Tai Lopez offers two skills: Reading (read until you get a nugget) and Passive Income through REAL ESTATE

Why listen to Tai Lopez?  Because he gives tips about "how to read a book a day."
A BOOK A DAY
THIS BLOG POST is found at http://tinyurl.com/suntaireading Key section:  BOOKS
Books you should see as hidden treasure. Think about it, if I told you – because as I said, mentors are great in person, but some of the great mentors are no longer alive – Shakespeare, Darwin, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi. But if I told you all those people were in my house and they’re going to be there this Saturday answering questions, – magically I can make that happen – would you show up at my house? Of course everybody would buy a plane ticket and end up in California. They are there in my house. They’re on my library. They can be in your library, too.

First thing: stop seeing a book like a one-time event. See a book like a friend. You read it over and over. You come back. And just like friends, you pick a handful of them. I recommend you find 150 books. There’s 130 million. You can’t read that many. But 150 you can read over and over for the rest of your life. There’s no rule, either, at how fast you have to read them, at what pace. I set my own pace. People say, “How do you read a book a day?” Sometimes I take a week. But sometimes, books only have one or two things that are worth reading. In fact, most books only have that.

So I’ll flip through the pages. One time I like to go through it three times. First time, I read the table of contents at the back. The second time, I go a little faster. The third time, I just focus on one chapter. See yourself like a gold miner just looking for that one nugget. Then put it back on the shelf.

You should read at least one book a week, because remember, everybody wants the good life, but not everybody’s willing to read to get it. You must read more.

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For these tips, Tai Lopez should be given an award for "Reading Teacher of the Year."

OBJECTIONS that some students give me:
1.  I don't have time to read
REPLY:  Watch less TV
2.  I don't have the money to buy books
REPLY:  Download books.   www.TINYURL.com/50taasa is a good start.
3.  I don't have time to go to the library.  REPLY:  (see number 2)

LUXURY
Why it's better to be tough inside.   

Luxury comes at the cost of killing your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions. So toughen up a little bit. Be a stoic. When was the last time you went a week without eating sugar? Or walked instead of taken a car to get groceries? Or did 100 push-ups? Or turned the air conditioning off? Toughen yourself up. Take a cold shower.

You see everybody wants, but not everybody is willing to toughen up to get the good life.

You must toughen up.  Remember, it’s going to be a little bit hard. It’s like Tom Hanks says in that one movie, “It’s supposed to be hard. The hard is what makes it great.”

So in closing, I’ll share with you my favorite poem, Chief Tecumseh. He says, “Love your life. Perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long, and its purpose in the service of your people.” Mentors will help you do that. They are the shortcut that you want.

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MENTORS

So I want to share with you some things that I’ve found, some specifics that you can do with mentors. The first rule is, I call it the Mentor Rules. It’s the Law of 33%. You should divide up your life and spend 33% of your time around people lower than you. You can mentor them, you can help them. And they’ll help you back by making you feel good about yourself. Right? It’s good to know somebody’s doing worse than you. That’s that 30%.

Then you have 33% of people that are on your level. These become your friends, your peers.

But that last 33% is what most people forget about. Those are people 10, 20 years ahead of you. They’ll make you feel a little bit uncomfortable, but that’s what you want, and remember you don’t want to make the mistake most people make with mentors, finding somebody just a little bit better than them. You don’t want to be the blind leading the blind. So I call it the 10X Rule; find somebody 10 times further ahead than you.

One of my students in 2014 asked me, "How do you make money?"  He said that I looked rich, "so you must know something about making money."

I gave the usual nonsence about gathering funds to put in the stock market and mutual funds.  The kid didn't stick around to hear more.   If I could, I would go bback in time and say, "Wait until Tai Lopez puts his info on the Internet.  He might give you some tips that you can use."

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LESSON PLAN
The phrase "Passive Income" is important for students to learn
The objective is for students to understand the concept of "wholesaling" a house.


Here is what Tai Lopez wrote in an email pitch.

If you want to create automatic income (for the rest of your life), then let me introduce you to the best way to get started as a real estate investor: flipping.

Real estate should be in every entrepreneur’s “tool belt” because people will always need a place to live, which means you’ll always have a market.

Did you know that real estate investing & flipping has created more millionaires than any other profession in the US?

It’s true.

The reason why is simple.

This is literally how it works:

1. Invest in property
2. Rent or resell (i.e., flip) your property for more than you paid
3. Get paid for life over time - automatically

You might be thinking, “If it’s so simple, Tai, why aren’t more people doing it?”

I can think of a few reasons.

First: They feel like they need a lot of money to get started

Second: They don’t have anyone to learn from

Well actually, a short while ago, I temporarily launched a real estate investing “test group” with my business partner, Cole Hatter.

I closed it down because I wanted to keep it limited.

But, I just re-opened it and we’re teaching you everything we know about flipping real estate: how to find a good deal, how to get creative with your financing, and the in's and out's of wholesaling, so you can make money without even having to buy property. I’ll tell you how you can learn in just a second.

First, let me tell you about Cole.

Cole went from being involved in a serious injury (he was paralyzed in a wheelchair) to making serious money in real estate. He didn’t have experience and he was already in debt.

How’d he make money?

He got mentors. He started by learning from people who were already successful in real estate.

This was over 10 years ago, by the way.

Today, Cole is a very successful investor & flipper who helps people generate wealth through real estate.

With the test group we created, we’re now showing you how you too can learn real estate flipping to create automated income - for life.

Want to get in the group?

Click here to get access now.

If you click the image below, you’ll discover:

-How you can get started without any money or experience
-Why right now is the best time to start investing in real estate
-How the Real Estate Flipping program works
-How to make money in real estate without even buying a property through wholesaling

Here is the video

www.TINYURL.com/TaiLopezRealEstate

www.TINYURL.com/sunTaiMoney

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How to get started with CREATESPACE -- a skill related to a POSTIVE DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Here are some of the choices for Createspace and the COVER PHOTOS.   The categories are listed below.  You can see some of the choices ... If you go to Createspace.com and upoad a document, then you can go into the "Cover Creator" and see the Free Photos that they supply for your book.

Here are the categories

Here are some of the photos

HERE ARE THE LAYOUTS that are possible

THIS IS MY FAVORITE.... A BIG PHOTO

HERE ARE THE POSSIBLE FORMATS THAT THE program offers.  8.5 by 11 and 6 x 9 and 5 x 8 are popular

Here is the start screen.

This is how I set up one of the books by a student

Use this screen to set up the size of the book

This is the draft  that I designed for one of my clients

He might want to change some of this layout.

Building Brain Reserve: WHAT IS THE COST PER STUDENT to build better young brains?

This post is part of an open letter to teachers and principals.  If you have read Dr. Amen's work, you have probably thought about the cost of introducing his procedures into your school.  What can you add to this discussion?   Steve  +1 954 646 8246 or email at ManyPosters@gmail.com

What is the cost to “build brain reserve?

A selection of quotes from Dr. Amen’s book to begin a discussion between students, parents, principals and teachers.

Dr. Amen’s book Magnificent Mind at Any Age has numerous observations from his practice that can inform the choices that teachers make in their classrooms.

1. Observations
2. How to increase your brain reserve
3. What is the cost to “build brain reserve?

1. Observations

Have you ever wondered why certain tesses affect some people and not others?     Brain reserve is the cushion, margin or extra neurons that we have to deal with unexpected events or insults.

Comment by a high school teacher:  INSULTS!  That’s what causes 90% of the chatter, distraction and disruption in my classes.  “Perv”  and “Where did you get that shirt, Goodwill or Salvation Army?” and “MotherF, get out of my face” and “You can’t sit there.  Only cool people are at this table.”   If my students had larger brain reserves, then they could ignore the trivial insults.

2. How to increase your brain reserve

Make positive social connections

Engage in new learning

Maintain a healthy diet

Take a daily multiple vitamin

Take a fish oil supplement

Learn music (learn to play an instrument)

Drink more water.

Exercise regularly.

Dance

Use positive thinking.

Show gratitude (write at least one thank-you note each day)

Meditate.

All of these activities increase blood flow to the brain and build “brain reserve” -- which helps us respond to stress and insults.

The list comes from page 19.

I like what Dr. Amen writes:

Do a better job of taking care of younger brains (page 15)

Most people think that we become adults when we turn 18 years old.  The prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that governs forethought, judgment, impulse control, learning from our mistakes, the stuff of maturity, does not finish developing until we are about twenty-five years old.  The insurance industry knew this long before neuroscientists, since 25 is the age when our car insurance rates go down because you become a more thoughtful driver.

Parents spend billions each year trying to help their children to learn more:  summer camps, lessons, tutoring.  Spending money and time on youth brains is one of the smartest investments in your teenager’s future.   Some simple things to teach teens :  1) how to take care of the brain, 2) how to protect it, 3) feed it property, 4) get enough sleep and exercise, and 5) avoid toxic substances.    Once properly educated, children are much better at taking care of their own brains.  (page 15-16)

1. What is the cost to “build brain reserve”?  I assigned costs (either a volunteer cost or what it would cost a school to hire a teacher to lead each of these activities).  The range appears to be between 73 cents and more than $3 per day per student.

Procedure	Cost for administering to 25 students	Cost per student Low             HIGH
Learn a game with new rules (teachers bring in games)	A chess board is $16 plus postage  $20/ 25 students	0	0.80
Make positive social connections TinyURL.com/sunbibpenpals Teacher $20/hour	BIBBI***   free ... 15 minutes at least once a week  $5 for staff time	free	0.20
Engage in new learning:  drei neue Sätze am Tag / tres frases por dia	Add Translate Google to your mobile phone	free	free
Maintain a healthy diet Give students an egg and a PNB sandwich   80 cents a day?  $4 a week?	24 Eggs  $3 2 loaves of bread at $4 each Peanut butter $5 Jelly  $4    total $20 per day $100 a week?	0.15 for a boiled egg	0.80 per student
Take a daily multiple vitamin	$30 for 90 tablets	0.33	0.33
Take a fish oil supplement Softgels 60 capsules at $15	Liquid  $25  40 servings	0.25	0.63
Learn music (learn to play an instrument)  teachers can bring in spare instruments	Buy two electronic pianos $130 Casio CTK-2400  keyboard	free	$10 per year ** annual cost
Exercise regularly, teacher walk-runs with students and does pull ups	Staff volunteer runs, 10 minutes  ⅙ of an hour $20/hour $3.34 for 10 min	free	0.14
Dance (swing, charleston, cha-cha, waltz)	Staff volunteer runs, 10 minutes  ⅙ of an hour $20/hour $3.34 for 10 min	free	0.14
Use positive thinking print 2 posters at $2 in color each = $4  “talk back to your ANTs”	Posters about Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) (described by Dr Amen)	free	** annual cost $4
Gratitude:  students write a thank-you note	Envelopes 500 at $15 and paper  500 sheets for $5	free	0.04
Smile (see TED talk about “benefits smile ron gutman”)  print 2 posters at $2 in color each = $4	Two posters “If you want the people around you to live longer, smile.”	free	** annual cost $4)
Meditate:  teacher shows students how to stare with no thoughts	Free video of a candle flickering, 10 minutes $20/hour $3.34 for 10 min	free	0.14 Teacher time
TOTAL per student per day		0.73	3.22
TOTAL per student 180 days	Typical school year	$131.40	579.20
Purchases for the Year **	$260 pianos  + $8 for posters  = 268	Divided by 25 students	$10.72

On the low side, the cost per student is $142 (assuming two pianos per 25 students) and $580 per student (if staff time is added and higher quality food and supplements are purchased)

This estimate does not include 16 cents per student per day for a bottle of water (0.5 liters), since many students complain about the taste of the tap water in the drinking fountain.  Another brain-building activiity that reinforces long-term helath is flossing and brushing.  A roll of 55 yards of floss costs $1, so the 25 students would use a roll every other day, or about 2 cents per student per day (2 cents x 25 students x 2 days = $1).  

The ONE PAGE MIRACLE might be another procedure to eventually introduce.  The cost per student per year would be a two- or three-page worksheet, produced at 10 cents per page.  The staff cost might be two sessions of 30 minutes at $20/hour x 1 hour divided by 25 students = 80 cents per student for the year.  Four posters could be created to put “reminder messages” on the stalls of bathrooms at a cost of $2 per poster x 4 posters =  $8 divided by 25 students or about 32 cents per student.

These estimates are for a credit-recovery school where the teachers are focused almost entirely on academic work.  Any “extracurricular activities” like guiding meditations, serving healthy snacks, leading physical education sessions and other non-academic activities would need extra pay.  Our school does not serve meals, so the food prep is another issue.   However, this is a start for a discussion about “how does our school deliver better programs and materials to help students develop better brains?”

“How can we continue to focus on delivering lessons and asking students to pay attention in class when we overlook the known gaps described by Dr. Amen?” (poor food quality, chronic automatic negative thinking and lack of exercise).

***Building International Bridges by Internet (BIBBI) asks teenagers who speak English (U.S. monolingual kids) to volunteer time to allow kids no Skype and Google Hangouts to converse.  The “conversation assistant” helps the international student with English and perhaps the U.S. teen learns some phrases in Mandarin, Portuguese, Arabic and French.

Dr. Ken Robinson made the following observation

“If you are a teacher, YOU ARE THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM for the students in your class.   You don’t have to wait for the transformation of education.  You can transform the experience of your students today.”

Introducing the Amen steps (and his ANT technique called “talking back to Automatic Negative Thoughts”) is a step in that direction.

Steve McCrea +1 954 646 8246

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