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…is the one you give to yourself

“It’s true! Nobody is going to bail anybody out when it comes to your day-to-day life. That’s why you have to take action and seize the moment when something this powerful presents itself.

You must invest in yourself, and your future in a way that nobody on earth can ever take away from you. That is how you permanently change your life for the better.

And there’s absolutely nothing more powerful than tapping into the universal laws of attraction to do it!

Now more than ever, this is the most important step you could possibly take to create the rest of your life the way YOU want it–instead of being pushed around like a pawn on a chessboard.”

When I read these words in my morning e-mail, I knew that I wanted to share them with our Millionaire Mind Support Network™ members.

Many of you have already heard of the Mind Movie Creation Kit. (http://www.mindmovies.com) or perhaps seen some mind movies on YouTube.

“What Do You Want?”

What would your hearts desire look like? T. Harv Eker stressed the importance of Creative Visualization in his book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and during our Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend. Metaphysical author, Stuart Wilde, says that the most important question an individual can ask is, “What do I want?”

In a Law of Attraction training session, Wilde went down a row of participants and barked the question, “WHAT DO YOU WANT?” Amazingly, considering the topic of the workshop, only a few people could answer the BIG QUESTION — By the way, I wasn’t one of them.

Wilde’s point, “If you don’t know what you want, How Can You Attract What You Want Into Your Life!”

Personally, clearly defining WHAT I want, and integrating that “burning desire” at a feeling level has been along journey for me. After reading The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and attending the Millionaire Mind Intensive, I had an “AAHAA” moment.

My personal money blueprint stated, in large block letters, IT IS SELFISH TO THINK OF ONE’S SELF AND ONE’S NEEDS OVER THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.”

Note to self:
“Not only is it important to clearly define what I want, I must identify and disable old programs and beliefs that will sabotage the changes I’m initiating in my life.”

A friend sent me a very inspiring YOUTUBE ‘Mind Move’ and a link to the company that was selling the software to help people make their own personally customized Mind Movies. I was intrigued. Obviously, the concept of visualization is not new — it is absolutely essential to realizing our dreams. You must have a clear picture of where you want to go.

After I had finally defined WHAT I wanted, I found that I simply could not visualize long enough, strongly enough, or consistently enough to attract my BIG DREAM.

One of the key messages of “The Secret” is that we can achieve anything is by “seeing” where we want to go in crystal clear detail. It’s the consistent “visualization” that sets off a cosmic “chain reaction” and actualizes our dreams and intentions. I found the concept of making a personalized Mind Movie to help me develop a focused visualization intriguing…an investment to help kick my millionaire mind mojo into high gear.

I took action — I invested in myself!

Mind Movie is a short 3-minute video filled with powerful affirmations, and emotionally inspiring images. I can choose the images that mean the most to me. By watching this video twice a day I can leveraging the extreme power of the Law of Attraction, get out of the way and allow the universe to bring me the people, and resources required to make my dreams a reality.

Millionaire Minds invest in themselves and grow their dreams.

These are the sample Mind Movies my friend sent me. They were developed by a song writer.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, It Can Achieve “

Napoleon Hill, the author of “Think and Grow Rich”

Part 4

Authors produce compelling publishing projects —
Entrepreneurs market, successfully distribute publishing projects — at a profit

If you don’t actively promote and sell your work, you have a hobby, not a business enterprise.

Author Entrepreneurs, like Joe Vitale and Jack Canfield, certainly write about those topics for which they have a passion. They write about what inspires them and what they think will be helpful to their readers. Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, and T. Harv Eker KNOW their readership, and understand what will motivate that readership to buy their books.

After my first Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend, I realized I had the research and writing skills to produce viable publishing projects. I also realized that I needed more information as to how to successfully market myself, and my publishing projects, if I wanted to develop residual income streams. In Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker tells his readers to find someone who is successful in the field you wish to master and model their behavior.

I signed up for Vitale and Canfield newsletters and marketing lists. I studied how they built interest for their latest projects. I also bought Vitale’s marketing books — I wanted to study an acknowledged “Master of Marketing and Self-Promotion”.

It was time well spent. I want to share a few of those ideas here.

The potential market for a book is a key factor in the decision process for all traditional publishers. If you have ever submitted a manuscript or book proposal to a mainstream publishing house, you are keenly aware of how target market considerations affect the probability of publication.

The issue of “who will by this book” is even more important to self-publishers.
Why? Well, for one thing, it’s your money and investment of time at risk.

From the inception of your publishing project, marketing must be a prime consideration. Before you commit to any print production expenses, you must have a firm marketing budget and implementation plan in place. In fact, your marketing program should start before your project has reached press. Publication promotion should start with the launch of the project.

For some self-published, Author Entrepreneurs the reality of working a marketing plan, hits when they hear the reverse beeper of the delivery truck as it is pulls up to the loading dock — the area formally known as their garage.

Author Entrepreneurs, who do not want to see several thousand unsold books every time they walk through garage, learn to instigate multiple guerrilla promotion techniques.

Having identified your target market…

Brainstorm the various ways you can reach them

As self-confessed folder-freak, I like to organize all my ideas by category. I also index the ideas on my computer. I also know that anal-retentive has a hyphen when used as a modifier, but I digress. Sample categories might consist of: magazines or catalogs your target market might read; press kits that include demographics and pricing; professional or membership organizations to reach your customers; on-line discussion groups; or newsletters. Consider how to effectively use social networking and viral marketing media to promote your publishing projects. Fellow Millionaire Mind Intensive alumnus, Chris Sherrod, whom I consider a ‘peer-mentor, is a social marketing Ninja!

Consider co-ventures; look seriously at premium and cross-promotional ideas. An old friend produced a Graphic Design Basics book. He worked a deal with a newly formed trade association to include his book as a membership premium. His book was great incentive to join an, as yet, untried organization; and the positive word of mouth about his book helped push it to best-seller status. It was an all round win/win situation.

Potential clients are also potential partners. Several years ago I self published a technical manual — The Fundamentals of Desktop Publishing. The book had been developed to support training seminars my company taught through out the United States and Canada. A Fortune 500 executive saw the publication and negotiated a license to publish the manual as an internal training tool. Additionally, a training firm based in Sweden paid for publishing rights, in the UK, Norway and Sweden.

The enthusiastic endorsement of these two nationally recognized organizations, made it easier to sell the next manual.

If you feel that developing information products is a viable path to developing streams of residual income, you have to learn all you can about marketing your product and master the art of self promotion. Treat your publishing projects as you would any other business venture.

You are a money magnet, and your publishing projects are your golden eggs.

Part 3

How to choose a profitable publishing project

What about your publication will make a customer pick it out from a web site, or from a bookshelf?

What is that special something that makes your publishing project unique in your chosen market?

If your publication is not distinctive, what is your perceived marketing edge?
During this thought process, please bare in mind that there is a fine line between unique and totally unprofitable specialized market.

As an SBDC consultant, I had the opportunity to meet with many enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs. After a rousing pitch of his or her leading-edge business concept, it was sometimes, my sad task to point out that the reason no one had done this before was that there simply wasn’t enough market share to support the venture.

The same cool-headed analysis needed to evaluate a potential business venture is needed to develop your alternative publishing venture. The ‘self’ in self-publishing can be the siren call to ‘self’-destructive business behavior. Hard questions have to be asked fearlessly and answered honestly.

Is the topic of the proposed publishing project of interest to someone other than you?

Are there enough potential “someones” to represent a sizable (read profitable) market.

How will you determine if your proposed topic or story line has been done to death?

Based on the project’s content and competition, how will you position your project in the market?

Is your publishing project a one-shot deal, or your first step in establishing a multi-title, publishing venture? (Think Joe Vitale and ANYTHING about Marketing and the Law of Attraction)

How will you position and brand your publishing company?

Where to start your research?

How to do a fast competition search:
-Search Amazom.com
-Books in Print Subject Guide and Forthcoming Books in Print Subject

So, you did your research and you’re dazed at the number of books there are on your topic. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for your publishing project. It is your job to develop a book that is better than what is already available.

How?

can you present the material more clearly, more concisely?

Have you devised a more accessible, format or a more informative approach to the topic?

Have you perfected an amusing writing style that makes a topic easier to understand or not as intimidating?

Or is your ability to organize material so it is easily understood a way to brand your publishing project?

Right about now your thinking, hey these are the same type of questions I’d have to answer to develop a business or a marketing plan!

That would be correct. The difference between a Jack Canfield and a Joe Vitale is an unerring sense of what the market wants to read and the ability to let that same market know the “perfect” book is now ready to help them solve the problem that has been vexing them.

Author-Entrepreneurs build profitable enterprises based on valuable information products, accurately targeted and correctly marketed. The best way to be successful and stay successful is ask yourself the hard questions and develop publications that your market not only reads, but also recommends.

For the many Robert Tennyson Stevens’ fans in our Millionaire Mind Support Network™, Mastery 201 & Mastery Of Facilitation 301 classes will be available next month in both Dallas and Seattle.

Who are you, really? Why are you here?
We invite you to remember…

Struggle is a consciousness. Sickness is a consciousness. Separation is a consciousness. Lack is a consciousness. What would happen if everything I’ve ever desired is already within me? We have the opportunity to speak the truth from our hearts and to give ourselves permission to be already unified, already loved, already one with our creator. My prayer is to share with people what their language is doing. We have a system of language, thought and communication I call the “Babble Virus,” a language system of confusion: want, need, should do, have to, kinda, maybe, so that, in order to, I think, hopefully, someday… Many of us have been living with the old paradigm that everything is hard: work, relationships, life…. It is only because that is what we have learned. Now we can learn new options. We can choose to make it easy. Explore Your Innermost Truth Imagine taking charge of your life. Discover Conscious Language, and take authority over your reality. Find power in your speech and begin your new life with creativity, and love. Realize you have the option in any given moment to act with purpose, love and enthusiasm…to manifest your outcomes…to be magnetic to situations and opportunities which serve your mission…to be still and listen to the truth in your heart…to recognize self sabotage and transform your limiting beliefs into powerful, tangible proof that YOU are creating your life!

Join us in Seattle or Dallas for a powerful reminder of who you really are, & what you are truly capabale of… Mastery 201 & Mastery Of Facilitation 301 will give you the tools to transform your perception of what is possible. Enjoy your new found clarity, understand you have choice in any given situation to repeat past patterns that no longer serve you or achieve glorious success with ease and grace! For more details about Mastery & Mastery Of Facilitation, click on the following city names for specifics: Seattle, WA, or Dallas, TX Sincerely, Robert Tennyson Stevens

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I just read Millionaire Mind Intensive grad, Chris Sherrod’s blog about about silence equaling no. It really hit home for me and gave me something to not only think about, but act upon.

As always, Chris has something good to share with his Millionaire Mind family. If you are not getting Chris’ RSS feed, sign up.

http://www.abundanceunlimited.com/articles/silence-is-no/

Share your experience with not speaking up in the comments.

To your prosperity,

Chris Sherrod
founder of Abundance Unlimited
CreateYourOwnRealityNow.com
AbundanceUnlimited.com
P.O.Box 90676
San Antonio, TX 78209

The Second in the Author Entrepreneur Series…

Step Two

Develop a clear description of your author entrepreneur enterprise

So, are you developing a publishing business that will build you a passive, residual, income stream or passionately pursuing a hobby?

Lets get down to Business

1. Have you chosen a name for your business enterprise? Does the name support your branding strategy and desired position?

2. Have you defined your company’s mission? What are your corresponding goals and objectives?

3. What exactly is your branding strategy and market position?

4. How will your publishing project meet the needs of your customers better than your competitor? (Please do not delude yourself that this is the fist book on this subject. It is the first written with your special talent, from your specific point of view; but the customer will have other books to choose from.)

5. What are the steps you need to follow to form a legal business?

6. How do you determine what type of business structure is appropriate for your venture? What are the key differences between a proprietorship, partnership, LLC, or a Corporation?

7. Are you a manufacturer, merchandiser, or a service business? If you answered all three, I am very, very pleased with you grasshopper. As a self-publisher, you have all the manufacturers project management responsibilities — shepherding raw resources into a finished product. As a merchandiser, you have the job of seeing that product successfully distributed and sold. As for service, you have the care and feeding of the distribution network, your clients, the bookstore owners and the end user, the readers. Oh yes, if you are starting a publishing venture with talent other than yourself, you have to keep your authors happy. Because if you don’t, your authors will be in the next wave of competitors. I just love the publishing business — I think its all that free-floating Darwinian energy.

8. How quickly can you reasonably grow sales? What will it take to reach profitability?

9. Are you planning to develop a whole new product line?

10. Do you have plans to expand your product line?

11. If you have more than one publishing project planned, do you have the metrics in place to measure sales performance?

9. Define the barriers to entering and exiting an alternate publishing entrprise. This goes back to honestly reviewing and recognizing your skill-set and resources. Example: the final price tag for a self-published, printed and professionally promoted book could run between $5000 and $10,000. Do you have the resources to carry the project to successful fruition? If not, that is a barrier to entry.

Another example: you decide to self publish in the form of an e-book. Without the up-front printing costs, it seems like an affordable alternative to get in the publishing game; however, there is a significant technological barrier that you or someone on your payroll has to surmount. Do you have the creative capability to design and format the publication for electronic download? Which of several competing electronic publishing “standards” do you follow? Do you have the budget and/or technical capability to mount and promote an e-commerce enabled website to take advantage of print-on-demand-download technology?

Millionaire Minds Are Entrepreneurial

Many of us left the Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend, KNOWING, that we had to find ways to monetize our existing enterprises, or if we didn’t already own a business, start one. T. Harv Eker and the Peak Potentials trainers all stress the importance of reviewing and using, our personal and profession experiences and expertise, looking for opportunities to solve problems and sell the solutions. For many of us, writing and distributing self published e-Books or printed material based on our passion and purpose seemed like a good first step. Many of you have contacted Nick or myself asking for advise about how to publish your work, so I thought I’d summarize the Author Entrepreneur process in a series of Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Blog entries.

Step 1

Determining the market for your book

If you are moved to consider self-publishing, you are most likely dealing with a book of your heart … a book that you believe in. That makes it harder to step back and consider its position in the market place objectively.

Some are some points to consider in that process.

1. Who are the customers for your book?

2. What is the potential market (how many buyers) for your book?

3. Where are they? How will you reach them? (Internet marketing and website Search Engine Optimization, social networking, print media advertisements, direct mail campaigns, trades shows)

4. How will your publishing project meet the needs of your targeted customers?

5. How will it benefit them?

6. How is your book better than your competition’s…how do you maintain your edge?

7. Will emerging or changing technology affecting your publishing enterprise? How?

8. Have you budgeted for both time and money to market your publication project? Social and viral networks are two specific marketing trends that are being used successfully by Author Entrepreneurs. Both are inexpensive options, however the trade off is a significant investment of time and single-minded purpose. Our good friend and “Peer Mentor” Chris Sherrod is one of the best examples of success through focused intent and a complete commitment to the use of both social and viral networks to promote his work. Are you willing and able to commit the time needed to leverage social networks effectively to market your publications?

The next Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Blog will address Step Two of the Author Entrepreneur Process: Develop a clear description of your author entrepreneur enterprise.

“As you give love out, it’s received and reciprocated–and it grows. That’s the beauty of it. Love is energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.”

—Hill Harper

When I read this quote, I thought about The Millionaire Mind Support Network™. Just about a year and a half ago, we attended our first Millionaire Mind Intensive, built this website and developed the Millionaire Mind Intensive Directory.

The purpose of the Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Directory™ is to provide a venue for Millionaire Mind Intensive Graduates, to keep in touch with one another, to support each other’s businesses, and to give and receive support for our personal and professional growth.
Personally, I can attest that the support and “peer mentorship” I have received from my fellow Millionaire Mind Intensive has been life changing. I’ve learned that graduates of the Peak Potential courses, “show up — take action, and lead by example.”

Each of us left our Millionaire Mind Intensive experience having been exposed to a new paradigm. We experienced fresh insight into out belief systems — our money blueprints. We were able to identify some of the beliefs that have subtly or blatantly sabotaged our previous efforts to raise our personal financial thermostats. We came away with the understanding that multiple steams of passive and residual income are key to our financial freedom, We know that if we did not have a business, we needed to start one, and if we had one, we needed to restructure it to take full advantage of every opportunity to monetize every result producing activity.

The biggest gift of the Millionaire Mind Intensive experience is the many wonderful, supportive friendships we have developed amongst our fellow MMI participants. We have celebrated each other’s successes, stood in support as we faced challenges and have offered, and received unconditional love.

Attending the Millionaire Mind Intensive was a blessing which has brought positive change in our lives. The fall Millionaire Mind Intensive season has just started. Check the events calendar. Plan to attend again, and bring someone you love. It is the best use of time, energy and love you can give yourself and someone you care about.
Millionaire Minds send and receive loving energy.

These words of wisdom brought to you by the Millionaire Mind Support Network’s own Chris Sherrod — Chief Thinker of Abundance Unlimited…

After the worst bank failure of all time and quickly followed by the second, very little people would argue that we are not in a recession. Some even say the beginning of a depression.

Well, I’ve been thru them before and I’ve studied companies that have come out of a recession a winner. With crisis’ there is great opportunity.

So here is my top 10 list of the best strategies to do in a recession. These will keep you fresh and ahead of the pack. Innovation is the key to performance, growth and valuation.

1. Hire talent. Some companies are laying off really good people because they are simply getting rid of paychecks. Snatch these talented people up. Talent is the single most important variable in innovation.

2. Increase your risk. I know you think I’m crazy, but with many companies going out of business a business that is too conservation will join the masses and go out of business itself. Don’t be conservative. Fight your instinct to be conservation. Be bold or die.

3. Increase New Product Development. You need new products and services to grow. Don’t stop this. While other companies are stopping product development you’ll be coming out with cool new stuff and have a bigger share of the market. With fewer offerings in the marketplace you’ll attract more clients.

4. Increase your technology. Spend money on your business automation. Streamline your business operations with Information Technology. Social networking requires a larger conversation with your clients. Use Information Technology to get more done with less human resources. We can help you get the tools and processes to streamline your business. Give us a call at 1-210-775-2489.

5. Go global. Just because there is a recession where you live doesn’t mean that it is worldwide. Other markets are doing better. Emerging markets bring in new revenue, talent and business models. Get out there and spread yourself around the world. With technology today it is easy to be everywhere.

6. Innovation as key strategy. While other companies are replacing their key strategy of innovation with cost cutting, you will be innovating. It’s hard to turn back on innovation once growth returns so don’t do it. Keep innovation your key strategy. Changing investment strategies when the economy changes means the company is doing something fundamentally wrong.

7. Keep your performance metrics. Many companies change how they evaluate projects for risk during a recession. Keep your metrics the same. Changing them will increase risk-averse behavior and this is again hard to change back.

8. Go flat. Don’t change to a command management model. You need fast decisions making and you need your talent to feel included in the decision making process. Becoming a dictator will alienate everyone. Keep your company in a flat collaborative model where innovation can live.

9. Keep your growth oriented people. Don’t replace them with cost cutting people that will cut your company to shreds. Since most recessions last a short while the cost cutting people will be around once growth returns and they won’t know how to grow. Keep and attract people that can help you grow. Grow while everyone else is shrinking. Get that market share when it is easy.

10. Bring in outside talent. Don’t wall yourself in. Cutting out consultants can save money quickly but bringing in outside people increases innovation. If you are not open to outside consultants and their innovative ideas it will help your competitive position. I’m available for outside consulting and can help you increase your innovation. Give me a call at 1-210-775-2489 and let’s see what we can do together.
Keep learning don’t cut back on learning. If you cut back then it will create huge gaps in your capabilities. Your people will leave because they are not being innovative and when growth returns you won’t have the talent to grow.

Of course you don’t want to spend money you don’t have so look at cutting back on travel. With phones, webcams, and web applications you can do everything right from your home. Look into cutting your salary before your people. You probably can handle the cut more than they can. Don’t spend too much on technology, there are many free and open source software that can do what you need. Hire a good IT consultant that knows their stuff, like us. We can help you have the perfect systems and be mobile. Don’t rely on software sales people to tell you the best deal.

Reward the behavior you want in your people.

Winning companies always make it out of a recession. And they almost always beat the competition based on innovation. During the last recession Apple worked on iTunes and iPods and when growth came back they destroyed their competition. Implement this top 10 list just like Apple did and your company will come out on top.

To your prosperity,

Chris Sherrod
Chief Thinker of Abundance Unlimited

I guide business people to create new fun, inspiring business ideas and help them implement their vision.
http://www.AbundanceUnlimited.com

Listening to “Media Talking Heads” and Group Thought Is Not Helpful

Well, we are nine days into October, and the media coverage of the imploding financial markets and the government’s response has taken some of the public for a jaw dropping stomach-churning ride.

Did anyone else hear Doug Nelson’s voice in the back of his or her mind? “How you do one thing, is how you do everything.” Approaching a negative dynamic with fear and panic is not a choice or belief we want to replicate in other aspects of our lives. We may not have a conscious choice about experiencing a given situation, but we have 100% control about how we think about and react to any given set of circumstances.

Millionaire Minds choose not to be ‘Victims’. Millionaire Minds do not cede their personal power to an outside circumstance. Now is the perfect time to pull your, “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” and read it cover to cover.

T. Harv Eker often reminds us that great fortunes are made in every downturn. Building, following and making mid-course corrections your MILLIONAIRE MIND plan is the path to your personal abundance. Over the course of the next year each of us will adjust our plan.

Your Inner Game of Wealth Game Plan

The important aspect of each mid-course adjustment is paying attention to your inner game of wealth.

• Be grateful for every blessing.
• Celebrate every win.
• Be willing to look at every situation differently.
• Look for problems and develop solutions — then monetize the solution.
• Join or start a Millionaire Mastermind Group. The unconditional support you receive from your mastermind group can make all the difference.
• Write or review your goals, adjust and read them every day.
• Write or review your vision statement, read it every day.
• Use creative visualization exercises to “see and feel” your end game.
• Pay attention to your finances, USE YOUR PROSPERITY JARS!
• Simplify your life.
• Pull out your 90-day “Millionaire Mind” 90-Day Wealth Conditioning Program and go through the whole program again.

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. “
— Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish playwright, poet and novelist of “Don Quixote”, first published in 1605,
since released in 700 editions and translated into every major language.