The Course in Mastery Day 28: Evaluating Opportunities

Evaluating Opportunities: Day 28 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Jim Britt teach you specific strategies on evaluating financial opportunities as they present themselves throughout your life.

Tom Wood:

1. How to get ready?
1.1 What do you want?
Stop thinking that you need to find something that makes money, you can make money in anything. What you need to find is what you love to do.
1.2 How much time do I have?
You can start part-time or full-time but not sometime.
1.3 How much money do I have?
Don't start a $50,000 business if you only have $500.

2. Is this a good opportunity?
2.1 Is there residual income?
Will you be eventually able to walk away?
2.2 Has it been in business for a year?
The key in oportunities is timing.
2.3 Do you love it?
Find your passion
2.4 Does the business matter?
No business survives if it does not make a difference.

Jim Britt: http://www.jimbritt.com/about.htm
Vision becomes reality

Vision
1. Think of what you want?
2. Why do I want it?
3. Clarify why I want it?
4. Feeling is like a magnet that attracts

Reality
1. 2 emotions: Love and fear
2. Which do you honor the most, your stuff or your vision?

Artsy Fartsy: House VT 2 Plate

I just found this in my deviant art profile. I sucked in Visual Technology and I think this turned out to be okay, why else would I scan it?
Medium: Watercolor
Date: 2004

Would you date a porn star?

It was 10pm on a Saturday night, I got a couple cans of Guinness in the fridge and a collection World War II DVD's in my hand when suddenly a SMS from my friend reads, "Shat!". A few text messages later I found myself in a cab contemplating on which club we were hitting that night. I arrived at the agreed meeting place and saw most of my friends in shorts and tsinelas. I realized it will be a night of all male chatter and binge drinking.

The serious kwentuhan always comes after the usual blabber, jokes and kamustahan. Having pissed a few times until some of us cannot walk straight anymore, my friend posted the "Question of the Night":

Would you date a porn star?

Maria Ozawa, porn's finest

What he meant was date, date, not just fuck-date and having a relationship with an active porn star. Some of the thoughts were very enlightening. There was eight of us, three of whom are in relationships, five of us are single, mostly by choice, and one never had a girlfriend in his lifetime.

The results: eight out of eight would definitely fuck a porn star, and only one would actually date her. And you have guessed correct, it was our friend who never had a relationship.

Defending himself, "Most of you guys have been cheated by your ex-girlfriends, they fucked around behind your back, what difference does it make if they did it in front of you?"

"It's different man, there was a point in time that we loved each other, treat them like princesses, fuck them like porn stars once in awhile but how could you ever treat a porn star like a princess, more so love her? You just want consensual sex, pay for lay has its downside doesn't it?", fired back Mr. Relationship guy.

On a very objective view, I told them that seeing so many failed relationships, making it work with a porn star would be very difficult. Other essentials of a good relationship besides sex, like communication would be very hard to pull of. If you would ask her how her day was, and she told you how sore she was from a 12-man orgy, how on earth could you react to that?!

You Girlfriend

At one point you have to go out of the bedroom, have dinner or whatnot, then your porn star girlfriend was binastos by assholes, obviously you have to confront them. But can you really blame them? They saw more than her naked body! Let's say you could kick their ass in 17 different ways. Then your mother comes along and does the same. It would just be really hard and it must be true love if you can put up with that every single fucking time you go out.

I have nothing against actresses in the porn industry. I admire their work at least a couple times a week in the comfort of my own room, in front of my laptop with tissue paper beside me (lube optional). Though I might consider dating one if she only did girl-on-girl and if she brings back that co-worker for some three-way action. But thinking it over twice, dating a porn star would still be a big burden to my sanity.

University of Phoenix Stadium

University of Phoenix Stadium, opened August 1, 2006, is a multipurpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium is located next door to the Jobing.com Arena, where the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes play, and it features the first fully retractable natural grass playing surface built in the United States on top of an AirField Systems drainage system. An opening on one side of the stadium allows the playing field to move to the exterior of the building, allowing the entire natural turf playing surface to be exposed to daylight.

New York based architect Peter Eisenman teamed with stadium designer HOK Sport + Venue + Event of Kansas City. The design-build project was headed by Hunt Construction Group (Phoenix, AZ). Walter P Moore (Houston, TX) is the engineer-of-record for the 500,000 square foot retractable, structural steel roof, while TLCP (Phoenix, AZ) is engineer-of-record for the cast-in-place concrete seating bowl structure. The mechanization components for the retractable section of the roof were designed and installed by Uni-Systems, L.L.C. (Minneapolis, MN) and the structural steel fabricator for the roof and operable field was Schuff Steel (Phoenix, AZ).


Retractable Roof
The signature element of the roof structure is the pair of Brunel trusses, named after British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose Royal Albert Bridge is the archetype of the form used for this stadium. The two 87-foot deep Brunel trusses are spaced at 256 feet, and span approximately 700 feet along the east and west sidelines between the concrete supercolumns. They are the primary support elements of the roof. They support the secondary trusses, which span to the perimeter of the structure, and the fixed trusses, which span between the Brunel trusses at the north and south ends of the stadium. The retractable roof panels, which ride on a rail centered on the top of the Brunel trusses, cover the center opening in the roof which is 360 feet long and 240 feet wide. When the panels are open, the entire field to the back of the end zones is exposed. The two retractable roof panels measure 180 feet long by 270 feet wide and are constructed with 8 lenticular, vierendeel-style trusses composed of square and rectangular hollow structural sections (HSS).

Brunel Truss

The roof is made out of translucent "Bird-Air" fabric and opens in twelve minutes. It is the first retractable roof ever built on an incline. It also uses more than 93,000 square feet of highly translucent PTFE architectural fabric membrane. It has an open, airy feel, even when the roof is closed. PTFE-coated high translucency fabric membrane is a dynamic tensile material unmatched for its aesthetics and durability, making it ideal for Birdair tensile architecture systems. Structurally, PTFE fiberglass high translucency fabric membrane is waterproof, resists UV rays and is chemically inert. As a result, it is exceptionally stain resistant and easy to clean.

Fabric Roof Panels

Movable Field 
The field is like a massive pan with the drainage system, sprinkler system, sand and dirt which grows grass that wieghs about 17 million pounds. In order to move it the design solution was to provide rail road tracks over a thousand feet long. It is supported by 542 steel wheels of different sizes guided by 13 rails embedded in the concrete facility floor drive by 75 motors totalling 76 horse power moving 250 yards that takes over an hour to complete.

Coiled Snake
Like a chameleon it changes colors as the sun moves in the desert sky. The building features alternating sections of shimmering metal panels intended to reflect the shifting desert light alongside magnificent vertical glass slots allowing patrons a spectacular view of the horizon from any level of the exterior resembling a coiled snake. About 8,000 of flat rectangle panels cut and hung to create the illusion of smooth curve.

Barrel Cactus
Splitting the building vertically make it also look like the Arizona native barrel cactus. In adition, by pulling the facade open installing glass panels the building lets light in up to its middle. There are 1,041 panels of glass that form the slots. Each panel weighs not less than a thousand pounds, to lift it they used mini cranes with huge suction cups.

Fans
Precast concrete was use as base for 60,000 Cardinal comfy chairs.

The stadium is considered an architectural icon for the region and was named by Business Week as one of the 10 “most impressive” sports facilities on the globe. The cost of the project was $455 million. That total included $395.4 million for the stadium, $41.7 million for site improvements, and $17.8 million for the land. Contributors to the stadium included the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority ($302.3 million), the Arizona Cardinals ($143.2 million), and the City of Glendale ($9.5 million).

But for the casual fan, this is the Home of the Cardinals.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

T. Harv Eker’s best selling book on the secrets of the millionaire mind is summarized for MasteryTV in a 15 minute video and a 1 hour and 30 minute seminar. The 90 minute seminar will change your life if you let it.

My notes on the seminar:

Thoughts - Feelings - Actions = Results

Money Blueprint
1. Verbal Programming
2. Modelling
3. Specific Incidents

What I focus on, expands

*7 days of no complaining

Secret:
There's no such thing as a really rich victim

I create the exact level of my financial success

Play to win vs Not to lose

*Create a strategy to help 10 times as many people

Solve problems to get paid.

How do I help more people?

My goal is to become a multi-millionaire and more!!! And nothing less will do!

What you settle for is what you get! Your life right now is exactly what you settle for...

Both vs Either or

I can be kind, gentle and loving and still really, really rich!!!

Admire and Model vs Resent rich and successful people

Practice admiring rich people

Blessed that what you want

Everything that you negate, you can never have!

I admire rich people! I bless rich people! I love rich people! I study rich people! And I will be a rich people too!

Why be rich?
1. Lifestyle
2. Contribution
3. "Who" become

Bigger than their problems vs smaller than their problems

Not get rid of the problem but grow yourself so you are bigger than any problem. Its not the size of the problem its the size of you!

You're money is the same level as you are.

Chinese bamboo plant

You keep on growing. Being comfortable and stagnant kills you.

Reasons or results? You cannot have both!

Declaration:
I am bigger than any problem! I can handle any problem! Nothing can stop me from creating love!

Thoughts - Feelings - Actions = Results

Actions becomes the bridge to the real world from the inner world. Actions are absolutely critical.

Act inspite of fear! Tame the cobra of fear!

We are creatures of habit. Its not always convenient to become rich.

Find uncomfortable situations. Look for uncomfortable situations and take action. The only time you're growing if you're uncomfortable.

You are the person who can't be stopped or the person who can be stopped. Train yourself to not be stopped because its easy to be stopped. Most of us are unstoppable at one point but day 2 of our lives happened.

If its not going to kill you physically, do it! You are going to be so much better in the end than waiting for the "exact moment in time". And when is that "exact moment in time"? Is when you are comfortable.

Declaration:
Act inspite of fear! Act inspite of doubt! Act inspite of worry!  Act inspite of inconvenience!  Act inspite of discomfort!  Act inspite of anything!

It is easier than you think its going to be. Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill a human being could ever own!

Learn and grow vs already know. You can learn to do anything, you can learn to succeed. Every master was once a disaster...

You will soar to a level that you have never experience in your life!

The Course in Mastery Day 27: Multiple Sources of Income

Multiple Sources of Income: Day 27 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Randy Gage show you why all wealthy people have multiple sources of income and why you should too.

Tom Wood:
- To create wealth you must have multiple sources of income
= Leverage
= Too many things
= Work on your business
= Give and see what happens

Randy Gage:
- Live your dreams

Madrid Tour Plan Part 1

I am planning to go to Madrid by next year. These will be my step-by-step guide all throughout the process.

Pre-departure necessities:

1. We need a passport and visa to get to Spain. Nationals of non-EU/EFTA countries will generally need a passport for entry to a Schengen country and most will need a visa.

5th Floor, ACT Tower 135 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue 1200
P.O. Box 1114, MCPO, 1251
Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone:
+63-2-8185526
+63-2-7592971
Fax:
+63-2-8102885
Email:
embespph@mail.mae.es

http://spain.visahq.ph/

2. There are several airlines that could carry me off to Madrid:

Madrid-Barajas Airport

- KLM: Manila - Amsterdam - Madrid
- Emirates: Manila - Dubai - Madrid
- Korean Air: Manila - Seoul - Madrid
- Qatar Airways: Manila - Doha - Madrid

About 2 to 5 hours lay-over. On average price ranges from $1,500 to $3,500.

http://ph.travel.yahoo.com/

3. Hotel reservations

Here is a list of hotels in Madrid. I imagine by the time I would travel I already could afford Westin Palace Hotel (the most expensive in my list) at around $500 per night.

4. List down places to see. And learn Spanish while at it.

Debe continuar...