Thanksgiving Week

Hello fellow surfers. I see the holiday season is quickly approaching. This upcoming Thursday will be the day Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. It's a day filled with food and football for most people and a time that families reflect on all the things they are thankful for. I think this is a good time to show my thanks to all of you who have drop here.

I know some will be able to wake up early Thursday morning and put the Turkey in the oven and then have some time to sit back and surf; while others may be waking up early to bundle up the family and kids to make a long trip to visit relatives for their Thanksgiving feasts. The most important thing is to take time out from your daily routines and make this week special by spending more time with friends and family. Regardless if your plans will be geared toward the early part of the week or the end of the week.

The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday in the States. This is when all the stores put out their best bargains of the year and shoppers wake up in the wee hours of the morning to brave the crowds at the malls and stores. Black Friday isn't a good day for us that like to market online, because everyone is out physically shopping for their Christmas gifts and bargains they seek. This pattern carries on through the weekend and not a lot of interest in online shopping.

Green Monday? This is the day Christmas shoppers start looking for deals online. The first Monday after Thanksgiving is usually the busiest, but every Monday until Christmas is peak times for internet users to buy things online. You can take advantage of these peaks if you start positioning yourself now. I'm not sure why it's Mondays, but it's worked out this way for the last several years and I'm sure this year will be no different. Now is the time you want to advertise. No matter what products or services you're offering, now is a golden time for luring new visitors to your interests. So don't let the cold weather and holidays be a excuse for slacking off right now. All internet marketers world-wide need to take advantage of the final weeks of 2008 and a lot of us can start the New Year off in positive fashion.

Good luck to all of your online promotions.

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Mirrors of Ourselves

When discussing lifestyles and personality, one would be remiss in doing so if the word "home" is not mentioned. The home is an integral part of our lifestyle, after all. We may or may not own a house, which is where the home is created, but we all belong to a home, whether we wish to call it ours or not.

As infants, we enter this world through the home of our parents and those that assumed responsibility for our care and, basically, our lives. As we grow older, it becomes a haven from the second world, which is school. It is a home where we feel most secure and are always accepted, and where we are nurtured and nourished by the people who live in the same household. Hence, it becomes the place where we want to seek refuge when we are sick, depressed rejected, or simply exhausted after a long day away from the house.

At an age when we can gain financial independence, one of the basic things we work and save for is a place we can call our own -- our sanctuary from the hassles and pressures of our workplace. At this stage, wanting to be left alone and not be disturbed becomes a necessity, and it is for this reason that many of us want to live apart from the home that we grew up in, despite our parents' open invitation to stay in our bedrooms, with free board and lodging, for as long as we wish. There is a constant desire to come and go without having to ask permission from the elderly folks in the house and to have friends over any time of the day or night. Having jurisdiction over a space we can call our own enables us to relax and behave as we please, without anybody raising an eyebrow.

More than the clothes, the behavior and manner of speaking, our homes tell the stories of our lives -- good or bad, happy or sad. To a certain extent the personalities of our homes are accurate gauges that reflect where we are and have been, who we are, and what is presently going on in our lives. Our home essentially become mirrors of ourselves.

Love and Relationship

Remember every relationship, no matter how short or long is an opportunity for growth, for finding out your highest self and acting out of your highest self. Hence do not let material items stand in your way. Remember this difference, because centering on behaviors instead of the core of the person can contribute to constant concern about your compatibility. Loving all things about your better half is just impossible.

Love is creating a better relationship by building a relationship that is based on the simple things in life, like walking and holding hands, going on a picnic (just the two of you), or sharing an ice cream. Love in a better relationship is not about what you show on the outside but what you express in you heart. Love is the action of doing.

Love a fireman love the fire department. Marry a fireman you marry the entire department. Love is the action of doing. Love remains love if it is real. "Rough waters" ultimately prove the point as to what is real, and what is not.

Billionaire's Formula

FV = PV * (1+r)^n

FV = future value of money
PV = present value of money
r = rate of return or interest rate
n = period or time

It's really as simple as this, not new but I guess a seldom used formula. Let's decipher this formula into a more realistic business point of view.

As an example I will illustrate Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft Inc.

FV(Bill Gates) = PV (invented operating system) * (1 + r (microsoft sales)) to the power of n (number of years microsoft has been around)

If Bill Gates started with 1 cent as a present value of his operating system and sold 2 the first year, 4 on the 2nd year, 8 on the 3rd year, 16 on the 4th, and so forth for the next 30 years. His Future Value will be = $ 10,737,418.24. But he sold and still selling way more than that. That's why he's a billionaire. Money begets money and when it reaches a critical mass it'll be like a snowball rolling downhill turning into an avalanche.

$ 10,737,418.24 = .01 * (1 + 200%)^30


1: $.02
2: $.04
3: $.08
4: $.16
5: $.32
6: $.64
7: $1.28
8: $2.56
9: $5.12
10: $10.24
11: $20.48
12: $40.96
13: $81.92
14: $163.84
15: $327.68
16: $655.36
17: $1,310.72
18: $2,621.44
19: $5,242.88
20: $10,485.76
21: $20,971.52
22: $41,943.04
23: $83,386.08
24: $167,772.16
25: $335,544.32
26: $671,088.64
27: $1,342,177.28
28: $2,684,354.56
29: $5,368,709.12
30: $10,737,418.24

Simple? This computation is not new and I know it's easier said than done. However, save this formula, and if you find a money making business, work, or product, plug in your numbers in the formula and see for yourself that it actually work. Remember that you can also invest your money in stocks, real estate, etc. Leveraging your money to work for you is the key ingredient in this equation, and it doesn't matter whether you start small or large investment because you'll have the same constant formula in doubling your money.

As a bonus allow me to leave you this trivia question. Take a chess board and a grain of rice double that grain of rice on the 1st square, 4 grains on the 2nd, 8 grains on the 3rd and so forth until you fill in 64 squares. How much rice do you suppose you'll have?

Best of luck.

Billionaire's Formula from spiritwarrior on Comiqs