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- Jude Samson, President Levelfield.com, Inc

  • Common Sense -- Uncommon

    12/17/20093:32:28 PM Link |  | Add comment

    A Common Sense Stimulus.

    Its the time of year that many Americans spend too much money purchasing un-American things to stimulate and simulate happiness in their households. During the holiday season, the news media always brings loquacious "economists" on the television to speak about consumer spending and convince us that we are spending less than the average year on gifts for our greedy children and we should go out and spoil our personal budgets and spend more. This year lets try something new...lets take our hard earned American dollars and stimulate the American economy. Let's Buy American. www.buyamerican.com. Too much of our holiday season shopping spree helps to maintain the Japanese markets with our high end electronics that we can't seem to live without. We're giving people in other countries jobs while our job market is failing miserably. Lets do the next right thing and support our own economy which will help stimulate job growth here in the US. It sounds like common sense to say buy American to support the American economy and American jobs. Why is it so uncommon to think this way and more importantly to ACT this way? Act like an American!, Buyamerican.com  It doesn't take a billion dollar stimulus to boost our economy,  buy from your neighbor, it will keep your neighbor employed. Spend your money by putting it back in your own community, THAT will save jobs and stimulate the American economy.

  • What it means to be related...

    11/27/200911:36:04 AM Link |  | Add comment

    In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday and being thankful for the meal that Americans gather together to share, it made me think of what it means to be related. Most of us gathered together with family and friends yesterday to celebrate over the traditional turkey or another meat of choice. Gathering in thanks for the blessings of the past or the promise of tomorrow bring many of us together each year. However this does not mean we're related. Sharing a meal or a holiday one day a year does not mean we're related. Talking to someone every day over the phone does not mean we're related. What it means to be related is an unspoken back up plan for the unknown. On any given day, in any given situation you can make a single phone call to a person and they willingly accept you and your immediate family (kids, parents, wife or husband) into their home for an extended period of time. Helping you get on your feet when times are tough with nothing but thanks in return. No bargaining, no trading and absolutely no backlash or spite. If with one phonecall a family member or friend welcomes you and your family with open arms into their home without any details written in fine print, THAT'S what it means to be related. Blood relation or not, a family friend or long lost pal, having someone in your life that would reorganize their own life in order to lend a helping hand when your life is uprooted for any given reason; THAT's what it means to be related. Be thankful for your life and all you've been given and most of all be thankful for those you can describe as "we're related".

  • Your Words Mean Everything

    11/20/20094:01:49 PM Link |  | Add comment

    I have stated before in a previous post that we only occur in languaging. We as individuals only exist in terms of our words and descriptions. Let them be our strength. I occur in this blog post because our common language allows you to read what I have written and to understand the meaning of my words. If we exist because our language allows us to relate to each other and the world then shouldnt we treat every word as if it can change the world.

    On another note, a few weeks back the tragic events in Killeen Texas occurred. The media and government officials have tiptoed around the event calling it a tragedy (which is was), that one of our own soldiers took the lives of his own. What everyone has failed to say is that this tragedy was in fact a terrorist attack. This soldier, one of our own, a muslim, attacked Americans on our own military base. This man was not simply misguided or suffering from a mental disorder. This man committed a terrorist act on American soil. He took the lives of Americans and he planned to do so. What everyone out there is skirting with their words is the fact that society's political correctness has promoted likemindedness and the inability to speak up and use your words for their true meaning. If its proven that an American soldier shot down 13 American's on our home turf then the man is a terrorist. If that man was a Christian, then he's a Christian. If he was a caucasian male from Minnesota, then he's a caucasian male from Minnesota. If the man was of Indian descent, African heritage, or a newly minted US Citizen from the country of Djibouti, then that is what he is. If that man just so happens to be Muslim, then he's a Muslim. Call a spade, a spade. We've learned recently that this man spoke with a known radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki prior to this tragedy. We also know that this communication was intercepted by investigators. If this radical was a Christian so be it. If someone, anyone had spoken up and said "hey this guy is communicating with a radical" maybe this terrorist act wouldn't have happened. Use your words to "call it like it is". If someone is acting like a terrorist, muslim or not, SAY SOMETHING. You never know what the strength of your words could help prevent.

  • Each day is so important...

    10/26/20091:45:59 PM Link |  | Add comment

    If you live to 80 years old you would have been alive for 29,220 days. Thats less than 30,000 days. Urgency with life is real.

    As of today I have been alive 15,103 days. If I only live to 80 years old I have 14,117 days left.

    Have I used the 15103 days of my life so far, wisely? How am I planning to use the next 14,117 days?

    Each day of your life is so important...we should all make the most of our 29,220 days and start living.

    If it were all gone tomorrow would you look back and say that you truly Lived? Don't write off life and say tomorrow I will. Use every second of every day to do what it is you were meant to do.

    I'm happy to say that I don't think I've wasted ALL 15,103 days of my life and I am sure that knowing a lifetime is less than 30,000 days will create an urgency in my life that life is real. Get busy living or get busy dying.

     

    Find out how many days you've been alive...

     

  • Your Time is Valuable. Where are you wasting yours?

    6/25/20094:31:06 PM Link |  | Add comment

    Doing the next right thing, Justice, Success, Time, Value

    Its the human condition that lessens the value of our time, our most valuable asset. Many people get caught up in the little things which keeps them from becoming successful. The philosophy I subscribe to is doing the next right thing not doing the next thing right. Looking beyond the small insignificant bumps in the road along the way and narrowing in on my ultimate goal and staying focused on that next right thing has made me more effective at work and at home with my family. When emotions run high and someone is seeking justice for an action they feel is 'unjust' they get caught up in doing the next thing right and they forget what they're striving for. In doing so, individuals seeking justice waste their most valuable resource, time and instead squander their time on distractions that keep them from being successful.

    What has distracted you today? Where are you wasting your time? Are you seeking justice from an alleged wrong you feel is unfair? If you were to invest all the time you've 'wasted' seeking to correct an 'unfair' action  you'd be focus on the next right thing.  Instead of righting all the wrongs in your life, focus on the next right thing, invest your ultimate value in your success.

  • Doing what is right and no special cases

    4/1/200912:23:26 PM Link |  | Add comment

    Do what is right, No Special Cases, Seek the Truth

    Everyone living today should strive to do what is right, seek the truth and live with the fact that there are no special cases in life. Regardless of circumstance you are not a special case, you must dance to your commitments.

    In the US and across the globe countries are facing an "economic downturn" because of a lifestyle of "i want what i want and i want it now". We are not a special case.

    If your business plummets and you have not prepared for the cycle of valleys. You are not a special case. There are thousands of businesses out there facing the same dips and valleys that are thriving and surviving because they prepared for the downturn cycle.

    In business, the legal realm and life in general there are no special cases. If you do what is right there are no special cases to deter you from truth.

    Whatever choices were made in the past that caused the downturn in our economy, we are not a special case. It happened because of choices made and a glance back at history reveals that it has happened before, we didnt learn from mistakes and yet again we are not a special case.

    Take a step back and realize that if you do what is right, set goals appropiately, you will find the truth. The truth is, you are not a special case. Face your decisions and live the consequences.

  • C-Verse

    3/27/20094:47:07 PM Link |  | Add comment

    When is the best time to invest in a new venture, start a new business, spend your free time investing in a startup company. Right now. When the economy is in a downturn, start a new business. Brush up your entreprenuerial skills and start that business that you've always thought about, almost started but never did. Do it today. Be productive.

    This is the time to invest in your business. This is the time to gain market share. This is the time to hire new employees and expand. Within the past month here at Levelfield we've hired someone for Search Engine Marketing and we are making plans to expand our team in the upcoming month. This is the time to build your company.

    Recently I've decided to join with two friends to start a new business. Investing my time and energy into a new business during an economic downturn seems to be unheardof across the country. This is the time.

    Visit: www.cverse.com see what I've invested some of my time, energy and focus during this "recession".

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