Why Mr. Olandres got his account back and me as a threat to paypal and thus screwing me is that I do not know. Maybe there is benefit for someone being well known.

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Newton didn’t solve physics because he wants to be remembered to be the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He discovered and solved physics because he wants to beat Hooke. Einstein didn’t discovered the theory of relativity and quantum theory just because he wants US to nuke Japan and win the world war. He discovered it because he thinks it makes him closer to nature. Great men are self serving individuals who wants to find the truth within themselves. They didn’t do things in which to please their parents, their brothers or their spouse. Among others, they think and act alone.

Our country have a lot of individuals that are impatient to grow up and when they do, they’ll serve their parents and families. The reason I don’t watch TV is because of this. A 3 hour orgy of self sacrifice.

Do not try hard
Let it simply flow. Jimmy Hendrix did not play guitar. He simply let his feelings flow unabated. Muhammad Ali used to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. (Do not go into boxing though!)

Do not go into any competition
Quality has no competition. Only mediocrity has competition. If you do what you do at the highest quality you have no competition. Quality creates a moat around yourself.

Do not market
Create your own demand. People are always on the lookout for the good. People seek out winners. Therefore be a winner all the time.

Do not read
Fire your imagination and creativity. Read not what is written but read into the writer’s mind. It is Einstein, one of the greatest minds of our times, who said that imagination is better than knowledge.

Do not run after money
Do not run after money. You will find that money runs faster than you do. Bring total mindfulness to whatever you are doing. Hit Nirvana. Money will feel ignored. It will stop running and fall back on you head over heels. In a heap.

Do not run after success
Carry on doing what you like doing without unduly bothering about success or failure. Success is also like charm. If you think you have it surely it will elude you.

Do not take advice
Advice is what others did not take but wish to give. Your mind is your best guide. Certainly keep your eyes and ears open. Absorb everything but add your own pinch of salt. Filter out what does not suit you.

You know what? Its the craziest thing I have ever think of… Think about it, if I am at the beach enjoying the sun, the water, the beautiful ladies in their bikinis, I will still think about the work I do. I’m obsessed with it. I wouldn’t be happy sitting around.. Whether its in a beach or any place. When I go to parties, I always think of my business. I have been thinking that maybe happiness is when you have achieve the things you are aiming for 10 years ago. But I was wrong. Happiness is when you found something that you enjoy doing. Something that gives meaning to your life. Happiness is the process of “GETTING” not “HAVING”. And getting paid handsomely for a job well done.

Happiness is aiming for the moon, the impossible goal, yet you live each day to get there. It doesn’t matter if you’ll arrive at your goal or not as long as you’re happy with your journey.

Happiness comes from the joy of understanding. Knowledge and experience gives you a lot of happiness. Realizing that you’re smarter today than you are yesterday gives you the confidence to face reality and be open to possibilities. Knowing that you can always count on yourself when your back’s against the wall. Knowing that there are hundreds of great men that have faced greater challenges than you are facing now and they wrote it in a book. Always keep on reading, knowledge can solve anything.

What about family? Friends? Relationships? Though I don’t have a problem with these things, but happiness that is dependent on others is not true happiness.

As this year about to end, I know where I want to go. I know how to get there, I just need to do a lot of work. If everybody is in vacation, I will work. If they are working, I will work harder.

8 Secrets to success summed up in 3 minutes.
* PASSION
* WORK
* FOCUS
* PERSIST
* IDEAS
* GOOD
* PUSH
* SERVE

And there you go, months after months, you see new generations of newbie make money online bloggers claiming to teach you how to make $1,000.00 per month with adsense provided of course you do the work, even if his own adsense account only goes as far as $10 a month. But as the law of evolution and natural selection, these new spawn of make money online bloggers will soon wither away. After 2 to 3 months some of them will realize that making money online is not that easy and focused on their day job instead. After spending a lot of time reading the guru’s advice and buying the guru’s products, he concluded that its not the guru’s or his’ fault but the government, recession or the tsunami in Indonesia.

Others, maybe the 5% of these new blood will realize that money can be made online, only if he tries to do it himself, learn the craft himself, do the tests himself and stop listening to what gurus says. These new blood will shut down their make money online blogs to lie low and descend into the shadows, making money quietly without the noise of the make money online world. “The wise man keeps his own counsel” as our great philosophers might utter.

Building companies, hiring employees, without even featuring on any magazine, TVs or blogs, but they make the money. They are the one that sells you the xray vision cellphone ads you see everywhere. They are the one that says “you won a prize if you click here”. They are the one that pays facebook and turned it into a million dollar company. But you don’t know them.

It is human nature to follow what the majority is doing. It is hard not to. It is our survival instinct that is hard wired to our brains. After all, if you think differently from the crowd during our prehistoric days, you’re as good as dead. You won’t be able to survive out there alone.

This time, thinking differently can reward you greatly. Even millionaire traders and investors have a strategy called “Contrarian Strategy”. Where going against the crowd rewards you millions. Taking advantage of human nature to his own benefits. There are benefits of going with the crowd and going against the crowd. But if we’re going to compare both sides, going against the crowd has more pros. You get to discover yourself, how you react to pressure and situations and you get rewarded for your efforts. Nothing can be more satisfying. After all, everybody wants a little intellectual challenge. Following the crowd is easy… You don’t have to think.

For an intelligent affiliate marketer to start his business. He must first realize what kind of personality he has and what kind of returns he wants to have.

Defensive Affiliate Marketer

Focuses mostly on long term, passive income. Focuses on niche that are hard to penetrate but have a long and lasting traffic that are all year round. Defensive Affiliate Marketers try to utilize every strategy that will get him on top of major search engines. Every link building strategy known to man. He’s a cheap bastard that don’t want to pay for traffic so he works harder to get on top. Defensive Affiliate Marketers are the turtles in a turtle vs bunny race. They don’t make money for the first couple of years, but they are building their base for a better and more stable stream of income later on.

A newbie affiliate marketer may try to make money online using the defensive affiliate marketer’s strategy. Link building here, exchange links there, commenting here, stumbling there. But what separates a newbie from a real affiliate marketer is their attitude. The defensive affiliate marketer knows he’s going to make money online sooner or later so he’s not rushing everything. He knows that he’ll probably reap the rewards of his efforts 2 to 5 years from now. That kind of patience comes from long years of experience and confidence of affiliate marketing that he is willing to risk 2 to 5 years of effort knowing that he/she might not succeed. While the newbie affiliate marketer gave up 3 months after.

Aggressive Affiliate Marketer

Focuses on the short term, active income. The products and campaigns they promote require a lot of attention but gives great return. They may make money, thousands of dollars per day, but they may lose money, thousands of dollars per day as well. They utilize pay per click advertising to their advantage, facebook ads, pay per view ads and any kind of media where they can buy “eyeballs” or traffic.

Aggressive affiliate marketing requires a lot of strong will and heart because it is guaranteed to be stressful as you will lose money sooner or later. What’s important is you make profit even with the losses you take. The aggressive affiliate marketer spends money for advertising, lots of it, in return for high return in very short amount of time. They are the bunny in the turtle vs bunny race.

Variation

The defensive affiliate marketer, in search for a greater return may want to be aggressive at some point. Leveraging the money he earns from his stable websites into a more aggressive advertising. In this case, it is suggested that a defensive investor have 75% of his websites defensive and 25% of his websites aggressive. What I mean by that is, 75% of his websites should already be earning money in a stable way. Without any intervention. In other words, passive income. And devote 25% of his energy to aggressive sites. This way, he is in a safe position in case his venture to the aggressive promotion may not prove to be profitable.

The aggressive affiliate marketer may also want to be defensive. For the benefit of being safe and having a stable stream of income. It is suggested the other way around. Have 25% of your sites having stable income and devote 75% of your time making aggressive campaigns.

I didn’t know about this until I was searching for an affiliate program for an online bookstore that I’ve been using and they are with Google.

A lot of great stores to promote as well. Especially for the Lenten season.

In any field that you want to dedicate your life into, be it affiliate marketing, blogging or online business, there are people that seems to get ahead and succeed while others only whine that life isn’t fair.

Life isn’t all butterflies and rainbow, my dear sleeping beauty. What you do, defines you and being a loser or a winner is a way of life.

Here are some points to know if you’re a loser or a winner:

• Losers fail once and quit.  Winners fail a thousand times and eventually succeed.
• Losers look for success at the finish line.  Winners experience success along the way.
• Losers work to make money.  Winners work to make a difference.
• Losers buy things.  Winners build things.
• Losers see things they don’t understand and get discouraged.  Winners see things they don’t understand and get curious.
• Losers talk.  Winners communicate.
• Losers attempt to conquer the world in one shot. Winners add up all their small victories.
• Losers expect certain outcomes.  Winners prepare themselves for the unexpected.
• Losers seek respect.  Winners earn respect.
• Losers stare at the problem.  Winners look around for the solution.
• Losers review options.  Winners act on decisions.
• Losers are paid for their time (day job).  Winners are paid for their results (business owner).
• Losers let things happen.  Winners make things happen.
• Losers want to get ahead of others.  Winners help others get ahead too.
• Losers hangout with losers.  Winners hangout with winners who are more successful than they are.
• Losers follow other people’s definitions of success.  Winners define their own success.
• Losers escape fears.  Winners face fears.
• Losers waste their free time (watching TV).  Winners use their free time (learning or experiencing something new).
• Losers see the unknown as a risk.  Winners see constant familiarity as a risk.
• Losers live in the past.  Winners live life now based on lessons learned in the past.
• Losers label themselves as experts.  Winners know there is still much to learn.
• Losers over-sell.  Winners over-deliver.
• Losers frown.  Winners smile.
• Losers think winners are lucky.  Winners realize the harder they work the luckier they are.

This is not to criticize anyone who fail on the characteristics of losers. But maybe a wake up call to change your attitude. Share your thoughts on the comment section below.

The Media

Freedom of speech is a great right. But sometimes is a big obstacle when it comes to crucial situations. Broadcasting the strategy of the assaulting team live on TV only gives advantage to the hostage taker. Risking the life of the hostages. Broadcasting “surprise attack” live on TV doesn’t seem too convincing, even calling it a “surprise” attack.

Making the hostage taker feel agitated by having the media broadcast the arrest of his relatives is what triggers the barrage. I don’t think the media should be covering it in the first place. Or be so close to the scene in a way that its possible to know what’s happening around the bus.

Police

How many times have you ruined your reputation. From corrupt officers, torturing prisoners to failed hostage rescues. We don’t want to point out what is obvious. Be it lack of equipment, training or strategy, which basically encompasses all of the necessary skills for a successful hostage rescue. But you’re certainly lacking on the “courage” that’s suppose to be embeded on your badge. And even the aim to throw the tear gas in the window.

You tried to make your reputation good. You tried so hard and we can see that. Having exercise programs to cut of that beer belly. Bashing rallyists head with an arnis stick all sounds good to me. But the only way you can 1 up your reputation is in times like this. And you blew it every single time.

If you can’t do it, please have another department do it. On other countries, its their top 5% of the armed forces (military) who do the hostage rescue. Not the police. People who knows how to handle gun fights and not be afraid to get hit.

Men Behind the Scenes

In a hostage crisis, the men giving the command is important. It is crucial not to include politicians in the scene. Politicians only wants to make the public happy and will not be able to “make the call” if the going gets tough. I have never heard a politician make a tough decision to “kill” a grave threat such as a trigger happy maniac. It will be bad for their reputation as being a makaDiyos or makatao. The men behind the scenes should be an experienced military officer or experienced police officer that have a lot of experience in this situation. What the fuck are those politicians doing there?

Contrary to many’s opinion. I think its a good idea that the government didn’t intervene with the situation. And only handed support to the best they can. But! for me, Mr. President’s decision to wait that long after the first death was confirmed is not a good choice. The first sign of death should be enough to put the man down. The driver who escaped already confirmed it. He probably shit his pants trying to escape, do you think he’ll lie? Even if the numbers were wrong, just 1 death is enough to consider this man as a threat.

The Hostage Taker: Rolando Mendoza

He must be depressed to hostage a group of tourists just to get his job back. This only proved your point that you don’t deserve to be in the service. Your ideals or reason for fighting is not even comprehensible. Nor rational. I would understand if you demand that James Yap and Kris Aquino should get together but come on! Trying to kill 25 people and end up killing 8 people to get your job back?

But seriously, whatever your reason is, it doesn’t change the fact that you killed 8 people. I don’t think that there is any reason that could justify the killing of innocent civilians. Your life’s legacy of being one of the Philippines’ finest policemen is just a joke now. You really fucked up big time. You don’t deserve any respect nor pity nor condolences. Think of the kids that will have lifelong nightmares of you. Even your death is unfair for the family of the victims.

To the Hostages

The whole world knows we fucked up. I don’t think there is any word that we can say or should say. Our condolences. We understand prayers and sorry won’t bring the dead back. We’re just hoping that we can be forgiven.

To my Fellow Filipinos

Let us just shut our mouth and stop pointing fingers. We don’t need to state the obvious who and why we failed. The whole world knows. The world was watching. Can we just ask apology to our Chinese brothers and sisters in a humble way? In the most humble way we can? It’s still our fault. Its a nation’s fault. Let us be humble like the Christian God that this country worship and accept our shortcomings.