because once you get there, you can see a little further.
Stay Positive and Repeat
Garth E. Beyer
Poetry Night 011
Yet the World Still Moves On
Soaring to the outskirts of the demands being made,
In this world by suffocating gentlemen shaking hands but not getting paid.
The relevance of what lies below makes no sense to them,
As if any transcendence to the most fathomable possibilities were slow,
And the camera can take snapshot after snapshot on the go.
Still the blank canvas creeps to such an alternative degree.
That even if the light above your head flashed, you still could not see.
The depravities of the self-less inner case,
Cannot be transferred unless a whole is cut through the base,
The prescribed perception only lies.
And some people dance and some people die.
– Everett
Stay Positive and Personify
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Changing The Light On Job Security
Job security is not a constant. – This is not a good thing.
For years I thought job security was uncontrollable that every occupation had a permanent level of job security. Obviously that is not true, but that’s actually a great thing. Now, Wiki says job security is dependent on economy, prevailing business conditions, and the individuals personal skills. How wrong are they!
- Job security is not dependent on economy, economy is dependent on job security.
- Job security is not dependent on prevailing business conditions, prevailing business conditions are dependent on job security.
- Job security is not dependent on the individuals personal skills, job security IS the individuals personal skill.
Let me share a personal story, story of missing out on $1,520 but getting $2,560 in the end.
I have worked as a Data Entry Clerk and got paid $9.50 an hour for 40 hours a week. There was a large set of online forms that needed to be entered into the database. Rather then spending 4 weeks entering each record individually into the database, I spent an hour and a half working on downloading the file and exporting it to an access document and from there, reformatting it to fit the excel spreadsheet where I was to enter the data. In essence, I got paid $14.50 for the hour and a half I spent reconfiguring the files instead of taking four weeks to enter the data manually which would have made me $1,520. Some would think I am senile for destroying my job security.
Why did I say I got $2,560 in the end? Because that is what I will make in four weeks with my new raise.
Bringing You Into The Light
Working smart and job security go hand in hand.
Consider reading The Lazy Way To Success Sample Chapter
Now, I have quickly learned that working smart always creates greater benefits than working hard. In fact, working hard can actually cause damage. For example, you can try and carry 5 bags of mulch from the front yard to the back and pull a muscle in your back. Or you can put the 5 bags in a wheel barrel and roll it casually to the backyard.
1. Well, since you pulled your back, you can’t even bend down to spread the mulch across the garden. Job security gone…and your wife is upset.
2. Well, since you were smart and used the wheel barrel, you had enough energy to spread the mulch before your wife got home. Job security and your wife’s happiness, granted.
Analogy: Apply it to your job!
Spreading mulch is = to your daily work.
Your wife’s happiness is = to your pay check.
Work Smart > Work Hard
If There Is One Thing I Hate
It’s being told to slow down and I get told it at work all the time. It’s not because I am too fast that I screw up, I tell everyone that I have one pace and it’s called “quality” and I am damn good at it. They tell me to slow down because all their lives they thought job security meant always having something on the to-do list. Like Wiki, how wrong are they!
The Spotlight
I said job security is the individuals skill. The economy, business success, and everything else to do with career and money is dependent on this skill because this skill says everything about a persons character, integrity, work-ethic, attitude, and every other quality that defines a successful person.
If a person can turn a 4 week task into one hour, I’ll hire them and give them a permanent position with a lot more money. If there is a boss who doesn’t do that, clearly that workplace is not for them. Which leads me to the last factor of job security. When you get tasks done far before the deadline, when you deliver greater quality than is expected and when you have a positive attitude about it, what you thought you lost out on, always comes back – with company.
My biggest scenario is what I mentioned earlier, missing out on $1,520 but getting $2,560 in the end.
When you look at job security as skill, you can make much larger increases in income and quality of life then me. In fact, if you change the light on job security, it wont be long until you can say that you don’t even need a job.
Stay Positive and Try To Beat My $1,040 Increase
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Garth’s Biff With Social Media “Experts”
What do cracked clay vases, my grandma, the sowing machine and specialization all have in common?
They are old, antique, and are either stuck up in the attic or in the grave.
You can no longer become “successful” by focusing on one area of life. Painters can’t become successful without knowing different construction and electric techniques. Teachers can’t become successful without knowing parenting and counseling strategies. Fitness trainers can’t become successful without knowing basic psychology lessons and communication skills. It simply can’t be done. Success can’t be reached on one path.
Every boss, every consumer – the entire world expects the very best of you, the very best in a variety of ways.
Well, you can see why there is some contradiction in being called a “Social Media Expert”. What is social media? How many branches of social media are there? Do you think it’s even possible that a person can be an expert in every one of those branches? If so, I wouldn’t want to be refereed to as a social media expert, I would prefer to be called a billionaire.
Sure, Peter Shankman makes a great statement on social media experts “being an expert in Social Media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator. You might be the best-bread-taker-outer in the world, but you know what? The goal is to make an amazing sandwich, and you can’t do that if all you’ve done in your life is taken the bread out of the fridge.”
However, I think Shankman has it wrong. The goal is still to make an amazing sandwich, but Social Media experts not only take the bread out, but all the other ingredients, and put it together and try to make an amazing sandwich. The problem is that the sandwich always sucks because they can’t be the best at every process of sandwich making. I repeat, there is no such thing as a social media expert.
Sympathies to the original “Twitter Sandwich”
The point is, that we can all say we are experts and professionals in social media, but the truth is the only thing we can all say that we are is journalists. We can write about social media all we want, it simply makes us more of a journalist. This post just made me more of a journalist if I may say so.
Stay Positive and Spice Up Your Sandwich With Variety
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Dressing Casual But Getting Looked At Like The Top 1%
With the recent news about the Waitress Tip of 1% on a $133.54 bill, I thought I would shed some further light on the fake and the real aspects of it, involving some insight on a new form of charitable giving.
The Bill Was Fake: The bill was photoshopped and a 20% tip was given on the real bill which was $33.54 dollars
The Tip Was Real: but the rest of the situation was fake. It wasn’t a wealthy banker who tipped 1%, it was a conventional person. It wasn’t just one person, it happened in a million restaurants and it happened yesterday too, and today as well. It will most likely occur again tomorrow.
The wealthy are still tipping reasonably well. It’s the middle class (if you can even call it that anymore) that are tipping terribly low amounts.
A Big Tip To Erasing The Class Monetary Gap
Occasionally, I toss spare change into the fireman boot, or a jar for the homeless or in a donation box at an art museum. However, a lot of people simply give to give. They give because they know the power of giving, the benefits of it, what it attracts back and know, without needing to be shown, that they are making a difference in one to one billion people’s lives with a single contribution.
But have you ever thought about where/who you are giving to? Did you ever think that spare change you are dropping into the donation jar for the homeless could have a much more powerful impact on either
1. Something you are more passionate about or
2. Something that gives a greater impact to a current issue?
Let’s cover our tracks before you walk with me with this idea by understanding what I am NOT saying. I am not suggesting that there are charities that don’t deserve to receive contributions. I am not saying the homeless do not deserve to be given compensation and direction. Know now, that I am one of the most optimistic people you will meet and I pride myself with my talent for finding how to make positive out-of-the-box improvements to all areas of life. Well, are you ready to walk an idea with me?
When I ask someone what the current biggest problem in the world is they either say something that we can’t change or grumble a disheartened “this damn economy”.
And I agree. But I am one of the few middle/lower class people who are doing something about it. I find my actions to be an oxymoron of the saying “the little things matter” or “it’s the little things that add up to the big things”. Why? Let me tell you what I do first.
Whenever I go out to eat I plan to tip between 8-20 dollars. Sometimes more if they are really great (I have once tipped $47 on a $47.00 meal). When I go out to dinner with this mindset, the universe almost naturally sends me incredible waiters and waitress’. But that is beside the point, the fact is that I feel that these people have a tough job with the current economic situation, far too many people tip them less and less.
Instead of making small money donations to every box, jar, jug and open hand I see, I save them to make huge donations to middle class workers in restaurants. On top of that, the middle class workers at restaurants are typically 16-24 years old doing their best to pay through college and have fun. With the mindset of humanity, here is a question for your character and integrity, would you rather donate $100,000 dollars over a span of three years to students working to pay for college or the same amount and time span to the elderly in a retirement home?
The question stated more simply, would you rather add to the current flow of economics that directly affects you, your way of life and everyone around you? Or add to the (pardon the pun) dying economic flow of those nearing death? Which will make a more positive and immediate impact on the growth of society and the economy as a whole? Which will close this class gap (money gap) quicker?
The 1% Reason To Tip Big
- You get viewed like you are in the top 1% class. No really, there is no better vision then picturing how happy you just made your server as you leave.
Stay Positive and Tip BIG
Garth E. Beyer
Both similar and unlike the wealthy banker who also left the “tip” to ‘get a real job’, I too leave a note. After all, you can’t expect everyone to make the right choices with the extra money they did not expect, so I always give them a reminder of what they can achieve (their dreams) and to go after them.
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Buddha for the Optimist
Buddha with $1,000,000 shredded dollars inside. -Toronto
We read and are told endlessly to identify ourselves with our thoughts. We are persuaded to lay down our minds at the mercy of their own power. Walking with the dialogue of our minds. Buddha said “All that we are is a result of what we have thought”. You should well know that he was not the only, Earl Nightingale wrote about it in The Strangest Secret, W. Clement Stone lived it in his quote “Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve”, Bob Proctor and Mike Dooley speak endlessly about The Secret and quite frankly, anyone who has read about someone who achieved some form of greatness, has read about the law of attraction in one form or another.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I learned about the secret -the power of the mind- as a young child. You would think that learning this power at an early age would destine me for very early greatness. However, it created the opposite. I became afraid of my thoughts and I am sure I directed a lot of negative events in my life to occur because once I thought them, I felt it was out of my control. And so it was.
One day, I learned that you would have to think of a negative thought one million times in order for it to have the same power in the world as thinking the opposite, the positive thought, once. From then on, for every negative thought, I would think the positive form 3-5 times for good measure. However, this was not good enough for me and isn’t for many others who know the power of their thoughts. The miracle of our lives would be to never have a single negative thought each day. Perhaps when enough people learn and understand the secret, we may be able to attain this sort of utopia. But for now the best those who know the secret potential of the mind can do is to teach those who are ignorant of the fact or surrounded by too much negativity to recognize their strength.
Those who feel they cannot control their minds, or are surrounded by negativity, – you CAN escape. While the “thoughts become things” philosophy works for the optimistic, I know it does not work for all, for you… but it will. The following is the most simple and honest technique you can use to understand that although your mind creates the world around you, you create what is in your mind and YOU are the most beautiful, enlightened and powerful person.
The only way to start living the life of the successful, of the strong, of the magical is to remember that while your destiny mirrors your thoughts, YOU are the force that moves through your thoughts, your mind, your body, your spirit, you entity. No matter the thoughts going on in your mind, positive, negative or none at all, you are always connected with your Self and there is no greater or most positive force then that. When you find yourself losing the reigns of your thoughts, when you find the world around you crumbling and your mind falling into a slump, remember that your thoughts originate from your Self, and your Self is pretty damn incredible.
Stay Positive and Your Self
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Be In It For The Long-Run: Product Longevity
You are the only one who wants instant benefits.
Everyone else is investing in long term results.
Quality has devoured quantity. Customers, employers, investors, marketers – they all expect the quality to last. That is what they are after.
Let’s look at the product life cycle and Mac’s for instance. Jef Raskin began by focusing on the market introduction and growth state, but it was Steve Jobs who maintained these two stages at the same time as the maturity stage of Apple which allowed them to continuously keep the lead. Their survival was the function of disciplined attention to brand identity and equity. While that was the marketing aspect, many fail to realize the product longevity attitude that was put into Mac’s. They were made to be in it for the long-run. The greatest selling point a product could have – longevity.
Convenience was the heart of the largest product sales, until it became standard in every sale of the product. Nothing will profit without convenience to the consumer. Now that there is no longer a competition of who is more convenient, it is a matter of what product will last the longest.
Neil Kokemuller of Demand Media says that, “Although predicting specific longevity of a product life cycle is impossible, businesses want a general idea of the expected length of the life cycle for optimized production and marketing planning. Technology life cycles tend to unfold fairly quickly as competition intensifies and technology evolves. Missing the timing of a prime market opportunity can mean your product fails in the market. Additionally, marketers and salespeople need to know whether they are promoting a stable, consistent and reputable brand with a longer life, or a new and improved, or cutting-edge product.”
The Dexterity Of “Product” Longevity – It’s Universal
Bloggers who receive the most views, are creating posts that can be read with even a larger impact 1-3 years from now.
Investors don’t care about the start-up price, they care about consistency in equity over the next 10 years.
Business’s cannot even start-up without the stability to last for 5+ years, and that number is steadily increasing.
Even the underrated occupations are falling victim to the rising standards of consumers.
Painters are being asked how long the paint job will last and people will pay more for the number of years.
Personal Fitness Trainers are expected to teach clients the lessons necessary to keep the body they want.
What other scenarios can you think of?
Stay Positive and Haul Long
Garth E. Beyer
