Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Bull Market Vs. Bear Market

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. - Ron Chernow

Most individuals do not know the difference between a bull market and a bear market.  This is one of the most important investing concept to understand.  If you do not understand how the market is going, how do you know what your money is doing?

A bull market is a long-term upward trend.

A bear market is a long-term downward trend.

Right now their are bull markets in Gold, Silver, Uranium, and Commodities.  Most people do not and will never invest in commodities.  The average person invests in mutual funds, 401k's, and IRA's.  The reality is those are in bear markets right now.  Yes a downward trend.  The argument is, well they will increase on average over 8% a year for the life of the fund.  The ignorance in that is this... the largest bear market right now is the $US dollar.  It is continually and will continue to lose it's value.  Mutual Funds, 401k's, and IRA's are great ways for the rich to steal from your wealth.  It is a market of derivatives... the very reason the United States is in the pickle it is in.

The B Side To The Truth is investing is simple when you do the first investment, which is gain the knowledge necessary and have the confidence in yourself to make the right decisions in every realm of life.  All of life is based upon patterns, get good at understanding patterns and have the ability to create happiness now.

Colton - discover your true'ness' 

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Bull Market Top Investments

The Law of Supply and Demand: The more prospects you have for a particular product, the more it becomes worth.

The thing most people miss in their investment portfolio is knowledge.  Consider investing 10% of your income in to knowledge and you will become the richest man in Babylon, or at least feel secure with your investments in insecure times. 

The top bull market investments are Gold, Silver, and Uranium

The top self-relient peace of mind investments are Food, Water, and Gold or Silver coins.

The law of supply and demand is the center of what controls this life and continual market their of.  As inflation and what top economist believe to be hyperinflation means "real value money" like Gold, Silver, and Uranium are top investments.  As people begin to realize the fail of the dollar and those who study the markets see that value of paper money no longer exists.  This means more people will turn to the Gold and Silver markets to retain wealth.  There fore to be able to ride the bull market through inflation one must get on at the bus station.  Today is the time to get on the bus.  When most people get on the ride it will be over.   Imagine getting to Disney Land just in time for it to shut down, yet you already paid to enter the theme park.  You have already entered and there is not much time, the question is do you realize it? 

Uranium as a top investment?? Why?  Every market is driven by the law of supply and demand.  As the oil market raises with the inflation of the $US, there will be $5 and $6 per gallon gas prices.  There for the demand for other means of energy will increase.  The next on demand product for energy is nuclear or uranium.  Most all uranium companies will increase their use and their share values are relatively cheap now under $2.00 a share.

Now I am no expert in the stock market, I am an expert in social dynamics and people patterns.  As patterns control every part of life, the market is also a pattern.  And as history passes us by, history constantly repeats it's self. 

Now if one believes in God or not, one must decide to believe in the facts, the World Economic Market is at a pivotal point in history.  The difficulty will be amongst the diversified generations.  Today's college students and upcoming generation of innovators have only experienced life with technology, i.e. internet, cell phones, and soon to be Iphones and droids.  The fact of the matter is they are already conditioned in these walks of life, what this says is "they will be pushing the envelope in innovation."  The way business is ran is and will forever change.  Those however, who do not take the conscious effort to learn, they will be left behind tragically.  The tragedy is the dividing line of the have's and the have not's is increasing as the majority of people will miss the boat as they are stuck in the middle class realm.  The one investment  to help not just hopefully thrive, yet to survive are those who gain the knowledge in where to invest, those who take control of their own financial situation, and those who can take action. 

The B Side To The Truth is live the law of supply and demand on a large scale to your advantage.  Do not be afraid to go against the crowd.  Usually by the time a crowd gather's around, the excitement has already came and gone.  So hop on and ride the bull market up. 

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Friday, November 26, 2010

TOP 10 MYTHS FOR AVERAGE FINANCIAL ADVICE

Top 10 myths.  Financial Advice for average people.  This is why the rich get richer and the middle class and poor are getting poorer right before our eyes, yet no one knows what to do about it!

1. Go to School
2. Get a job
3. Work hard
4. Save money
5. Your house is an investment and your biggest investment
6. Live below your means
7. Get out of debt
8. Invest for the long term in a well diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
9. Retire and the government will support you.
10. Live happily ever after.

Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich.

The conditioned myths in each one of us as individuals continues to hold us back.  In order to change the results we want in our life we must start with in our own belief system.  Start with different language, different words, positive phrases, and to be able to do that, spend time gaining knowledge!

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Friends and Dollar Signs

Since when was it OK to look at friends with dollar signs in our eyes? - Casey McFarland

In the past couple of weeks I have had the opportunity to meet a variety of people that some could be a wonderful asset and others could be a terrible liability.  It truly is amazing to see the fight to survive come alive in people when the economy and typical opportunity begins to shrink.

A couple of weeks ago I met a fellow by the name of Shawn Watkins.  He related the fight for survival of the shrinking economy to a billabong in Australia.  A billabong is a small lake that get's cut of from the river.  In the heat the crocodiles will soak in the water to cool down.  Yet as the billabong begins to shrink, the fight to cool down begins to increase as there is less water to go around.  That is what seems to be happening in almost every industry in every market right now.

As the billabong of the economy shrinks it becomes easier to see who your friends are.  It seems friends are replaced as dollar signs in good times and bad.  So be careful, not with people choosing money over you, yet you choosing money over people.

The B Side To The Truth is there is more than enough opportunity to go around.  Yet what keeps us from getting our slice of the pie?  The first and foremost is the lack of knowledge in a changing market.  When times were hot anyone could make money, even those who were uneducated.  When times get cold sort of speak, the best investment one can start with is the knowledge and know how.  Investing in your education should be a regular expense in a person's life, and I do not mean traditional public school or money making colleges.

A few steps to successful investing in any market:

1. Treat life as a investment.
2. Take the time to get the knowledge and education necessary.  We all have 168 hours in a week.  Figure out what your time is worth and treat it that way.  And every hour you spend educating yourself and creating commitments, then consider this a pay raise on what you are worth per hour.  A simple formula given by Neil Strauss is:  Know what your time is worth. There's an easy formula to calculate this: Take your earnings for the year. Divide that number by 1760. The resulting number is roughly what you make hourly in a work week. However, considering that statistically most people work for an average of one-third of a work hour, multiply that number by three. Now you know what your time is really worth. Treat it that way.
3. Invest in food storage.
4. Invest in your debt.  How do you invest in your debt?  Simple create a financial statement that includes your monthly income, monthly expenses, total real assests (remember your personal home is a liability, not an asset.  An asset puts money in your pocket, a liability takes money out of your pocket), and total liabilities.  Create a plan to decrease your expenses and increase your income.
5. Invest in gold, silver, tangible usable goods, and section 8 housing or housing in the working class range.  There will always be a working class.

Colton -discover your true'ness'

Monday, November 15, 2010

Why This Financial Crisis Is and Will Be Different?

"I am afraid my generation and their kids are not prepared for the economic decline, a depression that may be coming.  If a person has only known an expanding economy, he or she may not be prepared for life in a deflating or hyperinflating economy. - Robert Kiyosaki

The lack of self-education is typically what haunts and keeps us from seizing and taking advantage of opportunities.  As we approach 2011 with a very unstable economy and market, many say "stop looking at the  negative".  I say "start looking at the negative and educate yourself on taking the steps now to create temporal and eternal wealth".   The ability to hear and see what is going on in the World is eternal knowledge that when situations and time for decisions arise one will be able to make and educated decision.

The B Side To The Truth is different than normal today.  The B Side is the decisions that need to be made, need to be and should be decided today.  In previous post we have talked about the best investments by being:

1. Get the knowledge and do your due diligence.
2. Food Storage
3. Get out of Debt.
4. Spend dollars, save goods. i.e. gold, silver, food, agriculture land, and section 8 government housing.  DO NOT save your dollars in a bank account, roth IRA, 401k's, and mutual funds.

Those things are what can be done to invest temporally.  Yet eternally, that comes down to following the dictates of your own conscience and conditioning oneself to hear and listen to his intuition.  A different nutty way.  A few great places to study this subject are: Malcom Gladwell's book, Blink, and begin to study the subject of silence and stillness.

Truth is found in all things through principles.


Colton - discover your true'ness'

Friday, November 12, 2010

What If or What is?

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?” - Friedrich Nietzsche


No one truly knows the future.  We can simply speculate according to the facts.  The problem is how do we look at the facts and from what angle?  There are so many angles that it really can cause confusion and the creation of a "What if?" scenario. 

What if tomorrow didn't come? Did you live your fullest today?  Did your love ones know you were there for them? Did you do your best to serve mankind?  Robert Kiyosaki said,  "The most destroying word of all is the word tomorrow."

The B Side To The Truth is we can constantly create stories in our mind and ask questions of "what if". Yet when we do this it takes away the real, the now, the today.  So stop asking "what if" and start asking "what is"!

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Fine Tune The Law Of Attraction

Our mind contains all of the power necessary to give, to create, and to receive. The problem is for most individuals they have it backwards. Typically people think receive, create, then they will give. That then makes one become dependent on another and not independent. Once a person can understand this they can transform their independence into interdependence.

Each and everyone us have the ability to create. Yet the question is "just because we can create, does it mean we should?"

There are two types of mindsets that exist in the second dimension. ( Blog Post explaning second dimension on April 18, 2010) The Producer Mindset and The Consumer Mindset.  One should look at the second and third dimension as using a Mac Computer with VmWare or Parallels.  Those are programs that allow one to switch between a Mac operating system and a Windows operating system.  One must arrive into a state of mind where just existing is the beauty in itself, yet has the ability to take control and create when things need and should be created.  The issue with most people is they get stuck in a selfish mode of creation and seek to do so for power.

The B Side To The Truth is to fine tune the law of attraction not for gain, yet for the existence of being and enjoying.  We are not here to be miserable.  We are here to exist in happiness.  It is something that just is in your state of mind with the ability to create and protect and retain.

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Enjoyment

“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.” - Epictetus

Sometimes we forget to enjoy the very simple things of life. On The B Side To The Truth we are constantly posting content that opens the minds and eyes of people that seek for truth. We post things in the media, things in the finance World, things in the government, and things that increase our human life value.

It is however important to stop looking sometimes and simply enjoy everything around you. One of the best ways to do so is by gratitude. There are many ways to share gratitude.

Here are a few steps in simply enjoying life.

1. Write a gratitude list of people you are grateful, specifically why, and send them a gratitude text, note, email, or even a phone call.

2. Turn off the TV, Cell Phone, all distractions when you are with someone and simply ask them to do the same. This will create real conversation and be there at that time 100%.

3. Give more. Simply give just because you can give. With all of the movement in personal coaching and positive thinking industry, often times we thing of giving to receive. Start giving just to give and not expecting anything in return.

4. Go on a walk and leave all electronics behind. No Ipod, cell phone, noise maker or anything. Simply walk and experience the joy of creation around you.

5. Smile. Smile just to smile and watch the outcome. It will brighten your day and the day of those around.

The B Side To The Truth is life is to be enjoyed. Many of us struggle daily to find real lasting enjoyment. The pursuit of happiness is constant. It means to be happy just simply to be happy. Society have misinterpreted the pursuit of happiness as a destination and not a journey. The enjoyment is in the today, the now, and the journey.

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Weed Out The Mental Garden

"Life's a garden, dig it!" - Joe Dirt

Each every day we are bombarded with the stresses of life in every one of the five realms.  In doing so we miss some of the greatest secrets to happiness such as expressing more gratitude and giving more.  We deal with worries of children, finances, church callings, work duties, bills, school, or whatever the weeds are in your life.

Imagine each one of the five realms as a plant.  To grow the best garden preparation begins even before planting the seeds.  It takes preparing the soil, fertilizing it properly, tilling the ground, clearing the weeds and then one must make sure they know the length of their growing season.  So the seeds must be planted in the right part of the season.  While the plants begin to grow, the gardener must continually take care of the garden buy watering the plants and clearing the weeds out regularly and consistently so the plants have room to take good root and absorb all of the nutrients necessary.

It is the same principle with our human life value.  The problem is most people are so bombarded by weeds they do not now where to begin taking inventory on their human garden.  Here are a few tips.

1. Schedule a time to take inventory.  This may be hard for some because we are oh so busy with life running from one appointment to the next we even forget to eat.  Remember though, scheduling is about scheduling your priorities, not prioritizing your schedule.  Make a commitment to make inventory or what I call B Side hour a regular consistent time in your life.  It is like playing in the super bowl and not preparing for the game.  The better and more consistent one prepares, the better their human life value gardening will go.

2. Break down the five realms: spiritual, mental, physical, social, and financial.  Then in each realm rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10.  In each realm ask yourself, "What would it take to make this realm a 10?"  Pick one thing, focus on it, then create a habit from it.

3. Be consistent and remember the principle of small and simple things.  Do not be too hard on yourself.  Knowledge and change do not happen over night.  And the interesting thing is your habits will begin to change.  You will begin to eat healthier, pray more often, read more books, and as you do this your mind is filled with goodness and pushes out the habits we either dislike or don't yet realize we have.

4.  Write in a journal.  It allows one to express their stress' and thoughts and organize their mind to think more clearly.

5. Meditate.  Meditation is a lot more simple than people make it.  People think they need a lot of patience to sit still and just think in silence.  The reality is, it must be done effortlessly.  Whatever happens, happens.  This is an exercise that will bring more value over time when it is consistently performed.

6. Turn off the noise.  Turn off the TV just for sound in the house.  Turn off the cell phone to eliminate the stress of whatever it is.  If it is an emergency they can always call 911!  Turn off the radio in the car and just enjoy great conversation or pure silence.  Turn off the computer and get off Facebook so much.  A lot of stress comes from subconscious desires of want and acceptance in the social realm.  People need you, you don't need them.

The B Side To The Truth is our mind is continually being cluttered with noise, weeds, and garbage.  Yet most of society does not take the time to weed their human garden.  By doing so it will create clarity, it will create better marriages and relationships, it will make you more successful in your business' and most important it will give one the sense of happiness just for the sake of being happy for no reason.

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Monday, November 8, 2010

Confused on where to invest!?

“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.” - Brian Tracy

Constantly I talk about the 5 realms of human life value that give one the ability to take their life from the A Side Of Fallacy to The B Side Of The Truth. These realms consist of spiritual, mental, physical, social, and financial.

In this crucial time where many know not where to invest. Below are a few steps where to start.

1. In yourself. Invest in your knowledge and education. Before you give your money to someone else to control, take the time to invest in your personal education in one of the 5 realms. First and foremost invest time into your spiritual and mental realm, then invest in your financial realm for knowledge. Know how money works and where our current money system is. It is crucial to know so that one can make educated decisions that will give a greater return. Remember... when investing in knowledge it will always give an infinite return.

2. Invest in food storage. This goes along with step 1. Do the research to know why it is important and how to get it. Start with the basics and then learn in depth how not only to have food storage to eat, yet also to have food storage with nutrition.

3. Invest in natural assets. IE wheat, gold, silver, and commodities that can be used to your best interest. Invest only in commodities that you can actually hold. The B Side recommends silver. It is the poor man's gold! It is very affordable now and there is an actual demand for it in products of technology and other things.


The B Side To The Truth is there will be many financial changes in the World over the next 6 to 12 months. Invest first in yourself with knowledge. Even if you have no money, you do have time. Everyone has 168 hours a week. How are you using your time. Is it watching TV, playing on Facebook, and surfing the web? Or is it taking the time to invest in your 5 realms of human life value?

Colton - discover your true'ness'

Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Future Is Here. Holograms?

Scientist at the University of Arizona say they have a prototype for a three dimensional hologram. Is it possible to have holograms, surogates, and more things that will create a lazier society? Click the link below to check out the details at FT.com.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Tony Robbins 2010 Market Warning







At the end of last month I posted a warning from financial IQ specialist Robert Kyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad). Two respectable men that are standing up to heed a warning to us on the upcoming market changes from the rest of 2010 and through 2011.

The B Side To The Truth encourages all to due your due diligence now. Prepare for some major changes in the United States, The World, and the economy as a whole. It is necessary to get 6-8 months of food storage.

This is not another fear driven message. This is an opportunity message. A time to protect and prepare to grow.

Please with any questions email me personally at thebsidetothetruth@gmail.com


Colton - discover your true'ness'

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Clear Mental Image

“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream” - Vincent van Gogh


People are confused today with the current economic situation.  As I stood in line today at America First Credit Union, I was eves dropping like every nosey person does at the bank... and the person next to me was complaining because they got a late fee for missing a payment.  As I was doing my transaction I over heard the clerk go over their mortgage, auto loan 1, auto loan 2, auto loan number 3, credit card 1, credit card 2, credit card 3, and then the home equity line of credit.

I am convinced it is not the responsibility of the government or another person for our own fiscal mistakes (Although they do not help either). Yet it is a lack of clarity and a knowledge of a direction in which to take one's life.  The above example is a true example.  And more than over 60% of Americans are in this position.  The question is how does one take control of their own situation?

The B Side To The Truth is clarity begins in the spiritual and mental realms.  A solid relationship with yourself if crucial.  When you connect with your inner-self, you are really connecting with a higher being or also known as God.  As this allows stress to escape, it also allows you to analyze each realm of your life and commit to transformation.

Here is an exercise to use. Choose one of the 5 realms (Spiritual, Mental, Physical, Financial, and Social) and rate yourself on scale of 1 to 10.  Then ask yourself, what would it take to make this realm a 10?  Then make a commitment to ad what you are missing to your realm.  Start simple and one thing at a time.

Colton - discover your true'ness'