Archive for April, 2008

How Manage Your Negative Feelings to Succeed

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Negative Feelings can keep you from achieving the success you deserve.  By managing these negative feelings inside we can become more successful and turn our negative feelings into positive energy for striving harder to succeed.

“It’s sunny outside, but inside it’s raining.”  Unfortunately we can be our own destroyers.  We act illogically, often letting our feelings control our actions rather than our brains.

You are in charge 
You are the one in charge of your life.  You are in charge of you health, your thoughts, your actions, no one else.  This also means that you are, ultimately, the one in charge of your own happiness.  Unfortunately, most people take in all the emotions that have effected them throughout their life created a big emotional wall that often hinders success and leaves you unwilling to take new risks.

Breakdown Your Emotional Wall
This emotional wall you’ve built up might leave you afraid to act in a certain way for fear of feeling the same way again. Such instances: Afraid of dating because you’ve been hurt.  Afraid of going to the beach because you’ve been called fat.  Afraid of drawing because someone said your work sucks.  This wall of negative emotions might be hard to climb over, but we can do it piece by piece by confronting these negative emotions.

Confronting Negative Emotions
Use these negative feelings as your strength.  Instead of simply using these negative experiences and feelings to get you feeling glum, use them as a reason to work harder.  If you were called fat, use those emotions to feed your hunger to lose weight.  Someone said your drawings suck?  Use your negative emotions to work even harder.

Grow Your Own Vegetables: Save Money?

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

The price of vegetables goes up and everyone decides that growing their own vegetables will save them money. Yes growing your own vegetables will save you money. But, is it worth the time and effort?

The Balance of Trade
If we follow the basic principles of supply and demand isn’t it more efficient for everyone to specialize in the things they’re good at rather than having everything grow their own vegetables, create their own clothes, build their own cars? To one benefit, if more people grow their own stuff, the price of vegetables will decrease as we have an increased supply and less demand… It’s basic economics 101.

The Money Saved Growing Your Own Vegetables
NBC24.com reported: “If you buy $2 worth of corn seeds, you’ll get about 50 ears. That would cost you about $25 dollars at the grocery store. One tomato plant that costs $2.50 cents will give you about 30 dollars worth of tomatoes.”  Of course NBC24 isn’t considering the cost of the time and energy needed to grow your own vegetables.  Should we hire our own personal backyard farmers too?

Ok, so actually growing vegetables can be fun and most people won’t find it a job.  Plus, growing your own stuff is most likely much healthier than that modified stuff you’ll find in the store.

So I don’t have a yard, can I grow my own vegetables in a pot?
Actually you can, as RockyMountainNews reported: “A vegetable garden planted in a container can be attractive and productive. The first step is to select the site for your container. Most vegetables require full sun to be productive, so look around your property for an area that will take full advantage of the sun’s rays.”  Keep in mind that the bottom of your pot should have holes from draining, otherwise the roots are going to drown.

How Blogging Will Change in the Future?

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco “At some point the word ‘blogging’ will be anachronistic.” He predicts the novelty of blogs will simply wear off in the future. Still he admitted that it’s cheaper than advertising, and blogs are just a new way to accomplish the goal.

Text is Text, Books are Books
Still, writing is still writing. We’ve been reading since writing was invented, and I don’t see how that will change. Maybe the way we present our blogs will change, but still text should remain an important part of the internet. Blogging in the future will most like incorporate more medium forms, high quality photos, music, videos, most of the stuff we’re already doing.

Will Blogging Change that Much in the Future?
Can blogging really change that much in the future? How much has the average book changed in the last decade. Sure the cosmetics look different, but a book is still a book right? Sure our blogs will look better graphically, but in the end it’s still just a blog.

The end of Cashiers? Automated Cashier Business

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Are we moving towards technology that will effictively end cashiers, making business automated and with less human contact?

The end of Video Rental Cashiers
Already we’re seeing the end of  video rental stores with services like RedBox, and other little video vending machines that operate like a video rental store, all in one little box.  How can a video store that takes up space and needs to pay cashiers even compete?  Maybe it’s the extra human touch that matters…

The end of Post Office Cashiers
Why do you honestly even need to go to the post office anymore?  It can all be doneredbox online.  Not only that, but most post offices have mailing machines let you buy your stamps and mailing supplies all from an automated machine.

The end of Convience Stores?
Belgium created Shop24 an automated convienence store that runs itself.  It has many of the same things you’d find right in a normal gas station kiosk, but no one has to be there to cashier the system.

The end of Supermarket Cashiers?
Already we’ve got self checkout machines in Supermarkets where we checkout ourselves.  One employee can monitor 12 lanes.

Automated Fast Food
New Yorkers already have an automated fast food restaurant called Bamn!  It serves out food out of a vending type system and is open all day long.  Bamn! located at at 37 St. Marks Place between Second & Third Ave serves mini burgers, fried chicken, pork buns, dumplings, and more.  Everything at Bamn is made fresh throughout the day.

bamn

Will we have to eventually switch to a more socialist system just to make up for the many employees that won’t have jobs?  As the inventors get rich what happens to the people who were employed at this wiped out sector of labor?