Sudoku, Thoughts and Stuff
It’s 2:28 am.
I’m laying in my bed getting ready to read. My daughters are crashed out in the living room having fallen asleep in the middle of “The Santa Clause.” (They literally watch it every time they come over at least once, maybe twice.)
A day at the bookstore, chuck e. cheese’s and the playground can really take it out of a kid.
I hopped on the i-net to check some email and see if anyone updated their blogs (in the last 67 minutes I’ve been off the i-net.)
My phone is blowing up. The girl from LR: Sudoku has called 5 times since 2:10 a.m.! Earlier today I received an email from an ex who wants me to come to her city to see her. What’s weird about that is someone who heard about my marketing prowess contacted me just a few days ago offering to pay me a rather large hourly fee to spend lunch and a half day talking advertising – in the same city.
Then, another SUPER HOT girl contacted me off of an old internet dating profile. She sends me a nice email saying that she doesn’t normally email guys but found my profile so interesting she had to respond and asked me to look at her profile and message her back if I was interested in meeting.
And, guess where she is?
Yep. Same city.
All within about 7-10 days of each other.
What are the fucking chances? My first reaction is…setup! But, after my paranoia subsided a little bit I couldn’t for the life of me find out how in the hell they could know each other or what other possible threads connecting these situations there could possibly be…
My phone is buzzing now…it’s Sudoku girl again. Damn. She’s not leaving voicemails. Thought it might’ve been Sinn texting me something like, “That’s #4 fag!”
Sudoku = Stage 5 Clinger.
Banker to the Poor
I just finished watching an A&E documentary about J. Pierpont Morgan and I’m about to start reading “Banker to the Poor” by Muhammad Yunus. The story in a nutshell is this guy gives “microloans” to the poor and guides them in basic business/financial knowledge thereby helping them lift THEMSELVES out of poverty. It’s been a tremendous success and he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, most people who claim to be friends of the poor are usually (for lack of a better word) retarded. Instead of helping them, they treat them like permanently wounded animals offering them food and shelter instead of offering them the means to help themselves.
That style of help actually KEEPS them in poverty for life and makes them dependent on financial support from others forever.
A great book so far. I’m on page 45 so I got a ways to go but I’m liking this guys thinking patterns so far…worth a look for those of you interested in Economics and helping people out.
From the back cover:
He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which they could lift themselves out of poverty forever.
One of the Warrior-King Society members sent me an article for next month’s newsletter about a tactic he uses to simplify his life so he can focus on the good stuff. It’s a great article and I’m hoping as time goes on more and more WK’s will contribute in this manner.
Captain Jack Really Is Human Dept.
Members of the WKS know I’m quite human as they watched my latest business launch go embarrassingly awry. About $1,000 down the drain and a couple weeks worth of work returned a giant 0.
Oh well. Shit happens. That’s the thing with business launches. Most of them fail, but when you hit one it is MAMMOTH.
So, I’m back to the drawing board on that front. I’ve also had to confront some of my own issues in regard to how I view myself in relation to wealth, etc. See, when it comes to making someone else rich, I’m pretty good.
This realization come to full fruition when a WKS member (not sure he wants to be named so leaving his name out) sent me this eye-opening email…
Can I give you my opinion of what I can see at least from the website
marketing for “The Big Cash Letter”? I’m sure it is an incredible
product you are offering but that is because I know of your high
quality blog posts [you quite possibly have the absolute best PUA
blog out there....no flattery intended], your reputation within TMM
[heard great things about your training from people who've had boot-
camps with you, big names there obviously vouch for you, etc.], and
also I really like the direction you are taking the W-K society and
the ideals you are after–as I’m after the exact same things. If we
were to brush all that aside and assume the average person this
letter was direct mailed to, which I believe is the marketing method
you chose, knew none of this about you… Well, I’m not sure if I
would buy the product because your credibility is strong from sources
that you can’t really decipher from the website. Was your mailer the
same as the website? If so, it is a bit incomplete. You may need to
really create a story that compels people to buy that would assume
they didn’t know of your other high quality endeavors. If these
problems were taken care of in the mailer, please disregard my
comments 
.
To which I replied:
Yes, I agree. In fact, what I noticed is that I treated this on a subpar level compared to what I’d allow to go out for a client of mine. In fact, this is a pattern in my life. When it is for someone else I turn in high quality work but if it’s for myself I leave out important pieces of the puzzle. The list selection alone should’ve set off alarm bells but I simply ignored them. I would’ve NEVER allowed a client of mine to use such a shoddy list, not build proper credibility, not test two headlines against each other, not have a phone order option, etc.
Thanks for the feedback. This is one of those strange/fascinating/exciting times where everything seems to be blowing up around me but what’s really happening is the realizations and learnings are coming hard and fast and I know they are preceding a huge leap.
I noticed a GREAT DEAL of how I’ve structured my life has been to avoid confronting my own personal inadequacy fears.
These fears exist ONLY in certain areas. The overall belief is that I’m just as good as anyone else, just as valuable, just as capable. But, in specific instances and areas this belief breaks down and gives in to self-doubt and fear.
I’m in the process of identifying those specific areas and rooting them out. And, it is working well.
It’s now 3:15 am. Time for me to read for a bit and then catch some sleep. Kids have a silly habit of waking up about 20 minutes after the crack of dawn.
~ Captain Jack ~
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well – you should check out http://www.kiva.org if you like the microfinance idea.
I think it’s splendid. I can’t even be unhappy that I didn’t think of it because it’s amazing.
That’s awesome! I’ll probably do a separate post about this one. Cool idea.
The Grameeen Bank (Yunus’ bank) has a 1% default rate, which is AMAZING it is so low given the situation. He uses a mixture of education and social support groups to increase the likelihood of them repay. This is fascinating stuff.
I’m going to have to increase my giving. I give monthly to St. Jude’s Children Hospital but I want to add something like Grameen or Kiva to my list. If I cut my drinking down by another half that would free up the cash easily.
~ CJ ~