The Secret

I have been reading the book the secret.

In a very short time it has changed me life.

Changing thought patterns can have an amazing effect on ones life. Also, with the use of visualization, I believe anything can be accomplished.

With focused thought, people really can control the outcomes of almost all situations.

Most of my thoughts are around maintaining good health and money.

I have this intrinsic need to be completely independent financially. Meaning, I can make money off of my money. My father calls it unearned income.

A lot of unearned income to me is just awesome.

I have been thinking that I really have used the tools the "Secret" talks about without knowing it all of my life.

My house for example. The house I now own , I never saw before last November, yet it pretty much is the exact house I have always dreamed of.

Even down to little details like mowing my own lawn.

I smelled the cut grass while walking in the concrete jungle of NYC.

I mowed that grass for the first time this past weekend. It was exactly how I had seen it years before.

Visualization, is really putting yourself in a situation that you are not currently in.

The amazing thing about visualization, is your brain can not tell the difference of a thought or an actual experience.

Your brain activity is the same when you sink a game winning shot, or you see one on T.V.

That is just amazing to me. So I have been putting this to good use.

All of the great thinkers throughout human history have known about this.

Einstein wrote exstensivley on this subject.

He even discovered that a thought, is matter, a thing you can measure or touch.

Anyway, enough quantum machanics for one day. :)

Closing my position out of PG

I sold all of my shares of Proctor and Gamble.

They came out with less then steller earnings as well as poor guidance for future earnings.

I have held this stock for quite some time and have barely made any money.

I believe in buying quality stocks and holding them for long periods of time. I manage my own money. Who will have my best interest in mind with my money better then me?

I read many financial articles everyday and research each stock that I own.

I do not own any mutual funds for the same reason as I like to be the decision maker on what I buy or sell, when I buy or sell and for how much.

I am going to be sitting on the sidelines for a while as the market has had a crazy run upward.

This is a dangerous strategy if we keep going up like this, but it cant last forever can it?

Have a pleasant day.

About Joey know it all

I have been a deep thinker my whole life.

I like to know why things are the way they are.

I speak the same way I think and probably pretty similair to the way I write.

So, when I have conversations, I break things down in a way that strikes a humorous chord with my peers. Hence, I have been called in very loving way (most of the time) "Joey Know it All".
The truth is, I of course do NOT know everything. Not even close.

The true purpose for this blog is unknown as of now. I am more concerned with just the act of creating something then the actual purpose.

I do feel however, this will be a place that people will visit often for some reason that will be discovered later on. I am really looking forward to figuring out what that reason is.

Couple of quick items about me....

1. I love my wife
2. I love simplicity
3. I love music of all kinds
4. I love my dog and the long walks we take together
5. I am a family man
6. I own and operate a small company out of my home
7. I hate answering to people which is why I started a company
8. My childhood hero was Michael Jordan
9. My hero as an adult is someone between George Clooney and Warren Buffet
10. I love the outdoors
11. I love a good cigar
12. I love success stories
13. I also have always been interested in how people deal with massive amounts of success and pressure.
14. I love a good conspiracy theory about anything
15. I play the stock and realestate markets
16. I like recognizing trends and possibletrends (The next big thing)