CAREER
The Sky is Falling
By Dan Miller
48days.com
CBN.com – The headlines screamed this week – Job Cutbacks, Jobs Lost, Job Losses. The Labor Department has reported that total job numbers were down by 17,000 in January, the first monthly decline since August 2003.
Remember the wonderful children’s fable The Sky is Falling? This is an old tale about a chicken who believes the sky is falling. The phrase “the sky is falling” has become a popular cliché, indicating a hysterical belief that disaster is crashing down on us.
In the original story, Chicken Little is eating lunch one day when an acorn falls on her head. She mistakenly assumes the sky is falling, rushes off to tell the King, and along the way meets a lot of other animals who join in with her belief and the accompanying fear.
What this week’s headlines fail to announce with as much fanfare is that the unemployment rate actually FELL from 5.0 percent to 4.9 percent in January and average hourly earnings rose to $17.75 – up 0.2 percent from December. How can the job loss be such a catastrophe if unemployment dropped and earnings rose?
What the government figures can't see are the thousands of people who are exiting traditional jobs in companies with 50 or more employees (the basis for the statistics) and finding meaningful, fulfilling work in the No More Mondays fashion. The exploding number of consultants, independent contractors, temps, electronic immigrants, entrepreneurs, and eBay merchants are below the radar of traditional “job” tracking.
Sometimes I think the news media should just be called Chicken Little. How about Chicken Nightly Nonsense (CNN), All Boloney Chicken (ABC), and Nothin But Chicken (NBC). Incidentally, although I am not a man to wish anyone harm, in the fable the FOX ended up eating all the doomsayers.
Principles from No More Mondays
Thanks for the variety of interesting questions you are submitting each week. As you know, I then scan through and answer as many as possible in each week’s 48-Minute podcast. If you could please keep your questions to about 50 words they are much more likely to make it into the lineup!
Just click on this e-mail link and you can ask about resumes, interviewing, at-home business or finding your purpose in life: AskDan@48Days.com.
If you click on the 48 Days Podcast Player here you can listen to this week’s broadcast immediately—no downloading—no wait.
Humor: Worker Dogs
Police in Ohio were mystified by the apparent theft of a complete toilet bowl from a police station in Cleveland.
When a local news reporter asked the police sergeant if they had any leads, he replied, "Unfortunately, at the present time we have nothing to go on."
48 Days Featured Businesses
YTB: Your Travel Biz
Bernie and Debbie Swartzendruber purchased 48 Days To Creative Income more than three years ago and have been 48 Days subscribers since. Just nine months ago they embarked on their dream to be business owners and keep Bernie at home to be that dad he wanted to be to their four children. The travel industry is growing 23% faster than the global economy, and YTB Travel* is one of the fastest growing travel agencies in the country, offering great travel services and an incredible business opportunity that can be run from your kitchen table. If you are seeking self-employment and enjoy the idea of being involved in exciting travel, contact Bernie and Debbie for more information. Their Web site is www.swartzport.com, or you can e-mail them directly at berniedebbie@aol.com.
Tax MiniMiser
Our next business is Tax MiniMiser. It serves a great need for the self-employed: Taxes. Being self-employed means you have a fair sized task ahead of you in caring for your taxes. You can waste a ton of money and time if you don’t keep on top of it.
The upside, however, and it’s a BIG upside, is you can save a ton of money if you know what to claim. Being organized, though, that is the key. For 14 years now, 48 Days subscriber Bob Whitaker has been providing entrepreneurs and the self-employed with his brilliant Tax Minimiser product.
Even if you have a great CPA, it’s up to you to track your expenses. This is how you do it, with this proven, simple system. You can even write off the expense of purchasing it!
Pure Breath & Water comes to us from Larry Andron, an independent business owner who has developed multiple streams of income that he helps other people duplicate. Larry is a health advocate. For a long time his daughter had itch and rash issues that no allergy testing found a solution for. When he purchased this air purifier, all of her symptoms finally subsided. She’s two years free of itch and rash problems. After becoming a fan and realizing that many allergy and other health problems can be caused by airborne contaminants, Larry investigated the business opportunity. It turns out that the manufacturer has been featured in various publications for offering one of the most successful home based businesses out there. He appreciates that the business helps people solve indoor air quality problems and has the potential to help people realize their financial goals as well. Check it out at www.tryfreshair.com/landron or contact Larry at (800) 863-8058.
Paid 'Featured Business' Disclaimer:
48 Days LLC does not represent the accuracy or reliability of any of the recommendations or promotions shown above...or the quality of any products, information, or other materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an offer in connection with this newsletter... Please...do your own due diligence before purchasing any product or service.
More Recommended Resources
The 237 Best Things Ever Said about Retirement
Here’s another free E-book from my friend Ernie Zelinski. In the past I’ve recommended his 1001 Best Things Ever Said About Work. Well now he’s got a new compilation of The 237 Best Things Ever Said about Retirement.
This E-book is the ultimate collection of retirement quotations and retirement sayings placed in more than 40 categories for easy reference. It makes great reading for just about everyone — particularly for the retired and soon-to-be retired. You’ll read things like: Retirement takes all the meaning out of weekends. It is better to live rich than to die rich. The key to a happy retirement is to have enough money to live on, but not enough to worry about. Just click on this link for your free copy: The 237 Best Things Ever Said about Retirement.
48 Days Seminars
We’ve discovered that many of our champions for the 48 Days Seminars are people who currently are in transition themselves. So if you find that you’ve been laid off, fired, or are just looking for a better opportunity, how would you like to earn the complete Seminar package? If you can introduce this to your company, church, or community group, get 10 people to join you, and then turn the DVD on each week, we’ll give you the Leaders Guide and your own Participant Package free ($649). Just send an e-mail with your name and contact information to our National Seminar Director, Alan Thomas, at seminars@48days.com. You can also listen to a 48-minute overview that explains the basic details. Just two weeks ago, one of our subscribers started a Sunday school for his church and had 15 sign ups. The church has only 200 members, so that's 7.5% of the congregation! People are so hungry for career fulfillment.
Could You be the Next President?
The most popular product in the 48 Days arsenal continues to be the Computerized Personality Report. Before you begin seeking a better job or self-employment, you need to be sure you are pursuing opportunities that match your personality style and will fulfill and reward you for a lifetime!
Stay up to date, add your comments and share your successes at my No More Mondays Blog.
We now offer Free Shipping on all of our products. Just one more feature to help you get the resources you need for success and fulfillment this year. Check out these 48 Days products.
 Dan Miller is the bestselling author of 48 Days To The Work You Love and a renowned Life Coach specializing in career fulfillment. His weekly newsletter reaches 70,000 subscribers. Dan’s articles are featured here at CBN every Tuesday, and you can find out more about Dan at www.48days.com.
CBN IS HERE FOR YOU!
Are you seeking answers in life? Are you hurting?
Are you facing a difficult situation?
A caring friend will be there to pray with you in your time of need.
|
What Our Partners Are Doing
Tom and Donna paid off $36,000 in debt and bought a new home. Which of their steps can you put into practice to become debt-free.
Hard-working Yumey earned a dollar each day. She relied on neighbor's left-overs to feed herself and daughter. Then CBN Partners came changed their lives completely!
|
