Life imitate coffee makers…

For those that are in the know about coffee makers, clover espresso machine is one of the best there is when it comes to coffee makers. It can be said to be among best of the top rated coffee makers (at more than $11 000, it better be right!).

Anyway, this machine was available in a coffee house in town and we all went to try the supposedly spectacular brew that it is able to do. The result was a dismay.

Not because the coffee was not good, or the machine did not deliver up to expectation, far from it, the coffee is really smooth and delievers great taste.

But, the experience was far from good. Firstly, it was crowded, and then because the shop want to attain maximum turn over, the staff come to us every few minutes asking us if we wanted more drinks (trying to get us to hurry up).

This spoils it all. We were there because we wanted to savor and enjoy the coffee, but alas, there was no such experience.

Don’t you think this is much like life? You can have all the best in life, good education, great look, nice cloths and superb career, but yet leave no impact and even negative impact on those around you.

Life after all is about living and living meant interaction and being part of a larger community.

Similar to the coffee house, it does not matter what you have, it is what you are able to give! If you have the best but is not impacting the community in any way, what is the point of having them?

If I am drinking a coffee that is from the most expensive machine, but have to do it within minutes, what is the different does it has from a cup of instant coffee?

Think about what is top rated, it might not be what you think all along…

Do you know what is the one best thing about automatic coffee makers? Of course, other than being automatic, it is the ability to be programmable.

This meant that if you do the right settings, the coffee maker can be set to brew you a great cup of coffee just in time before you rush off to work. Now, that is a coffee machine.

We love our lives to be automated. How you wish your work can be automated by some program or softwares. Or, that your household chores can be done by a push of a button.

SOme of us, not all of us, also wished that you have some automatic program to spend time with family so that you can concentrate more on work.

If you are wishing for such a program -review your life! This is dangerous. Family and love ones are one of the most basic reason why you should live for, and if you think otherwise, it would not be long before you lose the purpose in living….

A name is more precious than gold, that is so true with consumer reports coffee makers is in and also for life.

Coffee makers companies would try ways and means to get into these consumer reports, and if they are featured there, it meant good sales. However, more and more companies are paying to be inside these consumer reports.

If these reports are paid, it is still unbiased and can it still be trusted? Wouldn’t it be just like those advertisement? It would be what I called tainted.

The consumer repors coffee makers because of trying to make more money, actually ruined itself. The fact is, if it remains neutral but only accept sponsorship where appropriate, it might even be better.

A person life is similar to that. Imagine you started with nothing, build a reputation or business, then you wanted a short cut, a way to earn faster money and more cash, you did something that is not so right.

It would first start with something that is not so right, then something wrong, then finally something totally illegal.

Thus, stick to what is right, ethical and be driven by your passion and it is unlikely that you cannnot make a living out of it…

There I was yesterday musing about how one compare coffee makers can be like life in genereal, then a second later, I myself is trying to compare coffee makers and to get a good gift.

The truth is there are many resources to assist us in doing that, if you click the link above, it would bring you to a site that list easy to follow 4 steps in comparing and hopefully finding the coffee brewers you like.

But, even then, I consider it a hassle, for one, I still need to go and buy it. Then as I was surfing, I chanced upon the idea of doing some quick handmade gifts.

No need to pay money and it would show loads of sincerity. Isn’t that what most girls are looking for? In fact, even guys would not mind these handmade present right?

Check out the link to learn a tip or two, but according to the site, you would learn the most if you would to sign up with their ezine. I wonder if they would ever run out of things to say about their handmade gift ideas, or often would they be giving us these free skill training…

Anyway, I have signed up, and is now waiting for the first installment of ezine to teach me about origami, pretty cool don’t you think so…

What do I mean by that? Well, do you know how people would compare coffee makers? Check out the link to learn more about it. Anyway, there are many metrics aorund advising on how people should go about doing their coffee maker reviews or ratings.

However, if you ever go to the retail outlets, most people are still sold on the brands and the discount, never on the suitability factor.

Would a coffee machine that has a 50% discount that does espresso be suitable for some that drinks regular coffee only? People are buying based on emotions and urge and not on logic.

Similarly, people are living life according to their imagination or “sold” idea of how life should be. Think about it, 30 years ago, our fathers is always home for dinner and they spend money to raise a family.

Now with so many equipments and assets online, supposedly to make life easier, people are getting more stressed and less time to spend with family.

Checking emails and doing work late into the night is a sign of a reponsible corporate person. You meant to say our fathers are not responsible beings?

If you life you life as you would compare coffee makers, then that is a hard life. You are living according to the rules that the world set, the rules that the world wants you to live in so that everything can get going.

So, how should you live you life? First, you decide what is important? IS your business more important than your family? That meeting more important than your child first birthday?

You get the point.

I have not been posting for a while, suddenly just ran out of idea about coffee makers. Then, I saw some advertisement about cheap coffee makers, and how people complained about them and ideas came back.

Think about it. Cheap coffee makers that have a very low retail price might not be so cheap after all as it breaks down easily and usually produces low quality coffee.

Similarly, in life, there are many channels and outlets promising easy money. This is akin to cheap coffee makers, easy to attain goals. But, usually it is not sustainable.

I term these cheap goals. Easy to get but not much value in the long run. How can anyone expect to build a business overnight? It is really possible to attend a 3 hour seminar then expect to have a $10 K income per month?

I do not know about you, but these are going to be like cheap coffee makers, usable for a while, but fragile and breakdown very easily.

The next time, you see someone selling a $10K income dream to you, asked yourself this question, if he can teach people how to make $10K a month, and is already doing so, why is he not focusing his time to earn more $10K??

This is written for those that are unhappy, sad, dis-oriented or even simply lost. And I guess at this time of the year, there must be tons of such people around, and similarly there must be thousands of sites out there all trying to be as helpful in dishing out a good remedy.

Not here. I am just trying to sound philosphical by linking life with coffee makers, and I thought I have a good one here. But, I hope what I have written can help you if in any way makes you feel better.

The burning question is why are we sad, lost or basically feeling unhappy -too many things! In life, people tend to go for a better life and wanted to pursue many things, but some things you just do not want too many.

Things such as problems, work and even responsibility but it would come trust me, they just go hand in hand with life.

Then what has a single cup coffee maker got to do with life? Well, do you know that these single cup coffee is currently the most successful machine in the market? And there is only one reason why they are so successful -they only do one thing.

They are doing one thing and they are doing this one thing very well -making coffee one cup at a time.

Think about it, you have a lot of problems or issues but these are make up of numbers, simply attack and solve them one at a time. My next question is what happens if you failed to solve any of them?

What would happen? I can assure you that for work wise, the worse that can happen is losing your job and so long as you are still able, looking for one should not be hard. Then, there is the usual personal problems, what is the worse that can happen?

Hmm…I can think of anything really bad on that account.

Solve one problem at a time just like the single cup coffee maker making one coffee at time and life just might get a litte better…

They say that the economics nowadays is longer satisfy with the idea of having discount, people like to have free things, so how does one make money? But, prior to that, are the free things really free?

Recently, my daughter was sick, one of the suspect are some free coffee mugs which she is playing. So, the coffee mugs are free but because of quality issue it leads to mu daughter falling sick and we having to come out with medical bills.

So, in reality, if I do not get the free coffee mugs, I might not have incur this additional cost. Moreover, there is always something that you need to do to get the free things.

Things that might not have value to us, but great value to the people wanting it. To get us to be loyal to certain brand of toothpaste, they always give out give mugs and stuff.

Think about it, would you really need so many coffee mugs? And what has coffee mugs got to do with toothpaste?

They wanted loyalty to their brand, we wanted free stuff. At most, you would see this as a form of trading, but you cannnot see this a free thing.

Is been a while since I last post anything on this blog, isn’t it? The truth is, it is pretty tiring trying to think of life’s lesson and link it to a coffee maker. This post, I would be using keurig coffee maker.

What can we learn from this seemingly simple looking coffee maker? They make it in such a way that it is not the machine that matters but the coffee pods or what is known as the k-cups.

Similarly, if you use it on person, if you want good things to come out of the person life, it is the in take of his experience, his education and many other in put that determine his story.

Take for example, a person that has a rags to riches story, he is more resilence and has things that a person growing up in a rich family would not have.

Now, if you want good coffee, coffee maker is just a very small fraction of the whole equation, you still need to consider things like water quality, temperature, quantity and freshness of coffee grounds.

That is also true about how a person is like. How he talks and how successful he is depends on what is background is, and how he is schooled…

Best coffee makers similar to many other things in life is what people are always pursuring, then ironically, there is no such thing in the market. Do you know that while they might be a best coffee maker that is really for you, the search is internal rather than external.

What do I mean by that? The best coffee brewer is about fitting into your lifestyle and so you have to identify and know your own lifestyle prior to anything else, such as looking for that coffee maker.

Thus, no matter how many reviews or ratings you read about coffee maker, you would never find an exact fit if you did not take your lifestyle first into consideration. The fact is, the brewer in your neighbourhood store might be right for you if you know how to fit it into your life.

Don’t you find this is so  similar to how we live our life? We tend to look around for the important things to end out missing the things that are around us but is truly important.

They says sarcity makes things valuable. But, if you think about it, while gold and diamond are deem to be very valuable, it can neither brings you health (cannot be eaten) nor happiness (only your love ones can do that).

So, the next time you look for the best this and that, remind yourself that the best there is, might be around you already!