Do you set goals at the beginning of the year and the momentum and focus just falls away at the wayside? Is your desire for a new goal so stong that you really want to learn how to goal setting really works?

What I have personally found with goal setting is you can be focused and ‘ready to go’ and then time passes by, your attention strays to others things and at the end of the year your back where you started. A perfect example, I just found my 2009 journal containing my goals last weekend!
Why is motivation and persistence at times a long lost friend that only calls once every two months? This approach of just writing down some goals with the right intentions is not really getting the party started. (Can you imagine Donald Trump losing his goal journal and finding it a year later…I think not).
Jay Kubassek one of the co-founders of Carbon Copy Pro recommended this ebook so I checked it out. I was not disappointed.
I keep on being told ‘to gain something new in your life you need to be a different person than who you are today.’

I have created Live Beyond Nine to Five which has given me a burning desire to achieve my goals and am ready to take action but am a little nervous at my previous goal creating attempts. hmmm Which has got me thinking (that was what the hmm was for)… I don’t want to wipe off the dust on my journal and continue with an approach that didn’t work in the first place. I need a different approach but what??!! drum roll please…..

I think I have found an answer that I would like to share with you.
The ebook is called ‘How to get lots of money for anything fast!’ By Stuart Lichtman and Joe Vitale.
I feel very fortunate to find this book because I love understanding how our minds work and how to apply your goal setting to suit your needs. This ebook focuses goals around money but it would be very easily adaptable to losing weight or any other goal you may have.
If you have any other suggestions on goal setting please post a comment.

There is more information about the ebook and testimonials in this link provided in the link in the below title.
The ebook is called ‘How to get lots of money for anything fast!’ By Stuart Lichtman and Joe Vitale.

Remember… Being committed means always taking action. Persist without exception and you will achieve great things. )
Have a great day.

Alison )

P.S. Please note, I liked this ebook so much I became an affiliate, so I will earn a commission should you make a purchase.

by Alison Bova

Joining a network marketing company, on the basis of “it’s such a good product” (like I almost did) is the caryard equivalent of buying a van without checking under the hood. Let me explain.

Like it or not, the primary purpose of any business, network marketing companies included, is to move product.

Similarly the primary purpose of a van is … (you guessed it) to move product.

Trouble is, most companies offer a great “looking” vehicle, but on closer inspection, the home business owner finds it doesn’t have an engine capable of driving sales. You pay your money and get your van back home — loaded to the brim with product, hopes and dreams.

You put the key into the ignition, turn it clockwise and … click … nothing … It won’t go anywhere. The van you bought won’t move, let alone move product.

It’s a shell … a souffle. All hot air. The used car salesman didn’t say anything about this?

So what do most people do?

They push their van around the block a couple of times, hoping it will somehow gather momentum.

They try putting more fuel (money) into it.

But it doesn’t make any difference.

In the end the clever ones realize they have to buy or build their own engine (and then cross their fingers that it works with their particular vehicle).

Meanwhile, the company puts on “rah rah” training sessions and meetings all about their “products” and their “success stories”.

Of course, they rarely mention anything useful about driving sales.

This is what you really need to know.

The core problem here is this. When looking for an opportunity, most people only focus on the product or service they will be selling. This is natural and understandable (the companies bank on that). But it is a HUGE mistake.

There are some incredible products out there. There’s no doubt about that.

But the product is only half the equation.

If you don’t believe me try ordering a pallet of any product in the world.

Have it delivered to your garage. Are you rich yet?

Of course not.

It won’t move itself. It needs to be marketed (no matter how good it is). And no amount of affirmations, no law of attraction, no “awakening” or “abundance mentality” is going to shift that sucker.

You see, the most important — and the most often overlooked — criteria for choosing a business opportunity is being able to crawl under the hood and check that it has a powerful and automated sales and marketing machine.

Without an engine to drive sales, most home business owners quickly find themselves at the side of the road — alongside the rusted out wrecks of the 97% of other independent distributors whose dreams stalled.

And you know what the real tragedy is? Those 97% of people never realise what went wrong. No-one tells them you need an engine to drive a home business. They blame themselves for not “pushing the van” hard enough. “Maybe if I’d done another lap of the block, another meeting, bought more leads, listened to more training calls?”

They never realize that the bright and shiny “shell on wheels” they were sold was never going to get out of first gear.

And that it wasn’t their fault.

Meanwhile the companies and their “heavy hitters” ignore the wreckage — somehow managing to put it to the back of their minds, as they welcome a new round of eager members ready and willing to test drive a shiny new van.

When twitter was first released I had the perception that Twitter was only for celebrities and their fans, people that were dying to know what Paris Hilton or Ashton Kutcher were up to. OK, I may be guilty of following Kim Kardashian ok, give me a break!! )
Since I have been learning marketing methods from the back office of CarbonCopryPRO I have changed my mind about Twitter and now appreciate how I can connect as an online marketer to a wider audience.
Personal Branding is all about making a statement and sharing who you are to give people the opportunity to get to know you. Twitter, Facebook and My Space etc give you the mechanisms to do just that.
Twitter is all about being social with the focus on sending short messages to a group of ‘followers’, a great way to increase your number of followers is to find people with similar interests or if someone has selected to follow you, you follow them back in return and start the conversation.
The topics you send in your messages or ‘tweats’ are all about you, your interests, funny stuff you have found on the net and/or inspirational quotes. Through being yourself you attract like-minded people and your followers build over time.
If your serious of becoming an entrepreneur its great to connect to people you aspire to be to get a daily does of inspiration. I searched for Tony Robbins as soon as I created a profile. Every inspirational quote or blog creates a little more value in my life, which I am very grateful for.
Feel free to connect with me on Twitter..http://twitter.com/Livebeyond925
Happy tweeting

Alison )

Day 7: “Nine Keys to Choosing the Right Company — a Company That Can Provide $1,000-$100,000 A Month Residual Income in Less than 12 Months”

Online businesses are no different to normal brick and mortar businesses. If you do your due diligence and follow a simple game plan, you’ll find a business that is the right fit for you. Here are the crucial questions you need answers to…

1. An Unselfish Mission: Is the Company involved in any charities or programs to help others? Is the company doing something to benefit others in the future? Do they understand the universal principal of “what goes around comes around” or are they just in it for a quick buck? You’ve got to have a mission that puts the success of others first. Remember, helping other people to get what they want is the key to getting what you want. At CCPro, our goal is to help 100 people become millionaires within the next three years, and we’re on track to reach that goal. Plus CCPro assists a number of charities. Look at the leadership of the company. Are the leaders people of integrity?

2. A Go-Ahead Industry: Direct Sales via Network Marketing. No other business model offers so much potential with so few barriers to entry (like start-up costs).

3. A Fair Compensation Plan: Direct Sales rules, but only if it has a residual income based compensation plan. Stay away from the ‘two-up’ compensation plan found in most direct sales companies. This compensation plan is not fair and does not harbor team spirit because your over-rides on partners is limited to their first two customers.

   
   Off-course, “fair” means different things to different people but the bottom line is that if you are going to be marketing a product for commission, you want to be earning a high commission bonus upfront as well as a residual income on the back end. Most compensation plans either have high upfront income and low residuals, or the other way round, with low upfront income and high residuals.

   
   You need to find a company with an equal balance of the two. 

Why is this so important when searching for a home-based business? When you start out in a new business, unless you have a great deal of capital behind you to “tide you over”, you will need to make high upfront commissions. Because otherwise you will find it impossible to build momentum.

4. Products That Are In Demand & Can Stand-Alone: The long term profitability and viability of any company will be determined by the actual value of the products being sold. Remove the business opportunity and step back and examine the product on its own merits and ask yourself: “Would I want this product, would this product benefit me (or anyone else for that matter) if it didn’t have a business opportunity attached?” If you can’t honestly say that the product would be of value to you for its own sake then you are, in effect, selling buckets of air. And this means that the product is going to have a very short lifespan, because no one really wants it.

   
   Forty percent of the products promoted by CarbonCopyPro are sold to product customers only, i.e. people not looking for a business opportunity. If the product being marketed won’t stand on its own, in other words if no one would buy it without the money-making incentive, then it’s not the right product.

 Almost every day, new companies which are simply copying other companies spring out of nowhere.

   
   Example: Does the world really need another weight loss or vitamin company? Are people crying out for another juice from a berry found only at the base of the Himalayas? The reality is “no”, because the marketplace is already flooded with this type of product. Plus, you’ll be competing against companies which have had products on the market for 50 or 60 years.

 So what you need to find is a product that is unique and hard to copy. Because if it isn’t hard to copy, someone else will come along and try to replicate it very quickly.

5. A Worthy Mentor: Find a mentor. Someone you can trust. Someone who has a system. Someone who is already getting the results you’re looking for. This has to be someone who is willing to listen to your needs and actually cares about your success. He/she must also have a financial interest in your success.

6. Turnkey Duplicatable Marketing System: Use an Attraction Marketing system that does the sorting, selling, training, and follow-up for you. This system must not only attract (right keywords, ads etc) the right type of person (entrepreneur vs get-rich-quick lottery mentality), but be able to present the information in such a way that is clear, concise, to the point and not full of hype fluff or crazy promises.

   
   Then figure out how to get 100-200 QUALITY targeted prospects into your marketing pipeline EACH week. (Remember, there are close to a million people looking for businesses every week and 79 million people in the USA alone plan to start their own business in the next 3-5 years!)

7. Up To The Minute Training: Make sure you have access to one-on-one, and group training designed to dramatically shorten your learning curve and reduce the number of variables that come with “trial and error”. The CCPro system is designed to “share” the knowledge and experience with EVERY member through the daily training calls and forum. You can listen to the top producers working their businesses LIVE, 4 days a week, as if they were sitting in the office with you.

8. Real Support: Unparalleled support is mandatory. With Carbon Copy Pro you get a team support list of 40 contacts and EVERYONE is highly motivated to help you reach the level of financial prosperity that you’re seeking, because we’re compensated extremely well in order to ensure that you do! If you do well, we do well.

9. Plans To Expand: Make sure that whichever company you partner with has room to expand. If it is already close to reaching full market penetration then eventually your competition will become too fierce. There will be too many fish in a small pond. Also, if you are marketing online, can your product be shipped worldwide? Many nutritional products suffer from a maze of complicated legalities in different regions which may prevent you building a global business (and they are also perishable).

   Information products are not normally subject to the same restrictions and are thus much more suitable for global online marketing. So look at the products you are planning to market, ask yourself if they can be marketed globally, and find out if the company has plans to expand globally in the future.

The average person in the home business industry will typically try out 7 different business opportunities before finding the right one. This not only wastes time, effort and money but creates huge frustration both to the individual and everyone close to them.

If you choose your new business using the 7 key questions in this report as a template, you’ll be better able to make the right decision first time round and create the ideal foundation for your future success.

This concludes your 7-day bootcamp. If you have any questions, you know how to reach us…

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