Went Bald and Renamed The Blog

This blog has been a place for me to let out some of the thoughts that I have as well as share some of the things I've learned.

As a business owner in particular, and as a human in general, the one commodity that every race is won or lost on is time.  I have none today because yesterday I went bald.  On purpose.  And plan to do it again and again.

Fashion is something I can take and leave, especially since it is not my area of expertise.  My expertise has had a much larger bearing on the quality of my life than my fashion sense (or my hair) has had.

In fact, I can clearly count many instances when doing my hair was the thing I needed to do and hated to do all at once.  Lots of women enjoy it.  I just don't.  It's a necessary evil, at best, in my world.

So, I turned 50, did a #bigchop and got a sassy wig (or two).  The freedom I feel is tremendous.  I had something like an accomplice too... Her website is RindaFierce.com - She is a bald beauty that makes custom wigs... right across town.  She made the one in the photo above and she did the #bigchop honors.

She had her own #bigchop experience and could relate to the chains of coily haircare.  The products, the procedures, the TIME!  All of it for what?  Beauty.  Well I am not in the beauty business.

The business that I am in takes up a great deal of my time and it pays the bills.  The hair took up a great deal of my time and it was just an expense.  Hmmm...  no brainer.

When I think about what is really going on, I realize that I went bald for the same reasons that I went into business.  More control over what I do everyday and when.

I am bald and I am free.

Transcribe Audio, Video and Sermons

Online software to dictate and transcribe audio and video.
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Download YouTube and FaceBook videos. Talk and it types for you. Record meetings and classes with your phone. ‪#‎webliteracy‬

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http://www.facebook.com/alorrinda

lol - live out loud

There are people who celebrate with you and want the best for you.  THEN there are haters and those that rather you silent and invisible.

Errr... I don't like cooked apples. But that doesn't mean the people that do are stupid. Our differences and preferences create jobs and opportunities for us to provide value to each other.  I'm so happy the guy who likes cutting grass is built that way and I am happy to exchange value with him.  Some value certificates (money) for his valuable service (cutting grass). It would make me unhappy to have to do it myself.  I don't like it. :-(  ...growing beautiful, healthy green plants that you are not planning to eat feels like a waste of time in my world.  It is just not my thing.

Eve gave up all that she had for the one thing she didn't have. Puff your chest out with gratitude and get in where you fit in.  Some are warriors and fight the powers that be for equality and justice.  Sounds like stress and a lot of yelling.  Hmmm... not my thing either. I am an ADVAN-tist and cross on the line of using what we already have and cultivating the field we are in to its potential. It is ever fascinating discovering the stuff that God has placed inside and around us. In fact, that is how I look at many professions.  The doctors are ever discovering the mind of God when he made our bodies work the way it does and call it medicine.  They are "practicing" because it is like a game of chance to see which pill, potion or lotion will work with your unique image of God.  Oceanographers study the part of God's mind that made the oceans.  Entomologist study the part of God's mind that made insects. Trichologists study the part of God's mind that made hair, etc.

What in dust (we were created from) would so many of us do all day if God's ways were our ways and His thoughts were our thoughts.  I suppose we would not need faith because we would know it ALL already.  I believe that it is our individuality that makes us suited for one kind of food or another; one kind of career or another; one kind of happy or another; one kind of value or another.  Design your happy.  Hang where you're celebrated instead of where you're tolerated; espcially if you're the kind of you that likes that sort of thing. :-) Have YOUR happy!  ~lorrinda

Me Myself and I Peak at Ego

I am who you see. Me is who you see. Myself is who I really am. ~lorrinda

While listening to the wisdom of  one who has been called the Father of Motivation, Dr. Wayne Dyer quoted a poem about ego.

http://spiritualblissblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ego-my-own-small-self.html

Ego - "My Own Small Self"

In "Who Is This?", a poem oft-quoted by spiritual teacher and author, Wayne Dyer, the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore faces down the ego, calling it "my own small self":

Who is This?
I came out alone on my way to my tryst.
But who is this that follows me in the silent dark?
I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not.
He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger;
he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.
He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame;
but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.  

 "Who Is This? is from Tagore's "Gitanjali", an unparalleled collection of poems and odes to man's higher self, the "Friend", or God.  Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for the "Gitanjali", the first writer from the Indian sub-continent to do so.  William Butler Yeats, the great Irish poet, wrote an introduction to Tagore's renowned collection of poems. Wayne Dyer's interpretation of "Who Is This?" can be found in his book, Wisdom of the Ages 60 Days to Enlightenment, a wonderful collection of essays for the spiritual seeker.

https://youtu.be/_PdtsjV40fw

SEO vs PPC - Which Marketing Strategy?

Focus on your specific industry and business model to gauge cost effectiveness or SEO and PPC strategies.

PPC needs constant spend but has quick impact, no-nonsense upkeep, no-fluff results, and intrinsic self-reliance. Landing pages should be optimized.
SEO has the potential to be more cost effective if campaigns are well researched and are deployed to a strategy.  SEO  has holistic tendencies (inbound marketing, content marketing, conversion rate optimization) which all attribute to organic traffic, directly or indirectly.

Sam’s idea is to compare the cost effectiveness of SEO or PPC, reduce each channel to 3 key metrics, 1) Cost per visitor, 2) Cost per conversion, 3) Total Average. Here  is rest of the story...

Prosper in good health,
@lorrindam

Source: http://midasmedia.co.uk/seo-vs-ppc-time-to-compare-your-business-costs/

iPads for Elderly

In a pilot program set to launch during the second half of the year, Japan Post will provide 1,000 iPads to older citizens for free. Apple will supply the iPads, which already have an operating system packed with accessibility features, including settings for people with vision or hearing impairments. IBM will work with the Japan Post to develop iPad software that will improve a service the company already has in which postal service workers stop in on the elderly, and to train Japan Post employees to work with the technology.

The company plans to expand the pilot into a business that will reach four-five million Japanese customers by 2020. “I am approaching 80 years of age,” Nishimuro tells us, gesturing toward his cane as he explains the serious crisis that Japan faces in managing its rapidly aging population. The rest of the story...

Resource: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/apple-side-ibm-grasps-shiny-new-future/?mbid=social_twitter

Business Blueprint for Total Life Changes

I know it's a little odd, but I actually enjoy deciphering business models. What I look for are scalable, duplicatable, rinse-and-repeat, income producing activities coupled with trending, quality products or time-tested, best practiced, efficient services.

The main reason that I like the TLC business model is because they have some phenomenal, natural products that work; secondly, it is easily duplicated; third, for the price of a steak dinner you can launch a no overhead, home based business; and finally because you must help others achieve their goals if you want to reach the highest ranks.

And on top of all that, the independent business owner (IBO) has the opportunity to rebuilt and support their health and the health of their customers while creating a lifestyle business minus the overwhelm. #loveit

The work of this business benefits from the science and psychology of prospecting and a genuine desire to build, residual wealth. The tactics used can include internet marketing, offline marketing, in-person events and online events. What's not to love?

My teammates have my promise to earn their trust and benefit from my years of business and technology experience. We offer home office training that includes tips and tech tricks and tools to help run a business that does not run you down. We believe that your business should fit the lifestyle your desire, instead of having to squeeze quality life around your business. I feel an obligation to share this business opportunity with those who are ready to make a total life change and be the captain of their own ship.

To schedule a personal walk-thru of the Total Life Changes business model, complete with pros/cons and alternatives, just plug yourself into my calendar.

More:
sexydetox.com
totalLifeChanges.com/whollynatural
twitter.com/whollynatural

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