“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” This is one of the sayings posted on a tribute website to Cory Rudl I recently re-visited. If there could be something to motivate you to your greatness beyond the present condition of your situation, I am sure you will agree this saying “says it all”.
Although Cory Rudl Died in a racing car accident June 2, 2005, I believe he is the original genius internet marketing guru responsible for aiding thousands if not more aspiring entrepreneurs to take the internet serious and learn to make money from it.
Cory revealed the truth of the internet as a proven money making vehicle. The internet has come a long way since his death in 2005. There has never been a better time than now to take advantage of the internet for the average person. The low cost of a simple website and available social networking sites have opened tremendous opportunities for anyone and everyone with a mindset and focus to provide value to online consumers. Could it aid you with your timely idea or network marketing company? Are there resources and business models readily available to be taken advantage of? The answer is yes, yes, yes! Remember that everyone knows a core network group of people. You have at your disposal upwards of 100 people just through your network. Get them talking about you and this can transform into thousands, then tens of thousands. Get them chatting about your services on their social networks and you will build an audience, your new clientele. This will get you into the money flow!
The economy today has placed many at the perils of needing ‘something’ to get out of the rut they have gotten into. Heavy debt loads, little reserve cash, heavy use of credit cards, etc. The stress of daily living with an uncertain future, paying bills, raising kids, etc. You do not have to be a victim of uncertainty any more.
Are you currently struggling to find your way and finding it difficult in this economy? Many people have taken advantage of my wealth tools available on my website. You can as well HERE to aid you on your journey. You can also contact me for more info, guidance or to share your success story.
Until the next WebLog,
GG
You can read more about Cory Rudl and his marketing genius HERE
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How often do things just seem to make sense, something that could happen in the future, with all the ingredients for a possibility, the lining up of what could be the ultimate synchronicity for a successful business plan? I believe I may have found one such situation, a match in the making, a possibility…
Anthony Ward, a multi-millionaire who lives in the UK, founded a hedge fund named Armajaro Holdings which recently purchased 241,000 tons of cocoa beans for the grand amount of £658 million. It is suggested by people in the know that the mountain of beans will be held in warehouses in London, Liverpool, Humberside and Holland.
The move was the largest single cocoa purchase for 14 years and came as bean prices rose to the highest level since 1977 – £2,732 per ton.
The purchase has surprised commodity dealers because, in a highly unusual move, Mr Ward’s firm has actually taken delivery of the beans. In 98% of transactions, traders exchange contracts which give them the option to buy and sell cocoa at various prices and at different times without ever taking possession of the stock.
My blog on June 25th about Felicity Loudon, heiress to the Cadbury fortune who lives in the UK as well, and her dismay about the sale of the Cadbury Chocolate Company to interests in the USA, sent up flags of patriotism, motivation and possibilities of the strangest strategic kind.
Would these two highly intelligent business people know something about strategic vertical branding possibilities, a union of two great minds to partner with each other. If I was the Willy Wonka in the world of chocolate, a multi-billion dollar industry player of the sweetest kind, I would surely and unquestionably know all the major players, power moves, changes and ensuing possibilities at all times available. Would these two folks who live in the same country, in the same industry, with similar motivations, be planning something? Something beyond the recent sale to foreign ownership, the once powerful chocolate merchant, Cadbury Chocolates, away from the UK, to bring back one of a sweet financial kind?
Anthony Ward now owns enough beans to manufacture 5.3 billion quarter-pound chocolate bars. It is understood 100,000 tons of the cocoa will go to the world’s largest chocolate manufacturer, Swiss-based Barry Callebaut. Could he be looking at another candidate to sell all or a portion of the beans to? Felicity Loudon has the wealth and motivation to transform even a portion of those beans to chocolate bars in every store in the UK and beyond. Anyone for a Felicitys Dark Chocolate Bar?
What do you think?
Let’s wait and see what happens next…
Until the next Weblog,
GG
Read Anthony Wards cocoa bean Swiss sale HERE
Read more about Anthony Ward and his chocolate purchase HERE
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How does the name Felicity Loudon, Cadbury Chocolate, and a £27m country estate all package together into a new chocolate bar? As a heiress to the Cadbury fortune, she and her husband have decided to sell the country estate to aid with capital to fund the launch of her new venture, a chocolate company. Why would a 61 year old women, together with her husband John, a 72 year old former merchant banker, choose this route at this time in their life? The answer? Perhaps a sweet mixture of revenge, drive, quality and patriotism. The recent sale of Cadbury Chocolates, founded in 1824 by her great-great-grandfather John Cadbury, is the motivation behind the heiresses plans. She said: ‘I can’t accept that Cadbury has gone to America. To a plastic cheese company. I won’t accept it. I want to start again. I want to make chocolate and I’m jolly well going to do it.’
Why do I find this important to write on? I believe it is critical to understand and validate, as an entrepreneur, the internal passion, those human qualities of drive and motivation into action. Why do we do what we do? Why do some of us never achieve massive results of achievement, that special sovereignty of oneness, to do what is right and proper, to that rightful place that is yours to live? If you won $10 Million dollars today would you have the motivation and deep conviction to risk it for what you believe in? Is wealth an insulator and protector from the outside world? Or is it a vehicle to change the world to a better place for all, through the law of rooted action and rising of the spirit condition? What drives Felicity to charge forward with such conviction, a potent, rooted spirit of action, such drive?
The individual display of human potency is the alchemy that changes the base state into something greater. The turning raw material into pure gold. The turning of raw ideas and thoughts of the mind into a higher energy of form. Thank you Felicity Loudon, for choosing to stand tall and strong in a world where the appearance of the existing materials is unchangeable and powerful. And yes, appearances can be deceiving. You have chosen the route of creation, not acceptance. A better chocolate bar recipe. Something you know your great, great grandfather would be proud of, something we all need to recognize, the potency of the human spirit.
We all have our own recipe of potency, something to stand on, a personal route of creation. Are you up to it?
Until the next WebLog, GG
You can read the entire article about Felicity Loudon HERE
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A name like Donald Trump always seem to be placed with words like smart, savvy, quick read, intelligent, leader, rich, network marketing owner, real estate developer, casino owner, and the like. But it seems the No. 1 lesson students learn at Donald Trump’s online business program is How To Max Out Credit Cards 101, a new lawsuit charges. Perhaps a new dictionary meaning for the word of the day Max.
Tarla Makaeff, who took a one year apprenticeship with Trump University says she lost $80,000, including $34,995 for a “Trump Gold Elite membership.” She was whacked on interest, financing, late fees, penalties and expenses. Her real world experience included a half-day trip to a Home Depot to examine supplies for fixing up foreclosed homes – plus mentors who pushed self-serving deals, who then disappeared and failed to return calls. The full article is HERE.
It seems the dream for riches and wealth via a short term course or program/system with a powerful corporate brand identity does not always lead to fortune as a quick step to the end of the rainbow. Many internet affiliate programs operate the same way, such as network marketing companies, of which there are some great one’s. Remember, they are the one’s always leading, you following. That’s the way the protocol works. Always remember this. It is never the other way around. I sometimes wonder what it is about human nature that we buy into systems that appear like a short cut to success. We are always told ‘just follow the leader’ and you will win. The mind is guided (misguided?) by the senses and emotions. A bad combination and easy lure to the unaware. If you examine business closely you will find an inherent truth for the wealthy want- a- be. If you look at the inside financial statements of these companies you will find less than 20% make any kind of living as an associate doing it. 3% make a decent living. 1% make a lot of money and get rich, then run off to the next big thing. So if you choose to do this type of business yourself be prepared for the truth and work required to make a massive success of it. Just do not make the same mistake going forward in any venture that lures you to the short cut, which requires your money, lots of it, where there is no assurance of success. It seems the road to finding gold is lined with credit card debt and stress, to the max. Do not do the same. Be smart, be savvy, be the leader, end rich…
Until the next WebLog, GG
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Articles and web video’s on financial frugal management I seem to come across lately have a stream of commonalities. The economy and it’s inherent problems effecting each one of us draw to the surface how a certain sect of people are tackling their personal finances head on. Mark Cuban, billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks recently wrote an article about his view on the smartest way to get rich in today’s world. His answer is to get rid of every expense you can by lowering every conceivable cost you can. Rip up your credit cards, manage every penny, etc. Instead of living the illusion believing we can and will ‘find the next big thing’ ‘out there’ which will let us show the world how great we really are, the thing we CAN do is be responsible to ourselves and tackle tangible things we can, one of these being our finances. Some people are downsizing the homes they choose to live in, one women from a 1500 Sq.Ft. home to a less than 100 Sq.Ft. home with no mortgage, micro monthly utility bills, drives an eco-friendly car and has a part time job with positive cash flow every month! Some are selling furniture and unnecessary belongings that have taken up space but never used. On the other side of the equation is the people who must have no less than 3 HD TV’s in their home, new gadgets every year and an endless in-stream of consumer stuff to keep them with the illusion of happiness, with the blessing of their credit card limits (debt cards!). Do we honestly believe we are helping the economy by spending ourselves into craziness? Since when is ‘helping’ the economy more important than you, when it does not help you, furthering your route to the deep irreversible quicksand of choking debt, making you the servant to money, not the master of wealth!
One thing to understand about money is that it is not emotional. We are! Money does not care if you have it or not, it is not dysfunctional, whether it sits in a vault at the bank, under a bed, in a cash register, lays on the ground, gets stolen, burnt, or ripped up. It is our relationship to money that makes money so confusing. We operate of the deep wells of emotion every time we think money. We are the ones chasing money everywhere we believe it can be found! And even though their are trillions of dollars in millions of locations around the world at any moment in time there never seems to be enough of it.
I am doing a talk show on BlogTalkRadio this Sunday at 10:00AM PDT and we will be chatting about a 90DayTidy2Success on this exact subject. Why not tune in, turn it up and join in the conversation about living smart with money, success, wealth and health?
Until then, GG
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I man I revered and respected through books and adventurous writings when I was a teenager, Bud Helmericks, a pioneer, highly skilled bush pilot, master guide and writer died January 28, 2010 in Wickenburg, Arizona at the ripe age of 93. Born January 18, 1917, Bud is today considered one of Alaska’s most famous bush pilots himself. He holds the Award of Merit, Territory of Alaska, for “Special Service in the Arctic Regions.” He couldn’t tell you exactly how many Alaska flight hours he had, because he tired of adding up his flight hours after logging more than 27,000 hours. In well-worn seats of his small aircraft, one of which was his Cessna 170 named ‘Arctic Tern’, he crossed thousands of miles of mostly uninhabited wilderness on wheels, skis or pontoons. He established a flourishing commercial fishing operation, became a renowned big-game guide (Alaskan Master Guide No. 4). Known for his Arctic knowledge and experience, Bud became a consultant for Eastman Kodak, Eddie Bauer, and other companies working in cold-weather regions. He was an industrial guide for northern Alaska’s early oil exploration, starting with guiding Northern Transportation Co.‘s barges loaded with Sinclair drilling equipment and supplies from the Mackenzie River across the Arctic Ocean into the Colville River. He was also a consultant for British Petroleum during its early push into the Prudhoe Bay region.
In 1969, I worked for the summer holidays for a small float-plane air charter company at Ft.Simpson, NWT, on the Mackenzie River, for a company called Arctic Air. Barges went up and down the river on their way to and from Hay River with supplies for the northern posts from Great Slave Lake right to the Arctic Ocean. Some of these barges, unbeknown to me, were going to eventually land at Bud’s Colville River drop off location. I am lucky for being at Ft.Simpson that summer and watchng the barges heading towards a man I greatly admired through the romance of his writings!
He was a man at one with himself and his environment, not ever requiring anything like a TV to entertain him. Alaska offered him the gift that was precious to him and his family, freedom. Freedom to live his life his way, at his pace, with the sounds he wanted to hear in the arctic silence, the eyes to only see what he wanted to observe in nature. An audio interview done with him in his Fairbanks home in 2003 at the age of 86 revealed a man at one with himself, with a lot of wisdom for anyone wanting to hear. You can listen to him reveal a small portion of his life HERE.
I was saddened to here of his death as he meant a great deal to me as teenager reading his north country arctic adventures through the picture stories of his writings. Until the next WebLog, GG
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For my Blog Talk Radio show Sunday, March 7th at 10:00AM Pacific, which you can listen to HERE here or at any future day and time, I want to revisit an earlier posting I wrote on living original, organic, in nature, from the agency of self. I watched a one hour documentary on a trapper who has lived for 35 years 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. It is a must watch for everyone if you want to see someone choosing to live life ‘their own way’ without the everyday consumerism to distract them from living lifeto the fullest. You can view it HERE anytime. You see, if you want to do life your way, it can be done. It does not require nor seek approval or acceptance from anyone. This proves it is not what you choose to be and do but why you choose to be and do what is your own to seize and be!
From July 24, 2009 I wrote;
Imagine observing an old trappers cabin. Deep in the woods, miles from nowhere, built to be protected from the cold winds surrounded by spruce trees. Yet close to the lakefront. A canoe onshore, always ready at his calling to go get a moose for winter survival food, or fish when needed. Smoke always coming from the chimney, keeping the inside always a place of warmth and comfort, with coffee or tea always ready just in case of a bush pilot visitor who may fly in unannounced, yet so welcome. Coming to be sure the trapper is alive and well, and tell stories into the night.
The trapper walks the winter bush in snow shows, following the lay of the land and entrenched paths from years of knowledge, the intimacy of a true artist. A man at one with his environment. At peace with his environment. One who knows every tree, every leaf, every creek, every animal in his territory, large and small. Every mountain top. Every weather phenomena from an early arriving fall to a late arriving spring. Every break of wave on the lake, every cove, the shallow spots, the deep waters. Where the best fishing is, pointing to the location of the largest trout off that point, the finest arctic grayling in the bay over there. All things reflect his knowing.
I am a very fortunate man to have met a few trappers from my days flying out of Ft.St.John, BC. I had the extraordinary opportunity to meet trappers who were very much like this. A very interesting type of person to talk with knowing the limited time you are visiting with them never allows the space for intimacy.
I watched a TV show with an outdoor cook who, with a camera crew, pursue places back in the bush from which to cook in nature. The cook had a trapper on his show who took the group on some trails with four wheelers. A short segment was to illustrate being with the trapper on his trap line. Aside from cooking a muskrat fresh from a trap, the trapper told us all, the audience, that the trapping days have changed. It is now a course taken through approved schools. In his words, he suggested that the act of trapping was now secondary to just being in the bush to stay in good shape and enjoy the outdoors. Catching animals is now to be considered incidental and not a prerequisite for being a trapper. Since when is a trapper not a trapper? It sounds like when someone other than yourself tells you what a trapper is and what a trapper is not. A new age trapper vs. the trapper of old. The original trapper depended on catching his limit of winter catch to make a simple living. This set him up for the following years plans to do the same.
Today, when you see the cabin from the window of your float plane, you are more likely a tourist arriving to be entertained and dined for an hour, then off to pursue the next grand adventure, only to be back at home in the city by supper, to chat about the experience with wine and steak.
A far cry from the wolves calling their howls from deep in the wilderness. Loud enough for the old trapper to know each one by name.
Cheers from the wilderness…GG
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