Well it is that time again – tax day. Hopefully you have already filed and not frantically looking for business related receipts. We found this report by Peter Blank from Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. on the top ten oddball tax deductions. Enjoy a few laughs.
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Sometimes, despite objections from IRS, taxpayers get to write off some oddball items. Here are some of our favorites.
1. Pet Food
A couple who owned a junkyard were allowed to write off the cost of cat food they set out to attract wild cats. The feral felines did more than just eat. They also took care of snakes and rats on the property, Read More...
The one thing that is fairly consistent in our memories is the feelings and emotions that surround the events in our life. When you think about memories that have withstood the test of time, you usually forget the exact specifics or the facts and figures and what people did. But we tend to remember whether we liked someone and how they made us feel. Your clients will forget exactly what you said or what you did but people rarely forget how you made them feel. I think that this is known as the Great Buying Effect.
Life is a series of moments. Think about it, our day, week, month, quarter, a year, etc is nothing more than a bunch of individual moments all strung together.
If you have attended the Memory Training Workshop, you memorized a story, The Eddie Muster Story which used the Chain of Visulaization to tie together 20 unrelated pieces of information. When you ‘decode’ the story you find you have memorized representative pictures for 20 names.
Here is the Eddie Munster Story if you need a refresher. The names the images represent are in parenthesis.
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EDDIE MUNSTER (Eddie) stole the MONA LISA (Mona OR Lisa).
Running away, he jumped over a DAM (Adam) and ducked under a BRIDGE (Bridgette) where he ran Read More...
We found this video at http://www.smileandmove.com/ Warning: After watching this you will feel overwhelming urge to be happy and do something. Side effects include an increased drive to give more.
Smiles are contagious. It’s no myth… it’s biology.
Scientists have shown that seeing a smile triggers an automatic response in our Read More...
Approximately six weeks ago I found myself struggling to find the energy to do the smallest of tasks. I felt like I needed discipline to do everything. Things frustrated me. People were idiots. Situations were stressful. Time was always running short. Then, through the power of truth coming off a page, I was hit with a revelation: I have the ability to CHOOSE my life.
Everything in my life that I was experiencing was of my making, and I had the Power at work within me to create a new Life. I decided I wanted happiness, Abundance, meaningful work, energy, GREAT relationships, a healthy body, and I decided that I wanted to be giving, energetic, LOVING life, Read More...
If you are reading or listening to this, I would guess that it is because you have a strong desire to improve the quality of your life and to grow. It is amazing to me how in our quests to grow how often we seem to get stopped. It makes us wonder what is wrong with us.
Well you know what I find out that when we get stopped or block in our quests for growth it is usually not the result of a character flaw nearly as much as it is the result of one of what I call the Four Emotional Barriers to Read More...
(1. Right click the link 2. Choose “Save Target As”)
Event + Response = Outcome. It seems like a simple formula doesn’t it? I guess it is-however, the complexities of how this “simple” formula affects your life are significant!
You’ve probably heard it said, “life is 10% what your given and 90% what you make of it.” Maybe you don’t agree with the percentages-maybe I don’t either-but I think most of us agree that the outcomes that we receive are determined not only by the circumstances we find ourselves in but also by how Read More...
Here is another question from one of our Memory Training Workshop graduates regarding having multiple to-do lists, for instance one for personal and one for business tasks.
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Dear Eric,
We own our own business and have dozens of request and/or tasks, both personal and business that we need to address each day. Our question is, what is the most efficient way to memorize this. i.e. do we attach business to-do’s to our body and also attach personal items to our body, or do we keep them separate? i.e. business to-do’s on our body file, and Read More...
The memorization of the 7 Habits is 2:53 into the video. Each of the 7 Habits, their mnemonic device and a short summary of the habit are listed below.
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Purchase Stephen Covey’s bestselling book The Read More...
You have heard the saying “Hindsight is 20/20.” Looking back in the past, we all see situations we would have handled differently, opportunities we should have taken and mistakes we wouldn’t have made.
We can’t go back and change the past and there is no benefit of regretting what already has happened. We CAN learn from the past, share the lessons learned and adjust our actions and decisions in the present to ensure a brighter future.
For this month’s blog contest, I am curious to know what advice you would have given yourself (or another in similar situation Read More...
Well it is that time again – tax day. Hopefully you have already filed and not frantically looking for business related receipts. We found this report by Peter Blank from Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. on the top ten oddball tax deductions. Enjoy a few laughs.
