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How Long Does It Take To Clean A Toilet?

How Long Does It Take To Clean A Toilet?

When I ask this question I get a very wide range of responses. Some people quickly state “A couple of minutes”. Others, who obviously do not have a lot of experience with cleaning toilets, stare in silence.
My response is “It depends on when you start and on how many interruptions you have”.
You see, there are many, many things in life that can be done fairly quickly if you just get started and not allow things to interrupt you during the process – like paying bills, taking the garbage out or organizing a closet. Once these things are done, life is a little easier, but so many people just never get started so they never enjoy the rewards that come with completion.
Years ago I hired a life coach to help me begin my business. Each week she had me complete a form to prepare myself for our telephone session which would occur on Monday mornings. One of the things on the form was to list my “tolerations”. These were the things that I was tolerating or putting up with that ultimately drained my energy.
Another question asked me to identify the toleration that I wanted to get rid of in the upcoming week. The third question involved listing the things that I had accomplished the previous week.
I was amazed at how this simple strategy allowed me to make ongoing progress when it came to freeing my life of the things that I had been tolerating. At the same time, it freed me to move forward with goals that otherwise might never have been reached.
Sometimes you might be facing larger projects that those mentioned and they require more time and effort but the process is the same. Whether you are planning to complete a university degree, paint the whole house or set up a new business system there are specific steps that will help you to get there.
  1. Decide what you need and want to accomplish. It is best to write this down on a piece of paper because that forces you to be clear.
  2. Set a realistic deadline for completion.
  3. Break the project into smaller pieces each of which can be easily accomplished during the next week.
  4. Block time on your calendar to work on the project.
  5. Tell others about your goals so that they will encourage you and not allow distractions to interfere with your progress.
  6. Do what you promised yourself that you would do – even if you don’t feel like it at the time.
  7. Celebrate! Once you have worked through each of the steps in a week you will feel confidence and pride. Success breeds success! It will be easier to begin the next week knowing that you are closer to reaching the goal and that you can get there just by putting one foot in front of the other, one week at a time.
Follow this formula and it won’t be long until your life will be organized, your goals met and your toilet will be sparkling clean!

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7 Self-Reflection Questions For Personal Development Goals

7 Self-Reflection Questions for Personal Development Goals

We all have a dream that we want to experience but it can remain hidden without asking ourselves some self-reflection questions. If you are staring at your computer screen thinking to yourself “I don’t have a dream or what questions” do not worry. We will go over some great questions in order to help you with your personal development goals.
1. What one personal development goal if achieved tomorrow would give you the greatest feeling of success?
By discovering which goal is most important to us we can better focus our energy and time on what means the most to us. This does not mean we sacrifice the rest of life to get that goal but by being clear on what is most important to us we make better decisions. If you do not find the answer to this question your life goals will not align with your true purpose. Your intentions will not attract the individuals and circumstances needed to make your dreams come true.
2. Are these your goals or someone else’s?
Are you living into what you believe is a predetermined future for yourself? If your parents, grandparents and siblings are all lawyers do you feel obligated to be the same even though you dislike the profession?
You are not anyone but who you are and you need to determine your goals based on that fact in order to live your dream life. A life lived through others expectations, is a life that is filled with regret and what could have been.
You do not have to feel selfish for pursuing your own dreams and not the dreams others have for you. You have the right to listen to your heart and follow what you believe is your destiny.
3. Are you passionate about your vision of life?
If you are not waking up excited to live the day then chances are you do not have personal development goals that you are passionate about. People who are passionate about their lives do not want to go to bed at night because they love being awake. They live such fulfilling lives that they cannot wait to wake up and do it again.
If you just can’t wait until its bedtime so you can finally end the day you need to identify what you are passionate about. What could you wake up to tomorrow that would make you throw off the covers and practically run out the door? Your real goals will give you energy you never knew existed.
4. Do you understand what success feels like?
Success has a million different definitions and every one of those only applies to the person who is saying it. Success is a feeling we get inside and not our materialistic belongings.
Take time to reflect on what you consider to be past successes. Do not think of the achievement you got in terms of tangible rewards but try to express how you felt in that situation. Was it exhilarating and mind-blowing or were you just slightly happy. 
Real goals make you feel like you are on top of the world. Internet marketers always say that their first $100 online is more memorable than their next $100,000. The reason is because that $100 made them feel true success inside. They actually did what they set out to do and it matched what they wanted it to feel like.

Spend the time needed to determine your definition of success. What will life look like, who will you be and what will it take to get there. Most importantly what do you expect to feel when you arrive at your dream destination?
5. What are the daily habits you can create to achieve your goals?
Successful people have successful habits. They didn’t just stumble upon those habits but through taking one step each day towards their personal development goals they developed them. By setting up daily routines that push you towards your goals you can create habits.
Most habits are always on autopilot which puts your success on autopilot. If you were in the habit of exercising 30 minutes every day in some form or another I am guessing you would be in fairly good shape. At first you may have to force yourself to go but before long you would wake up and consider doing nothing but go exercise.
This applies to every goal you have. Set up a plan on how to take small daily steps, they turn into habits and before you know it your goal is accomplished.
6. Are you telling yourself: “I can’t achieve these goals?
Most people don’t believe they can actually achieve the goals they set. They do a good job of writing their goals and planning the steps they need to take but the whole time they tell themselves inside that it won’t happen. So it doesn’t.
If your belief system is telling you to forget it this isn’t going to happen you will need to discover where those beliefs come from. Maybe you don’t believe following your passion will pay the bills or that you can’t be rich because your parents are poor. You could have been hurt by someone so you believe you can’t be loved. I cannot stress enough the importance of having a positive self-belief system.
You can, you will and you deserve to be.
7. Are you afraid of success?
You thought fear of failure was bad. Can you imagine the fact that some people are more afraid of being successful then failing? If they never get to be successful they can blame their failures but when they achieve success they only see one way to go and that is down.
Instead of going after their goals fully they essentially self-sabotage themselves by creating situations where they get fired, make people mad at them or anything that would give them an excuse as to why success wasn’t possible. Then they are like “Whew, I almost became more than I already am, dodged that bullet.”
Look at success as something you achieve and then do again, over and over. There is no going backwards just in a different direction.
I understand change is scary but I find it even scarier to think that all I am right now is all I ever will be. You deserve to live the life of your dreams so go out there and crush those personal development goals.

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First Steps To ReBooting Your Life

First Steps To ReBooting Your Life

We want to know the how of everything before we take a step forward in the direction of our dreams. How am I going to change careers, how am I going to find some direction in my life, how am I going to relocate to ______ and live happily? We wait for certainty before moving, when that makes no sense. No vision is ever realized, BEFORE we embark on it. We can plan everything down to the last detail on paper, but the fact is – the feeling of safety that gives us is an illusion. Many of the best laid plans go awry – as we have often experienced already.
Planning is essential by all means! But we can begin to have the confidence that we need to move ahead before we have a plan. We don’t have to wait till all the blueprints are in place and everyone we need to make it all happen has signed off on them! Often times, we will not meet everyone we need to make our visions come true until we have shown up and walked a few steps down our chosen path.
Life is a dance, driven by the passion of desire. It doesn’t respond to fear, but to fearlessness. Your FAITH is rewarded in life AND your fears are confirmed. So try FAITH and then take ONE STEP! What does ONE STEP do? One step sends an exuberant affirming message to you. It screams “You CAN do this!” That one step should give you enough confidence and energy to take TWO more steps. That’s how we walk up the ladder of success. In steps. So why do so many people give up before they even take their first step?
Well, here’s a secret about those first step. They need to be small steps! Baby steps! Too often we set up these grandiose first steps, only to fall into the throes of disgust and disenchantment when we fail. We all have done it. Remember your small steps are training ground for the larger steps that you will have to eventually take. There’s no skipping the small steps. The faster we try to get there, the more likely we are to “trip” over the small steps! Allow yourself time to develop your skills. The faster you try to get it all done quickly, the more your dreams can elude you.
Whatever you decide you want to do, accept the fact that you will need to be patient. Patience has its just desserts. Patience breeds quality. It’s okay to take small steps. It’s even okay to fall. Falling is a natural stage of development.The important lesson is to not sop reaching towards our goals, in spite of our falls.
Every desire that is placed in your heart is a seed that grows in time.-Whether that seed be for love, self-respect or maturation, forgiveness, spiritual growth, personal or career advancement – they all take time and nurturing. Give yourself the gift of nurturing. Be gentle and compassionate with yourself and begin with small steps.

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The Four Essential Steps To Making Money Online

The Four Essential Steps to Making Money Online

Internet marketing is increasingly becoming a lucrative way for people to achieve financial security. If you have always wanted to understand how some people are able to make vast sums of money online, then you need to understand these four basic steps:
1. Finding the right “niche”
A “niche” in internet marketing terms is a product category that has a lot of demand. So for instance, “online dating” or “weight loss” could be categories for which people are willing to pay to find out more about. These would be examples of niches that you could choose to focus on.
It’s important to pick the right niche when you are getting started. One common mistake that many novices make is to pick niches that are based on their interests but for which there is no demand in the marketplace. So it is a good idea to make sure that when you want to promote a product or service, there are people who are willing to pay for such a product! Checking with your friends and family if they’d pay for such a product might be a good first step. But a more methodical way to do it would be to check a digital marketplace like ClickBank to see if there are other people who are already successful in promoting the niche you are exploring.
2. Creating a product
Once you have identified a niche that you want to focus on (preferably one that you are passionate about), you need to create your own information product in eBook, audio or video format. Posting your product on ClickBank will increase the chances that you will find affiliates who want to distribute your product and thereby get the widest distribution possible.
If creating your own product feels too daunting, then a good first step is to go to ClickBank and try to be an affiliate promoter for someone else’s products.
3. Building a website
You will need to build a simple website to distribute your product. There are any number of simple website building tools available online that you can choose from.
And finally..
4. Driving traffic to your site
This is the step that most first time internet marketers fail to focus on. Having the best product in the world will not help you unless you are able to get people to visit your site to find out about it.
One way to drive traffic to your site is to give away some information of value for free. So for instance, in the weight loss niche, a sample report that shows the reader some techniques to lose a few pounds quickly might work.
By following this simple 4 step formula, anyone can become an internet marketer and work towards achieving financial security.

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Easy Internet Marketing PROFITS – How To Make Your First $1000 This Month

Easy Internet Marketing PROFITS – How to Make Your First $1000 This Month

Who else is sick and tired of being suckered by BIG promises that only offer bigger disappointments? Of finally finding that “1” simple secret strategy that promises the world… only to leave you bitter and broke once you realize the ONLY person who made money was the person who recommended you try it?
Tell me if this sounds like you…
You’ve tried and applied every angle, you’ve diligently bought and read every ebook, trusted every “Guru”, gimmick and get rich quick trick and you’re still broke.
The funny thing is, as we march our way through 2013… you are probably finding tis’ not all that different from last year.
The online entrepreneurial dream MIGHT be alive for others… but it’s certainly never going to happen for you.
Sound familiar?
Unfortunately, for oodles of people still seeking their first profits, it’s a hard and cold reality that destroys more dreams than anything else.
The good news?
I’m going to share with you a very simple strategy you CAN try and apply… that DOES work, and that doesn’t require you to invest in anything at all to find out for yourself.
Sound good? If so… continue reading as we tackle some quick and easy online marketing strategies that WILL make you $1000 (or more) this month, without any gurus, gadgets and goofiness at all if you are ready.
Curious? Let’s dive in and find out below.
Q: What is the FASTEST way to earn $1000 a month online WITHOUT a big budget to blow?
Very simple. The absolute BEST way is a simple linear marketing method that allows you to convert your CONTENT into cash.
You can do this as an affiliate (as thousands have and still do). Or, you can do it as a business owner with your own products or services to offer. (like a coach, or a consultant, or a teacher, trainer or mentor)
Want to try to earn money selling OTHER peoples products to start?
Start like THIS:
Pick a solid, high paying affiliate offer (as summer approaches, diet, dating and beauty oriented offers are great for this, and lots of the big brands have sky high earnings right now).
Register a simple.info domain name (will cost you about 99 cents!).
Put your affiliate code on the index (or root) of the domain you just registered.
Write articles JUST like this one you are reading right now…
And encourage your readers to visit your page via the resource box at the end of each article.
Very simple, right? Maybe you are thinking TOO simple?
Think again!
If you pick offers that have EPC numbers (average earnings per 100 visitors referred) of $100 or more… on average, if you do only as well as other partners, you will earn about 100 dollars for every visitors you refer.
That means – send 33 visitors a day to the offer, without selling anything… and you’ll be earning $1000 a month.
Pick an offer with an EPC of $300 (like many diet offers will have during bikini season..:-) and you only need 11 visitors a day to reach the same goal.
Think that’s tough to do?
I promise, it’s not. I have used free content to generate many MILLIONS of readers using the exact same approach as above, all using nothing but my keyboard, my creativity and my free time. (and so TOO can you!)
The secret is simple:
Make your business about the MATH, and not the marketing.
You can use this very same approach to build your OWN brand, your own blog, your own business and your own bank account as well. But if you are struggling to start, simply pick an offer you like and trust and can recommend… make sure it pays you what you deserve, and start converting your CONTENT into cash… starting right NOW!

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What Is A Blog And How Does It Help SEO?

What Is A Blog And How Does It Help SEO?
The term blog, a combination of the words web and log, is a somewhat informal term for a website or section of a website containing frequently updated content, similar to a news feed. Personal blogs may be kept like a journal, while many professional blogs are written to keep readers up to date on the latest news in a certain industry or to give regular tips about something. Another purpose blogs are being increasingly used for is search engine optimization (SEO). Blogs are one of many SEO secrets that boost traffic to your website. If you are trying to create a Network Marketing website a blog would be the way to go.
How do blogs increase traffic? The aim of SEO is to boost how relevant you website appears to search engines for a particular phrase, or keyword. A blog focusing on one particular subject will have relevant keywords throughout its posts, showing the search engines your website is focused on that topic. For instance, if you sold t-shirts, your blog might have posts on different t-shirt fabrics, various ink and printing processes, and the best way to design content for the t-shirts. The word t-shirts, along with related words, such as screen printing and fashion, would appear over and over in the blog, making it easy for an automated search engine to recognize your blog’s relevance to the term t-shirts. This means that when a person searches for t-shirts, you website would appear high on the list of results. Websites at the top of a search results page tend to get the most visitors, which can mean more business for an e-commerce website.

7 Step Writing System for Articles and Blogs


Blogs also provide interesting content, and give visitors another reason to come to your website. If you’re selling a product, chances are people mostly check out your site when they’re looking to buy something specific. A blog entices them to spend more time on your website reading and learning, and it creates more chances for you to sell products.
Blogs also provide great content which visitors can post links to on social networks and Network Marketing Lead Generation websites. These links will drive additional traffic to your website, but more links also boost your rating in search engine’s indexes. They assume that more links mean you site is more popular, and so it’s more likely people will want to visit it. These are some great reasons why you should consider adding a blog to your website to boost traffic and SEO power.


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11 Tips For Joining Affiliate Programs

11 Tips For Joining Affiliate Programs

Here are some things that I look for before joining an affiliate 

program. They are items I feel are imperative to being in a 

successful affiliate program.


1. The affiliate program has a great payment structure. For me, a 

high commission that is also a high percentage of the purchase price 

is essential. Nothing under 25% commission.


2. Make sure the affiliate program you are joining has a good looking 

site. You do not want to be sending visitors to a site that you do 

not like yourself.


3. Make sure they offer a comprehensive affiliate statistics page

that lists the number of click throughs, number of sales and amount 

earned. This should be broken down per month.


4. Also make sure that the affiliate statistics are updated 

automatically and immediately. You do not want to find out today 

about a sale you made a week ago.


5. Ensure they give a wide variety of text links, banners and 

graphics to put on your web page. Although I prefer text links, 

certain types of banners and graphics still work well.


6. Know how often you are going to be paid. If you are tossing up 

between 2 programs and one pays monthly and the other pays quarterly, 

the one that pays monthly is better. You do not want to wait months 

before getting paid for your hard work!


7. See if the affiliate program gives examples of how the top 

affiliates are doing. This can be a great pointer to whether it is 

good or not. If some affiliates are earning many thousands per month, 

it is a good affiliate program.


8. Along these lines, also see if they give examples of what 

marketing methods these successful affiliates are using to get the 

best results.


9. An affiliate program that offers a special monthly newsletter just 

for the affiliates is great. Here you can get extra tips and 

techniques that are working well.


10. See if they offer email notification when you make a sale or get 

an affiliate signed up under you (if it is a 2-tier program). It is 

good to see `You have made another sale’ in your inbox.


11. Ensure top level support is given. If they cannot answer your 

query straight away make sure they can respond within 48 hours.


There is tremendous demand for affiliate programs and choosing the 

right one is no easy task. Make sure you do plenty of research before 

joining one.
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F-O-C-U-S – Follow One Course Until Successful

What are your traffic secrets? What secret strategy are you using? How are you getting leads? Why am I so overwhelmed? I just posted 3 blogs and no one signed up. I don’t know how to do that. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the time. Why isn’t anything working for me?
Why isn’t it working? Probably because you are not focused. If you are a newbie you probably suck at what you are doing (you will get better). Maybe you want someone to do it for you. Maybe you think there is one Magic Pill that will drive all the traffic to your site and you just sit back and collect the big bucks.
Follow One Course – It Takes Time
Truthfully, have you taken the time to learn the skills necessary to be successful in this online business world? It took time for you to learn your job, ride a bike, be a parent, learn how to swim. It took time for you to learn how to walk. Plus you could not run until you learned how to walk. You don’t remember but you sucked at walking first. Falling all over the place and laughing. Ask your parents!
Athletes take the time to train so they can make it to college, the pros, and the Olympics. Fire Fighters and Police Officers take the time to learn the skills to rescue, protect, and serve. So why do you think you can just plug-in and achieve riches without learning any skills in this industry?
Follow One Course Now!
Focus now! Follow One Course Until Successful. Yesterday my team held a Google Hangout. It was a mastermind of six and seven-figure income earners speaking on their keys to success.
The main ingredient to their recipe of achievement… FOCUS! They are focused on building their business. Some of my team mates are scattered, confused, overwhelmed, and they don’t know why. They are in 15 different programs. Attending the next pre-launch. Quitting when something doesn’t work in 5 minutes.
Machine gun tactics only work in war. Shooting all your bullets without aiming is foolish. Jack of All Trades and master of none is never a winning formula. The person who can do it all is usually doing it alone and making less than everyone who has mastered a skill. I speak from experience. When I wasn’t focused I wasted time and thousands of dollars trying to find that secret.
When it comes to marketing online and direct sales in our industry… I tell my team to Follow One Course Until Successful. When it comes to marketing and advertising focus on 2-4 strategies only. Anymore than that and you are spreading yourself thin and you get overwhelmed.
Follow One Course Tips
  • Focus on building your primary business. Don’t chase the shiny new objects that promises you push button traffic (while you sell their push button traffic products) Forget the pre-launches, re-launches, and new opportunity of the week. The deal of a lifetime happens every week in this business.

  • Learn how to create your own traffic sources. Whether its paid or free marketing. Learn this skill and put it to use. It doesn’t matter where you learn it from.
  • When you master a marketing skill it will open other opportunities for joint ventures, partnerships, and you will be able to tap into someone else’s skills and leverage your time and money. That’s the true secret. A Quarterback doesn’t throw the ball to himself. He uses other people’s skills to score.
  • Set a schedule and stick to it. Nothing happens until it is scheduled. You show up on time for your job and stay there until you finish. Now do the same for your business. Scheduled your reading, trainings, and events.
  • Attend events in your industry. There is nothing like learning in person and masterminding with people who share the same interest in business as you. You all have something in common and the word T.E.A.M. Together Everyone Achieves More comes into place. You can build relationships that last for years.
  • Finally… DO NOT QUIT! Push until something happens. Get clear on your end result. I repeat one more time. Follow One Course Until Successful. Don’t get distracted. Build your primary business. Nothing should make you change lanes. Quitting is never an option.