In order to accomplish any goal you first must have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish. We’re going to approach this in 5 steps and if you use these 5 steps then you can create, manifest or develop anything that you want for the rest of your existence.
Step 1 – What do you want?
This sounds simple, but the fact is that most people are far too general when they talk about what they want. How many times have you said “I want to lose weight” or “I want more money” and then felt like you didn’t get the results you want.
When you express a desire the Universe will instantly begin to make that desire a reality, but if you have a vague desire you’ll get a vague result.
You say “I want more money” and then you find a penny in the parking lot. Then you say (I hope) thanks to the Universe for sending you more money and then you say “I’d like a LOT more money”, so next time maybe you find a dime (10 times as much!) or even a quarter (25 times as much!). Even though you may be grateful, you also have the thought in the back of your mind that this whole Law of Attraction thing doesn’t work when in fact you’ve gotten exactly what you asked for!
So Step 1 is to state EXACTLY what you want, such as “Thank you for helping me find $25,000”.
Step 2 – WHY do you want it?
Desire, in and of itself, is simply not enough. You’ll be more focused, have more drive and get better results if you have a good reason for the manifestation of your desire. This reason doesn’t have to mean anything or make sense to anyone other than yourself, but it does have to matter to you.
So maybe now you say “Thank you for helping me find $25,000 that I can use to create a reserve for 6 months mortgage and bills”.
Step 3 - WHEN do you want it?
“If you talk about it it’s a dream. If you envision it, it becomes possible and when you schedule it, it becomes a reality.” – Tony Robbins
The more clear you can be about what you want and why you want it the better, so add in a time frame. “Thank you for helping me find $25,000 over the next 6 months, that I can use to create a reserve for 6 months mortgage and bills”.
Lay out a reasonable time frame in which to achieve your goal. You could say “I want a million dollars by this afternoon” but most likely you won’t be able to get yourself into alignment with that goal in time for it to actually manifest, so dream big but keep it believable.
This leads us right into Step 4.
Step 4 – BELIEVE that you can have it.
You may have anything that you can think of as long as it’s believable for you. Now this is where the personal mastery concepts will start to make a difference.
As you grow and develop more self confidence then what you believe that you can accomplish will also grow. Tony Robbins KNOWS that if he offers a seminar literally thousands of people will show and pay in advance to attend. Tom Cruise KNOWS that if he signs a contract for a movie than that movie has a great chance of becoming a box office hit.
What do you know? What do you believe? Can you manifest a cup of coffee? How about 3 new clients this week, or a partner for some co-op advertising? How about a new car or a new office?
Ultimately we are all constrained at an individual level by what we believe that we can have or deserve.
Step 5 – Create small victories, Build on SUCCESS.
As your confidence expands then so will your ability to manifest at a larger level. Build your business on a foundation of success rather than failure. How often do you say “I’d like to have more clients but _____.” Everything after the ‘but’ is a foundation of failure!
Focus on what you’ve done that was successful, and this is relative only to you. It doesn’t matter what anyone else can do or accomplish at this point, focus simply on a success for you. There was a period after I broke my neck that I considered simply getting out of bed by myself a wild success!
This is a point where it’s completely ok to lower your expectations for awhile and simply focus on what you can do well at whatever level you can. If walking 10 steps is a victory for you then focus on that. If you have only given 1 massage or 1 Reiki treatment professionally then focus on the fact that you have been PAID to do it, rather than the lack of clients.
We’ll get out of our comfort zone later. Right now I want you to get INTO your comfort zone and take some comfort from it.
Robert Morgen experienced a near-death kundalini awakening in 1992.
Most people are taught to <a href=”http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz”>define success</A> by what you HAVE. You HAVE a great job, or a beautiful wife or a lot of money, etc. People who base success on the HAVE often find that they can lose their success just by losing the things by which they define their success.
What you HAVE can always be taken away, lost or stolen, so if you base your sense of success on the external HAVE then you are setting yourself up for a huge crash sooner or later. That’s why people commit suicide after a stock market crash and why most lottery winners fall back into the same economic niche when the money runs out.
We’ve also been indoctrinated to believe that what we DO is who we are. How many people in this culture define themselves by their job? I’m a cop, I’m a teacher, I’m a writer, etc. Once again this is an external reference and not who we really are, and once again all the externals can simply go away, leaving you feeling bereft and out of place.
I think it’s also amusing that we ask kids what they want to BE when they grow up and then reference it to what their choices are for the DO category. Then again, maybe it’s not so amusing at all.
When we talk about BEing successful, or BEing a good person or BEing intelligent then we are not referencing any external aspect of ourselves, but rather our internal core. When you learn to BE a successful person then it means that you have expanded your context and actually grown into that successful person. It’s not something that you get hired into or that you put on and take off like a jacket.
Learning to BE
I remember as a child, watching my parents trying to be involved in Amway and Raleigh and other MLM’s. Now these were what I would consider to be good companies with great products, but the problem was that my parents were trying to go from being farmers to being businesspeople without any way to expand their context and cover the steps in between. Like many people who try to buy into MLM’s and become instantly successful they failed and then blamed the system and said that MLM is a scam.
<B>Managing a business is like learning to ride a bike. No one ever learned to ride a bike by taking a class, and they never learned to ride a bike without falling off a few times.</B>
The Rules Are Different
One of the problems that we have is that people in Western Culture have been taught that ‘you get what you pay for’.
This is just one of the paradigms that you’ll find are different for business people. Business people make a POINT of not paying for things in the same way that the average person does, and some of these concepts (you get what you pay for) have been specifically fostered in our consumer society. It’s completely subconscious.
I discovered when I first started teaching meditation classes that people took it more seriously when I charged them for it, simply because they subconsciously placed more value on the class if they spent their money on it.
Shifting the Paradigms
To a businessperson it would be unthinkable to PAY for a product and then to try to resell it. Businesspeople set up a NET 30 or (preferably) a NET 90 account (they don’t have to pay for the products for 30 days, or 90 days) and then they sell the products first and then pay for them. This is just one of the ways that the business world is exactly opposite from the consumer world.
The ultimate goal is to BE the person who can DO the things that let you HAVE success.
“BE Successful” is an excerpt from Robert Morgen’s new book <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Entrepreneur-Robert-Morgen/dp/0979040035″><b>The Spiritual Entrepreneur</B></A>, which can be downloaded as a FREE Ebook (for a limited time) at <a href=”http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz”>http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz</a>
I would assume you have noticed, if you have followed some of my other articles on Affiliate Marketing training, that quite often my primary message for your home based business is related to day to day operations and long term planning as opposed to instant profits or miracle cure alls. There is a reason for this.
Until I learned to get my feet on the ground and build my business, not try to buy my business, I was going NOWHERE! No amount of money could provide the skills that are necessary to be effective with my Affiliate Marketing online business … I just ended up with pretty packages and didn’t have a CLUE on what to do with the contents!
So, what to do? Here is a summary of a conversation that I recently had with Christina Munoz, AKA “TheQuoteDiva”. We were discussing a recent high profile affiliate marketing program launch and reviewing the marketing skills necessary to benefit from this particular program.
I thought that perhaps hearing my same old drivel echoed from another active, successful Internet Marketer just might ring your bell!
It’s very tough to stay focused when everyone is raving about the next giant product launch and offering thousands in bonuses just to buy through their link.
Lately there is a lot about a new program called “Mass Control”. After reviewing it … it is truly - genius marketing!
But, it assumes you already have a product, a list, and joint venture partners lined up. This is super-advanced stuff and for those who already have a full system in place it is pure Gold!
However, if you don’t have the basics nailed, no amount of “advanced” training is going to help.
In order to capitalize on a system like this, what ‘constitutes’ a Basic System?
Until you’ve got a system in place, there’s no reason to keep buying stuff. It’s not gonna help until YOU make a commitment to work the plan.
After all, why would you want to dish out another $1000 or $2000 when you won’t be able to fully use what ‘Mass Control’ and other similar products can offer you?
Well, as usual, Christina’s comments took this author back to the drawing board to once again evaluate the foundation and structural integrity of my own online business.
Lacking understanding of all 10 basic elements in no way suggests that one cannot make very good money focusing on just a few of the Basics. For example, just having a list, an understanding of productive advertising, and a quality affiliate product can certainly generate significant revenue.
However, acquiring the knowledge, understanding, and ability to implement all of the basics will allow you to take a product, any product, analyze its strengths and weaknesses, and plug its unique components into your system to maximize profits.
As your efforts continue to build the applications available in your affiliate marketing tool box, the closer you move towards reaching the epitome of your development … putting your system on autopilot.
Plug and Play is an often used phrase to suggest the simplicity of marketing a particular system or product. Well, that’s great, IF, you have something to plug into.
Here’s a great exercise to judge just how far along you are in developing your rock solid business plan.
Write down all 10 of the “Basic” components listed above. Now, honestly ask yourself if you could implement each particular component if you were planning a new campaign for a product or service.
If any of the areas are a resounding NO, you have just identified a specific target for research and development. Put that integral component on the top of your ‘To Do’ list, and get right on forming another piece of your puzzle. Do research, review past articles or reports describing the process, make a mental outline of where this component would fit into your campaign, then put your thoughts to paper and … take action!
There is no doubt that if you polled 10 veteran affiliate marketers, each of their lists of the 10 Basics would differ slightly from each other. However, what they would have in common is a structured flow from the campaign conception through the sales offer and follow up.
Once again, I encourage you to focus on the basics in order to put yourself in a position to be able to jump onboard and prosper from a system such as “Mass Control”. Once you have mastered those 10 essential components, you’re WELL on your way to building your successful affiliate marketing business.
About the Author
For your FREE report from Super Affiliate “Ewen Chia”, and many more affiliate marketing tips, free tools, and success strategies, visit “Newbie Heaven” at: http://now4u-website.com The author would like to thank Chrisina Munoz for her input … visit her very enjoyable site at http://TheQuoteDiva.com
