Take a trip in a hot air ballon


atg-airships.com keyword stats



Most current MSN search phrases:

types of ties Hot Air Balloon Coloring Pages
Happy50th Birthday clip art balloons
arnie's party supplier in houston texas arnies in houston texas
free dragonfly drawing coloring pages baloon clip art
pictures of vampire castles hot air balloon invitations
wedding ballons decorating precious moments coloring
best mermaid tattoo ever hot air balloon coloring picture
coloring page hot air balloon Arnies Warehouse Store Houston
Arnies Party Warehouse arnie's warehouse
tie clip art design basics with balloons
september Pictures Of Balloons
how to make a hotair ballone for clip art downloads
advantages of a true giant arnies party supplies houston texas
arnie's party supplies houston texas free get well clip art
precious moments coloring pages presious moments coloring pages
Hot Air Balloon Coloring Page Arnies Warehouse Houston Texas
Arnie's Party Warehouse Arnie's Party Supply Stores
Pictures Of graveyard cakes New Mexico Baloon Races
Arnie's Party Supplies tattoo
Free Precious Moments Pictures birthday balloon pictures
Arnie's Warehouse arnie's sponebob
Pictures Birthday Balloons making a baloon arch
arnie's party supplies in houston Arnie's wholesale
types of cymbals balloon clip art
Free Retirement Clip Art tinkerbell coloring pics
Arnies Party Supply Houston Texas backyardigans ribbon
Free clip art for birthdays arnies party supply in houston
arnie's party supply in houston bristol
lacede balloon festivall precious moment pictures
precious moment clipart party
BALLOON CLIP  

I'd Rather Fail Big than Live Small

I just got back from driving through therock star on the planet.
hill country and listening to DanWhat's this got to do with internet
Kennedy interview Gene Landrum. As amarketing, writing e-books, and running
"gold" member of Dan Kennedy's mentoringan international online business?
service, I get CDs every few weeks ofEVERYTHING!!!
Dan, or his partner Bill Glazer,I think the most valuable benefit of my
interviewing a mega-successfulinternet marketing lifestyle is the
entrepreneur.people I get to hang out with. After
Lundrum gave Dan a delightful interviewyears of being a loner, I've got a "peer
full of amazing stories taken from hisgroup!"
books. And he made me feel like II get to hang out with Joe Vitale, who
belonged to a group, which is a feelingbroke all the rules in the book
I don't get much- even when I'm hangingpublishing business, and went to number
out with musicians. You'd be amazed atone twice on the national best-seller
how many artists and musicians are justcharts- while the authors who played by
sitting around waiting to be discoveredthe rules sat around and complained.
while they continue to do the same thingI get to hang out with Cindy Cashman,
all the other musicians and artists arewho made a million bucks by "writing"
doing.and promoting a blank book with a great
Losers, losing by following losers. Nottitle.
much of a plan, but it's pretty popular.I get to hang out with Craig Perrine,
Until I discovered the internetwho has achieved amazing success by
marketing world, I felt like the onlybreaking the rules in the internet
square peg in a world of round holes.list-building business.
Listening to Dan's interviews makes meAnd there are many others- the internet
realize that I'm actually in goodmarketing is world populated with wild,
company- I'm a member of a group ofintelligent, brave, and interesting
entrepreneurs who follow Sam Walton'speople.
Rule #1.These are the mavericks- the square
Do you know Sam's "Rule #1?" He used itpegs- I'm honored to know them.
to build the most successful retailAll my life, I've heard "get a REAL
business in history.job!"
Do you want to know the secret that heThe miserable, gray people- the ones
used to make WalMart unstoppable?trapped in the job they hate (which,
Keep reading.according to Dan Kennedy's research, is
His "rule #1" has been my credo all myat least 2/3 of the population) wanted
life, and I've caught a great deal ofme to join them in their misery.
shit for it- it turns out that Ayn Rand,Parents. Teachers. Unsuccessful
Thomas Edison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henrymusicians. Bosses (musicians have lots
Ford, H. Ross Perot, Donald Trump,of bosses- because we keep a day-job
Richard Branson, and most of my otherjust long enough to book gigs, then we
heroes had the same credo.move on).
Want to hear a story?Television- Trump and Branson have TV
Due to a bizarre and surreal series ofshows, and that's a good start... but
circumstances, I found myself living thethey're about hiring employees! The
life of a high-school drop-out streetwinners get a JOB!
hippie in 1973. I'd tell you the story,You can bet your momma's egg money that
but you wouldn't believe me.Donald Trump doesn't want a job.
Kafka's an amateur compared to EastRichard Branson doesn't want a job.
Texas wingnuts- and I got on the wrongThey didn't get where they are by
side of a town full of East Texasworking for someone else.
wingnuts and had to quit high-school atI think they should award prize money to
17.the contestant that tells Donald Trump
My best option at the time was to moveto take a flying f**k at the moon, and
in with a house full of hippie musiciansstarts his own business.
in the Montrose area of Houston. It wasThe education factories- imagine what
shelter, and we usually could scroungewould happen if schools taught
food- Anderson Fair, a spaghettientrepreneurship instead of
restaurant that featured folk music,wage-slavery? Our whole education
would feed us in return for a few hourssystem sucks lemons because it's based
of music, but only the zucchinion a 19th century model, and designed to
spaghetti.turn out workers- for jobs that haven't
You can live on zucchini spaghetti ifbeen available in decades! Factories
you have to.that turn out waves of miserable, gray
We played strip clubs and gay bars. Wepeople- suffering through the week and
played for peanuts- literally.living for the weekend.
After a year or so of this, on a hot andWhat would happen if they taught people
humid night, I accidentally drank ahow to think, instead?
quart of mysterious tea, which caused meFamily- here's the big one. Anytime my
to take a psychic time-out. When I camefamily gets together, I get to hear
back from visiting the red queen, Iabout how I'm the one who's always
realized I needed to go to college."coloring outside the lines" from one of
So, I walked, in the early morningmy relatives- he thinks he's insulting
hours, through the darkest, mostme!
dangerous part of Houston, to the busThat's the thing I'm proudest of, and
station and took the bus home. I walkedthe key to my success. Nobody ever
into the house as my father was drinkingaccomplished anything important, or
his morning coffee and announced that Igrand, or OUTRAGEOUS by coloring inside
was ready to go to college.the lines.
Skeptical, he suggested I get a job.Following the rules is for losers.
After a year or so of manual labor, IDid you notice the list of heroes I put
finally made my way to North Texasat the top of this article? They have a
University- on the strength of a goodlot of things in common:
SAT score and a better audition with the1. They didn't wait for permission to
piano faculty.be great- they just went ahead and did
After a year of cutting down trees, Iit.
was probably the "buffest" piano major2. They didn't worry about credentials
on the campus. While I was there, Ior diplomas. Richard Branson has an
designed and -with the help of a physicseighth grade education. Frank Lloyd
major buddy of mine- created the firstWright had about three months of formal
laser light show in the southwest. Weschooling. All educated successful
had a running engagement at thepeople, regardless of how much
Fort-Worth Museum of Science and"schooling" they have, are
History.self-educated. You can't trust the
After three years at NTSU, I sent aneducators to educate you.
audition tape to the University of3. They were OUTRAGEOUS! Branson and
Texas, and got accepted in theirhis hot-air balloons, and now space
graduate composition program.flights. Thomas Edison announcing the
I still hadn't gotten my high-schoollight bulb long before he actually had
diploma, technically, I was acreated one. Everybody on that list
high-school drop-out going to gradlistened to sage advice from the gray
school.people and called bullshit on it. Then
I loved college. I ended up with musicthey went on to create a better world.
and English minors, but that only tells4. They made their own rules. And then
part of the story. I was a photographybroke them.
major, studying under Gary Winnogrand.5. They had grand failures, followed by
I studied journalism. I took artgrand successes.
classes. I was in heaven. My degreeI tell my clients at the Your Portable
plan was to not worry about getting aEmpire University, and I'll tell you-
degree. I was getting an education.there ain't no such thing as failure.
After a few years, I got a glimpse ofIt's all data. To succeed BIG you may
the naked under-belly of the modernhave to fail big. It's just a stretch
classical music world and didn't likeof highway- you may have to go through
what I saw. A showdown with a famoussome bad road to get where you're going.
composer during a seminar was the finalThe odds that we will be as successful
straw.as Thomas Edison or Richard Branson are
He accused me of prostituting my art bysmall, even if we try... but if we don't
making money writing commercials. Whattry, there's no chance at all.
a crock! This was the same guy whoI'd rather fail big than live small,
financed his studio by doingwouldn't you? Especially knowing that
sound-effects for shampoo commercials."failing big" is just a stop on the way
And some of the other ways heto "living large."
prostituted didn't have anything to doAnd what was Sam's "Rule #1?"
with his art.Here it is: "Break the rules."
I bailed on college, and joined a rock***************************************
band.************ Pat O'Bryan is the CEO of
Wouldn't you?Practical Metaphysics, Inc., Director of
A short time later, we were touring withthe Milagro Research Institute, an award
Cheap Trick, Heart, ZZ Top, The Climaxwinning songwriter, recording artist,
Blues Band- it was a wonderful,visual artist, author, video producer
exhausting, amazing experience.and internet marketer. He is the host
At this point in my life, I was probablyand promoter of the "Your Portable
the best educated high-school dropoutEmpire" Un-Seminars.



1 A B C D 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117