Shaping Your Future

By sunrise tomorrow, your actions of today
will have become part of your past.

Yet they will have already
begun to shape your future.

What actions can you choose or avoid
that will positively shape your future?

-- From the Life Application Study Bible

Planning

Planning is a responsibility,
not an option.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Setbacks

Setbacks happen.

That's just life...

A big secret to success is to transform
your setbacks into a step forward.

Don't spend much time asking, "Why?"

Instead, ask, "What shall I do now?"

This will enable you to move forward.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Never Invest in a Business...

"Never invest in a business where
the system goes home at night."
-- Robert Kiyosaki

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Make a Difference

"To make a difference, you must first decide to be different."

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Our Economic Collapse: From Wealth to Debt

The currency in you pocket is NOT money.



You had better start building an ark
if you don't already have one.

Gold and Silver Rich Dad 2008 Predictions

This could be the most important video
you ever watch in your life.

Watch as Robert Kiyosaki predicts the
events that actually took place in 2008.

Your financial security, indeed your actual
financial survival hang in the balance.


Get your financial ship in order today.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Hamburgers and MLM

"Our product sells itself..."

"Everybody needs our product..."

"Our product is the greatest in the world..."

There are a lot of great products out there.

But there's a lot more to it than that.

It takes MORE than a great product
to have a great business...

You have to have a MARKETING SYSTEM for one thing.

I make a great hamburger...

McDonalds makes a crummy hamburger...

So who's the Hamburger Millionaire?

McDonalds has a SYSTEM for selling hamburgers.

I just make good hamburgers...

I don't make good money at making good hamburgers.

Beginning to see why maybe you aren't making
any money with your great product?

Just something to think about.

Mike Stokes
Business Developer

Basic Business Plan

"Articulate a VISION and SELL it."

This is the fundamental principle
of any successful business plan.

It all begins with a VISION.

Mike Stokes
Business Developer

Recommended Reading:

Are You Ready For 2009?

I urge all of my readers to read this article and heed its advice:

Are You Ready for 2009? Top Ten Checklist for Health and Wealth Preparedness

Happy New Year,

Mike Stokes

Want a BIG Business?

Want to know HOW people build BIG businesses?

Write this on your wall:

Massive Action = Massive Results

That's it, in a nutshell.

There are no shortcuts.

I know you get pitched everyday on
how to make money in your pajamas.

Don't fall for it...

It takes work, smart work.

Period.

Mike Stokes
Business Developer

Your Words...

"The words you leave behind will be
a lasting picture of who you are."

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA.

Current Silver Price per Ounce

Watch the price of silver go through the roof.

Do You Want To Understand How The Federal Reserve Works?

Do You Want To Understand How The Federal Reserve Works?

You REALLY need to watch this short video:



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Mark Cuban Can’t Help Himself, He’s Going To Fight The SEC In Public

Mark Cuban Can’t Help Himself, He’s Going To Fight The SEC In Public

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Google Guide for Easier Searching

Here's a really handy cheat sheet for Google Search -

Google Search Cheat Sheet

Best of Success,

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Create Your Own Web 2.0 Empire

Black Belt Recruiting

Need to sponsor more people into your business?

Watch this FREE Training Video



Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Exercise

The only exercise some people get is...

jumping to conclusions,

running down their friends,

side-stepping responsibility,

and pushing their luck.

--Author Unknown

Don't be one of those people.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Hurricane Season

If you live on the U.S. Gulf Coast
or Eastern seaboard, it's that
time of year again...

Here's a good reference article
to brush up on your hurricane
preparedness.

Hurricane Preparation Guide

It's always better to be safe than sorry.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

"Money from Nothing..."

Need to make some extra income?

Who doesn't these days?

On a whim, a couple of months ago,
I decided to turn supper into cash.

Without even owning a video camera,
just using my wife's digital camera,
I decided to start "filming" my wife
cooking our Saturday night supper.

With NO investment...

With NO video camera...

With NO money spent on a website...

With NO experience whatsoever at making videos...

With NO extra work to speak of...
(we've got to cook supper anyway!)

I "videoed" my wife cooking macaroni and cheese
one Saturday evening...

I put the recipe on a FREE HubPage...

Homestyle Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

Then set up a FREE Blogger (like this one)...

CajunCookings.com

And set up a FREE Squidoo page...

Cajun Cooking Recipes

And now, 2 months later...

I'm generating income from it almost every day.

I just put up a WordPress blog also.

Cajun Cooking TV

WordPress blogs are FREE also...

I chose to put mine on a hosting account,
so there is a small charge for that...

(Like $7.95 a month and you can use it
for an unlimited number of websites.)

So, "Money from nothing..."

There are unlimited opportunities
to earn money on the Internet.

Go get you some!

Best of Success,

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
http://www.cajuncookingtv.com/
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Chop Your Own Wood...

"Chop your own wood,
and it will warm you twice."
-- Henry Ford

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Mike's Marketing Manifesto

More customers is not the goal.

More profit is the goal.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Understanding RSS In Plain English

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