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** Biz-Tips by Dr. Kevin Nunley – Getting More From Your Skilled Suppliers--by being patient.

** Featured Article – The 900-Pound Monkey On Your Back by Willie Crawford

** Trivia

** A Little Levity – Oily Hair

** Publications of Interest

** Stress Tip by Dr. Rae Baum

** Fact Of The Day

** Health Tip of the Week – Just Say No To "Uppers"

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Biz Tips
by Dr. Kevin Nunley

Getting More From Your Skilled Suppliers--by being patient.

Everything is delivered fast, fast, fast these days. I ordered a computer from a store four states away and it was on my doorstep by breakfast the next morning.

Fast is great for big product retailers, but the new super-speed of business is a huge pain in the neck for many skilled service folks.

No matter how hard you try, good old-fashioned work done by humans just takes time.

I was in a terrific little family restaurant that serves some of the best food in town. They were swamped with a sudden rush of business.

A customer became irate because service was taking longer than what she had come to expect from fast food operations.

You will get much better work from craftspeople, writers, designers, and experts if you give them plenty of time to do the job.

Plan well in advance and order early if you can.

Many creative folks need time to recharge between jobs. A top website logo designer warns customers it may take three weeks before he even starts on their logo. It often takes that long to come up with an exceptional concept (which he does on a regular basis).

Those who start early and show patience are rewarded with top service.

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Trivia

For the 2000 Super Bowl, about a third of the TV commercial spots were purchased by dot-com companies. The following year, the numbers dropped to just 10 percent bought by 'Net companies.

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**Featured Article**

The 900-Pound Monkey On Your Back by Willie Crawford

Many years ago, I was a young, U.S. Air Force Major, working an office job Hawaii. This "seasoned," gruff-but-fatherly Colonel peered over my shoulder as I worked, and asked what I was doing. I explained that I was writing a paper to help another Major document a problem for the General. He asked why, and I explained that I was the expert on the topic.

The lesson that Colonel taught me that day changed my life, and continues to help my online business grow. You see, I had allowed the other Major, who had a big challenge, simply pass it along to me because it was something I felt very comfortable with. I had TONS of other things I needed to get done, but I had allowed a co-worker to get me to do his work.

What that Colonel explained to me that day was that all my life I would have people come to me with "900-pound monkeys on their backs." He explained that often there's nothing they would like better than to take the monkey off their back and put it on someone else's. He went on to explain that it's nice to help people, but often DUMB to just let them dump their work on you.

As I look around me in the online world everyday, I witness people allowing others to take 900-pound monkeys that are on their backs... and place those monkeys on other's backs. I see this as a PROBLEM many times because in the process of agreeing to take on someone else's problem, the "volunteer" often puts his own projects on hold.

I often hear those who've taken on others' problems complaining about not having the time to finish their own projects. I sometimes politely point out that it's their fault.

Let's look at a few concrete examples...

Often, I see people on discussion boards ask how to fix an html problem, modify a graphic, or perhaps improve on a webpage.  Sometimes, those of us who are very comfortable with doing these things volunteer to take a minute and quickly fix the problem. This only becomes a "900-pound monkey" when it takes longer to do the favor than expected, or we get talked into making additional changes or revisions.  Then a favor can quickly turn into a JOB that you should be charging for!

I often see us volunteering to do these favors for others as a means of procrastinating. We have a Major project that we really should be working on, but it seems so massive that we look for other things to do to prevent getting started.  Any convenient excuse will do, and that excuse is often that someone else needs our help.  The fact often is that OUR projects are what need our attention

I'm NOT saying that you should not do favors for others. However, you do need to fully define the scope of what you're volunteering for. You need to confirm that you're not offering to transfer that 900-pound monkey onto your back so that the other person can go sit around on the beach.

Examples of things Internet marketers often volunteer for that turn into 900-pound monkeys...

- Fixing an html or script problem
- Rewriting a sales letter
- Designing a graphic
- Fixing up a PDF file
- Editing some audio

The list could be a lot longer.

Now here's the really strange thing about the things we often volunteer to do for others. They are often things that we have personally grown to consider "not the best use of our time." So we have started outsourcing these things when they need doing in our own businesses. Yet we often volunteer to do them for others.

As you go through your day, and find yourself feeling overwhelmed with so many things to do, stop for a second and consider... if part of the problem might not be that you're simply taking on too many problems that aren't even yours. If that is the case, learning to refuse that monkey, from time to time, takes a lot of weight off your shoulders! (Pun intended)

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Willie Crawford serves as a consultant, mentor, and confidant to some of Internet marketing's top income earners. You can tap into his 9 years of online experience and million-dollar, success-creating advice at:  http://BlueprintToInternetMarketingSuccess.com
 

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Quote of the Day

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.

- Kobi Yamada

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A Little Humor

Oily Hair
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Trying to control my dry hair, I treated my scalp with olive oil before washing it.

Worried that the oil might leave an odor, I washed my hair several times.

That night when I went to bed, I leaned over to my husband and asked, "Do I smell like olive oil?"

"No," he said, sniffing me, then replied, "Do I smell like Popeye?"

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At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and a calculator.

Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

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There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in the USA.

Well, there's a very simple answer ... nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn't know we were getting low.

The reason for that is purely geographical. All the oil is in Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska, etc.

All the dipsticks are in Washington, D.C.

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A couple came to the police department, wanting to dispose of some ammunition. They handed the desk officer a wooden box and said that it contained two shells an uncle had given them as souvenirs from World War II.

"We didn't know what to do with them," the woman explained. "So all these years, we've kept the shells in the bottom drawer of the china cabinet, away from our children."

The officer assured the couple he'd dispose of the ammunition safely. But when he took one out of the box the top came off, revealing a strange black substance. His suspicions aroused, the officer removed the top of the other shell and found a hard white substance.

There was no doubt about it. They were souvenir salt and pepper shakers.

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Riddle

The more there is the less you see.

Do you know the answer? Scroll down to find the solution.

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If a woman can be a meter maid,
would that make a man be a meter butler?

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Answer to Riddle:

Darkness

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1. Stress Tip
2. by Dr. Rae Baum

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Fact of the Day

In 1893, Chicago hired its first police woman. Her name was Marie Owens. While the city was progressive in its hiring practices, Chicago's female police officers were not allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.

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Health Tip of the Week
by Dr. Earl Mindell

Just Say No To "Uppers"

A good friend of mine is stepmother to a ten-year-old boy. By all accounts, this boy—let's call him Nathan—has all the promise one could imagine. He's bright, good-looking, a strong athlete. To see him now, it's hard to fathom that by the time he was six, he was being given Ritalin because of a perceived attention deficit issue in school. He was impulsive, hard to handle, disruptive at times, and could strike out at other kids without warning. She and the boy's father were given an ultimatum by his school: either put him on Ritalin or put him in a special class for kids with problems.

They hated the thought of putting him in this kind of class, especially since he seemed so bright and capable when he could focus his energy. After much struggle, they agreed to give him the medication. He took it only on school days and seemed to improve with only half the prescribed dose. Things seemed to get better, and after a year or so he was able to stop taking it, but not before they noticed some troubling changes.

They noticed that Nathan was beginning to make some odd growling sounds in his throat whenever he was sitting quietly. They noticed he was developing some mild tics, thrusting his head forward repeatedly and blinking his eyes rapidly. An evaluation by a neurologist led to a diagnosis of a ticking disorder called Tourette's syndrome. The neurologist informed them that this could be a side effect of Ritalin use. They wanted to know if anything could be done. "Well," the neurologist told them, "in about a third of kids who develop Tourette's, it goes away sometime during adulthood. The best treatment we have right now is Prozac." Talk about adding insult to injury!

A caution in fine print can be found against amphetamine use (and that's what Ritalin is, an amphetamine—no different than the ones kids are cautioned not to take by the folks waging the War On Drugs) in kids who have a family history of Tourette's.  It turned out that one of the boy's cousins had been diagnosed with the disorder. One of his uncles had also had the disease, although no one had known what it was at the time.

Although many people think of Tourette's as characterized by outbursts of swearing, it actually encompasses a lot of behaviors. Most people with Tourette's simply have tics—eye blinking, head jerking, rumbling or growling noises in the throat. These tics can be controlled with great effort, but they're like a sneeze: you can suppress it for a while, but it has to be released, it doesn't just go away. Tourette's can also involve compulsive behaviors, such as needing to touch things with both hands consecutively to "keep things evened out"—something Nathan's uncle had often done.

Since his diagnosis, Nathan's ticking has gotten noticeably worse. Its repertoire has expanded to include snorting, sudden and wide opening of his mouth, and more emphatic jerking of his head. At night, his parents can hear him ticking like mad as he tries to settle down to sleep. They fear—and for good reason—that this is going to add to the problems he's had making friends since his ADHD issues way back in first grade. They fear he'll be teased and that the problem will get in the way of his being the best he can be.

The moral of this story is, I hope, abundantly clear: drugging children to get them to behave is not the answer. Roughly 10 percent of all American boys between the ages of six and 18 are taking Ritalin, and this is simply insane. The risks are too great. Not many parents know that this can happen to their child, even if there's no family history of Tourette's, and by the time symptoms crop up it's too late to turn back.

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PCisms (Politically Correct Terminology)

Bald - Folically Challenged

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