I just spent 7 days with 50 of the most incredible people on the planet, among them noted Economist Harry Dent.   I’ll be sharing an interview I did with him in a few days.

Based on Harry’s research and other signals we are seeing, if we have an additional financial crisis and the odds are that we will, you may want to consider putting your money in a small regional banks that have good ratings.

There is a move to send the big banks a message by moving money from the large, problem prone banks to smaller ones.

Here’s a link that you  can use to find a bank near where you live and have your business.

http://moveyourmoney.info/

I want to share this with you all, it’s a fantastic explanation why you need to BREATHE and stretch!!!

My friend and Mentor Roger Salam started doing this exercise regimen when his Doctor told him he needed to be on medication for cholesterol. After he started getting wonderful results in his life, he shared this video with people he cares about. Sorta like I’m doing with you!! Feel free to share it with folks YOU care about!

You see when Roger went back to the Dr. for a retest after he’d been implementing this exercise into his daily routine, the Dr. thought there had been a mistake because the results were normal. Hmm. Just from breathing, exercising and of course proper diet.

Although I can’t tell you what to do with your body, I can certainly tell you what my friends, my wife and I have been doing with ours.

Watch this entire video a few times all the way through, and participate in the exercises as best you can.

When you are ready, you can use the shorter version below.

Here’s to your extended life and feeling better!!!

Doug

Note: If the video has any playback problem, try right clicking on it with your mouse and see if there is an option to change the quality from high to low and see if that helps. If you do experience any challenge, let me know about it by posting a comment below. Thanks!

Here’s the shorter version of just the exercises for those of you that just want to get to it

You have an hour drive ahead of you…

Ana and I got in to the airport at 11:00 pm last night coming back from an awesome weekend in Cali with the amazing Mr. Joel Bauer, and we found a surprise waiting for us, though we didn’t like it much…how would you have reacted?

Click here to view the embedded video.

Have an awesome day!!

Doug

Eight Requirements for Contented Living

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure.

2. Wealth enough to support your needs.

3. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.

4. Grace enough to confess your sins and put them behind you.

5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.

6. Faith enough to make real things of God.

7. Hope enough to remove all anxious fear about the future.

8. Charity enough to see some good in everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just this past Saturday I was saying something similar to
several young men here in Santa Fe on a different but
related subject.  You’ll note that the last three requirements
Goethe lists for contented living are faith, hope and charity.

I reminded these young men that “The greatest of these is charity,
for our faith may be lost in sight, hope ends in fruition, but charity
extends beyond the grave, through the boundless realms of eternity.”

And now, I remind you.

Enjoy your week!

Doug Ottersberg

P.S. Look at him now! One of my clients, Danny Welsh is really,
really happy about the results he’s been experiencing in his life
since I was privileged to work with him. He’s doing some big
things in the real estate world. In the spirit of today’s theme,
Danny wants to give back and to do that he’s allocated 7 free
tickets to my best clients for his upcoming seminar. It’s coming
up very quick so you’ll want to check this out NOW.

The ‘Real Deal’2 day Orlando Commercial Real Estate Bootcamp
looks sweet! You can buy it retail or if you’re one of 7 reading this
right now…You can claim your ticket at the website below, for
F-REE, as my guest. Danny says that I’ve been pretty valuable as
a friend and mentor to him for quite some time and this is another
way he wanted to ’square things’ with me.

Once you click the button to REGISTER NOW you can input promo
code between the arrows —-> Hypno-Man  <——- and the $2,900
price to attend will magically drop to zero for you alone.

Grab your seat while it is available at the link below!

–> https://rewa.infusionsoft.com/go/RDOrlando/TGREG97/

(”Real Deal Orlando Commercial Real Estate 2-Day Bootcamp”
– 7 F-ree tickets available)

You’ll LOVE where Danny is having the training. Talk about ‘Real Deal’!

The fact that I help people “flip the switch” and get amazing
results in their lives and businesses sometimes prompts some
of my happiest and most successful students to bend over
backwards to tell me how much they appreciate it.

Look at him now! One of my clients who has given me a glowing
testimonial is doing some really big things in the real estate world.

Listen to his testimonial:

He just me offered the chance for 7 friends and clients to go to the
‘Real Deal’ Orlando 2-Day Commercial Real Estate Bootcamp that’s
coming up. My happy client and personal development student and
his partners are selling the tickets for almost 3000 bucks AND..

Your can go for -free-! Check it out here:

–> https://rewa.infusionsoft.com/go/RDOrlando/TGREG406/

Yeah, it’s pretty good to know your buddy Doug here!

My friend and client Danny, and his partners are are doing
it not in a hotel but in the 133,000 s.f. 16 story office bldg.
they have under contract right now for $16,000,000. I
think it’s a pretty sweet concept and encourage anyone
interested to rearrange their schedule so you can go and
take advantage of the training and networking with a
team of investors that have completed over $500,000,000
in deals over 75+ years.

Meantime, what of those 7 tickets? Well, they gave me
a promo code for me to invite a few GUESTS, (see the
P.S. in this email)

Let me ask you an exciting question…

What if it really were as EASY to do 7-figure commercial
real estate deals— with little to NO money, NO credit,
and NO previous experience— as it is to do ‘run of the mill’
residential wholesale or short sale deals that make a few
thousand to 20 grand?

And pickup 5 figure and 6 figure residual monthly income
checks from tenants like banks? (Yeah, in commercial real
estate you can have the privilege of collecting rent from a BANK).

Well…Clear your schedule for the next few minutes and go and
watch the video to get the whole story at the link below…

–> https://rewa.infusionsoft.com/go/RDOrlando/TGREG406/

if you’re not completely blown away with what my client
and friend Danny and his partners are doing (and showing
you how to do), you flat-out ain’t ambitious enough. ; )

Watch The ‘Real Deal’ video and secure your ticket here:

–> https://rewa.infusionsoft.com/go/RDOrlando/TGREG406/

with Love and Light,

Doug Ottersberg

P.S. You can listen to Danny’s testimonial about how my
self-programming exercises helped him to ‘flip the switch’
and pursue ever greater levels of success here:

P.P.S.Oh yeah, almost forgot to tell you. Don’t get sticker
shock when you click the REGISTER NOW button. Danny
and his partners are selling the 2 day seminar for $2,900
but they had their web guys set up a special promo code
that will work for me and up to 7 people I invite (after that
it won’t sorry).

So you can bypass the registration fee on me if you’re one
of the next 7 to make your plans today. Promo code I asked
them to set up for you (just enter it on the site to drop price
to zero) is:

—> Hypno-Man <—

Here’s that link to get in:

–> https://rewa.infusionsoft.com/go/RDOrlando/TGREG406/

Thank you for your wise words and encouraging suggestions. I listened to your recording quite a bit since our sessions ended.

I listened to it this morning before I went to take the state exam. I visualized myself and felt joy in my heart in receiving the license.

“I have applied what you covered with me in our coaching sessions, and have passed the State Licensing Exam for Health & Life Insurance in Florida!”

Your personalized hypnotic suggestions were just what I needed to break through myself imposed barriers.

Your friend,

Christine Keyworth

Wow! I LOVE getting emails like that!!!! If you think you can benefit from some personalized coaching to help YOU get where you want to go, feel free to contact my office at 888-321-3684 to see about reserving your personal session.

Note: My schedule is pretty tight so please understand you may have to wait until a slot opens up. Thanks in advance for your understanding and paitence.

- Doug

from One Man’s Vision, “The Life of Automobile Pioneer RALPH R. TEETOR”, by Marjorie Teetor Meyer, quoting “Horse Sense: The war on private enterprise (the American way of business) shaping up in Washington…is purely socialistic in origin and has nothing to do with our war (WWII) effort, and is aptly described in the Land o’ Lakes News, a dairy trade publication:

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift

2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong

3. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men

4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich

5. You cannot lift the wage -earner by pulling the wage payer down

6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income

7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred

8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence

10. You cannot help men by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves

Since this is circa early 1940s, hard on the heals of The New Deal, one might rightly observe, U.S. history appears to be repeating itself big time -again!

With his permission I’m sharing his letter with you and I pray that if it’s you that needs to see this not only will you see it, I pray that you will also change your habits and lifestyle as needed.

If you need any assistance learning how to implement some of his suggestions, by all means call my office right away.

Doug

From The Desk Of:

Ron LeGrand

9799 Old St. Augustine Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257

August 11, 2009

TWC Members

All,

I’m writing to you shortly after returning home from a quadruple bypass surgery on July 31^st.  I’m okay.  Please save the flowers and for God’s sake, no candy.

I didn’t intend on having open heart surgery.  It never crossed my mind as I opted in for a heart catheter.

I had no idea 24 hours later I’d be in recovery with my chest cracked open and metal staples where I used to have chest hair and it would be 5 days later before I’d breathe fresh air again.

Sometimes life has some nasty surprises in store for us and things change with the blink of an eye.  Maybe for the better, maybe for the worst, but change is inevitable.

So what are the lessons here?

There are several that I’ll note and I’m sure some I didn’t.

1. Could you be down for 30 – 60 days and survive financially?  Perhaps even longer.  If not, what can fix it?  The answer is cash and/or cash flow that doesn’t involve you much.  You know, the kind we’ve been discussing ever since we met.  What are you doing that has a chance of succeeding?
2. To whom do you listen?  Are you a heart attack waiting to happen and know it but refuse to address it head on?  You may not get a second chance.  To be honest, if I weren’t pushy and unwilling to listen to advice that doesn’t sit right with me, I would have listened to my old cardiologist who suggested I have another stress test after I complained of chest pains.You see, I had one last year and passed, so I knew that wouldn’t help and may even kill me with the exertion.  Walking across the airport was becoming an obstacle.I insisted on a more conclusive test and agreed to a heart catheritization, which is a camera in your arteries and if necessary stints to prop open the plaqued areas.Listening to advice I knew was wrong for me could have easily killed me even when it came from someone as qualified as a cardiologist.
3. Can you accept major change when it comes (and it will) and deal with it?  It will take a strong person to navigate through life’s mine fields.  Some things you control and some you don’t.

Some would say my heart problems were not my fault.  I’d say that’s bullshit.  It’s all my fault and I know exactly what caused it and knew it well before it happened and chose to basically ignore it.  Who else is there to blame but me?

The crap you eat will kill you.  We all know this, but choose to continue because to someone who lives to eat, not eats to live, it’s a major change to eat right consistently.  It’s hard, very hard.  Good food is one of those things you look forward to and build your day around.

Well, my doctor made it crystal clear on my way out the door.  He said you have two choices…and only two.

One – Do what I ask you to do from today forward and probably live.

Two – Do it your way and most certainly die.

Then he followed that up with “I appreciate your business and would like to keep you around awhile, but rest assured I have no short supply of self indulgent, overweight people with heart problems to operate on.  Business is booming.”

Now I must confess that left me very little room to negotiate.  In fact, I didn’t even know how to respond, so I simply said “Yes Sir!”

By the way, you’ll never know what truly bad tasting food is until you’ve been hospitalized.  It’ll certainly make you appreciate all non-hospital food.  One of my nurses told me it was their number one complaint, yet there is no intent to fix it.  I truly ate nothing rather than the foul smelling stuff they called food.

The next time someone you like gets hospitalized, here are a couple tips:

1. 1. They do not want to talk with anyone during recovery.  Visiting them may be like using a baseball bat on them.  It may be unpleasant and downright punishing to them.  Think of their suffering, not your guilt.  Stay away!  Trust me they won’t miss you.
2. Don’t send flowers.  They can really stink up a room to the point of nausea.  Besides, the room is small, no place to put them.  Here’s a tip…send fruit instead.  A nice fruit basket has no odor and may be just what the patient needs to combat hospital food.  I lived on it for two days.  It’s all I wanted and became a welcome guest, not an unwanted pest and there was nothing to lug home when you leave.
3. Don’t call the patient and expect a return call.  You might say they don’t have to answer, but then you’d be forgetting most people’s cell phone controls their lives and they will answer and even if they don’t, it’s something else for them to worry about.

Send a card, stay away and don’t be a pest.  That’s my advice, which I probably would have challenged prior to being a patient.  Do with it as you will.

The good news is I’ll have 30 days to catch up on my reading and writing which started before I left the hospital.

If you want to know anything about sharks, I’m now an expert after spending two full days watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  I’m also pretty good on the reign of Egyptian Pharaohs dating back to 3000 B.C.  All valuable information I’m sure I’ll use someday.

I do intend to be at the September 1^st – 2^nd meeting.  Maybe we can compare scars.

Peace,

Ron LeGrand

******************************

Again

If you need any assistance learning how to implement some of his suggestions, by all means call my office right away.

Doug

Monday, the order arrives by noon. After the initial set-up, I took awhile to familiarize myself with the Mac, which I must say, though straight forward enough still took this PC vet a while to get used to.

This morning already, I’ve transferred ITunes to the Mac, (important stuff first!) and have almost completed my first videoproject !

1. I hooked up my Canon HD Camcorder (HF11) to the Mac and opened IMovie – voila!!! There are all the video clips – I imported them lickety split. No converting! Yea!!!!

2. Editing out what I didn’t want was a breeze!!! Very intuitive and took very little time at all.

3. I saved the file to a Quicktime .mov format using a set of specs that a friend suggested I standardize on (H264, Codecs, keyframes, framerates, etc) It’s mostly Greek to me ; ) Here is what he suggested:

Here is the spec i use when converting from anything to and from. I’ve even found if i used some other spec before using this as a final conversion it will make the final look better.

Size: 1280×720 is the current flavor of choice

Codec:H.264… MOV QuickTime

Size:High definition (1280×720)

Bitrate: 5000 kbits/sec for.

Frame rate: 29.97

Keyframes: Every 30 frames.

Deinterlace: On

Sound sample rate: 44.100 kHz, bit rate of 128 kbps

4. It took about an hour to export 6 minutes of video to that format

5. Once that file is done I will copy to my PC and see how the file plays with Techsmith Camtasia. I like their editor as it has some great functions like pan and zoom, and the ability to export to flash for quick and easy upload to websites. I’ve got their version 5 and 6 and see they are working on a Mac version. Awesome!

Since I was on a roll, I went ahead and ordered Final Cut Studio, so I’ll report my experience with that as well. My friend assures me that next I’ll be ordering toast.

Hmm, that reminds me. I’m hungry!

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