Friday December 14th, 2007: Issue #871
One question I’m often asked by Kickstart readers is “Can I please use something from Kickstart in my blog?”
It is very flattering that so many people want to quote the stuff I write and I’m always pleased to say yes.
For future reference, you are very welcome to quote any individual piece from Kickstart (obviously, not an entire issue!) providing that you give a prominent live link back to http://www.kickstartdaily.com and that you drop me a quick email letting me know the URL of your blog.
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Speaking of readers’ blogs, I’ve put a new section on the forum where you can post your blog URL for all to see. Please tell us the blog title, your name, what the blog is about and the URL we can go to to see your work.
It’s all good publicity, you’ll get a nice one-way link and maybe some of your fellow Kickstarters will like what you write and become regular visitors.
The forum is at http://kickstarttodayforum.com/
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The book that I mentioned yesterday, by Tony Shepherd and Sara Brown, has been flying off the shelves, figuratively speaking.
‘Licensed to Quit’ has also been getting very good reviews from the people who’ve bought it. I’ve had a few very complimentary emails myself, and I know that Tony has too.
I guess it is because the book doesn’t overcomplicate things. It teaches a well proven strategy for making good money online that Tony and Sara actually use themselves. It uses plain English that anyone, from a complete beginner to an experienced marketer, can easily understand and follow. It avoids the hype that plagues so many ebooks.
And best of all, the very special price that Tony has kindly made available to Kickstart readers (for a limited time only) makes it eminently affordable.
If you’d like to read about a real-world, hype-free business plan that you can pick up and make work for you, right out of the box, and don’t want to spend a fortune, get yourself over to Tony and Sara’s website today: http://www.sara-brown.com/invitation
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My Keyword Hacker Search Engine LSI tool is only going to be available for another day or two.
I’m working on squashing a couple of tiny bugs and adding in a new feature or two and then I’ll take down the beta test page at http://www.keywordhacker.com/lsiplus/
On Monday, hopefully, I’ll be offering the script for sale - with an exclusive low price deal for Kickstart readers.
I’ve been torn between making it a membership site deal, where you’d pay a nominal monthly charge for the right to access the software (a suggestion that many people have made to me) or simply offer the script for outright sale.
Either would work for me, but I’m leaning towards the membership site option because that would allow me to give you access to other tools and programs I already have developed or plan to build over time.
Another advantage of the membership option is that you won’t have to install the script on your own domain.
The important thing is what you’d prefer. What do you think? I’m open to suggestions.
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I have to go and do a bit of Christmas shopping today. The very idea of going anywhere near shops makes me shudder and break out in a cold sweat.
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An Inspirational Thought
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Children are told over and over again to quit daydreaming. By the time we become adults, most of us have had enough guilt instilled in our minds that dreaming is almost a dirty habit.
Yet four of the most powerful words uttered in history were, ‘I have a dream!’
Go ahead, indulge yourself. If you can’t dream, you can’t do.
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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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George Eliot said:
‘It’s never too late to be what you might have been.’
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Today’s Power Thought
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Bad habits, good habits, they are all habits.
The way you manage your life, including the finite amount of time you are blessed with each day, is largely a matter of habit.
We are creatures of habit - that is the way we deal with life.
Our habits - or learned behaviors - are the bedrock that keeps us on track. But unfortunately, there are times when our learned behaviors are keeping us on the wrong tracks.
When you read about good ideas to manage your time better, or to help you set and achieve goals, or to positively advance your life, what do you do?
Do you read about them, think ‘Good idea!’ and forget all about them?
Do you halfheartedly put them into action for a day or two and then forgetfully revert back to your old behaviors? And end up saying that the new idea was good, but didn’t work for you?
Or do you actively embrace the idea, put systems in place to make it work in your life, become an evangelist for it, and over time incorporate it into your daily living?
I doubt if the latter applies very often!
And the reason boils down to habit. It is more comfortable, more habitual, to keep on keeping on than to make the real effort required to bring about real change in your life.
It takes three to four weeks to really create a new habit in your life. And those 3-4 weeks are hard work.
First you have to be sure that you really want this new habit - and that you’re prepared to ditch the old one.
Then you have to build it into your life. By this I mean that you have to be on the lookout for all of your other behaviors that work to reinforce the old bad habit and find ways to modify them to the advantage of the new.
If possible, try to document your new behavior - write an entry in your diary, or tick a box on a form to show you’ve completed it each day.
Ask people around you to keep on reminding you.
Most of all, reward yourself. The more beneficial you can make your new habit RIGHT NOW the deeper and faster it will bed into your life.
In a few short weeks you will have changed.
Your new behavior will no longer be something you are learning - it will be something that you rely on.
The process of actively managing your life - whether that is the time allocation part of it or any other part - will have begun.
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Fascinating Facts
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Have you ever been asked to ‘pay on the nail’?
In medieval times, a ‘nail’ was a shallow dish that was placed on a stand. In corn markets, the seller would place a sample of his crop in the dish, and if the buyer approved, he would place his cash in the same place.
He would literally ‘pay on the nail’.