Moved To A New Site

My website is finally up and all new post will be on it, check it out! A lot of helpful things that I have talked about will be on there. Here is the link   talesofwork.com please come and check it out!

How To Get a Girlfriend

I’m guessing when I look at my numbers to see how many people have looked at this blog post I’ll see a super spike in numbers, and I’m guessing it’s because of the title.

 I have to be honest, I just tricked you! (HA HA) This post is about why you would buy my book; I fooled you (sorry, but not really). I just want to give you a few reasons why you would want to buy my book and then it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth the $4.99.

1.       The price: $4.99 if you get one good idea from the book, it will make you a lot more then $4.99!

Do you have $5 bucks? I’m sure if you lifted up your couch cushions you would find it (so go and lift them up, get that $5 and buy the book do it NOW!). In all seriousness, if you buy my book, read it and can take away one good idea, I’ll personally guarantee that you’ll make up that $5 bucks and make a lot more than that!

2.       The motivation: at the very least it will make you think of where you’re at and what you’re doing about it!   

This book is filled with real life examples of what some of you are probably going through in your lives and with your work. I read a report that one third of Americans say they hate their jobs, I believe it. The question is: why then are they still there? Why are you still there? There are a number of reasons that I list in the book but I also bash those reasons and give you motivation to stop making excuses and move on to work that you love. Some of us have woken up and feel it’s our responsibility to share with you the beautifulness of getting on the path of your true calling!

3.       The length: it’s not a very long book, but who has time these days to read a long book?

This book will be a pretty quick read for you, but don’t be fooled. I know how busy life is with work, soccer practice, your friends group and everything else. So I wanted to pack a bunch of good material into a book that the busy person won’t tie up too much of their time trying to read. I know if I want to read a book and it looks too long then it’s probably going to sit for a while! So if you buy it and you have a busy life (we all do) then this won’t take a big time commitment from you!

4.       The support: some of us are starting to wake up and see that we are the only ones that can change things.

Every day you see another story in the news about how bad things are. Some of us have woken up and realize that the government is not going to be able to fix anything, they can’t (and if they tell you they can they’re lying to you!). You are the only one that has the power to change your life, and if we are going to fix this mess then a lot of us need to wake up and change our lives! If we start taking care of our money, what would that do for the economy? We throw it away on garbage and then expect the government to bail us out and that’s how we pile debt on top of debt. This book is part of the “wake yourself up” movement, so buy the book and support the movement!

5.       The truth: you know you need to move on but can’t face the truth!   

Do you wake up every day and cringe when you think about going to work that day? I know that there can be negative situations at any job, that’s not what I’m talking about. Are you at a job that better’s your life and the lives of others? What did you want to be when you were younger? Are you proud of what you’re doing now? Look, my book is not the magical answer, but it does show what someone like you has gone through to discover the path he was supposed to be on. This book will give you a few helpful tips for you to discover your own path. Even those of my friends that read this and are Christians, there is a danger in Christianity between confusing “being thankful” with indecision and procrastination. In Dan Miller’s book (48 Days To The Work You Love) he says that as Christians we sometimes fall into “sanctified ignorance” when we say “Lord show me the path” then we just sit there and do nothing. The Lord doesn’t call us to inaction, just sitting there waiting for “the sign”. If you’re at a job that affects your family time or Church time or things you should be doing for the Lord, that’s NOT what the Lord calls us to with our work!  

For all of us our work should fit into our lives, not our life into our work. If this is where you’re at then it’s time for a change. So start by buying my book, it’s not a magical answer but it will give you a few ideas to STOP MAKING EXCUSES AND MOVE TO WORK THAT FURTHERS YOUR LIFE!

Here are the links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Everyday-Workingman-Woman-ebook/dp/B005GXS35A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313352870&sr=8-1
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/80706

No More Excuses

“The beauty of free will is that you have the power to change your own life!” Unknown

Have you been enjoying your summer so far? I know I have, even though the weather has been unbearable hot at times. For us that live in Wisconsin, we have to enjoy every minute regardless of the heat because it could snow tomorrow! As summer is coming to a close, those of us who have children are thinking about our kids going back to school. For some parents, that might mean an empty house (you’re smiling right now, aren’t you?). Here’s the question that I want you to think about:

What are you going to do with your extra time?

 A couple of days ago the central air went out in our home, and I have to admit, I whined like a little baby. The repair guy came and fixed the mother board, he turned it on and it still didn’t work. Upon closer inspection he found the problem was the motor and he didn’t have a replacement in his truck. The only thing he could do was to take it and bring it back the next evening.  During the two days without central air the temperature in our house was 88 degrees and I was pretty much an invalid (I acted like one). I know I can admit to you guys that all I did was sleep most of this time. My wife got pretty frustrated with me (she had every right) and asked me to get up and help out. My response was I couldn’t help because of the heat, I told her I just couldn’t handle it (I know what you’re thinking, what a little baby. You’re right, I was).

I tell you this story to illustrate two things for you to think about:

  1. There are no valid excuses you can make anymore, since you have the power to change your circumstances.

I used the heat as an excuses but the truth was, I still could have gotten things down. Have you ever done this in your life? (Be honest!) I had the power to ignore the heat and get on with my life; you have the power to ignore whatever is holding you back in your life from accomplishing your goals.

 -When you use excuses and don’t make progress on your goals, you lose that time and time is the one thing that you can’t get back. As I said in the beginning of this post, some parents will have a lot of extra time with their kids going back to school. 

Have you wasted time by making excuses?

I think we are all guilty of this. For those couple of days, I didn’t make any progress on some things I had to do to get my book out. The result of that wasted time could be less sells, you never know the consequences. Those less sells could mean me staying longer in a job I hate and it would be my fault!

How has making excuses affected your life?

   2. Why haven’t you made any progress leaving that job that you hate?

While the repair guy was working I detected an accent, so I decided to investigate. The repairman was from Nigeria, Africa and had come to this country 16 years ago. In Africa he was an engineer with a higher paying job. However, when he came to the United States, his degrees and experience weren’t accepted. He worked lower paying jobs in hopes of these companies seeing his skills and eventually promoting him. You know what happened right? They loved his work but loved the fact that they had a great worker that they could pay less. After years of this he had enough and decided to go into business for himself, and the rest is history.

Things started off slow but he was able to get a few jobs, and if you remember, he does good work. Word of mouth did all his marketing for him and now he has more work then he can handle. While he was working at our house, his phone was ringing off the hook. That’s what happens when you do good work as a business.

It’s a great and inspirational story, and now the question is: how is your story coming together? He was in several work situations that weren’t right for him so he decided that he had the power to change those situations. Are you at a job you hate? Well guess what, you can change that!

 For too long we have settled for jobs we hate and have made every excuse under the sun, it has to end now. This is exactly what I talk about in my book: Tales of the Everyday Workingman and Woman.

The book will be out August 12 on all the ebook sites and on my website: talesofwork.com. The site will be up within the next week, so look out for it!  If you want to get real life inspiration from someone like you, then buy my book.