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		<title>The American Economy And You&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of you that know deep down that there is something very wrong in the world today and are trying to make heads and tails of it, here is a short video that will shed some light on what&#8217;s happening right now and why. Protect yourself&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hilarious Video Explains Network Marketing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a funny video that has been making its rounds around the internet on Network Marketing that I felt you would get a kick out of. It&#8217;s also a great lesson to all you home business buffs about not wasting your time on trying to convince people to get involved that just aren&#8217;t interested&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Simple And Proven Ways To Better Banner Advertising&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Everyone, I have another tip for all you internet marketers out there that use, or want to use banners as an advertising method to drive traffic to your website from another one of my favorite marketers out there, Tim Gross. He has put together a short video on how to effectively make better banners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Brainwashed?&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Budd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an email from world class marketer Jonathan Budd and it hit such a cord with me that I had to post it. It is a well articulated piece about our money system that the masses seem to have forgotten and why it leaves them powerless to gain any real prosperity in their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got an email from world class marketer Jonathan Budd and it hit such a cord with me that I had to post it. It is a well articulated piece about our money system that the masses seem to have forgotten and why it leaves them powerless to gain any real prosperity in their lives&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Today&#8217;s message is DEEP.</p>
<p>The reason why is, almost our entire<br />
world is currently brain washed.</p>
<p>Give me a minute, &amp; I&#8217;ll explain<br />
what I mean + I&#8217;ll show you how to<br />
&#8220;unbrainwash&#8221;  yourself from this<br />
particular &#8216;washing&#8217; so you think<br />
completely different about money,<br />
your success, &amp; the abundance you<br />
will inevitably create in life.</p>
<p>So what is this &#8220;brainwashing&#8221;<br />
I&#8217;m talking about today?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Illusion&#8221; of <em>money</em>,<br />
and how the vast majority of humans<br />
have completely forgotten the ancient<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">SOURCE</span> of our entire monetary system,<br />
which has led them to accepting table<br />
scraps when they could be claiming so<br />
much more for themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the deal&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Our entire monetary system is actually<br />
based on the very ancient model of<br />
<em>&#8220;Bartering&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>Way back when&#8230; how commerce worked<br />
was that&#8230;</p>
<p>1. You had something I needed/wanted.</p>
<p>2. I had to come up with something you<br />
needed/wanted.</p>
<p>3.  We made an exchange that worked<br />
out great for both of us.</p>
<p>People <em>bartered</em> to get the resources/things<br />
they needed and wanted.</p>
<p>And BARTERING revolves around finding<br />
what it is you have that is VALUABLE within<br />
yourself, which you can offer the world.</p>
<p>In the barter system, the onus is on <span style="text-decoration: underline;">YOU </span><br />
to come up with something of value to<br />
offer your market place.</p>
<p>Whether it&#8217;s your skills, knowledge, abilities,<br />
or whatever else&#8230; you barter based on your<br />
OWN personal <em>value/power</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Bartering FORCES people into developing<br />
value within themselves.</strong> It forces people<br />
into cultivating skill sets, abilities, knowledge,<br />
ideas, talents, &amp; and whatever else&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; so that YOU <em>cultivate</em> value within yourself<br />
to offer others.  If you didn&#8217;t cultivate that value,<br />
then you would be powerless.</p>
<p>You&#8217;d have <span style="text-decoration: underline;">nothing</span> to barter with.</p>
<p>****Fast Forward to Today*****</p>
<p>People do <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> barter anymore.  Rarely ever.</p>
<p>Most of the world now has just ONE means of<br />
which we view our barter system&#8230;. <em>money</em>.</p>
<p>Barely anyone thinks, &#8220;what value can I create<br />
within myself&#8221;.  Almost all anyone thinks about<br />
is&#8230; &#8220;I need to get money in order to barter&#8221;.</p>
<p>This is an ENTIRELY dissempowering mindset<br />
beyond what you may realize at first glance.</p>
<p>When someone is of the mindset that &#8220;Money&#8221;<br />
is the ONLY way they are going to be able to<br />
barter in the world&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; All they think about is &#8216;how to get money&#8217;.</p>
<p>If someone offers you a job flipping stupid<br />
hamburgers&#8230; you take it.  Because you<br />
think that the &#8216;money&#8217; you get from that job<br />
is the actual RESOURCE you need for<br />
bartering.</p>
<p><strong>WRONGGGGGGGGGG.</strong></p>
<p>Money is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> the resource.  It&#8217;s the Symbol.</p>
<p>The resource is the SKILL/VALUE you&#8217;ve<br />
developed inside.  Yet because most people<br />
aren&#8217;t aware they&#8217;re still actually &#8220;bartering&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; The value/skills they develop inside are<br />
pathetic!!  They cookie cutter follow the mold<br />
in life, and get churned out of an education/<br />
factory system like widgets.</p>
<p>Jeez, I wonder why the vast majority of the<br />
world lives in poverty.  And why even in our<br />
first world countries&#8230; the middle class is<br />
disappearing and the poor are only getting<br />
poorer.</p>
<p>Everyone is fighting over puny TABLE SCRAPS<br />
of a brain washed economic system.<br />
(harsh, but TRUE)</p>
<p>You are <em>not</em> going to get a head in life by<br />
thinking to yourself&#8230; <em>&#8220;I need to get money&#8221;.</em></p>
<p>We&#8217;re still in a bartering system today my<br />
friends, yet the vast majority of the world<br />
has completely forgotten how to Barter.</p>
<p>The vast majority of the world will gladly<br />
<strong>sell themselves out</strong> any day of the week<br />
to get a &#8216;little bit of money&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; because they believe that that money<br />
is what actually has the value.</p>
<p>They fail to realize that money is merely<br />
a symbol for bartering.  And if you&#8217;re making<br />
very little money&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; It obviously means you have done a<br />
piss poor job at bartering.  And a piss poor<br />
job at developing a true VALUABLE skill/asset<br />
within yourself that the world wants &amp; is willing<br />
to pay for!</p>
<p><em>Listen closely&#8230;</em></p>
<p>Your ENTIRE world will change when you<br />
stop viewing this little green paper as the<br />
&#8220;resource&#8221; you need to get what you want<br />
in life.</p>
<p>It is simply <span style="text-decoration: underline;">UNTRUE</span>.</p>
<p>That paper is just a symbol.</p>
<p>You NEED to see the monetary system for<br />
what it truly is&#8230; a <em>BARTERING</em> system.</p>
<p>In order to get good at making money, you<br />
need to RECLAIM your power to <em>&#8220;BARTER&#8221;.</em></p>
<p>The best way to Barter&#8230; is to have &#8220;Goods/<br />
Services/knowledge&#8221; that is exclusive &amp; is<br />
of high value.</p>
<p>How do you do this? You DEVELOP those<br />
skills/assets within yourself after looking at<br />
what the world TRULY needs&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; and then you go out there and develop<br />
that quality within yourself so you can<br />
OFFER it to others.</p>
<p>Believe me, there are MORE &#8216;trades&#8217; out<br />
there for you to develop within yourself<br />
right now that our world needs, then there&#8217;s<br />
possibly EVER been before.</p>
<p>I make as MUCH money as I do&#8230; because<br />
I&#8217;m smack dab in the middle of a few good<br />
ones.  But even the money I make is small<br />
in comparison to some of the &#8220;larger&#8221; <em>needs</em><br />
of our world right now. (That&#8217;s the direction<br />
I&#8217;m heading in my business too)</p>
<p>What you must understand, is that It becomes<br />
very easy to get whatever you need/want in life<br />
when you have the correct &#8220;<em>Value&#8221;</em> to barter with.</p>
<p>If you stay &#8220;brainwashed&#8221; in the mindset<br />
that money is the <em>resource</em>.  And your only<br />
power to barter is the money you have&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; You will forever be used.  And trust me,<br />
most of the giant corporate wealth that&#8217;s<br />
been created on this planet is because of<br />
the &#8220;Masses&#8221; of this world trading themselves<br />
off for PEANUTS &amp; table scraps.</p>
<p>We would NEVER have done this has we<br />
truly known what we were worth, &amp; been<br />
educated on how to &#8220;Barter&#8221; for ourselves.</p>
<p>But since we&#8217;ve been conditioned by society<br />
to believe that &#8220;Money&#8221; is what&#8217;s actually<br />
valuable, when in reality it&#8217;s just a symbol,<br />
we&#8217;ve had our &#8216;minds&#8217; focused in the WRONG<br />
direction the entire time.</p>
<p>On &#8220;getting money&#8221; instead of &#8220;Creating Value&#8221;.</p>
<p>Let me sum this all up for you though&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>YOU ARE WHAT&#8217;S VALUABLE.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s your energy, your skills, your knowledge,<br />
your passion, your heart that has built our<br />
world &amp; continues to do so.</p>
<p>Stop trading it for <em>peanuts</em>.</p>
<p>Reclaim your value.  Re learn how to Barter.<br />
And constantly invest in GROWING your<br />
own skill sets &amp; <em>god given </em>talents in life.</p>
<p>This is the sure fire way to get ahead in<br />
our economic system that is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">STILL</span> based<br />
on Bartering&#8230; yet most people have forgotten<br />
&amp; are under the delusion of &#8220;Money&#8221; as the<br />
resource (it&#8217;s not).&#8221;</p>
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		<title>How To Get Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation/Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achieve Wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Kern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTV Cribs]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this older Frank Kern promo video on Viddler and had to post it. He does a mock MTV Cribs style video that is hilariously entertaining, but it is full of great content and useful real lessons on achieving wealth that you can apply right now&#8230;&#8230;enjoy.</p>
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