Day: 12 September 2022

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. ~ Tony Robbins Making quality decisions is a cornerstone for living a quality life. Of course, we all know that. But knowing and doing are two different things. I know I shouldn’t have dessert tonight, but… And I know I should exercise every day, but… And I know I should save that money instead of going out for dinner, but… Those are all relatively simple decisions, but they are ones we struggle with every day because we really haven’t made a quality decision to give up sugar, get healthy, or save toward retirement. Quality decisions require corresponding action. Without follow-through, your ‘decision’ is just wishful thinking. Studies show that we make at least 70 decisions every day. That’s more than one every fifteen minutes. If you struggle with deciding what to have for breakfast or where to go for dinner (a big issue in our house), how much more are you struggling to make good life choices? Of course, a lot of those ‘decisions’ operate on auto-pilot. We do today what we did yesterday, order the same food in restaurants (yes, it’s still a decision), or ignore health issues because we don’t want to call the doctor or (heaven forbid!) take pills. Every decision you make however, from your breakfast menu to retirement planning, your career or where you will live, impacts the rest of your decisions. They stack, one upon another, to create the life you now have… and the life you will have next month, next year, next decade. Here’s something to think about. Do you like your life right now? Do you usually feel peace and contentment, optimism and a sense of control? If you don’t, it’s because of the decisions you made yesterday, last week, or even months and years ago. Here’s the good news. You can change your decisions! If you’re reading this, you still have choices. So how do you improve your decision-making skills and follow through? I’m glad you asked. Get wisdom. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom (Prov. 4:7). There are two levels of wisdom, spirit-guided and human reasoning. Jesus told His disciples to ask and they would receive. James 1:5 says if you lack wisdom, ask God… and it will be given to you. Remember Solomon? When he was about to be made king of Israel, God asked him, “What shall I give you?” Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge. God replied, “Because this was in your heart… wisdom and knowledge are granted unto you. And I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor… (2 Chron. 1:11-12). Wisdom is a wealth builder, the first step in a quality life. Take the time to pray and ask for God’s wisdom and direction. Seek peace. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts… (Col. 3:15) The Amplified Bible says that peace should “act as umpire continually”. Are you peaceful with the decision you are about to make? Quality decisions are usually not made under pressure. They take time and thought. The Bible tells us to seek peace and pursue it (Ps. 34:14). Peace doesn’t mean the decision or the action required will be easy. You may not even know how to proceed. But, if you’re not peaceful, it’s not God. He can give you a sense of peace even if you don’t have all the answers yet. Until you find a place of peace, the best ‘decision’ is to wait. Fear not. The LORD is on my side; I will not fear… (Ps. 118:6). “Will not” is a choice, a decision. You can let fear, doubt, dread, trepidation, turmoil and uncertainty run your life… or you can choose to “be strong, fear not” (Is. 35:4). Jesus told Jairus (who had just been told that his daughter died), “Fear not, believe only.” Fear is the enemy of wisdom and peace. It leaches your faith and determination. Fear and its emotional partners are tricks of the devil to keep you chained to your past circumstances. If you are going to make a quality decision and move forward, you will have to fight off those mental attacks. Be patient. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:4) Patience has two roles to play in good decision-making. First, don’t move too quickly on important decisions. A little time of waiting is always wise. Use patience to test your decision. Does it still feel peaceful? Do you have a sense of calmness and wisdom in your choice? You’ve heard that it’s always best to postpone major purchases (or even minor ones!) for at least 24 hours. That is just as true with other decisions. Impulse buying or decision-making can prove to be unwise. Be patient and contemplate your options before moving forward. The second component of patience comes after the decision. Once you’ve made a choice, there is often a time of testing. The universe – and the devil – want to know if you’re serious. Have you noticed that when you decide to give up sweets, your spouse wants to stop for ice cream, your co-workers bring donuts, and the cookie isle in the grocery store calls your name! Stay strong. Stand your ground. God will work out the details if you will be patient and trust Him. Consider the future. This one doesn’t really belong in a spirit-based list for quality decisions. After all, Jesus said, “Take no thought for the morrow… ” (Matt. 6:34). He was trying to demonstrate to the crowd that God always has a plan and He always takes care of His kids (you and me). However, it’s also important for us to consider the impact of today’s actions (aka decisions). If you spend every penny you make and more, where will you be financially in six months or a year? If you eat everything

Well, its now 2008. A year full of promise, a year filled with love, health, wealth, fitness, joy, happiness and anything else you might wish for. This is the time of year that people all over the world decide to change their lives forever. It’s the time for resolutions, New Years Resolutions that is. A time of year when everyone, everywhere believes their wishes and dreams will come true. So, how are your new year’s resolutions going? According to a survey (conducted by Franklin Covey) of New Year’s resolutions of over 15,000 people, the top 3 resolutions for 2008 are: 1. Get out of debt or save money 2. Lose weight 3. Develop a healthy habit (like regular exercise and/or healthy eating) Sound familiar? Well the same survey also found that 35% of people break their resolution by the end of January, but wait it gets worse. Out of all those New Year’s resolutions, 78% fail to come to fruition. That’s right 78% fail!! That doesn’t give you much hope does it? So, why do all these perfectly good resolutions simply fall by the wayside, year after year? It is the same reason that every goal, from giving up smoking to getting to work on time has never occurred. We fail to plan, and failing to plan is planning to fail. How can you possibly expect to get from your current position to your destination (whatever that might be) if you have never ever been there before? That is simply asking for all sorts of problems, leading to frustration and motivations issue. In order for a plan to work there are a few key areas which need to be addressed. 1. Write it down!! Your goals should be reinforced EVERYDAY, so put them somewhere you can see them (maybe on the fridge or on your bedside table). This will form a constant reminder and reinforce your goal in your mind. 2. Inform others. Make sure you inform others of your goal. This works for two reasons. The first is that you need to be accountable by someone other than yourself. Secondly and more importantly is the support and motivation of having family and friends behind you all the way. This last point cannot be emphasized enough; the value of support in the pursuit of any ambition has been researched and widely recognized as integral to reaching your goal. 3. Change your thinking, attitude and beliefs. Your thinking, attitude and beliefs are extremely important as they affect the decisions you make and things you do or don’t do. A goal is nothing without a need, desire or emotional reason behind it. You can be told what to do, why to do it and even shown how, but no one can make you do it if you don’t want to. Do you want it, really want it? 4. Education or knowledge. At this stage, you have written down your goals (you know exactly what you want and when you want it), you have set in place a support and motivation network (point 2), you have strong desire and need to achieve your goal, but do you know how to get that goal. The plan might mean that you have to buy a book, magazine, DVD, or hiring someone to help you out like a dietician or a personal trainer. Source by Craig Wyllie

Affiliate Marketing is one of best ways to start with to begin making money online. When promoting an Affiliate Offer, you simply recommend a product that provides value to others. This doesn’t require a lot of effort to set everything up. You can do it by directly promoting the Affiliate offer or send the traffic to your Squeeze Page first to build up your list. You can setup the whole funnel in less than an hour to get ready to start sending visitors to your offer. I’ve seen many Affiliate Marketers (especially newbies) fail because promoting Affiliate Marketing products require some steps to be taken. If you skip one or more steps, the odds of people buying your recommended Affiliate Products becomes lower. This is why in this article I will highlight the 4 main steps needed to make you a successful Affiliate Marketer. Each of these steps is essential and all successful Affiliate Marketers take each of those steps into account. Choose Your Niche This is the first and most important step to take into account. I can easily say that if this step isn’t done correctly, everything else almost won’t matter. You need to choose a niche that is proven to be profitable and with high demand. This will definitely increase the odds of other people buying your products or Affiliate Products that you recommend. Not all niches are the same in term of demand and profitability. This is a very common mistake most marketers do. They think that they can just go ahead with any niche and start promoting right away. Most proven profitable niches are Health, Wealth and Relationship. However, there are many other niches that are profitable and with high demand. There are five main factors to consider when choosing your niche: Passion: It is far better to choose a niche that you’re passionate about. This is help you on continuing to take actions after each failure. Loving what you do is a great weapon to have to make your business successful. However this by itself isn’t enough because you need to choose a niche that’s profitable as well. Evergreen: When you choose a niche ask yourself “Is it evergreen?” If you don’t know what an evergreen is, it means niche that is always demanded and never gets old. Wealth, health and relationship are great examples of evergreen niches. That’s because at all time people look for ways to make money, become healthy and find relationship or maintain it. Whatever niche you choose, it’s far better that it’s evergreen to keep profiting from your products not only for a certain amount of time. High Demand: This is the most important factor to consider for product creation. The niche should be on demand by others in order to make sales. No matter how great your product is, if not highly demand, it will barely make few sales but not a sustainable business that you may maintain and scale up. Specific: Choosing a broad niche isn’t going to bring you targeted traffic. This is because you didn’t make it clear which segment your chosen niche is. For example if you make a product and only indicated that it’s about wealth, this is a wide topic to talk about. Because wealth could be Internet Marketing, Forex, Real Estate, Physical Business and the list goes on. By only indicating that it’s about wealth, you’ll get traffic from all these segments and most won’t need what you provide. However, if you specified it’s about Affiliate Marketing, then more targeted people will see your offer and you’ll more likely make sales and get sustainable income online. Digital Product: When choosing a niche ask yourself “Can I make a Digital Product out of it?”. Some niche or products are highly demanded but can’t make Digital Products out of it. For example T-Shirts are highly demanded, people buy T-shirts every day. However, if you make a Digital Product about it will it be as much demanded? Who wants to watch or read about T-Shirts? People like to wear them. But Affiliate Marketing is a product that can be is high demanded if done as Digital Product. Build Your Platform This step is a great way of marketing yourself and becoming an authority. Using this step, other people see your work and know that you know what you’re talking about, not just someone who’s only willing to promote products to make sales. There are four great platforms to use: WordPress: Every successful Internet Marketer nowadays have a domain with WordPress installed on it. WordPress is an easy to use website creation tool and mostly the easiest way of creating websites nowadays. It just requires some steps to make your website ready to be live. You can create many type of webpages using WordPress, one of the most common one is a blog. Internet Marketers create a blog to create content that provide value to others and may also promote products. Facebook: Who doesn’t know Facebook? This website is ranked second with and has more than one billion active users. You can take advantage of this huge platform by creating a page creating content that gets you tons of visitors who may turn to your ongoing customers. Your content will be ranked high because of the power of Facebook online. People like searching for Facebook Pages related to their needs and this creates a huge opportunity that you may take advantage of. YouTube: YouTube is the most popular video website on the planet, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of videos monthly. The great things about videos is that they create more engagement than text or audio. People enjoy watching videos and they learn more on video tutorials than reading reports or blog posts. This is a huge opportunity for you to keep creating valuable videos on regular basis. This helps you to rank your videos higher and thus get more visitors to watch your videos. Tumblr: This is another Social Media platform

Sometimes life robs us of our dreams and we end up feeling empty and discouraged. The most common areas of dreams getting derailed are: health, wealth, love, ambition, spiritual development and family. With losses like these, confusion, frustration and fear can monopolize one’s mind when their dreams come crashing down. There may be times when all of our energy has been invested in a particular outcome, only to have it Sometimes life robs us of our dreams and we are left feeling empty and evaporate. This could create a sense of having hit a wall with nowhere to turn. This disheartening state is an ideal time to receive some spiritual insight through a psychic reading. Psychic guidance can be instrumental in helping one to move forward and create a new vision for one’s life. There are always alternate dreams available if one is simply willing to expand their perspective, open their mind and trust in their soul’s wisdom. How does one learn to trust in their soul’s wisdom? Let’s look to mother nature for that answer. Nature has patterns and rhythms that are both subtle and profound as do our lives. In the cycle of life, the fall leaves drop from the colorful trees. This shedding of what is no longer needed precedes wintertime. The winter is then followed by spring where seeds are planted for new beginnings and this then leads to summer growth and harvest and a new cycle begins. Our lives resemble these unending cycles of life, but in a wider sphere of context and existence. We may be in the spring of our life financially, yet in the winter of life regarding our health. The hardest phase of life to deal with is the winter of the soul. At this point, one may feel as though they are doing all they can to live their dreams but, the intended results are not yet shown on the outside.However, rest assured there is growth and strengthening happening deep inside on a soul level. This place of emptiness is where one enters the great unknown. From this void, life can become full again. Courage, fortitude and faith to move forward can be discovered within. Like seeds being planted in spring that offer new hope, our souls can inspire us. We can learn how to release that which is no longer serving oneself, just as the trees drops their leaves in the fall. The key is to not run away, but rather to listen deeply inside to the voice of the innermost heart. This voice is always calling each of us home to our unique path and purpose. No one else can fulfill our personal destiny. Most importantly,remember to keep an open mind and don’t give up on believing that a new dream can emerge from the rubble of your shattered hopes, goals and visions. Trust in the infinite wisdom of your soul’s nature and in your ability to navigate through the challenges that come. Dream again and dream big! You can do it. Source by Liah Howard