Wednesday November 28th, 2007: Issue #864
I want to give you a gift.
Internet marketing is great fun, potentially very rewarding and the basis of a superb lifestyle … but … there’s one problem that we all face: managing our time effectively.
It doesn’t matter whether we are full time or just spend an hour or two now and again on our businesses, it is still difficult to maintain focus and concentrate on the important stuff (the stuff that really makes a difference). There are just too darned many distractions!
My ebook ‘Total Time Control’ really helps. It’s packed with great ideas, suggestions and strategies that wring the maximum benefit out of your every hour.
‘Total Time Control’ sells on ClickBank for $37 - take a look at www.totaltimecontrol.com - but don’t buy it there.
Instead I plan to send a free copy (of the entire as-sold book, not a cut down report) to every Kickstart reader who bought either Chris Freville’s excellent book ‘Web 2.0 Traffic Stampede’ - http://www.urlnex.us/web2trafficstampede/
or Chris Rempel’s superb ‘Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate’ - http://www.urlnex.us/lazysuperaffiliate/
(Through my link, naturally!)
If you’ve already bought either one, you don’t need to do anything - I’ll email you download details for ‘Total Time Control’ later today.
A lot of affiliate marketers these days like to bribe you with huge bonus offers to buy through them. I like to do things my own way, so instead of a bribe to buy, I’m giving a reward, or thank you, for having take action and bought.
If you are still pondering whether of not to buy either one of those great books, go ahead and I will send you your reward as soon as I get notification of your purchase from ClickBank.
Finally, to be fair to everyone, if you haven’t bought either book and really don’t want to, but would still love to take control of the time in your life, I’m not leaving you out. Just drop me an email to tell me you’re interested and I’ll send you details of a better than half price deal that I’m offering just for you.
Whichever option you take, the deal ends in 48 hours on November 30th.
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The quotation today is so true. I am lucky to live in a home where we follow the advice every single day and I can tell you we all feel so much better for it!
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The most powerful word in your vocabulary is ‘YES’.
The most dAMAging one usually comes next: ‘BUT’.
A ‘but’ is worse than a ‘no’. At least a clear ‘no’ is a positive decision. A ‘but’ simply avoids the issue and hopes it will go away. It means, ‘I won’t even try.’
Listen to yourself, and every time you catch a ‘yes, but’ make a positive commitment to turn it into a yes or a no. Be clear in your thoughts and you will be clear in your life.
It’s time to get off your ‘but’.
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I’ve written many times about the importance of a smile. When you radiate goodwill outwards it is always reflected back.
But let’s get real - you can’t walk around grinning all day long. You’d soon get a very different response!
Instead, save your outward smiling for your interactions with other people. But keep your inward smile firmly in place!
Inward smile? What’s that?
Relax your face, and without moving a single muscle, imagine a smile on the inside of your forehead. As soon as you do, your eyes will sparkle and your entire outlook will change for the better.
And as all that goodwill builds up inside of you, it will pretty soon spill out into everything you do.
Then, when people ask you how you are always so enthusiastic and positive, you can say, ’simple - I just smile inside my head!’
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I’m off to the gym again soon, but this time I’ve put my foot down and told Delia that she’ll have to wait until after Kickstart is finished.
Okay, that was my moment of male dominance.
Her reply was ‘that’s fine dear, so long as it’s finished by 9.30 or I’m leaving without you.’
After nearly 30 years of marriage you’d think I’d have learned that male dominance counts for nothing around here.
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Here’s something that’s absolutely perfect for you if you are new to Internet marketing or have thoughts about getting involved with this wonderful online cash machine.
And better still, it costs so little that it might as well be free.
A young guy called Nathan Hockley, from Australia, has created a superb set of 20 mp3 audio talks that each set out to explain, in simple terms, the fundamental principles of Internet marketing. The Head Start Audios are the kind of thing that I wish I’d had when I was starting out, They cover such newbie-confusing topics as list building within 24 hours, guru secrets, PLR domination, and article writing - it would have saved me a lot of time learning all this stuff for myself!
The sale is only available for another day or so (ends 10pm EST tomorrow).
I’m not going to give you a long-winded review here - the entire set of 20 audio files is just $5 after all, so grab this while it is still available over at http://www.urlnex.us/headstart/
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Right - it’s 9.25 and if I don’t send this out now I’ll be walking to the gym (a good idea, perhaps, but I’m not ready for THAT much fitness!)
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An Inspirational Thought
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So much in our lives never gets done.
We think and plan, we dream and scheme, we set goals and plot strategies, but in the end, most of those determined, positive thoughts remain as thoughts.
Why is this?
The main reason is that we fail to take one little step beyond the construction of the idea.
We fail to make a decision.
Decisions are like electric light switches. They are either on or off. You can’t make half a decision.
So when we fill our minds up with plans and goals and targets, we need to attach a light switch to each one - a decision process. We have to set a time when the idea will stop being a vague thought and start being a concrete reality.
Only by deciding to flip that switch from off to on can you achieve anything.
What decisions have you been putting off? Can you make any of them today? Right now?
How about it? Are you ready to flip your switch to success?
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Don’t keep it to yourself - send them to
http://www.kickstartdaily.com today!
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The Quote of the Day
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Virginia Satir said,
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty score.
For life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire
Only to learn, dismayed
That any wage I had asked of Life
Life would have willingly paid.
J.B. Rittenhouse penned those immortal lines that should be written on a card and kept close to every one of our hearts.
So many people are kept poor in this world, not because they deserve to be in that state, but because nobody ever told them that they are worth more.
Stella Terrill Mann, the self-help and religious writer, put it even more succinctly:
‘Desire, ask, believe, receive.’
Let’s take a look at those four words. Four little words that can quite literally change every aspect of your life and allow you the power to mold your entire existence.
Desire: Alexander A. Bogomoletz wrote, ‘One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.’
Desire is far more than a wish or a dream. To be imbued with real power, desire must be an all-or-nothing, gut- wrenching need.
Find that which you truly desire, lock your laser sights on to the target and walk, uninterrupted in a straight line towards it.
Ask: We go through life expecting other people, the world, even God to read our minds. But even if they could, why should they? Unless we clearly and purposefully communicate what we want we can’t expect anyone to give it to us.
‘He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.’ Chinese Proverb.
Asking does more than just communicate our desires to others. It also reinforces them in ourselves. The sheer act of asking breathes life into our desire.
Believe: Nothing is accomplished without belief. Whether that is a belief in a higher power, a belief in our own abilities or a trust and belief that we ‘can’.
‘The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.’ Frank Lloyd Wright.
‘One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.’ John Stuart Mill.
Receive: The reward for following the three power principles outlined above. If you have a burning desire, are not afraid to ask and truly believe that you will receive, then the laws of conservation of energy will ensure that the balance is maintained.
You will receive. Just perhaps not at the time, the place or in the precise form that you anticipated.
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Fascinating Facts
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The microwave oven was invented by accident. A researcher found that a bar of chocolate in his pocket melted after he had stood near to a radar tube.