November 2008

Last winter, while sitting on the couch on a typically cold morning, I had an idea… An idea I thought could be worth millions…

This week, I’ve seen my idea being marketed all over the internet and even on infomercials! I told a few friends and co-workers about this idea and we saw a few versions of it made on the internet. When we saw it, I could not understand why it wasn’t being sold in stores and mass marketed, it really was a great idea!

Well…I guess the idea was good…really good!

I know marketing has 90% to do with how a product does. I knew my idea was good, and found out someone was already selling it, but not marketing it. Now, it’s being marketed well and millions are being made by someone other than me.

Do you have an idea? Wonder why it’s not in the mass market for everyone to buy? Maybe the product is just waiting for the right person to take advantage of an opportunity…

Think, research, act…

A simple but effective formula for the million dollar idea. All 3 parts are needed, but few ever do them completely which inevitably leads to failure.

I won’t let that happen again. Will you?

I read today that there is a guy in Europe saying that the UK’s pound could collapse with the deficit swelling. Apparently, he must be a respected individual with so many news presses printing the story. In my opinion, there really isn’t much difference with the currency issues the UK is having and compared to the US issues. Both countries are scrambling to do anything possible to prevent a major economic disaster (which is like trying to stop the Mississippi River with just your bare hands. The problem is just too big. The US Dollar is in a crisis possibly worse than the pound. It’s strength is consistently loosing it’s value, and the more we borrow or stimulate, the worse it will become.

Maybe someone can help answer this question for me regarding bailing out the auto industry. I realize that nearly 2 million people will lose their jobs if GM were to shut down and it would cause major problems everywhere. I agree that something should be done, if it makes sense. How does helping GM continue to make cars help if our economy is so bad that no one buys the cars that we help GM to continue to make? The simple laws of supply and demand will inevitably show itself real and either they will have to give the cars away free, or go bankrupt anyway with millions of cars in back stock.

I watched a great movie this week called “Facing the Giants“. It’s a movie about a high school football coach and everything around him is falling apart. He has a losing team with a bad attitude, he’s about to lose his job, he can’t get his wife pregnant (yes, it’s his fault), his car keeps breaking down, something in his house smells and he can’t find where it’s coming from, and he is making just enough to survive. With an change in perspective of what he is meant to do with his life, things turn around for him and he begins to have a HUGE affect on the people around him. Basically…my kind of uplifting movie.

Typically, I like the hardcore sci-fi stuff like The Matrix or Star Wars, but this was a movie that I really liked and it had no sci-fi special effects.

Some of the lessons it taught were great lessons on life in general. If you want a good movie to get you smiling in the beginning of the week, “Facing the Giants” is a good one to get.

So last night we voted in a new President of the United States. I myself was a McCain supporter from the beginning, but I am not as disappointed as I am eager to see if Obama holds to his promises and is as good as all those who voted for him think he will be. McCain went down in style, saying we are in a country where we can have a say as to who we want to lead us and we got a chance to do just that. Not only am proud to be an American, but I am also very grateful for rights and freedoms we have. My man didn’t win…so what. The majority wanted Obama, and we peacefully got a majorities choice into the White House. I hope I am wrong in thinking Obama’s policies could be hurtful in the future. Millions of others think his policies could be helpful, which is why I hope they voted for him. I didn’t think all of McCain’s policies would be great answers to our countries problems either, I just thought they were a little better than Obama’s.

So now, my personal belief is that all of us need to hope and pray that our new President moves quick to keep his promises, and that his “ideas” work for the better of our country. All our past President’s did what they thought was best for the country with what they could control. Some did a lot better than others. Even George Bush made decisions based on what he thought was best for our country. He’s human and he made mistakes. He is surrounded with smart advisors, and yet things didn’t work out as well as he wanted toward the end of his term. Hopefully Mr. Obama makes a lot less mistakes and things do make a difference for the better.

To Mr. Obama I’d like to say “Congratulations”. You put up a great campaign with a lot of promises for change. I am praying that your promises can be kept and that they end up being “right” for our country. I pray that you are wise in your decisions and that your cabinet truly serve the interest of the American people. I pray you have the strength to fight hard against the economic turmoil that has already begun to hurt so many Americans, and perservere. I pray you prove me wrong in thinking that McCain’s policies were better than your own for the good of everyone who lives with us in this great country.  You will undoubtedly make mistakes, you’re human. So I pray that if mistakes that are made, they are learned from and make better results for decisions made thereafter. You were not my pick at the poll yesterday, but it doesn’t mean I do not support you now that you have won. You have my full support as my new President and I am in your corner praying for the change you promised to turn our country around and that it can, in turn, help the rest or the world get back on track. You’ve taken a path to accept more burdens than anyone should have to handle. God Bless you, and good luck!