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When the emotion hit me, I almost drove off the road

March 4, 2013 — Leave a comment

I can’t explain what happened to me the other day but, when the emotion of it hit me, I almost drove my car off the road. And, as you can see from the photo, where I live, that can pretty scary.

 country road

I was diving on one of the back country roads near my home, listening to music and thinking about an opportunity that had just been presented to me, when I received what I can only describe as an Inspired message.

A nudge from God if you will. I don’t know about you but this doesn’t happen to me everyday. At least not with that intensity.

Since this new business is the greatest opportunity to change people’s lives through personal development I’ve seen in more than a decade, I was getting excited.

Why am I excited?

Back in the late 1990’s there was a network marketing company, The People’s Network (TPN), who was delivering personal development video’s, by satellite. Unfortunately they were purchased and are not around anymore. At least until now.

I say it was unfortunate that TPN didn’t continue because I still remember the single mother I met at a meeting, telling me how watching the personal development programing had saved her son from the inner city Philadelphia gangs and her daughter from a similar fate.

That’s the power of a simple, steady diet of personal development and business development information.

As I was driving, I was thinking about who I wanted to contact right away. I was thinking about some of the successful business people, well known authors, and Internet marketers I know when, something inside of me screamed no!

The message I received was clearly telling me that people I care about most are the one’s I should contact first. In case you’re wondering, no, I was not hearing voices. It was a “knowing,” a feeling, not an actual voice.

I clearly got the message to get my ego out of the way and see the bigger picture. This was humbling to say the least. I realized that if I believed in the potential of this to change people’s lives, then the people I should share it with right away are the people closest to me.

I then realized I need to let as many people know about this as possible.

At that point, my eyes teared and I had all I could do to concentrate on driving. Winding, mountainous, country roads are not a place where you want to get distracted.

That feeling, along with the intense emotion that came with it, affirmed for me that this was, in fact, as powerful an opportunity as I thought. I asked, prayerfully, if this was really a message from Spirit and the feeling intensified.

I know that whatever else happens, I need to let as many people know about this as I can. I can see and feel the power this has to change people’s lives. I know it deep in my heart.

People in the U.S., the world for that matter, need to shift their dominant vibration, their dominant energy to a more positive place. I don’t think anyone will dispute that.

One of the ways to do that is by raising people’s self-esteem. I know this clearly. From the effects in my own life more than twenty five years ago, to the lives of the people who have been reading my books and listening to my seminars for almost two decades, I have seen, time and time again, how a diet of personal development can change people’s lives for the better.

I urge you to take a careful look at this. You can even receive a weekly video feature free.

And for anyone interested in the business opportunity, it’s only $9.95 a month with a thirty day money back guarantee.

This is the only direct selling business I’ve seen that will not only change people’s lives, but offers a business opportunity that virtually anyone can afford.

We can change the world, one person at a time, one message at a time.

The time is now, the opportunity is here.

The next step is yours. Learn More

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Quieting Your Internal Critic

September 27, 2011 — Leave a comment

If you read personal growth or self-help books, you’ve been taught to identify what you want to have. You’ve been instructed to focus your intention on what you want, because what you think about is what is drawn to you. This idea was best expressed by the late Earl Nightingale who said, “Your mind moves in the direction of your currently dominant thoughts.” This is an idea that can be traced back thousands of years.

Hold your attention on what you want to create in your life, since this is what you will attract. There is, however, tremendous value in looking at the other side of this equation, for it is in contrast that we find clarity. One of the blocks to having what we want in our lives is the internal resistance that is present and operating behind the scenes.

For example, let’s supposing that you want to double your current level of business. I can hear some people right now gasping at the thought of that, however, it occurs all the time. This is one of the strategies I teach in seminars for people who want to experience quantum growth.

Here’s the problem: you think “I want to double my business in the next twelve months.” While you’re focusing on this lofty goal, in the back of your mind there is resistance to this idea. Your internal critic is chattering away telling you how difficult it will be, and even if it were possible, which it’s not, you would have to work twice as hard and that’s not something you want to do. You are in conflict and probably not even aware of it.

Fortunately, there is a fairly simple solution to this dilemma. Begin your goal setting by first identifying what you do not want. I’m not suggesting for a second that you dwell on what you don’t want in your life. That will draw it to you. Just that you devote some time and energy surfacing everything you don’t want.

In our business example above, you may have conflicting thoughts like “I don’t want more work, added overhead, more debt; I don’t want to have to hire more people, and I don’t want to work longer,” and on and on.

By doing this simple step, you’ve cleared the way for the next important step, deciding what you do want. Once you’re clear as to what you do not want, with regard to your goal, you can begin to list what you do want to have and experience.

Again, in our example of “doubling your business,” this might include such things as, “I want to double my business in the next 12 months. I want it to happen with ease and joy. I want to be able to do it with our present staff and budgets. I want it to be exciting and pleasurable for everyone. I want it to be fun and have this occur effortlessly. I want to add more value to our clients. I want to explore new markets and create new ways to reach them.”

By first allowing your fears and resistances to become known to you, you’ve cleared the way to have more of what you do want.

Once you’ve identified what you don’t want, don’t keep going back to it. As a matter of fact, you might want to take your “don’t want” list and burn it. Now devote all of your time, energy, resources, attention and thoughts to what you do want.

(excerpt 52 Ways to a Happier Life, (Tremendous Life books 2011)

PS. These kinds of processes are what we typically use in our coaching programs for small business owners.

In Business, Business Growth, Goals, Home Business, Self-Help, Success, Visions & Goals
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Job losses should be a wake up call for you to buffer yourself

April 15, 2011 — 1 Comment

Recently, I’ve come in contact with a number of people who have been downsized from their corporate jobs. Most are working in a part-time capacity in retail environment’s. This of course is a good idea.

As a friend of mine once advised, you have to “cover the nut” meaning that it’s important to have some level of income, even if only enough to get by. Having been without that several times in my life, I can appreciate the sentiment.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to solve financial problems creatively when you are under day-to-day pressure. If you are in this situation, your best course of action is to obtain some steady source of income while you get to work on adding additional revenue streams.

Don’t try to launch an internet business expecting to hit it big in an instant. It rarely happens. By all means, launch your business whether it be online or off, but keep your day job until you get going.

The adage of of “jump and the net will appear” may be true, but it doesn’t say when.

Follow the lead of the late Jim Rohn, who said “I have my job to make a living and my part-time business to make a fortune.”

And that is exactly what he did. He kept his day-to-day job, the one with the regular paycheck, while he built his independent business. This combination, used successfully by him and others, made him a millionaire in six years. He did this, I might add, some fifty years ago.

What will your next income stream be? Do you want to begin an eBay business as a way to add some extra income quickly or are you a natural writer or teacher with a passion for a topic that would interest others.

If so, perhaps a place to begin is to set up a blog and start sharing your ideas. There are a number of ways that you can add income from a blog, ranging from Google Adsense and similar pay per click programs, to affiliate marketing and, ultimately, your own products and services. I”ll write more about this in future posts.

Do you want to do as my friend Audrey Kerwood did and start an ecommerce business and sell products online?

Perhaps you are not interested in an online business at all and want to do something off line. Does growing micro-greens in greenhouses, like my friends at Blue Moon Acres in Buckingham, Pennsylvania sounds like something you’d be interested indoing? They grow their micro-greens and sell them to some of the top restaurants in New York City.

Are you a talented artist or graphic designer like my friend Genevieve Cosdon, who works from home designing websites and brochures for local businesses, while taking care of her 14 month old.

Are you attracted to the people to people business model of the network marketing industry like my friend and colleague, Julie Booz ? Many people get started in network marketing due to its support system, low risk, and low cost of entry.

Whatever area attracts you, it’s important to understand that in the 21st century, having a single skill or a single income stream is a plan destined to cause problems.

The world is moving and changing too fast for anyone to get by, much less prosper, by doing just one thing. Explore your options.

Think about what you would enjoy doing and investigate some of the opportunities I mentioned. If you want a good place to start, I suggest listening to my newest audio “Wake Up and See the Money.”

This will open your mind to the possibilities that surround you. I will be sharing more ideas as we go along and, as I suggested, don’t quit your day job but also don’t settle for only one channel of income. It’s just too risky.

And if you are already in your own business or ready to start, consider working directly with me as your in-house marketing and business development partner. Learn more here

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We are surely living in interesting times

March 31, 2011 — Leave a comment

If you have been following the news for the past several months, you’ve seen natural disasters occurring all over the world. Governments toppled, civil war in Libya, and now a devastating earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.

The tragedy in Japan has impacted me personally due to the large number of Japanese people who have supported my work there and I have posted a special fund-raising offer, using my newest book 52 Ways to a Happier Life, as my way of helping. And, of course, along with everyone else I pray for the people there.

In the US, we have experienced one of the harshest winters in memory and storms, tornadoes, and floods like we’ve never seen before.

In addition to the personal loss, this has left the already sparse State and Local Government Treasury’s near empty. And now with the price of gas rising once again, the slowly recovering economy is threatened.

All of this begs the question, “What can I do to cope?” And “How do I protect my family’s financial well-being?”

Anyone who has read my writing for any length of time knows I am not one to give up — ever. Having been in difficult, all or nothing situations before, I have learned a few things, namely go back to basics.

For starters, develop and strengthen your spiritual connection and cling to your faith in a loving God.

Pray, not so much for everything to be rosy, but for the strength to handle whatever comes your way and know deep inside that you will get through this. Things will change, and brighter days will in fact appear.

As far as the economy and bankrupt governments, this is a complex issue that is not going to be solved in a short article, or for that matter, entirely by me.

That said, there are things you can do. There is always something you can do. Some action you can take.

Once again, go back to basics. You may not be able to solve your city’s financial crises but you can affect your families.

Work from the bottom up, build up your own financial security and wealth. By doing so, you’ll be able to circulate more money in your local economy and share some with causes that you support.

Make a point of spending at least a part of your disposable income in your local community, even if you pay a little more. What you pay for goods and services is not all that important, within reason, once you realize that you can create more at will.

I’ve just finished a new one-hour audio to help you learn how to create more money. It’s titled Wake Up and See the Money and you can order it here for less than $10.

State and Local Government financial problems are a bit more complex, however the theory is the same. For starters, we and they must realize as Einstein said “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”

Governments must begin to look at new ways to create additional revenues. But it all starts with you and I. Our income is what fuels Government coffers so the logical place to begin is with individual and small businesses. In the Congressional Eighth District in Pennsylvania, Representative Mike Fitzpatrick, has formed a small business advisory panel that I’ve been invited to be part of.

Whatever you do, don’t just sit and worry, get into action.

Start exploring ways you can add channels of income to your household. Get involved.

Do you want to know how to increase your income whenever you want?

I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest audio “Wake Up and See the Money.” This is a fast moving one hour recording that is sure to change your beliefs in your own ability to earn more and take charge of your financial destiny.

Once you understand where money comes from, you too can be a part of that group who can always create more money in their lives. In this new audio recording, I share with you the powerful ideas and techniques used by all successful people who’ve learned to create money and wealth.

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If you don’t follow your instincts, you’ll never know what could be

December 13, 2010 — Leave a comment

Back in 1991 when I first started writing this newsletter, I had no idea where it would take me.

This, by the way, is one of the reason I do what I can to inspire you to trust your instincts. When you feel an impulse to do something creative or entrepreneurial, I believe it’s a nudge from God in response to a past desire you expressed.

For me, the desire was to use my talent and abilities to share ideas that would help others. At the time, I was writing newsletters and brochures for a group of small business clients. While this was fun and paid well, I felt something was missing so, one day I began writing what has become this newsletter.

Little did I realize that this small act of writing a story and sending it out as “Jim’s Jems” would alter the direction of my life forever. This newsletter, over a period of years, evolved into what became my first book, Handbook to a Happier Life.

Once again I had followed my instincts. Back then I knew little about the publishing or marketing of books. What I did know, from letters and emails, was that what I had been writing in my newsletter was helping people. That was all I needed to forge ahead.

Fortunately, for me, Handbook to a Happier Life took off and became an international bestseller, changing my life completely.

If you will just trust and act on that idea that has been gnawing at you, you’ll be amazed at what can happen. The inspirations that awaken us and those dreams we’re holding deep in our hearts are not there by accident. They are in our awareness for a reason. As I said, I believe these are answers to our prayers. Our job is to act on them.

One of the reasons “Handbook” was such a success is that, in addition to it containing lots of practical ideas and being easy to read, the chapters are actually “mini” chapters, each only one or two pages.

This makes it easy for busy people to find the time to read it.

That’s why I’m so excited to be launching my new book, 52 Ways to a Happier Life (details below).

It’s published by Tremendous Life Books, one of the most highly regarded publishers of person development and success books in America.

This new book, like my first, contains 52 “mini” chapters, each 2-3 pages, making it easy to read even with everything else we have to do in today’s society. For me, those few minutes a day spent reading makes all the difference in how I feel and perform throughout the day.

Your burning desire may or may not be to write a book. Mine wasn’t. I just wanted to share ideas to help people but learned that books were one of the best ways to do that and today my books are published worldwide.

Whatever your particular dream, I cannot urge you strongly enough to begin moving for, as Thoreau said, “I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

The next time you feel an impulse to do something toward a dream of yours, act on it. That small step may just be the beginning of your most amazing journey.

52 Ways to a Happier Life Practical ideas you can use to create the life you were born to live.

It’s fast reading 130 pages are filled with ideas, lessons, techniques, strategies, and activities that you can read in a just few minutes and put to use right away. It’s the perfect morning pick-me-up, with or without coffee.

Learn more about this book and holiday specials here

In Goals, Goals & Goal Setting, Home Business, Money, Self-Help, Success
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