A New Perspective


This is a book that you would find in the business section, but it was pretty different than a lot of business books I’ve read.

The main message in two key points: 1. Share that great information you have already gleaned from doing your own extensive reading,( and keep reading new books for more ideas ) 2. Keep track of all your contacts so that you have a way of easily helping friends/associates, even ones you haven’t seen or heard from in a while.

The reason for taking your contacts seriously as pointed out in this book: You have a ready supply of people whose interests/professions you know about, whom you could contact when you’ve run into valuable information they might be interested in.

This allows you to build a network of very grateful people ( and grateful people help you out also, but this is not about trying to get something, folks), whom you now have contacts for in a permanent sytem.

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Bye blogger.com

I’m yet another person who moved from blogger.com to Wordpress (and I’m already very happy about this move, loving this interface), and I haven’t yet tackled the import-blogger.php script to begin the process. A major impetus to doing this, is not just to gain a more secure feeling against the issue of: Putting in a lot of time posting, and not having control over whether blogger decides to delete the blog, … or even to gain much much more flexibility.

The motive is also from that geek in me that really loves to learn a new technology, api, whatever.

Print out those powerful Ebooks that have been sitting on your virtual bookshelf, in that dusty “ebooks-I-havent-read-yet” folder.

I wanted to mention in this first “post-Migrate To Wordpress” message that Printer Ink could be your best friend in improving the quality of your life. (It’s too bad that we tend to have negative associations with printer ink, due to the abundance of spam email from printer ink peddlers)

If you know that you have a lengthy ebook or two containing valuable techniques, ideas, know-how in a particular field, and you definitely don’t crave the thought of sitting at your desk chair to read a little bit at a time, then print that puppy out.

We love to stay un-aware of our fears sometimes, including myself. When you see that ink level drop on the little graphic simulated “ink-gauge” on your screen, depending on your printer software, all you can think of is having to prapare for another 20 dollar plunkage at the office supply store.

But if you re-evaluate what’s really important, it will then dawn on you that fussing over losing a Andrew Jackson can prevent you from gaining 500 times that amount from an idea in an ebook that is so hard to embrace sometimes on a screen.

Here are books that I am so glad that I have printed out, because I am actually reading them, making notes in margins, and enjoying them as well as getting a whole lot of value because I took the time to turn them into hardcopy and placed into a binder:

- How To Gets Lot Of Money For Anything Fast by Stuart Lichtman
Tthis sat in my ebook/mind folder for the longest time and I didnt’ realize how potent the exercises were to really super-expose subconscious conflicts that prevent action - Cheesy title, yes, but powerful techniques.

- Perry Marshalls Definitive Guide to Adwords book - I probably won’t use advertising until I have my own product to sell on the internet, but I might change that. This ebook contains some solid stuff on marketing, period, even if you were never to use adwords itself.

- Happy Pocketful of Money by David Cameron
A thorough treatment of what abundance really is. A quick way to summarize this is that it “un-Matrixes” you out of your belief that money is the end-all and be-all of abundance. The recognition of the fact that the dollar in itself — or currency as an object — is just a human invention and a type of energy, is enough to shift you into a mindset that flows that physical stuff/energy to you because your main motive in life is now to produce value and express what is unique inside you, instead of collecting what the mass media and realitytvshows think you should. ( Cameron’s book is run-on-sentence-less as a bonus. )
It’s a paradox: Just unleash what’s inside you that you enjoy doing without groping for cash, and abundance returns to you.

David Allen’s strong stance to get stuff out of your head and onto a dependable
“system” — but specifically his idea of maintaining
“Lists” of things
, into some kind of database, really stuck on me.

Here’s a type of list which I add to almost every day, which allows me to save up
for major stuff I want to buy.

I want to save up to relocate to WA.

But my attention is brought, every flippin day, to some new toy or thing that I think
I need to buy, but will damage my ability to save up the needed money.

So I conditioned myself to add to an existing, ever-growing Buy-List.
Every time I see something I just GOT TO HAVE, I simply put it in a “Database”, (which is really MS EXCEL).

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This is a sample list:

I also put the price of each item right next to it, on the right, so I can
easily see how quickly these things add up, and how much closer I am to my goal because I chose NOT to spend the money. It’s a mighty good feeling.

It make take a year to get to my financial goal, and thus, these things on this list
will NOT be purchased until I get to that financial goal.

And the way I look at it, if one of those “ONE OF A KIND SPECIAL DEAL ON THIS EBOOK”
offers that I see, and am tempted to order, is no longer there when I’m ready to start buying stuff, it means it wasn’t meant for me to have.

But here’s the kicker:

Now that I have this system set up, if I want, I can declare “landmark” subgoals.
Meaning, when I’m 3/4 of the way to my desired financial amount, I can pick maybe
one of those things on the list ( even a 200 dollar digital camera), and buy it, and it won’t make too much of a dent on my progress on the money-saving goal, because the goal itself is over $20,000. So it’s not like you’re depriving yourself completely.

But don’t go trying to be too lax on your rules. It’s like thinking:
“I’m going to make it a new rule that I can have a cream cheese muffin every other week on Bagel day, but that’s it - I’ll keep it under control…”

Your MindSet
Whenever you make an addition to the list, don’t do it with a solemn, self-deprivation kind of Feeling.Instead, each time you add an entry, you ARE actually making a purchase for something. You’re purchasing a chunk of that higher long-term goal