e3 : “entertainment, epistemology, empowerment.”

Can you improve your Credit Scores?

It’s not easy, but you can by:

Improving your Credit Patterns.

Your Credit Score is based on these patterns over time, but as negative information ages, it becomes less important.
For example, the fact that you paid a few phone bills late four years ago will matter less than the fact that you’ve paid on time since then.
Also, close accounts you’re not using (lenders view them as a risk, imagining that you may go on a spending jag); don’t hit all your credit limits (using 80 percent of the credit you have available is a sign to lenders that you’re stretched); and keep applications for credit to a minimum in the six-month period before you seek a mortgage or other large loan.

I am in the process of Ressurecting My personal Credit Scores…. and will keep updating as I progress. [CANI!]

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Stress only makes matter$ worse…

~So… operating free of financial stress:
Here is my Money Confession:

a) $ Good news: had a $1k poker night last night
b) $ Bad news: knee jerk money reaction was to go on a little $pending $pree and so I restocked my “Narcissistic Vanity” products ~
(shampoo; conditioner; teeth whitener products; etc…) And to demonstrate appreciation to “Rinnie:
a bouquet of flower$ and a 2002 L’ecuyer’e Couroneau Bordux ~ her favourite wine. [product of France]

*wow*~ Just had my first real business income since I started this public
“Year of Pro$perity” / “Online Pro$perity Conciou$ness Group”…
and the first $ instinct was to disperse 10% of all my money back into the Universe!!!?! [$emi~uncon$iously]

UUGGggg!!:

“In$ta-Guilt” ~ Just add Money.

Well, atleast I didn’t go put money down on a MotorCycle [the summer sun and the whining sounds of distant engines trigger my "Purchase Response" as well...]

To Attoin for my $in$? : Today I am going down and immediately depositing the first $100 into my 10% Savings Account aka Bucket #2~
The “Desperation Avoidance Bucket”

On~On and FORWARD with the Plan we committed to on July 4th 2006!

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“I am going to go out there and do everything I can…
to STOP HIS HEART.”

Example:
Ruthless Focus
and Determination
in the Face of the Ultimate Physical Competition.

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“If a man WANTS something he’s never had before? ~
he needs to DO something he’s never done before.”

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“ T h e _ B e a s t ”
BAmm~ BAmm and I were inspired 2 watch none other than:
“THE BEAST”~ Bob Sapp [with his 90# female personal trainer]
getting his Workout ON! @ the Kirkland 24Hour Fitness today
during our cardio~blast 2day…

Name: Bob Sapp Birthday: September 22,1974
Nick Name: “The Beast” Height: 6 ft 7 in
Club: Team Beast / MMA Weight: 374 lbs
Style: Boxing / Wrestling Website: n/a
Country: Kirkland; USA

The Beast is a cult phenomeon in Japan: As a “k#1″ No Rules Fighter ~

“Bigger than Godzilla”

~ hmm… Bob “The Beast” Sapp …
Can’t Imagine why they call ‘em that!!!!

An Overview Of The Factors Involved In:
TEAM BEAST ~ “The Training Solution”

Diet and Nutrition are important parts of the training solution that also includes genetics,
lifestyle, and training.
The overall effects of my training solution depend on having all of these factors in place.

Genetics
It’s obvious that in order to excel in any sport or to develop extensive muscularity you have to be born with the potential to do so. And this potential the mental as well as the physical side. Enthusiasm, dedication, fortitude and drive are just as important to ultimate success as the physical attributes.
While elite athletes have a genetic head start, what they accomplished depends on the other factors. It’s the environment that shapes the flow of genotype to phenotype. In other words even the truly gifted have to have their potential molded and developed by the right factors.

All four environmental factors, lifestyle, training, diet and nutritional supplements
must be in synch before you can reach, and sometimes even exceed, the upper limits of your natural genetic potential.

The Usual Suspects: Lifestyle, Training, Diet and Nutritional Supplements :

The Peak Performance & Body Composition Enhancement Pipeline

Effort is a combination of enthusiasm, motivation, genetic ability, mental and emotional state.
It makes up the physiological and psychological foundation for success in sports and in life.
But it’s not enough to give us the strength, body composition and performance results we want.
For that we have to optimize our lifestyle, training, diet and nutritional supplement use.

A weak section in the pipeline will decrease the end results.

If everything is in synch then we’ll achieve our goals, as long as they are realistic/genetically possible.

Thus reaching your performance and body composition goals takes a structured approach
that looks at lifestyle, exercise, diet and nutritional supplements.

Factors That Maximize The Pipeline

Factor # 1: Lifestyle

Lifestyle changes to maximize the anabolic and minimize the catabolic hormones,
and maximize the anabolic effects of exercise include:

Getting adequate sleep
Minimizing stress
Minimize Acidity levels of the body’s internal chemistry
Avoiding the use of recreational drugs, alcohol and tobacco
Avoid intake of anything that does not Empower the Physical Body

In order to manipulate the body’s endogenous hormones to insure that anabolic edge,
a person’s lifestyle has to be brought under control.
Reducing emotional and psychological stress leads to increased testosterone and decreased cortisol levels
(remember, cortisol breaks down muscle tissue).
Stated most simply: stress makes it more difficult to excel and shape your body and easier to break it down.

You’ll also need adequate sleep. While some people can get away with as little as six hours or less a day, most people need at least seven and sometimes up to ten hours a day. This can be done either straight through at night or with a 6-8 hour stretch at night and a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon.
Sleep deprivation adversely affects hormone function.

In order to set up a foundation for the performance and body you want, you have to: Optimize your Lifestyle.
(That means keeping stress at bay as much as possible, getting proper sleep, and keeping away from excesses of alcohol and recreational drugs.)

Factor # 2: Training

Training has to result in an adaptive response that in turn will lead to results.
While it’s important not to undertrain, you also shouldn’t overtrain.
You have to allow for adequate recovery,
recognize overtraining and make the necessary changes to your training,
and train in such a way as to minimize injuries.

Factor # 3: Diet / Proper Nutrition

The third component of the training solution is to determine the best diet that will give us the results we want in the shortest period of time and that will fit into the various training phases.

Factor # 4: Nutritional Supplements

Nutritional supplements are the fourth part of the training solution.
Once you’ve got your lifestyle, training and diet in order, the next step is choosing and using the right nutritional supplements for the job at hand, depending on what phase of training you’re in and your goals. Nutritional supplements can be the icing on the cake and can help you train more effectively, gain muscle mass and strength, and lose bodyfat.

On Recovery:

The first thing you have to learn is that it takes time to recover
and if you don’t recover properly you’ll stale out and even worse, get injured.
That’s why Bob only does this intense lifting once a week, usually on Saturday. ~
Luckily for me he was training heavily THIS saturday*

On Carb Cycling:

His diet oscillates between days where carb levels are relatively low to days when carb levels are relatively high. This change from mostly lower carbs to the less frequent high carb days, helps keep him in an anabolic, fat burning phase, allowing him to maximize his muscle mass and keep his body fat low.
*Cycling from lower carbs, higher fat to higher carbs and lower fat manipulates the anabolic and fat burning hormones and processes in the body to maintain or increase muscle mass while at the same time decreasing bodyfat.

Summary

The bottom line in Bob’s ability to maintain such high levels of strength and muscle mass, and thus to dominate the fight world, is a co-ordinated wholistic approach to his training and nutrition. Lifestyle, training, diet and nutritional supplement use are all important in maximizing strength, performance and muscle mass. This approach affects not only the body, but also the mind, with important positive psychological and emotional stabilizing effects.

CANI! ur personal physical mastery~ and I’ll see YOU in december!

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Is the blogosphere crushing you?

Utilize the Net’s Best BLOG SEARCH ENGINGE
~All your favorite blogs in one place!

With 50 Million Blogs being updated daily…
SOME of ‘em Gotta be good, Right?!~?

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Epistemologists analyze the standards of justification for knowledge claims,
that is, the grounds on which one can claim to know a particular fact.
In a nutshell, epistemology addresses the questions,

“Do you really know what you think you know?”

and, if so, “How do you know what you know?”

Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom, Truth

Educating our youth is NOT to be the chief aim of our educational system.
“Education” is [can be] a form of entertainment ~ merely “intellectual stimulation”.

Instead the main focus would be best served to give our Children WISDOM.

Example:
When asked:
“Can U give me a list of channels that i should let my child watch on TV?”
~The correct answer would be:
“Give Ur children Wisdom…
[so that they may understand which TV channels empower them,
and which channel harm~ and then act accordingly.]“

“Facts“ are just bytes of information.

“Knowledge” is merely a coherent accumulation of facts.

Take a look around in the many Catagories here @ Ratchet_Ravings. This blog is filled with Knowledge.

“Understanding” is what occurs when one self~reflects, relates, and can comphrend the material presented.

WISDOM~

Wisdom comes when one truly Understands
AND
knows what to do with said knowledge,
and when…
and how,
to USE it effectively.

Wisdom is Magiclly Demonstrated by one taking Massive Action
and efficently turning the desired Invisible~
… into The Visible.

Truth is when the Understood Knowlege is integrated with the Wisdom
so deeply that it is considered fully integrated, or conditioned into the individual.

“Truth” is demonstrated by “Unconcious Competence”
and Automatic [conditioned] choices, decisions, and behaviours.

Take a close look at what U “Know” and “Believe“.

Use Ur brain for a Change
and Remember:

“The Quality of Ur Life ~ IS the Quality of Ur Distinctions.”

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“The reason most people FAIL to achieve their FINANCIAL goals…
is that they Don’t have STRONG ENOUGH REASONS to follow through!”

-Anthony Robbins

Make Ur financial goals an ABSOLUTE MUST!

Be HUNGRY.
STAY Hungry.
Show Up and BE more!

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Abs are not in Ur Gym Bag….

but in Ur Luch Box!!

btw: for those of U in the know? ~ yeah, i had my first can of TUNA 2day…

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An estimated 8,700 players
putting up the $10,000 required to play in the 37th World Series of Poker
on 870 tables
Chase Down The $12,000,000.00 First Place Cash Prize
$12 million.
Dollars.
Even.

Make the Final Table? and Ur atleast a Millionaire.

What a country!

Harrahs officially released the payout structure for the 2006 main event and the dollar figures reflected the size of the starting field: record-breaking.

The money bubble bursts with the 874th elimination, and 12 players will walk away from the tournament with at least $1 million.

1 Million EXTRA Dollars to go from 4th to 3rd.
Go from 3rd and beat just one more person to finish 2nd? ~ yeah that’ll get U an EXTRA 2 Million!
And go from 2nd place as the 6Million dollar man~ and squeek past just One last person and Double UP! in real cash~

Twelve Million $.

[ *"whoa!" ~ would be an understatement!]

The payouts for the top finishers are as follows:
4th place - $3,628,513
3rd place - $4,123,310
2nd place - $6,102,499
1st place - $12,000,000

AND…the last 3 years? Super~Sattelite winners took the Top Prize-

Next year in Qualifying for the 2007 WSOP?
I’ll give it my BEST to Sattelite in~

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Rare Breed:

‘Passionate about RISK~
…and Passionate about the REWARDS.

F E A R ?
~yeah, fear keep ‘ya MOTIVATED!!!!

Jake then jumps from a helicopter~
4,000 feet in the air over the Ocean~
SWOOPS at 50mph for horizonal placement in a high performance canopy~
and attempts 2 land into a 8′ x 9′ shark cage ~entering the water @ 25mph+~
surrounded by 30+ Live Sharks!

STUNT JUNKIES is an immersive, weekly series in which the world’s best extreme sports athletes, designers and stunt fabricators execute one unbelievable, hair-raising stunt.

Extreme athletes are not like the rest of us. Through a highly developed sense of kinetic awareness they are able to slow time down in intense situations that would cause the average person to panic.

STUNT JUNKIES will take viewers inside the lives and minds of these athletes.

Every episode builds to the day of the big stunt,
from concept through training and testing to the final eye-popping conclusion.

Each show also explores the science behind the stunts.

How will the angle of a takeoff ramp or the speed of a four-wheel ATV hitting that ramp affect the outcome of the stunt? Using slow-motion footage and graphic overlays, STUNT JUNKIES explores not only the science of why a stunt works, but why some stunts go horribly wrong.

STUNT JUNKIES is spark-flying television, starring fearless athletes, adrenaline-pumping stunts and the science to back them up.

This season on the Discovery Channel~ Don’t miss an episode!

Next week’s show?
Rocket~Powered Base Jumping! [1 second!!!] Instant base jump shoots via a Rocket~released canopy.
A projectile leaves the pack and jettisons the para-shoot. Basiclly a Base Jump cannon shoot!

btw: The producers do reccommend that one * NOT* try jumping into a shark cage from a helicopter : “at Home”.

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Hadn’t posted a RAVING in some time….don’t want to take mySelf too seriously~

So here ‘ya gew:
*LOL*

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Making a Money Map

One of the first steps to living within your means is to figure out how much you’re spending each month.
And the best way to do that is to track what’s going out. Once you have a clear sense of where your money is going, you can find places where you can cut back — or just get a reality check on how much you spend on, say, that daily latte at Starbucks. [Latte Factor]

Here’s a GUIDE to help you make your money map:

Start with your fixed expenses.
What do you pay each month for your rent or mortgage, car, health club, insurance, utilities, phone service, cable, preexisting credit card debt, student loans, etc.? Make a list of these amounts.

Then track your variable expense. Most people have no idea how much they spend each month on things like take-out food, entertainment, drinks with friends, even gasoline and groceries. Starting now, you’re going to keep tabs. Every day, for the next month, you’re going to get a receipt for everything you buy, even the small ones. If you buy something online, that means printing out a record so you can account for that as well. If you shop on the phone, make a note. Then, every night when you get home, spend five minutes pulling those receipts out of your wallet and entering them into an XL sheet or Spending Tracker~ or jotting them down, category by category, on your legal pad.

At the end of the month, you’ll have a Money Map.
You’ll know how much you’re spending, and on what.
And then you’ll be able to make some positive changes.

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Abs~solutely Committed!

1. Focus on diet modification.
Your diet is the main factor in how your abs will look.
Supplementation should also be considered for maximum results.

“Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym!”

2. Minimize rest time in between sets.
Try to only take 1 minute of rest [or less] in between abdominal exercises.
The goal is to keep rest to 30 - 40 seconds in between sets.
This keeps the metabolism high, allowing you to burn fat at a greater rate.

3. Contract and flex your abs in between sets.
This technique helps to build abdominal definition.
Bodybuilders have been know to stretch and flex in between sets to increase muscle definition. It works!

4. Perform cardio activity BEFORE your workout.

When the body is warmed up as a result of cardiovascular activity,
you’re able to get a better contraction on your abs when you work them.
The warm up enables you to better feel the deep muscular burning sensation when your abs are trained.

5. Train your abs approximately 2 hours after a meal.
This technique helps to burn bodyfat as fuel instead of carbohydrates.

6. Remember the Law of ThermoDynamics: Calories IN vs. Calories OUT

7. Ur plan + Discipline + Time = Ur Desired Outcome

I may have a ways 2 go 2 have visible abs so,….

looking for:

Inspiration!

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Goal-setting is as important as it is touted to be.

You must be able to know what your goals are
AND be able to establish relationships with people who can help you attain them.

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There are five important things an entrepreneur must accomplish:

#1. Make Meaning. The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning. Meaning is not about money, fame or power. Instead, meaning is about making the world a better place, increasing the quality of life, righting a wrong and preventing good from ending.

#2. Make Mantra. Instead of a mission statement, take your meaning and make your own mantra. A mantra is defined as a sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantations such as an invocation of god or a magic spell. Examples of mantras include Disney’s “Fun family entertainment�, and Nike’s “Authentic athletic performance.�

#3. Get Going. Start creating your product or service and commence delivering to your customers. Forget about writing long business plans or creating complicated financial projections. Instead build your prototype and launch your website.

#4. Define Your Business Model. Define your customers and their needs. Come up with a sales mechanism that will earn you more money than what you are spending.

#5. Weave a M.A.T. (Milestones, Assumptions, and Tasks) .
Compile a list of the Milestones you need to meet,
Assumptions that are built into your business model,
and the Tasks you need to accomplish to create your organization.

The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
By Guy Kawasaki

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Rich Dad’s Words of Wisdom:

• You are what you Think.
• A job is a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
• A highly paid slave is still a slave.
• Why climb the corporate ladder when you can own the ladder?

financial literacy = financial independence

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Mission and Values rank among the most overused and yet misunderstood words in business.
Often, despite all the effort that goes into the creation of a company’s mission and values,
the two end up as mere generic words that fail to inspire anyone - or even attract much attention in the first place.

A good mission statement and set of values have to be real.
The mission must state exactly where the company is headed (or should be headed) and
the values must describe the sort of behavior that gets the company there.

The Mission
An effective mission statement basically answers one question:

How do we intend to win in this business?

This is a defining question because it forces companies to delineate strengths and weaknesses to assess where they can profitably operate in the competitive landscape.

Without financial success, all the social goals in the world don’t have a chance.
This doesn’t mean a mission statement can’t be bold or aspirational.
In fact, those sorts of statements can inspire and motivate people.

At the end of the day, a good mission statement balances the possible and impossible.
It gives people the direction to profitability and the feeling that they are part of something big and important.
Lastly, the mission must be set by top management as it is a defining moment for the leaders of the company.

~Jack Welch

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Wisdom in a Nutshell from: “Who Moved My Cheese?”

Anticipate change.
Adapt quickly.
Enjoy change.
Be ready to change quickly, again and again.
Having Cheese makes you happy.
The more important your Cheese is to you, the more you want to hold on to it.
If you do not change, you can become extinct.
Ask yourself “What would I do if I weren’t afraid?�
Smell the Cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
Movement in a new direction helps you find New Cheese.
When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
Imagining myself enjoying New Cheese, even before I find it, leads me to it.
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find New Cheese.
It is safer to search in the maze than remain in a cheeseless situation.
Old beliefs do not lead you to New Cheese.
When you see that you can find and enjoy New Cheese, you change course.
Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come.
Read the Handwriting on the Wall

~Dr. Spencer Johnson

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Zoom in for the jackpot.

Be outrageous in your demands. Keep a straight face. See what happens.

Make a buck as fast as possible.

Pretend you knew exactly what would happen all along.

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