Potpourri of Business-related Topics

Get Educated and Discuss Issues with Others

To get educated on the issues and to discuss them successfully with others, we must do as Glenn Beck says: (1) question with boldness, (2) hold onto the truth, and (3) speak without fear.

Knowledge is Power – Stand for Something

Knowledge is power. Know the truth of what is happening in this country as enabled by President Barack Hussein Obama and his administration. Know it now so you will have time to do something about it instead of one day being surprised. When you are prepared, you need not fear. Stand for something.

How to Appear to Be a Prolific Writer

Someone asked me how I am able to write so much every day. Here is my secret. I save everything original that I write in a database. Much of my writing comes from answering emails. I consolidate like materials into topic areas. When I have enough material on a particular topic, it becomes an article. That is how I do it!

Blogger.com

On the suggestion of a friend (Dr. Robert Statica), I established a blog page at victoryinamericaday-11210.blogspot.com/and upload daily missiles, missives, pieces, papers, articles, or whatever you desire to call them. I have uploaded nearly 120 of them thus far this year. Please sign up, review the website, and post discussion comments. Also, please forward the link to all of your friends so that we can generate a lot more participation on them. Until I achieve good participation, I will continue sending out new missiles as PDF attachments on emails to my distribution list.

Overwhelmed

I am so busy that I cannot get to everything immediately. Someone asked about how I can do so much without being overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed. Contributing to that condition is that I read very slowly. Yes, I am a plodder. Besides being in various stages of reading over a dozen books for my PhD dissertation research, I have been simultaneously reading 16 other books over the past year and am at various stages of reading most of them.

The 16 books that I am currently reading include the following:

• Beck, Glenn, Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, 186 pages, COMPLETED
• Levin, Mark, Liberty and Tyranny, 255 pages, COMPLETED
• Sultan, Wafa, A God Who Hates, 254 pages, COMPLETED
• Nasser, Stephen,My Brother’s Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story, 232 pages, COMPLETED
• Hannity, Sean, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda, 256 pages
• Romney, Mitt, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, 334 pages
• Beck, Glenn, Arguing with Idiots, 336 pages
• Palin, Sarah, Going Rogue: An American Life, 425 pages
• Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John, The Federalist Papers, 624 pages
• Andrews, Joseph, A Guide for Learning and Teaching The Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution: Learning from the Original Texts Using Classical Learning Methods of the Founders, 379 pages
• Bradley, James, Flags of Our Fathers, 395 pages
• Covey, Stephen R., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, 381 pages
• Covey, Stephen M. R., The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, 380 pages
• Babb, Danielle, and Mirabella, Jim, Making Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary, 256 pages
• Lear, Gary, Leadership Lessons from the Medicine Wheel: The Seven Elements of High Performance, 163 pages
• Hale, David P., The High-Performance Entrepreneur: 12 Essential Strategies to Supercharge Your Startup Business, 256 pages

Additionally, I read over 100 pages a day on counterterrorism articles (for my dissertation research), political articles, and church materials. In between all of that, I respond to about a hundred emails a day, write missiles every day, perform my dissertation research, write books (I’m currently writing my 18th book), attend training on three professional organizations (InfraGard, CERT, and OC-PSTRG), serve as COB of the ICPM BOR, and serve as high priests group leader in church.

People want me to read the materials they send. That is okay because I learn a lot from reading about the various material topics. Additionally, people want me to answer their emailed questions. I do not mind that either because everything I write originally, I will use in a future book. For example, all of my missiles will go into a future book. That is how I work on writing books on a daily basis.

A big shortcoming is that I read too many books simultaneously and have too many irons in the fire. Hence, I do not focus on anything in particular. Can you see why I am overwhelmed? I just need to learn how to read faster. People like Glenn Beck can read a book in about one to three days; whereas, I would take a month to read the same book.

Term Insurance vs. Whole Life Insurance

Term insurance is a whole lot cheaper than whole life insurance. Whole life insurance is like putting your money in the bank and not receiving any interest on it. The insurance company invests your insurance payments and makes a lot of interest on it, which they use to operate their company. Your savings in the insurance policy keeps going down with each passing year. Hence, at the end, if you get any money back, it is a pittance.

During the ensuing years, you may borrow from your insurance payments. However, you pay a hefty interest on the money you borrow and withdraw, and you still must pay it back within a certain length of time. The sad thing about it is that you pay interest for using your own money! The insurance company screws you coming and going. On the other hand, term insurance is relatively inexpensive for a lot of insurance coverage. You get nothing at the end, but that is okay because you did not put much in anyway.

On Being Bombarded with Political Emails

To avoid flooding friends’ in-boxes with a bunch of unnecessary emails, I carefully select the emails that I receive and forward them to about 100 friends. I have received verification from slightly over 50% of those 100 people as they put me on Cc of their forwarded emails or they have sent me emails regarding their comments on certain of the emails that I have forwarded to them. For those who have never previously responded in any way, I ask them to let me know if they are forwarding my emails to their mailing lists, putting me on distribution, or commenting back to me on certain topics. That way, I know who are reading them or not. If those who are not reading them and are just deleting them, I ask them to let me know, and I will remove them from my distribution list.

Job Search

I have become convinced that the best and almost only way to obtain a teaching job in today’s environment is through connections, who you know, and networking. Hence, to be hired, the trick (I believe) is to cultivate people who currently are in teaching or who possess influence over higher-education hiring authorities. If you are going in cold, I believe it is a waste of time, energy, and money. I have already received a commitment once I complete my PhD program. There are too many people out there looking for teaching jobs. To get the edge over them, we must establish competitive advantages to get to the front of the line. Think of all the people in teaching you know and start building stronger relationships with them. That is what I have been doing. I wish all of you seeking teaching work good luck in your job-search endeavor.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

You can take an IQ test online. Nobody would know what you score. However, I think you would score in the genius range, which is 140 and above. For years, I always thought I would be in the moron-idiot level, which I believe is below 90. I once took an IQ test and scored 138, which was two points short of genius or near genius. Oh, well!

Lewis Terman (1916) developed the original notion of IQ and proposed this scale for classifying IQ scores:

Over 140 – Genius or near genius

120 – 140 – Very superior intelligence

110 – 119 – Superior intelligence

90 – 109 – Normal or average intelligence

80 – 89 – Dullness

70 – 79 – Borderline deficiency

Under 70 – Definite feeble-mindedness

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