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Smart Business
The
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Features
Humor???
Calling Tech Support
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Commentary
- Time for Spring Cleaning!
Guest Editorial
- Cool Web Tricks
TOP
Money Makers Build Your Income Now!
Personal Success -
How to Turn Nothing... into Something!
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Humor???
Real Calls to
Tech Support.....
- A confused caller to IBM was
having trouble printing documents. He told the technician that the
computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also
tried turning the computer screen to face the printer-but that his
computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
- TECH SUPPORT: "O.K. Bob, let's
press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up
a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P"
to bring up the Program Manager."
CUSTOMER: "I don't have a 'P'".
TECH SUPPORT: "On your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "What do you mean?"
TECH SUPPORT: " 'P' on your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "I'm not going to do that!"
Editors
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Commentary
Time for Spring Cleaning.
Spring has finally arrived in the High Sierra around Reno. My
office windows are open and I've got 70+ degrees for the first time
this year. Sparkie - my cat is sitting on the corner of my
desk checking out the birds in the bushes outside. He's ready
to go ... and so am I. Its time
to clean up my office, get reorganized, and get a new prospective on
my projects and my business. After all, four months of 2004 is
over and done. After attending the Big Seminar (BS) in March,
I can tell you that the Internet marketing game is changing quickly.
So getting that new prospective is what's
important. Here's an article I stole from my very
own success page that addresses the most important thing you can do
to virtually guarantee your success during the balance of 2004.
It starts with a question that.....
Thousands of Harvard Graduates Get
this Wrong Every Year ... and Pay the Price!
See if You Know the Answer!
What's the 1 step you must take to
insure that you will get what you really
want from your life? Not just
financial wealth, but great relationships, lifestyle,
spiritual wealth, and happiness? If You Know Write It Down!
97% of Harvard Graduates blow this question
every year! Here's
Why!! Harvard doesn't teach it. In fact you'd
won't find this in the course catalog for any college and it would
be very unusal to find this in the course work at the high school
level. Your parents or friends probably don't know the answer
either. Maybe its just too simple:
One Amazingly Simple Step!!!
3% of Harvard graduates took one simple step
...... that
the other 97% didn't take ..... and because of this they not only made
more money than the 97% combined but they lived happier,
healthier, more successful lives both personally and
professionally. Note:
These numbers are from a study tens of thousands of Harvard
graduates back in the 60"s.
Its been repeated a couple of times with
similar results.
The One Amazingly Simple Step that
really successful people take.... is to plan their lives in
detail on paper..... then they work their plan. And when
I say detail - I mean every detail. They wrote
down a plan for every aspect of their lives and then they
went after it. Step by step by step!!!
Are you working someone else's plan for your life? If
you're not getting what you want from life it's probably
because you've allowed someone else to design your life
plan. Your parents, your spouse, your boss,
the government, even your friends will be happy to plan your life for you.
But that's not the fast track to success - if anything its
the slow boat to mediocrity. Success is a do
it to yourself proposition that comes from designing the
life you want and deserve and then taking significant
action to achieve it.
Can you learn the life planning
skills of the top 3% - You Bet!!!
This article is
continued here
Guest Editorial -
More Cool Web Tricks
- by Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.IGottaTellYou.com
If you ask most people what frustrates them most about the Internet,
many of them will tell you "It's the little things!"
It seems like all the great tricks and tips that make people exclaim
"STOP! How did you do that?" never make it into any manual (at least
where I can find them).
My father (and co-author of "Turn Words Into Traffic") calls it the
"reverse oral tradition" of computing, where children teach parents
the survival skills of PC life.
Well, if you want to look good to your kids or buddies around the
water cooler, check out the following cool web tricks.
~^~ Cool Google Tricks ~^~
Virtually everyone knows that Google.com ranks at the top of most
people's search engine lists, but it does a lot more than just tell
you where to find vitamins or information on George Washington's
wooden teeth!
Need a map to a specific location?
Type in the address, city and state of virtually any location in the
US, hit the search button, and Google serves up several different
map providers across the Web.
Want to know what software application a certain file goes with on
your computer?
Input the file name into Google's search box and a number of
reference sites will help you know exactly what purpose a file
serves.
I actually used this to feature to identify a piece of "spyware"
lurking on my computer.
Want to know who's calling you on the phone in the US?
You can just input the phone number on your caller ID or cell phone
display into the Google search box and get information on listed
numbers before your answering machine can even pick up!
Log on to http://www.google.com/help/features.html for more cool
search features that harness the search power of Google.
~^~ Text Zoom ~^~
Next time you can't see small text clearly on a website, try holding
down the "CTRL" key and then moving the scroll wheel on your mouse
up and down.
The text in your web browser (and some programs) will increase and
decrease in size as you roll the wheel back and forth.
This little trick provides an excellent means of quickly getting
what you need from websites with tiny text.
~^~ Slow Surfing? ~^~
If your Internet Explorer web browser starts giving you problems,
you might want to clean up your "Temporary Internet Files."
Most people don't realize it, but when you leave a web page, it
doesn't leave you!
Most of the time you keep a copy of websites you visit on your hard
drive and, over time, they build up.
This collection of old web pages can eventually cause your surfing
to slow to a crawl and even cause errors!
Here's one way to clear out those old files. Click your "Start"
button, then "All Programs," "Accessories," "System Tools" and "Disk
Cleanup."
After an initial check of your hard drive (which can take some time
if it's the first time you've ever launched the utility), you can
check the boxes of the files you wish to delete.
To speed up your surfing, at a minimum, make sure you delete the
"Temporary Internet Files."
~^~ Surfing Shortcuts ~^~
To quickly cycle back and forth through a series of web pages you've
visited, hold down the "ALT" key and tap your left and right arrow
keys.
Left arrow takes you back while the Right arrow takes you forward.
The Page Up and Page Down buttons allow you to quickly move up and
down any web page without struggling to find the scroll bar slider
on the right side of the page.
-- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist
(http://www.TheNetReporter.com) and is the author of several
best-selling ebooks, information products and software programs.
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Personal Success -
Vitamins for the Mind -
Jim Rohn
Editors note: Jim is perhaps the
foremost personal and business
philosopher alive today. I've just finished his 1 year personal
coaching program. Its one of many
courses, tapes, and books that Jim
offers. Its made a terrific impact
on my life by helping me define where
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How to Turn Nothing Into Something by Jim Rohn
(Excerpted from the Jim Rohn Weekend Seminar-Excelling in the New
Millennium)
Have you ever wondered how to turn nothing into something?
First, in order to turn nothing into something, you've got to start
with some ideas and imagination. Now, it might be hard to call ideas
and imagination nothing; but how tangible are those ideas? That is a
bit of a mystery. I don't believe that ideas that can be turned into a
hotel, ideas that can be turned into an enterprise, ideas that can be
turned into a new vaccine or ideas that can be turned into some
miracle product, should be called nothing. But tangibly, you have
nothing. Interesting! Think of it, ideas that become so powerful in
your mind and in your consciousness that they seem real to you even
before they become tangible. Imagination that is so strong, you can
actually see it.
When I built my first home for my family in Idaho all those years ago,
before I started construction, I would take my friends and associates
out to the vacant property and give them a tour of the house. Is that
possible? Is it possible to take someone on a tour through an
imaginary house? And the answer is, "Yes, of course." "Here is the 3
car garage," I used to say, and my friends would look and say, "Yes,
this garage will hold 3 cars." I could really make it "live". I would
take them on a tour throughout the house... "Here is the fireplace,
and look, this side is brick and the other side is stone." I could
make it so real... "Follow me through the rest of the house. Take a
look through the picture window here in the kitchen, isn't the view
great?" One day, I made the house so real that one of my friends
bumped his elbow on the fireplace. I mean, it was that real.
So, the first step of turning nothing into something is to imagine the
possibilities. Imagine All of the possibilities. One of the reasons
for seminars, sermons, lyrics from songs and testimonials of others is
to give us an idea of the possibilities; to help us imagine and to see
the potential.
Now here is the second step for turning nothing into something, you
must Believe that what you imagine Is possible for you. Testimonials
like, "If I can do it, you can do it." often become a support to our
belief. And we start believing. First we imagine it's possible.
Second, we start to believe that what's possible is possible for us.
We might also believe because of our own testimonial. Here is what
your testimonial might say, "If I did it once, I can do it again. If
it happened for me before, it could very well happen again." So we
believe not only the testimonials of others who say, "If I can do it,
you can do it. If I can change, you can change. If I can start with
nothing, you can start with nothing. If I can turn it all around, you
can turn it all around." Then we also have the support of our own
testimonial, if we've accomplished something before. "If we did it
once, we can do it again. If we did it last year, we can do it this
year." So those two things together are very powerful. Now, we do not
have actual substance yet, although it is very close.
Again, step one is to imagine the possibilities. Step two is to
imagine that what is possible is possible for you. Here is what we
call step two - faith to believe. In fact, one writer said this,
"Faith is substance." An interesting word, "substance", the powerful
ability to believe in the possibilities that are possible for you. If
you have faith to believe... that faith is substance, substance
meaning "a piece of the real." Now it's not "the real", it's not this
podium, but it is so powerful that it is very close to being real and
so the writer said, "The faith is a piece of, the substance of". He
then goes on to call it evidence, substance and evidence. It is
difficult to call substance and evidence "nothing". It is nothing in
the sense that it cannot be seen except with the inner eye. You can't
get a hold of it because it isn't Yet tangible. But it is possible to
turn nothing, especially ideas and imaginations, into something if you
believe that it is now possible for you. That substance and evidence
becomes so powerful that it can now be turned into reality.
So the first step is to imagine what is possible, the second is to
have the faith to believe that what is possible is possible for you.
And now the third step is to that you go to work to make it real. You
go to work to make it a hotel. You go to work to make it an
enterprise. You go to work and make it good health. You go to work and
make it an association. You go to work and make it a good marriage.
You go to work and make it a movement; you make it tangible. You make
it viable. You breathe life into it and then you construct it. That is
such a unique and powerful ability for all of us human beings. Put
this to work and start the miracle process today!
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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