Climbing The Internet Kilimanjaro

Written by Ante Miljak


If you stretch your imagination a little you might be able to picture St. Peter, sleeves rolled up, still processingrepparttar millions of poor souls that were liberated by KGB thugs. Tortured to death, multitudes revealed their innermost thoughts.

Duly recorded, these secrets now lie buried under layers of dust in some obscure archives, so as not to remind us ofrepparttar 106532 savagery perpetrated by Homo sapiens ("Wise Man", according to Linnaeus - a dubious accolade to sayrepparttar 106533 least).

But times have changed. Today you don't have to use coercion to lay your hands onrepparttar 106534 most amazing money making secrets. At least I don't. I get them for free. Some mornings my inbox contains so many of them that I am tempted to contactrepparttar 106535 people at Dzerzhinsky Square and set up some kind of secrets exchange.

It would be a win-win arrangement.

My secrets would enable them to improve their somewhat reduced circumstances, and make moneyrepparttar 106536 way they always have - without any work or investment. Their experience in disseminating misinformation might berepparttar 106537 missing link needed to make money from these "sure-fire" schemes, where I failed so miserably.

Onrepparttar 106538 other hand I could use my literary prowess to exposerepparttar 106539 deep buried secrets in an all revealing e-book and make my fortune. The real Africa, orrepparttar 106540 pockets of it that still remain, would then lie beforerepparttar 106541 wheels of my four-wheel-drive vehicle. I could savourrepparttar 106542 magnificent vistas ofrepparttar 106543 "dark continent" before they too are "enlightened" and turned into sprawling slums byrepparttar 106544 "civilized".

Call me old-fashioned, but I still preferrepparttar 106545 original works of nature.

What holds me back from makingrepparttar 106546 call to Moscow isrepparttar 106547 possibility that evenrepparttar 106548 devious KGB might not be able to makerepparttar 106549 promised millions and knock on my door at their favourite time -repparttar 106550 early hours ofrepparttar 106551 morning. My experience with these amazing money-making secrets made a dawn knock on my door very probable.

I should have known that things are not always what they seem. Climbing Kilimanjaro taught me that lesson, but as Benjamin Franklin said: "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other." It is hard to admit, but I seem to be one of them.

When I sawrepparttar 106552 snow-topped mountain fromrepparttar 106553 dusty street ofrepparttar 106554 equatorial town of Moshi, it looked majestic, but not at all challenging. To climb Kilimanjaro would be a piece of cake. Or so I thought.

Overrepparttar 106555 next few daysrepparttar 106556 highest freestanding mountain inrepparttar 106557 world, (5895 m) taught me that experience is a painful bridge between perception and reality.

The excitement ofrepparttar 106558 climb throughrepparttar 106559 lush rain forest onrepparttar 106560 lower slopes ofrepparttar 106561 mountain could be best compared to that of an Internet novice seeingrepparttar 106562 profusion of incredible opportunities offered onrepparttar 106563 Internet.

10 Tips for Successful Meetings

Written by Jim M. Allen


1. Ask yourself if a meeting is really necessary. Oftenrepparttar same things can be accomplished via phone, e-mail, etc. Use your office technology to its fullest potential. 2. Pick a leader. If it's not you, pick someone to leadrepparttar 106531 meeting. Somebody has to be in charge ofrepparttar 106532 meeting to ensure that it accomplishes what it's meant to accomplish. Decide this up front. 3. Have a plan. Create an agenda forrepparttar 106533 meeting and distribute it, in advance, to everyone who will be attending. Ask them to provide you with any changes or additions torepparttar 106534 agenda in advance. 4. Pick an appropriate time. Too early inrepparttar 106535 morning and you risk people being late because of traffic. Too close to lunch and they're thinking of food. Too close torepparttar 106536 end ofrepparttar 106537 day and they're thinking of going home. Find that "just right" time, normally inrepparttar 106538 mid-mornings/afternoons. 5. Haverepparttar 106539 meeting in an easy-to-find location. Pick a "common ground" for most ofrepparttar 106540 attendees. If a meeting will be held off-site or involves getting clients to your location, provide clear, concise directions. 6. Followrepparttar 106541 plan. You've got an agenda, everyone atrepparttar 106542 meeting has seen it, so stick to it. If it's not appropriate forrepparttar 106543 meeting, table it for

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