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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Huge Cricut Cartridge Sale Going on Now at …

There is a big cricut cartridge sale going on now at Hallmark Scrapbook.  The site is giving such good prices that they are having trouble keeping up.  Bear with them if you want to get a good deal on some new cartridges.

They are selling the brand new cartridges as well as some oldie but goodies.

Here is the link to Hallmark Scrapbook Cricut Cartridge Sale.

Blackberry and Oracle Why Can’t You Love Each Other

One of the biggest challenges of my new job is getting my techno gadgets to play nicely with the gadgets provided by my company.  God bless them they have provided me with are more than adequate laptop stacked with the full version of MS office and an awesome projector to use for my presentation but for the love of God why do we need Oracle Connector.

Oracle Connector will not play nice with Franklin Covey Planplus or my beloved Blackberry curve.  Franklin Covey saved me days of frustration by just telling flat out it won’t work.  As for syncing the blackberry calendar to my oracle calendar I have been up and down the gamut of third party software to find a solution to sync my blackberry native calendar with MS Outlook running Oracle Connector.  Nothing will work.  I have tried SyncJE which is supposed to be supported by Oracle and several other products.  I have even had the top tech guys at Alltel on the case.  They were positive they could find a solution only to call back completely deflated telling me it was a no go.  I have been all over the crackberry.com forums and all the other forums looking for a solution but no luck.

It appears that several other of my fellow crackberry addicts share the same affliction.  I can’t help but see a spot in the market for someone who can come up with a solution.  For those of us who have the blackberry alarm waking us up, yahoo messenger keeping us in touch with the kids, gmail keeping us on track of our email and telenav keeping us going the right direction find me a easy way to sync my blackberry calendar with ms outlook using oracle connector.

Passion for What You Do

After working steadily for nearly 11 years in the lead generation and online marketing world my life took a dramatic change.  I went to the Top Affiliate Challenge in July of 08. This was the first in person show I had worked at in nearly 11 years.  I had an enthusiasm for meeting and networking with the contestants that tossed me into an entirely new direction.

I have always liked working with the public but I found a way to make a very nice income from behind the computer.  I  have 3 kids working at home was an incredible opportunity to provide a healthy income and keep them at home instead of daycare.

Since the kids are older and just about all in school I decided to research a field I had a ton of interest in, the nursing home industry.  The more I researched the more I liked it.  It just so happened that the nursing home industry had a place for me.  They had a sales and marketing and resource development position that couldn’t be more perfect.

I have to tell you that for the last few years I did what I did more from habit and it was getting very difficult to come into my office and do my job.  I lost my passion for what I was doing and my work and my income was definitely showing the effects.

God works in his own time.  He puts you in places that you never dreamed you would be in.  You must listen and have a little patience which is something I pray for.

For the last 50 days I have had true passion for my new job.  I believe in the project I am promoting and I believe the enthusiasm I have for my work is rubbing off on my new customers.  I am selling products with price tags in the $250K range and not even sweating it.  That is passion.  I’m doing public speaking, I am networking,  I am volunteering.  Doors are opening to me and my stress level is making me a happier and healthier person.

If you find yourself dragging to work start listening.  The Lord has work for you to do and he wants you to do it with passion.  Start listening he will provide the work, you provide the passion to get it done with spirit.  You will find yourself living a much better life when do learn to work with passion.