Today I relate a story I heard some time back that is becoming more and more relevant to our society. Kindness comes from the heart! It touched my heart and I am sure it will touch yours too. In a world that is getting harsher and harsher, we need more kindness every day.
A few years ago, a group of sales men went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these sales men inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding...ALL BUT ONE!

He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. Interestingly, he was not the one who had knocked over the apple stand.
He told his friends to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were scattered all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did. The 16-year-old girl was completely blind! She was crying softly, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The world always goes on despite one’s misfortunes.
The sales man knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the sales man started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride... and he wondered. He gently went back and said, "No, I am nothing like Jesus - He is good, kind, caring, loving, and would never have bumped into your display in the first place.”
The girl gently nodded: "I only asked because I prayed for Jesus to help me gather the apples. He sent you to help me, so you are like Him - only He knows who will do His will. Thank you for hearing His call, Mister."
The sales man then slowly made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus?

That is our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scripture and going to church. It is actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though the fall left you, too, bruised. Jesus stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit. There are so many “blind apple sellers” out here, especially in rural Africa.
See how you can impact more people today and just how many can mistake you for Jesus🙏.

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I hope you have all been having a great time and enjoying what you do. I have a very interesting, perhaps slightly crazy story I got from a friend and a huge lesson for you today… Get ready for it!

The Island of the Insane Birds…

There’s a tiny, uninhabited island off the west coast of Ireland called Beginish. If you set foot on it in June, the birds that live there will go INSANE. They will squawk and dive-bomb you and raise a holy ruckus until you finally get back in your boat and shove off.

Why? Because they lay their eggs on the ground. They can do that because no rodents or lizards live on the island. They can just lay their eggs in the grass and know they are safe. Safe until a horde of human intruders traipses onto their domain, that is! 

What does this have to do with your online success?

Well, most entrepreneurs prefer to lay eggs where there are lots of rodents and lizards waiting to snatch them away. In unproven markets. Ultra-competitive markets.

WRONG!

If you’re just starting out, you need to find your Beginish.

Find a PROVEN market. A PROVEN system. An island with no snakes and rats.

That is the system and process that work, and you can see that here. 

It’s so proven that I guarantee you will fall in love with it! Why do I say that? Well, because it’s “copy and paste” simple and doesn’t require special skills. No phone skills, product fulfillment, customer service or anything like that!

The choice is yours. You can lay your eggs on the islands crawling with egg-eaters. Or you can try the only Beginish I’ve ever discovered.

Sail to your very own Beginish here… 

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In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.  Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.

Interestingly the inventor of digital photography in 1975 Steven Sasson worked for Kodak but Kodak ignored the new technology and in the process ignored their future!!

What happened to Kodak has happened to a lot of industries in the last 20 years – and most people don’t see it coming.

Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore’s law.

Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution!

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, but are now the biggest taxi company in the world.

Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: 

Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately and reconsider the future. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.

Watson already helps nurses in diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.

By 2030, computers will be more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous Cars:

In 2018 the first self-driving cars appeared for the public. Around 2020, the complete car industry started to be disrupted.

You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving.

Our kids will never get a driver’s license and will never own a car.

It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that. We can transform former parking space into parks.

1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km. That will save a million lives each year.

Most car companies may become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, and Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

Insurance Companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100 times cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars didn't become mainstream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electricity.

Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2030.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. We don’t have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as they wants, for nearly no cost.

Health:

There will be companies that will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

3D printing: 

The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster.

All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes. Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports.

New smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home. In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building.

Business Opportunities: 

If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: “In the future, do you think we will have that?” and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner? If it doesn’t work with your phone, forget the idea.

And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 

70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time. And if you think all of this is conjecture, then watch this wonderful video

Agriculture: 

There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in third world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields. Agronomics will need much less water.

The first Petri dish produced veal was available and cheaper than cow-produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces are used for cows. Imagine if we don’t need that much space anymore.

There are several startups that will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as “alternative protein source” (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).

There is an app call “moodies” which can already tell in which mood you are.

By 2020 there were apps almost everywhere that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it’s being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Longevity: 

Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now its 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2030, there will be more than one year increase per year. So we all might live for a very long time, probably way more than 100. By that time the elites will have a secondary brain embedded close to both sides of their frontal-temporal scalp where it stores information about their experiences, books they read, what they heard, etc. through a high definition camera just below their eyelids. For those who can afford it forgetfulness will be a forgotten phenomenon.

Advanced stem cell technology will allow you to “make” your own organs or replace defective ones early. Life expectancy will be around 115 to 125 years in most of the developed world and around 100 years in the rest of the world.

Education: 

The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. By 2020, 70% of all humans owned a smart phone. That means, everyone will have the same access to world class education.

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We are in the midst of arguably the greatest technological disruptions in the history of mankind. And yet it seems it is still at the start of a hundred-year disruption set to change the course of human history.

Technological disruptions have occurred, and the fast movers have cashed in on them.

“Find a way of service to the many for therein lies the secret to great wealth.🎉.

The examples below have one thing in common: the appropriate and timely use of technological innovations to serve the masses. What never ceases to impress me is the ingenuity with which they have utilized the disruptions to provide much-needed service and benefit greatly. The list is long and stretching by the day, but this will serve to illustrate for now.

• world’s largest taxi company owns no taxis (Uber)

• largest accommodation provider owns no real estate (Airbnb)

• largest phone companies own no telecommunications infrastructure (Skype, WeChat)

• world’s most popular valuables retailers have virtually no inventory (Alibaba, Amazon)

• most popular media owner creates no content (Facebook)

• The fastest-growing banks have no actual money (Society One)

• World’s largest movie house owns no cinemas (Netflix)

• Largest software vendors don’t write the apps (Apple & Google)

And when things seem to be getting back to business as usual, Bitcoin happens! Valued at a measly $0.0025 in 2009, one Bitcoin is trading at an impressive $65,400 as at October 14, 2024. This has sent shock waves through the banking and financial markets and made financial analysts and experts look more like spin artists and speculators in a short fifteen years. It is set to do to the banking industry what email did to the postal services. It has also opened up investment opportunities hitherto never dreamed of. Returns on investment in Bitcoin have not been seen before and may never be realized in any other investment portfolio in the near future.

At a measly $0.0025 in 2009 to $1000 in 2013 to $9,747 in 2017 and now $65,400 in 2024. Why is this so, you may ask? The Bitcoin Protocol! Only 21 million Bitcoins will ever be in existence. These bitcoin are released at the rate of 50 Bitcoin per 10 minutes. This release reduces by half every after approximately four years. This explains the layman’s predictions and projections and is in consonance with data on http://www.blockchain.info (The most reliable information website on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies). Take a look at the layman’s projections and predication of what could just be coming our way….

BTC Projections

The characteristics of Bitcoin make it impossible to change these determinants. On the other hand, the universal acceptability of Bitcoin as a store of value and transactional currency continues to skyrocket the demand for it. Expert predictions that it could reach $10,000 passed way back in 2017, and then that it will hit $100,000 and then $1,000,000 per Bitcoin will surely come to pass soon enough. Like day follows night and sunset surely comes after sunrise, this is bound to happen.

You may be excused for thinking ‘Big Daddy’ or whoever will wake up and put a stop to this madness! Wake up and smell the coffee! He would have done that already….But you may never forgive yourself for not looking hard enough or bothering to study and position yourself ahead of the trends!

So where does this leave you?

"God gave man the gift of wisdom and along with it the burden of choice"🧠. Everyone has a choice.

You can continue doing what you have been doing and enjoy reading such posts. You will definitely read and see a whole lot more about technological disruptions and it indeed makes for interesting reading. Many people think it is a bubble that is about to burst and life will get back to normal. The unvarnished truth is that normal has shifted! Even after 2140 life will continue and it will be normal then only that the “normal” most skeptics think of is comfortably in the past. You can choose to stay there or wake up to the times. The choice is yours. It is a free world.

The other option is that you can position yourself to learn and benefit from the disruptions as they occur. Subscribe to our Cooperative CUIR System, where we teach all you need to know about crypto at our Coop Academy for FREE and learn how to position yourself ahead of these trends. You earn while you learn, if you choose to, for less than a dollar a day!

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Hi, my friends and followers, hope you are doing great and having fun… I got the idea for this post from an email a friend sent me and I thought “wow, this has to be shared”.

Stick with me here as there is a big lesson to observe.

In many countries, law requires that all cigarette boxes and packets display these words…or something close to…

“CIGARETTE SMOKING MAY BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH.”

They’re on every box. They are on every packet. They are in big letters.

The hope is that people will be confronted with the truth about smoking: it’s unhealthy. Maybe that will stop them from doing it.

…and yet…

People still buy the cigarettes. And smoke them. People fall sick and die from illnesses associated with cigarette smoking! And still people smoke cigarettes!

Similarly with chocolate cake: you might as well put on the cake boxes, “CAKE KILLS”, but I would still eat it. You probably would too.

So why is that? Why do we eat cake when we know it’s bad for us? When we know we’re forfeiting future health?

Here’s why: we want immediacy over quality. We want to satisfy the craving now at the expense of the greater benefit of health in the future. We are a NOW generation. If something does not benefit us now, it may as well not matter. 

When I eat chocolate cake, I get immediate pleasure. Choosing to not eat chocolate cake may lead to bigger, better rewards… but sometimes it can take a while before I get to experience those rewards. The reward of the chocolate cake is now.

A 9-5 job is like chocolate cake. We don’t want it. And yet… we keep coming back to it. Day after day after day…

Why?

Because of what we get from it NOW: IMMEDIATE SAFETY, A STEADY PAYCHECK…We’re unwilling to give those things up. Unwilling to give up the immediate payoff of 9-5 job. We don’t really want a 9-5 job… but we can’t seem to give it up, either.

But there are BIGGER, BETTER REWARDS than the supposed ‘security’ of a 9-5: for example, there is ABUNDANT MONEY, MORE FULFILLING WORK, TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY…the list is endless!

That’s what I am presenting here! It may take some time, it may not be easy but I know it is simple enough, and more importantly IT’S WORTH THE EFFORT. It is better than chocolate cake! 

But you can’t have these things if you always go for the immediate rewards.

This presentation explains the fastest, easiest way to break away from the false security and lazy immediacy of the 9 to 5 JOB.

If you follow the process outlined here, then you will succeed.

What process?

You see, this is a systematized and automated arrangement where you join a team of like-minded individuals headed for something much more fulfilling than chocolate cake. When you join, you get plugged into this system and the automation is set in motion.

And No – It doesn’t require selling on the phone, holding home parties or being a guru of sorts…You will realize just how simple this is in no time at all. When you’re ready for something more fulfilling than chocolate cake get on board on this link…

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