Updated List of Donations for our Income for Life Preschool! Posted: 16 May 2008 01:09 PM CDT My last few posts have been about our Income for Life Preschool. Today, I wanted to list each person who has made a contribution towards our Income for Life Preschool. I am extremely thankful to each person listed in this post. They represent the spirit of what I'm trying to accomplish with Income for Life! We are lucky to have them as part of Income for Life! Here they are: Billy Harris - Income for Life, New Mexico $200 Mike Sivula - Income for Life, Ohio $400 Tom & Nick Karadza - Income for Life, Toronto - Canada $200 Richard Sander - Income for Life, South Carolina $200 Robin Latimer - Income for Life, Oregon $200 Josh Schoenly - Income for Life, Pennsylvania $200 Bob Mangat - Income for Life, British Columbia - Canada $200 Joe Mercadante - Income for Life, Ohio $200 Anonymous - Income for Life, Alabama $400 John Hill - Income for Life, Tennessee $200 Kevin Kohn - Income for Life, Colorado $200 Brian Beck - Income for Life, Ohio $200 Janet & Pete Vossler - Income for Life, Nevada $200 Bill Ross - Income for Life, Arizona $200 James Best - Income for Life, Virginia $200 Chris Curry - Income for Life, Florida $200 Bob Doig - Income for Life, Colorado $200 Frank Patrick - Income for Life, Missouri $200 Steve Kuenkel - Income for Life, Ohio $200 Robert Farney - Income for Life, Wisconsin $200 Shawn Feeney - Income for Life, Indiana $100 Edgar Irizarry - Income for Life, Connecticut $200 Travis Dyer - Income for Life, Maryland $200 Matthew Lee - Income for Life, Illinois $200 Karen Houston - Income for Life, Alabama $200 Marc Highfill - Income for Life, Virginia $200 John Bretthauer - Income for Life, California $200 Barb Minton - Income for Life, Ohio $100 Dennis Ames - Income for Life, Ohio $100 Jerry Quade - Income for Life, Ohio $100 Sarah Nye - Income for Life, Ohio $100 Buddy Blackman - Income for Life, North Carolina $100 Ed Sullivan - Income for Life, Ohio $200 Rick Sheehan - Income for Life, Ohio $100 Pretty long list! In fact, I'm proud to announce that we have raised over $13,000 including my donation! If you would like to help out some children in need and have your name added to this list, simply send me an email. Click the link next to my picture! Thank you to everyone listed above. We couldn't do it without you! Rob Minton |
Posted: 16 May 2008 11:57 AM CDT
It got me thinking about something that happened to me that helped push me to the next level....... 'Are you a winner or are you a loser?' this was the question posed to me a few weeks back. It sounds like a fairly simple question right? Let me explain. I was sitting at a table with someone who is a master at getting many, many things done, all at once! We were going over some other topics when he told me how he operates. Every time he wants to get off track or do something to waste some time in the day he will ask himself 'Are you a winner or are you a loser?' It's a BIG question. Then he will analyze what he was going to do and if he thinks it is a loser task he will move on to something productive. I don't know about you but I don't wake up in the morning and look in the mirror at a face of a loser. This line of questioning gets my competitive fire burning. Throughout the course of the day it is easy to get distracted from the productive tasks, typically those are the ones that are longer and more complicated than the simple ones like answering emails or more likely checking out your favorite time wasting site while at work (Facebook, YouTube, News). It really breaks down to this. The key to success is implementation you could have all the knowledge and drive in the world but if you are not doing anything with it, it is wasted. You need to implement! Most of us get so tied up with useless tasks that we don't give ourselves the opportunity to be nearly as productive as possible. If we look into our habits and what is holding us back it is easy to see most of the time. Often it is filling our time with the easy, reactive things that come our way. People wonder how successful people can accomplish so much. There isn't a big secret that they are hiding, it is their commitment to being productive that sets them apart. I am wrapping up a week in which our office was a ghost town since so many vacation schedules collided. To make matters worse I was committed to a full time course as well. But things still had to get done. I didn't have the luxury of any extra time at all. I was forced to stay focused and pick the most productive tasks to keep our momentum going. Have you ever been in such a situation? Perhaps the final days before a vacation? I was forced to fit a full days work (which is not 8 hours when you are running multiple things) into about five hours every day, split up between early morning (5:30 - 7:00) and late evening (4:30 - 8:00). It is amazing what you can do when you are forced to. When you sit down and focus on the tasks of winners. But if you don't have that fire behind you pressing you forward most people start adding the loser tasks back into their daily routine. There were many times in the last week that I wanted to take a break, and I had to ask myself if I was a winner or a loser. It sounds kinda corny right? I agree! But what isn't as laughable is the amount of productive tasks that I plowed through day in and day out. So instead of being a loser and sitting back in your chair today, the day before a holiday weekend (in Canada). Decide to do something productive. Make the most of your time. I can tell you that the successful winners in life are not sitting around surfing the internet aimlessly, checking their email 10 times a day, or drinking beers for three straight days. You just have to choose to be one of them and, most importantly, act like it! Until next time..... Nick Karadza |
Alabama Gulf Coast Real Estate Market News
Friday, May 16, 2008
Quit Being a 'Loser'!
I spoke with a lady this week who had spent nearly $20 000 on real estate investment 'training' but $0 on actual investments. Unfortunately, I know she isn't one of a kind, this type of inaction is common. 
