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The Best Way to Talk to Me

Mostly writing this to iterate it to myself, but I think it's important, and if you'll be coming to me for advice, this is MUCH MORE significant than you'd probably assume.

If you have something you want to talk to me about that you'd consider valuable information or important, the best way to talk to me about these things is via EMAIL, or less-preferably, text messaging.

Why? Simply, you'll get much more valuable information.

I'm not the clearest person to talk to on the fly. Sometimes I get my point across well, but more often than not, I don't speak clearly. The power of words is phenomenal. The correct words can be quite literally a map to your goal, while the wrong words can sometimes set you farther from your goal.

Since our definitions of words vary slightly, it's important to have the time to choose the right words when talking. Typically, this only takes a 5-10 second pause, but can sometimes take a while and occasionally will lead to exploring dictionary.com.

As an extrovert, I'll never take time to choose the correct words this while talking (okay, I do plan on encorporating this into my personality in the future, but you get what I mean.) Instead, I'll fumble around until I get to my point. Email me, and you'll get more valuable information.

If you plan on completing the thirty day challenge...

...then please watch this. It's mainly for internet entrepreneurs:

Success and Failure

Not going to elaborate on this one. Geez... I need to have some fun. You work 14 hours and it's like you can't stop... totally obsessed with this stuff... mind movie only making it worse...

I left this as a comment on Karganilla's Day 61. He explains that even if you fail the challenge, that's an opportunity for... [he goes to list a bunch of things]

The Comment:

"It's not a failure, it's an opportunity for..."

Failures ARE opportunities. Failures ARE growth. I guess you got to say it that way to relate to the masses, but damn... if people only understood that they work completely BACKWARDS on success and failure the world would go round.

Success slows you down!
Failure drives you forward!

SO LONG AS YOU CHOOSE TO LEARN.

Animoto Mind Movie

The Law of Attraction is just as real as the law of gravity. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZL3J2SKKEA

I'll be watching this mind movie twice a day. It will help me achieve my goals. The how-to is below.

Here's my Animoto Mind Movie:


(I really wanted that music, so I paid the $3 for a "full" video)

Here's the "How to":

1. Find 10 pictures that most powerfully describe the things you want in your future (you want for your life). Save these pictures to a folder on your hard drive.

2. Goto animoto.com, upload the pictures, and CHOOSE MUSIC FAST ENOUGH TO ENCORPORATE ALL PHOTOS. Basically, just make sure they all get in there. animoto makes doing all that as easy as pie... if you mess up, they even let you edit it. fantastic. Max time is 30 seconds, unless you want to pay them. that's perfect for this.

3. Have animoto upload it to youtube, and if you want, send me the link. I plan on posting these to the blog at a later date, but you can opt out of this.

4. WATCH YOUR MIND MOVIE UPON AWAKENING AND BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP EVERY SINGLE DAY. if it's not powerful enough, or what you want for your life changes in any way, make a new mind movie.

On the fly copywriting; Day 5 of my challenge

Want to be able to just read over something real quick and have that greatly help you with your copy writing... whenever you need it?

Check it out: I've updated the "How to Sell" guide... and now it's a SYSTEM. I'm VERY confident with it. You can check it out by clicking the link over there on the top-left (how to sell).

It's funny; I'm watching Dennis' day 5 video and he talks about how you should state your intent clearly to everyone whenever you want to do something.

If you state your intent, he says, others will help you, root you on, support you, etc. It makes doing something a lot easier.

I thought this was great because that's exactly what I wanted when I made the inner circle.

Here's my day 3-5:

Mind Movies & 90 Day Challenge

Mind Movies - An Alternative to reading "Think and Grow Rich"... Discovered these yesterday.

Here's the concept, and this goes with something called "the law of attraction":

When you know where you're going to be in 90 days or years even, and you can see that person, and you keep that up every day - it's enormously powerful to your subconscious.

When you get FOCUSED on WHO you're going to be and HOW you're going to get there, on a cellular level, you process EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY.

You begin looking to Anything and Everything that can propel you towards success. Your mind is set in a context for generating a PARTICULAR STRAIN of thoughts, and picks up subconcious bits and pieces FROM ALL DATA AROUND YOU to help formulate your ideas, plan, and focus.

Basically, the law of attraction states that you will trigger your MIND to have ACCESS to the information you need to get where you want to go. Even though I don't know the "how to" for becoming a millionaire, after doing this for about a year now, I pretty much know all the next steps and could write the book.

DO YOU SEE HOW SIGNIFICANT THAT IS? I CAN TEACH YOU HOW TO BECOME A MULTIMILLIONAIRE. And doubt it - that's fine - I won't rub it in your face 12 months from now.

Here's an epic mind movie:


Learn more about how these work - http://www.TheOhanaSecret.com/x.php/6793

New 90 Day Challenge

Dennis Karganilla, that multi-millionaire I met, started hosting a 90 day challenge on youtube - and in the spirit of being someone who makes $4000 a month, and to get really serious about getting there, I've started following it. He's at day 60, so I'll be running a bit behind. Today is the 11th and I'm on Day 2.

When you do a 90 day challenge, the key is to do the habitual parts every single day. If you can keep at something for 90 days, you'll be a machine!

It's also important to lay out the goals. I have a few. Outside of the challenge, I want to move out and live a financially independent, quality life.

Inside this challenge, I expect, based on predictable data, to be making $2000 - $4000 a month by the end of the 90 days. My goal is to hit within that range, and to at the very least send myself to Vail mountain this winter, one of the worlds finest ski resorts in Colorado. Can't afford it unless I earn some $$. Plus, I'd like to afford a trip up to Montreal to see a bunch of friends.

I'll be making videos as I go along to document the challenge. Here's the first:


Follow the rest of the videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/DrinkElectrolytes

Success is in BEING, not DOING

READ THIS MESSAGE VERY CAREFULLY, IT IS THE CRADLE OF YOUR SUCCESS:

I think this is basically the whole, zoomed out, macro-message behind my #1 book (by far) Think & Grow Rich.

Whether you want to voice your political opinion, become an internet marketer, or start your own tee-shirt company, you've got to BE it - these aren't things you should DO, simply because they're too big to ever get done.

Think about the last time someone told you, "You can do it!" For me, that makes me feel like procrastinating almost immediately, and if I'm being told this by someone, as if I'm not able to do it or something.

Gary Vaynerchuk has 1 really powerful message that replays over and over in my mind: "We're building a BUSINESS." This is not some easy, fast, simple, or by any means, SMALL, of a project.

This is a HUGE project. This is worthy of your LIFE. Being a political voice that gets heard, building a business, making it for yourself - these are "do or die" kind of things.

It's for this reason I'm saying You CAN'T REALLY DO IT. When's the last time someone said, "You can't do it"?

Here's the truth in it. To do something that big, you cross the line from "doing something" to "being". When you DO something, you run the necessary task or tasks. "Doing" is a context - like, I'm doing the laundry. It sets the grounds for the tasks you're going to be doing.

When you're being something, you're doing things that live in the realm of that being. Read that sentence a few more times.

So, where do you cross over from "doing something" to "being something". I'd say it's whether you can really complete the thing or whether you have to continue it {in this context.}

{{To figure out what extent to which you need to BE something, find the middle ground between these two questions: "Is this something that sets the grounds for a bunch of tasks, which I will complete?" OR "Is this something that sets the grounds for a bunch of tasks, of which not all are completable?"}}

Big things - like getting your opinion voiced to a large crowd - are something you live with. It's something you have to BE.

This is a quote from an email I just sent to my friend Anthony:

"What I'm really seeing... I mean, REALLY noticing here... is that the people who think they're hitting a goldmine or the people who think they'll "get started quick", tend to fail. People who try to work through it fast tend to fail. People who don't care enough tend to fail. People who are "DOING Entrepreneur" fail... and people who "ARE Entrepreneur" succeed.

This is why I really like your position - you're very much planning this over time, and basically inching your way there as you do other stuff. You take it one thing at a time. You continually bring it up, in a very consistent if not prolonged manner. This is your dream, and you're just working at it like a hobby. THAT'S being someone who IS an Entrepreneur - not someone who is DOING Entrepreneur.

Because of that, I have high confidence that you will succeed. And because of that, it's in my best interests to dedicate some time to help your business whenever I can."

If I were you, I'd consider this to be a gem. "BEING" is freedom from doing. You BE something just by thinking about it.

Here's how to be:

1. If you are going to continue doing this, you need to stop now, and spend a long time thinking about a lot of the things you'd be doing if you WERE that person. (If you're trying to be a politician, what would you be doing if you LIVED as a popular voice, on a day to day basis? What would you do all day if you were a successful entrepreneur? What would your life involve doing all the time if you were the CEO of that business, and that business was at such-and-such level of development?)
   
   
2. Spend time to develop those pictures.
   
   
3. Review the pictures daily and tweak them whenever you want.

The more serious you are about it, the faster this will happen, but after you do all that, you will BE that person. Now the missing steps are to start doing the things that person would do in your current position, and to start thinking as you would if you were that person.

For example, I value my time at about $1000 / hour, because even though it's not worth that much (no one would ever pay it right now), I realize that to the person I'm being, IT IS worth more than that on a technical basis.

I'll continue to be that person until my time is worth that. And then I'll be that person so much, the only way to get out of it would be to be someone else.

Take Aways:

• On a DAILY basis, you can do as little as you want, as slowly as you want, with large gaps of time in between, as long as you spend at least some time thinking about who you want to be that day. Thinking about this will help cause it OVER TIME. Eventually, this will be what was important, as the work you did will be completely pointless.
  
  
• If you really want to succeed at this, there's only one thing you need to do. Do the above bullet every day. Do this, and I promise you success.
  
  
• Don't work. Seriously, don't do things like the thirty day challenge. Just do the visualization exercise - and you'll naturally want to be that person, which will make you naturally want to do things like the thirty day challenge. ONLY THEN should you do it - and THAT'S THE ONLY TIME you should be combating your own laziness.
  

People fall off when it's time to grind through the hard stuff. You will too. This is your protection - a strong purpose and working wisely. You will have to grind through the hard work, and this is what will make you choose that over choosing not to do that.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS:

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Bridging, Outsourcing, Paid SEO

This is a really exciting concept that's like the big push you need after you start rolling.

It looks like in a couple of weeks I'll be at over 100 visitors a day. Right now, I'm getting into some cheap but powerful advertising to propel myself forward - and as soon as it's making profit I'm going to start outsourcing this concept of bridging.

Bridging: How to find tons of related categories to link to your site from.

A bridge is a site that is in more than one category. There's large ones and small ones. First I'll give an example of a large bridge: Pregnancy and Insomnia:

• You can go into forums & social platforms and build quick links by giving bursts of feedback and advice. Very quick and easy if and only if you're able to get into it quick and easily. Hint: Don't talk about things you don't know anything about.
  
  
• You can comment on blogs and articles and use market samurai to build more links with these.
  
  
• You can find article sites that you can outsource to.

Small Bridge: Skateboarder suffering from insomnia.

First of all, based on the very nature of skateboarding, this would be an uncommon bridge. (Does it seem like I'm well placed in the insomnia category? Being this well in touch increases the speed I can build quick links by 5-10x)

The idea is that I could write an article, for say, about.com, about a skateboarder that suffers from insomnia, and if I had an insomnia site linking TO that article, the article would gain power, and then I could link from the article to a skateboarding site and google would see that that link was also very relevant, giving power from the insomnia site, to the about.com article (would take a little time), and then to the skateboarding site.

This would be a small bridge.

This can be very powerful if used in hubs. Note that I'm predicting here, but based on my knowledge of SEO, this would be very poweful. Imaging the scene just described as 3 squares with an arrow from the insomnia square to the bridge, and then from the bridge to the skateboarding site.

If the skateboarding site then linked to another skateboarding / insomnia article, and that article linked to the insomnia site, this would be very powerful. Hubs work very well because it sends the spider in a loop of 1-way links, and the larger the hub, the more powerful.

A powerful hub may look like this, adding bridges (I=insomnia, B=bridge, S=skateboarding)

I->B->B->B->S->B->B->B->(Beginning)

Outsourcing:

When you decide to spend money on search engine optimization, this is the way to do it. It's the paid advertising of the organic search.

Goal: You want to submit 20 articles to 20 sites that are trusted by Google, each with 2-3 links pointing back to the page you're promoting. (You want to be careful to make sure they get at least 50% of the links without the same anchor text.)

Then, resubmitting to the sites that turn back quality backlinks, have an outsource write a few versions of each article, maybe using different keywords, and definately using different titles.

If you want quality articles that gain authority over time, have them written by an American and drive links to them.

If you just want 100+ quick low-quality, Page Rank 0 backlinks, this could be a lot cheaper and will still go a long ways towards getting a page to rank and could easily get you listed as #1 for long tail keywords, as long as you're careful not to look like spam.

Personally, I'm into the Americans, but hey, it could be expensive so make sure you're going to get a lot of profit out of something before you do it. Hint: Build slower for high quality, less spammy-looking links.

With the concept of the Bridge, you get a lot of extra places to do this in. The idea is that about.com and squidoo.com don't like seeing tons of the same articles coming through their systems, so it's A LOT SMARTER to use bridge concepts to build links to your site coming from all kinds of related content - which is exactly what Google wants to see.

This plays into my strategy:

1. Basic, Anchor-Text, Link-Bait oriented SEO. (I am here)
   --Goal: To get over 100 visitors per day, see profitablity in position ($1).
   
2. Use cheap advertising with Google Adwords and then Stumbleupon (and maybe others.)
   --Goal: Increasing profitablity, profitting from advertising costs.
   
3. Strategy Oriented, Paid SEO (Outsourcing)
4. More expensive advertising.
   

Warning: Being Too Focused On One Keyword

I don't think the thirty day challenge lets it on enough, but it would be a bad idea just to stick to one keyword. If all the content you write is on the exact same keyword, all the links pointing at you say the exact same keyword, and so on, google will find out what's up really fast.

1. Links: This is the most important area to have some variation in. To be safe, I'd never have more than half the links pointing to any particular page have the same anchor text.
   
   Also, be careful not to point many links at your home page. Your home page probably shouldn't have ANY links pointing to it for a little while.
   
   
2. Content: Write NATURALLY, and just follow the challenge. Remember, Google's really smart, so don't ONLY write about a couple of keywords.
   
   
3. Links & Relationships: Try to stick to your GENERAL category - like sports - and don't get links from unrelated categories. To get a link from my insomnia site, to jared's skateboarding site, he'd have to talk about insomnia on his page.
   
   On the other hand, this opens a huge opportunity that I've just seen. I'll be posting about "Bridging" next, and how it can get you hundreds of extra links when you start outsourcing. (click to learn more)