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Buy Shares of Tim Berry

May 7, 2011 General, Interesting, Life No comments

Today is your lucky day!  You can buy shares of Tim Berry.  Not only that, you can let others buy shares of you.

Social Media ExchangeEmpire Avenue is a new Social Media Exchange site where you can buy and sell your “friends” for virtual currency.  Yes, it is a social investment game.

I am extremely interested in this concept and how it relates to human psychology.  There are 2 factors at play.  First is the greed factor of wanting to amass large wealth by investing strategically.  Although it is virtual currency, it still fills a desire that some people have, and the risk is minimal (unless you waste way too much time there or you start purchasing extra shares with real money).

Next is the desire to be “desirable” by others.  Will your value go up?  How high?  Are your friends and followers in your social network really that interested in you?  If so, will they invest in you?  Or who are the best bets for you to invest  in among your friends…

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.  I see two possibilities with this site:

  1. Bottle rocket: extremely fast growth, followed by even faster crash
  2. Exponential, viral growth that is sustained and allows it to become a dotcom success story over the next 5 years.

For the latter to occur, they will need to add some other features  in order to keep people interested.  It may not be “social” enough to have the “stick” factor that other social behemoths have.  There are chat boxes and communities, but only time will tell if these will become valuable or just spam rooms.

I Need Your Help TODAY!

November 10, 2009 Family, General, Giving, Health and Wellness, Interesting, Life No comments

Today is a very important day for us and we are asking for your help and support.  Our charitable foundation, the Agel Cares Foundation, is having a one day campaign to raise money for our projects.

Agel Cares helps provide needed surgeries for children around the globe, including cleft palate repair, club foot repair, and eye surgeries that prevent blindness.  Without these surgeries (and without our help), most of these children become outcasts even in their own families.  However, thanks to our foundation, we can repair each of these problems for less than $40.

Did you get that? For less than $40 you can help provide a surgery to repair a cleft palate in a child.  100% of all donations goes directly to the cost of the surgeries (all logistical and management costs are covered by our company).  Any donation you can provide counts as it all adds up, so do not think that these small donations do not make a difference – they do!

Here is what we are asking you to do TODAY:

1)  Go to AgelCares.org
2)  On the Home page, click on the ‘Give’ button on the bottom right
3)  It requires that you enter the info of the person who referred you – here is what to enter:
Name:  Tim and Julie
City:  Denver
Event (drop down menu):  select ‘Ten Dollar Tuesday’
4)  Note this is a secure website (https) and your information is protected.
5)  Please donate any amount you feel comfortable with (everything helps).  We are asking that you donate $10 minimum, but don’t hesitate to do more.
6)  Please consider forwarding this email to everyone on your list so that we can make this an amazing day!

We appreciate your help.  This cause is very important to us and we need all of the help we can get.

Sincerely,

Tim Berry and Julie Mirr
www.WorldGel.com

p.s.  Also if you are interested in learning more about our business and how it can help you, please let us know.  We are currently doing business in 58 countries and we are always looking for new partners.

Summer in Telluride Colorado

July 15, 2009 Family, General, Life, Travel 2 comments
Telluride Summer

Telluride Summer

Since our Mexico vacation was cancelled due to the Swine Flu outbreak, we decided to do a family vacation roadtrip through Colorado and Utah.

We started by driving to Glenwood Springs, CO and staying in a cabin along the river in Glenwood Canyon.  We did some mountain biking along the river trail and also hiked the “most hiked trail in Colorado” to Hanging Lake.  This was a beautiful lake on the side of a mountain.  The hike was just over a mile to the lake, but the trail was steep with an average grade of 33%!!!

Next we drove to Ouray and stayed in a hotel along the river.  Ouray is known as “America’s Little Switzerland.”  This is an amazing place known for some of the world’s best ice climbing and jeep trails.

From Ouray, we drove around the mountain to Telluride, my favorite Colorado mountain town (and where I will probably end up once the kids are grown).  We stayed at the base of the gondola in a hotel that normally costs about $1200 per night in ski season for only $129 per night.  The gondola connects Telluride to Mountain Village by crossing over the top of the ski mountain – see the picture above from the top of the Gondola.  We just relaxed, ate good food, and enjoyed the laid back town of Telluride.

Finally, we headed west to Moab, Utah.  We had no idea how the kids would like the desert, but they loved it.  In fact, we stayed an extra 3 days.  The best part was that the kids conquered Slick Rock, the world famous mountain bike trail.  It is basically a solid world of exposed rock along a 12 mile trail.  Before  we left town, the kids had to get in one last ride.  Debra and I were shocked how great they did.

Family road trips are great and this one was one of our favorites so far.

Top 10 Lifestyle Questions

June 23, 2009 General, Interesting, Life No comments
Lifestyle Freedom

Lifestyle Freedom

You guys know I am a fan of lists, so here are my latest internet research results.  These are the top 10 questions asked online about lifestyle in the search engines over the past year.

  1. How to maintain a healthy lifestyle
  2. How to live a healthy lifestyle
  3. Why is a healthy lifestyle important
  4. How income affects lifestyle
  5. What are some healthy lifestyle habits
  6. Could you outline what a balance lifestyle is
  7. Why is a healthy lifestyle important for youth
  8. How is lifestyle lift done
  9. What are lifestyle factors
  10. What is the lifestyle lift

So there you have it, the top 10 most asked questions about lifestyle on the internet in the past year.  If you are curious about what a “lifestyle lift” is then check out these Lifestyle Lift reviews.

If you have not created your own lifestyle by design yet, I recommend you start today.  My recommendation for newbies is to grab a copy of “The 4 Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss.  Also subscribe to his blog as it it one of my all-time favorites on the web.  Also don’t forget, my life work is devoted to helping people create a dream lifestyle, so don’t hesitate to ask:)

It’s Good to Be Back

June 22, 2009 General, Interesting, Life 2 comments

hackerFor all of you loyal followers, you will be happy to know that I am back.  Unfortunately, all of my past posts will not be back until they have been thoroughly cleaned & scrubbed of any corrupt files.

The short version of the story is that a very bored hacker found his or her way onto my server and into my blog account over the weekend.  Obviously this was an amateur or else they wouldn’t be wasting time on my personal blog.  Anyway, it’s all small stuff and doesn’t affect my life in any way.

Catch up with you soon…