How to navigate the rough waters of Covid-19 storm. A COMPASS.

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

Just as I did 20 years ago, I'll start with money, it is the easiest thing to illustrate and today, something many will be needing as the crisis continues.

On the MASTER PICTOGIGM.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/87pumlziud...1life.jpg?dl=0

You will see the 5 ARENAS. These are also called lanes on a highway, or paths, or rings of a circus, whichever feels right for you...and they represent the five areas where we live out our lives. TheIy are:

Spiritual.
Mental.
Relationship.
Enviromental.
Financial.

You see these under CHOSEN (bottom middle). Your experiences, the daily events, are of two kinds. Random, as in accidents and illness and chosen as in you making a decision.

In the middle on the lifeline, we see your results are the outcomes of the choices you make.

The big thing most forget is, they have willingly SURRENDERED their choices if they are EMPLOYEES.

99% of employees ASK for the job, they say in effect, pick me, pick me not the other guy. Rarely we are recruited, but it does happen depending on your skills, but even then, if you accept the JOB you agree to give up many of your choices.

You are told where and when to work, (they control your enviroment).
You have agreed to a PAY (they control your finances {re the job})
You have rules and regulations to obey.
You may have a supervisor.

But as I said, many unhappy people have forgotten how and why they are in the "pickle" of a job...B E C A U S E... you asked to be there.

IF you don't like your job, it is time to give it to someone else. And that is often much easier said than done, eh?

Here is the financial PictoGrigm
https://www.dropbox.com/s/akyvxu6usm...picto.jpg?dl=0

This is the old, albeit, good enough, version. I am updating this to include some online things too.

But on this PictoGrigm of Finances, you see there are SOURCES of $ and
DISTRIBUTION of $

If you are an employee, getting a paycheck, then TAXES are automatically deducted (although, maybe not enough)...if self employed, Taxes SHOULD be the first point of distribution. Anyhow, we all know about TAXES. On this PicltoGrigm we see a list of the SOURCES.

At the top, first thing, is WORK. All of us understand work as most of us have jobs. Again, if you have a JOB, if you are an employee, you probably asked for and/or ACCEPTED THE JOB with all the restrictions which came with it.
Lets take a look at some other sources.

We see grants and loans. TODAY, during the Covid-19 Crisis, BILLIONS of dollars were gone in minutes as the SBA gave out loans. Another round is coming. Loans have to be paid back, GRANTS don't.

We see legacies, talents, winnings (as in lottery, contests, etc.), ownership, actually, a decent list of possible SOURCES OF INCOME.

On the PictoGrigm you see the X where you are today, and then the "pit of life" is ahead of you. Your future could be one of abundance or accumulation OR it could be one scarcity and frustration.

Your future OUTCOMES, will be determined by the control over the CHOICES you make today.

That pretty much sums up the GJA-SQ1 in general. They are TOOLS which help you to make the

CHOICES,
which will lead you to the

OUTCOMES

you CHOOSE.

So, if you today, be it because of your business or your job, if you are feeling financial stress, then you have to make decisions about your future and maybe have to make some adjustments too.

We all hope for a quick resolution to the C-19 Crisis, and a return to normalcy...but it should serve as a wake up call to anyone who was sailing along and suddenly, in a matter of a month or two, have found themselves dead in the water with finances looming large overhead.

NOW, be glad to answer any questions you may have about this FINANCIAL PICTOGRIGM or about the GJA-SQ1 in general.

They are TOOLS, how you use them is entirely up to you.

Gordon Jay Alexander

Hi Gordon,

It was almost 20 years ago that I came across the SQ1 Workshops...

I was living in Boston at the time. We had some online correspondence...

And it came in the mail.

Back then, it was the drawings... And a cassette tape (if I remember right).

I remember popping the cassette tape in the tape deck, and going through the drawings, under your guiding voice...

Drawing my own little stick figures, with my own past and future...

What an amazing experience!

An incredible thing that makes it different from virtually everything else is, each person creates their own tailor made little drawing... Reflecting exactly their own past, their own skills, and envisioning their own future...

It's not just a vision they're "copying" from someone else...

However, having said that...

If you were starting out today - with the skills you have - in the middle of Covid-19... What would YOU do?

Best wishes,

Dien

[GordonJ]

Cassettes??? What are those? HA!!

I used to send out scores of cassettes a day, a small steady trickle of income, then on to CD, DVD...anyhow, to answer your question.

I would be the oil. Fasten in, could be a long ride.

The world's economic machine is grinding to a halt, some sectors getting rusty after only weeks. As in my predictions, from here on, the next month will be interesting, if not volatile.

But the machine will get going, and like machines do, they use OIL. Which is a PictoGrimatic code for you and other toll position aficionados referring to the almost 60 years of the ZOOM SPOUT oil being sold, maybe as many as 200 million units.

So, my answer, OIL, actually has several meanings, a depth, like all the SQ1 PictoGrigms, I think of them as "magic pictures" or sterograms.

Oil in a can, sitting on millions of shelves, being used up, and re purchased, over and over and over again my friend.

I would, TODAY, knowing what I know, begin my THINKING with a very clear view from the rooftop looking toward one of the many toll positions.

I like the smaller TURNSTILE take, like at a stadium, where ticket holders or those paying on the spot, go through a turnstile. If you want access, you PAY.

Going down the ladder, from step off rung to the bottom, I would need to see the DEMAND. A turnstile where LeBron plays is always having higher numbers than where Le-Don plays.

As long as there are moving parts, especially metal ones, there will be a DEMAND for oil. The lubricating kind.

The world economy, the USA economy, the Ohio economy, the Cuyahoga Falls economy are all going to need some grease, some oil to get the machine moving faster.

When looking out from the top, the view from the rooftop, during the assessment phase, I want to see those landmarks. A metaphor for Evergreen, always a DEMAND product or service, like FOOD, we aren't going to stop eating anytime soon {but maybe Soylent Green is closer than we imagine, he he).

So what I would do is use time, AND instead of seeing everything on Netflix, to be shopping around for nearly expired Copyrights, like how recently Ozzie and Harriet TV shows and radio programs have entered Public Domain waters.

Sooooo, I would want to create or ACQUIRE a strong toll situation, probably via Intellectual Property, but, since we did our time with Harvey, to be sure to get control of all the verticals involved, eh? And build a great wall of protection around them.

Much talk of FUTURES today, not the future, but especially OIL and other commodities, like corn, another source of OIL, the most sold cooking oil (back to food).

What I would do (am doing) is trying to secure some future stability for my kids, I'm OK, from here on out, but this crisis really is a tepid dry run of what the future could hold, and so to help out those yet to come, I'd want a
HANDS OFF,

ABSENTEE owned, T U R N S T I L E biz, where there is high demand.

I'll continue, but I'll give you time to think about it, and for all the forum to put on their thinking caps and ponder what the NEEDS and wants of tomorrow will be...and ask you all...what would you do...

knowing what you know today,
starting from scratch with little to no out of pocket expenditure,

to build a sustainable, mostly hands off, decent cash flow business?

I'll continue after lunch, if I don't fall asleep, I do need my 20 hours of sleep a day these days.

Gordon

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Gordon,

It was almost 20 years ago that I came across the SQ1 Workshops...

I was living in Boston at the time. We had some online correspondence...

And it came in the mail.

Back then, it was the drawings... And a cassette tape (if I remember right).

I remember popping the cassette tape in the tape deck, and going through the drawings, under your guiding voice...

Drawing my own little stick figures, with my own past and future...

What an amazing experience!

An incredible thing that makes it different from virtually everything else is, each person creates their own tailor made little drawing... Reflecting exactly their own past, their own skills, and envisioning their own future...

It's not just a vision they're "copying" from someone else...

However, having said that...

If you were starting out today - with the skills you have - in the middle of Covid-19... What would YOU do?

Best wishes,

Dien

Yup.....I've spent my whole life "Looking for Opportunities" and not be dependent on a "JOB" or an "Employer". Ever since my first job, after a degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern Univ, General Electric hired me and 2 wks into the "JOB" a secretary at an office luncheon tells me...."Hey Don! Do you know you replaced a man who was fired after 29 1/2 yrs?

I checked and....she was right so....I went home and told me wife and she asked; "So...what are YOU going to do?"

I told her I was going to start my own biz....and 3 mos later I see an ad in the Wall Street Journal for someone to become a Dealer for a New Type of Home Alarm System.

I call the Co....get the details and become a Dealer for the Northern Suburbs of Chicago, give my 2 week notice to GE.... and start up a biz from scratch (Securitronics Corp....Security Thru Electronics)

And....15 yrs later, with 17 employees and a super successful biz....I sell it and move to Aspen, Co and start an Advertising Biz (Advantage Marketing) which I still have today.....and about 5yrs ago I got a domain name (Midas Reports dot com).....where I displayed 50 of my successful biz programs.

However....I let it lapse about a 2years ago BUT....with the present day conditions of businesses needing help with their biz AND....millions of people out of a "JOB"....I think I will re-ignite it.

Also.....the shutdown has caused my "Entroopreeners" brain to look for "opportunities" and 2 I've come up with has started to show ...success.

1) Helping FSBOs ("For Sale By Owner") Home Sellers to sell their homes by making "Video Tours" of their properties AND....posting the Videos on YouTube .....ranking for the ADDRESS....plus....offering a Unique Yard Sign that tells House Hunters to use their Phones to SEE my Video Tour of the property they're looking at....(go to YouTube and type in "732 Callahan Dr Roseburg, OR"....and see the FIRST Video that comes up!

2) People are still being injured .....car accidents or otherwise....and in need of a "Personal Injury Lawyer".....so....I put up a website that offers a FREE Report ....."7 Things You Should Know Before Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer!" I got this website on the first page of G for certain Keywords and it has been getting an average of 5 Unique Downloads a Day....good enough for ONE Law Firm to want to PAY me for the Names & Emails.

Thus....their are LOTS of ways....one can earn money nowadays WITHOUT having to spend much moolah.

Don Alm......

2 Entroopreneers in Maui....Tom & Nick.....knowing that restaurants are having a rough time during the "Shutdown"......set up a website called "We Deliver Maui" and offered FREE Listings to any restaurant....and now have MANY restaurants listed for Take-Out and/or Delivery.....and....even though there Listing is Free.....they are getting MUCH response, from restaurant owners, to do other things for them.

So.....just another idea of doing something that can Help.....then....having those helped....ask for other services.....because Tom & Nick NOW....have gained the TRUST of many restaurant owners.

Yup.....we WILL see more things like this AND.....against the wishes of some in our society.....we WILL....GET BACK TO NORMAL.....LIKE IT WAS! THAT is WHO Americans are!

Don Alm

[GordonJ]

These two, PLUS the restaurant DAILY SPECIAL site you are setting up will keep you plenty busy, for sure. I see the FSBO video is 5 years old, any from the last couple of months?

There are lots of IDEAS on how to make money, I'd prefer to see something actually working TODAY, during the crisis. I did find several things in Dien's new report for his newsletter, things that are actually working, and have the documentation behind them too.

I love ideas. I just prefer reality.

Gordon

And, do you have any current data on the law firms?

1) Helping FSBOs ("For Sale By Owner") Home Sellers to sell their homes by making "Video Tours" of their properties AND....posting the Videos on YouTube .....ranking for the ADDRESS....plus....offering a Unique Yard Sign that tells House Hunters to use their Phones to SEE my Video Tour of the property they're looking at....(go to YouTube and type in "732 Callahan Dr Roseburg, OR"....and see the FIRST Video that comes up!

2) People are still being injured .....car accidents or otherwise....and in need of a "Personal Injury Lawyer".....so....I put up a website that offers a FREE Report ....."7 Things You Should Know Before Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer!" I got this website on the first page of G for certain Keywords and it has been getting an average of 5 Unique Downloads a Day....good enough for ONE Law Firm to want to PAY me for the Names & Emails.

Thus....their are LOTS of ways....one can earn money nowadays WITHOUT having to spend much moolah.

Don Alm......

Ya Gordon....I am NOT "selling" anything...just offering "possibilities" for making money during this "shutdown".

The 1st program...you are right....I did this 5 yrs ago and have RE-activated it for one of my sons (who got "laid off" recently) and again....I am not selling anything.

People who want to save the 6% will try to sell their homes themselves (Known as FSBOs)...so....I looked at Zillow and other sites where FSBOs show their properties for sale and....we either Phone or Postcard them...offering to turn their photos into Video Tours with background music then....put the Video up on YouTube ranked for the Address of the property.

This...along with 2 Yard Signs make up a "FSBO package" which FSBOs are willing to pay for. And....it worked 5 yrs ago AND...is working Today!

And....re: the "Lawyer" thingee....a few yrs ago....I purchased 24 Websites from Gene Pimental. These ready to Upload websites are pretty awesome in that there's a female in a video telling the benefits of a Free Report that's offered on the site. When "interested" people go to get the FREE Report...we get their Names & Emails and.....sell them to the particular Niche biz.

There are 24 Niches....24 different biznesses....Lawyers being just one of the 24.

Again.....I didn't put this up to "sell" anything.....or "brag".....here.....it's what I've done...ALL my life.....find something people will pay for and Sell it to "Them"........just showing the "possibilities"!

Don Alm.....loong time Entroopreneer

Also.....I forgot to mention that we also put the Video (with a Full Color Thumbnail) on a website showing local properties for sale....which is also included in our "Package"

Don Alm

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by dalm

Also.....I forgot to mention that we also put the Video (with a Full Color Thumbnail) on a website showing local properties for sale....which is also included in our "Package"

Don Alm

to sell me something.

We've all noticed our email swelling with offers to make money during the C-19 crisis. I would/will ask each and everyone of them to show me something from the last 2 months, best if it worked since Friday the 13th of March.

I am going to say, so far, all I've seen from all of the old familiar faces, including really well known gurus is ... what they have DONE, not what they are doing, TODAY, RIGHT NOW.

Dien Rice has a new report, and in it, he has businesses which are working today, during the crisis, and some exploding because of the crisis.

To anyone who wants to publish your ideas here, feel free to do it, but what we want to know is, what is working NOW, fair enough?

Gordon

1) Since March 17, 2020....St Patty's Day....MY Birthday....my son and I have DONE Video Tour packages for 16 FSBOs!

2) Since Jan 1, 2020....I have collected over 500 Names & Emails of people wanting my Free Report on "7 Things You MUST KNOW before Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney!"

If you will give me YOUR Email Address...I will send you the PROOF from my Web Server.

Again.....both of these projects are as recent as TODAY....April 23, 2020. And, I have NO interest in "Selling or Showing" how to do this!....It is what I've found to be POSSIBLE....in TODAY'S MARKET!

Don Alm.....re-activating "old" projects

[GordonJ]

Thanks Don,

You have shown us that the Parade Of Life is still marching along, and two of the Evergreen Markets (FZBO and Personal Injury) are spending money.

Gaining clients, lead gen, getting more out of a customer, all of this right up your alley.

We appreciate you letting us know these are CURRENT activities, just what the Dr. ordered. Keep up your great work.

Gordon

Originally Posted by dalm

1) Since March 17, 2020....St Patty's Day....MY Birthday....my son and I have DONE Video Tour packages for 16 FSBOs!

2) Since Jan 1, 2020....I have collected over 500 Names & Emails of people wanting my Free Report on "7 Things You MUST KNOW before Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney!"

If you will give me YOUR Email Address...I will send you the PROOF from my Web Server.

Again.....both of these projects are as recent as TODAY....April 23, 2020. And, I have NO interest in "Selling or Showing" how to do this!....It is what I've found to be POSSIBLE....in TODAY'S MARKET!

Don Alm.....re-activating "old" projects