I just ran across this article today and I find it very interesting how everywhere I go people are talking about mindset and choices. More people are becoming aware of conditions and are more susceptible to changes influenced by outside forces.

One thing remains though is the simple fact that money can improve peoples lives simply by touching and interacting read the post below.
The power of money: Just touching and thinking about it can make us feel better, research finds

• Low and no interest capital for investment purposes When it comes to the value of your dollars in today's economy or any other time your ability to purchase, return income on your investment has been something that eluded many would be great entrepreneurs and investors. The lack of resources to keep the fire slowly going while your momentum......
• Gaining more purchasing power using the internet. Using the internet you can search out new ways of gaining more purchasing power for your asset acquisition and wealth creation plan. When you log on to your internet open up your browser. Do a Google search for the following cards: American Express look for their “Blue Card”, MBNA/American Express......
• Investing in your online accounts with automatic bill pay Many people have tried to systematize a method for automating their investments and although it takes a human touch make the buy and sell calls in the stock market you can charge your investment accounts with your dollars automatically. Set up your account and then when you have all of......
• What's the disadvantage of a refinanced mortgage when performing a loan modification The most differentiating factor between purchase money and refinance money is the legal recourse that the institutional lending agencies have against you. You see when you make the original purchase loan for your piece of real estate your agreeing that if you default that you are not liable. The money......
• Stand together and unite for wealth, strength and unity We all have our pre conceived notions as well as our reservations towards introducing new people into our lives. Having worked with hundreds of people and charting courses of financial needs and desires, I've come to the conclusion that for the people who are willing to take a chance and......

• Sunday Money Madness Welcome to a new edition of Sunday Money Madness where another portion of the financial blogosphere is illuminated. I found these stories to be worth while and interesting and they should make great weekend reading if you haven't read them yet. An Immigration Story by Digerati Life details a story......
• 7 reasons why people don't get out of debt Ask a random person why they haven't gotten out of debt, and they're likely to give you a deer in the headlights look. Or they might reply with "I can't" or "I've tried, but it didn't work", and then go on to explain why. I suspect there are 7 major......
• Frugal People Focus Too Much On The Outgo On an average day I read about a dozen blogs that have little to nothing to do with frugality.  Several of them discuss saving money occasionally, but most of them are all about making more money, or entrepreneurship, or small business issues, etc.  In fact, many of the books I......
• Hyped-Up Cures or Cash Thievery? By now, we have all seen a celebrity endorsement of some kind on television or in print. Some make sense (Sally Field for osteoporosis medications – I believe her) and others that just don't compute (all endorsements by Gary Coleman). Celebrity endorsements, no matter how far-fetched they may seem are......
• Indulge Abstinence can be freeing in a way. It leads to greater indulgence, and allows for informed choice. Abstinence lets you really feel and understand your own being, and how you are letting it reflect in the world anyway, but it needn’t be compulsory. Rather than "never do this" and “always......

I can here the music playing of the pipe organ in the back with the familiar tune ringing from deep within. The sounds of wedding chimes, no n really it’s the sound of a more modern up to date sound. One that’s familiar in factthis sounds is so familiar that no matter where you go in the world you can hear it.

That’s right it’s the dial tone, more importantly it’s the tone of you embracing a winning feeling when you decide to hear the tone that’s been heard around the world. It all started with one simple conference call, a single message that stood tall and rang louder than anything.

That message was “We Own The TONE!” after that it’s but nothing but history in the making. If you are ready to start harnessing the power of the tone there are two things you’re going to need to do.

1st you need to take a peek behind the scenes and get an insiders view of how we are going to change the entire telecommunications industry and then you’re going to listen in to what Financial Destination is all about.

After you have completed these two steps you’re going to want to get started sharing this information with everyone you know, whether you have an Iphone, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Nextel or anyother make of phone, Internet, Residential or Long Distance service.

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• Retirement of a giant and the rise of future leaders Retirement of a giant and the rise of future leaders I looked as if I was a deer staring in the headlights when I opened the news this morning. You see I have been buried in tons of different activities and meetings over the last several weeks as I have......
• Why we dance around the money situation at hand You can look at this in another perspective, why do we dance around the subject of finance, financial stabilization, security, why because it's uncomfortable for the masses. Many people are challenged and distraught about their current state of affairs. Constantly complaining about their situation at hand,yet instead of doing......
• Wealth And Wisdom Go Straight To The Dogs A dogs keen set of senses and perception are amazing, whether you believe in it or not, the old story; "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Kindergarten, I Learned From My Dog"  applies to much more than just kindergarten. A dogs unique set of senses are an extraordinary example......
• You can't tell people what to do I was watching the Bill Maher show last night and wow what an amazing delivery of realism and truth. You know when you catch certain conversations that lighten your spirit and open you eyes to a new idea or set of care values. So many people live jaded and......
• Independance day; are we really free We sit amongst our family and friends celebrating our Nation's greatest achievement; our independence. This day celebrates freedom from the ties that bound us. Waiting in anticipation for the sun to go down and for the show to begin. We find ourselves making and playing fun activities as well......

• What are Acoustic Guitars Made Out Of? There are a number of different materials that are used for the purpose of constructing guitars. Let us take a look at a few of them. Mahogany When this wood is used as a guitar top, it has a low velocity of sound as compared to other woods, good density,......
• Buying Acoustic Guitars If you are in the market to buy a brand new acoustic guitar, the one of the biggest factors that you should take into consideration during the decision making process is the tonewood. The individuals that make guitars believe that the wood that is chosen for the top of the......
• EarthTalk: On Electric Or Plug-In Cars Getting Charged From Polluting Plants. Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you’re paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car’s cost-per-mile? And since the electricity may be generated from some other polluting source, does it really work......
• Chords 101 pt 2 Continued from pt 1. In contrast, however, Andrew Surmani has written that three or more notes, when sounded together, create a chord. George T. Jones has stated that two tones when sounded together, form an interval, and three notes when sounded together create the chord. It has also been said......
• The Power of Thought from "Your Heritage" by Walter C. Lanyon Which was first: the egg or the birds? The flower or the seed? You have but to resolve the whole thing into thought to find that first of all, before either flower or seed, bird or egg, was the idea, which rested......

We’re all victim of it, you know planning and changing our goals, constantly looking and researching new and better ways to accomplish things. You know all of the if I just or if this would just; ah maybe this is the (widget name here) I need to get through my tasks.

Suddenly a disturbance arises or a set back takes place, the next thing you know is hours, days even weeks go by. For some people their whole lives slip away and before they know it  they’re wising they would have taken just a bit of action and maybe just maybe they could have accomplished at least one of their goals.

You know how it is when time just slips away from you, minutes fly by like seconds as the time passes. This is really why I wanted to write this to you right now before I headed off to bed.

You see I took a challenge to be a better version of myself, to take the bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground victoriously. So I decided to take on a challenge so big it involves half of the planet.

Really one half of the planets human population is my goal! To create a paradigm shift both in the way people think and handle their finances. Really what else do we have to think about? A new football game or what dining set to upgrade too? Bologna people have eluded to the old myth that you have to “keep up with the Jones’.”

I don’t buy it look at our economic situation and that alone reveals the “big lie” we as a nation have been living. It’s not just Wall Street and main street, it’s rural communities to the giant mega cities and every road in between.

So why would a little procrastination be a bad thing when it pertains to this? Simple… You could be next, or a friend, family member, co worker and so on.

I have to stop the madness but I cannot do it alone. So I pose a challenge for all of you to stop the procrastination, to take charge and lead by example. I challenge you to make a conscious choice and act upon a decision.

I want you to help me end the madness and stop the insanity. You only have one question to answer and that question is “Why Can’t You” make a difference too?

Here’s the deal I had to get this up and running because I was a day behind on my deadline. I have the video uploaded and you can see it by clicking on the link above or visiting http://ryanwegman.com/The-Pillars-of-Wealth-Challenge go there now and do your part at saving families from a fate worse than anything they have ever experienced before.

After the video please return to the blog to opt in just for today I promise. Don’t let obstacles get in your way. I didn’t.

• Buyer Beware Here Are 10 Things Home Builders Won't Tell You I ran across this article this morning and it really caught my eye. Some of these clauses I have seen exist in standard purchase agreements today. As for as the rest of the story I have personally run across houses with similar problems. The downside of all of this......
• Homeless beatings and murder Wow I just read this article and I had even seen some of these so called "bum fights" on T.V. before. You know I can see why we are faced with such moral decay in our society. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just the tip of the iceberg.......
• Why Network Marketing, Marketing and Internet marketing are changing the world around us When it comes to business and life opportunities I should head to one warning. Once bitten twice shy should be the order of the day. You see I had always wanted to start my own profitable business and be the one stop shop for everyone. The problem is I couldn't......
• Capitalizing on the real estate market with social media If you've been on the Internet for more than 15 minutes it's not doubt that you have been exposed to numerous websites that use and leverage the social media such as myspace. Facebook, twitter, youtube and countless others of websites using the “web 2.0” technology. It's one of the hottest......
• How To Measure True Wealth and Success How does one truly measure success? How does one measure wealth? Is purely by their achievements in life? Does that mean that if you never reach the fame and fortune levels that you weer never truly successful? Have you ever thought about what what it really meant to be......

• Money Mistake Monday - Thoughtless Consolidation of Student Loans. Because we are away camping this week, this week's Money Mistake Monday is a guest post from Paid Twice. If you like what you see here, won't you consider subscribing to her feed? Student loan consolidation can be a very beneficial thing. You can take a number of different loans,......
• The Essentials of Living Aboard a Boat By Mark Nicholas If you've been considering making that transition towards living aboard, this is the go-to resource for everything you'll ever need to know. We highly recommend this book since it does go into such detail that all of your questions should be answered. It was nice to find a resource that......
• Why Are We Lonely? Loneliness is an interesting topic though at first it might seem quite shallow. We all feel we experience it and we are all right, but the question is why? Why in this great heavily human populated world do we feel lonesome? Any ideas? Fear? Fear to open your soul? We......
• Gold At $100 Off Its 2006 Highs Gold has retreated quite a bit since its high of $730 on May 11th 2006. Its currently trading around $630/oz. I see this as a good buying opportunity. While I'm against dollar cost averaging, I think gold is in the beginning of a bull cycle and this justifies buying on......
• The Flaws of the Clinton Gas Tax Holiday At the time of this writing, Hillary has recently taken what many think is the final blow to her campaign. I tend to stay out of politics on the blog, but that doesn't mean we still can't pick apart what she said. Clinton recently endorsed a gas tax cut proposed......

I haven’t been posting regularly for the past week and a half, in fact the last article I wrote was posted about using social media to enhance your real estate business. Since that writing I did after attending that seminar I have had rapid changes come to me in the way of inspiration and action.

Here is the last article I wrote on using social media. All I know is between that day and the day I was asked a simple question of “Why”, I have been on a mission.

A mission that will take more than just myself to get it going. I decided that social media is more than just a tool that can be leveraged for gains in viewership as well as a quick way to start gaining momentum in presence of yourself and or your business.

I knew if done properly the concept of social media could be displayed by using it’s sheer power and ease of simplicity. I knew I could use it to make a massive shift in the direction and choices people make daily.

This shift would create enough of an interest and reason to give people the power to take control of a trend to leverage it and make huge positive impacts. This is why I am writing you today, I need you to help spread the word.

Over the next 72 hours I will be reshaping my blog then my website RyanWegman.com I will be releasing my message to the world and starting to spread it quickly.

Soon after I ensure everything functions I am opening up the door to a select few. Only those who are serious to make change as well as impact lives will qualify for a rare chance to have personal 1 on 1 coaching with myself and a guest panel of professionals who will take on the task of reshaping your financial future.

After my original goal is reached of my undisclosed number of initial participants I will be opening the door to affiliate and joint venture partners to accelerate the process of change and influence.

These affiliates are my secret weapon to gaining momentum. But I didn’t want to stop there, I have been able to gather some valuable training on the proper usage of social from a close friend of mine.

In essence we are going to launch two separate products, to two very different markets and then the twist which I have not dropped on him yet is we are going to share his principles of social media to leverage your experience and efforts and at he same time spread my message to his huge audience of listeners.

Did I mention he has a prior 20 years in Radio as a professional DJ? This guy really knows his stuff when it comes to media and the social effect it can have on the ears who fall up it to listen.

Remember the original story of the War of THE World by Orson Wells? The panic, chaos and fear it produced simply because many viewers missed the opening statement “This is only a story none of this is real; well that’s the gist of it any way.

Get ready to take life by the horns and start making the choices that are essential and necessary to change the direction you are going in life. Be on the watch for my new site design, check today then check tomorrow I know you are going to be pleasantly inspired. Go ahead and take the challenge today.

• The Only Phone Service That Pays You To Be A Raving Fan, Start Getting Social Get paid To Talk All Day Imagine owning your very own telecommunication Company without actually having to run it. It was so eloquently mentioned by Dell CEO Michael Dell; “Content, Commerce & Community.” Let me back up here for just a second. I was discussing social media topics with a friend of mine. He mentioned......
• Capitalizing on the real estate market with social media If you've been on the Internet for more than 15 minutes it's not doubt that you have been exposed to numerous websites that use and leverage the social media such as myspace. Facebook, twitter, youtube and countless others of websites using the “web 2.0” technology. It's one of the hottest......
• Grimm forecast on retiree finances. I love the news the contradictions are often so plain to see they could get over looked. For example these next two posts are about retirement living and the differences of opinion about money. For example in this article the writer opens up and states that approximately 60% of......
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• A proven formula for a better retirement The issue of retirement has been surfacing around the social media and content of conversation for sometime now. One of the most outstanding issues is the fact that the corporate pension and retirement plans are going by the wayside. Individuals are being forced to take control of their retirement portfolios.......

• Social Media and Your Corporate Blog Do you want to utilize social media to the best of its capabilities with your corporate blog? Here are ten secrets that the best social media users are utilizing in order to boost the capabilities of their blogs and other websites. 1 - Do your research! Why? Because every single......
• Monetize Your Photos with a Personal Endorsement from Udorse.com If you think you deserve an endorsement deal from Nike because half your wardrobe is branded with their distinctive swoosh, or you've got the most awesome Facebook profile picture ever of all of your friends chugging Bud Light, you might want to checkout Udorse.com. Udorse has devised a quick and......
• Social Media's Impact On Internet Marketing Social media's impact on Internet marketing has caused many, if not all, online marketers to rethink the way they do business online. Gone are the days of simply throwing-up (literally) a slick website, cramming it full of scraped article content and 'shady' affiliate programs, then sitting back and watch your......
• 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media. This post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an......
• Keeping Up with Social Media I love blogging, and I am like a crack-whore for Twitter. Facebook seems like too much work, MySpace seems like a place for pedophiles to find teen victims, and You Tube is unwieldy. I have allowed myself to feel undue amounts of guilt for not keeping my Facebook page up,......

If you’ve been on the Internet for more than 15 minutes it’s not doubt that you have been exposed to numerous websites that use and leverage the social media such as myspace. Facebook, twitter, youtube and countless others of websites using the “web 2.0” technology.

It’s one of the hottest trends on the web, twitter has had news coverage from surgeons teaching medical students about a surgery procedure to Farah’s & Michael Jackson’s deaths and many other worthy events. Today I am at the lovely Hilton Hotel in beautiful Concord, CA listening to Tom Ferry.

Guess what the topic is? Social mediaq and real estate. Even if you have been online and using social media, for any amount of time you are probably using it wrong. If you aren’t using these powerful tools to position yourself as the expert, attract your new prospects, engage them in conversation, and convert them into raving fans you’re missing the boat.

Let me give you a perfect example, if you have clients who are seeking to purchase real estate, you need to be ready to receive an on set of communication via email, text messages and phone communication.

In fact if you aren’t online using these powerful tools you have already missed the boat. Not to worry you can still make your mark with a few selective strategies and free tools to get started. I have investor friends who rely on cell phones as the primary business tools to quicky evaluate real estate deals, by sending out a team of individuals who are armed with camera phones and ready to inspect properties.

How can you compete with technology if you aren’t armed with it.? Answer you can’t! Think about it for a minute what if you can get to the listing to inspect before the court sale or a new property hits the MLS and you have your team there within15 minutes to 1 hour. Visuals are done, comps are being pulled by your office manager or team member.

Using cameras for visuals can quickly help a seasoned investor to make these decisions while on the fly or in the office makes real time data access quick and efficient. Valuations are performed and the offer(s) is/are written all withing nanoseconds compared to the old way of performing the same old real estate procedures of calling an agent, driving to the property, pulling comps and performing neighborhood research aka data mining.

Your in the forefront, on the leading cusp of the industry when it comes to both running your business and as well in the entire real estate investment or agency game. You have been given a chance to become the top of your game simply by using these tools to gain an advantage in your personal business growth and as a way to market properties to flip or wholesale.

Now on the other hand as an agency who brokers real estate imagine having the advantage of being number one online for real estate searches in your local market. This was the premise for the seminar I attended recently and what an eye opener.

The strategies taught were very powerful and shed some real light on how technology and the “power to be found” online sets those who are in the know will exceed all of those who aren’t. The doers from the ones who sit on the sidelines. You can literally take advantage of the search engines with a little strategy, take a listing promote it via online channels as well as promote your self and your brokerage all at the click of a button.

• Why land banking is far less risky than traditional real estate Not to say that all real estate doesn't carry some form of risk to the owners of the property, sure there are always risks associated with any type of investment. This reflection comes from recent events that took place in San Francisco, CA. City building inspectors had been saying......
• Loyalty within your portfolio are you faithful with to your investments When it comes to investing many individuals are leaving more money on the table then compared to the profits that they can realize. Loyalty is the simple practice of being true to your self and to your needs. Just like with a friendship you cannot go out and do......
• Using college education funds for real estate Many people aren't aware of the little laws in the IRS tax code that states not what you can put into these types of accounts, they state what you can't put in their instead. So while people are using stocks and going mad with the market place activities, others are......
• Stand together and unite for wealth, strength and unity We all have our pre conceived notions as well as our reservations towards introducing new people into our lives. Having worked with hundreds of people and charting courses of financial needs and desires, I've come to the conclusion that for the people who are willing to take a chance and......
• How to strategically plan for your retirement When it comes to planning for retirement you really have only a few choices to make for your future. Strategically speaking many people take the approach of “I hope it works.” People really never give their retirement a thought until it's to late. When they decide it's time for retirement......

• The Number One Mistake that Would-be Real Estate Investors Make I met with my friend's wife this weekend to learn more about her thriving real estate business. She helped to confirm what I suspected to be the number one mistake that new investors make: they expect to make good returns by paying "retail" prices for real estate. By "retail" prices,......
• Why do People use so Many Online Social Networking Sites? Why do people use online social networking sites? Do you belong to too many online social networking sites? The rules have changed in 2009 It’s time to chill out with strategic social marketing...
• Riskiest Real Estate Markets In The US A lot of people are wondering where to invest in order to catch the next real estate boom. I don't have a ready answer for that, but Forbes magazine was nice enough to tell us where the riskiest markets are. 1. Miami, Fla. Due in part to escalating insurance costs,......
• The Coming Real Estate Crash? Foreclosures Up 79%. In California, that is. I am sure it not as high other places, but a 79% jump in foreclosures is a pretty big jump, wouldn't you say? According to Inside Bay Area, California had 16,273 foreclosure filings in February, up 79 percent from a year ago which does not bode......
• The Mortgage Crisis and Investments in Real Estate According to regional and state real estate analysts, the factors which previously fueled the housing boom of the last few years are easy to explain. The factors that fueled this boom in the real instate industry ranged significantly, including: - Interest rates that were historically low. - Flight-Risk Safety Investments......