On The Beach Education Corporation

I am amazed that my Power Virtues are almost identical to my Survivor IQ Tools. I just read “The Survivors Club” by Ben Sherwood, gifted to me by my business associate Teresa Holoman, took the free quiz at www.survivorprofiler.org and discovered my top 3 survivor tools are flow, adaptability and faith. I am a Realist. It’s an easy and fascinating read. Where do you think is the safest place to sit on a plane? Front, Middle or Back? Where is the safest place to have a heart attack? Hospital or Las Vegas Casino? These tips can give you a survival edge.

LOOKING FOR A MENTOR?
I have been approached by several people to mentor them. This is a time intensive process and one-on-one is not the highest and best use of my time. If I’m going to mentor one person, I would prefer to have a dozen people in on the conversation. You can read more details here on how to sign up.

BE A MONEY ROGUE
You may have heard of Pavlov and his experiment on conditioning dogs. He would ring a bell when he fed the dogs. The dogs learned to salivate when they heard the ring. They were conditioned to respond to the bell. In the same way, we are conditioned to think about money in a certain way. When the financial bell rings, how do you respond? School does not teach us how to be entrepreneurs. We are indoctrinated in how to be good employees who follow orders. Good employees make business owners rich. Good employees have no concept of passive income; money they earn even while they sleep. You need to break free from your money conditioning and become a money rogue by starting to take control of your money. Robert Kiyosaki teaches this analogy: you are standing in front of two doors. One door leads you to financial security and the other door leads you to financial freedom. Financial security is getting a stable job. Financial freedom is starting your own business. The travesty here is that if you select financial security, you end up losing both because you are not in control of the money. As an employee you only have the illusion of security. You can start now, today. Get started by reading and becoming financially educated. You are in charge of your financial literacy. My Reading List is on my website if you need some titles to get started.

2-MINUTE MEDITATION
It’s like a two minute miracle. Taking the time to meditate has been a challenge. After several failed attempts, my angel healer Alice Brock encouraged me to shorten my expectations and create a 2-minute habit. Meditation is a practice. The focus is on the habit of sitting, not the amount of time. Research shows that meditating reduces health risks and prolongs your life span. This practice is now producing results that I can measure, most notably having fun and flow during times of stress where I would normally be anxious and uptight. Take a minute or two, for you.

SUDOKU WORKOUT
You can create new neural pathways in your brain by solving Sudoku puzzles. The brain needs to be exercised just like a muscle in order to be agile and alert by stimulating your cognitive functions to prevent your brain from atrophying. My first easy puzzle took 23 minutes. In four months, I worked my way up through medium to hard, and looking forward to graduating to hardest. Sudoku is a 9-by-9 grid of squares divided into 3-by-3 square blocks. The object of the game is to fill in the blank squares so that each of the numbers from 1 to 9 appears only once in each row, column and block. Happy solving. The game is addictive.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE
As part of any business owner’s ongoing strategy to reduce costs, we purchase used appliances and hardware items through Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore. Check your area for the nearest outlet. Just this month they had a special on used toilets for $20 each in Thunder Bay. They came out of a renovated hotel and were perfectly functional. It is also an exceptional way to give back to your community. Instead of throwing out your used doors, lights, fans, sinks, tubs, cabinets, fridge, stove, door trims, closet doors – basically everything in your house including the kitchen sink – donate it to HFH. Let’s choose not throw out re-usable items that pollute our landfills. We can choose to make a difference for a sustainable planet. There are window screens and trim that they don’t make anymore. The only way to replace these items is by finding them in the second hand market.

PRO-ACTIVE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT – PART 6
Templates. If you write the same type of letter repeatedly, it’s time to create a template. Templates save you time from having to re-create the same type of letter over and over. Some examples of commonly used forms are rental inquiry response, statement of account, suite inspection notices, notice to enter, noise complaint, parking violation, eviction notice, end of tenancy. Create form fields in the top half of the letter so you can merge data. Compose the main body in generic terms and leave room in the bottom half of the letter to customize the content for specifics. Have the same sign-off in all the letters to be consistent. Templates show professionalism, give the impression of a much larger organization, one that has systems and protocols. People need to know the rules in black and white. They can’t read your mind and they have short memories.

Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy.

July Ono