Back To School Tips: 21 Universal Success Secrets

Back To School Tips: 21 Universal Success Secrets

by Gregory Scott Reid

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Back To School Tips: 21 Universal Success Secrets

For children and adults of all ages, it's back to school time once again. In fact, until 2013, total enrollment for degree-granting institutions alone is projected to increase an estimated average of 19 percent to 18.2 million students.

However, regardless of age and level of education, back to school time generally signals time to meet new teachers and new friends. Time to learn new subjects and try new things.

What could come in handy is a set of basic guidelines or Guide to Success for students. Universal laws from those who've been there, done that.

With that in mind, Keynote Speaker Gregory Scott Reid, AKA The Millionaire Mentor, began listing some common denominators in order to share them with others and help them succeed.

"I've been very fortunate to have had some success in my life, as well as the opportunity to meet with some very powerful and influential people over the years," said Gregory Scott Reid, three-time number one best-selling author of, "The Millionaire Mentor," "Wake Up: Live The Life You Love," and "Positive Impact." "These are the common laws that each seemed to follow, and I now wish to share them with you."

Universal Success Secrets:

1. Always maintain a positive, solution-seeking attitude.

2. To truly succeed at anything, your chances increase when you enjoy the task. When you do what you love and love what you do, you'll have success your whole life through.

3. The only limitations you really have are those you give yourself.

4. The only expectations you need to fulfill are those you give yourself.

5. Nothing is as powerful as a positive attitude, and nothing is as detrimental as a negative one.

6. Morally speaking, if you have to wonder whether something is right or wrong, chances are it's wrong.

7. When you focus on other people's success, yours is sure to follow.

8. Live your word. Lead by example.

9. Share. (Wealth + Information + Glory = Success)

10. You have the best chance of reaching a goal by simply giving yourself one to reach.

11. Observe every obstacle as a learning experience. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward.

12. Do the hardest thing first, and the rest will be easy.

13. Treat others the way that they want to be treated.

14. Few great accomplishments have ever been achieved by anyone alone; seek support from those whose talents exceed your own.

15. You are the reflection of the five people you associate with most, and your income is the average of those five people. Choose your friends wisely.

16. A dream written down with a date becomes a GOAL. A goal broken down into steps becomes a PLAN. A plan backed by ACTION makes your dream come true.

17. You can learn more about someone's character on one bad day than on all their good days put together. The true measure of all great leaders is how well they weather storms.

18. It's better to invest time doing what pleases you, rather than to waste time trying to please everyone else.

19. In the end, the extent of your own success will be measured by the accomplishments that you have helped create in others.

20. Having potential simply means that you possess talents and abilities you aren't applying.

21. Things are the way you think they are, because you think they are that way. Your perception determines your experience.

"It's All Who You Know"

Reid invites people from all walks of life to, "It's All Who You Know," an Inspirational Awards weekend & Charitable Event. Hosted November 4-6, 2005, in San Diego, the event features Reid and several other top keynote speakers who will be honored for their accomplishments and share their key success secrets with attendees each day.

"True wealth comes in the giving, not the keeping," said Reid. "Keep Smilin'!"

The I AM Foundation is the official sponsored charity of the event. Their mission "… is inspiring millions of children and adults worldwide by gifting them with educational books and music." They are located at 3304 Fourth Avenue, San Diego CA 92103-5704. Phone: ( 619) 296-2400 or online at http://www.IAMFoundation.org and steve@iamfoundation.org

The "Positive Impact" Show!

Listen in to Greg's new show each week on KKNW 1150 AM (Seattle) on Positive Choice Talk Radio where he shares with his listeners how to make a positive Impact on the way they live their lives. Tune in every Tuesday from 1:30-2 pm PST. You can listen to Greg right now! Just click on the link http://www.alwaysgood.com/radio .

Book Greg

To book Gregory Scott Reid as a speaker at your upcoming event or to contact him for additional information, email GregReid@AlwaysGood.com Visit him online at http://www.AlwaysGood.com .

* "Projections of Education Statistics to 2013," National Center for Education Statistics; Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education, Washington, DC. 2003.

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Author: Gregory Scott Reid GregReid@AlwaysGood.com Speaker and three-time Number One best-selling author, "The Millionaire Mentor," "Wake Up: Live the Life You Love," and "Positive Impact" Visit him online at http://www.AlwaysGood.com

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"Just The Facts" Sidebar

What - "It's All Who You Know" Inspirational Weekend & Charity Event

Who - Keynote Speaker Gregory Scott Reid, The Millionaire Mentor; three-time number one 1 best-selling author of, "The Millionaire Mentor," "Wake Up: Live The Life You Love," and "Positive Impact."

Sponsor - The I AM Foundation, inspiring millions of children and adults worldwide by gifting them with educational books and music.

When -Nov. 4 - 6, 2005.

Where -Event hosted at Wyndham Hotel, 400 West Broadway, San Diego, California 92101. Call: (619) 239-4500.

Cost - Entire weekend: $299. Discounts for more than one ticket.

URL: http://www.presssuccess.com/GoGreg

Affirmative Action

By : Punkerslut

I have said before that I detest the slaughter of animals because it is tantamount to Racism. I hold an incalculable hatred for Affirmative Action, though, because it is Racism! To this Affirmative Action -- does it not lift value off of the shoulders of courage and skill and put the value on the shoulders of skin color and race? Does it not discourage intellectual development and foster ignorance? Is it not a source of cruelty, denying what rightfully belongs to the deserving, handing over the jewels of opportunity to the undeserving? Is it not responsible for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of qualified students and workers losing their scholarships and jobs, just because they are not a certain race, a certain color? Is it not also responsible for putting in unqualified workers, as well as bolstering anyone who has been inadequate or unskilled in a job, simply because of their race? Affirmative Action is a so-called equal-rights program, but it hardly is even based on the equality of the rights of men! If a person loses their job to a minority because of Affirmative Action, who in their sane mind would look this over as being in opposition to Racism? It is an absurdity and a bruise on the face of liberty. When I ask if Affirmative Action is responsible for promoting the unskilled and demoting the skilled -- that is, to say, debauching merit, neglecting virtue, abhorring passion, in return for loving vice, harnessing inexperience, promoting ignorance -- when Affirmative Action is responsible for all that is destructive to the true nature of equality, it can only be called an institution of Racism, a gross code with injustice as its nature, and cruelty as its fundamental.

Of what breed of man can be proud to take such a job? It is the epitome of shame to claim that you are the student at your university, or the worker at your job, because of your race. Is there any merit in genetics? One may run faster, be built taller, or have a particular shade of skin color; yes, these are the facets of genetics. But are these truly any method for judging a man? The reasoning behind Affirmative Action argues that race is of no value concerning jobs and scholarships. Yet, the very foundation of Affirmative Action is to discriminate on race! It does not uphold the theory that men and women should get their jobs on their skill, nor on their merits. It defends the theory that race is a significant factor, that one's own value as an individual and a worker is irrelevant, and it is this foul doctrine of Affirmative Action that what a man cannot control -- his genetics -- is more important than what a man can control -- his knowledge, his skill, his ambition, the substances of individuality and the fuel of acheivement.

Some will argue that it is a form of equalizing, that Affirmative Action is here today to level off the damage done by European-owned universities and jobs that refused jobs to African humans. This is tantamount to saying that Racism is brutal and inhumane -- an belief that men are not equal and not all are deserving of liberty -- and then, after stating such of Racism, it concludes that the best action now is to engage in the very practice of Racism! It is equivalent of offering bread to those who are full and neglecting those who are starving, to watering a tree that is submerged underwater while neglecting a flower in the desert, to building a home for the kings of the world, who are unscathed by the vehement nature of weather, and ignoring those who have no roof to sleep under? Would any man deny air to one who is suffocating, in favor of giving it to a man who is well in supply of oxygen? Only an insane or sickly sadistic person would do so. In the same fashion, I ask, who could support this abomination called Affirmative Action? Does it not also give what belongs to the deserving to the deserving? To simplify, does it not also embrace the shroud of inequality and injustice?

There are others who still boast of this great equalization movement. They claim that they are giving opportunity to those who never had opportunity, jobs to the jobless, food to the hungry. But this is a lie, and a debasement of truth. Giving quality to people means giving them all equal education, an equal chance to be efficient, the will and ambition to be a good person. It does not mean the luiqidation of equality or the absolution of liberty. Affirmative Action ignores the parts of society that could be improved. Its advocates are not working to improve schools, nor are they working to improve universities or hospitals or worker's and consumer's rights. They are not improving the condition of the minorities by giving them what they need to be good, productive members of society. Instead, they simply place unqualified and incompetant members into jobs in society and seats in universities -- not because they are smart, not because they are qualified, not because they are an exemplary product of education, but entirely because of their race! I could, in part, excuse Affirmative Action if it offered social services to the minorities. That is, if they offered them aid in learning skills and trades. But even if they did that solely to minorities, they would fall to the same corrupt hypocrisy: aiding one race instead of the whole of humanity -- holding limitations on how far justice and charity can go. Instead, however, Affirmative Action hos gone to the point where it is a deterent to productive society, to a happy population. It has put unqualified people in jobs that they are incapable of managing, it has firing qualified people from jobs that they could manage. It is the debasement of equality. By "equalizing" society, Affirmative Action puts minorities into work and universities when they are undeserving on the sole grounds that they are minorities. It is absolutely and appallingly ridiculous that such a practice can even exist, and can even be instituted into the government!

If it had true aim when it came to improving society, it would help the weak and the poor, the uneducated and the ignorant. There would be no one race that needed improvement. Charity does not have selective vision. It does not seek out one gender, one color, one religion. Its net of kindness is cast out over the whole of all creation; any being capable of suffering is not handed over to the carelessness of inhumanity. Affirmative Action, however, does not work as such. Instead, its vision is very selective. It can only see colors. One man is not a person of intellect and passion, a lover of virtue and a hater of vice -- he is simply a color: white, yellow, black, or red. To the other nature of men and women, Affirmative Action is unconcerned. As long as Affirmative Action sees only the colors of men, sees only white and black, -- as long as this profane institution wishes give jobs to men and women who are unskilled, but fitting a certain racial background, -- vision and truth will always be blurred and justice will forever be unacheivable.

After engrossing itself in the delusion that all men are all equal in every aspect to the same degree, Affirmative Action's efforts engage to destroy equality and embrace iniquity. By putting incompetant people to work at jobs and under-educated students to learn in universities based on their ethnic background, we are doing a grave injustice to equality. Affirmative Action does not see the weaknesses of people, it does not see that people may be unskilled no matter what race they are. It abhors the scientific fact that men are all different, in all fields. So it labors on, giving jobs to those who are inadequate and positions to those undeserving, because it focuses on the color of one's skin rather than the merits of their character. Affirmative Action strips every piece of bark from the tree of liberty and then poses as the model of truth and knowledge, only degrading the existence that equality ever had.

I detest Affirmative Action because I detest Racism. One is not the solution to the other, but rather one is the form of the other. Affirmative Action manages to commit multiple crimes against humanity. It forces hard-working individuals out of their jobs to be replaced by someone else who is inadequate, for the sake of race. It gives important jobs and scholarships to unworthy people instead of those who are deserving, for the sake of race. It denies the very principles of equalities, ignores the individual, upholds iniquity; turns a blind eye to the nature of the human being -- it speaks of diversity as though the word only means the color of one's skin; it does not accept the fact that every living, breathing human is a conscious being, each with their own set of skills and fields of knowledge, each with their own degrees of efficiency in those areas. It is for this reason, that Affirmative Action is unfair and an injustice -- a calamity on the globe of freedom -- that I detest Affirmative Action.

Advertising Ideas And Tools

by :Rafael Gutierrez Jr

Today date advertising is extremely expensive and time consuming. The purpose of this article is to give you some ideas where you can advertise and to show you the tools you can use to promote your business.

Media Advertising

Advertising on media has lots of power because people use media everyday in order to keep themselves inform of an event such as news, shopping, education, or entertainment. The most popular medias are television, radio, newspaper, and magazine. Advertise on these types of media is very expensive, specially on television, but it gives good results. In this section, I will show you the tools you can use to advertise on newspapers and magazines without expending lots of money.

MEDIABIDS

With Mediabids you can buy advertising by creating an auction and letting the magazines and newspapers compete for your advertising dollars. You can also buy ads without creating an auction. The auction idea is because here you can setup a budget and the newspaper or magazine company have to bid not higher than your budget. Also check for the advertising specials Mediabids has on the front page.

Advertising On Your Vehicle
Using your vehicle to place your own ad will give you unlimited impressions. You can place a signs and graphics on any glass, door, trunk, or hook of your vehicle. You can use companies like FastSigns, DomainPlates.com, Drivertise.com, or you can look up on your local yellow pages for companies that make signs for vehicles. License Plate Advertising. Here you have to option to advertise on your license plate. Option one, you can buy a personalized license plate at your DMV or Department of Motor Transportation. Personalized license plates are not expensive and that will help you boost your business by displaying your business name or website URL. Option two, add a new license plate frame. On the license plate frame you can ad your business name and slogan. You can also add your website URL. Here you will have two lines and you can choose the size, color, and character of the letters to be displayed. To buy a set of frames at LicensePlatesOnline.com and click on

custom license plate frames. You can also check your yellow pages for a listing of local companies.

Online Advertising
If you have a website you can submit your website to search engines and directories. The most popular search engines and directories where you have to put more effort to get listed, are Google, Yahoo, MSN, and dmoz. But that's not enough, you have to build an strong presence by adding your website to other search engines and specially directories, so can can earn link popularity and receive more traffic. Just click here to manually submit your website to search engines and directories. If your business does not have a website; you still can add your business to online yellow pages like Yahoo! Local, SmartPages, SuperPages, etc. Another thing that you can do is buy ads online. Buying ads can get you where you want to be and the prices are from low to very high. It depends where are buying your ads from. My recommendation is AdBright.com because it has a huge inventory of well known online websites. If you have a blog on your website; you can ping to all blog search engines and blog directories every time your blog is updated. You can get good ping service totally free from Pingoat.com. You can promote your website on forums and discussion boards as well. Just be careful with spamming. There's some websites that let you post ads for free. Websites like classifieds or forums websites like PostYourAdForFree.com.

Offline Advertising
A good institution that can help you with advertising is your local chamber of commerce. Usually all chamber of commerce members trade business cards at their local businesses or let you each place some type of advertising. You can make your own business cards and make sure you always carry some with you wherever you go. A good software you can download to create your own business cards is Business Card Designer Plus, but if you do not want to make your own business cards then you can hire a company to design the business cards for. You can do that online at VistaPrint.com. Not only business cards, but you can also have your business name on your mailing address, checks background, etc.

Accounting Job Search Tips

Accounting Job Search Tips

by :Jay Bauder

Searching for an Accounting Job

Accounting graduates, have broader choices and specific paths to follow with their careers. Accounting requires a lot of skills when it comes to business and that is why every company has an employee that is an accounting graduate. If you are an accounting graduate, you can apply in any kind of firm. Areas may include tax, audit, financial analysis and management accounting.

It is best that you apply for a job that matches your interests and expertise. There are careers that have been proven by most accounting graduates to bring them to the top of the success ladder and you may want to consider entering these fields.

If you are an accounting graduate who excel in public accounting, the entry-level positions that best fit this skill are Tax Staff, Consulting/ Management Services and Staff Auditor. With these positions you will do your duties reporting to a senior. Once you have acquired three to six years of experience in any of these positions, you may then want to consider applying for the higher levels like Tax Senior, Senior Auditor, and Consulting Senior where the position entails reporting directly to a Manager. After six years of excelling with these potions, then you may consider the positions Partner level and Senior Partner.

Having an edge with corporate accounting, one to three years of experience will qualify you to become a staff member in Internal Audit, Tax Accounting, Management, and Financial Accounting. Moving up the higher lever after three to six years, you will be eligible for the Senior Level for Internal Audit, Tax Accounting and Management Accounting. Six years thereafter, you may want to consider aiming for the positions like the Tax Manager, Internal Audit Manager and Financial Accounting Manager.

Expertise in Financial Management, Staff for Financial Planning, Cash Management, and Credit Analysis are options for entry-level positions. Once you have gained the enough experience, you may aim for the Treasury Operations, Credit Analysis and Senior Financial Planning. Higher positions will include Treasurer, Manager for Credit Analysis and Financial Planning.

These career options are traditional paths that were found to fit best for accounting graduates. However, it does not mean that they are the only way to climb up the success ladder. You should go beyond not just limit your skills to accounting. It is still recommended that you gain enough work experience, acquire knowledge in different aspects of education, and continue to improve your character to be a step ahead with other job seekers.

Abaris (Rabbi) the Druid

By: Robert Bruce Baird

ABARIS THE DRUID:

Various reports and fragments thereof, in what little was written and remains of ancient Greek times, tell us about the last Dean of Studies for the Bardic Tradition. He visited Athens to teach Pythagoras. Hecateus of Miletus and others tell us he appeared in loincloth with animal skins and was an expert marksman with the bow and other hunting gear. Perhaps to their amazement he also was fluent in all the languages of the Mediterranean; and his knowledge was impressive while his manner beguiled all the elite who sought to meet him. They say he was the teacher of Pythagoras but I think that is not the case really.

Pythagoras' studies were a very long period of years and took him to many places. Each of these places had a special something for him and I believe each of them were part of the system of studies that were in the twilight of their tenure. Like Orpheus before him (some credit a few of the extant poems of Orpheus to Pythagoras who wrote little to nothing due to the third law of the Magi which was necessitated by political abuse of power in the hands of the uninitiated) the acknowledged great sage whose parents included at least one Phoenician; Pythagoras had become a Bard or Baird.

I believe Abaris was from the region of Thrace or modern day Yugoslavia and the Thracian who Pythagoras left a lot to in his will, who is termed a slave, was actually an adept committed to teaching a great student much of what remained in the ancient knowledge of the Keltoi whom the Greeks called 'Ogygia' which means 'ancient ones'. It is possible that this Thracian who it is said worked with him in his bi-location skills and events was a 'kapnobatai' adept. Milman Parry of Harvard went to this region in the 1930s and found the legendary bards were still very aware of structure and memory skills that spoke to a great knowledge in ancient times. Was Abaris a 'kapnobatai' or 'peryllat' (alchemist)? I do not know.

He almost certainly helped arrange for Pythagoras to take his studies or visit Zoroaster, and spend much time learning the few secrets he unlocked at the Great Pyramid. Those secrets include the healing attributed to the Therapeutae that modern Dead Sea Scrolls and other research indicates was taught at Qumran. I believe Commarius the tutor of Cleopatra may also have taught Jesus some of this art along with Simon Magus and other Gaedhils who had a long tradition of studies since the time of Isis in Egypt. Abaris is translated as 'Rabbi' amongst the people who developed the sacerdotal code called Hebrew.

I have dealt with these healing and other arts in the other volumes, but I would also suggest it is possible Abaris was in charge of the whole Keltoi education system. I suggest this because he arrived to meet Pythagoras on the recorded instance, when Pythagoras had already done much of his work. That would make Abaris a truly amazing character because the Keltoi were still a major influence in the whole world and had what we might call universities or Ashrams throughout it. Hecateus was born in a position to take a prominent priesthood of the Basilidae. He turned the honor over to someone who needed it but his knowledge seems very Druidic as well. I continue to research the Basilian Father's origins and suspect they (like the Nestorians) are part of the Judaeo/ Christian/Islamic elite working together to keep the majority in a state they are able to use to their own benefit. Who needs states or nations when you have corporate entities that work behind the scenes as well as religions?

A Year's Worth of Character Training to Last a Lifetime

A Year's Worth of Character Training to Last a Lifetime

by :Kate Hufstetler

Ever wonder why some kids are the way they are? Ever wonder why some kids seem to lack the basics in true inner character? Well, just exactly how did we think children would ever get character - without being taught character. Long gone are the days when whole communities worship weekly. Long gone are the days when everyone in our small societal circles subscribe to the same exacting morals and principles to guide life and living.

I remember when my son was young we made a move to a new state. We left behind a community within a community. We left behind a large group of people (friends and neighbors) that subscribed to similar ethics and standards of behavior. Everyone we knew, predominantly, up-held the same guiding principles that our family lived by. Then that ever fateful day. It was during the first week at his new preschool & playing with his new neighborhood friends in our new state. My son walked in the house and I made a simple statement "because that is how we do it." To which my son replied "well, Mike's family doesn't do it that way and they don't even care about that stuff." UGH ! We had come to another milestone in parenting: awareness of diversity within family styles and values.

The reality is that kids DO learn through osmosis; meaning, they will assimilate and become what they see around them. However, what is it that they see around them? Aside from home-schooled children (or those that attend private academies) children today are away from their families up to 12 hours a day in some cases including before and after school care. Being gone either 8 hours or 12 hours a day leaves precious little time for a family to model all the appropriate qualities they wish to instill within their children. Not to mention, these hours are relegated to EARLY morning hours (barely awake time) and late evening before bed hours (barely coherent time again).

Over a lifetime our children will spend the majority of their time away from us. They will be witnesses to their friends, their friend's families, movies, worship communities, television shows, video games, scouting troops, music, sports teams, camps & conferences, etc. There will be an excess of information coming into your child's awareness and all of it leading to who your child becomes.

There are many many places your child will observe character, some of it good and some of it not good. Besides what type of character-- which attributes will your child randomly be exposed to? And will your child be able to identify them, understand them, and discern how to incorporate them in such a way to be a wonderful adult?

Here is a list of 52 qualities of internal character. You can take one item a week to fill up a year's worth of character training within your own home. You can design the curriculum, buy the curriculum, or hire someone to work with your family to tailor content that reflects the lessons you'd like your child to learn along the way in life. As I said before, long gone are the days when parents can just trust that throughout the day their child is taking in the right information to become a responsible, highly functional, & happy member of society. Take the list. Tweak it to fit your lifestyle and preferences. Have fun with it. And enjoy knowing you are not leaving your child's character up to chance.

Accountability Caring Character Charity Compassion Credibility Desire Determination Diversity Awareness Diversity Respect Duty / Responsibility Empathy Excellence Fairness Flexibility Following directions Friendliness Frugal Fun Generosity Gentleness Giving Global awareness Happiness Helpfulness Honesty Honor Hope Humility Imagination Integrity Judgment / reason Knowledge / education Logic Loyalty Obedience Openness / privacy Patience Peace Perseverance Politeness Respect Self-control Sharing Sportsmanship Strength (internal) Team player Tenderness Tolerance Trust Trust-worthiness Uniqueness

Until next time

A Quick Guide To Life At Military School

By : Simon Oliver

Military schools, contrary to common belief, are not all drills, squats and jumping jacks. It's not also a place where bad children are sent as a last resort. While military schools emphasize a military style environment, they also feature a specialized curriculum that places importance on a strong education background, ensuring that cadets receive a quality education.

Students are called "cadets" when attending military school, as all life, activities and education emulates the military structure. In the past, military schools were only for the sons of the well-off families with the intention of developing character and high educational values.

Over the years, military schools turned into modern day schools for rebellious teenagers. However, kids aren't placed in a military schools in order to be punish them; on the contrary, they're placed there in order to correct their behavior. Military schools have garnered negative publicity over the years, particularly during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, significantly lowering enrollment. To compensate, many military schools turned to offering structured environments for troubled teens.

As with any school, military schools are not without problems, but unlike ordinary schools, military schools have a better approach in correcting rebellious behavior. They work to ensure that cadets will show improvement for the duration of their highly structured programs, using emotional, physical, and other means to teach cadets to respect themselves and others.

The schools' progressive academic programs help each cadet improve as they strive to attain certain goals in their program. The boys enrolled in military schools undergo rigorous training that aims to teach boys on how to better understand themselves. This training also helps young men understand their own weaknesses and strengths. Evaluations are conducted during the first weeks of training to provide an overview on what areas need improvement.

Military schools offer an effective emotional growth program, with personal development courses, educational videos and tapes. The objective of this highly structured program is to help create responsible young adults by changing negative habits and choices. Military schools have been perceived as a interdisciplinary programs and, to a large extent, this is true. With ever increasing numbers of troubled teenagers, military schools fill an important role in the education.