Grand Slam Kid by Duane Decker Copyright 1964
Yesterday’s message looked at a way to kick start brainstorming sessions using a special form of bibliography (reading therapy) with books we read as children.
As I was rereading the old baseball books I read in my youth, I also happened to read the best selling children’s books in the Hunger Game Trilogy.
Comparing these books, the new and the 50 year old, can help us have more freedom.
First, let’s note the difference and the similarities between Duane Decker Baseball books and the Hunger Games.
Both are about sympathetic characters striving for worthwhile goals. They are both about sports… games.
Decker’s books were about players for the mythical Blue Sox, and each of the main characters had to overcome a major hurdle. The lessons were about perseverance, dedication and giving all you have in your selected profession. The worthwhile goal is about overcoming personal faults and making the correct choices to be part of the best team in the world… being good enough to play in the World Series.
In the Decker books, the society (the team and its leaders) are tough but good. The main character is bad (has personal problems) and must grow.
The Hunger Games are about children being forced to kill other children in Gladiatorial type games… kids pitted one against the other… the world looking on…. the government throwing in extra dilemmas that killed many of the participants. The Hunger Games is about the World Series of Death. The worthwhile goal is to beat the government.
In the Hunger Games the individual is good…. the society (the government and the ruling class) are bad. The main characters must destroy the bad government.
We could say that the feelings that the world (the Hunger Games is selling well globally) has about freedom have changed!
One message in both series of books is clear… the world changes and we must adapt.
One way to deal with the change is resist it. The other way to to move and the third way is to take advantage of added restrictions.
Our reports over the past 44 years and this website over the past 16 years has shared the theme… be global so you can enjoy the largest of all playing fields. Be global because the sun always shines somewhere.
On this Fourth of July 2012 it seems quite fitting that Americans are both interested in reforming the order of government and moving further afield. These two activities have been American traits since this great nation began.
After the Revolutionary War was through, ossification of opportunity in the Eastern colonies began.
This spirit of Americans moving to “where the action is” was epitomized in Horace Greeley’s famous quote, “Go west, young man.”
Willingness to keep moving for progress has always been the American way. In less mobile times, this mobility worked from state to state. Now it moves from nation to nation.
Why shouldn’t Americans be global? America is a nation of people from around the world. When I was in school we never thought about it but there I was Scot-Irish and a bit of American Indian thrown in. My friend, Steve Coiteaux, was almost surely from a French background, Larry Gubertino-Italian, Kraid Goebel- German, Shirley Lopez-Puerto Rican and Terry Smith-English.
America is a concept that came from around the world and has always rebelled at restriction and has always moved on to places where there is more freedom.
At a time when US earning potential may seem diminished, it should be no surprise that Americans are on the move finding opportunities all over the world.
I am happy to report, that freedom in America is not dead. America’s independence, in my opinion, has improved and evolved because these concepts of freedom that have helped this society evolve have also create the ideals of Yankee ingenuity. Americans through thick and thin have used technology to enhance a business mobility and attitude that often gives America a leading business edge.
One way to see this is that freedom lured hundreds of millions into the USA… taught them freedom and the concepts of hard work and now is spreading them around the globe.
When you blend modern technology and Yankee ingenuity, you can open a world of opportunity.
For example, there is special opportunity in writing and publishing at this time due to ebooks.
Some writers have incredible rags to riches stories earning fortunes and gaining much much more. The author of the Hunger Games is an example. No matter how we feel about the nature of these best selling books, we need to know of them as they are indicators of the national psyche.
According to the celebrity Net Worth website Suzanne Collins, the daughter of a military officer, had built a net worth of $12 million as a TV screenwriter and a novelist. That’s not bad but the Hunger Games trilogy changed all that if a March Yahoo TV article is accurate as it states she would earn $10 million alone in 2012. That’s pretty good!
In addition due to The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2010 and in March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time.
The internet had made this possible.
Internet based export businesses are another way that we can develop international income potential from anywhere..
Ecuador, where so many of our readers now live full or part time, is an example.
Textiles for export
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Ecuador exports tours.
Jewelry for export.
Why should American earning mobility be limited to just the borders of the USA?
The original concept of the United States was that we lived in the land of the free and could move to whatever state that offered the best opportunity. With modern technology, why not spread this mobility beyond the oceans and Canadian and Mexican borders?
Big businesses in America have certainly not limited their efforts within American borders. Almost every major US corporation, manufactures or outsources work globally. American corporations go where opportunity is best.
Now small businesses can use the internet to be global as well.
I see many Americans finding good earning potential in Ecuador. I expect this is taking place around the world.
The real factors that make Americans free… willingness to work… trying new innovations… crossing social and cultural lines… taking risk and trying new things works anywhere. All of these are a state of mind and attitude… not a place… or a date.
This is the American way… serve… work harder… be better… do more for others. This works… an attitude that gives anyone, anywhere, who uses it an edge.
This is why one finds American entrepreneurs thriving in Ecuador and anywhere and everywhere in the world. Americans and the American spirit are global… successful… and free.
Today let’s celebrate more than just a day of declaration of freedom. Let’s rejoice in a universal truth that freedom is something within us all. Freedom is not a condition but an energy available to any and everyone with desire and willingness to work and serve wherever the opportunity opens. That’s the spirit of the American way.
Merri and I send our best wishes that each and every reader will always be free!
Gary
Join us in North Carolina at our October seminar and learn how the internet era and Super Thinking in Business can help you increase your freedom with your own global internet business operated from Ecuador or anywhere.
Join me and Thomas Fischer from Jyske Global Asset Management in North Carolina to learn more about economic trends and how to invest and earn globally
We’ll have lunch at the farm and enjoy the cool summer mountains. Here’s a shot of our front yard.
Thomas Fisher speaking to our delegates at the farm.
Delegates enjoying a private conversation with Thomas Fischer during a coffee break at the farm.
Quantum Thinking for Everlasting Wealth Seminar
Quantum Thinking for Everlasting Wealth Seminar. How to retire from the rat race… at any age. Where the writing, business and reading world meet.
Gary Scott teaching delegates about quantum wealth.
Learn Quantum Thinking & How to Have Everlasting Wealth with Gary and Merri Scott.
These special seminars look far beyond creating or improving your own business for income. They begin with a global economic update that helps integrate thinking of the past with the here and now of global economics.
Learn how to integrate your brain waves so you become smarter and how to gain never ending income by continually spotting contrasts distortions and trends.
The seminar is divided into three sessions.
Each session builds on the next to help you learn how to gain freedom, remove stress and earn more by combining powerful tools of thoughts and business action
Sessions One: Our global World present past and future… seen from outside the box.
Sessions Two: How to have quantum wealth and health with more intelligence with whole brain thinking through “Frequency Modulation.Saturday – How to Write.
Session Three: International Micro Business – “How to Have a Global Income “.
This seminar provides a learning funnel that integrates your personal desires, skills and circumstances to current and historical global economic realities.
Here is what you learn:
* Global economic history - how this combines with each business’s past… future… interest, skills and knowledge.
The historical review sees current markets for writers based around economic cycles as outlined first by Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratiev, who proposed a theory that Western capitalist economies have long term (50 to 60 years) cycles of boom followed by depression. These business cycles are to this day called “Kondratiev Waves”.
Kondratiev’s thoughts were refined by Austrian economist, Joseph Shumpeter, which we have extensively researched and follow the global economy (and US stock market) and how it has moved through a series of bull…. and then a bear (a period of no growth) cycles that each run around 15 year bull as shown in this graph below.
These stock market bull and bear cycles are based on cycles of human interaction, war, technology and productivity.
These cycles are a driving force in the creation of opportunity.
These cycles are intricately connected with the new waves of productivity that grow from the great human platform of combat. The cycle goes like this.
An economic downturn enhances a war or threat of war. Struggles for survival in the war (like the Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Cold War (WWIII), super charge inventiveness that creates new forms of productivity…the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, production line processes, jet engines, TV, farming techniques, plastics, telephone, computer and lastly during the Cold War, the internet.
Each new invention helped win a war. Shifting the technology to domestic use… after the war… created a boom.
Each boom leads to excess.
Each excess led to a correction. The correction creates an economic downturn.
The economic downturn enhances a war or threat of war.
The global economy is currently in a major correction cycle… at the correct time and we should expect that a war (or some major struggle of the epoch or threat of war such as the Cold War) should begin to build! This latest downturn started almost exactly (1998), 16 years after the last boom began (1982)…which began after the last great human struggle called the Cold War that lasted about a decade when the Soviet Union collapsed.
If the cycle repeats, the struggle should build now due to the poor economy. If the cycles repeat then the bottom is around 2012-2013. Everything will seem bleakest… darkest… blackest.
This will be the best time of all in decades to invest!
The epoch of the Cold War fought Maggie Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan fought the evil empire (1981 to 1989). The war was won when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Soviet Empire dissolved in 1991. That war created an arms race that created new technology including internet.
The economic war that follows the boom comes from the domestication of technology developed during the struggle.
The technological burst off WWIII accelerated when access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET) providing access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations.
In 1982 the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced. Commercial internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and 1990s.
The dot-com bubble (also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble) was the post war boom, a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000.
The next step is to decide where this cycle is and how this creates business opportunity through distortions, contrasts and trends.
Contrasts and distortions in currencies, markets and social and demographic shifts to spots trends.
For example we look at how each new wave of technology creates new problems. Shifts from WWII included increased fertilization in farming and more women at work. This caused dietary differences in the American family that led to an explosion of health food stores.
* Problems & Trends Create Income Possibilities
Surprisingly the inventors of Graham Crackers and Kellogg Corn Flakes were among some of the first to spur an interest in health food so in the 1920s and 1930s health food stores did start to open in the USA selling products such as blackstrap molasses and brewer’s yeast. However health food stores as we know them did not start to boom until the 1960s in connection to the newly emerging ecology movement and counterculture to modern living, intense fertilization, pesticides, women at work, etc.
Image the wealth you would have gained writing about that trend coming!
We explore potential counter cultures created by the internet… a WWIII technology… that could erupt and ways to write and do business based on this.
We pay special attention to economic distortions. Distortions create writing opportunities because your micro business is the best investment you can make backed by your own time, effort and energy.
Quantum Thinking For Everlasting Wealth Seminar – October 5-6-7, 2012 West Jefferson, North Carolina.
Join Merri and me. Enroll here $799. Couple $999
Another session in the seminar shows “How to have an international micro business.” These sessions are highly practical and usable. They focus on how to use modern technology to start global micro businesses with minimal investments of time and capital.
By starting small and building with stepping stones and a harmonious focus, Merri and I have learned how to almost own several profit generating phrases at Google. We, along with our webmaster David Cross share the secrets of how you can use words to create your own global income as well.
The seminar shares how we use the first four of “Seven Ps” (Person, Problem and Promise, Product) to zero in on key word phrases. Then you learn how to use the Fifth P Promise to develop new customers. The Sixth P is the Prospecting Path and Seventh P is the Presentation to create income.
We use this system successfully on the internet and share what we do with you as we look at ways you too can have a high income generating business… even if you never leave your home.
This knowledge has really helped previous course delegates. Here is what one previous delegate just shared:
“Gary , I have been working on my website, healthy-holistic-living.com site and I figure it is time for another update. It is really hard to believe it, but my site just keeps growing and growing and I am now averaging 2000 visitors per day!
“What I find to be most amazing is that in just a few short months my site is #1 out of over a million sites and sometimes even millions of sites! As you always say the internet is the ‘Great Equalizer’ anybody given the right tools can compete on the internet.“Below are some of my search results. I only listed GOOGLE and YAHOO but you can find similar results on both MSN and ASK.com.
GOOGLE:
#1 out of 1,190,000 …………………………“definition healthy spirit “
#1 and #2 out of 1,210,000.………………….“benefits to living a holistic life “
#1 out of 1,260,000 …………………………“gaining a healthy mind “
#1 and #2 out of 1,260,000 …………………“benefits to living a holistic life “
#2 out of 935,000 …………………………..“holistic lifestyle tips “
You will learn how to use the same system to expand (or start) your business globally!
This is a perfect era to increase your wealth and improve your lifestyle as you reduce stress with your own a micro writing self publishing business.
Merri and I enjoy having an international internet business and it is doing well. Almost every month our internet business sales are higher than they were in the same month a year before.
We are very thankful to be one of the most read sites in Ecuador and do very well in the US and Canada too.
May we share our experiences to help you learn how to enjoy this satisfaction and success through your micro business?
Here is a recent ranking of just one of our five websites.
This ranking from Alexa.com shows how our site is in the top 16,000 web sites in America, top 8,000 in Canada and top 500 in Ecuador. There is more. While many suffered in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the recession caused our internet business to grow.
Our seminar helps you learn how to use the same tactics we use… in your micro business.
Our sales doubled during the recession. Our list of readers increased over 100%. Since the economy picked up our business growth has slowed but business is still growing. This is how good, value oriented business grow by the way.
Value oriented micro businesses should increase steadily in good times. They do not get caught overextending in euphoria. Then during bad times they are in a position to do really well!
Knowing the micro business philosophies we follow can help you use the internet in business if you desire.
The Western economy has changed… probably forever. The old ways are gone and those who held jobs… or still have work in the private sector have lost the most.
The economy will recover… but the way people earn and work… and how the money is distributed and to whom especially… has been profoundly altered. This is especially true in value added countries like Canada… the USA and most of Europe.
We are in an era of global structural change… in economics… in society and in the way we work because technology brings us low cost administration, low cost access to data, low cost communication, and low cost travel, plus the opening of markets beyond logic that rely more on passion and experience than on efficiency and cost.
We look at these economic and structural changes, and what to do about them in the business portion of our seminar.
We’ll see how markets are shifting from materialistic needs to emotional needs.
We’ll see great opportunity for writers in the following markets:
Love-friendship-control-freedom-tradition-change-big answers-recognition and care. These are emotional needs that create expanding demand and business opportunity. The next generation is having more involvement in every step of the buying process. Uniting the body and mind is an emerging market. Natural physical health, fitness will expand but botox and insulin sales will also grow.
Mental health, retreats and spas prosper. The health of the planet is becoming a more important business.There is a shift of emphasis from GDP to GWB (General Wellness Barometer Happiness Factor). Business will operate with more passion.
Learn about other business possibilities…
In the global micro business sessions we’ll see ideas on how to:
* Create export businesses
* Self Publishing/Writing
* Internet Sales
* Ecuador Business Ideas
* Organic Business Ideas
* Health Business Ideas
* Ideas for Cuban Business
Quantum Thinking For Everlasting Wealth Seminar – October 5-6-7, 2012 West Jefferson, North Carolina.
Join Merri and me. Enroll here $799. Couple $999
The educational program Merri and I have developed uses a different form of frequency modulation that opens enormous opportunity for expansion, understanding, peacefulness as well as greater wealth.
FM teaching uses frequency (in music and with each sense… sight…. smell, tactile and even smell) to integrate brain waves so the process of absorbing, processing and recalling information is vastly accelerated. This brings forth the three C’s: Calm, Clarity and Coherence.
FM creates relaxed concentration… a key to happiness, health and success.
You learn whole brain thinking that can help improve your freedom, satisfaction and income through business.
This part of the seminar helps us integrate their brain waves so they are more intelligent, intuitive and relaxed.
This workshop shows how to get into and stay in a state of relaxed concentration… a mental state shown to enhance almost every human capability… especially writing.
Merri and I are explorers so we have used this techniques for decades. We are always looking for what’s next… trying to stay on or ahead of the leading edge and need ways to think outside he box..
This journey has helped us alter the main mission in our lives again and again… every seven to 14 years.
The Quantum Wealth Frequency Modulation sessions share ideas on how to live better…. using frequency modulation to be smarter… stronger…. more energetic… and healthier.
Most of us have never so many problems that create opportunity as those that face us now. A growing global population… depletion of natural resources and technology are bring social and financial shifts at a pace never seen before.
These shifts will rob many of their financial well being, but fortunately the same technology that is creating the change can also help you gain prosperity like you have never imagined. We look forward to sharing these riches with you.
We are in our 44th year of business and we share what we have learned and where this is leading our activities in our upcoming seminar. Join us.
Each seminar updates how we doing business globally, and even how we are investing… and why… right now. Join Merri, me
Spotting new trends and applying them to our micro business has brought us a strong and continual flow of income. More importantly the process has been fulfilling…. beneficial to society and healthy. Now you can benefit from the latest… and perhaps strongest… of all the trends we have stumbled upon.
Applying the concepts of quantum thinking to spotting trends over the past 44 years has helped thousands of our readers make and save millions. The success of our readers has been a driving force in our lives yet we have always wanted to do more so continued looking deeper at ways we can share how to have income, stability, good health and contentment.
Join us to learn our most recent experiences and most advanced concepts and ideas.
Quantum Thinking For Everlasting Wealth Seminar – October 5-6-7, 2012 West Jefferson, North Carolina.
Join Merri and me. Enroll here $799. Couple $999
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