Conquer Your Adversity

The TRUTH About Last Year...

Tell me...

How would you rate this year I just had?

I'll tell you my view in a minute but first...

Last year I made personal history!

You see, I consulted for someone I considered a 'friend'.

Using what I had learned in the Grow Rich While You Sl'eep
Success System and the Power of Concentration I was able to come up with an idea for a product, create it and gave him the idea.

Well, silly me...as fate would have it.

After months of planning and work instead of a contract I
got a handshake and instead of being trustworthy...

That 'friend' or rather 'fiend' was a 'con-man'!

So he made $2.5 million on my idea and I parted ways with
him and couldn't get my contract.

Fact is he 'wouldn't' give me a contract or credit for it although
he verbally said he would.

I was lost for a while last year - my mind wandered between extreme
anger and hatred - I didn't know what to do - my work was gone and
that scoundrel was still selling it - and just as I was
about to kick myself for being so stupid - I remembered WHO
the heck I was.

I said to myself, 'You're Rasheed Ali man!  You've slept on
streets, had sawed-off shotguns put to your face, have been
left for dead by so-called friends, mercilessly beaten by your
own parents and more.'

'Get over yourself and forget what 'was', and go back to building
your empire!'

And you know what?

One month later, I had created an even better product and have
made as much as $40,000 in a day with it and I'm aiming for
$3 million this year!

Recently, I discovered that no contract means no rights to
my product and my lawyers are plugging away for a law-suit
as I write this.

-- My business is growing so fast, I have to go get office space
this month so I can hire more people.

-- I have people on 4 different continents working for me.

-- I was able to spend the first year of my daughter's life at
home where I could bond with her unlike other fathers that miss
out on these forming years. (my office will be in the neighborhood,
wink, wink)

-- When my wife became ill, I was able to spend time with her and
not worry about money or who would take care of the baby.

Now there's a ton more I can tell you but the reality is that
although I was taken advantage of and although I had a lot more
rough times within the year, it's really the GOOD stuff that
is truly memorable.

The bad stuff really wasn't all that bad...

In fact, it helped me to build my nerve, get the strength of the
concrete streets back in my soul and set the stage for an amazing
2007!

So what does that mean to you?

It means, that YOU too should 'Get Over Yourself!' and move on.

Forget what you lost out on and make progress this year - starting
NOW - make the decision to changed and DO IT!

Waiting is procrastinating - Procrastinating is a sure sentence to
failure.

The choice is yours my friend and I know YOU can do it if only you
try!

Do You Have These 5 Skills for Success?

Success and wealth don’t happen by themselves.  You have to want them and develop the skills to possess them.  Even people who win the lottery often lose the money quickly because they don’t have the skills to keep it.

Most of us learned about the natural law of ‘cause and effect’ in school.  For every action there is a reaction.  Very simply, if you forget your umbrella and it rains (cause), you’ll get wet (effect).

When you learn to control causes and take responsibility, you will reach your desired effect.  The 5 causes outlined here are learnable skills.  They are not inborn talents, but skills, that can become habits.

Practice these skills for the next month since studies have shown that it takes between 30 and 40 days to develop a new emotional or physical habit.  Don’t be overwhelmed by this task.  Break down each skill and achieve one at a time.

Time Management
We all have the same 24 hours, yet how is it that some people manage to get so much more accomplished than others?   Successful time managers know what they can realistically achieve; plan to make the best use of time available; leave enough time for things they absolutely must do; and conserve contingency time to handle the unexpected.   They also minimize stress by not over committing. 

Organization
Your most valuable real estate is your desk.  If you find concentration on a task is difficult then a disorganized desk will compound the problem.  Moving from task to task as projects come into your line of vision will decrease your productivity and adversely affect the bottom line. The average businessperson wastes 150 hours a year looking for things.  That’s almost an entire month. 

Communication Skills
It doesn’t matter what business you’re in or how many people you work with – effective oral and written communication skills are essential.  The purpose of communication is to get your message across to others as clearly as possible.  This is vital to career progression. To do this, you must understand your message, your audience, and how it will be perceived.

Goal Setting
Goal setting gives you both long-term vision and short-term motivation.  The process of setting written goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot distractions.  Well-set goals can be incredibly motivating, and as you get into the habit of setting and achieving goals, you'll find that your self-confidence builds quickly.

Focused Action
Action sets everything in motion. Focused action gives direction.  Consistent, focused action can facilitate goal achievement better than anything else.  The fastest way to get from Point A to Point B is by a straight line.  Yet so often we get distracted and we veer off track, making it much harder to reach our desired goal.  When our actions are focused, we have clarity, a feasible plan and a passion for achievement.

Spend some time each day practicing these five skills, and after 30 days, they’ll become habit! 

Are Your Goals S.M.A.R.T.?

The New Year is a time when people reflect on new opportunities and unrealized dreams.  January 1st feels like a clean slate.  But if you aren’t S.M.A.R.T. about setting your goals this year, your chances of achieving them greatly decrease. 

S.M.A.R.T. is a mnemonic device to easily remember how to set goals that will yield results.  If your goals don’t follow these criteria, you may be setting yourself up for failure. 

“S” stands for Specific.  Set a specific written goal that is objective and measurable. A general goal would be: “I will lose weight.”  A specific goal is to lose 30 pounds in 6 months. Give some broad balance to them adding several categories, such as Attitude, Career, Education, Family, Financial, Physical, Pleasure, and Public Service.  You choose the categories most important to you. 

“M” stands for Measurable.  Set a date, a time and identify an amount.  For instance, “I want to lose 5 pounds a month for the next 6 months.”  You can measure at the end of each month whether or not you are on track to meet your goal.  Even your goals for attitude should be written so they can be measured.  Setting a goal that says: “I want to feel more loved in six months.” isn’t measurable.  Define how you feel loved and then write those goals.  “I want to receive 3 phone calls a week from my friends and 1 gift a month from my husband.”

“A” is for Attainable.  Don’t set ‘pie in the sky’ resolutions.  Using one example above, don’t write, “I’m going to lose 30 pounds in one month.”  Not only is it not realistic, it‘s also not attainable. Try making some of your goals performance-related and not outcome-related.  Instead of writing, “I’m going to lose 8 pounds this month,” try writing, “I am going to exercise for 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week, and eat 300 less calories per day.”  You can control the amount of exercise you get and what you put in your mouth easier than you can control exactly how many pounds you lose. 

“R” stands for Relevant.  Your goals have to be relevant and personal.  If they’re not, you won’t be motivated to achieve them.  In other words, don’t develop goals that you think other people expect from you, or others create for you.  Lots of people will set unrealistic and irrelevant goals for you – the media, society, even your family and friends – because they are unaware of your desires and ambitions.  Work on goals that are meaningful to your desires and life plans.  No one else can tell you what’s important. 

“T” is for Timebound.  Set a date.  You may have goals you want to achieve in 6 weeks and others in 10 months.  Make a date and stick to it.  Then it will be easier to ‘work backwards’ and create your action plan.  Referring back to our weight loss example, if you know you want to lose 30 pounds in 6 months, your sub goal will be to lose 5 pounds a month.  Then you can decide if you want to increase your exercise, reduce your calories or both to lose 5 pounds.  See how you can take a 6-month goal and break it down into daily tasks to keep you on track?   

Almost all top-level athletes, successful business people and achievers in all fields use goals setting techniques.  The process of setting goals helps you get where you want to go in life.

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6 Things You Need To Concentrate And Succeed

Concentration delivers the most consistent results in the most productive way possible, time after time. Ironically the more you think about concentrating the less you are focused on the task at hand.  That’s why most people teach the skill of concentration through indirect methods, such as eliminating distractions. 

Concentration is simply directing your energy toward a particular activity. 

Edwin Moses, Olympic champion and physicist, said, “My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training……”

Concentration is a learned skill.  And, as with any skill, repeated practice will increase you goal achievement.  A thoughtful analysis of what distracts your concentration will usually point you in the direction you must take to improve.

This is a summary of typical distractions that impede your concentration and therefore your productivity.  Evaluate your own situation and determine how you change the environment to improve these circumstances.

° Whether it’s a home office, your kitchen table or your local library, it’s important to find a place where you can spread out and have all of the materials you will need close at hand.  Any time you have to get up is another disruption.  You should have good lighting and ventilation, a comfortable chair (but not too comfortable!) and a desk large enough to spread out your materials. 

°  While some people cannot think in peace and quiet, it is much more difficult to concentrate if our surroundings are intrusive.  You can distinguish between background music, which our minds interpret as “white noise” and interruptions by telephones, IM, email and questions.   Music may not be a distraction to you but people are disruptive to the effort at concentration.

°  Set a realistic goal for each session and divide your work into small, short-term tasks.  Determine these before you begin to work.  Don’t be too vague such as, “I am going to spend all day Saturday working."  You won’t recognize the amount of work you accomplish and will be discouraged.  Do more than your goal if you have the time, but set a reasonable goal even if it seems too easy.

°  Set a time limit for focused concentration.  At the beginning 15 minutes may be reasonable.  Work up to at least 30 minutes before you take a 5-10 minute break for stretching and walking.  You want to recharge your brain and increase the blood flow throughout your body.  This also increases concentration.

°  Decide the order you’re going to approach your tasks.  Then stick to it. 

°  This is the best part.  Plan a reward for completing your goals for each session.  But remember, if you don’t meet your goal – no reward! 

The ability to concentrate and focus on the task at hand is a learned skill - which means there’s hope for everyone!  We all have the ability to concentrate. But at times our thoughts are scattered, and our minds race. We need to learn and practice concentration skills and strategies to improve our productivity.

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Read This Actual Excerpt From Jo Han Mok's "Cracking The Internet Millionaire Code" Online CD

Jo Han: Rasheed, as I said, I like to give simple answers as well and quite frankly, there’s only one thing that I think that a person must do in order to run a successful internet business, and this is the uber principle that separates the successful from the not so successful on the internet.

It only boils down to one simple principle but of course you can dig deeper into the other components but I want to talk about this principle first.

As I said, this is the principle that separates the winners and losers on the internet.

Unless you know this principle, chances are that success will always elude you.

So, I think, whoever has, who’s listening to this audio, you’ll definitely get your money’s worth just based on this principle.

This principle is basically Integration.

I’ll repeat that, Integration.

You know Rasheed, when you see people come online and they think of starting an online business, it’s really one step into the grave because when you come online,

What happens is that you would realize that there’s so many things that you have to be in charge of that you actually have to know in a business.

For instance, you come into the business, cold, you know when we stumble onto the internet business, you’ll think that there’s so much to do.

God! First of all, I have to be able to sell a thing, so I have to know a little bit on selling; obviously I need to have some copywriting skills.

Secondly, I will need to have some websites.

If I cannot hire a designer then I have to design it myself and then, comes the problem of, hey, I’ve never gotten a website live online before, what should I do to learn a series of pop up processes like registering a domain name, having it transferred to your hosting account via FTP.

And you know, when I’m talking about this, all that jargon comes in. You have to find out about FTP, and then hey, now I’ve have this website, ok, cool.

"How about product creation?"

"Do I have a product to sell?"

Then you have to go ahead and create a product and you realize that hey, everyone’s publishing their books in PDF format.

"How do I go ahead and create a book in PDF format?"

What do I do? I have to acquire this software and then maybe I want something different, maybe I want a CD that has some auto run menu or a something like that.

"How do I go about doing that?"

You find that there are so many things that you’ve to do and aside from that, after the product is created, you’ll say, ok, now, I have to automate my business.

Now, you come across these terms like auto responders, Ad trackers and you know, you suddenly get caught up in this whole technical process that seems never ending.

Before it even ends, there are always new things that are springing up on the internet.

The internet travels at the speed of light.

You have new things like blogs, blog and pinging, RSS, the whole thing, it’s a total mess and if you want to take the time to know it all, it’s probably going to take you a good few years.

That’s what I mean by marketing suicide, it’s like getting your foot in the grave if you want to undertake all these things by yourself and hope, and thank god that I didn’t, you would end up killing yourself.

Let me tell you Rasheed, most of the people who come, who listen to this audio, have this very very idealistic dream of having a business that works while they sleep.

To them, the internet business represents unlimited freedom and if you take that route that I just describe to you, and try to do everything on your own, chances are, you’ll find that your dream, becomes a nightmare...

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The Funnel vs. Variety; Which Will Net You More?

The controversy over a functional sales model has been raging for years.  Well before the online information age, and probably well after those who read this have retired from marketing.

There are two basic situations and some variations.  Some people have been able to merge these models to some degree but you’ll find customers get confused when the merger is complete.  You’ll lose more customers if you try to maintain both models with the same list.

In the first situation you have what has been referred to as a sales funnel.  In this model the marketer entices people to his list by giving away some information.  After a time the marketer makes a product offer at a low price point.  At this time the list is segmented into those who purchase and those who didn’t.  The same offer might be made again and the segmentation happens again.

The second offer made is for a slightly higher price point.  The marketer will find that the list that originally purchased from him has a higher likelihood of purchasing the second product at the higher price point than the first list who have never purchased.  At this time the marketer may or may not segment the list into those who have purchased the higher priced item.

This same pattern continues with the marketer offering several items always higher than the last.  This method of marketing offers the client the best of the marketer and offers the marketer a list of clients who might like to purchase into a higher priced coaching program.  The marketer is also able to segment out those customers who will purchase the lower or middle price point products and consistently offer their choice of price point.

The opposite of this model is much like an affiliate sales pitch.  The marketer finds a customer and offers him high quality information to sign up for his list.  The marketer then sells the only product he has to offer at a higher price point.  He might then find affiliate products to offer but the offers are haphazard and the newest products on the market that week.

Either model will net sales.  The first model will net a business empire where the marketer can offer affiliate products when they fit very well with the needs of his client base.  The second model will net a continual flow of customers in and customers out who may unsubscribe after purchasing any product that feel meets their needs.  In both models the marketer must continue to add customers to their list to continue to make money.

The second model may not be the most efficient but it takes less work to set up and run.  The first model may take more effort up front but will net a long-term relationship with their customers.  It is really the difference between having clients and customers.

A definition emerged recently by a ‘guru’ who said it this way: “I offer various products because my list is not all interested in the same thing.  I want to offer everyone something that satisfies them.”  Again, this is the difference between having a specific targeted list of clients and customers.

The more important process is to iron out which concept works best for your particular business model and then stick with it.  Switching models mid-stream is almost next to impossible.  You’ll lose more business than you anticipate gaining by switching camps.  If you are committed to trying another sales model then start another niche and test it there.

The Most Important Image EVER Captured By Humans!

Sit back, turn up your volume and be ready for a MAJOR change in your perspective!  Watch it to the end or you'll miss it...

Business and Life Coaching - Let's Bring Back Legitimate Coaches!

Ever get called by one of these companies touting that they have the GREATEST coaching program for buidling a business online or real estate investment coaching, or even stock trading coaching? 

Most of us who have ever wanted to start a business online or offline and went out and bought information on it has had this happen to them.

It usually happens right after you order a free or low cost CD that turns out to be purely superficial information. 

That purchase pretty much qualifies you as a warm prospect.

Then, they call you to up-sell you on their coaching program(s) which usually go from $3,500 to as much as $20,000.

Sure they have tons of different programs and their sales pitch is somewhat persuasive and heck they might even drop names on you to build their credibility BUT --

Did you know that you were just speaking to a starving 22 year old kid on the phone pretending to be a 40 year old who doesn't "need" your money?

Just like the old-school stockbrokers!

We all know how "honest" most of these guys were, right?

Then, IF you get duped...err...persuaded into spending money with them guess what? 

Y0ur seasoned coach is either another starving 22-year old with no knowledge of your topic and they're reading from a manual written by a ghostwriter or a "expert" who isn't really an expert...

-OR-

You speak to a person with a reasonably well rounded background but they're getting paid pennies on the dollar as a coach by the coaching company for giving you the same knowledge you could have gotten for free online.

Hmmm....

Sounds like there's an industry that needs a correction don't you?

Well there are two products being sold online right now that can tip the scales in the favor of the masses of budding entrepreneurs who have wanted to put their talent to good use.

The first one is called Mortal to Millionaire and it's probably the greatest system on online persuasion or persuasion in gerneral for that matter.

It was developed by two of the most well-known and respected marketers online today.

The second one is called the Interet Coaching Empire Manual and this product exposes the inside truths about life coaching and business coaching as well as consulting (yes, there is a difference) and how to get into these businesses yourself.

I think the personal and business coaching industry needs a good influx of reputable and experienced people REALLY teaching people HOW to accomplish their goals, dreams and desires.

Check out those websites for yourself and you'll soon see how if combined these two sytems are literally the most lucrative combination of programs in existence online!

Think about it...

Combining the skill of persuasion with coaching or consulting will not only result in massively increased income but, also protect you and those you love from being manipulated by companies like the kind I mentioned before.

I know that most of the people who visit this blog are serious about their own success so just knowing this information can literally change your personal and financial future forever.

If you have the knowledge and desire to help others, then these two systems are MUST haves for your success.

How To Stop Rubbernecking Through Life!

Does rubbernecking stop you from achieving your goals?

Seems like a weird thing to ask but, what happened was…

I was driving home the other morning from a fishing trip and was happy as can be because, I caught some fish, the roads were clear and I didn’t have to watch out for anyone coming into my lane on the highway.

It was smooth sailing so to speak.

That was until, from almost out of nowhere I ran into miles upon miles of bumper to bumper traffic!

It struck me as odd but I had a hunch I knew what was going on.

I drove at a snail’s pace for miles, patiently waiting to see if I was right.

When I finally arrived at the point where the “problem” was stemming from I found that I was indeed right!

You see, the police had pulled someone over for speeding and instead of driving on and moving forward, some of the people who were driving by the pulled over vehicle decided to slow down.

Nope, they weren’t slowing down to be more cautious, but rather to take a look at what was going on beside them instead of in front of them.

That’s rubbernecking.

As soon as I saw this I quickly realized that this was a similar phenomenon to what happens to the best of us as we begin to focus in on our goals, challenges or problems.

Have you ever single-mindedly decided to pursue a goal or solve a problem and just as you were making progress on it something grabbed your attention and moved your focus away from what you were focused on?

Then all of a sudden when you went back to try to focus in on it again, you felt like EVERYTHING backed up on you and you had even more problems or things to tend to or deal with first.

Just like the traffic, your problems and challenges won’t just stop if you lose focus.  Rather, they keep following you and if you get sidetracked and lose focus, your challenges or problems back up like the bumper to bumper traffic I was driving in that day.

Rubbernecking in life is the equivalent of driving your car at full speed and then sticking your head out of your window and staring at something beside you.

If you slam the brakes your problems will hit you from behind.

Just as worse, if you don’t slow down you’ll end up crashing into what’s in front of you and destroying it.  That’s the equivalent of sabotaging your next step in achieving your goals.

Fact is, this happens to all of us in life but, the people that are the most successful in life are the ones that learn from this critical mistake and maintain their focus in future situations that make them susceptible to rubbernecking.

The moral here my friend is keep your eye on the road or rather your goal and DO NOT allow outside distractions to pull your attention off of what you are aiming to achieve.

The truth is, many of these distractions will come as HUGE opportunities fancied up with great marketing, the rest will come as your very own family and friends.

Your only responsibility is to know what they are and ask them to wait until you finish what you started.

Listen, emergencies happen and you cannot avoid them because of a goal, challenge or problem.  You are human, not machine and you must take care of those you love BUT...

The rest of the time, if it’s not that important, it can wait. 

You can gracefully and without injury to others stay focused and concentrate on your goal.  In doing so, you will maintain your momentum and quickly achieve your dreams and desires.

How To Unleash Your Power Of Concentration

It’s the most powerful success strategy of them all!

More success and fortunes have been attributed to sheer concentration or rather focus than any other success strategy in existence.

Why?

Well the fact of the matter is that there many of us have great ideas and hopes of accomplishments in our lives or businesses.

It starts as a twinkling in your eye after receiving an inspiring marketing message or some phenomenal idea that came to you in the shower or some other place where your mind was free to think without distraction.

The problem is that when it comes down to actually getting it done, we often fall short because of things like procrastination, distractions, self-doubt, inconsistency and even fear.

The unfortunate truth is, that the world is literally littered with the “carcasses” of abandoned ideas and potential accomplishments that never became a reality for the simple reason that the person behind them became unfocused, procrastinated, or began to doubt the validity of their idea in the first place.

Think about this:

“Star Wars” has become one of the most profitable movie and product franchises in history but, the reality is, back then the simple idea of “Star Wars” was turned down by every movie studio in

Hollywood

before 20^th Century Fox accepted it!

Can you imagine that?

Through the simple power of concentration, George Lucas was able single-mindedly move forward through constant rejection and bring forth the legendary “Star Wars” films that have been released from 1977 to 2005.  (I think even more to come)

Fact is, this is not an original case.   There are countless stories of triumph and accomplishment, fame and wealth because of Focus.

Now there are simple steps anyone can take to truly achieve greatness through focus.

Three simple steps really…

1. Find and define a definite purpose for your idea or desire.  Realize that ideas and desires will come and go but, it only takes

   ONE

   idea or desire to achieve success.  Everyone at some point in their lives has too many ideas and not enough time to accomplish them all.  Pick the one you are most passionate about.

2. Form the habit of concentrating on that one idea or desire without allowing distraction.  You must control your impulses, passions, emotions, actions and poor habits.  If not you will end up throwing yet another carcass in the ditch of failure.  Simply and habitually, seek to control those things as you work toward your idea or desire.  Questioning to improve your idea is fine, but questioning to find a reason to quit is what most of us do all too often.  Remember, the grass doesn’t always look green everyday and there will be times that you question your own actions.  Use them wisely and with progress in mind. 

3. Build and strengthen your thoughts and mind as you work toward fulfilling your idea or desire.  Different thoughts and people are always among us.  There are always good ones and bad ones in both.  As you work towards achievement, your thoughts and mind must work with positive energy in order to conquer your mental and personal adversaries.  (that would be negative thoughts and people)

Following and sticking to these three steps is the true path of a champion.

The greatest book ever written on the subject of Focus is “The Power of Concentration” by Theron Dumont.

In it he says,

“It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make the greatest success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working on. The person that is able to concentrate utilizes all constructive thoughts and shuts out all destructive ones. The greatest man would accomplish nothing if he lacked concentration.”

Through focus or the power of concentration, ANYONE can achieve greatness on an epic scale.

Come to think of it, is “Focus” the real “Force”? 

Become the Master of Focus and you WILL achieve greatness and prosperity!

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