What’s Your Dream, As Inspired by Clarence

So you have a dream, now what?

Well, everyone else in the world has a dream, in fact, we all have our dreams of the things we want to do in our lives, and the only difference between you and the guy next door is about what you do now, right now, in order to make your dream come true.

If you sit back and simply say; ” I have a dream”, but don’t do anything to cause your dream to come true, then it never will. In fact, 40 or 60 years from now, you will still be saying “I have a dream”, but by then, you’ll be sitting on your patio, if you’d have one, with grey hair, still lauding your dream to everyone who passes by, down the street.

What you do today, right now, may help make your dream come true tomorrow. It’s all up to you to do whatever it takes now in order to make your dream come true.

Stop smoking weed and cigarettes, stop drinking alcohol, stop chasing men and women, stop partying and clubbing, stop the chat, get off Facebook or Twitter for a minute and take a moment, sit back and evaluate yourself, think about the things you need to do in order to make your dream come true and do it, don’t just think about it, make a move and do it. You are immensely endowed with great potential, act to realize yours.

What’s your dream?

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$1 Million for the Next Biggest Venture

I have started working on a new venture, poised to be the Next Best and Biggest in the world; and I am putting up $1 million of my own money in this venture. But to kick it off, I just need to find a reliable, hardworking, determined, and very trustworthy individual to join me as my partner. My business plan calls for a 50/50 as long as you, as my partner, know the business and are willing to do everything it takes, to make this venture a great success.

This is an exciting venture in the farming sector. It’s to be one of its kind in the world; to be only focused on breeding Mules. What’s a mule, you asked yourself? A mule is a cross-breed between a donkey stallion (called a jack) and a horse mare. I have already identified where we can procure/acquire/buy our initial stock of mules; both males and females, starting out with  10,000 female mules and 500 male mules, and based on my projections, we should have produced over 500,000 Mules from just these 10,000 within 5 years.

The meat from Mules is considered a delicacy in France and in some other countries, but our primary target market to sell our mules’ meat is France. I have not yet identified the location to set up this farm, but you, as my new partner, the first thing I’d like for you to do is to scour out some locations and identify the best location to set up our Mule farm, and then baaang, we have our new venture set up. We, as partners, don’t have to actually run the business, we will hire and appoint experienced managers to run the operations, and we just have to go by the farm at least once or twice a week to check out the operation.

This venture is ready to go, so come on, jump on board. No capital contribution is needed from you, as a partner; as long as you have a high school diploma and that you must love animals and can at least ride a horse, that’s the requirements to become my partner in this venture.

And since you’ve read this far, I just want to thank you very much for your interest in my new venture and my April fool’s joke.

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Explosive Vanity License Plate Business

In the 90’s, a new phenomenon explosion of new business emerged that instantly made some of the most creative minded entrepreneurs millionaires, and that was the domain name registering, buying and re-selling in the after-marketplace.

Today, there’s a new explosion of emerging market in the Middle East, no, not oil, but the buying and re-selling of vanity license plates.

Read the article below and if you have money like that, go to Dubai and participate in this new lucrative emerging market.

Vanity plate sold for $14 million in UAE
Yahoo News
Sat Feb 16, 10:51 PM ET

A license plate with nothing but the number “1″ on it went for a record $14 million at a charity auction Saturday.

Saeed Khouri, a member of a wealthy Abu Dhabi family, wouldn’t say how many automobiles he owned or which of them might carry the record-breaking single-digit plate.

“I bought it because it’s the best number,” said Khouri, whose family made its fortune in real estate. “I bought it because I want to be the best in the world.”

The oil-rich UAE began auctioning off vanity license plates last May.

Ordinary automobile license plates issued to drivers here — and even most other vanity series plates — carry both Arabic and Western numerals and script, defining the issuing city and country.

Khouri’s plate, however, has only the Western numeral and no letters.

The record sale surpassed the $6.8 million that was paid for an Emirati license plate at an earlier auction with the Western number 5 on it — also without Arabic numerals or letters.

Proceeds from the auctions, which are held in a lavish hotel here, go to a rehabilitation center for victims of traffic accidents.

On Saturday, 90 license plates were auctioned off in all, raising a total of $24 million. The previous five such events raised more than $50 million.

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2008 Outlook: Fasten Your Seatbelts

In an article published on CNNMoney.com details the economic outlook for 2008.

In short, 2008 will not really be a good year, we may also face a recession sometimes in the middle of the year.

And, even though the Fed may cut more interest rate, it may not help much, as it all depends on the expectations and not so much on the actual Fed’s rate cut.

Most people tend to not like uncertainty. And since 2001, the economy has never really recovered. Consumers are still not sure what’s going to happen next.

Iran, North Korea, etc., and now Pakistan, all these still play a big role of uncertainty, and what’s happening elsewhere in the world certainly affects how we feel and spend here in America.

Most Americans have money, but they just don’t want to spend it because of some of these uncertainties, and even though the Fed may cut the rate, the consumer will still not borrow as expected.

Pakistan has 60 nuclear weapons, which no one really knows how secure these can be or some may end up in the hands of those who hate peace and advocate hate and violence.

This Christmas, has not really been like any other past Christmases, consumer spending and expectation were still low. Not because of weather or whatever, but simply because people are just not certain.

And ever since Bernanke took over, I just never had any trust or hope in him. Greenspan was more effective and he still is. When he spoke, everyone listened, and that too plays a role – the faithless and trust-less some have in Bernanke’s leadership.

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eBay Selling PayPal?

“The easiest way for eBay to reward its investors, they argued, would be to spin off PayPal, a move eBay management will never acknowledge considering — until the day a plan is announced,” (FORTUNE).

I understand that the marriage between eBay and PayPal is solid and well-suited for each other, but the pundits at FORTUNE seem to think that the time is ripe for eBay to divorce PayPal, and let the shareholders cash in big time.

They also noted that PayPal’s revenue from everywhere else is far greater than the one from eBay.

I can understand the suggestion for eBay to rid Skype to Google, since Google is preparing to launch gPhone soon, but the speculation of eBay to get rid of PayPal seems far too fetched.

But then again, there might be some other things going on at PayPal and eBay that most of us don’t know?

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Crazy (Rich) Entrepreneur

Julie Sloane of FORTUNE Small Business has made up a list of who she thinks is the craziest but rich entrepreneur. See her full list at CNNMoney.com.

Starting and growing a business from scratch is the hardest thing anyone can undertake, anywhere, it’s even harder than having and raising a child.

But in order to start and grow a business, you just have to hang in there. You need to go banana; become crazy; but you have to motivate yourself not to ever give up no matter what happens, you must have faith in yourself, believe in yourself, and trust all of yourself, and just stay focused on working hard, spending long sleepless nights, and finishing what’ve you started, because in the end, you will still be crazy but happy and filthy rich crazy.

Do you know of any entrepreneur anywhere; who’s more crazy but rich and happy?

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Honesty Affirms Goodness

By Dale Huffman
September 13, 2001
Dayton Daily News

In the midst of a nation beset by terrible news, a positive story emerges in the Miami Valley that should restore a bit of our faith in goodness.

“I think I needed something to hang on to,” Nancy Skiles said. “God has certainly answered my prayers.”

Skiles, 43, and her husband, Gary, own the family-run restaurant they call the Country Cafe at 2827 U.S. 35 between Eaton and West Alexandria. It features home cooking that Skiles does herself.

“We work very hard for what we have,” she said. “I work from 14 to 16 hours every day, and it is a struggle to keep our heads above water. But we have many faithful customers, and we enjoy seeing our friends on a regular basis.”

Last Sunday, Skiles and her husband decided to close a bit early. “We were empty and we seldom have time for ourselves, so we just closed up at 4 p.m. and decided to go out and relax and grab a bite to eat in Richmond,” she said.

When they left, her husband took the money from the day’s business with him in a bag. “We usually go right to the bank, but it was Sunday and was just pouring down rain, so we kept the money with us,” she said.

She said they stopped at a restaurant, and at an Amoco station to get gasoline. “When we got home, we realized the bag with the money was gone. It was missing. We had lost it,” she said. “I was terribly upset and cried. I knew that we needed the money to make sure we could pay our power and light bill. For a small business, it was a tremendous loss.”

The Skiles went back out in the heavy rain and retraced their route but found nothing.

After hours of agonizing over the loss, they opened the restaurant Monday, told customers what happened, and decided it was a lost cause.

“Then we got a call from this young man,” Skiles said. “He told us he had found this bag at the filling station and that it had a check made out to the Country Kitchen in it. He arranged to bring it back to us. I can’t tell you how happy and relieved I felt. It was simply wonderful.”

Simon Kapenda, 30, of Trotwood explained he was coming home from Richmond on Sunday evening after visiting friends and stopped to get gasoline. “It was pouring down rain, like a hurricane it seemed,” he said. “When I returned from paying for my gas, I looked down and saw a bag.”

He continued, “I picked it up and looked inside, and it was full of $20 bills. I took it with me.”

When he arrived home, he found the one check mixed in with the cash that was for $12 and made out to the Country Cafe. “When I went through phone books, there were several Country Cafes,” he said. “One in Columbus, one listed in Nevada, Ohio, and then the one in West Alexandria.”

He called the closest one, the restaurant owned by the Skiles and confirmed they had lost a money bag.

“The man brought it back,” Skiles said, her voice broken with emotion. “He told me he believes in God, and it was not his money, and he felt he had to return it. He came in, and I cried so hard I could hardly thank him.”

She said, “It was almost a thousand dollars in cash, and it would have been so easy for him to keep it. But he is one of the good people in the world. He is the most honest person I have ever met. With all the chaos in the nation, this restores my faith. It really does.”

He said, “I strongly believe in God. Although I don’t have much in this world, I am thankful for everything that God continues to do in my life.”

And he added, “My mother taught me well. Not to take anything that does not belong to me. And to respect, love and treat everyone . . . as I would want them to treat me back. That’s what I try to do.”

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This news article has been taken from the Dayton Daily News Archive, used by me without permission on my blog for not commercial purpose.

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