Why I No Longer Lug A Laptop
Have you ever been late for a flight, and the minimum wage government monkeys at security are giving you a hard time? They glare at you and order you to take your laptop out of your briefcase, turn it on, take off your shoes, take off your belt, undo your pants and shuffle through the scanner. They grimace and send you back through the scanner three more times, then take the wand and start probing you.Meanwhile, your $3000 laptop is sitting at the end of the conveyor, along with your briefcase filled with critical data. One of your shoes is still visible, but your coat is nowhere to be seen and who knows about your belt, it’s been eaten by the x-ray machine.
Finally convinced that you have no bionic body parts the drones let you through, and you scurry to fight the other passengers along the conveyor for your laptop, keys, money clip, belt, shoes and coat. You get redressed and sprint to catch your flight, discombobulated and resenting the ridiculous airlines and their moronic policies that have absolutely no value except to piss off their customers.
At just one major airport last year, over 1000 laptops were lost or stolen. An incredible number were simply left on the conveyor at security as frazzled executives sprinted to try to make their gate. Imagine the problems this causes!
But the real eye opener was when a friend’s hard drive failed right there at security. They made him turn it on, and when he tried to turn it off, BLAMMO! it was game over. His entire business life was on that laptop. As the repairman told him, with laptops it’s not a case of IF the hard drive will fail, but WHEN. Scary!
In the first half of this year I lugged my laptop to Florida, Belize, Louisiana, Texas, British Columbia, Hawaii, Australia, England, Spain, Germany and Austria. It was a constant battle over international power plug converters, missing or forgotten cables, and of course, internet dial-up. In England, my dial-up modem service was $3.00 per minute! It cost me over $40 bucks just to check email … and that’s when I had enough.
In the next 4 months, I have trips planned to Philippines, Australia, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. But this time there will be no laptop.
You see, I am free. I Yahoo.
Yahoo is brilliant. If their stock wasn’t so overpriced, I’d buy some. I love Yahoo! It’s changed the way I travel.
I have customized a My Yahoo! start page. It has my entire calendar on it, and it synchs with my cell phone. My entire address book is on it. It synchs with my cell phone. I can check all of my POP email accounts and send email effortlessly. It has a virtual hard drive that it calls a briefcase. All of my business documents that I need are safely stored on it. Photos, important website links, notes, maps, you name it, I can do it with Yahoo! I was in Australia once talking to my wife over Yahoo Messenger. Phone quality conversations for free….and they wonder why telecom stocks took such a beating!
Now when I travel, I simply book hotels that have a business center. Each morning I grab a tea, go into the business office, and run my 3 companies from there. I’ve done it on a cruise ship, in the shadow of the Castle of the Emporer of Austria, and even overlooking Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. It’s the only way to go….
No more laptop lugging. I Yahoo!
Have a great week!
David Ledoux
———- David Ledoux has been involved in the network marketing industry for over 15 years. He is a speaker and million dollar earner and author of the book, The Ultimate MLM Blueprint for Massive Success.