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How to Protect Your Property and Privacy Legally with One Simple Sign
As a professional writer, I've written for a lot of different clients, from celebrities like Steve Martin and Terry Bradshaw to "Shark Tank," to small businesses just wanting to increase their brand recognition and I will continue to do this. I also write about many important topics such as how to increase your personal security. I wrote for ADT once and gave tips on how to stay safe and keep prowlers at a distance.
But some things need to be brought to attention about prowlers and potential thieves. They are not always what they seem. Having studied forensic psychology for many decades, it's wise to remember that the most obvious ones are not always the criminals. Sometimes they come with a "pretext" of wanting to help you. For example, it could be a salesman at your door under the pretense of selling insurance, a lawn person asking if they can mow your lawn, or someone leaving a business card at your door. I'm not saying everyone who does this is a criminal, but criminals DO practice these behaviors sometimes to see how close they can get to you or your property. The psychology behind this is that they know they need a viable REASON to be there at your door or property, so they make up a story that is both believable and reasonable.
So, before you answer the door, remember that it could be someone selling you something or someone just wanting access to your home and property. One sign will do the trick many times because of the legal power behind it.
NO TRESSPASSING means just what it says: Do not stand on or enter my property for ANY reason. In fact, I put one up recently and a lawyer told me that once you have posted this sign, it means you have issued a legal warning to any potential criminal. If they get on your property after seeing this sign, they have broken the law and you can call the police and have them arrested.
This may seem harsh or overreacting. But it's not. The law views someone who would enter a property, stand on your porch, knock on your door, or other to be an act of aggression and defiance against your request not to trespass. Therefore, if the police come after they have done so, it can be considered a misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on subsequent offenses.
I bought myself this NO TRESSPASSING SIGN recently on Amazon and it seems to do the trick so far. It's large enough to see from several feet away, features bold red and white lettering and warns that "violators will be prosecuted." This isn't just a bluff.
If they get on your property, they CAN be prosecuted. Get yours now at Amazon and post it in clear view of the road or driveway. You may be amazed at the difference. I'm not saying it's the only thing you should do. I also have an ADT system connected to the police station as well as a call button that summons help immediately if I see anyone suspicious. Having cameras hidden in strategic places outside is also wise. Whether or not you want the camera in an obvious location or hidden will depend on whether you want to use it to scare potential criminals away or actually get them on camera to observe their behavior.
But this sign sends the message that, unless you invited someone, they are NOT WELCOME!
Today I was thinking about the beautiful tulips that I planted and grew for Mom and Dad a couple of years ago. I got the bulbs from a bulb company that specializes in tulips and planted them in the Fall. Then in the spring, they came up like crazy and were really beautiful. This is a picture of some of them in the picture by our fountain. I also had a variety of other colors that year including bright yellow, peachy orange, and a blend between orange and white and yellow that were just gorgeous. Dad (and Mom) both enjoyed them, and I had planted them in large pots and set them on a table on the patio deck so they could look out and see them. I'll include a few more pictures of them in a later post. Tulips are hearty and pretty easy to raise. The key is planting them at the right time and then watering them often and being patient while they grow. They produce beautiful flowers of different colors (depending on the variety) and they are elegant and strong and can be put in bouquets and vases.
Whatever flowers you prefer to grow or even if you just want nothing more than keeping your lawn healthy, start with the best garden hose nozzle I have ever found-the RAINPOINT GOLDEN NOZZLE found on Amazon.
I shop for Amazon for just about everything and now I have been asked to become a partner with their Creative Brands associate program. This means I will share links to products that I love and that I think my readers will enjoy. In full disclosure, I do receive a small commission if you purchase anything through my link, but this is a great way for me to use my writing ability (I've been a professional writer for 13 years), and to create a little passive income. Rest assured, though, I only post links to products I either own or truly like and can honestly recommend to others.
I made a couple of videos on this nozzle that you can watch below. I used it to wash my car and water plants and it's the best hose nozzle I've ever seen! It's also pretty in shiny gold with a plethora of different settings. Check it out and see if you like it, too. Grow your garden and enjoy nature this spring!
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Check out these videos below where I reviewed the Rainpoint Garden Hose Nozzle then check it out on Amazon to make it your own!
It's springtime and time to get out and enjoy some "nature therapy!" Whether it's about growing your favorite tropical plants (I personally like caladiums, palm trees, and dwarf fruit trees), but I also have other favorites like hybrid tea roses, miniature roses you can grow in pots, and just about anything you can grow outside or in your lawn.
My parents always loved to watch songbirds like the Northern Cardinal (pictured), bluebirds, robins, and many other birds that call your yard and lawn their home.
We put our birdseed out to encourage their visits, and some of them have taken up residence close to the house, which is fine with us! The nature that you can see in your own yard is amazing.
To keep your lawn and yard looking it's best, we've been on the lookout for some handy garden tools and lawncare equipment that can help. Check out this
This is not your usual lawnmower, folks! This one requires no gas or batteries to run! Just plug it in and go! Just plug it into any available outside cord and use your own outside extension cord if you need more length. This quiet but super-efficient lawnmower will make your neighbors wonder if you ever mow your yard at all!!
Imagine never having to create noise or gas emissions, enjoying an easy-to-use lawnmower, and reducing your carbon footprint while helping the earth.
Check it out here while it's at a great price on Amazon.
Disclaimer: I do receive a small percentage of sales when you purchase via my links. But I've always done product reviews, and I will only recommend products I own myself or that I know are worth recommending.
I truly think you will love this alternative to the noisy gas mower you may have right now. Anyone can push this light mower and cut their own grass in just minutes, saving money on hiring someone to do it!
I hope you enjoy springtime! I will be featuring a few other products, like a really cool golden water hose nozzle. I am ordering mine as I speak because it's gorgeous and looks really high quality.
My blog focuses mostly on digital media and technology, but I always try to offer my readers something that will help them in other aspects of their lives, as well. My other business, Nature Therapy Candles, was inspired by the beauty and therapeutic value of nature and all it offers.
Keeping your lawn looking great allows you to enjoy it even more! Step into the future with the electric mower by Lawnmaster. You'll be glad you did!
I'm just dropping in to update my blog, which has been neglected for a couple of years, and to introduce some new things I'm doing. I've missed posting on this blog, but I've been involved in some family things for the past few years (helping my older parents at home) and working on some educational materials I'm creating for homeschool parents.
Iam also updating the internet radio station to include some new programming and updates. We will still play 80s rock, some jazz, classical, and oldies, as well as patriotic music for fellow patriots, but we'll also be adding some live studio sessions of some of my new music and other things I want to share with you and some new material about how to run a business from home for those work-at-home entrepreneurs like myself.
I am introducing a new site that will be a part of my family of websites. It is called "Internet Shakespeare" and will feature my professional writing services without going through a content site or a middleman. I'll still write some for the content sites, and they've been pretty good to me, but it's time I struck out on my own more. The site will feature articles you can download soon, and you can also order my writing services if you'd like to do that. I've been writing blog and web content for almost 12 years with high success, and you'll be able to get custom articles for your business or website/blog, etc., anytime from my new site. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out now.
You'll notice I tell the story of how I got the name "Internet Shakespeare" on he INTRO page, and if you scroll down, you'll see how you can order my writing services or sign up for a 30 minute Homeschool consultation session that I will do for $49 per hour to help homeschool parents by giving them advice from me (a certified teacher) with 18.5 years of experience.
You can also pay for 30 minutes of consultation on writing, either for parents or independent writers out there who want tips on how to succeed as a writer today in the digital era.
I'll keep this entry short for now, but I have lots more to report, like the time I spent working on AI projects for various AI companies. I wrote prompts for machine learning to make the models "smarter." This knowledge has opened up many more doors for my digital media and technology business, which I can share with you.
I'll try to post more often starting this month, so look for updates soon.
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For those who are still undecided on whether Alex Jones is a crazy conspiracist or a modern-day Paul Revere, let me lay your fears to rest. He's a real modern-day Paul Revere who has proven the conspiracy theory is no longer a theory. I've been watching his show since September of 2016, 2 months before the Presidential election of Donald Trump. He was the reason Trump got elected. He had over 97 million listeners from Nov. 1-Nov. 8, 2016 which was several times more than his usual audience. This was because he coordinated with insiders such as Dr. Steve Pieczenik, Robert Steele, and former Clinton cover-up man, Larry Nichols to expose the REAL HRC just in time for the election. THIS WAS THE COUNTERCOUP.
Wikileaks information which was given to Julian Assange by our intelligence people just in time to be exposed on HRC helped push millions more to the polls to result in a Trump victory. Jones, not Fox News or any other network was the "tip of the spear" for the liberty movement. We're not discounting the contributions others like Limbaugh, Levin, and Fox made. They continue to play an important role. But the hardcore news AS IT HAPPENED was only found on Alex's program. This is not meant to be one long ad for Alex Jones. I do not work for Alex but they do know me and I have sent them news tips along with my analysis of what I thought was happening from time to time on specific events. Owen Shroyer, his 29-year-old sidekick has read my book on "The Future of Education."
I'm mainly writing this long post to tell you that Alex Jones is not only a great investigative journalist, but he and his reporters are responsible for leading the Second Revolution and the Counter-coup against the Left that threatened to take our country into Socialism and Communism. Regarding Alex's listeners, some seem to have the mistaken idea that we just listen to Alex and that's our only source. Nothing could be further from the truth. Though Alex is my important source because of all of the top sources he's connected to, we who listen to AJ's show are independent learners and researchers who dig the truth out ourselves, both to check AJ's stories for verification and to find other information that might be helpful to uncover the truth.
WHY ALEX WAS BANNED Alex has been banned from all of the major social media company platforms. It happened in the same week, meaning they copied each other in their decision to bring down his broadcast, but they all had the same reason: THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS are all Leftists. Trust me when I say they are at the heart of the NWO/Big Brother system and they do not want AMERICA to know the truth!
However, they have not been able to take down his own platform and he is still alive and well on infowars.com.
If you think the Left's assault on free speech is just on Alex Jones, think again. He does the most damage to their cause so that's why they target him the most. But they are also actively trying to take down Fox, Limbaugh, and others who share some of his views.
In the Left's "Candide's perfect world," the only information you should be able to find is liberal propaganda that justifies why they want open borders, legalization of pedophilia, and such like. They are criminals pretending to be legislators and they want to own you. Therefore, they must control the information you are exposed to.
LEARN THE TRUTH Finally, don't believe all of the lies you hear about Jones, because most are made up. He had a lot of flack on the SANDY HOOK situation. But folks, I have a degree in Radio-TV and I saw many anomalies in the broadcast CNN did on this 'school shooting' and I believe it was an entirely staged event. The agenda was to promote gun control. There are just too many inconsistencies and investigators who tried to get information later on the incident were refused help in finding out the truth. Video is inconsistent with reality and some appear to be looped. Steve Piecezenik and other former CIA agents have explained that false flags are often carried out to promote agendas and now the "bad guys on the left" have control of these tools.
Do your own research on everything and decide for yourself. The truth IS out there. But I just wanted everyone to understand that Alex Jones is a real American hero. Like anyone who does anything great, he is criticized constantly. But think about WHY he is criticized. The Left owns all of the big tech companies. They are trying to spy on everyone with all sorts of tech gadgets and Alex exposes this. They have other, darker goals as well and he exposes it all.
Alex is passionate about his country, God, and America's traditional values. He's not a Republican. He's a Liberitarian who supports Trump because he's trying to set things right again and not give over the country to foreign nationals (Islam/China, etc.)
If you are a law-abiding American who just wants peace, freedom, and you are willing to not be a sheep and fight for the innocent such as the child trafficking, drug trafficking, and treason that has gone on in our country, then I suggest you tune in.
Don't listen to the crowd. Mob mentality will lead you down the WRONG ROAD.
On a personal note, I figured out a huge amount of information ON MY OWN long before I discovered Alex Jones. My sources were inside CIA/NSA people, their media, books, and videos, documents that are a matter of public record, and my own high-level detective skills. I've never been a detective but I definitely could have been. And I've studied Forensic Psychology for many years, with an emphasis on how media can influence the mind.
I hope this helps any of you who are wondering about who Alex Jones really is. His motives are to save the country and the children and set the world back on track for good. And that can't be bad.
Tune in at infowars.com daily at 11 a.m. You'll see what I mean. He has a special show starting at 8 a.m. Thursday designed to bring awareness to the threat to our 1st Amendment through the Left's conservative censorship. You'll want to tune in.
Most people, as Emerson once said just go about their lives "in quiet desperation." They have the mistaken idea that what individuals do is not important. That somehow it will work out without doing anything. NOT! This is what is wrong with our country now. We got lazy and indifferent. Meanwhile, the enemy of Communism and Tyranny snuck in on us in the name of political correctness and open borders.
When you hear someone say, "Nothing I can do will help," tell them, "Nothing could be further from the truth. If we don't take action, who will?" If we lose this country, it will be because of this kind of incorrect logic.
Remember, those of us who have Alex as our main source understand he will always have 'tomorrow's news today' because he wants you to know what the Deep State is hiding. There are things I have known for 3 years that Fox is JUST NOW exposing. And some they will NEVER expose.
I'm a member of OSINT now, (the open source intelligence agency) created by former CIA officer, Robert Steele. But you don't have to be a member to use our resources. OSINT is based on the notion that the truth is out there in the public record, from people (HUMINT), meaning human resources and intelligence, and almost all of it can be found on the internet. Steele also teaches you how to vet true from false information and test your hypothesis. OSINT is based on the premise that anyone can find the truth if they go about it in a systematic way and have the talent to apply logic to the events. OSINT is why HRC lost.
Alex is not just a great investigative news reporter. He is an activist for positive change. The actions he and his people have taken have gotten us the best President we've ever had, exposed the perversion in the schools, the lies about Russia, and much more.
I've been revamping my websites and blogs and working on my new business. I've also been busy doing small things like saving the Republic and the world, etc. ha
But I wanted to take a minute to share with you that I'm working on the 7th eBook that I hope to have finished in time for the Spring 2019 season. It's about how to have a $1000 garage sale every time. My sister and I are super experienced at this and I cannot recall a yard sale in which we made less than $1,000. In fact, we usually make closer to $2500. We have 2 or 3-day sales so that there are plenty of opportunities to negotiate with customers, have contests and games, and create repeat sales.
I use my background in radio to create contests, giveaways to people who spend a certain amount of money for shopping with us, etc. In short, the yard sales that we have are successful because of a long of other things that we do that have nothing to do with yard sales, if that makes sense!
I plan to have a podcast on this topic soon on BlogTalk Radio and also on my own internet radio station. Here's the link to my station. We talk about intelligence updates, political news, how-tos for entrepreneurs, how to invest, and more.
I do want to encourage anyone who wants to write an eBook to just do it! Think about what you're good at, make a list of your hobbies and areas of expertise, and go for it. Outline your book before you start if it is a non-fiction book but keep the outline loose so you can make changes as you see the need. Be creative. If it's important to you, it may be important to someone else, too. Just do it! I'll try to put together a video or tutorial soon on how to write an Ebook and get it published with Amazon Kindle and ACX (Audible) if you've never done so. In the meantime, start writing!
Join us anytime. We are working on a new website and we will have it up as soon as possible where you'll be able to see our radio schedule and much more.
I plan to have many more live broadcasts, cut-ins, and intelligence updates also soon.
First, I don't believe in it. I know there are events that "just happen" but most of those events can be traced back to something we did or influenced. I'm not saying that there are no accidents (though Einstein did say this once). Some of these so-called "accidents" are good. Others are not so good. But believing in luck implies that "the gods" somehow either like us or have it in for us. I don't believe in either of these ideas. The former attempts to create the idea of "victim mentality" where everything is against us no matter what we do. The latter creates the impression that God plays favorites and that only the few he chose for success will find happiness. Both of these ideas are wrong.
God is impartial, but the Bible does give some credibility to the idea that he looks after his own (faithful Christians) to a higher degree than people in the world. Still, "it rains on the just and the unjust" which would imply that, instead of luck, it's just 'life' and what happens in an imperfect world with people who don't always make the right decisions, including us.
That being said, when it comes to entrepreneurship, I think luck is what happens when we apply our talents and abilities to a great opportunity. Whenever I prospect a new client, I think of it as a card game. I picture myself with my hand of cards in front of me and ask myself, "Which card should I play with this client?"
If it is a magazine publisher for an education magazine, I will play the "teacher card," (the fact that I taught in a public school system for over 15 years). If it is for a technology blog, I will play the card that I own my own technology and digital media company.
Whatever your abilities, experience, or education, think of these are the cards you play to get the jobs or clients you want to obtain or to reach the goals you have set for yourself.
So, when an opportunity comes along, it's not luck if you have done your job in prospecting clients, the opportunities (good luck) will present itself. People sometimes tell me I must be "lucky" because I am making a full-time income writing at home. But I tell them that there was never an opportunity that just landed in my lap. I scoured the web, searched writing sites, and browsed hundreds of opportunities on writing forums to find excellent opportunities. Is that luck? No. It's hard work.
A Story About My Youth
When my sister and I were in our teenage years, we got obsessed with finding four-leaf clovers. I don't know if we just got bored growing up in a small town or what, but we decided to see how often we could find a four-leaf clover. At first, we only found three-leaf clovers. Then, with some time and applied effort, we did find one four-leaf clover. We were so excited and said, "I guess this is our lucky day!" Then, we continued looking in the same clover patch and, amazingly we found another and another and another! There were about 5 or 6 four-leaf clovers in that same patch.
We decided to make it our new hobby. We would go up and down our street looking in patches of clovers just to collect more four-leafers to add to our collection. Our grandparents owned a farm, and they had a large yard so we would carry our obsession of finding four-leaf clovers over to their house, as well. It was indeed an obsession.
To sum up, by the end of the summer, guess how many four-leaf clovers we found?
56!
That's right. With some applied effort, we were able to locate almost 60 of the evasive clovers that most people are unable to find even one of.
Conclusion: Luck is what happens when you apply your skills, your determination, and your energy on a task and never let up until you reach your goals! One side note: it's too bad that there isn't such a thing as just plain good luck. If there was we would have hit the gold mine finding 56 good luck charms!
I thought you'd enjoy this story. I'll be talking about this on my internet radio station in this week's podcast. Be sure to tune in at:http://player.live365.com/a32814?l
I still don't believe in luck, and now you know why. It's not what happens that makes the difference.
It's what we do with the opportunities that matter the most.
