Money Making opportunities
No one would argue that the economy is in rough shape and has been for some time now. It has hit some people very hard with layoffs and downsizing. When life look bleak, it is hard to keep up positive thinking, but this is just the time when it is needed most! Positive thinking is a must when looking for money making opportunities in a Read the rest of this entry »
Darren Rowse is someone that I admire and follow. He has a great blog and he helps those who are bloggers. I’m going to link to a couple of his posts here in a minute, but I wanted to comment on what he says.
On one post, Darren talks about making money fast on blogs. Now I want to say right here and now that this is not the case for me. I wish it were. I do not deny that I post affiliate links, from time to time and will soon be offering my own products to boot. I love blogging and do this because I like it, but I do it to make some income too.
“Ah!” you might say. I knew he was in it just to grab some money! Well, no I’m not. I genuinely want to help people in their journey through life. Having said that; I want to make some money too. Is that so different than a Doctor or a writer, or whatever occupation you can think of?
The point to this though is that the people selling programs and products that are about making a million dollars overnight do not have your best interest in mind. As Darren says, nobody makes big money overnight!
The same is true for life change. No one changes their lives overnight. Well, I suppose that a few, who have major crisis events can change overnight, but that’s about it. For everyone else, it takes time and it takes work. Anyone selling you a change overnight product should be suspect!
The second post has to do with the new FTC guidelines. Now I know that for most of you, this means nothing. In a nut shell, the FTC came out with new guidelines for bloggers. They are good, for the most part, but have the blogging community in a snit because no one is really sure what is required.
Darren says that we might as well use the FTC guideline that we have to have, things like disclosure statements, as a means to use our voice, be who we are.
I have been struggling a bit with this finding my voice thing. In real life, I tend to be a little acerbic, somewhat irreverent, and have a dry sense of humor. My blog often sounds like words or wisdom from some pulpit of the “guru of self enlightenment” or something. I hate that! There are plenty of folks in the self help world who do that much better than I, Deepak Chopra for instance, and do it well. Deepak is the guru. I’m just some shmuck sharing the things that have helped me change my life.
The point here is that you have to find your own voice in the world. So many people try to be who their parents, teachers, whoever wanted them to be and it makes them incredibly unhappy! Here’s my change overnight suggestion. Find your own voice! Will you change overnight? No! You won’t. You will have a chance to become a more authentic happier you!
Here’s to You!
P.S. here are some other posts of mine on the same subjects.
Truth about Life Change: Can you trust me?
True To Yourself
Self Development: use your head
What would you give to have a better life, a different life? What would you give to have a more satisfying, lucrative career? What would you give, to do all the things you want, travel, have a better home, be the boss? Would you give up you?
Search the internet or self help book and you will find on of the biggest pieces of advice for self improvement, self help, gurus is that you must step out of your comfort zone, your everyday mode of doing things is you want change in your life.
Why do they say that? Think about it! If you keep doing the same things you have always done, what is going to change? So does it make sense to you that if you keep up the same routine, the same way of thinking and doing things that anything is going to change? No, any person with an ounce of sense knows that doing the same thing will only cause getting the same results.
So many times people will say,” I would give anything! Yes, I would give up who I am. I don’t even particularly like who I am.” Then they change nothing. They go on in life doing exactly the same thing over and over again.
What do you want? What do you really want? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get it? Are you willing to change who you are?
I knew a man once who said if things didn’t change in his life he was going to kill himself. He was going to commit suicide if things didn’t improve in his life. Months later, he was still thinking the same thing and hadn’t changed one little bit in his behavior or way of living. Are you that guy?
Trade in the old you for a brand new exciting model. Look at all the features it has! It has courage and fortitude, it will do things in half the time the old self did and do them better, The new model will be the envy of all your neighbors and friends. Take it for a test drive today! Don’t delay! This offer will end sometime soon, and you never know when that might be!
Sep 17
This morning I had the experience of listening to a podcast about law of attraction and gaining wealth. I thought what the woman had to say was very interesting, but I cannot say that I agree with her completely. 
She was saying, and it was a major part of her talk, was that we only have to put out into the universe our desires and they will come about. All we have to do is to be clear what it is we want so that the universe does not get confused.
She also said that since everything is energy, all we have to do in vibrate at the same frequency as whatever you desires.
It is true that we have to be clear about what we want. The more unclear we are, the less likely we will ever get anything or get anywhere. Where I have a problem is that we don’t have to do anything other than wait and vibrate!
Putting our desires, our goals out into the universe if fine; I am all about the law of attraction bringing into our lives what we believe and think about. I could just envision these people wanting a better life, wanting to change their lives and putting out into the ether what they want and then calmly sitting on the couch and waiting for it to happen, vibrating away until their nose falls off.
Yes, the Universe, God, the Infinite, whatever you want to call it will help you in your quest for a better life, but notice I said quest. You can’t have a quest by sitting on your bum. Your beliefs, thoughts and actions create your reality.
Know what you want! Spend some time in honest goal setting. Put out what you want, into the Infinite and then get up and go to work. Each day, work toward the goal. When your receive guidance and inspiration that will surely come, do something with it!
Steve
I don’t normally blog twice in one day, but I ran across this and thought it was too good to wait a day! It isn’t often you get something for free that will help you improve your life and make you money at the same time.
Below you will find a link to a site that will give you free lessons for stay at home moms (I guess stay at home dads too) to start a and run an internet business. I have a daughter that does this and it is starting to take off, but she had to make her own mistakes and find her own way. It has been a turbulent quest!
With Leigh’s course you can find out how she did it, the mistakes she made and the way to avoid them. You will learn it all! Click the link below and check it out. It won’t cost you a dime to look and it won’t cost you a dime to enroll. What’s stopping you? Click that link!
Steve
P.S. This is a super lady and I don’t know how long she is going to make this offer. If it takes off like I think it will, she may decide she should make money selling it. Free is much better!
Sep 16
A while back I posted a blog about people being unemployed and how that makes the person feel. Life has a tendency to slap us down now and then.
Most everyone says that they want a better life, or more success, more money. Those things are fine, but then life comes along and slaps us down and we get all depressed and think that nothing will ever be right again.
Let’s say that you don’t have a lot of money and the car breaks down. Now you have bills to pay and you can’t afford to do both. Your mind starts going crazy with all sorts of scenarios. You won’t be able to pay the bills, your credit rating takes a dive, your house gets repossessed and your mate leaves you! The car will still be broke and you’ll have to walk to work fifteen miles uphill both ways and in the snow! Man! What a loser!!
One of my Principles is that hardships happen, but I always have a choice. You can see all the Principles on the Principles page. Anyway, so the car died, I have a choice, I can listen to all those terrible things that my mind is trying to tell me or I can start looking for the opportunities. I can think positive, look to see how this might turn out. Maybe there’s a bill that has a grace period, maybe I can talk to my boss at work and see if there is some overtime I might pick up. Maybe I can talk to my mechanic and see if I can make installments.
If none of this works out, you still have a choice. You can change how you think about it. You might learn from what has happened and vow to start an emergency savings fund or learn how to fix your car yourself. Maybe you can think about ways to increase your income!
None of those terrible things will happen. It might not be fun, but you will get through it! You will live.
You want to make more money, you want to be more successful, have a better life? You have to start changing your thinking. There’s that thing called the law of attraction. It says that if you think everything is going to be awful, you’re right it will. If you think things will work out they will.
When life gives you a big slap next time, don’t get down. Look to see what opportunities are there. Look to see what you can learn. Your life will begin to change as soon as you do!
Steve
