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Is This One Mistake Keeping You Broke?

January 10, 2015 by Paul 4 Comments

There’s one very common mistake that most non-sales type personalities make in business that prevents them from achieving financial success in their business.

As a person with a non-sales type personality myself, I have also made this mistake myself and it has probably cost me many millions of dollars in income already.

Until I finally figured this out, this mistake plagued every business I ever owned, or was a part of.

TRUTH – Non-Sales Personalities Don’t Like “Sales People”

Most of the people who enjoy talking to me or hanging out with me are not “sales type” personalities.

I’m pretty laid back and introverted in real life, so I tend to attract people with similar personalities as well.

Whenever I talk to “non-sales” type people about entrepreneurship and making money online, one of the things that I will often hear them complain about is how “salesy” or “pushy” or “persistent” someone is.

I’m going to use Empower Network and David Wood as an example here to illustrate my point better, but I’ve heard people say these exact same things about ALL the top sales leaders out there.

In the past two or three weeks here are a few examples of the types of things I’ve heard people say about David Wood and Empower Network…

“Yeah, Empower Network seems really cool Paul, but I’m just not 100% sure about it yet, because that David Wood guy seems like such a sales guy.”

“Yeah, so far I’m really liking Empower Network, but that David Wood guy emails me like every day, what’s up with that?”

“Yeah, the new Kalatu Blogs look pretty good, but is there a way to disable all the banners? I don’t want people visiting my blog thinking I’m trying to sell them something.”

“Yeah, the training in Empower Network seems really cool… I’m just not 100% sure why, but just something about David Wood or the MLM side of it or the sales side of it just doesn’t resonate with me 100%”.

Now, here’s the thing…

…these are just examples about David Wood and Empower Network. But I’ve head variations of this same complaint about pretty much EVERY successful Internet Marketer or leader in industry.

In fact I’ve actually heard the same complaint coming from people with MY personality type in EVERY industry out there.

The truth is that the typical introverted non-sales type personality types like us…we don’t really LIKE people who are “salesy” or “persistent” etc.

Now, I’m not saying that we don’t like the PEOPLE themselves… but we just don’t like when those people go into “sales mode” and try to sell something to someone.

So if you’re a non-sales type personality, and you FEEL this way…trust me…I *TOTALLY* understand. You’re not the only one.

AND….

This ONE Shift in Your Thinking Will Change Everything

About 15 years ago now, I bought and took over the operations of a multimillion dollar business with a partner of mine.

I was excited and scared sh**less at the same time.

Finally for the first time in our lives we had 100% full control over the operations of a business and we could run it exactly how we wanted to.

So guess what we did?

We ran it like OUR type of business.

Since both my business partner and I have similar “techy” type personalities, we shaped the business around that.

Over a period of about a year or so, many of the people on our sales team left and we didn’t really put any emphasis on that side of the business.

Most of our emphasis went towards the development of the best technology on the planet, and we treated our programmers / developers like royalty.

We found that the majority of the marketing that the business was doing prior to our arrival was wasted on ineffective marketing pieces, brochures and catalogs that were becoming obsolete.

So we slashed our spending on marketing big time, all proud of ourselves for not throwing away money on useless marketing.

And guess what happened.

After a short period of time, our business started to suffer.

We had virtually NO marketing, and just a tiny small sales team.

The business stagnated and then finally stalled.

Luckily we reached out to our multimillionaire business mentor and asked him for help, and the advice he gave us CHANGED EVERYTHING for me.

When he looked at our budgets and how we were running our business, he immediately saw what we were doing wrong.

We had COMPLETELY pushed away one of the most important parts of running a business… having a SOLID and powerful MARKETING and SALES process.

When he saw that we slashed our marketing budget, he didn’t give us “props” for saving money, he gave us sh*t for being idiots.

He told us “If your marketing is not working, you don’t just CUT your budget. You FIND marketing that works! NEVER cut your marketing budget!”

Ooops. 🙁

He also saw that our sales team had shrunk to the point where we HAD no sales team.

See, for some stupid reason all of my life up to that point in time, I had this CRAZY idiotic belief or idea that went something like this…

“If you create something of great value, you don’t need to SELL it… people will just see the value in it automatically.”

WRONG!

That is how you go bankrupt in life and in business.

See, as non-sales type personalities, my partner and I basically groomed our business around who we were and how we thought, and what our beliefs and values were.

We didn’t really value sales that much, so we ignored that side of our business.

And we almost went out of business because of it.

I don’t care WHAT product or service you create, or how good it is… you STILL need to MARKET it and SELL it to your target market.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Like I was. 🙂

Luckily though, we learned our lesson, and we started to make some changes that saved our business and helped me to build and start businesses that THRIVE instead of DIE.

So what is the ONE shift that WE made that changed everything?

Change your belief to this…

New Belief – I May Not Be a Sales Type Personality Myself, but I Love, Respect and Utilize Those Who Are

If you embrace THAT belief in your life, your business will thrive.

See what I did at that moment in time in my life is I made the decision to STOP being an egotistic introverted moron who thought he was better than all those “sales” type people and I got off my high horse and actually started to try to UNDERSTAND sales and marketing and the people who are successful in that field.

I attended Tony Robbin’s premiere sales seminar called “The Power to Influence” and I started learning what it really takes to be good at sales.

Not necessarily to become good at sales myself, but just so that I could understand better what sales people have to go through to generate sales.

To say that the seminar opened my eyes would be a gross understatement.

When I actually learned what it takes to be good at sales, I was blown away at how much skill, intelligence, intuition, practice and persistence it takes to be good at sales.

It’s an art form!

Professional sales people are like professional athletes. There is a LOT of work that goes into becoming good at sales.

From that day forward I’ve been a student of sales and marketing ever since, and even though I don’t consider myself a “sales type personality”, I learn about sales and marketing because it helps me to be successful as an entrepreneur.

The reason being is because …

A Successful Business MUST Have a Professional Marketing and Sales Team Behind It

See, to be successful, EVERY business needs a professional marketing and sales team behind it.

If you don’t have that, you don’t have a business.

Look at ANY successful business out there, regardless whether it’s a giant like Apple or a single Internet Marketer working from home… if they are successful, they’re utilizing a professional marketing and sales team/system in their business.

Period.

End of story.

If you don’t have that, your business is as good as dead.

Now, since you’re most likely NOT a sales-type personality yourself, like me, what you have to do to be successful is you have to PARTNER with someone who is.

See, what you do is you take YOUR skill set, which might be creating things, writing content, writing blog posts, writing books, creating art, or building things with your hands, or perhaps providing services to people, and you COMBINE that skill set with someone who is good at marketing and selling!

That is how you succeed.

In fact, the reason why you haven’t succeed in a big way YET in your life is because you haven’t added this ultra important component into your business.

I didn’t start making a six-figure income in my life until I embraced MARKETING and SALESMANSHIP in my businesses.

In most cases, embracing and adding in a good, solid, powerful marketing and sales process in your business IS the missing piece that’s been keeping you stuck all this time.

So let’s go back to those concerns I mentioned people saying to me previously, and let me now answer then with this new perspective…

“Yeah, Empower Network seems really cool Paul, but I’m just not 100% sure about it yet, because that David Wood guy seems like such a sales guy.”

RESPONSE: “You are absolutely right! David Wood is a master sales professional. His ability to sell is amazing. And that is exactly why you want to partner up with Empower Network and David Wood, because that is exactly what your business has been missing all this time. By joining Empower Network, you get to utilize YOUR skill set, essentially being the creator of content, and you’re partnering up with one of the world’s best sales people to do what he does best – to market and sell for you, so that YOU don’t have to!”

and

“Yeah, so far I’m really liking Empower Network, but that David Wood guy emails me like every day, what’s up with that?”

RESPONSE: “You are absolutely right! David Wood is a master at email marketing as well. He has tested virtually every combination of email strategies so that you don’t have to. Him and his team have already figured out what is the best overall strategy for emailing people… whether that be daily or weekly and multiple times per day. They already know what the best strategy is and they are constantly improving it as well. By partnering up with him and his team, he will email your prospects and do the absolutely best job of converting them and generating sales for you, so that you don’t have to!”

and

“Yeah, the new Kalatu Blogs look pretty good, but is there a way to disable all the banners? I don’t want people visiting my blog thinking I’m trying to sell them something.”

RESPONSE: “I totally understand. You’re not a sales type personality, and in fact you probably don’t like sales-type personalities, and that is why you are afraid that people will not like you if you have any type of banners or monetization strategies on your Blog. However, that is exactly why your Blog isn’t making any money and why it will NEVER make you any money, until you embrace a proper monetization strategy.

The great thing about Kalatu and Empower Network is that you’re getting the world’s TOP MARKETERS who specialize in monetizing content and blogs working with you on your behalf, so that you don’t have to. They take care of making sure that the banners on your site attract the right type of client, and that those clients convert and that your blog generates sales for you. This way, you just have to focus on doing what you’re good at, which is blogging and generating free content for people to consume, and you let the geniuses at Empower Network take care of monetizing it for you, so that you don’t have to concern yourself with that.”

and

“Yeah, the training in Empower Network seems really cool… I’m just not 100% sure why, but just something about David Wood or the MLM side of it or the sales side of it just doesn’t resonate with me 100%”.

RESPONSE: “Of course it won’t resonate with you 100%!!! You’re not a sales type personality. David Wood is, and so is the Empower Network marketing department. They are the BEST at what they do, and they know how to generate sales and how to monetize your Blog. You don’t resonate with them, because they are not 100% like you. But that is EXACTLY why you MUST partner with people of that personality, so that your business succeeds. Think of it like this. If you needed your accounting done, and you’re not an accountant-type personality, would you want the person who is best at accounting working for you? Or would you want the non-accountant person just like you trying to do your accounting?

If you needed a body-guard. Would you want the best body-guard type personality who spends their entire life training and learning how to defend people and who has trained their body to be a weapon, or would you want to hire the body guard who is just like you? See my point?”

To be successful in business we MUST learn how to work with different personality types and to respect their skills and abilities and strengths and to use them to compliment our weaknesses.

In the businesses that I run, I LOVE my sales team.

I treat them like royalty.

I’m not like them, but I respect them and I love them.

Because they DO what they DO so that I don’t have to!

Flip This Switch NOW

If you take this ONE piece of advice right now… your potential for being a successful entrepreneur will skyrocket.

FLIP the switch in your head which right now is STUCK in a way of thinking where you PUSH AWAY people who are sales-type personalities or who are amazing MARKETERS just because they are not like you.

FLIP that switch and instead EMBRACE the benefits of having someone like that on your team.

DON’T look at someone like David Wood and think that his sales ability is “annoying” or “not resonating with you”, and instead realize that HIS sales ability can make you a MILLIONAIRE if you can just flip that switch in your mind that makes you think that sales people are “scammers” or “bad people” or that they are “pushy” or whatever other negative associations you’ve programmed your mind with.

PARTNER with professional marketers and sales people and you will see your income explode.

This is one of the biggest reasons I’m with Empower Network.

I’m an awesome Blogger, and I’m great at producing content… but I still SUCK at monetizing my Blogs.

And instead of trying to change who I am, I just partner up with someone like David Wood and Empower Network and I use THEIR awesome sales ability to monetize my Blog for me.

I *strongly* recommend that you do the same.

Because one way or another, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you WILL have to have a powerful marketing and sales team.

So that means that either YOU start building the skillset required to become the world’s top sales person yourself, OR you partner up with someone who is.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that it’s MUCH easier to just partner up with someone who’s already a great sales person than to spend the next 10 years of your life trying to become a “salesy” type person. 🙂

If you’re ready to partner up with me and the world’s best sales and marketing team by joining me in Empower Network, click here to get started.

How Funding Micro-Loans Can Help You Make More Money Online

January 9, 2015 by Paul 1 Comment

In yesterday’s post I wrote about the Law of Giving and Receiving and the benefits associated with engaging this Universal Law in your quest to make money online.

I wrote about how if you want to RECEIVE more money in your life, you don’t necessarily have to GIVE away more money.

You can GIVE value to the world in other ways. Money is just one of the ways to activate this law.

I also wrote about how starting a Blog so that you can give to the world by sharing your passions, your wisdom and experience with the world is one of the easiest and coolest ways to activate this law and to get more money flowing into your life.

If you haven’t had a chance to read my post from yesterday, you can read it here.

In today’s post I want to write about another method of activating the Law of Giving and Receiving to help you make more money online.

Supporting Entrepreneurs Worldwide with Micro-Loans

One of the other ways to get support from the Universe as an entrepreneur is to GIVE support to other entrepreneurs!

For the longest time, one of my dreams has been to get to the level of wealth where I can invest in businesses and support the entrepreneurial spirit of people around the world.

There are so many amazing entrepreneurs out there with great ideas, but who lack the financial backing and funding to make things work.

I always thought to myself that once I’m a multimillionaire, one of the ways that I want to give back is to help entrepreneurs get their businesses going.

Most people out there have similar dreams of giving back.

We think to ourselves “Once I’m rich I’ll give back in this way.”

But why wait until you’re rich?

Thanks to new innovations like crowdfunding and micro-loans, almost ANYONE can afford to support the entrepreneurial spirit of others even with the smallest budgets.

For as little as $1 you can make a donation to one of the thousands of Kickstarter projects that are popping up every month.

I’ve supported about a half dozen Kickstarter projects now and plan on supporting many more in the future.

However, in this post I want to talk about something a bit different – micro-loans.

Thanks to websites like Kiva, you can now offer micro-loans for as little as $25 to help entrepreneurs worldwide to start their businesses.

Basically how it works is you make a deposit with Kiva for any amount of money you want to start with.

It can be as little as $25.

And then you choose one of the many people or groups on the website who are looking for loans.

Each loan that is made has a repayment schedule, and the majority of people repay their loans.

Once the loan is repaid you can then take the money and loan it out to another person.

Here are a few examples of a few entrepreneurs I recently supported through Kiva.

#1 – Sarvinoz from Kurgantyube, Tajikistan

This mother of 3 was looking for a $600 loan so that she could buy a computer for her new business – a computer center which will offer different computer services to local people.

This loan is fully funded now, so she has gotten her $600 for the computer.

#2 – Benito Antonio from Chigorodo, Colombia

Benito is a 51 year-old man looking for a $675 loan to start a vitamin and natural supplements business.

This campaign is currently 11% funded.

#3 – Maria Consuelo from Marinilla, Columbia

Maria is a 46 year old mother of three who wants to start a sewing workshop and was looking for $1,675 to buy sewing machines and thread, needles etc. to start the business.

This campaign is also already fully funded.

Why I Like the Kiva Idea Better Than Charity

There are just a few examples of some campaigns I’ve supported on Kiva.

The reason I particularly like the idea behind Kiva is that these campaigns support entrepreneurs who want to better their lives by starting their own businesses, but who just don’t have access to the financial resources you and I might have due to where they live in the world.

The really cool thing is that the Kiva loans are NOT just handouts, they are loans that these people get to pay back over time as their businesses make money.

Energetically speaking, things can get pretty complicated when you’re dealing with situations where people are given a handout, charity, etc. as it can actually hurt them more than helping them by supporting a welfare type mentality.

But with Kiva you’re not just giving someone a handout. You’re just participating in offering them a short-term loan, so that they can start their business, and then pay back the money.

In this way way, you’re sending out positive energy when you participate in the loan process, and you’re also helping them to build their confidence over time as they pay back the loan and feel good about it.

How I Pick Candidates

There are many different ways that people choose who to give loans to on Kiva.

Personally, I go through the candidates and I look for specific common threads between the people who I’m lending money to and situations that relate to my life.

For example, when I was a little kid during one Christmas the ONLY thing I wanted was a computer.

This was during the days when computers still hooked up to your TV and long before there was something called the Internet.

That Christmas, all I wanted was a computer but I was told it wasn’t something my family could afford at that time.

Somehow though, my parents managed to come up with the money to buy me that computer and I remember the amazing feeling I had that Christmas morning.

In my imagination I imagined there being so many different things I could DO with that computer, for weeks before I got it.

Once I actually got it, that Tandy Color Computer was what I actually learned to type and program computers on.

It led me to embrace computers, programming, and all the different ways I’ve made money with computers over the last 20+ years can all be traced back to me getting that computer on that Chirstmas morning.

So when I saw how Sarvinoz wanted to get a loan for $600 so that she could start a computer center business in her town, it reminded me of how awesome I felt when I got my first computer.

By linking my personal experiences with these people’s campaigns and profiles, with each loan I make I am also sending out that money with an incredible amount of GRATITUDE to the Universe for all the support it has already given me in my life.

I believe that money is just energy, and so when I fund a micro-loan by sending that energy to that person, and I wrap that energy (money) in a veil of GRATITUDE I also know that the money will carry with it an energy that will attract positivity and gratitude in their lives.

Contrast that with how most people make charitable donations. Usually they see some commercial on TV where they are made to feel guilty or bad about someone else on the planet starving or dying from some disease, and they feel the energy of guilt and sadness and so the money they donate to these charities also carries with it the energy of guilt and sadness.

I prefer not to donate money to charities out of guilt or sadness for someone else, because that just creates those types of feelings in the people receiving the money.

With Kiva, I choose my candidates carefully and I make sure that when I read their stories and when I look at their pictures I feel GOOD about lending them money towards their campaign.

By doing this, I’m supporting THEIR entrepreneurial venture, and by the Law of Giving and Receiving, the Universe showers me with support towards *MY* entrepreneurial ventures. 🙂

If you haven’t taken a look at Kiva before, you can check out their site here.

If you haven’t taken a look at crowdfunding on Kickstarter, you can check out their site here.

If you want to join my team on Kiva (Team Free You Now) – you can do so at this link.

This One Universal Law Will Help You Make Money Online

January 8, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

Many people dream about making money online as Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs.

They invest time and money into tools, training courses, and systems for making money online, which is a great place to start, but most people forget about one other thing that they can do to significantly increase their chances of making money online.

This one other thing that many people forget about is the process of engaging the Spiritual Law of “Giving and Receiving”.

I’ll be totally honest…

…when I first heard of this concept of “Give and You Shall Receive”, I thought it was a ‘marketing tactic’ employed by the Church to guilt people into donating 10% of their income to the Church.

I mean LOGICALLY speaking, if you want more of something, how can you GIVE it away when you don’t have it yet?

Meaning for example if I want more money, how do I give away more money, when I haven’t gotten more money yet?

This concept seemed paradoxical to me. 🙂

And to be honest, at first I kind of just dismissed it as hogwash.

But then a few of my mentors introduced me to a totally different way of looking at the concept that changed everything for me.

Give and You Shall Receive WAY MORE

The big mental shift that changed everything for me was the realization that when you GIVE something away, it doesn’t just come back to you in equal proportion.

When you GIVE something away, the Universe will flow it back to you in much greater quantities.

THAT is how the paradox is solved.

Although there’s no real way to measure it exactly (that I’ve found anyway), I usually like to think that whatever I give away will flow back to me at least TEN FOLD.

Sometimes it can be as much as one hundred fold, or one thousand fold, or even one million fold.

But thinking in terms of TEN fold is a safe and conservative way to look at it.

See, when I realized that the Universe will flow whatever you give away back to you by a factor of 10 TIMES, I started looking at this spiritual law totally differently.

And there was one other concept that fits in with this as well, which is that…

You Can Give and Receive Different Things

You don’t have to give away the same thing as you intend to receive.

Meaning, let’s say that you’re completely financially broke right now, without even a penny to your name.

And let’s say that you want to give away some money.

You can’t really “give away” any money if you don’t have it in the first place, right?

But what you CAN do is you can GIVE AWAY something else that you DO have, that is of “USE VALUE” to someone else.

Meaning for example, you could GIVE away value to someone in another form, such as helping someone with something.

The thing that you want to GET (ie. money) doesn’t have to be the same thing that you GIVE AWAY.

An awesome example of this is Blogging.

Whenever I write a Blog post, I’m essentially GIVING AWAY value to people who read my Blog posts.

Whenever I market and promote my Blog posts, I multiply the number of people my Blog posts reach and thus also multiply the amount of value I’m giving away.

So for example, let’s say that THIS Blog post provides the equivalent of $0.10 worth of value to each person who reads it.

Now, let’s say that I get 1,000 people to read this Blog post… well, that means that I’ve essentially given away the equivalent of $100 worth of value to the world by writing this post.

See what I mean?

And if we apply the TEN FOLD rule to this, that means that the Universe will “reward” me with at least $1,000 worth of “value” back in my life for doing this.

Now, does that mean that tomorrow I’m going to wake up and see $1,000 magically appear in front of me?

Well, no, probably not, but I do KNOW that if I in fact give away $100 worth of “Use Value” by writing a Blog post then I *WILL* receive $1,000 worth of value back from the Universe or more!

I’ve tested this in my life many times and it always seems to work out.

Whenever I go out there and just focus on giving away value to people, I find that the Universe showers me with ten times that value right back.

This is one of the biggest reasons I absolutely LOVE Blogging as a method of making money online, because it’s one of the least expensive ways of launching an online business and it gives people an opportunity to give away the one resource they usually have an overabundance of – WISDOM and ADVICE.

Meaning, most people who start an online business don’t have a lot of extra TIME or MONEY, but they DO have a lot of unique experience and wisdom from their lives.

By embracing Blogging as a business model for making money online, they can transform that WISDOM and ADVICE they’ve accumulated up in their minds over the years by SHARING it with others.

And by giving away this value from their life experience and their passions in life they could activate this Universal Law of GIVING and RECEIVING to get what they want – which is to make money online.

I have tested and proven to myself many times that this concept of giving and receiving tenfold in return works.

But, there is one mistake that most people make which will not activate this law in your life.

Avoid This Mistake

The one mistake that people can make here is not understanding the difference between “Actual Use Value” and “What You Think is the Use Value”.

The Universe will flow back to you ten fold or more of what you give away to the world in ACTUAL USE VALUE, not just in value you THINK you’re giving away.

Meaning, for example, if I write a garbage blog post, that I slap together without putting any real effort into it, then that blog post might only provide $0.01 in value to the world, or even less.

Also, if I don’t learn how to properly market my blog and my blog posts, so that they are seen by thousands of people, then the value doesn’t get multiplied a lot.

Meaning, there’s a big difference between a blog post with let’s say $0.50 worth of “use value” that is seen by 1,000 people, versus a crappy blog post with $0.01 of “use value” that is only seen by 5 people.

In the first case $0.50 x 1,000 people = $500 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $5,000 worth of value.

In the second case $0.01 x 5 people = $0.05 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $0.50 worth of value.

See the difference?

You have to create value in the world that people actually find useful…not just slap stuff together… but also, you have to learn how to MARKET and DISTRIBUTE that value to as many people as possible, because that is the multiplication factor that will change everything.

Often times I’ll see people starting a Blog, and they’ll write 5 AMAZING blog posts that could easily be worth $10 in “Use Value” to people, but then they don’t take the time to learn how to market or distribute those blog posts to people, so their audience is ZERO people.

Well, if your audience is ZERO people, then any value you provide times ZERO is still going to be ZERO.

This is why it’s important to learn both ( 1 ) How to create VALUABLE content that actually provides VALUE to people, and ( 2 ) How to properly MARKET, DISTRIBUTE and MONETIZE your Blog so that you activate and multiply the effects of the Law of Giving and Receiving.

This is why I’m so excited to be a part of Empower Network, because that is exactly what we teach people to do.

We teach people how to create valuable Blog content, we teach people how to actually market their Blogs so that they have an audience, and then finally we teach them how to monetize those Blogs.

How to Easily Make Videos for Your Blog or Website

January 7, 2015 by Paul 7 Comments

One of my hobbies for quite some time now has been playing around with making videos for websites and Blogs.

I’ve played around with many different software packages out there which can cost anywhere from $499 to $5,000 and up.

These types of price-tags are one of the reasons that many people are turned off from the idea of getting into video production for their Blogs or websites.

The other reason is because most of these software packages can take YEARS to master, or at the very least a few months to get at least somewhat proficient at.

You CAN hire someone to make videos for you, but you could end up spending anywhere from $100 – $5,000 in production costs to make ONE video!

But what if you just want to have the ability to make some very simple slide-show videos that allow you to communicate a simple message to your audience?

Well, there’s a new software out that I purchased a few months back which can do just that.

In a matter of a few minutes you can make a simple slideshow video like this one:

It only took me about 10-15 minutes from start to finish to create this video, render it, and upload it to YouTube.

Now I know this video is not super spectacular, but I just wanted to make something really quick to show you how easy it can be to make videos that you can add to your Blog posts or to your website.

The software is incredibly easy to use and only takes a few minutes to learn how to use it.

So if you’ve been looking for an easy way to make videos for your Blog, I’d strongly recommend checking out Video Maker FX.

It’s easy to use, it’s affordable, and you can make an unlimited number of videos without having to pay a per-video production fee like you would if you hired someone else to do it for you.

The software also comes with a 30 day 100% money back guarantee, so you can try it out for 30 days, make a bunch of videos and if you don’t think it’s the best video making software for you then just ask for a refund – no questions asked.

How to Create a Vision Board as a Non-Visual Person

January 6, 2015 by Paul 6 Comments

Ask a visual person how to create a vision / dream board, and they’ll say “Oh it’s easy!”

They’ll run out, get some poster paper, some magazines, a pair of scissors, and a glue stick and go to town on the project.

An hour later they’ll have this crazy looking collage of pictures, all cut out and sliced together, with action words like “Awesome” and “Yaay!” intermixed between the pictures.

Ask a non-visual person, whose primary modality in life is either auditory or kinesthetic to tackle the same project and it’s a totally different story.

An hour later you’ll find them both still sitting there, having flipped through 50 magazines and finding NOTHING that inspires them.

This doesn’t mean auditory or kinesthetic people don’t have dreams, or that they can’t create a “vision” board, but they just have to approach the task from a different perspective.

Auditory and kinesthetic people are different from visual people.

If you’re kinesthetic, you have to approach it from a kinesthetic perspective.

If you’re auditory, you have to approach it from an auditory perspective.

Vision Boards for Auditory People

Since I’m predominantly an auditory person, I’m going to share an idea I had this morning for a “vision” board for me.

One year ago I put up a cork board in my room that’s about 5 feet wide by 4 feet tall.

It’s big enough to fit PLENTY of pictures as a “vision”board.

One year later, it’s still pretty much empty.

A visual person would already have that thing FULL of pictures!

But as an auditory person, pictures don’t really excite me that much, so no wonder I haven’t been really that excited about populating it.

So this morning I had an idea.

Instead of trying to force myself to cut pictures out of magazines, or to scour the Internet for pictures to print out, instead I’m creating a “vision board” with just three simple tools.

A cork board
Index cards
Push pins

Using these tools I can simply write down what things I want, or I can write down little sayings of things that either I will say or someone else will say to me once I manifest the thing that I want to manifest.

Let’s use an example to illustrate what I mean.

Example #1 – A New Car

Let’s say I wanted to manifest a new car.

A visual person would just cut out pictures of the car they want and plaster that all over their vision board.

As an auditory person, here’s what I’m doing instead.

I take a simple 5″x3″ index card and I write something like “Woa! Nice Car! I love how it sounds!” on it. Then, I take that index card and I pin it up on my cork board.

Then I take another index card and I write something like “Holy crap, the stereo in this car is awesome and I love how I can play songs straight from my cell using Bluetooth.”

Or I can write down an exact description of the car I want, such as for example if I wanted a silver 2015 Mercedes SLK I would write down “2015 Silver Mercedes SLK” and maybe put a few more details into the description.

Then I just take that index card and add it to my dream / vision board.

Now, to a visual person, just having a plain old cork-board with a bunch of index cards pinned up would probably look BORING, but to a non-visual person it makes no difference.

Example #2 – Weight Loss

Here’s another example.

Let’s say you wanted to lose some weight and to put that on your vision board.

A visual person would probably cut out pictures of a hot looking body, or maybe put up pics of themselves when they were more fit.

So what would I put up instead, as an auditory person?

Well, I could either simply write down specific goals like “Cool, I hit my goal of 225lbs” or “Cool, I hit my goal of 200lbs” or “Cool, I’ve lost 35lbs already” or whatever I would usually SAY to myself when I reach a weight loss goal.

Or it could be what I HEAR myself saying to myself inside my head.

OR I can write down things that I will hear people saying to me when I reach my goals like “Wow! You look great. Have you lost weight?”

These are all just simple statements I would write down on a simple 5″x3″ index card and pin up on a “Vision” / Dream Board.

Vision Boards for Kinesthetic People

I’m not a predominantly kinesthetic person so I don’t know exactly what would be the ideal things a kinesthetic person would write on their index cards.

However, I do know that kinesthetic people are more or less the exact opposite of a visual person, so they don’t really care what something looks like so much, and so I bet it’s not an exciting thing for them to cut out pictures and put them up on a vision board.

I would think that kinesthetic people would most likely benefit from writing out the description of the feeling they would feel having the thing that they want to have.

So maybe on the index cards they would write something like “I feel so much better in my clothes” if their goal was to lose some weight.

Or they might write down “I love how these heated seats keep my butt warm even with the windows open” if they were trying to manifest a new car.

If you’re a predominantly kinesthetic person, you probably know much better than I do what makes you tick, so write down whatever excites you on those index cards.

Another thing you could do is if for example the new car you want will have leather seats, you could get a small piece of leather from somewhere that’s similar to the leather that car seats are made of and cut that out and pin it to the board so that you can touch it and feel it with your hands.

Or maybe you could get one of those “New Car Scent” thingies and pin it up so that you can smell your new car. 🙂

I’m sure you know better than I do what excites you, so use your imagination.

My point is simply this…

Vision Boards are NOT Just For Visual People

Most people who love using vision boards are, more often than not, visual people.

Visual people usually love to use them, and so, more often than not, they try to teach other people how to make them.

The challenge is that because they are visual people they only know how to appeal to other visual people, and that’s usually why you don’t see many auditory or kinesthetic people making vision boards.

It’s not because vision boards are not useful – they are an extremely powerful tool – it’s just that you have to approach making them from YOUR modality, not someone else’s.

I personally started making mine today just by using simple 5″ x 3″ index cards and by writing down what I will either say to myself or what I’ll hear others say to me when I manifest the goals I’m going after.

Play around with some ideas of what might work for you and your primary modality.

Remember thought that even thought most people are predominantly more biased towards ONE modality, everyone does use all of the modalities, so even if you’re not a visual person it doesn’t hurt to throw some pictures up there if you want, or even if you ARE a visual person, it doesn’t hurt to throw some auditory or kinesthetic statements up there as well.