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Every so often, you’re handed a gem.  Yesterday, at my son’s behest, I was watching “Mythbusters” on the Discovery Channel.  During one of the episodes, they tested different equipment that claimed to improve your fuel economy.  They tested various devices including some deal with magnets, a deal with acetone, a super carburator of some kind and a contraption that claimed to turn water into hyrdogen and oxygen which would give you umpteen miles per gallon.

I was chomping at the bit.  Had any of those devices worked even moderately, I would’ve signed up to be an affiliate for one of those devices and promptly put an “As Seen on Mythbusters” stamp on it.  Not a single one of the devices lived up to their promised performance.

Out of all of the things they tested, the only true “alternative” fuel, was vegetable oil.  They had an old school Mercedes Benz 300 turbo diesel, which they ran on discarded vegetable oil.  They made no modifications to the vehicle and the only processing they did to the oil was that they filtered out the particulates suspended in it.  When they tested the fuel efficiency of the vegetable oil versus diesel fuel, they found that you only lost about %20 efficiency using the vegetable oil.  That fuel efficiency puts it on par with using ethanol in your regular gasoline powered car. 

I think there may be a business in there somewhere.  You’d collect all the oil from the grease traps in restaurants, filter it and then sell it to people to put in their diesel vehicles.  You’d collect the oil for free from restaurants, then sell it to people for a couple of dollars a gallon.  It’s a win-win all the way around.  Any one want to JV with me on something like that?

Rafael

Over the weekend, something happened that reminded me of a TV show that I used to watch. In the show, this one guy, we’ll call him Greg, had left his stable job with a large organization to “strike it out on his own.” One of his co-workers, we’ll call him Fred, from his now previous job was talking to Greg’s girlfriend about how much he admired Greg for leaving the rat race.  Fred was waxing poetic about Greg leaving and going to be his own man and go stand on his own.  Fred kept lavishing praises on Greg for leaving the rat race behind and going to follow his dreams. Greg’s girlfriend asked Fred:

Why don’t you join Greg and leave the rat race behind too?

Fred replied:

Oh no, I’m a rat.

This scene has been in my head for sometime now. I always think of it whenever I try to do my own thing and stand on my own.

Recently, it got me to thinking, that you should figure out if you’re a rat or not. I don’t believe that one is better than the other, I just think that you should know if you’re a rat or not.  Again, you don’t have to like being a rat in the rat race, you just have to figure out if you’re a rat or not.

Basically, the way I see it, you’re either a rat in the rat race, or you’re not a rat.

One isn’t better than the other, you just are what you are. You could argue that you’re a rat in the rat race that really wants to get out of the rat race. What that really tells me is that you’re not a rat at all. You just haven’t metamorphosed into your non-rat form, yet.

So, which one are you?

Cheers,

Rafael

Today, I learned a valuable lesson in Adwords.

In the interest of increasing my cash flow, I’ve started spending money on adwords to drive some more traffic to my pages. Anyway, today, I learned that before you edit an ad, you should have a backup of it.

Why?

Because you may end up editing the wrong ad. As in, the one ad that is getting good conversions and end up breaking it by mistake. Then, you have no real way of getting its mojo back.

So, here’s a free lesson from the techie that tells people all the time to back up their data.

Back up your data.

That’s all for now.

Rafael

Tonight, during my church group meeting, we started reading a book titled “The Dream Giver.” It’s the story about a guy named “Ordinary” who lived in a city named “Familiar” to whom nothing happened everyday. Ordinary went to his “regular job” day in and day out. He would come home, have pretty much the same thing for dinner everyday and then he would sit in his recliner and watch nothing on the box until it was time to go to sleep. Ordinary thought he was content, but he really wasn’t. He felt uneasy and sad, nothing every changed.

One day, Ordinary awoke to discover that he had a dream within him. He dreamt that he was meant to be more than what he was. He dreamt that he deserved more out of life. He dreamt that he could have a better life, he dreamt that he could be Somebody. Ordinary had doubts about himself and his abilities. He had doubts that he would be able to accomplish his dreams. People that loved him, tried to talk him out of trying to become somebody.  He had doubts that he was worthy of his dream.

In order to pursue his dream, Ordinary had to leave Familiar behind. He had to get out of his comfort zone. Ordinary had to get through the invisible wall of fear, overcome his bullies, cross over the wide river of the unknown and find the courage within him to become Somebody.

That’s a summary of the first 3 chapters in the book. I can’t wait to find out what happens next. This book spoke to me. It spoke to me on a deeply personal level. I feel like it was written for me, about me. I don’t think it was a coincidence that I had my first sale today after all this time trying. I was having doubts about my dream and about whether I was worthy of my dream.

I am starting to believe; both in myself and in my dream.

Folks, buckle in cuz it’s gonna be a heckuva ride. Are you coming with me?

Regards,

Rafael

I made my first affiliate sale yesterday! I guess the new techniques and everything that I’m reading is starting to pay off. Lets see how many more sales I make. Coincidentally, I’m starting up a split test today of my affiliate page for the product that I sold. Let’s see which one of my pages converts better.

Regards,

Rafael

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