I’m feeling kinda queasy this morning and not in the mood to write - so I stole.  Also, I’m not really a big Trump-tard, so I was a bit hesitant to post this, but again, I’m feeling kinda sick and I’ll just blame it on that. 

Taken word-for-word from a2-blog.com.  Great post!! 

http://a2-blog.com/articles/ten-reasons-why-youre-not-a-billionaire/

Ten Reasons Why You’re Not a Billionaire.
People always are wondering, why am I not rich? Or, why can’t I make as much money as so-and-so?
The answer is, that being rich is merely a state of mind. The excuse to
why you are not yet a millionaire is really not because you don’t make
enough money, its the way you use your money that determines why you
are not yet a millionaire. I’ve been reading a lot of Donald Trump’s
book, Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life, and everything he says really does make sense.

The reason that you do not yet have millions in the bank is because you do not think
like a millionaire/billionaire. Here are ten ways to think more like a
millionaire, according to Donald Trump (with input from me):

1. Don’t take vacations. As Trump says, if you have a
   job that makes you feel as if you need to take vacations, you’re
   obviously doing the wrong job. I think there’s an adage that perfectly
   describes this concept: “The man who loves his job never labors.” If
   you find the perfect job, you won’t really be working, and you won’t
   have to take vacations.
2. Sleep is for the weak. Donald Trump says that he
   only sleeps four hours a night (from 1am to 5am). If you are awake
   longer than you’re competitors, you already have an upper hand over
   them. Someone who is sleeping 10 hours a night is much less likely to
   do better than someone who sleeps around half of that amount of time.
   Plus, it gives off the aurora that you are omniscient (everywhere). If
   you’re an owner of a business and you always seem to be awake, even at
   the late hours of the night and the early hours of the morning, you’re
   a lot more likely to gain the respect and admiration of your employees.
3. Have a short attention span. People are prone to
   talk a lot of fluff, especially if you are in a position of power. If
   you have a short attention span, you’re very likely to get done with
   interactions with people much faster. Donald Trump says, regarding his
   interactions with people: “I’ll know what they’re going to say before
   they say it. After the first three words are out of their mouth, I can
   tell what the next forty are going to be, so I try to pick up the pace
   and move it along.”
4. Don’t depend on technology. This is kind of ironic
   for me to say, since I run an online company and am posting on a
   website, but Trump makes a valid point. An email is not as effective as
   paying someone a personal visit or at least giving them a phone call.
   Emails lack intonation, and it is very hard to convey emotions through
   an email. Donald Trump doesn’t even have an ATM card!
5. Being underestimated is a good thing. When your
   opponents and competitors underestimate you, it allows you to take
   advantage of their mistakes and surprise them. Being underestimated is
   most always a good thing, for example, if you’re playing poker with a
   bunch of poker veterans, chances are, they’ll underestimate you and
   never think you’re capable of taking their money. Also, when you’re
   underestimated by people, and they hear of your accomplishments from
   other sources, their admiration and respect for you will multiply
   almost immediately.
6. You are a one-man army. You not only have to plan
   everything in your life like a general or commander-in-chief would do,
   but you have to get down and dirty and execute your plans as a soldier
   would do. If you keep thinking yourself as just the general of your
   one-man army, well, your just never going to get anything done, are
   you? You have to be a very smart one-man army also.
7. Success Leads to More Success. As you’ve probably
   heard: Actions speak louder than words. You’re going to impress people
   much more by results and your success rather than anything that you can
   possibly said. If you are still young and have not yet had a success,
   Trump says you have to “create the impression of success”. Its much
   easier to make deals with people once they see that you are successful.
   It is said that everything that Donald Trump touches turns to gold. If
   you have a reputation like that, who wouldn’t want to do business with
   you?
8. Ponder each decision carefully. The only way your
   going to make bucket loads of money is through a vast number of
   decisions throughout your career. Donald Trump says that people should
   “treat each decision like a lover”. He calls the decisions that people
   can decide upon immediately “love at first sight”. He goes on to say
   that when you have a meeting to hear different opinions before taking a
   decision is like asking all your friends what you think of the person
   you are currently dating. Decision making is a crucial part of making
   money, and you have to learn how to trust your instincts and your gut,
   because they are usually always right.
9. Trust your family. Friends are good to have, but
   you have to trust your family. If you have good relationships with all
   your family members, you’ll be successful. You need your family, and a
   healthy relationship with your family members will help you out in the
   long run. Blood runs thicker than water, and if you have treated your
   family members right, they will be much more trustworthy than any
   friend you can possibly have.
10. Curiosity didn’t kill the cat. Successful people
    throughout history have always been curious. Curiosity and innovation
    has always lead to the best ways people make money. They see a problem
    in the way things currently are, and then they improve them. If you are
    trying to understand everything in the world, you’ll be more alive to
    your surroundings, making you much sharper. It has been said that everyiece of knowledge you learn will always be used.

http://a2-blog.com/articles/ten-reasons-why-youre-not-a-billionaire/

I’d rather not make this a political blog, but I felt compelled to post this. Taken from CNN.com..

Gun Control / Virginia Tech commentary by the Nuge!!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/commentary.nugent/index.html

Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster

Editor’s note: Rock guitarist Ted Nugent has sold more than 30 million albums. He’s also a gun rights activist and serves on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association. His program, “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild,” can be seen on the Outdoor Channel.

Read an opposing take on gun control from journalist Tom Plate: Let’s lay down our right to bear arms

WACO, Texas (CNN) — Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby’s Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.

Anybody see what theevil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I’ve about had enough of it.

Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.

A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.

At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.

More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.

My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby’s Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden “feel good” politics.

She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.

No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a “cult of agriculture fertilizer” following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh’s heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted “steak knife control” as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.

Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.

Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.

Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn’t think so.

Who doesn’t get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?

I’ll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that’s who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to “feel good” is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.

Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children’s school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.

First Argument - Colors / Decorations
Let’s face it, aesthitcally The Price Is Right studio looks like the 60’s crapped all over the bastard child of Let’s Make a Deal and the $20,000 Pyramid.  When compared to other shows like Millionaire, Deal/No Deal the Price is Right looks ancient, but like Web 2.0, the color scheme/decorations are only there to support the content, not interfere with it. 

Second Argument - Interfaces / Displays
Much like Web 2.0, when a pricing game is put in front of them, any idiot or senior from Florida can figure out what they’re supposed to do in a matter of seconds.  The actions they need to take are straight-forward, and they know quickly and exactly what they need to do in order to get what they want. 

Third Argument - Crowd Participation
The purest, easiest, simplest definition of this phenom known as social networking is ‘Crowd Participation,’ aka user created content.  During the pricing games, the Price is Right always pauses for the contestant to listen to the shouts from the crowd about how much to price the Pop Secret at - you yell back at the idiot in the 5th row who thinks the popcorn costs more than the espresso machine.  Everyone’s contributing.

Fourth Argument - Fighting ‘The Man.’
A common unseen theme amongst Web 2.0 sites is the fight against the man or corporate giants.  (i.e. YouTube vs. Major Media, Digg vs. CNN, Skype vs. Ma’ Bell.)  It’s hardly evident, but it’s definitely there, and many times forms the hoo-rah for a site’s popularity boost.  Price is Right connection - I’m Bob Barker reminding you to please spay or nuder your dogs and or cats.

In Closing…
All the heavy hitters in Web 2.0 are close to my age, 25-35.  Regardless of your Web 2.0 popularity, Of all those bundled in that demographic, what did you always watch in the morning on your sick days, or vacation days?  That’s right, Price is Right.  The show was building the Web 2.0 phenom before the internet was ever started. 

10 Things Your Boss Hates About You. 

Great article over at guardian.ca.  Here’s the exec’ summary.

1. Lateness
2. Lack of Initiative
3. Too much initiative
4. Bitching & Whining
5. Disloyalty
6. Lack of Passion, or interest
7. Trying to be their best friend
8. Petty lying
9. Childishness
10. Wanting their job

Read the entire article Here!!

The Checklist

Brioni suit - Check. Mont Blanc Pen - Check. Ferragamo shoes - Check. Movado Watch - Check. $1 Family Guy Stewie Wallet - Check. Wait, Family Guy wallet??

I bought a book a while back, it was something about tricks for meeting people and networking. One of the tricks was to wear some goofy button on your shirt as a conversation starter. I say the flourescent orange Stewie Wallet is my Darth Vader ‘Death-Star-ter.’ People will start talking to me on sight of the wallet. It lightens up your image, and reminds you that you’re human, and not some stoic corporate robot. Best of all, you can keep it concealed when necessary (Board Meetings) but bring it out when needed. (Casual lunches, golf course etc, drinks etc.) People will immediately drop their ego guard, and you’ll instantly have something to talk about. It’s kinda works the same was as that scene from Pulp Fiction where the guy steals Jules’ wallet? You know - the one that says BAD MotherF$$cker?!! (By the way - you can buy that actual wallet at http://www.mess.be/badmotherfuckerwallet/