There are four types of people I do not tolerate in my life. It does not matter if they are co-workers, business partners, friends, strangers, clients or even family members.
- Those who lie. Even small white lies. One of the things I love about my girlfriend is that she is brutally honest… even when it comes at my expense. Those who lie or lie by omission are IMMEDIATELY removed from my inner circle. It shows a bad sense of character and weakness to me.
- Those who gossip at someone else’s expense. Of course everyone is curious about others, it is human nature, but when talking about someone behind their back is negative it serves no purpose and it is just wasted breath.
- People who are negative and put others down really get under my skin. They only see the bad instead of the good and have a hard time being happy because their rules to achieve happiness are so hard to meet. Most of them seem to have a sense of learned helplessness.
- Hypocrites. This one grates on my nerves the most. Walk your talk or shut up. And you better not even think of trying to tell me what to do.
While I understand the psychology behind why they do what they do, I still don’t want to be around them or have them a part of my life.
For example: talking bad about someone else to feel better about yourself happens because it is easier to try to tear someone down then go up to their level. I even understand that most of the time this is a subconscious trigger for them and they will deny it as the reason if you confront them with it. They will make excuses to justify their behavior.
Once I lose respect for someone it is very difficult for them to get it back.
If you find yourself being one of the four types above, really take a look at why you are acting that way. I bet it boils down to wanting to feel liked and accepted; or to feel a level of power when you really feel a sense of weakness or helplessness. Jealously is also a feeling of being less superior to someone else, so it definitely falls within these categories.
The best way to combat these negative triggers and environmental responses is to:
- Be aware of them
- Believe you can and must change them
- Break your pattern when you notice yourself engaging in them – do something wacky, wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it hard.
- Replace the behavior with a positive one
Lastly, start to build more confidence in yourself. I will outline some steps in a future article; however I wanted to mention it now. When you are happy and believe in yourself you do not feel the need to put others down. You have a subconscious paradigm shift and start trying to lift others up.
Everyone should try this for 10 days (if you mess up, it is okay, just start the whole ten days over again):
- Don’t tell a lie of any kind, even by omission.
- Don’t gossip about others in a way that puts them down.
- Don’t dwell on a situation in a negative way for more than 10 seconds
- Don’t say anything you can’t or won’t complete within the 10 day period
Doing this simple exercise will have a major impact on your life. My guess is that you will find:
- People can handle the truth and they actually respect you more for having the balls to tell them; and they feel more respected because you believed they could handle it.
- Your relationships will improve and people will enjoy talking to you more.
- You will greatly reduce your stress and will solve most of the negative situations very quickly since you are now spending your energy on the solution instead of dwelling on the pain it “could” cause you.
- You will feel more accomplished and boost your self-confidence because you are not setting yourself up for failure and you are walking your talk.
Share your thoughts
Here is a success secret that most people do not realize. For the ultra-successful, those who work what seem like crazy hours, are labeled “workaholics” and the success driven – it is not really about the money. In fact, after a certain level of success, money quickly becomes a secondary concern.
Why? Because if you are solely focused on just making money, you will eventually fall into your comfort zone and stop excelling. There are only so many toys, vacations, homes, cars, jewelry and clothes you can buy.
Here is some food for thought – in 2009 there were only 10,000 people worldwide making over one million dollars a year in actual income. That is less than .05% of the entire world population. Billionaires make up 0.0001% of the US Population. Even if you are making just $250,000 a year, you can live a very comfortable lifestyle: Very nice house, luxury car, provide for their family, have a safety net, vacation regularly, kid’s college fund saved, maid, nanny, cook and not have to really watch what you spend on the essentials.
I’m going to be blunt here – making $250K a year is not rocket science if you are a business owner who has a high level of expertise in at least one area and have strong business systems in place for your operations, marketing, sales and customer support. In fact, you can systematize your business completely so you are only working a few hours or even minutes a week at that income level. Yet only 3% of US tax returns (4 million out of 138 million) claimed more than $200,000 in adjusted growth income (2006). In fact the average American Household makes a paltry $49,777 a year according to 2009 Census.
So if the desire for money is not the main motivational factor for the ultra-successful, what is it?
From my personal experience and being able to interact with some of the most successful business minds out there, it really boils down to one major factor:
Passion.
While there are other traits entrepreneurs should have to be successful, to even reach a modest income level of $250K a year you have to love what you do more than anything else.
Your work has to fulfill you – emotionally, spiritually and mentally.
You have to be so excited to start your day because you would rather be doing your “job” than sleeping or watching TV.
You have to have enough passion that when obstacles come up, you don’t give up and you find a way to solve it or adapt.
You have enough passion that you figure out how to monetize what you love doing. Most of the time this has a lot to do with how you are contributing back. That you know you are helping others in the process of reaching your goals and sharing your expertise, product or service with them.
Share your thoughts
Most achievers, myself included, fall into the trap of trying to do everything themselves. My logic has always been I can do it better than anyone else and by the time I explain how to do it, I could have been done it already. The problem with this thinking is that it stagnates growth.
While I am a firm believer that every business owner must take a personal role in the marketing, sales and systematization of their business, they should not be spending time doing the grunt work. Not only does your to-do list pile up to unreasonable levels, it stifles creativity and takes your focus away from more important parts of your business and personal life.
Another reason people do not want to delegate is because of the costs of hiring another person or service to take over some of their tasks. The problem with this thinking is that you have to evaluate how much your time is worth and what is the opportunity cost of doing it yourself.
For example, let’s say you spend four hours a week making sure your home is clean. If you are making $50,000 a year that means your hourly rate is roughly $25. You can find a maid to work for $15/hr and a total cost of $60 per week. While you may think that you would only be saving $40 if you spent that extra time working, you have to factor in the opportunity cost of cleaning the house yourself. What else could you have done with those four hours? What would happen if you spent those four hours working on a new business idea, a hobby or spending quality time with loved ones? You will be much more likely to increase your income and work-life balance.
For Business
You do not need to vertically integrate everything into your company, I suggest you outsource or hire someone to help with:
- Accounting – make sure you review your financial snapshot on a daily basis but you don’t need to be the one number crunching, reconciling accounts, making achs, following up with credit card declines, etc. Hire a bookkeeper and an accountant.
- Legal – You just don’t want to waste your productivity dealing with any legal issues, not only are they time consuming; they require a high level of expertise and are mentally draining. I’ve learned to just forward any legal issue straight to my legal team.
- Customer Support – still have a way for big problems to be escalated to you, but empower your employees and/or call center to handle anything under $250 to $500.
- Sales – you can get high quality salespeople to work on straight commission. This is the ONLY way I bring on sales staff for all of my companies. If they aren’t a superstar they won’t last and would suck up my time. You don’t need to be the ones pounding the phones and following up with prospects. You DO need to be training your staff and optimizing the sales process.
- Service – have staff, free lancers or vendors to oversee the support aspects of your business. Answering emails, phone calls about basic questions, the status of an order, etc.
- Fulfillment – there is no reason for most companies to get their own warehouse and fulfill products themselves anymore. For very cheap, fulfillment houses will store inventory, ship out your products for you, provide tracking information, handle returns and integrate into most CRMs.
- Any other grunt work – web designers, html email campaigns, social media setup, data mining, basic research, technical areas or anything you are not good at or don’t want to do.
You should concentrate on product development, optimizing your processes, and overseeing the marketing and sales of your company. Next you should be spot checking all other areas of the business. The more you systematize a business the less you have to be involved on a daily basis. I only spend 30 minutes a week on one of my companies that is currently bringing in the most amount of income and will scale to $50MM in the next few years.
On the Personal Side of Life
Most of us don’t realize we are already delegating many areas of our lives. If you send your child to daycare you are outsourcing. 
Some other areas to consider delegating:
- House Cleaning – nothing beats coming home to a clean house. Do you really want to be scrubbing toilets when you could be playing with your kids? Toying with a new invention? Playing poker with guys? Shopping with the girls?
- Landscaping / Gardening – unless you get personal enjoyment out of it, pay someone to make the outside of your house look pretty. At a minimum hire someone to cut the lawn.
- Dog Grooming – regular scheduled grooming, keeps your house more hair free and the dogs more fun to play with. You don’t have to spend time clipping toes, cleaning ears, brushing teeth, trimming, furminating or giving baths.
- Laundry / Dry Cleaning – Services will pick up and drop off for free, you will look your best, don’t have to separate, wash, dry, fold, or iron.
- Groceries Shopping – you can easily order groceries online now. Note: sometimes it is fun to go shopping with your significant other but overall you can save a couple hours a week by either having them do it or ordering online.
- Cooking – we all do this already. We go to restaurants, or order take out. Even if you can’t afford your own chef, you can now find healthy meal services that deliver good food to you each week. All you do is select what you want and then heat it up according to the instructions. You get gourmet meals for a cheaper cost than eating out.
- Driving – Obviously having a full time driver doesn’t make sense unless you are making a lot of money and have to travel locally a lot. But even when deciding how to travel on vacations, you may want to spend extra to fly, take a train or bus. Not having to drive yourself will allow you to relax, and get their faster in most cases, you will be able to do other things while you travel.
You can also get a virtual personal assistant for as low as $8/hr to help you with almost any task – buying gifts, travel itinerary and bookings, correspondence with friends, dinner and event reservations, business tasks, etc.
Last note: If you provide a valuable skill or service yourself, you can always barter with another provider. You provide them with your service and they provide you with a service of equal value. This way you can begin to delegate and outsource even if you don’t have the financial means to do so currently.
Share your thoughts
The American Dream is the goal of being able to provide a better life for our children and the philosophy that anyone can achieve success if they work hard enough. However, the extremely high rate of business failures shows us that hard work and desire are not enough. As an entrepreneur you must be able to innovate and lead your company to success. Based on my life experiences of running multiple companies (I’m currently running ten business ventures simultaneously) and consulting hundreds more worldwide, I feel the following fifteen traits are essential to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
01. Confidence
Confidence is the corner stone of being an entrepreneur. You must absolutely belief in yourself, your abilities, your company, your products and services. There should be no doubts whatsoever about what you are doing, the benefits you provide, or the price you are charging. Side note: Many entrepreneurs undervalue themselves and charge too little. This is a deadly mistake.
02. Courage
Being courageous means doing something despite being fearful. Fear paralyzes people and companies. You must be proactive in overcoming fears to take action. Whether it is picking up the phone to call a prospect, negotiating with a vendor, speaking in public or having to let go of an employee who is not performing. The best way to get past your fears is to take them head on and without thinking.
“A coward dies a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
03. Action-Oriented
You have to be willing to take massive and consistent action on a daily basis to achieve your goals. Having a strong work ethic is an absolute must and your success is directionally proportional to the level of action you take.
04. Perseverance
The majority of businesses fail because the entrepreneur gives up. There will always be very difficult challenges that come up. You have to realize that even if the worst happens it is not the end of the world and you must have the attitude of never giving up. This was a trait I developed through my martial arts training as a child. It is one of the most powerful attributes a person can develop.
The only way I will absolutely give up on a task I truly want is if I am dead.
I have been in so many situations where everyone thought it would be impossible to make it through but not only did I persevere, I gained immeasurable knowledge from finding the solution, power, self-esteem and even more confidence in myself.
05. Passion
You have to love what you do down to your core. You have to love it so much that you don’t see it as work. You have to develop such excitement about what you are doing that you don’t want to waste time sleeping or watching hours of television a day. And even when you are sleeping you are dreaming about it. Your passion is contagious. It will fuel your organization and those around you. If you don’t feel that level of passion about what you are doing, you are doing the wrong thing or you don’t genuinely believe you will achieve it.
06. Optimism
Entrepreneurs are by nature optimistic – look at the positives in everything, learn from your mistakes and dream big. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard what I want to achieve is unrealistic or that I have my head in the clouds. Now ironically these same people come to me for advice.
I will never ever let anyone tell me what I can or cannot do.
Unfortunately it is often our closest friends and family that try to bring us down. This generally isn’t done in malice. Most often our actions are making them feel inferior and they don’t want to be left behind or lose you. Since it is easier to bring someone down then uplift themselves they generally go this route.
07. Gratefulness
Always be thankful for what you have right now. Often we lose perspective in life. The average person in the world only makes $2.00 a day. By having a foundation of gratefulness, you train your mind for abundance instead of scarcity, which opens you up to limitless possibilities. The best way you can become grateful when you aren’t feeling it is to help someone who is in need. See how it makes you feel afterward and how it realigns you.
08. Visionary
Have an absolute clear vision of who you want to ultimately become in life, your purpose in life, your personal and business goals. Having a clear idea of what you want and where you are headed makes you much more efficient and productive. You can then identify the projects and tasks you need to focus on that will be the most beneficially for you to achieve your goal rather than waste time on less important tasks that are not 100% necessary for you to get your result.
09. Adventurous
You have to be willing to take risks, go out on a limb and try things that take you out of your comfort zone. It is the only way you grow and is actually fun at the same time.
10. Empowering
By being empowering you inspire your partners, employees, vendors and clients. They respect you more, they feel better about themselves and they gain pride in your company and you as a boss. You also can’t do everything yourself and you must delegate tasks otherwise you will never make it past a very basic level and financial income.
11. Focused
Identify which tasks are the most important for you and your team to work on. Then you must be able to stay on track and limit distractions and interruptions. Delegate whatever you can and focus on the parts of the business that will make you the most money. This is generally the systematization and optimization of your business rather than actually working “in” the business doing work an employee could do.
12. Flexible
Things happen. You must be able to adapt to survive. Darwinism at its finest. Those who can’t adapt will be weeded out. You need to be able to identify and quickly react to challenges, competition, changes in the market and new technologies otherwise you can find yourself out of business pretty quickly. A recent example is Border’s bookstores. They failed to create a significant online presence and offer their own e-book reader like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Blockbuster’s late reaction to Netflix is another example as well.
13. Proactive
Being reactive means you have lost control and are being controlled by others. It also leads to an enormous amount of stress. Be proactive in everything you do both personally and professionally. Innovate, systematize, forecast challenges and find solutions before they happen. Your overall life satisfaction will be much higher.
It is better to blaze a trail then have to be stuck putting out fires.
14. Balanced
Take care of your health and relationships not just your career. Take a day off each week, go on weekend getaways each quarter, and take a one or two week vacation once a year. This prevents you from burning out and fosters your relationships with loved ones.
There is no use having lots of money without being healthy enough to enjoy it or not having anyone to share it with.
This is one of the most dangerous aspects of being an entrepreneur. A key moment that sticks out in my mind is when I was in my early 20’s and I spoke at a millionaire’s boot camp. In the speakers lounge all the other speakers were in their 40’s and joking about their ex-wives. The event really illustrated to me that we can’t neglect or even just try and maintain our relationships – we must find a way to grow them while taking on the demands of running our business.
Be aware – often times the entrepreneur will be shocked and find it is too late to repair the damage that was caused by being solely focused on their business. “I was working so hard for us” is a hollow excuse. Don’t neglect any area of your life.
Related Article: How to Quickly Restore Balance in Your Life
15. Curious
Always be willing to learn and grow. View the world with curiosity. Find out why something works, analyze what other industries are doing and if you can bring the same techniques to your business. Continually learn and optimize every aspect of your business. Small changes in company procedures, marketing and sales can have exponential results in income.
Bonus Success Tip:
The more you do something you fear, the more confidence you build, the more empowered you feel, the more courageous you become, the more action you take, the more results you get. You will also be more likely to tackle your next fear more quickly. The beauty of this is that it is cumulative and fully transferable to every aspect of your life.
Share your thoughts
The greatest danger we face in not achieving our goals is getting caught up in the daily grind of life. We are bombarded constantly with phone calls, emails, obligations to friends, children, spouses, extended family, bosses, co-workers and clients. It seems like everybody wants something from us and we barely have time to grab a coffee on our way out to work each day let alone have time for ourselves.
Let’s flash forward a year into the future, if nothing changes in your life:
- Have you had the time to workout at least three times a week?
- Are you happy with your weight and fitness levels?
- Have you been able to save at least six months of expenses?
- Have you been able to grow your relationship with your significant other and stay out of a rut?
- Are you able to spend quality time with the kids on a daily basis?
- Did you ever take that vacation you wanted?
If you are like most people, the answer is probably NO to most of those questions. You may even be on the verge of burning out.
This is what happens to most of us year after year. No wonder we begin to feel stagnant and unfulfilled. A lot of people lose hope and just settle for a mediocre life. However, the first and most basic step in actually living a balanced, fulfilled and accomplished life is so simple. In fact, it is so simple, we take it for granted and discount its power.
The Primordial Axiom Essential to Dominating Your World is to wake up early.
I told you it was simple.
The earlier you wake each morning – the more successful you will be in your life in terms of how you define success. I recommend waking up at least two hours before you have to go to work. I generally wake up four hours earlier. Why?
- No one bothers me. I have no distractions or people trying to steal my time what-so-ever.
- I have time to plan my day proactively
- I have time to stretch, breathe and workout
- I have time to prepare and eat healthy meals
- I have time to grow as a person by reading or studying a topic of interest to me
- I generally have time to do all of the above and start work early – getting more done by the time most people are getting into work in the first place.
- I am less rushed and stressed throughout the day, so I can take a proper lunch, spend quality time with loved ones later in the evening instead of thinking about what I didn’t get done.
If you notice my early mornings are all about me. Remember by taking care of yourself first, you can better serve those around you who depend on you. You will also be much more likely to workout in the morning because that is when we have the most willpower, energy, testosterone and are the freshest.
Create a morning ritual for yourself that fits your lifestyle and will empower you throughout the day. My ideal morning schedule is as follows:
500AM Wake up, pray, stretch/breathe/meditate, drink a protein shake, get ready
600AM Prep meals for the day, small solid meal, listen to an audio program, review my day
700AM Pre-workout supplements, workout at gym, post workout shake
800AM Give girlfriend a ride to work, feed and walk the dogs, finish listening to audio program, type out notes from what I learned
900AM Business day starts
Now if I was to adjust my schedule an hour earlier as I’ve done at times, I would end up getting a ton more work done as I can concentrate on the more important tasks rather than the urgent ones.
Note of Caution: NEVER EVER check email, turn on the tv, or surf the internet first thing in the morning – it will DESTROY your day because you will get sucked back into the same daily rut you are trying to escape.
Other helpful hints:
- Make sure you still get enough sleep. While it varies, if you are also going to be working out you need to let your body recover – six hours minimum. No more than eight.
- Plan your day the night before, this will also subconsciously program yourself to wake up.
- Set your alarm clock and set a backup alarm just in case!
- Experiment with sleep and wake up times – to find your sweet spot, the time you wake up right when the sleep cycle is finished so you are refreshed and not groggy.
- As soon as you get up, stretch and move your body. Deep breathes also help energize you.
- Drink a glass of water or smoothie in the morning instead of coffee.
Share your thoughts
I am a firm believer that even as adults we must cultivate our creative sides. The arts and music have been proven to stimulate our brains and increase academic performance in children. Learning to play an instrument leads to a better understanding of math concepts, while drawing and other visual arts help with language development, coordination and spatial abilities.
I’ve found them to help my creativity as well. Especially since I do so much in work in web development, business systematization and marketing, I want to make sure I always do something creative on at least a weekly basis. Drawing, photography and playing the guitar are my top three creative outlets. I’m actually not that great at any of them (yet) – but I find them fun and I still get the benefits mentioned above.
My 2011 – 52 Week Drawing Challenge
This year I am committing to learning how to draw manga and anime with a 52 week drawing challenge. I am going to draw at least one drawing a week for a total of at least 52 by the end of year.
I have always liked drawing. I remember as far back as first grade, I would get in trouble for drawing all over my spelling tests because I would grow bored waiting for the teacher to move on to the next spelling word. However, I never really pursued it until in college I took an intro drawing class and then began drawing a lot of the Disney characters, street fighter characters and technical drawings from star wars and robotech.
One of the major frustrations I had with drawing classes is that you would just sit there drawing fruit and things from life without any real instruction on how to do it. So in an effort to learn how to draw manga / anime I first bought ten of those How to Draw Manga books.
They did help me get better!
I still felt that it was hard to follow and learn from a book. I tried looking for art classes but scheduling them in was also an issue. Recently I found the idrawgirls.com video tutorials by a concept art designer named Xia Taptara. I bought ALL his video tutorials on how to draw manga.
As you can see from the video above the guy is masterful and does a good job breaking down each step, his inside tips are so helpful and he even provides e-books, photoshop brushes and his photoshop palette. So in addition to learning how to sketch I will also be able to learn how to draw and paint digitally! Super excited!
The videos are done pretty well considering it is not a professionally produced product. They are also really cheap, under 10 bucks for each one. I like the flexibility of being able to view them on the go, so I have gone through the trouble of converting them to an ipad format.
This allows be to draw along in bed, my “drawing” desk or the any other public place. If you are interested in learning to draw, definitely check out his intro tutorials:
Drawing Essentials: Female Figure
I was able to use promo code: 5675H0QF to get 20% off all his videos. Not sure if it will still work or not though.
Speaking of my desk, I have a pretty nice personal office, great view of the city and a smaller desk that I have made into a mini art station. Having this area motivates me to actually follow through.
My drawing supplies:
For the 52 week challenge I’m going to sketch them all in my moleskin pocket sketchbook. Any I draw in photoshop I’ll print out and glue into the book as well. I feel it is important to learn how to draw on paper as well as on the computer. I also want to mix up some different types of mediums, like colored pencils and copic markers. Copic markers are cool because you can mix your own colors, refill them, get airbrush attachments and more. However, I opted for the Copic Ciaco style markers because they had some sets dedicated for anime drawing with a bit of a different tip. These are the ones I got for Christmas:
One of the art teachers I had a long time ago recommended Prismacolor Verithin color pencils, so I also bought a set of those to try, as well as a HB drawing pencil set:
Digital Drawing/Painting
I already have a Wacom tablet – it actually might be too big (it is tabloid size) and since I have a three monitor computer display setup I will have to play around with mapping it properly. The smaller tablets also let you easily take them with you, so you can draw on your laptop. I also have an older Wacom that is very small and fits in my laptop bag.
Drawing on the ipad
Adobe made a great drawing app for the ipad called Adobe Ideas. It is free but if you want the ability to add different layers and other features you have to pay extra. You can also buy a stylus pen that works on the ipad, the Wacom pens don’t work. BoxWave Capacitive iPad Stylus seems to have the highest reviews on Amazon and is only $15.00. Actually I just bought it while I was typing this. LOL. I’ll let you guys know if it is good once it comes in.
Now it is your turn!
Try to schedule in at least 30 minutes a week for a creative activity. If you have kids, the arts are a quality time activity you can do together. Sames goes if you are in a relationship! Do something together instead of sitting in front of the television. Some ideas: Drawing, Painting, Sculpting / Clay, Dance (there are so many styles), Musical Instruments, Cooking and Baking, Acting, Improv, Comedy/Stand up, and Photography.
Remember the key to mastery is repetition – so don’t get discouraged if it takes a while to get good, just keep practicing and focus on the reward being the process of the activity itself.
Also don’t forget to share what activity you are going to incorporate in your schedule by commenting below.
Share your thoughts
I find it fun to check out my horoscope for Chinese new year. 2011 is the year of the White Metal Rabbit. I’m actually a fire dragon. Looks like another kick ass year ahead.
Courtesy of gotohoroscope:
How brilliant and asserting will be the triumph of the Dragon in 2011 year of the White Metal Rabbit! Happiness of this representative of zodiacal circle will consist of victories in professional activities, in business as well as the best possible relationships between him and his loved one. Lonely Dragon has all the chances to meet their fate and very soon seal a union with marriage vows – if of course he wants to get rid of his loneliness. The family of a Dragon will receive comfort and harmony of relationships, he will simply revel the love and passion. The only danger laying in wait for Dragon in the year of the White Metal Rabbit (Cat) is dizziness from success: Dragon may suffer from laudatory speeches and fanfare, and make many stupid things in a temper, that it will take the entire next year to mop such things out. In particular, this warning is especially concerns the young Dragon, and so that his head always returned to his seat, he needs someone more senior and experienced, who will oversee its actions. The Dragon is too hot, and this quality can bring him honor and glory if it is aimed in the right direction, or subverted into the deep it doesn’t yield sound logic.
2011 horoscope for Dragon of fire element:
For you, 2011 year of the White Rabbit will be a more understandable and reasonable period in which Fire Dragons will be looking for stability and shelter from the storms of previous years. Their love life will also get better in 2011, Dragons would be able to strengthen relationships connecting you with a loved one, especially if misunderstanding occurred recently in your life.
Share your thoughts
This upcoming January 10th, one of my companies is co-hosting an exclusive suite party during the Affiliate Summit West 2011. Incidentally, I will also be speaking on an expert panel on the 9th at 11:00am regarding Identifying Scam Networks at the Wynn Hotel.
For the party, we were granted access to a special suite in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino called the Lucky Seven Suite that has been listed in the top 5 high roller suites in Vegas. However since it is a private residence is virtually impossible to be get in. The Casino B Blog labeled it:
One of the ultimate bachelor party rooms in Vegas, the Lucky 7 suite is typically only reserved for the Vegas elite who frequent the Hard Rock on a regular basis. To stay in the room you probably would have to have no problem dropping over $1 Million in their casino on any given night or be extremely well connected. The room comes complete with 3 bedrooms, huge plasmas everywhere, a stripper pole and even a crazy jacuzzi that has a switch to make rain fall from the ceiling! I managed to be fortunate enough to get access to this suite and snapped a few pictures:
We are going with a winter avalanche theme, which of course means lots of Vodka, pretty girls in white and great networking with the top leaders, vendors, advertisers, publishers and networks in the affiliate marketing vertical. For a chance to attend, RSVP at:
http://www.healthconverter.com/avalancheparty.
Share your thoughts
One of the best things about laptops is their portability. They have become powerful enough that it is no longer necessary for most of us to need a separate desktop. However one of the biggest limitations, especially for anyone doing graphics, design, photography or application multitasking on their computer is the small screen size.
Most laptops allow you to connect one external monitor to the vga (blue input) or dvi (white input) in the back of the computer. This allows you to extend your laptop screen to two screens, which causes both the built-in monitor of the laptop and external monitor to act like one giant screen. Once you go from one monitor to an extended desktop of multiple monitors… it is impossible to go back to one. Your productivity will increase dramatically.
Even with most desktops, one extra monitor is the limit even if you have multiple monitor inputs (vga/dvi/hdmi) because the video graphics card in your computer can’t handle more. The video graphic cards that allow multiple monitors (3-4) are much more expensive as well.
One of my business partners went this route and while it works great – he had to spend thousands of extra dollars for the setup. (Pictured above) After purchasing a new laptop recently, I stumbled upon a workaround to not only add multiple monitors to my laptop… it is allows you to add up to 6 external monitors to your laptop or even desktop. Since I already had the monitors, my total cost was only $60 to have a 3 screen computer setup (top article photo).
To add multiple monitors to your laptop or desktop: Read More
Share your thoughts
After being able to play around with an iPhone 4 I have decided to wait a while before I upgrade my 3GS, especially with the 4.0 OS upgrade it has all the major features I thought were missing before: multi-tasking, background wallpapers, spell check and folders. I’m in love with my iPhone all over again. I also want to see how the iPhone 4 reception issue gets resolved by Apple. Simply telling people to hold the phone a different way is pretty weaksauce and bad design. It is common sense that people grip the phone a certain way.
Now that I can multi-task the iPhone has become my sole gym accessory. I can listen to music through Pandora while recording my workouts on dailyburn. However since I use my iPhone so much to check 5+ email accounts, surf the web, tweet, check facebook and watch youTube videos battery life was an issue. I found myself having to charge my iPhone at least 2-3 times a day.
One of my business partners told me about the Energizer Battery Cases that can extend your battery life by almost double the usage. The energizer battery is 1500 mAH and I wanted to see if there was something that would last even longer. I found the New Trent IMP550 3G 3Gs iPhone External Backup Battery Case 5000mAh
Prior to buying the New Trent IMP550 Battery Case
Another accessory for the iPhone I love is the Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth MOTOACTIV Stereo Headset
