Creating our Now….Is the Most Powerful thing we can do….

**There will Never be the Perfect Time or Perfect Place. There will never be the Perfect Conditions. You cannot wait for the Perfect Tools or Ideas to appear. The Time to create abundance in your life is Now. The time to create You is Now. The time to create your Business is Now

Actually No Truer words have been spoken than that of Napoleon Hill:

**”Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” In other words…he means NOW!!!

Good Morning!!! Here is the Quote of the Day:

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. Napoleon Hill”

Remember, you are the only variable between you and the Success you desire and crave. It is you that determines the outcome. Your thoughts, your actions, your marketing, your advertising, your willingness to immerse yourself in being a student of your Business will ultimately drive the outcome.

Being Active in your Business means: Action of Self..IE Personal Development. Action of Income Producing Activities…IE Marketing. You know you should be placing a minimum of 7-10 ad’s per day, every day. Think about it. If you subscribe to a blog or follow a blog…you should be advertising your business on THAT blog!!!

Fact, the most difficult point in starting any Opportunity is the Starting Point in advertising. Here are a few thoughts:

1. Don’t try to be an expert in everything. Focusing on trying to do everything in advertising will result in nothing. You must have focus in one or two areas of advertising.
2. Start with the simplest and still the most effective form of advertising….Banners. If you are fortunate enough to have a System that supplies you with Banners, use them. If not, go out and have them made for you. Elance.com and WarriorForum.com are a great place to get quality work done for free.
3. Once you have Banners, start with Money Making Blog Sites. What do I mean? Well a very easy way to see where to advertise is on a blog site such as this. Go to resources like blogcatalog.com, and go through various blogs. Use Search Terms “Home Based Business”, “Make Money from Home”, “Opportunity Review Sites”
4. Once You have a List of 100 or more sites YOU would frequent, now go to Alexa and get Stat information. Remember the rules we trained on in a previous posting. Then, with your BUDGET begin placing between 7-10 ads a day, with out fail.
5. Now, that you have a Banner strategy, go hit some free stuff. Utilize Free Internet Classified Ads. Work on content writing and driving traffic. I suggest if you have a new business online to utilize http://www.free-press-release.com/ and http://www.prlog.org/ Do some free press releases. Don’t fall in love with spending a bundle of cash promoting your press release. Just drive some traffic. Plus, you can use these press releases in other ads!!!

A big question I get often is what type of banners convert and don’t convert? Easy, the ones that don’t convert are the one that never are placed. When your a newbie, especially when you are a newbie, forget the psychology a Flash vs. a still Banner. Remember in Advertising you can never say the wrong thing to the right person. The wrong thing is the thing that is never said….Marketers, out smart themselves with who is doing what, how, when where, and why. The marketer that wins, does is with CONSISTENT PERSISTENCE. The time to tweak will come later. For now, here is the rule of the Advertising Jungle:

Whoever gets thier Splash Page in front of the Most
People…WINS!!!!

I was speaking with a Friend the other day and I asked him one simple question: “Why Do People Struggle in Advertising their Home Based Business”…now his answer was quite long, like 45 minutes long, and most of that will be for another Post.

However, the part that stuck with me, was a Disciplined Sense of Urgency. He felt there is that Internet Disease of you got a website and people will just come. The fact is, most people wait. Maybe they are waiting on Guidance, Time, Knowledge, Money, Tools, Splash Page, Content…whatever it is….but it is most certainly not a Sense of Urgency.

Look, let’s review the facts. First, even a Home Based Business is a long term strategy, those that have had success working from home will tell you that. Do we fall in love with Instant Gratification…yes, that is what Sells the System. Long term to build a real Business, each Ad as quickly as you can place is setting yourself up with an annuity. When that annuity matures, maybe a month, six months, eight months, or even a year. However, that is what advertising is, an investment in future income.

Second, you never get back the time you lose in hesitating. Here is what I mean. Think about that one ad you placed where the next Stone Evans, Frank Kern, Kelly Felix, may just be. Don’t be intimated at the notion that the most Successful of Internet Marketers won’t buy what you got…especially if it is a high ticket sale!!! Fact is you can never predict who is visiting a site a blog or a forum. You may miss out on the Guy or Gal that will make your Business explode in 2009.

Lastly, return on investment. You have invested hard earned capital or credit in your Business. The greatest way to alleviate the stress and anxiety associated with that Investment, is a Sense of Urgency in Action. The progress you make, the more seeds you plant, and the more annuities you “Invest” in, the less short term and long term stress you will have.

Advertising is a longer term Strategy of Failure!!! What? Yes, understand, accept, and be passionate about the Fact that 95% of all your online advertising campaigns will FAIL. That is great. Without the Failure, you would never get to the Sale. No one, experiences 95% Success Rate online. People celebrate and cultivate the 5%. The 5% is where Millionaires are Born….

Napoleon Hill once said: “Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

How Committed Are You to what You do? What are you willing to sacrifice? How Far are You Willing to Go for your Dreams? Do You Know Your Real Why? Do You Know Your Outcome? The Last One may be the most important….

In Your Job you Trust? In Your W-2 you Trust? Or do you Trust in yourself and Opportunity? I guess the real question is how much do you Trust? How much are you really willing to Commit? I already know what you are going to say…I am will commit everything to make this happen…OK, let’s put that to the test shall we? To achieve Financial Freedom and Time Freedom, let’s see how you score on this quiz:

We only become what we immerse ourselves in!!! Think about it, how did we here, as an example in the US learn English? We immersed ourselves in it. It was around us every second, every thought, our way so to Speak. Winners immerse themselves in their Business, in their Opportunity, in their Goals.  Turn your Beliefs into Convictions….

How often do you hear people calling someone amazing? How often does someone inspire you to the extent that you perform beyond your normal capabilities in whatever you choose to work on? This post will help you learn how to become such an incredible person.

The fitness practices of mine – my diet, cardio sessions and weight lifting, have been such a phenomenal success with people around me that I would like to share a few general tips which you can use to become an inspiration to others in almost anything you do. Being constantly complimented on your noticeable improvement may just be the motivation you will need to become an outstanding achiever and reach the goals you never thought to be so easily attainable.

So here’s a set-up: you’ve got an area of your life which you plan on improving, and you’ve decided to not only succeed, but become someone incredible – impress others with your achievements and inspire them to follow you and improve their lives in a similar fashion.
Want to know the steps to success? Here are just a few. Use them as guidelines to get started, and as you progress, I’m sure you will discover many more ways of achieving great results and inspiring people.

1. Find something you absolutely love doing

I believe that you can really succeed only in something you love doing. Although it is possible to achieve certain results even with activities you don’t like at all, these activities cannot make you an amazing achiever.
You’ve got to be passionate about your intentions, you need to know exactly why you’re doing something and also be excited about it.

When I got started with my fitness program, I was thrilled. To me, getting fit is as exciting a self-improvement project as it gets. I’ve always dreamed of being fit enough to try my luck with all kinds of sports, and although I never let my slightly excess weight be a real stopper, it still was a determining factor in many of my plans.

Every time I go to gym, I’m happy to get another chance to push myself to the limit, work really hard to get one step closer to my ideals of fitness and stamina. That’s what makes every gym session interesting, and this is the motivation I need to exercise every day.

2. Set Goals

You’ve got to set goals and keep track of them. Setting great goals is like finalizing your decision to become an amazing person. Unless you agree on how exactly you’re going to change, there’s a very slim chance that you will make positive progress.

Make it your second nature to not only love what you’re doing, but also be absolutely sure why you’re doing this and how far you will go.

When I had decided on getting into shape and staying fit for the rest of my life, this meant setting a number of goals:

* losing weight (15kg is my initial goal, I will set my next goal once I reach this one)* improving my cardio (to be able to run flat out for 10 minutes at 16km/h)* educating myself (reading a number of books on diets and detoxification)* improving the healthiness of my lifestyle (changing my diet and eating habits, introducing more physical training)
I’m tracking these goals almost daily – making sure I’m making progress and staying aligned with an overall decision on becoming as fit as I’ve always dreamed to be.

3. Think Big

There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious! Don’t be afraid to set yourself a goal which is bigger than average and therefore harder to reach. Plan to push yourself as high as you can think of, and never settle for anything mediocre in your plans.

Remember: mediocre plans and goals will get you mediocre results. A truly amazing person you’re about to become can’t afford an average plan. Think big and try your best to stick to your plans, and you will be surprised how much you can accomplish.

Don’t be disappointed if you can’t follow your big plans to the letter – it is the nature of any

success to put you through many failures before letting you reap the reward. Even if something hasn’t worked perfectly, you still will make much more progress aiming high compared to an average planning approach. If you shoot for the moon, you’ll at least land on a star!

One thing to understand though is that thinking big isn’t about setting unrealistic goals and refusing to do any analysis or risk management. Not at all! But thinking big ensures that you if you plan for some result, you aim higher to achieve more.

If I lost 5kg, it would still be a good result and many people would be very pleased with such progress. Still, I have decided to aim much higher and go for 20kg (44lbs) weight loss. This is a much more exciting goal, and the closer I get to it, the more proud I am because it shows once again how most of my thinking big gets results with due focus and effort put in.
It doesn’t mean I will neglect any risks on my way to the goal though. If I at any stage see that further weight loss would harm my health, I will stop and switch into the weight maintenance mode.

4. Be persistent

For all those achievers who can’t wait to become truly inspiring individuals, I’d like to confirm it: yes, there will be times when your efforts pay off. But depending on the nature of your planned achievements, noticeable results may take a while to appear.

That’s why it is very important to be persistent and keep pushing hard until you’re successful. The old rule of self-improvement works like this: first, you have to commit your time and put your efforts into something, then you get the desired results out of it.

Every working day of the week I try and make my way to our gym. There are days where I can’t do it due to other commitments like business meetings, but apart from them very little can hold me back. If I’m healthy enough to be at work, I’m pushing myself to go and have a workout.

I constantly change my routine, I attend 2 weekly fitness programs, and I have been doing this for so long that I miss gym if I skip it for whatever reason.

A year and a half since I joined our gym at work, I’ve gone through such a transformation that I rarely have a week without discussing my progress with people around me.

They don’t always realize how much effort had been put into getting fit, and therefore my results seem incredible. I always take my time to share my experience and learn new ideas from others, and this helps us all enjoy the benefits of being persistent. After a few months, you become much more patient and therefore relaxed about your results.

In your own time, you will recognize that practice makes perfect. You will prove to yourself and others that only regular efforts and positive attitude can help you achieve results that really last.

5. Embrace your followers

Perhaps one of the most pleasant sides of becoming an inspiration to others: recognizing your followers!

You will be surprised to see how many people are impressed with your improvements, and if there’s one thing you can do to really establish yourself as an achiever worth following it is this: embrace your followers, talk to them and explain your reasons and achievements. Offer your help and work with them to help them follow your steps and achieve similar results.

Most people have a fear that sharing their knowledge will take something away from them, make their own achievements seem less impressive to others. But the effect of helping others is only positive: people will respect you for the knowledge you possess, and will admire you for being able to share it.

 That’s it for today. This list is by no means complete, and I’m sure many of you will have better ideas on becoming an inspiration to others. Please make sure to share them with others by leaving a comment! Thanks for your advice in advance, and good luck with becoming an inspiration!