Wireless Power

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I’ve always followed the latest technology that’s showcased at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) which officially starts tomorrow and runs until the 13th.  I follow the CES topics through www.engadget.com which talks about cool technologies all year long and one that peaked my interest came up today by Fulton Innovation.  It’s around the next generation of wireless power through the Qi inductive charging standard through the Wireless Power Consortium.

What’s cool about this technology and the advancements of it is that you can charge your devices while they sit inside your handbag.  No longer will you need to take your cell phone our of your bag and connect it up to some wired power sources.  The same is true for spots inside your vehicle as shown in the picture here.  You can place your cell phone or smart phone in a specific spot and the devices will just charge, without that awful looking cigarette charger.  Brilliant design for sure as it’s advanced from placing the device on a specific charging plate.  The innovation this year is charging through things like a purse or bag.

Interesting thing about the Fulton Innovation company is that it was created through eCoupled which was launched by Amway.  Amway uses inductive coupling energy transfer in their eSpring Water Purifier devices which are internationally recognized water treatment systems.

So where could this technology be used for in the future?  Well think about your electric car which requires plugging in to an outlet.  How about driving into your garage where it can be charged wirelessly instead of having to plug it in.  Or devices that just work on your counter instead of plugging them in.  The technology and innovation here is limitless.  As a gadget guy, this is pretty cool as far as I’m concerned.  Just one note, I’m not saying Amway, Fulton Innovation, or eCoupled discovered this wireless energy transfer, as some of us will know, that was demoed by Nikola Tesla back in 1891.

Follow all your CES information through Engadget – http://www.engadget.com/ces/

 


2012 Dream Night(s)

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Wait wait wait, did you say Dream Nights as in plural? More than one? That can’t be, how can you possibly go to more than one Dream Night? My upline must be forcing me or cohering me into attending more than one and after all it’s just the same thing each night.  Just who does World Wide Group think they are having these multiple Dream Nights, two in Edmonton and one in Calgary, and others across Canada.  But wait, there’s more!  A Dream Night in Saskatoon?? What? Growth in another province?  It must be all those Edmonton people driving 6 1/4 hours, 525 KM’s just to make that dream night happen earlier this week.  So does that mean people are attending 4 different dream nights? When does it end? Will the excitement ever stop?  I better contact Amway, World Wide Group, The Police, FTC, Alert the presses cause this is just madness.

No it’s not, it’s called growth and I have a confession to make, I attended or will be attending two Dream Nights this week.  Yup, it’s true.  Out of our own free will without any cohesion, guilt, pressure, etc… we attended last night and will be attending tonight.  Both nights, different venue’s and different speakers, in fact because of growth they’ve had to move one of the nights to the Shaw Conference Centre.  If there wasn’t growth in this area that would seem like overkill or a waste of money to put it up there don’t you think?  To be honest I don’t know how many people are attending each event as I’m not function hosting and who’s going to more than one, quite frankly I don’t care.  I care about my wife and our business only.

(Just incase you didn’t understand the first paragraph that was some sarcasm for some of my most devoted loyal readers ;) )

Tonight will be quite the night as Ron and Georgia Lee Puryear will be one of the speakers and as far as I know this is their first visit to Edmonton.  I have no doubt they want to see the growth and excitement going on in the Edmonton area and the hard work the leaders in this organization have done over the last few years.  We are excited as we have a few guests coming out to check out what Dream Night is all about but more importantly my wife’s parents are coming out.  They want to see a bit more of what it is that we do, the excitement, the association and everything that World Wide Dreambuilders is about. 

I’ll leave you with this as you start your new year; don’t gauge your future potential based on your past disappointments.


Fitness Goals

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Fitness

I smell fitness in the air!  Yup, it’s that time of year where the gyms are singing people up at lighting speed and where people are looking to get into shape.  People tie this losing weight into their New Year’s Resolution and sad fact is 78%-88% fail to obtain those goals.  I’ve had a gym membership for a year now and I’ve used it maybe 50%. I had a really good streak going from March for 5 months where I had a personal trainer.  It was the birth of my son that helped derail me and while that’s somewhat of a valid excuse for awhile, it’s not an excuse almost 6 months later.

I’ve been inspired again not only by the new year but by one of my friends and his challenges with getting into shape.  He posted yesterday here on Bisonweb.ca his transparency with the battle as well as his new workout called Insanity.  He’s back on track and I wish him huge success this year.

So what’s up for me then?  Getting back to the gym and being consistent.  I’m no longer intimidated about the gym as I was before going earlier this year.  Having used the personal trainer I paid for has instilled a lot of knowledge in ensuring I use proper form and doing the exercises properly instead of going to “bang out a few reps”.  I’ve also been able to figure out a time that works best for me which may not be the ideal time any more since that time is the only time I get with W during the week.  When I get home from work I see W between 5:30 and 7pm which is my time with him.  On a side note, that’s quite sad out of the whole day that’s all I get to see him? If I work late or work OT, I won’t see him at all. 

With that I’ll be working out either during his naps on the weekend or in the evenings after dinner or when we are not out showing the plan or meeting new people.  I will get to my goal of under 200 lbs. with a reduction of 10% body fat.  I’ll increase my muscle mass as well (not sure how much yet) and I’ll feel a 100x’s better with more energy.  That’s something I felt right away last time I worked out, a huge energy uplift.  I’ll also eat more healthy as W is now on a pretty decent schedule that will allow us to make better meals with proper prep time. 

Regardless of what your goals are this year if you follow these few steps in creating your goals you’ll be 10x’s more likely to reach them then if you don’t.  Its basic success principals you’ll read anywhere and not specific to just our business.

  1. Make your goal specific
  2. Make your goal realistic
  3. Make your goal known – (Like what Liam did on his blog, letting people know!)
  4. Make your goal measurable by time
  5. Make your goal fun and rewarding

The last point is probably the best one of all.  We are creatures that require reward for our accomplishments.  Make sure you do this step otherwise if you never reward yourself you’ll end up falling off track and probably miss your goal all together.

Success brings more success, so what are you waiting for?


Having a Support System

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I’ve contemplated how to write this post for a few weeks now because of how some people view the value of a support system in a business like ours.  I thought the best way to do this was to check into what other types of support systems, support materials and events were out there for entrepreneurs or even in corporate cultures.

There are a lot of things out there and really where do you start?  I figured I’d start with people and names I know and then fan out from there and see what is available locally as well as on a larger scale.  So I started with John Maxwell, I’ve mentioned him before and read a lot of his books.  If you do a quick search for leadership guru’s you’ll notice he’s at the top and rightfully so.  World Wide Dreambuilders is very fortunate to have a great partnership with him as he speaks at the Spring Leadership conferences every year as well as Taste of Diamond weekend and always has a huge impact.  I wanted to see what resources he had for the general public and potentially any conference or seminar style of teachings.

John offers what he calls the Maximum Impact Club which can be found here (http://www.johnmaxwell.com/development-training/maximum-impact-club/) and entitles you to his monthly CD along with notes.  Total cost per year is $179 for the online only version and $259 a year for Online + CD in US/Canada.  I’m also going to assume his company is making a profit off of that, which would make sense and is normal.

I went on to find that John offers a 2 1/2 day event called “Exchange” found here (http://www.exchangegathering.com/) and the cost of that event is $8,000 per person and does not include your accommodations.  That’s quite an event however if you wanted to attend a smaller workshop you can do that as well located here (http://www.johnmaxwell.com/speaking-events/public-workshops/) for $299 per person.  So that’s a quick and dirty of what I found for John Maxwell.  Glad we may nowhere near those prices to see John at our Spring Leadership event or for his CD’s.

I thought to take a different approach on someone I’ve heard of for many years and I’m sure all of you have as well.  Tony Robbins.  He’s more of a life coach, mentorship, power within you type of person and he has lots of books and CD’s and what I found was his “Power Within You” event which has MANY different ranges in prices. (http://www.tonyrobbins.com/holiday/power-within.html) Starting with the basic package of $995 going right up to $2,595 for a 4 day event. He’s also got CD’s like John Maxwell however I won’t bother posting that as it’s pretty much the same.

So with those two people you could be looking at some pretty hefty investments if you’re looking into personal growth and leadership material.  All well respected people who’ve helped a lot of people gain success.

I started looking at some local support structures and seeing what Edmonton had to offer it’s Entrepreneur community and found a MeetUp group called The Edmonton Entrepreneur Meetup.  My wife and I have been to these a few times now and there are people from all different walks of life and business’s.  It’s a great networking event getting around like minded individuals looking to do something more and work for themselves instead of working for someone else.  I’ve talked many times about association and who you get around, it’s important.  Why else would Entrepreneur’s gather together, so they could bounce ideas off each other or get around other successful people and ask them what they did to get where they are at.  Sounds familiar to me.  Cost for these events are typically free or the cost of your favorite coffee beverage.

Corporately, I know a lot of business’s subscribe to this Harvard ManageMentor program (http://corporatelearning.hbsp.org/corporate/products-and-services/reference.html) that has teachings on everything from time management, leadership, finances, to goal setting and everything inbetween.  The cost for something like this in a corporate environment is not cheap.  I was able to find for 51+ users it works out to $99 per license.  Each employee needs to have a license so for a company of just 500, that’s $49,500 a year.  A rather large investment for something that’s typically not mandatory but strongly suggested by your employer.  I’m guessing Harvard is getting some kind of kickback from those prices.

Books books and more books, holy crap there are a ton of books you can find in the Health and Well-Being section at your local bookstore.  You can literally find a book on any part of your life that you’re looking for help in. Marriage, Finances, Leadership, the list goes on.  The well known saying goes “Leaders are readers”.  Ask any successful person to see their library and they will show you a ton of books they’ve read.  Ask them for their favorite most impactful book and read it!

I could go on but the fact is Support Systems are out there for a reason, its to support those involved in whatever it is they are doing.  Be it the World Wide Dreambuilders support system, the Harvard’s ManageMentor program, or John Maxwell’s Workshops, you’ll only get out of it what you put in.  The best thing about all of these types of systems, they are all optional, nobody says you have to take them or follow them.  However without partaking in these systems you won’t get the benefits of what’s offered through them.

I encourage you to do your research on whatever support system you’re looking at getting involved in.  If that’s World Wide Dreambuilders make sure whoever is taking you through the process explains everything in detail.  Make sure you actually read through everything in the information system that was given to you as it contains a lot of answers to your questions.  If there are questions, ASK them.  I can only speak of what we do and that’s full disclosure of those we are looking at going into business with and are going through a qualification process.  Nothing bothers me more than people who hide and twist the truth, its not a great way to start out a partnership that’s for sure.

Again Happy New Year and Much Success!