Hi, I’m Karl father to Emily who is my youngest daughter. Emily was born in the UK and taken by her American mother, Sheila, to the US when Emily was 11 months old. This blog is where I’m placing the media reports and evidence of the role of the US Department of State in abducting Emily to the US while obstructing justice for Emily and attempting to cover up misconduct of officials while Emily is denied medical treatment for her eye condition which will leave her blind.
Well the internet does work!
After an initial launch of the Frozenheart web site, a flurry of responses from around the world and from many people who have contacted me for the very first time.
Remember the primary aim initially is to establish a world wide network of accommodation for parents that is no cost for left behind parents traveling abroad to recovery their children.
An unexpected fringe benefit that is going to start taking centre stage is an email I received from Richard Duszczak of the Cartoon Studio Limited in the UK.
The Cartoon Studio have offered to become a corporate sponsor for Frozenheart and have kicked this off with £500 worth of free artwork and logo design and other support as well.
So, to Richard and his team at Cartoon Studio, I’d like to say thank you and I hope you are the first of many!
Now here’s an unashamed plug for those awfully decent chaps and chappettes at the Cartoon Studio:
For more information on Cartoon Studio Limited and how they can help your business with illustrations, logos and cartoon imagery contact them using the information below.
Cartoon Studio Limited
29 Lake View Avenue, Walton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK S40 3DR
Tel: +44(0)1246 209034 Fax: +44(0)1246 209034
Email: rd@cartoonstudio.co.uk
Web: www.cartoonstudio.co.uk
I’ll keep you informed of how the logo was created – so please stay tooned!
Richard
Old Cartoon Motivators Header Artwork…
By · CommentsWas just looking through my archives for something when I came across my old web page header…
The essential keys to self improvement and motivation!
By · CommentsThe essential keys to self improvement and motivation!
What are the three keys to self improvement and motivation?
1. INSPIRATION.
Inspiration is critical to staying motivated and improving oneself. If you are not interested in your business, your motivation level will never be high and you will not be able to sustain interest for very long.
Take an honest look at your inspiration level. Are you excited about going to work or is it an obligation? You would be surprised at the number of people who choose a business that looks good on paper, but in reality does not interest them in the least.
These individuals will grow weary and uninterested pretty quickly because they have no inspiration or passion to sustain them during the difficult times they will encounter as a small business owner.
If you do not like your work, then think how you can re-focus your small business to better match your needs. Or consider making a change entirely. Without inspiration, there will not be motivated to even try self improvement.
2. SETTING GOALS.
Short and long-term goal setting is vital for any business owner. If you do not set goals, you would have no definite purpose on which path of self improvement to take.
How could you possibly be motivated if you were unsure about the direction of your company?
Take the time to put your goals in writing. A business plan may sound daunting, but it is really nothing more than goals, strategies, implementation and a budget. Write your own business plan and update it at least annually.
Include ‘mini-goals’ that can be accomplished in a matter of hours, days or weeks as well as the more ambitious ‘grand-goals’ that may take years to complete. Refer to this plan throughout the year.
But can a business plan really help motivate you? Of course. Written goals will make you feel more professional and certainly more connected to your business. It will also free you from having to reinvent your business goals every single day.
3. NETWORKING.
Another key factor in getting and staying motivated is networking with other small business owners. No one person knows all the knowledge.
However, when a number of people begin working together, the challenges will just be there waiting to be conquered.
In fact, the isolation of working alone is of one the most difficult parts of being an entrepreneur. You can never be on your way to self improvement without the help of others. Mutual support is motivating.
Make it easier on yourself by connecting with others either in your community or online. Even when businesses are not related, you will often find common ground and ways to work together.
Many successful entrepreneurs report that finding the right networking group was a turning point in the growth of the business. Working together, a networking group can help its members generate more qualified sales leads and solve problems faster and more efficiently.
Sharing ideas, expertise and experience is also an invaluable aspect of motivation and self improvement.
Your own personal team of business owners will help re-energize you when the burdens of running your own business seem too much.
With your networking team to rely on, you can accomplish more in less time and probably have more fun in the process. You will feel motivated to accomplish self improvement when you know you are not alone.
Remember, success is not about working hard.
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Here’s a couple of ‘success’ cartoons I drew to promote Karim Hajee’s ‘Success Strategies’ portal. Karim showed me his sales page and I did about 6 ideas/rough sketches for him to choose from. These are the two we developed…
Sort of ‘before and after’ cartoons.
YES, THERE IS A WAY TO SUCCESS WITHOUT ALL THE HARD WORK…
Success is Easy. Yes it’s Easy, when you follow the right strategy. But no one gave you that strategy. Instead they gave you the wrong strategy. They said you had to work hard to succeed. You believed them. And so you work hard, hoping it will lead to success. You keep working harder and think one day it will all payoff.
Then the days, months and years go by. You put in a lot of hard work, long hours, but still no success. Instead, you may be worse off. You don’t see your family because you’re working. You don’t have the free time that you want because you’re working. Your bank account balance is shrinking, the bills are piling up and you have more debt.
You try to work harder, hoping to get that promotion or a better job.
You bank some extra time so you can one day take that great vacation.
You’re still waiting to take it.
And you’re still not as successful as you want to be.
You can see the cartoons for ‘Success Strategies’ at the top and bottom of the following web page: http://www.creatingpower.com/success/
Cartoon Motivator – insurmountable problems!
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Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. ~Hugh Allen
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ~William Hale White
Opportunity is a bird that never perches. ~Claude McDonald
Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. ~Doc Sane
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ~Maltbie Babcock
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Abraham Lincoln quote!
By · Comments“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, 16th President of the United States
Become A Leader – Motivational Cartoon Strip!
By · CommentsAre you a leader or a follower?
Here are some great motivational and inspirational quotes on leadership – then a cartoon strip to finish off…
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general. Chinese proverb
Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. – Peter Drucker
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
- Andre Maurois
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
- Lewis H. Lapham
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves. Lao Tzu
You’ve Got To bounce Back If Something Goes Wrong!
By · CommentsBounce back from any disaster you’ve encountered and you’ll be a success!
“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” ~ Sheryl Swoopes
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~ George S. Patton
Winners aren’t quitters! We all encounter road blocks or obstacles in our lives – be it with dieting, work goals, sports goals, personal projects or even life goals. But how we react to these barriers is more important than what the actual barriers are – you’ve got to bounce back, in fact ‘bounce’ over those barriers!
