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		<title>Mike Dillard&#8217;s Pay Per Click Domination&#8230;Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Dillard&#8217;s Pay Per Click Domation, or PPC Domination co-authored with Jim Yaghi was released not even five months ago. So how well is Mike Dillard&#8217;s new Pay Per Click Domination course holding up? Is the merit of its purchase really worth it, or is it just another hollow promise?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Mike Dillard&#8217;s Pay Per Click Domation, or PPC Domination co-authored with Jim Yaghi was released not even five months ago. So how well is Mike Dillard&#8217;s new Pay Per Click Domination course holding up? Is the merit of its purchase really worth it, or is it just another hollow promise?</p>
<p>Having taken the course, bought it, watched the videos and used it, I have come to some conclusions about Pay Per Click Domination. As with all Mike Dillard&#8217;s products such Magnetic Sponsoring and Building on a Budget, they are specifically tied into the MLM or network marketing industries. This is a big help as Pay Per Click Dominaton really is the only course of its kind out there specifically designed for MLMs.</p>
<p>In the videos, Mike Dillard decides rather than making a cameo that he would give full reign to Jim Yaghi, another network marketer who is very skilled in using Pay-Per-Click for his opportunity. Jim Yaghi is an incredibule guide in Pay Per Click Domination and takes you all the way to bulding 3 active campaigns in his course, which are jam-packed full of information.</p>
<p>Jim Yaghi does another thing with Pay Per Click Domination, he actually shows you how to build the marketing of your capture pages for both the opportunity and the products. A unique position, as any network marketer with intelligence knows, the stability of the residual is in the customer not the distributor. Distributors come and go like the wind, customers will stay for their love of the product.</p>
<p>Pay Per Click Domination is a 5-6 hour course, with some extra goodies thrown in. It is jam-packed full of information as per the tradition of Mike Dillard&#8217;s family of products. It is advised taking the course two-three times to really soak up all the information there is to be had there; an easy task considering all the videos are just in your backoffice.</p>
<p>Would I recommend Pay Per Click Domination for anyone out there in taking their MLM online? Absolutely! Pay Per Click Domination is THE solution and alternative to huge article marketing campaigns or massive social media marketing. The Pay Per Click Domination gives you credibility instantly, and the chance to generate hundreds of leads a day.</p>
<p>Check it out here:</p>
<p><a href="http://elf.freeppcleads.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://magneticcache.myfocusdata.com/magnetic/backoffice/images/ppc/250x250-B.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>All the best,<br />
Gregory Elfrink<br />
907-632-6373<br />
www.RecruitMagnet.com</p>
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		<title>Process Technology, Sales and You</title>
		<link>http://coddigus.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/process-technology-sales-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It would seem ambition grows like weeds. They come like hurricanes at me. Idea after idea after idea storming the gates of my mind. I&#8217;m now in college as a freshman and am studying Process Technology while also doing my network marketing business, which, I&#8217;m heavily in love with still. 
Process Technology is my degree. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=49&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p> <strong>It would seem ambition grows like weeds. </strong>They come like hurricanes at me. Idea after idea after idea storming the gates of my mind. I&#8217;m now in college as a freshman and am studying Process Technology while also doing my network marketing business, which, I&#8217;m <strong>heavily </strong>in love with still. </p>
<p><strong>Process Technology is my degree. </strong>But sales is my second major in a way. I&#8217;ve been reading so many books on it, business, entrepreneur, network marketing books (They do exist at Borders!), and sales books in general. A lot of it is very motivational without a whole lot of skill-building I&#8217;ve noticed. </p>
<p>Which is good and bad. I think success is relatively a simple item to achieve. Hard-work with a smart brain and dedication with persistence to back it up. Honestly, <strong>that is the formula of success.</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>It does not take much to get the ball rolling. Whether it be in the right direction, or the wrong direction. <strong>Recently I saw the movie Burn After Reading, it was a perfect example of how things can go awry real quick without much effort. </strong>Well, success is kind of the backwards of that. It comes with time and much effort. </p>
<p>I am not saying you can&#8217;t get rich-quick. But I am saying you cannot get rich-quick if you didn&#8217;t take the time you needed to build those skills that are the pre-reqs if you will, of success.</p>
<p>I remember my dad who is a powerful real estate agent up here in Alaska, we were climbing a mountain and it was very intense. Climbing up this flat wall of rock with our gear, with nothing but empty air behind us. Suddenly the loud ring of a cell phone echoed throughout the rocky landscape. My dad answered the phone and in ten minutes was off it, <strong>he made ten thousand dollars in the ten minutes he was on the phone, on the side of a mountain.</strong></p>
<p>I am a firm believer that facts tell and stories sell. If I wanted more real estate agents in my dad&#8217;s brokerage firm, than this is what I would use to lure them in. Alas, it is suffice to say though my dad did get a rich-quick ticket this time around, <strong>he had devoted years upon years learning the skills needed to attract such situations.</strong></p>
<p>So I will continue my education with process technology to prepare me for when I start an energy company of my own, while also keep educating myself on sales and investments. </p>
<p>I believe it was Emerson who said nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, well I say <strong>nothing great is achieved without effort.</strong></p>
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<p><em>And remember, both quotes, are equally true in its verdict.</em></p>
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<p>-Greg the Writer</p>
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		<title>Lord of Lands, King of Souls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to revitalize this blog as I pass through the labyrinth of college I have decided to take it in a different direction. As you know, I am a writer, and entrepreneur. Though little to no one knows on here I am in fact, an egotist of great proportions. Which is probably why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=47&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>In an effort to revitalize this blog as I pass through the labyrinth of college I have decided to take it in a different direction. As you know, I am a writer, and entrepreneur. Though little to no one knows on here I am in fact, an egotist of great proportions. Which is probably why I am failing at being a salesman currently, but I am getting better!</p>
<p>So, in short. This blog will be taking a more personal route. Also my other blog, Elf Tactics, will be taking up the mantle of my business sleuth thoughts and ideas. But with college on full now, and a new job, perhaps these things will not post as much as I&#8217;d like.</p>
<p><strong>Alas, it seems the more busier I&#8217;ve become, the more I do.</strong></p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that funny?</p>
<p>Without further ado, let me present a personal essay with my tragedian writer&#8217;s flare on what I think true power is. Enjoy! I know you will, because I will see all those delicious comments:</p>
<p><strong>~<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>The world opened today. Full of sound and hysteria. Like a druggie popping a pill.</strong> One last down the hatch before the end. Yes, he&#8217;ll be laughing hysterically but as the sound crescendos, well, he will drown in his own works.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion today none of us will make it. Life is a kind of heartless mistress. She will take you and rape you for all your worth. She will puke out her wretchedness and destroy everything you&#8217;ve worked for.</p>
<p>There are ways around it.<strong> You can rise to power</strong>. The concepts of power are all wrong though. Most people think that ultimate power is having humanity forcefully at your beck and call. To gain it people believe they must have armies. Yes, weapons, bombs, airplanes and jets, swords and lances and napalm for burning the infidels. <em>No one realizes</em>.</p>
<p>No one sees it. Power, true power, is not one of violence. No.</p>
<p><strong>True power is one of peace.</strong></p>
<p>Power is not gained through hate, but rather <em>love</em>.</p>
<p>People think love is a good thing, and it can be, but it is ultimately the most powerful tool to conquer someone with. You can take a group of people, ball and chain them to work for you. Out-power them with twenty versus their ten. Eventually those ten will fight back, it may take a while; but when they do, it forces you to fight.</p>
<p>Suddenly all ten of them die, maybe two of them live broken and cowardly. You lost three loyal men. Three of the twenty who would had died for you, well, that is in a perfect world where soldiers are perfectly loyal. What power do you really have left? You fought so hard to control <em>ten</em> people against their will. You lost three good men to gain control over two. <strong>Eleven</strong> bodies lay at your feet.</p>
<p>Their blood coagulating with your failure. Let us take the same example:</p>
<p>You have a group of twenty people, you want to control a group of ten people. You go in there with peace in your heart. Preach selflessness, the highest of virtues. Love them indiscriminately as you love your own men. Give them guidance, but in a humble way, speak wisdom nothings. Talk of righteousness, but without force, talk of how men should give unto men. Make them selfless, or try to become selfless, and the guilt that it will build will make them into your willful slaves. The results?</p>
<p>You took 20 of your men and conquered 10 men. Casualties? Zero.</p>
<p>What are the mechanics of this? How can being selfless be a tool to weaken one&#8217;s self to be controlled by others? Well, it is quite simple. <strong>Humans, by their very nature, cannot be selfless</strong>. Everything we do is selfish, even the selfless acts we do out of selfish emotions of feeling better or feeling superior to others around us. It therefore rests that becoming selfless is an unattainable task. Which will make the person feel guilty.</p>
<p>If the soon-to-be conqueror preaches selflessness as the highest virtue of men, and harnesses his dialogue with the ten men to make them believe him, they <em>will</em> fall. Since the men cannot reach this task that they now believe to be the ultimate form of achievement, they have come to question themselves. They strive for nothing more than to serve, not lead. No one ever does anything for themselves anymore. Rather they buy the milk for their neighbors who is buying the milk for their neighbors who is buying the milk for their neighbors and so on. As time goes they will come to see the conqueror as a vassal of wisdom.</p>
<p>This vassal now has the power to control. Yes the control is very subtle, but this is true power. These ten men would gladly die now for this one conqueror. With thirty men full of false virtue, full of his brainwashing, they can go and conquer twenty more men. And over time it will increase exponentially.</p>
<p>Yes, this is true power. For a conqueror who can do and achieve this has become the lord of no lands but the king of souls.</p>
<p>And who is more powerful dare I say? The lands with their rock and soil and oceans, or the arms that wield them?</p>
<p>Indeed, the lord of lands is a sad ruler in comparison with a king of souls.</p>
<p>~</p>
<p>Hope you enjoyed it. I find myself enjoying the thought of becoming an avid essayist!</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer</p>
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		<title>Roll the Dice, Pay the Price- Day 41 Las Vegas-SLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned why used car salesman have bad reputations today. First let me fill you in on the filler that led up to this. The astro van I was buying in my last post actually called me around midnight to inform me they could not find the van no longer, they were driviing through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=46&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>I&#8217;ve learned why used car salesman have bad reputations today. </strong>First let me fill you in on the filler that led up to this. The astro van I was buying in my last post actually called me around midnight to inform me they could not find the van no longer, they were driviing through the k-mart parking lot they left it in and it would had appeared, to had vanished.</p>
<p><strong>This did not make the Air Force guy and the Well&#8217;s Fargo banker I was staying with very pleased. </strong>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they were both cool people, especially the banker. Anyone who let&#8217;s a complete stranger in their house for 3 days is awesome to me.</p>
<p>In the morning the Wells Fargo banker drove me to his work. From there I proceeded to unslide my bike and bike it towards the used car dealer using only the recording they left on their message of their address. It was a difficult find, but I did it. <strong>In fact I was too early to even see a person, they had yet to open.</strong></p>
<p>I sat on a couch for an hour in their used car parking lots. <em>Pickings looked slim. </em>This accountant at the place eventually showed me around. There was one good vehicle there, very cosmetically intact. All the cars here were donated for charity, so a lot of them were real junkers. An aerostar ford van caught my eye, a 1991 beauty that reminded me of Alaska. (<strong>I drive a 1995 aerostar ford van</strong>)</p>
<p>The salesman <strong>was cool. </strong>He was this fat Hawaiian guy. We ended up talking about the van a little bit, test-drived it, it seem to work fine. Had an anti-lock brake signal on, which didn&#8217;t amount to much, or so he told me. Now I know <strong>absolutely nothing about cars.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cars are horrible investments. Always depreciates. Money-sinks. </strong>Just three reasons why I never really wanted to learn anything about cars. I am all about building business and art, and to me, cars are just not a good vehicle for either.</p>
<p>The van was a 1500 dollars, I merely said I had a 1000 and <strong>the price dropped</strong>. That should had been my first clue perhaps to the can of migraines my newfound salesman friend Reggie would bring me.</p>
<p>I went to the Venetiian casino where three of my rideshares were. Was putting the test to my scientific hypothesis when&#8230; on the fifth level of the casino parking lot I hear a screeching. I smell burned rubber. <strong>At first I smile thinking that it is not my car, that some schmuck got jipped in this garage. </strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s when I parked.</p>
<p>I got out and realized it was my van. Small plumes of grey smoke came out from the bottom of the van. Right in the middle-bottom part of it too. Not front or behind, had no idea what the hell it meant. The van shaked violently so I turned it off as it made its squealing sounds.</p>
<p><strong>Scared, I called my good friend Reggie. </strong>Him and I had spent two hours talking and joking while waiting to get my money out of the bank. Surely he would help me.</p>
<p>His response was, &#8220;Well least you found out now instead of later when you were in the desert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, guess that is a blessing Reggie. Thanks for trying to cheer me up on the van you sold to me that had no transmission fluid, oil, or any water/antifreeze with an overheating radiator and a cord popping out of the tire. Indeed, this was a blessing.</p>
<p>I bought the van asking constantly would it make it to Salt Lake City and then to the East Coast. Reggie repeatedly confirmed that they would. <strong>What an awesome fellow. He really can brighten up a piece of shit.</strong></p>
<p>The three rideshares, two capitalist hippies and a day trader/pro gambler and I decided to rent a car together and drive up to Salt Lake. It was a pretty odd combo. The day trader was definitely awesome. The hippies were some of the coolest hippies I&#8217;ve met, yet, <strong>they were still hippies.</strong></p>
<p>I got screwed out of a 1000 dollars. Though this happened the day trader calmed down my mess of headaches with the thought that in ten years, this will just be a learning memory. That I had to let go. For that, I thank the man greatly. He helped a lot.</p>
<p>As for Reggie, I feel as if perhaps he just did not have very good product knowledge when he sold me it. Him and I agreed so much on the philosophy of what made a good salesman it lashed me really the wrong way. <strong>There is nothing I respect more than a good salesman, they&#8217;re some of the best people you could ever meet in this world.</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to get ahold of Reggie to talk to him about this van. See if there is anything to be done about it. The van is getting moved over to the day trader&#8217;s friends house. I left the keys there as the piece of shit didn&#8217;t run anyhow, so just hid them and if a thief happened to be carrying 5 different liquids with him and a spare tire<strong>, I would applaud him stealing my van just at his sheer preparedness.</strong></p>
<p>I remember some of the other people I tried to buy vans from. They all told me I was crazy thinking I could buy a thousand dollar vehicle and travel across country with. They  all told me I need to buy a 20g or so car. At the end of every one of those conversations I said to myself that I would buy a 1000 dollar van and get to Salt Lake City, I would prove them wrong!</p>
<p>And, so I did.</p>
<p>I did buy a 1000 dollar van. I did get to Salt Lake City. <strong>The van is just parked in Las Vegas.</strong></p>
<p>-Greg the Writer</p>
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		<title>Revelations, Wheels, Canyons &amp; Dams- Day 33 Las Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Grand Canyon was incredible. But the Hoover Dam was by far more badass. I&#8217;ve never been one to understand what beauty in nature could outmatch the craft of men. Sure that sounds a little anti-environmental, but coming from Alaska being surrounded by mountaineous scenery that people lust to travel upon has left me blind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=45&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>The <a title="Grand Canyon" href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/">Grand Canyon</a> was incredible. </strong>But the <a title="Hoover Dam" href="http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/">Hoover Dam</a> was by far more badass. I&#8217;ve never been one to understand <em>what beauty in nature could outmatch the craft of men. </em>Sure that sounds a little anti-environmental, but coming from Alaska being surrounded by mountaineous scenery that people lust to travel upon has left me blind to its beauty. To me, a mountain is <strong>just a rock. </strong></p>
<p><strong>But a building, that is a design. </strong>Skyscrapers I find are incredibly appealing. Their beauty just shakes my mind at their existence. Nature has never been able to do that to me. Thus, that is why the Hoover Dam is way more badass than the Grand Canyon. You heard it here <strong>first.</strong></p>
<p><strong>An update, I got a <a title="van" href="http://www.travelbc.bc.ca/cms_images/for_sale/90_Astro_White.jpg">van</a>. </strong>Bought this 700 conversion astro van to travel out of Las Vegas and finally out of the desert till I dip back into Texas. I am hoping this will speed up my trip massively. It&#8217;s half-an-experiement as well, since I&#8217;ve been using <a title="Craigslist rideshare" href="www.craigslist.com">Craigslist rideshare</a> to get around most of the time I&#8217;ve noticed I&#8217;ve paid for gas a lot more than they have so far.</p>
<p><strong>My hypothesis is that I can have the majority of my gas free picking up other ridesharers going my way. </strong>The experiment will be done with my 700 dollar van, a balance sheet of how much gas it takes for me to get from point A to point B, and also how much the ridesharers paid me to get there.</p>
<p><strong>Hell, maybe I can even make a profit! </strong>Wouldn&#8217;t that be something? I am going to sell the van when I get to the East Coast, around the New York area as I will have no need for it by then most likely.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe I&#8217;ve been gone already a whole <strong>month. </strong>I disliked most of Phoenix, but I did enter my very first bar there. And there was some of the most beautiful women I&#8217;ve met in my life there, though that is not saying the majority of women there are beautiful, <strong>cause they&#8217;re not. </strong>Still regretting not asking this one waitress for her phone number, she had beautiful tattoos down across her left arm and these dark eyes that were incredibly beautiful. Maybe next time.</p>
<p>I got two places now to stay in Minneapolis, the new one is with this guy named James who is a banker for Wells Fargo. Maybe I can add him to my Master Mind group. We shall see. A banker and <a title="Brip Blap" href="www.bripblap.com">Brip Blap</a> my accountant-blogging friend could be powerful allies with this network marketer!</p>
<p>Speaking of <a title="Visalus" href="www.visalus.com">Visalus</a>, I&#8217;ve had such massive revelations since I&#8217;ve joined this company. I cannot even explain just <strong>how much personal growth I have done. </strong>The people I&#8217;ve met, the things I have done, the books I have read have all been amazing and all because of Visalus. Without it, I would not had ever been able to be who  I am today.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Kiyosaki, author of<a title="Rich Dad Poor Dad" href="http://www.richdad.com/"> Rich Dad Poor Dad</a>, said it right when he gave the advice for young people to join a network marketing company. </strong>It really does build-up such a persona, such a world-view for those who take it seriously. Plus, I love the fact I am helping people. As an entrepreneur, there is not greater feeling for me. Once read that a philanthropist makes the most successful business man.</p>
<p>Well. Off onto my path!</p>
<p>To <a title="Salt Lake City" href="http://www.visitsaltlake.com/visit/">Salt Lake City</a> tomorrow in my new van, GPS, and hopefully a few ridesharing buddies!</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer<br />
PS. Feel free to check out more of my pictures on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dreamofbetterdays">www.myspace.com/dreamofbetterdays</a> or my poetry there.</p>
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		<title>Sliding Out of the Heat- Day 29 PHX AZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was eventful, I bought a sliding bike for a hundred dollars from a cop.
Sliding bikes are engineered wonders. In comparison with a folding bike whose folds actually make the frame weaker and thus more unstable. The sliding bike actually has a reinforced body and is compact via telescoping technology rather than folding.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Yesterday was eventful, I bought a sliding bike for a hundred dollars from a cop.</p>
<p><strong>Sliding bikes are engineered wonders. </strong>In comparison with a folding bike whose folds actually make the frame weaker and thus <em>more unstable. </em>The sliding bike actually has a reinforced body and is compact via telescoping technology rather than folding.</p>
<p>The bike is perfect for traveling! Mine is Korean made, got it off a cop from Craigslist. He didn&#8217;t want it anymore so I thought why not? It would had cost me close to 500 dollars if I had bought it from Korea. Plus the bike will be getting me around a lot.</p>
<p>As I traverse the highways of the good ol US of A there might be times where there just isn&#8217;t going to be any rides. It helps to know that I can speed up the process with this bike while hitchhiking. When someone does pull over <strong>I can just telescope it down into their trunk. Easily fitting into any sedan.</strong></p>
<p>My main problem is smart cars. All I can hope for is that I will meet the good ol&#8217; American citizen with a heart throb for fossil fuel consumption with sedans and similar fuel burning cars.</p>
<p>I am leaving PHX AZ on Tuesday, it doesn&#8217;t appear I will have any easy way of getting to Utah.So should be an interesting traverse across the desert.</p>
<p>This Saturday I am going to a lake where my 2nd cousin is, some electrician I&#8217;ve never met before. The lake is full of floating boat-islands and bars and such interesting marinal party-time outfits such as those. I&#8217;ll take pictures but as any durable reader has noticed, I&#8217;ve been far too lazy in uploading y pics onto here haha.</p>
<p>Well, off to use my sliding bike. It is a brilliant design!!</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer</p>
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		<title>Hot Hot Heat &#8211; Day 26 Pheonix AZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally out of Orange County. Took me forever. Stuck in suburbia really sucked, the only awesome part of living there was the chance to mingle with some Equadorians. They were awesome, their food was perhaps some of the best things to ever hit my tongue.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I am finally out of Orange County. Took me forever. Stuck in suburbia really sucked, the only awesome part of living there was the chance to mingle with some Equadorians. They were awesome, their food was perhaps some of the best things to ever hit my tongue.</p>
<p><strong>But I am glad to be out. </strong>My trip has been going so slow. Almost a month and only almost 1/3 across America. I decided no more of this staying a week business, I got to pick up the pace. Then fate intervenes.</p>
<p><em>When does it not?!</em></p>
<p>My sister begged me to stay till Saturday. Well by beg I mean asking it once and giving the reaosn behind it and I said sure why not.</p>
<p>Six Flags was fun. It was my first time in an amusement park in almost 3 years. It brought back a lot of memories. Of my family jolly-free. Least to a boy of fifteen or younger. How impenetrable things seem when you&#8217;re so young and naive. Even when you&#8217;re leagues ahead of your classmates when it comes to smarts, you&#8217;re still decades behind the old greys and the wrinkled brows living the 9-5 (Some.)</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t say how refreshing it was to just be there, with my sister. We&#8217;re very close and I hadn&#8217;t seen her in a long time, especially out of Alaska. Which reminds me, I need to get closer to my brother.</p>
<p>Man. I think as time goes on, my only real dream that hasn&#8217;t been succumbed to reality&#8217;s harsh fingers is my dream to help my family. Not that they need my help, both of them are way better than me in many forms. My sister is a social butterfly, my brother has a back like no other when it comes to work ethic. Honestly, I&#8217;m just a lazy dreamer, high ambitions with no drive, someone with ideas but no hands to build them.</p>
<p>Enough whine-fest. I&#8217;ll learn to not be lazy one day! It&#8217;s one reason for this trip. This self-discovery.</p>
<p>When I get back to Alaska, I am burning all bridges and I will become a great man. In business, in sales, in all things I do. Let&#8217;s just hope and pray that through this journey, in the harshness of not knowing anyone in the MidWest, will give me the strength I need to continue my great plans.</p>
<p>There is a responsbility that falls upon someone with visionary-qualities I believe. It is my honest belief I can help this world, I&#8217;m not going to say change cause real change is a hard thing to come-by. My visions strech global universal, I need to find the right way to step on my stepping-stones.</p>
<p>Till I find my golden portal, a thing built through the endurance of my own desires, I will wander this desert of Arizona. From the West Coast to the East, I will meet me traveling sages and wise men. My medicine women with their potions, I will watch the lights flash in the clubs upon my fellow peers and will wonder why does this young flesh feel like an old spirit? But, I will smile all throughout it.</p>
<p>So in short, I will gladly watch this new life bloom before me. Take it as I will, and I will mold this journey into the accomplishment that will drive me onwards.</p>
<p>Hear that New York, East Coast? I&#8217;m coming and not backing down.</p>
<p>Ah. Emotional rant! (That&#8217;s the line used to make this all okay to whine to a public audience.)</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer<br />
PS. I saw my pen pal Leslie. She was awesome, my oldest pen pal to date. We went to the Elliot Smith memorial wall and I truly was pleased. The wall was miraculous. I took pictures of me near it if you want to see it is on www.myspace.com/dreamofbetterdays</p>
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		<title>In the Desert of Suburbia- Day 22 Orange County CA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was easy to get to Orange County from San Diego. I am going have to be more conservative with my money alas. It&#8217;s been interesting but being too footloose. Despite traveling on low-budget, never using hotels or motels, and setting a modest 25 dollar a day limit on my expenses, I still find it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=41&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>It was easy to get to Orange County from San Diego. I am going have to be more conservative with my money alas. It&#8217;s been interesting but being too footloose. Despite traveling on low-budget, <strong>never using hotels or motels</strong>, and setting a modest 25 dollar a day limit on my expenses, I still find it hard to make it.</p>
<p>Traveling in an economical downturn is tough. I might even have to return sooner than I hoped. There is no way I am returning though without making it to the East Coast. So much to see over there. Plus, got family in Missouri to check in on.</p>
<p><strong>Back to the present. </strong>I am in Orange County and it is one of the most gruesome scenes I&#8217;ve seen. In Alaska I&#8217;ve seen housing blocks. I have seen a lot of them. But not like here. I walked four miles the other day and <strong>there was nothing but houses.</strong></p>
<p>No industry. No stores. Just houses. Long rows of suburbia, spread out, raping the earth as its kingdom unfolds upon the vast expanses of a Californian field. </p>
<p><strong>I am definitely not a fan of suburbs. </strong>They are an <em>urban waste. </em>Think about it. What do these endless rows of housing provide?</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> Housing<br />
<strong>2. </strong>Once provided construction jobs, usually good wages follow with that.<br />
<strong>3. </strong>Real Estate, mortgage, and other financial services related to housing can be accumulated off the houses bought and sold in a suburbia.</p>
<p> Now before that begins to look too good in your head, think of the better, and much more fun, way of building a town. (Yes it appears entire towns here are in fact just suburbia.)</p>
<p>You can have commercial buildings whose bottom level deals with shopping on a street level. This creates a sense of noise, and attracts people. It makes people want to get out and walk around. Perhaps an outdoor dining area in an alley (They&#8217;re really nice a lot of them.) which creates good vibes and also gets rid of the dread usually associated with an alley. On the levels above the store fronts these can be attributed to offices, apartments, recreational areas, sports gyms, theaters and so much more.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s look at our new list of accomplishment with building a city with an organized effort away from suburbia themes:</p>
<p><strong>1. </strong>Housing<br />
<strong>2. </strong>Construction jobs that made in order to build the buildings<br />
<strong>3. </strong>Real estate, mortgage and other agents whose services relate to the real estate markets<br />
<strong>4. </strong>Create shops, restaurants, theaters, and a whole handful of other industries that can thrive in the offices above the storefront and in other mediums<br />
<strong>5. </strong>Attracts people to the area, which brings in new money, ideas, and also builds character and a reputation. Whereas a suburb has no character at all, as people aren&#8217;t attracted to just walk through an endless river of houses unlike how they are with stores.<br />
<strong>6. </strong>Less expenses on fossil fuel utilities as it is split between apartment owners and stores. Along with the ability to walk to wherever you need to go there is hardly a need for car, which at the rate of oil prices per a barrel are soaring, that is a huge saver of money. <br />
<strong>7. </strong>Helping the world&#8217;s energy problem. For the reason of #6, by less people using car, less buildings needed to be powered, the use of energy can be cut down to a minimal (Especially with the inclusion of green technology.)</p>
<p>So there is a few reasons why I consider suburbia hell. This article has been inspired by my huge amount of nothing to do during my stay here. The nearest store is 4 miles away (Which I walked to and found out when I got there hot as all havoc.)</p>
<p>There is my update! Enjoy my friends!</p>
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<p>-Greg the Writer<br />
PS. Think and Grow Rich is amazing, 1/3 through re-reading it and I am also starting to build a Mastermind group to help me to wealth and helping the world! Ha! Financial super heroism here I come! </p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. 20 days already? 
A lot has happened, and not a lot has happened at the same time.
In San Francisco I went to this crazy dance party. It was this huge central kitchen where they prep all the food for Cafe Gratitude. It was pretty insane. Only had 3 beers and felt like I was high. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=39&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Wow. 20 days already? </p>
<p>A lot has happened, and not a lot has happened at the same time.</p>
<p>In San Francisco I went to this crazy dance party. It was this huge central kitchen where they prep all the food for Cafe Gratitude. It was pretty insane. Only had 3 beers and felt like I was high. The party was huge with all these dancing folks, there was no focus on alcohol or any form of drugs, it was just pure dance hype. There was a huge naked woman statue with wings made of plaster dangling above the roof, with a disco ball and an MC playing in the corner. I was living in Berkeley at the time when this occurred. It was nuts and by far, incredibly fun.</p>
<p>The rest of my stay in the Bay Area was pretty boring an uneventful. I caught the Grey Hound down to San Diego to see my sister&#8217;s ex-boyfriend Nate. Which the ride down was horrible. It was just so uncomfortable and by far too expensive at the grand sum of 70 dollars. Who are they kidding? That bus ride wasn&#8217;t <strong>worth forty dollars. </strong></p>
<p>San Diego was fun for 2 days or so. Walked to the beach, read some Accelerando, and some Think and Grow Rich. Partied a lot. Saw some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life, women who are no longer bio degradable from the <strong>amount of plastic in them.</strong></p>
<p>After San Diego I caught a ride back to Orange County. Now I am about to meet another Visalus representative who has been doing network marketing since he was 19 and been with the company since it began. In short, <strong>he is incredibly wealthy.</strong></p>
<p>Hoping I can learn a lot from this Ethan chap. One can only hope! I learned quite a bit from my friend Justin, another rep who had been a mortgage business owner before. In seeing Visalus operated by an actual salesman with experience in sales made me feel a lot better. Cause the other systems people were applying just was not working with my style. </p>
<p>I am unsure of anyway of how I can market the products while I am traveling. Alas, when I get back got a good battle plan. Going to jump head first into public speaking and start a weight-loss club centered around the Visalus product-line-up. By joining Rotary, Kiwanis, Toastmasters, BNI and holding luncheons for salespeople to come to and also creating my own weight-loss club I think I will be creating an effective house full of doors for new reps and customers to walk through by.</p>
<p>but one can only hope.</p>
<p>In other business news, I am re-reading Eric&#8217;s Tips lately in his newsletters. It&#8217;s been very awesome. Learning how to market things on the internet was always a pipe dream of mine that now can blossom more into some form of pseudo reality.</p>
<p>So that is the update on my life currently. I need to start moving this trip along, California is so huge been spending all my time here. I&#8217;d really like to get to the East Coast. So excited to see it.</p>
<p>Off I go!</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer</p>
<p>PS. Almost forgot, the reason why there is &#8220;Sex in the Bath&#8221; on the title is that the person  I was staying with on the last night had a crazy amount of it and kept me up all night and forced me to write a poem on my myspace called Porcelain- Unsteady. If you&#8217;re into poetry, feel free to read it at www.myspace.com/dreamofbetterdays My artistic outlet : )</p>
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		<title>Wealth Made Easy, Thought Made Obsessed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secret has been let out. The halls billow. The streets parade. All the thoughts dance and buzz. They understand. They now know. Yes. They know.
I have been reading Think and Grow Rich for the past few days. Just finished How to Win Friends and Influence People. Napoleon Hill is an amazing writer. I cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coddigus.wordpress.com&blog=3235449&post=36&subd=coddigus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>The secret has been let out. The halls billow. The streets parade. All the thoughts dance and buzz. They understand. They now know. Yes.<strong> They know.</strong></p>
<p>I have been reading <a title="Think and Grow Rich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich"><em>Think and Grow Rich</em></a> for the past few days. Just finished <a title="How to Win Friends and Influence People" href="http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html">How to Win Friends and Influence People.</a> <a title="Napoleon Hill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill">Napoleon Hill</a> is an amazing writer. I cannot believe how much my paradigm has been shifted. When I read the <a title="Dale Carnegie" href="http://www.dalecarnegie.com/">Dale Carnegie</a> book <a title="How to Win Friends and Influence People" href="http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a> it was very good it enlightened me a lot on how to deal with people, yet it was <strong>not revolutionary, not mindset crushing, not punch you in the face and yell BELIEVE.</strong></p>
<p><em><a title="Think and Grow Rich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich1">Think and Grow Rich</a></em> <strong>had </strong>that. The way it is written is so solemn. So beautiful and almost with a <strong>religious zeal. </strong><a title="Napoleon Hill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill">Napoleon Hill </a>obviously believes incredibly and resolutely in these ideas. And these ideas, this philosophical data is some of the most revelatory things I have ever read.</p>
<p>I understand truly how to achieve all things in life. By becoming so obsessed with a thought, with a <strong>burning desire</strong>, that your subconscious builds the plans for you.</p>
<p><strong>Yes. Through obsession comes possession. </strong>Your mind wants it so bad that it creates the blueprints of your own success. It sharpens your eyes to be open to new opportunities. It gives you (sometimes) the wisdom to act upon those opportunities.</p>
<p>This is truly amazing. A truly holy moment for me. That I can become incredibly wealthy even without being born in a rich family, without any connections at all, with no help other than my thought.</p>
<p>Through the ancient power of thought so shall I rise a giant.</p>
<p>How amazing is that? That merely thinking is all you needed. Merely wanting it bad enough, willing to pay the price, was all it took.</p>
<p><strong>Through thought, and thought alone, comes all the desires, wants and fulfillments in life.</strong></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to you <a title="Napoleon Hill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill">Napoleon Hill,</a> <em><a title="Think and Grow Rich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich">Think and Grow Rich</a> </em>is aptly named and written.</p>
<p>I am still reading it but it has already become a religious experience.</p>
<p>So hey, whoever is publishing that book, when I become famous tack my quote on the cover of the next printing saying,</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;It was a religious experience,&#8221;-Greg the Writer and Billionaire</strong></p>
<p>So readers of mine as a growing member of the business community and advise-giver, I strongly suggest you go out and buy six copies of that book. One for yourself, five for five random people whose lives you want to change.</p>
<p>-Greg the Writer<br />
PS. <em>If anyone still has doubts whether multi-level marketing or MLMs are false schemes, the fact that Mary Kay is mentioned in </em>Think and Grow Rich <em>should be proof that it is a legitimate business model.</em></p>
<p>PSS. So keep sending those requests to join <a title="Visalus" href="www.visalus.com">Visalus</a> : )</p>
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