It’s official: The successful entrepreneur Richard Branson is about to pick up on a new venture and make another million dollars, in spite of the financial melt-down, in another Blue Moon Opportunity (unique opportunity). It’s a new place to shop for that perfect husband. The rules however are very strict. Only women shopper’s who are genuinely looking for a husband may enter. The instructions to be followed to the letter!

“You may visit this store ONLY ONCE!” You must pay a 10% deposit before being permitted to enter onto the floor. There are 6 floors, but please note the value of the products increase as you climb to the higher floor. You may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to move right on up to the next floor, having first retrieved your deposit. However, you CANNOT descend to a lower floor, except to exit the building! Any person found contravening these rules will be immediately evicted from the building via the fire-escape. Please note the store also has a strict No-Return policy.

After reading the sign outside the shop, a female shopper rushed through the door and paid her deposit. On the first floor she read:

Floor 1 – Employed Men

She felt she needed more than that, so she retrieved her 10% and climbed to the second floor.

Floor 2 - Employed Men, Fond of Kids.

Not bad, she thought, but decided there was more. Again she got her deposit back and climbed the stairs.

Floor 3 - Employed Men, Fond of Kids and Handsome, Everyone Loves Them.

Now that sounded pretty good, however it did have echoes of her ex-husband No 2.

Floor 4 - Employed Men, Fond of Kids, Extremely Handsome, Everyone Loves Them, Trained In Housework.

Mmmm. That sounded too good to be true - her cheque book burned in her hand.  But, what’s on the next floor?

Floor 5 - Employed Men, Fond of Kids, Extremely Handsome, Everyone Loves Them, Trained In Housework and Romantic

She knew she should stay and settle for this, but the 6th floor beckoned her. As she started up the stairs she saw another small sign.

‘This time when you pay your money and there will be no refund of the deposit’‘

Oh well, she thought, it would be worth the investment if it was something better than the 5th floor.

Floor 6 – Employed Men, Fond of Kids, Extremely Handsome, Everyone Loves Them, Trained In Housework, Romantic and Very Sexy.

Wow! I’ve hit pay dirt!

However, just inside the door on the 6th floor was a second hand-written sign.

‘Congratulations, You are visitor 31,989,241 to this floor. However, there was only one man available on this floor and he’s married to me.’

So as to avoid any messy law-suits due to gender bias, Richard decided to open a ‘New Wives’ store just across the street. We heard the floors were:

The 1st floor - Wives that love sex.
The 2nd floor - Wives that love sex, have a great body and have money.

We have also heard that the 3rd through 6th floors were closed soon after opening, due to lack of interest by the buyers. We also heard it is almost impossible to find replacement stock for the 2nd floor.Perhaps Richard is going to have to look elsewhere for his next million.

If you would like to take a look at a real Blue Moon Opportunity, spend a few minutes looking at Win A Resort. We guarantee this one is no joke.

Time is an unstoppable dictator that dictates your life from the moment you are born to the moment you die. Yet it is something you don’t really give much thought to and often have very little understanding of. Yet time is the most precious commodity you have. You need to be aware of the ROI (return on investment) you are getting on your time, if you are to make the most of any Blue Moon Opportunity (one that could change your life) which comes your way.

The Measure of Time:

There are two measurements for immediate time - the calendar and the clock. The calendar is based on the phases of the moon and is the measures for periods which are longer than a day. The clock is used to measure less than a day. Then there is a third time measurement, known as geologic time. This measures past events which have shaped life on earth.

Local daytime was first measured by the shadow from an upright bar, cast on a simple sundial. Then the Egyptians produced the water clock which was able to measure the hours of darkness.

Time has since been measured in a wide variety of ways which include sand-through-an-hourglass and the burning of incense sticks, or candles.  There have been clocks which were driven by gravity, springs, electrical power, pendulums. Now we have the most accurate clock of all, the atomic clocks, which are based on the spin property of caesium atoms.

World Time:

The world is equally divided up by time zones, separated by exactly one hour apart. A Global Positioning System synchronizes time-keeping systems around the world, keeping you in touch with everyone else.

Enough Time:

Ancient cultures speak of before time began, while others speak of the dream time and the wheel of time. It is important you know exactly what you spend your time on. King Solomon wrote:

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven–
A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to shun embracing.
A time to search, and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep, and a time to throw away.
A time to tear apart, and a time to sew together; A time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for peace. – Ecclesiastes 3:1–8

Your Personal Time:

Time is your most valuable commodity and a vital component of your everyday life, while having an entirely different meaning for everyone. There is so much you can do with time, these are just a few:

• Find time
• Waste time
• Use time wisely
• Save time
• Kill time

However, you often only see time through the confused filters of your mind and well being. When you close your eyes at the end of the day, however, it is what you did with the time you had. Man has been able to create numerous ‘time saving’ devices, yet time is the one thing you never have enough of and once spent cannot be regained. Successful entrepreneurs are always on the look out for Blue Moon Opportunities, but as time is limited, you need to choose carefully what you do with your time. Always check out the ROI on your time. Like all successful people, learn to work ‘at’ a business not ‘in’ it.

You can learn more about the author  and a genuine Blue Moon Opportunity at http://winaresort.com

The World of Cyber Space

So that you can maintain your sanity, you need to know how to deal with 5 of the most annoying people in Cyber Space. That is if you are keen to take your place among the successful entrepreneurs and make the most of every Blue Moon Opportunity that comes your way.

While the Internet is humongous in size, it is populated by people who have discovered a new-found freedom. Many express themselves in ways they wouldn’t be able to do if they were standing face to face with each other. Some of these annoying types are nothing more than time-wasters.

• According to Netcraft.com there were over 178 million websites online, in August 2008
• Miniwatts Marketing Group reports  in the 2nd quarter of 2008, there were 1.5 billion users
• Google searches 1 trillion unique URLs daily
• Search Engines spider over 5 billion pages which are added daily.

Warning:

Humongeous as Cyber Space is, we find ourselves bombarded with five of the most irritating types of people. (And this completely ignores the unspeakable creatures known as ‘Spammers’.) Actually, we met a couple once, when they stayed at our place, Seachange Lodge Resort, in the tropical island nation of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. Nice looking, clean cut, older teenage guys. Over a six-week period they managed to high-jack our email address and get it blacklisted for a time. It was only when they were spiked and suddenly jumped on the next plane out of Vanuatu, we learned what they had been up to. We even had a police car patrolling past our place looking for the guilty parties.

But we’re off the subject. Back to dealing with the most irritating creatures on the Web:
1.      Cretin
First there is the Cretin who doesn’t have anything much of value to say.  The Cretin likes to use buckets of foul language and seems as if he barely get out of bed in the mentality department. Too busy relating everything to sex. (Not that there is anything wrong with sex.) Luckily the Cretin  is easily identifiable, so you can quickly beat the Cretin with the dreaded ‘Click Away’.
2.     Lunatic

The Lunatic is also fairly easy to recognize and seems to be harmless enough. Occasionally you feel sorry for the Lunatic, who doesn’t appear to have an understanding of the rules. The Lunatic has no interest in anything logical and it seems everything a Lunatic says confirms the lunacy. However, the Lunatic may occasionally have a brilliant flash of inspiration, which some hold as being an eccentric. The eccentric may even have some out-of the-box idea which works - after all, that’s how we have the light bulb. Edison was in the eccentric class and many of his friends wrote him off. It is easy to skim read the Lunatic’s writing, looking for that rare moment of insight. It could be the one idea that makes your website rise up out from the crowd.
3.     Moron
The Moron is a little bit harder to identify, as the Moron disappears into the crowd and appears to think like everyone else. The Moron will often say the right thing, but eventually you will discover there is a warped logic behind the words. It’s easy to get caught up in the Moron’s illogical way of thinking, so if what the Moron is saying doesn’t fit in with your logic, throw it aside. That is provided you know where you’re going.

4.     Fool

The Fool doesn’t quite seem to be on the same page as everyone else, constantly sticking his/her foot in the mouth. The Fool can’t keep focused and is very easily bamboozled. The Fool doesn’t have a creative thought, or original idea and is expert at wasting your time, particularly if he/she is trying to sell you something of  little or no value. The Fool can be of use, however, if you are looking to have a laugh. Like the Cretin, the Fool is easily identifiable and a laugh a day, helps maintain your sanity.
5.     Dummy

The dummy is also easily muddled and quickly gets lost in Cyber Space, with the hard-to-get-a-handle-on language, that Internet gurus just seem to have to use. The dummy wants everything explained in simple and easy to follow instructions, with NO STEPS MISSED OUT! Internet experts (squirts under pressure) have little tolerance for the so called, lesser intelligent Dummy.

While you may get annoyed with the Dummies, don’t bash them to death. Their questions often identify something you still need to learn. No matter how far you journey in Cyber Space, there is always another area where you will be the Dummy.

Then there is You.

Now, having sorted everyone else out, how about you? You are a mixture of all of the above and can be any one of the Annoying Five at any point in time. You and I can face any of the above situations at any point in time. Nothing is ever secure in Cybre Space.

You and I sound and act just like them. You have your own stumbling blocks to get over. There is only one pathway to the Summit of Success in Cyber Space. It is paved with Discipline, Patience, Passion and Perseverance.

On your  journey to sucess, there will always be others ahead of you and others behind you. When you trip over the five most annoying people, go around them and move quickly on. Keep yourself locked into your own goals and ambitions. If you are prepared to stick with your dream long enough, you too will take your rightful place as a successful Internet entrepreneur, in spite of the irritating people around you.

Its easy to think of a lot of people we know personally who fit into these categories. After reading this you will be amazed at how much easier they are to spot.

You can find  out more about the author and a genuine Blue Moon Opportunity at http://winaresort.com