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Conflicting Thought Patterns: Is Fear of being Unplugged a Sign of Impending Failure? Maybe I'm just getting old but I don't care about a lot of the things I used to care about... like staying online no matter where I...
Posted by Fred Black on January 9, 2012 | Printer-Friendly
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SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) & Protect IP Pending Bills Fear Makes People do Terrible Things... What does a child or an emotionally immature person do when faced with the loss of something? They act out of fear. The entertainment...
Posted by Fred Black on January 1, 2012 | Printer-Friendly
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Knowledge without Wisdom is Dangerous. Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous. This all too evident with governments. It's also all too evident with businesses trying to save money and get ahead by hiring young and/or inexperienced (cheap) people in key, or...
Posted by Fred Black on August 2, 2011 | Printer-Friendly
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11 Reasons You're Failing I want to do great things and make a positive impact on other people's lives. I want to be one of those people that other people look at and ask how on earth does he get...
Posted by Fred Black on August 1, 2011 | Printer-Friendly
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Success or Failure in an Internet Business Depends on Who's Looking Back at You in the Mirror... Photo by Lee Hinshaw Success or failure in ANYTHING, not just an Internet Business, depends on your perception of reality. Does that seem...
Posted by Fred Black on April 27, 2010 | Printer-Friendly
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Success is not Sticky - You Have to Hold the BALL! Failure holds you back. If the status quo is not where you want to be in life, then it holds you back. I've written about it here on...
Posted by Fred Black on February 5, 2010 | Printer-Friendly
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Exploding Your Copy (and life) From Sissy to SEISMIC. I love the color gray. I also hate the color gray. Grey is a great color for some things... like a nice grey suit, socks, or even my hair! But it's...
Posted by Fred Black on December 4, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Fred Black (me - on left) meeting John Maxwell! This past weekend I was fortunate enough to hear John C. Maxwell speak, as well as meet him. It was my first time hearing him speak - he is a very...
Posted by Fred Black on September 15, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Programmed to be Poor Money, Money, Money... everybody says they want more of it, but do they really? Deep down, below your conscience, do you really think money is bad? Are you ashamed to have it? I'm sure you're thinking...
Posted by Fred Black on August 18, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Dennis Stearns is President of Stearns Financial Services Group, a fee only financial planning and investment management firm based in Greensboro, NC with clients around the U.S. and Canada. Stearns Financial was named one of the Top Ten most Dependable...
Posted by Fred Black on July 17, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Make Heroes of Those Around You - Don't Be a Giraffe! The Andy Griffith Show - Dogs, Dogs, Dogs. I posted a free video of Judy Miller a while back. Judy owns RSVP Communications. In the video, she tells some...
Posted by Fred Black on July 13, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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How to Be a Superhero I once worked with a man who claimed he'd achieved some remarkable things in his life by being too dumb to know he couldn't do them... However, he really wasn't dumb at all! He just...
Posted by Fred Black on May 22, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Judy Miller: "How I Did it" Judy Miller, RSVP Communications This is the second in a series of video presentations titled "How I Did it". This video features Judy Miller, President and Founder of RSVP Communication, Inc. www.RSVPComm.com speaking as...
Posted by Fred Black on May 15, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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A Happy Flower! My son Walker, who is 4, laid some words of wisdom on me today. It's funny how I've read book after book on things like success and the Law of Attraction only to have it all summed...
Posted by Fred Black on May 7, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Walker the Pirate! Today's exercise is to put a thick blanket over your head and invite of few of your friends over to punch you! You can try to punch them back if you can! It's hard to defend yourself...
Posted by Fred Black on April 21, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Sheep... and Most People are Followers Yep, you can probably tell from that title that I'm going to tick off some people with this article! Take for example our recent Presidential Election here in the United States. I can guarantee...
Posted by Fred Black on March 31, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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Formula for Success: String Bikinis and Tool Belts! I hate to bust some bubbles out there, but it's true, there is not a formula for success. I've been catching up on reading some of the blogs that I have in...
Posted by Fred Black on March 12, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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My Dad - "Pop" My dad, Boyd L. Black, passed away last Wednesday (3/30/1930 - 3/4/2009) after a long, hard battle with cancer. When he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer about 2 years ago; it had already spread...
Posted by Fred Black on March 9, 2009 | Printer-Friendly
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David Slays Goliath. What is your current situation? Do you have something in your life that you want to change or need to change? Maybe, like me, you have a whole list! I'll bet the following items are on a...
Posted by Fred Black on November 17, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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Event Horizon: Black Holes of Failure There are a lot of web sites like this one, that talk about success. When I first started reading some of them, the one thing I noticed was that they all spent a fair...
Posted by Fred Black on November 10, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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I just read a news article about a remote, poor, mountain village (Himachal Pradesh) in India where the brothers in a family traditionally marry one woman. Yes, you read that correctly. It's a hard life and instead of splitting up...
Posted by Fred Black on October 24, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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The two main factors or qualities of success and failure are the same thing. If you have these two traits then you're probably successful at whatever you do, if you don't have them, then you're probably not successful and perhaps...
Posted by Fred Black on September 25, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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If you're reading this blog, you probably fall into one of a few groups... (1) you want to have a profitable Internet Business, (2) you're searching for information on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or some other topic I touch on and...
Posted by Fred Black on August 7, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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You're working your tail off trying to create a business that will make a profit. Maybe you're even working smart and not just hard, but yet you constantly feel like you're on a treadmill and not getting anywhere. How many...
Posted by Fred Black on July 24, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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Was Freud right? Is money crap? I know, that's a very, very, loose paraphrase and/or interpretation of what he said. I tend to think he was just as nuts as his subjects though! But in this case, he was on...
Posted by Fred Black on July 10, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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This is the 4th guest post from my Grandfather, Clyde Kirkman (1915 - 1989). The photo at left was taken in October, 1944 and is of him and his mother, my Great-Grandmother, Ada Chrisco Kirkman before he left home for...
Posted by Fred Black on June 26, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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This is the 3rd blog post from a very special guest blogger: my maternal Grandfather: Clyde W. Kirkman (1915 - 1989). I'm not sure when he wrote this article, however, it refers to the American Heritage Foundation which, according to...
Posted by Fred Black on May 27, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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My 3 year old son has a book we sometimes read about a boy who goes to the zoo with his parents and get's separated from them. They buy him a huge balloon that picks him up when they hand...
Posted by Fred Black on May 26, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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I read a great post today by Daniel Levis on Clayton Makepeace's Total Package site: It's My Birthday, And I'm Mad As Hell .... In this article Daniel rants about the state of things in Canada, the USA, as well...
Posted by Fred Black on May 1, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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This is the 2nd blog post from a very special guest blogger: my maternal Grandfather: Clyde W. Kirkman (1915 - 1989). Please see the 1st article, Progress Never Begins for Any Man until He Substitutes Dreams and Talk with Action,...
Posted by Fred Black on April 17, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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My son Walker (3 years old) has a DVD of construction / logging / building that he really loves to watch. He likes the logging segment best, he also really likes the big construction machinery segment that shows huge dump...
Posted by Fred Black on April 8, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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This blog post is written by a very special guest blogger: my Grandfather! My mother's father, Clyde W. Kirkman (1915 - 1989). The photo at left is from WWII, 1944 or 1945, somewhere in Germany or maybe France. He was...
Posted by Fred Black on March 30, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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In the movie A Beautiful Mind (2001), Russell Crow plays John Forbes Nash. John Forbes Nash is a mathematical genius who has battled schizophrenia much of his life. In 1994 Nash won the Nobel Prize for his earlier work as...
Posted by Fred Black on March 3, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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One of the biggest drawing cards to the popularity of blogs is that, as a reader, you are given the opportunity to get to know the blogger at a more personal level than regular web site. Blogs are, by their...
Posted by Fred Black on February 20, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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Some things require you get wet and take risks before you see results. My mother can't swim. Her mother couldn't swim. Her mother told her that she couldn't get in the water until she knew how to swim. So to...
Posted by Fred Black on February 11, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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My wife and I were having a conversation with a friend who writes a weekly column in our local paper. It's not unusual for him to receive both positive and negative feedback to his articles. He shared one particular letter...
Posted by Fred Black on January 25, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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The winners from my give away of two signed copies of Terry Dean's book "Financial Freedom" are: 1) Rob Theriot and 2) Ryan Healy. Rob found a link to my blog on Ryan Healy's blog: Debt Reduction Formula. You can...
Posted by Fred Black on January 14, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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Terry Dean has done the world a great service writing this book. This is a book that can literally change you life. As of this writing, I've not finished reading the book. Yet I feel that I have gained immeasurably...
Posted by Fred Black on January 10, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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In my post The Frustration of Trying to Make Money Online, item # 3 on my list is Honesty. If the goals for your business are long term, then don't lie, cheat, or steal. Treat people with honesty and respect....
Posted by Fred Black on January 10, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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In my post The Frustration of Trying to Make Money Online, item # 2 on my list was Be Consistent. Walk out into a rushing river and pick up a river stone from the bottom and chances are it'll be...
Posted by Fred Black on January 3, 2008 | Printer-Friendly
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In my post The Frustration of Trying to Make Money Online, item # 1 on my list was Focus on something you believe in and that you are passionate about. Said another way: Follow Your Heart. I had lunch today...
Posted by Fred Black on December 20, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Dan Fogelberg passed away this past Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 6:00am at his home in Maine. Dan was a passionate, impeccable musician. As an amateur singer/songwriter, I've spent most of my life trying to write something half as...
Posted by Fred Black on December 20, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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My 2 ½ year old son has a new DVD: Dumbo. He and I watched it this weekend. I really like those old Disney movies, however, I'm more familiar with the fairy tail movies like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty...
Posted by Fred Black on December 2, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Joe Vitale knocks another one out of the park with his latest book "The Key". If you've watched the hit DVD "The Secret", or read Joe's other books like "The Attractor Factor" or "Zero Limits", then you're familiar with the...
Posted by Fred Black on November 27, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Never doubt whose side the banks are on... its not your's. Their commercials and advertisements are honed to a razors edge. They cut with the skill and precision of a surgeon with a scalpel to reach inside the average person...
Posted by Fred Black on November 12, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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So many people jump into an online business and think they're going to get rich quick, the truth is, most never do. You can find the statistics, but we all know that most people who try making money online with...
Posted by Fred Black on November 6, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Have you ever worked for a company where the human resources department sends out emails welcoming new employees? Sometimes they use the headline or subject "Please extend a warm welcome to these new additions to the ACME Co. family". Then...
Posted by Fred Black on October 29, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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"One man says he has a right to work and a right to speak, and he never accomplishes anything. Another man says he has a responsibility to work and a responsibility to speak, and he changes the world." --Ryan...
Posted by Fred Black on October 24, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Somewhere around 20 years ago I managed a small retail computer shop. We sold personal computers - at that time we called them IBM clones. We had an employee named Gary and for the life of me, I can't recall...
Posted by Fred Black on September 13, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Do you remember in high school or college how it felt to cram for exams or finals? This is especially true in college where you're given more freedom and therefore put things off until the last minute. A few weeks...
Posted by Fred Black on August 29, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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I just read thee great blog posts from three of the blogs in my blog roll (located over in the right-hand column) that I'd encourage everyone to read. At first glance you may not see that the subjects of these...
Posted by Fred Black on August 23, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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They say don't corner a wild animal because that's when you'll get hurt. Backed into a corner with no apparent way out, they'll attack even when the odds are overwhelmingly against them. Do you always feel like you're backed into...
Posted by Fred Black on August 15, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Are you scared to think of something bazaar, original, or unique? Fear keeps us from trying and if we don't try, we don't have any chance whatsoever of succeeding. The failure of never trying is a much greater failure than...
Posted by Fred Black on July 30, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Penn State Football coach Joe Paterno dishes out justice that would make John Wayne proud. Most coaches would have protected their star players, worried about negative attitudes, feared a loss of recruitment, backlash from the school or parents, and handed...
Posted by Fred Black on May 23, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Most of us are taught to work hard and do a good job. We are taught from a young age that if we work hard enough we'll be successful. While this philosophy has valid merit from a moralistic point of...
Posted by Fred Black on May 21, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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... the life that you wanted to live. Are you freezing to death mentally? In survival training courses we're taught that just before a person freezes to death they feel warm, peaceful, and comfortable and that they just want to...
Posted by Fred Black on May 3, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Who You Gonna Call? - Goo Busters! A lot of lives are just plain clogged up with goo. I'm not talking about actual gunk that you can see, feel, or even wash off. If it were only that easy,...
Posted by Fred Black on April 27, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Are you a prisoner of the American Dream? Most people go through life with blinders on... never realizing that there's a bigger picture that they fail to see. Even sadder, is the fact that the people they turn to for...
Posted by Fred Black on March 27, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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Magic Mirror Tricks #1 Life is like looking in one of those trick mirrors that makes you look really tall or really fat or really wavy. It's not always what it appears to be on the surface and quite often...
Posted by Fred Black on February 19, 2007 | Printer-Friendly
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"I want to be wealthy". "I want to be rich". "I want to be famous". "I want to be a movie star". "I want to be president". "I want to be CEO of this company". "I want to own this...
Posted by Fred Black on December 6, 2006 | Printer-Friendly
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If you're not where you want to be in some aspect of your life, what can you do to fix it? Unfortunately, the majority of people simply complain, or silently wish their situation was different. Successful people take action and...
Posted by Fred Black on December 4, 2006 | Printer-Friendly
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Many years ago, when I graduated from college, one of my older brothers gave me a set of audio tapes that, I think, was marketed by the Day-Timer company. I don't remember the title or much of what was covered...
Posted by Fred Black on September 24, 2006 | Printer-Friendly
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Trying to find accurate information on Internet marketing and Making Money Online is hard to do. You can buy eBooks and join web sites that make claims of giving you their secret edge and the keys to instant wealth. You...
Posted by Fred Black on July 5, 2006 | Printer-Friendly
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