There is One Mental Move that Has the Potential to Improve Almost Any Situation You Will Ever Encounter.
You see there is only one source of supply, and that source is available to all of us. If we see someone enjoying a full, abundant and successful life, they don’t have access to anything that we don’t have, everything that comes into our lives comes from the same source … God or Spirit.
You see, Spirit is omnipresent, which means it is 100% evenly present in all places at the same time. All the knowledge that there ever was, or ever will be is also 100% evenly present in all places at the same time.
Think of the Wright brothers. They didn’t invent some force that didn’t exist before, they just became aware of how to get a plane into the air, the knowledge to do that was always here, they just became aware of how to do it.
Decision… is the triggering mechanism to tap into the knowledge necessary, to bring about the good that we desire. So … as Spiritual beings … we have access to everything we’ll ever want or need to live the life we choose. Our degree of awareness of this truth will manifest as results in our lives, through our actions.
So the trick then is to tap into the thoughts we need, to build ideas that we can put into action so that the good that we desire can be brought into our lives. So how do we do this?
By making this mental move called Decision. Decision-making is so important that Napoleon Hill devoted an entire chapter in his book Think and Grow Rich on the subject.
In that chapter he said:
“Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million-dollar mark disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”
We all know people who, when a decision needs to be made they go and ask everyone and their brother what they think they should do. They talk it through and say yea your right that’s what I’ll do … and then, what do they do? They go off to someone else and say … what do you think I should do?
These people are incisive and have weak decision muscles. They’re the people who Hill said …
“are, easily influenced by the “opinions” of others. They permit the newspapers and the “gossiping” neighbors to do their “thinking” for them”
Decision making is not taught in school, it’s not some class you can take, but it is a skill that we can develop … and those who develop this skill … those who make definite decisions, go to the top. And those who don’t … they seem to go nowhere.
So, how do you develop this mental ability? You just have to do it. Once you have the proper information and by practicing certain disciplines, you can become an effective decision-maker.
The word decision comes from the Latin word caedere, which means to cut. So the word decision literally means to cut one’s self from all other possibilities.
Decision-making brings order to your mind and this order is reflected in your outer world, in your results. To make decisions, you must be prepared to take total responsibility for the outcome of your decisions. This is something that many people don’t like doing. They try to avoid making decisions, thinking that they are “playing it safe”. But you cannot avoid making decisions.
When you accept responsibility for changing the conditions of your life, you must identify some important purpose, goal, or objective… something you want very much. When you have a clear purpose, decision-making becomes much easier.
Remember, decision-making is a habit and you can have anything you seriously want and believe you can have. Your potential is infinite. You can never run out of opportunities to grow.
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Decide what you Want…
Decide what you’re prepared to give up to receive it…
Starting an online business is a simple process; however running an online business takes effort to make it work. Those who say it doesn’t or are trying to sell you a “done for you system” where you pay a monthly fee, they do the work for you, and you just sit back and watch the money roll in are lying.
You have to have some value to offer, a product, a service, or an idea that solves a need. In this post I’m going to share eight simple steps on how to start an online business or to get your current business online, if you already have one.
8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business
1. Decide What You’re Going to Offer or Sell
If you’re going to start an online business you have to have something that you’re going to exchange for money. As I said earlier, this can be a product, a service, or an idea that solves a need. If you already have one, great if not start to think about your passions. What are you passionate about? What do you already know that people are looking for? Do you play an instrument that you can teach others how to do? Are you passionate about fitness and losing weight, creating crafts, gardening, photography?
Whatever it is it doesn’t matter, you can take almost anything you’re passionate about and turn it to profits online. If you can’t think of anything you can always sell other peoples products as an affiliate. Places like clickbank, commission junction, and even Amazon will pay you commissions on their products that you sell and the best part is there’s no need for you to have any inventory of the products, most are digital in nature.
2. Purchase a Domain Name
Starting an online business is going to require you to have a domain name, a web address. If you’re going to brand yourself, which is what I recommend, then you’re going to want to invest in YourName.com. This way you can brand yourself as the expert in your given niche. If you’re not, then you’ll want to get a domain name that is easy to remember, easy to spell, and if possible, has the key word or phrase that people will be searching for online.
Another tip, always get a .com. Stay away from .net, .org, etc. always get a .com because people are use to typing in .com and if you have one of the others you may lose traffic from people typing in your web address wrong. There are a lot of places to purchase domain names, I prefer GoDaddy. They’ve been around a long time, they’re reliable, and they have good customer service.
One thing to watch out for when you buy a domain name from GoDaddy, is they’ll try to up sell you on all sorts of extras, just ignore them and just get the basic domain name, (and I always just go for one year).
3. Get Web Hosting
Once you have your domain name, you’ll need a place to host it. This is where a hosting account comes in. A host is server where you will store all your web files. It’s the connection between you and the internet. You have to have hosting if you’re going to have a website, unless you use a service that hosts it for you, which I’ll discuss in step four.
If you’re going to self host your website I recommend using Host Gator. They’ve been around for a long time, they’re who I host my sites with, and there customer service is excellent. I’ve called them many times and they’ve always been able to help me with whatever challenge I may have had. If you decide to go with Host Gator get the “baby plan” it’s all you’ll need and it’s cheap, plus you can enter this coupon to get 25% off you initial purchase:
4. Set Up your Website: Blog
Now that you have your domain name and hosting you’ll need a web site. I recommend having a blog as you’re website instead of just a regular website for a couple of reasons. A website is your online real estate that you want people (sometimes referred to as traffic) to visit. Go to Google and do some searching, what you’ll see is blogs coming up in the results more than regular websites. Why? This is because the search engines LOVE blogs.
Blogs are always producing new content that Google wants their users to find. A regular website is static, it doesn’t change. People are searching for information and if your blog is providing valuable information they’ll find it.
Another reason to have a blog is that it’s relatively easy to set up and maintain. It helps with your branding, it shows you as an authority in your niche and helps create creditably.
If you are going to self host your blog then you’ll need to set up a WordPress blog, period. WordPress in my opinion is the best self hosting platform out there and it’s free. Now, there is a learning curve to using WordPress, however it can be learned. Setting up and optimizing your WordPress blog for traffic can be challenging, that’s why I created a course that walks a person through every step from buying your domain, linking your hosting, changing your themes (the look and feel) basically an A-Z course where you watch over my shoulder and follow along. To learn more go to WPTrafficFormula.
Now, for those of you who think you’re too technically challenged, which you’re not, you can always decide to use a done for you blog platform. These are great if you don’t want to hassle with all the set up and learning curve of a WordPress blog. The only one I recommend is the Elite Marketing Pro blog platform.
With the Elite Marketing Pro (EMP) you can have your blog up in minutes with only a few clicks of the mouse. The great thing with Elite Marketing Pro is they actually teach you how to market online and you don’t need hosting, it’s a low cost and it gives you the ability to unlock 13 brand new income streams, some which will allow you to generate residual income from if you don’t know what you’re going to sell. I personally use my own blog and Elite Marketing Pro. You can check out Elite Marketing Pro by clicking Here.
5. Get an Email Follow Up System
Regardless if you decide to use the WordPress platform or Elite Marketing Pro you’ll need a way to build a list of prospects and follow up with them. This is where an autoresponder comes into play.
An autoresponder is a permission based email marketing system. It allows you to capture visitor’s emails, when they fill out a form, and allows you to stay in touch with your prospects through follow up emails. This is what you use to build your list and your list is your most valuable asset online.
There are lots of autoresponders out there and the one I use and recommend is Aweber. I’ve tried others and I think aweber is the best. You can find out more about aweber by clicking the aweber picture.
6. Build Your Brand and List with Valuable Content
Now that you know what you’re going to sell, you have your website and autoresponder set up, it’s time to build your brand and list. You do this by providing valuable content. Have you ever heard the phrase content in king? Posting regular valuable content to you blog is how people are going to find your website.
Find what people are searching for in your niche (by doing some key word research) and post articles that are relative to those searches. When you’ve made a post the search engines index it and if you’ve done it correctly (like I show in WPTrafficFormula) you appear in the search engines. You can also take the link post and share it across the different social networks, like FaceBook and Twitter.
There are other ways to getting traffic and we’ll save that for another post. Once someone comes to your site you want to capture their email so you can inform them of updates in your content and follow up with them, which we’ll discuss in the next step. You do this by putting an opt-in form, through your aweber, on your site that offers something of value in exchange for their email address.
This can be a free report, a free video series, an ebook, something of value that you give away for free. Once this is done you move to the next step.
7. Develop a Relationship with Your List
When someone gives you their email address in exchange for your free offer now you have the ability to follow up with them and develop a relationship with them. This is done by sending a series of “follow up” emails that provide value with information related to your niche.
You can survey your list with services like survey monkey to find out what they want to learn or know more about. Then you can create content based on those responses. The key here is to build that relationship so your subscribers get to know and like you. When you create a new post or find something that will benefit them you can email it to them. You’ve heard the old saying; the fortune is in the follow up? Well, the fortune is in the relationship you build while following up.
8. Market Products or Services that Fill Your Lists Needs
Once you’ve built a relationship, which doesn’t have to be a long process, then you can market products or services that fill your lists needs. You have to know the needs first and have the relationship before you can do this. Also you just don’t keep sending marketing messages, spread them out.
Give valuable content for a few emails then send a marketing message, then go back to sending valuable content, then after four or five content emails you can send a marketing one. Just make sure that whatever you are marketing is valuable, fills a need and will help your subscriber. I see a lot of people just marketing junk to try and make a sale. Always put you subscriber first and give the best you can give to them, just like you would a close friend.
As you can see starting an online business is a simple process. It may seem like its complicated, but it’s really not. It’s just doing certain things in a certain way. Still some people may need help and if that’s the case with you than I encourage you to subscribe to this blog by filling out the form to the right of this page to stay up to date with more information that will help you build your business online.
If you got value out of this post than leave me a comment below and any questions you may have because I truly want to help you succeed with your online business. You can do it. You just need to have the faith in yourself and believe it’s possible.
This post may ruffle some feathers and that’s OK, it’s good to stir up the pot every so often.
The other day I posted this quote on Facebook…
I asked if you agree or disagree and everyone disagreed, but I want you to think about that for a moment. Most people don’t think and in this post I hope to clarify what Earl meant.
I remember Bob quoting George Bernhard Shaw as saying that, “The average person uses their reasoning factor or they think 2 or 3 times a year.” He continued by saying, “I’ve become an international expert by thinking 2 or 3 times a week.”
Dr. Ken McFarland one time said…
2% of the people think
3% think they think and…
95% would actually rather die than think.
Henry Ford once pointed out that:
“Thinking is one of the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few people engage in it.”
You may say that everyone thinks, but the truth is hardly anyone thinks.
Take a step back and watch people’s behavior, just study their behavior and you’ll quickly realize they’d never do what they’re doing if they were thinking.
Listen to their conversations, they’d never say what they’re saying if they were thinking.
The truth is most people don’t think. Now, you might ask, if they’re not thinking then how do they function? Well, they’ve tricked themselves into thinking that mental activity is thinking. They’re just letting whatever is going on outside of them control what’s going on inside.
Think about how many times you’ve done this in your own life. I constantly catch myself reacting to situations and because I now have this awareness I realize I’m not thinking. So I stop, think, and then respond. You see, to react requires no thought, but you must think if you’re going to respond.
Now, when we think we build an image and that’s what we want to do. We want to build an image of how we want our life to be and think of ways we can accomplish it.
I hope by reading this, you’ve gained a new awareness and agree that most people or the average person really doesn’t think. If you don’t agree, that’s fine by me, it’s your perception of the subject and it’s every bit as right as my perception.
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The word paradigm has been so overused that many people don’t understand its full meaning. In just the past week I’ve been on several different training calls and this word paradigm has come up and the way it was used and explained was not accurate. In this post, I’m going to reveal to you my understanding of this word paradigm in order to give you a simple way of understanding it.
First off let’s look at how Webster’s dictionary defines paradigm.
Paradigm:
: a model or pattern for something that may be copied
: a theory or a group of ideas about how something should be done, made or thought about
Dictionay.com defines paradigm as:
Paradigm:
1. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
2. an example serving as a model; pattern.
3. a. framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
b. such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group.
The best definition I heard for the word Paradigm comes from my mentor Bob Proctor. He says that a paradigm is nothing more than a multitude of habits. It’s a collection of beliefs that are held by a group of people.
In his book “It’s Not About the Money” he talks about paradigm’s, let me share what he says:
“A paradigm is a collection of beliefs that are held by a group of people. It’s not just one belief held by one person. These beliefs are shared, passed on and believed by generations. Take the paradigm that you need to have a traditional job. Included in this paradigm are these ideas:
You must have a job to be a contributing member of society.
Those who put in many hours at a job are more committed and deserving.
The better your education, the better your job.
You must compete with your coworkers and be the best to move ahead.
These ideas are passed on in actions and statements by everyone around us. They’re taught our schools; most of us hand them down to our children. You may not think these ideas are central to your own life. But answer this: When you are first introduced to a new person how often do you ask where they work? If your child or relative says they have no interest in college, how likely are you to be concerned and asked them how they ever to expect to get a good job? If someone tells you they are self-employed, do you wonder if they really mean unemployed and are less than motivated to work? All of these thoughts are evidence of how deeply rooted this paradigm may be.”
So as we can see from Bob’s description the word paradigm takes on a different meaning than what we’ve been told by others. To shift our paradigm we need to question our beliefs, where they came from and shift them and our habits to something that is going to serve us as we move forward to achieve our goals.
If you want to improve your results and shift the paradigm that: the best way to earn money is through a job, we can help. Click the link below and find out how.
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To your massive success,
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