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Not Only You Want To Make Money Online, You Want It By Tomorrow Right? By Patric Chan

eneres08 — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:54:53 +0000

Do you believe that someone without any internet marketing experience can make money online in less than a week?

You see, I’m a strong believer that it’s ALWAYS important to build an internet business that can generate income– not just about making money online.

And as a matter of fact, I get annoyed when anyone asks me a question like…

“Can you teach me how to make money online in a week?”

In my mindset, its ‘hard’ to make money online for a newbie and it’ll take at least 6 weeks to get on the right track. I even think that it’s already ‘wrong’ in the first place to have that kind of silly hope.

**BUT**… I realized how I’m shutting myself and my client’s possibilities because I’m being a Smart Alec. I’m being ignorant. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to make money online without spending the time to learn and putting effort, AND wanting to see income in your Paypal within a couple of days.

It is possible and I can prove it to you. No list, no product, no JVs, no nothing.

The only concern is this– you just got to know how to differentiate a real business and the process of making money online.

An internet business is a platform to make money online. But making money online does not mean you have an internet business.

When you want to make money on the internet, there are two ways to go about it.

The first one is to build a real internet business as mentioned earlier. In this method, normally, you’ll select the niche market based on your current expertise, what you like or if it’s your hobby. The strategy for this is to dominate the sub-niche of the pursued niche market and grow it ‘deep’.

Or build an internet business based on your million-dollar idea like the next facebook.com or something.

The other one is to break the ‘rule’ of building a real business by setting up as many ‘income generators’ as you can on the internet. For instance, putting up ads to promote affiliate programs. As you can see, this is really quick because it doesn’t require any product creation or even a website.

The game for this is simple too– the more you can put up on the internet, the higher the chance of success and the richer you’ll be. The internet marketing game is very simple to play- the more ‘presence’ you can have on the internet, the more money you’ll start to see.

The good thing about this method compared to the first one is you have minimal risk and you’ll start seeing income as you go along.

BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM– you desperately need speed. If you don’t use software or hire people to do the mechanical work for you, you just can’t put up enough ‘income generators’ on the internet. My point is, forget about this option if you’re going to do manually – it’s just too much work.

But the ultimate business strategy is to combine both options.

Here’s how it works – send traffic to the affiliate program by using Google Adwords and see how many clicks you can get. In some profitable niches, you can get thousands of clicks at dirt cheap.

If this is happening, then you should start diverting these visitors to your own landing page (instead of sending the traffic directly to the affiliate program) and get them to subscribe into your list. Bam. Now you get to promote the same affiliate program to your list as many times as you want and keep on promoting other products for maximum profit.

If you’re getting good commission for a particular affiliate program and you kind of like that niche market, you can consider creating your own product to sell then.

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After marketing online for the past 5 years and spoken in 11 countries as an authority of internet marketing, Patric Chan has uncovered a proven system how you can make money online as fast as in a week or less. He used to sell The Instant Sale Secrets System for $97 but now he’s giving it away for 100% FREE at http://automationcart.com/jvm/s25/79wa/24710

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How To Get Into The Right Market

eneres08 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:49:48 +0000

Not targeting your market is like bowling blindfolded. Maybe you get lucky, maybe you don’t. And attempting to market to a general audience is not a successful way to run a business.

These are the four factors you’ll need to consider knowing:

1. Who will be your potential customers? For example, if you are setting up a website that discusses alternative medicine, you can bet your target audience is not going to be video gamers! They must share the same interest or affinity towards your niche.

2. What is the best way to know your market’s behavior and preference? The easiest way is to conduct survey on your website (provided you already have ongoing visitors). Make your list a part of the process, and have them tell you what they really want and need.

If you can can’t do that, then spend a little bit time at the forums that are related to your market and learn what people are looking for, or what do they need to know. This is one of the best resources available to the savvy marketer, and should be taken full advantage of.

3. Choose the proper target market. In the preceding example, we used the analogy of video gamers and alternative medicine. If you are promoting a high ticket product, it makes little sense to market to people who are not willing or able to pay for your product. Do they have access to your services? Is enough information available to them to make the right decision and reach for their wallets? Is the niche you are planning on promoting saturated and have heavy competition? Just who is the competition?

4. Chose the proper customer profile. This goes a long way in guiding your sales efforts, and also helps you to know whom you are promoting to. Learn the language of the niche – each niche has its own specific language and slang that is used in talking about it. You need to sound believable and show credibility. Nothing will drive your potential customers away quicker than the fact you don’t speak their language.

Although this simple guide does not go into enough detail to run a proper market analysis, it gives you a good overview of what to look for, and the type of information to gather, whether through a custom built survey, or through hiring a market consultant to run the demographics for you. Either way, knowing your market is half the battle, and does not leave you wondering what your market really needs.
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Local Community Website Profits

eneres08 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:48:02 +0000

There’s a huge profit for internet businesses in the local markets.

Let me give you an example – build a website which is targeted to the local people of a city. Let’s say the city is Camden, it is in the state of New Jersey in United States.

The purpose of the site isn’t to attract people to the area or to inform people about any of the features that the city has to offer. Instead, it is use for communicating within the local community where the people of Camden can become regular users of the website. This way, they find information about local events and read reviews about the restaurants in the city and to keep visiting the website on a regular basis.

If the people keep visiting, you sell advertising space to local businesses and traders. This along with Google Adsense should generate a half decent income. So with the people of Camden coming back time and time again, you will be in a good position to put premiums on advertising space.

The local site can be directory as well.

A web directory in its simplest form can be thought of as a human indexed search engine. Humans can visit a directory website and make resource suggestions through an online form. A human editor will review the suggestion and add it to the directory provided it meets the submission guidelines for the directory.

A general web directory will have its resources sorted into a large number of categories covering a wide range of topics but instead of doing that, you create a local niche web directories tend to focus on one subject with resources sorted into a smaller number of highly related categories.

The major purpose of a web directory is to provide directory users with a categorized list of high quality listing on all kinds of details in Camden.

Search engine’s also tend to serve up category pages from trusted web directories near the top of their search results so having your website listed in as many high quality web directories as you can should be part of any website marketing plan, especially when your website is new.

Another idea is having a ‘wiki website’.

Wikis are community-edited informational sites, and they’re showing up all over the place. The first was Wikipedia, recently known for an act of vandalism that made up one person’s background. This incident was heavily covered in the media, and may have coloured the opinions of many people.

Wikis are proving themselves to be both valuable and accurate. They are also a great place to go for directory-style and in-text links to sites to deepen your information. Pretty soon, a wiki is going to be a natural place to go to search for information on just about anything.

With wiki website, you can even have the people in Camden to add content for you.

With local website, you can even catch the media’s attention to give you free traffic – you don’t even need to make any promotion online.

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Making Money Online is a Real Possibility

eneres08 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:08:36 +0000

Thousands of scary stories about the internet have come out. Frightening tales of scams and rip-offs have circulated so much that it is quite unbelievable that there are still some of these that exist. However, it is also true that you can make money off the internet. Many success stories have also circulated and proven to be true.

Having your own website is a viable business venture that can provide you with a reasonable income. The amount depends on how much willing you are to work on your online business venture, the more you learn about internet online business trade secrets and the proper internet marketing strategies used, the higher your potential profits would be.

There are lots of fierce competition in the ebusiness that’s why you need to learn how to rise above the rivalry. One of the best marketing strategies is to have an online business to serve the local market and letting your visitors know the benefits they would be getting if they deal with your products or services.

Just don’t slack off, making money online doesn’t happen overnight, and it also won’t be effortless. Do not believe the hype about making money online without any real work to do, this is just a scam or a rip-off.

You can earn a steady income from the Internet running an online business, as long as you’re willing and able to put the time, effort, and money that is required.

One of the biggest time consumption task to start on the right track to internet business success is to find what will work or what won’t and what opportunity may be real — the fact that many people start an online business and continue with their present occupation it can lead to some very long hours.

Starting an online business you will find that it will constantly change. What you are doing well today may not work for you the next day. You have to constantly study and learn. This is another time consuming and sometimes frustrating process. Finding the right people to attract is a never ending process.

Starting an online business may not be as easy as some want to portray it as but it is not impossible – once achieve, it gives the regular person a chance to be a business owner with a minimum of start up costs. These costs are normally just a couple hundred dollars.

It offers you more flexibility, since you do work at your computer you can pick the times you work. This could eventually lead to more free time since you may be able to automate a lot of your tasks.

Starting an online business can be profitable. Some turn profit within a few months while it may take others longer as they experiment and test to find out exactly what will work for them and provide the income that they are interested in making. All this from the comfort of your home, it is easy to see why many have started an online business as a source of income.

The best is to make money online with something that interests you.

Let’s say that you like to go bowling. Here is a way to start making money around that hobby…

Do a Google search and type in the words “bowling affiliate program” without the quotation marks. As I do that over 700,000 results are brought up. Notice the words affiliates somewhere in the title, description, or url of the websites. All you have to do to get started is go to each one of these and join for free.

Then set up a ‘bowling website’ where people can share their experience with bowling on it.

You can now promote “bowling affiliate program” on your website to make money online without even having your own product!

This is an example to broaden up your mindset. As you can see, there are a lot of opportunities on the internet for you to make money – all you need to do is to get started.

There are many options you can go about; but if you want to get started with an easier way where you can enjoy building your real internet business, then go for ‘local’. Find out the details how to do this precisely at http://automationcart.com/jvm/s25/136ig/24710

How To Increase Your Online Revenue On Autopilot

eneres08 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:38:16 +0000

If you are already making some money on the Internet,
how do you increase the revenue and earn more money online?

Do you have to work twice as hard as you did earlier?
Not really because marketing online is very different than
those in the real world where you can implement new tactics
easily on the internet.

To start making money online on autopilot, the first step
is to think a bit more creatively about your current webpages.
Look at your website, and analyze the pages. Then identify
the one page where you could add an “up-sell”.

What to up-sell and how to up-sell is the key.

Up-selling is not a difficult art to master provided you
know what to up-sell and how to up-sell. More often than
not, marketers mix up a lot of ideas and make an absolute
hash of up-selling. In fact, in some cases, people drop
their ideas of buying a product when they are given a
product that doesn’t correlate to the main product.

Once you understand what you need to up-sell, you should
find out how best you can up-sell your product.

Here are some cost-saving techniques to help you increase
your online revenue on the Internet:

i. You can now add an up-sell on your newsletter subscription
page. All you got to do is ask the visitors to sign up for
let’s say a free trial offer just before they click on the
Register for the paid product.

ii. You may have a sales page directly selling a particular
product. Just add another product before the visitor can
click on the Buy button for the paid product. You may text
the up-selling product as a discounted bonus!

iii. You could also up-sell your product in the shopping cart.
This is what you should do – Before the visitors confirm their
order, ask them to include the up-selling product in the cart.
This could be a good conversion mechanism because you don’t
really ask the customers to go through a series of steps to
click and buy on your up-selling product.

Mind you – Any effort you take to increase your online revenue
on autopilot has to be done with equal amount of diligence.
The task here is on a different wavelength. You intend to make
money without you having to actually work for it. If you have
been a believer in earning money by working hard, this concept
would come as a big change for you.

Importantly, there is no niche on the Internet, which does not
have scope for you to earn money on autopilot. All it needs is
a bit of thought, and you would be able to crack some ideas on
your own. Watch out for one thing though – At the start, as it
happens in most cases, the revenue inflow wouldn’t be as huge
as you would have forecasted.

Take things slowly, and if you are able to add even one zero
to your earning on a monthly basis, you would have made a
good start to earn money on autopilot.
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The Easiest Method To Include An Up-sell

eneres08 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:38:00 +0000

Amazon does it, EBAY does it, so why can’t you?

After all, up-selling is a technique employed by leading
e-commerce sites to boost their sales and though you may
be some light years away from them, this could be used by
you effectively too. And though this is a technique,
there is not a lot different from up-selling and selling
by themselves!

There are many ways you could up-sell a product, but before
we get into knowing the easiest method, know that an up-sell
is a product you wish to sell immediately after he has bought
the first one. Needless to say, the second product or the
product to be up-sold has to be related to the first product
bought by the customer.

To the point – The easiest method to up-sell is to work on
the ‘checkout’ page!

What you can do with the Checkout Page?

I’m not asking you to redesign the entire webpage. Follow
this process to uncover the easiest method to up-sell.

First, identify your webpage which you want to include the
upsell. It could be your product page, salesletter page,
your newsletter subscription page, your thank you page and
so on.

Then just add an option for them to include MORE products
before they ‘checkout’.

So if it’s a newsletter subscription page, ask them if they
want to include a free trial offer to your other paid product
before they click “Register” on your newsletter page.

If your page is a salesletter webpage, give them an option
to include another of your product before they click the
“Order Now” button.

Here’s another example – if your webpage is a shopping cart,
you can always ‘upsell’ your prospects for them to add more
quantity of the product that they’re buying.

The list goes on.

Here are some things you would like to watch out for while
up-selling:

- The product you up-sell needs to be somewhat related to
the product the customer bought. The closer the correlation,
the better it is for you because you’ll get more sales.

- Write your up-selling ad as carefully and diligently as you
would have designed your sales ad. Just the fact that the
customer bought one product from you doesn’t mean he is sure
to buy another!

- Up-sell but don’t push – Pushing is bad for any form of
selling and the same applies in up-selling too. Inform the
customer about your product and leave the choice to him.
Also, bear in mind that you’re adding more value to your
customer by offering greater solutions to them in your upsell
products.

The method to up-sell your product is not as tough as you
would have thought it to be. Basically, if you’re not
integrating any upsell in your sales funnel, you’re literally
losing money.

It’ll cost you more time, effort and money to acquire a new
customer compare to selling to an existing customer who already
trust you and like your product.

Although the technicalities surrounding the deal make it a
slightly tough nut to crack, but I can tell you that it’s
worth your time to explore this powerful marketing strategy.

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That, Not This

eneres08 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:56:05 +0000

That, Not This

By Rebecca Fine

A friend recently sent me an email that contained one simple sentence that jumped right off the screen and hit me in the face.

When I wrote back to thank her, she was surprised because she hadn’t thought of it as anything particularly profound — just something she’d been thinking about, had maybe heard somewhere else, “just a thought” she barely remembered writing down.

Here’s what she wrote:

“If you think you have to get THIS in order to have THAT, then what you REALLY want is THAT, not THIS.”

OK, maybe it is really simple, but the most profound statements usually are.

So read that again and think about it for a moment, please, then let me flesh it out a bit in light of what I hear so often from readers and students of The Science of Getting Rich.

Here’s a sample of what new (and not-so-new) SOGR readers frequently express as their “clear mental images” of what they desire to impress on the Formless:

“A million dollars in the bank.”
“A new job that pays $100,000 a year or more.”
“An advanced degree in _________.”

Now, as the saying goes, “There’s nothing wrong” with any of those desires. And yet, when I probe a bit further and ask, “WHY do you want that million dollars?” I usually get an answer back that goes something like this:

“So I can buy a new home for my family, pay for my kids’ education, and …”

The same kinds of reasons often turn up for wanting that new job.

And the reason for wanting more education is usually to get a better job to get more money to get … well, I think you’re probably starting to catch on to the theme here, right?

So let’s plug any of those into what my friend wrote:

“If you think you have to get a million dollars in order to have a new home, then what you really want is a new home, not a million dollars.”

Yup, it’s simple. And profound when you go more deeply into it.

You know how you can often save a lot of money on a purchase if you’re able to go right to the source — get it wholesale or better instead of paying the marked-up retail price? Well, the same thing applies when you’re “placing your order” with the Cosmic Supplier (the Formless, the Supreme Mind, the Universe).

In other words, cut out the middle-man!

Why waste time, energy, and effort clarifying a mental image of something that’s not REALLY what you truly desire? Why not go right for the real thing instead?

After all, money itself has no value of its own, and the value we assign it today can change in a heartbeat. Back in 1929 there were plenty of people here in the United States who thought their security lay in the vast amounts of money they controlled.

But on October 29, when the stock market crashed and their money vanished overnight, they were throwing themselves out skyscraper windows.

Who needs THAT kind of “security?”

You may THINK you want money — a LOT of money, even a particular and very large amount of money. And you may very well end up getting it.

But when you focus on money rather than on what you TRULY desire to be, do, or have, what you’re really doing is getting caught up in the HOW rather than the WHAT of your true heart’s desires.

My friend, you have to let go of the “how.” If you don’t, you’re handcuffing the Universe and telling it, no thanks, don’t bring me my heart’s desires THAT way. The more tightly you try to hold onto the how, onto figuring out how everything has to happen and how you can make it happen that way, the more you slow down the process of manifestation.

What are your real, innermost, perhaps long-deferred dreams?

If you think you don’t know, please realize that you DO. They may be deeply buried, but the dreams are still within you. Those dreams are, as Mr. Wattles puts it, “life seeking expression,” just as in the little boy he watched trying to bring music out of a piano. Remember?

Sometimes, people even come up with an amount of money as their “dream,” to AVOID having to go within and see what they find there. But as author Neale Donald Walsch has noted in a neat play on words, if you fail to go within, you will go without.

If you’ve been unconsciously substituting some amount of money for your true desires, then you’re trying to take a shortcut that can’t lead where you want to go.

Here’s the thing: When you get absolutely clear on your true desires, you will know it at a very deep level. You’ll FEEL it with an odd mixture of enthusiasm and peaceful calm. It’ll just feel right — because it is.

When you feel that way, your “mental image” will be powerfully impressed on the Formless.

And when you go right for the REAL dream instead of all that you THINK you need to have in order to get that real dream, you are throwing open all the doors and windows and secret passageways for your good to come to you. You are getting yourself, your old ideas, and other unnecessary limitations out of the way so that you can receive, recognize, and ACCEPT the fulfillment of your desire as it appears.

Here’s a delightful example from Practical Geniuses^TM course member JAIN BRAND in Sydney, Australia:

“I have been studying The Science of Getting Rich for a few months now and have had lots of nice little surprises. But I got a big one a few weeks ago which taught me a lot.

“I am a mad keen horse person and one of my dreams was to own a horse for trail riding. I originally thought about just getting a basic, cheap, scrubby little horse but then realised I might as well ask for the whole dream.

“I began to think, instead, of riding a beautiful, tall, well trained horse. I would picture myself on this horse several times a day. I would walk along the trails that I would like to ride the horse. I visited saddleries and looked at gear that I would like to buy for my new horse.

“And then it happened.

“I was offered a beautiful, tall, well trained horse. He is worth a lot more than I could possible pay for him. He has a small injury that would prevent him from competing at top level, but won’t in any way affect his trail riding ability and the owners just wanted him to go to a good home.

“Anyway, I waffle on, but the point to this story is that I went into a mild panic when I was offered this magnificient horse. Where could I keep him, how would I look after him, how could I afford to keep him??? Because I had to make a decision about whether I wanted him in just a few hours I nearly said no.

“But then I thought this is what I’ve asked for, here it is and I have to accept this gift.

“And it all worked out perfectly. I found a really good place to keep him and he’s turned out to be very cheap to look after. To think …

“I nearly missed out on this wonderful horse because I wasn’t ready for when it happened.

“Now when good things are offered to me, I accept them immediately and know that the ‘hows and whys’ will work themselves out.

“Needless to say, every time I ride my beautiful horse I am extremely grateful!!

See how it works? Instead of thinking, well, I need X amount of money to buy a horse, Jain skipped over that and went right for “the whole dream,” getting VERY clear on that image: imagining riding the horse, visiting saddleries, walking the trails, and so on.

And notice how neatly all the other bits and pieces necessary to the “big picture” have worked themselves out, too: Where money itself was needed, there was money enough.

Odd as it may seem, by not focusing on money or the other means by which your dream may be fulfilled, money itself may very well show up — and often in amazing ways and bigger amounts than you imagined. The thing to remember is simply that how your dream is delivered is not up to you!

Wallace Wattles writes: “It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.”

Realize, too, my friend, that whatever it is you desire to be, do, or have, ultimately you are aiming for a feeling. In other words, you believe that achieving this desire will cause you to feel good in one way or another — perhaps happy, powerful, loved, competent, successful, and so on.

So look at what Mr. Wattles tells us about how THAT works:

“Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment and a financial condition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that mental environment and financial condition until they take physical shape.

“… In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.”

“… Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.”

You see, when we think the good feeling is the result of getting what we want, we’ve got the process exactly backwards!

Create the feeling first (as Jain did). That’s what powers the impression of your clear mental image on the Formless and starts the process of bringing it into physical form.

Now some teachers and writers express this by saying that the key is for YOU to give first — and then the Universe will respond.

But really, when you consider that everything you already have — including your life and the very air you are breathing right this minute — is a gift, then you can see that it’s not about you giving first. That’s not even possible!

The key is understanding that the process often called manifestation (and that we call the science of getting rich) is an ongoing cycle of giving and receiving, of cause and effect, and that, as Mr. Wattles says, “Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.”

If you’re thinking you have to get this in order to be, do, or have that which you truly desire, it may be time to think again!

Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich. http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net ©2004 Certain Way Productions Inc.

Infinite Underpants!

eneres08 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:47:00 +0000

Infinite Underpants!

By Rebecca Fine

Quick! What’s the very first thing that springs into your mind when you read or hear the M-word? (M-o-n-e-y.)

For many people that first thing isn’t necessarily pleasant. And for others there’s a fleeting flicker of delight as they imagine having plenty of it, winning the lottery or the like, which just as quickly fades into a more familiar “not enough” feeling instead.

It’s not surprising. After all, most of us have been carefully trained, taught, even indoctrinated our whole lives to believe that money is scarce, that it’s hard to come by, that only people who have any ever get more, that it’s the cause of all the world’s troubles … and on and on and on.

Loads of heavy baggage packed with negativity on the simple subject of something we really cannot do without.

And it’s all just so SERIOUS and HEAVY and … ugh.

So since we already KNOW that we attract/create our own experience through our thinking, how about we just UNpack some of that mental baggage and ditch some of the seriousness so we can stop creating and attracting more stuff like THAT?

How about we just lighten up and have some FUN with all of this? When you’re having fun your thoughts aren’t focused on lack of anything, right?

(And believe me, when you get the hang of The Science of Getting Rich and start to see your life transforming in amazing ways, it’s FUN!)

For myself, I have decided that whenever the M-word comes up in conversation or my own thinking in any way that doesn’t thoroughly delight me, I am going to quietly, secretly substitute another word — a silly word that has NONE of those negative connotations.

I’ve been doing this for a while now with family and friends, too (not just quietly and secretly), and it’s not only fun, it highlights immediately just how silly all the negativity is.

I highly recommend the practice!

You can choose any word that strikes you as ridiculous. For me, the funniest word in the English language (and I don’t know why) is this:

Underpants.

(I know, I know. Totally juvenile. Pretty much the humor of a seven-year-old. And that’s probably why it works so well!)

Try it for yourself:

“I’d like to have a new car, but I don’t have enough underpants.”
“Invest in THAT? No way! It’s too risky. I could lose all my underpants.”
“Do you think underpants grow on trees?”
“I like the job but the underpants are awful.”
“Underpants can’t buy happiness.”
“He’s got more underpants than he knows what to do with.”
“Never throw good underpants after bad.”
“Underpants aren’t everything, you know.”
“I wouldn’t do that for love nor underpants.”
“Always be sure to save some underpants for a rainy day.”
“No matter how hard I try or what I do, I just NEVER have enough underpants.”

Oh, I could go on and on! In fact, a couple of days ago I introduced this scathingly brilliant concept to my mom and brother, and we sat out on Mom’s patio playing with it until we had tears streaming down our faces from laughing at ourselves so hard.

(I suppose goofiness runs in the family. Later that day when Mom said she was getting ready to throw a load of “delicates” in the washer we accused her of money laundering.)

And my friend Alexandra (Dr. Gayek, founder of The Science of Being Well Network) and I have giggled ourselves silly on the subject of abundance of all kinds by substituting my nutty word for almost ANY word having to do with wealth or health.

Ah, yes: We live in a world of infinite underpants!

But when I told her I was going to share this craziness with you she hesitated a moment and then asked, “Really?”

“Sure,” I said. “We just get so SERIOUS about all this stuff. But you and I both know it’s so much better to let it be FUN.”

“Well, you’re right,” she conceded. “But Rebecca, just try to be … brief.”

Ack.

Yes, she really said that — and cracked herself up laughing. Took me a moment to get it. You know, a pun truly IS the lowest form of humor … ;-D

Afloat in A Sea of Abundance

eneres08 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:39:55 +0000

Afloat in A Sea of Abundance

By Rebecca Fine

In the days of the mighty sailing ships, when brave souls voyaged into the unknown, dependent on the winds and their as-yet incomplete knowledge of geography and navigation, one of the greatest and most dangerous challenges was to traverse the area known as “the doldrums.”

Extending about 30 degrees on either side of the equator, the doldrums are subject to days, weeks, even months of no wind at all. After a long and difficult crossing from Europe to South America, lying becalmed in the doldrums — with no land in sight and with the ship’s supply of fresh water dwindling — was a terrible and life-threatening situation.

But history and legend offer us some fascinating insights into the power of our own thinking and belief. Back then no one had yet figured out how to determine longitude, although latitude was easily calculated. So if you could not see recognizable land, you could only know in what band of latitude you currently were. Exactly where you were in that ring around the earth was, at that time, unknowable.

And so it happened that at times a ship would fetch up off the coast of South America, out of sight of shore, fresh water supplies exhausted and death knocking at the door. Then, with what must have been the sweetest sound those sailors could ever have hoped for, the lookout would suddenly call out that a ship was approaching in the distance.

Once the ship was within hailing distance, the cry went up: “Water! Give us water!”

And the reply would come back, “Lower your buckets over the side.”

You see, although the sailors didn’t know it, they were afloat in a virtual river of drinkable and life-sustaining water flowing from the mouth of the powerful Amazon River, which carries nearly 20 percent of all the earth’s runoff water into the sea with such force that the fresh (or brackish but safe) water flows as far as 100 miles out into the Atlantic.

The sailors, dying of thirst, only THOUGHT they were experiencing lack. The REALITY was that they were afloat in a literal sea of abundance. Exactly what they needed was within their reach the whole time, but the APPEARANCE of scarcity and their BELIEF in that appearance threatened to overpower them.

They could have died — and many certainly did — believing in lack while surrounded by abundance.

In his amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles writes:

“I have said that people get rich by doing things in a certain way, and in order to do so, people must become able to think in a certain way.

“A person’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

“To do things in the way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.

“And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.

A couple of months ago, my friend TERESA ROMAIN of Access Abundance [ www.accessabundance.com ] wrote in my ezine, The Certain Way, about how Galileo changed the world by looking at things from a new perspective. By dropping the prevailing attitude that the sun revolved around the earth, he was able to see that the opposite was, in fact, the truth.

The key to finding the truth, she noted, was choosing to cast off the old notion and look at the situation anew, through a new lens. Teresa wrote:

“The path that lies before you is one of unlimited abundance. And it begins by SEEING the abundance available all around you.

“As you begin to experience life through the new lens of abundance, you’ll find that many of the problems you face today will simply disappear. As for the ones that remain, your relationship to them will have changed profoundly, empowering you to take actions that are congruent with and support abundance.”

What old beliefs, what old ways of looking, seeing, and perceiving do YOU need to cast off right now, my friend? If you find yourself “in the doldrums,” how can you take a fresh look today and begin to see the abundance that surrounds YOU so that you are empowered — not becalmed and hopeless?

The choice is always available. If you have chosen unwisely before, remember that every moment is new and the great power lies in your ability to CHOOSE AGAIN, no matter the appearances and no matter what it seems everyone else thinks or does.

Teresa says that this choice “is the path that leads, ultimately, to the fulfillment of your dreams.” Mr. Wattles says this choice is “the first step toward getting rich.”

And, bearing in mind those long-ago sailors, I would add that this choice can be the ultimate choice — for death or for life itself.

That choice, every moment, is yours. Which way do you choose — right now?

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