When All Hope Is Misplaced

Let me ask you a dumb question. Have you ever lost your keys? Wallet? How about your phone? We all have been there. But in how many scenarios were they really misplaced?

Tough times can rattle oura ability to cope with pressure and decisions. In the business world, when the sales aren't coming or the traffic is dead, all hope could be "lost." Maybe that large sale fell through. Perhaps that client went with a competitor at last minute. Truth be told, the only numbers you are seeing go up might belong in the liabilities column. The trend may not seem to reverse and you may just feel like throwing in the towel and liquidating.

But I want to ask when was the last time you turned your problem on its head? When was the last time you tried a new product line or adjusted your market approach.

One thing I have come to believe is that markets never really disappear unless they're lost to a newer, more efficient market. You just have to be the smartest, most efficient person when it comes to marketing your idea. You may have to create a new product, or advertise in a different region. The fact is, your business is not hopeless.

I would like to encourage you to find the gold among the rocks. You are an intellectual and a creator. There is always a method of approach. Hope is only misplaced. You can still find it.

The Next Collapse... and What Can Be Done

Today I am slightly frightened of the medical and medical insurance industry. I believe that this industry might be the next to collapse.

Here is why. The government has required everybody in America to get healthcare. This creates a flood of new holders. Because of the healthcare industry grab, the value begins to go at premium rates. The premium rate accelerates the value to above acceptable return values. Now the problem occurs at the riskier level. These higher risk holders cannot afford the care they are entitled to receive. This creates a type of default. As these defaults occur, it makes it difficult for those more entitled to receive the quality of care paid for. The value of their insurance becomes higher risk yielding to either a higher success or failure. Eventually the investments slip into failure, forcing the policy holder to not get the quality of care he is entitled to.

What we have essentially re-created is the sub-prime housing crisis, except with one added problem... you can't replace a life.

Now what is one way we can help avoid this devaluation of life? Simply put, bring the healthcare in-house. This eliminates the need for insurance by keeping this in house.

The second thing we can do is promote healthy eating and exercise by providing discounts to those who regularly practice habits that reduce their risk factor. This will in essence make healthcare insurance a less valuable liability, leading to a more profitable value-on-return.

The third thing is industry accountability. We need to have a system in place that promotes whole health and not just symptomology. Drugs are not made to cure a disease, but to mask a symptom. The problem is the body doesn't work this way and many side-affects are counter-productive to a healthy life. By not having accountability in place, we are making healthcare more inefficient and more ineffective.

In summary, ObamaCare is not efficient nor is it effective practically. It creates billions of dollars waste and doesn't remedy a failing health system. It only insures Americans will continue to receive the same incompetent healthcare while doing nothing to solve people's lack of responsibility of taking care of themselves. ObamaCare needs scrapped before it trashes a system necessarily intended to help us lead healthy lives

The New Renaissance Era

Welcome readers and happy (belated) new year. It has been a few (almost six) months since I last blogged, but many changes have been going on in my life. For those who check back regularly, hoping for something new, sorry for the delay.

But today, I want to write about a trend that I, and many others have been noticing. I would like to welcome you to the New Renaissance.

Starting off, what is typically defined as the Renaissance Era? The Renaissance is typically descriptive of a movement starting in Italy from the 14th to the 17th century. During this era, there was a rebirth of the arts, humanities and education. Philosophy was resurrected and knowledge became king. Universities grew, Cities that promoted ideas flourished and we were not maintaining what was broken, but trying to build society better. Creativity flowed, details were taken into account and many of today's most beautiful pieces of art were the cutting edge of design.

Guess what... It is back. This time in a new form. New ideas have come into play, new sciences have emerged and now a new future is upon us. We have seen manufacturing at its height, the door-to-door salesman has loaded his cookware back into his trunk, and amenities are no longer delivered in a 400+ page master catalog labeled Montgomery Ward. The red-hatters have been dismissed and now aristocracy and the pauper linger on a Facebook page together.

Kickstarter is kick-starting millions of dollars in new ideas, Indiegogo is funding new gadgets, and new products flood Etsy's pages.

The bookstores are selling books, Pinterest is pinning pins, and everybody seems to be in the mood for a fancier cupcake. 

The business classes are filling up with people looking to get their ideas going, MeetUp has new ideas and hobbies being shared, and the communities that grow are growing together.

The future is now. The next thing is today. The next generation has been born. And it's time for its parents to hand out a new product and the legacies to give an old memory that will help these new babies thrive. It's an era of regeneration and a time of new birth. It's a celebration of marriage of the business and the new idea. It's a time of entrepreneurship.

WELCOME TO THE NEW RENAISSANCE ERA