Strategic Services Business Tips newsletter, Issue #004

This month we have a Feature article by Jim Rohn, and a couple of updates about Internet scams and parasites that we hope will be of value to you.

INDEX:
Strategic Services One Minute Tip
Power Quotes
This month’s Business Resource:
Nine Things More Important Than Capital - By Jim Rohn
Strategic Jobs and Applicants
Sponsored Resource
Editor’s Note.

Strategic Services One Minute Tip:

Questions to consider in your daily mode of operation:

1. What is my highest priority right now?
3. What is the most constructive action I can take right now?
3. How can I make the best use of my strengths right now?
4. Is my best self in charge?
5. How can I make my highest priority most enjoyable?

Power Quotes:

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent,
tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example;
to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
Arthur James Balfour

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." Galileo

Strategic Business Resources – Articles & Tips:

Nine Things More Important Than Capital
By Jim Rohn

When starting a business, whether full-time or part-time, we all know the value of having plenty of capital. But I bet we've all heard of people who started with no capital who went on to make fortunes. How? you may ask. Well, I believe there are actually some things that are more valuable than capital that can lead to your entrepreneurial success. Let me give you the list.
1. Time. The time you set aside not to be wasted, not to be given away. Time you set aside to invest in an enterprise that brings value to the marketplace with the hope of making a profit. Now we have capital time. How valuable is time? Time properly invested is worth a fortune. Time wasted can be devastation. Time invested can perform miracles, so you invest your time.
2. Desperation. I have a friend, Lydia, whose first major investment in her new enterprise was desperation. She said, "My kids are hungry, I gotta make this work. If this doesn't work, what will I do?" So she invested $1 in her enterprise selling a product she believed in. The $1 was to buy a few fliers so she could make a sale at retail, collect the money and then buy the product wholesale to deliver back to the customer. My friend, Bill Bailey, went to Chicago as a teenager after he got out of high school. And the first job he got was as a night janitor. Someone said, "Bill, why would you settle for night janitor?" He said, "Malnutrition." You work at whatever you can possibly get when you get hungry. You go to work somewhere--night janitor, it doesn't matter where it is. Years later, now Bill is a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, rich and powerful and one of the great examples of lifestyle that I know. But, his first job--night janitor. Desperation can be a powerful incentive.
3. Determination. First Lydia said, "I must find a customer." Desperation. Second, she said, "I will find someone before this first day is over." Determination. Sure enough, she found someone. She said, "If it works once, it will work again." But then the next person said, "No." Now what must you invest?
4. Courage. Courage is more valuable than capital. If you've only got $1 and a lot of courage, I'm telling you, you've got a good future ahead of you. Courage in spite of the circumstances. Humans can do the most incredible things no matter what happens. . . . You can't sell humans short. Courage in spite of, not because of, but in spite of. Now once Lydia has made three or four sales and gotten going, here's what now takes over.
5. Ambition. "Wow! If I can sell three I can sell 33. If I can sell 33, I can sell 103." Wow. Lydia is now dazzled by her own dreams of the future.
6. Faith. Now she begins to believe she's got a good product. This is probably a good company. And she then starts to believe in herself. Lydia, single mother, two kids, no job. "My gosh, I'm going to pull it off!" Her self-esteem starts to soar. These are investments that are unmatched. Money can't touch it. What if you had a million dollars and no faith? You'd be poor. . . . Now here is the next one, the reason why she's a millionaire today.
7. Ingenuity. Putting your brains to work. Probably up until now, you've put about one-tenth of your brainpower to work. What if you employed the other nine tenths? You can't believe what can happen. Humans can come up with the most intriguing things to do. What's ingenuity worth? A fortune. It is more valuable than money. All you need is a $1 and plenty of ingenuity.
8. Heart and Soul. What is a substitute for heart and soul? It's not money. Money can't buy heart and soul. Heart and soul is more valuable than a million dollars. A million dollars without heart and soul, you have no life. You are ineffective. But, heart and soul is like the unseen magic that moves people, moves people to buy, moves people to make decisions, moves people to act, moves people to respond.
9. Personality. You've just got to spruce up and sharpen up your own personality. You've got plenty of personality. Just get it developed to where it is effective every day, it's effective no matter whom you talk to--whether it is a child or whether it is a businessperson--whether it is a rich person or a poor person. A unique personality that is at home anywhere. . . . The kind of personality that's comfortable. The kind of personality that's not bent out of shape. And lastly, let's not forget charisma and sophistication. Charisma with a touch of humility.
This entire list is more valuable than money. With one dollar and the list I just gave you, the world is yours. It belongs to you, whatever piece of it you desire whatever development you wish for your life. I've given you the secret. Capital. The kind of capital that is more valuable than money and that can secure your future and fortune. Remember that you lack not the resources.
. . . For Jim Rohn's free weekly e-newsletter, visit JimRohn.com. This article was published with the author's permission. All rights reserved by Jim Rohn International.

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INTERNET UPDATES: courtesy of BigPond.com

Nigerian scam letters

There have been many reports, both from members and in the media generally, that Internet users around the globe are receiving scam letters purporting to be from the family of ex-Nigerian government ministers seeking assistance to smuggle millions of dollars out of the country. In a sign that scammers keep an eye on current events, some variations of the scam letters purport to be from Afghanistan politicians or US soldiers based in Iraq, similarly seeking assistance to smuggle funds.

Despite the fact that such letters have been circulating for many decades, each wave of letters attracts hundreds of gullible individuals, a some of whom end up out of pocket.

The scam letters share a number of common elements:

(a) They mention large sums of money.
(b) They request assistance in transferring money, in return for which a commission is promised.
(c) They request your bank account details (into which money will purportedly be deposited).

Once you provide your bank account details, however, the scammers can create
bogus payment authorities and steal money from your account.

You should never respond to such emails. Your best option is to delete them upon receipt.

Various State, Territory and Federal Government consumer authorities joined forces to launch a scam-information Web site - ScamWatch - which offers details of commonly circulating scams and information concerning where you can report scams.

URLs:

ScamWatch - http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/ Urban Legends - http://www.snopes2.com/

Editors note: I have had a couple in my letterbox and I think that they are absolutely HILARIOUS! I have to applaud the writers for their sheer optimism to find suckers for their sad little tomes……

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'Anti-Parasite' Web browser check

A number of members have emailed recently reporting odd problems with their Web browser, such as advertising appearing when visiting Web sites that do not usually display advertising, changes to their default browser settings and random appearances of pop-up windows displaying adverts for casinos and adult services.

Some Web sites and popular Internet tools make unauthorised "modifications" to your Web browser by downloading and installing small programs that launch automatically each time you start your Web browser.

Such programs can be annoying - they have been labelled "parasite" programs - and most people do not know that they have made their way onto their computer.

An "anti-parasite" Web site - Parasite Check - can perform a quick, non-invasive check of your Web browser to detect the presence of parasite software. If any telltale signs are found, you will be presented with instructions for removing the software.

URL:

Parasite Check - http://doxdesk.com/parasite/

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Editor’s Note: RESIGNATION

I am hereby officially tendering
my resignation as an adult. I have
decided I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald's and think
that it's a four star restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud
puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms are better than
money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and
run a lemonade stand with my friends on
a hot summer's day.

I want to return to a time when life was
simple; When all you knew were colors,
multiplication tables, and nursery
rhymes, but that didn't bother you,
because you didn't know what you
didn't know and you didn't care.

All you knew was to be happy because you were
blissfully unaware of
all the things that should make you
worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.
That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is
possible. I want to be oblivious
to the complexities of life and be
overly excited by the little things
again.

I want to live simple again. I
don't want my day to consist of
computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days
in the month than there is money in the
bank, doctor bills, gossip, and illness,

I want to believe in the power of
smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth,
justice, peace, dreams, the imagination,
mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So . . . here's my cheque book
and my car-keys, my credit card bills
and my tax statements. I am officially
resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this
further, you'll have to catch me
first, cause........

......"Tag! You're it."

Pass this to someone and brighten
their day by helping them remember
the Simple things in Life!

((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

Hope Ya'll join me

It's definitely that time of year for resolutions and Goal setting, so how about incorporating some SIMPLICITY in your life again?

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Your Editor,
Helene Malmsio.

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