We live in one of the greatest nations in the world. The United States of America is a place in which you can live your life any which way you want.  One of the best freedoms we have is to have the ability to leave our mark on society; to leave a legacy in which the world will or will not know who you were throughout your life.

I think that one of the noblest things you can do with your life is to leave your mark on the world around you. Did you make this world a better place during your stay or were you just a taker and said the hell with the world.

Goal Setting

Goals are what separate the achievers from the non-achievers.  They are what will determine how far you go in life.  Set you goals with high expectations.  Make your expectations so high that you are bound to not hit them.  By doing so, you will push yourself to limits you never thought possible.

Too many people don’t set goals or set them too low and guess what?  They hit them.  What kind of excellence is that?  What kind of example does that set for you, your family and everyone else around you.

Whether you know it or not, people are watching over your life. Do you want to be seen as a slouch or a total winner?

Too many people see failure as an end all.  I see failure as success.  The only thing that separates me from the people I look up to and model myself after is the amount of times that they have failed, far surpasses the amount of times I have failed.  A little different perspective isn’t it?

Thinking Differently

Over the years, I have learned to think a lot different than most people.  I am not chasing the same things that most Americans are chasing.  For most, they chase money, wealth and fortune and it evades them.

I learned to chase thought process and skill sets.  I learned that applied knowledge is power and that if you just stayed focused on increasing the value of people around you and concentrated on making this world a better place by you having passed through it that eventually money, wealth and fortune would start chasing you.  It’s the law of attraction at work.

You see, Napolean Hill said it best in his book “Think and Grow Rich”.  The first chapter is titled, “Thoughts are Things”. What you think about most is what you will manifest in your life.  If your constantly think about what is missing in your life and how unhappy you are in your current circumstances, you will only attract more of that.

If you can flip the switch in your head and start concentrating on how you really want your life to be and put strong emotion and action behind your conviction, the universal laws will kick in and bring those things to fruition in your life.

I know, you think all that is way too spiritual for you right?  Perhaps that is why your in the position your in.  To live a different life and achieve different results than you have experienced up until this point in your life, you MUST change the way you think and what you are doing.

Taking It To The Top

Have you ever really thought about what you are actually capable of?  Each of us is capable of doing more than we did yesterday.  It all starts with a decision backed by belief backed by massive action.

Over deliver on your promises to yourself.  Don’t ever put off to tomorrow what you can easily do today.  Procrastination is a disease that plagues our nation.  It causes poverty, broke mindedness and sickness.  It will cause you to hate who you are and is a total dream stealer.

We all have the same 24 hours in a day.  It’s what we do with that time that will determine how far you go in your journey through life.

Push Yourself To The Limit……………………………..

Social Media Marketing Mistakes

We all are guilty of these 5 no no’s when it comes to social media marketing.  There is a right way to do it and a very wrong way.  These 5 areas are crucial to your social media success or failure.

Social Media Marketing Mistake #1 – Pitching or Selling Your Product, Service or Business.

The social networks are a place to develop relationships with people, not to pitch your business.  The biggest mistake I see people doing, especially on Facebook is presenting their product or service thinking that they are delivering value.  That’s totally wrong.

If you want to attract people to you, you have to be willing to give away your best content on the front end.  Let people decide if they want to take a deeper look at what you have to offer.  By shoving your business down their throats with your posts and links, you are just turning people off.  Trust me, I made this mistake and it takes a long time to recover from it.

Social Media Marketing Mistake #2 – Not Having a Blog.

A blog is ultra important in today’s atmosphere on the web.  It is your home base.  It’s what delivers credibility to people who are doing their homework on you.  If you don’t have one, your missing out on traffic and relationship building.

A blog is yours. You have full control of the content it delivers to the web.  Your content is then ranked in the search engines according to your keywords and tags used in your posts.  This makes it easy to tap into niche’s where your prospects are searching for information.

The bottom line is, if you don’t have your own personal blog that is professionally done, you won’t be taken seriously online.  While some may disagree with that statement, I stand by my guns on this one.

Social Media Marketing Mistake #3 – Not Being Consistent With Giving Good Content.

If you are one of those people that just log on to your social media sites to check if anyone has sent you a message, your not developing relationships or delivering value.

You should be updating your social networks on a daily basis and sharing your blog posts and other valuable content on your networks.  Be very consistent and persistent with your efforts and watch your network grow.

Social Media Marketing Mistake #4 – Not Growing a Targeted Following.

There are tons of people on Twitter with tens of thousands of followers as well as a whole lot on Facebook with thousands of “supposed” friends.  Uneducated social butterflies think that the higher the number of followers and friends, the better.  Numbers don’t mean JACK if they are not highly targeted.

If you have a bunch of followers that are interested in learning more about healthy living and your tweets or updates are all based on network marketing or MLM, your going to have your following running the other way.

Having a very targeted list is highly important and by doing so, you will attract those people to you when you post relevant, high value content.

Social Media Marketing Mistake #5 – Wasting Time With Ineffective methods. i.e. No Strategy

If your one of those folks that doesn’t have a social media strategy in place and wastes time on Farmville, don’t wonder why you’re not getting the results your expecting.

You need to have a blueprint of what your process is and have some goals in place as to what you want your end result to be from your marketing efforts.  There is a ton of information available for free on the web as to how to properly tap into the social networks and achieve success.

Feel free to check out a recent post of mine titled: “5 Steps for Social Media Success in Your Business No Matter What Business You are in.” This was the first part of this two part series here.

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Failure is the teacher of success as long as you fail, adjust and keep moving forward.

Just to recap what we have discussed here.  Stop pitching and selling, get yourself a Wordpress, self hosted blog, be consistent with giving good content, grow a targeted following and have a strategy.

To Your Success,

Social Media Marketing

While there are many people who have not figured out how to make social media work for their business, there are others that are absolutely “KILLING IT” with social media.

While I have had some success in social media and have a large following, I was missing a few pieces of the puzzle.  That was all cleared up one night on an exclusive webinar I was on with Tim Erway and Katie Freiling.

Tim Erway is a world renowned copywriter and Internet marketing genius who is Mike Dillards partner with Magnetic Sponsoring as well as a coach and trainer (A total legend in the industry).

Katie Freiling is a total Social Media Rock star.  Over the past few years, she has perfected a system, using social media that pulls her in between 50-a few hundred leads a day for FREE.  Here’s the kicker. Today, she only spends about 20-30 minutes on social media sites; she has created a following of tens of thousands of people and makes money at will.

Don’t get me wrong. Katie is way more passionate about sharing her knowledge and skills than she is about making a dollar bill.

Anyway, here is a five step process that you can put in place to increase your web presence as well as your sales in whatever business you’re involved in.

Step 1 – Choose Your Brand and Get a Wordpress Blog

Choosing a brand for yourself may take a little bit of thought.  You want to identify yourself with something you’re really good at that other people can benefit from your knowledge.  If you’re a sports fanatic, perhaps your brand can encompass that aspect.  If you’re a social media expert, you can brand yourself in that sector.

If you’re not sure how you want to brand yourself, don’t let that hold you back from moving forward with the rest of the steps here.  Keep going and you will discover that you have gifts and talents to share with the world around you and you can definitely build a brand around that.

Why a Wordpress blog?  Because they are far superior to all other blogging platforms.  I am sure there are some people out there that may disagree with me, however, take a look around at what all the 6, 7 and 8 figure earners on the Internet are using.  Yep, Wordpress Baby!

Static websites are good for sending direct response traffic to.  You DON’T want to send your social media traffic to a Landing page or Squeeze Page.  You want to send them to your blog.  A blog is your hub.  It’s where people can come and get to know you at a deeper level.  It’s where relationships and conversations can take place.

You can also generate leads off of your blog by having an opt-in form and giving away a gift in exchange for their contact information.  Be careful here.  Don’t give away some cheesy E-book.  You want to give away something that is going to blow their minds with the value you’re providing in the gift.  Don’t Cheese Out! Always give away more than you expect to receive in return.

Step 2- Sign Up With the Top 4 Social Media Sites/Get Targeted Followers/Update Sights Daily

Ok, this is like three steps in one but what the hell.  I am trying to cram a whole lot into this post here.  There are literally hundreds of social media sites out there.  The most traffic goes to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.  These are the ones I am active on and a great starting point.

If your one of those people that are afraid of Facebook or any other SM sites, I have a tip for you. GET OVER IT!  Don’t worry about your old boyfriend/girlfriend stalking you.  Unless you add them to your network, they are still history and can see little about you.

Facebook has over a ½ billion users and YouTube is far more than that.  Guess what?  It doesn’t matter what business you’re in; your target market is right there. Yep, guaranteed.

Once you have registered on these sites and created your profile (make it professional). I hired some graphic design experts to create backgrounds for my twitter profile and for my Facebook picture. Both cost me less than $100.  If you want to be taken seriously online, don’t skimp on your image.  It’s all a part of your branding and positioning.

Now that you have gotten your sites all set up, now you want to start working on getting targeted followers.  This means, you want to add people with like mindsets into your networks.  Don’t just start adding any old Joe Schmoe or Jane Slane.  Make sure that the people you add are in the same area of interests as you are.

I almost have to laugh at people who brag about how they have 50,000 twitter followers and 5000 Facebook friends.  While some people have very targeted followings, others are very non-targeted and totally outside their niche’s, therefore they will never have a bond with their social media lists.

On Twitter, you can Google Guru’s in your niche and then follow their followers and start a dialogue with them. On Facebook, you can join groups relevant to your industry and start adding the people in those groups, same with LinkedIn.  On YouTube, you’re going to have to search for people in your niche.

Lastly, make sure that you update all of your social networks on a daily basis with fresh content.  I use www.Ping.fm as a tool to update my social network statuses and you can literally update as many as you subscribe to with the click of one button.  Gotta love tools!

Step 3 – Market Your Posts

When getting busy in the social media realm, you want your content to go viral, meaning you want your friends and followers to share your content with their friends and followers and so on, so forth.  Provide extremely high value and this won’t be an issue.

If you write a blog post, send it to your list and ask your blog viewers to share it as well.  Socialize your post on every social network you belong to.

What will happen over the course of time is your post will end up on other people’s sites as links back to your site. This will give your blog credibility with the search engines and cause your posts to rank high in the search engines provided you did some good keyword research and have tagged your posts accordingly.

Step 4 – Nurture your relationship with your list of subscribers

Ever hear the saying, “The money is in the list?” Well that’s not true.  The money is in the relationship you have with your list.  You don’t want to keep blasting your list with affiliate offers and constantly try to be selling something.

Remember, value comes first.  Forget about your product or service.  Focus on solving people’s problems.  To do that, you need to know what some of the challenges your niche has and provide the solutions via killer content.  You can make video’s blog posts or press releases, doesn’t matter.  Just remember this formula:

C.A.B

Cut Them Open

Add Alcohol

Apply Band-Aid

Or

P.A.S

Problem

Agitation

Solution

If you create your content around this formula, you are going to have raving fans for life.  You will be the go to person and people will be chasing you down to know what you know, get in your business and buy your stuff.

Your list is a true asset so treat it as such.  Those people came to you for a solution, now find out what the problems are and provide it over the course of time.

Step 5 – Grow Your Income Streams

In any business, multiple income streams are better than one.  Don’t just randomly be creating content and have no solution products or services to offer.

This is why I like funded proposal systems.  They have the affiliate products embedded within the system and while people, who opt in, may not buy your primary product, there are other products that they may instantly click with and buy from you.  I currently have about 15 different income streams which help offset my marketing expenses and it’s pretty exciting to go to the mailbox a few days a week and see checks in there from different affiliate programs.

This was a rough order of magnitude overview of how to handle your social media marketing.  Sure there are more pieces to the puzzle and of course it’s going to require some more training on your part.  This should get you off to the races.

To Your Success,

The Fabric of a Winner

Champions are never born, they are made.  Through persistent and consistent effort, champions perfect the craft of their trade.  There are certain characteristics that define a winner and I will describe them here.

They are Decisive

Compromise is never an option.  Champions are quick to make decisions and very slow to change them.

They are People of Character

Who are you when no one is looking?  Are you the same person ALL of the time or do you put on different hats depending on who you are with?  A winner will always treat people with respect and dignity.  You can always count on a champion to be there in the heat of the battle.  They have a backbone, not a wishbone.

Champions Focus

A winner knows exactly how to get distractions out of their life and avoid temptations.  They stay extremely focused on their dreams goals and commitments.  One of the most important things a winner will focus on is priorities and goals.  Everything else gets put on the backburner.

They are People of Action

Despite fatigue and inconvenience a champion presses ahead unaware of obstacles that may stand in their way.

Champions Never Quit

You will never see a winner backing off of their dreams, goals and aspirations.  Champions get the job done no matter what the circumstances.

They are People of Faith

Champions believe in “the unseen”.  They can see the end outcome in their minds eye and know they have won prior to the start of their endeavor.  Faith is the confident belief in the truth, value or trustworthiness of a person, idea or thing.  It is the belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence of the things not seen.

As you can see, it takes dedication to become a champion. It requires self mastery.  Once you master yourself, you can then master everything else that comes your way in life.  Do the above characteristics describe you?  If not, are you taking an inventory of the things you could change to encompass these characteristics into your life?

Be a Champion in every part of your life.  When it’s all said and done and you are lying down in your last days, will the lord say to you, “Well done good and faithful servant?” or “Why did you waste away your life?” Puts things into a whole new perspective doesn’t it?

To The Top,

What To Do To Help Writers Block

I have to admit, writing is not something that comes naturally to me.  When I first started blogging, I had a lot of doubt and uncertainty as to whether people would like or dislike what I wrote. After some time I realized that it didn’t matter.  Some people would like what I had to say and others might not.

A valuable lesson was learned at that moment in time.  I could not go through life trying to please everyone!

When I first got started marketing online, I wrote a whole bunch. I wrote tons of articles and blasted them all over the Internet.  Every once in a while I would get stuck on what to write about next.

It was then that I also realized that if I was going to write, it was going to have to be something that I was passionate about.  I stopped writing for the search engines and I started writing to my audience.

Now, I don’t write unless I have something to say, a lesson to share or give some kind of value away to the world around me.  This took all of the pressure away.

There were times where I didn’t write for a few weeks and that was ok. I didn’t beat myself up over it. I understood that when the right time presented itself, I would write at that time.

Some of the things I do when I get the “dreaded writers block” is I start reading popular stuff on Digg or Stumbleupon.  This gets the wheels turning.  It also helps me identify what content is popular right now in the world and gives me ideas on what I want to write about next.

The bottom line is, everyone has something to share with the world around them.  People are on the other end of your computer on the World Wide Web waiting to read what you have to write.

There are times where I will be driving somewhere and a thought may pop into my head about something new to write about. I will jot the thought down and put it into a post at a later time.

When writing, think about what kinds of problems people are dealing with. Identify the problem, pour a little alcohol on it so that your audience feels the pain and then provide the solution.  That’s all marketing really is, isn’t it?

So rather than thinking of yourself at a writer, blogger or business owner, think of yourself as a solution provider.  When you put this into practice, you will create raving fans that will like you trust you and begin to know you.  Once you have these three things in play, people will buy from you.

Remember; always provide way more value than you expect to get monetarily in return.  When you tip this scale in your audiences favor, your life will never be the same.

Unless you were born yesterday, there are limitless things to write about.  Find out what you’re passionate about and expand on it.  Let the world know what you have to say.

I thought about opening my own franchise or brick and mortar business years ago and decided against it for several reasons.  I lacked upfront capital, I Knew I needed working capital to get me through the first year of business and it was going to take a long time to get a return on my investment.  I knew that the business would run me rather than me running the business and I did not want to take the risk of changing market trends with that large of a financial investment.

While I am not at all afraid of risk, I believe in calculated risk taking.

Upfront Capital

The average traditional franchise business costs about $250K and that is just to get the doors open.  Most will need a reserve of another $150K to get them through the first year of business and still be able to take care of their personal expenses.  Very risky venture knowing the statistics that 1 out of every 2 businesses fail within their first year of business.

Now let’s look at the Internet.  You can get started with a viable Internet business for a few thousand dollars and build it using a few thousand more in marketing, advertising and system expenses.

Perceived Value

People have grown up around traditional franchises and they do have a higher perceived value than an Internet business.

Why?

I don’t know exactly, but I think it has to do with the outlay of initial start-up capital.  People don’t take things as seriously when you’re only putting up a few thousand compared to a few hundred thousand.  I think it really has to do with your mindset and what you’re comfortable with.

Baby boomers especially are prone to be more skeptical about the internet because it is a fairly new platform for them.  Slowly but surely, it’s becoming more prevalent and folks are opening their eyes to the opportunity the Internet brings in today’s ever changing society.

ROI

The return on investment for any traditional business can take a few years. Remember, you have to recoup your initial investment of $250K ++? On the internet, you can get into profit your very first month in business and stay in profit indefinitely.  Which would you prefer?

Time

Not to say that an Internet business does not require a significant amount of time to get up and running, however, it takes way more time, effort and energy to open a brick and mortar business.  You have the building, all of the furniture, fixtures and equipment.  A light bill, payroll and all the other headaches that come along with running a storefront business.

The internet allows you to have way more leverage.  It never closes, you can literally make money in your sleep and the time commitment is nowhere near what you would have to bring to the table with a traditional business.

Trends

While brick and mortar businesses are affected by shopping trends, holidays, etc… The Internet is affected very little by Wall Street and shopping trends in a negative way.  In fact more people today are purchasing things online than ever before and less are visiting malls and such.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever want to have to bank on Wall Street determining how my business is going to prosper or not.

In closing.  You have two choices, well actually three.  You can stay at your comfortable job, start a traditional business or do what millions of people around the world are doing right now.  Learning to capitalize on an Internet Business in which you can literally run from anywhere in the world.

Josh Boxer

PS. To learn more about how you can leverage the internet and not deal with the risk and headache of a traditional business visit Internet Wealth Pros.

Low Cost Marketing Methods.

I got an email yesterday from a guy named Dave and it consisted of just a simple sentence.  “Josh, I am homeless and have no money, so with that said, how can you help me make money online?”

I get emails like this every once in a while and while I almost feel sorry, I don’t.

First, If Dave is homeless, how is he emailing me?  The public library? Does he have his own computer and internet connection or perhaps he is using Free Wi-Fi.  Who knows?

Somehow there is a disconnect.  There are so many gimmicks online that boast about making tons of money in short periods of time.  Income claims are rabid on the internet.  While most of them are true, you have to take them at face value.  Sure people make $300,000 in a week’s time. What you don’t hear is the struggle those people went through for years, perfecting the system that allowed them to make that kind of money.

We live in a lottery mentality society.  People have dug themselves deeply into debt and there life is on fire.  They are looking for a quick fix to their problems that took those years to create.

Does that add up?

While there is hope for people in that situation, one must step back and be realistic about how they expect to get out of the financial situation they are in.

Either way you cut it, you’re going to have to have some startup capital to make money online or anywhere else for that matter.  I am talking outside of the JOB market.

If you are looking to start your own business, you can cough up a couple hundred thousand and purchase a franchise, come up with a business idea and find some investors to back it with the funds to start, or you can get into the direct sales industry online.

There are many avenues to create income streams online.  You can get into affiliate marketing, MLM or a top tier program.

In MLM you can get started for as little as a few hundred bucks and go to work marketing your product or service.  I personally am not a fan of MLM.  While some companies attract some heavy hitters, most attract people who are struggling to put out their financial fire and think that just by getting involved and coughing up a few hundred bucks to get started, they are going to be wealthy in just a few short months and their problems will be over.

Unless you have a huge network of super sharp upwardly mobile people in your network, this isn’t going to happen.

You can get into a top tier program for a few thousand dollars and you have a way better chance of success if………………………………

If you are using an online marketing system, learn copywriting, direct response marketing and have a few thousand dollars for marketing.

When I say a shoe string budget, I mean a few thousand dollars to start.  Compared to the couple of hundred thousand to millions to start a traditional business, with four walls, employees and a storefront, it’s a steal.

It still takes massive effort.  You are building a real business.  I think that those who only invest a few hundred bucks in MLM don’t take it seriously because they have no skin in the game and have not really invested enough to push themselves to make things happen.

When you invest thousands, you are more likely to take your business more seriously and be hungry to not only make that money back, but do what it takes to learn the skills necessary to get into profit quickly.

If you’re totally broke, get a job.  This industry is not for you at this moment.  Once you have some income, then you can think about starting a business venture.

I can teach you all the free marketing methods in the world; however they will only take you so far and generate so much business.

Sure there are guys like David Wood who came up with a formula to generate 100 leads a day for free, however, it’s not very duplicate able and I don’t know anyone who has been able to follow in his footsteps.

You’re going to need a small marketing budget for paid advertising to get your business moving forward and closing sales.  Not a big thing to expect when you’re running an online business.

You may think you don’t have any spare money to start an online business venture, however, I think that is a cop-out.  I didn’t have the money either.  I figured out a way.  I cut off my cable television, stopped buying beer, stopped eating out and stopped using credit cards and got them paid off as quickly as possible.

I readjusted my lifestyle so that I could free up funds for my business and start building my new future.  You see, it’s all about making a decision and backing it with commitment and massive action towards your goal.  Was it uncomfortable? Yes.

It was hard watching my neighbors driving new cars, buying new boats, toys, etc.  But here is what I knew.  They were digging themselves deeper in debt.  They were trying to keep up with what I call “The Jones’s.”

You have to delay your gratification.  Learn to buy what you need, not what you want.  Learn to put on the back burner, all the things you want now and have them later when you have earned them and can do it first class.

We all have the same 24 hours in a day, it’s what you do with that precious time that will determine how you will be living you life in the future.

To learn more about how you can build your business on a budget, here is a great resource -> Building On A Budget.

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Time Are Changing, Are YOU?

Yesterdays World

For a lot of people in the workforce today, things are much different than they were ten years ago.  The days of two hour martini lunches, unlimited corporate expense accounts and lavish corporate parties have come to a standstill.  Companies demand much more from people for much less and it’s not getting any better.

Anytime you are working for someone else, and I hate to bring this to light, you’re NOT in control of your financial future.

Yep, that’s right. You’re not in control.  The person signing your paychecks determines your financial future as long as you’re in an employee/employer relationship.  Sure there are high commissioned positions out there in which you can be compensated on your production, however, the moment your year over year sales drop for any reason, you can be let go in an instant.

There is a lack of loyalty on both ends of the spectrum.  Companies have become very loyal to their shareholders (if public) and owners (if private), and most have lost sight of what makes their companies tick in the first place.  It’s people on the ground level in a company that are the driving force in bringing in business or taking care of the existing business the company has, yet no loyalty.

On the employee side of things, employees have been dis-engaged because of the fear that at any moment, they could be kicked to the curb and replaced or simply outsourced.

While many have been laid off and unable to find work, there are others that took a look at what was going on around them and made some changes.

Today’s World

Today, we live in an outsourced, downsized world.  The days of working for a company your whole life and retiring with that company are for the most part over.  Statistics are showing that the average employee will change jobs every 3-5 years for the rest of their career and that’s if they can find work.

In today’s world you have to adapt to the current economic and socio-economical environment we are living in.

The middle class will be a thing of the past in the coming years.  There will only be two classes of people left when the dust settles in this recession, the ultra wealthy and the poor.

So what can you do about it?  How can you be a part of the solution instead of the problem?  You can start by making a decision to become an entrepreneur.  Start learning a new skill set.  Stop complaining about the situation you’re in and start doing something about it.

It all starts with educating yourself.  I am not talking about going back to school to earn a piece of paper to put on your wall when you’re done.  I am talking about real world training.  Digging into the plethora of information available to you on the web.  It’s all there, everything you need to become highly successful.

Personally, I chose the web.  I knew years ago that millionaires would be made on the Internet, so I dove in and hooked up with an education based company that could help me learn the skills necessary to market anything to anyone anywhere in the world.

I mean think about that for a second.  If you knew how to get people to buy anything anywhere in the world, don’t you think you could build an empire on that alone?

Well, that’s my story. Now what’s your excuse?  What are you doing to increase your financial situation?

Maybe you make great money already, but here is what you probably don’t have.  Time freedom.  The moment you stop trading your time for the money your making, the income stops, your spending continues and eventually, you’re wiped out.  Why? No LEVERAGE!

Leverage is the ability to #1 have money coming in when you’re away and #2 the ability to do what you want, with whomever you want, whenever you want, where you want.

Sounds like a pipedream right?

Far From it.

Today, there are systems online that can run up to 75% of your business on auto-pilot.  I know, auto-pilot doesn’t exist.  Sure it does.  There are thousands of entrepreneurs who have learned to leverage their time and their money to work for them instead of against them.  That’s what is great about the internet.  It never closes.

Tomorrow’s World

Things are changing quickly and if you don’t learn to watch trends as well as take advantage of the changing trends, you will get left in the dust by your more savvy entrepreneurs out there.

People are being replaced by computers as fast as companies are coming out with new brands of them.  Take a look at the auto industry.  Almost everything used to be assembled by people. Today the majority of cars are made by robots run by computers.

Do you think the guys and gals that program those computers have security in their jobs?  You bet your butt they do.  Why? Because they increased their value by learning about the future of robotics in manufacturing.

The bottom line is you can’t go into the future doing things as they have always been done in the past.  People are in the positions they are in because they failed to adapt and adjust.

You don’t have to get it right, just get it going.  Take steps every day to ensure you are doing something to increase your value to the world around you.  Only take advice from people that are where you want to be in life and watch what the masses are doing and do the exact opposite.

If you’re not in control of your financial future someone or something else is.

Let’s make it happen,

Twice a week I work out with a personal trainer and this morning was legs day.  We don’t just do any old leg work out; this is ½ hour of gut wrenching, heavy, heart-pumping, leg bulging stuff that takes me to the outer limits every week.  There is no getting used to workouts as every week it’s different.

This morning on my second set of squats, my trainer Bobby loaded on 300 lbs to the rack.  This followed a set of 220 lbs.  I looked at him and said that’s too much this early in the game.  He looked at me and said, Josh….”Get your mind right.”

At that moment, something lit up inside of me. I knew that I had heard that before from a few past coaches of mine as well as in a few books.  Needless to say, I took a deep breath and plowed through the set with ease.

You see, we are all responsible for our thoughts.  Our thoughts dictate everything about our future.  What you think about most will come about in your life.

The challenge is most people don’t have their mind right because they don’t filter what they allow into what I like to call “The eye gate” and the ear gate”. Whether you know it or not, you are being programmed by everything you hear and see and your brain absorbs it all.  Your subconscious holds everything, which is how you recall childhood memories and such.

If you sit in front of the TV watching Oprah all of the time, you will start to think and possibly talk about the things you see on Oprah.  If you listen to Eminem, Too Live Crew or other artists, you will connect with those lyrics and yes, some may slip out in your conversations with people.

I prefer to have complete control over what goes into my eye and ear gates.  Instead of watching TV, I read personal development books, attend webinars to increase my value and skill sets and am consistently educating myself.

Getting your mind right has EVERYTHING to do with becoming the best you possible.  You will be paid in life according to the amount of value you have to offer the world around you.  Low value=low pay. High Value = unlimited pay.

It doesn’t matter whether you are high school educated. Don’t let that be your excuse.  Degrees don’t mean anything in today’s day and age and I know plenty of high school and grammar school educated multi-millionaires who are highly successful in their fields.

Getting your mind right requires discipline and this is an area in which most people are lacking in.  If you’re not disciplined in one area of your life, chances are, you’re not in many areas in your life.  Discipline yourself to read at least 30 minutes (minimum) every night.  Do this for 21 days straight and it WILL become a habit.  Once you tackled that, start working on self mastery and learning one new thing to master every week.

Once you begin to really focus in on education, you are going to want to share what you have learned with the world around you and that is going to be the tipping point in your life.

You were put here on this earth to excel, not remain stagnant.  Challenge yourself daily to do something good for someone in the knowing that they can never repay you.  Then, you will have made a difference.

Josh Boxer