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The Human Life Map | The Secret Path Of Life - AJ GentryAJ Gentry (31)    The Human Life Map | The Secret Path Of Life Signs that the Earth FracturedPosted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (55 days ago.) Viewed 11 times. The signs were there for a long time. People struggling to get ahead at all cost, companies driven to maximize their profits at the expense of the public and finally collapse. Well, maybe not full collapse, but certainly a setback that will take years to recover from providing we really ever do recover back to those previously lofty levels. How has the economic downturn hit you? Has it cost you money, your job or perhaps just a little stress and sweat. Don't worry; the process has sucked in just about everyone including most of the RICH people. In fact, it may have hit some of them the worst. No more lounging around the pool whiling away the hours after the losses to the stock portfolio. Of course, Bernie helped a few along the way. It's as if the Earth had fractured, cracked open starting at Wall Street and began to swallow up business after business and family after family indiscriminately eating away at the financial fabric of our nation and our world of reality. Have we seen the worse days or are there new revelations yet to come? Personally, I like to think we have the strength and perseverance as a nation to take control of our destiny and reinvent the way we do business and interact as a people. The most revealing side of this matter is the character of people. Entire communities rallying around their friends and neighbors to help them out in a dire time of need. Plus, there has been a true change in the way people view income and work. Many companies have either had to cut drastically back or suffer the indignity of bankruptcy or worse yet, closure. Following this curve of the whirlpool has been a spite of job losses that suck the life giving income from families like yours and mine. In turn, people have reinvented themselves and the way they work. Freelance workers abound and the freelance market is growing stronger by the day. Suddenly, people are discovering those natural skills and talents they have kept hidden along with the vast knowledge and experience they have gathered throughout the years. Think about it, your knowledge and experience along with the skill sets you possess is your true value. Companies don't hire you to sit idle all day, they hire you because you have the ability to do a specific set of skilled functions or you have valuable knowledge to share. Guess what? You still do! Only now, companies find themselves unable to hire on part-time and full-time workers. So what is the next logical step? They turn to freelance job banks to fill those short-term needs from the very people many companies just released. You are sitting on a potential goldmine. There are a great number of people making far more income as freelance workers than ever as a full-time employee. But wait, it isn't as easy as it sounds. You need to cultivate your skills and learn to market yourself to individuals and companies that NEED your skills and smarts. Is this the sign of economic growth? Perhaps, because small business is the core of our economy. Plus, with the advent of the internet more and more business is turning to the cost effective way to network worker integration. It could prove to be your best job ever allowing you to work from a home base with a variety of firms that need small projects on short notice. During the research for this article I saw numerous people making mid five figure and even six figure incomes from home in freelancing. Several of the larger freelance job banks routinely filter through thousands of potential work assignments each month. And I don't mean just software programmers and business whiz kids. These are short-term skill based projects like babysitters, personal assistants, business planners, painting, carpentry and even radio and television support. Is it for you? That, I can't say. However, I know that tapping the golden opportunity within you might be the answer to these economic woes. If it is, I'm all for it. AJ Gentry, author and creator of The Human Life Map, Living Dynamics,and Human Excellence Technologies, has pioneered human behavioral research for more than three decades offers his best freelance business find for 2009. http://www.superesults.com 
Permalink Comments (0) 10 Economic Survival TipsPosted Thursday, May 21, 2009 (187 days ago.) Viewed 3 times. One of our most popular newsletter articles dealt with surviving this economic downturn. So many people asked for it so here it is! Can you deny it? Can you deny that financial and living times are as difficult as most people have ever seen? Many are being pushed to the brink of losing control. Do you know what to do? Where to turn next? First, let's deal with stress. Pressure is the natural by-product of survival when there isn't enough for everyone. You must compete and strive to get what you consider a fair share. Pressure is always there unless there is abundance. Once your bills are paid and you have enough, money doesn't seem as important anymore. It just sits around in bank accounts or envelops and does nothing. It's there, but you rarely think of it until time to pay another bill or purchase something. When money or income is sparse or limited you think about it "all of the time". It consumes your thoughts as the pressure to survive builds. However, the pressure isn't the culprit here. It's the stress "you create" that is bothering you. Your mental, physical and emotional reaction to the pressure. This is the manmade stress that robs you of energy, focus and motivation. It drains you of mental power and confuses and misdirects you. Here are 10 quick tips to help you overcome some of the stress and deal with the economic issues we all face today. 1. Don't create stress in yourself. Pressure will always exist, but you don't have to add to it by creating an enormous amount of stress too. Be aware that you can choose to create or avoid almost all of the stress if you truly want to. 2. Don't create stress in others. The very next thing many people under pressure do is attack those around them. Oh, they may not mean to, but they either vent personal stress anxieties to others or create a stressful environment for others. Don't run your support team away! 3. Improve what you can. One of the best things you can do is actually improving all of the areas of your living process that you do have control over. Clean or paint the home, lose weight, develop a better schedule or initiate some form of action that will leave you with a better living experience tonight. 4. Simplify and Capitalize Often the pressure of living comes from a lifestyle that is too complicated and complex. First, you may want to lean-down your lifestyle. Remove the mental and physical clutter and convert or capitalize all of the things "you do not need". Sometimes it can be amazing how much money you have tied up in "stuff" you are not using and don't need. Combine and simplify as much as possible. 5. Reduce the waste. Awareness is the one thing we all lack. If you are not aware of a need to improve you cannot or will not start the journey toward improvement. Being aware of what you waste is a real cost saver! It is so easy to spend a few dollars here and a few cents there. Perhaps you buy things you hardly use or too much and you throw some away. A penny saved is a penny earned is quite true. 6. Continue to live. So often I consult with people that have withdrawn into their homes and lives. They "give up" in a way and simply don't want to make the effort to fight against the economic demands. It is vital that you continue to live a full lifestyle. Get out and network with people in both the social and business sense. Seek income so you can foster a lifestyle that is rich with pleasure and comfort. 7. Believe in yourself. Another major setback for people is accepting fault for the economic downturn of job loss. In essence, they "take it personally". I've seen people have everything collapse around them and yet they accept the blame. Remember the good days? The times when you had plenty and things were great? You put yourself in that place and can do it again if you only try. Trust me, if you do not believe in yourself how can you expect others to ever believe in you? 8. Believe in others. In many of the people and families I have consulted with there have been one or more people reaching out to help and support that were turned away or ignored. The person in need simply didn't believe anyone else could or wanted to help. Be aware of the people around you. They may be offering help. 9. Teach Understand that sharing your knowledge with others brings you into synergy with the social community. The more you have to offer the higher your social value becomes. Start a movement and your life will be filled with a strong social network of supportive people. 10. Learn Observe what is and is not working within the current social and business structure. Perhaps you must change. It may be a career shift or way of thinking that redirects you toward your next stage of quality living. Whatever the reason you must continue to observe and learn from the environment and not only your own, but the results of others as well. AJ Gentry, author and creator of The Human Life Map, Living Dynamics,and Human Excellence Technologies, has pioneered human behavioral research for more than three decades and has touched the lives of millions of people through online programs. http://www.thesecretpathoflife.com
Permalink Comments (0) Helping the People Truly in NeedPosted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (1 year 12 days ago.) Viewed 9 times. We see them every day. People that have lost their jobs, income and quality of lifestyle. However, there is one thing that keeps them from recovering even when help is available. They simply won't accept help when it is offered. Why is that? Why would people desperate for ways to feed their family and keep their home refuse to even try to help themselves? Certainly we understand the need to cut back and be more selective with choices and that is exactly why we developed free course programs for families, but even then they fail to act. They moan in grief over the challenges and demands of the current economy and then disappear back into the darkness of worry and depression. I have spent hours talking to groups of people, truly excited people ready to take on the world and reverse their misfortunes only to watch them go home and sit down and do nothing further to help themselves. They won't read new information, study ways of improving their living skills or make any effort other than asking for a loan or something for nothing. Recently I offered to personally mentor a young man who had lost literally everything he owned in an effort to improve his lifestyle and help him get back on his feet again. He walked away because the effort would just be TOO HARD for him. His last words to me were "if you really cared you'd lend me $100". Lend him? It amazes me every time I hear someone with no income or money ask for a loan. A loan implies a return payment. How could he pay back the money? What good would it do to give him such a small amount of money? He would have spent it in a few days and been right back in the same place again, broke and desperate. Remember the old saying "you can give a person a fish and he can eat today or you can teach him to fish and he can eat forever"? In fact, almost every week someone I meet is asking for a loan or handout. Their total focus isn't on helping to improve their plight, but rather getting just enough money to make it through another week. Have we given up as a nation, as a people? Is this the time when everyone throws their hands up in despair and gives up? I don't believe so. I still feel that we are a strong people and will continue to reach out to help my neighbors and those in need until I can no longer do such. I see a future for my children and the children of this nation. Our children and this economy need us now more than ever. Now is the time when we should take a stand and say "no more". No more living from day to day without the ability to provide for self or family. No more watching the tears stream down the face of a father unable to find employment and provide food and shelter for his family. There is little most of us can do about job downsizing and layoffs, company shutdowns and state of the stock markets, but we have total control over what we choose to do as a person with a mind and a will to survive. Jobs come and go, but life goes on. The quality of your life and lifestyle are what you choose to make it. If help is available and you turn a deaf ear it is almost criminal. It is a crime against the family unit and this nation to willingly sit and let your life disintegrate into financial ruin. Once again I invite any person with real needs to accept our help. If you don't want our help then please seek help from those people truly willing to step forward and lend a helping hand to those in need. These people are out there if you only leave the dark hole of debt and depression long enough and open your eyes wide enough to see the opportunities that are available. However, this requires effort on your part. There is no free ride and that holds true now more than ever. Neither I nor any other person or company is going to just step in and hand you money or do all of the work for you. The decision is yours. Make it wisely and soon. AJ Gentry, author and creator of The Human Life Map, Living Dynamics,and Human Excellence Technologies, has pioneered human behavioral research for more than three decades and has touched the lives of millions of people through online programs. The Human Life Map http://www.thesecretpathoflife.com
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