Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace.
In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.” Today, “individuals and small groups of every color of the rainbow will be able to plug and play.” Friedman’s list of “flatteners” includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the dotcom boom that led to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic cable; the emergence of common software platforms and open source code enabling global collaboration; and the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining and insourcing. Friedman says these flatteners converged around the year 2000, and “created a flat world: a global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and increasingly, language.” At the very moment this platform emerged, three huge economies materialized — those of India, China and the former Soviet Union –“and three billion people who were out of the game, walked onto the playing field.” A final convergence may determine the fate of the U.S. in this final chapter of globalization. A “political perfect storm,” as Friedman describes it — the dotcom bust, the attacks of 9/11, and the Enron scandal — “distract us completely as a country.” Just when we need to face the fact of globalization and the need to compete in a new world, “we’re looking totally elsewhere.”
Quite often we find ourselves in situations in our relationships with our loved ones, with our business, with friends, at work, with our health and finances where we realize that we are kind of stuck. It is that stage where you are not going anywhere despite the efforts.
It seems like every time you are trying to make a move, the whole world comes against you and all of a sudden you are back at the “stuck stage.” So what do you do when you find yourself in that spot? I have known so many people who are stuck and have been stuck for years. How do you get unstuck? This is a simple plan that works equally well in business as well as personal level.
This is what is called the AAA method for getting yourself out of the trap.
The first A stands for Accept. You can’t escape from a trap unless you accept and admit that you are in a trap. And that doesn’t mean that you need to go to a meeting and publicly admit to the world that you have a problem. But admit to yourself that hey, I am not just a little short on cash, I am going broke; I am not just a little unhealthy, I am 50 pounds overweight. Way too many people try to be politically correct with themselves, and it is not doing them any good. It is impossible to move on until you accept your situation to yourself in a brutally honest way.
The second A: Once you have Accepted your situation, then you must to Analyze how you got there in the first place. What caused you to be in this situation? Make sure not to analyze yourself to death however and end up in Analysis Paralysis (business majors can you hear me?)
The third A: Accepting and Analyzing your situation doesn’t do much good unless you Act upon it. Decide what you need to do to get yourself unstuck, and rock and roll your way out immediately. Accept, Analyze, Act=Getting yourself unstuck.
Get Unstuck!
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“One of the greatest powers in the universe is individual power of choice. And the most powerful choices are positive choices.” — Frederick Mann
“The POWER in LIFE is CHOICE.” –Craig Green
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”
Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it.
Yes it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers.
While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.
“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.
Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied.
The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply… I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
That is the power of Attitude my friends.
Make it a great day because no one else will do it for you!
If you haven’t gotten a hold of the book “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss, I highly suggest you do…
Check these stats…
The Top 10 Stats To Know: You Are Not Alone
63% of all employees want to work less, up from 46% in 1992.
26% of adult Americans report being on the verge of a serious nervous breakdown.
40% of workers describe their office environment as “most like a real-life survivor program.”
Only 14% of Americans take two weeks or more at a time for vacation. The average American therefore spends more time in the bathroom than on vacation.
61% of Americans check email while on vacation.
53% of employees would opt for a personal assistant rather than personal trainer.
62% of workers routinely end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% report strained eyes, 38% complain of hand pain, and 34% report difficulty in sleeping due to work-related stress.
88% of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life.
70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children.
In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. Not surprisingly, the first group did better than the other two by an average of 10 points. The e-mailers, on the other hands, did worse than the stoners by an average of 6 points.
*Unending Workweek Growth and Burnout
Compared to 1970, American managers are working an additional month per year.
Americans are working more hours than any time since the 1920s. 63% of Americans log more than 40 hours per week at the office, and 40% log more than 50 hours per week.
Turnover rates among mid-level associates in New York City law firms is 36%. The entire system is predicated on burnout.
62% of workers routinely end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% report strained eyes, 38% complain of hand pain, and 34% report difficulty in sleeping due to work-related stress.
In total hours, the average middle-income family works four months more than in 1979 .
People work approximately 8 weeks longer per year than in 1969—in the space of a single generation—but for roughly the same income (after adjusting for inflation)
40% of employees work overtime or bring work home with them at least once a week.
*E-mail Addiction and Information Overload
66% of people read email seven days a week and expect to receive a response the same day.
61% continue to check email while on vacation.
56% have anxiety if they can’t access email .
“Crackberry” was the official winner of the 2006 Word-of-the-Year as selected by the editorial staff of Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Blackberry addiction has been labeled “similar to drugs” in a study performed by Rutgers University; millions of users are now able unable to go more than five minutes without checking e-mail.
According to online surveys of more than 4,000 people, conducted jointly by AOL and the Opinion Research Corporation and reported in 2005:
41% of Americans check e-mail first thing in the morning
18% check e-mail right after dinner
14% check e-mail right when they get home from work
14% check e-mail right before they go to bed
40% have checked their e-mail in the middle of the night
More than one in four (26%) say they can’t go more than two to three days without checking email, and they check it everywhere:
In bed – 23%
In class – 12%
In business meetings – 8%
At the beach or pool – 6%
In the bathroom – 4%
While driving – 4%
In church – 1%
Being “e-mailed” (like blackmailed) worse than being stoned?
In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. Not surprisingly, the first group did better than the other two by an average of 10 points. The e-mailers, on the other hands, did worse than the stoners by an average of 6 points.
*The USA vs. the World
Average Annual Vacation Days
Italy 42
France 37
Germany 35
Brazil 34
Britain 28
Canada 26
Japan 25
USA 13
Is it any wonder that US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks just about everything but worker satisfaction?
Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.
The Japanese document approximately 10,000 cases per year of “death by overwork,” or karoosh. Considering the above stats, what must the undocumented US numbers be??
The US is the only nation in the industrialized world with no minimum paid-leave laws. European law provides each worker with 4-5 weeks per year of paid-leave.
Nonetheless, Europe has had a higher productivity rate than the U.S. for 14 out of the 19 years between 1981 and 2000. More just isn’t better.
*The Coming Extinction of Vacation
26% of Americans take no vacations at all.
Only 14% of Americans take two weeks or more at a time for vacation. The average American therefore spends more time in the bathroom than on vacation.
American workers get an average of 8.1 days of vacation after one year on the job, and 10.2 days after three years. At that rate of growth (25.9%), you won’t even break three weeks after 12 years on the job.
Employees hand their companies more than $21 billion in unused vacation days each year
*Work-Life Imbalance and the Disappearing Family
57% of the class of 1999 graduating business students in 11 countries said that attaining work-life balance is their top career goal
32% percent of workers cited work-life balance as the top priority in their careers, followed by job security at 22% and competitive salary at 18%
How are they actually doing?
88% of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life
70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children
64% of Americans report that time pressures on working families are getting worse, not better.
The guru of The Law of Attraction, Bob Proctor, believes our leaders are missing the point when it comes to climate change and other problems facing the world’s six billion-plus inhabitants.
“The current problems we have in the world are the results of ignorance; we need to elevate our awareness so that change comes for the better. Increase our awareness and things will change,” says Proctor.
Proctor says the law of attraction is always working – always – so what mankind is experiencing is the result of what mankind attracts to it and at the moment it’s ignorance. “Leaders are like most people – they may be brilliant in one area but ignorant in another. Just because they are a leader doesn’t mean they know anything,” says Proctor.
“Look at the history of global warming – global warming has been around for decades and some
people such as Al Gore (former US Presidential contender) were warning us about it 10 years ago
and only now are people starting to listen and
respect him.
Proctor says whenever someone or something new comes along it is standard human behaviour to mock – new technology, new music, new thinking are challenges to our accepted sense of how we are, so in many cases it’s easier to be ignorant rather than embrace new thinking, or at least consider it. “If someone is enlightened in a certain area we tend to laugh at them because we don’t understand them.
At the moment our awareness as a race of people is
in the wrong place,” says Proctor.
Bob Proctor has been teaching these messages for more than 30 years. He has built a multi-million dollar business spanning the globe based around the principals of the psychology of wealth creation and happiness.
The Law of Attraction features strongly in his teachings because he believes that people attract to them the things and relationships they are most aware of. We don’t need a great education or genetic makeup to succeed.
This Law works in strange ways, for example, if a person is worried about debt it is most likely that their awareness is constantly on debt and thereby creating negative emotions and propelling the person into more debt. What they are really saying is ‘give me more debt’.
The solution here is for the person to change their awareness to wealth and abundance and not just be a little aware – they need to believe, ask and be prepared to receive. They also need to take action because “nature hates a vacuum.”
Proctor believes in paradigms. We are all programmed or conditioned from a very early age to believe in and expect the things and outcomes that we do. This is a limiting set of beliefs that inhibits creativity and act as a self-imposed prison to a person’s potential and capacity in all areas of life.
“Some people lack the awareness to create or be happy and are controlled by what is going on around them and this starts in school,” says Proctor.
“The report card controls what we think – it tells us if we are a good or bad person but what it really tells us is what we were like for a brief period of time several weeks before.
“People are learning and a global shift is happening. The Secret is impacting upon the entire world and
the fact that is has such an impact is a symptom that the world was ready for this type of information,”
he concludes.
Bob Proctor’s paradigm
No more effort or energy is required in order to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. The difference between the two lies in your level of awareness.
The information I’m about to share with you is extremely powerful and, in many cases, could set you free from the constraints that keep you from realising your full potential, and freedom to all of the good you desire.
Yet you cannot be free until you know exactly what it is that governs, shapes, and directs your behaviour and ultimately, your results. If you’re not careful, your thinking and results can be controlled by your paradigms.
Paradigms are your mindsets. They are your ideas; the little habits that your brain has developed over the years. The ‘operating system’ on which your mental processes run.
Your paradigms create the prism through which most people view and make sense of the world around them. Information is presented to your mind in one-way or another. Your mind runs through all of the things it already knows about that piece of information and figures out where it fits in with the bigger picture. Your mind then makes a determination whether the information is good or bad, desirable or undesirable, possible or not — all of which can be influenced by your existing paradigms.
Like most things, paradigms in and of themselves are neutral. If your paradigms are positive, you will have a happy, growth-oriented life, a healthy self-image, and the ability to adapt successfully to changes, upsets and unforeseen events.
Conversely, negative, limiting paradigms can keep you stuck in old ways of thinking that can be very limiting. Negative paradigms keep you as imprisoned as do a cell and a set of iron bars. Maybe even more so, since it imprisons you in the place where all true freedom resides: the mind. It follows, then, that if you want to create change in your life and start getting new and different results—you have to change your paradigms.
How do you go about that?
Step One: Write down one thing — that goal, dream, challenge that you have not yet resolved in your life. The subconscious mind thrives on detail, so describe it to yourself as vividly as you can.
Step Two: Write down every association that you connect to this thing: everything you think about it, good and bad, everything that the thought of it brings to your mind. One approach I have found extremely effective is to ‘map’ it in much the same way writers come up with plot concepts.
Draw a circle around the words or sentence you came up with in Step One. Then, in the space around that circle, write down your associations as they come to you, encircling each one and connecting it with a line to the original encircled goal. When you feel like you’ve come up with a substantial number of associations, take a good look at what your mind has shown you.
Step Three: It’s time to address your paradigms and ask ‘why?’ I suggest that you zero in on a few of the most powerful paradigms, the ones that have the biggest negative impact.
Ask yourself, “Why do I think this? Where does it come from? Where did I get such an idea?” Keep on digging until you’ve exhausted every possible scenario. And finally, now that you know what your paradigm is on any given topic, create an affirmation that will assist you in re-programming your mind, something that is the opposite of your paradigm.
For example, if your paradigm is you’ll never earn a lot of money, your affirmation might be: I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me on a continual basis through multiple sources of income. I am a magnet to money; I now have all that I want.
Write your affirmation on a 3×5 card and repeat it daily, as many times as possible. In time, you’ll begin to notice yourself thinking and acting in a different way. And, just when you think you’ve got it, it will be time to work on another paradigm!
Timing is
Everything
When coaching teams and individuals I’m often asked ‘Why do some people achieve so much while I struggle just to get by?’ The latest psychological research into personal productivity and time management shows that the mindsets we apply can pay big dividends in how much we accomplish. In fact, they are far more important than the number of hours we invest in any given task.
Here are 7 Taylor-Made Champion Mindsets that will help you increase personal effectiveness in your personal and professional life. The more mindsets you adopt, the more automatic and effortless time management will become for you.
1. The ‘GO FOR IT’ MINDSET!
In your job, do you consciously seek ways to challenge yourself and stretch your skills? If you’re a terrific time manager, you probably answered ‘yes’. Working
at your ‘cutting edge’ and finding ways to extend yourself increases productivity and willingness to manage time effectively. (It increases your value in
the job market, too!)
2. The ‘WANT TO’ not ‘HAVE TO’ MINDSET!
Do you tackle tasks at work because you want to or because you have to? Most people agree that approaching something from a ‘have to’ point of view results in an unwilling attitude, lack of satisfaction and a mediocre outcome. It also leads to procrastination and poor time management.
3. The ‘CAN DO’ MINDSET!
Do you expect the best of yourself, for yourself, and from everyone around you? Unless you believe you have what it takes, you’ll never improve time management or achieve the things you want to achieve. Set high standards; ‘expect the best’ is a good motto to adopt.
4. The ‘PRESENT’ MINDSET!
Do you ever feel in a rut with your job; that it’s just the same old thing, day after day? ‘We’ve always done it this way’ thinking leads us to just go through the motions in a rigid and automatic way. And it’s very easy to burn out when we face the same old problems without solutions.
Terrific time managers don’t get into ruts. That’s because they’re mindful that there can be multiple solutions to almost anything. They keep thoughts, words, deeds and mental pictures sharply focused on what they intend to achieve. This prevents burnout and leads to better time management. Keep looking for better, easier, more efficient ways to achieve results. Ask yourself ‘How can I streamline this? How can I add more value’?
5. The ‘WELLNESS’ MINDSET!
If we feel energetic, we’re more likely to have a go at tasks that, if we’re tired, might overwhelm us. This is important, because it’s not the tasks we’ve completed that make us tired or wake us up at 2 am; it’s worrying about the tasks we haven’t done!
Exercise boosts stamina, strength and suppleness, and reduces stress. It also increases self-confidence and self-esteem, improves your mood and, as a result, you can achieve more. Experiment to find the level of exercise that makes you feel physically and psychologically ‘raring to go’. This is the ‘WELLNESS’ mindset.
6. The ‘GOAL GETTER’ MINDSET!
Do you routinely establish both long- and short-term goals for your business? Do you have a business plan? Study after study has found that goal setting – more than any other technique (including pay rises!) – increases productivity in terms of both quality and quantity. Setting explicit, worthwhile goals can help you accomplish anything. Short-term goals make long-term goals seem more realistic and achievable. They’re also easier to meet, so start by breaking your large, long-term goals into weekly and daily goals. Create daily or weekly ‘To Do’ lists and use them as a guide to manage your time.
7. The ‘TAKE RESPONSIBILITY’ MINDSET!
Who’s driving your bus? Are you calling the shots? Poor time managers are often obsessed with being busy. But if this is unfocused it can lead to poor goal achievement and low productivity. Don’t let your environment or other people dictate your activities.
It’s a recipe for stress. Know your priorities – anything that moves you closer to your goals – and work to them. The more you control your environment, the more you’ll achieve.
We have all been there. I certainly have. It goes like this: You have been working at it for months… wait, almost a year now yet there seems to be no way to get ahead. You have done the three-foot-rule and talked to everyone who was buying Idaho potatoes at the local grocery store. You called all your family and friends and their in-laws too. Perhaps you have even embraced new ways of marketing online. You have networked with people on social sites. You have also been advertising, and perhaps even spent hundreds of dollars on advertising that produced no results whatsoever. You work hard, yet you never come out ahead. Your business isn’t booming like you thought that it would. You don’t know what you are going to do. You just quit.
Hang on my friend. You are not alone. For the record it took me 5 years to get in the profit zone. It wasn’t anyone’s fault – honest. Certainly not the company’s fault. But finally the efforts paid off. Sometime I can’t believe how far I have come, from losing money every month, to earning multiple five-figures a month. But it has happened to me, and it can certainly happen to you.
A useful approach is to look at the reasons WHY you are not motivated. If you think it is because you are not happy with your team, sponsor, products or company, then you have every right to switch gears and work with the leadership and company that you have the best chemistry and connection with. It is your business after all. It is your right to do whatever you want. Just make sure that that is truly the reason, and you are not blaming it on them.
Now, let’s take a look at ways that you can put life back into that business. Take a deep breath and we will see what we can do to get things back together.
First of all, you are going to want to make sure that you don’t make the same mistakes over again. What mistakes have you done before? How did you network? Make a list of the things you believe you didn’t do well, and keep the list on a visible place on your desk. Look at it, and make sure you NEVER ever make those mistakes again.
In my case, I remember I was notorious for doing research on the internet and justifying it with the reasoning that I was learning. Yes, I was learning. But I was also spending way too much time on stuff I didn’t need to produce income right there and then. I had to make sure I was spending less time on reading, and more time on acting.
Did you spam other profiles, hoping that clients or customers would flock to your wonderful and creative site? If so, forget it, it is not working!! It will never work… you cannot spam a site and expect people to just flock to you. I see network marketers who try to spam, arm-twist, and bamboozle prospects all the time. Drop it.
Remember that this is the Internet. It is chock full of people just like yourself, eager to start their business behind a machine. Yep, that is all you are is a business behind this machine. Remember that when you want to spam the next person behind this machine. If you keep that in mind, you will know that being more personable will take you much further. The reason being is that there are so many scams out there and people are cautious about doing business transactions with others online because of that.
You have to get out there and convince the World Wide Web that YOUR business (or products/ service) is the best around. But spamming and sending unwanted emails just won’t work. It is a good way to be ignored, quick!
Establish what you want to get out of your business. Start by networking on a personal level. Think of it as your business, locally. How would you get local network marketing leads? How would you go about gaining customers locally? Walk around town throwing business cards at people? We didn’t think so! You would shake hands and introduce yourself. Get to know others and become acquaintances even, right?
The same goes for online businesses. We know that you can’t shake hands with them, obviously. However, if you start building relationships online, and get to know your new friends, you will begin to see trust build. When that happens, they will ask you about what your business, and you won’t have to sell anyone.
Bringing your business back to life isn’t hard work. It is simple, but it isn’t easy. There are moments when it feels stupid to continue. Moments when giving up is the only viable solution at the moment. It is not. Remember that the only way of losing in this business is by quitting. I know you have probably heard this before. But it is true. There are things that you can do when you set your mind to it.
Make a list of the things that got you excited about your business in the first place. Was it a new house? A brand new leather interior car? Travel the world? Set yourself free from the cubicle life? Fret not. If others have reached that level, you can too.
Build an inexpensive yet attractive website with what you have to offer. Go around and create some profiles on social networks and get to know others. Social Networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Stumbleupon, and Twitter are my favorites. The goal should be to create Relationships with others however, and not to spam them with unwelcome offers.
Lastly, your grandma was right: “Patience is a virtue”. So many people fall victim of the Get Rich Quick schemes. It doesn’t work like that. Any business, including a home business takes time and effort to build.
Your friend,
Nick D’Angelo
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In this informative article we will talk about what is a recession, especially the economic and global recession we are experiencing right now, and how you can recession proof your business and find ways to make money during recession.
First of all: What is Recession?
I don’t want to bother you with the terms here, but if I remember correctly from my business classes, recession in a few words is defined as GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth slowing down. Gross Domestic Product is the total amount of goods being produced in a country within a specific time frame. During recession economy and businesses stop expanding, employment falls, people get laid off, unemployment rises, and housing prices decline.
I don’t think there is a secret that the US, and other countries, are in a recession right now. My prediction, and don’t shoot the messanger for this, is that the recession will continue for a couple of more years, and it will even deepen, possibly approaching a depression.
Now, on the bright side:
Did you know that during a recession there are more opportunities to make money than ever before?
The media is telling us horror stories about how awful the markets are and how badly the economic crisis is affecting us. The stock market is crashing, foreclosures are up by incredible amounts, and banks have collapsed. On top of all that, major insurance firms are going under.
We hear this every day on the news and in the papers. This constant barrage of bad news leads us to believe that the recession is worse than anyone thought. The media keep telling us all the money is gone. No one has any money to spend and we’re all going broke. Banks going downhill. WaMu was purchased not long ago, and over 12 other banks went bankrupt. It’s scary.
It’s also not the whole truth.
Let’s look at some common sense about money.
Did you know some people are thrilled to see the recession because this means stock, real estate and hard goods are cheap – the prices are lower than they’ve ever been. Savvy investors are going to swoop in and buy up stocks and real estate at very low prices.
As always happens with all cycles, the economy will recover eventually. It usually happens in 2-5 years. Prices will go up and those people who bought during the downturn while prices were low will sell up and make obscene amounts of profit. In fact this current recession will create more billionaires than ever before in history.
And yet the news is telling us that there’s no money around. No one is spending.
So where did all our money go? Did they hide the money somewhere in a dark, deep tunnel? The money hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s not like this money all of a sudden vanished. Someone took it ran with it and not we are saying, “crap, what about now?” Even if that was the case we could have printed more money. Instead, the money is just being re-aligned. It’s being transferred from those people who bought silly things when times were good over to smart marketers who know the importance of providing quality and value to customers who are wary about where they spend their money now.
What’s happening right now is a massive transfer of money from the re-active people who didn’t act smart during the good times and are now panicking that things have gone bad over to the smart marketers who are willing to take positive action now that times have changed.
Basically, money is being transferred from people like THEM, to people like US. Who is THEM? They are people who sit around and wait for the government, new president, God, the Universe, their industry, or their boss to give them More Money. They are praying that they don’t get laid off. If something goes wrong they blame it on the economy. They want to start a business, but they want to wait for the economy to Get Better. That is THEM!
Who is US? US/WE – you and I – are the people who MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. We realize that more billionaires will be created during this time than ever before. We see that the world is CHANGING and we want a piece of it. We are not hoping that someone else, a guy, a group of people, give us a handout. How horrible is that!!! Instead we, you and I, focus on value. We see what we want to accomplish, where we can provide value for others, and we focus on ABUNDANCE.
Abundance is everywhere.
THEY follow the news and freak out.
WE follow abundance, we don’t listen to the news.
THEY are sitting around and wait.
WE Start Businesses. It is the BEST time to start a business right now.
Re-active people are people who panicked and didn’t plan for this recession. They reacted poorly when things got tough. They are afraid of the gloom and doom stories on the news and so they hesitate when great opportunities come up. They wait for the market to get better. They watch what everyone else is doing… and they miss the biggest opportunity in their lifetimes by being reactive.
People who benefit during a recession are proactive. Proactive people are different than re-active people in the way they think and act. They take advantage of opportunities, they learn to become smart marketers, and they don’t hesitate to make the most of the opportunities that are available.
Any smart marketer who owns a home business should easily be able to take some proactive steps to earn even more money during a recession. There are several action steps a smart marketer can take in order to promote their internet business more effectively and make more money than ever before.
Provide value with quality products and make sure you’re marketing your niche in the right way to the right people.
Think in terms of abundance rather than scarcity – a.k.a. “what can do right now to take advantage of the economy with what I have in my hands or with what I am good at?”
Be proactive about reaching your niche audience and take advantage of the reduction in online advertising costs.
There’s plenty of money out there so be ready to act when opportunity arises.
Marketing via direct response marketing works when people are looking for opportunity. It’s a proactive move made by smart entrepreneurs who know to take positive action and take advantage of the opportunity of this economic situation by offering value to customers.
Learn to market your products and services correctly and you’ll find so many people who think the same way you do. They know they’re ready to take advantage of these times of opportunity but they’re waiting for the right product that offers them real value for their money.
So what will you be doing in your business to maximize your own sales during this period of opportunity? Will you be the one who sits on their hands and waits for things to get better?
Or will you be proactive about taking positive action to create serious wealth for yourself during this economic downturn?
Quite often we find ourselves in situations in our relationships with our loved ones, with our business, with friends, at work, with our health and finances where we realize that we are kind of stuck. It is that stage where you are not going anywhere despite the efforts.
Bob Proctor, believes our leaders are missing the point when it comes to climate change and other problems facing the world’s six billion-plus inhabitants.