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Welcome to Inspiration Mondays!
We all can use a little inspiration, right?
When so many negative headlines in the media leave us feeling helpless, we all need something to keep the hope in us alive.
So when I saw this video of a man named Nick Vujicic, I just had to share it.
I love it how Nick is so energetic, and happy despite the cards he was dealt.
He is truly an inspiration.
Love,
I love learning. I don’t understand people that don’t. One of my biggest fears is that I’ll run out of time before I’m done learning. There’s just so much that I’m interested in.
I was reading an article in the New York Times recently that talked about taking classes online. Of course I know that there have been online classes for ages, but I wasn’t aware that 1) many were free, and 2) many Ivy League and top-tier schools were making courses available online through Coursera – FOR FREE.
We (Coursera) envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
How cool is that? I can attend Harvard, Brown, Columbia, or a long list of other prestigious universities (worldwide) and learn almost anything I want.
What an abundance of topics and things to learn at Coursera! I was too late to register for the Greek and Roman Mythology class, taught by Dr. Peter Struck from Penn State University, but I signed up for it anyway and will take the Coursera course “time shifted” later this month.
At this moment I’m on “spring break” right along with the students at University of Virginia. The Coursera course I’m taking at the moment is “The Modern World: Global History since 1760,” taught by Philip Zelikow. Professor Zelikow has an amazing CV – he’s been a professor at Harvard, a diplomat, been published numerous times and, most interestingly, headed up the 9/11 Commission. Nice credentials, huh?
Getting started with Coursera is easy. Just signup as a student (no fussy applications, no screening tests or interviews) on the Coursera website. Pick a course, sign up for the course and begin to LEARN. You won’t regret it.
What a world we live in now, huh?
If you are interested in how I’m also building my financial future, please fill out one of the forms on this page.
HATE when this happens! Ever have insufficient funds to pay for stuff?
We’ve all been there. You go to go and pay for something and… insufficient funds.
I’ve been there.
I’ve had insufficient funds to pay my mortgage and rent.
I’ve had insufficient funds to pay my electric bill.
Heck, I’ve even had insufficient funds to buy groceries.
But, I’ve also owned a house, held a job, been self-employed, traveled all over the world and owned a BMW X5, and Audi A8 and a Jaguar XJ6.
Yeah, I’ve been there, done that. Really.
What most people know about me is all the successful stuff. Multiple 6 and 7-figure earner, best-selling author, leader, blah blah blah.
What they don’t know, is sometimes the price along the road to success is to take a risk on yourself (it’s called “insufficient funds”).
I’ve bought advertising for my business instead of paying my bills.
I’ve elected to read a book or learn something online instead of going out – for months.
I’ve had a garage sale, sold my TV, borrowed money… everything you can think of (including having “insufficient funds“) to get to where I am today.
I’m not some wunderkind that had overnight success. Or “knew” someone. Or got “lucky.” I simply did whatever it took, for however long it took, to get where I am today.
Are you willing to do that? If so, I’m willing to coach you.
Get started here: /join.php?id=ksilver
Karla
OK, so I got downsized.
Worse, I really, really, really didn’t want to go back to Corporate America. I had enough time off to realize that there had to be a better way. I wanted to have a LIFE and make money at the same time, but was there a way to have both and have success from home?
At the time, very few people that I knew actually worked or were successful from home. The people I knew that didn’t go to an office were either artists, or actors, or people that owned service businesses. The other people that didn’t go to an office were unemployed.
That was almost 10 years ago, and my how times have changed. The US Department of Labor estimates that by the end of this year, the #1 employer in the United States will be “SELF.” A huge percentage of self-employed people now work from someplace that is not an office-place – typically from home. If that many people are working from home, that tells me that there is plenty of ways to get success from home.
There isn’t any way anyone could have success from home by sitting on the couch eating Doritos. Just won’t happen. We all know that?
But, what does it really take to be successful out of a home office.
It’s probably not what you think.
Here’s the list:
Success from home is within anyone’s grasp. In Nike’s words, just do it. 
Much love,
Baby Boomers Working from “Home” (Cap d’Antibes, France)
Between the difficulty of our current economic situation and the increasing ease of starting home based businesses, many Baby Boomers have left their 9 to 5 jobs in favor of working from home.
Even more have been downsized, can’t find a new job and Plan B has been to find a business where they can be a baby boomer working from home.
There are many, many benefits that baby boomers working from home can enjoy:
Supplementing your retirement income and your shrinking 401K doesn’t have to be difficult. Baby boomers working from home, earning money and starting a new career can be lucrative and interesting and fun.
Baby boomers are perfect candidates to work their own businesses from home. They are more likely to be successful. What puts many of them off is the idea of being “scammed” (oh how I hate that word) or not being able to learn what it takes to have success from home. The baby boomers work from home that I know are typically the most successful people in the companies that they are affiliated with.
Many boomers that look at the business that I work are apprehensive about being in an online business. Don’t be! We are old enough to know that we can learn anything. How did we achieve what we did in our jobs? We learned.
My husband and I are baby boomers working from home. You are probably a baby boomer if you are reading this. Explore your options. Learn. Understand that your age is not a limitation but an asset.
Let me know if I can help you.