In my last Network Marketing business, I just refused to listen to the nagging doubts in my mind whilst I worked at developing a habit of just being positive… I learnt a hard lesson of remembering what I already knew and trusting my instincts which cried out to ditch what I was doing and to get back on the internet, where the leverage is… My sponsor’s advice to “keep Going”, was about helping her as much as me and was stopping me remembering to keep moving in my own direction…

But as I was carrying on regardless, recruiting new marketers into my bizop, I was consistently amazed at how many homes I went into where people had made contact because they expressed an interest in changing their life, but could not even muster up the will to do something different by even turning the T.V. down, or off, when it was clear that I was about to present some information to them, which might need some attention.

Perhaps, they were so used to having that ridiculously over-sized goggle box on so much, that it was all just white noise to them, which they could ignore. I suspect not however and as a non-TV owner, I found it incredibly off-putting and always asked for them to turn it down, on the (not too far off the truth) pretext that I was a little deaf. Perhaps, it was also because it was just too big a leap to say that it would wreak havoc with my A.D.D.!

This past couple of weeks as I have been getting into a new stride again, as I settle into old business interests and one or two new ones, I have been thinking about how difficult it can be at the best of times to make a change if our attention is just too spread over too many things, which prevents our developing new habits and routines and achieving the cumulative effect of different behaviours down the line.

We humans, it seems can be pitiable creatures… Here’s some insights into human behaviour I hear every now and then and which never ceases to amaze me:

Statistics suggest that the average American watched 4 hours of television per day in the year 2010;
the comparable figure was about 2 hours per day, I believe in the UK at the time.

In case that number didn’t come as a SHOCK and just washed over you, let’s just take a closer look at WHAT THAT MEANS for a person’s life:

Four hours of TV per day equals:

• 240 minutes per day
• 28 hours per week
• 112 hours per month
• 1,344 hours per year
• 13,440 hours per decade
• 107,520 hours per eight decades

That equates to 4,480 days, or 12.27 years, of one’s life spent watching television in your average life-span of eight decades. And this doesn’t count time we spent on Google, Email, Facebook, Twitter, or talking and texting on cell phones!

One thing is sure, when people tell you they are “too busy” to improve, enhance, and better their lives, shortage of time is NOT the reason, but a DENIAL of what they waste time on. They may be kidding themselves over what is the real issue: maybe lost confidence, loss of ambition, dreams crushed by others, or that ridiculous fantasy that success should come quickly and effortlessly, as seems to be the case for many of our young people these days.

Any entrepreneur has as many hours in the day as Mr or Ms Average – the difference is how we use our time and MANAGE OURSELVES!

It’s Spring-time right now as I write this. The clocks are already forward, seedlings are up, lambs are now sheep; the year is ticking on. So as you head into a new month, bear in mind:

• Research suggests that watching 30 minutes of TV can be rejuvenating for the brain and the body. Any more than half an hour in front of the goggle box is counter-productive. (Whew! What a relief for me to know it’s ok to watch my favorite shows, like Dragons’ Den, Gardeners’ World or Question Time!)

• Remember, as you watch TV, you are merely watching actors live out their dreams while neglecting our own dreams and letting our selves down.

• When someone says they don’t have time for something, they have not stated a fact; they have stated a priority and a likely habit of procrastination and avoidance.

• It is not the price of admission to the winners’ circle in life that keeps you or anyone else from success, it is the price of success, which includes giving up something we might like now for something greater in the future. Change and sacrifice is not comfortable.

If you want to learn, be inspred or be reminded how people become successful, or start to think about changing your own life, read chapters 2 and 3 in Dare to Dream and Work to Win.

Share on Facebook

There are so many ways to make money on-line and work from home, to get that work-life balance you need to have any kind of quality of life with those you care about and to do the things you love, like hobbies. Me, I just want to have a bunch of dogs, go surfing regularly, buy organically and ethically, learn to invest, give to charities and have time to chat to friends. I have my bucket list, yes and I’ve listed nearly 100 things there over recent years, but really, I don’t want simple things in life…

To have all these things, we need to work for our-selves with a view to starting to make our money work for us instead of working for money, trading your life and days to make money for someone else’s pockets. Many business owners, however, are owned by their business. Passion for your business is a wonderful thing, sure, but living and breathing your business forever..? I am not convinced of the wisdom of that just yet.

I want my short days to be crammed full of as much value and earning as I can possibly squeeze in from my time spent on generating cash-flow. For this very reason, I am forever open to new revenue streams which relate, even if indirectly, to what I am interested in. My biggest interest these days is working from home and helping others to derive an income from home too. Online marketing is massive growth industry, estimated at $4billion annually, and growing…

A few days ago, I found yet another automated system to earn money on-line, easily and effectively using this online advertising media, without my having to give it too much attention. As businesses increasingly seek to generate earnings from the web and attract new customers and maintain their edge over local competition, they need to advertise online. There are companies who can help them to do that in various ways, including using social media, web-site creation and S.E.O., and banner advertising.

I have to admit, although, I know that banner advertising works, as I click them myself sometimes, I never really gave it too much thought beyond hosting adverts on my own site here. That was until an enterprising friend of mine was being mocked on Facebook for posting ‘spammy’ “Try This” type messages on his wall…

I contacted him a few days later to ask what BannersBroker was all about. It is basically about selling advertising space without picking up the phone – and buying advertising space for any existing business you may have in the form of your business advertising banners appearing on existing relevant platforms. Relevance can be by locality or the type of service or product being sold, so that traffic to your web-site is more highly targetted.

I had in mind a budget of how much I was willing to invest; I was really happy to see that there were a range of options to suit different peoples’ financial capacities.

I went for a standard mid range option of £150. I have wasted far much more than this elsewhere on other pet schemes. I am wary of my gambler’s mentality and impetuosness that comes with managing my A.D.H.D., so I investigated the company some more.

BannersBroker.com is a new Canadian advertising and business building company, but they are moving fast. This gravy train was not leaving the station without me, I figured. It suits most life-styles; it is so easy to manage; does not consume too much time and does not require recruiting of a team, although this certainly helps… Flexible investments and capacity to up-grade as your business grows are just a bonus!

If easier options is what you need right now, then click this banner and take a look, then come and find me on Twitter or FB if you want to ask me anything…

(My friend’s initial investment of just over £100 was paid within the first month!!! He knows NOTHING about on-line markeitng and I was the first person he had told about it… So don’t work it or work it; results are up to you!)

The beauty of this system is that as you talk to other people about how the system is doing everything for you and you are earning money automatically, you will get friends and family to sign up and your earnings will just increase even more!!! Don’t you just love the internet for automatically generating cash-flow, whilst you are busy getting on with other stuff!

If you want to see more of how this system works, take a look at this information:

Share on Facebook

Purely out of a need a couple of nights ago, I was lying in bed thinking about how I could solve a problem I had in my garden. In a flash, the answer came to me after the problem turning over in my mind for ten or fifteen minutes. In that dream like state another door opened up, as I realised that what I needed probably did not exist. I was right.

It’s Easter Bank Holiday here, so the weather has been so fine and my garden so in need of love, I could not justify making the time to get on the net and do my research until last night about whether what I had conjured up as a solution to a problem actually was on the market. After an hour or so scouting around various sites, I realised that I had joined a long line of inventers… Novelty my product might be as opposed to absolutely radically new, but a product nevertheless.

Over the years, I have had many such flashes of inspiration only to subsequently hear, that somebody else had beaten me to the patent… Now I have the entrepreneurial mindset and am applying for a patent as soon as financially possible to get this baby out there.

Make no mistake, it is the creation of our own products which will be the major wealth producer. Now, I make no claim that my product will be earth shattering in its impact on the world, nor do I expect it to make me millions. However, I recognise the significance of its monetary value enough to know that this is another revenue stream for the future.

It could not have come at a better time… I am still contracting as a self-employed person from home in the business services industry, but this past fortnight has not been a happy one. I am increasingly frustrated that I need to move on and get my on-line business interest rolling and my market trading business rolling.

When I think about the medium term future of the economy, I am nervous, when I think of my retirement if I do nothing to change from effectively being owned by my current business which only pays my bills, I am really scared. Essentially, I am a bear about our economy… The more I look, the more scared I get… It’s time to press on.

In my desire to connect to others locally who are trying to effect change to how our economy is run, I found this… You will need a cuppa and some cake to bear it, if you are British…

Share on Facebook

I have ADHD. Every day is a battle to focus and prioritise. When I heard that analogy for priority setting involving putting stones in a jar, it was as if someone had turned a light on for me. I’m serious. It’s so obvious that to get the most into a jar you put the big stuff in first filling the gaps as you go with smaller pebbles and then finally throwing the sand in last, isn’t it? Well, no…

You see many people do not operate like that for much of their day. although Entrepreneurs master this practice daily, I still find it a battle to force myself to do the stuff that is most difficult for me. If there is a step-by-step process, involving multiple functions or elements to be put together in a particular order, I want to run away screaming…. It’s that bad. The worst time for me is sitting down to do my accounts… I can’t wait to pass all that paperwork to an accountant and be done with the whole package!

But I’m now maybe two years into keeping this blog and finally moving closer to where I want to be in terms of my professional life as I near 50, but I am still running from the techy stuff.

The writing here, I find easy. It has not mattered until recently that I do not have a clue how popular this site really is. But all that is about to change. You see, some folk post comments about an RSS feed here. I know for a fact it does not work, because I never set the bugger up. ” Too technical”. I no longer have my autoresponder and opt in box working since leaving one of the network marketing companies I was with.

But now, it’s important that I really start to make money here. I have to make the time I put in pay and I need to cover maintenance and hosting costs. So my aim is to deliver a member’s area here. I am curious to know if people will subscribe to a newsletter looking at aspects of making money form home.

I no longer only maintain this hub. I have one other and I plan one or two more in the future. But to make all the pieces fit together I have to get back to basics and look at the big rocks again and start to fit everything into my bottle that I want more than half full!

I had this guy, Taylor Wilson posted to by Facebook page by Ted tonight… My God! If this 17 year old can build a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents’ garage… I sure as Hell can learn to put together my RSS and autorepsonder!!! Watch and be amazed…

Share on Facebook

“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford

Last night I attended my first Robert Kiyosaki event in real time. It was a taster evening for those looking to get out of the rat race and learn how to invest (in real estate and property) like the professionals.

It was enlightening, exciting and great to have the confirmation that I am on the right road, even if I was not walking out of that public event having made the very reasonable down payment on Rich Dad’s weekend training weekend intensive.

If I had have had the cash ready, I probably would have invested, just for some of the pricelss information regarding raising capital that would have been part of the deal. However, I chose another option… Focus on goals already crystallising in my mind and heart to study investing in the Forex markets.

Fascinating as it was to hear just how fast you can turn around your cash-flow with the buying and selling property game, unlike my mother, that game does in fact scare me… Not least in finding the right building works co-ordinators… That might just be a ‘master-minding’ / ‘net-working issue’ to be ironed out later. Perhaps it is even an excuse not to act, but I don’t think so.

I have been rediscovering old passions for understanding how the bigger system works. How governements and markets interact and more importantly, how market speculators interact with those market behaviours.

At the end of the meeting a penny, or perhaps a golden coin dropped. As I sat there working out how I could afford it, I realised that my conculsion of selling the car, which I never use, would also fund my training in Forex sooner than I had been anticipating…

I was so distracted by all the cash-flow thought process, that I got off the train one stop too early late last night and walked in the rain for over half an hour with only a packet of onion rings and a few biscuits and an apple in my bag to fortify me… having foregone my evening meal to get to this Kiyosaki conference in time.

But as there was only a fine rain and my head was crammed with problem-solving by then, I was grateful for the excuse to walk and think. I came to the conclusikon that it was time that I moved on already from the free-lancing I have been doing in recent months. Self-employment just means you are ruled by your job, having to do everything from licking stamps to accounts and operations…

I am not complaining for working hard this past few months, as here I am in productive time sacking off from commitments to the guy I contract for to write this blog! I certainly could not get that freedom in a job!!!

But it’s time to get back on track in planning towards making money work for me instead of me for it!!! So the car is going and I am moving over to the “investment quadrant” from the self-employed quadrant.

Within the next month, I will be sorting out getting my car sold to liquidate assets in order to re-invest in myself as a forex trader wannabe!

The funny thing is, someone had planted the idea of selling the car in my mind around Christmas, but as that was for their self-interest I had ignored the advice… Now, I really do have a reason. My cash-flow is meagre, but sufficient to pay the bills until I am in a position to get out of the working for money trap once and for all.

So for any of you out there feeling the same way, like the hamster in the wheel, this is your wake up call… Learn from my mistakes and the wake up call indirectly from Robert Kiyosaki, the original Rich Dad! If you want something enough, you will find a way… How are you making your shift to a better life?

Shifting Your Mindset

Share on Facebook

Every day I try to do one more thing to add to the jobs list which takes me closer to breaking out of the making money for somebody else treadmill. Don’t get me wrong, I would rather be free-lancing from home than working for some idiot in the corporate world or some stuffy government department again.

I am in control of my working environment and if I don’t perform, then I don’t earn, simple as and I know what my efforts are worth when I get on with the job. I am not phased by a long road ahead of me, nor the pressures of extricating myself from circumstances which seem pretty sticky sometimes. I work pretty much how I like, although too many hours than I want to work for someone else at this point in time.

This won’t be forever.

The most difficult part of my day is staying focussed on the different time scales of goals I have. I have so much written down in plans and continue to adapt these as time and I progress. But I have a few ‘irons in the fire’ as they say. So as my earnings have been getting back on an even keel of late, I have been laying foundations for a few different interests.

I opened a comment on my blog tonight that commented that my last few posts had been off track. I have no way of knowing whether that was just some spammy rubbish, or the person is a legitimate regular reader of my posts. Which ever is the case, the sentiments reflected my own lack of confidence in focussing clearly of late.

I am an ADHD case who has a few different goals to pursue. So if my posts here reflect that ‘all over the place’ situation, perhaps this is also an inevitable part of the process of transition sometimes for the entrepreneurial type.

That being said, I am fully aware of the need to focus on goals, but the bigger goals still have to wait a little while longer. On these I can only build on my knowledge and resources required to get started. Meantime, I have other interests which relate to other parts of my life. These I hope to share on a less intensive basis with other women or anyone for that matter with an interest in online marketing and the environment.

That comment posted (and deleted partially accidentally) gave me pause for thought, because I have to daily ask myself what my priorities are for that day. What can I achieve in the time I have available and how much energy I have at any one point in time? This is a constant juggling process. I have my lists of longer term needs written, I diary tasks too, but some remain in my head and end up being prioritised there and then because they never made it to my list and perhaps because my planing process has not yet been perfected…

but the point is just to KEEP GOING and focus on the goals up ahead. The tasks will get done, even if a little higgledy piggledy. Muddling through is not just something to be dismissed. Many entrepreneurs have been here.

Times are difficult right now with demands on my time and financial resources, until the leveraged work can really kick in. I just have to FOCUS on getting out of the working for money trap and keep putting one foot in front of the other towards money working for me.

However messy the process towards those big goals, it feels like moving into a big new house with boxes all over the place, some unpacked and moved to the corners, others dotted around still needing sorting. A house has many rooms if it is to have any interest. Eventually, they will work together better. I’m tidying as I go and doing a bit every day. I’m focussed on the longer term big goals! Making mistakes and putting time into some things that do not work, but it’s all good…

If any readers are feeling like this woman’s ‘blueprint’ is all over the place, yes, perhaps it is somewhat, but there’s value in that… I am mastering different aspects of business models I intend to bring together or have working alongside each other later! : ) Take what you need. Ignore what is of no use to you.

Share on Facebook