Have you had enough

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
~Barack Obama

We want to loss weight, make more money ,be happier. But we are not taking the necessary steps to get there. Positive thinking is not enough; rather, we have to take action as well. We will not take action until we had enough.

You don't have to remains overweight, broke, or sad. It does not have to be that way.


1. Identify the problem

We first have to identify what we had enough of. This may seem obvious, but it is not. Sometimes the things we miss are right under our noses. I will use myself as a guinea pig for part of this post. This morning as I was getting ready for work, I realized once again that my pants are getting tight. Did take action to slow this recently? Of course not. I have been sleeping on it and it has been getting worst. I had a wake up call last night when a close friend of mine's father died due to his morbid obesity. Death is a profound wake up call.

2. Set Goals

After you wake up, you should move forward with realistic goals. Change is a great motto, but change will take time and hard work. I would like to start by losing 20 pounds. This will not happen overnight and if we think it will then we already defeated ourselves. My ongoing mini goal is to loss 1-2 ponds a week. I hope to accomplish this by moving more and eating less. I think sometimes we get into trouble not for what we eat but how much we eat.

3. Measure

Measuring our goals will help us to stay on track towards overcoming the things we had enough of. Store takes weekly inventory to make sure they provide their customer with what they demand. We have to do the same with or goals. If don't write down our goals then it easy to get sidetracked. Write your goals down and measure them regularly to see if you are on track. I plan to keep a weekly inventory of my weight and no no foods. Monitoring our weaknesses will help in coming weeks or months. Being in denial is what got us in our I had enough situation.

4. Keep going

You will fall but you have to keep going. We are not perfect; we will make mistakes and have setback on the path to our goals. The key is to keep going. So you applied for 10 jobs and you got one interview. Don't be disappointed. That is a lot better than the person who applies for 20 jobs and got zero calls. Keep your head up and keep on going.Stay Strong!

Blackberry Curve Tips and Tricks

Do you have a Blackberry you mostly use for just email and going online ? But sometimes the simplest task becomes annoying.Join the club. It does not have to be like that.There are ways to do things more efficiently and productive.

Email And Messaging:

1.To reply to an email simply type R-reply
2.To reply to all press L-reply all
3.To forward it press F-forward
4.To jump to the top of inbox press T-top
5.To jump to the bottom of inbox press B-bottom

Editing:

6.To type capital letter press and hold key
7.To finish a sentence hit the space key twice
8.To copy and paste press shift and use the roller to highlight
then from the menu select copy and then paste in desire location.

Using the internet:

9. To go to a page press G-go
10. To add a bookmark press A- add to bookmark
11. To return to homepage press H-home

Saving Your Battery Life:
12.Go to menu select--> option -->Screen/Keboard
reduce the Backlight Timeout.

Credit for image above: ricardo / zone41.net

This review Youtube Video may also help.



These tips may make your Blackberry experience more productive and efficient.

Phishing prevention

As per Spamfighter.com, “over 5 million consumers in the United States lost cash due to phishing assaults over a 12-month period ending in September 2008, resulting in a 39.8% rise from the preceding 12 months. Basically all that mean is that Phishing is getting worst and that anyone could become a victim.To protect ourselves for phishing we have to first understand what it is.

What is Phishing ?
Phishing is a method used by criminals to mislead us into thinking we are submitting our private data to legitimate organizations such as banks.

How to protect yourself ?
Most if not all organizations will never ask us to verify out user names and password via a email. Knowing this will save us a lot of money and potential headache. If you are not sure about a creepy email call the organization that sent it to you. I am sure they will thank you for doing so.When in doubt always delete fishy emails. If it was that important your bank will contact you.
Watch the YouTube below to better understand Phishing and how you can protect yourself.

Phishing Scams in Plain English

Happy Cheap Traveling

Are you trying to save money on travel and everything else these days ? Join the club. Some airline and hotels are desperate make quick sales at very low prices.As low as $1 a night for hotel room and flights as low as $14 trips between New York and San Francisco. To get these deals you have to be very quick,persistent, and flexible. I found a great article about these deal and where to get them in the New York Times travel section.

Some of the sites mentioned:

• Jetblue.com
• Lastminutetravel.com
• Travelzoo.com
• Farecompare.com
• Luxurylink.com
• FloridaVacationAuction.com

It might be difficult to come by these deals but searching multiple sites will increase our chances for finding the big deal. It will take fast action on our part to get these deals. But you are fast anyway so this will be a piece a cake for you. Happy Traveling.

For more:Blink and You’ll Miss These Deals-[NYT]

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac

Did you ever want to execute a command on your keyboard quickly without your mouse ? Shortcuts can help you save time and be the cool guy or gal in the office. The neat folks over at uncluterer.com show us how to do exactly that.

As per the unclutters:

"How much time are you wasting by not using keyboard shortcuts? Take the time to learn, practice, and use keyboard commands to improve your productivity."

Click the links below to increase your productivity and free yourself from your mouse.

For Windows

For Mac

One of my favorite shortcut ever is ALT+TAB.
This shortcut allow you to switch between open programs.

If you don't have time to learn something new you need to F1 yourself.

For more: Increase your productivity with keyboard shortcuts [Unclutterer.com]

Get paid for sharing files

Do you have old but useful documents sitting on your desktop or a flash drive picking up virtual dust ? Join the club;I have a lot of old files,presentations,and research papers in storage. If only there was a way to share and have others benefit from them and at the same time get paid for sharing. There is a way and it is called DocStoc. Your simply upload your documents and get paid . Of course ,the more value your Docs bring the more you will make. Strive to provide value and the money will follow. I found out about DocStoc from the smart folks over at TechCrunch.com.

What is DocStoc ?

As per DocStoc:
"Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents with all the world, and serves as a vast repository of documents in variety of categories including legal, business, financial, technology, educational, and creative. All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free."


Here is Youtube video that also explains how DocStoc works.

When to Quit

Is the old saying quitters are losers true? Well yes and no.

Yes (Bad to quit):

Sometime we quit because we are lazy. This is the worst reason to quit. Keeping our goals in mind should helps us to stay the course. You are closer than you think. Don’s quit, keep going.

No (Good to quit):

Sometimes we need to quit things that are not helping us to get to our goals.I'll give you an example. You want to make more money this year, but you spend a lot time watching TV non stop on the weekend. There are many ways to make additional income on the weekend just visit craig’s list and find your opportunity. Trying to quit watching so many hours of TV or even Youtube might help us get to our goals.

Quit something today to achieve something better this year. Please put down the fried food and walk away from that store.

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