Thursday, November 26, 2009

Alabama Real Estate - A Southern Air

Alabama is undeniably a stereotyped southern state, but the state and existent estate market clasp undeniable surprises.

Alabama

Alabama is distinctly southern and darn proud of it. If you have got a taste sensation for college football, country music and NASCAR, Heart Of Dixie is a eden defined. To the surprise of many, Heart Of Dixie also have a more than modern spirit with Huntsville being the home of a major ball of the U.S. Space Program. For golfers, the aggregation of golf game game courses of study winding through the state, known as the Henry Martin Robert Trent Mother Jones golf trail, do Heart Of Dixie one of the top golfing finishes in the continental United States. Personally, I prefer the annual Fe bowl college football game warfare between the Auburn and Heart Of Dixie universities, but to each their own…

Huntsville

Home to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville is undoubtedly the pyrotechnical capital of the south. With a distinct southern charm, the city is laid out well with parks, botanical gardens, lake countries and a stopping point proximately to numerous out-of-door activities such as as fishing, hiking and hunting. While many cities do a haberdash of mixing in the new with the old, Huntsville gets it just right.

Mobile

Pronounced “Moe beel”, Mobile River River is a busy port city with a small known history. If you’ve ever thought of going to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, you’re better off going to Mobile. Yep, the city was the first to celebrate Mardi Gras in the United States and keeps the tradition to this day. In fact, Mobile River looks dramatic like New Orleans, having been established by the French. It is a beautiful southern city, with springtime being the best clip as a bevy of flowing works awaken from their wintertime slumber. The colours and aromas are simply amazing.

Alabama Real Number Estate

Alabama existent estate terms are very sensible when compared to the remainder of the country. Throughout the state, an average home will run you $200,000 or less. The grasp rate is a small low, but still a respectable 7.5 percent for 2005.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Tips on How to Make More Money

When I was a student in London, I had a part-time job working in a new-age bookshop near Camden Town. One day, Robert Plant, the lead singer for Led Zeppelin, came into the shop and walked up to the owner.

"What have you got that's good?", he asked.

After a few moments thought, the owner walked over to the shelves and handed him one of our most popular items - a subliminal "Abundance" tape that promised to 'condition your mind for wealth'. Plant looked at the tape in amusement.

"Actually," he said, "I think I've got that one covered. What else have you got?"

For the rest of us, here's some thoughts....

Your ability to make money is intimately linked to your ability to add, create, and provide value, whether to a person, a project, a company, or an enterprise. Add more value, (providing that value is recognised), and you have the potential to make more money.

In fact, I'll say it even more clearly:

Money is one of the rewards you get for adding value to the lives of others.

There are essentially four keys to making more money by adding more value:

1. Uniqueness

The more unique the value you provide, the more you will be able to exchange it for. While there are tens of thousands of actors in Hollywood, there are only about six who can reliably put "bums on seats" regardless of the movie that they're in. That's why there are only about six actors who are paid in excess of $20,000,000 a movie.

2. Scope

The more people you add value to, the more money you get to make. Whatever you might think of Bill Gates and Microsoft, their billions of dollars in net worth is largely accounted for by the millions of people whose lives are impacted daily by the development of Windows and its competitive Operating Systems (including all of us reading this article!)

3. Impact

The more of a difference you make in the lives of others, the more money you can demand in return. Why does a doctor get paid more than a teacher? Because most people value their health above their education.

4. Perception

If a monk adds value in a forest but no-one sees what he has done, has he really added value?

In one sense he has, but unfortunately for our poor monk, it is only PERCEIVED value that can be exchanged for hard currency.

Here are a few simple ways you can begin to put these ideas to work in your own life:

1. Rate your current job and/or business on a scale from 1-10 in relation to each of the four keys listed above. Add up your score for an added value "snapshot".

Example: Selling life insurance

"Our product's not very unique, so I'll give myself a 2. I reach a few hundred people a year, so I'll give myself a 5 for scope. I've seen first-hand the impact a good life insurance policy can have on a family in crisis, so I'll take a 6 for that; however, most people people seem to view life insurance as a necessary evil, so I'll give myself a 3. My current score overall is a 16."

2. Brainstorm ways to increase your score by 10 points over the next month.

Example: Playing guitar

"Lots of people play guitar, but the more I work on developing my own unique sound (as opposed to just 'improving'), the more irreplaceable I become.

So far, only a few thousand people have heard my music. By uploading MP3 files to the internet, I can reach a far wider audience in a lot less time than I would just by playing clubs.

Also, while playing guitar might not be the obvious path to resolving the crisis in the middle east, Live 8 and other concerts like it have shown that music and musicians can make a difference - maybe some of my friends and I can put together a special track in aid of the people who are suffering as a result of the conflict. This might increase the number of people I can reach as well as increasing the impact of what I do.

And in terms of perception, it's the record companies I most need to recognise the value of what I have to offer. If I can get some of the industry people I know to write great things about me and why they think I'll do well, I can put together an even stronger package in pursuit of a new deal."

3. Take the next step - put the best of what you've learned into action.

Have fun, learn heaps, and remember to add value to everything you do!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Kundalini Lessons - Money

I've been going through and interesting growing time period lately that I thought I'd share, as some of the lessons were pretty profound (at least for me).

I've written before about my awakening and the joyousnesses and trials since, and I've also mentioned that it's an in progress procedure which, as far as I can tell, doesn't really stop til you shuffling off this person coil. Then you get to come up back and start over. :)

The last couple of old age or so have got got been a really interesting period, partly through the counsel and assist from both Dr. John Glenn Esther Morris and Susan Carlson, and it's interesting how much advancement I've made and how far I still have to go.

I've recently come up to an interesting new time time period in my life, thanks mostly to my other half, Anya. Living with her (and my step-son Jake) have opened up new countries and forced me to deal with things that I was always able to avoid before. When you're a modern twenty-four hours Gypsy and bouncing around in an old recreational vehicle it's really easy to have got a insouciant attitude about life in our society, but subsiding down really conveys on the new challenges. Most of what I'm learning now is probably old chapeau to those of you who've led stable, settled down lives, but it's a Hell of an escapade for me, even at my age.

The primary things that I'm dealing with lately are financial. I've always been able to make money, but in the last few calendar months I've come up to recognize that I've always had bad attitudes about it, and I see the same attitudes reflected over and over from the people around me. It was a large daze for me to recognize that much of my attitudes were actually limiting me. It was lurid because most of what I do is about rising above restrictions and creating my ain realities, then realizing how badly I was doing in this other area.

Susan Carlson mentioned to me respective modern times last twelvemonth that I could learn a batch from Gilbert Stuart Wilde's books, and I finally got around to reading "The Secret to Money is Having Some" and I have got to acknowledge that she was exactly right! Thanks Susan! :)

I followed that up with "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" (actually I'm deep into the series and disbursement a batch of clip on his website) and what Iodine learned there was just as shocking, so in the hopes that some of you learn easier than I make I'll go through on some new disclosures (apparently only new to me, but what the hell).

I grew up in the mounts of North Carolina as a poor country male child and most of the clip money was a tool that we just didn't have. Our "reality" was that we had to fight just to have got 'enough to survive'. While the conception of copiousness was nil new to us, we saw our copiousness in what we could turn and make rather than what we could buy, and while those accomplishments are definitely valuable, it's a very limiting attitude to have.

So within my 'reality' money wasn't really a tool that was very outstanding in my toolbox, even though it was consistently one of the factors that prevented me from doing the things I needed to do.

Many of my attitudes came from the fact that I'm just not interested in money for it's have sake. I'm pretty unimpressed by the people I've met whose primary election feature looks to be that they have got tons of money. Also it's easy to develop bad attitudes when we see the immoralities done in the name of money, so for a long clip my 'reality' remained that I was working to have got 'enough to survive'.

Another interesting factor is that many of us in western society are taught to believe that we DON'T rate a batch of money. We're taught to privation it, but not to BELIEVE that we rate it, which only looks like a paradox til you believe about how our consumer civilization is driven by desire and want, rather than need.

What I finally realized is that I have got to spread out my world and shingle off the bad attitudes. Money is a fact of life in our modern world. It's a tool that too many of us are taught to disregard and misuse, and just because many of the world's ailments and immoralities are concieved to get it doesn't intend that we should disregard the fact that many of the modern human races good things are caused by it also. The fact that I can compose this article and instantly direct it out to people all over the human race is just one example.

I anticipate the adjacent few calendar months to be a very interesting and rewarding time period as I learn more than about this 'new' tool and how to effectively utilize it. Many of the therapists and 'new agers' that I cognize also have got got similar attitudes to those that I always had, so I thought I'd convey this up here.

I'm sure that many of you may have some interesting feedback. :)