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If it can be agreed upon by the majority of people that great time management is a desirable skill, why is it that so few people can be described as “well organized, effective, and efficient?” In my experience over the past several years, I’ve found that many people have ideas about time management that just aren’t true. I also know that if you believe something to be true, it becomes true for you. Your beliefs cause you to see yourself and the world, and your relationship to time management, in a particular way. If you have negative beliefs in any area, these beliefs will affect your thinking and actions, and will eventually become your reality. You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.

Brian Tracy- a well known entrepreneur/leadership developer/motivational speaker outlines and describes time management as:

Three Mental Barriers To Time Power
The first negative belief about time management is that if you’re too well organized, you’re rigid and unemotional. Some people feel that they will lose their spontaneity and freedom if they are extremely effective and efficient.

Many people use this belief as an excuse for not disciplining themselves the way they know they should. The fact is that people who are disorganized are not spontaneous; they are merely confused, and often frantic. The key is structuring and organizing everything that’s within your control to allow you to make the most of your time, i.e.: thinking ahead; planning for contingencies; preparing thoroughly and focusing on specific results. Only then can you be completely relaxed and spontaneous when the situation changes.

The better organized you are in the factors that are under your control, the greater freedom and flexibility you have to quickly make changes whenever they are necessary.

The second barrier people tend to surround themselves with in regards to ineffective time management, is that it’s a trait that’s been programmed into them, either from their parents or other influential people in their lives, since early childhood.

If you were continuously told as a child, that you’re a messy person, unorganized, a procrastinator who waits until the last minute to do anything or always late, chances are that as an adult, you may still be operating under the same thought process.

Time management and personal efficiency skills are disciplines that we learn and develop through practice and repetition. If we’ve developed bad time management habits, the good news is we can unlearn them by replacing them with new/better habits, over time.

The third mental block to good time management skills is having a negative self-concept, or what’s commonly referred to as “self-limiting beliefs.” Many people believe that they don’t have the ability to be good at time management. They often believe that it is an inborn part of their background or heritage. The truth is there’s no gene/chromosome for poor time management, or good time management, for that matter. Personal behaviors are within your own control.

IMAGINE THIS………
Imagine if someone offered you a million dollars to manage your time superbly for the next thirty days. Imagine an efficiency expert following you around with a clipboard and a video camera for one month. After the thirty days, if you had used your time efficiently and well, working on your highest priorities all day, every day, you would receive a prize of one million dollars. How efficient would you be over the next thirty days?

Check out Shift Happens: Education 3.0, for an interesting barrage of stats demonstrating just how quickly the world is moving in education and business. One of the reasons we started GoHuman.com is to help independent businesses keep up with all the changes that otherwise might leave them behind. Individuals are being rewarded for their ability to work independently and fluidly now more than ever. GoHuman.com helps those people find good customers locally for all their various talents.

I love a good play on words.

GoHuman.com’s primary tagline is “change the way your world works”, highlighting our mission at an individual and a collective level.

In today’s blog I’m at it again, referring back to yesterday, where I quoted a respected investment newsletter using its own play on words about there being more labor than jobs.

We can change that. We can fix it.

As our leaders work to deal with the impact of the recent financial train wreck, we at GoHuman.com are launching a site we believe will empower you to help correct the problem from the bottom up.

GoHuman.com provides a fast, free way for you to find work that needs doing, and do it, or to hire someone to help you get something done that you need help with. And it does this efficiently and inexpensively, making projects large or small economically feasible. Many of the costs that do not contribute to the actual value of the service performed are removed from the equation. This can create more opportunity for valuable work to get done, kick-starting the micro economies we all participate in at the local level.

With lower marketing and advertising costs, for example, gohuman.com can connect you quickly and efficiently to the actual task that needs doing, making it easier for someone else to pay you a wage, or fee, in accordance with the time, materials and craftsmanship it will take you to perform the service, in a win/win arrangement.

This is but one of the ways in which gohuman.com can get America working again. As we grow our userbase in each local community the impact to the overall economy will increase – one job at a time.

So get vocal about local. Help us spread the word, and let’s get America working again.

Money and Markets features “The unbiased market commentary you won’t get from Wall Street”. The truth is, in the human sphere there is no such thing as a lack of bias. This is why the “Free Market” is a myth. The markets are guided, if not controlled, by powerful parties and biases. But I like the newsletter from moneyandmarkets because they do give you clear opinions of great value that you won’t get elsewhere. That’s why I subscribe to Martin D. Weiss’ newsletter. And the title of this blog is the headline of today’s featured article by Mike Larson. It’s definitely worth a read.

And, you can do something about it, even if you’re not in a position to take investment positions. All you need to do is click on share to spread the blog about our launch contest on Labor Day. GoHuman.com provides a means to get our economy moving again – by connecting real people with real people who have what each other needs, and get them busy working with each other in the local community, from within a Marketplace that is both integrated and sustainable.

This is different from the large, global institutions designed to aggregate value at the top, to be siphoned off by a few, while disenfranchising those at the bottom. Every so often this unbalanced, unsustainable approach, fueled by outsized greed and lust for power, results in an implosion. Sometimes such implosions result in the extinction of a species.

Think of the dinosaurs – and the T. Rex with monstrous jaws and tiny, useless arms. They devour, but they can not create value. Some of us are more like the Lemmings, who reproduce so quickly they create unsustainable communities that plummet to near extinction, or produce the famous cliff-jumping scenes.

The unbiased truth about this Labor Day is that there’s no lack of work that needs done – but today’s structures and systems are not sustainable, so companies are not opening up new positions. There are lots of openings in the GoHuman.com marketplace. Hang out your shingle and get to work

We hope you’ll join us – you CAN change the way your world works. Click share and help us spread the word!

They’re not yet extinct

On the surface I’m a typical white American male. Dig deeper and you’ll find that I was born in Canada and have lived in 7 countries. Some of my formative years were spent in Sweden, a “socialist” country bordering on the Soviet Union, during the Cold War years.

We didn’t follow regional basketball and baseball, we watched Sweden compete in Soccer and Hockey with countries that had opposing ideological, political, social and economic systems. My Swedish cousin used to joke that the Russian ships patrolling the Baltic borders were Keeping people from flooding into the “Worker’s Paradise”. I am fascinated by these differences, how they affect the individual, and the societies they produce.

Throughout history people have tried a variety of economic models, social systems and government structures, with mixed results. The Internet has enabled new experiments that leverage the “voice of the people” and democracy in new ways. In the US the Internet has played an increasing role in determining who can become a presidential candidate and, most recently, who gets elected.

I believe in the power of the individual, communities, and nations to achieve self determination, create change, and control their destiny. GoHuman.com addresses change up and down economic and power pyramids. It provides new ways of working and being compensated at the micro and macro level. It provides new ways of connecting, working and relating – one-on-one or in larger circles, in new, innovative, and positive ways. And I believe that as its adoption rate increases, it will produce real, lasting change.

GoHuman.com is not just “social networking”. It harnesses the power of the latest technology advancements of the human race, and pushes the envelope of integrating these into our daily lives, our economic philosophy, and our social structure. GoHuman.com has the power to improve the equality and dignity of individuals and communities across socio-economic boundaries, while celebrating their unique and cultural characteristics.

I believe in GoHuman.com’s primary tagline – that you can use it to change the way your world works. As John Lennon said in one of his most famous songs, “Imagine” “You might say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.”

Wade Fransson
GoHuman.com Co-Founder

Me and my gal

Labor unions are still struggling to gain a foothold in North Carolina and Virginia, the only two states in the country with a total ban on collective bargaining by public employees. National bills are being pursued to gain access to large-scale negotiating to benefit the workers in these states. It’s heavy-lifting, but moving forward.

In 1776 The U.S. of A. established itself as an independent entity.  Arguably, what has made this nation great, is the balance of power vested in three seperate branches of government.  This enabled the human resources of this continent to govern themselves without one person or group gaining undue control and influence.  Today the corporations of this planet are larger than governments, and their enormous wealth and power has usurped this balance.

In the last 18 months, even those who believe in “free markets” have become painfully aware of the extent to which greed and corporate influence  dominate the planet.  People are seeing through the “free market illusion” created by those in control, like the Vegas operators who paint the sky on Casino ceilings to keep players gambling day and night.

It’s time to declare economic independence and establish a new financial order.

Background!

Between 2004 and 2007 I headed up Strategic Planning for Countrywide’s Administration and Real Estate, writing approved plans for over a Billion dollars in capital and operational budget so the company could grow from 30,000 to 60,000 employees.  I left in disgust in February 2007, writing an MBA paper comparing Countrywide Culture to the Mafia.

In the February 23, 2009 issue of Time, Angelo Mozilo – former CEO of Countrywide, is listed as the #1 person to blame for the financial systems meltdown. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court, accusing Mozilo of making more than $139 million in profits in 2006 and 2007 as a result of exercising 5.1 million stock options.

This is by far not the only example I’ve personally seen of how executives abuse their position to extract value from  companies and shareholders they supposedly serve.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Global Capitalism, as practiced today, creates pyramid structures from which the rich and powerful at the top suck enormous amounts of value, at the expense of the disenfranchised workers at the bottom.

Here’s another example.  I have invested in a few single family rental homes in an inexpensive part of the country, and have a FICO score in the 700s.  One of these houses is worth twice the current loan amount,  and I need $25,000 in cash to pay down debt related to relocating to Madison, WI and the birth of our daughter. For 3 years I’ve been applying for an $80,000 refinance loan, submitting reams of documentation, tax returns, etc. to accompany four applications in excess of 15 pages, all of which have been denied.

With the recent tightening of credit I’ve given up, as banks keep raising the bar on what it takes to get a loan. Along with millions of my fellow Americans I am now paying credit card rates because banks will not perform their historical function of lending money against assets.

In contrast to this, the February 16 issue of Fortune magazine explains that 300 banks have received $314 Billion dollars of taxpayer bailout money, (TARP funds) by filling out a two page application. These funds were intended to be lent to people like you and me, who are negatively impacted by greedy and foolish business practices of financial institutions and the resulting tightening of  credit.

Having been rescued with tax dollars, banks are desperately trying to pay the funds back early, because TARP rules limit the amount of pay to executives.  They say these rules make them non-competetive.  They say they are doing us a favor.  Words fail me!

What are we doing about it?

GoHuman is a dot com that focuses on the individuals that form the economic backbone of our society.  A zip-code based deployment and business model enable an interconnected, integrated marketplace at the local level, so small business owners and their customers can “just say no” to the powerful elite that seek to control and dictate each local transaction while siphoning off value through the top of obscenely large corporations.

GoHuman.com leverages the grass roots power of Web 2.0 Social Networking to correct inequity from the ground up.  We have inverted the pyramid structure, and are keeping big players out of this community until you, the businesses and consumers operating at the GROUND LEVEL, stake your claim to a more equitable model.

Our platform helps working people focus more of their time and energy on the areas where they create value, while benefitting all stakeholders in an equitable, sustainable community.  GoHuman.com’s business model pays the people who create the value, and its growth model is to give itself away to those who build it.All who help build it share in the enormous value created.

What does GoHuman.com sell?

GoHuman.com is Software as a Service, (SaaS) delivered via the web. The scale of our platform, coupled with the Internet, and the effectiveness of our business model, provides inexpensive solutions that increase the ability, profitability, and viability of our customers, the small local busineses across North America, that are run by real people serving real people.

Individuals and the smallest of small businesses use the site for free.  As businesses grow with the community, GoHuman.com offers the tools needed for continued excellence, growth and sustainability for a monthly software subscription fee.  Other products are under development to be rolled out at Launch.

How will it gain momentum?

Our Pioneer Program allows you to share in the success of GoHuman.com and rewards you along the way. The program is built around the concept of turning this giveaway into a viral growth platform.  Pre-launch on Independence Day leads to our Launch on the 100 Year anniversary of Labor Sunday.

Where do you start?

Join GoHuman.com for free right now.  Or just spread the word about GoHuman.com to others near and dear to you.

The GoHuman.com team can’t wait to have you join us in making the world work better.