Amidst all the bruhaha surrounding the upcoming election, I discovered that there is a very unusual write-in candidate. See for yourself:

In all seriousness, when the waters get muddied by the candidates' stances on various issues and their never-ending streams of promises, there is one no-fail method to choosing which candidate you should vote for…

Vote for God.

What I mean is this…

Be honest with yourself about your deep-down spiritual beliefs and then make sure you vote for the candidate who SUPPORTS those beliefs.

I'm not telling you to vote the way I do. And, I'm sure as heck not telling you how to believe.

What I am saying is this…

Be true to YOUR spiritual beliefs and - however YOU define God - do not vote for any candidate who takes a position against God's laws as you understand them.

A huge apology to all my readers! I just realized… it's been MONTHS since I last wrote to you.

These past 4 months have been some of the toughest in my business career. It seems that, every time I would move a step forward, something would happen to set me back TWO steps.

The bottomline is… the reason I've been experiencing these upsets is because my business grew too quickly for my business foundation to support. Here's what I mean…

When I started my business back in 1998, I never dreamed I would be so successful.

As most people who are first starting a business, I barely had two nickels to rub together, and so I ended up doing EVERYTHING myself:

• Writing my own salesletters.
• Designing my own websites.
• Making my own sales calls.
• Fulfilling my own orders.
• Filing my own paperwork.
• Answering my own correspondence.

… And the list goes on and on.

The problem is, I waited TOO long to hire other people to take some of these tasks off my hands.

When I finally hired people, I was already trying to fit more than a day's work into every 24 hours… and then had to take time out of my already overwhelming schedule to train people.

The theory was… I would fall behind for a time, but would eventually pull ahead because of the extra "hands."

Well, unfortunately, it worked much better in theory than in fact.

I made a few bad hiring choices and - as a result - have now lost 4 months of momentum and income in my business.

I am starting to come out of it now. But, if you've been wondering why I seemed to disappear and why I stopped writing, now you know. I had absolutely NO time whatsoever to spend on anything that wasn't vitally essential to keeping my business going just one more day.

Why am I sharing this with you?

To caution YOU not to make the same mistake I did. Don't wait until you are so swamped with work that you have no choice other than to hire someone.

As soon as you begin earning money in your business, you should begin hiring helpers to take over some of the more mundane tasks. That will free you up to focus your energies on the tasks that generate profit… which will enable you to build your business much faster (and with far less stress) than I have.

I guess this is just one more mistake I can help you avoid because I made the mistake first.
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Why does it seem like everything always goes wrong on Mondays?

I mean…isn't it enough that Monday is spent catching up on email and stuff that came in over the weekend? Why is it that — if something is going to go wrong — it seems to always happen on a Monday??

Okay, I admit it. Maybe I'm feeling a bit biased right now. But, let me tell you what happened to me on Monday this week, and let's see if you don't agree with me…

I have a project deadline coming up on April 3rd (yep, next Monday…go figure). This project is worth a bundle, so I want to launch it on time…but the videos for the project are taking just FOREVER to complete.

To make sure my time this week is clear for video production, I spent a portion of Sunday getting all my ducks in a row and preparing all the materials I'd need to spend all day Monday (and the rest of this week) in video production.

Now, keep in mind that I work out of my home…

I wake up bright and early Monday morning, shower, put on makeup (which I almost never do!), style my hair (again, something I usually don't take the time to do), dress in a "professional" outfit (definitely NOT something I do on a regular basis)…and I'm just about to sit down at the computer to begin making videos when someone starts to use a chainsaw in my next door neighbor's yard.

Do you know how LOUD a chainsaw is? And, the noise goes on, and on, and on!

Anyway, back to my story…

Even with the windows shut tight, the noise of the chainsaw is so loud (in every room of my house) that there is no way I can create a video without the sound of the chainsaw drowning out the sound of my voice.

So, I decide to do some busywork for a few minutes. After all, I figure, how long can it take to chop some wood…15 minutes, a half hour?

A full HOUR later, I finally get frustrated enough to stick my head out the door and ask "how long are you going to be?"

Guess what they said…

"All day."

Yep…they were cutting down a dead tree in my neighbor's yard. And, they were true to their word…it took the entire day to chop it down and cut it up into pieces they could cart away.

And, what did I do all day? (After all, it was too noisy in the house to hear the TV or even listen to the radio.)

I spent the entire day doing busywork, and preparing materials in hope that things will be quiet enough the rest of the week for me to get the videos finished!

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