Happy New Year 2010

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Points to Consider When Looking At A Home Business

If you have never had an online business before, or indeed are not aufait with the internet world of marketing, then starting an online business can be quite daunting. You can make money on the internet selling products, services or information.

So where do you ultimately start? First always do your due diligence. Don't try to find the 'best online business', or home business because there isn't any one in particular that anyone can recommend. Instead, go with what you would be happy to use, sell, or provide. If the home business connects with you, then look into it further. Try not to sign up straight away, leave it for a day to mull over the information you have just gone through intensely. Go over it again, and if you have any questions or queries get in touch with the site owner for more detail.

If your home business has a product line, are they consumables, information, or services? Does the DSA (Direct Selling Association), or any other governing body govern them. This is a sign that they have to abide by certain business ethics. Look at the companies policies, ethics and if they have a head office, check out the head office ratings.

With Consumables, they may have a limited geographical selling range, as legally you need to obtain agreement from individual countries to allow your consumables to be sold in those countries, this is something that can take months if not years to gain agreement. Some countries have strict controls over chemicals, and consumable products that enter their markets.

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HowTo Read a Book (Video)

Great video on how to get the most out of reading a book. Whether you are studying for an exam, self development or improvement of your attitude, watch this video and follow the four simple steps.






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Having a Sense of Purpose and Belief in Where You Are Going

If you believe firmly in what you are doing, your purpose in life, and keep taking positive steps down the right path, my friend, you will get to your destination and you will know the satisfaction that comes along with meeting challenges, deadlines, and winning. In life, the people you come in contact with, you love, and you care about can provide you with a source of inspiration and self assurance that can get you through any day. But remember that your actions can sometimes affect them in a positive or negative manner, and have an adverse affect on the present situation at hand. When you keep these people close, you can find a special incentive to live a healthier and more productive life which will help you keep control over your emotions, your situations, and personal actions so you do not do harm to yourself or to others.

Eqalitarianism! Friends’ ” Life is your playground”. We need to learn to use it and not abuse it. We only have one life, why not make it the best life possible. We as individuals have choices in life of how we want to live, who we want to love, who we want to be, and we have the ability to think for ourselves. Sit down, close your eyes, take in a deep breath, and think about how to live your life as if you had a free pass.

Really take the time to think about the ways in which your life could improve without the worries of stress, bills, the healthcare problem, the economy, self-doubt, non-acceptance, prejudice, discrimination, standing in your way.

If nothing else, it’ll be a nice trip to a magical land somewhere in space where you could actually live your life. But maybe, just maybe, you’ll come up with an idea that might just work. And in any case…Live life with purpose, with dignity, and embrace IT! Embrace beauty; which we all know, starts from deep within, and most importantly, EMBRACE your inner spirit and find the true Man or Woman you are destined to be.

By Rafiki Flex

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End of Year Reflections

I have been amazed at how quickly this year has gone by. I read somewhere that as we get older the years seem to go by quicker, and that certainly seems true.

I remember starting out this year with my goals, objectives and desires. Having written them down in my journal, periodically through the year I have looked at then, tweaked them were required and ticked off those that had been achieved. Having time to look back at the ones that have not been achieved, I look to why I didn't manage to achieve them. Wasn't I focussed enough to work on them? Did I do enough ACTION to achieve them?

Sometimes LIFE gets in the way and stops us from achieving, but sometimes we need to step back in order to be able to see that. Too often we plough on through these times of adversity or crises called LIFE without really truly checking whether the actions that we are doing or not doing will lead us to our overall goals, dreams and objectives.

So, what are we going to do that will make the difference? That is the question to ask yourself. Only you will have that anwser.

Here's to success for all of you for 2010. Reflect back to the past to learn, and take forward those lessons to the future, for the present just know where you are heading and you will definately get there in good time.



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CarbonCopyPro a Legitimate Business Review - The Nuts and Bolts!

Like many others out there you may be wondering if CarbonCopyPRO is a legitimate business opportunity? So I will endeavour to give you an unbiased view on what to expect from the program.

Company Background- About CarbonCopyPRO

CarbonCopyPRO is listed as a turnkey, 95% automated marketing system. Founded by Jay Kuberssek, Alan Moore and Aaron Parkinson. It prides itself as an education based company, designed to help business owners solve some of the challenges of running a small home based business using various social media marketing techniques, financial service techniques about how to manage your profits from your home business when you start to make an income. The problem they found was that most entrepreneurs once they start to make momeny from their home business, they do not get financial education on how to invest their hard earned funds.

CarbonCopyPro partnered up with Wealth Masters International in 2004 where Wealth Masters International say a 400% increase in sales during the first year in partnership with CarbonCopyPro.

Reviewing the Compensation Plan

CarbonCopyPRO, uses a funnel technique to filter out more genuine prospects to ensure success of the programme. Once you are accepted to join via an application form, you will then have the opportunity to simply either just use CarbonCopyPro alongside your existing home business to help improve your online status, leads and prospects or you may also take up the Wealth Masters International Programme to learn how to invest your hard earned home business profits.

So what will you get out of applying for all this and how much is it going to cost you?

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Herbalife International - Business Review

From time to time, I do the occassional Business Review and today it is the turn of Herbalife International.

The Company Background

Is Herbalife a scam or is this a legal business opportunity? The reason for my doing this review was the fact that I wanted to look at a home business opportunity and did some background research on Herbalife to see if this was a suitable opportunity. Through the tragic death of his mother, who had desperately tried to lose weight and died through medication for weight loss, this set Mark Hughes on his quest to find a safe way to lose weight for many others. Herbalife International was founded in 1980, by Mark Hughes. Since then it has expanded and is now available in over 65 countries worldwide. They have over 1 million plus distributors who work both online and offline selling the products direct to clients. Herbalife is a direct selling company. Herbalife shares (HLF) are listed on the NASDAQ.

Products

Quality controls behind Herbalife products are always in place. Their raw materials including botanical ingredients are sourced from reputable suppliers around the world and are manufactured in accordance with established quality standards. Herbalife suppliers and manufacturers are obligated to follow Herbalifes written procedures that are verified by periodic audits and inspections. Two clinical studies using Formula 1 have been conducted at leading universities bringing creditability to these products.

Compensation Plan

It is relatively simple to become a "Supervisor" level distributor. When you become an Herbalife distributor, you are a basic "Distributor" and can earn your way towards 50k President level. It may take many years to get to that level. You gain levels by selling products and gaining volume points. Volume points for most products are equal to the manufacturers recommended selling price of the product and are based upon the US dollar value of the products.

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How do I Get Leads To My Site Without Paying an Absolute Fortune

Well Done! You made that crucial decision and started your MLM or online business. Woohoo! Then you get a call from your sponsor, and they ask you to go write a list of names, your warm list, of your friends, family and colleagues, then call then and show them your business presentation.

You are so good at this, you find that a few weeks later 80% or so had joined you and you now have a thriving downline and have already broken company records for your earnings in your first 30 days. Then you snapped out of ‘dream land’ and came back crashing down to earth…

In reality don’t be surprised or disheartened with the negativity, sceptism or lack of support, demonstrated by those whom you considered to be your family and friends, this is perfectly normal. You must not let it get you down, remain positive and don’t quit.

A few ‘newbies’ do have some success when they show their business to their warm market, but let’s not forget that they are in a very small minority. This ‘old school MLM’ approach may have worked very well 5-6 years ago, but times have changed drastically especially over the last two to three years with the internet, social media sites and a host of new marketing methods available to networkers, chasing down prospects ‘old school MLM style’ to join your business has become outdated.

The secret to being successful in most markets today depends on your ability to attract prospects to you. You need to find a way for your prospects to find your website and sign up of their own free will. This is called lead generation and is the life-force of your business. It is important for you to be able to generate leads to continue to grow your business. It is simple, ‘no leads equals no business’. But can’t I just purchase some ‘hot leads?’ No. You will be wasting your money, and I can talk from experience. You need hot leads that have responded to you, not leads that have been sold on to three of four other network marketers from different companies who, when you contact them are no longer interested, or cannot remember completing a survey with their info.

So just how do you generate leads to your new MLM or online business?

Here are 3 key things you must do.
• 1. Make a 90 Day Plan
• 2. Work to a budget
• 3. Stick to both 1 & 2!

Making a 90 day plan of action, what are your objections, what do you want to achieve in those 90 days. What marketing methods are you going to use to help you generate leads, how much ‘action’ will you need to take to enable you to generate those leads.
Working out a budget can be equally difficult especially if you are new to MLM or online business, and have very little in advertising money to begin with, after all the point of starting your MLM or online business was to be able to generate extra cash right? The important thing is to set a realistic figure for your budget one that you are reasonably comfortable with to start.

Here are some free tips on what you can do to get your lead generation started using social media which will cost you next to nothing.

1. Sign up to MySpace or Facebook (or both!) and start to network. This is free. Develop your profile for your business. Then go out there and find new friends and groups to join. Think of it like a party, when you go to a party you circle around, meet friends and make new friends you laugh you share information get the point here? Yes, these are social networks and people are using their profiles to meet new friends and develop relationships, but let us not forget this is what network marketing is all about. If you are in network marketing you are in the business of developing and maintaining relationships. It is important not to pitch your business straight away to new contacts, but develop the relationship and trust first. Your profile gives you the perfect opportunity to showcase you and your business, just let that do the talking first and let your new contacts follow through themselves.

2. Start a blog. A blog is an easy way to give yourself an online presence and is excellent for branding yourself. You want to be able to demonstrate that you are a leader and know what you are talking about that way prospects will be attracted to you. People join leaders, so if you don’t appear to be a leader, they will find someone who is. . Use your blog to brand and market YOU, not your company. Blogs enable you to get free traffic from the search engines. If you can provide valuable content that is indexed by the search engines you will be ranked in the organic listings. Why pay for ranking (ppc) when you can achieve high rankings for free clicks? PS handy tip: Don’t forget to link your blog to your face book or myspace feeds, this will increase your search engine rankings.

3. Article marketing. Write articles for distribution across the internet. You can publish your articles on your blog as well as numerous article directories. www.ezinearticles.com are always looking for new content and so when they use your article you get the exposure when your article is emailed to their lists. Use the ‘ resource box’ or ‘author bio’ which is where you can put your link back to your website. Over time, as you submit more articles, people will read your bio or resource box which in turn will result in an avalanche of free traffic to your website.

This is just some of the detail of how you can get yourself started with generating leads for your new online company. Check back on my blog for more down to earth nitty gritty detail on the in’s and out’s what they don’t tell you how to use facebook, blogs and article writing and more to get into the search engine results organically and to get leads coming to you continiuously FREE of charge.


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Knowing A Great Opportunity

Some people go through life missing out on a host of 'great opportunities', why? Because they are oblivious to the fact of when the opportunity has presented itself. I was such a person many, many years ago. A young woman going through life, excited and full of energy of what life had to offer. Wanting to experience most things but without thought, clarity or purpose to it. I was just going through the motions, like most people. Working a 9 - 5,(in reality more 9 - 8 most days!), paying my mortgage, bills and car payments. You see, I wanted to have a certain standard of life, which to me meant more money, therefore I had to find a way to climb the career ladder to get more money, and when I had more money I spent more money.

Now along the way, many opportunities presented themselves to me, but I didn't see them at the time. I was not looking out for them. Not until I had missed one or two crucial opportunities and these were pretty big ones, did I look back at my short working life to see if there were any more that I had missed, and sure enough there were plenty. At this point, I had begun my road of 'self development' starting out with Dale Carnegie - 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', before progressing on to other authors and books which helped to change my attitude mentally, changed my outlook and philosophy on life totally, that only then did opportunties them started to present themselves to me.

The important thing is to recognise when you are being presented with an opportunity. Sometimes it is pretty obvious when one is presented, sometimes not so obvious. What I recognised for me was that sometimes in the face of adversity, great opportunities arose, because I was actively seeking them!

Now, most people myself included, when you are in the midst of adversity, sometimes you get overwhelmed and cannot see the 'woods for the trees', and tend to 'pity' yourself. But, if you look to those moments and look past the situation, you may see a great opportunity present itself to you. You see, it is about remaining positive and focussed, yes there are times we do come up against tight situations and challenges, but working through the solutions can manifest opportunities that would never have presented themselves otherwise.

Sometimes, opportunities arise as if out of 'thin air'. You have to be ready for those. You need to act quickly in some cases as it may be a limited opportunity and to get the most out of it, you need to make quick decisions and act. I have been in a few of those situations too, sometimes I am able to act, most times not.

Life is a funny old game to play, and it is also very short. Opportunties great and small exist around us every day, we have just got to start looking for them, and where possible act on them, the rewards are priceless.




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Top 10 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer

Do you have an online business? Have you often used or purchased other products that you felt were really good, and wondered if they had an affiliate program attached? Chances are more business courses online today do. It is becoming more and more the ‘in thing’ to market other affiliate products alongside your current services or products online, with a lucrative sideline to help drive targeted traffic to your website and increase and aid your funded proposal.

Although there are many, many benefits to promoting affiliate programs with your own home-based Internet business, here are my top 10 reasons to become an affiliate marketer.

10. Low Cost Set-up – It does not take much to start up an affiliate business, If you have got a desk, or kitchen dinner table, Internet-connected broad band compute then you're in business!

9. No Merchant Account Required – Most affiliate site already have built in payment capture where the merchant handles all payment
processing, so you never have to lose sleep over
chargebacks, fraud or losing your merchant account.

8. No Product Development Costs - The cost to develop and
produce a new product and website pages, autoresponders and the like is expensive! But you needn't worry about that as an affiliate. It is all provided there for you at little cost.

7. Choose From Thousands of Products and Services – In the day of the internet age, what isn't sold online? With affiliate networks like Commission
Junction, Be Free and Linkshare, clickbank, it's easy to find products
related to your current or planned web site.

6. No Fees or Geographic Limits on Distribution - Affiliate
programs are usually free to join, and market reach is
limited only by the affiliate's ability to promote his or
her web site. There are lots of free ways you can promote your link through blogs, twitter, email links.

5. No Shipping Costs - Don't worry about buying packing
supplies or postal rates. The cost and hassle to prepare and
ship products to customers worldwide belongs to the
merchant.

4. No Inventory to Carry – This is the thing I love about affiliates, even if you live in a small one-bedroom apartment, you can sell large items without
storage concerns.

3. No Customer Concerns - Do you hate the prospect of dealing
with nasty people? Don't worry about it! The merchant
handles the nasty people, all you do is push them to the affiliate links.

2. Make Money While You Sleep - What other business allows
you as a sole proprietor to keep your doors open and keep
making money even when you take breaks or after you go home
for the night?

1. High Income Potential - With your own affiliate
business your income potential is limited only by your
desire, effort and imagination - not your boss.

Affiliate Marketing has a relatively low outlay of resources with huge potential
returns truly makes affiliate marketing on the Internet an outstanding business opportunity. More information on affiliate links can be found here www.colettemorris.com take a look under the Resources Tab.


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Internet Entrepreneur Launches New Website

Times are changing with the internet expanding globally. Don't get left behind in a traditional or MLM business outlet.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 23, 2009 – After working in partnership with CarbonCopyPro for four months, local internet entrepreneur Colette Morris and CarbonCopyPro have just launched her exciting innovative website http://colettemorris.info

The new website profiles CarbonCopyPRO co founder Jay Kubassek, who recreated his own destiny via online business opportunities, and is now offering those opportunities on a grass roots level through local internet entrepreneur Colette Morris.
The website informs serious and potential entrepreneurs of a future that is very possible and very rewarding if they chose. If you already own an online business you may wish to look at the services CarbonCopyPro provide to people who already have their own online opportunities. This is a first of its kind type of opportunity that can be operated alongside your existing online business, producing rewarding results.

“The times are changing drastically as more and more people look to the internet for answers and solutions, we believe that it will be inevitable that most of the worlds trading will be conducted online in the very near future, and as such we are looking for highly motivated and empowered individuals who are willing to do what it takes and set their own course in this new electronic age,” states Colette Morris .

No longer is the internet just a virtual world for business, or family and friends or entertainment. It has opened the potential for premium business prospects and moneymaking solutions without the bricks and mortar and other business overheads we have in traditional businesses. So, don’t get left behind, stay ahead of the trend and make a conscious decision today to make that serious investment into your future. Have you got what it takes?


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Dreams are the door way to Visualising

Listen to this, when you were a kid, didnt you have big dreams, especially around this time of year... Christmas around the corner, wonder what Sant is going to bring me this year. I have been good for mom and dad, so I should get what I want right.....

We visualised, we told our parents and our friends what we wanted right..

Well let us get back to that stage when we were kids and we really really wanted something badly, whether it was the best dolls house on the market, or the best laptop or radio car or what ever it was for you then. Can you remember how you felt, how every bone in your body felt thinking about your dream present for christmas. Do you remember looking at your dream present every day in the toy section of the catalogue?

As an adult we now call this visualisation - dream boards, wish lists, target, goals, hopes and dreams...

So get back to your childhood and now put down your goals, dreams, hopes and what you want out of life onto your dreamboard, visualise and look at it daily, feel it deep in your bones as how you would feel if you had reached / received it now.

Visualising is great, but you need to have action to achieve............if you have a deep desire you will find a way to action.


Happy Visualising - watch this...


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Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring - Applying some of the principles

Video outlining how applying the principles learned from Mike Dillards Magnetic Sponsoring Course will help increase lead generation to any home business or business opportunity.
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Difficulties “ Newbies” face with their online business

I have been a business owner and CEO of three different companies and have seen many people give up just when they were so close to success. Here are some of my observations as to what may cause new people to resign in their online business within a short space of time. If you are new to owning an online business then you may recognise a few of these traits.

Owning your first online business is exciting in the first few weeks of starting out until the hardwork and reality sinks in. The secret is keeping motivated, organised and a calm level head in order to move your business forward.

Your mentor should be there to aid you and guide you on the initial steps you need to take to get your business up and running from day one. Listen to them, they have gone through this before you and are more than qualified to guide you one your way.

Mentoring and Helping Yourself

First things first, you need to be in a position to help yourself. Although your mentor is there to guide you, they are not there to hold your hands every step of the way. After all you wouldn’t expect your employer to shadow you around the firm for the first few months would you? As long as you know where all the right resources are and these could be company forums, business coaches, handbooks, online tutorials and the like which again your mentor should have guided you through initially. If they do not manage to do this, then either drop them an email, or contact them through their preferred method.

Changing your Mindset

Now that you have your employer hat on, yes that’s right, you need to have an employer hat, absolutely essential. Owning your own online business is totally different to having a boss to tell you what you must do on a day to day basis. You need to change your current mindset and take your home business seriously, even if you are only working this part time, you need to ensure you have a full time attitude.

Business Planning

With your employer hat on, you need to start looking at your online business development strategy (or business plan). What are your goals and objectives, what is it you are trying to achieve in your online business. How, why and when? You need to understand this clearly before you strike out in any shape or form.

• What types of advertising are you going to do to market your online business? Costed versus uncosted advertising. How much money do you realistically have?
• How much advertising and how regularly do you need to do this?
• Who are your target audience for each advertising method you choose?

Once you have thought through your business plan you may wish to pass this to your mentor for feedback. You mentor should once they have your business plan, help you to put things in place to meet that plan. But, in all, it is down to you as the business owner to ensure you carry out the required action to move your business forward.

Personal Development and Training

As a new person you may think you have to read up on every book, course and online forum note before you can actively go out there an promote your business – wrong!
Things don’t have to be perfect before you start doing them. In fact, as you are learning and going along is the best way to generate meaningful training notes/videos/blogs.

Set aside time for training, this is important if you wish to not only change your mind set but to move ahead in your online business. But, don’t make the mistake of setting aside too much time for self development and training and not enough time for your business. This can cause inertia in any business and ultimately ‘death’… of your online business.

Inaction

So many recruits can fall into this trap of inaction if they are left to themselves. As I mentioned before it takes a certain type of mentality to work for yourself. You have to develop and grow. A few good books that may help are
a) Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
b) The Twelve Pillars – Jim Rohn
c) Who Moved My Cheese – Spencer John MD

If you feel you are not doing anything constructive with your online business, speak to your mentor or your peers around you. Find a way to motivate yourself into action. Too many times, you hear about recruits getting disheartened after a number of months in, but if only they had the guts to stick it out a little longer, their rewards were just around the corner. Remember 97% of new online business start ups are doomed to fail – get into the 3% bracket…


Getting into Action

Equally important is setting aside time for your business. Many people will have started their business part time, with a view to making it full time in the not too distant future. If that is the case then make sure you are putting in serious part time hours in a very full time productive way.

Putting in 4 – 7 hours a week is an insult to your home business, you may as well treat this as a hobby, with the hope of getting some money now and then. If you want an online business to work you need to put in a lot of hours in the early stages, perhaps 10 – 12 or more hours a week. The early days in any online business are the hardest. People want to see results straight away, and sometimes the results do not happen like this if you do not put enough time, effort or action into your business.

In part two of this article I will write about what you can do as a mentor to ensure all of the above gets underway and that your new recruit excels in their new found online business, making you lots of residual income.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Mike Dillard's Build you Business on a Budget Reviewed

Building your home business can be an expensive one. You always seem to be spending money on advertising, and no matter how much you think you have cracked it, you find you are not getting ahead in your business. If you are not careful paid advertising could cost you the earth.

It may hold you back in business if you have to spend a lot of money on advertising, especially if it is your first time starting up a business. What if, someone could should you in easy step by step modules how you can build your home business without spending loads of money using low cost social media marketing aids?

Your question may have been answered. I recently came across something that helped my business, and I think it can help yours also. It's a video series called 'Building On A Budget' by Mike Dillard - yes the same Mike Dillard of Traffic Geyser fame. I came across this when looking through another area of his site, and in the video which by the way is free, it shows you how to build any home business for $500 or less. Now, I don't know about you, but I didn't have a big advertising budget when I first started out in my work from home business, I barely was able to buy into the programme I was in. So to have this guy talk me through how to build a business for $500 or less appealed to me on the monetary side.

More on this business review can be found here


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

Five years ago, when I was still working as a nightclub bouncer, I was fortunate enough to be invited to co-host a conference call. I needed about $20,000 to expand my business and I was talking about the things I was doing in an attempt to raise the money. Some of them were downright brutal. My wife suggested we sell her wedding ring. I asked people for money while I was checking IDs at the nightclub. There was no such thing as the word shame. The call host asked me why I was willing to go to such lengths. My explanation was simple: My dream life was so great that I was willing to burn everything I had if it meant I even had a chance of living it. Looking back on that attitude it seems a bit Kamikaze but I have a lot more to lose now. That conviction is what allowed me to make the tough sacrifices: the time, the money, and the risk. It allowed me to find money for my business when I was borrowing money for baby formula.

Now I live the life of my dreams. In fact, I live the life of most people’s dreams.

The funny thing is people that people think I am an extreme. A fluke. I disagree. A new millionaire is being made every day in America because of the internet. Anybody can tap into its power. The sad thing is that most people think it is too much of a sacrifice. The sacrifice I am talking about is the time it takes to educate themselves. It might take as long as five years to make it big.

Or….here is another option.

The average salary in the National Football League is $740,000. Now I know what you’re thinking. I don’t want to play football but just follow me for a second. Imagine that football was the only thing you were good at. Imagine you devoted your whole life to being the best.

Your odds of making it to the NFL are 1 in 11.,235. Assuming you do make it in, the average career lasts 2.7 years. Once your ridiculously short career is over you have this awesome fact to contest with:

The average NFL player lives TWENTY YEARS LESS than the average human. You read that right. For the glory of 2.7 years and 2 million dollars you get to live 20 years less. Not to mention that money has to last you the rest of your life.

How does that glamourous option look now?

Let’s go back to option A. You sacrifice a couple years at most. You find a niche that you can get good at. You make money for the rest of your life because your finances are based on your brain and not your body. You live wherever you like because the internet is totally portable. You create your own brand and sell whatever you like whenever you want. You isolate yourself from any recession because the internet keeps growing.

So what is holding you back from your dreams? Is it you or the “perceived challenges.” If you answered “perceived challenges” it may be time to rethink the quality of your dreams.

To your success,

Aaron Parkinson



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Conscious Versus Unconscious

Woke up and had an 'aha' moment! Thought I would quickly blog about it. Isn't it funny when you worry about something big time, it sticks in your conscious,your unconscious and gets into your dreams, and then do you find that because you worry about it, it seems to never want to leave your thoughts. Then the worry seems to manifest into your every day life..

What if you could take that same 'technique' of worry and turn it into a positive experience. We always worry about the negatives in live, never about the positives.
If we could just harness the positives in the same way, so much more good things would come to us.

My goal today.... harness some positive thoughts deep into my unconscious and conscious mind so that I will consciously work towards those thoughts and achieve them!

Sounds simple enough. However, you try thinking about one thing for three minutes, try thinking of a blue ribbon tied around a tree, can you visualise it? Good, then hold that thought for the next three minutes...

Did you manage it? I know I couldn't when I first tried, but this is all about applying your conscious and unconscious thoughts simultaneously. You see even though you are consciously trying to visualise this, your unconscious mind kicks in after about three of may more seconds with other thoughts...

I will leave you with that thought! Practice, practice, practice...


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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A Little Short On Cash Building Your Business?

Most of us have been here and some may still be here. Now you have managed to purchase or buy in to your online business opportunity, the next stage is marketing your business to the outside world. Building your home business can be costly if you don’t know how and just jump in the deep end with pay per click advertising, banner advertising or paying to get listed on the search engines. . Each time you turn around you seem to spend every dollar you have on advertising and not getting ahead in your business.
You will find it difficult trying to make headway in your business if you have to keep spending lots of money advertising, especially in those early days when you first start out.
If you are like me, not too up on online advertising, social media and the like and just want to be shown basically step by step how you can build your home business without spending a lot of money while doing it, I have news for you.
I recently came across something that I think will really help your business as it has mine. It is a videos series by a guy named Mike Dillard called "Building On A Budget". In these videos Mike shows you how to build any home business for $500 or less.
I took these free videos and purchased his ridiculously low priced book, and within two weeks of applying the techniques he teaches and am now getting as many as 10 new qualified prospects per day.
The best part is that I did not spend much money while doing it. (under $500 dollars)
Now I have the tools to grow my business without spending a small fortune.
You can get free access to these videos by going here...



Enjoy your new found wealth,



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
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Working through Challenging Situations

Challenges come to all of us, whether they are daily, weekly or just now and then. Its how we handle those challenges that move us forward in life. When presented with challenges do you tend to despair or are you more optimistic and try to find a way through the challenge to achieve positive outcomes or results?

If you are presented with challenges, whether these are personal, or related to your work from home business or work; sit down and write a list.

First write down what the challenge is, then write down what the outcome needed is.

Then write down the pro's and the con's of getting to that outcome.

Eventually,after reflecting back on your list of pro's and con's and matching these agains your objective, it will all become clear what you have to do.

BUT, and this is important the way to work through the challenge once you have your answer is to ACT upon it.

Without ACTION, the challenge will remain unfulfilled.



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
http://www.BeWealthyWithMe.com

Why MLM and Network Marketing Doesn't Work for All

So many of us professionals have broken dreams of working from home, or earning enough money to be come financially free and that being the case become enticed into finding that lucrative work from home MLM or Network Marketing opportunity. There are many of them out there, Agel, Amway, Herbalife, Lighter Life, Betterware, Avon , Mary Kay to name a few

I know I have been there, You listen to what your upline tells you, make a list of your friends and family, call your warm market, use them to practice talking to people, get your technique right, before we unleash you on 'paid advertising' purchasing leads, or google PPC. Many of us are not sales people, and therefore struggle with this concept. Some take to it like a duck to water, and do go on successfully to earn enough money to quit their job and live the lifestyle they dreamed of, working at home. While to others its as alien as the planet Mars, they just can't get to grips with talking to people, recruiting, advertising or retailing the products

For more on this article click here

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
http://www.BeWealthyWithMe.com

Effective Marketing Methods

So What is Attraction Marketing

What is Attraction Marketing, some of you ask. It is as it says on the 'tin' marketing by using methods to attract your key audience. So how can you do this effectively? Attraction Marketing is about delivering to your targeted market information or solutions that will help them to resolve their problems or issues they have in their lives or current businesses.

Compared to Traditional Methods

Traditional MLM and Network Marketing methods often involve contacting your 'warm market', namely, your family and friends first to let them know about the product or services you are 'pushing' as part of your new business set up.

If you are like me and hate the idea of being a 'seller', having to talk someone into a 'sale', just to earn commission on the products. Many of us do not like being 'sellers' in this way, and therefore find it hard to actually get our 'business' feet off the ground in most cases. Plus, have you noticed that when you approached your family or friends with your new home business and tried to promote it to them, how they switched off, and started to ignore you, then you felt you had grown an extra head as they eventually stopped phoning you, or dropping by?

With Attraction Marketing, you do not contact 'buyers' direct, they contact you through the interaction you build when you produce information or solutions that they find useful.

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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Reasons Why MLM and Network Marketing Don’t Work For All

So many of us professionals have broken dreams of working from home, or earning enough money to be come financially free and that being the case become enticed into finding that lucrative work from home MLM or Network Marketing opportunity. There are many of them out there, Agel, Amway, Herbalife, Lighter Life, Betterware, Avon , Mary Kay to name a few

I know I have been there, You listen to what your upline tells you, make a list of your friends and family, call your warm market, use them to practice talking to people, get your technique right, before we unleash you on ‘paid advertising’ purchasing leads, or google PPC. Many of us are not sales people, and therefore struggle with this concept. Some take to it like a duck to water, and do go on successfully to earn enough money to quit their job and live the lifestyle they dreamed of, working at home. While to others its as alien as the planet Mars, they just can’t get to grips with talking to people, recruiting, advertising or retailing the products

So why is MLM not working for you?
Could it be some of the reasons outlined below,

‘not really your thing’,
‘can’t get to grips with the concept’,
‘don’t want to be using/buying/selling products’,
‘can’t work out who your market is’
‘too busy with home life, working life let alone spending what little of your spare time you have on a work at home business’.
‘ good on retailing, but crap on recruiting and visa versa’.


The times have changed
It is time to take a check and review the business you are currently in. It is now the era of social media marketing, new style home businesses are opening up, more online related than consumable product related. There are lots of different opportunities out there that are not network marketing, or MLM style companies to move into that can earn you a modest income within your first year, and which can give you the opportunity to look at realistically working from home within the next 12 – 18 months instead of 3 – 5 years in most MLM opportunities.
There are bigger and better compensation plans than those of traditional MLM or Network Marketing companies where you earn 25 – 50% of a product sale where the most expensive item is probably $200.
Instead, with new style opportunities there are types of compensation plan that will make you anywhere from $200 per sale to $1,000 – 10,000 per sale.

MLM and Network Marketing are a Dying Breed
The bottom line is this, MLM and Networking marketing have now come of age and are due for retirement. More and more MLMers and Network Marketers are moving away from those arena’s and taking up positions in the new style home business opportunities, that have residual income, funded proposals and the possibility of other streams of valuable income.

There are newer, better, efficient ways of operating a home business that does not have to cost a fortune when first starting up, apart from your initial outlay which is still far less than setting up a franchise or shop, and the only thing to then consider is your possible ongoing costs for websites and memberships.

If you want to find out more about the new style of home opportunities available click here for more information.



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
http://www.BeWealthyWithMe.com

Why it is important to invest in yourself - T Harv Eker

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If you have a website this company may scam you

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
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InsideOut - Your Million Dollar Game Plan

Industry Top Income Earner, Trainer, and Professional Speaker Jay Kubassek Reveals the Three Secrets to his Incredible Success in the Exclusive "INSIDEOUT" 90-Minute Interview With Mike Dillard.

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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
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10 Thoughts on Abundance

These are some great insights which I read from another blog by my friend Hemel Radia. I have included the link in case you want to also subscribe to his wonderful blog. Hemel Radia


1. The Universe is TOTALLY abundant, it is a willing and waiting canvas for your desires. It is so abundant and so unconditional and there is such freedom that it will even allow you to have an abundance of scarcity if that’s what you choose to resonate with. The Universe is abundant, scarcity and ‘limit’ are man-made concepts

2. Realise that abundance is much more than money. If you think of it only as money you are only thinking of some of the possibilities. Abundance finds itself to you via the path of least resistance. Be open in your expectations and let the universe deal with the ‘how’ and how it gets to you.

3. Abundance is attained by tuning in to what you have (than what you don’t), no matter how big or small, and more of the same is attracted, and it grows and grows. You’re letting the universe reveal the abundance to you that’s here, you start by knowing that it’s here (practicing the thoughts and vibration that you know it)

4. It’s not about quantity, you focus on the quality of your essence, your thoughts and feelings, and the Universe matches it in terms of the quantity, the numbers and ‘the how’. It will pay more attention to your vibration rather than the number you keep visualising. It will be about your vibration ABOUT the numbers than the numbers themselves

5. The Universe can provide you with limitless abundance in all areas, it IS abundant, how much of that are you bringing in through your beliefs and what are you willing to see? What are you ‘allowing’, what are you letting in via your expectations?

6. Remember that what you want is always here. All you’re doing is turning the unseen into the seen. Everything you want is around you. When you think it’s not and you are trying to attract something that’s ‘not here’ you can be creating a separation in your mind between you and what you want, there is no separation, there is only connectedness in this universe.

Know that you are as magical as the universe is as you are a part of it, you are like the drop that is in the larger ocean that is the ‘universe’. And the universe isn’t bringing something that isn’t ‘here’, it's only 'not here' in your conscious physical perspective, everything and all possibilities exist here and now and you are connected through your thought and vibration. From the universe's perspective time and space do not exist the way that you perceive them from your conscious physical perspective, in its perspective there is the here and now and all possibilities exist there. You are connected to everything you want, and even all the things you will want that you don’t yet know you will want

7. Do you worry about breathing quickly so you don’t run out of air? That’s sometimes the case with people and money or other items. They hoard and store it ‘just in case’. What does ‘just in case’ imply? It implies a vibration of something that might happen that you don’t want; this might not help your energy flow. What happens when you don’t let blood flow? It clots. What happens when you don’t let things flow in life? Resistance can build (depending on your vibration about it – you will know by how you feel, if you feel good then that’s fine). Do what feels good, let your feelings be your guide to what to ‘do’. Just like when you have a piece of fruit compared to something else which is not supposed to be good for you, you can ‘feel’ which is better for you, oftentimes we don’t trust or pay attention to it due to other noise we have going on. The answers are and always have been here

8. The Universe is constantly expanding, that’s what you are here to do, to expand, grow, and the universe expands THROUGH you. The universe WANTS you to expand, to go for more things, so it can expand too. It's a win-win, that's a concept the universe works on. Scarcity leads to win-lose relationships, abundance leads to win-win relationships. Scarcity is 'How big a piece of the pie can I get'. Abundance is 'In our coming together how big do we want to make the pie so we all get big pieces'

There is never-ending expansion and growth, NEVER-ENDING. That’s why no matter what you have there will always be more, and it’s about the process and the joy of the journey, it’s the joy and energy you flow through your journey, what challenges you experience and what goals and desires you determine as a result. The ‘challenges’ are what help you define what you want and be clear, and then your focus must be on what you want than on what you don’t

9. You don’t have to look at what’s (or what’s not) in your bank account to have beliefs about abundance in your life. Use your imagination. Realise the things you DO have in your life, whether it be the smile you got from a stranger today or the fact there was a beautiful sunrise. It’s really about what choices you make about how you feel about things, rather than the things themselves. The universe hears your vibration and matches that signal

10. Remember it’s not just about money and wealth. The Universe can provide you limitless answers to questions. The planet currently is asking quite a few questions, whether it be about the environment or otherwise. The planet (i.e. the people on it in this example) is getting clarity about what it wants and what it doesn’t, and the desire and motivation is building for it. Every time someone does something ‘not-green’, that adds to the clarity and desire. But it is not lined up to the solution. There are an abundance of answers and solutions that reveal themselves in lining up to them by ‘being’ and focusing on what you want (the solution), rather than the problem. The ‘problem’ helps define and get clarity and desire, lining up with and 'being' from the solution allows it to come into the physical whether as an idea or inspiration or as an actual physical manifestation

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Expert Author and Top Producer
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Law of Attraction - Mystery Unveiled

Have you ever had the opportunity to look back into your life and look at things you have achieved over the years. Did you achieve these by 'chance' or by shear hard work and determination? If like me at times you would always be dreaming the seemingly impossible, but because you had such vision and belief, I found that sometimes these dreams came to fruition.

So how can just thinking about something turn into a reality. Some people might call this luck, and that people who seemingly got what ever they wanted were 'lucky'. Have you ever heard about 'The Law of Attraction?' Do you believe in Kharma?

To read more on this article click here


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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How to Get More Time Out of Your Day

How to get the most out of your day



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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Home Grown - Your Personal Growth

Personal Growth can help change mindset, self limiting beliefs and can be a great enabler to personal development, mentoring, coaching and growth.

If you suffer from lack of self esteem or you are a quiet, shy person, who would love to be more confident around people, then by daily doses of personal development can change your outlook on life, give you more self confidence, producing a high self esteem and an air of certainty around you. If however, you want to improve your leadership skills, or you wish to project a more confident self image, again, personal development will help you to shine!


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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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Some Applications for Twitter

Social media is great isn't it! Twitter came on the scene a short time ago and has a huge following ranging from celebrities, entrepreneurs, joe public and more.

It is a great way to get up to the minute news around the globe literally. If you have an interest you will find up to date info on twitter.

There are a number of applications available that can help you market your tweets more effectively.

Twitterfeed - great tool to help feed your blog updates to twitter

TweetDeck - great application that lets you group your tweets and see all the groups at once. For instance you can see your Direct Messages (DM's) in one place as well as all your 'mentions' where you name has been mentioned in a tweet, and if you want to put your tweeple (people on twitter) in groups you can do this also.

SocialOomph - Great application where you can set up your tweets over a 24hour period and they will be sent out automatically for you at the times you preset for them to be tweeted. There are two versions a FREE version and a PAID version, both have great benefits.


Yotwits - Great tool that can feed news items or blogs or auction ads to your tweets automatically.

TwitPics - A great way to upload your photos from your mobile phone straight to your twitter account.

Twellow - A Twitter Directory of users a bit like the Yellow Pages


For more on Twitter and how to use this to help grow your business - follow this link


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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Happy Diwali - Happy New Year

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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Thinking your Way to Success

Think your way to a fantastic Lifestyle... Before you have a dream you have to think it, for it to become reality. Positive thinking is key to getting what you want, to being self confident, successful, high achiever, 'lucky'. Here's a video I put together on different ways you can think your way to success.
Would love to see your comments below....




Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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Tips for Relieving Stress

We all go through stress in our personal life, and work life. Stress can manifest itself in different ways. Here are some tips on what you may do to help relieve those stressful moments.

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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Succeeding Where The 95% Don't.

It takes a certain type of individual to be able to remain dedicated and who is able to be persistent enough to succeed in succesfully being able to work for themselves. 95% of all small businesse fail in their first 5 years of starting up, accordingly to most marketing statistics.

So how can you avoid being another statistic? Most business opportunities out there will work, whether they are cost effective enough, or whether the training provided is effective and suitable for the market, the returns on the compensation plan are sufficient, or the products being sustainable or suitable to the target audience is another thing.

So, whatever opportunity you are with right now, are you being consistent with your actions? This has to be key to succeeding. It is the difference between getting leads or not. If you have a business model that uses a web funnel then its the difference between doing enough of the right activity that will aid driving traffic to your website or not enough of the right activity. Most social media marketing opportunities use the lates web 2.0 technology, this seems to be the way forward rather than the traditional MLM's and Network Marketing businesses. Technology and media has changed significantly over the last two to three years, and if you are not using any of the new web 2.0 narketing methods you need to consider this quickly to stay in the game.

Are you giving yourself time to understand what is is your opportunity offers. You need to have a clear understanding of this if you are to be able to successful explain your business to others and to successfully promote or advertise it.

Are you taking the time out to do the training. Most opportunities supply training in one form or another, this could be online forums, hotel meetings, learning modules or recommended reading books.

Again, there are lots of different types of web 2.0 media that you could be using to help drive traffic to your website. You wont be able to do them all at once, so concentrate on three types of adviertising in the first instance. Build your knowledge and expertise around those three methods of advertising before moving on to other methods and medias.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Your Wish Is My Command

This is a link to my new Squidoo Lens page. It is all about Attraction Marketing, Kharma and using the Universe to get what you want out of LIFE.

Feel free to drop by and send me your thoughts and comments
http://www.squidoo.com/Geniemarketing

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

So You Want To Blog It?

You got something on your mind. You want to make a statement about it. You want to tell people about it. How? Blog it!

There are so many sites available online which offer you templates where you can set up a blog easily, many of these templates allow you to just plug into and start creating.your blog. For instance 'blogspot' or 'WordPress' are just a couple of websites which offer to allow you to set up FREE blogs.

So how do I present the layout of my blog?

Before you decide to start your blog you may need to think of the following

* The name of your blog - what are you going to call it?
* Content - What type of content will you be adding and does it match really what your blog name is about

The biggest issue about blogging is the time it can take when first setting your blog up. To help make this easier you may wish to look at other blogs which have a similar content to the one you are considering doing and look at possibly adding their content from time to time to your own blog from sites on the internet.

For more details on this article please click here.

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
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Hot Tips For Your Personal Growth

Watch our for my daily useful tips on how to include Personal Development into your busy lifestyle. Each daily tips lasts less than 1 minute. They key is in the followup and action!




Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Tips to help your creativity

These are some handy tips I have gleaned through re-reading The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz.

Take 10 minutes at the beginning of each day and ask yourself the following: You will need paper and pen to note any thoughts down.
1. How can I do a better job today? – list down all the thoughts that come to mind
2. Ask yourself, what can I do today to encourage my colleagues
3. What special favour can I do for my clients / customers
4. What can I do to improve my personal efficiency today

This is so simple an exercise to do, and it really does help you to focus on the tasks to hand on a daily basis.

In his book David Schwartz talks about having a self improvement plan. What is this you say. Well, by asking the questions above and blitzing out the ideas comes up with a plan that you can effectively put into place during that week, and over time if monitored or reviewed will show practical improvements and results.

Be more receptive to ideas given to you by other colleagues, co-workers, clients. Get rid of the ‘can’t work’ ‘not the way it is done’ attitude. Be more open as to how it can be done, expanding on the thoughts and ideas to create more positive ideas and possibly solutions.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A aka WorkfmhomeDiva
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Whatever It Takes

I wanted to share this very inspirational and motivational poem from my sponsor John Russell Terrier who has been a real inspiration to me and a great guide and friend.

Whatever It Takes

I am committed to doing whatever it takes.

The die’s been cast.
I’ve stepped over the line.
I’m out of the comfort zone.
The decision has been made.
I won’t look back, let up, slow down or back away.
I’m finished and done with low living,
small planning and colorless dreams.
I cannot live with tame visions, dwarfed goals, mundane
talking, or chintzy giving.
I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, or
lured away.
I will not allow myself to be turned
back, deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, nor hesitate in the presence of adversity.
I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, nor will I long for the pool of popularity.
I refuse to waste another minute in the maze of mediocrity.
I’m through with the old ways of thinking and living. I am a leader of many.

I am successful.

I am ready to pay the price no matter what the cost.
Bring it on.
I am ready for anything because here’s the deal…

I am committed to doing whatever it takes!

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Effective Time Management and Working From Home

Here is an excerpt from an article I wrote recently online.


If like me you are a busy mother, full time employee and business woman, chances are you have created a method to your madness. If however, you would like to improve upon your time management skills both in your personal and work life, then I hope the following gives you some ideas to help achieve this.

I can't seem to do anything with out my Personal Diary Assistant. My head is like a seive at times, I found that having an electronic diary works for me. If however, you like the good old fashioned paper based diary, then these tips will work also.

First of all on a day to day basis, begin to block out your time. From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, mark out what activities you wish to achieve in that time. Include the school run, domestic tasks such as housework or shopping as well as your day job if you have one. Equally important is marking out Family Time. Even though you may have started an online business to generate more income, does not mean your family life has to suffer. Then most of all and importantly you need to include valuable ME time. Time where you can unwind and relax, or tiem for the Gym or other social activities. Once those tasks are down, then look at the available free time you have. It will all become clearer on paper.

If you have a work from home business, then begin my marking out your personal development time, time for training and learning, talk to your sponsor about how much time should be spent on these activities. I suspect in the beginning it will be a lot of time. Let's face it, there will be a lot of reading, researching, planning and activition happening all at frightening speed. It can get overwhelming if you let it.

You can read more of this article at the following link


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

You can Be and Do Whatever You Put Your Mind To Do

I have been a fan of Anthony Robbins for a number of years. I loved his personal story of how he overcame adversity and turned his life around. I admire his love to helping others to succeed, his humbleness and the fact he has never forgotten where he came from.

I regularly listen to his CD set GIANT STEPS, of which there is also a book of the same title. His speeches are so inspiring and motivational, I have always wanted to see him at an event.

Well, about two years ago I got the chance to see him in person. I really could not afford going to the event, but worked hard at my business to build the additional income required to purchase my ticket and hotel room. I was on my way!
I went to a Anthony Robbins event at the Excel Centre in London. It was a four day event. I didn't know what to expect when I got there, but it was such an emotional event for me. I met so many people whom I knew personally before, and also met many new friends some of which I still keep in touch with.

I learnt alot about myself during those four days, it was a really intense programme. As part of that programme on DAY ONE, we all had to walk across hot coals. The fear and trepidation that came across me when the actual time came was awesome, but the emotion and the motivation from others around me gave me the confidence to step out on the white hot coals and walk 40 feet across the coals without getting burnt.

What did this tell me about myself? If you think it you can do it!


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net/Cmorris

So you want to be a blogger!

You got something on your mind. You want to make a statement about it. You want to tell people about it. How? Blog it!
There are so many sites now where you can set up a blog easily, many have templates which you just plug into and start creating.your blog. For instance www.wordpress.com or www.blogspot.com are just a couple of websites which offer to allow you to set up FREE blogs.
So how do I present the layout of my blog?
Before you decide to start your blog think about what makes a successful blog.
- What should you be writing about?
-Is it the content? Is your blog interesting enough?
- Does you blog give tips and insight into your business?
- Is your blog well written?
The biggest issue about blogging is the time it can take. You need to research your topic and understand it before you write it. You may also want to research for content to add from other blogs or sites on the internet. All this takes time.
The topic of your blog is really important. A good blog can be used part of a marketing strategy. Your blog’s aim is to tell the world out there about you, your vision, your service, in short your brand whether it's a company or a person. Defining your topic is so important as the web has ‘spybots’ out there that trawl the web looking for labelled content. So it is important for you to tag your blog posts appropriately so that browsers can determine if it's of interest and list them in organic searches..
The beauty of blogging as part of your promotional strategy is that it can be adapted quickly to suit the results you are getting. You may find that one post alters your stats dramatically and if that happens you can use that information to write more in the same vein or to ban anything else along those lines. Read your stats - learn what your readers want from you.

All of this takes time but combined with other online marketing activity such as article campaigns, twitter, FaceBook etc, Direct Matches etc you can compile a really powerful marketing tool for your business or for yourself. If you don't have time, employ someone who does.

A Blog can be used to drive traffic to your website , to enhance you as a brand, increase traffic on your website or simply to tell the world about yourself or about what's bugging you..
Happy Blogging!

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net/Cmorris

You got something on your mind. You want to make a statement about it. You want to tell people about it. How? Blog it!
There are so many sites now where you can set up a blog easily, many have templates which you just plug into and start creating.your blog. For instance www.wordpress.com or www.blogspot.com are just a couple of websites which offer to allow you to set up FREE blogs.
So how do I present the layout of my blog?
Before you decide to start your blog think about what makes a successful blog.
- What should you be writing about?
-Is it the content? Is your blog interesting enough?
- Does you blog give tips and insight into your business?
- Is your blog well written?
The biggest issue about blogging is the time it can take. You need to research your topic and understand it before you write it. You may also want to research for content to add from other blogs or sites on the internet. All this takes time.
The topic of your blog is really important. A good blog can be used part of a marketing strategy. Your blog’s aim is to tell the world out there about you, your vision, your service, in short your brand whether it's a company or a person. Defining your topic is so important as the web has ‘spybots’ out there that trawl the web looking for labelled content. So it is important for you to tag your blog posts appropriately so that browsers can determine if it's of interest and list them in organic searches..
The beauty of blogging as part of your promotional strategy is that it can be adapted quickly to suit the results you are getting. You may find that one post alters your stats dramatically and if that happens you can use that information to write more in the same vein or to ban anything else along those lines. Read your stats - learn what your readers want from you.
All of this takes time but combined with other online marketing activity such as article campaigns, twitter, FaceBook etc, Direct Matches etc you can compile a really powerful marketing tool for your business or for yourself. If you don't have time, employ someone who does.
A Blog can be used to drive traffic to your website , to enhance you as a brand, increase traffic on your website or simply to tell the world about yourself or about what's bugging you..
Happy Blogging!

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://bewealthywithme.info

Who is Colette Morris - WorkfmhomeDiva - Laid open and bare!

Well who am I? Well I am Colette Morris, daughter, mother, friend, analyst, entrepreneur, nutritionist and mentor and motivator! As you can see many roles, to different people.

I thought I would write an article about me, who I am, some of what I have gone through in my life and what I strive to achieve.

I have always been a positive person from an early age, I give thanks to my father for inspiring me and teaching me to become an independent person, and that I could be and do whatever I put my mind to no matter what adversity I was up against. My father and mother were sticklers for education. Knowledge is power, I could hear my father say. He left school at 13 to go to work to support his mother in the carribbean, this was not unusual for that time. He never completed his education, but always wanted to become a doctor. He loved to read. He at one stage started night class in the UK to become a Doctor, but I guess his dreams were crushed when a family soon arrived and he gave this up to support his wife and children and mortgage.

Both my parents came from the Carribbean island of Jamaica to the United Kingdom to start a better life for their future. They met in England soon after they both arrived here and stayed together for over 40 years before my father was sadly taken away from us.

I remember life in the early days was not terribly easy for my family, but my parents never had credit cards or bank accounts only saving accounts. Anything they wanted they saved up and bought it with cash. We didnt have a multitude of money, but we never wanted for anything. I was not spoiled and did not have as much as some of my friends, but we were a close knit family and extended family and remain that way now. My father hated owing money to anyone. He managed to pay off his mortgage within 10 years purely by working two jobs to repay his loan off quickly. He has been my inspiration to do well in life, and I looked up to him, and as I grew older and wiser he looked up to me also. He was proud at how I turned out in life, I left school with a great education, but made a decision to go straight to work and not to go to university. He never showed his dissappointment with me, but encouraged me to develop my career all the way. I owned by first property at the age of 21, he 'borrowed' me some of the money for the deposit as i did not quite have enough. I made sure I repaid him back within a year. He was always there to give advise and lend me money from time to time and he at one point confided in me that he admired what I was doing, as he had wanted to own property, but was too scared to take the leap of faith and owe too much money at once.

I got married and had two boys, who are now strapping teenagers. My marriage didn't work out for one reason or another and I found myself single again 9 years ago, with two young boys then both under the age of 11 and it was during this time that I embarked on an amazing adventure that has changed my outlook and life so far. Little after my marriage broke up, this was a dark time for me. I found myself worrying that I now had no back up, no support financially and little or no savings. To cap it off, I found myself taking a redundancy package from my job of 21 years (I know I dont look like I have been working that long!) and it was during that time that I decided to work for myself. I became an IT Contractor. This was great for a few years, I loved the feeling of being independent, not relying on an employer telling me when to take my holidays, or days off, I loved the high income, the better lifestyle I could now afford for myself and my kids and being able to fix up my home how I liked. Working for myself had shown my children that they could work for theirselves and not for an employer when they were able to. Being with me, helped them become entrepreneurs themselves as young kids alwasy dreaming up ways to make more money or increase their pocket money to be able to save up for something they wanted to buy for themselves.
But, I my let down was that I wasn't saving up properly for my future. Then, four years later, I found the contracts starting to dry up and I knew I needed to find a work from home business to suppliment my full time income. I was searching online for 6 months until I found a really good weight loss company. I was a little overweight myself so I think this was why it really appealed to me. In my unhappy state with worrying about being on my own and not enough income to come in, I had begun to eat the wrong foods or snacks when I knew I shouldn't.

I embarked on this new Work from home business for 4 years, and was happy making an extra £1,500 per month, however it was hard work, and with having to call customers training calls with downline, attending weekend meetings I found I did not have enough time for myself or my boys, so this really wasn't the ideal for me. I must have spent over £8,000 or more during those 4 years with that company and in fairness I did also make money back, but I was not enough for me to break even. I put this down to experience and then I then began searching around online for another home business and came across another businesss venture, but again, this one did not work out.

My life at that time -- I was busy working living pay check to pay check. I had a major set back last year when my paternal Grandmother died, and as she was my father's mother, he had died, so it was left to me the oldest child to fly over to the carribbean to attend to her funeral arrangements. For this I used up the last of my savings and was now down to just 1 months worth of salary out of my emergency salary fund if by chance anything had happened. This was something I had learned with joining up for the Robert Allen Multiple Streams of Income programme. One of the first things to get out of debt was to ensure you had at least 6 months of your income in savings. I had used 5 months of this just to arrange my grandmothers funeral -- not to mention nearly losing my life over there at the same time by robbers! That is another story for another day. So on my return to the UK end of October November I began looking again for another way to earn money from home.

By chance one day tweeting away on twitter, I came across a 'tweet' and thought, this looks interesting and from there my life is changing in a really good way. I am now in business with a great bunch of people who are really supportive and encouraging, and they all want me to succeed and achieve my dreams. Being with this company has shown me what it is to be with the right company who are serious about each and everyone who joins them and ensure that they start their business in the proper and focussed manner, which was so unnlike my previous MLM, where some members did not want to share their 'secrets' of what was successful for them, and who were not supportive enough and who I found left you on your own to figure things out, while they made their monthly commissions and residual income from you just being underneath them in the company.

So, after 6 years of research, lessons learnt and challenges (not failures), and after finally finding my own way to success and discovering what I believe to be my true calling for wanting to help others achieve their potential and their dreams, I am now able to be in a position to help the new consultants I bring in to my primary opportunity sort through the 'clutter' and focus on those activities that actually produce results, so that they go into profit quickly.

Because thanks to the leaders in my company who have spent thousands of dollars on books, courses, seminars and conferences, the tens of thousands between them that they spent trying and testing various marketing strategies, and the hours and hours they have spent in front of their computer screen -- thanks to all that, I now actually have something to offer the market. Something that can help others who are struggling to take their businesses to the next level.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://bewealthywithme.info

Thinking Your Way out of a Negative Situation

Devilish Thoughts That Stop You Succeeding

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you know you reflecting back on the event that you have put yourself in that position through the shear power of your thoughts.

Where instead of having faith in yourself to say things will work out positively instead little doubts creep into your head and you think inwardly to yourself ‘ this won’t work, I know it won’t work’, but projecting the I hope it works thought out too, thus creating areas of conflict and self doubt. Then as the event or activity is completed you find that what ever the task or activity was, just ends up not working, that devilish little voice says ‘I knew it wouldn’t work, I just knew it!’

I had been in this situation many a time, and even now sometimes have nagging thoughts about uncertainties of activities or events. I try my upmost to put them to the back and to remain positive and upbeat about things, but you know that naught little thought will try to enter your head at some point during your day or moment. SO how do you get around those times of self doubt.

Visualise
Your thoughts have a frequency, and as you know frequency tends to travel. So in perspective your thoughts travel out there in the wider ether, and bounce around coming back to you now and then. These thoughts seem to attract like minded thoughts and you find you are moved towards people who think in a similar way to you, thus collectively if you move in a circle where thoughts are mainly negative, then they will become self fulfilling and thoughts and frequency and energy will emit back to the source namely you!

If you look at some of our top athletes or sports people, they use visualising techniques to achieve success. They already visualise in their heads the whole game or race from the beginning to the end, with them focused to being the best, or a winner. They visualise themselves winning, crossing the line, the feeling, the emotion, the cheer of the crowd, the time / result they wish to achieve. It is already played out in their mind, over and over and over again.

Thus, when playing or taking part in the event, they have already taken part in their mind, in their vision, they have already achieved the end result, so when it is time for the actual event, they already send out thoughts on how it will turn out, they have seen in their minds eye that they have won, achieved the fastest time, highest number of goals or whatever achievement they had in their mind.

Techniques To Remain Positive
Have a vision, a goal. Like the athlete visualise that goal over and over and over, until it is comfortable and sticks in your mind, like an event that has already taken place, so when you are achieving your goal, you have visualised it so strong you feel the results as you begin to achieve them.
Read Positive Attitude Books. There are some great self help books out there to help you to focus and to think more positively:
• The Secret - Rhona Bryne,
• Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill and W Clement Stone
Hang around with positive people. Try to stear clear of negative people and negative thoughts as they will only prey on your mind and push the positivity away from your upmost forefront of your mind.
Listen to Music. You may wish to find a song or piece of music to listen to or play which is uplifting and positive when you have moments of self doubt, negativity or feel down.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://bewealthywithme.info