Jay Abraham - 93 Extraordinary Referral Systems (Audio CD)

All,

I had a weekend driving this weekend. This for some reason had been sitting on my mp3 player for an age. I don't know why. Yet, since my business is picking up great steam. I'm taking more and more action on attracting and keeping my clients and customers.

You may not be in your own business or indeed working. Yet referrals are nothing more than talking and having a conversation with somebody and asking for somethign that you want.

Normally you'll be asking for something. An existing client or business to give you more clients or business with others.

If you work for somebody else and bring in referrals. The company will love you. Many I've worked for in the past have had a recruit a friend scheme. By which, if you introduce somebody to the firm and they end up working for them, you'll get the referral or finder's fee.

This collection is taken from Jay's seminars. He is regarded as a marketing genius. This is my first introduction to him. The bulk of this recording is other business owners talking about their own referral programs. You are sure to find one to fit your business.

It made me think of how many people and companies I deal with on a daily basis and yet, they don't ask for a referral. How much more successful could they be?

If you're not in business. How does this apply to you?

If you want something you have to ask for it. That is a referral!

If you then ask for it with passion, commitment and energy. You're even more likely to get it.

If you add value to somebody, they will add value to you. If you want some creative ideas on how to ask for what you want, this is great. I'll be listening to this again in 6 months or so. I think you'll pick up an idea or two to try out each time.

Happy Travels

A

Left The Office - Now The Next 4 Hour Work Week Project Begins

All,

Just a little missive.

Several things to tell you . I've changed the rss feeds. It all seems to be working for me, yet you never know.. Sorry if it doesn't for you. It would be best to unsubscribe and resubscribe.

I'm working on my next passive income stream/project. This one is really testing my boundaries. I'm so excited though. It rocks. This is taking me up a level or 3.

Good Bye Office

Well it finally had to happen. I've left the 'office'. I am now on the road to fulfilling my dream to becoming a fully fledged 4 Hour Work Week Worker.

Well it is more a remote worker at the moment. It is sometimes very scary, yet at the same time bloody exciting. I know I have it in me to succeed. I just need to keep telling myself and going forward.

Watch TV it is the Olympics

It is all too easy to sit and watch the television.
Bemoan that the money isn't coming in as fast as I would like.
People aren't returning my phone calls.
Emails go un answered. blah....blah....blah.

You know what? It is easier to blame somebody else for your current circumstance. So be it. Yet to get what you want you now have to say.

I've created this, I can dam as well create what I want to0.

When did I think people would just lie down and help me? Don't get me wrong. Some people have and are just being fantastic. The moral is I've got to be more stubborn and go get what I want.

Japan in October, isn't going to happen unless I book the flights and manifest the cash flow etc. Somethings are worth going after....trust me!

Dear Readers,

Can you do me a favour? Drop me a line and tell me, what you would like to see on this blog. I'll find something for you as a gift, that I'm certain will add massive value to your life.. Thanks

Happy Travels

A

Remote Working - Test At Home First

All,

It appears I'm off on my travels again. This time it is back to Japan for 3 months.

Just read and excellent 'try before you buy' about remote working, from the WebWorkerDaily Website.

http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/21/hone-your-global-nomad-skills-by-practising-locally/

I can't agree more. Remote working kinks can be ironed out before you hit those foreign shores. In addition your bag will be lighter...no foreign adaptor plugs and hopefully where you live, they speak your language too. Although sometimes around here that doesn't always seem the case.

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : Automation, Remote Working, Starting a Business., Travel

Guest Post - My Tropical Escape

Hello to all the readers who may find this blog site because of a guest post that I wrote for Mark about his challenge of making money on-line

If you don't know is site http://www.mytropicalescape.com/ you should check it out. For many of us, he is already living the life we dream of. Keep up the good work Mark. Thanks for the kick start and inspiration.

Happy Travels

A

New Helpdesk System

All,

In a previous post I asked for your most important question with regards to Photoreading, Hypnosis, NLP, the 4 Hour Work Week etc. Thanks to all those who did and still do. Alas recently the form begun to not function properly.

I've now replaced the form and have allowed people to submit questions via my helpdesk system

http://www.3ldevelopment.com/support/

Graphics etc. haven't been uploaded yet. I thought it was more important that the form was stopped and replaced.

Please feel free to continue to send me your questions and thoughts.

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : Starting a Business.

Only 6 Months To Live

All,

I've just spent some of my lunch time in my local bookshop toing and froing between my favourite sections: cooking and travel.

Whilst I flipped though some of the travel books I thought, these writers get paid for these ideas? What an easy way to make a living. I can come up with an idea like this and get paid for it. Then I thought what would you do if you only had 6 months to live? What would you do? What would you do if you only had 6 months to totally change your life for the better?

First thing that came to mind was quit my job. No surprise there then. Soon very soon. Then I thought what else?

Tell more people I love them.

Travel More
Do something I've never done before. How none specific is that?

Several work things came up around more passive cashflow to fund all my travels.

Then what would I do to totally change my life within 6 months?

Apply some of the things I've read actually to my life..more to follow.

What would you do?

If you've never emailed or commented before, what would have to happen so that you did? I'm looking for inspiration, things to do, more reasons to quit my job and a book deal!

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : Goals, Starting a Business., Travel

Passive Income - 1st Website - www.hypnosis-cds-madebyyou.com

All,

I've been quiet because I've been putting together my 1st passive income stream.

http://www.hypnosis-cds-madebyyou.com

The website shows hypnotherapists and others how they can create there own hypnosis recordings in less than 1 hour. You will receive multiple e-books and instructional videos.

Naturally it doesn't just have to apply to hypnotherapists, that was just my focus and sector for the idea.

Ever since I read The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss, I've been finding websites that have been able to help me towards my goals. If he and others can do it, so can I! Website 1 is up...now on to website 2...3....4.

Things I loved:

I've loved the product creation and ideas stage.
Creating Google Adword campaigns

Things I did not enjoy

Writing the text for the website. It needs much improvement...yet it is up.
Thinking about the design of the website. ie look and feel.

Things that didn't go according to plan.

I got turned down my original payment solution : Clickbank. I think I might be the only person ever to be turned down and I have no idea as to why.
I wasted hours and hours on the smaller details i.e. how will somebody contact me? email...form....database script. I spent ages and ages on that. Yet I charged through the bigger stuff.
I was very much of the thinking...it needs to be perfect...you know what. It doesn't! What needs to happen is that the project needs to get finished and on-line.
My market size is perhaps a little too small. Then again. This is the first website I've done completely. Now rinse and repeat.

I outsourced my website design because I don't know how to do it and it teaches me and I learn how to delegate and ask/write a brief for exactly what I want. Now I've done it once, I've such a better idea next time around.

Things I've learned :

1. Somethings you think things aren't going your way and you struggle to do anything. In fact waste time doing everything and yet nothing.


2. Document as you go along. Minor things... and Major Things. After all you want to go away and have somebody else run the shop whilst you are away.


3. When you think of quitting...stop and think why you are doing this...


4. 
   
   
   
   1. You're adding value to other peoples lives.
   
   
   2. You on the road to your own goals.
   
   
   3. What will your ultimate outcome look, sound and feel like. I spent time just talking to myself and saying. I'm doing this because and then just talk about my goals.
   
   
   
   


5. Very quickly I was jazzed up again and came back to the 'work'.


6. Celebrate every step that you remember to...


7. 
   
   
   
   1. Opening up web hosting account
   
   
   2. Finishing 1st Video
   
   
   3. Finished 1st book
   
   
   4. Website going live
      
   
   
   
   


8. I constantly asked myself...how can I add more value?


9. It is OK to not be perfect. I spent too much time trying to get it perfect at not out there!!


10. I seated over the minor stuff...Support Email system...script...ref number...email address


11. If you think of something...ACT ON IT, then and there. Otherwise you forget about it, or move onto something else.


12. People will tell you things that just don't fit with what you are doing...They'll try and stop you...Revisit why you're doing this and carry on!


13. Market size matters, yet so does getting your first website on-line. I think if it is your 1st one...market size doesn't matter. What matters more is completing the project. What you learn is far more valuable.

To succeed I think you must

1. Work, when everybody else is resting, wasting time watching television


2. Have more than financial reasons for doing this. My other goals include so I can go and live with my girlfriend in Japan for 3 moths. Go to Berlin again and learn German for 3 months. Teach my children (which I don't yet have ) Money is a good thing and you really can do, be have have anything you want. My list goes on and on. It really gets me excited just thinking about all the reasons why I'm doing this and other projects.

The hardest parts are:

1. Getting started


2. Overcoming the doubts


3. Continuing


4. Finishing

What will I do differently?

1. Ask more people for advice and help.


2. Don't sweat the small stuff. Get one solution up and run with it. It may not be the best. Yet you have a base line, a starting point.

My advice to others would be :

1. Look at/watch/listen to mentors. People you want to emulate. People who already have what you want.


2. Get it all finished. Then improve what is on-line.


3. Work when others are not. i.e. after work hours. The television isn't that important. Once you are financially free, you can watch all the television you. want!


4. Ask for advice. When it is given act on it quickly.


5. When you have an idea. Act on it there and then.


6. Keep learning, yet apply what you are learning to. Read, hear and idea and implement it then and there.


7. Have more reasons than just the financial for doing your project. Revisit them often. Yes, it does take time and effort. All the reason why you can't, shouldn't do it are exactly the reasons why you must do it.


8. HAVE FUN


9. Get Started!
   

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week, Money, Starting a Business.

I Love My Mind

All,

Caught myself yesterday...again. I love it when I do.

Listening again to the Secret as I seem to always have it in the car. It is a good filler between other audio books. I was driving to my hockey practise. Bemoaning the fact that February is only a short time away. I don't quite know where the money for three months stay is just yet. Yes read that a second time. I notice I focusing on lack of instead of enough money. I sometimes seem to have a battle with think of the outcome and then look at current situation.

Then as it does, it hit me. I'm often sat at work thinking I actually have very little to do. Yet I want to write out my e-books and do other things. I am very proud of the fact that I can easily say I do very little at work. Low and behold I do very little at work! I've now decided to change that and go OK, I may have little work to do, yet I've much to do for me and my goals.

I was actually worried, what if my boss saw me doing MY work? The worse that could happen is he would fire me...oh no.. there are many jobs out there that I can do. Me doing my work for me.plc is me throwing another ball into the universe saying catch this one. He is another opportunity to bless me with lots and lots of money and lots and lots more free time to spend with friends and travel. Party On.

Thus I must say I've lots of time to finish my e-books and get the money, lots of it rolling it. I'm doing all I can (as far as I know) towards one or several of my outcomes. I'm enjoying the time spent on them so I must be on the right track.

I actually know I spend much of my time procrastinating..what if I only had one hour a day in which to do my and all my work?

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week, Beliefs, Getting Things Done, Money, Starting a Business.

How Much Should You Get Paid?

I've just finished listening to another audio book and had a spare few minutes to listen to the radio on the way to work. I don't normally listen to the radio or what television and certainly not the news as I don't actually think it is that good for you. For me the news is telling the masses how to live, behave and think..This is fine if you just want to be average. What if you want to be more than average?

I was listening to a conversation about director's pay. People were complaining about the amount 'non-performing' directors get paid.It actually really made me laugh because the people that were complaining, where those not getting the money. A director agrees a deal (contract) before he signs on, just like an employee. The difference being he things very differently to a employee and their contract.

What is to stop a potential employee asking for share options, bonuses etc ? I think because deep down an employee doesn't expect those things. A director does.

Your Salary = How specialist your job is and how easily you can be replaced. That is if you own your own company, you potentially can pay yourself whatever you want. Somebody once told me your salary is equal to your self worth. Ponder that one. I nearly cried when I first thought on that one. I'm worth much, much more than my current salary.

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : Money, Starting a Business.

Was I Mad?

Oh boy.

After making the statement of my goals. I then told somebody, that I actually knew. Normally this would be a close friend. Well, this time I told my partner. Gee Whizz. The emotion!. I felt great for telling them. Yet, putting down the very verbal and real marker of 'in February' I'll be back in Japan for at least 3 months. I don't think I've quite felt anything like it.

The math hit me..Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb..Not that long at all. Have I bitten off more than I can chew? Yes, I have doubts...yet it is really forcing me to work on my e-books and see what is what. The goal is Feb, yet, that now seems real close. Part of me thinks what if I don't make it over in Feb. You will be upset the most. It is a pretty bold statement and mark to say I'll be there in Feb. Not forgetting cashflow, immigration etc.

This morning I gently let it out to my folks I want to go back to Japan in Feb and for longer than 2 weeks. I don't think they think that it is real. For me there and perhaps my biggest issue will be regular cash flow. I want to avoid working in an office. The Japanese office culture is radically different to anything that I am use to. Once I'm in an office I'll miss out on the travelling and freedom which is one of the reasons why I want to go back.

Then I think this is all part of my bigger goal and goals. I'd have not brought this into my life if I was not going to learn something or many things from it. So I thus keep tapping away on my PC, looking at flight tickets. I'm focusing on the end result as much as I can. 3 months in Japan with the ability to work from anywhere, with plenty of money available to me.

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week, Beliefs, Goals, Money, Travel

Goals, Goals, Goals

All,

So here we go...Got to move fast...I've found that certainly for me. In the past, a way of getting things done is to tell somebody about it. Remember this post . Thus here we go. let's put it out to the ether. I've listed them in what I think is chronological order. Although perhaps not in list of importance. Still wondering how best to show or detail progress or next actions etc. Feel free to email me for friendly encouragement/hassling.

I've listed my goals with a completion date. You need an end date otherwise it isn't a goal, just a wish.

1.5 e-books on-line by Dec 24th 2007

2.Revise and pass exam for 1st Dec 2007

3.Move my many Domains to Google Apps certainly for SMTP email, since it is free - This allows for my mail to be sent from wherever I and my team are in the world.

4. Listen to my many more audio books - should I list specifics?

5. Travel to NY in Jan 2008

6. Be in Japan in Feb 2008 for 3 months.

Business Goal

To be able to work from anywhere in the world. Be the owner, my 'systems' do the work. Use Web Based tools if possible and as long as it makes sense, common and fiscal (£$) . There are some great tools out there, which ones will suit me and what I want to do? Certainly with the exchange rate as it is at the moment, web ($) is very attractive. Although long term?

Only work for four hours if that a week

Make money even whilst I am asleep.

Earn what I earn in a year a month.

Initial reaction

The one that scares me the most is mostly Japan for 3 months in Feb. I'll have left my job, therefore no 'stable' income ' in the short term. In a new country, new language, new culture...actually....how exciting is that!!!

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week, Goals, Money

The Next Step

All,

Post travelling I always think..mmm..I need more of this. Travelling or even just landing in another country is just brilliant to me.The planning, the excitement. My passport is full of stamps and visas. I love it. They each remind me of a time, place and people.

Whilst I was travelling recently, I remember sitting in one of my many aeroplanes and as I sat there thinking.. I thought God...I have the next X number of years to sit in an office, earn a pittance..oh how dull. There must be more to life than that. I posted recently that after reading Rich Dad's Prophecy . Be it true of not I have only 2 years potential before something 'big' may happen. I think the signs may be screaming at us all. Am I financially ready for it...Not by a long shot! Yet I could easily be.

Fear

Sat here in my office I realise that all my efforts are helping somebody else further their own goals..At least on the surface not my own. I noticed in Japan that many of the people were just working for a company ie somebody else and not themselves...(Salary men) Ouch. This has really begun to play on my mind. I'm slowly finishing my E-Books, yet, again not as fast as I would like...why? I actually think because I have a job. If I didn't have a job and it was really life threatening . I'd be working harder and faster, no? Everything comes down to importance and a mind set. I've just ordered myself a heap of books from Amazon to kick start myself and the proper formation of ME.PLC and build the systems that I know I can and maybe even must.

Some of the lack of 'work' on my goals is fear. What if it all goes wrong...or even what if it all works out? It is a balance sometimes as to what I'm focusing on. What will my friends think? Yet in all fairness, the only person I really have to satisfy is myself. I know if by next trip I'm no further down the line..I'll be cross with myself. Is actually what I'm working on something I really, really want? Maybe there is some apathy. I'm a great talker after all. Not always a great doer.

Insight

I know the following :

I can do it. I need to do it. I must do it.

I'm worth more than the next X number of years sitting in front of a PC at a desk..wishing and hoping. Yes, you get what you focus on...yet sometimes you also have to do as much as you can to help, further, draw your goals towards yourself. Are you doing all that you can, from where you currently sit to achieve your goals?

As far as my career is concerned and there are many other areas where you should have goals :

I want to work (Well, almost)...yet the ultimate goal is be the owner not the worker. So that I don't work, I play..I spend time with my family and friends in all corners of the globe.

Once I have my business set up, the goal is to have it run itself.

I want more travel and if I choose 1st Class and stay in the best hotels. = Web based control or view of work therefore I think.

Earn as much in a month as I currently do in a year. This should be passive income ie I get the money without being tied down to one location. (Question to Accountant - How can I get that as a wage without paying 40% tax or how to get more each month without waiting for a dividend

I've got more studying and revision to do and quickly.

On the bright side

I've found that because you desire or want something. Your mind and you only think of that because you have the potential to achieve that. Therefore all that you want you can achieve if you can think about it.

Happy Travels

A

p.s I really wondered what I was going to write about today and in the future...I just started writing..Does it all make sense, is it coherent...should it actually have been multiple posts (rants) ? Anyhow, thanks for letting me just run with it!!

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

Munich was brilliant...Japan is just a few hours away.

I've had such a 'busy' month it has been unbelievable. I've waited all year for a 'big' holiday and it is almost here. Yet I'm cross with myself.

A month ago I'd asked a friend of mine to phone me on the Friday just gone to check in to make sure that a 'major' project I'm doing was completed and running live. With being on holiday any holes in my automated system would show up. It would be the ideal time for a real time and live test.

My friend phoned me up and I started...I've not finished my project and I'm cross. The deadline had been playing on my mind. I've not reached it and my reasons (excuses) for not completing it were pitiful. They were in no particular the following :

I've been out every weekend this month - Munich, really good friend got married in a church. The wedding in this church is a once in a lifetime experience. This is one special church, not your average country village church. Then there was the stag doo... I just need a few hours ie Sunday to finish all the writing that I've wanted to do.

I've had assignments to finish. I wanted these finished before I went away on holiday. Therefore I could rest knowing that I've done them. These I've done, finished and handed in.

I'd come home from work and I'd be tired and not want to do any more 'work'.

I've just not had enough time.

Ouch

When I had to verbalise these to my friend. I got really cross with myself. There were/are actually really poor and pathetic reasons for not completing my project which in the long run could have a major impact on my life.. Yet at the time of 'putting off' the work, they all seemed very valid. I recently heard that if you want to get something off the ground you'll need to spend 5 hours a week on it. I don't know if this figure is true yet. That is one hour a day or thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening. Or twenty minutes here and there.

If my life really depended on me completing this project I'd have found the time and finished it.

I've recently been rereading Rich Dad's Prophecy . Whether it is true or not, surely being financial free due to your own passive incomes is better than working for somebody else? I've got two years if the dates are to be believed to be financial free. That is.was quite scary. Since at the moment, yes I've got cash, but no passive income...Even if the dates aren't true things are happening in the financial world that I'm not liking. I'd rather be in control of my financial outcomes and success rather than relying on the government. Some how I think relying on the government will cost me more if I continue to work for somebody else.

Learning

For me it is very simple.

1. Break down time into smaller chunks. There is more than enough time to complete all projects.

2. Do you want this to form part of your passive income stream...do you want to be an employee or the owner working on the beach?

3. Set another deadline and work to it. Now that I know that my excuses can easily be overcome...overcome them!

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : Goals

Bang Goes the Dollar

Crikey,

This came to hit me full swing. It looks as though I'm finally going to move house...yippee about time. At the same time I'm going on holiday to Japan and Fiji. I can't wait.

Anyway, I've been all doom and gloom. I don't really or didn't actually really what to move. Why. I think in my head. I'll be on holiday and go well I can't do this or that because I'm about to shell out a load of cash on the new house...Ouch. There I have been for days, weeks realigning my beliefs about money. Thinking about money. What it is, what it means to me. There is more than enough etc. Then, Bang, this hits me square between the eyes. Thankfully...phew I'm the otherside...how?

I'm viewing it this way..it may not be the house that I want. It certainly is not the one I'm consciously visualising each day. Yet, it is a house. I'm moving to a totally new area where more affluent and prosperous people live. This fits in with my new beliefs about how much money I now earn. After all they say, people tend to move in the same financial circles..I'm changing my circle! I'm viewing this move as only temporary. I'm moving there so that I've fewer distractions. I'm surrounding myself with wealth, abundant and more prosperous people. I'll be in my new home to work in my free time on my few projects that I've going at the moment, as mentioned my ebooks etc.

Juggling House versus Holiday I've been in a there isn't enough money mindset. A scarcity frame of mind. Yet there is. How much of 40 million, trillion dollars do you want? Once I realised I was thinking this way and it took some time. I began to go. Thank You, you're testing me...do I really want the kind of wealth, prosperity and abundance I've been visualising, writing down daily? It took 24hrs to get back on track. Yet I think I'm pretty much there. Yes, money is going to go out when I'm on holiday and all the estate agent et al fees and website/business all at the same time. I've caused all of this. Yet,is it good for me to move? You bet. The money will come back to me. I've created much space for it. More and more people are coming to the blog site. More and more people are having one on one sessions with me. Who knows who I'll meet in my new location?

Happy Travels.

A

Technorati : Beliefs, Goals

E-Book Question Form

I've received feedback about my ebook question. You can send a question via my helpdesk system. There use to be a form below which no longer seemed to function properly.

What is your number 1 questions in any or all of the following areas?

NLP
Hypnosis
PhotoReading
4 Hour Work Week

Click on the url below. Enter your details.

http://www.3ldevelopment.com/support/


Happy Travels

A

The Most Important Question

All,

I know your time is valuable so I'll not beat around the point. I need your advice!

I'm putting together the finishing touches to several new e-books that are all about

Hypnosis

NLP

4 Hour Work Week

Photoreading

I want to make sure I don't leave anything out. So, will you let me know your biggest, no.1 question about any or all of the topics above. It could be anything...even if you think it is silly. All you have to do is email me at the following address blogging@3ldevelopment.com. In exchange for your advice I'll give you a free copy of the book or books when they are ready. (Should be a few weeks)

Thanks and Happy Travels.

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week, Hypnosis, NLP, PhotoReading

4HWW - Motivational Medicine.

So here I find myself sat in my current office and day job bored and with 'nothing' to do. Yet in reality I've got much I could be doing towards MY goals, dreamlining targets etc. and yet I seem to have stalled. Lost/lack motivation. So I type this little ditty, since last time I was lacking motivation, I actually found writing for my blog was a great motivational cure. I'm hoping for the same this time around. I'm sure I've plenty I could be doing. Yet none I want to be doing. I've noticed my random website surfing has taken on a new lease of life today as has checking my personal emails more than twice a day. In some regards I think this is a good thing as it shows we are all infallible to new systems and ways of working. I'm not filling my void.

It has got me thinking about doing some form action everyday or every few days towards my goals. In the beginning of dreamlining, you have to state and do three actions over the next 48 hours. I've noticed with my previous goals that I have attained. Action towards what I've wanted has happened little and often.

Burning into Action

If my work building blew up and I had 10 days to get things going for me.PLC. Would I not kick things into action? Why is it that when you're not being pushed to complete and finish something that in actual fact will give you great pleasure and a new back account (TMI). Why do you just sit and procrastinate? Do the people in the office realise I'm doing very little?

You Can Be, Do and Have Anything - Facing the Fear

Having said that as part of my new and wanting working life style. I'm playing with ideas from the Secret, visualisation the end result and hearing what I am saying to myself. One of my goals is to work only 4 hours a week if that....lol and behold I think that is where I am already at! If not, pretty close. Although when I thought about working just 4 hours a week, I didn't necessarily realise it would be at my current place of work. I was more hoping (there is the killer word..hope, not expect!) to be on a beach..

So what do to next? What 3-6 things can I do next to achieve my dreamline target?

I now have back the magazine details for areas of interest to me. Here I stall. I think the ideas that I'm coming up with aren't actually that exciting and I don't know the details of how to create X,Y and Z product. Having said that, I don't know if people would want them. I've not tested the market. I was being put off by my own thoughts. I've been playing with my thoughts over the weekend.

Therefore I ask you

Do you know anybody who records, produces spoken word CDs?

Change my end result for my image of 4 hours work week. Hello Fiji Beach!.

As I write I've just thought of a very quick and easy way to achieve 'expert' status in one of my chosen fields...Oh this blogging is rather therapeutic.

Happy Travels

A

Technorati : 4 Hour Work Week

4HWW - Money

Oh how I am beginning to love this subject. I am really getting into thinking about money, what it is and what it actually means to me. How to generate more. I seem to be hearing and picking up people's beliefs about money really easily at the moment. As I've said before if you just take what they say as fact, whether it is or is not. Isn't that how things turn out for people?

I've recently had another shift in my beliefs about the green,blue and red stuff thanks to Stuart Wilde's book. I was out and about over the weekend and I heard the following:

My quick research to begin your "shifting" about money is in red

There isn't enough

As a rough estimate the US has $7 trillion, the World bank more than $40 trillion - how much would you like?

Some people are smarter than others

Yes, maybe according to school standards and grades. Many of the super wealthy didn't finish school or university. Once you start working. You soon realise for many a job...your grades are useless. The sooner school teachers realise this the better.

There is scarcity

Same answer as the 1st point. If you think that, what are you focusing on???

There is not enough to go around.

Yes, much of the wealth is within less than 1% of a given population...yet how much money do you really want? Money after all is just energy, that is around you all the time. You use your credit card to book something on line. You don't see the money yet, it still get deducted from your account. Therefore if you think there is more than enough to go around, you can attract more into your account too.

Working for yourself to me means financial anxiety.

Ouch...if you think that, why go into business for yourself? There are many a self made millionaire. Tim Ferriss isn't doing too badly I bet.

For me I was just really pleased that I baulked at these and went phew..I think of something else, that is totally different. Yet I use to think of those and more. I know every now and then I have a doubt. Like when I'm looking at hotel prices in Tokyo. Yet, thankfully I seem to be able to pull myself up and out of that and into something that is far more financially positive. It did leave me wondering, don't people realise what they are saying. I know sometimes in my own experience that I don't . Then I do get an aha moment and I realise what I am saying. Although I don't always know how to change it..working on that.After all, if a phobia can be caused in a one time, split second event, why can't positive beliefs be got, held on to and lived? It's not important enough?

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4HWW - Emailing USB Helps On The Run

As part of the 4HWW elimination strategy. It is recommended that you check your email twice a day. As soon as I began reading about this on the web. I started doing it. The first thing I did was to remove my personal email accounts I had set up within my office email clients. I use both Lotus Notes and Outlook. Then I thought about what to do next. I've multiple email accounts: ISP, bought domains, various Internet web mail facilities. They all 'serve' a purpose, mostly email testing.

The Other Side

It has taken me a long time to move to the firefox web browser. I didn't see the point. MS, whether you like it or not, in some form or another provide many IT types with a direct or indirect income. I wasn't about to join the I hate MS club, just to appear cool. Here in my office, they adore firefox. I do now. If nothing else the extensions and the biggest plus it is portable ie carry it on a USB stick! Thus much smaller and lighter than a laptop. This makes it an ideal remote company owner's tool.

Have Email Will Run

I thought I'd give their email client another go too. This again I can add to my USB stick and take it with me where every I go. When travelling, I didn't find one Internet cafe, that didn't let you plug in all manner of camera, memory stick or other device. Yes, there are times when you'll want your laptop, but the USB stick is a great way forward. Check out PortableApps.com . There are many other utilities that you can add to your usb stick. Not least an SMTP service. I now don't have to worry about whose internet line I am using, I can send emails from 'my' SMTP server. Touch wood, I seem to still be able to email everybody. Nobody seems to be blocking me. Ultimate test with be Japan in Oct I guess.

Thunderbird, now collates all my personal email accounts into one. It has a built in SPAM filter, which gets better the more you train it. I've seen various solutions that Tim suggests, which I may investigate in time. At present I'm just not getting, that many emails let alone SPAM (fingers-crossed). Having said that the biggest advantage is you can unplug your usb stick from your PC. Therefore, forcing yourself to look only twice a day if that. The calendar still needs work..yet. I'm looking at other tools for a 'calendar' function. A big help has been the following site : lifehacker . They seem to have some very productive people on their site. Many small business/workers who work from home or remotely. There are great at finding tools and getting the most from firefox, thunderbird et al. to help you work remotely and productively.

But, I've Work Email Too

Well, I've set up a reminder as recommended, Are you being productive. Although sometimes I just laugh and go, not being productive at the moment. I've not set up a reminder or out of office agent to run, saying I'm not checking email twice a day. I just do it. If you don't answer you work email straight away, it seems to me people think you're in a meeting or something anyway. Oh and on the plus side, I use predominately Lotus Notes as my work email client, which just happens to be portable too!.If you're getting so many emails that you need to keep checking it all the time. You need to stop. What is really important? Or think of it this way. When you're away on holiday, the office still functions doesn't it. Ergo, most email isn't that crucial.

Other Low Information Stuff

I just ended up unplugging the television...problems solved. Therefore it is now harder to just flick it on.. Once you start travelling, you quickly forget about television and the news as much isn't appropriate for you anyway as you're a traveller. I still listen to audio books. I did when I was travelling the last time. In addition, it is a productive way to use my car journey into work. I now read fiction before I go to bed. Although if I wake up early. I'm still struggling with not turning on the laptop to randomly web surf. Getting better though.

Thankfully meetings don't happen too often and when they do, they are so dull..So here is to ending meetings. I also now only answer my own personal phone twice a day. I've changed my voice mail message. The only people to kick up a fuss...my parents. I just told them it was all about being productive at work. They seem to accept this. I'm still looking for other tasks to batch. That I don't do already.

Web Surfing News.

To curtail my random web surfing. I've found two firefox extension.WebStats . This just tells you where you're web surfing and how much time you are spending. In addition I use leechblock . This blocks websites for you, based on time of day. There are others. They just work for me. I can spend time just randomly web surfing, which is a big No, No to getting things done. These two just help me curtail it a little more.

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4HWW - DreamLining Ouch...Something Uncomfortable - How Much!?

So there I was using the Deamlining. Filling out the Dreamline spreadsheet as provided by Set Consulting. Happily going along until I had to put a monetary figure on my Havings, Beings, and Doings. When it all totalled up I was shocked at my TMI (target monthly imcome). I began saying to myself bloody hell. That is expensive..Then I thought hang on a second here. What are you thinking? Remember...your wish is my command etc. To cut it short. My TMI, give or take a few pennies difference is currently what I earn in a year. Then I remembered Doing the Unrealistic is Easier Than Doing the Realistic. One thing about the 4HWW is to push your comfort zone and boundaries. Yet, again, this realisation of a monetary figure will stop many people in there tracks. I then began to think, oh how I could have my beings, doings and havings cheaper. This I quickly threw out as to do it cheaper would not be doing it how I wanted to do it. I then thought, once I've done one of my Doings, Beings or Havings, great. I'll have done something that I really want to do. I can cross it off my Dreamline, yet I'll still be getting the money for my TMI! Therefore very quickly regaining what I've spent out.

If you hit a bumb or an uncomfortable feeling during all the processes. Write down the worst case scenario. What is the worst thing that could happen? Once you've defined that, the problem, doesn't quite seem so large.

What Am I Worth?

Then it really started to get me thinking. If a footballer (soccer) can earn.£676000 or a NBA star can earn $5.356 million. My TMI is certainly smaller. I am then certainly worth at least that much. I can achieve that. Do I, will I not provide as much to people as they do?

The TMI figure will stop many people from moving forward, because they believe they can't have it. If there is any other reason to carry on, it is to prove to myself and yourself that you and I can get it or do it and are worth that much at least! As somebody often says to me. No matter what you think you are, you are always more than that. Worse Case scenario..I sit in my current office and still get paid! Best Case...how do I choose just one option from my Dreamline 6 month list.?

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