Getting Paid On Time

How do you get someone to pay on time? I’m sure that’s a question that all business owners would like to know. Well here’s the secret…Ready for it? K, here it goes to you…wait, I had an itch on my foot. Ok, I’m ready.

The secret to getting someone to pay on time is to 1)stress to them how important it is in order to receive whatever they want from you they need to have the money ready.

That’s it. It’s called quid pro quo. Latin for ‘this for that.’ If you give them what they want ahead of time, then it’s almost pointless to pay you on time, because they already have what they want…WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT!

This just happened to me. I’ve been doing some Customer Service Training for a client and they usually like to pay me a month or two after I finished my training. That sucks ’cause I have bills to pay, but I spent a great deal of my time training. On top of that, I need to work with my other clients and make additional money just to barely scrap by. Talk about being tough on a business owner.

Getting Help

Getting help is one of the best things I’ve ever received. I’ve always been an independent person that did everything for myself. I’ve been pretty stubborn about it too, but I think that’s because I’m a perfectionist or like to take my time doing something and everyone else doesn’t like to wait for me. Regardless, getting help is cool. Try it!

A WorkLoad

Today is a busy day, but that’s good. Work is good.

This Sucks

K, It’s 1:02am. I have to be up at 5 ( I hate waking up early). I’m teaching a class in Gresham (that’s about an hour and a half drive from where I live). I don’t like driving, and when I drive I feel very drowsy. It doesn’t help that I’m up at 1:03 in the morning. I miss my Angel though. I can’t sleep ’cause I keep thinking of her.

I wish I had a magic wand that I could use to make things better. I don’t, and all I see as a solution is to work hard until our spirit gives up. But how do some people do it? Some do something that makes them either rich or happier. I just wanna be happy. That’s all, and for some reason, it’s not all there.

But I guess if I knew the answer I’d be sharing it. Is there something we can do to make us happier? Or at least less depressed when you feel the world is going to crumble under your feet?

I’m Up Writing

I’ve been up writing parts of my life. It’s an assignment that I have to do to make me a better writer, but I’m tired now. Really tired. It’s 5:21am. I slept from 2:15am to about 5:00am. Before and after that, it’s been me on this computer writing. I’m so tired now. But I gotta keep writing.

The last time I was up writing this late was in college. I think it was a midterm I was writing on Joe Camel. Yeah, that was it. It was for my Media Law class. Now I’m writing late again. Sucks, I like sleep.

Survival of the Creative

Life is not survival of the fittest, life is survival of the creative. You can be out of shape and still be wealthy, have a beautiful wife, and children. But being fit doesn’t guarantee us those things. It’s how creative you are in life that matters (you can be fit too, but that’s just your brain achieving goals).

Water. Who Needs It?

Damn it’s been hot these days. I’ve been drinking water like it’s going to run out tonight. It’s a good thing, though. It makes me feel like I’ve eaten a whole meal. It’s funny too when I drink too much water and I can hear the water in my stomach when I move. I think it’s funny. But water feels good on hot days. Just this past Tuesday, the temperature reached 104*. Weather.com says it was 102*, but everywhere I was said 104*. One person claimed they witnessed a 109, but they’re crazy. I was hot, but not that hot.

Still, water did feel like a limited resource. And when I think about it, water ain’t free either. I realized that selling water is a business. Coke got into it with Dasani, Pepsi with Aquafina, Evian (which is naive backwards selling us tap water) is outsold by FIJI “Artesian” water. So if I didn’t have a dollar and twenty-nine cents, I wouldn’t get any water.

But the people who realize that water is free are those fast food joints that we all like to diss on. Those who pollute our environment with all their waste products consumed in packaging, yeah them. Seriously, if you’re thirsty and don’t have a dollar and twenty-nine cents, just ask a fast food place for a cup of water, they’ll gladly give you a FREE cup of water. Neat. Now if we could only ask for the sandwich free.

I Don’t Want To Work!

Making money is just like exercising.

You keep at it and eventually it makes you healthier and happier. The keeping at it part is what sucks. I can’t keep at it. Just like exercise, I start and never finish. With money, I know all the concepts needed to make my business grow. I know the tasks that I need to accomplish to get to where I need to be. But doing them, HA! I’m writing in this damn blog instead of finishing the tasks that I need to finish.

I got a couple websites to finish, some logo designs, I have some articles that I need to finish, haven’t finished my research on my top secret stuff, but I’m writing on my blog and I don’t want to do them.

The truth is that today is too damn hot. Yup, too damn hot. And it’s the same excuse I have today for exercising, it’s just too hot and just moving ever so slightly is enough for me. I need an air conditioned weight room, but memberships are too expensive.

That’s it, I’m gonna go take a nap. Heehee.

I Am Patient…I Think?

A client of mine called me yesterday to tell me that he admired my work and enjoyed working with me. I was flattered.

He emphasized that I was a patient person.

Err. Great. Heehee.

I’ve been told that I am a patient person and I feel blessed and honored to be. But I believe it comes with a price. Patience is not acquired overnight or is a birthright. We all have to learn to be patient. The problem with patience is that it’s almost synonymous with waiting, and we all hate waiting. We want things now, no waiting, just give it to me.

Patience has to be worked on like everything else we want. It’s like money: we know it’s good for us, we want it, we never have enough of it, and the little we have is spent on the insignificant things that aren’t needed.

But acquiring patience has its rewards. Life becomes a bit simpler.

Whatever that means to you is what you want it to mean. Just know that if you always want things now, realize you won’t always get it and you’ll be more disappointed than if you simply waited.

The downside to being patient is that others can try to trample the patient person. Think about it: if someone is willing to wait, well I’m not, so move aside.

The majority of the population thinks this way. We’re (as a nation) self-centered. We think about ourselves. I didn’t say we think about ourselves first, we just think about ourselves. That’s why we buy gas juggling hummers and expensive diamonds. We don’t care how they came about, who died for it, or what happened. I want it, I’m gonna get it.

So if you want to be a better person, work on thinking for yourself and not what the nation thinks. And if you acquire patience, the nation will believe you are the next ghandi, ’cause they’ve yet to see it.

Today I Change My Life

Ok, so this is contradictory to the previous post. Sue me! I’m not perfect. I’m not close. But I realized that one of my biggest downfalls is time management. I had a friend and my girlfriend rip me a new one yesterday because I have poor time management skills. That’s a RED LIGHT. When one person tells you you have poor anything, it’s a warning. When two people tell you the same thing and point it out in different sections, that’s a caution. When this happens on the same day, that’s a RED Light. Something’s wrong with me. That needs to change.

So today, I’m taking a big leap forward. I’m scheduling my life better. I will not work on my evenings anymore; I will only finish the current projects that I have going right now that have already been scheduled. All other evenings are mine to use at my leisure.

That’s my first step. I’ll think of more later.