Gene's Strategy re Making More $

This month, I have been reading up a lot on Gene Simmons' sales & marketing style and general philosophy. In the process, I found this fun clip. Love the math here... an interesting way of looking at making more money.

Being in a start-up, I already work 7 days a week and now, thanks to Gene, a different bulb went off in my head. Not sarcastic, just another dimensional bulb like I like it. I totally forgot about all the holidays which when added to the weekends, minuses a lot of work days. Humm... back to work!

360 Car Spins & Almost Off A Cliff

February 12th, 2007 Reno Nevada car accident remembered... here is the email I wrote to my loved ones a year ago...

Yesterday my car went over a slippery something on the road and I swung from the right lane to the left and almost hit the railing/road divider on the left, then I swung right and almost hit the railing on the right, then I did two 360 degree spins and then my car traveled backwards for several feet.

While I was going backwards, I saw a truck's headlights coming right at me at probably 60 miles/hour. My car flipped around into a 180 degree spin and I landed back in the direction of traffic on the right side of the road about 2 inches from the railing and the edge of a very steep cliff. The truck zoomed past me from the left and as it was just inches away it shook my car as it drove past.

I can't believe I am alive - honestly, it is a miracle that I did not get a scratch on myself nor the car... must have been a guardian angel or something. They say your life flashes by in seconds and that is what truly happened. I thought... I don't want to hit the edge, oh my gosh I am going to hit the edge, I don't want to die, I am never going to see my family again, this is my time and such.

As I was spinning and then going backwards I could see the cliff from the corner of my eye and I thought... this is it, I am going down that cliff and dying in the next few seconds and there is nothing I can do about it. My mind shot from "I don't want to die" to "I have to accept that I am going to die" - very strange.

When I did not crash nor die, I sat in my car sweating and shaking profusely for a while till I could collect myself enough to drive off to the nearest exit and sit there a while calming down. The kind-of-accident happened around 4:20 pm and it took me all night to process it and calm down. I am still rattled.

No Resolutions, No Broken Expectations

Greetings... love to think positive, but I decided not to make any resolutions this year, anticipating that I will rapidly break them and then shatter my own expectations. Those who have lowered expectations tend to be happier... someone somewhere conducted a study re this.

I heard, that the Danes are the happiest people on the planet, because they don't expect a lot. So, when they don't get something, they are not disappointed. Similarly, when they get something they are happy. Will definitely aim to adopt their outlook in 2008.

Per About.com here are their Top Ten New Year's Resolutions followed by my comments in brackets:

Spend More Time with Family & Friends (I do)
Fit in Fitness (I try)
Tame the Bulge (I try)
Quit Smoking (not applicable)
Enjoy Life More (I try)
Quit Drinking (not applicable)
Get Out of Debt (I try)
Learn Something New (I do)
Help Others (I think I do)
Get Organized (I try)

Saware - song

Here is a kid - Aamir Hafeez - who really is mind blowing, mind uplifting, and all that awesome jazz! Amazingly powerful voice inside this little kid singing 'Saware' from the movie 'Bandit Queen' originally sung by, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Again, better than the King of Sufi Music, maybe? Judge for yourself... above and below...

Teri Deewani - also by Aamir Hafeez