Thursday, February 18, 2010
Conception of a Cooperative
Ash Wednesday February 17, 2010 in a new and sparsely fitter coffee shop - BrosBrew Coffee a group of seven dreamed of better days. They toyed with the idea that an IT Workers cooperative can and will become the vehicle of progress for the normal working stiff.
Monday, February 1, 2010
What's with Network Marketing ?
Network Marketing-It's an Asset, Not a Job
By Robert Kiyosaki
I am sometimes asked, "Why do so few people make it to the top of their network marketing system?"
The truth is, the top of the network marketing system is open to everyone-unlike traditional corporate systems, which allow only one person to reach the top of the company. The reason most people do not reach the top is simply because they quit too soon. So why would someone quit short of the top?
Most people join only to make money. If they don't make money in the first few months or years, they become discouraged and quit (and then often bad-mouth the industry!). Others quit and go looking for a company with a better compensation plan. But joining to make a few quick dollars is not the reason to get into the business.
The Two Essential Reasons to Join a Network Marketing Business
Reason number one is to help yourself. Reason number two is to help others. If you join for only one of these two reasons, then the system will not work for you.
Reason number one, means that you come to the business primarily to change quadrants-to change from the E (Employee) or the S (Self-employed) quadrant to the B (Business owner) or I (Investor) quadrant.
This change is normally very difficult for most people-because of money. The true E or S quadrant person will not work unless it is for money. This is also what causes people to not reach the top of the network marketing system: they want money more than they want to change quadrants.
A B quadrant or I quadrant person will also work for money, but in a different way. The B quadrant person works to build or create an asset-in this case, a business system. The I quadrant person invests in the asset or the system.
The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you do not really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business.
As a B or an I, sometimes you don't get paid for years; this, a true E quadrant or S quadrant person will not do. It's not part of their core values. Risk and delayed gratification disturb them emotionally.
Delayed Gratification and Emotional Intelligence
One of the beauties of network marketing is that it focuses on developing your emotional intelligence as well as your business skills.
Emotional intelligence is an entirely different matter from academic intelligence. In general, someone with high emotional intelligence will often do better than someone with high academic intelligence but low emotional intelligence. That explains, in part, why some people do well in school but not so well in the real world.
The ability to delay gratification is a sign of higher emotional intelligence. In a recent study of emotional intelligence, it was found that people who could delay gratification often led more successful lives than those who could not.
This is why the educational system inherent in a good network marketing opportunity is so important. It's the emotional education or emotional intelligence aspect of their programs that I find so valuable for people.
Many people write me and tell me they loved my book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but I fear that many of them don't get the most important point of the book: Lesson #1, "The rich don't work for money."
Once I have built or bought an asset, that asset works hard to make money for me. But I will not work for money-I will work only to build or buy assets. Those assets make me richer and richer, while I work less and less. That is what the rich do. The poor and middle class work hard for money, and then buy liabilities instead of investing in assets.
What Kind of Asset is a Network Marketing Business?
Remember, there are two reasons required to be successful in network marketing: to help yourself, and to help others. Reason number one means helping yourself get to the B side of the quadrant. What about reason number two
The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you don't really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S
quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business
If you only want to teach yourself to be a B quadrant and I quadrant person, then a true network marketing system won't work for you. You may as well go to a traditional business school, which focuses only on your becoming a B quadrant person.
The beauty of a network marketing business is that your goal is to create assets, which are other B's working under you-and their job is to create other B's working under them. In traditional business, the focus is for the B to have only E's and S's working for them.
The type of business I was taught to build is a business with me at the top and E's and S's at the base. I really don't have room at the top for many other B's, which is why in my businesses, I strongly recommend that all my employees look into network marketing as their own part-time businesses.
The traditional corporate system really is a pyramid, because there are a few B's and I's near the top, and more E's and S's at the base. A network marketing system is a reverse pyramid: its primary focus is to bring up more and more B's to the top.
One type of pyramid, the traditional type, has its base on the ground; the other type has its base in the air. It's a pyramid that pulls you up instead of pushing you down. A network marketing business gives everyone access to what used to be the domain only of the rich.
This passage is excerpted by permission from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, CPA, authors of Rich Dad, Poor Dad."
By Robert Kiyosaki
I am sometimes asked, "Why do so few people make it to the top of their network marketing system?"
The truth is, the top of the network marketing system is open to everyone-unlike traditional corporate systems, which allow only one person to reach the top of the company. The reason most people do not reach the top is simply because they quit too soon. So why would someone quit short of the top?
Most people join only to make money. If they don't make money in the first few months or years, they become discouraged and quit (and then often bad-mouth the industry!). Others quit and go looking for a company with a better compensation plan. But joining to make a few quick dollars is not the reason to get into the business.
The Two Essential Reasons to Join a Network Marketing Business
Reason number one is to help yourself. Reason number two is to help others. If you join for only one of these two reasons, then the system will not work for you.
Reason number one, means that you come to the business primarily to change quadrants-to change from the E (Employee) or the S (Self-employed) quadrant to the B (Business owner) or I (Investor) quadrant.
This change is normally very difficult for most people-because of money. The true E or S quadrant person will not work unless it is for money. This is also what causes people to not reach the top of the network marketing system: they want money more than they want to change quadrants.
A B quadrant or I quadrant person will also work for money, but in a different way. The B quadrant person works to build or create an asset-in this case, a business system. The I quadrant person invests in the asset or the system.
The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you do not really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business.
As a B or an I, sometimes you don't get paid for years; this, a true E quadrant or S quadrant person will not do. It's not part of their core values. Risk and delayed gratification disturb them emotionally.
Delayed Gratification and Emotional Intelligence
One of the beauties of network marketing is that it focuses on developing your emotional intelligence as well as your business skills.
Emotional intelligence is an entirely different matter from academic intelligence. In general, someone with high emotional intelligence will often do better than someone with high academic intelligence but low emotional intelligence. That explains, in part, why some people do well in school but not so well in the real world.
The ability to delay gratification is a sign of higher emotional intelligence. In a recent study of emotional intelligence, it was found that people who could delay gratification often led more successful lives than those who could not.
This is why the educational system inherent in a good network marketing opportunity is so important. It's the emotional education or emotional intelligence aspect of their programs that I find so valuable for people.
Many people write me and tell me they loved my book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but I fear that many of them don't get the most important point of the book: Lesson #1, "The rich don't work for money."
Once I have built or bought an asset, that asset works hard to make money for me. But I will not work for money-I will work only to build or buy assets. Those assets make me richer and richer, while I work less and less. That is what the rich do. The poor and middle class work hard for money, and then buy liabilities instead of investing in assets.
What Kind of Asset is a Network Marketing Business?
Remember, there are two reasons required to be successful in network marketing: to help yourself, and to help others. Reason number one means helping yourself get to the B side of the quadrant. What about reason number two
The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you don't really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S
quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business
If you only want to teach yourself to be a B quadrant and I quadrant person, then a true network marketing system won't work for you. You may as well go to a traditional business school, which focuses only on your becoming a B quadrant person.
The beauty of a network marketing business is that your goal is to create assets, which are other B's working under you-and their job is to create other B's working under them. In traditional business, the focus is for the B to have only E's and S's working for them.
The type of business I was taught to build is a business with me at the top and E's and S's at the base. I really don't have room at the top for many other B's, which is why in my businesses, I strongly recommend that all my employees look into network marketing as their own part-time businesses.
The traditional corporate system really is a pyramid, because there are a few B's and I's near the top, and more E's and S's at the base. A network marketing system is a reverse pyramid: its primary focus is to bring up more and more B's to the top.
One type of pyramid, the traditional type, has its base on the ground; the other type has its base in the air. It's a pyramid that pulls you up instead of pushing you down. A network marketing business gives everyone access to what used to be the domain only of the rich.
This passage is excerpted by permission from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, CPA, authors of Rich Dad, Poor Dad."
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
eBPLS-- business permits while you wait?
The eBPLS excels in the generation of reports and responses to queries. Among the reports and responses it can provide users are:
- delinquent, retired or inactive business establishments
- collection performance
- unrenewed, unpaid, pending permits
- audit trail
- collection abstract
- collection summary
- comparative statements
- list of establishments without permit (paid)
- list of exempted establishments (partial and full/ new, renewed and retired)
- periodic billings
- top establishments
- tax order of payment
- library listing
- charts/graphs, where appropriate
- other reports required by BLGF and DILG
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Gutsy Gibon ... net connection issue solved
I found a few articles mentioning the IPv6 problems with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, tried the suggested fixes but still had the problem. The IPv6 issue causes slow connections, but there's a connection at the end, I couldn't even connect, my browser was timing out.
It wasn't a problem related to DNS resolution either, I was already using OpenDNS.
After a huge headache and lots of sweating I found bug 59331: a change in kernel 2.6.17 (Gutsy runs 2.6.22-14) caused many websites to stop loading.
One user reported one website not loading and giving the same error I had with Campaign Monitor, the site was Ohio State University.
If you've read till here and you can't load either site, Campaign Monitor and Ohio State University, I'm almost sure you have the same problem I had, keep reading for the solution.
You need to disable tcp_window_scaling following these steps:
- sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
- Add the line: net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
- sudo sysctl -p
Update: It seems that disabling window_scaling is too drastic, instead you can add these lines to sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
And then run sudo sysctl -p to activate the change.
After the change I could access Ohio State University and thought my problem with Campaign Monitor should be fixed too, I was wrong. In my laptop I was able to access Campaign Monitor site but not their members and API site, which runs at a subdomain, and my desktop couldn't even see their home page.
I needed to read a comment by Michael Doube, in the discussion of bug 59331, to get the definitive fix:
An alternative solution is to install Firestarter, which I think works by using this iptables line: sudo iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS -clamp-mss-to-pmtu
So I did that, installed Firestarter:
sudo apt-get install firestarter
Then I opened Firestarter from Applications > Internet, followed the instructions to enable the firewall and got the change in TCP.
Neat! Campaign Monitor's site is loading now and I can continue with my job. Not bad for almost 8 hours lost in this damn thing.
I hope Canonical releases a bugfix soon, there are many users, and I guess many websites too, having this problem.
Some additional data: It seems the problem is not an Ubuntu problem after all, but something related to some routers not conrrectly working when used with some Linux kernels, anyway, Ubuntu and other distributions should find a workaround while routers manufacturer fix their hardware or release updated firmware.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Walang Iwanan, pramis paping :)
Spending the holidays with family can feel refreshing and be a sharp kick in the shins. After the euphoria and the pain, a numbing reality sets in. This is my family- no return no exchange policy applies.
The trip back to Manila was interesting. Daddy, as usual wanted to be super duper early in the airport so as not have the stress of rushing to a last boarding call.
Having checked in our baggages and having a couple of hours to spare, I wanted to take my parents out for an early lunch so that we can casually drive back to the airport 30 mins before boarding time. As expected Dad did not want to go out of the airport. He wanted to play it safe and just wait for the plane. so I invited Mummy, I knew she wanted to come with us, we were going to have some pasta but ... knowing Mummy she was rock steady and composed. She stayed with her Man.
Dad was willing to let her have lunch with the kids, and he would have waited in the airport .. some what grudgingly ..but he would have allowed her to leave with us. But Mummy just stayed with her Man.
This was interesting to me. If my parents were jologs ... this would have been a"Walang iwanan --- pramise :)" moment. I think it's important to have a united from even with issues in the family. No doubt, Mum would have nagged Dad for being so "sigurista" or border line pranning.. but what ever happened, or what ever dialogue took place... became private and confidential. To us ... the adult children, right or wrong they were united in making that simple decision.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Filipiino sense and Sensibilities - rediscovery
As a result of various influences, Spanish, Chinese, American and Middle Eastern way of life, the typical Filipino now was not so typical before. This is a strange and cryptic statement.. but let me explain. Working and living with the marginally poor I've noticed that the sensibilities of the folks in the province are a far cry from the sense and sensibilities of the Urban poor.
Gadgets and the dream to have the latest and the greatest gadgets seem to out weigh the importance of having a decent place to live. For the Urban poor, begging is the best way to get money;tricks are part and parcel of living in the streets. I've noticed in a couple of occasions the same kids wearing shabby clothes and walking barefoot near the traffic lights .... are technologically hip.
They have cell phone, .... wow a bum with a working cell phone.They can actually send out text messages. This is amazing..... beat that ... do the paupers in your streets have a cell phone?
Another first for me ... our live-out house help brings with her a two year old daughter. I guess there are no day care centers here. Breakfast,lunch and dinner of her clan ... this includes a 10 year old son who has the appetite of a construction worker are spent in the house. So in each of our meals we have an additional 3 mouths to feed. Even if it's past lunch time, i'd ask her have you had lunch? And the answer is always .. no ... and they'd dig in. So as not to embarrass, I 'd usually just invite them to eat any way.
I guess it's a Pinoy thing... you have to feed your workers.I am sure, is it the same way with you ? Would you do the same or .... have I been raised in a quirky way .. so as to come out as "masakitoon". Roughly translated ...it means being cruel person.
---- note to self------
To have happy workers, make sure you include the cost of meals in the compensation packages for your Filipino workers. This is not just for the working class .. it's for all the flips out there who punches in their card and works hard for their money.
Added bonus... please serve more fresh vegetables and fruits. This will ensure that you lower absenteeism our health related performance issues.
Gadgets and the dream to have the latest and the greatest gadgets seem to out weigh the importance of having a decent place to live. For the Urban poor, begging is the best way to get money;tricks are part and parcel of living in the streets. I've noticed in a couple of occasions the same kids wearing shabby clothes and walking barefoot near the traffic lights .... are technologically hip.
They have cell phone, .... wow a bum with a working cell phone.They can actually send out text messages. This is amazing..... beat that ... do the paupers in your streets have a cell phone?
Another first for me ... our live-out house help brings with her a two year old daughter. I guess there are no day care centers here. Breakfast,lunch and dinner of her clan ... this includes a 10 year old son who has the appetite of a construction worker are spent in the house. So in each of our meals we have an additional 3 mouths to feed. Even if it's past lunch time, i'd ask her have you had lunch? And the answer is always .. no ... and they'd dig in. So as not to embarrass, I 'd usually just invite them to eat any way.
I guess it's a Pinoy thing... you have to feed your workers.I am sure, is it the same way with you ? Would you do the same or .... have I been raised in a quirky way .. so as to come out as "masakitoon". Roughly translated ...it means being cruel person.
---- note to self------
To have happy workers, make sure you include the cost of meals in the compensation packages for your Filipino workers. This is not just for the working class .. it's for all the flips out there who punches in their card and works hard for their money.
Added bonus... please serve more fresh vegetables and fruits. This will ensure that you lower absenteeism our health related performance issues.
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