Law of Attraction

The Key to Effortless Manifestation

March 27, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

One of the key desires of most Law of Attraction practitioners is to learn how to manifest things in their lives with less effort.

I’ve been consciously aware of what the Law of Attraction is for about 13 years now, being first introduced to the concept by a book called “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace Wattles.

Ever since I read that book, I’ve been fascinated with the Law of Attraction, how it works, and how to utilize it more effectively in my life.

One of the interesting things I discovered about the Law of Attraction is that in many ways in order to “activate” it or to get better results with it in our lives, we have to often start thinking in opposite ways than how social conditioning has trained us to think.

For example, we live in a society and our conditioning from childhood onwards teaches us that being selfish is bad.

As little kids we hear statements like “You’re being so selfish!” or “You’re just being selfish!” with a negative connotation associated to it.

Because of this, and because most of us don’t inherently want to be “bad people”, we create a conflicting set of beliefs inside of our minds where a part of us wants what is best for us (Selfishness), while another part of us doesn’t want to be Selfish.

This inner conflict is what creates a lot of problems in our lives, and is the source of a lot of suffering.

Being Selfish means that you are more connected to who YOU truly are – your True Self – and not only is there nothing wrong with that, it is the ultimate kindness you can do for the world.

The world would be a *MUCH* better place if everyone was just more Selfish – meaning more connected to their True Self and it’s desires.

Recently I watched a video by Abraham / Esther Hicks which explains this concept much better than I ever could, so I recommend you check out this short video:

Pretty interesting how the exact thing (being more Selfish) which would connect us to a more effortless ability to manifest more positive things in our lives has been perverted and distorted by the mass media and our social conditioning to be somehow portrayed as a BAD thing…

… almost as if the ultra wealthy elite on this planet knew that true manifesting ability comes from Selfishness (connection to your True Self), and so in order to disempower us they started a social conditioning campaign / trend where Selfishness was to be painted as a negative / undesirable character trait.

Of course, at the same time as the middle class / poor are made to feel bad about being Selfish, the ultra wealthy manifest the things they want in their lives with less effort by being more Selfish. 🙂

And then, just to show how programmed we are growing up to see Selfishness as a negative character trait you’ll often hear people who are not wealthy saying things like “Pfft… yeah that person is rich, but look how Selfish they are!”

And then the other person they’re talking to will say “Yeah, no kidding…pfft… totally Selfish… who wants to be like that???!”

If you want to manifest with less effort in your life, I recommend exploring your beliefs around Selfishness and watch the video above for a more thorough explanation from Abraham / Esther Hicks.

The One Simple Mind Trick I Use to Program Myself to Blog Daily

March 24, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

I have now been blogging for 85 days straight, every single day, without missing one day.

During this period of time, I’ve had every excuse you could imagine to skip at least a day or two here and there.

I’ve gotten sick with a weird flu for a few weeks at the beginning of January, I had a bunch of family / social events come up, I’ve had to have the foundation at my house dug up to install a new drainage system because water was getting into my basement and a whole bunch of other things that have popped up which could have easily given me a “legitimate excuse” to skip blogging for at least ONE day somewhere in there.

But I didn’t skip any day.

How did I do that?

How have I been able to stick to writing at least one blog post per day without skipping a single day, when it would have been so much easier on a lot of the days to just take a day off and sit and watch TV or something?

Well, you have to find something that motivates you MORE than sitting on the couch and watching TV.

For me, the thing that motivates me the most is the idea of achieving TOTAL FINANCIAL FREEDOM.

To me, the idea of total financial freedom is simply having enough passive income coming in each month to pay for my lifestyle without me ever having to “work” for money ever again.

For example, let’s say I had $2,000,000 in cash, and I invested that into some sort of secure investment that paid me 5% interest each year. That investment would pay me $100,000/year in passive income that would just keep coming in every year without me having to work ever again.

That doesn’t mean that I would just sit around like a lump and do NOTHING with my time. I would still do stuff, it’s just that there’s a big difference between working on stuff because you WANT to do it, versus working on stuff because you HAVE to do it in order to pay the bills.

Okay, so what does this have to do with blogging daily?

Well, here’s the thing…

In order to keep myself motivated, and because I know that one of my highest desires is reaching total financial freedom, I PROGRAM my mind to believe that each blog post I write is moving me close towards that goal…

… not in a vague, general way, but in a very SPECIFIC way with REAL numbers.

Allow me to explain what I mean.

My starting date for committing myself to building this Blogging business with Empower Network started on Dec 30th of last year, which I believe is 85 days ago…

… so the way I see it, it’s like I hit an invisible reset button and started building my business from scratch on that date.

Now, to program my mind to believe that my blogging is moving me towards financial freedom I use a few simple math calculations to calculate the hypothetical value of my blogging business as follows…

The first thing that I start with is I log in to my Empower Network back office and I look at my stats dashboard which show me the exact amount of residual income I have been able to achieve in my business so far.

Here’s a snapshot from my back office here:

Now, I realize that $227.50 in residual income doesn’t sound like a lot of money, and this is where most people go wrong with their thinking and why they give up on their businesses…

… you see for me, I see $227.50/month in residual income as a LOT of money.

Why?

Well, here’s how I see it…

First of all, because of my blogging efforts and such I expect that number to go up significantly over the next 12 months.

However, let’s assume that this number didn’t go up at all…

… let’s assume that it just stayed at $227.50/month for the next 12 months.

Well, that would mean that my Blogging business with Empower Network would generate $227.50/month x 12 months = $2,730.00 in residual income over the next 12 months.

Even just by multiplying the monthly amount by 12 months, the numbers already start to sound a lot more exciting, don’t they?

But this is just the starting point…

… so let’s assume that my business currently generates $2,730.00 in residual income per year…

… the next question I ask myself is “How much CASH would I have to have in the bank in order to pay me $2,730/year in residuals?”

In other words, if I wasn’t building a business like this, and instead I was just focusing on SAVING money from some job I had or something like that and investing that money into RRSPs (or a 401k plan in the US), how much money would I actually need to SAVE in order for that money to make me $2,730/year in residual interest income?

Well, to calculate that we first need to figure out what interest rate I would be getting paid on my investment.

For my calculations I like to use the number 5%. Why 5%? Well because most “safe” investments out there like putting your money into a bank or a savings bond or something usually pay around 1% – 3% on your money…

…then when you move into just slightly more risky investments like government bonds etc, you can usually get around 2% – 7% long term as an example.

Of course if you invest in the stock market or other higher risk investments you could make more, but I’m referring to a hands-off, safe investment…

… so to me, I could say 3% is a safe bet, but to be a bit more generous I bump it up to 5% for my calculations.

So the question once again is this…

How much money would I need to have in a safe investment which gets 5% interest per year, in order for that investment to generate $2,730.00/year in interest income.

Well, the calculation is actually pretty simple, you just take $2730.00 and divide it by 5%.

$2,730.00 / 5% = $54,600.00.

In other words, I would have to put away $54,600.00 into some sort of safe investment earning me 5%/year in order to generate $2,730 in residual income per year ( $227.50/month ).

Does that make sense?

So basically when I look and see that my blogging business generates me $227.50/month in residual income, I see that as meaning that building my blogging business is basically almost the same thing as manifesting an extra $54,600.00 out of thin air and putting it into a safe investment that pays me a residual income.

Or looking at it slightly differently, I tell my mind that my blogging business is basically worth $54,600!

Meaning, it’s generating the same amount of residual income as $54,600 in cash would generate if I put it into a 5%/year investment.

Make sense?

Okay, so if I program my mind to believe that my blogging business is already worth $54,600.00 then the next thing I need to look at is how much of my time did I invest into creating that?

Well, to keep the math simple, let’s divide $54,600.00 by 85 blog posts, and we get $642.35 per blog post.

Meaning, essentially how I visualize it in my mind is that each blog post that I write is adding about $642.35 into my “financial freedom” account…

Now, of course all my calculations are hypothetical… just because I calculate it out this way doesn’t meant that my blogging business is actually worth $54,600.

It might be worth less or it might be worth more. I’m not selling it so it doesn’t really matter anyways.

But my point with this is to show you how I play these games with my mind to essentially program it to be EXCITED about blogging, by linking consistent blogging with my ultimate goal of achieving financial freedom.

In other words I *SELL* my mind by using this kind of thinking to make it realize that each blog post I write is kind of like putting $642.35 into my “financial freedom fund”.

Would you write a blog post if someone paid you $642 to write it?

You probably would, right?

If you’re having trouble sticking to a regular blogging schedule it is probably because you’re NOT playing these types of mental tricks with your mind.

In fact, your mind is probably working against you whenever you try to Blog.

Maybe you’re currently making $0/month in residuals from your Blog, so every blog post you write seems like a waste of time and energy.

That is why it’s so important to use a proven system like Empower Network to start monetizing your blog – otherwise it may be difficult to stay excited long enough to see this through.

If you’ve made any money at all with your blog, take that amount that you made and use this little formula to give your mind a number it can get excited about!

Like if your Blog is making you $20/month in residual income, the calculation to figure out how much your blog is “worth” would be as follows:

$20/month x 12 months = $240/year…

…and $240/y divided by 5% = $240/0.05 = $4,800!

So if you have a residual income stream of $20/m coming in, program your mind to believe that you’ve built a business worth $4,800.

If your business was making $500/month in residuals, the calculation would be:

$500/m x 12m = $6,000/year…

…and $6,000 / 0.05 = $120,000 !!!

Meaning you’d have to have an investment/savings account worth $120,000 earning you 5% interest per year in order to be making $500/month in residuals.

So if your blogging business is providing you with $500/m as well, you could say that that business is worth about $120,000. 🙂

Again, I’m not saying that this is how you calculate the valuation of your business.

That is not what this post is about…

this post is about learning how to program your mind to see the value in Blogging.

If you’re not motivated by financial freedom, you’ll have to find a different way to connect your blogging efforts with achieving whatever your dreams are…

… but if you’re like me, and financial freedom is “the dream”, then I recommend using this little exercise to program your mind to stay motivated to blog.

If you’d like to learn a lot more of the Jedi mind tricks I use to build my business, I recommend joining my team by clicking here.

7 Affirmations to Help You Make More Money

March 23, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

Here are 7 affirmations which will help you to manifest more money and abundance in your life.

Feel free to PIN them, TWEET them or SHARE them on Facebook all you want.

#1 – I AM The Source of My Abundance

#2 – I Value My Time and Energy

#3 – All the Money I Spend and Earn Brings Me Joy

#4 – I live in an Abundant Universe and I Always Have Everything I Need

#5 – I Trust and Follow My Inner Guidance

#6 – I Have a Wealth of Valuable Skills and Talents

#7 – I Choose to Live an Abundant Life

The Awesome Day Exercise

March 18, 2015 by Paul 4 Comments

A number of years ago, one of the coaches I was working with asked me to do what seemed like a simple exercise.

She wanted me to write down, in detail what my “Perfect Day” is going to be like once I am living the life that I want to be living.

At first this seemed like an easy thing to do, but once I started to actually think about this exercise it became a lot more complicated than I thought.

I started off by imagining the “perfect” way that I would want to wake up. Where would I be? What time would it be at? Who or what would wake me up? What would the temperature be like?

Then I tried to imagine what my “perfect” breakfast scenario would be. What would I want to eat? Who would I want to be there with me? Where would we be?

As I went through the day in my mind and tried to imagine the “perfect day”, I actually ended up getting more and more frustrated.

Why?

Well, because there are so many different things that I love doing, but trying to fit all of them into one “perfect day” was virtually impossible.

For example, I imagined that on my perfect day I would get private lessons in the martial art that I used to practice a few years ago. But then I also wanted to play some basketball with my friends. But if I had an intense martial arts workout that day, then basketball might be too much to do as well.

Unless of course those were the only things I was doing that day, but in my “perfect day” scenario they weren’t!

There were so many other things that I wanted to do, and it wasn’t trying to figure out which stuff to keep and which stuff to get rid of.

In the end I just couldn’t really come up with a “Perfect Day”. There were just too many different things I wanted to do, and not all of them were physically possible to be done all in one day.

So instead I decided to do something similar to the “Perfect Day” exercise, but without the limitations…

The Awesome Day Exercise

The Awesome Day Exercise is basically very similar to the “Perfect Day” exercise, except that with this exercise we are not limiting ourselves to “Perfection” nor are we limiting ourselves to just ONE DAY!

Essentially doing the Awesome Day Exercise simply involves writing down the details of what an “Awesome Day” in our lives might look like.

And the cool thing is that we can have MANY Awesome Days…

… meaning, I could sit down and write out an Awesome Day for me… describing every part of the day in as much detail as possible, but without having to limit myself to that Awesome Day being the ONLY “Day” that I get to manifest in my life.

So for example, let’s say that *ONE* “Awesome Day” for me might be to wake up in the morning, and spend the entire day with my wife watching a marathon of an awesome show or movie series we really enjoy.

I could go into more details but you get the idea.

ANOTHER Awesome Day for me might be training for 4-6 hours in Japan at a DOJO with the Grandmaster of the martial art I used to study.

See by setting up the rules of the exercise in this way, I am not limiting myself to just ONE supposedly “Perfect Day”.

Instead I am allowing my mind to open up my imagination and imagine many different “Awesome Days”.

Try this now…

How to Do the Awesome Day Exercise

Grab a piece of white paper and a blue pen, and at the top of the page write down “An Awesome Day in My Life”.

Then, below that, start writing “The day starts off at …”

And from there, just let your imagination run loose and try to write down as much detail as possible about this one Awesome Day that you’d love to experience.

As you’re doing this, keep in mind that ANYTHING is possible.

You do NOT have to limit yourself to things that are “realistic”.

Turn off the reasoning center of your brain and just let your imagination loose.

What time would you wake up?

What would you do then?

Would you eat breakfast? If so, what would you have? Who would be there? Where would you be?

What would you do right after breakfast? Who would you do it with?

Would you have lunch? If so, when? With whom? What would you have? Where would you have it ? Who would make it for you?

Try to write out as many details as possible of the entire day, trying to capture what you would be doing, who with, how you’d be feeling that day, what would you be feeling etc.

Why Do This?

Now you might be wondering what is the purpose of an exercise like this.

Firstly, it’s to ignite your imagination.

Secondly, it’s to program you subconscious mind with the images of what an Awesome Day might look like to you, so that your mind can begin to formulate a plan on how to manifest that.

Your subconscious mind is the most powerful supercomputer in the Universe, but it needs to be properly INSTRUCTED or PROGRAMMED in order to help you achieve what you want.

Without clarity and these images that your imagination will form as you write out your Awesome Day, it’s not easy for the mind to know what you want.

When I did this exercise a number of years ago, I was still working in the corporate world and one of my pet peeves at the time was that I had to wake up at 8am sharp each morning to make it into work on time.

So when I wrote out my “Awesome Day”, one of the details I put into my day was that I wake up WHEN I’M READY to wake up!

Not when some alarm clock goes off, but whenever I’m ready to get up. It doesn’t matter if that is 6am, or 8am or 8:30am, or 9am or 10am or whenever.

Whenever I feel rested enough to get up, that is when I wake up on my “Awesome Day”.

Also, I hate alarm clocks, so on one of my “Awesome Days” I imagined waking up around 9:30am or so, being awakened by one of my dogs coming into the bedroom and “gently” waking me up.

When I wrote this out years and years ago, it was more or less a fantasy, as there was no way I would be able to sleep in until 9:30am! I had to be up at 8am!

But today… as in this morning, and for many mornings in the last few years I’ve been living that “Awesome Day” description of my morning.

I wake up around 9am or 9:30am or 10:00am, just depending when I’m ready to get up, and in a lot of cases it is my dog that comes and wakes me up.

It happens all the time now.

Small details from my “Awesome Days” that I described and imagined have been manifesting, almost as if by magic, and often times I don’t even realize it until a while later when I remember what I wrote down.

Remember, I imagined it first.

Then I wrote it down in as much detail as possible.

Then it manifested!

Try it out. You’ll love the exercise.

60 Blog Posts in 60 Days – 5 Tips on How I Stayed Consistent

February 27, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

I’ve written a Blog post every single day for the last 60 days.

This is a new consistency record for me.

I’ve been blogging since 2006 but I’ve never maintained this level of consistency, writing every single day, for this long.

I’ve always been a sporadic Blogger who writes between around 5-20 Blog posts a month but without the daily consistency I’ve had in the last 60 days.

So what changed?

How did I go from being inconsistent for almost 9 years to finally writing consistently on a daily basis for 60 days and counting?

Here are a few things that I changed…

#1 – Not Allowing Myself Any Excuses

In the past, when I would try to Blog on a consistent basis, everything would usually go smoothly at first, but then I would inevitably run into some sort of strange “abnormal” situation that in my mind I would accept as a justifiable reason to not Blog for one day.

For example, let’s say that I was blogging daily for 20 days in a row and then I ended up getting sick and feeling so crappy that I didn’t even get out of bed.

In the past I would tell myself “Oh, it’s okay…this is a justified reason why I can’t write a Blog post today… I’ll just write a few extra ones when I fell better.”

And you know what? As soon as I broke that streak of writing daily for even ONE DAY, it’s like a whole tidal wave of OTHER excuses would come pouring in and stop me from blogging.

So this time around I made a deal with myself that I would not allow any excuses to stop me.

My goal is to publish at least one Blog post per day, every day.

Ideally I prefer to write my Blog posts before the evening arrives, but the deal I made with myself is that in the worst case scenario where some weird circumstances arrive and prevent me from getting my Blog post done before night time, I told myself that I’m not allowed to go to bed until I write my Blog post.

In other words, sometime between waking up and going to bed I have to publish at least one Blog post (can also be a video).

The funny thing is that virtually as soon as I made the decision to not allow excuses to stop me, I ended up getting sick right in the beginning of January.

I felt like crap. It was my first time getting sick in about 4 years and it wasn’t pretty. I really felt horrible.

But you know what? I still wrote my daily Blog posts regardless.

It actually wasn’t that difficult, because the decision was already made. I wasn’t fighting with myself in my mind about whether I should or shouldn’t write a Blog post.

The decision was already made, I just had to execute.

In a lot of ways I think most of us ended up wasting 90% of our energy in INDECISION, trying to decide whether or not we’re going to follow through and do what we have told ourselves we will do, or if we’re going to break the promise we made ourselves.

Having that internal fight really drains your energy.

It’s much easier to just decide and then cut off any other possibilities from the equation.

There is no question whether I will publish a Blog post every day…the only question is when I’ll write or record it, whether it’ll be a text-based post, or a video or something else, and what topic my post will be about.

#2 – Creating a VERY Simple Plan for Myself

In addition to eliminating all excuses, I also implemented a VERY simple plan for myself that consists of only 3 things I strive to do daily.

Write / Record and Publish at Least ONE Blog Post Per Day
Promote My Blog Post(s) to My Email Subscribers / Facebook Group etc.
Try to Improve SOME Aspect of My Blog or Content by at least 1%

That’s it.

All I do is create my one Blog post for each day and then I email it out to my email list and also promote it on social media sites, and then I also try to improve at least one part of my Blog or online business by 1% or more.

For example if I wanted to tweak some things on my Blog Theme, that would fall under #3, which I am allowed to do -BUT- it is always secondary to making sure #1 gets done first – my daily Blog Post.

Also, the only ONE thing on that list of 3 things that I *MUST* do each day, no negotiating is #1.

Ideally I also get #2 and #3 done each day a swell, but if I don’t – then I don’t. My primary focus is just writing that Blog post.

In the past I would always learn some cool new trick or strategy or system for improving my Blog, and then I would spend all day and night setting things up, tweaking things and doing crazy Ninja Tactics and stuff, but then my daily Blog post would get pushed to the back-burner.

Now it’s the opposite of that. I have to make sure I write or record one Blog post, and THEN everything else is secondary.

#3 – Eliminating Stupid Tech Challenges

Another thing that used to trip me up was running into technical challenges with my WordPress Blog from time to time.

I would spend hours on end trying to fix or install or setup some new plugin or Widget, or fix something with my Theme and then realize that I’ve spent the whole day playing with that stuff and my Blog post or video never got made.

So this time around I decided to upgrade to a fully managed and supported WordPress platform called Kalatu.

Kalatu allowed me to focus on what matters most – BLOGGING – not wasting my time trying to figure out how to fix some weird WordPress error, or searching for the perfect theme to install.

That is pretty much it, those are the three things I put my focus on…

…and as soon as I did, things began to “click” for me, and writing daily became much easier.

The other thing that contributed to me getting into a consistent Blogging pattern was…

#4 – Getting Clear on MY Why

The other thing that helped me out tremendously is getting clear on my “WHY”.

As in, WHY do even Blog? What’s it for?

I got clarity on that by declaring to myself and the world that I want to help 108 people retire from the jobs they hate and to start making money online, working from home, being their authentic / awesome self.

I put the focus on my audience – not me.

I SERIOUSLY 100% want to help 108 people reach that level of financial independence.

…AND I also got a lot more clarity as to what’s in it for me.

Meaning, what will *I* get from building a successful Blog…

… I decided that the first thing I will reward myself with will be a new car when my Blog reaches a stable $500+/month income level, so that way I essentially get a free car just by blogging once I reach that level of consistent income from my Blog and Blog related activities.

So this way I know WHY I’m doing this for myself and WHY I’m doing this for my audience as well.

Oh yeah, I just realized there was one more thing…

#5 – Scoreboard

Last month I wrote a Blog post which talked about having a score board for your goals.

I’ve been keeping a scoreboard running for myself, and I update it daily, and sometimes even multiple times per day.

That’s it! These are the 5 things that I did to significantly boost my consistency as a Blogger. 🙂

How about you?

Have you started Blogging daily yet?

What kind of strategies have you found to work for you in staying consistent in life?