Success...One Day At A Time

Your Wealth And Your Mindset.
What's The Connection Here?

Seems I've got a mixed response to my new "Our Wealth Partnership" idea.

If you want to read the comments, or just find out what I'm going on about - you can just click here...

Click here - Our Wealth Partnership - what do YOU think?

Michel Fortin is one of the Net's most successful copywriters...and speaks at many Internet marketing seminars.

Yet...he still has to deal with people not paying him, or trying to take advantage of him - even though he is looked upon as a 'guru'.

Even though he undoubtedly earns a serious amount of money by most peoples' expectations - I can tell by what he wrote in his blog post that, for some reason, he is STILL attracting the wrong sort of clients despite making a conscious effort not to do so.

If you're interested - check out this post on Michel Fortin's blog...and afterwards scroll down and read the comment I made about this very thing!

I look at money a lot differently than I used to less than two years ago.

Even though it is certainly nice to have a positive bank balance rather than huge credit card debts...my attitude to what constitutes 'wealth' has changed.

I realized that, by focusing on what I DID'T have (money)...I was consistently attracting a LACK of it into my life.

And...once I mentally turned the switch from building my business to earn a specific income, to building it around my required lifestyle and strengths - I've never looked back.

And...funnily enough...my income levels have increased because of it.

One key element that I should mention, however.

Sure...I didn't work particularly harder, I just worked a little smarter by playing to my strengths.

The rest seemed to fall into place very nicely, thank you.

Yet...there is still part of me that has a lack mentality - especially where this ezine is concerned.

For the last four-and-a-half years, I've missed writing about six weekly issues.

I've felt it necessary to over-deliver in terms of what I write because I want to help YOU make the most of YOUR life.

It's a little like many children of very rich people.

Because they haven't had to 'live' in the real world, make their own mistakes, and pay their own way - they can't possibly make the most of their skills and their lives - because 'daddy' will always bail them out.

So...what has all this got to do with YOU?

Well...the charity stops here. This week.

From next week...well, you'll find out.

But...things are going to be changing around here that's for sure!

You may not like it, or appreciate it.

But, it's something that needs to be done otherwise I, personally, aren't being true to what I believe about myself.

You'll find out next week...

Our Wealth Partnership

Over the last few years I have been writing solely on the Internet about how the lessons from my own life could be applied to helping you getting more from your life.

If you have been a subscriber to my ezine for any length of time you will know that I adopt a ‘real-life’, no BS, attitude to leading a happy and successful life.

By ‘real-life’ I mean that my approach is based around my own experiences – which I then translate into meaningful strategies and lessons that YOU can apply to make the most of your own life.

This approach can have its challenges.

Firstly – thanks to the (many different) problems involved in sending and receiving email – it seems that 20%+ of my subscribers hardly ever see what I send them.

Secondly – a fair proportion of the remaining 80% probably have a huge pile of ezines and emails to sort through every week…and don’t often get the chance to sit down for a few minutes and actually READ what I write.

And – that is one huge problem for you. If you don’t read – then I can’t help you.

And…if I can’t help you – then the path to the life of your dreams will certainly be longer and more fragmented.

It’s not your fault…I’m as guilty of this as anyone else. I’m subscribed to ezines that I love – but very rarely read because they happen to be in my inbox at the wrong time – or I get sidetracked with something else, and it gets lost amongst hundreds of other emails.

However…I realized that I read all of the ‘paper and ink’ newsletters that I subscribed to.

And...I've learned recently that, quite often, all it takes is to get someone to USE what they invest in...and the results then begin to take care of themselves.

So...I'm seriously considering a monthly print newsletter - provisionally titled 'Our Wealth Partnership' as its focus will be on getting YOU to open up to the abundance that is undoubtedly out there for you.

It will run 12 to 16 pages or so - as I want to make sure that it gets read in its entirety!

As for pricing...well I'm not sure yet.

Plus...I will also be focusing in on some of the more important books and resources I have read that have had a huge impact on my success.

I can guarantee 100% that "Our Wealth Partnership" will only contain brand-new stuff that I have never published before, and all of the content will be EXCLUSIVE to the newsletter.

So...what do YOU think?

I've got the necessary infrastructure in place to make it happen...but I'm hardly going to create something that you aren't interested in.

Just post a comment below with your views/concerns/ideas about "Our Wealth Partnership"...

Ignore What They Say - Be Inspired!

I've spent the last few days getting back up straight after spending most of the last month away from the day-to-day business of doing this stuff.

On my ideas notepad in front of me - I have nine things that I want to do that will move both myself and my business forward.

Yet..I probably have at least half a dozen other things that are already in motion, or have been started.

Most 'gurus' will tell you that you should always finish what you start before you go off and start something else.

Well...I'm certainly no guru...just a normal person like you, and if I find something new more challenging and exciting than stuff I thought of doing a year ago - then I'm going to move towards what inspires me!

Life has an uncanny habit of forcing you off of the easy path...and onto one that's a little more 'interesting'.

It's only when we look back that we often realize that the easy path wasn't the right one, nor the easiest one in the long term.

Once you get yourself away from day-to-day, and look at what really fires you up, you'll soon find that even the 'down' times can be fantastic steps forward.

Everything happens for a reason, whether we like it or not.

Sure...a lot of the time, you may not exactly have a say in it happening to you (like with my son), but ultimately - everything that happens to you enables you to refine what you really want from your life.

Let's face it...unless you know what 'bad' or 'failure' is - then how can you judge what 'good' or 'success' means to you?

The trouble starts when you evaluate what success is based on somebody else's criteria.

The how-to gurus, the biz-opp players...they'll all tell you that earning 'x' is the way to go if you follow their system, but, their system is usually flawed.

What's the point in you getting yourself into a position so that you can pay off your mortgage if your wife and kids have left you, and you are so ill that you can barely walk?

Take me, for example.

I could easily spend another six months on the road...making some very nice money in the process, but undoubtedly my relationship with my wife would suffer.

- And I'd miss spending time with my two daughters.
- And I'd be miserable schlepping from hotel to hotel.
- And I'd be bored teaching different people the same thing.
- And I wouldn't have time to work on my ideas.
- And I would be eating fast food regularly and getting fatter and more unhealthy
- And I'd just be creating another 'job' for myself where I can't just wake up in the morning and decide to do what I want.

In fact...even though I'd be earning some very nice money...the reason for me doing what I do would be lost.

Continue this for a few years...and sure, I'd be able to buy whatever I wanted...yet be as miserable as hell!

So...be careful not to take for granted the very reason why you want to make more of your life in the first place.

And, funnily enough, I have attracted so much more money into my own life once I stopped doing stuff solely to acquire it!

Of course...you need to eat. You need to pay the bills.

But...a lot of these things will take care of themselves once you decide to get out of your comfort zone and start pushing yourself to find out what really inspires you.

Start small...just a few hours a week, and eventually you'll find something that you are absolutely world-class at.

After...that's when the real fun begins!

Why Are You Doing This...?

Sometimes the last thing you want to do is the very thing that you think you need to do.

Bit like needing to write this when I haven't got the faintest idea what I'm going to write!

Isn't life...interesting?

I've long realized that, if I begin to find something 'difficult' - then I should look at ways that I can either...

a) make it more interesting
b) stop doing it altogether

So...

When even writing this weekly article begins to become more of a 'challenge' than it ever used to be then this means that change is not far away!

Now...it's not that I'm going to stop writing this stuff.

Nope.

I'm just going to shift my focus from feeling the 'need' to do it, to finding a path where doing this, once again, just - flows!

Many people will tell you not to change a 'winning formula'.

I'm here to tell you that ANY formula whether it's 'winning' or not - will soon become a chore if you don't listen to the signals your mind is sending you.

I'm not a fan of just going through the motions for the sake of just doing something (or so that I can tell others that I have done something) - if it means that I am not inspired and motivated when the time comes to do it.

Over the last few years, I've began to understand why so many successful people have become so despite what many other people told them.

If you continue to search for and refine the actions that inspire you...then YOU, too will be well on the way to leading a much happier, focused, challenging, and ultimately wealthy life.

Being stuck in a rut 'just because' isn't a good enough excuse for me at least, any more.

I spent fifteen years accepting my fate...when in fact, over the last four, I've come to the conclusion that I was master of my own all along!

And YOU are, too...even if you might not think so at the moment.

Life has a habit of fooling us into thinking that we aren't in control of how it shapes up.

Never forget that you ARE in control.

As long as you constantly look at why you do what you do.