All our problems are essentially thinking problems, since our interpretation and reaction, and all our ensuing choices with their consequences, are based on our philosophy, beliefs, values, and definitions of precepts.

In our world, band-aid solutions are well packaged with shiny bows and sold easily and quickly, being bought by lazy people who want a quick fix.

How about fixing the root cause, instead? Success and failure are driven more by self-esteem, belief, philosophy, and interpretation than by location, location, location, or by access to good systems and tools.

Humans Have to Acquire, Retain, and Integrate Knowledge of Reality

In Ayn Rand’s “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology”, she states,

“Concepts have a hierarchical structure, i.e., . . . the higher, more complex abstractions are derived from the simpler, basic ones (starting with the concepts of perceptually given concretes). Since the definition of a concept is formulated in terms of other concepts, it enables man, not only to identify and retain a concept, but also to establish the relationships, the hierarchy, the integration of all his concepts and thus the integration of his knowledge. Definitions preserve, not the chronological order in which a given man may have learned concepts, but the logical order of their hierarchical interdependence.”

She writes in “The Psycho-Epistemology of Art,” from her book, “The Romantic Manifesto”, that

“[There is a] long conceptual chain that starts from simple, ostensive definitions and rises to higher and still higher concepts, forming a hierarchical structure of knowledge so complex that no electronic computer could approach it. It is by means of such chains that man has to acquire and retain his knowledge of reality.”

Getting Rich Can Be A Positive Experience

When someone believes that getting rich is a sin, no amount of training, motivation, or support will help him or her avoid a mediocre income.

A guilty person who believes they deserve nothing but punishment seldom enjoys fulfilling relationships. And salespeople who are convinced that their products are poor quality will seldom win sales awards, unless they’re sociopaths.

A socialist will make different choices to a capitalist, and reap different rewards. The extent to which we suffer is the extent to which we interpret our circumstances and respond to them.

Reading “Atlas Shrugged” Will Do a Lot for your Business

When I tell entrepreneurs that reading “Atlas Shrugged” will do more for their business than an MBA, they chuckle. But I know people with MBA’s whose personal philosophies and conditioning ensure nothing but deficiency, frustration, and failure in business.

I presented a Joint Venture Bootcamp in Vancouver a few years back. One graduate took a single idea I shared and turned it into a $60,000 per month income at no expense. Another, who had a lot more money, claimed that the systems I teach don’t work. He’s right. They don’t work for HIM, and they WON’T work for him, until he changes his weltanschauung. Sowing pearls before swine has never worked well. Acorns don’t grow into mighty oaks when planted in concrete.

When we have the motivation and courage to

• revisit,
• re-evaluate,
• reinterpret,
• and fix our basic beliefs about
  • who we are,
  • what business is,
  • how money works,
  • what we deserve,
  • how life works,
  • what is right and wrong,
  • and what success is,

- everything changes.

Breaking free from the cruel, calculated, cold conditioning that creates serfs, sacrifices, and the mental, emotional and financial slavery that so many of us have been subjected to is not easy. But it is possible.

Looking in The Mirror Takes Guts

Looking in the mirror, taking responsibility, questioning our basic beliefs, and asking hard questions about the motives of, and messages from our parents, preachers, politicians, and professors takes guts.

But those who seek to remove the scales from their eyes find themselves soaring to new heights of

• fulfillment,
• peace,
• joy,
• success,
• and wealth.

Where to start?

I recommend reading “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Beware the “coaches”, “counselors” and “therapists” who might do more harm than good; only take advice from someone who already has what you want. Break free!

Are You Stuck? To Fix a Problem, Look at the Root Cause

Naturally, they all replied that it would be impossible. Then I asked them,

“If your family was held captive and (I named a celebrity with a reputation for violence) was to show up with a shotgun and tell you he would kill your entire family if you didn’t double your sales in three months, could you do it now?”

First, they sheepishly (I feel that adverb is most apt) admitted that, given that level of urgency and motivation, they could definitely double their sales, then they reported me to their bosses for being politically incorrect and “upsetting them”.

I fired the bank as a client – I don’t do business with clients who prefer low productivity to honesty.

Being Exposed and Challenged

Why did they immediately attack me?

Why release their pent up, festering, passive aggression?

Why not be grateful to realize that they could, indeed, double their sales? A producer would certainly not have responded in this manner. Here’s why:

1. The slothful sluggards had to immediately divert attention from the fact that their ineptitude and low productivity had been revealed, and that they would now be responsible, having admitted the possibility, for doubling their sales. That new level of production would mean they would have to confront issues in their lives, forego their weak excuses, change their behavior, and do uncomfortable things in order to get better results. And they wanted to avoid that at all costs. Tall trees catch the wind, and when a loser doesn’t like what he sees in the mirror, he smashes the mirror.
2. Anyone exposing a parasite for what he is becomes the enemy of the parasite. In spite of the fact that I was just doing my job, which was getting more production out of these so-called sales professionals, and that I was indeed helping them shift their paradigm in order for them to earn higher commissions, they chose to attack me. I was doing my job too well! They wanted to be motivated and congratulated, not exposed and challenged. I was putting the status quo in jeopardy.
3. Misdirection is used by magicians and politicians alike. Political correctness is the poisoned tip of the spears of socialism, statism, and collectivism. It is the tool of the mystics and the politicians.

The Same Amount of Work Could Be Done With Half the Employees

Years ago, I was a Work Study Officer in a government department, a job I grabbed to put some money in the bank after a nasty divorce.

I was ordered to conduct an organization and methods examination of a large typing pool, and the result of my work was my suggestion that half the bureaucrat typists be summarily fired, and that the same amount of work could be done with half the employees.

I was called into my boss’s office and told to withdraw my report immediately. After all, these people had families to feed – they were the friends and family of many of the people in the Work Study department, and they needed those jobs!

Three months later, I resigned, started my own business and never worked for a boss again. That was nearly twenty-three years ago.

Political correctness is what Ayn Rand refers to as “Collectivized Ethics” in her book, “The Virtue of Selfishness”, written in 1967, and more relevant today than ever before:

“Hence the appalling recklessness with which men propose, discuss and accept ‘humanitarian’ projects. ‘Medicare’ is an example of such a project. ‘Isn’t it desirable that the aged should have medical care in times of illness?’ Considered out of context, the answer would be: yes, it is desirable. And it is at this point that the mental processes of a collectivized brain are cut off; the rest is fog. The fog hides such facts as the enslavement and, therefore, the destruction of medical science, the regimentation and disintegration of all medical practice, and the sacrifice of the professional integrity, the freedom, the careers, the ambitions, the achievements, the happiness, the lives of the very men who are to provide that ‘desirable’ goal – the doctors.”

The 2012 Misdirection

Right now, many people are becoming enthralled with the new movie, “2012 – An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world”.

The 2012 doomsday belief suggests that the Mayans foretold the end of the world at this time and, since the world is ending, there is no need to continue counting days or making calendars past that point.

Think about it – isn’t it a lot easier to discuss the end of the world than taking responsibility for your daily life? Wouldn’t moochers and looters prefer to focus on something vague in the future, rather than admitting that they are failing miserably in the present? Misdirection.

The Ugly Truth For “Politically Correct”

The most dangerous people are the politically correct. They are the snakes and the back-biters, and they represent the majority of people today. They squirm in their seats when I mention the word, “loser”, because they know they’re losers. They bristle when I state the fact that we’re fat, not because we’re retaining water, not because of hormones or our metabolism, but because we won’t put the fork down.

The smokers seethe when I tell them they stink. And when I say that Obama is a socialist, they tremble with fear and indignation. I tell it like it is, and I don’t give a damn what anyone says or thinks. If they won’t rock the boat, I certainly will. Turkeys pretending to be eagles are no threat to real eagles.

The reason for being “politically correct” is to redistribute wealth from the producers and creators to the parasites and the lazy. It is to deflect responsibility and hide reality, and to allow the looters to steal with impunity. Be aware – Atlas will shrug, and is already doing so.

The REAL Reason for Being Politically Correct

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How She Made $11,000 from Other Peoples’ Gift Certificates

• If you can afford to fly instead of drive, you save time.
• If you can afford the money to delegate and subcontract, you can save time.
• If you can hire experts, you can save time. You can pay others to do stuff for you. That saves time.

Money also buys health – the best medical care, diets, exercise, avoidance of financial stress, security, enough rest, peace of mind, holidays, leisure, and so on.

Working Hard to Save Time = Neglecting Your Family & You

So it’s chicken and egg to most people who don’t understand how to create real wealth – they say,

“If I work very hard, lick my boss’s boots, neglect my family, and sell my soul, I’ll have enough money to buy time.”

Not true, as you will find. You’ll lose your health, family, and half your life by the time you learn that the system most people rely on doesn’t work.

I have a far better solution for you.

Free Up Time To Make Money

Now that we agree that money can buy time, in order to make the money, we need to free up some time so that we can put in some very strategic work for about six months to a year, at which time we will be free.

And this isn’t some MLM scam. It took Patrick Giesbrecht 7 months and it took Dick Low five months.

Here’s How You Can Start Saving Time FAST:

1. Analyze your present time expenditure. Write down what you’re doing every fifteen minutes for one week. You will be SHOCKED, I guarantee you. Time is our most valuable, irreplaceable resource, yet we waste it like drunken sailors.
2. Remove unproductive activities from your life. Look at each expenditure, or “Time Investment”, and ask yourself:
   - “Is this activity taking me towards my goal of financial freedom, or not? Is it necessary?”
   - “Is it urgent or important?”
   - “Why am I doing this?”
   If it’s not essential, scrap it right away.

   The parasites and resentful relatives will hate you for it, but you don’t need them. Remove excessive TV, attending events with losers, telephone chats that have no purpose, surfing the Net with no goal, movies, watching sport, and anything else that doesn’t create real results.

3. Discipline yourself – cut the time you allocate to other tasks – wake up earlier, take shorter baths and showers, give yourself less time for normal activities – the activity always stretches to fill the time allocated. Ten minutes here, five minutes there, all adds up fast.
4. Close your Facebook account. Get out of those online Chatrooms and stop e-mailing and texting stupid jokes to friends – NOW.
5. Resign from organizations, clubs, and groups that are filled with wanna-be’s and losers. If there is no measurable return on investment, resign immediately. When you have time and money, you can rejoin if you really want to. You probably won’t – by that time, you will realize what losers those people are.
6. Delegate, subcontract, and go without when you can. Focus on creating time that you can allocate to the creation of Financial Freedom.
7. Stop carrying other people or doing things because you feel sorry for people or obliged. Read this book: “The Virtue of Selfishness” by Ayn Rand. Stop volunteering immediately. You can do that when you have time and money.
8. Unless you’re making serious money from it, or it takes very little time, break your ties with Network Marketing. It will eat your time and money like a hungry cannibal.
9. Stop reading newspapers – if the news is important, you will hear about it. Use Twitter instead, and don’t follow more than 30 people at any given time.
10. Don’t attend any face-to face meeting unless you absolutely have to. And systematically remove all the losers and posers from your life. They are a waste of your time. Only associate with successful winners.

You Can Retire in Less Than a Year

If you do all of the above, you will find you have a lot more time available in which to create more monthly, residual / passive income than you need to live on, if you follow my money-making, Joint Venture instructions.

You will be able to retire in less than a year with all the time and money you want.

The Next Step is to Start Creating Wealth

Anyone can do this, regardless of your age, background, education, or circumstances.

You can do all the following simultaneously, and you can start part-time. While you’re following these steps, read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.

NOTE: Before You Start

Set your specific your goals that are:

• Measurable
• Personal
• Exciting

Exactly how much do you need per month in residual income before tax in order to pay your bills and live a comfortable life?

By what date, exactly, have you decided to reach this goal? Commit to this goal. Whatever it takes. No turning back.

Here We Go

• Step 1:
  Take this complimentary online analysis and coaching session.
• Step 2:
  Join DollarMakers or the DollarMakers Women’s Club, or, if you’re a woman, consider joining both. This way, you’re getting involved with the right people and learning to think straight.
• Step 3:
  Take this Online Bootcamp. Apply what you learn, especially the system to earn 1% per month on your bank’s money.
• Step 4:
  Register and start using this powerful, proven system.
• Step 5:
  Attend as many DollarMakers events in person as you can.

Freedom is Worth The Price

Once you have more residual income than you need, you can continue to work just an hour or two a day to make more money and increase your quality of life.

But now you will be living on your own terms, doing what you want, when you want. Freedom is worth the price. The sun, sand, snow, and fun is waiting for you! I’ve done it – join me.

Do You Need More Time? Here’s How

“Your Sense of Scarcity is Showing, Sir!”

It’s been called a “Shrinking Pie” mentality – the doubt and desperation that accompany a feeling of deficiency and shortage.

People with this fearful, often spiteful, suspicious demeanor have a very different approach from those who embrace abundance, expect success, innovate, and generously share.

But those with this debilitating disposition are not simply harmless pessimists – they’re actually dangerous, subtle saboteurs. Why?

An Ounce of Doubt is Like a Drop of Poison

– a portion of rot. Sowing tiny seeds of doubt through a simple facial expression, a few well-chosen words, a hesitant response, a reluctance to proceed, the tendency toward compromise, and greed are all hallmarks of the sharks of scarcity.

These people are bad news for enterprising entrepreneurs. They usually hide secret agendas and fall-back plans, keep back doors open, and easily team up with your enemy behind your back, “just in case”.

Worst of all, they love claiming the unearned and specialize in riding on one’s coat tails.

These are the Parasites of the World

• The looters and moochers who cheer loudly when their Comrade Obama promises (and delivers, I’m sad to say) the redistribution of wealth.
• They’re terrified of being “left out”, even when they have done nothing to earn inclusion, and they are the first to drop their prices and lower their standards to make a quick buck – usually at the expense of someone else’s reputation.
• They want to work less and earn more – hence their adoration on labor unions. They love titles and accolades, though usually unearned, and bask in the glory of the producers and creators, their own impotence and poisonous pessimism carefully hidden.
• They are quick to call the ideas of the champions “Pollyanna”, yet they want the credit when these ideas work. They are the “Wait and See,” “I’ll think about it” people of the world.
• They  are the slothful, aimless, adult children who are just waiting for their Baby Boomer parents to die, so they can inherit easy money. They will squander and lose it, of course, but they don’t know that.
• They are the friends and relatives who show up at family gatherings empty handed, “forget” their wallets when the bills arrive in restaurants, and hide away like cockroaches when they fail to repay their debts to you.
• They are those who promise the world, talk a lot, pose and parade, but produce virtually nothing.
• They are cheap, stupid, and dangerous.

In her wonderful and enlightening book, “Atlas Shrugged”, Ayn Rand’s parasite characters are Wesley Mouch, Lillian Reardon, James Taggart, and Reardon’s mother and brother.

Having Pegged a Parasite, How to Proceed:

There is only one way to protect your baby child from a staving wolf – SHOOT the wolf. And if you can’t shoot the wolf, grab your baby and get out of there.

Do NOT:

1. Sit down to negotiate with the wolf.
2. Discuss your different philosophies over a cup of warm blood.
3. Compromise –

“OK, Mr. Wolf, how about you just bite one of my baby son’s hands off, and then I take him home – does that work for you?”

Sounds like government taxation to me – much like the Mafia.

The politically correct will set up meetings with terrorists, and a parasite is, in fact, a type of terrorist. Invite him in to your home (or country), and he will bring his terrorist friends.

Don’t be polite to pirates – blow them out of the water.

The Good News:

The good news is that if you are a producer and creator of value, you don’t need the parasites – they need you. Hence taxes.

You can move on to greener fields and create your own virtual Galt’s Gulch. If you’re Atlas, carrying the world of parasites, you can shrug. And you should.

1. You will prosper without parasites.
2. Your profits will proliferate.
3. You will have peace of mind and you will think clearly.

Break free from the putrefying, poisonous parasites, and prosper.

How to Peg a Parasite Person, and How to Proceed

They are easily conned by the local business owner who dresses like a hippy and pays for the junior soccer club’s uniforms.

They like Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, and Jon Stewart and sink to new depths with losers like Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg.

Perception is Reality

After all, these people “care about people and the environment”, don’t they? They don’t, actually, but perception is reality, right? Christopher Hitchens was right when he said,

“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all those qualities [Michael Moore].”

Among most young people, Capitalism has an image of hubris, greed, arrogance, and bullying. Yet, without Capitalism, there would be no iPods, Apple computers…

Idealism is Strong Amongst the Young

I found myself in a coffee shop in Winnipeg recently. There were bookcases stacked with socialist writings, and the hippy kids were wearing the usual anti-establishment uniform.

Next door was a bicycle store. Many young people voted the socialist Obama into office. They will pay for that choice for a long time.

Perhaps it’s time to fix Capitalism’s bad image, to enlighten people. Education can do that, and since most of the educational institutions are heavily liberal, mystical, or both, we have a difficult task ahead of us.

Getting Rich Attacking the Rich

What young people don’t see is the hard-nosed capitalism hidden behind the façade of environmentalism and mysticism.

The people selling the

• marijuana,
• blessings,
• hippy clothes,
• and organic food

- are making serious money.

Michael Moore gets rich attacking rich people. And he’s not sharing his wealth with you.

Money is the Root of All Good

The mission of my business is to help people create financial freedom. But without changing one’s philosophy to one of laissez faire capitalism, it is difficult to create and sustain real wealth.

So I write and speak and Tweet and share the message –

“Money is the root of all good.”

My books are illegally printed and sold in China and India without my permission, and of course I don’t get any royalties, but I don’t care – as long as the message is spread, I’m happy.

In fact, I give my books away as complimentary downloads from my websites, along with my podcasts.

DollarMakers continues to grow internationally, and we proudly promote Capitalism and make money in the process.

Break Free of Collectivism

But there is an easier way to spread the good news about Capitalism: I tell everyone I meet to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.

If someone is truly intelligent and sufficiently open-minded, that book tends to do the trick. If it leads someone to read “The Virtue of Selfishness”, they can break free of collectivism, and hopefully mysticism, too.

Capitalism has a Serious Image Problem

However, when you offer an alternative to the popular status quo, suggest a substitute to mind-numbing mysticism, or present a different perspective, essentially questioning strongly held beliefs and established conditioning, you suddenly find yourself facing blank stares, passive aggression, or outright conflict.

Controversial, politically incorrect information is not usually well received. This, in spite of the fact that your information can potentially dramatically improve the quality of life of your reluctant target. There’s a reason for this, and it’s not your fault.

We all tend to seek out and select information to support our dominant beliefs and avoid pain. I thought three concepts would help illuminate what we’re up against when we follow that road less traveled and wish to share real treasure with the mediocre masses.

First, Cognitive Dissonance:

“Cognitive Dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognitions. This happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. For example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. Noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states.” – Wikipedia

Imagine the fellow who strongly believes, as he was taught, that he should always “Turn the other cheek”, and so he does, and as a result of his passivity, he finds himself continually bullied, so he feels anger at the obvious injustice.

Now he feels guilty because he’s angry. A double bind has resulted from his sacrificial conditioning; he’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.

Or he works hard, makes money, and then feels obliged, because of his conditioning, to submit to the extortion of his loafing relatives. Naturally, he resents this, so he feels guilty…

Final example: He believes money to be the root of all evil, so when he earns it, he feels guilty and self-sabotages to punish himself.

Second, Cognitive Distortion:

From Wikipedia:

“Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts identified in cognitive therapy and its variants, which supposedly perpetuate certain psychological disorders. Eliminating these distortions and negative thought is said to improve mood and discourage maladies such as depression and chronic anxiety. The process of learning to refute these distortions is called “cognitive restructuring”.

Many cognitive distortions are also logical fallacies.

1. All-or-nothing thinking – Thinking of things in absolute terms, like “always”, “every”, “never”, and “there is no alternative”. Few aspects of human behavior are so absolute. All-or-nothing-thinking can contribute to depression.
2. Overgeneralization – Taking isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations.
3. Mental filter – Focusing almost exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting, aspects of an event while ignoring other positive aspects. For example, focusing on a tiny imperfection in a piece of otherwise useful clothing.
4. Disqualifying the positive – Continually reemphasizing or “shooting down” positive experiences for arbitrary, ad hoc reasons.
5. Jumping to conclusions – Drawing conclusions (usually negative) from little (if any) evidence. Two specific subtypes are also identified:
6. * Mind reading – Assuming special knowledge of the intentions or thoughts of others.
   * Fortune telling – Exaggerating how things will turn out before they happen.
7. Magnification and minimization – Distorting aspects of a memory or situation through magnifying or minimizing them such that they no longer correspond to objective reality. In depressed clients, often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characteristics are understated. There is one subtype of magnification:
   * Catastrophizing – Focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.
8. Emotional reasoning – Making decisions and arguments based on intuitions or personal feeling rather than an objective rationale and evidence.
9. Should statements – Patterns of thought which imply the way things “should” or “ought to be” rather than the actual situation the patient is faced with, or having rigid rules which the patient believes will “always apply” no matter what the circumstances are. Albert Ellis termed this “Musturbation”.
10. Labeling and mislabeling – Explaining behaviors or events, merely by naming them; related to overgeneralization. Rather than describing the specific behavior, a patient assigns a label to someone or themselves that implies absolute and unalterable terms. Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.
11. Personalization – Attribution of personal responsibility (or causal role) for events over which the patient has no control. This pattern is also applied to other in the attribution of blame.”

Where People Are Really Coming From

When you read the above, it makes it easier to see where people are really coming from, instead of taking their “rejection” personally. It explains why otherwise intelligent people join cults, vote for narcissistic socialists while claiming to be capitalists, and invest their money in ridiculous scams.

It reveals why most people prefer to be told what to do and what to think by those who do not have their best interests at heart, and why rational, proven solutions are rejected outright as “to good to be true”, “from the devil”, or “dishonest” – why someone would prefer to lose money in mutual funds and ripoffs instead of getting 12% per year, or buy silly franchises and lose a small fortune when they could make a lot more money with no cost or risk at all.

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy seeks to help the client overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses. Depending on your situation and circumstances, unless you’re a psychologist or psychiatrist, you’re not going to make a huge change in the way the majority of people think. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, simply because most people seldom choose to change.

But there is a way to influence and help more people positively in their own best interests: education. Not the junk spewed out by teachers, preachers, politicians, many “financial planners”, banks, and “gurus”, but real, worthwhile education.

The Creation of Wealth

DollarMakers is based on the idea that

“You can get anything you want out of life, if you help enough other people to get what they want.”

The information / education we create and disseminate is particularly focused on the creation of wealth, and underpinned by a philosophy of Capitalism, realism, Objectivism, and rationalism.

We believe that continuous exposure to truth, objective thought, personal responsibility, and practical, proven systems eventually gets through to a few people, and that assists us in achieving our goals.

I recommend everyone read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, and I use my talks, training, seminars, websites, Twitter, blog, podcasts, videos, conference calls, webinars, and other communication channels to share reality and dispel the myths and lies that keep people chained and in bondage.

Frustrated when Dealing with People Who “Just Don’t Get it”?

I lived in Africa for 45 years – I understand the underground economy – the “black market” – the alternative, informal economy. Ask yourself why so many Chinese stores accept “Cash Only” or why so many people run their businesses only within their own ethnic community. Do you think people who run flea market booths all pay taxes?

In a world where socialism is growing by leaps and bounds, headed up by Comrade Obama and his gang, and the government resembles the Mafia more and more, it’s no big surprise to me that people are waking up. The banks are simply a giant, legal Ponzi Scheme. (Read Kiyosaki’s Conspiracy of the Rich.)

Trading and Bartering

I lived and worked in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) during the war there for the year of 1979 on a contract as a manager for Holiday Inns.

Serious sanctions imposed by South Africa and England were crippling the economy by design. (South Africa reaped what it sowed in due time, and England is in a worse state than the US – the chickens have come home to roost.)

We traded everything from foreign exchange to

• gold,
• diamonds,
• antiques,
• gasoline coupons,
• foreign exchange,
• whiskey,
• shellfish,
• cutlery,
• and cooking oil,
• knitting machines
• and hotel rooms.

I traded my house for a Ford Escort when I left. When I meet some of the “Trade and Barter Experts” here, I just chuckle quietly to myself – they have no idea how far this can, and does go.

An Attack on Capitalism

In an increasingly Collectivist, Statist society, in which real, law-abiding producers are drained to feed the sick, lame and lazy, their hard-earned taxes stolen to set up needle centers for drug addicts, parks for walking dogs, housing for those who have decided to “work the system” and illegal immigrants who claim “sanctuary”, and to feed those who choose not to work, business owners start to consider their alternatives.

Anyone who has read “Atlas Shrugged” knows the route we’re going. And they know the system is designed to empower the criminals and the collective, while undermining the creators, the thinkers, and the innovators.

The bigger the loser, the more the churches and government will do for him. It’s an attack on capitalism.

The Benefits to Being A Joint Venture Broker

That’s why I tell people to consider creating their own Joint Venture Broker business. Run your business with

• no cost,
• no risk,
• no selling,
• no inventory,
• no employees,
• no licenses, fees or royalties,
• no limits,
• and no overhead or premises.

I’m not suggesting we don’t pay our taxes or that we do anything illegal – I would never suggest that – but I am suggesting that you wake up and smell the burning Constitution.

Smart squirrels plan for the winter, and hyperinflation, massive taxation, restrictions on medical care, free speech, and the Internet, and a police state suddenly doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory anymore.

It’s Time to Get Picky

Now, more than ever, real relationships and confidentiality is crucial to business success.

Savvy entrepreneurs are planning ahead. We’re finding out who our friends and enemies are, and we’re cutting costs and risks.

Start getting lean and mean, and consider learning to understand alternative compensation and reciprocation – you’ll be glad you did.

Where will you be when Atlas shrugs?

The Awakening of the Alternative Economy

My seminar, “How to Find the Man of Your Dreams and Marry Him in Six Months”, always gets me radio and TV time; it’s controversial.

Seems this woman has a friend who morphs into exactly what prospective suitors want in order to drag them to the altar. Like a chameleon, she “becomes” what they want, in one case even converting to Judaism and pretending to be the real thang.

(I love Jews, and my opinion, you can’t become Jewish – you either are or you’re not, though many don’t agree with me. But I digress.) Naturally, after a while, the mask slips, and her deceived husbands divorce her. Evidently this happens regularly for this woman, but she keeps repeating the charade.

Life Is About Being Happy

Sounds familiar? Like the fat woman who grows her hair and loses weight for the wedding, and then she cuts her hair, loads on the lard again, and wonders why hubby loses interest. Men do the same thing, of course.

But this isn’t about getting married; it’s about being happy. How happy can this woman be who thinks she has to be false and deceptive in order to land the big fish? Living a lie – a refined kind of prostitution – mercenary behavior won’t make us happy.

Steven Covey taught that we need to live according to our values in order to be happy.

We Have to be Real to be Really Happy

Doing a job you hate and smiling at a dimwitted boss, bowing and scraping, genuflecting and licking muddy boots, and dealing with people you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole had you the choice doesn’t bode well for inner peace and joy.

I know we often don’t believe we have a choice in the matter; after all, we need the money, don’t we?

We have to do what it takes, and money accounts for the resolution of 97% of our problems, makes dreams come true, and at the very least allows us to “suffer in comfort.”

You Have A Choice!

Fact is, if you did what you really loved and believed in:

1. You’d be really good at it,
2. Enjoy it,
3. Be much more productive,
4. And stand to make real money,

- instead of the slave wage you gratefully accept in cupped hands, while lying awake every night hoping you won’t be the next one to be “downsized” or replaced by someone half your age with less brain cells than a Twinkie.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? More money and happy earning it?

You Can Make Lots of Money and Be Happy

The good news is that you don’t have to:

• Bend over for some slimy sycophant who skips around posing as a manager.
• Accept bad treatment, long work hours, commuting with smelly members of the rat race, and painful separation from your loved ones as your kids are parented by people who shouldn’t be allowed to raise pet vipers.
• Shop in Thrift Stores or miss your daughter’s ballet, hide from creditors, or sacrifice your values and standards on the decaying altar of a job.

I found this out the hard way – it took me 32 years as an unhappy employee to realize that I could make lots of money working for myself, without compromise, frustration, scarcity, and falsehood.

You Can Hold Your Head High

I created DollarMakers to provide people with the opportunity to create financial freedom without concession – you can hold your head high and tell it like it is – you can be yourself, not an actor or a fall guy for some jerk who thinks she owns you because she pays you a little money every month.

You can be a great role model of integrity for your family, and you can work on your own time, and on your own terms.

Happily married people didn’t get that way with lies and distortion – they found people who loved them for who they were.

“I yam what I yam” works for me – and people can take it or leave it.

If you want the freedom, pride, and peace of mind that comes with creating your own financial future on your own terms, DollarMakers has the answers for you. You don’t need a job, and you don’t need to pose and pretend. And I don’t need makeup – “I yam what I yam”.

Are You Free, or a Slave to Others?

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You Don’t Need A Job

Some people have money, but no time to enjoy it. Others have time, but no money. Many others have neither, and some are losing what they have.

People are losing their jobs and houses, losing hope, and generally losing it, as they see things changing faster and faster in an increasingly socialist world.

The only people who are happy are the parasites: the losers, the lazy, the liberals, and the looters. They’re waiting for handouts as your hard-earned wealth gets redistributed to them and you get to sink down to their level.

It doesn’t have to be like this for you. You don’t have to lie awake at night worrying about your financial future. You don’t have to take a second job – in fact, you don’t need a job!

The Solution Is Easier Then You Believe

After 23 years of working with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs in different countries, I have seen a lot of people enslaved by Network Marketing cults, dead-end businesses, and mind-numbing jobs. I have seen financial problems cause divorce, depression, and suicide.

I have learned why businesses fail, and why the average small and medium-sized business operates at about ten percent of its real potential. And the solution is easier and better than you might believe.

Patrick Giesbrecht used our systems to retire with more residual monthly income than he needed to live on within seven months. Dick Low did it in five months. Too good to be true? Only if you don’t understand how they did it.

Let’s Play a Little Game of “Imagine”

Imagine you had a real business (as I have – I practice what I preach) that operated with:

• No overhead,
• No royalties,
• No selling,
• No employees,
• No risk,
• No inventory,
• No cost,
• And only took you two hours a day to run from anywhere in the world.

Imagine if it had multiple income sources from:

• Diverse economies,
• People,
• Businesses,
• Products,
• Services,
• And geographic areas.

And imagine if it had unlimited potential. Best of all, imagine if anyone, regardless of their age, background, circumstances, education, or skills, and whether they had a business or not, could do this.

Now that REALLY sounds like a scam to someone who doesn’t understand how this works, right?

Our Misson

Well, that’s exactly what we do, what we teach, and what our mission and passion in life is – to help millions of people around the world to use this proven, tested system to create financial freedom. There are only three requirements to qualify. If you have them, you can create a lean, mean, money machine for yourself and your family. Only you know whether or not you have these essential qualities:

1. You have to LEARN how to do it. Are you prepared to learn, or is your cynicism and skepticism too great? Are you prepared to be open-minded and teachable?
2. You have to be seriously MOTIVATED – hungry – or you will quit at the first sign of difficulty, as many do. On a scale of 1 – 10, one being, “I don’t care”, and ten being, “Whatever it takes – seriously”, where do you stand?
3. You have to WORK, consistently, to create your DollarMaker Money Machine, until it sets you free. Are you prepared to work hard, in all your spare time if you have a job or a business, UNTIL you get it, and the money starts flowing in? It can happen fast if you have the right motivation and attitude.

All your excuses will be taken care of with this system –

“Not enough time, new in the area, don’t know people, can’t sell, too old, too young, shy, no money, no credit, no business experience”

– none of these will make a difference – we teach our students how to leverage other people’s resources and to think correctly about money and value and business. We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems.

We think strategically and we create wealth.

With A 24/7/365 Attitude – You Will Succeed!

When I got into business 23 years ago at the age of 33, I had never owned a business before, and I was DESPERATE to succeed in my new business, so I did everything I was told to do.

I was prepared to work 24/7/365, without questioning, second-guessing, or compromising. My mentor was strict and serious about success.

With that attitude, you WILL succeed. But if you’re a lazy quitter who blames others for your bad choices, this is not for you.

Here’s the training we offer: Pick what you want, pick all of them, if you like, and get going.
1.    Attend a seminar: Click here
2.    Do our Online Joint Venture Broker Bootcamp: Click here
3.    Attend JVU: Click here
4.    Use JVWebPartners: Click here

You don’t need a job; you need DollarMakers.

You Don’t Need a Job: How to Create a Lean, Mean, Money Machine

“The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”

– Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, talking about a comment by a PETA representative.

There are many organizations and groups who have a vested interest in keeping the unwashed masses dumb, hungry, short of money, unhealthy, desperate, tired, and uninformed.

Academic and financial institutions, drug companies, the media, politicians, teachers and preachers in many forms, and your own boss (if you’re unfortunate enough to have one) provide information that is carefully designed to deceive, undermine, and manipulate people in order to achieve specific goals.

Anyone who watches CNN or attends meetings by “gurus” knows this.

Education Disinformation

If I took the advice of my:

• Accountant,
• Bank,
• Local politician,
• Neighborhood preacher,
• “Financial planners,”
• “Business coaches,”
• And itinerant seminar leaders,

I would be an uninformed, poor, guilt-ridden, hopeless, desperate smoker, and probably even a follower of Obama.

Just like most other people. I would be:

• In debt,
• Confused,
• Worried,
• Politically correct,
• Passive aggressive,
• And concerned about saving whales.

But I’m not, because my education is not disinformation.

Education That Sets One Free

Penn and Teller, Fox News, and the writings of the likes of Ayn Rand, John Stossel, and Robert Kiyosaki all provide education that sets one free mentally and financially.

As adults, we are free to question whether or not we are being hoodwinked by the cults we were pushed into by well-meaning but deluded parents and friends, whether the myths we accept as true are, in fact, true, and whether the information by which our choices are made is helping us or hurting us.

Are You Blissfully Unaware?

I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but dispelling myths about the creation of wealth is my life work, and when money is involved, one faces the strongest efforts by the powers that be regarding conditioning and coercion.

The mystics of mind and muscle put a lot of effort into blindfolding the average man so that their extortion goes unnoticed and is even welcomed, so a lot of the “education” we buy into is carefully designed to control and enslave.

The naïve, the stupid, the vulnerable and the slothful are blissfully unaware of what’s going on, and most of them can’t be saved, however those who have a decent IQ and the nerve and motivation to question and work are people whom we can help.

Get Perspective of How Things Really Work

The task is great, and the greatest tool I have found in my life to help people who are about to go over the waterfall into the bleak, churning waters of debt, despondency, and delusion is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece, “Atlas Shrugged” and we provide our own training, information, and support through our little business, DollarMakers.

We help people get perspective of the way things really work.

When is “Education” Really Disinformation?

Well, I am creating a new word: “Gimmetude”. This is an attitude of “Gimme (give to me) everything I want – I have an attitude of entitlement, I don’t want to work, I’m a lazy parasite, and I deserve what you work for.

Sieg Heil Obama.

”This pervasive attitude of entitlement comes as a severe a culture shock to anyone with a responsible work ethic, but we get used to seeing it, and we realize that it is good news for the producers and creators among us.

I have a relative who always whines about how much money her bosses and the owners of the business she works for are making, compared with her income as an employee. I respond, “Did you apply for that job and gratefully accept the salary they offered you, or were you forced to work for them? Is there anything to prevent you from starting your own business like they did? Can you quit and go get a better job? Without them, you wouldn’t have an income. They created the business, and they are entitled to any money they make – it‘s called Capitalism.”

But she doesn’t get it; she has a Gimmetude.

Winners Never Quit

We recently received an e-mail from a loser who had committed himself to achieving financial freedom in six months, using our JVWebPartners system. He didn’t manage six months, though – he quit, according to him, after a mere twelve hours of work. At the end of twelve hours, he didn’t ask for help, correction, or direction – he simply quit outright. TWELVE HOURS!

I couldn’t believe it, but those were his own words. If you look at his life, you will find he has always been a quitter, and that he always blames his tools, other people, the weather, the economy, or the mirror that shows him how pathetic he is. He has a Gimmetude.

His “commitment” and his honor and self-respect are worth nothing. Winners never quit.

Moving on to Newer And Better Things

People with a Gimmetude want everything for nothing, and they think they will prosper off the backs of the producers, but of course they don’t. Atlas always ends up shrugging them off, and they always end up blaming Atlas, who has moved on to new and better things.

We can either get upset at these slovenly slaves of state succor, socialism, and instant gratification, or we can celebrate the fact that they are here to make us rich. They want to work for minimum wage, so let them work for us.

Those with a commitment to success and production, the three percent of people, have less competition than ever before. That’s good news!

2010 is The Year of the Producers

It will be the year when people will get dramatically richer or poorer, FAST, and most people will get poorer.

Those with a Gimmetude will find themselves in deep trouble. We get paid for what we produce, not for attending seminars, playing the Cash Flow Game, or running our mouths.

The posers and parasites are going to get a serious wake-up call in 2010, while those of us who are prepared to work and commit will succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

Atlas Shrugged is happening right now in our lives. If you haven’t yet read this book, read it now, and if you have read it, read it again – it’s 100% better the second time around. Read it so that you can be prepared. Make DollarMakers your Galt’s Gulch.

My New Word: “Gimmetude”, and the Year of the Producers!

Get into a quiet place and ask yourself some serious questions.  Here are fifty questions that will make you think.

1. What does your life look like, right now?
2. What will it look like in five year’s time?
3. How happy are you?
4. What is stopping you from being happy?
5. Why not get happy sooner?

If you read Kiyosaki’s “Conspiracy of the Rich” and realize that the world has changed dramatically, now is a very good time to take stock of your life.

It’s Time To Get Rich and Have Fun

Those who stumble along blindly from paycheck to paycheck, sinking deeper into debt, numbing their senses with tobacco and booze, living vicariously through sports teams, avoiding reality, and channeling their passive aggression into liberal politics, are in for a sudden and rude awakening.

You don’t have to join them in squalor and servitude. It’s time to get rich and have fun.

It’s Not To Late

Most people only make changes in their lives when they exceed their pain threshold – the pain of remaining where they are is exceeded by the pain of change – or when forced to do so by external circumstances.

But the frog in boiling water never looks at the temperature as it rises, and he cooks before he can escape.

He misses the train to success. You don’t have to miss the train. It’s not too late.

When Is It Too Late?

It takes guts to leave the ruts, to walk away from the comfortable, the familiar, the “safe”. It’s easier to stay aboard the Titanic than to leap into a bobbing lifeboat in freezing seas. Easier to deny reality and “hope for the best”. Problem is, when it’s too late, it’s simply too late.

25% of the white population has left South Africa since 1995. When we left, friends said,

“We’ll see how it goes – we’ll wait a bit – we’re comfortable.”

Now it’s too late for them – they’re too old, their world is crumbling around them, and they’re stuck on the sinking ship.

Others viciously attacked us for leaving; they accused us of taking “the Chicken Run”, and stopped talking to us when they heard we were immigrating (this only happens in South Africa – not in other countries).

Now they’re living in one of the most dangerous third world countries and regretting their choices.

You Need Four Things to Change Your Life:

1. You need to objectively and rationally evaluate your options and circumstances. Get advice from people who have already created what you want, not those more screwed up than you are. Fat fish in small, stagnant ponds can’t tell you what it’s like to fly freely in the mountain air – in fact, they think it’s impossible. So talk to eagles. Life is short – you deserve the best.
2. You need to do due diligence before making changes. Take time to do this, but don’t wait until it’s too late!
3. You need mentoring, guidance, support, and a clear action plan. My support system was Rika, and hers was me. YOU are your best, ultimate support system, but the more successful people you have helping you, the better. Learn from their mistakes. Find people who are richer, smarter, and more motivated than you are.
4. You need serious motivation, which means you burn your bridges, close the back door, and commit unconditionally. Create a bulletproof mindset. The only South Africans who return to South Africa after immigrating are those who couldn’t make it in their new homes, and most of the time they kept property or money in South Africa – they “kept their options open” – they never really committed. Small wonder they failed.

Your Best Option is to Use Joint Ventures

Ninety-seven percent of our problems, pain, and restrictions can be solved with money.

When we realize how much we can achieve with money, and take into account the way the world is changing, the best option is to use Joint Ventures to acquire financial freedom.

“A Check-up From the Neck Up.”

1. Simple
2. Proven
3. Safe
4. No-cost
5. Risk-free

- that he could introduce easily to his database.

Conservatively, it would earn him $5,000 per month in passive income within three months. (No, it’s not Network Marketing.) Yet I can virtually guarantee that he won’t even consider it. Why? His giant ego.

Seminar leaders, “gurus” and “trainers”, much like many of the owners of small and medium-sized business, allow their egos to steal massive potential profits from right under their noses.

The Most Sophisticated Tools In Business

We’re not in business to feel important or to impress people; we’re in business to make the most possible after-tax profit, with the least cost, time, risk, and effort.

The fact is that most “gurus” and “entrepreneurs” are not really entrepreneurs – they’re really just slick salesmen and pitchmen.

Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, the well-known “Pitchman”, says, “Life’s a pitch, and then you die.”

Smart entrepreneurs understand that Joint Ventures and strategic alliances are the most sophisticated tools in business –

• They are strategic,
• They employ leverage,
• They are scalable.
• They are not based on ego, but rather on profit.

Get Your Ego In Check

Look at the people who make the really big money, and you’ll find that they seldom sell their time, they actually prefer not to be on a stage unless they have no other option, and they evaluate business opportunities objectively and rationally.

When we get our egos under control, we suddenly see new options opening up. But for that, we need to understand the back-end, leverage, and positioning. Calvin Coolidge said,

“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

Most wanna-be business owners are simply broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople, whose arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance, yet these are the very people who allow their egos to dictate their business choices.

A big fish is a small, rancid pond is only impressive to those even more pathetic and needy than he is.

Focus On The Bottom Line

The most successful businessman with whom I was ever privileged to work, partnered with me in my business and taught me a very important lesson. He said,

“Robin, it’s all about the bottom line. If you maintain your integrity and sublimate your personal feelings and pride, your profits will soar. There is always going to be someone richer and smarter than you are – don’t try to be a legend in your own lunchtime, don’t believe your own PR and BS, and focus on the bottom line.”

He was a very wealthy man, one of the most humble, soft-spoken people around, and very strong and disciplined.

If you want to feel important, act in a pantomime, join a service or fraternal club and rise in the ranks to get a title, or teach kids.

If you want to get rich, focus on the bottom line.

Your Biggest Business Profit Plunderer is Your Enormous Ego

In most places I stay, there’s a safe in the room. It has a ten-digit keypad combination lock, one through nine, plus zero, laid out like a telephone, that you program yourself. Those ten digits present a possible three million, six hundred twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred (3,628,800) variants.

At the bootcamps I present to train business owners and individuals how to use Joint Ventures to double and quadruple their profits and crate financial freedom, I skim over 29 systems that present more than a few million variants / possibilities.

Leverage The Possibilites

When you take into account the fact that one can work simultaneously in a variety of industries, and demographic, psychographic, and geographic areas, with little time, no cost, and no risk, the possibilities tend to multiply even further.

And the limitations and barriers finally disintegrate like morning dew on a hundred degree day in Arizona when you realize that Joint Ventures leverage the resources of:

• Others,
• Existing and perishable resources,
• Excess resources,
• And existing distribution and business.

No Limitations – Expect for The Ones in Your Head

The Joint Venture approach is the most sophisticated and scalable way to create wealth, because it uses leverage and intelligence. The only limitations one encounters are in one’s own head;

• Understanding
• Motivation
• And philosophy

And the Joint Venture mindset is all-encompassing as it:

• Includes
• Enhances
• Supports any business transaction or situation, since it is:
  • Synergistic
  • Inclusive
  • Value-based
  • Complimentary
• Offers a way to create multiple additional income flows, all at 100% profit.
• And most of all, is profit-oriented.

It truly allows almost anyone, under virtually any circumstances, regardless of one’s background, age, education, or experience, and whether one has a business or not, to create wealth.

Joint Ventures Are Nothing New

In a cynical, skeptical, battered, fearful, and increasingly socialist world, this sounds, as one draft-dodging, mystic, serial loser I once knew put it, “Pollyanna”.

One would be tempted to perceive it as the ultimate con job, until one realized that Joint Ventures are nothing new to large corporations, only to most small and medium sized business and professionals, and, of course, to people who don’t own businesses, which includes those broke, self-employed salespeople who pose as entrepreneurs.

The Joint Venture Philosophy

This is what I have learned about Joint Ventures (I have made a business of Joint Venture’s since 1987, but I have been doing Joint Venture’s since the age of thirteen without knowing it, and I’m 56): When one truly understands the Joint Venture philosophy, one will never again:

1. Sell one’s time / work as an employee,
2. Buy a business or franchise,
3. Carry overhead,
4. Accept financial risk or limitations.

Period.

It’s NOT Too Late!

Having said all that (I think my teapot is calling to me), there is simply no reason why anyone can’t use Joint Ventures to create more monthly residual income than one needs to live on, within a year. And no reason why the average business cannot double and quadruple its profits with this understanding.

I have seen people do it and I have done it myself. That means that it’s NOT too late for you to retire, to succeed, to get rich, to break free, and to live a happy, secure, peaceful and fulfilled life.

It is my mission in life to share this knowledge and the specific Joint Venture systems and information I have with as many people as possible. I want to share the combination of that money safe with everyone possible.

If you’re interested, you can start right now, here and here.

Why Joint Ventures Offer Endless Possibilities to Create Wealth with No Cost or Risk

This virtual crystal ball has helped me significantly over the years to save time and money and allocate my resources more accurately.

Here’s How To Do It – Quick and Easy!

Sit down and do a spot of goal-setting with them, including the creation of an Action Plan.

There are really only two responses to this activity.

Winners who intend to produce will set goals with an Action Plan to Support them that are:

• very specific,
• realistic,
• measurable,
• time-related,
• and significant.

Those who do not intend to produce will set vague, mediocre goals that focus on activity rather than results, and are hard to measure and check.

Clues: What Winners and Losers Say

For example, the winner writes:

“I will make four paid, $2,000 sales by November 1st.”

The loser writes:

“Contact fifteen new prospects, advertise in the newspaper, ask for referrals from existing customers, read ‘Think and Grow Rich’ again.”

You get my drift.

How do I know he/she called fifteen new prospects or read the book, and how does reading the book put money in the bank? Did he/she really ask for referrals? It’s easy to advertise in the newspaper, but that doesn’t create sales.

Also, listen to their words:

• Winners says things like

“I will, I commit, definitely, exactly, certainly, I know.”

And they will put themselves on the line, invest, and face the consequences.

• Losers will use words like,

“I guess, I hope, I’ll try, IF, it depends on, maybe, I can’t control the future”, etc.

They will deflect blame.

Have Something to Show For It

When November 1st rolls around, the Winner will either celebrate their success, or they will have to explain why they didn’t attain their four sales, because it will be plain to see whether they succeeded or not.

The loser has protected them self by insulating them self from criticism; they will claim that they achieved their goals by reading the book, contacting people, asking for referrals, and advertising, yet they made no sales!

So he/she feels very successful with no sales, while the Winner, who in fact made three sales, determines to do much better next time by applying more self-discipline, something which the loser knows nothing about.

Motivation for Losers Vs. Winners

Losers (parasites and moochers) are motivated by:

• being busy,
• feeling important,
• impressing others,
• and teaching others (the blind leading the blind.).

Winners (producers and creators) are motivated by:

• results.

The way they set goals is the first way to predict their futures. The second way is to listen to what they say after their results are revealed.

Losers will:

• make excuses,
• blame others,
  • the economy,
  • circumstances,
  • their tools,
  • products and services,
  • pricing,
  • the market,
  • you name it.
• be “offended” if confronted with the fact that they failed to produce.

Winners will:

• take personal responsibility and
• resolve to do better by
  • changing their action plan,
  • working harder,
  • honing their skills.

Before you commit time and resources to working with someone, apply this simple formula – it could save you a lot of time and money!

Use This Simple Formula to Predict Someone’s Future Choices

Any successful athlete will tell you how important momentum is in ther training. Consistency, focus, momentum – you can’t serve two masters,

“because you will love the one and despise the other”.

Compromise and distraction, laziness and pride all decrease momentum. An aircraft requires 95% of it’s power to ascend, but only 65% while cruising.

Build Momentum to Build Real Wealth

Many so-called “entrepreneurs” spend their time swinging between feast and famine, chicken and feathers. They spend their money in the good times and suffer in the bad times, forgetting that business is cyclical.

Joan Welsh said,

“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.”

In order to build real wealth and get to a place where you can cruise, you have to build momentum in the right areas.

Business Is A Relationship With Money

Anthony Robbins said,

“The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.”

And you have to keep on taking that positive action. Business is a relationship with money, just like your relationship with your spouse – remember that.

Build A Bullet-Proof Mindset

At any given point in your day, on a regular basis, ask yourself,

“Is what I am doing now taking me towards my goal or away from it? What is the return on investment from this choice?”

It’s sad to see many people join DollarMakers and take off in a flurry of promises and activity, and then to see them quit at the first sign of difficulty. Others get overconfident and sit back, riding on the backs of others, and before they know it, they’re cut loose.

The smart ones build a bullet-proof mindset and are consistent, disciplined, focused, and reliable. They build relationship and momentum, and they get rich.

Time – Your Most Valuable Resource

Michael Korda said,

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

By building relationships with strong entrepreneurs whose goals are aligned with yours and with whom you have “overlap”, you will find yourself staying on track.

Once you lose momentum, it’s hard to build it again, especially since one often loses credibility in the process, and that diminishes trust and closes previously open doors.

Sporadic, emotional bursts of ego-driven activity seldom achieve long-term results. You can’t chase two rabbits or ride two bicycles.

Manage your time carefully – it’s your most valuable resource.

Consistency and Momentum  - The Essential Components of Success.

Set your goals and action plans carefully, remain flexible, continue to add income streams and dollarmakers, and remember who your friends are.

Consistency and momentum are not options – they are essential components of success.

Winners hang in there through the tough times, make the hard choices, apply self-discipline, and get rich.

MOMENTUM – Essential to Your Success

“While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can’t grab onto the first rung of the career ladder.

Affected are a range of young people, from high school dropouts, to college grads, to newly minted lawyers and MBAs across the developed world from Britain to Japan. One indication: In the U.S., the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has climbed to more than 18%, from 13% a year ago.

For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of ‘lost generation.’ Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as people get stuck in jobs that are beneath their capabilities, or come to be seen by employers as damaged goods.”

We Work To Make Money

And yet parents continue to insist upon sending their offspring to colleges and universities to “get a good job”, thereby foisting their outdated, limiting philosophies on their children.

Now if the kid wants to become a doctor or lawyer or electrician, university is just fine, but I’m talking about those who really don‘t have any specific career in mind.

The fact is we work to make money. You can pursue your interest in marine biology once you’re rich and established – you don’t need to make a job out of it.

SOLUTION:

My dad always had money problems – I grew up poor.

So, much as I loved him, I never took financial or career advice from him – I’m just not that stupid. When I found rich people, I followed their advice to the letter.

Help your kids get rich – they might help you in your dotage.

Instead of wasting a small fortune on colleges and universities, buy them a copy of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and get them some solid training that will have them earning  a lot more than you do in short order.

Fortunately, our kids are not as screwed up, conditioned, skeptical, and cynical as we are, so it’s a lot easier and quicker for them to make serious money in the new economy/world order through the use of Joint Ventures, with no cost, or risk, and regardless of their age, experience, or background.

Teach Your Children Well

For between $400 and $1,000, you can teach your kids to create a livable, passive, monthly income within a year of less.

No college can do that.

Academics don’t even know that it’s possible. And even if they did, they definitely wouldn’t tell you about it. Teach them to fish for tremedous tuna, not sickly sardines.

I believe teaching your kids to get a job is like feeding them poison, just because you drank it yourself. Teach your children well – save them from financial hell. They might just return the favor!

Teach Your Children Well – Save them From Financial Hell

“A blind spot, also known as a scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field. A particular blind spot known as the blindspot, or physiological blind spot, or punctum caecum in medical literature is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc of the retina where the optic nerve passes through it. Since there are no cells to detect light on the optic disc, a part of the field of vision is not perceived. The brain fills in with surrounding detail and with information from the other eye, so the blind spot is not normally perceived.”

Psychological Scotoma – The Inability to See Clearly

Try this interesting, fun exercise.

Psychological scotoma, like ophthalmological scotoma, is an inability to see or notice, or correctly interpret situations that are often obvious to objective observers.

All of the following can contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a psychological scotoma:

• ignorance,
• greed,
• wishful thinking,
• fear,
• denial,
• comfort,
• a vested interest in the existing situation

A popular example is men and women who don’t notice that their spouses are having affairs and flirting, while everyone else does.

Another is the behavior and choices of cult members, ranging widely from religious to political to financial; one can see a highly intelligent, politically savvy, wealthy, connected TV host performing brilliantly and winning tough arguments, while at the same time wearing “Holy Undergarments”.

The Purpose of This Article

But the purpose of this little article is to ask you,

“Is your scotoma preventing you from succeeding financially?”

Is this why you hook up with losers, waste money on scams, refuse to stop financially draining activities or withdraw from dead-end MLM schemes?

I have seen many women with massive financial potential get involved with men who are basically parasites and who not only leech all their money away, but prevent these smart women from reaching their full potential.

Has your conditioning  and “education” created a blind spot that prevents you from making heaps of money?

Reality Check on Your Financial Blind Spot

In our society, many of us have been exposed to conditioning without even being aware of it.  Banks, employers, politicians, educational institutions, mystics, and others have a vested interest in our financial ignorance and enslavement.

It starts when we’re young children.  Having said all that, it’s time to give ourselves a “check-up from the neck up” as Zig Ziglar used to say, and take a good, hard look in the mirror.

Here are a few questions to ask yourself that might establish the fact that you have, indeed, succumbed to a psychological financial scotoma:

1. Is it possible for you to retire within one year with more passive monthly income than you need to live on? (It is.)
2. Is it possible for you to become a millionaire? (It is.)
3. Is it possible for you to create wealth with no cost, risk, or selling? (It is, and this isn’t Network Marketing.)
4. Is it possible for you to be happy, financially free, and fulfilled person? (It is.)

What We Believe is Usually Not True

Our perceptions of life and our options and the way things works are simply a chosen interpretation.

We tend to believe the stories we tell ourselves about the meaning of our circumstances. To get outside the proverbial box, we need to talk with people who are already outside the box.

When I was poor and I wanted to get rich, I found people who had created wealth and learned from them. I continue to find people smarter and richer and more successful than I am, and I learn from them, often through the books they write.

It’s Never Too Late to Break Free

There is a lot of valuable information for you on our Websites and Blog, including thousands of articles, Podcasts, videos, and audio clips, but the best way to break free is via the training we present.

Can You Overcome Your Psychological Financial Blind Spot?

Four Steps to Enlightenment:

1.  Watch John Carpenter’s movie, “They Live” here:  http://snipr.com/sk1w0

2.  Read “The Country of the Blind” by HG Wells here: http://bit.ly/Is64g

3.  Read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand

4.  Read “Conspiracy of the Rich” by Robert Kiyosaki

Now Join DollarMakers: www.DollarMakers.com

Want to Know What’s Going On in the World?

“But, Robin, please! What does this have to do with Joint Ventures and business? Enough of the philosophy, already!”

As long as we’re dealing with people and money, philosophy is the basis on which we have to base our assumptions, predictions, choices, and evaluations.

This article may go a little way to illustrating my point.

What is Mysticism?

Ayn Rand writes,

“What is mysticism?

Mysticism is the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one’s senses and one’s reason. Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as ‘instinct,’ ‘intuition,’ ‘revelation,’ or any form of ‘just knowing.’ Reason is the perception of reality, and rests on a single axiom: the Law of Identity. Mysticism is the claim to the perception of some other reality—other than the one in which we live—whose definition is only that it is not natural, it is supernatural, and is to be perceived by some form of unnatural or supernatural means.”

Mysticism to Conceal Real Motives

I was recently copied on an e-mail from a woman who intended to join the DollarMakers Club, but had problems understanding how to use PayPal. When it was resolved, she jumped to the confusion that Outlook Express had somehow caused an issue with her credit card not working, and this was her response:

“I am taking the mishap as a signal that perhaps my application to Dollarmakers was not meant to be at this time.”

When we use our ineptitude and normal daily frustrations to justify a change in mind, we’re using mysticism to conceal our real motives.

Red Flags

We all seek evidence to support our dominant beliefs – that’s quite normal. Many people use their children and families as excuses to disguise their real values and motives, but that’s usually easy to determine. When it comes to mysticism, however, a huge red flag goes up. But wait! Perhaps this is what the color red might really signify!  See what I mean? Ridiculous.

Easier to Choose Blame Then Taking Responsibility

“The universe is trying to tell me something” – amazing.

Visit your local Theosophical Society or Science of Mind meeting, and see how many successful business owners you find there, (apart from the ones running the meeting – they have a special agenda.)

It’s easier to blame your Spirit Guide, karma, numerology, or astronomy than to take responsibility for your own bad choices, laziness, or lack of commitment. I know – I have been involved in and studied many kinds of mystical organizations, and philosophies – they’re all basically the same.

Here’s The Bottom Line

If you want to do business with someone, you need to establish that you’re working with an adult who is

• sane,
• responsible,
• rational,
• objective,
• and mature.

Or be prepared to have them disguising their dishonesty and slothfulness with voodoo nonsense and justifications.

Cloaking one’s real agenda is mysticism and only works for those who share the illusions and delusions.

Get Real

Instead of talking chakras and essential oils, let’s talk numbers, ratios, and profit. Let’s stop fooling ourselves and get real. Evaluate your future business associates carefully, and avoid the mystics at all costs.

The:

1. psychics and swamis,
2. fakirs and fakers,
3. gurus and grifters,
4. posers and prophets

will simply waste your time and steal your peace of mind.

Finally, many years ago, I attended a wonderful business seminar with a friend of mine. The seminar leader was a brilliant entrepreneur who has made a fortune for himself and others. He was talking about one’s context, cognizance, and perceptions in business, and my friend was angry that

“this arrogant man spends his time philosophizing.”

Well, your philosophy will ultimately determine where you end up in life, and it is the basis of all your choices and the results you create. Many years, my friend’s philosophy has brought him to where he is, and mine has brought me to where I am – a world apart.

Work With Like-Minded People

For me, Capitalism and Objectivism work well. I suggest all business owners read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand – it’s the best book I ever read. I am responsible for the circumstances I create and for my reaction to those circumstances. I don’t make excuses, mooch off others, or blame ethereal causes or other people for my choices. And I work with like-minded people.

Carefully evaluate the people with whom you propose to do business: what do they read and believe? Alternatively, leave it to your Spirit Guide to do the work for you, while you zone out with incense and nonsense. It’s easier, until you find yourself living under a bridge with other evolved beings.

How People Use Mysticism to Conceal Their Bad Choices

Like the man who is told there is a million dollars behind a thick brick wall, and he is given a small chisel to get to it. His hands bleed and he persists day and night, breaking a way through the wall.

He seldom sleeps, never quits, works as hard as he can, denies himself rest and entertainment. He persists until finally, after months of backbreaking work, he gets through the wall, only to find that he was lied to – there is no money there.

Persistence Works When

Before you start on a mammoth task, make sure there is money behind the wall. Do your due diligence.

But when you are convinced that you’re on the right track, that your goal is legitimate, and that it’s up to you to achieve it, persistence is the way to get there.

It’s not about intelligence or who you know or some silly college degree – the hallmark of champions is persistence. The only time it doesn’t work is when the goal is wrong or you quit.

Persistence separates the men from the boys, the talkers from the champions.

Motivation and Support From Family

Cordell Parvin writes in his blog, “Last year I had the chance to see Terry Fator, who was performing at a resort in Hilton Head. He had just won the America’s Got Talent television show. Fator, a ventriloquist, had labored for many years here in Dallas.

According to one report, in May 2007, before appearing on America’s Got Talent, Fator was performing at a fair near Houston, Texas and only one 12 year-old boy was in the audience.

Discouraged, Fator contemplated pursuing another career, but his family encouraged him to hang in there.

Fator says that he never dreamed he would actually win. After winning, opportunities arose. As you may be aware from the news, this year Terry Fator signed a five year $100 million deal to perform nightly at The Mirage Casino and Resort in Las Vegas.”

Your Greatest Asset is Persistence When?

When you’re using the right information and you’re aligned with the right people, and when your goal is legitimate and real, your greatest asset is persistence.

When you persist, you will experience resistance and attacks for the losers of the world. The tall trees catch the wind. Ask Fox News. Ask Microsoft and Wal-Mart. Ask Churchill and Patton.

Losers hate winners. Envy, resentment, jealousy, and fear of being exposed will cause others to try to undermine you, but as long as you persist, you will win.

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night” – remember that.

And Then There Are Warriors

In 23 years of business, I have consistently found that the big talkers with the big egos seldom achieve anything. They substitute hot air for results, and one by one people see through their bluster and posing, until they settle for mediocrity and servitude, along with the other weak people who never amount to anything.

Warriors:

1. Don’t always talk a lot, but they take massive, persistent, audacious, fearless action.
2. Answer to themselves.
3. Take full responsibility for their commitments.
4. Never even consider the option of quitting.

When you’re on the right track, persistence and consistency will guarantee your success.

A Proven Success Recipe

Having said that, let me ask you this: If you knew, without a doubt, that if you were to work hard consistently and persist for just one year, following a proven success recipe, you would be able to retire with more residual / passive monthly income than you needed to live on comfortably, would you go for it? That’s exactly what we offer at DollarMakers.

When Persistence Doesn’t Work

Rika booked this a long time ago since she knows I love Sinatra’s work, and it was a great evening. Feinstein is amazing.

The orchestra was a wonderful -

Joint Venture Analogy

Many people see Joint Ventures as an alternative to other income sources.

They compare brokering Joint Venture’s with real estate investment or MLM or having a job, or running a retail business, whereas Joint Ventures is an all-encompassing, overriding, umbrella philosophy that includes all other income creators. Like the orchestra.

The conductor is the Joint Venture philosophy. Each musician is a different moneymaking activity – a different dollarmaker.

1. The drummer could be retail,
2. The saxophonist could be MLM,
3. The violinist could be real estate – you get it.

The Conductor

Notice that the musicians keep their egos in check. They fit in to the bigger scheme of things. They play when it’s appropriate. The strategist would understand this, and the engineer would liken it to a PERT diagram. As a Joint Venture expert, YOU become the conductor, by:

• delegating,
• directing,
• motivating,
• organizing,
• encouraging,
• creating

– you’re the general, as opposed to the broke, self-employed, egotistical salesperson – the soldier.

How Everyone Benefits

Our motto in DollarMakers is “Together, we do amazing things” – it’s a synergistic approach to wealth creation – everybody wins, based on their contribution. Joint Ventures create value. If  a musician refuses to play, shows up late, does a bad job, stops contributing, or let’s his ego get out of hand, he gets fired.

“You can’t serve two orchestras.” Zig Ziglar said, “You can get anything you want out of life, if you help enough other people to get what they want.”

As each musician contributes, produces, hones their skills, and improves, the whole orchestra benefits.

Win/Win Cooperation

The different musicians represent your Joint Venture partners. You are the conductor.

If you’re really smart, you will strive to “keep things in the family” and create “overlap” – Feinstein and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is a case in point. Musicians shouldn’t be in competition with each other. The higher their IQ, the more likely people are to understand the value of overlap, loyalty, vested interest, strategy, and philosophy.

The underlying philosophy in the orchestra is the love and understanding of music, and the way an orchestra works. Common goals, and a common philosophy – the real mastermind in action.

Setting High Standards

Finally, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has very high standards, as does DollarMakers.

Choose your Joint Venture partners very carefully, and cut non-producers and game players loose quickly.

An Orchestral Joint Venture Analogy

Parasites don’t like to be called parasites, any more than losers like to admit that they are incompetent and impotent mediocrities.

When a looter looks in a mirror and sees himself for what he really is, he breaks the mirror.

A Speech For Winners and Producers

Winners and producers, on the other hand, love the speech, “This is John Galt Speaking”, and wish it were longer.

It:

• feeds us,
• sustains us,
• encourages,
• empowers,
• motivates us,
• is our bible,
• is our motto,
• is a reminder that we are on track to greatness.

We listen to that speech on CD’s and read it when we wonder if we’re the only people who see what is happening in a world that is falling fast into a deep fissure of socialism, mysticism, collectivism, and government control.

There is no public ownership of the mind. That is all we have, and it is all we need.

A Tool for Knowledge

If you want to know who people really are and what their philosophy is, get them to read this book, and this speech in particular.

Better to read the entire book, since it sets the correct context for the speech. Losers don’t even read, and if they do, they read junk, so they’re excused right at the outset.

Then, simply watch the reaction of the readers.The champions will love this book, re-read it, and embrace and promote the philosophy and Galt’s speech.

Are You A Winner?

Here’s a sample, to illustrate my point – watch your own reaction, and perhaps you will make a discovery of your own philosophy:

“The parasites who asserted that my brain and my life were their property…
The professor who, unable to think, takes pleasure in crippling the minds of his students…
The businessman who, to protect his stagnation, takes pleasure in chaining the ability of competitors…
The incompetent who takes pleasure in defeating achievement…
The mediocrity who takes pleasure in demolishing greatness…
The extortion of loafing relatives…”

Your philosophy will determine what you love and achieve in life. Be sure to choose a good one.

The One Thing Every Winner Should Read

It puts things into perspective, and helps the reader to see through the illusions, deceptions, and lies fed to us by the collectivist powers that be.

As a capitalist, a producer, and a creator, there is no way one can find common ground with collectivists and mystics – that compromise will kill you as sure as trying to make friends with a rattlesnake will.

The alternative is Galt’s Gulch.

A Speculative Form of Galt’s Gulch

While I don’t recommend a literal Galt’s Gulch, in which the producers in society physically leave the wretched world of parasites and looters that has been subjugated and enslaved by the statist government behind, and form their own

• lifestyle,
• governance,
• and territory,

a figurative, allegorical or speculative form of Galt’s Gulch is, in my opinion, the only way to prosper in a socialist/communist environment.

A Grand Solution

Understanding the dynamics, requirements, benefits, and parameters of Galt’s Gulch as presented by Ms. Rand allows one to formulate the mindset and philosophy that is necessary to emulate such a grand solution metaphorically.

By realizing the implications and consequences of socialist world government, one can avoid the looting of the slackers, the incompetent, and the moochers, financial rape by government and the mystics, and, ultimately, the complete loss of personal freedom.

Creating a personalized, representative Galt’s Gulch means carefully selecting and teaming up with like-minded producers who share one’s:

• philosophy,
• ideology,
• motives,
• and beliefs,

and operate with the integrity and congruency to be found among some intelligent, rational capitalists.

A Formula for Success

With the understanding gleaned from Ayn Rand’s work and my experience of life and business, along with a realization of the way the world is moving, I started DollarMakers as a type of “filter” to find people who fit the Galt’s Gulch model.

Far from being a conspiracy theorist or alarmist, I am a realist and an Objectivist, and practical common-sense that is free from the mind-numbing poison of collectivism and mysticism dictates that I create a Galt’s Gulch, since success occurs when preparation meets opportunity, and forewarned is forearmed.

Having seen what has happened in Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, and now America, the proverbial writing is one the wall.

Have You Created Your Own, Personal, “Galt’s Gulch” Yet?

Bang!

I chopped right into the tip of my front toe. The only thing that prevented me from cleaving the entire toe in half and limping for the rest of my life was my sandal.

Idiot.

At the emergency room, they injected directly into the quarter-inch wound before sewing it up. Ouch!

I no longer chop in the direction of my feet.

A New Respect Gained

I was preparing for a camping trip to Ponta Do Ouro in Mozambique in the summer of 1972. (Don’t go there now, unless you like the idea of landmines – you might lose more than a toe…) As I packed my VW minibus camper, I carried my snub-nosed .38 Astra Special revolver on a sleeping cushion. As I stepped up into the back door, the loaded gun slipped off the pillow, hit the bus’s floor, and went off.

Since the windows and other doors were closed and a bullet was definitely fired, it can only have passed between me and the inside of the one door – a very small space – a close miss, if ever there was one.

Stupid.

I learned an important lesson and gained a renewed respect for guns.

Limit Risk and Costs

I have met more conmen, shysters, and outright thieves in the past twelve years than I ever thought possible.

And with governments fast going the way of outright socialism and banks and the taxman collaborating to put the squeeze on business owners, we live in an increasingly  dangerous business world. It’s time to grow up and realize that we are at risk, and that we need to limit our risk.

Avoid it All Together

When I tell people to do business with no cost and no risk, I mean it.

I know a fellow with a giant ego and a small IQ who regularly sought to differ with me on this point. I have seen him lose a lot of money, since he doesn’t understand how to avoid risk and cost. If he did, he wouldn’t lose so much money in his harebrained schemes, or work with thieves.

Knowing how business works, and understanding the odds, the risks, and the fact that there are a few dishonest people around, makes it necessary, if one wishes to get rich, to avoid risk and costs.

It’s Easier Than it Seems

1. Use leverage and existing resources instead of paying for new ones. Work strategically and don’t rely on any one source of income.
2. Pay for results, not promises.
3. Be VERY careful whom you associate / do business with. Remember that people can change for the worst – easily and quickly, so be prepared for that.
4. When you smell a rat, RUN. Cut bait. Delete. Immediately.
5. Test people in many ways to make sure they are still loyal and honest. Be a detective.
6. Don’t disclose the identities of your Joint Venture partners.
7. Triangulate deals – don’t sell your own products and services.
8. Align yourself with people who share your philosophy – don’t link up with mystics, socialists, environmentalists, or reverse racists.
9. Don’t trust government or work with government or their agents.
10. Operate with no overhead – lean and mean. Expect the best and prepare for the worst. Spread your income and diversify.

Joint Ventures allow one to operate as above, and the older and wiser I get, the more I appreciate the power and sophistication offered by the Joint Venture systems I use.

If you’re carrying a gun, make sure it’s not pointed at you.

Doing Business With No Cost And No Risk

In some cases, closing down a business that is running at a loss is the right thing, however in many cases, a business can be saved instead of being closed down, especially if there are leases and penalties and further losses to be incurred by the closure.

There is a little-known way to redeem a business and move it back into profitability.

How can one turn a business around without incurring additional costs and risk?

Turning It Around with Joint Ventures

We’re talking about a blood transfusion here, not a brain transplant. But then it does take a different way of thinking to rectify this frightening situation.

“You’ve gotta know when you hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, and know when to run” is right.

But it’s good to know that most entrepreneurs are unaware of the most valuable, lucrative option available to them – Joint Ventures. Thousands of businesses could be saved with Joint Ventures.

Leverage Your HIDDEN Assets

Instead of focusing on what is drowning us, like insufficient sales and customers, high overhead, bank loans, and so on, let’s focus on what we DO have:

• hidden assets,
• resources,
• relationships,
• credibility,
• access,
• a database,
• inventory,
• location,
• a brain and a work ethic – these are qualities that are seldom found…

we have far more than we don’t have. We might be rowing our boat along with breaking back and blistered and bleeding hands, while we have access to a seventy horsepower outboard motor we’re not even aware of…

Create 100% Profit Without Cost or Risk

Business is not about selling more cups of overpriced coffee and muffins. It’s not about getting more customers. It’s not about increasing sales and cutting costs or feeling important – it’s about NET PROFIT.That is the true purpose of business: To make the maximum after-tax profit, as fast as possible, with the least cost, risk, time, effort, and frustration.

Joint Ventures allow one to leverage existing resources, access and leverage the resources of others, and create multiple additional income sources – fast – all at 100% profit, with no cost or risk, and little time.

Discover Your Existing Resources

How can the coffee shop owner leverage existing resources? He starts thinking about what OTHER people want – his customers, people who are not his customers, his vendors, his competition, the public, tourists… Then he starts solving problems – linking supply and demand, like a broker or middleman, and getting paid an ongoing commission on all the resulting sales. Zig Ziglar said,

“You can get anything you want out of life, if you’re prepared to help enough other people to get what they want.”

Enter Joint Ventures.

Create Income and Increase Value

The coffee shop owner can Joint Venture with the hair salon who is also in the financial doldrums. When a customer indicates an interest in buying jewelry, real estate, or finding a cab, Ka-ching! When his vendors need help with their problems, when someone is looking for a good printer or needs renovation services – all of these are income opportunities.

The coffee shop owner can use Gift Certificates to create income and increase value, work with tour guides and dentists, and set himself up as a go-to guy that gets stuff done.

He is literally surrounded by lucrative Joint Venture opportunities, and he’s right in the middle of New York City. He has the gold mine, and I have the shovel.

Reality Check on Small Business Joint Ventures

In fact, someone who really understands Joint Ventures would never open a coffee shop to begin with. But that’s why most of the owners of small and medium-sized businesses operate at about ten percent of their potential profit, and why they work too hard, too long, and risk too much, for far too little.

For more information on the power of Joint Ventures visit us at www.jvwidom.com, – we have solutions.

Troubled Business Owners: Save Your Business with Joint Ventures

Some people work hard pumping water in the hot sun, filling buckets with it, and carrying it to another location, where they sell it to their customers.

They work too hard, they sell their time, they have very limited potential, and they are terrified of their competition. They are, essentially, controlled by their customers.

These are: the self-employed, broke salespeople / laborers who call themselves entrepreneurs.

Real Entrepreneurs

Are You Pumping, Carrying, or Building a Pipeline?

One night, a large section of the crew, including officers, chefs, and people representing every department, showed up on the stage in the theater at the end of one of the performances. They sang, and it was great. The entertainment manager stated at the end of the event,

“We represent many countries and creeds. See how we can all work together in perfect harmony, regardless of our backgrounds, cultures, religions, or education? We have a lot to teach the world.”

They then proceeded to sing, “We are the world.” Very sweet, but not very accurate.

A Principle of HarMONEY

Success by Design

Everything gets blamed on the recession, from halitosis and hiccups to oversleeping and body odor. People make excuses for lethargy, low sales, their dogs’ fleas, and failing to stop at traffic lights.

ENOUGH!

Contrary to what the media is feeding you, not everyone is suffering during this recession. And YOU don’t have to, either.

Want to Move from Feeble and Flaccid to Frenzied and Famous?

He told me that he was often amazed at who stuck the bill in their pockets – essentially stealing – and who would put the bill on his desk.

When he applied the same test with the same people, substituting a TEN-dollar bill, the same thieves still stole, and the same honest people still put the bills on his desk.

Being the Best You Can Be at All Times

Successful people know that details are important, and that small actions are clues to big choices.

Quite soon after I married Rika, she was in hospital for an operation, and even while she was still woozy from the anesthetic, she was fixing her hair, wiping her mouth, and arranging her bedclothes.

That tells you a lot about someone – not how they behave under normal circumstances, but how they behave under pressure and the small things they notice and do.

Every Detail Counts as Clues

Jill Brock wore gold shoes to the seminar I presented in Edmonton, because she knows I like gold.

How comfortable would you be with an accountant who arrived late, forgot his files, or didn’t return phone calls promptly?

• Body language,
• punctuality,
• personal grooming and dress,
• spelling mistakes in e-mails,
• website links that don’t work,
• foul language on Facebook

– all clues.

I sent someone an important e-mail to which I received no reply, however I noticed that he took the time to participate in infantile, mindless games and “look alike” sessions on Facebook.

The Little Matters = The Big Matters

Peoples’ choices and actions reveal their values, beliefs, and priorities, and predict how they will behave and what choices they will make when it comes to serious money and events.

Someone who can steal ten dollars from you can also steal a few thousand dollars from you: faithful in little, faithful in much.

If someone lacks the self-respect and self-discipline to honor their word and fulfill their obligations in small matters, they will definitely let you down when it comes to large matters.

Testing and Evaluations

Test in a small way before spending big.

Give people a few small tests and evaluate their performance. Don’t believe a word they say, but believe everything they do.

I once told someone,

“You might not respect time and money, but I do. We can’t work together.”

I saw a young man in the airport the other day kick a dime that was lying on the floor. Even if it was one cent, I would have picked it up. I respect money. This young man probably had his daddy paying for everything, so he had no respect for money.

He will never make money if he doesn’t respect it, and I would never work with someone like that.

Allow Others to EARN Your Trust

Like the words of that old song go,

“And there she was, kissin’ on another man – and now I know what Momma meant, when she said, ‘Son, take time to now her, it’s not an overnight thing. Take time to know her; please, please don’t rush into this thing.’”

People who are faithful in small things reveal their motives and character.

We went deep-sea fishing off Cancun, and I was impressed to see how protective and caring my friend, Doctor Kumar Ramlall was when another of my friends was seasick.

Watch how people treat:

• animals,
• waiters in restaurants,
• security guards,
• their family,
• and other peoples’ possessions.
• If they allow their kids and pets to invade other peoples’ space and break their stuff

- you know you should avoid doing business with them.

Respect and honor are demonstrated in deeds, not words. Allow people to EARN your trust over time.

Many people who overlooked the implications of Obama’s choice of his friend and associates are now kicking themselves.

Whom you consistently spend time with tells me all about you.

“Faithful in Little, Faithful in Much”

These Solopreneurs think that they are maximizing their chance of survival and profitability.

They are totally WRONG.

Two Kinds of Business

Consider what Michael Gerber says in his world-famous book The E-Myth: Revisited

Want More Time?

The One Fear that will Sabotage Your Life

“Since I was a teenager, I’ve been a libertarian. I noticed that there are not so many of us and that most people find us a bit strange. Most people have a hard time with the idea of so much freedom in the market place. Now, why is that? When I started applying evolutionary thinking to the process, thinking about folk intuitive notions of things and why people get so many areas of science wrong intuitively, it began to make sense to me. With folk astronomy we have an intuitive notion that the world is flat, celestial bodies revolve around the earth. That’s the way it feels. The planets are wondering gods that determine our future.”

Are We Genetically Prone to “Thinking Small”?

I’m talking about the one thing that ultimately separates the

• Masters from the mongrels,
• the Eagles from the ducks,
• the Champions from the chumps,
• and the Closers from the creeps.

I’m talking about the difference between getting rich and getting by, and that difference is created by BELIEF.

Why People Don’t Buy from You

Kobus had been telling me how he got rich. And his statement at the very end of his story is one I will never forget.

Headcase, Headspace, and Frogs: A Profound Statement from My Late Friend

Blocked by your beliefs?

Trashed by your training?

Flummoxed by your philosophy?

Ultimately, your beliefs are your means to justify and organize your behavior, and therefore control your life. So, how are you doing right now? Got a great life? Future bright, or slightly brittle?

Are You Being Buggered by Your Bogus Blueprint?

How to Do Your Due Diligence on Potential Joint Venture Partners

A Circling Kayak?

CONGRUENCY – Essential for Your Success

But we have also been taught that a large network is important when you need support in hard times.

That is only true of the good people in your network – the quality people.

Your Business Network: Quality vs. Quantity

The Story of a Smart Dealmaker

1. Can I sell this fellow my product or service?
2. Can I get him to refer me business?
3. Let’s just meet and exchange business cards so that we know where to find each other in the future.

There is a much higher, more sophisticated, more lucrative path to take.

My Objective for a Meeting

How to Turn a Meeting with a Winner into a Goldmine

When it comes top cleaning the garage, polishing shoes, cutting the grass, changing the car’s oil, or swimming across the lake, people seem to enjoy the challenge and brag about their accomplishments. “I lost ten pounds!” But when it comes to business, it’s entirely a different deal.

It Doesn’t Make Sense!

Stop Rescuing Those Who Wallow

Seven Solid Guidelines to Taking Advice

That dishwasher was holding down three jobs at the time, and within a few years, he owned three restaurants, including the one where his boss asked him what his goals were.  Immigrants are statistically five times more likely to become millionaires than the local people in any country, because they are prepared to do whatever it takes. And they don’t mind paying their way.

J. C. Penney said, “Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.”

How Likely You Are to Succeed

I know it’s true – I regularly race along a certain forest path on my trusty bicycle, and at one point I always had to slow down to avoid hitting a particular tree stump. Yesterday, I took my own advice, and instead of looking at the tree stump (where I didn’t want to go) I kept my eyes on the path beyond the tree stump (where I did want to go) and amazingly, I found I could negotiate the same route at twice my previous speed.

How They “Hit the Stump”

How to Get Out of Debt

1. Focuses on sales instead of profits (strike one),
2. Looks about him at what everyone else is doing (strike two),
3. And looks for “expert” advice from the wrong people (strike three).

It’s like catching fish with a boxing glove. Boosting your bottom line requires strategic thinking, and it’s best to accomplish this without any cost or risk, and the minimum of time.

Think like a general instead of a soldier, and a like chess player instead of a checker’s player, and you’ll start thinking like a Joint Venture Broker. Strategists move beyond ego and fear to a rational approach that focuses on profit and abundance. It’s all about leverage and understanding reciprocity and systems.

You Need to Ask Yourself:

Entrepreneurs: Are You Trying to Catch Fish with a Boxing Glove?

“You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence, and success. The problem is you just don’t see them.”

Now Jay isn’t talking about viewing The Secret or chanting positive affirmations. He is a very practical, rational, bottom-line entrepreneur.

What He Means

Abundance Surrounds Us – But Do You See It?

In order for you to become a successful Joint Venture Broker, you need to do the same. That’s why I’m so excited about JVU. It’s a complete step-by-step program designed to fill in the blanks and help you put together numerous different joint venture strategies. It’s based upon all the techniques we’ve seen success with, and helps you to avoid the traps and pitfalls that you may come across.

Anybody, anywhere, with no education, experience or money can improve their lifestyle using the methods taught in JVU. It will no doubt take some longer than others, but the important thing is that you continue to learn and educate yourself in the various ways joint ventures can be applied in your life or business. With joint ventures, you’re really only limited by your creativity.

That’s why you’ll always be able to re-attend JVU at no extra charge.

And that’s why the class is filling up so quickly. If you have identified that you want change in your life, and you are committed to taking positive action to do something about it, then you should enroll in JVU.

With the 30 day Money-back guarantee, there is absolutely no risk. If you aren’t 100% convinced that you are learning valuable skills that would allow you to go back out into the real world and make at least $2000, then all of your money will be returned to you, no questions asked.

If things are a little tight right now (and for some of us they are) but you really want to attend, then take advantage of the 3 month payment plan designed to make it more affordable for you. And with the skills that you learn, you’ll be able to go out and earn the remainder of your enrollment before you have to pay it!

JVU really is the most complete, all-out joint venture training there is. Spots are filling fast, and I really hope that if you don’t feel you have the skills to go out and create the lifestyle you desire, that you will join us and learn how to take control of your life.

Click here to enroll in JVU.

http://www.jvwisdom.com/jvu

Your friend,
Shawn Christenson

Joint Ventures Are About Leverage.