Time. It is without a doubt our most precious commodity. Time is something that we are all given at birth. If you are alive and reading this post, you are one of the over 6 billion inhabitants of this planet who has been given 86,400 seconds each day to use. Whether you're super rich or desperately poor, we all have the same number of seconds in the day. 86,400.
What we do with these seconds is another thing. Let's go with another number for a second. Let's say that you are working a J.O.B. and you get paid 500 bucks a week. That's equals to 50,000 pennies. It's not hard to spend 50,000 pennies in a week. Of course I'm equating the pennies to the seconds in my time example. How do you spend your money each week? Most of it probably goes to bills, mortgage, food and other necessities. In terms of time, this would be equivalent to spending some of your 86,400 seconds on other "necessities" such as sleeping, showering, eating, commuting to and working your J.O.B. if you're employed. So how do you spend your left over money at the end of the week? Go out to the local pub and blow it all? Save it for the future? Maybe you spoil yourself with a new gadget.
It works the same way with time, only there is one difference. If you lose money, you can always get it back. If you waste your money, you can always get more. If you lose time, it's gone forever. If you waste time, its gone forever. This is what makes time even more precious than money. Time can never, ever be recovered, yet we are all paid the same each day that we are alive in terms of seconds. Every wasted hour, every wasted day accumulates in a sort of time debt. The more time that is blown, the more regret that will build as you become closer to your final day. When you reach your final day, will you be happy with the way you spent your time. Was watching TV and playing Poingo on some spyware infested website for years on end worth having a negative net worth as you cash in your chips from the physical realm?
If you're starting to feel the weight of time debt (regret for a wasted life), I have good news. It's not too late! Start freeing up your time now and get started on your path to freedom. Start building that Internet Business that you've always wanted to do. Don't spend weeks and months on planning how you're going to do it. Just start with a basic goal. Now get your website, start a blog, make a product! Just take action! Form the more complex parts of the business plan as you go. If you don't go in this order, you will find yourself planning your internet venture right into the ground. It's extremely easy to get caught in that perpetual learning cycle. Avoid this one pitfall and you're already ahead of 98% of the rest.
Now, to free up your time. Eliminate distractions! I was reading a post by Keith Goodrum on one very effective way to eliminate distractions. In fact, it was his post that inspired me to expand upon the importance of time. His suggestion is to unsubscribe from all of the time wasting emails from other people's lists that have accumulated over time. Just looking at these emails can tempt you to take your eye off the ball, and before you know it, the day is blown. I've been guilty of this myself. I've thinned out my own inbox to only the blog announcements of the blogs I enjoy, and a couple of the big name "gurus" just so that I can study their email strategies, headlines and copywriting styles. Secondly, stop watching the TV!!! The TV set is the single most dangerous time vampire you could ever face. Getting lulled into that mindless trance will steal hours away from your quality business building time. You already sleep at night. Why sleep your day away too? Watching TV is no different, only that your eyes are open and that you are vaguely conscious of your surroundings.
I've been following Keith's blog for a couple of weeks now, and I can tell that Keith has already developed a pretty cool blog. He has even started a TGIF Book Review, a video review of a selected book from his library to share with his readers. Go check him out and see if you won't add him to your "quality list" as well!
In case you haven't noticed, I haven't made a blog posting in a couple of days. That's because I've been hard at work revamping the AmazingCloaker. The new release will be AmazingCloaker 4. I have rebuilt this application from the ground up. Some of the new features that I have added include the ability to save your cloaking sessions and improved FTP capabilities.
Do you have a digital product such as an ebook, video or audio product? Maybe a software product of some type. One of the biggest benefits of having digital products in my opinion is that you spend time at the beginning to develop your products, then you get paid forever. It's kind of like having an "internet vending machine" for each product that you have. That is, if its a download-able product. The down side of downloadable products is that there are some pretty sharp crooks out there that will dedicate a lot of time to figuring out your download folder. Experienced product hackers have lots of tricks up their sleeve which they can use to figure it out. Fortunately, a vast majority of your visitors are pretty honest, but it only takes one. Now maybe it wouldn't be so bad if they just kept it to themselves, but that's not normally the case. These kind of people like to show off their talents by sharing your products with pirate forums, warez sites or even illegally selling your product somewhere like eBay!
I was reading through 
As we use our computers or laptops from day to day, it's easy to become complacent with our security. Technology is an amazing power when its working. When something goes wrong, however, then your whole world gets turned upside down. "If only I would have backed up my ____ files", is usually the first thing that runs through most people's minds. What would happen if 15 seconds from now your hard drive went into total meltdown? 
As I was driving through town today, I passed by the local cemetery as I do many times during the week. At the same time, I was listening to the radio in which the announcer had been talking about Martin Luther King day and some of the accomplishments that were made by this great man in his short life. I couldn't help but to wonder about those of whom were lying under the headstones as they were passing by my passenger window. Each stone in that cemetery represents an entire lifetime of experiences. Some very long while others were cut much too short. Dr. King was one such example. He achieved a level of greatness, and brought about huge strides in civil rights through peaceful means. Triumphing over racial bigotry and oppression in even the most ignorant regions of the south. He had a lot more to accomplish, but instead was struck down in his prime. Even being cut down at an early time, his accomplishments in changing the collective mindset were astounding.
I just read an interesting article by 
Wanting to create a product and start a website? Maybe you already have a website, or several websites. When you purchase your piece of real estate on the world wide web, have you given any thought to your domain name? No, I mean serious thought. It's a common misconception that all the "good" names are taken. So what makes up a good name? Is it something that contains a short name and ends with a .com? Maybe a 256 character string containing all your favorite keywords ending in a dot something? Ok, that's a little outrageous, but just what does constitute a good domain name? 
A couple years ago a movie/documentary came out that was quite popular called "The Secret". It was quite popular and controversial at the same time. Some thought it was life transforming while others thought was a complete crock. The Secret dealt with the law of attraction and how you can use it to achieve anything you wish in life. I'm referring to "The Secret" in this post because there are many people who equate (either negatively or positively) the law of attraction with what they picked up in the movie. This was an introduction to the concept for many. I first studied this waaaaayyyy back in the 1980's! Ok, now I'm dating myself.