A guru is someone who imparts information in a way that can change your life – dramatically and  in a positive way.

While we all know mavens and professorial types that possess mountains’ of knowledge and reams’ of methodology, few of us know a bonafide guru.

A guru does not live in an Ivory Tower mountaintop palace looking down on the billions of unenlightened admirers and wannabes.  Instead, he or she lives among their disciples and teaches by doing and, at times, taking the role of the disciple.

This is the point.  We are all – in some manner – possessed of knowledge and wisdom worthy of compensation and respect.  The guru squeezes the best out of us and wants to create a planet of  empowered rather than the beholdened souls.

The Internet has unfortunately created a superstar mentality.  It has created just a few gurus.

The superstar is always launching something and that something is often incomplete and meant to soak up all the investment funds of the the hoodwinked disciple and leave him or her feeling cheated yet beholden to pay more to get the final puzzle pieces.

Good marketing – Internet style – creates value where none exists.  The nothingness is then packaged with a series of Panjumon Village bonuses meant to sweeten the deal into an irresistable offer.

Most people marketing on the Internet are not intimately involved with the products they are selling.  Instead, they market to us like puppets on a string that will mindlessly chase the bait in hope that a big-buck, auto-pilot, daquiri-sipping freedom is awaiting them in paradise.

The economic crisis in the world is totally the responsibility of the American-style free-market principles.  Unfortunately those principles are totally unprincipled and unsustainable.

Nothing comes from nothing.  If money is created out of thin air and that thin air is then ribboned and bowed, it is still only air.

America had sustainable growth when materials were produced and true value created.

In the last 50 years, however, less and less of value has been created on borrowed money, and the convenient use of western-leaning governments to print worthless paper money has deepened the crisis of confidence.

The New Age guru must understand these economic fundamentals and trailblaze rather than ride this wave of nothingness produced of value which has led to the economic abyss.

God gave us a brain to think and to create value, even if only in a small, personal way.  We have hands to mold, feet to move away from lies and deceit, eyes to gladden others, and ears to listen to the rhythms of life.

Our planet is rich with imagination.  We have moved from stone and grass huts to superdomes and palatial palaces.  We transport ourselves in vehicles going faster than a cheetah.  We can learn anything under and over the sun with just a Google search.

Ah, we have so much yet we understand so little.  The guru wants us to ask the important questions about life, about business, about relationships,  and about the true meaning of being rich.

In this blog I will always speak from my heart rather than from my desire to sell at any cost.  I want to make money by providing empowering ideas that YOU can take to the bank.

The Internet gurus covered in this blog will have to pass my rigorous litmus test of authenticity.  They must give freely and exemplify thinking and doing experts rather than professional floggers of garbage products.

There is no need to buy a monthly seal which tells viewers of this blog that I am honest and sincere.  The proof will be in what I say and what I do.

If my ethics are low, my perceived value will be low.  Social marketing has made it difficult for fraudsters and scammers to hide behind the wizard’s curtain indefinitely.

Let’s get to work on finding the guru in you.