I wrote in my Gratitude Journal today.
Thank you God,
for allowing me the clarity to move my life forward,
for keeping my thoughts positive,
for inspiring me to action,
for going the distance.
Today I took a big step in realizing my dream,
my dream to help others achieve their greatness.
My dream of becoming a ‘Career Mentor’ and ‘Life Coach’ has started to take shape.
Bill
I hope to see you ‘on the road to greatness.’
Join me on my journey.
I started this blog with the intention of journeying toward the path of greatness, not seeking so much to becoming a man of success, but rather a man of value.
Becoming a man of value may not make you a millionaire, but it can produce something more. It can produce a reallionaire.
REALLIONAIRE
”Someone who has discovered that there is more to money than having money.
A person who understands that success is not just being rich in your pocket; you have to be rich on the inside too.” Farrah Gray
Anyone who wants more out of life and the rewards that follow will build their success on three pillars,
Become ’someone great.’
Journey ‘the road less traveled.’
I hope to see you, ‘on the road to greatness.’
I get up kind of early in the morning, usually at 5:00 am. This morning was like any other, I shaved, showered and dressed. I sat down at my computer to check my e-mail about 5:30. It must of been 10 or 15 minutes later, I felt the strangest sensation. We have a treadmill in the room next to mine and it felt as though someone had turned it on. But, No one in my house gets up this early, I thought. My thoughts flashed to the furnace in the basement. I hope the belt or motor wasn’t going bad. A few seconds later the vibration stopped. I’d check it out when I got done on the computer.
A half hour had past and I caught a bit of the news. There had been an Earthquake, 5.4 in the neighboring state, somewhere around Evansville, Indiana.
I live in Southern Ohio, so I guess we had felt the ripple effect.
What’s really bizarre was that I was reading an article on the internet about the same time, concerning the Law of Attraction. It was eluding to the idea that our thought waves send out vibrations and resonate through the Universe.
I thought, “this is pretty powerful stuff.”
In this case, I know it was just coincidence, but I really got a chuckle out of the timing of it all!
Here’s to increasing your Greatness,
I wise man once said:
“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.” [Mike Litman]
“Ignore the rules. There are no rules. There are no regulations. You get out and you do what you need to do because you believe in what you’re doing.”
John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), punk rock musician
By David Cross
David Howell Evans is not known for being a technically accomplished guitarist - although few people really care. He developed a trademark sound that contributed to the success of the band in which he plays - a band that has sold over 170 million albums worldwide. Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed him #24 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
The Edge - as Evans is better known - is the guitarist for U2, one of the greatest rock bands ever. Did he wait until he was a virtuoso on the guitar before joining U2? Nope.
The Clash - a pioneer of punk music - didn’t care a lick about being “great” either. When they started, only two of the band’s four members could even play an instrument. Despite that, The Clash produced one of the top-selling albums of all time (”London Calling“) and wound up as #30 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. And they went on to kick-start thousands of other bands… including U2.
The world is packed with thousands of successful people who leapt right in. People who became great because they were willing to take a risk.
Still, I often hear of people who say the reason they have not started their business is that they’re not good enough. They feel they need to wait to acquire more information, deeper knowledge, or more specific skills.
The simple fact is that you can get much better at doing almost anything by doing that thing. Another important thing to note is that you never really know - until you get out there and do it - whether or not you’re good.
Until you actually start your business, it’s all theory. You don’t know how well your idea will succeed until you put it into practice. But the last thing you want to do is wait around until you’re sure. For one thing, you run the risk that your idea will become obsolete. By waiting, you allow the quick and the brave to one-up you in the marketplace. Plus, no matter how long you tinker or research, you STILL won’t know if your idea is good until you put it out there.
Start marketing your widget today, and you’ll know in a few weeks or months whether it’s a big success or a stinker. Keep planning for decades, and you could find out it’s a flop… after having wasted too many years of your life banking on its success. Michael Masterson calls this approach “accelerated failure.” Pick up his best-selling book Ready, Fire, Aim and learn more about it.
This advice holds true for practically any business I can think of. Internet marketing is no different.
We’ve been urging you to get a little Internet side business started for some time in ETR. If you’ve been waiting to do it, here are four things you can do immediately to jump right in:
1. Launch a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Ad Campaign
Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines allow you to display your ads by bidding on keywords relevant to your business. When someone clicks on one of your ads, you pay a pre-set fee of a few cents. You can set a daily budget of a few dollars so you can ease into PPC advertising and perfect your technique before upping your budget.
Agora Inc. brought in hundreds of thousands of new customers last year alone through effective PPC campaigns.
Learn more about setting up a PPC account by reading Patrick Coffey ’s article, “Mastering Google AdWords in 3 Easy Steps.”
2. Start Collecting E-Mail Addresses
A huge factor in the success of many online businesses is e-mail marketing. Establishing regular, relevant, and timely contact with your customers and prospects is a proven way to generate more sales and to turn prospects into customers. Offering a free report, useful advice, or information that you deliver by e-mail will help you do it.
For more details about collecting names online, take a look at Patrick’s article “How to Build Your E-Mail Subscriber List Quickly and Easily.”
3. Start an E-Mail Newsletter
Start to regularly send out useful information to the people on your e-mail list. Don’t know what to write? Not to worry. Write about what you know. If you have a music store, send out tips and advice for playing or caring for instruments. Garden store? Timely, seasonal, local advice on what to plant and when and how to tend a garden. Try to remember some of the meetings or phone calls you’ve had with your customers and recount them. Voila! You’ve started an e-mail newsletter. Spice up the articles with some relevant product or service information - and don’t be afraid to ask for an order!
For more about how to create an e-newsletter, read my article “The 3 Basics You Need to Start an E-Mail Newsletter.”
4. Start a Blog
One thing that takes longer to master with an online business is search engine marketing. That is, creating content and copy that is both attractive to search engines and readable by humans (your customers and prospects). With a blog, you can quickly amass a plethora of information that will attract search engines… and customers. As with an e-newsletter, just write about what you know and offer advice and tips that will be useful to your readers.
Starting something new is both exciting and scary. But sometimes the fear of getting started can stop you right in your tracks. If you don’t start, you can’t fail. But then again, you cannot succeed either. There is no better time than right now to get up there, plug in your guitar (or laptop!) and start strumming away. Do not wait until you are great. Start small. Start now.
[Ed. Note: David Cross is Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore. People from all over the country have already experienced the power of managing their destinies through motivation, determination, and goal setting. Discover the secrets that have made them successful.
“Who can I encourage today? Who can I bless today? What
problems can I solve today?”
Those are all good questions, the answers to which, can help to move your life forward.
I would like to share a place where entrepreneurs or someone aspiring to become an entrepreneur can discover a wealth of information.
A place *Where Entrepreneurs Gather.*
There is a forum where questions can be posed and information can be shared.
Check it out at:
http://gathergreatness.ning.com/?xgi=9dgZEoM
Thank you for sharing,
Bill
‘The Great Bill from Ohio’
‘Secrets of Successful People’
Gather Greatness
Science Museum’s ‘Science of Spying‘ exhibition.
The Main Entrance to the Museum is on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
‘A secret message on a mock newsstand.’
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*What it takes to be great*:
Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work
By Geoffrey Colvin, senior editor-at-large October 19 2006: 3:14 PM EDT
Be the ball
Through the whole process, one of your goals is to build what the researchers call “mental models of your business” - pictures of how the elements fit together and influence one another. The more you work on it, the larger your mental models will become and the better your performance will grow. Andy Grove could keep a model of a whole world-changing technology industry in his head and adapt Intel (Charts) as needed. Bill Gates, Microsoft’s (Charts) founder, had the same knack: He could see at the dawn of the PC that his goal of a computer on every desk was realistic and would create an unimaginably large market. John D. Rockefeller, too, saw ahead when the world-changing new industry was oil. Napoleon was perhaps the greatest ever. He could not only hold all the elements of a vast battle in his mind but, more important, could also respond quickly when they shifted in unexpected ways. That’s a lot to focus on for the benefits of deliberate practice - and worthless without one more requirement: Do it regularly, not sporadically.
Why?
For most people, work is hard enough without pushing even harder. Those extra steps are so difficult and painful they almost never get done. That’s the way it must be. If great performance were easy, it wouldn’t be rare. Which leads to possibly the deepest question about greatness. While experts understand an enormous amount about the behavior that produces great performance, they understand very little about where that behavior comes from. The authors of one study conclude, “We still do not know which factors encourage individuals to engage in deliberate practice.” Or as University of Michigan business school professor Noel Tichy puts it after 30 years of working with managers, “Some people are much more motivated than others, and that’s the existential question I cannot answer - why.” The critical reality is that we are not hostage to some naturally granted level of talent. We can make ourselves what we will. Strangely, that idea is not popular. People hate abandoning the notion that they would coast to fame and riches if they found their talent. But that view is tragically constraining, because when they hit life’s inevitable bumps in the road, they conclude that they just aren’t gifted and give up. Maybe we can’t expect most people to achieve greatness. It’s just too demanding. But the striking, liberating news is that greatness isn’t reserved for a preordained few.
It is available to you and to everyone.
From the October 30, 2006 issue
I’m buiding a place where like-minded individuals might choose to gather,
a place to grow,
a place to share
a place to learn.
It will be highly sought after, frequently visited and always remembered.
A place to gather value:
Value in your personal life,
Value in your business life, and adding
Value into the lives of those around you.
Are you tired of living a life of mediocrity? Do you have more inside you ? Would you like to be someone Great!
Is your answer yes……………..or really yes?
For me the answer is really……………………………YES!
Do you feel you are an *average guy* or *average girl* ??? Maybe somebody told you this, or an IQ Test-Score from the past embedded this idea in your subconscious mind. Whatever the source, it’s time to reconsider the validity, as well as the consequence of your belief.
If you continually reinforce the idea that you are *average* …. how does this help you to advance your life?
I challenge you to take just one small step this week, to becoming *A Better You*.
Don’t sit around and gather dust………. Gather Greatness !
Join ***The Newsletter for Entrepreneurs***
………………………………….Go to *Where Entrepreneurs Gather*
…………………………………………………………..for a more indepth evaluation of *how to*
How to increase your value.
Go to……………………….. www.gathergreatness.com
I invite you to go there NOW, now…………………. while you are thinking about it !!!
That’s www.gathergreatness.com
Hope to see you there.
Bill
*On the Road to Greatness*
I just wanted to let you know, I just got done listening to Frank Gasiorowski, ‘Mr.90DayGoals’, on PowerTalk Radio.
He was interviewing Dr. Mike Davison.
It was a Great Interview !!!
I liked it so much, I purchased Dr. Mike’s New Book:
“An Invitation to Personal Peace; Guidelines To Help You Move Further Along Your Path”
Mike Davison
“Whether you are aware of it or not, there are constant daily challenges to your personal peace. In addition to the typical challenges that have existed forever, there are countless modern distractions that can devour your time, energy, focus and can leave you hungry for greater meaning and personal peace in your life.
An Invitation to Personal Peace offers easy step-by-step practices that will help you develop a deeper sense of your own spirituality. An Invitation to Personal Peace will teach you practices to help you:
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Thank you Frank & Mike.
***I am so greatful to have these two individuals in my life.***
Bill
‘The Great Bill from Ohio’
I’ve been an employee all my working life…but in November 2007, I decided to pursue a different road. I am on a venture to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Follow me as I journey the road less traveled. I have come a long way…but have a long way to go. ….”on the road to greatness.”
