The best way to learn is to get involve in real working experience – William Kisman

• Associate with successful people, success begets success.
• Dare to take action
• Work hard
• Be persistent
• Make sure you do what you are interested in.
• Have both vision and action.
• Know what makes successful people successful.

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Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job?  I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”

She smiled and said, “Wow.  I have been unemployed a really long time.  That’s weird…  I like it!”

Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while.  In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”

It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that!  Anything but that!”

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job.  But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.  In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself.  There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea.  There’s only one problem with it.  It’s stupid!  It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income!  This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb?  Because you only get paid when you’re working.  Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working?  Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working?  Who taught you that you could only earn income while working?  Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too?  Why not get paid 24/7?  Get paid whether you work or not.  Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them?  Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work?  Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office.  Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60.  But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it.  We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive.  Do you really care how long it took me to write this article?  Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path.  So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered.  Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way.  And of course there is a better way.  The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income.  This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work.  The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not.  From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system.  At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either.  I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year.  The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account.  It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway.  But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right?  Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name).  Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems.  But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs.  Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money?  If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead.  If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free.  As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged.  Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it.  How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway.  You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave.  This isn’t all or nothing.  If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”

She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”

Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”

It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
• The best way out is always through – Robert Frost
• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
• Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right – Henry Ford
• I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become – Oprah Winfrey
• I have missed more than 9000 shoots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
• You must be the change you want to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals – Goethe
• You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want – Zig Ziglar

Promise yourself…

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistake of the past and pres on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all timed and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Do not be concerned if the next person is not doing his or her best.

Instead, focus on how you yourself are doing.

A lot of things that we the gigantic human can learn from the tiny creatures of ants.

The Ant and its philosophy

Once a beautiful and richly-dressed woman visited a house. The master of the house asked her who she was; and she replied that she was the goddess of wealth. With great delight the master of the house invited her in.

Soon appeared another woman who was ugly and dressed in rags. The master asked who she was and the woman replied that she was the goddess of poverty. The frightened master tried to drive her out of the house, but she refused to depart.

“The goddess of wealth is my sister,” she said. “There is an agreement between us that we are never to live separately. If you chase me out, she is to go with me.” Sure enough, as soon as the ugly woman went out, the other woman disappeared.

Nature is marked with changes. The flowers bloom and fade; the tides rise and fall; the moon waxes and wanes; and the seasons come and go.

Just as nature is a circle of moods, so is human life. Like tides, man’s moods rise and fall; life is happy and then sad.We like to think life is like a rose, but remember that the rose has thorns too, otherwise we will be hurt.

The Buddha taught that there are eight worldly conditions which affect human life: gain and loss, fame and ill-fame, praise and blame, and happiness and sorrow.

We rejoice at the arrival of gain, fame and happiness, and lament at the arrival of their counterparts. But these conditions are really two sides of a coin.

Birth goes with death; fortune goes with misfortune. Bad things follow good things. Yesterday’s joy will become today’s sadness; yet today’s sadness will grow into tomorrow’s joy. Like a wheel constantly turning, sadness turns to joy, exultation to depression, happiness to melancholy.

Like the flowers, our joy today will fade and wither into sadness; yet as today’s dead flower carries the seed of tomorrow’s bloom, so does today’s sadness carry the seed of tomorrow’s joys.

Therefore, the Buddha urges us to develop equanimity – the evenness of mind so as not to be tossed high up with elation or drowned deep with sorrow. Like a solid rock unshaken by the winds, we maintain our serenity in the face of those worldly conditions.

Those seeking true happiness must transcend these conditions and be free from emotional attachments. Be like the lotus, unsoiled by the mud it springs from.

Extracted from Buddhism for You, lesson 6.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. – Gautama Buddha

Since earning money is a happiness, so there is this post

1. Own a website

A website can be built for free or paid, the free one is blog by Blogger.com , setting it up is easy just using the 123 steps. For the paid one, Google “website hosting”

2. Put Google Adsense

Google Adsense is an advertisement that the webmaster can put the ads in his website and Google will pay if any visitor click on the ads. It’s based on pay per click.

3. Other source of earning money website

linkshare.com – Earn money by commission of selling product

affiliate-program.amazon.com – Earn money by 10-15% commission of each product

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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared

- Gautama Buddha

Speak less words of complaint
and more of forgiveness
as complaints bring about hatred
while forgiveness is wisdom.

Speak less words of sarcasm
and more of respectfulness
as sarcasm reveals disparagement
while respectfulness increases understanding.

Speak less words of harm
and more of thoughtfulness
as harm causes contradiction
while thoughtfulness develops friendship.

Speak less words of command
and more of discussion
as command forces acceptance
while discussion is true leadership.

Speak less words of criticism
and more of encouragement
as criticism creates barriers
while encouragement nurtures potential.

- Venerable Master Chin Kung

1. They consciously and dare to take actions
2. They are Proactive
3. They keep seeking for opportunity while other sees nothing
4. They are diligent
5. They persevere while facing obstacle
6. They have positive humility
7. Continue here

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ADP

Avoid evil
Do good
Purify the mind

Kamma and rebirth explain the inequality among mankind: why is one man rich, healthy, intelligent and successful, while another is poor, sickly, mentally retarded and a failure. They explain the differences of characters, tendencies and talents among members of the same family. They explain why some people possess special powers, and why do we sometimes instinctively like or dislike certain things and people at first sight.

Rebirth in this life is conditioned by the good and evil Kamma we have acquired in previous lives. The Buddha taught that we are the owners of heirs of our Kamma which conditions our birth into hight or low states.

Sometimes we see the injustices that good men suffer, while the bad are living in splendour and happiness. When the good suffer, the cause of suffering are not only found in the actions of the present life but are also based on  guilt in a former birth. The bad prosper because of merits accumulated in former births or in the past actions of the present birth. But after the bad have enjoyed the fruit of their merit, they will also have to taste the bitter fruit of their merit, they will also have to taste the bitter fruit of their misdeeds in this or subsequent births.

So long his evil deed has not ripened,
A fool thinks it is sweet as honey;
But when it ripens, he is stricken with grief. - Dhammapada 69

Kamma and rebirth accounts for the arising of geniuses and infant prodigies. Mozart wrote a sonata when he was four and an opera when he was seven, Marcel Lavallard had a picture accepted by Paris Salon when he was twelve. A boy called Zerah Colburn, in his eight year could solve difficult mathematical problems. On being asked how many minutes there are in forty-eight years, he gave the correct answer without making a mark on paper.

Even more amazing is Christian Heinecken who was born at Lubeck in 1721. He could talk within a few hours of his birth, repeat passages from the Bible at the age of one, answer any question on Geography at two, speak French and Latin at three, and be a student of philosophy at four. He died at four just after learning how to write. If not for rebirth, how else do we account for an infant prodigy like him ?

- Extracted from Buddhism for You, Lesson 9, Published by The Buddhist Missionary Society.

Without sharing there can be no justice;

Without justice there can be no peace;

Without peace there can be no future.

- Maitreya, The World Teacher

These are the signs of spiritual awakening, if one experiences any of these, one shall not worry, it’s a sign of improvement

• Tingling, movement inside the head
• Pressure inside the head
• Sensation at the forehead (Third eye)
• Emotional roller coaster (happy and sad)
• Spontaneous coldness and hotness on the skin
• Felling of ants moving on skin
• Trembling or involuntary movement of the body like celestial being (Kundalini awakening)

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A man who is kind doesn’t say “I am kind”, but he speaks from his action

wherever one goes, one is his mind

If there is love, there is no effort – Amma, Hugging saint mother

If there is no pain, there is no gain

Thanks for showing the good, bad, or even the ugly about it. As long as you stick to the Truth – A Youtube comment

wisdom is inversely proportional to emotional attachment

Happinesss is directly proportional to truthfulness

You know, if you take a lot of time thinking about what to do, you will do nothing. Go a head and do, don’t lose time. – A forum user

“An ant may well destroy the whole dam” – Chinese proverb

The generation that destroy the environment is usually not the generation that pays the price – An African environmentalist woman interviewed by Aljazeera English

Better to light a candle rather than to curse the darkness – Chinese proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back – Chinese proverb

untruth cannot be ended by untruth, but only by truth.
pride cannot be ended by pride, but only by humility.
accusation cannot be ended by accusation, but only by doing good deeds.
hatred cannot be ended by hatred, but only by love – Buddha

conquer untruth with truth
conquer pride with humility
conquer accusation with good deeds
conquer hatred with love – Gautama Buddha
conquer poverty with sharing
conquer ignorance with wisdom

why make it complicated if we can make it simple ? – A CNN ads

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but and inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time – Chinese proverb

greed, selfishness have arrived, and where has our heart and soul gone ?

use heart compare heart

the most difficult thing to think is to think nothing (meditation)