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Here’s another epic for you to get your teeth into. It’s written again by Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram and it makes so much sense - to me anyway.
I’d never heard of the Ultradian Rest Response before but I have has similar experiences where I don’t know the answer and find myself slipping into a kind of day dream.
I like explanations!
Few things are as important to ‘attraction’ (or rather your act of ‘creation’) as what some scientists call the ‘ultradian rest response’. You may have never heard of this before, but it’s one of the keys to bringing about in your life what you want to see.
You see, there is a great difference between ‘thinking’ and ‘knowing’. Thinking is a purely intellectual activity. It mainly takes place as electrochemical processes in your body and brain.
‘Knowing’ on the other hand, transcends intellect. It is what is often called ‘intuition’. Intuition is often defined as ‘immediate knowing’, without the conscious use of reasoning. There is no sequence of thoughts following up on each other leading to an outcome. It’s just there, instantly. Bang! You suddenly get it.
“Aha!”
It appears to be stemming from a whole different source of awareness compared to the ‘rational mind’ or intellect that we tend to use so much in our lives.
In our modern societies, we find ourselves under so much pressure to ignore intuition and to rationalize everything that happens. We’d rather go with our ‘heads’ than go with our ‘hearts’. We learn that from an early age in our education system, which puts the main focus on the left part of the brain, the intellectual and analytical part.
As a consequence, if you’re like most people, you tend to ‘over-rationalize’ everything. You regularly get the feeling that you want to do something, and it really makes your heart sing. But then your intellect rears its ugly head, and suppresses the ‘intuitive knowing’ you just experienced by using the limiting thoughts and emotions that have been dominating your being and thinking for long. You start to think and feel things like:
“Oh dear, who am I to think I can do that?”
“Oh my, what will my mother say?”
“Goodness, what will the boys at the bar think if I do that?”
“Dear me, my parents will get angry for not doing something with my education…”
“That can’t be right. Scientists say that this is not true. Who am I to think otherwise?”
Thoughts like this have ruled most people for all their lives and forced them into submission. The repetition that has been going on for years has created ‘habits’ to go with the ‘head’ all the time instead of the ‘heart’. The moment you have intuitive knowing and your heart starts to sing, you immediately begin to doubt it and you’re pulled back into line.
“I can’t do that, it’s not responsible. What about my job?”
“I’d love to do this, but…”
“If I could ever do this… Nah, I can’t do that. I must have gone mad.”
“What will the neighbours think?”
You’re systematically pulled in line, back to the image of artificially imposed norms of what ‘society’ or others think you are supposed to be. It is ignoring the deepest core of yourself, and the intelligence of the magnitude that you are deep inside.
When you look at it this way, it’s not a surprise that your intuition is often at odds with what you think. The intuitive knowing stems from a source that has a much greater overview, the bigger picture. It sees what the ‘knowing’ and associated action will lead to. The rational intellect always has a limited perspective that is quite likely even coloured by societal and religious ‘norms’, or ‘bad memories’ of certain events, which itself are often limited interpretations of what were actually stepping stones into a whole new reality.
Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychotherapist, teacher, and pioneer in the field of mind/body healing. In his book The Psychobiology of Mind/Body Healing, he describes how during an ultradian rest response your body goes into a mode that makes you more receptive to the unconscious parts of your being:
“This is the time when it is easiest to access our own intuition, your own internal imagery. Thoughts are most likely to be closer to the unconscious. This is a time when the unconscious wants all the energy it can get. If you train yourself to just watch and observe and not intrude, you are going to fall into what is called ‘reverie’ or ‘hypnagogic state’, what I call its more naturally intuitive state.”
So when do you ‘know’ instead of just ‘think’? How can you distinguish? Well, it’s largely a feeling, but Dr. Laurie Nadel gives you some hints in her book Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power:
“Do you find yourself losing concentration during certain times of the day? Perhaps it comes as a sudden touch of fatigue, or a subtle mental fuzziness. All of a sudden, you feel droopy. Your eyes may tear. You can’t stop yawning, or you sigh. Maybe you find yourself staring out the window, your mind far away from the tasks at hand. If somebody speaks to you, you find yourself startled by the sound of his voice. Or you don’t understand what was said the first time and ask the speaker to repeat himself.”
According to Dr. Nadel, these are signs that your body is entering the ultradian rest response. At times that this occurs, your body is most attuned to your intuition, as the four main regulatory systems of your body (endocrine system, autonomic nervous system, immune system and neuropeptides in your brain) align to the unconscious, greater levels of yourself.
The clearest memory that comes to mind of experiencing an ultradian rest response myself was during a final math exam back in high school. I had trouble with one of the questions and finally drooped away. It was like I temporarily switched to the realms of ‘no-time’, staring out of the window without being conscious of what was happening around me. Then suddenly some kind of realization kicked in, and I suddenly knew how to get on my way of solving the question that I didn’t seem to understand at first.
This is not something uncommon. Everyone experiences this all the time, probably daily. The trick is to recognize it. Even some of the greatest minds in modern history accepted the importance of intuition:
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”- Albert Einstein
“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.”Henri Poincaré (one of France’s greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists)
According to Dr. Nagel, ignoring the signals of the ultradian rest response or trying to suppress them can cause you to become irritable, uncomfortable, and even depressed. However, she emphasizes that if you allow them and flow with them, they can be moments of great inspiration. Here’s what she says:
“This is the best time to take a break rather than forcing yourself to push through the fatigue. You can think of it as your intuition break, time to take a deep breath, close your eyes, and allow impressions from your intuitive right hemisphere [right brain] to flow through your mind. You are working on a project and would like help from your intuition, this is the time to ask for it. It is also a good time to meditate.”
Meditation is not a must. All you need to do is trust your intuition and listen to your inspirations. True enough, you are blessed with an intellectual mind too. But it shouldn’t dominate your intuitive knowing and suppress it.
The thing is that ‘attraction’ doesn’t happen like things just falling out of the sky right on your lap. It often works through inspirations to do something or go somewhere. Your inspirations and hunches point you towards things you can do to bring about the changes in your life that you desire.
Ignore them, and you won’t ‘attract’ what you want. But follow along with them, and magic happens.
And finally, always realize this… ‘Intuitive knowing’ can be unique to the knower, which is you. What may feel good for you, doesn’t have to feel good for others. Everyone is unique. You will be inspired to do something that is best for you, and that matches what you want. That can be totally different from anyone else. Besides, not everyone wants the same thing, at least if everyone would follow their true ‘wants’, not the ‘wants’ imposed by the image of what others think you should want.
No one should judge or ridicule what another feels is good for him or her, as long as the person never seeks to impose anything on anyone else. That is the freedom of life we need, that will change everyone’s life radically, and the whole world with it.
Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged ‘Great Revolution’, which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding the universal principles of life.
The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence, the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’ that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application.
More information on the Great Revolution, on joining and on the ‘universal principles of life’ (the true ‘Universal Laws’) can be found at http://now-review.com/revolution ======
Let me know what you thought of this article. It certainly made sense to me.
Today’s post contains another great article by Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram and reflects on the fact that the Law of Attraction needs something a little more than just “The Secret” for it to really work in your life.
The Universal Laws and the Law of Attraction: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
These days you can hardly skim through self-improvement or self-help related information without hearing at least once about the Universal Laws, or the Spiritual Laws of the Universe, or other terminology indicating the same things.
Sometimes you bump into some real good, straight-to-the point, and ready-to-get-going information about how to apply these Universal Laws in our life to your advantage. However, the majority of the information you find is either too much, too detailed and/or too complex to start to apply it in your life right away. That’s usually the case. Or otherwise, it stems from people who hardly know what they’re talking about and consequently give you insufficient and sometimes even inaccurate information.
For example, many ‘experts’ merely focus on the Law of Attraction (one of the hottest buzzwords on the Internet today), without taking any other of the universal principles of life (or Universal Laws) into account. There are certain boundary conditions to the application of the Law of Attraction, and one of them is the focus of this article. It’s what I call, the Law of Love, just to stick to the popular ‘Law’-terminology.
As a result of the fact that few experts pay any attention to other universal principles besides the Law of Attraction, most people are not ‘achieving’, ‘manifesting’, or ‘attracting’ that much to be honest, no matter how hard they try.
How come? How on earth is that possible?! There’s so much information available on the subject. The Internet is flooded with it. Yet so few people actually achieving anything, let alone creating the life of their dreams?
Let me tell you why. There are usually 2 reasons for this:
1. Too much, detailed and therefore too complex information. One talks about 7 Universal Laws, another talks about 12 Laws of Success, yet another talks about 21 Subsidiary Laws or Spiritual Laws. Most people don’t know who’s right anymore. Do you? Consequently, most people either do nothing at all, or they study all different books, tapes, and movies, and start to do things of one book that work against things of the other. No results come about, and many people give up entirely and write it all off as trash or claptrap.
2. Too little information.
There can be too little information in 2 different ways. First, too little information can mean that the information given is inaccurate. This is sometimes the case. But secondly, and usually, the information given may be accurate, but is insufficient.
Often, people just focus on the Law of Attraction, but they forget that there’s a whole bunch of other universal principles (or Laws) to know about. That doesn’t mean you have to know about every single minor detail. In that case you fall for the other trap, which is the trap of too much, too detailed and too complex information.
No, you can keep things simple for yourself if you just focus on the main universal principles. By that, you automatically cover all detailed, subsidiary Laws you can think of. So are there other Universal Laws next to the Law of Attaction then?
You can bet your sweet bippy there are!
But once again, the trick is simply to focus on the main ones to keep things simple for yourself. The Law of Attraction is one of the main Universal Laws. But there’s another one as well, one that the Law of Attraction can’t work without. This Universal Law sets the stage for the Law of Attraction to work. This Universal Law is the Universal Law of Love.
“What, you mean how I love my girl? You mean I need to do the wild thing for this stuff to work? Why didn’t you say so right away?!”
Well, before you rip off all your clothes, it’s not really that kind of love. This Law is about Universal Love. And the game of Universal Love is a whole different ballgame than the regular game of love, fancying someone and ‘getting busy’.
Universal Love happens to be the building block of all things. Universal Love is much more than emotion or feeling of fancying someone or giving them a ‘quickie’. Universal Love is the most balanced form of energy. Love is the balance of all. Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
This is not the time and place to get into the true nature of the Universe. For now it suffices to say that Universal Love can take on many forms. Love can be considered acceptance of yourself, or of others. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t set terms. Love is freedom. Love is freedom for you to be who you truly are inside, not what others think you should be. Love is the freedom of others to be who they truly are inside, not what you or anyone else think they should be. Love is never to impose anything on anyone.
Read that last part again and really ponder the content. Because this is the first thing that most people seem to forget in life. Most people just walk in line, do what they’ve always been doing, think what they’ve always been thinking, and therefore get what they’ve always been getting (which they’re usually not satisfied with). Bit still, they stick to it, like they’re addicted.
And why? Because they fear the reactions of other people. They allow others to dictate how they should live their lives. These others can be parents, ‘friends’, the boys at the bar, team mates, ‘the girls’, ‘the gang’, the ‘mother-in-law’, you name it.
And at the same time, they’re doing the same themselves to others. Often even unconsciously. They just live according to the externally imposed norms of which they don’t even know the origin, and therefore they block their own uniqueness, their own potential, and thus their ability to live the life of their dreams.
After all, what is the life of your dreams? Is it living the artificial image of what others think you should be? Of course not. It’s the life of being who they truly are inside, and the happiness and abundance in any area (not least financial abundance) that come with it.
So basically, most people allow themselves to be policed by other people, and are at the same time policing other people themselves. As soon as someone starts to do something differently, something out of the artificially imposed norms, the ridicule and sometimes even physical harassment takes off, pulling the people who are about to make their unique contribution to the world back in line. That’s right, back to their robot-like existence of a daily repeated series of routines they’ve been told to be following all their lives.
Tell me something, does that sound like a balanced form of existence? Does that sound like Universal Love? Do you think the Law of Attraction will work if you don’t even allow yourself to live your life the way you want to live it? Do you think you can allow others to live their lives in the way they want it, if you can’t even allow yourself to do so? You’re doing nothing more than blocking yourself and your efforts.
You can sit on your butt watching the movie ‘The Secret’ all the time, while waiting for a magic amount of money to suddenly appear on your bank account. But I’ll tell you upfront. That’s going to take a while.
The alternative is that you start to change your circumstances right away. You need a whole lot more Universal Love to set the stage for the Universal Law of Attraction to work. That’s what’s Love’s got to do with it!
The application of the Universal Law of Love sets the stage for the Universal Law of Attraction to work. Everything in life is unified, the universe is a whole. One Universal Law cannot work without the other. It’s a closed system. Therefore, just knowing about the Law of Attraction isn’t enough. You must know about all main Universal Laws, how they interact, and how to apply them in conjunction with each other. Focusing on the main Universal Laws is a simple thing to do. But it all starts with the application of the Universal Law of Love.
“All you need is Love”
Welcome to the Revolution.
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Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged ‘Great Revolution’, which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding the universal principles of life.
The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence, the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’ that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application.
More information on the Great Revolution, on joining and on the ‘universal principles of life’ (the true ‘Universal Laws’) can be found at http://now-review.com/revolution
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Isn’t it strange how certain phrases set up immediate reactions in our brains? For example the reference to All You Need Is Love and Revolution above both immediately make me think of Beatles songs. How powerful is that?
Imagine (sorry I didn’t add that Lennon reference on purpose) writing something today that would still mean something profound to people around the world in 40 years time. I know I’d love to leave such a legacy.
So many people have seen The Secret film and “hope” that it’ll work for them. But, despite their wishes nothing has changed. So why is that?
I came across this article which had me captivated from start to end:-
The past few years, with an absolute peak in 2006 as the movie ‘The Secret’ was exposed to hundreds of thousands, an ever growing number of people is slowly waking up to the knowledge that there may just be more to life than the often robot-like existence of daily routines they lead.
With movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’, and books like ‘The Attractor Factor’ by Joe Vitale and the resurfacing of ‘The Law of Success’ by Napoleon Hill, people increasingly realize that they can have much more success in life, if only they knew ‘the secret’ that all these sources talk about.
Still, although hundreds of thousands of people have seen the movie ‘The Secret’, why are so few people living their ultimate lifestyle? Why aren’t all those people living the success they long for so bad? The success that all these movies promise them? Is there an additional secret to movies like ‘The Secret’?
The obvious answer is ‘yes’. If there weren’t, every person having seen the movie ‘The Secret’ would be living the lifestyle of their dreams, would be ‘attracting’ everything they long for, and would be ‘manifesting’ everything they desire into their lives ‘without any conscious effort’.
At least, isn’t that what you would think after watching movies like ‘The Secret’?
Let me tell you what the problem is, what is also the cause of so many people still not achieving their desires and dreams, and what is also the additional ’secret’ or ‘edge’ to the movie ‘The Secret’ and others. The problem rests in a psychological phenomenon called ’selective retention’.
In simple terms, ’selective retention’ means that you only remember the things you want to hear. In other words, you filter out the things you’d rather not hear. Let’s relate this to the contents of movies like ‘The Secret’ and other films and books with regard to this subject.
What we can agree upon is that all these movies like ‘The Secret’ and books like ‘The Attractor Factor’ are about a Universal Law called ‘The Law of Attraction’. According to the Law of Attraction, you can supposedly attract and manifest anything you want or desire into your life, based on what you focus your thoughts.
What I can tell you upfront is that the Law of Attraction is real, but only to an extent. There are very important nuances to its application, which movies like ‘The Secret’ either don’t tell you about, or which you filter out through the psychological process of ’selective retention’.
The actual nuances and details of the application of the Law of Attraction are a subject to be discussed at another time and another place. For now, it’s important to realize and acknowledge the one thing that most people are missing from movies like ‘The Secret’ and the whole range of other products dealing with the Law of Attraction.
You see, movies and books dealing with the Law of Attraction often overemphasize the word ‘effortless’. You are led to believe that you can attract things and manifest things into your life without any conscious effort from your side.
Quite likely, ‘effortless’ is exactly what you want to hear. Who wouldn’t like to do nothing while bringing about the most profound changes? People are hardly ever satisfied with their circumstances, so they desire change.
However, although they desire change, at the same time they resist change. Sounds like a paradox, but it’s true. Because as soon as any effort is required to actually make the change they desire come about, or to overcome the resistance experienced to make that change come about, people ‘cop out’. Do you recognize that?
Maybe you do, or maybe you don’t. But that’s exactly why so many people don’t achieve any success, although they’ve seen the movie ‘The Secret’ and supposedly know about ‘the secret’.
Through their ’selective retention’, the only thing that they remember and engrain is that ‘no effort is required’, and they filter out the part that says they should actually take inspired action. As a consequence, many people think that if they just think positively and try to focus on positive emotions most of the time, everything they desire will magically manifest into their lives while they’re sitting on the couch watching movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’.
They think suddenly some distanced relative they never heard of before in their lives, will leave them a legacy of millions of dollars while they’re eating potato chips and ice cream, as they keep on watching the movie ‘The Secret’.
Or they visualize themselves as a Scrooge McDuck-equivalent, swimming around in a pool of money. Perhaps they include the Money Bin too. And they expect a big bag of money to fall out the sky.
As a side-effect, they get bigger and unhealthier, and more and more miserable because nothing happens to make their lives better. Apparently, even a movement has come about that believes that you can apply the Law of Attraction to create a body they’ve always dreamed about. They think they’ll look lean and muscular without effort through ‘attracting’ their dream bodies by visualizing how they want to look. I kid you not.
Let’s reintroduce some common sense. Butt sitting never got anyone anywhere. The Law of Attraction that the movie ‘The Secret’ and other sources are about is real, but to reap its benefits and seize its fruits, you need to know how to apply it in your life, and you need to know the nuances to its application.
You can’t just start thinking positive thoughts and feeling positive emotions and wait for all your desires to magically pop up while doing nothing. That’s the missing link to achieving your success from the knowledge of the movie ‘The Secret’ and other films and books. The true secret is ‘inspired action’.
Doing nothing doesn’t help you. You need to act. You can get clear on your intention and then go do something else to get your mind off it. It’s during those moments of ’silence’, the moments that you’re not obsessed with what you want, that you suddenly get ideas, inspirations, hunches and so on. You must act on those inspirations.
The ‘act of acting’ alone will make you turn on the switch of the Law of Attraction, so to speak. Then, through an interplay of other Universal Laws that the movie ‘The Secret’ and a whole range of books on the Law of Attraction forget to mention, the Universe will start rearranging itself according to your thoughts, emotions and actions. You’ll get new ideas, meet new people, stumble upon new knowledge, and so on, all of which you can use in your actions that lead you to your envisioned goal step by step, through a chain of events.
And that’s how the changes you desire come about.
Your job is to recognize what exactly to act upon. For that, you need to know exactly how the Law of Attraction works in reality, in conjunction with other Universal Laws, and how things actually manifest into your life so you actually recognize your opportunities. There’s not a great number of other Universal Laws, only a few main Universal Laws that automatically cover all minor and subsidiary Universal Laws.
By understanding the nuances of the application of the Law of Attraction in conjunction with some few other universal principles (or Laws) as boundary conditions, you can make all your dreams come true. You just need to overcome your ’selective retention’ and acquire the knowledge of just the few additional nuances you must understand to really achieve the things that the movie ‘The Secret’ and others talk about.
True enough, it does require some effort, but by applying these Laws correctly you make the Universe work with you, instead of against you. And as you ‘get the hang’ of this application, the conscious effort required from you will keep on decreasing.
But you’ll always need to act. Nothing is going to happen if you don’t act. That’s the additional secret to the movie ‘The Secret’. You just need to learn how to bring those inspirations about, how to recognize them, and then what to act upon.
====== Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged ‘Great Revolution’, which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding the universal principles of life. The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence, the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the ‘enigmas wrapped in riddles’ that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application. More information on the Great Revolution, on joining and on the ‘universal principles of life’ (the true ‘Universal Laws’) can be found at Revolutioniz ======
He is actually a trained hypnotist but his marketing methods don’t actually put you in an altered state in the accepted sense. You know “look into my eyes, you’re under” approach.
No, he uses hypnotic language in his sales letters - words that touch deep emotions inside us and stimulate us to take action.
I’ve read several of his books and I’m convinced he is absolutely right. Rather than reading some boring, monotone style Joe uses rich, descriptive language and loves to tell stories in his work.
Now he just announced he has passed 100,000 sales online. That is a massive achievement and to mark the occasion he is giving away his own Internet success formula in his FREE “Hypnotic Marketing Crash Course”
Now those sales he has generated, over 100,000, are for himself not a big corporation and I think we could all learn a thing o two from somebody with so much success.
Take a look at his crash course in Joe’s 4-Step Internet Success Formula, and see how it not only works for him, but has generated millions of online
sales for his students as well.
Joe shows how to create massive traffic and sales online using the same 4-step integrated marketing strategy he uses.
You’ll also learn:
- The simple little trick Dr. Vitale used to get 20,000 new visitors to his site from one blog post in a single day?
- The Top 5 “Web 2.0″ sites to use in your marketing right now? (and how even a newbie can get get started using Twitter & Bookmarking)
- The 4 components of the integrated Internet business?
Dr. Vitale will walk you through a hugely successful website with an unheard-of 13.9% conversion-rate (for over 10,000 visitors!) breaking down what makes it work, and explaining why.
He also reveals whether you should you use a headline that can’t be answered. (you may be surprised!) and much more in 98-minutes of brand new training.
Keeping a positive attitude can be so very hard, particularly if you read newspapers or watch the television!
Every day all you hear is bad news, economy, crime, deprivation, lies and self promoting hype. I hate it!
Ever watch any soap operas? Supposedly based around real life people? I feel sorry for those guys! All they ever do is deal with bad situations and shout at everyone. That’s no way to live.
I won’t corrupt my mind by watching that stuff. In fact, I haven’t read a newspaper for years - I don’t believe most of what’s in them and everything is focused on negativity.
And as for the cinema and kids programs! In the main it’s all violence, horror overlaid with flashes, bleeps and noise. I’m starting to sound old!
But answer me this. How do you expect to keep a positive attitude if you fill your mind with all that junk? It’s absolutely no surprise to me that we’ve bred a new generation of violent and intolerant children.
But, we do all need entertainment. We need to break free from routine and escape once in a while…
Spiritual Cinema provides ONLY films that are uplifting and positive. In keeping with a positive attitude. If you want to watch something then make sure you’re viewing something that is not damaging to your well being!
I promised to post inspirational and/or soothing videos here from time to time.
Today I’ve stolen my inspiration from Barbara from Goal For The Green. She posts a beautiful video each Wednesday and yesterday’s was just outstanding. I’ve embedded the video below (I’m actually listening to the music as I write this) BUT I strongly recommend you visit Barbara’s blog and sign up to her RSS feed so you don’t miss her future videos. Every one is outstanding - she must spend all week sourcing those inspirational videos!
Barbara writes about many subjects, although the focus of her blog is on “green” issues. She always has a great angle - but she sees life and the world in much the same way as me.
Unless you have cash to last a lifetime a work from home online business is probably the best way to integrate making money with your desired lifestyle.
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So much rubbish is written online about internet riches, overnight fortunes being made and instant millionaire creating products. As a result many people simply avoid any mention of an online business and yet if you know what you are doing an online business may well be the perfect solution for you.
No more rushing to get the train to work or sitting in traffic wasting away your life. Work when you want in a niche you love. But…
It is not a magic formula
Despite the hype, there is no such thing as a plug and go, turnkey, cash spilling system that will make you your fortune overnight. Everything comes at a price and an online internet business is no different.
There may be a steep learning curve and it will involve you in some good old fashioned hard work. But, there are some great systems that will make your life so much easier and give you a head start because much of the work is done for you.
Here’s my word of warning - before you jump onto a product because you’ve read a great salesletter and have been convinced by the testimonials and promises think very carefully about the type of business you want to be involved in. Think through what you want the business to do for you and what commitment you can make to it.
For example, do you want to earn an extra $1,000 a month to cover the cost of say a dream car? Or do you want a full blown business that can replace your existing income? Or are you looking to build an empire that you can ultimately sell for a small fortune?
Whatever your objectives, if you’ve not run a business before you need to learn the basics first or you’ll simply run into a brick wall.
The main reason why I’m so positive about working online is that you can succeed in virtually any market, with little experience and with no prior list of customers. Of course, it is more difficult, but there is evidence everywhere of people making money in obscure little niches without a big budget or indeed massive traffic to the site.
Will that work for everyone? Almost certainly not BUT with the right information and support it can be done.
When I first started online I followed a course by a guy called Michael Cheney and everything fell into place.
He is now about to launch his Golden Thread product (it will only be available for a very short time period so if you are reading this after mid October 2008 the doors will be closed) and this promises to be a fantastic start for anyone looking to start a work from homeonline business.
Although there will be some work to do, everything from website page, script, products to sell and full training will be provided.
You can read my review of this product at Cash Cannons
So whether you want a little extra income or a full time work from homeonline business you can learn something from Michael’s videos - whether your interested in his product or not.
The Secret TV promises a life of abundance but do you sometimes feel you’re on a road to nowhere?
You’ve watched the movie and have learnt a bit about the Law of Attraction but still there’s no change in your life.
I honestly believe the film has done a mis-service to so many people.
It may have awoken them to the Law of Attraction but like everything else in life there’s a lot more than just being aware. Take a simple word - application.
Yes, I’m afraid without application - or more directly - ACTION or doing something about it, nothing is going to happen.
You need to accept that the Law of Attraction WILL work. What you focus on WILL manifest itself in your life so you need to ensure you focus on what you really want. But…
You also have to be very aware of what turns up. If you’re focusing on money - it is very unlikely a wheelbarrow full of notes will be left on your doorstep.
More likely, an opportunity will present itself to you. An opportunity for you to make money. It may be a new job, a chance meeting with someone or an article you read that stimulates an idea. It will come but you have to be open to following up on that opportunity.
And that’s where The Secret has left so many people short changed. I honestly think there are thousands if not millions of people around the world who are just hoping it will work, that a cheque will arrive in tomorrow’s post.
From the secret tv this video clip is really motivational. Watching each day is a great way of focusing and keeping positive. But, again the warning, watching this without taking any action will not create the things you want in your life.
Bob Proctor, who is part of the cast of The Secret, has a program called Science of Getting Rich and offers a free 7 part email course that will get you started thinking deeper about the law of attraction and what it really takes to make it part of your life.
I’ve followed this course myself and found it a great help. Not only does it cover the Law of Attraction it shows how to gain control of your thoughts, how to clarify your goals, manifest whatever it is you seek BUT it also discusses a pet subject of mine, how to get into the right mindset to achieve success.
It’s a great course, delivered to you by email in installments. Recommended.
Hope you enjoy the video above and watch it often.
Let me phrase that slightly differently - “did you create your lifestyle or did it develop the way it is because of someone else’s wishes?”
I was reading a post written by Sasha Xarrian from Outrageous Mastery (she’s been a real positive influence for me) in which she poses the following question:
Are you living your life because that is what you want or because someone else wanted it for you?
I talked about this at a top level in my Mummy State post a few weeks ago. Sasha’s question, however, made me think a little deeper.
Is this about personal development - choosing what you want for yourself - or does it go much, much deeper into our childhood?
Thinking back to my childhood and my early years at work I know that I was living my life according to someone else’s rules. I was doing what was expected of me rather than what I wanted. I wasn’t happy as a result!
People pay lip service to this, with comments like “do what you want - as long as you are happy”. But, as soon as you tell them what you are thinking of doing the objections and negatives start:
“There’s no money in that”
“That’s a dead end job”
“You won’t enjoy that”
“You have to think about the future”
Because we have little experience when just leaving school we tend to fall in line with the wishes of “society” and those we know best. Not, necessarily because we trust what they are saying but because we don’t know any different nor do we know for sure what we really want. At least most of us don’t.
Those people offering the advice aren’t trying to talk us out of what we want to do because of malice. No, unfortunately, they don’t know any better - they are just copying the example of those who went before. However, the question is “did / are they living the lifestyle they really wanted or are they themselves living according to someone else’s rules?”
It’s nobody’s fault - we just see life from our own perspectives which are ingrained through teachers and parents and our own experiences. So how are we to know any better?
The answer is to be free thinking. To challenge everything we know and work out for ourselves whether there is any basis to what we are told and the information / advice we are given. Or you could choose to live your life based on old wife’s tales and outdated strategies.
We live in an age when doing what we want has never been easier.
Most of us has access to credit - so money to start a business is not normally an issue
Technology and transport means we can work from where we want.
We are no longer tied to working where the “boss” set up the factory.
Yet, many of us still live by outdated values based around the way life used to be.
It’s time to take a real close look at our belief systems and make the changes we need to life the lifestyle we truly want and not the lifestyle created for us by someone else.
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I was doing my daily Stumble and came across a great post at Today Is That Day where Aaron Potts talks about successful people and the way they do things differently. He contends the really successful ignore the rules. Although I don’t totally agree with that, without doubt to be outrageously successful you have to believe differently from the norm. Great post you should read.
Coincidentally, I just looked at today’s Mind Food quote and it is spot on with this theme:-
Working from home is brilliant. It has some drawbacks for sure but the many, many benefits far outweigh those.
Unfortunately, for most people they cannot simply move what they currently do into a home based business.
Work on an assembly line?
Customer facing office job?
Call centre?
Forget it.
So unless you are fortunate enough to be in a job that allows working from home you’ll need to set up your own business.
But who can afford to take such a massive jump with all of the uncertainty and risks attached? Would you know what to do anyway?
The only way most people could consider this is to make a start by setting up something they can do part time initially. At least until some money is flowing in and the confidence that it will work has been gained.
I was in the fortunate position that my original business could easily be run from home but the business itself has too many constraints and doesn’t allow me the lifestyle I really crave. It ties me to the phone and meetings where I really want the freedom to play golf when I want!
About 18 months ago I stumbled across a blog written by an Australian guy named Yaro Starak. He had started his blog almost as a record of his journey as a businessman. He was running a “real world” business but wanted to move more online so that he could control when he worked and allow himself to do what he wanted, when he wanted rather than live in the 9 - 5 world!
Now I’d call Yaro a work from home success. I’ve followed his progress and seen some dramatic changes to the quality of his blog (where he still talks about his journey but also teaches others how to make a living by blogging).
What I particularly like about Yaro is his honesty and admission that he still has things to learn.
He wrote an outstanding post yesterday entitled How To Start An Internet Business in 3 Easy Steps and unlike many blog posts I was captivated enough to read the whole post! It’s not the usual “this is how you get rich quick” nonsense but a well structured piece that highlights the challenges faced by anyone trying to generate an income online.
So many “products” sell the myth that you just “open the box” and add traffic and a world of riches awaits. Unfortunately, getting enough traffic is the number one issue (I’ll testify to that as would most of the commentators at Yaro’s blog)
This extract from Yaro’s post highlights the very challenges that I faced and I’m sure 99% of everybody with a dream of working from home online also have to deal with.
The problems lie in the details. While the explanation I provided in this article may present a process that is conceptually easy enough to understand once you get used to the basics of Internet marketing, pulling it off is difficult.
Most fail at step one - traffic. Despite best intentions and some initial hard work, people are sporadic workers at best, and without some kind of immediate gratification, give up long before results come.
Worse still, many begin an Internet business with existing hindrances that plague their ability to perform - things like mortgages, full time jobs, families to support, ingrained self defeating belief systems, unrealistic expectations, poor work habits, an inability to let go of control or hire help when required, inferiority complexes, low self esteem or all manner of roadblocks can get in the way.
For those who persist long enough minor results come there way, yet after such a long journey and so much effort, they are disappointed and discouraged - they expected to be making better money by now.
I’ll add one further reason why “everyone isn’t doing it”. The list of challenges seems too daunting and it is easier to stick with the devil you know. It’s the “it would be nice but..” syndrome.
I’m sorry to be so blunt but if that’s the way you think you’re just dreaming of a better future and it won’t happen.
You have to take action, you have to be brave and do something to make the lifestyle you want happen. As you will have heard me say before “Nothing Changes Without A Change”
Yaro Starak is living proof that you can be a work from home success and that it is possible to get started while you carry on your existing job.
I’ve talked about inspiration before, maybe Yaro could be yours. Get your free copy of his Blog Mastermind to find out…
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