, just a moment before, he could not see and what he would now see every minute for the duration of his human existence. He saw the bloody face of his brother Richard... with a look of wonder, amazement, confusion, and fear for what had happened and where he was going. For he was leaving this world at the hands of his brother, en route for a place his brother sent him but to which this brother could not yet go.
Andrew, now hysterical and painfully aware, applied pressure to his brother's wound... but the blood did not stop, could not stop. He was mad with horror... grief... and above all with the reality that he had done all this.
Richard had now a different destination... as Andrew, frantic, pressed down upon the wound, to stop the flow of the blood which would not be stopped.
By now concerned neighbors were aware something was wrong at the Morales house and called the police. What they found was Richard Morales, Jr., age 22, in his final moments on earth... and his brother Andrew... who will wish many times that he, condemned to life, had made the eternal journey, too.
"Yes, I did it," he told police who surveyed the scene with practised eye, just minutes before a home, dedicated to peace and serenity, now a charnel house where young passions had clashed... and delivered death to the one, the deepest despair to the other. Why had this happened? You would have laughed at the trivial cause... but for the carnage and the conclusion. It happened because brothers will tease... brothers will taunt... brothers will rough house... brothers will not stop when asked... and when asked to do a thing will, out of devilment, do the exact reverse...
Richard clearly had been, remember, just a moment before, in a mood to aggravate, and no one better than a brother knows the myriad of ways to do so. It started because Richard sat upon Andrew's fresh-made bed... and was roundly told by Andrew to get his unwashed body off that bed... and out of his room. The one had thrown down the gauntlet, as so many times before, the other was duty bound to pick it up... and immemorial war, commenced by Cain and Abel, flared up on nondescript Berrington Road in Leominster, Massachusetts.
It was Sunday,the brothers had nothing to do... and so they did what brothers have always done -- engage, infuriate, enrage. Richard threw his dirty clothes on Andrew; then, the battle fast moving and escalating in prescribed fashion, Richard threw Andrew's computer at him... and here the encounter morphed into what was about to be death.
In this moment everything that Andrew needed was not present... and so he was thrown back upon the elements within... and these elements, strong in the young, released a dark force he may not even have known he had... a force demanding respect, appreciation and his just regard.
"Good kids," no signs of trouble, complete surprise.
A family grieves this day, a community wonders why they had seen nothing. But, in fact, there was nothing to see and no way of knowing, for everything that happened that fateful Sunday in New England had happened before... but for the tragic mischance that the knife was at hand... never before threatened... now ready to be used.
Genesis 4:8 "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground...
4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. "
But a merciful God will give him the strength he will need for the long and lonely years to come... the fruit of a moment's error and a beloved brother's gibes and raucous mockery.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Fast Fan Pages -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=ga7WfvqP
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:..Two brothers, one knife, a lifetime of unbearable regret.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. For this story of love, white hot rage, murder and unending, pitiable, heart-rending grief, a suite from Prokofiev's profoundly moving ballet "Romeo and Juliet" (1935) is necessary. You will want the scene between Romeo and his best friend Mercutio, the scene in which Romeo's ungovernable passion and rage overcome every sentiment of affection, friendship and humanity. The music is strong, pulsating, insistent...
Mercutio attempts to bring peace between squabbling Tybalt and Romeo, only to be stabbed by Romeo.... an outrage with an ocean of consequence. For Tybalt, Mercutio's kinsman, soon to be killed by Romeo... for Romeo himself ... for Juliet... for the families... and for history.
"Mercutio's dead; That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth."
Whereupon Romeo responds:
"This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end."
(Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet.")
And so it was for the best of brothers, Andrew, living, andhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Richard, untimely dead.
Go to any search engine. If you can, find the selection featuring Rudolf Nureyev in his role as Romeo in the 1989 Bolshoi production. It is overpowering, just like the adolescent rage you are about to discover, appalled
Two brothers, two friends.
Any man with a brother knows this: that such brothers argue, even if they are the best of friends. They argue about who's turn it is to take out the garbage. They argue about whose sweater it was and who was responsible for ruining it. They argue about the dog that needs walking... and who left the water on in the bath tub (that notable flood)... they argue about everything, about nothing, because they like each other and because (just now) they don't.
They are brothers... and so they argue. And make up. Only to argue some more. Yes, it is what brothers -- all brothers -- do.
So the events of October 2, 2011 did not seem odd, unusual, or different in any way. Brothers exist. Brothers argue.
And so this normal occurrence might have stayed unexceptional until with the devil's own inspiration Andrew, 18, picked up a large steak knife... wielding it with adolescent swagger... adolescent vigor... adolescent insolence... adolescent thoughtlessness... and absolutely no understanding that the deed he was about to do, felt compelled to do, could never be undone... and thus pierced his brother's heart... and in that instant broke his own, radiating pain and, in that instant, forever changing the lives of parents, friends, relations... all caught off guard and unprepared for the terrible news and its terrible consequences.
There was blood everywhere. And Andrew snapped back, in an instant jumping from the boy of purpose and resolution mad with the determination to do the most terrible thing of his brief life... to the horrified individual who had in his blood-soaked arms his brother....
And now he saw what, just a moment before, he could not see and what he would now see every minute for the duration of his human existence. He saw the bloody face of his brother Richard... with a look of wonder, amazement, confusion, and fear for what had happened and where he was going. For he was leaving this world at the hands of his brother, en route for a place his brother sent him but to which this brother could not yet go.
Andrew, now hysterical and painfully aware, applied pressure to his brother's wound... but the blood did not stop, could not stop. He was mad with horror... grief... and above all with the reality that he had done all this.
Richard had now a different destination... as Andrew, frantic, pressed down upon the wound, to stop the flow of the blood which would not be stopped.
By now concerned neighbors were aware something was wrong at the Morales house and called the police. What they found was Richard Morales, Jr., age 22, in his final moments on earth... and his brother Andrew... who will wish many times that he, condemned to life, had made the eternal journey, too.
"Yes, I did it," he told police who surveyed the scene with practised eye, just minutes before a home, dedicated to peace and serenity, now a charnel house where young passions had clashed... and delivered death to the one, the deepest despair to the other. Why had this happened? You would have laughed at the trivial cause... but for the carnage and the conclusion. It happened because brothers will tease... brothers will taunt... brothers will rough house... brothers will not stop when asked... and when asked to do a thing will, out of devilment, do the exact reverse...
Richard clearly had been, remember, just a moment before, in a mood to aggravate, and no one better than a brother knows the myriad of ways to do so. It started because Richard sat upon Andrew's fresh-made bed... and was roundly told by Andrew to get his unwashed body off that bed... and out of his room. The one had thrown down the gauntlet, as so many times before, the other was duty bound to pick it up... and immemorial war, commenced by Cain and Abel, flared up on nondescript Berrington Road in Leominster, Massachusetts.
It was Sunday,the brothers had nothing to do... and so they did what brothers have always done -- engage, infuriate, enrage. Richard threw his dirty clothes on Andrew; then, the battle fast moving and escalating in prescribed fashion, Richard threw Andrew's computer at him... and here the encounter morphed into what was about to be death.
In this moment everything that Andrew needed was not present... and so he was thrown back upon the elements within... and these elements, strong in the young, released a dark force he may not even have known he had... a force demanding respect, appreciation and his just regard.
"Good kids," no signs of trouble, complete surprise.
A family grieves this day, a community wonders why they had seen nothing. But, in fact, there was nothing to see and no way of knowing, for everything that happened that fateful Sunday in New England had happened before... but for the tragic mischance that the knife was at hand... never before threatened... now ready to be used.
Genesis 4:8 "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground...
4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. "
But a merciful God will give him the strength he will need for the long and lonely years to come... the fruit of a moment's error and a beloved brother's gibes and raucous mockery.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Fast Fan Pages -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=ga7WfvqP
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
President Obama is a goner, unless he gets the message fast: the issue is andalways has been: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. You know and I know (and may be even they themselves know) the folks in Washington, D.C., those congress people, and even the president of these United States, just don't get it. I mean, it just seems like common sense, logical, that a human person needs a job and the income that derives from it. So today I'm going to do these exalted poobahs a favor. I'm not going to wait a moment longer... I've got a detailed plan for what the Honorable Barack can do -- right now. And he better use it, too, before all the folks without jobs hand him his hat... and some other gent his job.
It doesn't cost trillions of dollars and your right arm. By Washington standards, it's cheap... and that's probably why they'll turn up their noses at it... because this plan isn't going to swell the ranks of the bureaucracy; it is only going to help real people get work and focus the president on what's important: having a job, like he does.
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For the incidental music to today's article, I've selected a pip of a tune. Your mom probably sang it to you when you were a kid. Mine did... and mom (who was a bit of a ham, like all good mothers) needed no persuasion, not just to belt it out, but pretend she was a train and that I was her favorite passenger. The tune is "I've Been Working On The Railroad." You'll find it in any search engine. Go now, find and sing it at the top of your voice. Feels good, doesn't it, especially if you've got a job!
http://youtu.be/hcrgvSpfFgU
It's a traditional American folk song first published in a book of glees, "Carmina Princetonia", by Princeton University in 1894. Those privileged boys knew nothing about work, of course; but they did know a good tune when they heard it...and so did the Sandhills Sixteen who first recorded it. It was released by Victor Records in 1927... and was so popular everyone and his bro' recorded it, too. It's easy to see why. It's got traditional American pep and toe tapping rhythm. It's the way a bunch of folks would sound as they let off steam (and had a cool one, or two) after work... The key was "work." And that, Mister President, is why you need to listen to this tune and its lyrics and get the message:
"I've been working on the railroad All the live-long day."
A pie cutter, not a pie maker.
To understand Barack Obama better, you've only got to remember that he's a lawyer. And while that isn't exactly illegal, it is certainly not what we need when the issue is, as it has been throughout his presidency, jobs, pure and simple. That's because lawyers are adept at dividing wealth (always keeping a good slice of it for themselves); they are not and never have been good at creating wealth. I like to say, lawyers can cut up a pie and distribute it... but they don't know a hill of beans about making pies. And that's Barack's problem and why he's having so much trouble... and why much more trouble is heading his way unless he gets the message and starts creating some jobs.
And one more thing... the problem is even worse because he's a Harvard LAW grad.
Now, I've got nothing against the "Harvards" (as Lyndon Johnson used to call them); I have two Harvard degrees myself. but you've got to understand something. Harvard Law graduates (the best trained lawyers on earth) are cool, detached, analytical to a degree. They have been trained in the mastery of words... not in the necessary skills for working with, inspiring and motivating people. And if you don't see Barack Obama in these words, you need to change your bi-focals. He was trained in a way that provides no assistance whatsoever in making pies and feeding Americans who need them.
I'm here to help. I am always glad to pull a Harvard Law grad out of the drink... It helps humble that insufferable breed.
Here's my suggestion designed to save the president's bacon and, while we're at it, put millions of Americans to work, which is where they ought and want to be. Here's where a knowledge of business, marketing, and the Internet come in handy.
First, let's make sure we're focused on the right enemy and get Obama focused, too. He missed the boat (as every political junkie knows) by concentrating first on health care, gays in the military, etc. These were important, of course, but never as important (or as marketable) as JOBS. And here the Honorable Barack unquestionably muffed it. It's what put him in the soup and soured America. Real people never forgot that which Obama gave no indication of ever knowing; namely that having a job (with that all-important predictable income) is the key to the good life and the mental serenity that everyone needs. It's that "pie maker" thing I mentioned above.
Declare war on the real enemy -- unemployment.
Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of all the president's horses and all the president's men. He needs to act like it and select the right enemy: unemployment. This means setting the goal and going about the business of achieving it.
Start by turning the Roosevelt Room into what it used to be: a military command center. Tell the nation that a 24 hour-a-day strategic center will work from there... and that it will help folks around the nation CREATE jobs... and recognize those who do. Make it clear that you, the president, will appear in this war center daily; also, that you will address the nation for 5 minutes or so. Monday through Saturday. Set up the necessary video facilities in the White House.
Then get a website where the jobs being created are listed along with the folks responsible for thus helping achieve victory in the war for employment. Make it clear to your fellow Citizens just what you are doing and that you are calling upon them to help add new workers to their enterprises and organizations.
Each day cite progress, outline problems, say what you're doing to solve them and make progress. Show the American people what YOU are doing... and then make it clear what they need to do. Americans like this kind of common sense approach. They can understand it, unlike mere statistics as reported by government agencies and run in newspapers. Your job is to keep it clear and simple so that even teen-agers understand.
"Hi, fellow Americans, here's what we achieved together today."
You pioneered in using the Internet to raise money and identify supporters. Now use it to motivate and recognize job creators of any kind for everything they do. Be enthusiastic! Always mention the names of these heroes in the war for job creation and growth. Make your website interactive like my Live Business Center. Have employers leave their job creation info... and have a staffer get back to them at once for all the details. Make sure you phone some of them... and always, always, always thank the people -- by name -- for what they do towards creating the jobs Americans need. And, remember, every job created has a tremendous ripple effect, the new job holder, his family, the children, the merchants where they shop, you get the picture.
Turn it into a Big Deal.... because it is.
One more thing: by doing this and embracing the American people and their needs and concerns, you'll not only save your soul; you'll probably save your presidency, too. And if you follow these recommendations and achieve success, you'll deserve it!
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Point Click Commissions -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=lt0zzNw9
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. You know and I know (and may be even they themselves know) the folks in Washington, D.C., those congress people, and even the president of these United States, just don't get it. I mean, it just seems like common sense, logical, that a human person needs a job and the income that derives from it. So today I'm going to do these exalted poobahs a favor. I'm not going to wait a moment longer... I've got a detailed plan for what the Honorable Barack can do -- right now. And he better use it, too, before all the folks without jobs hand him his hat... and some other gent his job.
It doesn't cost trillions of dollars and your right arm. By Washington standards, it's cheap... and that's probably why they'll turn up their noses at it... because this plan isn't going to swell the ranks of the bureaucracy; it is only going to help real people get work and focus the president on what's important: having a job, like he does.
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For the incidental music to today's article, I've selected a pip of a tune. Your mom probably sang it to you when you were a kid. Mine did... and mom (who was a bit of a ham, like all good mothers) needed no persuasion, not just to belt it out, but pretend she was a train and that I was her favorite passenger. The tune is "I've Been Working On The Railroad." You'll find it in any search engine. Go now, find and sing it at the top of your voice. Feels good, doesn't it, especially if you've got a job!
http://youtu.be/hcrgvSpfFgU
It's a traditional American folk song first published in a book of glees, "Carmina Princetonia", by Princeton University in 1894. Those privileged boys knew nothing about work, of course; but they did know a good tune when they heard it...and so did the Sandhills Sixteen who first recorded it. It was released by Victor Records in 1927... and was so popular everyone and his bro' recorded it, too. It's easy to see why. It's got traditional American pep and toe tapping rhythm. It's the way a bunch of folks would sound as they let off steam (and had a cool one, or two) after work... The key was "work." And that, Mister President, is why you need to listen to this tune and its lyrics and get the message:
"I've been working on the railroad All the live-long day."
A pie cutter, not a pie maker.
To understand Barack Obama better, you've only got to remember that he's a lawyer. And while that isn't exactly illegal, it is certainly not what we need when the issue is, as it has been throughout his presidency, jobs, pure and simple. That's because lawyers are adept at dividing wealth (always keeping a good slice of it for themselves); they are not and never have been good at creating wealth. I like to say, lawyers can cut up a pie and distribute it... but they don't know a hill of beans about making pies. And that's Barack's problem and why he's having so much trouble... and why much more trouble is heading his way unless he gets the message and starts creating some jobs.
And one more thing... the problem is even worse because he's a Harvard LAW grad.
Now, I've got nothing against the "Harvards" (as Lyndon Johnson used to call them); I have two Harvard degrees myself. but you've got to understand something. Harvard Law graduates (the best trained lawyers on earth) are cool, detached, analytical to a degree. They have been trained in the mastery of words... not in the necessary skills for working with, inspiring and motivating people. And if you don't see Barack Obama in these words, you need to change your bi-focals. He was trained in a way that provides no assistance whatsoever in making pies and feeding Americans who need them.
I'm here to help. I am always glad to pull a Harvard Law grad out of the drink... It helps humble that insufferable breed.
Here's my suggestion designed to save the president's bacon and, while we're at it, put millions of Americans to work, which is where they ought and want to be. Here's where a knowledge of business, marketing, and the Internet come in handy.
First, let's make sure we're focused on the right enemy and get Obama focused, too. He missed the boat (as every political junkie knows) by concentrating first on health care, gays in the military, etc. These were important, of course, but never as important (or as marketable) as JOBS. And here the Honorable Barack unquestionably muffed it. It's what put him in the soup and soured America. Real people never forgot that which Obama gave no indication of ever knowing; namely that having a job (with that all-important predictable income) is the key to the good life and the mental serenity that everyone needs. It's that "pie maker" thing I mentioned above.
Declare war on the real enemy -- unemployment.
Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of all the president's horses and all the president's men. He needs to act like it and select the right enemy: unemployment. This means setting the goal and going about the business of achieving it.
Start by turning the Roosevelt Room into what it used to be: a military command center. Tell the nation that a 24 hour-a-day strategic center will work from there... and that it will help folks around the nation CREATE jobs... and recognize those who do. Make it clear that you, the president, will appear in this war center daily; also, that you will address the nation for 5 minutes or so. Monday through Saturday. Set up the necessary video facilities in the White House.
Then get a website where the jobs being created are listed along with the folks responsible for thus helping achieve victory in the war for employment. Make it clear to your fellow Citizens just what you are doing and that you are calling upon them to help add new workers to their enterprises and organizations.
Each day cite progress, outline problems, say what you're doing to solve them and make progress. Show the American people what YOU are doing... and then make it clear what they need to do. Americans like this kind of common sense approach. They can understand it, unlike mere statistics as reported by government agencies and run in newspapers. Your job is to keep it clear and simple so that even teen-agers understand.
"Hi, fellow Americans, here's what we achieved together today."
You pioneered in using the Internet to raise money and identify supporters. Now use it to motivate and recognize job creators of any kind for everything they do. Be enthusiastic! Always mention the names of these heroes in the war for job creation and growth. Make your website interactive like my Live Business Center. Have employers leave their job creation info... and have a staffer get back to them at once for all the details. Make sure you phone some of them... and always, always, always thank the people -- by name -- for what they do towards creating the jobs Americans need. And, remember, every job created has a tremendous ripple effect, the new job holder, his family, the children, the merchants where they shop, you get the picture.
Turn it into a Big Deal.... because it is.
One more thing: by doing this and embracing the American people and their needs and concerns, you'll not only save your soul; you'll probably save your presidency, too. And if you follow these recommendations and achieve success, you'll deserve it!
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Point Click Commissions -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=lt0zzNw9
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A great sadness in the land. An open letter to my president, the Honorable Barack Obama.
“Wow! I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ve snagged another one of Dr. Lant’s superb articles.”
I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:...A great sadness in the land. An open letter to my president, the Honorable Barack Obama.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
A special preface for my readers worldwide. Today, with a measure of reluctance, I step outside my usual role as a commentator on a myriad of facts, occurrences, events, trends and happenings to be what from my birth I have been and treasured, a Citizen of the United States, my country.
Today I shall not merely report on the news in all its many aspects, at home and universally, but I shall, in a small but not insignificant way, make history... which is what Citizens do when they consider their nation, its affairs and directions, its misadventures and glorious achievements and report their opinions, feelings, complaints, concerns and admonitions to the individual who is, for the moment, the chief magistrate of the Great Republic, a position granted by the people who remain the ultimate repository of all power... and who, therefore, are, in such reporting doing what they have the right and indeed the obligation and responsibility to do... for all that their language may, from time to time, become choleric, injudicious, and intemperate.
As one of these people, these Citizens, I am today writing for and immediately thereafter sending to my president my thoughts and observations at this moment in our history, for I sense a great sadness beginning to move across the land, which must give pause to every thoughtful member of the body politic.
I want you, Reader, to note the matter of how I have headed these remarks, for I am sending them not just to the President of the United States, but to "my president," for first and foremost he is not just a quondam official, holding office from such a time to such a time. He is, instead, the lawful leader of my country, a nation in which my hopes and dreams, along with the hopes and dreams of unseen millions of my countrymen, reside. I therefore write because I must... for the stakes are far too great to be silent... and I trust that the first lesson to be drawn from this letter is that you, too, shall, with thought and high seriousness of purpose, send to your president the fruit of your wisdom and concern, for whatever divides us, we have everything to unite us.... the articles and means of governance, centuries of shared triumphs and adversities, the first fashioned, the second overcome by our united actions. We share hopes, dreams, visions, and the abiding knowledge that, of all peoples on this earth, we have created our realities... and so we must take action when our direction falters... and our vision is obscured.
... as it happening now, to the growing certainty, concern, lamentations and jeremiads of the people. And because all these are not the best of us... we call upon you, as we are in duty bound to do, to lead the people... exhort the people... lift up the people and return us intact, renewed to former greatness and greater greatness yet to come.
Mr. President, you came into office in a flood tide of exclamations, gratitudes, hosannahs... a man not merely of destiny but a man of reconciliation, joy, and healing purpose. You broke the stringent and oppressive color barrier, for every office and high position in the land, an invidious reality that too long oppressed a nation dedicated to eradicating the oppressions of others, yet for long unable to eradicate the oppressions we inflicted upon ourselves. You were a living symbol of all that is best in us. And we were glad of it... and thanked you for liberating all the people from the cancer of oppressing.
Now, however, the man who verily walked upon the water, is in danger of being swept out to sea, a victim of expectations too high, a man perhaps to be remembered and derided, for having peaked as president in his first hour on the job. What has caused this implosion, this great fall from grace and on high?
It is not the problems which assail us, for the Great Republic was conceived, born and grew strong and proud because of great problems greatly engaged. Because we believed -- and still I trust believe -- that only from great problems solved can a great people evolve towards perfection.
It is not that the political climate is more divisive, harsh, noisome and belligerent than our Founding Fathers and their generations of descendants faced, for the political atmosphere and actions in this pantheon of strong opinions have often been incendiary, ad hominem, vulgar, and abusive. As a people we know the alchemy for turning such bile into unity. It is our particular genius.
Nor is it that we are less dedicated and committed to the usages of our great system of governance and life, for the blood and passions of our forefathers run strong in us, too.
What then is the cause for our disappointment, dismay, and of the incipience of despair and growing disillusion? And what then must we do?
There are many causes, profound, significant, challenging... and many are at work even now to bring solutions to the problems at hand. But your office, our customs and immemorial usage all dictate that you, our oathed and solemnly sworn leader take precedence in action and constructive purpose. And here you have faltered, and I wish to suggest why.
I am writing to you now from a neighborhood and institution you know well and loved, Cambridge and The Harvard Law School. There you learned and then mastered the principles and procedures of the law, one of the glories of our entire civilization. Here amongst the grassy precincts and serene buildings redolent of learning, judgement, and, above all, due process you found yourself and grew. You were happy here... but it did not prepare you for your current responsibilities, turbulences, conundra, attacks and altercations. As a result you are suffering... for lawyers learn how to divide pies... not how to make them. You are now the duly chosen Chief Baker... but without a recipe for sustaining and improving your aggrieved customers to be had.
These good people were at first confident, then patient, then exasperated, frustrated and irritated, now they have turned angry and exigent. They know what you should know: the casualties inflicted by global economic maelstroms and a host of related economic and social realities are greater than the greatest of wars. If a wreath was placed on the door of every individual adversely affected we should fall down in disbelief and horror. For the people know how great is the trouble in the land where God once shed His grace.
Your job, your only job, is to put America to work... for only an employed America can be a happy land of serenity, security and sustained peace of mind. You are Commander- in-Chief. Thus declare war on America's most pressing enemy, unemployment
Create a "war cabinet" and set up your headquarters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, already hallowed as a place to secure and defend America's interests. Make it known throughout the land that this is not an Obama initiative; it is an American initiative and therefore you call upon all Americans to do their bit, as their parents and grandparents did in World War II. And if some oppose, let them. You have God's work to do and cannot allow little men and their self-serving objections to hinder you. You are America's leader, and you have America's work to do.
Every time any business or organization adds a job, post a notice and laud the job creators. They are all heroes in a war we must fight and we must win. They deserve recognition. Set up a website where you list jobs created. Go live on the Internet at least one each day and show and tell the American people just what you are doing and results achieved. Our people do not understand our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they will all understand this. You are at a crossroads of your life and office. But there is a grand, honorable and necessary thing which you can do. Leave the many good things you would do if you had world enough and time. Focus on the one thing we must have now and without which we can achieve little else. Embrace your true calling, sir, and lead the endeavor to put America to work. It is what's needed... a goal we can reach together and must start today.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Income Times Ten -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=jh66cFqL
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I wish to thank each and everyone of you who read this “Blog” and those who take the time out of their busy day to comment. We are only just getting started here. So please do keep reading and especially making comments. The direction of this “Blog” comes from you and the comments that you impart to us. Today’s “Blog:...A great sadness in the land. An open letter to my president, the Honorable Barack Obama.
So as I mentioned to you above. Comment, Comment, Comment. Your opinionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif matters so make it known. Until Tomorrow. You can reach me by email lrewhomebusiness@gmail.com; cell phone 310-561-2580, or Skype me at lawence.rinke http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif . And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of YOU!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
A special preface for my readers worldwide. Today, with a measure of reluctance, I step outside my usual role as a commentator on a myriad of facts, occurrences, events, trends and happenings to be what from my birth I have been and treasured, a Citizen of the United States, my country.
Today I shall not merely report on the news in all its many aspects, at home and universally, but I shall, in a small but not insignificant way, make history... which is what Citizens do when they consider their nation, its affairs and directions, its misadventures and glorious achievements and report their opinions, feelings, complaints, concerns and admonitions to the individual who is, for the moment, the chief magistrate of the Great Republic, a position granted by the people who remain the ultimate repository of all power... and who, therefore, are, in such reporting doing what they have the right and indeed the obligation and responsibility to do... for all that their language may, from time to time, become choleric, injudicious, and intemperate.
As one of these people, these Citizens, I am today writing for and immediately thereafter sending to my president my thoughts and observations at this moment in our history, for I sense a great sadness beginning to move across the land, which must give pause to every thoughtful member of the body politic.
I want you, Reader, to note the matter of how I have headed these remarks, for I am sending them not just to the President of the United States, but to "my president," for first and foremost he is not just a quondam official, holding office from such a time to such a time. He is, instead, the lawful leader of my country, a nation in which my hopes and dreams, along with the hopes and dreams of unseen millions of my countrymen, reside. I therefore write because I must... for the stakes are far too great to be silent... and I trust that the first lesson to be drawn from this letter is that you, too, shall, with thought and high seriousness of purpose, send to your president the fruit of your wisdom and concern, for whatever divides us, we have everything to unite us.... the articles and means of governance, centuries of shared triumphs and adversities, the first fashioned, the second overcome by our united actions. We share hopes, dreams, visions, and the abiding knowledge that, of all peoples on this earth, we have created our realities... and so we must take action when our direction falters... and our vision is obscured.
... as it happening now, to the growing certainty, concern, lamentations and jeremiads of the people. And because all these are not the best of us... we call upon you, as we are in duty bound to do, to lead the people... exhort the people... lift up the people and return us intact, renewed to former greatness and greater greatness yet to come.
Mr. President, you came into office in a flood tide of exclamations, gratitudes, hosannahs... a man not merely of destiny but a man of reconciliation, joy, and healing purpose. You broke the stringent and oppressive color barrier, for every office and high position in the land, an invidious reality that too long oppressed a nation dedicated to eradicating the oppressions of others, yet for long unable to eradicate the oppressions we inflicted upon ourselves. You were a living symbol of all that is best in us. And we were glad of it... and thanked you for liberating all the people from the cancer of oppressing.
Now, however, the man who verily walked upon the water, is in danger of being swept out to sea, a victim of expectations too high, a man perhaps to be remembered and derided, for having peaked as president in his first hour on the job. What has caused this implosion, this great fall from grace and on high?
It is not the problems which assail us, for the Great Republic was conceived, born and grew strong and proud because of great problems greatly engaged. Because we believed -- and still I trust believe -- that only from great problems solved can a great people evolve towards perfection.
It is not that the political climate is more divisive, harsh, noisome and belligerent than our Founding Fathers and their generations of descendants faced, for the political atmosphere and actions in this pantheon of strong opinions have often been incendiary, ad hominem, vulgar, and abusive. As a people we know the alchemy for turning such bile into unity. It is our particular genius.
Nor is it that we are less dedicated and committed to the usages of our great system of governance and life, for the blood and passions of our forefathers run strong in us, too.
What then is the cause for our disappointment, dismay, and of the incipience of despair and growing disillusion? And what then must we do?
There are many causes, profound, significant, challenging... and many are at work even now to bring solutions to the problems at hand. But your office, our customs and immemorial usage all dictate that you, our oathed and solemnly sworn leader take precedence in action and constructive purpose. And here you have faltered, and I wish to suggest why.
I am writing to you now from a neighborhood and institution you know well and loved, Cambridge and The Harvard Law School. There you learned and then mastered the principles and procedures of the law, one of the glories of our entire civilization. Here amongst the grassy precincts and serene buildings redolent of learning, judgement, and, above all, due process you found yourself and grew. You were happy here... but it did not prepare you for your current responsibilities, turbulences, conundra, attacks and altercations. As a result you are suffering... for lawyers learn how to divide pies... not how to make them. You are now the duly chosen Chief Baker... but without a recipe for sustaining and improving your aggrieved customers to be had.
These good people were at first confident, then patient, then exasperated, frustrated and irritated, now they have turned angry and exigent. They know what you should know: the casualties inflicted by global economic maelstroms and a host of related economic and social realities are greater than the greatest of wars. If a wreath was placed on the door of every individual adversely affected we should fall down in disbelief and horror. For the people know how great is the trouble in the land where God once shed His grace.
Your job, your only job, is to put America to work... for only an employed America can be a happy land of serenity, security and sustained peace of mind. You are Commander- in-Chief. Thus declare war on America's most pressing enemy, unemployment
Create a "war cabinet" and set up your headquarters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, already hallowed as a place to secure and defend America's interests. Make it known throughout the land that this is not an Obama initiative; it is an American initiative and therefore you call upon all Americans to do their bit, as their parents and grandparents did in World War II. And if some oppose, let them. You have God's work to do and cannot allow little men and their self-serving objections to hinder you. You are America's leader, and you have America's work to do.
Every time any business or organization adds a job, post a notice and laud the job creators. They are all heroes in a war we must fight and we must win. They deserve recognition. Set up a website where you list jobs created. Go live on the Internet at least one each day and show and tell the American people just what you are doing and results achieved. Our people do not understand our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they will all understand this. You are at a crossroads of your life and office. But there is a grand, honorable and necessary thing which you can do. Leave the many good things you would do if you had world enough and time. Focus on the one thing we must have now and without which we can achieve little else. Embrace your true calling, sir, and lead the endeavor to put America to work. It is what's needed... a goal we can reach together and must start today.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Lawrence Rinke http://ActionEqualsProfit.com. Check out Income Times Ten -> http://www.ActionEqualsProfit.com/?rd=jh66cFqL
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President : ActionEqualsProfit.com
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P.S., If you would like content like this free to use in your blog to generate leads .Give me a call at 310-561-2580, I’d be glad to tell you how, or Leave phone number in comment. . I respond immediately to all comments.
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