Job Sight

 

 When focusing your sights what do you focus on? You focus on the JOB the TARGET!  Well, if you are not use to focusing your sights on a target that would be a common mistake made.  You focus on your sights first and line them up with your target.  The target is actually blurry compared to the clearness of your focus on your sights.  If you have this sight picture then you have proper target acquisition.  In other words: Does your sights line up with your target? If you focus on the target, in this case the job, and not on your front sight/cross-hairs you will not hit the target like you planned.  Sure your shot will go down range, but where will it actually hit?

I have lined up some examples for you to look over and evaluate their sight picture.  What was their focus and are they able to hit their target? Which one seems most like yours? 

Word this week on the street about jobs:

Figured I would take a field test on the job market.  This is what I have witnessed this week. 

 1) A Coca~Cola driver, Nathan, stated he was needing to find a new job.  His company was cutting everyone's salary back to $25,000 annually and increasing his route to service 15 more customers.  Instead of getting off at 3:30 PM, he is now getting off work at 7:30 PM, for 12 hours, five days a week.  On top of that he was having to sell raffle tickets along his route.  He was 28 YOA and is waiting on being selected for the next Police Academy.  Eight years of hard work to get his pay cut in half and to work a lot harder.  It was time for him to move on to something else.

2) Next I spoke with a fuel truck driver, Timothy, and when I approached him he received a phone call for a job offer with a freight trucking company.  He was excited! The 55 YOA man was selected to have an interview the next day to be paid $35.00 an hour and $.49 per mile he drove working 12 hours a day and only a four minute away from his house.  He currently was getting work for three days a week  to ship fuel and having to travel 35 miles to work. 

3) John is retiring next month with 24 years of military service, and struggling to get a job offer.  Then yesterday got a job offer for a federal job in Alaska.  It is the only offer he has with his experience and education, after looking for the past five months for his next career.

4) Paul retired from his third job at 72 YOA, and figures he is ready to retire and has everything paid off with three retirement checks coming in.  He is on his third marriage too!

5) Get this!  There are seven federal employees I know who have to the end of the month to pass a physical fitness test that just came out this year, as a requirement for them to keep their jobs.  They are 50-62 YOA, and have some health problems and are hard workers.  The men are facing not having a retirement or forced to retire early.

6) A 27 YOA young man, Matthew, works from home and owns two houses, and makes over six figures a month.  A business owner since he was 21 and is debt free.  Helps people to do what he does to leverage their time for money.

Check this site out for info on 2011 jobs.  

http://career-advice.comcast.monster.com/job-search/company-industry-research/jobs-in-decline-2011/article.aspx

Great Read:

Overcoming Time Poverty How to Achieve More by Working Less, by Bill Quain, Ph.D. 

Thanks for visiting and love to hear your comments!  Have a blessed day!!

 

Sight Test On Reality

 

What Do You See?

If you are like most people you will normally see the good before you see the evil!  Sometimes what we see in black and white is not what it really seems after all.  Probably some of you thought you saw a heart and the head of something from Jurassic Park!  Today I want to take you on an adventure of seeing life as it really is for most of us.  Hang on for an exciting post that I hope will generate some discussion.

Time to decipher fact from fiction:

Okay, we hear so many stories and don't know what to believe most of the time on so many issues with life.  We tend to fall back on what we know to be true; however,  what we know is it really true?  Is it love or infatuation?  Are we really free or suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Did you really give to charity for a good cause or funded a terrorist organization?  Is that a real church or a cult?  Are we fighting for oil, economic stability, peace and happiness or fighting for our lives in a real Holy War that we don't understand?  Are our kids getting a real education or being sold on false information about the real world?  Are we teaching our kids to handle disappointments or take it out with anger and violence?  Are the products we use really safe for us or killing us to make someone a hefty profit?  Are we spurring our economy or breaking our economy?  

Now I have your interest you have some food for thought!  I will try to help us see the facts and will require your help.  Maybe you will see something I haven't seen or in a different light.  

Time for my real-life story to validate a point on what are we really seeing.

What I have to share is not easy and lives with me every day.  I was posted in a tower on the base perimeter to observe the city, surrounding a part of the base in Iraq.  A  car parked on side of the road as if broken down and the men sat facing down the road.  They were approximately 250 meters in front of my location at a major intersection.  It was just before dusk when this took place.  A UN convoy was approaching the intersection as I intently observed the car.  The three men seemed nervous and sat still for the convoy to pass.  I had called in the suspicious vehicle and advised to keep my eyes on them.  It was common for cars to break down or wait on the side of the road for a guy to walk over with jugs of fuel to sell.  

A few minutes passed and then the guy in the back seat began moving around.  The other two just sat in the car talking.  Then the back seat passenger opened the passenger side door, away from me and on the curb side and remained in the car. The height of the curb met with the bottom level of the car.  My view was obscured.  Soon the man sat up and got still with the other men facing forward.  I looked towards the intersection to see another convoy approaching. This time it was a US Army patrol.  I intently focused on the vehicle and was calling in the situation to my control to relay to the US Army.  It was nerve racking.  I was positioned and ready to take a shot at any sign I had of hostility.  The patrol passed and nothing happened.  

About 20 minutes passed when I noticed a van pull up and two men got out and greeted the three men in the car.  They hooked up a tow strap to the car and pulled it away.  I was trying to put everything I was observing together, when it dawned on me.  Hey, they never once checked the hood of the vehicle.  They never walked around the vehicle.  They were nervous and never looked around, except to check their mirrors.  The guy in the back seat kept moving around, and ducking up and down.  They were not broke down they were setting the vehicle up as a VBIED. Why did they only have the back passenger door open?  I relayed my concerns and getting a patrol to respond was taking forever.  The vehicle was towed away and 45 minutes had passed.  

The sun sat and now it was all dark.  Hour and a half later my phone rang in my tower.  Control was congratulating me on being spot on with my azimuth and range of where the incident occurred.   They then told me EOD had been to the site and discovered a 500 pound bomb (IED) set up on the side of the curb where the car had been parked.  It was wired to remote detonate.  They congratulated me on saving several lives that day and my own.  Messed up, I sat for over two hours, with a bomb in front of me large enough to take me out too.

The next day my troops were posted in towers along the perimeter next to the city, when our world got rocked.  I was walking to the dinning facility when that side of the city was exploding.  Non of my troops were hurt, and one of my troops was wearing his salad, as he was knocked to the back wall of his tower.  Another one of my troops was posted on a roof top when a second VBIED went off and shrapnel was falling all around him from a steak bed truck.  The car I had seen was the first VBIED that went off and took out the Iraqi Police Station.  That day 29 people were killed.  

If only I was sure at the time they were up to no good and had sound proof for the okay, I could have taken them all out and prevented the devastation.  Two of my troops now are discharged for PTSD. Maybe I should have kept this to myself.

You see, it appeared to be a normal break down on the side of the road.  Something we see every day and think nothing otherwise.  That is what we are lead to believe.  In reality we are being deceived.  At what cost are we being deceived?  

Take Away:

Today, think about our economy and think about the questions I have posed for you and let's look at what we know to be good for us, or is it actually that good.   Some things really need to be looked at and we can make the difference in our own lives and the lives of others.   

I realize this post is long...will keep them shorter. Look forward to your comments!  God bless!

 

  

 

Time Is Ticking For My Redheaded Step-Son

Yes, I really do have a redheaded step-son!  He is 19 years old and a wonderful young man with strong family values.  Typical young man who has to experience life for himself.  Not sure what he wants to do with his life, but wants to make his own way.  I admire his desire to take on personal responsibility.  He lives with his dad and has to pay rent, car, phone, insurance and food.  He gets employed for three months through a temp agency to work in factories.  He currently is on his third factory working long hours and broke.  He owns two cars and just sold the third one.  One car is broke down and the other is a Vista Cruiser, a real gas hog getting 4 miles to the gallon.  Recently, he commented to his friends that he is considering getting another more economical car.  Young people his age responded to him to get another job to make more money. His 15 year old brother suggested he get a more economical car and keep his Vista Cruiser to cruise around town.  The 15 year old likes the joy rides he gets with his older cool brother - gotta keep the car!


Wait a minute: Really, get another job to make more money?
Seriously, what are we teaching young people today?  We are punching the clock more today than we were 15 years ago.  Most families have less time at home with both parents working a job.  Most people seeking retirement are trying to get two or three jobs to retire from to live comfortably and have a retirement.  What we have been doing all along is a broken system of working on hope.  Work, work, work, and hope for a retirement or a promotion.  We need to teach our children a better way of balancing their time for dollars.  Make their money work for them instead of them always working for the dollar.  Yes, initially work for the dollar and learn to properly invest it to work for them.  I am not suggesting mutual funds either.

Great point: but what am I doing about it?
It is right in my own face with my boy.  I am trying to show him a better way to live and introduce him to people his age that are listening and making it happen.  If you raise kids they go with the norm of their peers and parents don't know a thing.  Well for my boy I took him out for lunch today and bought only him a juicy steak meal.  The young man about fell all over himself getting a break from food in a vending machine and Raman Noodles. I am not happy he is living the way he is nor how his dad treats him.  I explained to him a business concept that is working for a young man his own age, who doesn't have a job and is free!  This young man is profiting $5,000 plus a month.   I think the 12 - 15 hours a day, swing-shift, for six days a week is not setting too well for my boy.  He has to learn his own way, I hope not for too long.  

Break the cycle people!
Yes, there is a better way to live and not have to get another job!  There is a better way to spend quality time with your family!  There is a better way to experience freedom!  Be committed to your dream!  Be dedicated to work for your dream!  Know you are actually doing something to get financially free and make the income you desire and with people who want to see you succeed.  No I am not talking about getting rich quick.  I am talking about helping people to spend more time with their family and feel less stressed and happy.  I am talking about living healthier too!  Interested?  Then contact me!  I believe my boy is beginning to see what I have been sharing with him.  He is young and needs to experience life for himself to really understand the struggle so many of us have come to understand over the years.  Together we can break the cycle!
   

The Heart Of A Businessman

True story of two business friends of mine talking one morning.  

My friends would like to remain anonymous, so I will use the names Mark and Luke for this story.  When I had decided on starting my own business with a team of successful business men and women, Mark was excited to have me on the team and had to tell me about an amazing experience he had that morning.  The story he shared was so inspiring to me I really need to share it. 

Mark noticed Luke had pulled out a piece of paper and marked something off and had a huge smile on his face, for an early morning.  Mark inquired about Luke's joy that morning.  Luke shared he had a Bucket List and finally got to mark a goal off.  On Tuesday, Luke ran into his pastor at the grocery story and was told about a family of four in their church was struggling with the wife working as a school teacher,  her husband was just laid-off, and one child ill in the hospital.  The family asked to be kept in prayer and didn't want anyone to really know their situation.  

Luke knew the side of town they lived in had only two banks.  He was blessed to find the first bank was the one the family used.  He met with the president of the bank and asked what the pay-off balance was on the Smith's house.  He advised the bank president he wanted to remain anonymous and make a deposit on their home.  The family had only three years of payments made on their home at the time.  Luke wrote out a check and told the bank president he wanted the Smith family to receive the deed to their home by Friday, for debt paid in-full.   

That Sunday, Mrs. Smith made an announcement in church service.  She said, " I have a feeling the person I want to thank is in this congregation.  We could have gotten by on what we have and made ends meet.  Whoever you are thanks for your love gift and God bless you!"

Luke told Mark, " I know what it is like to struggle and that was two years ago for me.  Now I have the freedom to be with my children, be there for my aging parents and help others.  One of my personal goals was to pay-off someone's house anonymously.  

It is the heart of a person that makes the greatest difference in people.  I am honored to have people like this as a friend and business mentor.  When your heart is in the right place you can move mountains!  One day soon I will be able to do the same for my family and my parents and wife's parents are not getting any younger either.  God bless!!

Wake Up The Great Leader In You!

Be the leader you were designed to be in the only life you were created.

No matter what walk of life you are in you have a role as a leader.  You may or may not have chosen the position you are in and the fact is you are a leader.  Okay, maybe you are not some top Chief Executive Officer, the Commissioned Officer, the lead supervisor, however; you may be an employee, new business owner, husband, wife, parent, or sibling to someone.  Think I covered the basis here that in some way we have a leadership position in this life.  This subject is nothing new we have all heard about, studied, or been involved in at some level.  You may be a top leader too and just not getting the results you desire.  It is time to wake up the great leader in you! 

I have chosen to focus on leadership, because it has something to do with everything around us every day.  If it was not such an important subject, why do we see shelves full of books on the subject?  Why do we have degrees on the subject?  Why are there seminars on  the subject?  The reason is we are not born to lead we are taught to lead.  We also learn as we go!  We are either the leader or we are lead by a leader.  We are also a leader under the direction of another leader.  All said we are affected in some way by leadership.  

What is the big deal about waking up the great leader in you? 

You have only one shot at this life, once it is gone there is no chance to go back and start over or change it.  If you do not like the current circumstances then be the one to stand up and make the difference.  You can listen to all the advice out there and read all the books and yet you have to take action.  Yes, you have to do something about it! This world is depending on you to shine the light.  You have the ability to change things for yourself, your family, and for your country. 

Too often we hear, "Oh, I can't wait for someone to make things better.  I have an idea to fix this problem, but someone is going to have to it."  That someone is you!  The response to that often goes something like this, "Oh, not me I am not qualified." I don't want to stick my neck out there and get put down or ridiculed.  That's too risky!"  


Here's the wake up for you: 

Congratulations!  You are a child of God, created in His image, and born with the seed of greatness!  As a Christian the world has already been defeated and we live in his Amazing Grace!  Too often we get caught up with our past and decide the past has power over us.  The past does not control who you are or the direction of your future.  Fear is your greatest enemy.  The single most reason most leaders get stuck is due to fear.  What will others think of me?  I might lose my job?  I have no experience.  I am too young or old.  I don't have enough education. I am too poor. I might fail and the cost will be too great.  I don't have time.  If I become rich it will be harder for me to get into Heaven. Stop making excuses. When you are walking in righteousness God will prosper you.  You need to raise your belief in your abilities and be a person of prayer.   " I can do all things through Christ whom stengtheneths me." Philippians 4:13 

The Consequences:

Look around there are enough examples today of what happens when we don't act and be the great leader.  Children go without direction and expected to be raised by teachers, society,  or to figure things out for themselves.  Today's values are set aside and people are afraid to speak up, because they are waiting on someone else.  People die as everyone watches for someone to do something to render CPR or first aid.  Some don't work for themselves because they are afraid of failing, or they just do what everyone else is doing. 

When we don't stand up to be the leader we give up some of our freedom.  We settle for a certain amount of income.  We sacrifice time with family for the job.  We get depressed.  People lose faith in you.  We allow our misfortunes to control who we are and hinder us from reaching our full potential.  We get angry and sense a loss or feel stuck in a no win and dead end situation.  


Make the difference!

Listen up folks...you are a winner!  When your wife looks at you she should see a Winner Walking!  When your husband looks at you he sees a Winner Walking!  When your children look at you they see a Winner Walking!  When your employees see you they see a Winner Walking!  When your boss sees you he or she sees a Winner Walking!  I believe my mentor, Lennon, made some great points when he referenced to "Seeing A Winner Walking"  and " God isn't cruel to give us dreams and not a vehicle to achieve them."   I have shared his thoughts here with you.  It was hearing this that really made sense for me and I believe it will do the same for you.  

Now wake up the great leader in you and make the difference.  Besides you only have one life to live!  God bless!!

Foy 
 

 



  

 

Getting The Word Out on MSG

Below you will find a message sent to me from a dear friend of mine.  If you are interested in going Green please contact me.  To your health and wealth...God bless!!

 

THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF MSG

YOU WILL BE SHOCKED when YOU read this article! Here's an interesting article that warrants a read. We will be extra vigilant in checking labels from now on.

The content of this article has links to substantiate its claims - Scary stuff! 


MSG (a slow poison)

Very interesting


The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison. MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as "Natural Flavoring." MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton's andStarbucks coffee shops!

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, and so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario , Canada and spent years working for the government. He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America .
In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so scientists have to create them. They make these creatures morbidly obese by injecting them with MSG when they are first born.
The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and perhaps humans) to become obese. They even have a name for the fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats. When I heard this, I was shocked. I went into my kitchen and checked the cup-boards and the refrigerator. MSG was in everything -- the Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty CrockerHamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy,Swanson frozen prepared meals and Kraft salad dressings, especially the "healthy low-fat" ones.
The items that didn't have MSG marked on the product label had something called "Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein", which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. MSG is hidden under many different names in order to fool those who read the ingredient list, so that they don't catch on. (Other names for MSG are "Accent, Ajinomoto," "Natural Meat Tenderizer," etc.)

But it didn't stop there.
When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items contained MSG. Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough, MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere.

Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant - even the sit-down eateries like TGIF, Chili's, Applebee's, and Denny's - use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing. and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin - their secret spice was MSG!

So why is MSG in so many of the foods we eat? As a preservative, or a vitamin?
Not according to my friend John Erb. In his book The Slow Poisoning of America, he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body.
Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.
A study of the elderly showed that older people eat more of the foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobbying group says eating more is a benefit to the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?

"Betcha can't eat [just] one," takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight!

MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added.
Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance. Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the pre-packaged meals,soups, snacks, and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.
The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it's safe to eat in any amount. But how can they claim it's safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles l ike these:
"The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of exercise in obesity." Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT , Ribeiro IA. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002.
"Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats." Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro. Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug.
'Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: An animal model of multiple risk factors." Iwase M, Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima. AHypertens Res. 1998 Mar."usunoki. Exp Neurol. 1978 Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in suckling period and subsequent development of obesity." Tanaka K, Shimada M, Nakao. Oct 1978.
No, the date of that last study was not a typo; it was published in 1978. Both the "medical research community" and "food manufacturers" have known about the side effects of MSG for decades.
Many more of the studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to diabetes, migraines and headaches, autism, ADHD, and even Alzheimer's.
So what can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumping this fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see? Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of the highest government health officials in Canada . While he was sitting in the government office, the official told him, "Sure, I know how bad MSG is. I wouldn't touch the stuff.." But this top-level government official refuses to tell the public what he knows..

The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing issues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin. The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are paying the price for it. Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused by an addictive food additive. But what can I do about it? I'm just one voice! What can I do to stop the poisoning of our children, while our governments are insuring financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us?
This message is going out to everyone I know in an attempt to tell you the truth that the corporate-owned politicians and media won't tell you.
The best way you can help to save yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic is to forward this article to everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before politicians can pass the legislation protecting those who are poisoning us.
The food industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry. Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like this in place before someone blew the whistle on nicotine?
If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the National Library of Medicine at **www..pubmed.com* <http://www.pubmed.com/ >*. Type in the words "MSG Obese" and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear. We the public do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve of food that makes us into a nation of obese, obesity-induced, life-threatening disorders.

With your help we can put an end to this poison. Do your part in sending this message out by word of mouth, e-mail, or by distribution of this printout to your friends all over the world and stop this "Slow Poisoning of Mankind" by the packaged food industry.

Blowing the whistle on MSG is our responsibility, so get the word out.

General Lee Today's Economy

 Today's Economy According To The General Lee! Pictures say it all!

General Lee, (1969 - 2007) 

General Lee (2008 - Present)
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Hope you like what I put together as a means of expressing the change in today's economy that we all feel around the world.