Scott Hogue
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Hope you are better now Bruce.
I guess I cope by fighting it.
Illness can be pretty brutal and at best limits you and at worst shuts you down. Last year I had three eye surgeries and with activity restrictions I lost a lot of productivity, not to mention physical fitness as I gained a few pounds. This year I had a week with a bad stomach bug, fever and chills included.
The things I am mentioning here are pretty obvious and often mentioned before, but the good stuff usually is obvious and mentioned before.
1. The ancients said there are 7 things that affect our health.
What and how we eat, drink, breathe, move, think, rest or recover and our heredity-which we now call our genes.
2. An ounce of prevention is worth a week in the bed. If we don’t have time to focus on those 7 things, then when will we have time to do the important things that keep us busy when we come down sick and can’t work several days?
We all think we are superman or superwoman, that is if you look at how we neglect ourselves and expect to stay on our feet. Few people eat a decent diet, take enough supplements, exercise reasonably, get enough sleep and take the time to unwind and enjoy life.
My daughter in law is expecting and she avoids crowds, uses hand sanitizer, washes her hands frequently, home schools her present child and gets her rest to avoid the flu. So far so good. The flu has been rampant here, so she is beating the odds.
3. When you are sick, you are sick. You just can’t demand so much from yourself. You might lengthen the illness or set yourself up for another illness as you run yourself down. Our family often has a cold that turns into sinus and then pneumonia. I take colds much more seriously now and with humidifiers and supplements, extra rest and more liquids, especially fresh juices I try to beat the next illness in the chain before it hits. I just accept being sick. So I am sick, I will just have a lighter day with being sick just another thing on my to do list. I will mark it off tonight as something I did, focusing on my recovery work. I am not trying to be sick, I am recovering, but if I say eye surgery or sick or whatever is something I am doing, I can ease up on myself and think I am not slacking off, I have to do this “thing.”
4. When you can’t work or just don’t feel like it, then play. I don’t mean sports, just play at working. I was in bed sick recently and couldn’t imagine doing anything. I put on some youtube documentaries to nap by and soon had a few thoughts. I got a notepad and every five or ten minutes wrote down some ideas. I played at working. The truth is if I hadn’t slowed down I wouldn’t have thought those thoughts. I made a pretty good to do list for when I felt better, so that was productive time.
5. Don’t let an illness train wreck your routine.
I vowed to exercise every day this year. Hard to do when you can’t keep liquids down. At the time I usually exercise I grabbed a barbell and did a few biceps curls. Just 5 minutes. I didn’t exercise my body much, but I did exercise the exercise habit. Soon I was back in my routine, but if I had quit doing anything when I was sick I would have probably stayed quit.6. Plan ahead. I am prone to bronchitis and I can’t record when I have it, but I can write. So I write my scripts and outlines to record when I can’t stop coughing and when I am better I focus on recording.
7. Remember the word Anyway.
There was this motivational poem I once saw that focused on the word anyway. I remember a little of it.
Life is hard, live life anyway.
Love often hurts, love anyway.
You have setbacks, but if you don’t stop you will win anyway.I have the word Anyway on my refrigerator to remind me if I don’t give up, no matter the set backs and problems, I will win anyway.
8. See the big picture.
When you are sick it is a good time to appreciate the things that are good in your life. I am sick, but I have a roof over my head, there are people that are sick and don’t have a roof over their head… Life is short, appreciate your time, realize there aren’t a lot of ideal days, so make the best use of all days.9. Remember that if this isn’t the one thing that kills you, it will probably pass.
There will only be one cause of death for us. Some things may add up, but only one will be the actual cause of death. Chances are whatever you are suffering from isn’t that last fatal one. I know we can have conditions that follow us through out life. When you have such a condition it doesn’t hurt to believe there is a purpose or reason for it. I am not saying not to try and recover, I am saying it has a purpose.I know I am not the same man I was before I went blind. I would like to think I am a better man now. Being blind was scary, it was frustrating, at one time I pondered suicide, but it had its purpose and in more ways than one, “Now I see.”
Best to all, especially those that are suffering,
Scott Hogue CChH
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Here, Here or is it Hear, Hear?
Tell it like it is Sean. Then let’s face it and get things done!
It really isn’t hard things we do (try digging ditches), it is just hard to do those things consistently and with interruptions when you may not always (actually pretty seldom) have a clear road to success laid out for you.
Just do it!
I have a cold, then do it
The rent is due, then do it
I have some doubts, then do it
My spouse doesn’t understand, then do itjust do it
If you don’t, when sundown comes in your life you will wish you had.
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I first read this on my phone and didn’t see the 90 days part and assumed it was a month, which added to the What??? factor.
Still, 90 days seems like a tall order, but I think it is great to ask these “what if” questions, they often lead to breakthroughs.
If the average independent marketer could do this and the subscribers be in alignment with what your are doing, not just coming for more fluffy cats making breakfast videos, the ability to do this would change your business and your life.
I am going to put my two cents in, I am sure Sean has really thought this out and is going somewhere with this, but I can be a stomping horse and he can correct me. I might raise some points that others are thinking and he can use me and this post as an example if he wishes.
First, the headline this morning is “Facebook loses daily users for first time.” Things are changing on Facebook. The story goes on to say that Facebook is reaching saturation. They just have reached all of the users that are interested. Really? It isn’t people are getting sick of their changes? Saturation is a steady state, dropping numbers is something else. The good news is when things aren’t stable there are opportunities. If people are dropping off, doesn’t that sound like there is a need for more interesting things? On to the random thoughts…
How many viewers would it take to get a subscriber? 1 out of 10? 1 out of 100? 1 out of 1,000? If you just sent random people to your page it might be something like 1 out of 1,000 or even worse than that. Where you get these people from and how you get them there will have a tremendous affect on the ratio. I think I checked this once for me and remember, every marketing funnel, offer, source, campaign will be different, but I think I was doing something like 1 in 40 in round numbers. I am sure you can beat that, I think my last effort was much better, maybe 1 in 10 or 20 (because they are seeking me out, instead of me trying to herd them in, but I didn’t actually count up the numbers), but I am sure a lot of things you and I can do could be worse.
If you are herding the numbers are probably going to be worse than if they are seeking.
You are going to have to get a lot of views, they need to be from somewhere people interested in what you are doing hang out, the reason they come matters (like for a specific offer or to get a specific question answered, vs click on this and see a cat make breakfast) and there has to be a good reason for them to subscribe. You can’t just say “Subscribe.” You have to say “Subscribe and you will _____” There has to be something of value and of interest in the blank. You hear people say things like, “You will be the first to know when there is a new video/content” which is a bit weak, but beats nothing. You can also say “You will get a (thank you gift) which can be pretty strong depending on the gift.
I think the worst thing you could do is work hard, spend money, get 1,000 subscribers and none or few are buyers or interested in changing their lives. I have heard of people with huge lists that don’t even pay for their email responder.
Here is a cardinal rule in marketing, “People don’t do things without reasons.” You are going to have to give people good reasons to do what you want them to do. Some marketers use curiosity and click bait, others offer answers and help. I think we are in the answers and help department here.
Well, you can’t do this alone. You will need some help yourself.
This would need to almost go viral, say, mini-viral.
Otherwise you are likely to be spending yourself broke trying to create the traffic in just 90 days to pull it off and you won’t turn a profit.
Either you promote this, you pay for it to be promoted or you find a way to get people to promote it for free. When people promote things for free we have a very specific marketing term for that. We call it… sharing.
I like it!
So how do you get people to share things? You have to make them want to share. So how do you do that? You have to give them reasons to share.
What reasons work? Some examples:
1. To look good, smart, funny, positive in someway to others.
Hey Bill, take a break and check out this cat video! (response, that Scott is a fun guy, he has the best cat videos)
Hey Bill, I found this guy that makes a lot of sense about money. Check out what he says about getting out of debt. (response, that Scott is a smart guy, he is always sending me something helpful)2. To get someone’s opinion.
Hey Bill, I know your dad made money in the stock market, what do you think about what this guy says about bitcoin? (response, an opinion- Hey Scott, stay away from that thing, my uncle lost his shirt on it)3. To help someone and as in number one above- to look good to others.
Hey Bill, I know your grandmother has arthritis. Check out this diet, it looks like it helps a lot of people. (response, Thanks Scott, that is really helpful)4. To feel superior to others.
Hey Bill, try this test. I bet I beat you, I made a 9.7 on it. (response, there is no way you made 10, I know I beat you (and I feel superior)5. To get something they want. Which, in all of the examples above they are getting feelings, advice or brownie points they want.
So you say, share this with three people and come back for your bonus/reward/kit/quickstart/cat video
Hey Bill, Check out this guy’s video on ways to make money. If you share it with 3 people he will send you a checklist, a quickstart and a book for free. (response, I get the stuff I want)So a recap.
We need 1,000 people that are interested in what we do, can and will pay for it, not 1,000 people that just click on things to be clicking.
So who and how we get people to our squeeze page matters.
We probably can’t afford to pay for all of that traffic, so some of it has to be from shared sources or some sort of swap. Maybe splitting a back end with someone that has a good list. Getting interviewed for a busy site. Something that gets seen without a lot of $ investment
No matter how we do it, we have to find a way to make people want to do the things we need them to do.
It all comes down to “if you do this, then this positive thing will happen to you and if you don’t do this, then this negative thing will happen to you.”
Reminds me of that old chain letter that said “if you don’t do this you will keep your sorry old husband…”AND, what may be most important of all is you need a WOW factor. When I read Sean’s topic or headline I said WOW. You need something almost unbelievable.
It all helps if you are dealing with people that want to go in the direction you are going it. Finding them and then figuring out how to get your message/offer to them is the big trick.
This is just one way to look at this. I am sure there are fifty more.
Jump in everyone. I am just throwing this out there. Sean makes you think!
best
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I like the idea of minimalism, just not much of it.
-The Comic Relief Department
What really is Minimalism? I think it means some very different things to different people.
There is this movement that says to be a Minimalist you have to own 100 things or less. To me that sounds more like a game than a lifestyle. What 100 things? It is a bit arbitrary to me.
Some people want to have a limited number of possessions to have a simple life and really do less, you might even say be lazy, others want a limited number of possessions to free them to do more and accomplish many meaningful things.
Some people worry about the environment (I never found worry to help anything) and they keep their possessions few and their lifestyle sparse to save the planet. I know a woman that can’t eat with friends because she is so concerned with cars creating pollution on the way and the damage to the environment caused by restaurants. I think she would do more good to write some responsible environmental group a check every month and live a bit more with the rest of us.
Then there are the back to nature people. I would like to get back to nature, but I don’t think I was ever there to begin with. Here we have to keep constant watch for mice, birds, squirrels, opossums and deer, they cause a lot of damage. So we have to buy screens, fencing and whatnot and we aren’t really that rural.
Like a lot of things, I believe intention and the goal makes a tremendous difference in what is going on.
In general I would go along with simplifying things as being a philosophy. Especially during and after Christmas I have talked with my wife about Do we own things or do they own us?
When my first wife died, I know I would have much rather dealt with her left behind possessions than her undone projects, roles and jobs.
Giving away all of the birthday cards she had on hand from sending a birthday card to every nursing home resident in the county on their birthday was no problem compared with dealing with all of the people that wanted to know why the project ended and what we could do about it. If your goal is to make it easy on the people left behind after you die, well, a truck or two in an afternoon could probably haul off your socks, suspenders and blouses, but for at least ten years I was still running up on a thread in someone’s life she had left loose. I think the worst thing I had to ever attend was receiving a PTA award for her after her death.
When my current wife and our daughter were hit by a drunk driver I found I couldn’t get my wife in any door with her wheelchair. I couldn’t get a wheel chair through the house for the furniture, which was orderly, but we had the usual narrow places from a bookcase, a recliner or a microwave cart. Then I had to bring in shelves for medications, breathing equipment, therapy equipment, bathing and on and on. I simply pushed things into rooms that weren’t essential. As a result for years we had rooms you just couldn’t go in or use. The children were leaving at that time and they left things behind. I have one daughter that came back and left several times leaving things behind each time and another that joined the military and left some of her things behind, occasionally sending things to us for safe keeping. Looking back I wonder how we walk through the house.
We have made a lot of progress, “Cleaning” and we have got rid of some things, like shelves and wheelchairs, but I told my wife recently we don’t need to clean anymore, we need to change things.
As you get older, let’s face it, maintaining possessions takes a larger percentage of your energy and time.
My mother is a certified hoarder. I go to visit her and I have to spend a few hours throwing out things here to ease the fear we will wind up like her.
So, is there a product somewhere here? I think so.
Also, an approach to doing our work. What do we want? What will it take to get it? Do that and get rid of the interruptions.What kind of lifestyle do you want? Your books on shelves or digital? Spending time working on the yard or in the back yard with friends?
I realize there are a lot of things I should have done years ago to focus on what really matters. They finally got together and bought me a riding lawn mower. I was still pushing the old push mower hour after hour. I spend that time in better ways now.
I think technology can help us minimalize in a way. Ebooks over shelves and shelves. My grandfather used a straight razor, with a hone, a finishing block, a stope, a cup, a brush and soap. He eventually went electric and said, You just plug it in and shave. He was done before he could get the old stuff out and did it with one item.
What does minimalism mean to you?
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Robert,
I feel for you. I guess I am out about a half million now because a man decided to start drinking before he took his step children to school and hit my wife and daughter. They are much more valuable than the money, but if I had not had the money they would have got the best care charity could have provided. That is far from the best care money can provide. Sometimes the difference is life and death.The money answer is a bit different for all of us. We are all a bit different and our circumstances unique. There is One thing it all starts with for all of us and that is a mindset, a shift in belief, a thought that you hold on to.
We have been mislead for years in that we have been told for centuries that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, it doesn’t. It begins with a single thought and to complete the journey you must hold on to that thought. Without the thought, the intention, you will never take that first step or any step. At anytime release the thought and the journey ceases.
My first wife died of a condition that was the result of a wreck. My second wife divorced me and took everything that wasn’t nailed down when I was fighting a life threatening illness, I didn’t even have light bulbs when I went home. My third wife and our daughter nearly died from a drunk driver incident. I have lost more jobs than you can imagine since I was in manufacturing when they were going overseas. I made two payments on this house from the job I took and moved for, then the company was bought out and that too moved overseas. Still, I have never been late on a house payment, own all my cars and vans clear, never declared bankruptcy and even paid off the medical bills and funeral expenses of the first wife. I give God the credit, but you do have to show up for the blessing. It is incredibly hard to force a man into bankruptcy that won’t give up. I actually believe that if you try to pay your bills God will help you.
I have since worked with many people in my practice to help them with their money problems. I soon found it was easier to teach them what to do than to get them to do it.
I have not got this all online yet, but just for fun let’s suppose I have, what would I suggest?
In person now I require anyone and everyone that works with me to write down at least 40 reasons they must become wealthy. Not I want a sports car written in 40 different ways, but what they would be, do and have if they were wealthy. I then ask them to outline what that would mean. Such as buying a new home, that might mean the children would get their own bedroom or that the landlord would never drop in unexpected or that they would finally have a good roof over their heads and then I ask them to define what that would mean and it usually comes down to what they would become or what role they would fill, be a good parent, not be like their father, something along that line.
It often takes days or weeks for people to complete this exercise in detail and always they tell me it changes them.
I next ask where is their desire to become wealthy on a scale of 1 to 10?
I then ask what it would take to make it a 10 and keep it there. I have them write that down and I keep a copy.
You must review your reasons and what makes this a 10 for you several times a day. It takes a bit of an obsession to get you to follow through.
I wanted me, my family and anyone I met to never be hungry again. That desire took me several times to Africa to feed children and set up support organizations for them. That desire unleashed made the money that paid the hospital, air ambulance, medical and other bills.
It was my 10.
Money is gained by exchange. To obtain money otherwise is either charity or theft.
Everyone must find the thing they can exchange for money. It may be one thing now and another later. The market, needs and wants change frequently and vary by area. You must solve a problem, improve a life, change the direction someone is going in.
When I teach this I break it down into categories. It makes it easier to see and deal with. The six categories of things you can exchange for money are:
1. What you can do
2. What you have
3. What you can get
4. What you know
5. A promise
6. A lie or fraudWhen you know what you want, why you want it, learn a little about who you are in the process and what it would take to keep your desire at a 10 so when setbacks that are 8’s and 9’s come along you don’t quit, the next step is to look over the six categories and find the thing you can exchange for money that there is a market for. This is the foundation to changing your life. The old timers called it a horse to ride to wealth. A wealth vehicle. People get wealthy in things. Bill Gates software, Henry Ford automobiles, J Paul Getty in oil and so on. You must find your horse to ride or the wealth vehicle to drive that will bring you wealth. It is a bit of a spiritual thing. I can’t tell people what is right for them and sometimes it takes years to find it, sometimes people know as soon as I ask them.
When you find it and create a cash flow pathway, you then multiply your efforts. Ford didn’t make just one car, McDonald’s didn’t make just one hamburger. The more people you serve the less profit you need from each one to build wealth.
You may think, I don’t want to become wealthy, I just want to get by. There are several problems with that. You don’t know how much money you will need. I didn’t know that morning that in the two seconds of the wreck that a drunk driver would spend a half million of my money. I didn’t know I needed that money, but fortunately I was driven to make it.
Wallace Wattles in his book, The Science of Getting Rich explains why everyone should pursue wealth as an honorable goal.
There is tremendous power in clarity.
I hope in some way this is helpful,
Scott Hogue CChH
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Today's Result
I made a post to my business facebook page today and in about two hours I see 13 people reached, one share and one like. I didn’t pay to boost it. Not sure if people reached means people read it or what, but interesting…
Any comments?
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Information and Transformation
Sean says…Information is getting to the place where it is free on the internet, you can find nearly anything on the internet for free if you look long enough, but transformation is not.
The money is in helping people transform their lives.
The real value is in changing people’s lives.
best,
Scott Hogue CChH
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I am going to make a quote here:
Planning works poorly, but better than any other option we have.My plans usually go out the window by 10 am. In management training I was taught that good planning time returned at least a ten fold return on investment. The problem is most project style plans are like links in a chain, steps that require each other. There is a lot of single point of failure in my life. The grandson’s ear drum ruptured recently. Since most of the family work in jobs instead of businesses as I do they aren’t as flexible when it comes to picking a child up at school in the middle of the day. How do you think that event affected my plans for the day?
So how do I plan? I have repetitive tasks, like balancing the accounts and making the deposits that are the foundation of my plans and the work arounds. These things have to be done. Sort of like you can’t hire someone to do your pushups for you. We have to do a lot of work, to just be able to work. Think of how much work it is to get up, eat breakfast, shower and just show up at a job!
I do a lot of Earl Nightingale method of planning, He said, “I take a piece of paper and write down what I want to do, then frequently during the day I look at it and see what I can do right here where I am before I move on.”
The trick is really knowing and facing what you want to get done. Do you really want to clean the kitchen or do you want a new article.
The kitchen may seem urgent, but really how important is cleaning the kitchen to your long term goals?Steven Covey talked about the four quadrants of activity. Here is a link to a pdf that is pretty good on it: https://www2.usgs.gov/humancapital/documents/TimeManagementGrid.pdf
When I was in industry I took a legal tablet and would write down 25 things to do that were related to obtaining my goals. I would do as many as possible before lunch, transfer any unfinished after lunch to a new page, mark off the completed, date the sheet and file it for future reference. It was so effective that my boss had me teach it to everyone that worked for him, but even so, I was the only one that used it.
We fight against having our time so scheduled. It is human nature.
The trick in planning is to know what you want in life and then plan or intend to do the things that are necessary to achieve your desires.
It is easy to plan for others. Not so when you have to exercise discipline.
Without clarity you really can’t make effective plans. You are just scheduling activity or busy work.
When we can mark something off of our list that feels good, so instead of achieving our main objective, lists often become busy work and good feeling props. Sort of like candy without nutrition or long term benefit.
I know this is rambling, but I hope it gives you some ideas.
I didn’t have time to make it clear and connected, I have some plans I need to tend to…Scott Hogue CChH
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Site Views
Here is one for you, I had almost 900 page views last week, which is about 8 times more than it used to be.
I got off track with my last eye surgery in December, wife’s van broke down so we had to go van shopping every spare minute, had my big family Christmas to do, then my daughter was out of a place to live when they took her rental off the market, so we had to deal with that. Granddaughter in the hospital. Grandson sick with a ruptured eardrum. Daughter in law nearly miscarried, at the first they thought she actually did. Ice and snow storm, coldest since I came to Tennessee last few weeks, shut everything down here.
I am the oldest man in my family and I learned after dad died what phone calls he got for help from the family, I get them now.
So, some of the things I did when we first started this group have made some differences.
I am ready to go back and pick up where I left off.
Comments?
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Monthly?
I am pretty established with my exercise routine and that resolution. By the end of the month I think it will be a firmly set habit.
I know I am going to press my rapport with a few people, but I am starting to think about Monthly Resolutions.
As in…Wait for it:
What is your New Month’s Resolution?
30 days give or take to establish a new habit, to change some aspect of your life, to accomplish something in your business, your family, your health, finances, whatever fits.
Even if you didn’t complete it in a month, you could make a plan, get started, set a habit, see progress.
If you did this for a year, where would you be in 2019? Where could you be?
Just about anywhere you wanted.
Really.Best to all,
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Les,
I want to commend you on starting this topic.We all know there is a time honored tradition of shooting the messenger. You did a pretty brave thing and can borrow my bullet proof vest anytime.
I want to thank and encourage Sean, a lot has been done here and hopefully he won’t lose interest and will come back to take it to the next level.
Things aren’t working out here as expected, but I find that to be a learning experience too.
I see several things at play here in no particular order.
1. Activity breeds activity.
When the core players fell back, the rest followed. When things are buzzing along I think there is a temptation to jump in. No activity, no temptation to add your 2 cents or 2 pence as it may be.2. We went against human nature.
My stepdaughter couldn’t get a job, she wore her blouse inside out for a fashion statement when she was a teenager and took a general hippy look. I told her people would judge her by her appearance. She said they shouldn’t and I agreed, but honey they do. She finally dressed “up” a bit and got a job.
You have to give people a reason to do something. We took away the leader board. The other contests mentioned didn’t occur. There was no reward or positive feedback. I know, people should do things like help others without some reward. They should, but they don’t. We have few self actuated people at the top of the hierarchy pyramid.There has to be some reward, bragging rights, a good feeling, a contest, something.
Can you imagine asking someone to marry you and they ask what is in it for me and you say, nothing? Sure we have information and a lot of good logical reasons to be active here, but we aren’t as logical as we like to think.
3. It wasn’t like many expected.
People don’t look at things as being like we say, they take them as they take them.
My wife and I are the world’s worst communicators. I say something and she runs with it based on what she was thinking, not what I said.
Take, what do you think about eating out tonight? She doesn’t reply. An hour later she is dressed up and ready to go. I am surprised.
“But you said we were going out to eat tonight!” No honey, that was a question not a statement and you didn’t respond so I am thawing out some things for supper.
Sean made it pretty plain what this would be, but I still think we were looking for some live step by step course to follow. Let’s face it, we all need some structure and coaching isn’t usually telling people what to do, in my practice it is getting them to do what they know to do, but aren’t doing. Sean has done that in a lot of his other training and I think we somehow expected or needed it here.
The library here is fantastic, but libraries are pretty static.4. Where are all of the people?
I thought that after this was up and running Sean would promote it and it would grow by the hundreds. At this time we have 108.
I was hoping to see how you blow up a platform here so I could do it, but when it didn’t happen and things stayed about the same there was little reason to log in and see that little changed. Meeting and greeting new people is a way to generate activity and to feel helpful and get that positive feedback.5. It is hard work.
I think Sean has put a lot into this, but it didn’t take off as planned, that has to be discouraging. A lot of good has been done, let’s hope he feels like putting in more hard work to get us over the hurdle.6. Where is Sean?
We are all here because we like Sean and he has helped us. When he isn’t here it is a bit like the house without the grandkids, it just isn’t the same. I know the holidays distracted us all and Sean too I am sure. But until this thing gets to buzzing we need regular doses of Sean.Just some of my thoughts.
I have a few more, but I don’t have my bullet proof vest on….;-)
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New Year's Resolution Update
I made the resolution to devote thirty minutes a day to my body. Remembering the old saying “If you ignore your health it will go away…”
Turns out that P90X3 is a thirty minute a day program.
Tony Horton is pretty close to my age, but I am not close to him in fitness.
It is hard to believe that he was in poor physical condition even in his 40’s and only gave up alcohol in his 40’s and started to focus on his life, including his health and fitness.
I saw an interview of him and he said in his 40’s he was broke financially and physically, but finally decided to do something about it and the money and the health came together as a package.
If you want to solve a problem, focus on the solution and work on it!
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I don’t have the exact wording, but woke up thinking about something I heard Sean say a while back
Go to Amazon and look up the books on your topic when you are making a product.
You can see the table of contents for free.
Take a few books and write down the chapter topics.
Now don’t just copy them word for word, but use them for a guide, juggle it around to fit your training, knowledge and experience and you have a quick outline for your product.
I think we all know the difference in doing research and just copying someone else’s work.
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Quitting is not a success strategy. I wish I could take credit for saying that, but I heard it first from an old boss of mine.
How are you “wired” up?
speaking in general here
Do you expect something for nothing?
Do you think life gives attendance awards for just showing up?
Do you think the world is a hard place to survive and thrive?
When you aren’t seeing success do you have a tendency to fade out and quit or roar on and overcome?
Do you question yourself and your life with endless loop questions that have no answer, like “Why me?”
When your funds are low do you put your energy into worry and dread or into solving the problem?
I don’t think anyone arrives here in the world with a success mindset, we pick up our mindset mostly from the people around us and society.
On the other hand there are countless true stories of people that changed their outlook and changed their life.
I like the saying, “You don’t attract what you want, you attract what you are.”
If you are a person that complains, well, misery loves company. You will find yourself in a world of complainers.
If you are a happy person trying to succeed, then don’t be surprised if happy people that are succeeding show up for lunch.
I think a good outlook is to believe that you will meet with some difficulty at times as you go through life, but you will work your way through your problems and overcome them.
To believe the end is worth the work and to make the journey as rewarding as possible.
If you are doing the thing you were put on earth to do, then how can you fail?
The bible says make your calling and election sure.
Be sure you are on the right track and then go forward!
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Just a thought, if it is more forum like you could post several lessons and materials under the same topic and if you could have questions and comments it would be interactive.
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You can’t fight human nature…well, you can, but you will lose.
Competition breeds activity and activity draws people in.
It creates opportunities for contact, communication and connections where people get to know each other and can know who to ask for help if so inclined.
As long as people aren’t attacking each other I see any activity as good.
Like they say there is no bad press…
In my humble opinion…
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Kind of back from the last surgery, at least part time.
Here is your Sean Mize quote of the day!
If people aren’t shooting you a few dollars buying your offers, then you aren’t changing people’s lives.
If you are changing people’s lives, on average they are going to send you some money to keep getting your help.
How does this fit into your business?
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Reveling The Tall Yellow Flowers
Ok, here it is…but first,
This is found in the Pal Core Access Training Section- Get Started Fast: Core Implementation Model for Your Online Business
It is Step One (and actually Step One Part One)If you haven’t heard this training, are you really using the tools here to set you free from your struggle in your finances, in your business and in your marketing confusion?
I don’t think for the last ten days I have failed to play at least part of this recording. Remember grade school? One time going over the alphabet wasn’t enough then and it isn’t enough now.
I am just saying that this isn’t Step one thousand or even one hundred. This is Step One, Part One in Get Started Fast.
How far are you along?Just saying things like, not a single person has posted a new year’s resolution on the new year’s resolution thread, when do you think is a good time for setting a goal for 2018’s income? After Easter? The weather is usually better after Easter or maybe Mid summer? When the kids are out of school? Or maybe now before the year takes off without you?
Here is the page in the sequence of training Step One
Here is the actual content page, go to replay and it is the first recording: Tall Yellow Flowers SessionI would have to say that this wins hands down as Sean’s most unusual training and I would have to vote in my case as the most effective. Training should change you, change what you are doing and change your outcomes. That is why Sean gets a little in your face at times.
Welcome to the field of the Tall Yellow Flowers!
Comments?
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Are you red and green or yellow and blue?
Sean asked the question, I am just wondering here.
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Congrats on the grandchild.
If I Knew they were so much fun I would have had them first.My youngest a granddaughter said gran da da the first time about a week ago.
She got what she wanted
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B C AND D… then I am probably doing a little A too…
I have three businesses online and at various stages.I know, people tell me to focus on one. But I have to pay the bills around here.
So they are for the now and future.Sorry to have a poor survey answer
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Having a few compilations after last surgery. Bear with me and I will bring out the tall yellow flowers when I am better. Still surprised no one has seen them.
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Surely someone else has seen Sean’s tall yellow flowers…
Will wait a little longer and then post on it.
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I will just post this to bump up the thread and after my surgery I will explain if Sean doesn’t come by and do it first.
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Sean asks, What if for the next 30 days you stopped doing anything that isn’t critical to your business and just focused on those critical things left how would that change your business.
He goes on to say things like you might free up as much as 90% of your time and have tremendous progress.
He says you have to intuitively understand the internet marketing business to be able to do that and stop the step by step method with lots of steps that don’t fit, don’t work for you and if you don’t understand how it really works you won’t know what to do and what to leave off.
best,
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My Thoughts and Approach
Here is the problem, you decide to go to the gym for the first time in years, you kill it the first day and then in the morning it kills you. You can hardly get out of bed, the heck with that and you quit.
So, to get to thirty daily minutes of work on my body (exercise, sports, diet, nutrition) for a guy that has had a couple of years of health problems and a few surgeries this year, I am playing around with fifteen days of ten minutes and fifteen days of twenty minutes, by February I can bump it up to thirty minutes.
Steady state is hard to maintain, if you aren’t growing, you are dying back, in my addiction work we had a saying, you are either doing recovery or you are doing relapse. So in this example I will be moving forward for thirty days with the goals on the calendar. NASA found the brain rewires in about 26-30 days with the upside down glasses experiment (NASA Crazy Glasses and Habits), which I happen to think is the best example of making a new brain pathway and a hard wired change. With enough emotion and consequences we can change behavior instantly, but for it to be hard wired takes some time.
If anyone here should be considering making New Year’s resolutions, what baby steps that are so small it would be hard to beg off and let yourself off the hook and not do that you can progressively take on the way to your goal?
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Today’s Sean Mize quote actually comes from something he said here on the group and goes into more detail with in his training.
“I rarely create product until at least a few folks have enrolled and I like to have a feel for what they are looking for.”
Thomas Edison, the most successful inventor of our modern age would agree with Sean’s method.
Edison would say before he made something, he first determined the demand or appeal of an invention, then determine the market and how to market it, then figure out how to make it and still profit or what the guidelines would be to make something and profit such as the amount the market could pay, the amount of profit desired and the resulting cost supportable to manufacture, market and deliver it, then invent, create and market it.
In others words, don’t make something until you know people will buy it and there will be a profit in creating it.
Sean can send out an email asking what people want in the way of solving a problem, get answers back in a few days that indicate a topic that people want and need, set down and in less than an hour create a 10 x 10 matrix or outline, then using that matrix create an hour training in a one hour phone conference recorded call with a few clients.
For more information you can look at his fast product creation training and the 10 x 10 matrix.
best,
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Here is exactly an example of how my marketing never works out like I expect, the three people so far that have actually commented directly on What Is Your New Year’s Resolution have “not doing New Year’s resolutions” as their resolutions. Sean’s comments were about habits and he didn’t touch on New Year’s resolutions directly.
I would have thought the title What Is Your New Year’s Resolution would have drawn people that made New Year’s resolutions and their comments would be about the things they resolved to do.
Which is why you simply must test everything…
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I heard on the internet that the Grinch that stole Christmas took the list and did it to stop anyone from winning the next contest here!
I am kind of lightening up tonight.
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I am in!
Film at 11.
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I think it was an incentive and also as Malik said, let you know where your level of participation fell.
If you wanted help you could see where people fell in the ranking and use that to help pick someone doing something.
There may be some technical reason for it, I don’t think Sean is an everyone gets a trophy guy.
The world keeps score, that is for sure!
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What Changed?
Evidently something changed. I dropped by as I start a new project and notice you can’t get some places from here. You mentioned decoupling, can you clue me in?
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I did go blind in 2011 after my last mission trip to Africa. The dehydration pulled the retina and clouded the vitreous fluid in my eyes. The first surgery was a disaster and I was soon black as night blind in one eye as almost the entire retina came loose and still couldn’t see much out of the other eye. Two more surgeries that year saved the eye and restored some sight. Over the years the retina laid back down more flat and recovered a fair amount, but with a surgically induced hard cataract and glaucoma I could hardly see even with glasses and contacts.
Last year I went back to the world famous Dr. Ming Wang (he said it was too soon to do more surgery in 2012, he did not do the first three surgeries, but when the first one failed I kept hearing about him and his amazing results in cases like mine so I got a second opinion from him in 2012 and he said wait, the retina wouldn’t withstand more trauma now) and he operated three times last year, twice on my worst eye and once on my better eye. I still have some problems, but miraculously don’t wear glasses or contacts anymore. I have a near eye and a far vision eye and I cope with that. I am certainly not complaining about the floaters or the blind spots at the edges of my vision, I was pretty much blind all over before. The surgery also corrected the glaucoma I had developed by removing scar tissue and opening drainage. I can drive at night and I don’t even use eye drops now unless they are artificial tears for the occasional dry eye. All of the surgery has damaged the nerves in my corneas some and they aren’t as sensitive to produce the signal to make tears. I don’t feel my eyes getting dry until they are pretty dry.
It is just so amazing that it just strikes me at times when I look up and can tell the time on the clock across the room or see the date on my watch. I just have to stop what I am doing and look at the clock or my watch or a business card that not long ago I struggled to see wearing both contacts and glasses in bright light up close. I can use an ATM machine without feeling for the numbers or straining to see the screen and that is so odd that I always start by feeling for the numbers still. I realized that month by month I had pretty much let my life get smaller and smaller, letting my wife do more and more of the vision work as my vision failed. I can read the email on my phone and the texts now. I just hated it when people sent me texts before, I had to zoom the screen, get in a dark place and turn the screen brightness wide open.
I went my last visit this week to Dr. Wang and was released. I have 20-20 vision in my far eye and 20-40 in my near eye, but see well with it up close. They say with glasses I could qualify to fly again, but that is an expensive hobby.
Still, I could hire a flight instructor to fly with me and not have to pass a flight physical or recertify and still take the yoke. I bet I fly a plane again that way before I die. Ought to make a bucket list.
Tuesday on the way back from the eye doctor my wife asked me if I would ever go back to Africa again. It is her greatest fear. Twice I have come back more dead than alive and she is afraid she will lose me. She is handicapped and depends a lot on me. I told her I might. I can see again and my health is better. I told her not to worry about it. I had already been thinking about it. The memories of the children haunt me. I am not young anymore Bruce. I am afraid I may be too old to play Indian Jones anymore. But if I could go one more time with my experience and the contacts I have made, it might make a big difference. I like the idea of going to the orphanages, churches and the farm I helped set up by the grace of God for sort of a victory lap, but when I get over there I can never resist going just a little farther this time.
I am a blest man,
Blessings to you Bruce,
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About three years ago, I bought a van in Bowling Green KY. I spent the night with my oldest son and his wife there. We went out to eat with his inlaws (one of which has since died), picked up the van, spent the night, went to revival meeting the next day at my home town Church nearby.
At that time I was still drinking Pepsi.
He had bought a six pack of what we call pony or sissy sized cans of Pepsi for me, they fit in his fridge well. We had pizza and Pepsi for one meal.
I actually have one of those cans on my dresser. I can’t look at it without remembering that weekend and the wonderful time we had together. If that can wasn’t there how often would I think of that weekend and have those feelings? I don’t know, but I can tell you it is several times a week with the can on the dresser. Frequent recollections of that memory keep it fresh in my mind.
I wouldn’t take a hundred dollar bill for that can. I wouldn’t take two hundred.
My wife would throw it away if she could get by with it. A Pepsi can on a dresser?
I worked in the past with hoarders. Also did grief therapy. They can be like that only worse. There is a memory for every item in the house.
I have helped them make photo albums and now digital albums so they can have the image and the memory without the item, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It is just a tool, not an answer. Sometimes it adds to the problem, they want the photo album and the items.
My wife isn’t that way. If she can’t use your Christmas gift to her she will return it, swap it, sell it, maybe even throw it away, but she has her own things and own reasons for dragging things in.
She has a daughter that could live out of a shoe box. We try to send her consumable presents for holidays and occasions.
Let’s just say she is a top donor to Goodwill.It comes down to meaning. What do things mean to you?
If they mean memories of good times and connection to those you love, I bet your house is rich with things.
I wouldn’t call my grandmother a hoarder, but her house was rich with things. She knew who gave her or where she got every little spoon, spoon holder, ceramic ornament, picture frame, vase, bell, bird and whatnot from her 97 years and had a mind as sharp as razor soup when she died.If they mean a burden, clutter, loss of freedom and even a reminder that things change and we lose the good times of the past, then I bet your house is pretty bare, but neat with plenty of room.
I went through some very hard times. I find it hard to throw things away, you might need them sometime. I throw things away anyway, but always at the back of my mind is, “There was a time I could have used that.”
People that went through hard times often are like that. People also develop fears, fears of not being able to get the things they need and want. My father took a certain medicine daily mixed in a Sonic cup. He had it down to a routine and science. He started keeping Sonic cups so he would always have one to take his medicine. I went to see him one time and wandered into a room that had Sonic cups stacked to the ceiling. In time there was more than one stack. He couldn’t get rid of them in case he needed them which was an irrational fear, Sonic will have cups for the foreseeable future and if not, I would think 40 cups would be enough for the neighborhood. Then he died and mother couldn’t get rid of them because they were your father’s (unsaid-and he valued them so I should value them and I remember him by them and I can’t face the change of living life without your father). Eventually she let go of them a few at a time.
I knew as the stack of cups went down, my mother was getting better and going on with her life.
There is just a lot more to this than you see on the surface.
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Just walking out the door, I will check for your email.
I don’t get the flow. I think I need a flow chart on how facebook works and how things are connected. How do you get 50 likes from India when you aren’t even advertising?
I see things pop up on my page and before I can read them they disappear. What is that about?
I did advertise for another business and marked local zip codes and most of my response came from Canada.
???I know people are pretty much looking for things to be addicted to, so I understand a lot of the psychology behind facebook, human needs and such, but I don’t get the form and function.
When I started you were the only one that could post on your wall. Then we got others posting and then ads on your wall. Do other people see the same ads on your wall? I quit my Church account over that. The ads weren’t church friendly or work place safe.
Thanks!
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I remember you made some comments on helping people in third world countries. You had some ideas, were working on a few things. I seem to be growing in popularity in India (which I am not sure you could call a third world country anymore, they are becoming more and more advanced, I saw where some areas have more cell phones than people) I don’t know if they would pay anything for “help” but the market would be huge, if I could come up with something that benefited them in the format, content, etc. I know earlier that a lot of my free offers went to Asian countries and I don’t think anyone bought anything no matter how inexpensive. They seem to have become cell phone and computer equipped now and download anything and everything as a hobby.
I suspect that in India, like Africa a lot of people speak some English, so audio would probably be a good format.
Of course first I want to help people. Then, if it is to grow it has to be monetized in some way.
It puzzles me how these countries find my material when I don’t market to them. I suppose they are looking.
Any thoughts or comments?
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I may talk about the weather on my home and personal facebook page, but I always do a quote, suggestion, news bit or outline to a goal on my business facebook page. Sometimes I post to my blog or create an article for my website and then link to it on my facebook page.
I wonder if from the business facebook page they can find my personal page. If so I might stop putting up pictures of the grandchildren to not dilute my content with personal things.
I really don’t get facebook. It just doesn’t seem logical to me. It has also changed so much. I noticed the first of the year after I went back to it my pages look different than last year.
I am still serious about creating a platform and have returned to working on that behind the scenes. I am interested in facebook and the rest to funnel people to the platform. Not much different than what most people are doing, but I just don’t want to make facebook the main attraction or my primary platform.
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Yes. To answer in general.
There is an old saying that an hour of sleep before midnight is worth two after midnight.
I am inclined to agree with that.
If I should go to bed at 9 pm (the wife away or what not) I usually wake up at 4 or 5 and reasonably refreshed. Unfortunately I may not be home by 9 pm or finished with my work. The wife is a bit of a night owl and if I am to see her I have to stay up. She is an at home movie and popcorn girl. Also keeps the Hallmark Channel going…
2 3mg Melatonin tablets improves the quality of sleep in the early part of my sleep period and seems to increase the total number of deep/light cycles, but not total sleep time.
I have been thinking of trying time released.I take benadryl at times for allergies and for the first few days it increases depth of sleep in the later part of the sleep period and total sleep time, but it soon loses its affect and late studies indicate it may not be as safe as we originally thought.
I use this app at times, https://www.noisli.com/ for background sounds to help me sleep. I don’t have much trouble going to sleep ususally, but it helps me stay asleep.
Eating late lightens the sleep cycles, I have set two alarms now, one for delaying my breakfast and another to give me an hour to be done with supper. I can’t say yet it improves my sleep greatly, just prevents problems.
Like a lot of things I am sure sleep is a pretty personal thing and different in many ways for different people.
I was using Sleep as Android for my sleep app with my smart watch, but lately I have a fitness tracker that has its own app I am using. Sleep as Android makes observations and suggestions, can wake you when you are in light sleep near the time you set for alarm, can wake with nature sounds, graphs your sleep, can record sounds such as snoring or sleep apnea for you to review, has a lot of functions and takes a bit of time to figure out.
Wishing you the best,
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They got caught lying over a lot of their numbers too. So now I guess people see less of what people were actually seeing less of…
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Bruce, I think you are on track here. I also think we often neglect the goose that lays the golden eggs, in this case us, ourselves.
If we want to perform our best, be it physically or creatively we must take care of ourselves physically and emotionally.
I am wearing tracker watches and bands now to find some areas to improve. I didn’t think I was sleeping deep enough, but found that I do sleep deeply, but not really long enough.
I am turning off some of the device notifications that go off early in the morning and may be lightening my sleep, going to bed just a bit earlier since my best sleep seems to come early, setting a watch alarm to notify me I have an hour left to eat so I won’t be eating late at night. Just starting, but I already think I can see an improvement.
best!
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I have tried recordings, books and pdf reports.
Not a scientific study, but the audio recordings seem to do best, the books next and the reports last.
Was wondering if a free course would draw if not more, at least better prospects and engage with them more.
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Steve, I am a touch typist and Mrs. Stewart had us type dictation in typing class. I can talk and type, type and talk, but when my wife comes in the room our conversation sometimes makes it into my emails…
I am embarrassed to admit I don’t slave over these posts as some might think 😉
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That is deep for a Monday morning!
Thanks!
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Hope you are well soon Bruce.
When you get lemons they say make lemonade.
Take care of yourself,
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I think it is wonderful when we have these micro disagreements, all conversation they say is based on disagreement, since if one person says Harvey’s has the best hamburgers and the other person agrees there is not much further that conversation can go, but if the second person says, “I don’t know, have you tried Hamburger Sallies? They make a pretty good bacon and cheddar burger with onion rings on it,” then you have the basis for a conversation.
However you keep track of things I don’t think it matters what you call it, making a list, doing a mind dump, putting things in folders or on a lazy Susan. In every case it is a process of putting things where you can find them later.
I think, but do not assert, that we can agree that keeping up with things is important.
Probably a lessor number of people would agree that making a list such as a shopping list or a to do list or putting things in a folder for future reference or deadlines on a calendar would relieve us of a little stress, being a sort of security blanket we can turn to in time of need for that information and with less stress allow us to focus on things one at a time and those that are at hand without worrying about things falling through the cracks.
I can only speak for myself, but I can hardly remember five things to pick up at the store without a list by the time I get there, but if I have a list I can literally keep up with a countless number of things (which is what it seems like when my wife sends me shopping) I can also say that the fear of disappointing my wife by not getting something she wanted or needed goes away when she hands me a list and I don’t have to drive to town repeating “hair spray number 8 Hold, butter, jelly, trash bags, paper towels, chopped almonds, brown sugar, chocolate chips, carpet cleaner and so on over and over” (which I can now relate to you days after the trip because I still have the list) as I drive to town I can go on to think about my business, my grandchildren, the green field I pass that is still green in winter and the sun peeking out behind a cloud, or maybe even another Christmas present for my wife that tolerates me and my little idiosyncrasies.
In my work with hoarders I found that in some cases they didn’t want to move things because they kept up with things or you might say ordered their lives by location. The bills might look scattered across the kitchen and dining room to you and me, but to them they were in plain sight and being ever present kept them from failing to pay them on time. An empty butter wrapper reminded them to get butter at the store and broken things were reminders of the ones that gave them to the hoarder, an emotional connection that they felt they would lose if they threw them away. Did their methods work? To some extent I would have to say so, but of course it caused problems in their lives and they got to where their lives just didn’t work for the clutter and baggage. However understanding them and how they thought and they ordered their lives helped me help them. They weren’t slobs or lazy, they just looked at things differently. If I could find a better way for them to accomplish their goals without the mess then I could make a difference. Trust was the first step.
Photo books, videos and remembrance drawers replaced broken things someone had given them that they kept to remind them of the dear loved one. A grocery list replaced butter wrappers and empty ketchup bottles. I can’t say that I would enjoy making this my life’s work, but it was interesting to see why many hoarders hoard, it wasn’t like you might think at all. It often started out as a way to keep things and to have some measure of control in your life.
More of my ramblings,
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I feel it applies to all things too. Yes, the most important of which is salvation.
I wouldn’t care to argue that knowing your calling or place in all things is not important.
I feel the bible is of earthly benefit too, just my take.
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I probably didn’t do the original version justice in my description, but the mind dump is well accepted as a technique to free your mind up. You don’t have to worry about missing things like deadlines and what not since you have them down on paper (or in this case down in the software) to refer to. Sort of a security blanket. I am one of those that worry to keep things from slipping by, although I am much better than I used to be. We also often count worry as activity, which it is, just not productive. So we can feel we are doing something by worrying (magical thinking, not logical) and that wastes effort we could put where it would work.
Something like this:
So what is on your mind?
Write it all down.
Look it over and pick what is appropriate to work on today.
Do the same tomorrow and allow yourself the freedom to not think on those things again until in the morning or whenever you set your review.Much like we put our bill due dates on a calendar so we won’t forget and to free us up from worrying or checking on every bill every day.
In industry we found planning paid back on average about a tenfold return in productivity. So a little time spent this way can be well worth it.
It sounds like you do much the same Bruce in you write things down so you won’t forget them and free up your mind to do what is pressing. Just a different approach to the same task, keeping up with things.
When things are gaseous and without form I feel overwhelmed, but when listed one, two, three on a list I feel in control.
I remember being sent to a time management course by my company, which is ridiculous, since we can’t manage time.
This guru that was earning no telling how much told us to write down the top three things we needed to do that day and no more. That was enough for me.
I got up and walked out, although I did come back since there was no where to go. I typically used a yellow legal pad and wrote down 25 things for the morning, then after lunch I transferred any that were not done to another page and continued until I had 25 more. My goal was to do 50 planned tasks a day and cover anything that came up as it happened. 40 or more completed planned tasks was common and I fought the fires as they occurred. Three things a day wouldn’t cut it. I did more than that on the phone on the way to work.
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It is Mark Joyner’s project. It combines time “management” tools with goals achievement and training. Of course you can’t manage time.
The idea was here is where you are X and this is where you want to be Y, now list everything you have to do to get from X to Y and leave out everything else. Now focus on those necessary steps and cut out all distractions. Keep it simple.
It got over being simple a long time ago and they have even changed the names of what they call some of the features, but I found it interesting and helpful in its early form.
Take one idea. You do a brain dump first thing in the morning. Put down everything on your mind, money problems, taxes, project deadline at work, anniversary present you have to buy for your spouse, whatever is on your mind you put on the list. Now you can forget about it and go on with your major goals and life plans since you have it down and can go back to it later. It frees up the mind’s resources to focus on one item at a time in a more laser like focus.
You used to could set alerts, make plans, even do systems and procedures, but I am not sure what it is like now, I think it is on the 5.8 release currently.
I like the idea of a “dashboard” you go to with resources in one place. I like the idea of a place that is a platform with training. Have money problems and money projects? Put it down in the goals section and take the training on money and project management.
I keep trying a few times a year to go back to it, but it is not intuitive to me and they keep changing it and making it so frustrating.
You should see how many up sells he does, page after page, if you want to take advantage of some bonus or offer.
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Ha, Ha, Bruce…I know it seems that way.
I am not an Oprah expert, wouldn’t have even watched her old show, but I had a babysitter that did and it was always on when I picked up my kids. It takes a while for them to gather their things, finish their snacks, etc. I found I could converse about her show to the secretaries at work.
She had the people with the new book on, the people with products and services, but she also had the people on that had a wreck, was paralyzed, fought their way back and walked across the stage for their graduation or they mailed 1,000 cards a month to people in nursing homes, or was working to get on the Olympic team while going to school and raising their younger siblings after their parents died.
I read a marketing article and then listened to the seminar once about “Your Oprah Minute” are you ready for your Oprah Minute? Do you have your elevator speech ready? and so on.
There were two points, one that everyone sometime is in the spotlight, if that spotlight came on you and what you do are you ready?
The second point was, when you are ready, how do you create that spotlight?
And he said that the worst thing that can happen to anyone with a product or service is to be on Oprah and not have anything to sell or anything to offer to show what you do to change the world.
For an exercise he said, Oprah called, she says you will be on the show tomorrow, are you ready?
Because if you aren’t ready for Oprah, then you aren’t ready for the world.
I thought it was interesting.
Something to clarify your thinking and motivate you.best,
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That is me up and down. I guess I want them to be able to do a phd level dissertation after the free offer…
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