Kelly Brown

TVI EXPRESS

Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by admin.

• Neighbors are running to tell neighbors . . .
• Friends calling friends . . . .
• Moms, Dads, Grandparents, all working together . . .
• College kids working together . . .
• Co-workers telling Co-workers . . .

Why??

Everyone has 2 friends . . .
Everyone wants to help those 2 friends.

It’s amazing what regular, ordinary folks can do when they work together. TVI Express takes people helping people very seriously. Not only do they provide each of us as individuals and families to create substantial wealth in a short amount of time, they donate and give back to worthwhile causes around the world and now, they have designed a business opportunity for where you are rewarded for helping others.

It’s a an opportunity for family, friends, and neighbors, just everyone, and . . . it’s FUN! People are getting up in the morning with a pep in their step and thinking about who they can and share this with each day.

Helping Others. That’s the key word.

All Team members make their way to the top of Compensation plan through a Revolving Matrix system which allows you earn US $15,000 over and over again. This system ensures YOUR success and helps YOU to capitalize on the efforts of all team members present in the boards.

Then do it over and over and over.
We have begun as a Category Creator with a spectacular ground floor opportunity — and, every month, more and more discerning Distributors have found the opportunity as compelling as anything available. Today, we are at a stage where nothing can recede us from becoming a Billion Dollar brand with timely product introductions that each represent their own ground floor. TVI consistently refreshes the market and ensures that the TVI Express opportunity — like the travel industry we are into is always fresh and booming.

The stand-alone Opportunity that TVI puts up to take every day comes from an infrastructure designed to build continuous income. This is made possible through a great product line, an honorable business name and practices that serve both buyer and seller, distributor and consumer.

This is a company with serious staying power and big plans for the future. Your future.

Top 10 Benefits Of Owning Your Own Business

• Be Your Own Boss – You set your hours. Work where you want, when you want, part time or full time.
• Work at Home – No commute or rush hour traffic. Live where you want to live…your business moves with you. Spend more time with your family.
• Great Income Potential – You are paid what you’re worth. You decide how much you earn.
• Available for Everyone – No previous experience necessary. Training is provided, allowing you to earn as you learn…regardless of age, sex, race, or education.
• Immediate Income – Earnings can come your first week with a realistic opportunity to earn an above-average income every week.
• Lasting Income – You can build a successful income-generating business that can last a lifetime.
• No Franchise Fees or Royalties – No fees. Minimal overhead. No need to rent an office or buy expensive equipment.
• No Employees – No employee-related hassle or paperwork.
• Significant Potential Tax Benefits – Legally save thousands of dollars with home-based business deductions*.
• Live as You Please – Freedom at last. Travel and spend time with your family. You control your time and lifestyle.

Why TVI Should Be Your Opportunity Of Choice

Here is the entrepreneurial freedom to take control and define the future, you make the rules, you call the shots, you take the credit.
Come be a part of our team!
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I have put together a presentation
to help others understand how people helping
people lead to $15K over & over & over.
Watch the presentation . . . Enjoy

http://www.ExtremeTVITeam.com/blog

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YOUR PRODUCT

* 6 Nights/7 Days Vacation in a 3-5 Star Property
* Free flight ticket offer*
* Lifetime access to our promotional deals
* VIP Access to our Members only forum
* Virtual Office to manage your Business
* One click access to discounted travel deals

You Would Think People Helping People for the opportunity to make $15K would be enough incentive to reach out, but that’s just the beginning. TVIExpress wants you to experience a life of luxury, a life of abundance, a life of giving, a life allowing you to reach all your goals and dreams.
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Check out these incentives for people helping people!

TVI Express is the only Company in the World to distribute incentives ranging from Luxury cars to Private Jets and Splendid Villas in exotic locations around the world. All this is easily achievable if you are focused and dedicated towards TVI!

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GETTING STARTED

ONE TIME $250 for your product. (Depending on how you pay, you may incur UP to an additional $50 in banking/processing fees/wiring fees.)

NO MONTHLY FEES

NO RECURRING COSTS

FREE WEBSITE that looks like this : http://www.TVIExpress.com/kellybrown
To Get Started Is Somewhat cumbersome right now until they implement a credit card feature. But that’s ok, we are doing what needs to be done to help people sign up . . . .

I will be helping you build, you would be helping me build. People helping people.
So, here’s what you need to do . . .

Email Me (info.kellybrown@gmail.com or Call (631-365-1059) or Skype me (KellySBrown) and let me know you want to be a part.

2) Let me know how many positions you want. Make sure you feel strongly that you can refer two people per position or just take one.

3) Payment: It’s taking a couple days so please be patient. In the meantime, send all your friends my presentation by sending them to http://extremetviteam.com/blog or to and then tell them to get back to you if they are interested and we will get them signed up under you.

4) I will give you a member to join under – it may not be me (Remember, people helping people?). I will look at the boards and see who under me needs help.

5) Well talk and I’ll help you get signed up.
Then, start sharing the good news and begin helping people to do what you just did.
Be patient during the sign up process, we have a list of people and are getting evouchers as fast as we can. The company is in the process of adding a credit card feature but they are doing it in such a way that it prevents any fraud, security measures will be put in place. So, again, we are doing the best we can to keep everyone moving along .

I look forward to experiencing and helping you on your journey to financial, lifestyle freedom.

Kelly Brown

631-365-1059

Email- Info.kellybrown@gmail.com

Skype- KellySBrown

http://www.ExtremeTviTeam.com/blog

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Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by admin.

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Monster 7 SEO Tips…..

Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by admin.

We are going to look at 7 Basics of SEO below. These aren’t the only things you want to know about SEO, but are the areas you should learn first. Some topics will only take you a minute, some will take a little longer, and others will become an ongoing process. But after reading through this list you should have a good handle on where to start and where to proceed next.

SEO Basic 1: Let’s start off with a definition. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization” and is the process by which you Optimize your web site so that it is positioned well in the search engines. This is not the same thing as designing a site so that it attracts customers and entices them to buy.

SEO is what you do specifically on your site to improve your Search Engine Position. If you do a search on Google for any search term you will be presented with a list of links. At the top of the page and along the right side will be PPC links where someone pays an amount per click to get positioned. With PPC the more you pay the better your position. Most people only glance at these listings. You don’t need SEO to get one of these positions, just lots of money.

The body of the page contains “organic” listings. These links are listed in the order that Google determined best fit your search, with the best match first. There are only 10 listings per page, most people will only look at the 1st page, maybe the 2nd. So your site needs to be listed within the top 10 and at the worst within the top 20 for any useful exposure. With SEO you will be adjusting your site code so that your site will rank highly. This can be a daunting process as there may be thousands of sites competing for the same top listing. A trick is to aim your pages at less popular search terms to get higher placement. It is better to be on page one for a term that gets 1,000 searches per month than to be on page three for a search term that gets millions of visits.

SEO Basic 2: Your web site must be search engine friendly. The search engines send out “spiders” or “bots” cataloging web pages they come across. If the search engine has trouble getting through to your pages it will either rank your page poorly, or skip your site all together. Making your site Search Engine Friendly means having the code easily accessible, no errors in the code, and guiding the search engine through your site.

Try to steer away from complicated coding when possible. Check your site for coding errors. This is fairly easy to do with web programs like Dreamweaver which do this for you automatically. Plan on having text based navigation on every page. This is usually placed at the bottom of the pages. You may also want to have a “Site Map” page with easy to follow text based links to all of your important pages. Search Engines will look for a Site Map and will use that to navigate a site if available.

SEO Basic 3: The Most Important SEO Aspect is Keywords. Keywords are the terms you type into a search engine to find interesting web sites. You need to know what search terms people are likely to use to find your site, then use those terms as your Keywords. Make a list of the keyword combinations you can think of that you would use to find your site. Try them all on a search engine and see the results.

You need to see how these search terms perform on the web and what other search terms could be used. A great free tool to help with this research is available at Google:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

You type in a search term, then you are given a list of similar search terms, how often they were searched and some advertiser comparison figures. You can quickly find additional keywords and to see how well they perform. A good idea is to optimize your site for a less frequently used keyword combinations so that you can achieve a higher placement. The Google Keyword Tool will help you figure this out.

Focus on keyword groups with 3 or 4 keywords. Many times keywords will overlap, so you can focus on a longer keyword combination and cover many other combinations at the same time. For instance, if you are designing a page to sell Photoshop Training, you can optimize for this keyword phrase “Adobe Photoshop Training Video”. This will not only give you optimized performance for this keyword combination but also for these other keywords and combinations as well:

Adobe
Photoshop
Training
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop Training
Adobe Photoshop Training
Photoshop Training Video

So try to come up with a multiple keyword combination that will contain several other keyword combinations as well.

Once you know what keywords you want to use you are ready to place those keywords on your page. The main places you want to use the keywords are:

In the meta title of the page
In the meta description of the page
In the first sentence on the page
In all of the image alt tags
In links to and from the page
Well represented in the body text of the page

Make sure you Pick the right keywords, and make sure they cover more than 5% of the word usage on the page. An easy way to get more keywords onto a page is by using lists such as:

We carry:
Adobe Photoshop Training Video Sets for Educators
Adobe Photoshop Training Video Sets for Students
Adobe Photoshop Training Video Sets for Business

Keep in mind that your page text should still be user friendly. If you use your keywords too frequently or in strange ways on your page, it may rank better in the search engines, but it will drive away visitors. Who wants to read a poorly written page?

SEO Basic 4: Don’t try anything funny. There are lots of “tricky” things you can do to cram more keywords into a page without annoying your visitors. The problem is that the search engines know about these tricks and will penalize your site if you use them. So don’t do any of the following or you may find your web site disappear completely from the search engine listings.

White letters on white background, or any other similar text coloring trick. Even using a very light gray text on a white background, or very dark gray text on a black background can get you bumped from the search engines.

Don’t repeat your keyword over and over again. People used to do things like this at the top or bottom of their pages: Photoshop Photoshop Photoshop. This worked in the early days of search engine optimization, but no longer. You should also not try this trick in alt tags, image names, links or other places in your code. The search engines will spot this and you will be penalized.

Don’t put keywords into comment tags. Also don’t put keywords in hidden form fields. The search engines will spot these and mark you down accordingly.

Even though putting keywords into image names and alt tags is a great idea, don’t think that you can just create a bunch of clear gif images sized at 1×1 and fill those with keywords. The search engines are very good at spotting tricks like this as well.

So use your keywords appropriately, don’t try to sneak one past the search engines and you should do just fine. Just keep in mind, if you think that you need to hide the keywords to trick the search engine you can rest assured that they have already thought of that and will do their best to devalue your site accordingly if you use these “black hat” tricks.

SEO Basic 5: All pages should have links to other pages. The main search engines like links. They like outside sites linking into yours, but they also like links within your site going to other pages. So in this case having more pages can be useful. Also since you now have all these pages that you are linking to it gives you a great place to use some more keywords. Make sure that your links include your keywords.

But, and this could have been in section 4 above, don’t create “doorway pages” that redirect you to another page. It used to be common SEO practice to create lots of doorway pages, each one stuffed with specific keywords, all of which would redirect the visitor to the actual page they were looking for. This would give your site lots of pages, with lots of internal links and would allow you to tightly optimize these doorway pages for specific keywords, but the search engines have gotten wise to this trick and now penalize the use of redirect pages. So don’t use redirects unless you absolutely need to and never use doorway pages.

SEO Basic 6: Only optimize a page for one or two keyword groups. More than that just dilutes your keyword ratio. The search engines will analyze your web page to determine which words are used as keywords. They do this by looking at the title, the description, the page heading and the words used on the page. They then determine how relevant your keywords are to your page. So, if you try to use too many different keywords on a page, it will only bring down the percentage of any individual keyword or group for that page. It is better to optimize for a larger keyword group as discussed above than to try to optimize a page for a lot of individual keywords that can’t be easily used in one sentence. If you need to have a page optimized for several different, unrelated keywords you are better off creating several different pages and re-writing the body text on each page to match the keywords you are optimizing for. This will make each page relevant for the specific keyword and will get a better placement in the search engines.

SEO Basic 7: Be patient. Even with a perfectly optimized web site it can take several months for it to rise in the search engine standings. I usually recommend waiting at least 90 days and up to 6 months to see how well a web page is doing in the search engines. Also, even though you have gone to great lengths to target a specific keyword or keyword combination keep in mind that the search engines aren’t required to agree with you. So when checking your standings look at several different search terms that you discovered in your research and see how well your page is placing. Hopefully you will find that your chosen keywords are getting your page listed the way you want, showing that your SEO has worked properly.

If you find that your page is ranking better for a different keyword, you should examine your page code to see why and make adjustments as needed. Maybe your page is placing higher for a keyword combination you weren’t focusing on, but it is still a good combination for your goals. This gives you an ideal opportunity to go with that new combination to achieve even higher placing.

So, get started right now on your SEO. The longer you wait, the longer it will be before your web site is showing well up in the search engines.

In Closing

There is a lot more to SEO than just these 7 quick points, but this will get you started on the right path. Go through these steps and your web pages will be well positioned for any other SEO you may want to perform on your site in the future.

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How to Take Inspired Action…..

Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by admin.

I often write about the role of focus and vision in manifesting your dreams of effortless success. I know that folks are so often anxious to take action – and I’m all for taking action, even MASSIVE action – BUT (and I know all my clients know I usually forbid the use of the word “but”) BUT, action ONLY works when it comes from a place of focus and vision.

That’s why you have to start with the inner stuff before you take action. Otherwise, you will most likely be taking action from the place of seeing what’s missing. It can be a challenge to allow the action to take a temporary back seat. I promise you that it is well worth it when it comes to the level and type of results you will get from taking inspired action. What do I mean by inspired action versus the action that comes from a place of scarcity, doubt and frustration? Inspired action comes from the higher level of creativity, trust and wisdom that you arrive at when you take the time to focus and vision.

Inspired action often seems to come out of nowhere; you get an inkling to try a particular action. It may not even make sense to you at the time. Yet, what happens is that the inspired action leads to a positive result. For example, you know you want to attract more business and you want to work with people that you love to work with. You sit with this vision for a while because you just don’t know how to make this happen. At some point a name pops into your head. Maybe it’s someone you haven’t thought about in a long time, or someone you don’t know very well, if at all – perhaps a Facebook friend. Your thought says get in touch with this person. So you take the leap and give him or her a call and, lo and behold, that is the exact person that can show you how to attract more ideal clients. Perhaps it even turns out that they just opened a new program on the very topic you need and you get the early bird rate. That’s an inspired action and it’s so much better than getting frustrated with not knowing HOW to make your dream a reality and calling someone in the same boat with whom you spend half an hour complaining about your lack of ideal clients.

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The Case for Passion….

Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by admin.

What is Passion? Passion is a force – sometimes and uncontrollable force – that infuses life with meaning, joy, and even outrage. In any event, passion fosters commitment and determination. Passion is an urge or desire that consistently calls us to action, often radical action. Passion can be used or misused. When guided by the wrong motives, passion can be very dangerous. When guided by the desire to help people lead bigger, richer, fuller lives, passion has the potential to help create a better world. Passion is the fire that burns within. It often starts as a spark or a flame and eventually turns into a blazing fire that stirs the soul. Passion is that incredibly compelling emotion that enables us to go places others are afraid to go, to try things others are afraid to do and be the kind of people others are afraid to be! Passion creates the energy and drive required to do what others think is impossible.

The Business Case for Passion

Is there a business case for cultivating passion in your organization? Is it really a competitive advantage? Can passion make a difference in terms of accomplishing your organization’s objectives? Consider the benefits:
1. Passion intensifies our focus. In a complex world where we’re moving at .com speed and we’re bombarded with information, it’s easy to get distracted. Passion gives people the courage to say “No” to distractions by staying focused on the bigger “Yes.” It’s the magnetic force that keeps people working on things that make the business more competitive.
2. Innovation and creativity become key factors in adding value to the customers we serve. Approaching the business with a fresh, new perspective requires people who are fully awake, fully alive, and who have an active, intense, engaged focus on making things better. Innovation requires that our minds work furiously when we come to work. Passion activates our minds, expands our awareness (we observe more intensely), and challenges us to think outside the conventional box.
3. With intense pressures to perform it’s easy to cut ethical corners and compromise doing what’s right. It requires passion to protect and promote the values driving the business. To say, “No” to a questionable business deal that will generate a lot of revenue takes guts. It takes the courage and passion to stand upon your convictions.
4. People with passion raise the standards of performance in an organization. They have a tendency to hold others accountable and tolerate nothing less than the full-blown commitment of everyone around them. Their commitment to a higher standard becomes contagious, spreads throughout the entire system, and eventually becomes a part of the fabric of the culture.
5. People with passion create an electric, exiting work environment that energizes others. They contribute to building the kind of culture that attracts world-class people.
6. Passion creates a sense of urgency that is required of every organization going through change in today’s highly competitive world. Passion is the enemy of apathy, complacency, and procrastination. Passion is usually dissatisfied with the status quo.
7. Passion helps people deal with fear. Change is scary – for anybody! But when our passions are bigger than our fears we develop the courage to step outside our comfort zones, risk more, fail faster, and learn like crazy.
8. There is less attrition and absenteeism in a passionate work environment, where meaningful work and a heroic cause energize people. People don’t want to miss the thrill of the journey and the significant things going on at work.
9. It seems that the cultures of many firms is corporate America and around the world breed a political correctness that is socially acceptable. Unfortunately, it’s not conducive to the burning fire or radical passion that is required to bring about revolutionary change. Dramatic change and complexity are requiring an unprecedented effort from the contemporary work force. Passion will be the key to PERSEVERANCE in the midst of this change.
10. Perhaps the most exciting benefit that comes from cultivation passion is an organization is the contagious enthusiasm it generates. Passionate people ignite enthusiasm in the rest of us. Something so alive in them awakens something that needs to be alive in us. Passionate people inspire hope and enthusiasm. That’s why they’re so attractive to be around. There’s an intensity, a commitment, a PASSION with which they approach their work – it’s inviting and tantalizing, it’s heroic and alluring, it’s inspiring and provocative all wrapped up in the same package.

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Focus & Discipline…..

Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by admin.

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 you 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 there Splash Page in front of the Most
People…WINS!!!!
Simple? You bet it is. However, it is the one training and technique that is least talked about. You can never fail when you are taking consistent daily action.

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Six Ways to Turn Desire into Money….

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by admin.

The Method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps:

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of Money.” Be definite as to the amount. There is a psychological reason for definiteness.
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as “something for nothing”.
3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once!! Whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
5. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after waking up in the morning. As you read, see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

Monster, bottom line is to provide definiteness and structure to your desire. Make it real, make it daily, this will be the only way to make it happen!!! Unleash the Monster in yourself and your Business today….

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Murphy’s Law VS. Law of Attraction Quotes….

Posted on 11. Oct, 2009 by admin.

Everyone is familiar with Murphy’s Law: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, which is usually quoted by those “the glass half empty” people. Optimists have turned Murphy’s Law on its head with their affirmation that whatever can go right will go right.

It gets even better, by using law of attraction quotes. By becoming familiar with law of attraction quotes, we learn that what goes wrong or what goes right depends of what we’re attracting into our lives with our thoughts and feelings. By keeping law of attraction quotes in our minds, we are able to transform circumstances to make sure that everything can go right.

The law of attraction states that what must go right, will go right. So, your daily review of law of attraction quotes is your key to crafting a mindset to transform circumstances so that everything must go right.

Law of attraction quotes is the first of the four raid change technologies I discuss with my clients. Law of attraction quotes represent the low lying fruit in the process of going from a victim of Murphy’s Law to being a master practitioner of Law of attraction quotes.

Each Law of Attraction Quote is Worth a 1,000 Words. The Law of attraction is a “your wish is my command” law. But there is a catch. The catch is that your wishes must be the result of a super focused, highly crafted mind. Sounds tough, I know. That’s why law of attraction quotes is your secret weapon. Using law of attraction quotes makes the process fast and painless.

There is no substitute for law of attraction quotes in designing your super focused, highly crafted mind because each law of attraction quote is the distillation of pages and pages of inspired teachings. You, no doubt, have heard a picture is worth a thousand words; well so is a law of attraction quote. Each law of attraction quote is easily worth a thousand inspired words of wisdom.

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Never Stop Dreaming & Start Dreaming Again….

Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by admin.

Remember when you were a kid and felt you could set the world on fire? Millionaire? Sure. Hollywood star? Of course! Astronaut? Easy. Best-selling author? No problem. World traveler? Start packing.

So what happened? Where are you now? Are you living the life you thought you’d lead? Unfortunately, life has a way of knocking the stuffing out of our highest hopes and biggest dreams…if we let it! Most people have lost the sparkle in their eye and the fire in their heart. They’ve lost their passion and allowed their lives to become a faint glimmer of the vibrant vision they once had for themselves. They’ve committed the great sin of the spirit and settled for a life of mediocrity.

The main reason most of us lose our dreams is not because our desire has waned, but because of fear. “I don’t have the money, I don’t have the time, it’s too late, I don’t know for sure if I can do it.” All of these reasons are nothing but the excuses of a fear and lack based protective mind. There is a saying in life, that we either have “reasons or results.”

It’s time to take back your power; time to think big once again; time to rekindle your greatest dreams. Dreams that excite you, dreams that impassion you, dreams that force you to break the bonds of “mediocrity”; reach your fullest potential and become the “ultimate you.”

EXERCISE:
Today, list the big dreams you had from the past or invent exciting new ones! Come from power versus fear. Start thinking about what you “can” do instead of what you “can’t” do. Commit, then focus on one step at a time and begin immediately!

Declaration:
I consistently take action on my big dreams.

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Power From Within……

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by admin.

Understand ALL of us have a power from within. We have have the ability to Realize and Achieve. We must stand and require from the World what we want. You must ask. You must Ask of Yourself and the World, and you will receive.

I received an email the other day, the Question was….but the answer is something we should all evaluate and utilize:

I get how frustrating this has been and acknowledge you for not giving up on your goal. Before I offer what I hope is some encouraging advice, I want to eliminate two potential issues that could be roadblocks to achieving this goal no matter what kind of motivation I present to you.The first thing I am wondering is if standardized tests have always been challenging for you. Not everyone learns or processes information in the same way. It’s possible to be intelligent and comprehend information, yet still struggle with certain test formats.

My first suggestion would be to try to find a tutor that specializes in test-taking strategies as it may be the manner in which the test is given rather than the actual material and information that keeps you from conquering this exam. I realize you have already spent money on support but if this resonates with you, it may be a very wise investment.

Next, if you consistently perform poorly and need external factors to motivate you, this may not be the goal to chase. You may be getting (and possibly ignoring) feedback from the universe. Often the things we think we really want are perhaps not on course and the way we are redirected is that roadblocks keep showing up. I challenge you to challenge yourself and investigate the roots of this goal. Is getting your MBA something you think you “should” do? Are you trying to prove something? Is it an expectation that belongs to someone else? Do you have outcome-based expectations about what the MBA will provide? If your answer was “yes” to some of those questions, pursuing your MBA may be more of an ego-driven goal rather than something you TRULY want.

If any part of this resonates with you, I encourage you to consider whether putting this goal on hold for a little while and heading another direction may be more self-supportive. Sometimes saying “no” to one direction is saying “yes” to another that is more on course.If nothing I said so far resonates with you at all then you are clearly just in need of some good old-fashioned motivation! One of the best ways to generate intrinsic motivation is through habits and routines. The more we are in the practice of doing something and are accountable to ourselves, the more driven to action we become. Start by scheduling a certain number of hours per week (my suggestion would be a minimum of one hour per day) that you set aside to study/develop yourself. Make this a non-negotiable, uninterrupted appointment with yourself and your dreams. If you miss an appointment with yourself, make sure to make up the time. Breaking our word with ourselves triggers internal feelings of self betrayal and sucks the life out of motivation.And start today!

My sense is when you get discouraged you lose momentum and may slip into patterns of procrastination which also take you farther away from your goal. For some insight on this, I turned to life and executive coach BrianWhetten. Brian shared: “We usually think that procrastination means we’re lazy, unmotivated or unworthy. But that’s rarely the case. Instead, it usually comes from an over-use of guilt and self-judgment. What do you tell yourself about your study habits? Do your thoughts include things like ‘I should be more motivated’, ‘I have to stop procrastinating’ or ‘I blew it again’? Thoughts like this cause a burst of guilt and stress. Used on occasion they can push us forward, but when they become a habit, they quickly start to backfire.

So instead of trying to “should” your way forward, start by writing down the judgments you’ve been making against yourself, and then check out www.thework.com as a powerful tool for releasing them.”In addition to reframing your self-talk and the way you approach studying, it’s important not to go through this process alone. Find a study group to be a part of that can offer encouragement and support. Keep yourself in the conversation about your goal.

Putting yourself into “investigation” mode can be a catalyst for increased learning and motivation.Above all else, this is a tremendous opportunity for you to learn how to motivate yourself. Going to grad school is not a walk in the park and the habits you are indulging in now create the foundation for the type of student you will be. Keep your focus on your goal and if it is indeed something you truly want, the motivation will be there.

Made me think of how this message pertains to every element of being an Entrepreneur. All goals, Athletically, Spiritually, Grad School, or Starting and Running a Business all need the same elements. Action Now, Power Within, and Self Talk to Action…Success is simple once you build a proper foundation. Go reshape your foundation in your Life or Your Business Today!!

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