Having a purposeful life will give you more success

Naturally, we all look for purpose in our lives. In the USA alone, most people regardless of what they do for a living and how much they earn, the #1 thing people are looking for in the workplace is the feeling of purpose. It was said that people hate just sitting in the desk and filing papers all day. People are naturally looking for some type of purpose in their lives. Typically a noble cause. Something bigger than themselves.

I mean, there is spiritual purpose which is very important and there is secular purpose. I'm talking about Secular Purpose for all of you religious readers. Your spiritual purpose comes from another blog called The Bible. Go read that daily!

Anyhow, when looking for a Job and Business, look for something that is purposeful and meaningful. Something you can get passionate about. Because passion is the driving force in your personal success. Income will come regardless, just focus on what your purpose is and what you are passionate about and you will go far!

So, what is your purpose? Mine? Just watch the video above. That's my purpose.

Good Nutrition Promotes Good Health

Nutrition provides the raw materials that each individual cells in our body needs to function optimally.  That is why good nutrition promotes good health. Nothing new right?  So more and more intelligent people like you is starting to eat right, exercise, take supplements to supplement what is missing in the green harvested fruits and vegetables we eat, and rest as much as we can.

Though, some of the things listed above might prove challenging because we all live hectic lifestyles, but many health concious people do it anyway.  We find the time and ways to keep as healthy as we can be so we can have more energy, vitality, and we do it to look great too!

Oil Spill! Then What?

I'm sure everyone has watched the news about the big oil spill that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico.  I know I have watch about enough of it.  It seems there is no progress in stopping the oil gushing out of the sea floor.  I honestly don't think that BP, the United States Government and even President Obama knows what to do.  They are battling the force of nature.  Can a company, government and a President battle a tornado or a hurricane?  No!  All we can all do is wait.  Same as oil gushing out on the sea floor.  I am sure they are doing their best to stop this issue.  Whatever they are doing.  Though it seems it is like the blind leading the blind.  I really don't think they know what they are doing.

The environment is getting way polluted and toxic for our own good.  There are various reasons why our environment is what it is today, including what is happening in the Gulf.  Quite frankly, it's an unhealthy environment for all of us now.  Despite this oil spill, we should all realize that Change is slow and we will continue to live on a toxic planet until Positive Change happens.

The way we do things needs to change.  The way we think needs to change.  The way we eat needs to change.  Gosh, we need a whole lot of changing.  Today, Change is good!  Because we have a problem in pretty much all aspects of life, and we need solutions.  Solutions are out there!  We just have to look for it.  Seek and you shall find is good advice.

Apple's iPad is so cool!

 

I got to play around the iPad and it's quite fun actually.   At first I though, why get an iPad when you can just save up for a Macbook Pro.  I haven't read any reviews about the iPad, and as far as how it worked, I thought it mostly acted like an oversized iTouch which is why I would have chosen a MacBook Pro over the iPad, though it would just cost a little bit more.

Well, a lot of the functions is that of an iTouch and much more.  What amazed me is the ease of use.  I personally use a new Apple Keyboard and using the iPad Keyboard was fairly easy.  Now, I'm sure I'll need to train my hands to be more efficient with the iPad's keyboard, it was only a few minutes I tried to use the keyboard.  I was mostly playing the really fun games.  I love the golf game.  The only restriction to using the iPad with the keyboard is the size of the viewing document screen is slimmed down.  The keyboard is indeed on touch screen.  Also, Microsoft Office can be loaded in an iPad which I didn't think was possible either. But hey, it's a new and cool gadget.  It's not a MacBook pro, but I assume that the iPad would evolved to having all of the functions of a MacBook Pro and more.

I love Apple and their products.  The software provides ease of use and it comes in a really nice shell: like the iPad.  I personally think that is why Apple is very strong because they do make very good products.  Yes, they are more expensive than that of the PC but Apple are for Apple customers and PC is for the PC customers.  If you're looking for a PC, get a PC, not an Apple and vice-versa.

See, PC people like to compare and contrast the pros and cons about Apple, but most of these PC people if given the chance, will take an Apple any day.  The only biggest argument is the price.  That and the ease of use maybe sometimes harder for PC people because they are used to operating a PC.  But be patient PC people, just get used to it you'll be a pro.  (I am telling this because most of my friends are diehard PC people with a lot of objections about Apple (it's so annoying!!!).  I don't know why.  They always want to prove PC is better all the time.  To me, PC is a PC and Apple is an Apple and I love Apple PERIOD)

Anyhow, going back to the iPad, it is just a really cool gadget and the price is very good.  I'm sure many PC people is happy about this also.  It's a great gadget for traveling and sitting at the cafe.  Almost everywhere, it is free internet access.  You can access all email and facebook on the iPad and create Office Documents.

I'm gonna get one!  I will post the iPad's picture on my vision board until I get it in my hands.

Google Juice!

To understand inbound marketing, you have to understand what outbound marketing is.  Back in the day, email blasts, tv commercials, billboard ads, posters and pamphlets you see in the mail were effective and the norm, this is outbound marketing.

Today, our consumers do a great job of not looking at and filtering out spam messages and outbound marketing material.  In essence, outbound marketing has now become SPAM.  Not SPAM the unhealthy luncheon meat, quite popular amongst the Filipinos, Hawaiians & Chamorros.  But SPAM the unwanted junk email that people don't want to see and receive.

In today's world, the consumer rules.  They are the ones looking for the products and services you offer via online.  Easier said than done.  Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.) is hard work.  Yes, you'll need websites, blogs, twitters, facebook, ect, ect.  It is the world of Social Media.  There are a lot of trial and error that needs to be done.  How do you do this?  There are books that can help teach S.E.O., but you still need some trial and error to get to the top of the list on Google and get Google Juice.

Books I recommend to help is What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis and Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah.  This is a good start for us.  I wish you all success!

If you're successful in inbound marketing as well, please share some of the stuff that you do with us?

Jobs are not coming back

If you're waiting around thinking more jobs will back, you may be just wishful thinking.  Then again, jobs are being offered every,  McDonald's is still hiring.

See from the books I've read from Robert Kiyosaki and especially Paul Zane Pilzer, the economy right now is restructuring itself.  The unemployment we see today is called structural unemployment.  The unemployed especially with outdated professions, will seek newer and better ways to make money.  Perhaps even create new businesses and industries.

They are both saying that Jobs will become the thing of the past and that Entrepreneurship is the way of today and in the future. The days of the W2s are over and it's a 1099 world now!  What we have been taught in the past is outdated and it is those with enough foresight will learn the new ways especially to survive in our rough economic environment.

More and more people today are even creating home-based-business through network marketing.  Network marketing with financial planning services, Tupperware, Kitchen Stuff, I even heard of one with Electricity.  Some of them have day jobs to support their basic needs as they get started in their new business venture.  You will have to do some research before choosing a network marketing company that you like sharing and get passionate about.  I did this as well!  I chose a nutrition company by the named of Mannatech.  They have great products:  Check,  they had a great business compensation plan:  Check, and the culture of the Company is unique in a very good way:  double Check!

Look, we now know for sure that Job Security is No Security especially for those who were downsized.  There were some people who worked for companies for 20-30yrs and got the boot.  It is wake up time as Robert Kiyosaki says.  It's time to become financially competent and business savvy.  Financial freedom is the name of the game.  Are you in?

Success by Sharing, Translation: Success by Gossip

In Show Biz, they know, regardless of how much they spend on conventional advertising, the show or movie's success lives or dies by word of mouth.  If people like it, they will recommend it to their friends.  If they don't like it, they will recommend not watching.  In some cases however, very rare, if the movie sucks, I know someone who'll recommend you watching the movie just to confirm that it did indeed suck.  His initials are S.N.  Yeah, he's a friend of mine.

So, Success by Sharing or Gossip!  Regardless of what product or service you provide, our goal is to get our customers as happy and satisfied as possible so they will recommend what every product or service we sell to their friends and family or who ever they come to meet along the way.  You call this your personal walking ambassadors (this is explained in the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann which is a great read I might add).

Let's face it, all of us are all sales people somehow.  We all got something to sell right?   What ever it is, i.e. homes, properties, products, advise, books, song lyrics, cloths, ideas, ect. That is what business is and businesses earn by providing good products and services to we the people (it's People Power).   We can find much success by personal recommendations from ourselves to our friends, and our friends recommendation to their friends (business friends, or just friends in general)  Success just by Gossip...