HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY READERS

I wanted to take this time as the year of 2007 is coming to a close to wish all my Friends a very BLESSED 2008...I know I will not get a chance to say this on all 1600 friends I have made over the past couple of years, but I will say it here so the people that read my blogs and the people that I have helped and has helped me make a 2007 a special one...kiss my ass...nah I am just kidding, LOL...HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!!!

 

Hopefully in 2008, you are BLESSED with few of these!!!

and since I stole this from Keia's Blog, I got to use it...

 

 

NOW FOR THE NEW YEAR DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ THIS BOOK, I GOT IT IN PDF FORMAT AND HERE IS THE LINK TO GET IT!!!  (AND IT WILL NOT COST YOU A DIME) LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU GET IT.  CAUSE I WILL BUG YOU UNTIL YOU DO!  I MEAN THAT!  *SMCH*

btw did yall know that John Rambo is coming back to the big screen for 4...he has been missing since 1988.  Check out the TRAILER.  I can't wait!!!

John Rambo is back January 25, 2008

I am pretty sure that I am not the only one that will waiting on Rambo to come out in January of 2008. When I first heard about it, I was like not another Rambo, but then I was like, ok...they waited several years so they kinda of let it die down and now I believe they will get even a bigger following. The younger people who didn't grow up watching Rambo like we did! The are going to be all over it...Catching up on his story sort of like Star Wars, but they will have to go back and see who Rambo is from the beginning...I think I might be one too that will have to go watch the first set of Rambo's!

For those that don't know....
Rambo 1 (1982)




Rambo 2 (1985)




Rambo 3 (1988)



Rambo is a saga of popular action films starring Sylvester Stallone, based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. The films are: First Blood (1982), Rambo - First Blood Part II (1985), and Rambo III (1988). A fourth film, simply entitled Rambo, will be released on January 25th, 2008. The films focus on a troubled Vietnam War veteran, John James Rambo, who is greatly skilled in all aspects of survival, weaponry, martial arts and guerrilla warfare. The original scores for three three previous films were composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith.



Rambo IV 2008



John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, living a solitary and peaceful life in the mountains and jungles. A group of human rights missionaries search him out and ask him to guide them into Burma to deliver medical supplies. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Sequel
Release Date: January 25th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language.
Distributors: Lionsgate

Starring:
Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, James Brolin, Paul Schulze, Kim Dickens
Directed by:
Sylvester Stallone
Produced by:
Boaz Davidson, Randall Emmett, George Furla

Time to Re-Think by Saturn

Don't you think it is time to rethink a few things...
Rethink Bling
Rethink Power
Rethink Strength
Rethink Beauty
Rethink Interactive
Rethink Home
Rethink Status
Rethink American

The Song in the Saturn commercial is Higher by Soundcage and composed by Daniel Cage!

The 'rethink American' theme is supposed to tell imported car buyers and criticizers of American domestic cars to reconsider their opinions by trying out one of Saturn's may new cars (Sky, VUE, Outlook, Aura and Astra.

Free Think and Grow Rich... E-BOOK

To all my Family, Friends and Fans...

I am going to give a gift to you that will keep on giving for the rest of your life and something you can give to your Family and Friends and Fans too...

This book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill is a timeless book that since it was published in 1937, is responsible for more Millionaires than any other books or audio programs.

My favorite Napoleon Hill quotes are...

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."

"Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis."

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"All impulses of thought have a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical equivalent"


And his 13 Principles of Success

Desire
Faith
Autosuggestion
Specialized Knowledge
Imagination
Organized Planning
Decision
Persistence
The Master Mind
The Mystery of Sexual Sublimation
The Subconscious Mind
The Brain
The Sixth Sense
... and outwit your Fears

Think and Grow Rich has sold consistently since its first publishing. According to one publisher, the book has now sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Think and Grow Rich is currently ranked #9 on the Business Week Best-Seller List for paperback business books and has been on the aforementioned list for 22 months as of April 2007.

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Closing From a Distance

Closing From a Distance
by Tom Hopkins

In the past, most companies have divided territories by geographical area. Today, many salespeople specialize in particular products or services and concentrate on clients who have needs that match the products. So, companies are more likely to claim as your territory any client who has a need for your specialty. That means your client base may well be anywhere in the world. If that's the case with you, you'll do very little face-to-face selling and a whole lot of remote closing.

What do you do when you're not able to close face-to-face? Well, when you close from a distance, you call upon your skills as a closer and rely on the wonders of technology like phones, fax machines, the Internet, email, and express or overnight delivery services.

Let's say you've presented to International, Inc. in Los Angeles . You're now back home in Boise , Idaho . Your presentation was precisely detailed. You established great rapport with the three committee members and followed up with thank you notes to each person before you left L.A. They told you they had to make a decision by today (a week later). What are your chances of getting the agreement? Very good if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Did you call either yesterday or the day before to check to see if the clients had any remaining questions about the ability of your product to satisfy their needs?
• Did you arrange a specific time for their call today?
• Have you reread your entire file on this account so all the details are fresh in your mind?
• Do you have your brief summary review (your list of everything they agreed they like about your product) filled with emotional involvement phrases that will help them feel what it will be like AFTER they take ownership?
• Does your receptionist or assistant know to hold all other calls at the appointed time and to announce this clients' call to you?
• Do you have a solid closing question prepared and rehearsed?

Every “yes” you answer here brings you closer to getting the big YES from your clients. Even if the potential clients dismissed you with a “We'll get back to you” that doesn't mean you sit and stay like a good puppy until they call you. You're a professional. You're proactive.

Calling a day or two before the decision to see if anything new has come up doesn't make you a pest. Making this call is a courtesy and a way to protect your interest in the client. You can bet the competition is trying to lobby for their product. So, why shouldn't you?
For more information on closing from a distance, read Selling for Dummies.

Testimonial I purchased "Selling for Dummies" in Spanish translation in 2000 when I was residing in Mexico City. At the time, I was working as a self-employed executive English teacher and a resume writer/translator. Upon reading it from cover to cover and putting into practice many of your techniques, I increased my income by over 50% and improved my clientele.

~David Lauman

NY Giants v. New England Patriots...new records???

First I want to thank the NFL and the NFL Network for allowing the fans to be able to watch possible history in the making...I want to smack Comcast into reality and tell them to stop nickel and dimeing us to death...don't we already pay to much for Cable, and in order to get the NFL Network for freaking 8 games a year...you have to upgrade to a dumb Sports Package...I can understand if they included the NBA, MLB tickets or whatever it is called, but some freaking college or high school games...they need their butts whipped! How about why they are at, they can give us back our BIG 10 games too! Man I want to see more of Eric Gordon (if you haven't seen him, click his name) of the Indiana Hoosiers, but I ain't paying for it! If you don't know who he is, you better...another Indiana Hot NBA prospect, just like Oden and Mike Conley Jr....matter of fact they all played on the same HS basketball team!

Ok here is the poll...

1...Will the Giants stop the Patriots from perfection? 16-0 and hurt the 1972 Dolphins from forever celebrating when all teams get one loss, I will forever hate them for popping that bubbly when the Fins beat the Bears in 85!

2...Will Tom Brady put the smack down on Peyton's Record of 49 passing TD's in one season with the big 5-0?

3...Will Randy Moss pass up Jerry Rice's record of 22 TD's catches in one season? I know, I know...Rice only played in 12 games but so what, the dophins only played 12 regular season games too!

4...There is one more that the Pats will for sure knock out if either Moss or Brady hit their goal and that is the most offensive points in a season and that is taking out the Vikings, but they only need like 5 points to hit that one...that should be a no brainer!

5...and How many points will the Pats beat the Giants by?

Let me know what you think? Will they be new record holders or tie them?

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The Determinant of Your Success

The Determinant of Your Success
By: Brian Tracy

Perhaps the most powerful single factor in your financial success is your beliefs about yourself and money. We call this the Law of Belief. It says simply this: Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.

What Successful People Believe
Whatever you intensely believe becomes your reality. That we have a tendency to block out any information coming in to us that is inconsistent with our reality. What we've discovered is that successful people absolutely believe that they have the ability to succeed. And they will not entertain, think about, or talk about the possibilities that they'll fail. They do not even consider the possibility of failure.

Positive Thinking Versus Positive Knowing
You always act in a matter consistent with your beliefs. The most important belief system you can build is a prosperity consciousness where you absolutely believe that you are going achieve your financial goals. We call this positive knowing versus positive thinking. Positive thinking can sometimes be wishing or hoping. But positive knowing is when you absolutely know that no matter what, you will be successful.

The Foundation of Willpower
Another principle related to your beliefs is willpower. We know that willpower is essential to any success. Willpower is based on confidence. It's based on conviction. It's based on faith. It's based on your belief in your ability to triumph over all obstacles. And you can develop willpower by persistence, by working on your goals, by reading the biographies of successful people, by listening to audio programs, by reading books about people who've achieved success. The more information you take into your mind consistent with success, the more likely it is that you will develop the willpower to push you through the obstacles and difficulties you will experience.

Beat the Odds on Success
Remember that success is rare. Only one person in one hundred becomes wealthy in the course of a lifetime. Only five percent achieve financial independence. That means that the odds against you are 19-to-1. The only way that you're going to achieve your financial goals is if you get really serious. To succeed, you must get serious. You must get busy. You must get active. You must get going. Remember, everything counts.

Resolve to Achieve Greatly
Self-mastery, self-control, self-discipline are essential for anyone who wants to achieve greatly. And control over your thoughts is the hardest exercise in self-mastery that you will ever engage in. See if you can talk and think about only what you desire and not talk or think about anything that you don't want for 24 hours. Then you'll see what you're really made of. It's a hard thing to do but with practice, you can reach the point where you are thinking about your goals and desires most of the time. Then, your whole life will change for the better.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to build a belief system consistent with the financial success you desire:

First, continually repeat to yourself the words, pictures and thoughts consistent with your dreams and goals. Whatever you repeat often enough, over and over, becomes a new belief.

Second, set a goal for yourself to think and talk only about the things that you want for the next 24 hours. This will be one of the hardest things you ever do. But if you can keep your mind on what you want and off of what you don't want for 24 hours, you can begin to change your entire future.

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Rev. Jim Wallis: Faith and Hope

Do you have faith? In this video, Rev. Jim Wallis says faith is connected to hope and hope means believing in spite of the evidence and then watching the evidence change.

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Consulting Versus Selling

Consulting Versus Selling
By: Brian Tracy

View Yourself As A Consultant
One particular self-image possessed by high-achieving salespeople is that they see themselves as consultants rather than as salespersons. They see themselves as problem solvers with their products or services rather than as vendors looking for someone who will trade them money for what they have to offer.

Approach Them As Clients
They do not approach their customers with hat in hand, hoping for a sale. They approach their "clients" with the attitude that they are consultants calling on the prospect to help him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal.

Ask Questions and Listen Carefully
Seeing themselves as consultants, they ask questions carefully and listen intently. They focus all of their energies on understanding the customer's situation so that they can make intelligent recommendations based on what the customer really wants and needs.

Become An Expert in Your Field
As consultants, they recognize that they must be experts, authorities in their field. They know their products and services from one end to the other. They invest many hours familiarizing themselves with every single detail of what they sell, and of what their competitors sell as well. They know the strengths and weaknesses, the advantages and shortcomings, the features and benefits of what they are offering. They have excellent product knowledge which their customers can sense and which gives both themselves and their customers greater confidence throughout the sales conversation.

Differentiate Yourself from Your Competitors
Top salespeople, positioning themselves as consultants, see themselves as resources for their clients. They see themselves and carry themselves as advisors, mentors and friends. They become emotionally involved in their transactions and they are generally concerned that their product or service be the ideal solution to the real needs of the prospects they are dealing with. They differentiate themselves from their competitors by being more concerned with helping their prospects than with selling their products or services. Their customers often feel that they care more about them than they care about making a sale. And it's true.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, see yourself as a problem-solver rather than as a salesperson. Take sufficient time to understand the prospect's real need before you start selling.

Second, think of ways to tailor your product or service to your customer's needs so that he sees what you sell as the ideal solution for him.

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quote of the day...

"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."

~James Allen
1864-1912, Author of As A Man Thinketh

The Three Factors of Time

The Three Factors of Time
By: Brian Tracy

Organize Your Life Around Your Family, Your Career and Your Personal Goals
You need to stand back on a regular basis and analyze yourself, your life and your time usage. You need to become a master of your time rather than a slave to continuing time pressures.

Your Most Precious Resource
Time is your most precious resource. It is the most valuable thing you have. It is perishable, it is irreplaceable, and it cannot be saved. It can only be reallocated from activities of lower value to activities of higher value. All work requires time. And time is absolutely essential for the important relationships in your life. The very act of taking a moment to think about your time before you spend it will begin to improve your personal time management immediately.

The Starting Point
Personal time management begins with you. It begins with your thinking through what is really important to you in life. And it only makes sense if you organize it around specific things that you want to accomplish. You need to set goals in three major areas of your life. First, you need family and personal goals. These are the real reasons why you get up in the morning, why you work hard and upgrade your skills, why you worry about money and sometimes feel frustrated by the demands on your time.

Decide Upon Your Goals
What are your personal and family goals, both tangible and intangible? A tangible family goal could be a bigger house, a better car, a larger television set, a vacation, or anything else that costs money. An intangible goal would be to build a higher quality relationship with your spouse and children, to spend more time with your family going for walks or reading books. Achieving these family and personal goals are the real essence of time management, and its major purpose.

How to Achieve Your Goals
The second area of goals is your business and career goals. These are the "how" goals, the means by which you achieve your personal, "why" goals. How can you achieve the level of income that will enable you to fulfill your family goals? How can you develop the skills and abilities to stay ahead of the curve in your career? Business and career goals are absolutely essential, especially when balanced with family and personal goals.

Personal Development Goals
The third type of goals is your personal development goals. Remember, you can't achieve much more on the outside than what you have achieved and become on the inside. Your outer life will be a reflection of your inner life. If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and your career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. You must build yourself if you want to build your life. Perhaps the greatest secret of success is that you can become anything you really want to become to achieve any goal that you really want to achieve. But in order to do it, you must go to work on yourself and never stop.

Who is Bernadine Wade?

Can you be happy and disappointed at the same time?

Who is Bernadine Wade?...you could probably do a Google search and see what happened to her family, you can do a search on you tube and see the video or any other search engine or you can just wait until her story is broadcast to millions when she is sitting on the Oprah Show...In the next couple of months you will know who Bernadine Wade is

...as I like to call her...Mama Bernie...why because this lady has adopted children, not just any children, but the children that most people would look over...it is sorta like the dog that is a runt that everyone looked over at the pet shop

...she is the one that takes the children that most of us wouldn't take the time to Love and Cherish, because they have special needs...this lady makes sweet lemonade out of lemons! The story you should know!

In every city in America...we have that one lady that will adopt the so-called runts of the litter and turn them into productive citizens...these are the people that no one ever hears about, because it is not sexy news, but it is people like this that makes the world a better place.

Just wait until you guys hear her story...This is a lady you should know! It is time for the lady that gives love, get some love.

If you need to or want to get in touch with her to find out more about you can you, please call me and I will put the 2 of you together...they is a march/protest on the school districts steps in April.

Here is my number 219-512-9910 and my name is Ryan

What you don't know about Jackson Township, Ohio School District.

how can you let this happen to students that attend your schools and no one has to take responsiblity? I will send my kids elsewhere that care!

Dear Nikki Woods

Dear Nikki Woods

I thought that you were suppose to have Mrs. Bernadine Wade on the show today...that would have been awesome for her to get a chance to get the word out to the world...I don't know how you would feel if you wanted to make people aware about a situation that happened to you, but couldn't get a outside link to the world...that is what this lady is facing, she has been trying to get people to listen for almost 4 years...I hope that in the very near future that Mrs Wade will have a chance to air what happened to her family, because it is something that we all need to be aware of...Our childrens' safety on a school buses across America.

Don't you think that the same women you are trying to help unify and inspire, really needs to know this...plus like you said your connects and Tonya, you co-host say you guys are here to help.  I think that this lady deserves your help.

I will tell you this...it was good hearing from Lisa Nichols from the Secret...she is always on point.

Always

Ryan

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