In order to get your license to succeed, you must first get your license to fail from an accredited school of hard knocks. I used to look at my seemingly endless streams of failures, false starts, half successes and extrinsic accomplisments as ‘bad things’. I considered them all proof that I was unable to succeed and even that perhaps God…
Category: Business
How to Watermark Document with Ubuntu
This post includes a quick how-to tutorial and an entire kit in a .zip file to get you started right. To simply watermark your documents, all you need is my .pdf files in the kit and a couple of free apps from the Ubuntu Software Center. If you want to change the way I’ve laid it out, I’ve also included…
Free Customized Realtor Accounting Software Suite and Setup
If you are a realtor (real estate agent) in North America, this package that I put together for you might save you a bunch of time and money because it’s *totally free*. First, credit where credit is due: 1. The developers of the free and open GnuCash (www.gnucash.org). These folks have poured their time and money into making a great…
New Paragon MLS Website for Commercial Agents in Vancouver
A word from our sponsor: Looking for water with your own brand on it? CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS So you’re a commercial agent in Vancouver board and you can’t find the new paragon login link? Good news. I’ve saved it in this post for you! Note: if you are a residential agent, see this post. I was…
Does God Simply Bless Those Who Believe With Financial Blessings?
If we are faithful to ‘live a Christian life’, does God, in return, pour out His heavenly blessings on us? The answer is “it depends”. Depends on what, you ask? I’m glad you asked. It depends on two things: God’s will and our hearts and the two are directly connected. Today I was in my daily Bible Power Hour (I…
8 Secrets of Success – Wayne Out There Approved List
Well, here it is. A perfect summary of the secrets to success. I can tell you they are true because I have personally failed some of them, if not most of them, and as a result, go figure, I’m not wildly successful – yet. Awareness is a critical thing though. Ignorance is not bliss as much as we joke that…
Why Setup and How to Setup PGP Encryption on Your Email
Preface If you don’t have encryption on at least your email, you might as well send the information on a postcard for the world to see. If you don’t like the idea of the content of your email being put onto a postcard then you need to set up PGP as today’s best solution. Is it amazingly easy? No. Like…
Why Visa Points and Visa Dollars are Worthless
I just wanted to write a quick post about my experience with my Coast Capital Savings Visa Desjardins and the ‘visa bonus dollars’ program they have. First, as an FYI, if you do not pay $30/year annual fee you get .05% of purchases converted into bonus dollars instead of the whopping 1%… For the longest time we couldn’t figure out…
Is a House a Great Investment?
This is a SUPER video to demonstrate how you have to be very careful when you buy a home and talk about it as an ‘investment’. It may be one of the *worst* investments you could make. Please note that even though this video is excellent, it doesn’t talk about other very important factors like the fact that you have…
Why I’m Closing Down my Primerica Deferred Sales Charge (DSC) AGF Account
Last Update to Dialogue: 15-01-14 It seems this is turning into a dialogue which I will update as they come in. I will put the date of the most recent response at the top of the blog post. Below is my response to my Primerica sales rep when he asked why I was shutting down/transferring out my AGF DSC account. …