By Ziad K Abdelnour: Real Productive Tips that Should Help You Stay Ahead of the Curve:

• Wake up early, sleep early and avoid the rat race
• Prioritize: Prioritize and do what is most important first; the rest will come
• Focus:Avoid spending your day doing things like making phone calls, holding meetings and brainstorming or considering options
• Choose carefully the people you want to work with
• Learn how to delegate: If you are running a company, don’t always try to sit in the driver’s seat yourself
• Learn to say no and never say maybe
• Stop wasting your time with irrelevant meetings: Meetings for me are a total waste of time unless you are closing a deal
• If you have to have a meeting, follow up with it
• Stop Obsessive Social Media Networking: I work hard to figure out what I can do for someone else when I meet them. Who can I connect them to? What can I do for them

For more Read Turning into a Lean and Mean “Money Machine”

Support These 3 Bills…. Or Live Like a Slave

Rush Holt’s “Surveillance State Repeal Act”

Alan Grayson’s “Mind Your Own Business Act”
http://mindyourownbusinessact.com/

Elizabeth Warren and John McCain’s “21st Century Glass Steagall Act“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/12/elizabeth-warren-and-john-mccain-want-glass-steagall-back-should-you/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8a858552b301

1. It is because the causes of the previous financial crisis haven’t been resolved and the government hasn’t done anything to fix the basic problems in our economy.

2. It is because we still have a quadrillion dollar derivative overhang which dwarfs the size of the total global GDP by a factor of 10 to 1

3. It is because derivatives still haven’t been regulated and are still growing strong.

4. It is because creditors and investors are still at the behest of a central bank (Federal Reserve) and policymakers that are robbing them of their money every day.

5. It is because complacency is coming back and we are losing momentum every passing day.

6. It is because regulators and lawmakers who needed to impose rules so failing banks could be

shut down, allowed those incompetent banks to operate indefinitely with taxpayer support. They clearly have taken all the wrong steps in terms of the structural underpinnings of our capital markets.

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Ziad K Abdelnour