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Law of Attraction and Winning the Lottery

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In yesterday’s post I wrote about the only real manifestation that matters.

I talked about the importance of learning how to manifest the FEELING behind the thing that you are trying to manifest.

If you become good at manifesting the feelings that you want to feel, this will put you into what Abraham / Esther Hicks calls “The Vortex”.

Also in yesterday’s post I gave a real life example of how I’m doing this with the new car that I am manifesting.

Today I wanted to expand on this topic a bit more by sharing two more videos from Abraham / Esther Hicks which use the example of winning the lottery to explain this concept.

Check out the videos here:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Once you’ve watch the videos, leave a comment below with any observations or “aha” moments you’ve had while watching them.

 

The Only Manifestation That Matters

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I first started using the Law of Attraction consciously to manifest things back in 2002.

I say “consciously” because in reality we are ALL always manifesting every aspect of our realities, whether we realize it or not.

There is no such thing as being “good at manifesting” vs “not so good at manifesting”.

We are ALL always manifesting everything in our lives, but the only questions is how skilled we become at manifesting those things we WANT or DESIRE versus those things that we DON’T WANT or DON’T DESIRE.

Lately, I’ve been noticing that my skill / ability to manifest things that I want / desire has been getting much, much stronger.

I am becoming more and more proficient at manifesting what I want faster and easier than ever before.

As I’ve been going through this experience, what I’ve come to realize with more clarity than ever is that the MOST IMPORTANT manifesting skill that we can work on is to consciously be able to manifest how we feel in each moment.

Meaning, yes you can manifest THINGS or SITUATIONS or PEOPLE in your life, but our true desire behind any of those things is to feel a certain way.

For example, we may want to manifest a new TV because we imagine having friends over to watch a football game, or the latest UFC match, or having a movie night full of laughs and enjoyment and we think we want the TV, but in reality we want to experience the FEELING of having that experience with our friends.

Or another example is when we want to manifest a vacation or a trip somewhere.  We THINK that we want to manifest a trip to Disneyland or to Paris or to Mexico or some place “out there”, but in reality what we really want is to experience a feeling that we may have felt before while on vacation.

Maybe we went to Disneyland and as we walked through the front gate, we felt this FEELING of wonder and awe and amazement, and now we want to go to Disneyland again because we want to recapture that feeling.

Or maybe we went on a trip to some warm place where we sat on the beach and just felt the sun on our skin and enjoyed the feeling of relaxation and stress freedom because we allowed ourselves to not think about our work or our jobs or our businesses or any of the other things that normally race through our minds.

Or maybe we imagine getting into a relationship with someone and we think it is that person or that relationship that we want, but in reality what we REALLY want is the FEELING that we believe we will feel by having those things.

Now here’s the little secret to manifesting all of those things…

See, if you become good at manifesting the FEELINGS that you believe you will experience when you have those things, even before you have those things, then you will manifest those things even faster.

For example, one of the things that I have been blogging about in in the last few months is the FREE CAR that I want to manifest from Blogging.

A car is a “THING” but in reality it is not the car that I want.  What I really want is the FEELING that I will feel when I have manifested a free car from blogging and how much fun it will be to drive my new car.

Now, here’s the cool thing.

For the last month or so, when I’ve been driving my old car I’ve been imagining myself already being inside my new car and driving inside it and I’ve been focusing on trying to capture that FEELING of owning a new car.

I’m not yet at the point where I feel 100% the same way as if I had the car already in my possession but the first time I did this I was able to convince my mind that I was already driving my new car by about 20%…

… so I felt 20% of the amazing feeling of having that new car already…

Then, the next time I did this I got to about 30-50% feeling of having the new car…

And then a funny thing happened.  It turned out that my wife got HER new car…

And what’s really interesting about that is that I’ve had a chance to take her new car for a drive a few times and NOW when I drove her car I imagined that it was my new car, and it was even easier to do it since obviously her car is NEW and it’s really fun to drive.

So now when I drove her car, I was able to get to the point where in my mind I was 80-90% convinced that I was driving my new car already, and I was able to FEEL 80-90% of the joy / fun / excitement of already having my new car – even though I don’t have it yet.

See, that’s the little “secret” to making the Law of Attraction work in your life.

If you can develop the ability to manifest FEELINGS inside of yourself, you will be able to manifest anything and everything that you want.

Now, some of you might be thinking “Oh, well Paul it’s easy for you to say, because your wife just bought a new car so it’s easy to get yourself to feel excited and happy and joyful about having a new car when you’re driving a brand new car, but my car is old so how am I supposed to be happy about that?!”

Well, that’s just an excuse your mind is giving you.

Here’s the thing… way back when I was 18 years old I had saved up $1800 in cash from working at my job at McDonald’s and I used that money to buy my first car.

It was a 1983 Honda Accord.  It was brown in color and it had rusted fenders and basically it was a piece of crap! LOL.

It was a beater car, and it had engine issues and rust holes and all kinds of problems that I had to fix – BUT – I was SO HAPPY!

I remember the day I got that car, and just sitting in it at night, by myself and feeling so HAPPY and EXCITED and JOYFUL because it was *MY* car that I had to bought for my own money.

That car represented FREEDOM to me and I loved it!

So here’s the thing… if I can feel that much excitement and joy owning a piece of crap $1,800 rusted Honda Accord, there really is no excuse!

It’s all just how we choose to program our minds.

You CAN program your mind to feel relaxed and worry-free without having to fly to Mexico and sit on the beach.  You can feel stress-free and relaxed right NOW, wherever you are.

You CAN program your mind to feel loved and appreciated even if you haven’t manifested the perfect relationship yet.

You CAN program your mind to feel excited and happy even if you haven’t manifested whatever that “THING” is that you’re trying to manifest.

And the cool thing is that the better you get at manifesting those FEELINGS, which really are what you’re going after anyways, then the vacations and the relationships and the things that you want will also show up anyways!

Here’s a cool video from Abraham / Esther Hicks where Abraham shares their perspective on this topic:

 

Blog Income Report – March 2015

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It’s time again for my official Blog Income Report blog post again, this time for the month of March 2015.

This has been yet another ultra busy and ultra productive month in my Blogging business.

Let’s jump into the stats.

Blog Content Report – March 2015

In March I wrote 31 blog posts in 31 days, maintaining my average of one blog post per day.

Here is a recap of all the blog posts I wrote this month:

In March I once again participated in the 21 Day Blogging Challenge put on by Empower Network, which is available to all bloggers regardless whether they are a part of Empower Network or not.

What’s awesome about the 21 Day Blogging Challenge is that you get to participate in a challenge with other like-minded people, which helps you to build the habit of blogging consistently.

Being a part of the 21 Day Blogging Challenge also gives you an opportunity to gain some extra exposure, to connect with other bloggers who are also doing the challenge and to get ideas for the types of blog posts you can create.

If you want to jump-start your blogging career, I highly recommend doing the 21 Day Blogging Challenge.

Blog Traffic Report – March 2015

In this third month of running this new blog, here are some of my stats for the month of March 2015:

  • Total Users: 2,104
  • Total Sessions: 2,983
  • Total Pageviews: 4,531
  • Avg Session Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds

These stats actually show that I’ve had a decline in Blog traffic as compared to February.

I haven’t had a chance to dig into these numbers to identify the exact reason behind this, but if I had to take a guess I’d say that it was because my focus for this month was more on increasing the consulting income from my Blog rather than focusing on building my traffic.

Here’s a comparison of the last 31 days ending on March 31st, as compared to the previous 31 days:

 

Although the numbers dropped this month, I’m not worried about it at all as that wasn’t my focus.

Now let’s take a look at where my traffic has been coming from.

Blog Traffic Sources Report – March 2015

As you can see from the charts above, my blog traffic distribution chart was almost identical to the previous month.

  • Direct Traffic – 1,478 sessions – 49.5%
  • Social Traffic – 454 sessions – 15.2%
  • Referral Traffic – 418 sessions – 14.0%
  • Organic Search Traffic – 621 sessions – 20.8%

Now let’s move onto the fun part. 🙂

Blog Income Report – March 2015

Okay, so let’s get to the actual blog income report part of this post, and then I’ll explain all the changes.

Before I start talking numbers though, just a quick income disclaimer.  My results are not typical, not guaranteed in any way, and you should check out my income disclaimer if that sort of thing floats your boat.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way, here are my stats:

Total Gross Income – $2,943.51

Total Expenses – $1,744.51

Net Income: $1,199.15

Alright, so let’s dive into what has been happening this month.

Affiliate Income

My affiliate income this month was just over $330.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, affiliate income is my favorite income as it has the potential to become passive or semi-passive in nature once it’s setup and running.

If you’d like to learn how to build up your affiliate income, check out my previous income reports where I’ve covered this topic in more detail, and also check out this video here.

Mentoring / Consulting Income

My second favorite income, after affiliate income, is consulting / mentoring income.

One of the things that most people don’t realize when they start a Blog is that there are so many different ways to monetize a Blog — you are NOT limited to just putting up banners or AdSense ads or other forms of advertising income.

Besides of course affiliate income, one of the easiest ways I have found for quickly building up the income from your Blog is to start offering Mentoring and Consulting Services to your audience.

Life coaching, mentoring, technology consulting, marketing consulting, selling artwork and selling music are just a few examples of other ways you can make money with your Blog.

The cool thing about being part of the Empower Network is that even if you have ZERO experience with marketing online, just by joining Empower Network and plugging into our training and our weekly hangouts and webinars, you can become an online marketing expert VERY quickly and offer those services to businesses as a consultant.

The truth is that most local businesses right now are struggling to learn how to market themselves online, and with just a few weeks worth of training you can know a tonne more than 95% of the local business owners out there and could easily approach them to offer your services as a consultant, if you wanted to.

Of course Blog / Internet Marketing / Website consulting is NOT the only type of consulting you can offer on your Blog!

As I mentioned last month, my wife offers energy healings, psychic readings, and various different workshops on her Blog.  She started her blog back in 2009 and it wasn’t long before she was able to quit her day job to work from home offering those services she loves helping people with.

It really doesn’t matter what kind of services or products you’d like to offer people, starting a Blog is an awesome way to build your brand and to develop a client base!

Now, let’s briefly touch on my expenses for this month.

Expenses

As you can see from my report above, my expenses for this month have stabilized compared to last month.

In fact they actually dropped a little bit.

This pattern is very common for a new business.

You might start out having to invest more money than you make at first, so for the first while your expenses might actually be higher than your income and your business might lose money.

For brick-and-mortar type businesses in the “real world” this period of time could be as long as 2-5 years!

Sometimes even longer!

As someone who has ran and built brick-and-mortar businesses in the past, I *KNOW* how long it takes for such a business to become profitable, which is why I have a much different perspective in my online businesses than most people do.

Most people who start an online business or an MLM business have a mindset where they think that if their business doesn’t make them a profit in the first few weeks, that it must mean that that business model is no good.

That is *NOT* how business works.

That is how *JOBS* work.

At a job, you go to work for two weeks or a month, and then you get a paycheck.

The idea of putting forth an effort into something and that thing not paying you an income after 2-4 weeks is very foreign to most employee-minded people, and that it why they continue to work at jobs they hate, because they just don’t understand how entrepreneurship works.

They’ll start a business, and their expectation is that they THINK they’ll make like $5,000 in the first month.

When their business doesn’t make them that much money, they think it’s a failed business concept, or a scam and they blame that business model and quit.

Then a few months later they start another business and again they THINK they’ll make like $5,000 in the first month.

And of course once again they don’t make that much money, and so they think it’s a failed business concept or a scam and they blame that business model and quit.

Then a few months later they do the same thing again and again, each time getting more and more jaded thinking that everything is a scam.

But the funny thing is that in each of those businesses that they were in, there ARE people making good money!

Why is that?

Well, the reason is because those people didn’t come in expecting to make a billion dollars in their first week.  Those people who ARE making money approached the business opportunity with a BUSINESS / ENTREPRENEURIAL mindset!

One of the reasons that I am putting together these Blog Income Reports is to peel back this curtain of misinformation and to show you guys what it really takes to make money online!

If you go back to my January Blog Income Report you’ll see that I actually LOST MONEY that month!

This is what entrepreneurial REALITY looks like.

You might have to invest some time and money up front before you start making money.

In my first month blogging every day I lost money, my second month I more or less broke even with a little bit of profit and only now in this third month I actually made a profit.

Because this is not the first time I’m building a business I have the PERSEVERANCE to stick it out, where most people give up… and that is why they fail … and that is why they are stuck at their jobs.

See most people think that investing a few hundred dollars or even a few thousand dollars into an online business is “risky” compared to having a job…

… LOL …

Really?  Tell that to the 1,500+ Future Shop employees who came to work a few days ago to find the doors locked and their employment terminated when Future Shop shut down all their stores!

Tell that to all the Sony Store employees who also just lost their jobs last month when Sony shut down all 14 of their stores across Canada.

These are just a few examples from literally THOUSANDS of corporations that are laying people off every single day.

Building a business is not risky!  Having a JOB is risky!

But I do understand that running a full time business is not for everyone.  Some people enjoy being employees.

If you’re one of those types of people who likes working for someone else, what I would then recommend is to start building an online business as a secondary income stream!

Why not?  You can use the money to upgrade your car, have more fun on your vacations, pay off some debts, or just to buy some cool toys.

In fact, when you have a full time job which covers all your monthly expenses, that is the BEST time to build a business in your spare time on evenings and weekends because then you won’t be under financial pressure for your business to make money right away!

You can take your time, build up your business income steadily over time and eventually might have a nice passive or at least semi-passive income stream to augment your job income.

And in the event that you come to work one day to find the doors locked and the company shut down at your job, that extra business income might just be the thing that saves your butt until you find the next job!

My Blogging Goals for March

Here were some of my main goals for March:

  • Participate in my 3rd 21 Day Blogging Challenge – Check!
  • Continue on with daily blogging – Check!
  • Clean up my email list – Check!
  • Get a few more mentoring / consulting clients – Check!
  • Become more of an expert in YouTube, Instagram & Pinterest Traffic Strategies – Check!
  • Increase my Blogging business profits – Check!
  • Start doing FREE Weekly Hangouts for my Empower Network Downline – Check!
  • Grow my Empower Network Team and Income – Check!

Summary

To summarize, while my blog traffic dipped a little bit, my blog income went up while my expenses went down a bit.

All in all, I made a net income of $1,199.15 from my Blog business this month, which is about a 600% increase in income as compared to last month, so I’m really happy about that!

You may remember that in January I wrote a post declaring my intention to build up my blog business income up to the point where I can get a Free Car from Blogging.

In March my wife actually ended up getting her brand new car which her home based business pays for.

Here’s a short video of her new baby!

Now that my Blog business income has gone up, I think it’s time for me to start looking to see what kind of car I want.

I’ve actually started looking already at different cars, but it’s actually not as easy I thought it would be to find a car that I like.

I’ll write a blog post update on my car search soon. 🙂

Final Words

If you’re one of the people who recently got laid off, or if you do have a job which just isn’t paying you enough, or you’re just bored with it, why not consider building a business making money online?

Do you actually have to DO something in order to make money?  YES!

Will a billion dollars just pour out of the sky and will a Ferrari magically appear in your driveway out of thin air five minutes after you start building your online business?  Not unless you’re a Jedi or something.

It does take a bit of effort and it does require a bit of an investment of money and time on your part, but building an online business can be a LOT of fun and it IS possible to make quite a lucrative income if you just keep learning, keep applying what you learn and keep moving forward.

If you’d like to learn more about getting started with making money online, click here to learn more.

How to Reply to an Email With Video

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Recently I’ve started to use videos when replying to certain types of emails that I get from people.

For example, when someone emails me or even sends me a message on Skype or Facebook chat, asking me a question about something I have been finding that a lot of times it’s easier to just shoot a short video answering their question than it is to write out a long email.

This is especially true in regards to answering an email question where a screenshot video would be best to use.

The challenge in the past has been that making a screenshot video was time consuming and clunky, but there is a software out now called Jing that allows you make this process very simple.

It’s actually not a new software, I first heard of it way back in 2008, but it has gone through a lot of improvements lately that make it way easier to use.

Here’s a brief introduction to it:

The software now allows you to shoot up to a 5 minute video and upload  / host it on their servers and the to easily share that video with someone via email or by sending them a link via chat.

I’ve now started using this a way to communicate with people much more easily that typing out long emails.

You can also shoot short video clips using your webcam software and attach those to your email as well, or upload a quick video to YouTube and then send someone the link.

I’ve found this WAY more effective at communicating the message than sending a longer email which most people kind of skim through and end up missing certain key points.

The cool thing too is that Jing is a free software ( click here to get it ) and so is YouTube, so you can either use Jing to do a screen capture of your computer screen or shoot a quick webcam video and upload it to YouTube and then email someone a link to watch the video where you answer the email questions on video.

I have actually found this to be faster than typing out an email, and people LOVE the engagement they get from a video rather than just TEXT.

Try it out if you haven’t already. 🙂

 

Archetype Quiz – How to Know Your Archetypes

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A few day ago I saw a post on Facebook by my sister-in-law Jodi talking about archetypes.

She linked to a couple of websites and clicking around on them I eventually made my way to a website which allows you to take an “Archetype Quiz” which identifies your 3 primary archetypes.

Here are the results of my quiz:

According to this quiz I am 50% Visionary, 29% Intellectual and 21% Spiritual.

Once I read through the descriptions of the 3 primary archetypes that it identified for me, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to see how accurate this is.

Once you take the quiz, they break things down into 12 Archetypes and they show you your 3 strongest ones.

The 12 Archetypes are:

  1. Visionary
  2. Intellectual
  3. Spiritual
  4. Creative
  5. Athlete
  6. Rebel
  7. Caregiver
  8. Royal
  9. Performer
  10. Tastemaker
  11. Explorer
  12. Advocate

If you’d like to take the quiz yourself to see what you are, you can do so by clicking here.

Benefits of Knowing Your Archetypes

So what are the benefits of knowing your Archetypes?

Well, one of the primary benefits of these types of systems is that they increase our understanding of ourselves.

Most of the people we have in our lives, at home, at work, in our businesses, etc. are all different personality types and different archetypes, and a lot of the conflict in our lives comes from not understand those differences.

For example, as a visionary one of my strengths is the ability to see solutions to challenges that other people haven’t even imagined yet.

I have the ability to study a large variety of different topics and to see patterns in all of these things and imagine ideas, systems and processes out of “thin air” and into existence.

When I worked in the corporate world, having that strength made it easier for me to do my job as the Chief Technology Office of a publicly traded company.

Today I use that same skill to make money from home running my businesses.

The thing is though, that not everyone has the same Archetype profile as me, so if I am not aware of this I can end up getting frustrated with people when they don’t see the same things as I do.

In fact when I look at my past and I see various different interpersonal conflicts I’ve had with different people, it becomes abundantly clear that they had very DIFFERENT archetype profiles from mine.

They couldn’t understand how I could possibly think the way I do, and I couldn’t understand how they could think the way they did.

By getting clear about YOUR archetype profile and the profiles of the people around you, you can get a better understanding of them and avoid unnecessary conflicts, and strengthen your relationships.

There is no right and wrong.  No profile is better than another one.  They’re just different.

The other benefit of knowing your profile is that you can get a better understanding of your strengths and your weaknesses.

By knowing what your strengths are, you can organize your life and your business life to be more centered around those strengths – and team up with someone or outsource those areas that you’re weak in.

I highly recommend taking this quiz and getting to know your Archetype profile.

Head on over to Archetypes.com now and take the free quiz.

Then leave a comment below and share what percentages you got for your 3 primary Archetypes.