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I believe that this is different for each and every one of us!
For me just being able to do the things that I am able to do is FREEDOM. Being able to think what I want, practice my religion and beliefs, to have free speech and thought, not to mention having the right to fight for and stand up for these is amazing. Sometimes we tend to take so much for granted. But also I’m in the process of approaching Financial Freedom.
Now for me there is two forms of Financial Freedom…. There is the one where you are not living paycheck to paycheck, you don’t have to worry about your rent/mortgage or your living expenses. You are comfortable, but no so comfortable that you can do whatever you want whenever you want to do it. This to me is the second for of Financial Freedom, where you can do all things at all times without worry or concern.
So how do you get to these forms of Financial Freedom?
First: You need to realize that the goal is to reduce costs and hence debt and increase income, usually passive income (one that comes in without you having to do much ongoing work – i.e. writing a book where you get royalties). The hang up is with the “I want it now” mentality. This mentality sacrifices tomorrow’s financial freedom for today’s false feeling of accomplishment, feeling good about oneself. Just because you have the big home, the luxury car, the jet-set lifestyle; in reality you are treading water like most American’s who are two or three paychecks from bankruptcy. It’s bad enough our government lacks responsibility when it comes to spending and debt creation, but then again I digress. So figure out ways you can reduce costs and use these savings to pay off debt. Only put on credit the large necessities that come up from time to time (no this doesn’t mean the 50″ Flat Screen TV).
Second: You need to increase your income. It’s better if you can do this from home, utilizing a passion that you have and figure out a way that you can monetize your passions (make money from them). It makes it easier to work hard on something that you enjoy, since you will usually be giving up T.V. and entertainment time in which to do this. And if there is a way that you make this income passively, without you having to be there on a consistent basis would make transition into the second form of Financial Freedom all that much more likely.
Third: You need to know what your first level of Financial Freedom is, after you have reduced. Do you require $5,000 per month to live or can you get by with $3,000 per month. Then your goal is to strive to have your passive income equal the required amount needed on a monthly basis.
Fourth: Striving for the second form of Financial Freedom. Here you just have to add to your passive income either by increasing what you are doing or by adding another form of passive income. This can be achieved by monetizing another passion, or by taking your earnings and getting them to grow through various forms of investments, like the stock market, real estate, or growing a business (hopefully one that you can direct rather than manage – i.e. you direct your manager as to what you want the business to achieve, with goals and time lines for accomplishment). Once you have your money working and growing for you — then you are on your way to Total Financial Freedom, where you will enjoy live to it’s fullest, doing what you want to do any time you want to do it.
Good luck!
I know you can do it!
As I sit here on New Years Eve day, I am wondering what do I do next. As I look back and reflect on the year that was, I am pleased with what I have accomplished, but not ecstatic. I didn’t make that illusive million dollars last year. My business isn’t growing at the 25% growth rate that I had predicted, or envisioned. My health and exercise regime and relationships are not were they should be. BUT aren’t we our own worst enemies. We expect so much from ourselves it’s ridiculous. At least I know I’m really really guilty of this.
So what’s up? Why am I pleased with were I am right now? Because although I haven’t reached those aforementioned goals; the journey has been one of enlightenment, love, self-discovery, pain and gain. As I look back at the journey over the past year — I am blessed with so much. I am healthy! I have a roof over my head! I have a business that’s growing at about 12%, (not bad for a recession)! I am loved and I love! So despite the fact I’m not exactly were I want to be, I am here, ready for next year. Where I can re-set my goals, I can dream big dreams and know that the journey will be fantastic what ever happens. With the knowledge and experience I gleaned from last year, I am pumped about what’s in store for next year. One really valuable thing that I learned this year was a new way to set goals (see my blog on Goal Setting, below or CLICK HERE).
A year ago I had no clue about this thing called blogging. I heard about it and everyone said I should be doing it, but I really didn’t know how or really quite frankly did I want to. Thankfully I succumbed to the pressure and here I am writing and loving every minute of it, so much so I now have an e-book on Leadership, something else I learned a lot about and am still learning about. CLICK HERE to get your FREE copy!
So my advice to you what ever your situation. Greet the new year with open arms, high expectations and with vim and vigor. Dream big dreams, set your MTO goals (Minimum, Target (a stretch) and Outrageous) and take massive action and we’ll talk next year and see how well you did. I know that I’ll be better next year than I am this year — how can I not be — another year of life experiences under my belt, another year of learning, doing, being and having –IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT!
Always remember you are in total control of what happens to you (that’s a topic for another blog) so seize the hour, day, week, month and year and make it your finest. You have nothing to prove except what you want to prove to yourself!
Are leaders born or trained? This is a perpetual question that is being argued by scientists and researchers all over the world. Although there are many people who were born a leader there are many others who have to strive hard to attain their leadership position. So what are the steps required to develop leadership skills?
Developing leadership is a slow process. If you own a business, you know how important it is to have a good management team consisting of good people with leadership skills. Without a leader an organization can never reach its fullest strength and attain its goal. Having good leaders is the headache of all big and small organizations.
Developing leadership cannot be neglected. You should train the candidates in many areas. The first characteristic a leader has to possess is good listening skills. Good leaders always listen to what other people are saying. Speaking one’s opinion too much and refusing to listen to other people’s opinions is the formula for failure. Having good listening skills means that you really know how to listen and understand people. You take into account the viewpoint of others and try your best to satisfy other people’s needs.
Another important characteristic of good leaders is responsibility. You, as a leader, are responsible for all the development or backlog of your organization. You should be trained to do the best to make your organization develop to its fullest capacity. If you are in the business world, this means you should feel the responsibility to widen your market, increase sales, improve working conditions and get more profit for your corporation. You should not let your personal interests interfere with those of the organization you are working for.
A good leader also knows how to read people. You should know what your employees or co-workers are thinking about. You should connect with all the people you need to connect with and be a social person. If you can understand other people well then you have a very high chance of becoming an excellent leader. The skill of reading other people is very hard to learn and you may have to learn it from experience. There will be no rigorous course teaching you how to read other people’s minds. Your experience, knowledge and personal way of thinking will help you develop this skill.
Developing leadership skills is not at all easy, but one should not be afraid of it either. With time and effort, one can become one of the best leaders in one field or another. Effort plays a very important part in achieving this goal.
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Leadership is one of those skills that takes time and effort. As Jeremy says: “listening is a very important skill to learn.” If you’re like me I sometimes get caught thinking of what I want to say next rather than focusing on what the person is really saying to me. Also you have to take your emotions out of the picture when someone is expressing their views. We sometimes discount what’s being said because we think we know what the other person is telling us, rather than listening and trying to understand what’s behind the words and thoughts. Jeremy is right when he says it’s a slow process, but don’t give up because we were born to lead, so have patience, improve every day and become a great leader!
Goal setting. You either love it or hate it. I personally am in both camps. I love it, especially when I attain the goal that I set, kind of hate it, well let’s watch our words, shell we. I kind of dislike it when I come up short. My conscience mind get to do it’s thing — remember it’s there to keep you safe and protect you at all costs — keep you IN YOUR COMFORT ZONE. It starts to say things like: “I told you you couldn’t do it”, “I told you you were being unrealistic”, “you know you had no hope in hell of achieving that – it was toooooo big”, etc, etc, etc.
Can any one relate? I thought so.
Recently I read a technique in Blair Singer’s book, Little Voice Mastery, in which he addresses how he tackles the problem of not realizing your goals. He says: ” You’ve got to handle it, because if you don’t, there can be some very bad consequences. Here’s what I mean. You climb along towards this goal and when you don’t get it, your energy drops. Then you try to set another goal, but you’re now setting this new goal with lower energy. The new goal becomes a little harder to achieve, and maybe you don’t achieve that one either. Your energy drops again. After a few of these, maybe you start lowering your expectations of yourself (not good). Ultimately, you stop setting goals completely. You become disillusioned.”
Wow! That sums up my experience exactly. He wrote this technique looking at my life! After talking with several people, I realized that I was not alone in this, and therefore I needed to share this with you my devoted readers. We all need to overcome this and set some incredible, life and world changing goals.
Blair continues, saying; “Once it becomes clear that you have not achieved the goal, sit down and make a list. I recommend that you do this in writing. If you choose to do this by talking it out, at least record it, because you’ll be amazed later on by what your hear yourself saying that you didn’t realize you were saying at the time.
Reiterate the goal. What things did you accomplish on the way to the goal? Write them down. So you didn’t reach your goal, but lets see what you did get. You opened a new market. You learned a lot about your competition. You actually got a promotion in the process. You were able to buy a new car. Your family is very proud of you. See what I mean? This exercise is even more useful if you do it with someone else.
Now, read what you’ve written or play back your recording and listen to yourself. Which one fills you with the most positive energy? Which one makes you light up?…
Pay attention to the times when your passion and energy increase. Chances are, you achieved a different goal that you didn’t know you had. Maybe your secret inner goal was to be recognized by your boss as a great salesperson, and in the end, you were promoted and your spirit became happy. Maybe that recognition was all your spirit really wanted, and now it’s waiting for you to set a new goal. That $100,000 was never your real goal. Something else was beneath it.
Your spirit, or the essence of who you are, knows what it wants. Once it’s satisfied, it’s ready to move on. So set a new goal, something bigger and more meaningful.
You have to acknowledge when you attain the unacknowledged goal. That’s the key in this process, and it’s helpful if you can talk it through with some other people…. People don’t even recognize how powerful it is.
When your energy goes up, you can set the next goal, which you may or may not achieve. But your energy will continue to soar, and each goal will get bigger and better, and you will feel better each time. The bottom line?
There’s no such thing as not achieving your goal.”
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A very powerful technique! And it works!
Added to this, I came across another technique for writing goals.
You already know that your goals need to be in writing, need to be clear and specific, need to be timely or measurable (have a time for completion and a means that you know you’ve attained the goal), and that you want to write goals in all areas of your life (personal, business, health, wealth, spiritual).
The added component to this is a process that Raymond Aaron, calls “MTO” You write your same goals but your write 3 levels of the same goal.
I really like this technique, although I haven’t tried it or have any experience with it, I do realize the rationale behind it. It sets you up as a winner all the way through! What do I mean: well suppose your reach your minimum. Did you reach your goal? I say yes!!! And therefore you can celebrate and know subconsciously you are imprinting the statement that “I reach my goals“. Very cool!!! Now if your reach your stretch goal, that’s even better. You have attained a higher level of success and therefore again you are imprinting in your subconscious “I reach my goals and I’m a success!” Also because you have reached this goal do you think you’ll have just a little bit more energy and excitement? I think you will pocess an extremely high level of energy and excitement. Now, hold onto your seats; what if by chance, I know it will never happen (or will it), you achieve the outrageous goal that which you knew you would never achieve, but by some miracle you achieve it. Where do you think your energy and excitement would be? THROUGH THE FRICKING ROOF!!! That’s where.
Do you see why I like this technique for setting goals so much? It’s masterful, a win, win, WIN situation all through he process. You see the other reason I like it, is that you have the safety of always achieving your goals, while at the same time being able to not just shoot for the moon, but shoot through the galaxy and set your dream or goal so big, so outrageous, that when you achieve it you will have sooooo much energy and excitement that you can then begin to look at the bigger picture and that’s how your next goal will change and make this world or planet a better place. You see we all have great potential, ability and purpose to make changes in this world and planet, because when we start to focus and achieve the impossible then we start realize that every thing is possible, but only after we start to realize our true potential! And that all starts by realizing and achieving your goals.
It’s been a pleasure to share my heart with you in this blog, and as usual please leave your comments, suggestions and feedback. I look forward to hearing from you. May you be blessed and go for it. As the Nike slogan so eloquently points out: “JUST DO IT!”
The greatest power of all is LOVE. It is revered by ALL religions. All millionaires, billionaires and successful people all have love.
They have a huge WHY, which is usually based in love. They over came, been down and pulled themselves up, vowed to have better lives or had someone in their lives that inspired and pushed them to success. What’s all that — LOVE!!
What does that song say: “What the world needs now is Love sweat Love”. Wow how insightful, now they were taping into their higher self when they wrote that.
Just sit back and close your eyes and imagine a world of LOVE. Can you see it. Everyone helping their fellow man (person). Smiling, laughing, giving, loving. Am I too naive to wish for a world like that? One where no matter what I’m going through I’m met with a simple smile and pleasant hello. Would that make a difference in your life? I know it would mine.
Not having to worry about what people will think, or say, or do. Wow. I can see it now. Pleasant days, enjoyable days and productive days. Simply treating each other with respect and love just the way YOU wish to be treated.
The old Christian adage is true: “Love your neighbour as yourself!” “Treat everyone the way you want to be treated.” Why is this simple truth so hard to accomplish? Is it because we have become so in sensitized through our technology which is suppose to help us become more productive, yet leaves us out of touch (I mean personal touch). Sure we text, we email, we communicate. But where is the personal touch, the personal communication — we are hard pressed sometimes to pick up the phone and call or make that coffee, or dinner date — to get together and see each other — experience each other.
LOVE. Can life be so simple as just love. I believe so. When we love we focus on the positive and not the negative, we focus on the good in people, things and situations, which is GOOD. As I’ve said before in my blogs — You get what you focus on — so if we focus on love -we’ll get more love, but not just love but what love brings. Love brings companionship, happiness, productiveness, success and all things good.
How can we love more? Gratitude is a biggy! When we are grateful, truly grateful for someone or something, then that’s love and it can be summed up in just two words: THANK YOU!!! How powerful is that. Try it. Say thank you every day for something. I know, you’re having a bad day someone cuts you off — how in heaven’s name can I say thank you for that — easy THANK YOU for not hitting me and allowing me to be alert enough to avoid the situation. I know you’re in the moment, right and that middle finger starts to emerge — even though it’s habit — so what do you do. Just by acknowledging that that was not handled in the best possible manner has given you a component of love. You’re remorseful and by showing and feeling remorse is love in action… We also have to give ourselves a break — we are not perfect and never will be (at least here on earth) so we have to lighten up, forgive ourselves (we are always the hardest on ourselves), laugh and know that the universe is at peace because you acknowledged your short comings and therefore learned and hopefully will apply a different strategy the next time.
Start loving life. Look for what you love in life! Cars, food, clothes, people’s qualities, nature, the weather, hobbies, sports, you name it you’ll find it. When we look for all the things that we are madly, head over heals in love with — how can you not love life. We sometimes take the little things for granted and we lose ourselves in the machine of life. The mundane — work, etc and we get into a rut. Snap out of it! Please. If you can not think of at least one thing you love about your life please email me so I can meet you, because as crappy as you may think your life is I’ll bet you that you can find at least one thing you’re in love with — one thing you love about your life!
Ask yourself great questions. “What’s good about this situation”. It sucks. Ok well if it didn’t suck so bad what would be good. I don’t know — maybe I learned something, or I realized I do have feelings, or maybe I can have courage to conquer it or over come it.
The adage: “LOVE makes the world go round”. It’s so true. When we start focusing on LOVE and we give it freely, spontaneously, daily, hourly and minutely we will see a dramatic change in how we feel, how we live and how rich our lives have become. You see as I’ve mentioned before “What we focus on we get more of it — therefore if we are focusing on and giving love — we will get more love in return and as that starts to happen we get more positive because you can’t love and be negative — you’re positive and as you give more love and become more positive you attract more love and positive, which results in good things happening to you.
Remember when I talked about energy. Everything is energy — well I believe that LOVE is the purest energy — unselfish, all powerful, contagious. We will do almost anything to achieve it — some have even died for it. Now let me be clear hear: I’m talking about the the love with no strings attached. You know what I mean. Not the I’ll do this if you do that type of love. – No the agape love the unconditional love, the love that is and doesn’t require a anything in return. That type of love. Wow!!! A world of LOVE, of that deep precious energy — pure, powerful and impactful.
Can you imagine waking up to the most beautiful sunrise or watching the most beautiful sunset you have ever seen in your life. You know the ones I’m talking about — colourful, vivid, explosive!!! What do you feel when you experience them? If you are like me — incredible, peaceful, thankful, LOVE!!! Visualize that and hold those feelings throughout your day! Act, feel as if you are seeing them all the time. When that driver cuts you off — when your spouse yells at you — your children don’t listen to you and tune you out — your boss ripes you for something — any negative feeling that creeps up at any time swash it and replace it with your favorite memories. The sun rise, sun set, rainbows, your wedding, your honeymoon, the birth of a child — anything that puts a smile on your face and LOVE in your heart, that’s what you need to focus on in the tough, trying and horrific times in our lives.
Life is not perfect. If it were — How would you know it? We need to have opposites in life, for if we didn’t, how would we know what was hot or cold, light or dark, good or bad. Realize that’s a good thing. We are not robots –we feel, think, and CHOOSE. We are free (at least in North America)! Think about that! Be thankful for that!
It’s important to realize that we are not to wish that we have no problems. Rather wish that we are bigger than any problem so that they become challenges, minor annoyances because we deal with them and get on with living life the way we want to.
LOVE!!! Practice it! Live it! And Experience it each and every day! The more the better!
So may your life be filled with LOVE, Life and freedom.
Live Life to the fullest each and every hour and my your LOVE flow like river!
September 30th, 2011 by T. Harv Eker
When businesses go down these days, you hear the same thing over and over again: “It’s the economy. Times are tough. It’s hard to get people to spend money or take risks.”
Yeah, everyone is going to be more cautious about how they invest or spend their money in a tough economic downswing. But what’s the main function of any kind of business at any time? Getting people to buy your product or service. Simple, yes or yes? But if a business today isn’t good at attracting people to buy what they’re offering, it will lose profitability and go down, but the economy gets blamed.
Here’s the truth: being a successful businessperson has nothing to do with the economy. If you know what you’re doing, you’re going to be successful in any economy. And one of the keys to the success of a business is Effective Marketing.
This is one of the most crucial functions of business, but quite frankly most people suck at it! That’s why statistically, most businesses fail, especially when exposed to an economy like the one we’re in.
As a business owner, the main function of generating leads and getting as many of those people to buy your product as possible doesn’t ever change no matter what’s going on out there. An effective system of marketing will make or break if people will buy your product, and whether or not your business will be profitable.
Successful businesses have these four marketing techniques, no matter what the industry:
These four steps are necessary for any business at any time, and you also have to have strategies in place for each of the steps individually, like how to build your database (engine search, joint ventures, etc.), psychological leveraging (the potential pain by not going with your product), attractive packaging, and alleviating fears and hesitation.
It doesn’t matter what type of marketing you do—paper or electronic, people to people— you’ve got to have a system that works; a checklist of things you’d do whether the economy is good or bad.
You need something that makes it easier for you to get people to buy your product, and easier for the customer to want to buy it. With effective systems in place, it’s a win-win, and you’re giving yourself a greater chance that people spend their otherwise reluctant money on you. Of course, don’t forget to deliver on the promise.
Effective marketing makes the difference between a good business that prospers only when times are good, and a great business that endures in any economy.
By Cliff Yvon
While everybody has probably heard of the term positive thinking, not everybody believes it is something that can be used successfully. Most of the people who are skeptic about positive thinking power have never tried using it, so they just don’t understand just how successful it can be nor do they understand how powerful positive thinking is. Positive thinking alone can change your entire outlook on life and so much more, if it is used correctly.
One of the best things about positive thinking being powerful enough to change your outlook on life is how much other stuff will change with it. People who sit back and focus on the negative aspects of life are often negative people; they are not very fun to be around. If you think about it, you probably have a few acquaintances that are always being negative, saying stuff can’t be done. These people tell themselves often enough that things can’t be done, so they have convinced themselves that it is impossible to do.
Something else interesting to note about positive thinkers is that they are the ones that people always want to be around. If you think about this, it probably already makes sense to you. Nobody wants to be around the negative people, but everybody wants to be around positive people. One reason why positive people are so fun to be around is that they are always happy and in an upbeat mood. These moods actually rub off and other people and make them feel good, which is why so many people like to surround themselves with positive thinking people. So in order to use positive thinking power to change your outlook on life you not only have to start using it, but you also need to surround yourself with other positive thinkers.
In order to begin using positive thinking to change your outlook on life you will need to learn how to use it effectively. Many people assume that all there is to using positive thinking is telling yourself a few positive words each day. However, in order to use positive thinking to its full advantage there are quite a few different things that you need to do. Positive thinking is more than just telling yourself that things are going to be fine, it is also about your attitude.
One of the most important things to do when using positive thinking is to only use positive words. This not only applies to your thoughts, but also any words spoken aloud. You want to avoid all of the negative words, such as cannot, will not, not able to, etc. Instead, focus on the positive words that make it seem like anything is possible. For example instead of saying I am not sure I can do something say I can do this. If you find a negative thought coming in, which is possible even if you are working hard, you simply need to redirect your line of thinking, kind of like that old saying “Turn that frown upside down.”
Before you go out to do something, no matter how small the task might be, you will want to take the time to visualize what it is you will be doing. When visualizing the plan you want to visualize one that has a successful outcome, don’t think about any kind of failure. Concentrating on the outcome that you want and having faith that you can make that outcome happen is the best thing you can do to ensure you are successful.
Moreover, most importantly you want to surround yourself with other positive people, but also other positive things. For example, instead of watching movies that make you feel sad or angry watch movies that make you happy. Reading inspirational books is another huge step to changing your outlook on life, but you can also read other books that make you happy. Just make sure you are reading one page of an inspirational book each day to help flood your mind with those positive and happy thoughts.
Now that you know how to use positive thinking effectively, you need to make sure that you are doing it properly. You are not going to be able to successfully change your outlook on life simply by spending a few minutes each day telling yourself that things are going to be fine, you have to put some time and energy into this process in order to be successful. So what are you waiting for go out there and get started!
Cliff Yvon is passionate about the study of the subconscious mind and the significant impact it brings on personal development. He loves to share valuable resources about positive thinking power. You can learn more on mind power by visiting him online at http://massivemindpower.com
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There is a revolution going on, a revolution in our minds, a revolution in our lives. Everyone is talking about the power of mind, positive thinking, the Law of Attraction, creative visualization, motivation and achieving success; everyone is looking for more info on how to change the mind, on how to change the life, on how to be successful.
There is no secret that your mind makes rules in your life. You knew this, you have heard this, and perhaps you already have started working on it.
We did not learn “How to change your mind your life” subject in school or college. Even though we did not learn how to change our minds and our lives in school, it’s clear that we have to begin to learn new ways of thinking and changing patterns of thinking.
If you change your thoughts, words, actions and your attitude, your mind will update its rules according to new data it has gathered.
Let’s sum up what we already know about the mind and its power.
o The subconscious mind controls about 90% of our brain
o Our subconscious mind is multitasking and can do several automated tasks at the same time
o The main purpose of our subconscious mind is to protect us, to keep us alive
o Everything we experience in life is kept in subconscious mind for the future reference
o Subconscious mind does not know the difference in what you perceive as reality and what is imagined
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
The first thing to change your mind and your life is to start with your thoughts.
If you think that nobody knows what is in your mind, that your thoughts are private and they do not hurt anyone, you are wrong. They hurt and they hurt you first.
Our thoughts manifest themselves in our own circumstances. Look at a successful person; think about what kind of dominant thoughts this person has? This person has positive and successful thoughts which prevail over negative stuff.
Change the way you think. Change your negative thoughts into positive ones; find the positive side to everything. Whenever you catch yourself worrying about something, blaming somebody or some events, realize that all starts with your thoughts and then it becomes your destiny. Switch your thoughts to something else that you really enjoy doing. Feel rich and successful.
You must make your positive thoughts your dominant thoughts in all areas of your life.
Does any unpleasant event or bad weather or anything else unpleasant deserve your bad mood, your worry, your negative thoughts and finally your unsuccessful life? No, they do not deserve it. Think about this.
Start working with your thoughts and you will change your mind and your life. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. Remember, there is no failure, only a delay in results.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve are a direct result of his own thoughts.” James Allen
My best wishes for your success and personal growth,
Susan N Gray
