The last Wealth Principle webinar

Dear Super Jack,

Did you watch the last Wealth Principle webinar? If not, you DON’T WANT TO MISS IT! Remember, this is where you will receive some great training. If you did watch it, be sure to follow up on your action steps (recapped below) and log your progress in your profile section.

Please note that the webinars are posted in the library after the scheduled event. This is a great way to ensure that you don’t miss your training and a way for you to go back and reinforce it.

Click here to watch the replay now.

Action Steps Recap:
Open your FFA account at the bank, deposit 10% of your income and don’t touch this money.
Create an FFA jar at home and drop money into it everyday… even if it’s just a penny.
Open your Play (10%), Long Term Savings for Spending (10%), Education (10%), Necessities (50%) and Give (10%) accounts and deposit the corresponding percentages.
Begin managing your money now. Even if it’s only $1. Let the Universe know that you are ready for more.
Share your thoughts with your partners in Peak State of Mind community. Work together as a collective. It will be more efficient for you to work together and share ideas. We’ll check in on how you’re doing and post directions.

To a great experience and your continued success,

The Peak State of Mind Team
http://www.peakstateofmind.com

Wealth Principle Webinar - Slide Presentation

Dear Super Jack, We are very sorry for the delay in posting the webinar replay from last week. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the recording file and while we tried hard to recover it, we were unable to. So in lieu of posting the replay for your review, we have provided the PowerPoint slide presentation with some notes from the trainer. You can access the slides http://www.peakstateofmind.com/here. During the informative session, Peak Potentials trainer Eric Frady discussed the four factors that determine your net worth. He also explained why focusing on net worth is so much more important that focusing on working income. Eric also provided four action steps to help you practice this wealth principle. You can review these action steps in the slides posted in the Library. Be sure to practice these steps to master this wealth principle and continue on your path to financial freedom. To your continued success, The Peak State of Mind Team

Chocolate News

From Wikipedia...

A BBC report indicated that melting chocolate in one's mouth produced an increase in brain activity and heart rate that was more intense than that associated with passionate kissing, and also lasted four times as long after the activity had ended.^[70]
In later research, chocolate has been linked with multiple health benefits and liabilities. Research on elderly people showed chocolate might cause osteoporosis.^[71] However, more research has shown that it will boost cognitive abilities.^[72] Further, dark chocolate and cocoa butter have been linked with multiple positive effects. Scientific evidence has suggested dark chocolate can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems ^[73] and also reduce blood pressure in both overweight and normal adults.^[73] Finally, studies have shown dark chocolate can lower cholesterol levels in adults.^[74]
In August 2011, Cambridge research published in the British Medical Journal: Eating high levels of chocolate could be associated with a significant reduction in the risk of certain cardiovascular disorders.^[75]

Peak Potential Net Worth Webinar

Dear Super Jack,

Hopefully you were able to catch last night’s webinar about net worth. If not, or if you just want to watch it again, the replay will be available early next week.

During the informative session, Peak Potentials trainer Eric Frady discussed the four factors that determine your net worth. He also explained why focusing on net worth is so much more important that focusing on working income.

Eric also provided four action steps to help you practice this wealth principle. Here’s a recap of those action steps:

1. Focus on all four net worth factors: Focus on increasing your income, building your savings, maximizing returns on your investments, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.
2. Create a net worth statement: Add the current dollar value of everything you own (your assets) and subtract the total value of everything you owe (your liabilities). Commit to tracking and revisiting this statement each quarter.
3. Hire a financial planner: Find a planner who is highly successful and works with a well-known, reputable company. Ask friends and associates if they know of a superior one.
4. 4. Share your thoughts with your partners in Peak State of Mind community. Work together as a collective. It will be more efficient for you to work together and share ideas.

Follow these steps to continue on your path to financial freedom.

To your continued success,

The Peak State of Mind Team
http://www.peakstateofmind.com/

Cutting Board Box

This cutting board was a requested item!

 I glued strips of cherry and maple into a 12 by 12 inch square that ended up being 5/8 inches thick after using my new planer on it to smooth the top and bottom. Sides grooves make it easier to pick up. I used one coat of salad bowl finish from Wood Craft as a finish.

Close up of side grooves that I cut with a hand held router. 

More side groove detail.

Rounded over edges give a clean look.

This is the temporary jig I used to form the groove with a hand held router. 

The blue tool box underneath is not part of the jig.

 

Stew-Mac Triple O Kit Finish Complete

The spruce top is a French Polish "Off the Pad" according to LMI directions.  I used approximately equal parts of blonde and amber shellac from Stew-Mac, denatured alcohol from Ace Hardware, and mineral oil from Target. I initially wanted to create a sun-burst effect but could not using shellac so I settled for a "streaky" effect.  Three months to accomplish this. I'm in no hurry so it would seem. 

The sides and back are open pore rose wood finished with Tru-Oil, which is normally used to finish gun stocks.  I finished the sides and back before I started on the top.

Using Tru-Oil and French Polish was an alternative to spraying lacquer and having to deal with the construction of a spray both with non-explosive lights and fan and over spray of lacquer or else spraying lacquer in the outside chancey weather.  Stew-Mac was very cooperative in accepting the return of the lacquer spay cans that I purchased before I realized the logistics involved with spraying lacquer.

Now onto the remainder of the kit instruction per Stew-Mac instructions.

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French Polished Top

The French polishing is almost complete. About three months with many tangets, several days days of waiting between coats. Amber and blonde shellac mix, unable to produce a sunburst effect, settled for amber streaks of a sort. This was my alternative to spraying lacquer.  I'm pleased with the outcome this far.  Still some finishing steps remain for the top for instance, polisheing with rottenstone remains. The trianglular neck holder gets in the way of finishing the upper bouts.  Next time, I'll make it straight where it extends above the surface in order to give better access to the top.

Dog House Box

On site.

Lucky the dog, intended inhabitant.

Finished with Black Cherry stain on the plywood panels and a full quart of spar varnish all over.

Mounted on rails for easy movement

The roof is completed, made from six inch cedar fence pickets.The roof is underlayed by a piece of 3/8 panel and the roof seam is caulked and covered with a piece of metal tape.  The peak of the roof is a full length cedar picket split down the middle and custom cut angle to form a nice roof angle.  This dog roof is guarenteed not to leak.

Additional fence pickets were ripped into approximately one inch strips and used to cover the screw joints of the corners and sides.  These are glued and finish nailed into place.

The basic dog house box is complete. Finishing touches from this point include adding cedar trim and stain with varnish.

Marron Bells

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Taken during my 4th of July sojourn to Aspen

Taken during my 4th of July sojourn to Aspen

My Quotes

Sometimes you get ahead by doing nothing.

(Have you ever had to redo/undo something that didn't really need doing in the first place?  Avoid busy work, make your effort count by being focused on meaningful tasks related to you most important goals.)

If the white man had never came, everything would still be the same.

(This came up while viewing a historical sign concerning the Astorians - a group of hunters that and settlers that were the first white men to journey through the Hoback River area of Wyoming)

July 2011 Idaho Travel Log

July 17, 9:30 AM

119667

Off for Idaho

Discover 16.72 gal @ $347.9 $58.18

Gas prices are 7 cents per gallon less at the Shamrock Corner store on Research than the one at Austin Bluffs.  Discovered this using the Android App on my Samsung Intercept smart phone.  Later noticed that Shamrock gas prices are 3 cents less at Fillmore than at Austin Bluffs.

Rawlins

119981 Discover 14.311 gals @ $3.619 $51.79

9:30 PM.  Camped all alone in the Eurovan near Pinedale at Fremont Lake. $6 to camp, half off for the Golden Age Passport.  Checked out the Best Western in Pinedale.  All they had dwas a deluxe suite @ $149, less 10% for AARP (Senior) then taxes back to $150.  Eat in a restaurant, swim in pool if S-----, C-----, and J----- were along. Course we would not have gotten this far. I drove 12 hours almost. Camped near lake with wind blowing, some rain lightly, eating Top Ramen, chips, salsa, cheese.

7/18/2011 8:00 AM

Off from Fremont Lake and the mosquitoes and flies.

10:30 @ Alpine Jct.

120305 16.058 gals @ $3.849 for $61.81.

120452 at Arco 3:15 PM

3.64 gals $13.77 @ 3.779, too much back pressure to fill up.

  

Famed Idaho Author

Famed Idaho Author

River view from Idaho rest area.

The Idaho National Laboratory Lands

Approach to Mt Borah, Highest Point in Idaho

Old summit trail, now a deep rut.

Current entry point to summit trail, designed to keep out undesirables.

Currently no fee to camp.

The earthquake fault line, still visible after 28 years.

Mt Borah as viewed from further North has an imposing north face.  Not visible or climbed as part of the normal route.

Irrigation ditch, still flowing.  I camped near this feature on my first visit.

Adjacent mountains in the Lost River Range.  Not as imposing as I recall from my first venture when covered in snow.  It was Memorial Day weekend on a year long ago when I climbed Mt Borah.

Challis Hot Springs

Salmon River flows next to Challis Hot Springs

Lost River Range from Challis Hot Springs

July 19, 2011 2:00 PM

Challis Hot Springs

My personal travel journey in which are logged my life's sporadic activities as to suitable and notable events.

At Challis: 120543
                    119667
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                       876 miles in two days; S----- and C------ would not have enjoyed this trip, greater than three hundred miles and four hours of driving.  It would have taken two nights  rather than one to get here.  Then the activities would be boring; for C------ and J-----, nothing to do.  But S----- would come up with some restaurant or shopping, blah, blah.

As it is real mild and restful with the breeze blowing through the cotton wood trees - the dog yelping locked in an RV - all day continious.  The small fox looking dog not on a leash barks.

Then I talked to a family of three on a month long road trip tenting in their Hondy Odyessa.  From San Francisco to Canada, Calgary included.  The boy's name was Alex, quite informed regarding cell phones and recommending METROPCS, just http://www.metro.com/ and enter your zip code.  The best deal! The boy was entering the seventh grade next year in school.  So this proves it can be done and families do long road trips. But not S-----.  I tricked myself should be my reply to her saying "You tricked me." I also tricked C----- and myself (again).

Mt Borah had changed, modernization of trail head to preserve its character and give an early sagebrush start.  The older access showed a deep eroded where the trail once went. "The Lost River Range" was the range I fantasized  over their awesome summits; they didn't look as imposing without snow.  Mt Borah shows an imposing north slope further up the valley.

How shall I return? Back the way I came and camp at Hoback?  Easiest, quickest.  Down to Nevada and I-80 across Great Salt Lake and then I-80 across Wyoming.

So this camping can be boring.  Nap a couple of times, then?  Read a book.  Where in Idaho did William Least Heat Moon travel? Moscow, very north area passing into Montanna.  The family from San Francisco mentioned going to Glacier National Monument and beyond to Calgary.



Last night I ate half of my steak and mushrooms with onions sauteed in red wind after the sun went down. It is now 5:45 PM, couple of more hours of sunshine remain.  I'm hungry, or think it is time to eat, now.

7/20/2011

Off from Challis Hot Springs at 10:30 AM.

2:50 PM

Rexburg -  $67.28 for 18.337 gallons of gas at $3.669 per gallon, but no mileage.

9:15 PM

Hoback Campground.

Been here about three hours, arrived at 6:15 PM.  Pretty lush flowers, wet, mosquitoes.  Wild flowers were/are incredible. Yellow, blue, white blossoms against an all green background of several greens all at once forming the matrix!  Here's where I surrpetitiously, without paying the camp fee, cooked and ate a breakfast of bacon and bacon basted over easy eggs.  A morning I recall, from what adventure I do not.  (This was before camp hosts came into being - can you believe how long ago that must have been?

Another couple who befriended greyhounds and whippets - going where the whim takes them, he's been at it for five months, she for half that.  Four dogs, two greyhounds and two whippets.  One larger greyhound was a blondish red in color like a golden retriever.

7/21/2011

8:30 AM off from Hoback Camp Ground

120871 mileage

"If the white man had never came, everything would still be the same."

Inspired by Astorians story on historical marker.

Rock Springs 11:20 AM

121028 $40.70 for 11.437 gallons at $3.559 per gallon.

121437 on return to Colorado Springs at 7 PM.  Spent one hour driving stop and go traffic to get though Denver from North to South on I-25.

Post trip note.  Is it possible to avoid the I-25 traffic.  The couple I chatted with at Hoback said they avoided the Interstates.  Perhaps I could do the same if I decide to return to Idaho.  Colorado Springs to Dillion to Steamboat Springs to Kemmering, etc appears feasible. More miles, more time, less hassle perhaps.  I returned by way of Salmon, Idaho driving HWY 93 from Challis to Salmon and then HWY 28 to Rexburg and Victor taking Wilson Pass back to Jackson. There were lots of camping opportunities along these routes, camping by the rivers.  I did not venture into Jackson, traffic all jammed up.

Rexburg was a pretty little Idaho town with a population of about 17,000.  Home to BYU-Idaho, indicative of the large LDS population.  The racial demographics list NSD for the black percentage.  The residents are 95% LDS.  The town's Walmart is not a Super Center.  The grocery section was small, mostly dry goods with a section of refrigerated items in cases. No deli or bakery, etc.