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New Year’s Resolution 2019

by Everett Cussins | Dec 29, 2018 | Blogging, Hacks

Why does my New Year's Resolution don't last?

We have entered the time of the year where a good portion of us make resolutions for the coming year. They stem around a fault or weakness we have. Almost all those resolutions will be set by the wayside within the next 30 days. By April those News Years Resolutions will be moved over to our personal guilt list.

This year I decided to take a different approach. I am looking at the factors which prevents me from accomplishing my News Year resolution. Then take 1, 2, or 3 of them and change them so I can complete a New Year’s Resolution.

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Why Change?

Several years ago, I read the book titled, “Start with Why”. That book gave me insight to what motivates me and why I keep migrating to certain behaviors. Some of those behaviors keep me from accomplishing what I want to accomplish. By answering the question “why?” it help me change attitudes and behavior I want to change.

Over my life time, I observed behaviors of drugs addicts and the very successful business people. They all have a few things in common. One of those behaviors stands out, over and above all the others. AA and other 12-step programs use it as their first step. The wording may not be exactly the same, but the meaning is the same. “We admitted we are powerless on our own – we need help.”

That admissions of needing help is the first step. The degree we want change is proportional to the amount of change we make.

I have met a lot of men and women who have seen an issue, in their lives that needed change. They may verbalize it, they may even start on the path to make a change in their life, but fall short in making that change.

I believe they were trying to go in a direction that does not fulfil their why. They make little progress is something their family, friends or social group says they should do or say.

It is not until a person’s real motivation is discovered and they start in a direction where any real success is made. There are going to be small failures along with successes. Not until we acknowledge who we really are and what motivates us will never have the ability to make those changes that will make us happy.

Thinking Questions

Now close your eyes, putt all social, all economic restrains aside. Take three deep breathes, then open your eyes. In the comment section below answer the questions below.

1. What do you dislike about yourself?

2. What would really make you happy?

3. What is holding your back?

Updates for October 3,2018

by Everett Cussins | Oct 3, 2018 | Updates

Have you seen what we have added to CussinsEnterprises.com?

Resource Library – We have opened up the sub domain devoted to a resource library. It is open for anyone to use. In the Resource Library is links, tips and tricks for website building.

Best Practices – In the Resource Library is a page titled “Best Practices”. In celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month we have started this page. You will find every few days you will see posted focus on some of those Best Practices that will make it extremely difficult for hackers to gain control of our personal and professional data.

Social Share – When you look to the left of this webpage you will see some coloful social share buttons. Share what our content on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, email, and you can even print a copy. Just remember to tell poeple you got the content from us.

IT Support – The IT Support sub domain will be opening up in the near future.

Call Now – On the lower right of the webpage you will see an animated blue button. In the button rotates between a phone handset and the words “Call Now”. If you want to give you call direct, click on the button.

We have a lot more planned for the CussinsEnterprises.com. Before we go forward we want to make sure the information is correct, the page load times are quick, pleasing to your eyes, and information you can use.

Fake News,Bots, and So Much Noise – What is Real?

by Everett Cussins | Sep 17, 2018 | Good fo Business, Google, Privacy, Web Security

There is so much finger pointing and so many accusations among politicians and those who have a public facing career. It can get overwhelming to read, hear and watch. Many people I know have told me they have stopped watching any news programs because it’s depressing. Others have been plowing through it in a state of confusion.

A group out of UC Berkeley has come up with a way to help us filter out the garbage from what is real in what we read. They’ve come up with three apps that each perform a specific task. They are available within a main website called RoBhat Labs.

Botcheck is used to learn if a Twitter account is a political propaganda bot.

For those who haven’t noticed, there are a bunch of little programs floating around the internet. They post text and media – just like a human would – on Twitter and Facebook, as well as some other social media. The automation of bots can radically affect search engine rankings and public opinion. It’s very scary that their lies or misinformation can convince people that they are truthful or honest.

SurfSafe offers a unique approach. Rather than telling you what news sources are honest, biased or fake, you pick the news source you want checked and then the app identifies its validity. You have the option to continue reading those sources or not. (Before using the app, you can read the explanation of how it works.)

NewsBot is an app that lets you see all your Facebook messages and which way they are leaning, politically. It first prompts you to sign into Facebook Messenger, then it begins to scan.

I’m glad that, with all the stuff that is flying around Facebook, Twitter and even traditional news sources, there is a service that can identify the fake news for me.

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2018 is Finishing Off August

by Everett Cussins | Aug 31, 2018 | Updates

It has been almost a month since my last writing here. it has been a busy month. We got a good bit accomplished. A whole more to do. At the beginning when I set out to move Cussins Enterprises LLC from at computer service company to a web hosting and design company, I thought it would be something we could during the slow period. That is the farest from the truth. The web hosting part is going to be our major focus and computer repair will be something I will to get out of the office and relax.

That we have accomplish so far:

We the the hosting interface automate. We still have a few cliches. I can tell you it is very secure system, I even trouble logging into the back end.
The remodel of the whole CussinsEnterprises.com website. We still have more content coming, and a lot tools for you and your home and business.
We are not an affillate of Eleqant Themes. A couple years ago I was introduced to them, In the past year have started using them exclusivily for websites. Now Engant Themes is going to pay me to use and recommend them. This I have been doing for quite some time, anyway.

Plans for the rest of this year

We are running specials on different service and products each month. I am going to work toward giving you and different money saving deal each month, with that months discount code.
We are putting together a Resource Library. In it there will be how-to’s, as well as links to online tools picture editors, and security scans for your website.
In the next couple days I am should be able to announce 24/7 support. that means you can call when I am sleeping and talk to a knowledgable person.

I know it doesn’t look like much but to have one system talking to another system at the correct time, is not hard. Then you add in the privacy regulations like the GDPR and security practices to keep everyone’s data safe. There is a lot and time consuming.

However. I believe it is all going to be worth it. I want to have together a product that we can be proud of, but a product you will want to have. I know I have some pretty stiff competition with other hosting companies, but in a few years they will be taking notes from our playj book.