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Manifesting Body Diet and Fitness Plan – Day 73

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Today I decided to do a quick update on my progress with my “Manifesting Diet and Fitness Plan”.

It has now been 73 days since I started this plan on April 20th.

My main goal was to create and follow a plan which would allow me to lose approximately 65 lbs of fat, and to get stronger and more fit physically, while at the same time integrating this diet and fitness plan into my entrepreneurial lifestyle in a way which enhances my ability to make money with my business.

In other words, I want to lose fat, get fit, and do it without it taking over my entire life and distracting me from building my online business.

Here’s a chart of my progress so far:

So as of this morning, so far I have lost 8.4 lbs of fat.

I’m actually quite surprised by this number as I really don’t feel like I’ve been dieting at all.

I’m been eating pretty much the same foods I’ve always eaten.

There are only three main changes that I’ve made.

Firstly, I’ve replaced about 50-70% of my soda/pop drinking with these healthy vitamin/mineral drinks which I just love:

Previously when I would be thirsty and would have a craving for a bit of sugar and/or caffeine, I would usually turn to drinking a can of Coke or having some black tea with sugar, but now instead I turn to these drinks.

Secondly, I’ve been doing a lot more exercise by working with my personal trainers from Ivanco Fitness as well as working outside doing landscaping work on my yard.

Thirdly, I’ve been doing some PSYCH-K subconscious belief balancing and visualization work to help me visualize my new body and to program my mind to help attain it.

To help me with my visualizations and with tracking my progress I actually find it a lot easier to plot my weight on a chart, rather than just looking at a number, as a line graph shows me a trend over time.

Here’s what that chart looks like:

It’s pretty easy to see that even though my weigh fluctuates day to day, I am on a downward trend with my weight which which is pretty exciting.

In fact, based on my current stats, I’m currently losing 0.12 lbs of fat per day on average, and at this pace I should be able to reach my target weight of 177.5 lbs by November 27th, 2016 assuming I maintain this pace.

I know that’s more than a year away from now, but that’s only if I continue to do what I’ve been doing so far with my diet – which hasn’t been much. 🙂

If I want to speed the process up I could add in some more changes to my diet which would help me to reduce my fat much faster, but even if I did nothing more than I’m doing now it’s still really exciting to see that I will eventually hit my target.

And what’s probably more exciting about this than any other diet / fitness program I’ve been on in the past, is that I can actually see myself sticking with this plan indefinitely.

This is not a radical / fast / drastic weight loss plan where I make huge changes to everything I do and then 3 months from now end up quitting and going back to my old habits.

This is a program that I think I can EASILY follow.

It’s not hard replacing a few sodas a day with some healthier drinks, and I’m quite enjoying my workouts with my personal trainers, so I can see myself sticking with this long term which is something I could never really say about any other diet / fitness programs I’ve been on.

How to Make Money Online Without Quitting Your Job

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Are you looking for a way to make money online without quitting your job?

I know a lot of business systems out there try to encourage everyone to quit their jobs and to focus 100% on just building that business.

That may work for people who have some savings set aside or who have very few responsibilities or expenses.

However, for the majority of people, the added stress of quitting your job may prove to be too much when trying to start a new business.

How I Quit My Job and Struggled For 2 Years

Back in 1997/1998 I joined a network marketing company which just happened to be in the financial sector and in order to be able to make money with this company I had to get licensed as an insurance agent and mutual fund sales rep.

Unfortunately, at that time the laws here in British Columbia were such that they required anyone who wants to qualify for such licenses to be FULL TIME in the industry in order to do so.

So even though I had a stable job, I was forced to quit my job in order to pursue my new business full time.

I went from making a full time income, to making NO income overnight, and I tried to build my business with no savings, no income coming in and no customers (can’t sign on customers until you have a license).

At first I thought that this would work out really well as I now had a LOT of time to focus 100% on my business without the distraction of having to have a job.

However, as time went by I started to realize that building up my income may take a lot longer than I thought.

First of all, since my business required me to see clients in the evenings or on weekends when people themselves were home from work, the extra time I had from not having a job during the hours of 9 am – 5 pm Mon-Fri, didn’t really amount to any benefit anyways since I couldn’t really see clients during those times.

So if the laws didn’t restrict it, I could have easily had a day job which could have helped to pay my bills while I built my business.

Slowly I started developing a client base and started making some money, but it wasn’t anywhere near the amount I needed to cover my monthly expenses so I just kept getting further and further into debt.

After two years of trying to struggle with building a business from scratch, with no money and no savings and living off of credit cards I decided to do leave the financial services industry because of it’s ridiculous regulations.

How I Smartened Up and Got a Job Again

I got a job in the technology sector and was able to get rid of my financial stress by paying off my debts and actually having some money from my job to invest in the various businesses I started, which helped me to grow them much faster than when I was broke.

Over the years I have had quite a few people ask me if I think it’s a good idea for someone to just quit their job and focus on their new business full time right off the bat.

Everyone’s situation is different, but generally speaking I usually tell people that I do not believe it’s a good idea.

Personally I have found that it is much better to build a second income stream from an online business without having to quit your job.

Only once your second income starts generating at least 50% – 90% of your job income do I think you should consider quitting your full time job.

One of the reasons why I believe this is because the financial stress of quitting your job and having NO money at all coming in, will usually far outweigh any benefits associated with having more time to run your business without a full time job.

Meaning, I think you can be more successful investing 20-30 hours/week after work and on weekends into your business, stress free since your job pays your bills, than to have 60-70 hours/week available for your business but to be spending 90% of that time worrying about how you’re going to pay your bills.

The truth is that most business, especially when you’re just starting out MAY require you to invest some money into them, and any profits that you generate from your business may need to be re-invested back into the business to help it grow.

If you quit your job, and try to live entirely off of the earnings from your business, you’re essentially stunting and slowing down the growth of your business.

Best Way to Make Money Online Without Quitting Your Job

If you’re going to keep your job, and build your business in the evening and weekend, you WILL need to treat the way you build your business a bit differently.

Because your full time job will be taking up 40 hours out of your week which you could be spending on your business, you’ll want to invest in some time saving systems to ensure the remaining time you DO have set aside to build your business is utilized wisely.

Meaning, you have to stop thinking that you’re going to do everything yourself, and start investing in proper training, proper tools and a proper system for making money online.

The best system for making money online which gives you the tools, the training and the entire system required to start making money online is Empower Network.

It has a proven track record and it will save you a tonne of time and energy.

More importantly, it will allow you to start building an online business making money online, without having to quit your job!

Then, once you build up that income to a level you’re satisfied with, and you set aside some savings, then you can decide if you want to keep your job and just keep saving the extra money you’re making, or whether you want to then quit your job when you’re ready.

To me this is a much less stressful, and more fun way of building an online business, especially if you have responsibilities and bills to pay.

To learn more about the Empower Network system and to join my team, click here to watch a free video.

 

P.s. I’m currently accepting 5 more mentoring students for my “Boss Maker Mentoring Group” where I personally coach people to get to the point where they’re making $3k – $5k/m with Empower Network so they can decide what they want to do with their jobs at that point and the move forward to the next level.  If you join my Empower Network team now you can get access to this group ( a $5,000 value ) absolutely free at no additional cost.

(Note – My group is for serious people only, who are ready to build a serious income online.  Results are dependent on your individual efforts.  See our income disclosure if you’d like.)

Landscaping My Front Yard Timelapse – Part 3

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Here’s another time lapse video of me continuing the landscaping work in my front yard.

This is the third part in this series, and this video was shot over two days (Sunday and Tuesday).

Slowly but surely I’m making progress in getting the front yard cleaned up, and I love recording these time lapse videos as it helps me to remember what things looked like before I started.

Sometimes when you work on something for a long period of time, like 4 or 6 or 8 hours straight it can start to feel like progress is not being made, so by watching the time lapse videos I always get more inspired to keep going when I see the progress.

It’s also a lot of fun for me to watch my dogs doing their thing out there with me, and I especially love how my dog Eddie just NEVER stops exploring and walking around totally fascinated by what I’m doing out there. 🙂

Here’s the latest video:

Enjoy!

What Are Rich People Like?

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When you think about a typical “rich person” in your mind, what images and qualities pop up?

From your perspective, is the typical rich person a nice person or are they mean?

What motivates them?

What are their deepest desires?

What are they like?

What do they like to do in their spare time?

Are they male or female?

How old are they?

What kind of clothes do they wear?

What kind of car do they drive?

Where do they live?

What kind of diet do they follow?

Are they fit?

Are they fun?

Are they honest?

Do they have integrity?

What are their friends like?

What’s their net worth?

What do they do for a living?

When you ask yourself these types of questions about “rich people” where do you think these answers are coming from?

Do you personally know a lot of rich people and so are your answers coming from personal experience?

Or is your opinion of what rich people are like based on what you read on the Internet?

Or is it based on what your parents  and friends told you growing up?

Or is it based on what you’ve seen in movies?

When we think about the typical “rich person”, we all have a different idea and image in our minds of what that person looks like, how they behave and who they are.

For the majority of us, we have been programmed by society, by movies, by our parents, teachers and friends, and by the mass media to have a certain image of “rich people”.

When you see someone driving a really nice car, do you think to yourself “Wow!  This person must have a lot of integrity and must have done something wonderful to make their money so that they can afford a car like this!”, or do you think to yourself “Drug dealer!” 🙂

Where does that type of programming come from?

If you want to make a six or seven figure income online or more, do you realize that achieving this goal would put you in the income bracket where a lot of people would consider you a “rich person”?

How do you think people would feel about you if YOU were driving a $250,000 car?

How would your friends feel about you if you were making more money in a month than they do in a year?

For most people who grew up poor or middle-class, we’ve been programmed to NOT like people who are rich.

One of the challenges of becoming financially successful (ie. RICH) is to overcome some of this programming.

We have to re-condition our thinking around who we believe rich people are, and we have to start believing that rich people have the same desirable qualities you would want to have, instead of seeing them as someone like Ebenezer Scrooge!

Be honest with yourself… when you close your eyes and try to imagine a “rich person” what pops up?

If the image of a “rich person” that you see in your mind is something undesirable, maybe that is why you’re not rich yet?

Maybe you’re afraid that if you become rich, you’ll become the person you see in your mind.

Something to think about.