Hi everyone, thought I’d let everyone know who’s on the call tomorrow!
Dr. Joe Rubino will be joining me to help you understand how your self esteem has eveything to do with your success or lack of it.
He’s giving away his book: ‘Seven steps to soaring self esteem’ totally free!
Join us on the call, it’s free, you can listen on your computer or call in, but you need to be there if you have ever doubted yourself or your ability to manifest.

To sign up to get the call information, go to www.youresp.net and sign up and you will get the call instuctions mailed to you and links for your free book. To your soaring self esteem! Jonathan

In my morning meditations today I was in total bliss, I also had ideas and thoughts just bursting forth. I was torn between staying in the bliss, and working on the ideas that were streaming to me.

I had thoughts of the world, the number of people suffering, the financial stresses that many of us face, and also asking myself how I may be able to help.

I’m always seeking greater connection with ‘purpose’, and so I focus on that and seek to open my heart to whatever comes. In connecting with my heart(the ancient greeks thought of the heart as the subconscious) and feeling and seeking and asking for guidance this day.

Some of what I received was the reassurance I am on the right path, and to follow my heart, to keep doing my best at sending out inspiration. I got that a big issue that many face is to keep inspired, to focus on the good, and not let their current external circumstances get them down.

Now I recently joined twitter (along with a zillion others) and what strikes me is the sheer number of people who are just throwing links out there hoping that someone will click on them and they’ll make money. I don’t know if it works for them, I think probably only marginally if at all, but if they like it so be it.

It’s an interesting thing these social networking sites, they’re supposed to be about social-networking, but many focus solely on the ‘networking’ part, and I believe it’s putting the cart before the horse.

See we all want to feel connected, loved, and a part of things, but I tell you, when I see someone just throwing out 20 tweets with nothing but affiliate links I want to run the other way!

There’s nothing interesting in that… Now the people who put out interesting thoughtful comments, I think: ‘I want to know more about this person’, ‘that post made me feel good’, ‘I want to hear more’.

Now there’s something you probably never knew about me; I can tell the future…

And here’s my latest prediction: ‘The future of internet marketing is going to be one of which people will want to know who they are dealing with and connected to before they will buy’. There I said it, you heard it here first!

So focus on being REAL first and giving the best service you can, and solving peoples problems, then later expect to get paid. Certainly there’s a place where ‘the rubber hits the road’ and you try to make money, but most likely it’ll be AFTER you make relationship with your audience.

I mean in any relationship how long is it before you get to have sex with that person? Usually there are some preliminaries-sometimes not, but USUALLY you want to get to know the person, have a meal or 2, maybe a couple dates-really get to know that person, because you may find once you do, you want nothing to do with them, OR they’re the greatest.

It’s like that with all our relationships(not necessarily the sex part). It takes time to create a good friend, to build a strong marriage, to have a large and fruitful client base.

as Zig Ziglar says: “if you help enough people get what they want, you’ll surely get what you want”.

In the end you may realize that what you are looking for are lasting relationships, not the ‘one night stand’.

So whether you’re internet marketing, selling personal services, or just about anything it’s all about being personable, letting people know who you are, and will what you have for them will increase their life experience or not.

Another thing that really seems to sell, that frankly bothers me, is the whole notion of scarcity. Marketers will tell you ‘you have to make it seem this is their only chance’. If there’s an offer that I’m the least bit unsure of, and I get the whole ‘act now before it’s too late’ I always decline. I know there’ll be something better right around the corner. I suggest you do too, because if you’re buying into scarcity-then you probably shouldn’t be buying at all!

To Your Ultimate Success! Jonathan

“I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings:
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving it’s blessings or it’s woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future thought by thought,
for good or ill yet know it not.
Yet so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose them thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate.”

Henry Van Dyke

I just love that poem. I wouldn’t have understood a bit of it 10 years ago, nor would I have probably cared…

It’s funny how life gives us just what we put out. I remember how I was an angry young man, feeling as if the world owed me something.

In retrospect, I realize how angry I was at almost everybody who had ever been in my life. What a waste!

I also didn’t have many people in my life at the time either, I wonder why.

When I really analyze it, I attracted all those experiences with my bad attitude.

See I was the youngest in my immediate family which as the saying goes shi* flows down hill. I was also the youngest of all my cousins, and frankly I don’t think any of us were getting our needs met as kids.

So I was angry about being everyone’s shi* heap, not feeling loved, and certainly feeling abandoned.

It was a tough experience, but frankly I’ve heard worse, much worse. So much worse I feel ashamed to have ever felt sorry for myself!

I don’t feel angry or sorry for myself anymore, but grateful, truly thankful to be alive. I’m so happy and grateful for so many things. I only wish I had discovered gratitude sooner!

I could list all the things I’m grateful for but I don’t think I or you want a post that long; but if I were to say anything in defense of gratitude it would be that it’s part of the equation in bringing you success and happiness and the life of your dreams(unless your dreams are negative).

Every successful person I have ever talked to at length has a big attitude of gratitude, and I believe it’s an important part of a successful life if not THE most important part.

With gratitude you can overcome ANYTHING and EVERYTHING! It might be the most hideous terrible thing to ever happen, you could be hurt really bad and as long as you keep gratitude in the fore front of your mind, things can still look rosy.

Gratitude help you see the bright side of any darkness. See, I am so happy and grateful for my past, for everything that has happened to me, and life just keeps getting better and better.

Things aren’t always rosy, but I certainly have the ability to frame the things that happen in my world how I want, and gratitude enables me and frees me up to see the light in any situation.

I heard a story about W. Clement Stone, who at one time was the richest man in america, and he had a process he called his ‘That’s Good Therapy’. Whenever anything ‘bad’ happened he would say outloud:
‘That’s Good’. Didn’t matter what it was, he refused to let life get him down!

And sure enough he always found the good in those situations. So look around you, are there things in your life that might not be the most positive? Can you look for something good about them?

Say you lost your job, and have no income coming in; the good might be that you have the time to start your own company, or build a new resume, or learn a new skill. It could be anything.

It’s not always the easiest to see the good in the ‘bad’, but if you look I think you will always find something.

If you are having trouble finding the good, ask yourself: “what’s the worst that could happen?” “Do I really think that will happen?” Most likely we are just letting our minds run away with themselves in worry.

You could also use the ‘Cosmic Iceball Theory’ which goes: ‘In a few million years this planet is just going to be a big iceball floating in space so what will this moment matter-really’.

Might sound over simplified, but life goes on and we shouldn’t sweat the small stuff! And as the book says “it’s all small stuff”.

I hope that this post helps some of you, as it’s my goal in life to help inspire others to success in thier lives.

Thank You! To Your Ultimate Success! Jonathan