June 29, 2010
Why People Succeed or Fail
Parkinson’s Law is one of the best known and the most important laws of money and wealth accumulation. It was developed by English writer C. Northcote Parkinson many years ago and it explains why most people retire poor.
The Way the Law Works
This law says that, no matter how much money people earn, they tend to spend the entire amount and a little bit more besides. Their expenses rise in lockstep with their earnings. Many people are earning today several times what they were earning at their first jobs. But somehow, they seem to need every single penny to maintain their current lifestyles. No matter how much they make, there never seems to be enough.
The Key to Financial Success
The first corollary of Parkinson’s Law says: "Financial independence comes from violating Parkinson’s Law."
Parkinson’s Law explains the trap that most people fall into. This is the reason for debt, money worries and financial frustration. It is only when you develop sufficient willpower to resist the powerful urge to spend everything you make that you begin to accumulate money and move ahead of the crowd.
Slow Down Your Spending
The second corollary of Parkinson’s Law is: "If you allow your expenses to increase at a slower rate than your earnings, and you save or invest the difference, you will become financially independent in your working lifetime."
This is the key. I call it the "wedge." If you can drive a wedge between your increasing earnings and the increasing costs of your lifestyle, and then save and invest the difference, you can continue to improve your lifestyle as you make more money. By consciously violating Parkinson’s Law, you will eventually become financially independent.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to apply this law immediately:
First, imagine that your financial life is like a failing company that you have taken over. Institute an immediate financial freeze. Halt all non-essential expenses. Draw up a budget of your fixed, unavoidable costs per month and resolve to limit your expenditures temporarily to these amounts.
Carefully examine every expense. Question it as though you were analyzing someone else’s expenses. Look for ways to economize or cut back. Aim for a minimum of a 10 percent reduction in your living costs over the next three months.
Second, resolve to save and invest 50 percent of any increase you receive in your earnings from any source. Learn to live on the rest. This still leaves you the other 50 percent to do with as you desire. Do this for the rest of your career.
Reference: http://success-bytes.blogspot.com/
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June 26, 2010
Many businesspeople achieve their greatest successes in unexpected areas. They begin a business and then they find that it isn’t as profitable as they had anticipated, so they change direction, using their experience and their momentum, and strike paydirt in something else. The most important thing is to begin. To take action. To move forward one step at a time, learning and growing as you go. There is enough information available in virtually every field for you to become knowledgeable enough to achieve success. But action is necessary.
The Two Parts of Success
Success author Orison Swett Marden once wrote, the first part of success is get-to-it-ivness. The second part is stick-to-it-iveness. Every business beginning requires an act of faith and courage, a bold leap into the unknown. Only one in ten people who want to start their own businesses ever develop enough courage to begin and enough persistence to continue. Get-to-it-iveness. And stick-to-it-iveness. The fear of failure, more than anything else, holds people back. It paralyzes action. And it makes failure inevitable.
Begin With a Dream
Fortunately, even if you know nothing about business, you can begin with a dream, a castle in the air, and then build a foundation under it.
Seven Simple Steps
The starting point of many great fortunes has been these seven simple steps. Number one, set a goal and back it with a burning desire. Number two, begin accumulating capital with a regular savings program. Nothing else is possible without this. You cannot move forward until you start a savings program.
Use Your Current Job As A Springboard
Number three, use your current job as a springboard to later success. Learn while you earn. Take the long view. Number four, experiment in business on a limited scale so you can learn the key abilities necessary for success. Number five, search for problems, needs unmet, products or services you can supply of good quality at reasonable prices.
Read Everything You Can Find
Number six, read everything you can find on your chosen field. Remain flexible. Be willing to change your mind if you get different information. And number seven, implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, never give up.
Action Exercises
Now, here are two actions you can take immediately to start moving toward entrepreneurial success:
First, set a goal, make a plan and then launch your plan. Get started. Do something. Begin on a small scale with limited risk and investment but get going!
Second, resolve that, no matter what happens, you will never, never give up until you are successful. Before you accomplish anything worthwhile, you will have to pass the persistence test. And the test will come far sooner than you imagine.
Reference: http://success-bytes.blogspot.com/2010/06/seven-simple-steps-to-small-business.html
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May 31, 2010
Most of the blogger started their blog on windows environment with IIS6 without any component installed for URL rewriting like ISAPI_REWRITE. And they don’t know the importance of URL rewriting but when they came to know about rewriting its too late. Following is the solution for those blogger who are willing to rewrite url on their blog.
< ?php
// This is the default file for the site. Usually index.php
$default = 'index.php';
// The name of this file.
// Set this value for the URL in Custom Error Properties of your website in IIS.
// Goto: IIS Manager > Websites > [Site Name] > Properties > Custom Errors >
// 404 & 404;2 & 404;3 > URL (Requires a '/' prefix in IIS).
$thisfile = '404-handler.php';
$_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED'] = str_replace($thisfile, $default, $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED']);
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = str_replace($thisfile, $default, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'] = str_replace($thisfile, $default, $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']);
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = str_replace($thisfile, $default, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = str_replace($thisfile, $default, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = false;
$qs =& $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$ru =& $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$pos = strrpos($qs, '://');
$pos = strpos($qs, '/', $pos + 4);
$_SERVER['URL'] = $ru = substr($qs, $pos);
$qs = trim(stristr($ru, '?'), '?');
// Required for WordPress 2.8+
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'] = $ru;
// Fix GET vars
foreach ( $_GET as $var => $val ) {
if ( substr($var, 0, 3) == '404') {
if ( strstr($var, '?') ) {
$newvar = substr($var, strpos($var, '?') + 1);
$_GET[$newvar] = $val;
}
unset($_GET[$var]);
}
break;
}
include($default);
?>
Follow the steps.
- Create the file wp-404-handler.php in your base WordPress folder.
- Set your sites 404 page to point to the wp-404-handler.php url. Most control panels at web hosts allow you to do this. If you’ve got the option to select between FILE and URL then choose URL.
- Go to WordPress Options -> Permalinks in your WordPress admin page, and choose an appropriate structure for your links. I chose Custom with this pattern:/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
- Enjoy Pretty URLs
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Tags: IIS6, url rewriting, wordpress
April 9, 2010
Ikariam is a browser based massively multiplayer online game in the strategy genre produced and maintained by Gameforge AG. The game is set in a world resembling classical Greece, with players being made tyrant of a small town, which they must expand and lead. Ikariam has received generally positive reviews.
Ikariam has been compared to the Civilization series created by Sid Meier. It has also been compared to the critically acclaimed Travian series created by Travian Games GmbH. The aim of the game is to expand the town which is controlled by the player, to gather resources and conquer or placate other players. The game can be played for short periods of time; building and researching takes place in real time so the player can return at a later point and assign the town’s inhabitants new tasks.
Upon registering, players are given control of a small town. The town’s inhabitants pay taxes to the player or can be sent to gather resources instead. The game world is split into islands, each of which can support up to 16 players and their towns. Each island has its own saw mill for producing wood and one of the other buildings which produces a luxury resource. There are five main types of resources: Wood, Wine, Marble, Crystal Glass and Sulphur. They are available from the Sawmill, Vineyard, Quarry, Crystal Mine and Sulphur Pit respectively. All these resources are required to progress in the game, making resource acquisition through conquest or trading mandatory. If a certain resource is lacking locally the player may trade with other players to acquire it. Each island’s inhabitants may cooperate and donate building materials to improve the efficiency of their island’s resource gathering facilities, which enables all local players to obtain resources more quickly. Failure to do so may result in hostilities between island inhabitants.
With resources the player may construct buildings such as barracks, dockyards and academies. Citizens of the town can then be trained as soldiers, sent to research new technologies, or perform other tasks, which they are paid tax money for undertaking. Citizens must be kept happy to prevent them from leaving the town.
Buildings
Town hall- every town starts with one research requirements:none
Academy- here research can be done for new buildings, units, ships…ETC research requirements: none
Warehouse- keeps your items safe depending on the level of this building research requirements:conservation
Tavern- allows the serving of wine. increses happiness with every level research requirements:wine culture
Palace- allows the founding of a new colony research requirements: Expansion
Governors residence- required in a colony to stop corruption research requirements: expansion
Museum- does the same as tavern research requirements:cultural exchange
Trading port- Allows trading to be done research requirements:none
Shipyard- allows the construction of war ships research requirements:dry dock
Barracks- allows the construction of war units research requirements:none
Town wall- A 10% bonus is given for every level to soldiers when defending research requirements:none
Embassy- allows the player to join an alliance research requirements:foreign cultures
Trading post- lets the player purchase resources of one another research requirements: wealth
Hideout- Spys are trained here to go and spy on other towns research requirements:espionage
Workshop- improves troop’s weapons research requirements: invention
Forester’s House- increases building material gathering by 2% per level research requirements: improved resource gathering
Glassblower- increases crystal glass mining by 2% per level research requirements:improved resource gathering
Alchemist`s Tower- increases sulpher production by 2% per level research requirements:improved resource gathering
Winery- increases wine growing by 2% per level research requirements:improved resource gathering
Stonemasons Workshop- increases marble minining by 2% per level research requirements: improved resource gathering
Optician- demand for crystal on a building is reduced by 1% per level research requirements:optics
Firework Test Area- demand for sulphur on a building is reduced by 1% per level research requirements:pyrotechnics
Wine Cellars- demand for wine for any building is reduced by 1% per level research requirements:wine press house
Architect`s Office- demand for marble on any building is reduced by 1% per level research requirements:architecture
Temple- increases faith on the island research requirements: polytheism
http://www.ikariam.com
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Tags: browser game, free online game, online game, web based game
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