Music, computers, home recording and sound production, cars, Internet Marketing, Web 2.0 Networking, Video marketing
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Books
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig,
The Master Key System by Charles Haanel,
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a truly remarkable book, and of course,
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
About
me: I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and spent my early years in
New Orleans. By junior high I was living in Richmond, TX, outside of
Houston, where my stepfather landed a job with a deepwater drilling
company as an administrator. That job took us to Cairo, Egypt, where I
spent my first 3 years of high school in a closely-knit American
community, and from where I had the opportunity to travel to Paris,
Athens, Rhodes and around Egypt on many school trips. My senior year of
high school was spent in Singapore, from whence I was able to take
short trips to Bankok, Bali, and Kathmandu. Doing all this traveling at
such a young age left many a profound impression on me, chief among
them that people are the same underneath the skin anywhere you go. I
also learned to play guitar an developed an interest in becoming a
musician during this time.
I returned to the States in 1981 to attend college, and my
days of company-paid trips were soon to be a thing of the past. Much
partying and indecision later, I graduated from Southeastern Louisiana
University in Hammond, LA, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1988. I
had married in 1987, and so, having new resposibilities, I went to work
in the Food Service industry in Houston. In 1991 I was hired by
Enterprise Leasing to work in the wholesale department, and over the
next 5 years became an Area Remarketing Manager, selling 300-800 rental
and leasing cars to dealers every month. All this without ever using
the Internet.
In 1996 I bought my first computer and began trying to teach myself
everything I could learn about how to use it. It was at this time that
I was first introduced to the dual whammy of Internet Marketing and
Network Marketing, and from that time forward I began to become
psychologically unemployable. You see, I was exposed to the idea that
there was a better way to make a living besides working for a
corporation that didn't really have my best interests as part of their
agenda. I realized that here was the potential for freedom, both from
the tyranny of the almighty clock, and from having a cap on my income.
I began to try to find ways to put my spare time to work on finding my
way out of the rat race, and I began to be less satisfied with any job
that I took. This is when I began a long downward spiral. I would take
a job and everything would be fine for 6 or 7 months, then I would
reach a point of impatience where it just didn't seem to be worth all
of the pain involved. Each time I quit a job, though, my resume began
to look worse. Rather than reflecting all of the different types of
experience I was gaining, it was plain to see that I just could not be
counted on to stay very long. Fewer and fewer of my interviews ended
with a job offer as the years went by.
In the meantime, I was trying anything and everything to find out how
to make this pie in the sky on the Internet come true. Autoresponders,
chain letters, ad blasters, safelists, massive spamming, and jumping
from one bad business opportunity to the next. I would sometimes
experience a little success, only to hit a wall and realize that these
techniques could only get me so far. The main common feature of what I
was doing is that I had very few real relationships that I could point
to from all of this. I became more and more isolated, and finally gave
up altogether.
After years of this pattern I was continuously in a state of financial
crisis. My credit was ruined, and I had 10-year old debts that I was
just waiting for the statute of limitaions to expire on to get them off
of my record, since there was nothing I could do to pay them, and I
refused to declare bankruptcy. The best job I could get was working in
a warehouse, which is not bad in itself, but I only was making a
fraction of what I had once made with Enterprise, and had little hope
of moving up or improving my situation. A serious sob story here.
I apologize for being a downer, but the reason I am telling you this is
to show you how it can all change so quickly if you really want it to.
Now I don't worry about money, worry is unproductive anyway, and the
way to solve all of the dilemmas in my life has begun to take hold. All
of the bad experience that I've had on the Internet have taught me how
NOT to do it, and I've found out the real basis for success in my life.
The dreams I originally had when I got my first computer are coming
true all around me, and life is changing rapidly from that sob story to
a story of triumph in the face of impossible odds.
Who I'd like to meet: I
would like to meet other people whose journeys have led them to the
place where they had to decide for themselves which direction in life
they really wanted to take, and have chosen the path that leads upward.
I want to meet those who are looking for the real answers to how to
make money on and off of the Internet, without doing the things that
have served them so little over the years. I want to meet people who
have the drive and the determination to move forward on their own steam
and want to constantly improve the way they do things. I want to meet
those who understand that there is no such thing as a business with no
investment required, and are prepared to do what it takes to put
themselves in a position where they can't fail. I get extremely excited when I have the ooportunity to work with someone who has a can-do attitude and is positive and caring about all aspects of their life.
I don't want to
meet those who believe that you can get rich from a $5, $25, or even
$100 a month investment. I hate to say it, but I used to believe that
as well and it is absolute baloney. Money doesn't work that way, except
in fantasy. Business doesn't work that way. Actually, you can get rich
from that kind of investment, but it takes about 500 years. I am not at the point where I want to look into other ooportunities; what I am doing is working out so well that I sincerely don't have the time. I don't want to meet negative or fearful or doubtful people, because that is what holds so many people down in life. Your reality is created by your prevalent attitude and thoughts, and that sort of life doesn't appeal to me any more.
So If I haven't
scared you off by this point, I'd like to invite you to get to know me
further by emailing me at bradparent001@gmail.com
, calling me at 866-452-3530, or sending me a Skype chat message to
brad.parent . Also please feel free to find out more about me by
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