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I just got a new hard drive for my laptop because my other one completely died right in the middle of an application. Our football team is 0-1 and looks like we are going to get our brains beat in this week. I am taking home less per check this year than last despite a raise. I am tired, I am fat, and life is hard. Am I miserable? No. As a matter of fact I am happier than I have ever been.
Working through adversity is a matter of choice. I heard it a long time ago from William Glassier. He is an educator whose main philosophy is that everyone has a choice. You have to decide what choice it is that you want to make. He applies it to school and teaches the students that he works with that everything is controlled by their choices. They choose to get in trouble by breaking the rules. They choose to fail classes by not doing the work assigned. They also choose to be successful by choosing to ask questions. They choose to be successful by choosing to follow the rules of the school. They choose to be good students by simply choosing to be good students.
It is the same when you are working through adversity. It does not matter if you are self employed or working in a Fortune 500 company the rules are the same. When adversity hits you have two choices. Decide to overcome it, and move on. Live another day the way you want to live, or decide to let it take over. If you let it take over you will simply run into more adversity.
So what would you rather have? A life full of complaints why things don’t go your way, or a life that is lived the way you want to live it. My hard drive crashing was not that bad of a thing. I got some other work done that needed to be done, and I got to spend time with my wife. Our football team is terrible right now, but instead of being down on them I still see the potential for a great team. I am making less this year, but that just motivates me to develop my own sources of income.
It is all in the choices you make. So here is an action list for you:

• Make a list of everything you want in your life. Don’t worry about it being realistic, or materialistic just list everything that comes to your mind as fast as you can.
• Prioritize until you have 5 that are the most important to you, and will make you the most happy.
• Write these down on a note card. Put that note card in your pocket and read it at least twice a day.
• Write down these 5 successes and post them where you will see them. A bathroom mirror works well; your steering wheel is another great spot.
• Repeat them until you believe them.
• Once you have it down, and the 5 success become beliefs teach your success to 5 others.

It works for me, it has worked for others. If you think that it is silly, and you don’t have to do it, then you need to decide just how important those 5 successes are. How badly do you want them? How much do you want change?
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I have to admit that there was a time that I did not like Jamie Foxx. I think it was during his personal building stage where he was just a brash comedian that poked fun at everything. I love a good laugh, I just did not care for his humor.

Jamie Foxx has been building his career, and during that time I have grown to like him. His performance in Ray was outstanding, his stint as host of the ESPY’s has been nothing short of outstanding. If you can find a video of him playing piano and singing the song about Sarina Williams send it to me, it is a keeper.

Men’s Health has a great article on him, along with some great success tips that we can all follow. I especially like his success strategy #2

Success Strategy #2 Return to ground level.
This is a partner of the wave,
but it targets a more dangerous area–the ego. After he won an Oscar for Ray,
Foxx was careful not to believe his own clippings. He even wrote a joke about it
in his stand-up act: “When I’m with a lady, she can’t just scream ‘Jaaamie‘
anymore. She has to scream ‘Academy Award-winner Jaaamie Foxx!’” Bottom line,
when the success comes, know how good you are, and leave it at that. “Exposed
ego is a weakness,” says Foxx. “You become lofty and it feels so good, it’s all
meringue, it tastes great. But to maintain that would burn you out. Every day
you have to go back to ground level. People want to see you back at ground level
anyway. You know how we get if someone’s flexing too much: ‘Look at this, man.
He thinks he’s the shit.’ You can’t just sit there and beat on your chest.
Sometimes you have to turn the juice off.”

For the whole article go here:

Jamie Foxx C.E.O., Success Inc.

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I have a slightly different idea of what success is. I say this:

In order to be successful you need to live (do) your passion.

I say live your passion. I put do in parenthesis so it is not confusing when you are just seeing it. But you must live your passion.

So what is your passion? Well it is anything that you want it to be. If your work is your passion then guess what, to me you are successful. You are living your passion. If work is a way to get your passion then guess what, you are living your passion.

Don’t let your passion be reduced to simply being a hobby. Remember when you were a kid? Remember that we didn’t have any hobbies. Your parents probably called it playing, but to you it was a passion. For me it was riding my bmx bike. I rode that thing everywhere, through every mud puddle, through every trail, on every back road to every store and gas station, I knew how to change everything, grease every baring, I knew everything about my bike. It was my passion.

But I did not just go out to ride. Everywhere I went my bike was something, a spaceship, a plane, a train. As I got older my bike was my bike, but everything I did I was in a race, or riding a motor cycle, or something. It was a passion, and I was living it.

So is it ok as an adult to do the same thing? Of course it is. One of my passions is golf. I love to go out alone because I love to pretend that I am in a tournament, I concentrate on every shot, every one could win the whole thing. It makes me a better golfer in the end. When I get paired up with others I compete with them even if it is just in my head. If I play on Sunday I shoot as low as I can so that I can compare myself with the final rounds that day on the PGA. Do I ever win? With my handicap I do. I keep track of my stats and see how I compare to the averages on tour? Pretty good except for my driving.

Come on Coach, get to the point.

The point is this: It doesn’t matter what anyone else things or believes. Do what you love, live your passion.

If you do not know what that is, it is very simple to find out. Do what makes you feel alive.

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I love my job, but I love my time. It have been extremely busy with teaching and being a Coach. It is hard to have enough time to do anything else.

I am at a cross roads. All summer long I loved my free time, I loved my Independence (yes capitalization is on purpose), and now that I am back in my classroom I love teaching. I have them wrapped around my little finger, and they love it. I am having more fun teaching the principals of self realization, self discipline, and taking control of your own life than I have ever had before. It is great. Now how do I do this and build the company that I want and have the time I want.

Good news for you I have it figured out and I am on my way to creating a system, and a book to go along with it. It will be out soon, probably in the next 6 months, and it is going to change your life. How do I know this, it is changing mine right now.

Well Visit some of my favorites in the mean time

Timothy Ferris (brilliant)
Vagablogger
Internet Business Mastery
Entrepreneurs Journey

Until then…Happy days

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I don’t know how many times I learn and forget this simple little thing “always live in the now, always live in the positive, finish everything positively”.

I know why that is easy to forget. It is difficult in most of our jobs to stay positive. There is a lot of negativity in the workplace. It does not matter where you are, or where you live, negativity is bound to happen. So being positive, staying positive, and finishing everything on a positive note is hard to do.

What keeps me positive in everything I do is taking time for myself. A walk, a jog, lifting weights, spending time hiking, no iPods, no conversation, just you and your task, and yes it must be a physical task. Physical tasks give your brain a change to relax and not think to much.

Giving your brain a break lets out the negativity, it lets out the stress of thinking, or your job, or whatever it needs to relax.

What I am saying is when you feel stressed, or negative, or just not happy, it is time to take a break, relax, get some exercise, and let your brain de-stress.

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I have been asking that a lot lately, and I have finally found myself, who I am and what I am. It was not an easy road. I knew from the start that I just needed to be myself, but what happens when you don’t know who you are? Well that is the problem isn’t it? If you are in this boat let me help you out.

The reason I had to try so hard to find myself is through a long series of events (10 years I know exactly since it was from the end of college) I had developed a persona. This persona consisted of different personalities geared toward others, trying to act like what I thought they wanted me to act. So where did that leave me? I don’t know, buried deep in the recesses of my soul. What it caused me to do is not develop any new friends, become a social hermit, and become really confused. People still liked me, and I have great relationships at work, but it did not help with me. I felt like I could not be myself, causing the hermit effect. I really was not afraid of going out, and being around people, as a matter of fact I loved doing it, but I always ended up in a corner, holding tight my beer, trying to act cool. Yes I did go home not only alone, but without talking to anyone. David Deangelo helped me a little bit, but that was not me. For those of you who don’t know David Deangelo click his name to check his website. A great dating information site, but if you strip away the womanizing part it is even a better self help guru.

What happened? Well I was lucky enough to find a great woman who saw me deep in my soul. She saw right through my persona and she instantly brought out me. Now she could have never done that if I had not already been working on it, but she brought it out much quicker.

So now who am I. I am very comfortable being a guy, actually I love being a guy. We can spit and scratch and swear, and not comb our hair or wear underwear and get away with it with just a dirty look or two.

I am a modern Vagabond, a Coach, a Teacher, a Geek, a former Athlete, a Naturist, and an Entrepreneur.

So what do I talk about in my blog. Traveling and how to unplug without unplugging, Making yourself better, How to learn anything, Technology, Fitness and Health, Hiking Camping Biking Boating Fishing and being Outdoors and saving nature, MAKING MONEY how the new internet is going to help anyone who is ready to make money.

My services? Personal Coaching, Helping people put together teachable and learnable programs, Technology to use, and networking on making money.

I will not be grammatically correct. I will write in my own voice. I will make a lot of spelling mistakes and make up my own words. I will be positive as much as possible. I will live in the now (learnt that from my dog). I will exploit the internet and use it to build my own personal empire (mmmuuuuoooooooahahahahahah that is my evil laugh)

That is enough for now, I will get you more stuff soon. Don’t be afraid to contact me at any of me email addresses (bkipke@kipinc.biz works well).

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