Some Things You Still Cannot Do on the Web

I woke up late to go to the gym to work-out this morning, so instead, I went for a walk around the neighborhood, something I typically used to do only at night, but here I was in the cool morning after a nice Arizona rain last night, and it was still cool.

The first thing I noticed is that freshness that everything has when it is still wet from rain, not that it is the first time I have noticed it, but as with anything, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.

I have been doing a lot of changing and my awareness of the world around me is heightened. As much time as I spend on the web, I try to never lose track of the fact that everything I do for money, is for the sole purpose of being able to spend more time in the places of the world that I want to be with my sweetheart, Holly, and my wonderful kids and grandkids.

There is no way I can see that we will ever be able to exercise on the web, but even if someday someone discovers a way, I don't think I will ever trade away one such simple pleasure of life.

When the Student is Ready...

I have heard and thought I understood the oft repeated phrase, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

 

Today, I understood that on a new and entirely more meaningful level, because of an interview I heard with Dan Millman, the author of "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior."

 

He said that so many of us think of this in the way that when we are finally ready to listen, and learn, we will have some master or wise teacher come along and take us under their wing, and teach us.

 

Dan said this is not the sense we should understand this, and it takes away from the truth of the phrase.

 

According to Dan, and I totally see his point, it can be simply enough read, "When we begin to listen, those things that have lessons for us, will finally get through to us, to teach us, and thus the teacher appears."  In that sense, the teacher is always there, and when we change our thinking, raise our eyes from their downward gaze, we see what has been waiting to teach us, and we finally hear, and to the extent we are indeed ready, to understand.

 

This is really how I understand the Law of Attraction, and the Law of Vibration, which many see as the basis of the Law of Attraction.

 

When you are on a certain frequency, you feel and see those things that vibrate on that frequency.  As you elevate or change your vibration, you come into sympathetic vibration with other things and you become aware of things that, while always there, have not been evident to you while vibrating at a different frequency, much like changing the TV channel.  Those signals were all in the room with us, but as we change the channel, we see those things that we could not, at a different frequency.

 

Seems simple, yet some never get it, or at least they never get the relevance in their own lives, of the need to elevate their own frequencies.

 

I have so much more to find, but at least I am finally searching, a willing student, yes, and learning still.

The Cost of Doing Nothing

I have lately heard many friends and associates say that they are just not going to vote this time around, because they can't stand either candidate. While that feels like a safe route to take, the truth is harder to take. Either way, one of these men will be voted into office, and frankly, one of the greatest costs of doing nothing, is that you have added nothing of your own personal wisdom to the debate or the outcome.

Worse than that is that some of you who do nothing will likely still claim the right to complain or worse, whine, about the way things have gotten with whomever ends up in office.

I voted for the last guy, and yes, I have learned something, but I can't say I would change my choice if I could go back right now and do it again. Sometimes, even when it feels like we have no choice, no voice, it turns out that we do. We just sometimes need to talk louder, or find a better platform. Or build one.

The internet gives so many people, the tools to accomplish a world of good, and to add their voice to the billions of others in such a way that it can indeed be heard, and make a difference.

So, speak up Americans, educate those around you, or learn more, from others, and from the candidates themselves. Don't throw in the towel because the system is not apparently set up for your opinion to count. Make some changes, there is plenty of time, though the clock is ticking on this one.

Some will sit back, and beat their chests, and then change... the channel. Others will speak up, and make their mark upon the world. Still others will never even know things have changed.

How rare indeed was the founding of our great nation. In a world where most rebellions are led by the "fed-up few" who have nothing to lose, ours alone in the history of the world, was led by men of means, who had much to lose, and were willing to pledge it all to the casting off of the tyranny of a king whose usefulness had run out. I still search for its equal in world history.

What will it take for us to be willing to leave our comfort zones and lead a cause for change?

One by one we see it happening. Don't wait. Be the change you want to see in the world; one man proved it can happen that way.

No Snow, No Test Pattern on the WWW

I still remember growing up, if all else failed, it was time to go to bed when the last channel went to snow or a test pattern. It was the end of another programming day.

Now, being connected to the world, and having cyber friends and events happening all over the world, the line is harder to see.

Oh wait, that's my heavy eyelids! ;)

We have to remember, that even though somewhere in the world, the sun is rising, our bodies have a clock, set to local time, and they need to rest. Living on the WWW does not mean we have to be awake for all events.

No worries, if anything important happens while you sleep, someone will come get you, and let you know, maybe even Ted Turner (CNN). Either way, the adage still applies, "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." You won't find yourself falling asleep in the middle of the day.

Now off to bed with ye.

PayPal really is What it Calls Itself

Living on the web has the potential to make life a lot easier and at the same time, a lot less private. One area that still has a lot of people worried, and with some good reason, is making purchases. The main frustration I encounter plenty, is with the requirement of most purchases, that you default to an auto-renewal of that purchase unless you notify otherwise.

 

This is a very legitimate and profitable way of doing business, and allows people the freedom from having to babysit subscriptions and other recurring purchases.

 

Sometimes we make credit card purchases that turn out to be something other than what we wanted or in some way cause us to reconsider having that recurring charge. Usually, the last information available, and sometimes not available easily, is how to cancel; the less legitimate, the harder it is to find. Well, PayPal has an option, whenever a purchase is made that sets up a recurring hit on the account, that allows the cancellation of that recurring hit, with the click of an option.

 

Obviously, credit card purchases should never be made capriciously, however, many websites use the, "this price available this time only, if you leave this site, the price is gone..." approach, and that does sometimes lead to purchases that are less than well researched.

 

It's nice to know that some places not only guard your online information well, but have safeguards built in that to some extent, make the reversal of a rush decision not have to result in an all night search for the receipt, or purchase information.

 

This is just one more reason that I am ecstatic to be make my home on the Web.

Does it Get any Better than iPhone?

Of course it does and it will, but I am right now enjoying the best of several worlds, now that I am up and running with a WinPwn unlocked iPhone, on my T-Mobile family plan, that has as much battery life and 8GB of space for more than enough music, and pictures, and allows me to listen to Pandora Radio with my internet service on the TMobile account.

It was not simple to get where I am now, and I am documenting the steps it took, and preparing to publish an eZine article. Kudos to all the dev teams working on affordable (not free, unless you are too cheap to donate once you see the benefits to be derived from all their work) solutions to the proprietary lockdowns on this technology.

The solution that worked for me did not end up being jailbreakme.com, though their work is well done; my firmware (2.0) was too far along to be able to downgrade far enough, in fact, FW 2.0 does not to my knowledge allow for downgrading. Nevertheless, the solution ended up being an oddly named product, that allowed me to literally pwn my iPhone. That's right, I said pwn it. It's a product called WinPwn 2.0.0.3 (RC1) and it required me to do more than I expected to have to, but once I was done, I now have a T-Mobile powered iPhone that has full on internet capability, clean running You-Tube access, and I do mean clean running.

I watched a full 1 hour streamed documentary without any pauses or ripples, which I have not done on any handheld computer or phone, even my most recent Toshiba e800 running xcpuscalar which overclocked my xscale cpu in the e800 to 530 MHz, and could run most full length movies almost without a glitch could not stream so cleanly.

Yes, I have long known that Apple memory and cpu access technology is faster and cleaner than the equivalent Microsoft OS no matter what the hardware, as evidenced by Apple lately using Intel and Unix OS. In fact, as it turns out, Unix is the OS behind what I am running on my iPhone, though I must qualify that with, "I do not know much of the details, but am researching it for my article."

Suffice to say, this is the next best thing to the Killer App I have long sought, because this is one tool that just about does everything I have long awaited to be available on one device.
I Twitter with ease now, from my iPhone and as I said earlier, can listen to Pandora radio as if it were music on my phone. That's worth the wait.

Listen and Learn

I had a fun experience while leaving my workplace yesterday. I encountered a man standing by a tree looking curiously up into its branches at a locust (cicada) sounding its deafening screechy song. His name is Anthony, and he works in my building, but unlike the myriad workers who pass that tree each day, he had stopped to smell the flowers, or in this case, to observe life in one of its many forms.

We are very much alike, Anthony and I, and we hit it off and had quite a conversation on the way to the parking lot, but not before both standing and looking up into the tree. It was mostly about taking time to notice things around us and not being so caught up in just making it through each day, as so many do.

We must learn to listen, and that does not always mean just with our ears. We hear with our ears, but truly other senses are employed if we are listening. Hearing happens, such as when the proverbial tree falls in the forest, assuming we are there. But listening is something that only happens as a matter of choice, and involves focus, and stillness.

Be still, and listen. A dear friend of mine, Marjam, a half a world away in Estonia, spoke in her blog about the advice of a monk. When asked if he could teach one and only one thing to the world, what would it be? He said merely, "Listen."

I do not wish to take away from the simple profundity of that statement, but wish to add my own experience to it.

I have learned through my life, to still myself, to find a quiet place, or to be quiet wherever I am, and listen.

Life is moving, breathing, laughing, loving, all around us, each moment, and we see so little of it, as we move from one place to another.

Learn to be still.

Learn to Listen.

Shhhhh.

Hear it?

How Much Do I Matter Really?

Billions of humans live each day almost oblivious of the rest of those who occupy this blue-green orb.

We touch each other often, but mostly we brush each other on our hurried way to some-thing; some event, or some place where we can occupy our thoughts, or our hands, or merely our time.

In a world of growing connectedness, it will no longer be possible to live out our sometimes solitary lives without affecting and being affected by many more people than in any previous generation.

And Yet...

The way many of us go through each day, this transformation will go largely unnoticed.

Is it possible for one person to help a thousand? How about a million?

It happens each day, and many of us fail to notice that it is not by some miraculous event that many lives are changed, but by little shifts in awareness, of one of us at a time.

On a planet of almost 7 Billion people, having a notable effect in the lives of mere thousands is almost not newsworthy. But newsworthy it remains, because of the simple fact that most of us still allow ourselves to be content, with getting through our own lives, without hurting or damaging too many others along the way.

Find your Voice and make a difference. It is part of what gives us joy in the journey.

The Cluetrain Almost Left Me

I have just recently discovered The Cluetrain Manifesto, and while I feel I am a relative late-comer to the concept, I am by far, still ahead of the popular curve on this. Why is it that most of the people in our land still resist change?

I discovered and bought the book last month, and it sat on my shelf waiting for me to find the time to read it, when, quite by accident, I opened up another book which I knew I should read and simply had not. The 8th Habit has turned out not only to be an eye, and mind opener, but again made reference early in the book, to The Cluetrain Manifesto. Now, I have just begun to read both books, and am studying them for what change they can help me effect in my own life.

I am sure I will have much to say about both, as every chapter in either one jolts me again and again, and even when I re-read the words of a chapter. There are some wonderful teachings which I had already begun to feel the need for, but did not realize at the time what I was feeling.

I am finding my voice, and I am beginning to see that there is so much that I can contribute to help those around me see and accept the direction our world is going. The world and the work of the 21st Century, for most of us in the USA, will be work done with our mouths and with our minds and not so much with our hands, and those who resist will merely continue to complain about how we are losing all of our jobs to foreign nations that will do it for less.

Let's all wake up and realize, the changes we see happening around us should not cause us to curl up and hold on to what we know. It should cause us to start learning again, possibly enrich that which we know, hopefully learn some new things. I see this as very positive, and want to be part of the world we are moving into.

To use a phrase from my childhood, "Resistance is Futile."

Independence Day and Change is on the Horizon

I once voted for the man called W, but I cannot see now, what I saw then. Am I blind or do we have at the helm, a man who could not keep his own business ventures afloat during most of his young life, and who has been emotionally absent from most of the important decisions of his current office visit?

I will not rant, I will just say, that I have been doing a lot of soul searching, and, while I am not happy with the Republican party, I am also not sure that either party offers the change we so richly deserve and so desperately need in this country.

I am studying the latest work of Fareed Zakaria, "The Post-American World". To say that America is losing its primacy in the world is not to say that the USA has not played an important role in the improvement of world economic and political conditions. There is no doubt that we have blazed a trail for the world to emulate, but emulate they are, and we seem to be losing sight of the responsibility we have. And so we must of necessity stop trying to dictate to the rest of the world that they must set up a Democratic government. In fact, it was never Democracy that was setup for us by the Founding Fathers. It was a Republic, "if you can keep it," said Benjamin Franklin, and we may actually have already done our best to dismantle it beyond recognition.

Still, without us, or rather US, there would be precious little in the world to prevent the uprising and despotic rule of any of several tyrants. Many have tried and we have been there to maintain the independence and support, for most of the world, and uphold, freedom for the masses.

Can we patch the wounds we have inflicted on our great nation? We have to care as a nation and strive to regain some of the goodwill which has been lost. But we also need to stop trying to be the self-declared policeman for the world. We are well hated throughout most of the world for our presumptuous leadership, and determination that we know better how to deal with our weapons of mass destruction than anyone else.

Democracy does not mix well with some of the highly religious nations we are trying to help with it. Democracy, and the Republican form of government we were given by our Founding Fathers, does not thrive where there is not individual freedom, morality, and sovereignty. We will see what change we can effect this time around, and what good John McCain can do if he can even defeat the growing wave of support Barack Obama is finding even in conservatives who remain unaware of his extreme views in many areas he does not address right now.

Here's to the audacity of hope, no matter what the results.

The Universe is my Playground

The trust we have for what we know to be true, is a powerful element in determining where we are and where we stay. Those who are willing to know that there is knowledge out there that we must find and understand and make a part of us, are constantly in motion, while those who feel they know all they need to know, express that in so many ways.

New ideas bounce off of some people, like a freshly inflated basketball off a wall. Don't try that around here, we already tried that years ago and it doesn't work. Ha!! No it did not work and yet how much of that was you and how much was the thing you tried?? You may never know, and probably will never care that you could have, had you only wanted change badly enough.

I know that my knowledge comes from the ever changing application of new ideas to old ones. I cherish the old ones, for they got me here, but I never feel tied to them such that a new one is not welcome. Some call that wishy washy, or unsure. I am not unsure about how I feel about a great many important things. I am however certain that there a myriads of points of view from which I have not yet seen the same things. Therein lies the importance of this. Two people can see the very same thing and have experiences worlds apart from each other, standing right next to each other. It is not the thing, or even the looking at it that is the reality you experience, but the glasses through which you see the thing, that makes it for you, an experience to treasure, or to ignore.

I could keep going for a long time, but will save some for later. My universe is spinning on.

The Faster Pace Means "Sometimes You Just Need to Steer"

Life in the fast paced world we live in now, can at times seem like it is taking chunks out of us as it passes us by, but I like to think of it all as a refining process. It's like "life in a rock tumbler." It is inevitable that some rough edges will get knocked off and in the end we'll be a smoother version of ourselves, even shinier. The problem for many is that they misunderstand the bumps and grinds as misfortune and go about it with a gloom and doom attitude instead of thinking, "Oh yeah, there goes another rough edge, ouch, didn't need that one either."

Sounds kind of goofy but so does sitting next to someone in a waiting room somewhere listening to them whining as if they were a 10 year old talking about how they can never get a break, when all around them are people worse off than them and people with more problems making a better go at it.

I do not want this to become a rant. It is what it is; my version of why "bad things" seem to happen to good people. Because what we call "bad things" are just things and they happen to all of us, and they are part of the process of getting back to our starting point better for the journey.

I am grateful for all of it, the journey is more exciting that way, and in fact, Joy should never be our goal, but instead should be our chosen method of travel. Peace Be The Journey.

Working Back in Corporate America

I have taken a contract back in Corporate America, and they have really battened down the hatches. I have a laptop and no admin rights to install anything. I have access to the internet and can read no personal webmail, all the sites are blocked. I know they have to protect their network, but seriously...

Yes, it is time to find a way to get back to working from home again.

I mean sure, it is a good place to work, no names, but they have been around a while, and I am likely to be able to stay put through the hard times, but I know the internet is growing in leaps and bounds and will continue to provide more and more worldwide economic growth. There has to be more I can do.

I continue to search for legitimate opportunities for income streams on the Web that are not just contributing to other people's spam outlets.

After working from home for the last two years and loving being so close to my family and having the amount of latitude I have had, it is hard to find much to like about working back in a building it takes an hour to get to and back from each day adding two hours to the amount of time I am away, and on top of that, leaves me largely unavailable to help a kid in need, someone needs to be picked up early, someone is sick or injured, call Mom, except this Mom is likely in a massage session and unavailable.

So we continue to search for ways to increase the flow of income. Isagenix is one way we are working now, that is a growing wellness industry giant, a world leader in a new niche carved out in the wellness industry called Nutritional Cleansing. More on that as it develops. For now you can see that web site at http://infohwyman.isagenix.com

Gotta go now, my Saturdays are more precious than ever before now that they are so jammed with things I can't do during the week.

The Internet is not Evil, Any More than Fire is Evil

While it is true that the internet has given rise to an increased availability of evil influences, such as pornography and phishing, none of these things were brought about or created by the internet, and nothing forces us to be any more victims of these evils now, than we were forced to be before.

I am one who knows that the addictive powers of pornography are real and not something to be trifled with. Many good people have fallen prey to and lost all they had worked for in their lives simply because they took lightly the addictive power of pornography. When I say it is a real addiction, some may scoff at that, but there is ample evidence that the hold that it takes in the lives of the men and women it infects involves not merely their minds, but the chemical forces in the body that are by design, strong enough to drive men and women to extreme behaviors in all aspects of their lives.

There is no good that can come from an addiction to pornography, and it is not a suitable substitute for real human interaction and relations. In most cases, pornography gives men a sense of dissatisfaction with their own mates as time and life takes its toll on their bodies. Pornography offers an ongoing and purely unreal constant against which we inevitably compare our own aging bodies, and our spouses will rarely continue to measure up to such a standard of eternal youth. Eventually the damage done to a marriage is beyond repair and very often the damage does not stop at our marriages.

Still, in spite of the fact that the Internet has become a 24 hour full-open channel of these types of influences into our households, we are not any more now, than ever before, forced to be victims of it. We must be more vigilant as parents than ever before, and more aware of the protective tools available to us, to ensure our homes do not become a receptacle of the clumps of sewage that have made their way onto the information superhighway.

It has always been up to us and ever remains our challenge to learn new ways to defend against and warn about, the dangers of what is out there. It will never be a good idea to leave the entire defense in the hands of our government, duty-bound as they are to help.

Fire has awesome capabilities for good and evil, so also the atom, and more recently, the internet. No one will ever be able to defend your home as effectively as you, and God help us all if we are ever dispossessed of our freedoms to make that happen, in any realm of our existence.

Keeping it Real Time

We have a son in the Marines, LCpl Benjamin Williams, currently stationed in Africa, and he made sure and got a laptop before his deployment that was wireless capable.

He now is able to quickly apprise us of needs, or say hello to the family. We are half a world away from each other, and yet are able to communicate real-time.

He sends us updates about the place he is living now, and some of the day to day trivialities that are very enthralling to us who have never experienced anything like it.

We are very proud of our Ben. He is the first member of our family to see a lot of the things he has seen, and we are anxious to see him again at the end of his deployment, as he is so full of life and talent. Yes, he even remarks occasionally, how glad he is that he brought his guitar along with him. His accommodations are a lot less primitive than I had imagined they would be when he first told us where he would be going, so I honestly was not sure how well a guitar would fare under those conditions. Apparently he continues to get better and there are others in his squad or platoon who play, that did not bring theirs.

It is always good to hear him ping me for a quick chat. Gotta love that real time data transfer. No previous civilization has known of the things we get to deal with in our lives. We have real time conversations with people half way around the world, we can go to the corner market and buy foods from every corner of the world, even out of season. We have ice in the desert, and conditioned air, we can drive in a day, what a man would have taken a week to cover on foot.

We are more blessed than we sometimes are willing to acknowledge but every day, I am thankful and vociferous about it. This is but one way.

On the web, a click can go for miles

I have today been wandering from my camp on the web, and have found some wonderful sites, just by hitting "next blog" on the top and linking from each site found. This really is opening up new worlds for me. I have learned some new words in Estonian, "Eesti" is how it is said there. "Ilus" is one of the words for beautiful in the language, which I wanted to know when I saw Annika's pictures of her country, and a sunset or sunrise on her blog.

Then I found Mirja and Marjam, also from Estonia, Tallinn to be exact. But then while looking, I found a woman, a singer whose name is Maarja-Liis Ilus, and she is a singer from Estonia.

I find this mind-expanding and inspiring in so many ways. For one, I have always wanted to learn more languages, I speak English and Spanish fluently, and am learning Portuguese, well, Brazilian Portuguese, I studied Deutsch in college which really helped in Hungary when I could not communicate in Magyar (Hungarian), but found another common language. There are so many people now willing to share their thoughts and feelings and history, that we are in fact in a different world in this new century than any we have known before.

Of all the places I have been...

The place that left me in awe, at every turn, and wanting to go back and take my wife was Budapest, Hungary. I was there on assignment with Honeywell to train the European technical support staff for a week, in the new VPN solution we were rolling out.

What was so memorable about the trip was the feeling that I had stepped out of a time machine. Nevermind that I was in the castle district, at the Budapest Hilton, but then they gave me a room with a view looking east over the Danube river into the sunrise every morning, with a castle turret interjecting medieval architecture into a breathtaking view of the sprawling city, just across the river.

The young technical support staff was hospitable, professional, and very intelligent, most of them speaking a minimum of 3 languages. I found myself feeling less like the expert from out of town and more like I wished I could stay longer. I was able to get to know several of them during the week I was there, and told them quite honestly, I would be back. I guess the icing on the cake was that I had just discovered the music of Corinne Bailey Rae right before the trip, so I had her latest CD at the time, and so, as beautiful music can often imprint memories more permanently into our souls, so did her beautiful, lilting voice singing "Breathless", "Choux Pastrie Heart" and others, do the same to mine.

My life will forever be different for experiences like the ones that I collected in one short week in a country still shrouded in its Medieval architecture, and poised to gain considerably from the growing modernization spreading across Central Europe like a brushfire. I will return, and look forward to spending more than a week.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Don't Worry, Be Happy!

My days are full of so much wonder and excitement lately. I am hardly able to settle down enough to type. I am very pleased that I have found this outlet for my journaling, and for connecting with so many in the world who are like-minded.

There is hardly a day that goes by, that I am not in some way, left more deeply aware that I am not in this by myself, but am part of a grand plan.

My wife of almost 18 years and I, have traveled quite a journey of discovery. The path has not been without its pain, and its tough memories, but I am convinced now more than ever before, that each moment, each event that happens, is neither good nor bad in itself, but is exactly as we see it and make it, however we wish. We create in each moment, the life that tomorrow, we will reflect back upon. We choose to be loved, by loving others, and the more we give, the more we receive. In true alchemist form, we make more of anything for ourselves by giving it away first.

Just as worry creates for us the very situations we feared, so also do all our thoughts create whatever we focus on, but we must be willing to take the positive to the same extremes to which we take the negative. Some try positive for a while, but when they do not get the results they want, they say, "See, this stuff doesn't work!"

We can, if we desire it, decide that we will only focus on things that take us where we want to go, and we can use that to create a happy marriage, a life of wealth or peace, or whatever we intend. Likewise, we can continue to let random thoughts take us in circles. In fact, I have often thought that is the real reason that most of us live common, seemingly random lives. Because we neither focus on the good nor the bad, but let the winds of random thinking run us around in circles.

How about this? Decide where you want to go, map it out, make a journey plan, and each day when you awake, prepare yourself again, to resume where you left off the previous day. Each day, look ahead, never wetting the finger and checking the winds, to follow where they blow you. Then you can say, with each new day, "I can't wait for the next, for in it, I will see and feel new things that will take me closer to my goals, to my dreams."

Then and only then, can you know the joy of the journey, and stop waiting for the prize at the end for fulfillment. The prize is a life well lived. Live life with the expectancy of a child who can't wait for tomorrow's adventure, and you will see how quickly life can become one again.

If you build it, they will come...

I have been very impressed with how quickly my once shaky ideas for what I would make of my presence on the web have unfolded. I am pleased and animated by what is emerging for me as a very clear path with instructions lighting the way as I forge ahead.

The website linked in this blog, called http://www.startupnation.com is one I stumbled upon when doing a search for how people are using the term "flesh out" v. "flush out" as regards an idea or a plan. My vote is firmly in the "flesh out" camp and I believe the evidence for that stance is solid.

My point however, is that I am taking nothing as accidental, but am building upon the framework of casual browsing and "fleshing out" that framework as I go, into what I hope will be a thriving service on the web. Here again, I refer to the linked article, "Doing Business by Doing Good: Social Entrepreneurship" as proof that ending up at startupnation.com was no accident, because I have to say, at first I doubted whether or not my idea was viable enough to take the plunge. However, as the article says, and as the movie quote that titles this article suggests, if there is a need that will be filled by this inspiration, then they will come. The corollary to this states however, that if you don't build it, your chances of having someone ask you to, are pretty much nil. In other words, "it is impossible to steer a parked car". Action is the best cure for fear.

I saw another quote in an article today that takes me along the same lines, inspiring me on the way to establishing a service for those who are nervous, or simply uninformed about how easy it is to safely live on the web, and that article came to me in one of my newsletters that I have flooding my inbox. It was stated by Andrew Snyder of TFN (Today's Financial News).

"The nation’s leaders have long admitted the nation’s days as a manufacturing power are over. We are a full-fledge service economy. So we need to act like one. " – Andrew Snyder

To me that means that we simply as a nation, need to allow for and accept the changes that are hitting us at breakneck speed and stop putting into office, leaders who will continue to prop up failing sectors of our society, which only delays the inevitable demise in most cases, and drains the coffers that the American Taxpayer pays into, in the process. We are ramping up for another momentous change in the direction of our work world, as a nation, and we need to stop allowing the ones afraid of change to dictate how public monies are spent, because it ultimately dilutes the amounts that can be spent in the legitimate growth areas of our economy. More on this in another blog.

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The Worldwide Success Network

My very dear friend, Leslie Householder, author of the wildly successful The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can, and the equally uplifting and inspiring Hidden Treasures: Heaven's Astonishing Help with Your Money Matters has invited me to join and to invite my friends to join, the above linked Worldwide Success Network. They are actually running a promotion right now, that if I refer 3 friends to join, and use my name, James Williams, as the person that referred them, that I and the 3 that join will receive some powerful gifts including her book, The Jackrabbit Factor in PDF format, and will allow us to become part of a growing network of successful people who are changing the face of business and success on the internet.

Please take a look at it, and send some of your friends to do the same. Tell them to use your name in the referred to box. There is no charge for joining and you will be opting in to a network of people that are making a difference in the lives of so many others.

Leave me a comment, and let me know what you think.