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With the start of the new year it seems that the online businesses continue to press forward, and the movie and entertainment industry is flourishing. The reports of December 2009 retail sales were disappointing. I know I spent less this December than in years before. I had to cut back.

There are people making money in this economy. You hear them speak and their mindset is that I am not going to choose to let the nation’s economy affect my personal life. Most of these people are self employed. However you have to have the strength to shut off what you are hearing daily by the news and probably 99% of the people you talk to.

I have found myself getting more and more negative and have had to give myself a huge wake up call. Where did my positive thinking go? Life can hand us lemons, and when our thoughts get possessed by all that is negative it is not a good place to be.

That is when we really need to examine what we listen to and what we focus on. Listening to the positive people who are succeeding in this economy is better than listening to the economic reports from television and radio announcers.

There are still needs to be filled and ways for innovative people to earn more money during 2010.

I am still consumed by my mother’s ill health and the predictions that she will soon die. It is really difficult to think positively when that thought is being hammered at you daily. When I hear that I answer a giant NO. They do not know her will. They do not know that she is the most positive person I have ever met and she can overcome any adversity sent her way.

Luckily whether she lives or dies, I have all that I have learned from her to carry me through, just as her mother taught it to her. Please focus on what you say to yourself and the mindset you are going in. Are you predicting doom and gloom, or are you looking for opportunities in all situations?

We all have detours and set backs in life. They are there to make us stronger and smarter, not to cause us to get stuck in the pit of despair where there is no way out. People who quit do not end recessions and bad economic times. Find a way to succeed and share your success with others who need a helping hand.

Refuse to buy into the failure theory, and keep on going forward, even if you did fall a few steps backwards. Your personal business outlook for 2010 is going to depend a lot on how you think and the actions you take. Let me know what you are doing and how you do with it.

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I have thought of changing the domain name to a .com, but then rocquesbiz.info/blog has been around a long time, and I think it says it all.

So what does the future hold. I will strive to bring more and more information on the places for great online businesses, and business information. I will continue my coaching series, too.
I plan to help people set up blogs of their own, and want to rewrite The Blogging Puzzle. The difficulty in having a book about Word Press Blogs is that they update so often. The difficulty with The Blogging Puzzle was the timing involved. I released the book as soon as WP moved out from the old templates and platform and into the new 2.5 series. It was a while ago.

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I am using Hub Pages a little more now. There is a nice community over there. Here is the link to my hub about Zhu Zhu hamsters if you are looking for a good present for a younger person.

I plan to keep writing and would like to make more books. We will see how the time goes.

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It seems that working more than one job where you cut your sleeping hours down is not all that great for health. Plus then you do not do anything to keep your immune system boosted and that adds to your immune system sliding to the bottom of the charts.

It is great to have some time off, but it makes you wonder how you can sleep so much and not remember many of your dreams. It is also amazing that the ones you do remember were about work, and it is amazing how real they seemed.

What does this post have to do with Business Information? Well I look at the email piling up. I wonder about all the email I get that are purely sales letters. I wonder about all the people who say they make fortunes online. Even the people who at first would send a monthly newsletter seem to be flooding my in box with more and more things for me to buy to help me make money.

How can all this stuff possibly help me make money?

Sometimes not having to go into your day job because of a doctor’s work release is not all that bad, but you know that work is piling up when you are gone. I must have had an omen that I was going to get sick and miss work, because I totally cleaned out my In Box at work. That was a great feat for me.

Well I will get back to my articles on coaches soon. There is a lot more to add. The Mastermind Pros is still going strong. Classes always seem to get smaller this time of year for some reason. I guess it is the Holiday time of year, or the getting dark so early that throws everyone off their routines. You get home from work and it feels like it is so much later because it is already twilight.

Can you believe 2010 is lurking just around the corner? I think it is going to be a better year.

Enough of my randomness.
Thanks for everyone who stays with my blog as a reader. I value your comments.

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Whether it is a new year, a new day, it is always a good time for a new beginning. When you are an internet marketer, you know that every day can bring some sort of change to your marketing plan. It seems with every year that there is a huge leap forward in technology. We rely on each other to keep up on these changes, or at least I do, because if I did not do this I would find myself watching opportunity pass me by.

Do you want to keep up with technology changes? If you are over 30, you better find some younger friends. I work with teenagers and they always seem to have the latest gadget or know about it. I do not buy anything electronic without getting the input of the teens. You have to be aware of what they are using, and what they have tested.

If you are looking for a cell phone, find out what the teens recommend. Why is that? How many times do they drop them? They are on them all day using every feature. They text constantly, take and send pictures, immediately posting to their MySpace pages, sharing MP3 songs.

Teens are amazing! I see more and more teen entrepreneurs, too. They have not bought into the No, you can not do that, mentality. Please do not discourage anyone by saying, “no, you can not do that” to them.

Well once again a post starts here and goes all over the place. What I am saying and where I am going with this is that we all need to be open to changes since they occur faster than we usually expect.
How do we do that?

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Stay tuned for more updates.

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We have a lot to be thankful for though with so many low cost ways to keep in touch.  A lady at work is always so happy when her son sends her a text message from Iraq.  A simple, “Mommy I love You.” , makes her day complete.

For those of you who are missing your loved ones this Christmas; my thoughts are with you.  I hope you are using blogs and texting to keep in touch with the ones you miss.

I am not sure how the charities did this Christmas.  Please remember the Salvation Army, and you other favorite charities.

I am looking forward to a better year ahead as always.  Lets make 2009 Devine! or 2009 can be so fine…I will think of a catchy phrase.

My happy note is that my blogging book is going to be released!  Stay tuned for that one.

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This was taken from a recent email that I received. 

How many zeros in a billion?
 
 
This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the
word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of it’s releases.
A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate our government
is spending it.
 
While this thought is still fresh in our brain…
let’s take a look at New Orleans …
 It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
 

Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
is presently asking Congress for
250  BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting number…
what does it mean?

A.
Well… if you are one of the 484,674 residents of  New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
you each get $516,528.

B.
Or… if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets  $1,329,787.

C.
Or… if you are a family of four…
 your family gets  $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C
 
< HELLO! >
Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax < BR>Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt…
We had the largest middle class in the world…
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians!’

And I still have to
press ’1′
for English.

I hope this goes around the
USA
at least 100 times

What the heck happened?????

Something to think about definitely.

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