Tom Guard in 2019: Updates and More

It’s 2019. February already. Odd years have always been good years. So far so good.

Highlights over the past couple years for Tom Guard (2019)

Browns back in business.

Oldest is #1 in his class

Oldest is enrolled in college while in High School

Driving

Sports management – Contracts and Finance

College tour this spring.

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Worlds biggest browns fan in Florida

Youngest is an outstanding comedian

Karate champion

Gamer

What about Tom Guard. What have I been up to?   Enough about me. I’ll fill you in later. I just can’t wait until Football season to see the Cleveland Browns.  But no matter what you see online, it’s mostly entertainment.

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Plenty more to come from Tom Guard twitter, facebook, blogs, journals, books and more

Equifax TrustedID Warning Shows No Matter What Information Used.

You can use a fake name and last 6 digits of any social security number and Equifax will tell you that you have been hacked. Go to the official site and make up any name or soc.
In this video I used the name Smith and the last 6 digits of the social security number used 999999, the example number on the site. 
This is a great way to launch a new product. Scare people into thinking their personal information was compromised and then have them sign up for a premier service that will eventually bill you after a free trial period.  Genius. 

As a digital marketer, I pioneered faked hacks or tech issues (without using fear) in order to push products virally. It works. It goes viral with little or no advertising costs because media will pick up on it for free. It’s better than a super bowl ad and free. Let social media work itself. Let people spread the word for you. 
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AT&T – T-Mobile Outages Take Over South Florida

While FPL is working tirelessly to restore power to South Florida residents and businesses a bigger problem is arising once power is restored: Communications. 

Some residents and businesses in Palm Beach County, Florida do not have internet access. Although reported outrages from Comcast have decreased, its competitor, AT&T is having major outtages. AT&T’s DSL service relies on fiber optic phone lines. When those lines or “transfer boxes” get damaged the network can take a major hit putting internet and even TV service out for a while.  Small businesses who rely on internet access for survival seem to be most affected.  

People flocked to a local Dunkin Donuts in Boynton Beach for internet access only to find out the free Wi-Fi was down along with the business’ network. 

Cellular communication and data is experiencing outtages. T-Mobile won’t disclose how many customers are without service. While some cell towers and networks are completey inoperable, some South Florida residents have limited service. However they are experiencing data delays or delayed notifications for texts and voicemails. 

Simon Kendal of West Boca said of his T-Mobile service; “I’m lucky if a call gets connected, but you’ve got to expect there’s going to be outages.”  Source

No official word from either company on when service could be restored.

Hurricane Irma Damage Boynton Beach

Irma battered Boynton Beach, Florida with wind gusts as high as 89 MPH. Powerlines, trees, and debris littered roads. Structural damage was minor except for fences which were randomly scattered along major roads like Military Trail, Jog, Lake Worth Road.  

85% of traffic lights were either malfunctioning or without power.  No accidents reported as of yet from drivers who failed to treat broken traffic lights as a 4 way stop. 

Cerfew is still in effect for all of Palm Beach County, Florida. PBSO has reported that the county will enforce a dusk until dawn cerfew to allow cleanup of roads and to deter anyone thinking of looting. So far there have been minimal reports of looting in Palm Beach County.

Fuel is available at most open gas stations with minimal wait times.  

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Boynton Residents wait for fuel tanker

Filed –  Tom Guard – Severe Weather Blogger. #33436 9112017:1535 EST 

Couple Wins The Lottery and They Are Exploding With Happiness.


(Brookpark – Ohio) A lucky day for a Snow Road couple. After a long day of hard work, he purchased a lottery ticket. After the numbers were drawn, they were happy and couldn’t show it enough. 

Actually this is fake news and I thought the photo was funny. Read the real story behind this photo here. http://wtkr.com/2017/08/03/toddler-hospitalized-ohio-babysitter-arrested-after-children-spotted-in-back-of-u-haul-truck/

NLP Technique – As Funny As it Sounds.

How To Overcome Anything

There are two extreme types of people, with most falling somewhere in the middle.

The first are those who see, feel, and believe in what they want, and they win over and over again, and even overcome obstacles that would have crushed someone else.

An example is Donald Trump. His entire empire collapsed around him because of problems with his casino and the crunch in the real estate market. He was worse than the poorest, homeless person, because he was billions of dollars in debt! What did he do? He took massive action and today he is even richer and more successful than ever before.

Again, look at the case of Bill Gates. First, the government, goaded on by his rivals, tried to break up Microsoft; then after 9/11, he lost billions. What is he doing now? He is using his massive financial clout to reform the world, and is the greatest financial philanthropist the world has ever seen.

Then there are other people, who have everything going for them, and they manage to destroy it all. Elvis Presley was adored by the world; he was rich, handsome, charismatic, kind, generous, adored. He had everything anybody could possibly want from life. Yet, he slipped into drug addiction that finally took his life.

Again, look at Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, William Holden, Mama Cass Elliott, and Janis Joplin. The world was astonished and exhuberant over their talents, but they destroyed themselves rapidly.

How do some people succeed despite everything? How do some people fail despite everything?

The answer is that those who have succeeded found a way to overcome their traumas and those who failed succumbed to them.

A very powerful way to overcome trauma is to use the scrambling patterns of Neuro-linguistic programming. They can do for you in a few minutes or at the most an hour, what it would take a skilled psychoanalytic therapist to do for you in years.

What is a trauma, in the first place?

It is like a groove on a long-playing record. Something unpleasant happened to you: you got fired from a job, your lover ran off with someone else, you were falsely accused of doing something, you were attacked verbally or physically, you made a mistake and everybody worked really hard to make sure that you felt humiliated, you were in a war zone.

Because the incident was etched in your brain with great emotional energy, it became very vivid for you. It could have happened a week or a year or a decade ago, and yet it remains as vivid as if it had happened a day ago.

You then play that record over and over again, or try to suppress it; but it’s always there, and it is quietly ruining your self-esteem and your chances of really making massive progress in your life. You usually feel guilt or shame, even when it was clearly not your faulty. Your brain appears to be on autopilot and punishing you, over and over again.

What most therapeutic modalities try to do is make you relive the experience and get insight and, hopefully, let it go, forgiving yourself and other people.

With NLP, the effort is not to work with insight or release, but with scrambling the patterns. There is no rational intervention. No quest for new meanings and re-interpretations.

Instead, using the analogy of the long-playing record, the attempt is to scratch the record so that it stops sinking into the same familiar grooves and starts playing the same old sad song of how you were humiliated, betrayed, and cast to the wolves.

What happens is that your neurons lose their thick bands of connectivity that keep those memories alive. The connections get thinner and the electrical impulses flowing through your brain weaker.

Here then are some scrambling patterns:

1. Go over the painful memory backwards several times, going faster each and every time. Soon like a bad movie, which runs backwards, you actually stop being frightened and alarmed and actually lose interest.

2. Review the whole scenario but make it a cartoon. See how your boss is standing in his underwear yelling at you and you are laughing hysterically. See how you are swatting the policeman who gave you a speeding ticket as if he were a fly on your windscreen. Make it ridiculous. Change it around. Animate the entire mental picture as if it were a children’s cartoon on TV.

3. Give all the characters in your mental melodrama Mickey Mouse voices.

Do you see the value of this approach? In five minutes, you can get rid of phobias that have been bothering you for your whole life. Interrupt the pattern, make it ridiculous, and before long it will no longer bother you.

The result is that you will free up a vast amount of life-force particles that has been locked into entertaining memories that no longer serve you. Winning is easy: just focus on what you want and take your attention away from what is sapping your energy, creativity, and awesome potential.

Contest Burner Plugin Review

If you have ever wanted to run a contest using social media promoting your product, services or website or blog, there is a WordPress Plugin that has been fine-tuned over the past year to let anyone have a contest.

The plugin is called Contest Burner. It suppose to allow you to create a contest that gives points to contestants for sharing your websites, services, or products with anyone through social media channels.

Last year I bought this plugin and used it on my site tweetandwin.net. You can check it out and see that I have used it to make sure this is an honest review. I also used this on my blog dailybragger.com as well.

First, Contest Burner was very easy to install. It’s as simple as installing a WordPress Plugin. If you have a WordPress blog or website, you know how easy it is to install plugins.

Second, it was very easy to set it up. Everything you need to set up a contest is within the plugin interface.

Third, the hardest part for me was trying to figure out what prizes to give to people who won.

With this amazing Worpress plugin, Contest Burner can get people to opt-in to your lists, get people to spread the word via Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and more.

The results of using Contest Burner on my websites.

When I used Contest Burner on my personal blog last year, my Alexa ranking jumped from 600,000 to 200,000 in two weeks. I had people blogging about my blog and putting their contest link everywhere, from Twitter, to Facebook. It gave me some great backlinks.

When I reviewed the stats on my TweetAndWin.net site they were also phenomenal.

Would I recommend this product? YES!

This product comes with a guarantee and I did get product support anytime I needed it. Using Contest Burner, I did have a question about about a “contest end date.” The developer took the time to answer my question and resolved the problem. It turns out that forgot that I didn’t have to unzip the plugin when uploading it to my blog. It was even easier than I thought.

In conclusion:

If you want to get some quality traffic to your website, using a contest is the way to go. It will not only create viral buzz about your stuff, but it will get you some great backlinks and spread like wildfire.

Check out this WordPress contest plugin now for more information.