August 2010

Interested In Making Some Extra Money On-line?

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I've got a good buddy in Leeds, Dave Shillito, and he Skyped me a few days ago with an idea. Now Dave and I go back a few years and like me, he makes an excellent living by selling stuff online. He fired straight from the hip, "Dave, he says, I'm surprised you haven't thought about passing on what you know about creating a financially independent lifestyle onto your fellow ex-pats"

We yarned away for over an hour with me getting more and more excited about the prospect of helping folks just like me, who could use a few extra grand each month without ever needing to leave their villa!

So I ask you, what if I showed you how to build a £50K/year on-line business – how much would this be worth to you? And it doesn't matter which country you live in. You can earn by your poolside working a couple of hours each day. It's scalable, so if just a few hundred Euros extra every month is all you want, then that's okay too… 

Would you be really interested in finding out how?

Imagine launching your own product, and waking up each morning knowing that you had been making money while you sleep? I get this buzz EVERY DAY.

Now, I knew what to do because I designed a formula and taught myself all I needed to know – so what if I put all my "how-to" knowledge together and SENT IT TO YOU in an easy step-by-step system? Call it an Internet Business In A Box if you will…

And in addition to teaching you how to do this, I give to you 5 or more already made successfully selling on-line products so that you can start immediately and keep 100% of the profits? All for the price of a local restaurant meal for two.

Imagine. Being able to treat and help your children and grandchildren, easily pay for trips and holidays, effortlessly pay your way in life. Eat well and live well. And get to pass on a valuable business as an inheritance.

Now, you'll need a PC of course and some form of connection to the internet, but that's about all, apart from putting a bit of your time and effort up-front to follow my precise instructions…

I'm several weeks away from putting this together, and can only invite around 100 folks to join me, but drop me a one line email to say you're interested, and I'll put you 'front of queue' and send you a link to the full details when I'm ready: dave@davelitten.com

Power and Authority

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Because I've been on the tail-end of a summer cold my thoughts have been somewhat introvert – always a dangerous thing! I got to thinking about my earliest recollections – around 5 years old when my whole life revolved around Mum and Dad. They were my authorities and they had the power. No problem there then.

Later, I got sent to school, now teachers shared the power and authority with Mum and Dad. They shouted at me, screamed at me, threw things at me…. and I jumped. 

They beat the heck out of me, they made sure I knew my place. They made sure I was punished. I was smacked, canned, whacked, slippered, rulered, ear-twisted, clipped, punched…and I haven't got to the bullies yet…

At least the headmaster was a local magistrate (he gave me 6 strokes with the cane for drinking milk without a straw)

Phew! justice at last Eh?

Little boys should be seen and not heard. Those who ask don't get. Patience is a virtue. Oh yes, and in between, they taught me to read, write, and add up. They were LAW. 

Then I went out to work. My bosses were now The Law, and I jumped and danced to their tune. Around the same time I became aware of the Government and it's Laws. These had to be obeyed or some form of punishment was coming my way. So I kowtowed. 

These facts I give you shaped my thinking, and I blindly followed these sources of power and authority.

My Mum and Dad did okay by me, they were good parents, but they instilled my deference to authority. I was polite to policemen for example – by instinct.

Fast-forward to 2010. 

With the benefit of hindsight, I can see that my schoolteachers for the most part were post-war and mediocre, they were just doing the minimum possible. And much later, my bosses were no better than me – they just got there before me. 

And with the benefit of 60-plus years behind me, I can see that the UK has been governed by a bunch of career politicians being led by their balls by greedy and controlling bankers. Civil Servants are Self-Servants to their Masters – not to us…

All the wars in my lifetime have been encouraged by money, the banks play monopoly (= stocks and shares) with our livelihoods, and my pension will now only pay for my basic food… When complaining, I was told "sorry, your contributions were used to pay for those retiring at that time, but now affordability is an issue"…So much for entrusted Power and Authority.

By the way, I'm still polite to policemen…I just can't help myself. I'll need therapy.

So Thank God For My Internet Life. At least I'm finally my own boss.

I'm sure I'll feel better and more balanced after a few more paracetamol…

Boiling Guitar Strings – a great tune folks!

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It's no secret I used to be a hot guitarist, well, in my head anyway! But truth be told I used to be okay, and played in the earliest 'pop bands' in the 1960's through to around 1985, when I 'retired'. I still play of course, but only for my own amusement, well, my wife Jude laughs every time I pick up the guitar…

If I had to pass on one tip to younger guitarists picked up from my 20 years on the road, it would not be related to actually playing the guitar, it would be the money I've saved throughout my years of regular gigging – by boiling my guitar strings.

If you're a UK guitarist, a set of strings will cost over £5, and if you ask most guitarists, they will tell you the tone starts to go after a couple of gigs, and for me that was less than a week. So I used to boil them, and instantly get them back to that 'out-of-the-packet' new crisp tone.

My dear old mum gave me a small metal saucepan only to be used for my strings, I used to get a pan of water to boiling point, take the strings off my guitar and roll them up – and pop 'em in!

It only needs two minutes of boiling to do the trick. Take them out (they cool down in moments), wipe them with a dry cloth and pop them back on your guitar. Job done, showroom twang is back in residence! Plus, a set of strings will last for months!

Earned Value

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For those of a nervous nature – look away now…

For Project Managers only: I took great interest in the launch of Earned Value Management qualification by the APM Group in June this year. At last, a step toward 'growing up' and thinking about using EV as a control tool rather than just a reporting tool (" I'm only using it because management/customer insists").

If projects were your personal investment fund, wouldn't you want to know the answer to the question "what did we get for the money we spent?" Of course you would. If you hired a handyman to fix something in your home, and their response to your question "why is this so expensive" was, "well mate, it took me over 4 hours", you might feel sympathy, but you really want to know if they completed the job so you get value for money!

So you know that for a particular duration within your project that you planned to spend, say, £5000, and let's suppose you had actually spent £5,500, you're not sure whether you're ahead of schedule (we spend more because we did more work), or that you're overspending (it cost us more than we thought to do the work).

The third variable is Earned Value of course, which is the planned cost of an activity multiplied by the percentage complete. So a £1000 activity that is 50% complete means you've 'earned' £500.

The easiest way to determine your progress is to base all your interpretation from the standpoint of the Earned Value amount. If the planned cost amount is more than your EV amount – then you're behind schedule (and vice-versa).

If your Actual cost is more than your EV, then you're overspending (and vice versa).

Okay, so this is not a tutorial on EV – but I hope I've whetted your appetite to make better friends with this invaluable project management control tool.

Hmmmm, I think I'll put this on my Project To-Do list to create an EV Primer at some point in the future…..

do I write a blog, a vlog, a clog, a slog?

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Late last night, as an awesome Thunder and Lightening storm swept through the Pego valley I was sitting out watching it bang and crash while trying to chart my new digital life.

dave litten diaryIt's been a week since Nick relaunched this Website and the concept of blogging, vlogging and just plain being active on-line is a new one. My mind is definitely working overtime with all the new ideas that Nick spent pressing home.

It's also something that is sometimes hard to focus on with so many other things to work on.  ;)

I'm hard at work developing the new PMP Primer product – for all Project Managers involved in the American based Project Management Institute arena (PMP certification) this is going to be a massive boost. I have power point presentations recorded, voice over and classroom lessons video now I just have to use some of Nicks cunning techniques to bring it all into one cohesive product.

I'm stoked!

Check out the countdown at http://www.pm-primer.com

However, Nick is insistent that I keep a regular blog and give you guys a regular update on what I'm working on… I guess the concept works as it focusses my brain every morning on todays goals and what I've achieved since my last blog. Video Logs are going to be a more and more active part of the site.

Check the polls and let me know which kind of blog you would rather watch: http://www.davelitten.com/poll/what-best-way-keep-diary

Free downloadable Sample PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam with answers!

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As they say in all the best shows, due to popular demand….

I've given way, and created a brand new PRINCE2 Sample Practitioner Paper and included the answers!

 
So to claim your FREE copy of my PRINCE2 Step By Step Guide and download a full-strength SAMPLE Practitioner Exam CLICK HERE
 
It will give you an easy to read PRINCE2 Step By Step Guide of the PRINCE2 Method – so you can turn up at your training event fully prepared and ready to put the instructor through their paces!
 
Improve your ability to achieve an exam pass by practicing and honing your exam-taking skills, with my PRINCE2 Sample Practitioner Paper – you get the answers to all the questions -ensuring that you get vital exam practice as well as positioning yourself to get that vital pass-mark!

My workload for August!

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So I woke up this morning and decided to talk to my cdn Nick (of projex fame) and try to prioritize all my website ideas. He suggested (well threatened, coerced and forced is more accurate) that I list all my brainload of ideas so we can have a plan of attack and a schedule for implementation over the next couple of weeks.

Here are my achievements to date:

1. update PRINCE2 Primer website to include new free Practitioner exam paper

2. Launch special price of my Project Management Primer as a partner to PRINCE2

3. Create and launch my brand-new How To Create Website Videos Using PowerPoint site

4. Launch my brand new APM Introductory Certificate Primer

HOT OFF THE PRESS: I'm working on my PMP Primer set against the PMI syllabus to fully prepare folks who want to take the PMP exam.

 

Internet Marketers Product Creation Prioritizer

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There's an old saying, "necessity is the mother of invention" and it proved itself to me again over the past few days. See, I needed to learn to do two new things, one was help a buddy by explaining how to set up PowerPoint slides, and the other, how to use a screen capture application. Well that was straightforward enough, but it got me to thinking that just maybe there were other folks out there who wanted to learn how to create Website sales videos.

So to cut to the chase, I created three 'how-to' videos of me doing just that. And if that wasn't enough, I decided to include a "done for you" set of Power Point Templates. They are already set up with headlines, animated bullets and footers. All you need to do is edit them to generate whatever your video topic will be.

You can see the finished result of my efforts HERE

My Brand New APM Introductory Certificate Primer!

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Boy do I feel good! I’ve just completed my brand new APM Introductory Certificate Primer, and I’m really stoked about how it has turned out. I was teaching this 2-day course earlier this year in South Africa, and it occurred to me that since it must follow the APM official syllabus, producing a set of slides and videoing them in a handful of modules would be a great idea.

I reasoned that folks who wanted to move into accredited project management would already be busy people, and a downloadable Primer would let them study and prepare when it suited. I also figured they’d like the price too!

You can check out exactly what I’m talking about at my brand new APM IC PRIMER Video Training Site.

My brain gets bigger in the sun!

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I knew it all along – get yer vitamins by laying in the sun. At last something positive to do with the suns rays. And exercise has been found to grow thousands of brain cells after only a few days leading to better recollection of memories, plus older folks get nimbler brains and prevents dementia. Here in Spain, the afternoon siesta is quite natural, and now scientists say that boosts brain power too.

Crazy sounding stuff like the smell of newly mowed grass improves memory, and dark chocolate, plus eating cold meats for breakfast stimulates the brain. Whatever next?

Let me tell you. Playing Tetris on your computer on a daily basis improves your critical thinking.

So I'm off now to chill on my patio with my laptop and a ham sandwich for starters and a large cadbury's fruit and nut for sweet. 

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