If you’ve ever started something with great excitement and anticipation, and then kinda lost your sizzle and fizzle …
You just need some reminders of how incredibly amazing, unique, powerful and skillful enough to achieve anything you desire.
You need a boost to motivate your mojo.
It’s so easy to fall prey to feelings of worthlessness, fear, anxiety when you are stretching yourself to be, do and have more in life.
Whether you are tackling a weight issue, searching for the love of your life, or cranking out the blood, sweat and tears as an entrepreneur, stuff comes up that yanks you down on your ass makes you wonder what the heck you were thinking.
It happens to everyone … from affluent celebrities to the grandma who is living fulltime in an RV (that’s me!)
Jayson Demers, founder and CEO of AudienceBloom, compiled a list of 50 motivating thoughts to help you through those difficult times of second-guessing your dreams and goals … to help you finish what you started with such enthusiasm.
I picked five from his last as my favorites, but all fifty are truly
incredible thoughts and ideas that will motivate your mojo, even if it feels like it’s been lost, stomped on and is gone forever.
Here are my fav five:
4. It’s never too late. No matter how old you are or how many opportunities you’ve passed up before, it’s never too late to make a decision and get a fresh start.
15. “Someday” is today. If you’re like most people, you use the word “someday” to describe your goals and desires. Make today that someday.
33. Ordinary actions make an ordinary life. Nobody wants to be ordinary. Don’t let yourself be.
39. Feelings are the product of thoughts. If you’re scared or unsure, know that these are feelings generated by your thoughts; then you can control them.
41. I am whomever I want to be. There’s nothing stopping you from being whom you want to be.
The bottom line is this. Your thoughts lead to feelings, your feelings lead to action or inaction. Action leads to results. Inaction leads to staying stuck where you are.
Want more insight about how to “feel” good about everything in life, even the negative stuff? Download this free Mp3, listen, and begin to see the unlimited possibilities that await you.
What other ideas and thoughts about how to motivate your mojo?
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Now, more than ever it’s vital to your future to quit your job and become your own boss.
It’s inevitable … technology is eliminating job security.
So much has changed in the last thirty years and it’s changing at a more rapid pace as technology replaces the human services we once relied on.
Look around …
We now scan our own items at self-checkouts;
we use ATMS for banking transactions;
we pump our own gas;
we pay bills online rather than use the postal service;
we call TeleDoc for a diagnosis and prescription;
we buy airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms and rent cars online.
The list goes on and on. The services that used to be performed by humans are no longer needed.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.The working class. Most jobs that existed 20 years ago aren’t needed now. [Source}
W. Brian Arthur, a visiting researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s intelligence systems lab and a former economics professor at Stanford University, calls it the “autonomous economy.” It’s far more subtle than the idea of robots and automation doing human jobs, he says: it involves “digital processes talking to other digital processes and creating new processes,” enabling us to do many things with fewer people and making yet other human jobs obsolete. [Source}
“Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses … it’s progressing. … Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. – Bill Gates [Source]
One recent study by academics at Oxford University suggests that 47% of today’s jobs could be automated in the next two decades. [Source]
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Become an entrepreneur. Be your own boss. Take control.
Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
– James Altucher
WHERE DO YOU START?
1. Make the decision to create your own job security by using technology for your gain – become an internet marketer.
2. Realize you will need to invest time and money to launch your new career.
3. Avoid the “easy money” opportunities that will flood your search. It’s not easy, it takes work and commitment and perseverance. Not easy, but so worth it.
4. Never stop learning. Learn from leaders, learn from your experiences, learn from those who are doing what you are doing.
5. Have a support system in place of people who will guide you, train you and most of all be there to help you navigate through this journey.
6. Grow yourself personally. Being successful in building your own job security is an inner game; it’s about the person you have to become in character and mind in order to be successful.
7. Be patient and steadfast. This is not a lottery ticket, this is the rest of your life. Every decision you make to act in spite of fear, or worry, or doubt, or inconvenience or even when you’re not in the mood will push you faster towards your success.
If you are still reading this, it means what I’ve shared has triggered a “knowing” within you that something has to change in your life. You see the writing on the wall. Good for you!
Here’s to your freedom … you job security … the best of your life.
Oh, and by the way …
We took that big step nine years ago. It was exciting and scary.
Now, we are living our dream and teaching as many people as possible how to create their own cash flow online so they can build real freedom and job security for themselves and their families.
If you are ready to begin to create something purposeful and something that could change the landscape of your family forever…
let me introduce you to what we do … that anyone can learn … to create the financial stability and job security you desire. Click the banner below.
FIRST:Believe in your product or service, and customers will line up to buy.
In sales, it’s not what you say; it’s how they perceive what you say. –Jeffrey Gitomer
When you are “sold” on your product or service, the energy that emanates as you speak to someone is felt, not just heard.
Have you ever had a wonderful dinner at a restaurant? How excited were you to share your experience with others?
Or, have you ever found a hairdresser or physical trainer or dentist that gave you the best service you have ever received?
I’m sure you couldn’t wait to tell your friends about it. You raved about the experience. You couldn’t say enough good things about it!
When you can get as excited about your business as you do about your hairdresser, a restaurant, a great movie or a fantastic sale at a local department store, the results you achieve will change dramatically.
[Tweet “Their hesitancy to buy is caused by the hesitancy of your belief.”]
The best way to get excited and build confidence and belief about what you are “selling” is to KNOW what you selling.
Invest time in the back office going through everything, and I mean everything … the training, the products, the commissions.
It’s not that you will need to share ALL this knowledge to make a sale; it’s that knowing what you have to offer will help solve a problem your prospect is having as your conversation continues.
All that selling requires is for you to provide a solution to someone’s pain or provide a means of pleasure to lead them to a decision.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -Plato
The more you know about your product and service, the greater number of people you will help, and the greater your income will be.
Once you have this knowledge and understanding, you’ll have “sold” the hardest person to sell.
Not everyone is cut from the same mold and when you have a complete knowledge and understanding of your product/service, you’ll be able to match your product/service to their needs.
Gaining the knowledge of your product or service will gain you confidence … which leads to belief … which leads to trust … which leads to sales.
SECOND:Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.
But you will be stopped in your tracks if you feel that you are not good enough, smart enough, or creative enough to achieve what you want in life.
[Tweet “A lack of self-worth will afflict and affect every conversation you have with prospects.”]
The energy behind your spoken words is sensed by others. If you are doubtful, fearful and desperate to make a sale, it will be felt, no matter the words they hear.
Successful entrepreneurs know the hardest person to sell is themselves. This is why they invest time and money for personal development.
It’s not who you are that holds you back,
it’s who you think you’re not.
How to begin to believe in YOU?
The hardest person to sell is YOU.
Once you’re “sold,” the possibilities are unlimited.
P.S. What if you could meet with a group of people who would inspire and encourage and believe in you? What if you could join in the study and discussion of great personal development books?
What if one hour a day could give you the tools and knowledge to help you begin to believe in YOU?
You can and you will!
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Millionaire Mind Intensive is a seminar, a workshop, an event that will transform your life.
Attending this event several years ago was the beginning, the catapult of the Naked Hippies dream come true.
It seemed impossible to get to the Millionaire Mind Intensive event in Phoenix. We were living in Missouri, in an efficiency apartment with $13 in our checking account, no credit cards, a car with 150,000 miles and bald tires …
IMPOSSIBLE!
But, as we listened to T Harv Eker speak about the upcoming event, we knew we absolutely needed to get to Phoenix. So, we reserved our seats, and decided that even if we had to hitch hike, we would go.
His words were clear and direct, and as we sat there listening to him and looking at the dismal amount in our checking account, we knew something had to change.
At church the next day, Bruce got into a conversation with one of the members whom we had not had the pleasure of getting to know yet. He shared about the message we heard from T Harv and that we were going to put our butts in those seats no matter what.
The following day, this member called us and offered to drive us to Phoenix in his reliable Toyota. We were flabbergasted!
REALLY? You would do that?
He insisted. He and his partner planned to drive us to Phoenix and hang out at a motel while we attended the 3 day event.
Can you imagine how humble and grateful we felt?
Excitedly, we told them we had received two free tickets to share; they eagerly accepted the invitation to attend the event with us.
It was a honor to be present at the last live appearance of T Harv Eker at these events. During those three days we listened, we learned and we experienced breakthroughs about our money blueprint that truly launched us on the Naked Hippies Roadtrip path to our dream.
The exercises we went through helped us understand and clear many of the limiting beliefs that were holding us back.
Now, we serve on the Karma Krew at these events. It is an opportunity for us to give back to Millionaire Mind Intensive.
If you are feeling stuck.
If you are wondering why you continue to struggle.
If you are seeking a way to break through to financial success.
Get to one of the Millionaire Mind Intensive events.
They are free to attend.
They are held all over the country.
Do whatever you have to do to get there … by car, train, bus, or plane … or even by hitchhiking!
I have to share some of the sychronicities that we have discovered from attending our first Millionaire Mind Intensive.
As we began to build our online business and network with other online marketers, we met and become friends with them at various marketing events, and eventually became business partners.
It was amazing to discover that four of the people we were working with directly had been to the exact same event in Phoenix! We came full circle.
Have you attended a Millionaire Mind Intensive event? Share in the comments below!
Stand out among billions on the internet or you’ll stand in the shadows of those who do …
If you don’t stand out, you’ll wring your hands, beat your head against the wall, cry out to the gods of cyberspace and probably start to think of throwing in the towel.
HOLD ON! Before you scream “It’s no use,” read on for some tips on standing out on the internet.
Just so you know, as of just a few minutes ago, there were nearly 3 million blog posts written today, over 154 billion emails sent, and over 648 million tweets. And the day ain’t over yet!
[source: http://www.internetlivestats.com/]
Click the pic to see the “real time” numbers
As the number of internet users it is more evident than ever that you stand out as a blogger, as a marketer among the billions on the internet – but how?
HOW TO STAND OUT ON THE INTERNET LIKE THE NAKED HIPPIES’ PICKUP CAMPER PARKED IN THE MIDST OF CLASS A RVS
1. BE YOU – the #1 thing you can do
It’s really, really, really okay to be YOU!
There is no one else like you. No one else has your style, your voice, your personality and yes, even your quirks.
But, that’s exactly what attracts followers. You just have to be as real as it gets. Be the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s all allowed and adored because everyone is sick and tired of the hype and false pretensions on the internet (and everywhere else in life, too.)
People have a keen sense of smell … they can smell the stink of fake or the fragrance of genuineness.
Nobody can DO YOU like you do you! There’s a ton of people copying other styles, trying to “fit in,” attempting to be something they truly aren’t. You just do you and leave the mask off.
2. BE CONSISTENT
It doesn’t matter whether you blog every day, three times a week or even once a week. What matters is that you are CONSISTENT.
Every day matters. Be there!
On social media platforms, it’s a daily requirement – at least once a day, but even better to have a presence several times a day for this reason … your social media posts have a short shelf life:
TWITTER: The median lifespan of a tweet is 18 minutes.
FACEBOOK: 75% of the engagement you get on your posts happens within the first 5 hours. After that, engagement pretty much dies off. [more statistics here]
INSTAGRAM: Your photo on Instagram may only get seen once, so make it a good one. [source]
PINTEREST: Your Pinterest pins are on Pinterest forever. However they are only going to show up in your followers’ streams when you initially pin them. [source]
3. USE IMAGES
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and it’s been proven to be the most engaging, the most valuable element of your social media marketing and on your blog.
Find some fun pics like this on Pixabay!
Research from Skyword found that if your content includes compelling images, you can average 94 percent more views than your boring counterparts. [source]
Word of warning though: use only your own personal pictures or images that you have permission to use without worry of copyright infringement. The last thing you need is a lawsuit for grabbing an image from Google or Pinterest or someone’s blog, thinking because it’s on the web, it’s okay to use it. WRONG.
A great source for copyright-free images is Pixabay. The search function gives you tons of images to choose from, and they are available in different sizes to suit your needs.
4. TITLES AND FIRST LINES
A great title and the first few words of your social media post have to GRAB the attention of the reader. If it doesn’t, they will click off or scroll away from what you are sharing.
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. -David Ogilvy
Too often, more attention is given to the content created than the title or headline.
Jeff Goins writes, “You should begin and end every article with the question: ‘Would this make me want to read on?'”
In this article, he offers a simple formula for your titles:
Number or Trigger word + Adjective + Keyword + Promise
You’ve got about 3 seconds to get someone’s attention with your title or your social media post. Pay attention to the subject lines of the emails you receive from other marketers … notice how some have a title that you can’t ignore … you just have to read more. That’s exactly what you want your titles to do.
5. BE A RESOURCE
Be a resource for what people need.
Most people are always looking to increase pleasure or decrease pain in their lives. You can be the “go-to” person that they will learn to rely on for either (as you incorporate all of these tips.)
Being a resource doesn’t mean you have to have a PhD in a subject.
Life has given you a boatload of skills and experiences to share.
You just have to share what you know … the knowledge you’ve gained and the experiences you have had in life.
Decrease the pain: What are your skills? There is someone who is searching how to do exactly what you already know. You probably have more skills than you realize. Make a list of everything you know how to do, no matter how insignificant it might seem, from your expertise as a realtor to your amazing skills as a mom. You’d be surprised at what people type in the search bars!
Increase the pleasure: Are you a motivator? Do you inspire and encourage people? Are you funny and entertaining? Do you write poetry, compose music, create beautiful works of art? Share your strengths to be a source of light in other lives.
These five tips to help you stand out on the internet are intended to get your creative juices flowing and encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and show the world what you’ve got!
Here are 9 blog post ideas for creating massive content because there are days when you feel the well has run dry.
Does it ever happen to you? Seriously, do you ever sit there staring at a blank screen saying I can’t think of a single thing to blog about?
So, what do you do when you’ve got that deer in the headlights look and you can’t think of a thing … when you’re just wrung out dry? What do you do?
Put on your imaginary thinking cap because I’ve got some great ideas to spur you to writing.
Note: Scroll down for the video version of this blog post.
9 Blog Posts Ideas for Massive Content
1. HOW TO
Be the solution to someone’s question.
People are always searching for instructions on how to do something. Think of the last time you searched YouTube because you had something that needed to be fixed or you had to figure out how to do something. You most likely found a video to walk you through the solution, step by step.
I did that when we needed to put a new keyboard on my particular model of laptop. I searched YouTube, found the steps and felt pretty dang proud I could manage to do this without taking the laptop to a computer shop.
Maybe you’ve just recently learned how to do something new. Share that. Maybe you’ve got a whole treasure chest of things you know how to do. That means you have a ton of blog posts waiting for this information, as well as people searching for the solution and tips you share.
2. REVIEW
You can write a review on anything … on a book you just read, a movie you saw, a restaurant you went to, an new product you tried, a theme park you enjoyed, a recipe you tried … anything. Just share your experience.
This is my experience with when I …
this is what I think of this …
Reviews are fun and easy to do because of the multitude of experiences you have to draw from, the places you go, the products you use, etc. You get to be as excited or disappointed as you want, you get to express exactly how much you liked or disliked the product/service/experience.
3. A NUMBERED LIST
This type of blog post is fun and will really get your imagination running. Share a list, a numbered list on your blog such as:
5 ways to increase your energy
10 ways to clear out clutter
20 top motivating quotes
10 reasons to live the rv full time life.
Some of these types of lists will require research. Others will be developed from your own personal experiences.
Remember David Letterman’s Top Ten Lists? No reason you can’t create your own humorous lists, too.
People like numbered lists … they’re valuable, quick and easy to read and even entertaining.
4. RESOURCES
Help people find the best of the best, according to your personal opinion.
Such as the 5 best Ted Talks that you have watched, the 6 best historic places to visit while you are in Arizona, or the 10 best personal development books you have ever read.
Put them all together in a blog post with pictures (if available) and links to the videos, the books, the places so your readers can access more information.
What to write about, what to write about. Keep reading!
5. VIDEOS
Another quick and easy way to create a blog post is to share videos on your blog. It’s very easy to get the embed code from YouTube and add it to your blog post. All you have to do is write a little snippet of content above and below it and let the video do all the work for you.
Or, create your own videos of course. One of the best ways to establish credibility and build relationships with people is with videos of yourself. People love to see the face behind the message. It helps them get to know you better.
6. INTERVIEWS
There are amazing people in this world and I’m not just referring to the top gurus and the most successful leaders in the world. I’m talking about people from every walk of life. Interview them. Share their inspirational story.
Find someone that you admire or someone that you work with. Maybe they just achieved something really spectacular. Ask to interview them. You can record the interview as a Google Hangout and then embed the video on your blog or you could even record a phone interview (use http://freeconferencing.com) and upload the Mp3 to your blog.
Interviews are a great way to add content to your blog.
7. GUEST POSTS
This one will definitely lesson your work load since you’ll be using someone else’s writing to fill your blog post. Find people that you resonate with and ask them to do a guest post on your blog. They will love the exposure and most everyone will cross-promote their guest post on your blog on their social media platforms.
It’s easy content that you don’t have to write. All you have to do is say something to introduce them and say something in closing.
8. CHECKLISTS
Another fun type of blog posts are checklists. You make it easy for people to get some helpful, useful information in a quick way.
Think of what experiences would be easily carried out with a checklist, such as:
#What to ask your mechanic when you take your vehicle to the garage
#What to take camping
#What you need to apply for a passport
#What to remember when packing when packing for college
The possibilities are endless for checklists.
9. SERIES
This is one type of blog post that I love the most because it makes me accountable. If I say I’m going to do 31 days of marketing tips, you better believe I’m going to show up and do 31 days because I said I was going to do it.
Or a series like 7 days of personal transformation tips or 6 days to better health or whatever you can come up with.
Think of a type of series you would enjoy doing and begin.
The last one didn’t make my own personal go-to list for blog topics, but it might be of interest to you.
CONTROVERSIAL
So you’re upset with what I wrote?
I shy away from this type of blog post because I’m not a very controversial person; however, it really does attract readers and followers if you have a penchant for it.
Bringing up a controversial topic gets people riled up. If you’re strong enough to handle criticism along with the supportive comments, go for it.
One additional tip that I don’t want you to miss as you begin creating all these new blog posts:
Whenever you feature a book, a product, a person, another blog post … anything that you mention in your blog that can be linked to their website …DO IT. It creates backlinks to your blog, which helps with SEO (search engine optimization.)
As promised, here’s the Periscope video for those who would rather listen than read:
I hope these 9 blog post ideas for creating massive content have helped you start to think of the endless possibilities. Most of all I hope your fingers are itching to get started typing!
What other ideas do you have that help when you need blog post ideas?
