The pros and cons of the Social Media Digital Era in 2014 for everyone

Have you noticed lately more and more stores are closing, shutting down all operations, packing up shop and saying its been a good run but we unfortunately can't continue to operate under these circumstances?


Seems to be a reoccurring thing lately in this era we are in. Many blame the economy and how the internet and the digital era seem to take business away from them because now many of the clients, customers, consumers, the people that keep there businesses afloat can get alot of what they offer now online at a lower price and faster timeframe. Have you all heard that before or recently? Remember when Goldblatts, Venture, Circuit City were around just to name a few? Some of you probably were either babies at that time or never even heard of those places before. Like the cassette tapes for the walkman, the VHS movies, 56k modem for dialup internet with Americaonline? Remember the CDs you would get to have dialup internet on your Windows computer and the 56k modem and when you logged in the ringing it would do and the You've got mail sound? Remember that era?


My how time has changed and really it hasn't been that long of a timeframe but its far more advanced now than it was back then don't you agree?


Now my opinions on these companies and industries closing and laying off workers are on a 50/50 scale so when they say the internet and economy is reason for their closing, my answer is yes and no really and I will share with you why. It's amazing when your bodies internal clock wakes you up at a certain time and then that's the time you have your aha moment or lightbulb moment and that's why I'm writing this down on my online notepad so I don't forget and can post it later. It's 245A.M. CST Saturday March 8th, 2014. (Updated on Monday April 7, 2014 at 10:25A.M. CST)


Now I want to post this disclaimer before I share my opinions and I want to all those who are reading I am not a project analyst and the only compensation I get if any is more from the monetization side I have setup with my Blogger account so any suggestions or advice I give I do not get paid from those that I share in this post and I do not criticize, condemn, complain or bad mouth any company or industry that is falling into this category or may fall into this category. This is just my opinions nothing more, nothing less. Fair enough? Okay let's begin.


It's 2014 and society and technology has far more advanced than it was 10 or 20 years ago. With what I call the Digital era many people in the world are turning to the internet for just about everything (food, jobs, clothes, paying bills, buying stuff). Many companies are trying their best to compete with the Digital era and many accept it more and make the modifications to meet supply and demand and grow to a new level than they were 10 or 20 years ago. However, some companies can't keep up with the pace and the way the economy is and end up closing shop. Just look at the news recently. Staples closing, Radioshack closings, Sears closings of locations, you name it more and more are either closing completely or laying off workers and shrinking their facilities. They blame the economy the way it is, how the digital era changes the game.


I agree and I disagree on that and while many parts the facts can say yes these companies are right about their views. My opinions on this is this. Yes and no. Let me cover the no part.


Why I don't agree on this is this. If you want to change the way a company is structured you have to change the way you think. Meaning getting outside the corporate mindset and outside the micro management and into the leadership mentality. A true leader. One that takes the blame rather than blame someone else and that treats their worker's with a leadership mentality rather than a micro manager mentality and demonstrates it to their workers in a positive way rather than negative way.

Leadership is influence. Nothing more, nothing less. To develop the leaders within you and around you there is some training you have to go through and it doesn't happen overnight. You aren’t born a leader right from day 1 you have to develop the skillset and to develop the skillset takes time, work, effort, and determination. Read books, listen to audio, watch videos on leadership or even attend events with leaders and motivational speakers and learn how they do it. My favorite is John Maxwell. People have a different way of internalizing these types of skillsets and methods it all depends on which one works for them. Just one final thought knowledge is power was a quote said by Albert Einstein. Many people know that famous quote but not many know that the only way knowledge can be power is if you apply the knowledge you acquired. If you just get all the knowledge and don’t take any action with what you learned it really isn’t power is it? So to revise the quote knowledge is power only if you apply what you’ve learned.


So will you be applying what you learn and make it powerful or will you let it slip away? Doing the same things over and over again is what we call insanity. If you want to have a leadership mentality then you have to take the tips from those that are leaders and applying it to what you currently do. Whether you are the owner of a big corporation or the owner of a small business with 1 or 2 employees or even if you are just a male or female that wants to learn how leaders do what they do and how they become successful then I suggest surround yourself around those already doing it and those with the influence. Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.

Good Afternoon everyone! Happy Manic Monday 2014! Happy New Year! A New Year! A New You! And a New Me! I made a promise I would get out my New Year's Resolutions list for 2014 and this is just the beginning of videos for me via Youtube and expressing myself, it's also practice for me and prepping me for what I really want to do with my life which is get into motivational speaking. Yea some kinks in the way I look on Youtube but you know what? Tough cookies! I'm not here to impress anyone, I am here to express myself the way I was born to do! So watch this video its under 10 minutes which I always highly suggest watching and also you might highly want to subscribe to my Youtube Channel because there will be more. Once I figure out how to send messages via a Fan Page since I am working on mastering this I will eventually make this the number one way to reach me and will hardly be on it but will only be on it if I need to contact people. You are more than willing to send me a message here if you can. I will usually respond to any messages within 24 hours if its through here. Otherwise if you ain't going to pay attention to what I've said in my previous posts then why should I reply to a message? Like read my page and you will know why I am hardly on it!

I am the most controversial, kick butt, stubborn, very opinionated if I don't like it I will say what's on my mind and I will not be quiet type of guy, you are either going to like me or hate me, love me or be annoyed by me, or you are either going to be like that is one crazy Chicagorican wearing a Fedora Hat which he rocks on all the time either way my answer is either YOLO or TOUGH COOKIES! Because I am me! And I am not here to impress anyone or to be apart of the average and ordinary lifestyle let along the get a good job, get married, get house, work 40 years of your life, enjoy 5 years, etc crap. I think outside the box and I'm sorry I really don't like entitlements. My main opinion and I know it can get controversial but you know what JUST BRING IT because I truly believe that if you put your heart and soul and effort into what you do you will be rewarded.

Pain is temporary but it will subside. The way the times are now for many I want to let all you people know...You have to believe in yourself and have faith and be positive. Love yourself. Have your priorities straight! It will get better because no matter how hard it is, or how hard it will get, we all shall make it! 2014 is going to be a great year!

I've chose my mountain and at the moment people are trying to get me to go to their mountain and I am going to be very blunt and upfront here. I appreciate the offers but this is my mountain and I shall climb it. You are either going to see me at the top of the mountain waving down or you are going to see me laying dead in the ground next to my mountain, either way this is where I stay and I'm about to do some very big things this year and I am just putting it out there. I am not saying when exactly but I am having faith that what I am about to do shall be noticed and shall happen because its already in my mind what I am doing this year and as Napolean Hill says "What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve"


People say the sky's the limit? I say b.s. There is no limit to your hard work, sacrifice, determination. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter and brighter...but only if you truly have faith in it and believe it and take that first step. The only thing you can fear is fear itself. I will 30 years old on September 30th, my goal to achieve is to go skydiving before my 30th birthday. Me and some Gen Y buddies shall be doing this and the questions is do you want to be apart of something big? Do you want to take that first step? It doesn't matter if you do or you don't either way I'm going to be at the top and you can come with me or you can keep staying average and ordinary.

Watch this video, subscribe to my channel, either your apart of change or your apart of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results its really your choice. I've made my choice for years now prior to me getting into the industry I am today. I don't like working a J.O.B to me that makes me allergic seriously. I sneeze when I hear about that. Sure sometimes you have to bite the pill but know its never permanent only temporary. Here are some examples of why I want to do what these people did.


Steve Jobs had an idea. Went for it. APPLE INC becomes the biggest thing in history and now wherever you go 7 out of 10 people own some type of APPLE product. Why? Because he paved the way for everyone to revolutionize the technology industry.

Warren Buffett asked a farmer to help him on his idea and promised that farmer shares of the company he was going to create for helping him get started on his idea....those shares are worth billions of dollars and that company is Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett is one of the wealthiest men in the world.


Paul Mitchell had $700 to his name and went into salon after salon trying to get his idea and dream out there and sure enough he did. How many salons, places you see sell Paul Mitchell products? Tons right?

Finally the last example. When Mcdonalds first came out and people had the chance to own one of the very first franchises in American history to really make something big happen they could of owned a Mcdonalds for $5000 investment. Many said who is going to buy a burger and fries in a bag that's never going to work. Very few people took that risk or first step and now to own your very own franchise Mcdonalds is $1.5 million dollars....yea those that are still alive that got that opportunity back in the beginning really hate driving by there because they had the chance to take that first step.....


Many people know me that have known me for years now know that when I give a suggestion or advice especially on an event coming up or something going on its really a great suggestion or advice. I highly recommend people actually subscribe to my channel and keep an eye on what I'm doing and if your interested in taking that first step than contact me. I'm not going to tell people hey? Are you interested in it now? No if I've already given the chance once its up to you all if you want to or not either way its no biggie on my end.

2014 is the year for some big changes. And trust me....the Chicagorican Richlatino wearing the Fedora Hat doesn't lie and can guarantee that this year is going to be even bigger than last year and better

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New Year's Resolutions 2014

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The next big thing for 2014

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Hey everyone so this isn't really a blog type post but in a way it is but anywho many that view my posts know when I give a suggestion or a post its a great read so today this is one of those I highly suggest you take action on this because when I guarantee you don't want to miss this then I mean it. So yea there are less than 337 tickets to this event in Las Vegas in January its a big event with some high profile people that if you want to pick there brain and learn how they got to were they are no then you might want to check them out. You save $300 getting your ticket through me so what would you rather do? Pay full price or have a savings through me? Your choice. Check it out below and see what I mean. I really don't need to hard sell when I give a suggestion or a great offer anymore I mean heck look at my pic. Jared from Subway eat your heart out because I am the real freakin deal ;) So yea go for it and do it because the Latino wearing the Fedora hat doesn't lie and can guarantee it better than the guy from Men's Wearhouse that got fired. #BOOM #DONE

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MY STORY UPDATED 2013

So back in the early 90's I was diagnosed with Bipolar, Depression, and Tourettes around 93 is when it first started. I was taking antidepressants since 93. So Spring of 2012 since I had been seeing a Psychiatrist he told me that I was going to be on prescription medicines for the rest of my life and I was like uhm no I don't want that. I was already 19 years on them I'm done I was not planning on doing another 20, 30, etc years more on them. So I started looking into a way to get off them naturally. Now I tried to stop them completely without anything supplementing and would literally have withdrawal effects like shaking, nervousness, insomnia. I felt like a drug addict without his drugs and I was like this is the pharmaceutical industry and this is legal?

So when I was at a Networking Event I met Kim Gonzalez my mentor that brought me into USANA she told me a bit about USANA and I made the decision to take a chance and see. Sometimes you have to take risks and think outside the box otherwise you are going to become average and ordinary and I was not a guy that thinks inside the box. So I started as a client in June/July of summer taking the Essentials, Biomega, and Vitamin D and within 3 months I noticed a difference in my health that I said you know I actually feel better rather than worse so I said well I am going to take another chance.

Now I knew if I had told my doctor I was taking USANA he would try every trick in the book to tell me not to because I knew he was one that was in for the money that loved getting kickbacks from the pharmaceutical industry so I didn't tell him just yet. I started lowering my doses on my prescriptions on my own. I was taking Effexor XR 75 and 150 MG and Geoddon 80 MG I believe. The Geoddon was 1 in morning and 1 in evening the Effexor XR was 1 of the 150 MG and 1 of the 75 MG in the morning so I started to lower the Effexor by taking the 150 away, and then not to soon after I took the Geoddon in the AM away and sure enough I started lowering all the way that by Christmas of 2012 I was completely prescription drug free. 19 years of being on Prescription drugs gone as of Christmas 2012 that was one of the biggest accomplishments for me ever.

I still went to see the doctor though but I never took anything else he gave me. I would sit in the patient room seeing patients drugged up on prescription just nodding back and forth it was bad. You would wait over a hour or 2 just to be seen and when he seen you it was 5 minutes how you doing? okay see you in 8 weeks here's a prescription bye. Like that is what got to me
because I knew he was only in it for the money from the pharmaceutical industry.

They did a study on Fox News in June of 2013 that said 70% of Americans were on at least one prescription drug. I can now say I am no longer a statistic. That would mean 70% of those doctors are only caring about the kickbacks from what I would believe. I tell people my story because its like why wouldn't I share it? Thousands of people are dying each year from Prescription medicines in North America and I am showing people there is hope and a better choice, there is light at the end of the tunnel and that is USANA and Dr. Wentz vision.

You would think my story would end there as a powerful story but it doesn’t. Back on November 9^th, 2012 I had weighed 273 pounds. One of my goals was to be 200 pounds before my 29^th birthday on September 20^th, 2013. I was determined on achieving this goal. When the better half of my life Andrea McCarthy came into my life along with USANA she increased not only my confidence but also my determination to take better care of my health. For many years my close friends would say you should start reading labels but I was never serious about it. Till Andrea came into my life back on May 22^nd, 2013 when we first met and even more serious when we became a couple on June 1^st, 2013. Andrea being a certified Health Coach and me still new in the Health and Service Industry what we didn’t know at how well the two of us were meant for each other as well as how the two of us being the rockin kick butt Fedora Hat Couple we would really make waves in 2013.

I was 273 pounds back on November 9^th, 2012 and now I am 179 pounds as of November 9^th, 2013. I lost 94 pounds within a years time frame but since being in a relationship with Andrea and having her in my life I’ve lost 58 pounds out of the 94 pounds in the year so that’s 61% of my weight transformation is also thanks to Andrea big time along with USANA. Her knowledge about healthy lifestyle food choices along with me making the lifestyle choice to go Gluten Free since Andrea is Gluten Intolerant I now understand that the benefits of going Gluten Free can really help in the long run. I made the choice to start supporting her from day 1 by trying Gluten Free Foods and it tastes just like anything else you eat just offers a more healthier choice in the long run for you. At first I didn’t realize it till I calculated that since being in a relationship I really do owe a big amount of credit to my better half, girlfriend, best friend ever, and future wife Andrea McCarthy.

My goal was to be 200 pounds by September 20^th, 2013 I achieved that on September 9^th, 2013 which was 11 days before my birthday. Went from a size 50 to a size 34 in jeans and a 3X to a size Medium in shorts and a t-shirt. Also went from a size 11 to a size 10.5 in shoes. I tell people I am not a paid actor that you see on the late night infomercials I am the real deal.

In February of this year I walked 3.4 miles from my apartment to where our train line was located and 3.4 miles back so 6.8 miles in one day round trip. Took me 3 hours round trip and 1 and a half hours each way. I did my first official 5k at the convention last month and did it in 50 minutes. I did another 5k with my girlfriend in September for Lung Cancer Research since both our dads passed away from Lung Cancer years ago so it was an emotional moment. It was my girlfriends first 5k and my 2nd official 5k. I was worried about her since its something new she hasn't done and she was worried about me because I had a car accident a few days beforehand and someone hit my car from the back so there fault and I still did the 5k. (I was sore but I recovered fast thanks to USANA)

We did the 5k in one hour and 10 minutes. We walked so we were at the back of the line and the last to cross the finish line. So official 5k's 2 but if we calculate the ones in February not as official but walking I would say total of 4 :)

Today its November 29^th , 2013 and so far I weigh 172 pounds so that’s a 101 pounds lost since November 9^th, 2012 which means 65 pounds of that 101 pounds is thanks to my beautiful better half Andrea Mccarthy she is the reason I strive to do my best and why I will continue to take it to the next level.

I’ve come a long way and its only the beginning. For those that don’t know me my name is Julio Carrasco and I am the next Steve Jobs….in health and service. In 2014 that all begins to take surface so be ready because when people say the sky is the limit I say there is no sky and the universe is yours for the taking. You can do whatever you put your mind to if you just try it and just do it. Napolean Hill said what the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve and baby its all starting to formulate into achieving. Anything is possible when you just have faith and belief that everything will work itself out. When you meet me you are either going to like me, hate me, love me, envy me, be jealous of me, either way you will eventually see me and if none of those options you will think that he is one crazy Chicagorican Fedora Hat wearer and you know what? Yes I am and its true oh its damn true so ROCK ON and stay for the ride because its already done started. BOOM….

A message to the world part 1

Goodmorning everyone. Happy Saturday and Happy Sweetest Day. Today I am making it a day of Peace and Happiness. A day when we the world unite as one in a peaceful way. No protesting, no fighting, no violence, but a day of us to unite together throughout the world and be happy and love one another. You will see more of what I will be writing in a bit but I was felt to write something to bring the world to be peace with one another. There are tensions throughout the world with many protests going on because of the way their government is not fullfilling the needs of the people and I want to tell you people I feel and understand your anger, your pain, your suffering. I ask that rather in being angry and violent turn that into peace, and true happiness. When Mother Teresa was alive she never was into anti protests she was pro peace. Being peace with one another. Helping everyone that she came across was her passion. I may be Christian but you know I am one that doesn't judge what religion a person may or may not have. You could be Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, etc. It doesn't matter I respect and accept them all. I don't judge the same way I don't judge a person's skin. Black, White, yellow, it doesn't matter. We all bleed the same color blood which is red. For me they all are universal. I wear a Egyptian Ankh around my neck and its about being peaceful and protective which I am. Many know that I am always so positive and happy because I am. I don't let negativity, worry, pain and suffering get in my way. I rather be happy and help others than not be and always be grouching about my day to day. I truly am about peace and accepting everyone. I don't judge a person whether they are hetrosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, etc. I accept and care about them all. Some may agree with me and some may disagree but you know I learned you can't judge a book by its cover and you can't judge a person without walking a mile in their shoes. I am about being peaceful and neutral with one another. So in summing this all up. I say enjoy today whether you have someone in your life like a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, and if you are single I say you still do have someone to enjoy today even if its sweetest day. You may have a mom, dad, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, son, daughter, good friend, spend time with them. Today is a day of being peaceful and happy. I affirm it will be a great day and when I affirm it I let the universe know that it will be so and like in the movie Aladdin the genie goes your wish is my command and so there Stay tuned everyone and enjoy!