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Times are hard… Many people, and businesses, find themselves “in a ditch”.
Well, it is time to dig out.

Here are a few minutes I pieced together from TD Jakes… Well worth watching!

ChangeThis.com kicks ass!… I stumbled upon http://www.changethis.com/ last weekend. The site regularly posts “manifestos” (in the form of PDFs) on a range of positive, impacting topics — all from top writers.

ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread… We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds… READ MORE

ChangeThis was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu and Michelle Sriwongtong. You can read their bios in this blog entry. The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin. You can read about him on his website.

Below is the 103 page “manifesto” — The Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin.
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Download and view the PDF below… Then, come back here and comment — post your opinions of The Bootstrapper’s Bible, The Adobe SHARE Viewer, and ChangeThis.com.

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Just as today, genuine business opportunities existed 85 years ago; and
Just as today, people pondered and hesitated; and
Just as today, people lost opportunity.

The following was published in Farm and Land Magazine in 1917:

Buyer’s Lament

I hesitate to make a list
Of all the countless deals I’ve missed.
Bonanzas that were in my grip-
I watched through my fingers slip:
The windfalls which I should have bought
Were lost because I over thought:
I thought of this, I thought of that,
I could have sworn I smelled a rat.
And while I thought things over twice
Another grabbed them at the price.

It seems I always hesitate,
Then make up my mind much too late.
A very cautious man am I
And that is why I never buy.

How Nassau and how Suffolk grew!
North Jersey! Staten Island too!
When others culled those sprawling farms
and welcomed deals with open arms-

A corner here, ten acres there,
Compounding values year by year,
I chose to think and as I thought,
They bought the deals I should have bought.

The golden chances I had then
Are lost and will not come again.
Today I cannot be enticed
For everything’s so overpriced.
The deals of yesteryear are dead:
The market’s soft-and so’s my head.

Last night I had a fearful dream
I know I wakened with a scream:
Some men approached my bed-
For trinkets on the barrel head
(In dollar bills worth twenty-four
And nothing less and nothing more)
They’d sell Manhattan Isle to me,
The most I’d go was twenty-three
Those men scowled: “Not on a bet!”
And sold to Peter Minuit.

At times a tear drop drowns my eye
For deals I had but did not buy:
And now life’s saddest words I pen
“If only I’d invested then!”

I have watched the story of Dick and Rick Hoyt literally 1,000 times…
…make it 1,001.

My brother Andy Denton turned me on to this video.

I can’t believe I just now discovered this video.
This is LIFE-CHANGING stuff… For a geek, at least.