Life Begins When You Do

Life Begins When You Do is based upon on Mary Anne’s famous poem – her statement of purpose – Live with Intention:

Walk to the edge.
Listen hard. Laugh. Play with abandon.
Practice wellness.
Continue to learn.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Lead or follow a leader.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.

Nearly everyone postpones one grand thing or a collection of mighty hopes and dreams.

Between the quote marks of our lives are phrases like these: “When things slow down…when I finish my degree…when I get certified…as I acquire a deeper knowledge base…when I have kids…when the kids are grown…when I get well…when I marry…when I divorce…when I retire…when I get that promotion, that raise, that job, that house, that whatever the fill-in-the blank is for your specific postponing of life…”

Your Life Begins When You Do.

You may think you are postponing the longing of your soul until life aligns itself with your vision, until elements conspire to be more favorable…but as it happens, life just lolls along at the same remarkable consistent and disinterested cadence. Life is impartial. YOUR personal, subjective life (dreams, satisfactions, contentment, achievements, vision, fullness, passion, aspirations) begins when you begin.

From my teens into adulthood, I said, “I want to be an artist.” One day I changed the sentence to, “I am an artist.” My view changed. Life began. I looked behind me and saw that I had been accidentally living as an artist. I had been laying down a path that was only now visible to eyes that had begun to see. Beginning my life as an artist made my heart’s longing and the small, tentative labors of my hands – visible and tangible. I began by opening the door and simply believing that I could live my dream. I began living that dream by seeing that I could.

Your purpose, that thing that among the many to-dos of your days, is what you must do. Embrace the truth of your purpose each minute of your precious life…for how very true it is that life begins when you do.

If you would dream it
BEGIN it.

If you have an idea
OPEN it.

If there is longing
ACKNOWLEDGE it.

If there is mission
COMMIT it.

If there is daring
DO it.

If there is love
SPEAK it.

If there is resource
USE it.

If there is abundance
SHARE it.

“You have one life to live, Live BIG!”

I read it this morning and really resonated with me so I
wanted to share…

“The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns
you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world,
you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to
jump out of bed in the morning.”

– Warren Buffett: American investor and philanthropist

All I can say is ‘amen’! If it worked for him to create a $40 Billion
empire, hopefully you can use it to build an empire of your own.

Life’s too short to do what you hate.

Let your passion become your purpose.

“You have one life to live, Live BIG!”

Facts About The Economy As Of December 2010

Our economy is showing signs of recovery in a struggle to improve, despite a
bunch of stupid governmental policies.

The verdict is still out as to whether we have avoided a double dip recession.

Historic unemployment, record debt, fast rising fuel prices due to a looming
crude oil shortage (which impacts prices of many goods), another wave of
foreclosures (supply) to hit the market, and uncertainty about health care and
other political battles are potential “spoilers” for the fragile recovery.

Here are the “good news” facts about the economy:

- RETAIL SALES: Retail sales this holiday season exploded, increasing more than
5.5% percent and surpassing both pre-recession levels and the estimates of most
retail economists, the Chicago Tribune reports.

- STOCK MARKET: The Dow recently closed its best finish since Aug. 28, 2008.
The S&P 500 recently experienced its best finish since Sept. 3, 2008. The Nasdaq
recently saw its best finish since Dec. 28, 2007. The Dow and Nasdaq are up 5%
and 6.9%, respectively, for the month and are looking at their best December
performances since 1999. The S&P 500, up 6.5%, is seeing its best December since
1991.

- HOUSING: Existing-home sales rose 5.6% in November from October to a better-
than-expected annual rate of 4.68 million units, the National Association of

Realtors said. Economists had expected a 4.65-million annualized growth rate.
That was the good news. The bad news is that existing sales were down 27.9%
compared with a year ago. Inventories were up 5.4% from a year ago. Thirty-
two percent of buyers were first-time buyers. An additional 19% of buyers were
investors. All-cash sales represented 31% of sales.

- GROWTH/GDP: The Commerce Department said 3rd quarter gross domestic product
grew at an annualized 2.6% in the quarter; its prior growth estimate had been
2.5%. The rub was that economists had expected a 2.7% growth rate.

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How do You Know if Identity Theft has Taken Place?

On average, identity theft is not discovered until 14 months after the crime has occurred. By this time, the thief has wreaked havoc on the victim’s credit rating. Victims might spend months or even years regaining their credit worthiness. In the meantime, the victims find difficult to obtain loans, get a job, an apartment or even write checks.

Even if you do everything possible to prevent criminals from stealing your identity, it can still happen to you. Here are some common warning signs your identity has been stolen:

1. Your credit report shows unknown accounts
2. You are denied credit, or offered less favorable credit terms, for no apparent reason
3. You receive a actual credit card you did not apply for
4. You fail to receive bills or other mail (A missing bill could mean an identity thief has taken over your account and changed your billing address to cover his tracks or obtain additional personal information).
5. You lost your wallet or purse that contains your identification.
6. Your credit report was obtained by an unknown landlord or employer.
7. The copy of your birth certificate was requested by others from the county recorder’s office.

When a young lady was trying to rent an apartment, she found out that there was a $2,000 debt under her name. Someone used her identity, applied and signed a lease with apartment that is 2000 miles away from where she lives in 2003, and never paid the rent. She would have never found out if she didn’t apply for that apartment.

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Identity Theft and Why You Need to Protect Your Identity

Identity theft is also called inaccurate credit reporting. It is the fastest growing crime in America. According to the Washington Post, in 2008, “reported” data breached increased 47% over 2007 and it will continue to occur and thieves will continue to find ingenious methods to hijack and sell your personal information. When inaccurate data finds its way into your credit reports, you will pay a high price. That three little numbers qualify or disqualify you from buying an automobile, financing a home or obtaining credit, it also determines your insurance premium as well as your loan interest rates.

Another study shows that one in four credit reports have errors and an identity theft occurs every 3 seconds. This can happen to anyone regardless of the age, gender, good credit or no credit. The worst part is that most people do not even know if their identity has been stolen until the damage had been done.

The following are some common types of identity theft:

1. Credit Related Identity Theft: the thieves use it to open credit cards under your name, phone accounts, and utility services, take out loan applications. You are responsible for the payments.
2. Social Security Number Identity Theft: someone steals your social security number and obtains employment in your name. The thief’s employer reports wages earned to the IRS under your SSN leaving you to pay income taxes on these earnings.
3. Medical Identity Theft: the thieves often get your personal information from employees at medical facilities or hack into medical databases, the information is then resold on the black market. Your personal information is used to obtain medical insurance, medical treatment or prescriptions. The worst part is that when you seek care you can end up with the wrong medical history, wrong blood type, wrong allergies and other error that could end up being deadly for you.
4. Driver’s License Identity Theft: someone commits traffic related offenses in your name simply because they don’t want to be charged. When the identity thief fails to appear in court, warrants are issued in your name.
5. Character Identity Theft: someone impersonate you and commits a crime in your name resulting in warrants issued in your name, arrests made, and time spent in jail.
6. Software Theft: the PCs infected with identity theft malware. Victims are usually infected after being duped into downloading virus programs through fake website or pop-ups. Sounds familiar? These malicious programs such as key logger spy ware can go undetected for quite a period of time, whether or not the latest antivirus updates is installed. All your personal data such as SSN, bank account number, passwords, and pin numbers entered on you PC are recorded by the malware and sent to the thieves.

Document shredding is not enough to protect your identity. You need to be prepared to the following questions:

1. How to prevent identity theft?
2. How to protect yourself from ID theft?
3. If your wallet got stolen, what do you do?
4. Can you restore your identity in the shortest period of time if got stolen?

While you are looking for Identity Theft Protection Program, make sure the Identity Theft Shield covers the following three areas:

1. Continues Identity Monitoring: the system monitors your personal identity information 24/7.
2. Detect: you will be notified if any new accounts are established in your name or if negative notations are included in your credit report.
3. Restoration: the system will clean up the problem and restore your original identifies in the shortest period of time.

Most ID theft victims end up spending an average of almost $1,300 dollars of their own money and about 180 hours in an effort to clean up, resolve and regain their stolen identity back. An estimated 9.96 million people had some sort of Identity theft crime committed against them in 2008.

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You may have been aware of Tax Liens and Tax Deeds, but not taken the time to learn the mechanics of these liens. If you know anything about real estate, you know that they are more attractive than most people realize.
Tax Lien Certificates are fully collateralized by the property. While most investments that have a predictable risk and return ratio – “the higher the risk, the greater the return.” But this is not the case with tax lien certificates. While the risk of purchasing them is minimal (because the certificates, themselves, are fully collateralized by the property to which they are attached), the profits are great. So they run contrary to the underlying philosophy of most investments. The return is great even without risk!
The niche of tax liens is a very conservative yet profitable way to create wealth.