Hold to Your Faith | Make Money From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.26.08 I have found that the truth is applicable to all situations and problems. If it's a universal truth, you will know it immediately, and it is applicable to all areas of your life. I have written many times about home based business, about making money on the internet, and all sorts of work from home business. But most of the information is useful to help you in all areas of life. This article today is no exception. Here is some helpful information shared by my friend James Arthur Ray.

"Faith and belief not only act as powerful agents in achieving our dreams, they keep us centered, calm and present to ourselves and our lives. When we have faith and belief that our dreams are coming to us, we never hurry.

Hurry is a manifestation of fear. Fear is based on doubt and lack of belief. Fear, doubt and lack of belief are based on an ignorance of the truth that we are all one with Supreme Intelligence.

Re-affirm that you are one with the source of all that exists. Your belief will never waver if you stay connected with the truth of who you are. Listen for the "still, small voice" of your intuition to tell you what to do.

When you get the message, then act! Don't worry about what others think. They are probably far more interested in what people are thinking about them than they are in judging you.

Faith and belief give you the strength and confidence and prevent you from "hurrying."

Happy Holidays and the best to you and yours.

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Dismiss Negativity | Make Money From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.23.08 Because I work from home with my own home based internet business, I know how easy it is to become down and discouraged when things aren't going just right. This applies to all aspects of life, and not just a work from home business or situation where you make money on the internet. We all need to be aware of thoughts and where they are taking us! Set your thought right and your days will be filled with more joy and success.

If we believe everything that is put in front of us, we are not exercising our creativity and the power of our own mind. We are taking the easy road and subscribing to mainstream thought, which often does not have the equivalent of goodness. It's easier to let someone else do your thinking, isn't it? To shift away from negative, self-defeating thoughts, you must first recognize them. Here are a few classics: "I am not beautiful nor talented. I can't be happy. Life is hard. The world is a terrible place. I will probably fail. I'll never make any money." Awareness of what we are thinking is the first step, so learn to listen to your words, whether mental or spoken.

What we think, and how we set our mental equivalent on any given day, sets the tone for what the universe will provide for us. If we want success, prosperity, better relationships, more self-confidence, or love, then that's where our mind needs to be -- not once in a while but all the time. Substitute the disasters on the morning news with a sense of positive expectation for your day. Rise out of negativity in as many ways as you can identify. Think great thoughts about everyone. See yourself as a success and that you've come to the planet with a gift. Practice verbal harmlessness (no swearing!) and know you are a worthy individual. Switch on the positive thought channel the minute you arise each day and consciously invite abundance and opportunity into your experience.

In today's merge of mysticism, psychology, religion, science, and philosophy, western thinking is moving away from hard data and proof. Our culture is interested in illustrating the concept that thoughts create reality. Logical positivism had its field day, and people are beginning to embrace the power of the mind at the intuitive and spiritual level.

To turn negative self-talk around, you must discover where your mind is ingrained with patterns of negative expectation. This was discussed in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" Our neuro networks become ingrained in patterns that make us search for a chemical "hit" in our interpretation of reality. In a nutshell, when we continue to stay in negative thought patterns that do not serve our higher purpose, we are destined to keep repeating the same life experiences over and over again because we will never view reality any differently. Our lives will never improve, and living with joy seems unattainable because we are generating more of what we don't want.

Our thoughts, memories, and emotions are not only part of our mental programming, but have a physiological effect on our bodies. Scientists have determined that we hard-wire our own brains by our associative memory: our associations with people, events, times, places, and things. We assign emotions to the memories recorded in complex strings of nerve cells wired together. The strings become networks of information we can access automatically at any time.

Connections between our nerve cells are strengthened when repeatedly stimulated in a process called "long term potentiation." Through associative learning, our brains are not only programmed by ordinary experiences but by extreme circumstances. Trauma actually changes the structure and function of the brain.

We rely upon many automatic programs to function. Neural networks give us an opportunity to shift into "cruise control." We don't have to think about making every keystroke when typing; we just do. We've established the network by repetition.

Thoughts affect our bodies, especially any thoughts that have become patterns that don't serve us well. For example, putting yourself down is based upon old information and not the powerful, present moment. Old experiences like despair, low self-esteem, and self-pity are emotions that give us a chemical boost of neuropeptides, which guide our perception of our current day choices.

Want to feel better and stop negative self-talk? Prune your old negative programming and take charge of your current circumstances. New positive thoughts create new systems in the brain, which produce new chemistry associated with new emotional change. Break your "put down" habit neuron-by-neuron and learn to react differently to life! The next time you catch yourself in a put-down, say out loud, "I cancel that" and instantly substitute a new and powerful thought about you.

It's vital to remember that your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and physicality are intertwined. Negative self-talk down can make you feel unmotivated and physically ill. Moving your mind to a new way of being is a healthy habit you need to cultivate.

Here are 5 quick ways to shift to the positive self-talk channel:

Check your state of mind. Choose your own attitude and emotions, not another person's outlook on life. Focus your intentions in the present moment. Because we have a choice, life originates in the mind first. As within, so without. Be consciously aware of what you want to create -- and claim it as your unique mantra.

Focus on today. Step away from old memories, past relationships, and hurts. Attend to the present. Find joy in what you bring to the table today. Take a deep breath, stay centered, and remind yourself you are a gift to the world!

See the big picture. In the universal equation, today is but a blink in time. Move gracefully through difficult moments with ease because you are not stuck there permanently -- you are going "through it"! You can do this without depleting your energy reserves by making a commitment to doing so. Remember, life goes all too quickly. Make each day count and quit wasting your energy on negative thoughts, unproductive thinking, and who said what to whom 10 years ago.

Release negative expectation. Focus on what YOU can do to contribute to a better world and not what others expect you to do. Pace yourself. As you practice positive expectation, you'll find that better circumstances will be attracted to you naturally. Have faith in the process!

Be thankful. There is no better way to change your energy than to turn up the volume on thankfulness. If you are thankful for what makes you happy, by the Law of Attraction, the universe will provide you with MORE to be thankful for. Be generous with gratitude -- to those in your life who care, to your Higher Power, and to yourself for beginning an individual spark of Divine Power. Your natural state is unlimited abundance, so be thankful for all you are and your journey.

Enjoy the holidays!

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Thrive Right Now | Make Money From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.21.08 There seems to be plenty of fear or at least concern these days about the general condition of the world, and specifically the current economic situation. Sometimes the continual barrage of negative information makes us doubt our ability to continue to make money online, or with our home based business. If you work from home and find yourself feeling less than optimistic about your business, your finances, and in fact anything in life, you will want to follow these basic and helpful tips on how to thrive during these times.

1. Clearly define what inspires you.
   There's a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.
2. Control your focus.
   Energy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?
3. Feed your mind.
   What's your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive seminars, watching uplifting DVDs and listening to powerful CDs?
4. Strengthen your body.
   Your physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress as well as strengthen your body and mind.
5. Inventory your friends.
   Doom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those "energy vampires" around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.
6. Quiet your mind.
   Take time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.
7. Rid your life of escapist activities.
   Overindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerate the problems you're attempting to avoid.
8. Make a daily gratitude list.
   Focusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.
9. Change your attitude.
   Realize that everything that's happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.
10. Get resourceful.
    For the next three days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time... Come up with 20 new ideas to grow your income, create new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have twenty. And no editing! All ideas are good ideas. Do this for three successive days with 20 new ideas each day.
    
    Now take your list of 60 unique ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these three to five based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.

And so during this winter season, remember: It's not about resources... there are plenty of them. It's about resourcefulness. Get resourceful and get busy.

Enjoy the holidays.

Kevin Farrell
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Keep Motivated | Make Money From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.15.08 Often staying motivated is a major part of your home based business. To make money online, it is necessary to keep yourself uplifted and motivated on a daily basis, and if you do not, you may find your work from home to be more of a burden than a joy.

Enjoy this article on getting and staying motivated.

Get motivated every day.
Zig Ziglar was once confronted about being a “motivational speaker.” The guy said to him, “You guys come and get people hyped up and then you leave and the motivation goes away. It doesn’t last, and then you have to get motivated again.” Zig reminded the gentleman that baths are the same way but we think it is a good idea to take a bath every day!

It is true that motivation doesn’t last. We have to renew it each and every day. That is okay. It doesn’t make motivation a bad thing. We simply have to realize that if we want to stay motivated over the long term, it is something we will have to apply to ourselves each and every day.

Have a vision for your life.
The root word of motivation is “motive.” The definition of motive is, “A reason to act.” This is the cognitive or rational side of motivation. It is your vision. You have to have a vision that is big enough to motivate you. If you are making $50,000 a year, it isn’t going to motivate you to set your goal at $52,000 a year. You just won’t get motivated for that because the reward isn’t enough. Maybe $70,000 a year would work for you. Set out a vision and a strategy for getting there. Have a plan and work the plan.

Fuel your passion.
Much of motivation is emotional. I don’t know quite how it works but I do know THAT it works. Emotion is a powerful force in getting us going. Passion is an emotion, so fuel your passion. “Well, I like to work on logic,” you may say. Great, now work on your passion. Set yourself on a course to have a consuming desire for your goal, whatever it is. Do whatever you can to feel the emotion and use it to your advantage!

Work hard enough to get results.
You can build on your motivation by getting results. The harder you work, the more results you will get and the more results you get, the more you will be motivated to get more. These things all build on one another. If you want to lose weight, then lose the first few pounds. When the belt moves to the next notch you will get fired up to get it to the notch beyond that!

Put good materials into your mind.
I can’t say this enough – listen to tapes. I still listen to tapes regularly. I buy tape clubs from other speakers and I learn and grow. Their successes motivate me to get my own successes! Read good books. Read books that teach you new ideas and skills. Read books that tell the stories of successful people. Buy them, read them, and get motivated! Buy great music and listen to it. I just did a spinning class at the club today. Whenever a good song came on I was actually able to get motivated to ride faster! It gets you going and motivates you!

Ride the momentum when it comes.
Sometimes you will just be clicking and sometimes you won’t. That is okay. It is the cycle of life. When you aren’t clicking, plug away. When you are clicking, pour it on because momentum will help you get larger gains in a shorter period of time with less energy. That is the Momentum Equation! When you are feeling good about how your work is going, ride the momentum and get as much out of it as you can!

These are the top six ways to stay motivated:
Get motivated every day.

Have a vision for your life.

Fuel your passion.

Work hard enough to get results.

Put good materials into your mind.

Ride the momentum when it comes.

These are simple principles, that when you put them to work regularly, will change your life by keeping you motivated all the time! Get going!

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Think Big | Work From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.12.08 Enjoy your work from home experience each and every day. There is simply nothing better than making money on the internet with your own home based business. The people you meet and the money you make are virtually unlimited. You are only limited by your own imagination and thoughts!

Here's an insightful, brief article by James Ray on this topic:

Given where you are now, how much good can you create for yourself? How far can you go with a new mindset? How successful can you become? All things are possible in the mind. Successful people through the ages have understood and used this truth. Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

Whatever you can imagine, you can have. If you can bring up the image of yourself as a millionaire, living in a beautiful home, driving a Rolls Royce, in the most fulfilling relationship imaginable or whatever you want... then that's what you can have.

If you have a desire, the very fact that you have that desire means that you have the means to fulfill it. Everything in physical form was first a thought. The clothes you're wearing, the car you drive, the house you live in, this message... everything was first a thought in someone's mind.

How far can you go? As far as you LET yourself go. Decide to think big and unlimited just for this week and watch the results it produces.

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What's Your Focus | Make Money From Home | Home Based Business | Make Money on the Internet | Kevin Farrell Marketing Mentor and SEO Advisor

12.10.08 Looking for ways to enhance your home based business marketing? One of the fastest ways to make money on the internet and to secure your work from home business is to really nail down your marketing efforts and techniques.

Check out this expert advice on marketing:

Think about any and all advertising that you have running right now. Or if you don’t, try to imagine what types of advertising you’d do, and what your ads may say..

Questions: What is the focus of your advertising? In other words, when you advertise online, whether it be safelist ads, traffic exchanges, adwords campaigns, or any other type of online advertising, what is the “focus” of your advertising? What are you trying to DO when you advertise, specifically? When someone sees your ad ‘out there’, what are you asking them to DO in your ad? And where do people GO after clicking on the link in your ad?

The answers I most often get are: “My focus is recruiting, or selling, or sponsoring, or just making more money. The links in my ads are my direct affiliate links to the programs/products I’m promoting.”

If any of those terms fit what you’re doing, or what you’re planning on doing, or what you’ve been told to do in the past, we need to change YOUR FOCUS, before you even get started.

There’s only ONE thing, ONE word, that your advertising should be doing for you. That one word is: PROSPECTING. All of your advertising and promoting should be focused exclusively on finding new leads and building your prospect list. That’s IT. That is the front end of your business. That is the top of your marketing funnel. If your advertising is focusing on recruiting, sponsoring and selling, you need to STOP that right now before you spend another dime on advertising.

Now…What we’re going to do is basically create for you, the same formula for success that every internet millionaire uses in order to generate huge dollars online. You see, there really isn’t that much to internet marketing, as far as the actual process goes. Sorry folks, there are no “secrets” or “magic systems”. It’s all marketing, plain and simple. And it all comes down to three simple steps…

The simplest success formula, and the simplest visual representation of your marketing formula (without going into details), has three steps:

1. Focus your advertising 100% on building your list.
2. Build and maintain an ongoing relationship with your list.
3. Market and upsell to your list.

I know, at first glance that sounds simple and easy, and to some extent, it is. But that’s how the big marketers “do it”. As online marketers, we’ll often hear that the money is in your list. That’s true, but maybe a more accurate statement would be: The money is in YOUR ONGOING RELATIONSHIP with your list. That’s very important to remember because many of us make the mistake of building a list, then just sending ad after ad after ad to our list, hoping that someone will buy whatever it is you’re selling – then they wonder why people keep un-subscribing from their list. That, folks, simply doesn’t work anymore.

Something quick to remember while we’re doing this: People don’t like to be sold things, but they sure like to buy!

Okay, so we’ve got your basic 3-step marketing plan. In fact sometimes it’s a good thing for your brain to print out that simple 3-step plan and fasten it to your computer monitor. I know it’s only 3 steps right now, but remember, THAT is your focus from now on, so be sure you know those 3 steps mentioned above!

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Give Freely | Make Money From Home | $200 Per Day Blueprint | Kevin Farrell Marketing Advisor

12.8.08 Before you can make money with your home based business, it's important to be aware that making money online is like other business in that you must have the proper tools in order to prosper. The very most important tool you have is your ability to give freely. By giving freely of what you have to give, your work from home business and ability to make money on the internet will thrive.

Enjoy this fantastic article by Gardner Hunting about giving: A Blank Check Is Waiting For You

All my life I have known in a vague way that getting money is usually the result of earning it, but I have never had a perfect vision of that fact till recently: If I give to anybody service of a kind that he wants, I shall get back the benefit myself. If I give more service, I shall get more benefit. If I give a great deal more, I shall get a great deal more. But I shall get back MORE than I give.

If I give more to my employer than he expects of me, he may give me a raise -- and on no other condition. What is more, his giving me a raise does not depend on his fair-mindedness. He has to give it to me or lose me, because if he does not appreciate me somebody else will! But this is only part of it. If I give help to the man whose desk is next to mine, it will come back to me multiplied, even if he is apparently a rival. What I give to him I give to the firm, and the firm will value it, because it is teamwork in the organization that the firm primarily wants, not brilliant individual performance. If I have an enemy in the organization, the same rule holds. If I give him, with the purpose of helping him, something that will genuinely help him, I am giving service to the organization.

Great corporations appreciate the peacemaker, for a prime requisite in their success is harmony among employees. If my immediate boss is unappreciative the same rule holds. If I give him more in advance of appreciation, he cannot ultimately withhold his appreciation and keep his own job. The more you think about this law the deeper you will see it goes. It literally hands you a blank check, signed by the Maker of universal law, and leaves you to fill in the amount and the kind of payment you want! Mediocre successes are those of people who obey this law a little way, who fill in the check with a small amount, but who stop short of big vision in doing it. If every employee would only get the idea of this law firmly fixed in his mind as a principle not subject to wavering with fluctuating moods, the success of the organization would be miraculous.

One of my fears is apt to be that by promoting the other fellow's success, I am sidetracking my own, but the exact opposite is true. Suppose every employee would look at his own case as an exact parallel to that of his firm. What does his firm give for the money it gets from the public? Service! Service in advance! The better the service that is given out, the more is the money that comes back. What does the firm do to bring public attention to its service? It advertises -- that is part of the service.

Now, suppose that I, as an employee, begin giving my services to the firm in advance of all hoped-for payment. I cannot do anything constructive in that firm's office or store or plant or premises that is NOT service -- from filing a letter correctly to mending the fence or pleasing a customer ... from looking up a word for the stenographer to encouraging her to look it up herself ... from demonstrating a machine to a customer to encouraging him to demonstrate it himself ... from helping my immediate apparent rival to get a raise to selling the whole season's output. As for advertising myself, I begin advertising myself the moment I walk into the office or the store or the shop in the morning --I cannot help it. Everybody who looks at me sees my advertisement. Everybody around me has my advertisement before his eyes all day long. So has the boss, my immediate chief, and the head of the firm, no matter where they are. And if I live up to my advertising, nobody can stop me from selling my goods -- my services!

The more a man knocks me, the more he advertises me, because he calls attention to me. And if I am delivering something better than he says I am, the interested parties -- my employers -- will see it and will not be otherwise influenced by what he says. More than that, I must give to EVERY human being I come in contact with, from my wife to the bootblack who shines my shoes, from my brother to my sworn foe.

Sometimes people tell me to smile, but the smile I give must be a REAL smile that lives up to its advertising. If I go around grinning like a Cheshire cat, the Cheshire-cat grin will be what I get back -- multiplied! If I give the real thing, I'll get the real thing back -- multiplied! If anybody objects that this is a selfish view to take, I answer him that any law of salvation from anything that has ever been offered by anybody for any purpose offers a selfish view. The only unselfishness that has ever been taught truly is that of giving a lesser thing in the hope of receiving a greater!

Now, why am I so sure of this law? How can you be sure? I have been watching it work; it works everywhere. I believe you have only to try it, and keep on trying it, and it will prove true for you. It is not true because I say so, nor because anybody else says so. It is just true. Theosophists call it the law of karma ... humanitarians call it the law of service ... businessmen call it the law of commonsense ... Jesus called it the law of love. It rules whether I know it or not, whether I believe it or not, whether I defy it or not. I cannot break it!

Now, without referring to any religious idea you may have about Jesus of Nazareth, without considering whether he was or was not divine, recall that he spoke these words: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over." And this appears certainly to be so -- not because he said it, but because it is Truth. It is true, this principle of giving and receiving, only there are few people who go the limit on it. But going the limit is the way to unlimited returns! Well, then, what shall I give? What I have, of course.

Suppose you believe in this idea, and suppose you start giving it out -- the idea itself -- tactfully, wisely, and start living it yourself in your business organization. How long do you think it will be before you are a power in that organization, recognized as such and getting pay as such? If this idea is true, it is more valuable than all the cleverness and special information you can possibly possess without it. What you have, give -- to everybody.

If you have an idea, do not save it for your own use only -- give it. It is the best thing you have to give and therefore the thing that will bring the best back to you. I begin to suspect that if an individual would follow this principle, even to his trade secrets, he would profit steadily more and more -- and more certainly than he will by holding on to anything exclusively for himself. He would never have to worry about his own affairs, because he would be working on the basis of fundamental law. Law never fails, and it will be easy for you to discover what is or is not law. And if law is worth using part of the time, it is worth using ALL the time. Look around you first with an eye to seeing the truth, and then put the thing to the test. If our reasoning is sound, through both methods of investigation you will find a blank check waiting for YOU to fill in!

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Cause and Effect | Make Money From Home | $200 Per Day Blueprint | Kevin Farrell Marketing Advisor

12.5.08 Perhaps you have your home based business and you are trying to make money online. Well, because you work from home, you have the ability to take a few moments and lift your thought to where you may actually be able to help yourself and your business to prosper!

We should always remember that our experience is the outcome of our thoughts, both conscious and unconscious. It therefore pays to be aware of, and be in control of, what you are thinking.

James Ray has some basic, but very important, insights on where to begin to get the control that we need to have. Read what James has to say in these few paragraphs.

If you want to change the effect, you have to change the cause... and our thoughts are the ultimate cause. If we try to change limited income, limited satisfaction or limited relationships by concentrating on them instead of changing the thoughts that caused them, we don't get very far.

We need to go back into the unseen, unlimited world of thoughts and feelings and make our changes there. Then our new thoughts will project into the physical world, instead of the old thoughts. Start putting your attention on what you do want in your life. Work with cause, rather than trying to manipulate effect.

Think of cause and effect like watching a video. Imagine that you rented a video, and it was terrible. You just hated it! Would you take a hammer and smash your television or would you change the video tape? If you smashed the screen, you would be dealing with effect. If you changed the video, you would be dealing with cause.

"The Science of Success" is based on the premise that you have the power to shift your own mindset. You can direct your inner powers of thought and free will to change your mindset and to achieve whatever results you choose. To activate this power, we need to understand how the mind works, how mindsets are formed and how they can be changed.

The first step in changing your mindset is to create a vivid mental picture of what you want in your life and your results. Secondly, you must visualize this mental image at minimum 3 times per day. Visualizing is the key to realizing!

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