Freedom
If you want real freedom in your life, you must make a decision to stop allowing external events and others to shape your happiness. And that is only done by becoming the master of meaning and finding the empowering meaning in anything and everything that comes your way.
Jerry Lang
Stormy Weather Fund
Many times we hear we should save a certain percentage of our income and that can get tricky or confusing if we don’t have a fixed income because we earn commissions or royalties or have seasonal swings in income. Another way to look at it is to choose a dollar amount and it may fluctuate month to month or even week to week but you have an annual target in mind and work towards that goal.
My retirement is easy to just pick a percentage because the company takes care of it. Outside of retirement, I save an additional amount based on commissions and they are always different so I try to save as much as possible of that income into a brokerage account and then invest it into an S&P500 index ETF.
When striving to build your own business, insure that your business doesn’t depend on the local economy. One that can thrive from international sales growth and success.
Jerry Lang
Slow Train to Nowhere
People get stuck on how things have to be. They think that their way is the only way. So they preach it constantly not realizing that others are blowing by them like the wind on a much faster train of success and abundance. They believe this mantra that they keep repeating because maybe it worked for them once upon a time or maybe they just got Lucky once or twice. But to be successful every time one must adapt to a changing environment and use the tools that work. If you don’t know what they are just look at 10 successful people and find the common denominator.
Jerry Lang
How much do you want to make?
If you want to make $10,000 or $20,000 per month or more, you should look at a career in Software sales. You will need to conform to the company culture, walk the walk, talk the talk in order to make the big commissions. This can be an amazing option to earning big money while you plan to build your own empire.
You can always work on your side hustle but if it isn’t producing thousands or millions of dollars you need a day job that does produce that kind of income.
Inspiration through Sunshine and Thriving – There’s nothing like a warm beautiful day to get you in the mood to take on the world and accomplish amazing things. Great weather can energize you to be functioning at your best. It feels good to exercise outside, go for a run along the beach if you live near the coast or a trail run or maybe around a lake or up a mountain. Sunshine can help you thrive, often inspiring great innovative ideas.
However, bad weather can make you feel like you want to hibernate. This is when it takes some extra coffee, motivation and inspiration to get the hard work done so you can thrive and flourish no matter the weather. Jump on a treadmill, elliptical or indoor bike to get in the exercise. You could even jump rope, it’s an amazing workout. When I was on the wrestling team, we jumped rope for 30 minutes as a warm up before practice.
Change your choices, change your life
Poor people are typically born into poverty and learn poverty extending choices. They need to learn new choices that will launch them out of poverty and into a middleclass life and if they continue to apply the right choices on a daily basis they can become successful and rich.
The Golden Goose – The difference between the rich, poor and middle class is that the rich have a Golden Goose kicking off CASH all day and all night even while they sleep and all weekend long and on every holiday. The cash flow into their bank accounts never stops. That’s how and why the rich get richer.
Have you ever called for support to find out that it was offshored to the lowest bidder?
How does that make you feel?
The company that’s offshoring thinks their saving money on good enough service. It’s a short minded and short sighted approach that doesn’t work long term as it alienates customers that want better support and are willing to take their business elsewhere. Soon, customers will get fed up, find another provider, tell everyone they know about their bad customer support and the exit picks up.
The dominoes are falling.
Some companies will recognize their mistakes and bring back their call center in country or in-house. Some will blame their own people claiming sales or marketing are not doing enough. Some will arrogantly blame their customers. Some will do nothing and continue to atrophy. Some of the leaders who instituted the service failures will leave and recreate the horrible service elsewhere. They may even fail upwards and get a promotion because they saved money in the short term but not everyone can connect the dots to declining sales revenue and profitability to the offshoring disaster. It’s easy to shift the blame around.
Sometimes the bad support is internal to your own company. There’s not a lot you can do in this case. The CEO and executive team saved money by moving critical services for it’s employees offshore such as payroll, commissions, travel, HR, operations, benefits and medical.
Have you ever tried to get even a simple medical procedure or service and it was denied? Maybe it’s for your children. How does that make you feel? I bet you would be pretty ticked off. Maybe you fight it, it takes hours on the phone trying to explain your case and your told someone will get back to you but they don’t. You follow up, get someone new and start all over again and again to find out after hours, days, weeks or months of painful debates over the telephone or worse by email or chat that the medical director declining your requested test, scan or procedure isn’t even from your country. They are on the opposite side of the planet. Maybe you have the most expensive PPO or best medical plan available but you were denied. You fight it. You appeal it. But you lose. If you want the test or treatment, it’s on you. It’s out of pocket.
How does that make you feel?
What can be done about?
Is it that hard for an organization to deliver “Heroic” support?
Share your comments below.
Sacramento Travel
Hotels
When staying in or near Sacramento for business I like to stay at the Marriott Rancho Cordova
or the Embassy Suites Hilton Sacramento Riverfront Promenade by the American River.
For business near Rancho Cordova, I stay at the Marriott.
11211 Point E Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 – Phone: (916) 638-1100
The Marriott has a nice restaurant inside called Formaggio serving American cuisine and there
is a Starbucks next to it. Starbucks closes at 4pm.
There is a small fitness center to get in a work out with several ellipticals, treadmills and cycle
machines. Also, there is a rack of dumbells and a resistance machine.
There are free waters, water station and towels.
There is a nice outdoor heated pool and hot tub.
The hotel has a free parking lot.
The rooms are nice, clean and comfortable with refrigerator and coffee maker.
Marriott website:
https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sacmc-sacramento-marriott-rancho-
cordova/?scid=bb1a189a-fec3-4d19-a255-54ba596febe2
The Embassy Suites is located near downtown and I stay there when having business in the city.
100 Capital Mall, Sacramento, California 95814 – Phone: (916) 326-5000
There is a restaurant called Tower Bridge Bistro and a separate eating area for less expensive
food options like pizza, sandwiches and snacks. There is a free limited breakfast and a free
limited happy hour with snacks and complimentary drinks in the evening for hotel guests.
There is an indoor pool and fitness center.
Parking is by valet and may take over 10 minutes to get your car so leave plenty of time to plan
for this. Even calling down ahead of time does not shorten the time it takes to get your vehicle.
Just plan for it.
There is coffee outside by the steps for those getting their car from valet.
The suites are nice, clean and comfortable with refrigerator, microwave, sofa bed and coffee
maker.
This hotel is located in the city and around the area are some sketchy people. The last time I
stayed there, around 5:30am it was dark and I was outside on the hotel steps waiting for my car
to be brought around to head to the airport and a guy on a bicycle with tattoos on his face,
neck and hands road up to me asking for a cigarette.
Hilton Embassy Suites website:
https://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/california/embassy-suites-by-hilton-sacramento-
riverfront-promenade-SACESES/index.html
Car Rental
I usually use National for their walk up to any car and drive away program. It’s super
convenient and doesn’t take a lot of time.
https://www.nationalcar.com/en/home.html
Airlines
Depending on where I am going, I usually use American Airlines or Southwest Airlines.
https://www.aa.com/homePage.do
https://www.southwest.com/
Restaurants
In California and Sacramento area, it’s hard to beat the taste or cost of In N Out Burger. Two
cheese burgers and a fry are less than $5.
Weather
I joke that the weather person has the best job in California. In May through September that is
mostly true. They could say mostly sunny, put it on a video loop and check in at six months…
That is not always the case during wild fire season around the end of October timeframe. I
recently traveled to Sacramento for a few days and there were several fires raging throughout
the area and the state. The day before flying into Sacramento there was a fire near the airport
and the 5 freeway and 80 were closed off, cars were abandoned and they melted to the
ground. The center divide between the lanes burned, grass fires started up and quickly spread.
It really is a scary and dangerous situation. I called my hotel, this time the Marriott in Rancho
Cordova and was told that everything was fine in the area. An hour later, the news showed fires
in the nearby area. It’s important to check the current weather situation when traveling
anywhere.
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