What of the best thing your body can surely have is sleep. Sleep, sleep, sleep! When you have slept for the recommended dose of 8 hours, your days are usually better in many ways. At least in my end, waking up at 8:00am will do it. However, if you’re into improving a bit more by the day consider this tips as I surely did them today(Sunday!) and it once again worked marvelously.

Study your sleeping patterns. Over here in island Puerto Rico in my early 20’s I remember going to bet very late at night, very late. It usually means 1:00am to 2:00am. Now can you imagine a morning schedule of waking up at 11:00am? Lucky me? Not so. Here’s what I have found so far, the insights in the learning process have been quite insightful.

Regular business days in Puerto Rico usually start at 8:00am. That’s when morning traffic is still at mid-levels as people are already working. Between 8:00am and around 10:30am the momentum of the day is very slow. People are getting paid by the hour, getting paid to do their work; however, the peak of the day hasn’t started yet.

We could easily know that by studying when the PHONE starts ringing. You start receiving calls to your home about credit card offers, business associates start calling you to check on updates about current project and most importantly your mind is still cozy with it’s own internal environment so bit by bit it can wake up completely and activate itself into its full capacity.

What I have done that has helped me now for the last week is fighting with my brain in order to wake up at 5:00am. The last time I had to do that was on my way to the airport. It can be a bit difficult if you don’t have to wake up early in the morning, however, once you do so you not only enjoy your day more - your energy is usually at its peak. Now, here’s a simple yet basic calculation in words.

If at least in Puerto Rico, people are either on traffic or in combat for full active capacity from 8am to 10:30am. The time when most people are either still in a sleeping comma(i passed through those many times), and when quietness(peace) is present.

What do you think is the best time, to get yourself constant productivity peaks? By my logic, it would be between 8:00am to 10:30am! Hence, if your days productivity is only 2 hours on average I then think it would be suggestible that anyone that finds out they have 2 hours of major productive work per day, work in the most productive priorities between 8:00am to 10:30am. This of course can be adjusted for your priorities and given situation.

What can you do to have a peak through a working day? My findings. Give your mind at least 2 hours before starting ANY type of work in the early morning; which generally means, allowing yourself a space of two early hours of breakfast, reading newsworthy material and/or having a nice conversation with your wife. Purpose of it; the more you know yourself, the more perfection in control you gather for improving workload through the day.

Most importantly, how can you wake up at 5:00am or 6:00am of the morning to enjoy my day and become more productive? Go figure, imagine. It was my third question. Once I knew the “what” and “why”, the “how-to” was supposed to be a bit of a fight. Of course, at least on my end.

Here is what I did and it worked after studying my own patterns. (Telling you a weakness boo for the marketer!) Ok seriously, go to sleep ONLY when you feel like sleeping, in other words when you feel those sleeping hormones can make you sleep once you catch a book and drop t in less than a 3 minute blink. That’s surely the first step.

Then go to sleep consistently no matter how late at night you get into that queen size, king side usual bed of yours. How this will work if you will still be sleepy if you wake early morning and only sleep 2-3 hours the next day? Wake up at the same time the next no matter if you went to bed at 3:00am the last day. The word consistency here means that through days your body will assimilate a pattern through at least 4-5 days of practice and going to bed before 11:00pm will be possible, therefore, 5:00am or 6:00am will become more easier and actively progressive through your given day.

It has worked wonders for me when I have wanted to do it and it could surely could work for you to. Heck, now I know for sure why many guys that aren’t in the bodybuilding industry need to use steroids. The quickest solution is cheating, the most difficult solution is working out a nutritional regimen day and night to acquire yourself a physical shape(in mind and body) that is healthy. Most people aren’t willing to do that, but I am sure that the faster you get on with it, the better.

John

Reflecting from past experiences against one of the emails I received from a customer: “What’s the best moment to start doing business online?” I had continued flashbacks on such fascinating edifying point from his curiosity thought. His point truly hold me enough memories back when I started taking the Internet seriously.

Back in the days that the enthusiasm of internet marketing started heating up to my days of being in love with what e-commerce and anything surroundings business online could do back in late 2004. By experience; when is the moment to start a business?

The moment to start a business is by experience is, when you’re truly enthusiastic of moving on with what could be a better opportunity. When you have supplied enough confidence to say “Enough.” Most commonly, when you have carefully planned “what are you going to do” and “how are you going to survive or perhaps live from such new projects”

Problem being even from experience, perhaps, for you too. If your surroundings, and by surroundings I mean all the key and loving people that surround are in most parts, workaholics for enriching someone else pocket - how are you securely going to decide if it’s time to quit and resign your job?

Most commonly, from experience…never. Never if you are awaiting someone else approval. You’ve to decide that for yourself. Sure, by logic, you should expect to plan before quitting a job that is maintaining 2 young, little boys that have medical needs. To minimize the risk, you should expect to have some savings for AT LEAST, 6 months if wanting to offer wholesale merchandise as a career.

Most importantly, you should communicate and deliver your plan to your spouse before even expecting to resign and quit any kind of income that provides to those who need you must. Selling merchandise can surely make you a living, heck, I am even going to address you two groups of guys who started a company called “MyWeddingFavors” and that had made millions from just the site alone.

Sure, the site din’t make a million dollars the first year. But at first, it may be a possibility that you may start surviving. Later on you start living and buying toys here and there (who doesn’t want to!) and perhaps ultimately as an option…you get to truly enjoy yourself with ultra financial success. None of us need explanation for it. Financially, these guys have had greater success than me and many of us. Heck, they have too if they live in California. Here in Puerto Rico few thousands dollars and you live, pretty well.

Just go check their site and see for yourself. The site obviously is nice and beautiful for their market. They are now the leader in wedding details, that you’ll not get shocked of answering “reason why” in your mind. Here’s the great site. And hey, getting married soon…think of these sites for buying or even great ideas. It’s worth to see a million dollar sub-niche site…

http://www.myweddingfavors.com/

Now that’s beauty indeed, my wife wants to build one just like that one now. Of course, you may imagine my reply… “NOOOOOOOOOO HONEYYYY….AT LEAST…..NOT FOR NOW!” But of course I did liked the ideas that came with it and we were both happy. Hint, do the same to your spouse if you’re yet not married and see what happens.

Disregard the last message if you feel the need. Keep yourself hooked.

All the best,

John R.

Magnificent day, I got to see Batman today! Heck, you would probably end up saying like me - I want to see it again. Perhaps not, but I love that Batman character. What I did NOT like in any degree was the nitty gritty emails received today to my email inbox. My Outlook Express email account is my main watch dog, my routine - like like yours every single day to stay in touch with emails that need a response and to read some leading emails from other top experts to stay ahead in my home based business career.

Open up email, BOOM! The virus continues, spam keeps flowing over and over again. For the last year ever since moving to my new home I have been ignoring and just deleting email through email manually. How passive can someone be when an immediate solution is just right above us, the delete key. No more!

Know that if you keep allowing to have your main email inbox get flood with spam, when it adds up, you can easily get over 100 spamming emails over the course of a 24hr period! Insane, so it had to stop. Today I took the time to learn about a system called “Spam Arrest”.

The system can be pretty intimidating at first once you take there trial, however, we just have to have a system like this in place once our email has been exposed to countless amount of people and mainly if your email has been pasted into online websites in some kind of shape or form. One little miscarriage on protecting your email, you are likely to end up in SPAM just like this guy…

SPAM Arrest is pretty good service so far today in my first trial. Basically, you will have to add your most important emails in correlation to your industry in order for them being approved by the system and letting them pass. You can set the system for not deleting emails automatically, so basically it works like it should. You really take charge of your email account.The rest of the world can take the confirmation email from SPAM Arrest if they really need to contact you. Think of it like this, if it’s really important to contact you and a person knows your email - he will confirm the verification email letter SPAM Arrest sends in order to confirm the likely event of the message being from an actual friendly and not another SPAM advertisement.

Highly recommend the service, once again, it’s called “SPAM Arrest”. Begin to love it. The actual feeling of not having to delete numerous amounts of emails after so long felt a bit strange as I obviously formed a habit to just pressing the delete key and lets go, but actually it’s far better as our time is being invested more efficiently and it saves us more time from actions we shouldn’t be doing.

John R.

Back to business. How can you get your e-commerce shop, website or even blog index in the search engines fast? The most obvious choices for most Internet markets being, going to Google, Yahoo and MSN for getting their sites index as Google has an average by month of 65% of the search market, Yahoo leading second with an average of 20% and MSN on a third position with around 7%.

One of the steps I never consider is getting all of my websites index in other search engines others than the top 3. Now, here is a good point to think about and consider. If the top 3 search engines make around 90% on average of the search queries on the worldwide web? Who are the next popular search engines on the Internet after Google, Yahoo and MSN?

While many of these search engines and directories are affiliated of the main three companies above, you should consider submitting your website to these next blog as it is easier to get index in this sites and to acquire easy linkage authority and therefore rank higher in the short term with them and consequentially as you grow in the most popular 3 of Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Check; dmoz.org, alltheweb.com, ask.com, looksmart.com and gigablast.com .

These search engines, combined with many of there directory power hold enough of the 10% gap that Google, Yahoo and MSN don’t hold. Truth always holds truth, if your website is mostly informative and provide consistent updated content and submit your mini mall and your blog extension with good amount of content - you should get in.

Last work in progress was MSN, re-submitting 32 websites (and manually) for approval as they recently changed and updated their ranking algorithms heavily. After tweaking sites with added content, 18 sites re-appeared in their index pages and thousands of pages are now index from all my network of websites.

Different algorithms, different approval process. They all want the same thing: “quality”

For more traffic on all of us,
John R.

Today as I finished with one of the finest products I have done so far specifically for my family, friends and Puerto Rican friends (of course you guys are also invited) I read the local news and a special, full of purpose, loving guy went in peace with his last lecture. Other than my two greatest friends, my parents, a person called “Randy Pausch” inspired millions of people across the world, specifically in his native country up there in the US and surely tough me even more and inspired many of us to pursue meaningful things as far significance results means to your loved ones and others define.

Randy Pausch historic legacy is surely already living in peace since yesterday when he passed away, His fight for living every single day full of gratitude and in time to let all of us look inside of us in more deeper insightful ways as how are we managing our life can be defined by you, also as priceless.

Please take yourself 1 hour to watch the historic speech he did for his college students and university or take a look at the “Oprah” shortest version it’s post immediately below the Carnegie Mellon University lecture. His insights surely have great value on all of us. Take a nice soda or perhaps “Tropica 12 onz” of fresh orange juice and do watch one of the two lectures by Mr. Pausch, you won’t regret it.

A shorter version can also be seen by going to:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R9ya9BXClRw

What a guy, huh?

Among the many quotes I have gathered from Randy’s lectures. His way of conveying many of his quotes bring so much much truth and meaning, that I had to add him to this blog and show them to you. Here are some of the lectures that many of us (including myself) have always believed truly that came from Randy Pausch:

“Brickwalls are there for a reason: they let us prove how bad we want things” Video quote by Randy

Me: My obvious and logical view of this quote is; if it was easy to become the head CEO of a company or a successful work at home entrepreneur, in my opinion, more than 95% of Puerto Rican people will resign their McDonald’s job and more than 70% of people across the globe will happily find meaning to a new route for financial security or freedom.

“Decide if you are a Tiger or Eeyore” Video quote by Randy

Me: In my experienced viewpoint, hearing this made me laugh so much as I always found it very truthful. While being an “Eeyore” will be loving for your daughter and kids, in the real you either have to be a tiger or a lion! My logo means, many of us are kind of slow in reaction but an element in persistence always find truth for success. While a lion should always win a battle, a tiger is often faster than any rival in business. Sharpening your strengths is one of the principles I have taken greatly into consideration in the last years. Being an “Eeyore” is always ok too, however, instead of being nice you might find that being “good” has more meaning than being nice. I’m sure you’ll understand the connotations in such words now or soon enough.

“Earnest Is Better Than Hip” Randy Pausch “The Last Lecture” book

To be exact, on page 133 of Randy Pausch books, he documents his finding across a simple and yet another truthful, healthy habit. In a nutshell and in my opinion to, forming a habit for long term always beats short term.

Get his book from Amazon.com directly from this link http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217085778&sr=8-1

His lectures, his life meaning with his family and definitely his story is one you definitely should consider reading for an amplified state of improved and better living. Around 20 minutes writing and editing this long but yet sincere blog post, I am sure you may also find it worth it.

John R.

Recently, I have been in deep analysis and studies among thoughts among three types of people. The loving middle class person, the average poor person ( as poor mind) and the not so tolerated rich fragrance of the wealthy classy typo. Personally being in all three types of classes, my studies are incredibly interesting for many of you.

Note: When few of us say we have been in all types of classes, generally means. That knowing what is having to eat “corn beef” every week, then (thank god for evolution) having the privilege to eat pasta and cook the latest Costco shrimps around the plate while having some materialistic goods to enjoy feels great and the one that is demanded from those rising from middle class developments - the one with most momentum. Fighting to pay the bills with family and friends over weekend getaways is often an issue.

What I found really interesting is that people don’t know themselves. Most people, easily a 70% of the people I meet outside my entrepreneurial career - don’t know themselves. Then, how can people get wealthy, live healthy and keep minimum amounts of stress from unknown situations can actually happen, if they don’t know themselves?

One of the ignorant commentaries of a poor person (poor mindset) was as a past mindset from a person reminded me “Forget books, self-books are for insecure people”. This particular enligthning comment can get in your subconscious rolling, why isn’t that dumb!

She was a sweet, beautiful good looking sweetie from college. Without needing to say more, the real fact was at the end among many - she didn’t know herself. A person may have many qualities in common as you may understand, however, but an ignorant comment abour reading self-help book being about insecure people was interesting enough to keep knowing why! Just imagine.

Pressing the luck for a few months, there were many red flags. She is still working in a low paying profession, her parents are still rich, she still looks nice - but what does that matter if she is still broke? A hello and a how are you and conclusions goodbye.

The point is, we all broke once or twice in a lifetime if you have a bit ordinary luck on your side (like myself) but if you constantly study and bring your own anlysis on how you are improving as a person or careerwise - you shouldn’t have much trouble getting wealthy with time.

Now, there is no need to remind you that among my studies a poor mindset will most often say: “I know myself. I don’t need to take a personality test.” That is the average reaction. Some have reason for such answers and we definitely respect that, however, some definitely have no reason for answering in such a way as their living style confirm otherwise.

By taking an analysis report every year, most of us also grow our strengths even more and better our weaknesses a bit more with the answers given from such tests. Then when you find your optimum personal strength and what the codes in the answers given, you already got workable results.

A personal authority on such test can be found by hitting a search on Personality 100 resource on the search engines. You may not get surprised if you take similar tests religiously by the year, from few of the available authority sites online by doctors and health experts, however, you may get intrigued by your scoring past modified way of doing and by other related improvements, among others.

Then the secret, more like mystery not follow by many. In simple words, educate yourself and know yourself before going alone in the jungle. Get a book in your strength and get another for your weaknesses. Hit a café latte at Borders and indulge yourself. It should be fun. Could you hear the unconventional communication already saying, “pinky promise?”

Some results, few insights so you know a bit about the so called “wholesale guru…”

Agreeableness

Agreeableness refers to the degree to which people make their actions depend upon the behaviour of other people. A person who scores high in agreeableness has a strong willingness to empathize and connect with others. A person who scores low in agreeableness has a strong willingness to follow his or her own inner voice.

Score: 25 out 100%.

Strong-willed / independent Empathetic / considerate

Your Result

Your score of 25 classifies you as low in agreeableness.

Your Feedback

You are strong-willed and self-confident. You are genuine.You like the motto ‘what you see is what you get’. You appreciate people who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in, who do not pretend to be something they are not.You take pride in being yourself without compromise.

Your Interaction Style

You say what you feel. People may sometimes consider your actions insensitive, but you feel that you are doing them a favor by remaining authentic. If you find your friend’s haircut to be terrible, and that friend asks for your opinion, you will tell him or her you find the haircut terrible. The trick, however, is learning….

(Books super-good stuff…edited…order your own for good…the entire book truly read me better than the last 3 I have taken since 2004)

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Another paragraph out of random. The analysis is full of great insights, but in other terms…you may love the changes among others to modify and tweak as needed. Here’s one additional quality analysis and explanation style of personality100.com. No need for their affiliate program on me, they deserve their money…I would higher recommend them. The test analysis tells you what you need to hear. Here’s the promised quality paragraphs:

Your Work Style

You have the ability, if you like, to remain emotionally disconnected from a situation. As a result, you do not have trouble making unpleasant or unpopular decisions. You are able to think clearly and objectively, without letting personal ties and friendship obligations encumber the situation.

You are able to remain authentic to yourself because you have less of a need to please / be accepted by others, compared to those of higher agreeableness levels. However, to say that one is entirely unconcerned about what others think borders on a self-protective, rather than genuine, tendency. Steer clear of such extremes.

You are not tender-minded. You would rather be assertive under conflict than yielding, wishy-washy, humble, or meek.You would admit what other people are afraid to say: you are more focused on your own needs than the needs of others.What does this mean? You follow the beat of your own drummer, rather than getting lost within the group.

Your Interaction Style

Thinkers approach decisions in an entirely different manner than feelers. Be aware that, to a feeler, the thinker’s approach is often seen as detached and lacking in emotions. It is important to explain that you express your caring by looking after others’ welfare in impartial, clear, and level-minded ways.

Thinkers and feelers work well together once each person fully understands the other’s perspective. If two people applied for a job that required advanced technical skill, you would prefer the person who was extremely qualified to be chosen over the one who was less technically qualified but friendlier. A feeler would prefer the opposite.

That’s only one single page from personality100.com, I got 100 pages of myself. Just imagine, but then again, that’s a bed time study/analysis.

Right now, I need some weekend sugar… (as movie get-away entertainment)

Sex and the city was an explosion, no need for that. A friend told me to see the movie “Wanted” and immediatly called me to say, I understand you Joaquin. The beginning and ending part of the movie, is what you keep saying over and over. That the ending part was always the best one, he never said to me what happened in the end. Little prediction, but lets get some midnight adventure as the old days…shall we?

See you guys soon,
John Roberts

Passing through eBay I still see people going after schemes, after schemes, after schemes. Scams are growing bigger by the day not only on eBay, but on numerous websites online and auction sites runned by the good guys - respectable brands.

For many of you that may not know, auctions sites, especially eBay have a running tour d’France running by the hour from people listing auctions in the wrong places. Situation being for eBay fraud prevention department being, they have massive amounts of sellers with the intent to selling supposed wholesale distributor list, but listing as for example, in the handbag, purse sub-categories. Not only do the sellers get massive traffic, they get people’s clueless purchase. They send them an email with a list of 1,000 distributors of random merchandise sources and leave the buyer at “AW!”

“What is this, I din’t purchase this” “I Purchase a Louis Vutton $2,495.00 purse for $10.00 with free shipping!” That was a friend of mine running through eBay’s addicted bargains. Of course, with my help paypal easily gave my friend her money back and not only did she get her money back, the seller has a big “user is no longer registered” in the feedback area of eBay feedback portfolio.

Coming from a nice vacation a few days back, this is the call I get 5 approximate seconds before sitting my precious and starting to work. This message for you means “prevention!”

By now you may be probably equipped with a B.S detector to easily spot the scammers on auction sites and on multiple online websites. Avoid the temptation if you are not sure of what you are purchasing and make sure to read every single detail described in every offering online. Be it on eBay or respected website, it should be schooling basics 101…but still people want the “too good to be true” discounts on Louis Vutton, Prada, Channel and the likes in the high priced ticket items on in-demand products.

This type of behavior will keep happening. Sites like eBay and other auction sites have already integrated softwares to pull red flags in their database for fast immediate re-verification of the product/auction in question. So if you are buying a wholesale distributor list, make sure not to fill your email inbox with 10 gigabytes of yellow pages fully exposed retail distributors and make sure to carefully review the fine prints if you fell in love with a handbag.

Catch you guys shortly,

John R.

I have always loved the idea and have been natured to keep a continued education regimen. Whether it would be schooling types or college - they are all great. Either for reminders or for discovering new ideas that are worth $1,000 over long term timeframes.

Was just getting to know more about Earl Nightingale, knew enough with all the scheduled books, continued culinary exploration I had for myself in the past months, but this guy. Wow, what a hidden legend. Just took the survey and even if he din’t probably wrote the quiz results himself, it’s a starter of first impression. I also connected with all his survey results on my background.

It’s kind of personal, but it’s a start for knowing each other into dephs without asking the likes “Burger or “Fries” associated vague surveys of some marketers on the web, no names. Shhh…take ”free test” by going to http://www.nightingale.com/. Awesome material over there, picking up a few CD’s soon. Time to rest a little as there’s no way I am waking up at 11:00pm again!

Here are some of the results of my personal test (couldn’t believe I still manage to earn five figures to this day by the month!) Still need to skill up too…

Optimism

“You are what you think about,” so the saying goes, and it is no surprise that happy people are, well, just happier. This category of optimism includes both internal and external sources of positive affirmation (i.e., self-esteem, confidence, self-image, spiritual acuity, etc.).

You’ve got a pretty good attitude about life, and while others view you as positive and approachable, you require time away from people. You prefer to surround yourself with quality rather than quantity.

Interpersonal Skills

Relationships are pivotal to overall success, and that not only includes personal relationships, but also the ability to deal with people. Negotiating. Selling. Public speaking. Regardless of your trade, these factors are all necessary for ultimate success.

Although you are an extrovert by nature and you have the ability to perform when pressed, there are just some situations where you’d prefer to be in the background. And while others view you as confident in your abilities, you would have to admit that you don’t always agree with their appraisal.

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P.S- I require time away from people and some situations where I would prefer to be in the background…MMMMM. This survey or the legend got in my mind a little, ah, my sleep is valuable will try him out Priority mail tommorow, I want my sleep!

See you guys,

John