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Dec

9

Challenges – Why They Are So Important To Understand

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In the last article and video I posted on the site, I talked about why I believe you must learn how to emotionally detach yourself from the outcome of what is happening in your business and by doing so how this will enable you and your business to develop and grow.

Today I am talking about challenges and this is, in a way. a follow-on from that previous article.  You will remember that I spoke about an issue I had with one of my sites being down for four days due to a server crash, well that was obviously a challenge I had to face.

Here’s a short video about challenges and why people totally misunderstand them and what they actually are.  Most people don’t realise that challenges are actually a good thing.  I hope you like this short video and that it helps you realise how you should deal with challenges in the future.

So, challenges should be something you embrace and something you need to stop complaining about.  I hope you can now see that.

As I said in the video, challenges are an inevitable fact of life, we all experience them. 

A lot of people in today’s society believe themselves to be victims, that they are not to blame for what happens to them, it’s always someone’s fault why they are always faced with challenges and yet other people don’t, why?  

To be totally blunt, there aren’t too many things that annoy me more than that type of attitude, because it’s just a self pity guilt trip and a disease called Excusitis!  It’s an epidemic these days in this “blame” culture we seem to live in.

I hope you now understand why the challenges you constantly face are not the problem and, if you had to, you’ve changed your perception of them for the better. It’s so simply, isn’t it? 

It took me a while to learn this lesson, I hope I have helped save you a lot of time and heartache by simply watching this short video and reading this article today.

If you have any thoughts about challenges or any subject about life online, please do get in touch, I’d love to hear from you.

All the best

Rik

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Dec

5

Why You Must Detach Yourself Emotionally In Business

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Here’s a very important lesson that must be learnt in order for your business to really take off and for it to be everything you want it to be.  Watch the short video first then read the article below.

A couple of days ago I woke up to one of those winter mornings where there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind and there was a deep frost on the ground.  Beautifully clear, crisp and still.  My favourite type of day.

That was a good enough reason for me to go for a walk right there, however there was another reason, that would shortly present itself.  When I turned my computer on, it confirmed that I had a problem, a problem that I had in fact had, by this time, for 4 days.  One of my servers was down.  Well, a server that one of my sites is hosted on.  It was a site I have had running for about 2 years now called The Soccer Blog.

This was on Wednesday morning, the server had been now from the previous Saturday evening.  So, that just confirmed the fact I was off for an early morning walk.

As I was walking and enjoying the beautiful morning I began to think about the server and I laughed at myself as I looked back about two and a half years to when I first started out online.  Why?  Well, because back then, my reaction to this server “problem” would have been oh so very different to now.  Now I decided I was just going to go for a walk.  Back in the early days, I would have been panicing, I would have been very anxious.  Basically I would have been a complete nervous wreck and, most likely, I would have been taking it out on some poor unsuspecting person in a very unprofessional manner.

Since I have been online I have learned some very important skills.  However, there aren’t too many more important, more fundamental than this lesson.  Since those early days I have taught myself how to emotionally detach myself from the outcome of everything I do in my business.  Let me just clarify that.  I’m not saying that I don’t work hard, I don’t care about what I do and how I do it.  I most definitely do.  What I mean is, I no longer demand of myself that everything I do must be 100% perfect, must always work, that the prospect I am speaking to has to join me in my business etc.  Do you see the difference?

When you are like that you demand too much of yourself, you are too emotionally involved and therefore you come over as being anxious, nervous and needy etc, because you are.  You know, sometimes things just don’t go as you had hoped, sometimes people aren’t very nice on the phone, sometimes servers just crash.

Let’s take an example of you talking to that prospect on the phone whilst you are in the wrong state of mind.  The prospect will sense it, they will pick up on it through what you are saying, how you say it.   People do, and they are not very attrative traits.  Why would anyone decide to join you?  Answer is, they wouldn’t.  Believe me!

You have to learn to step back, detach yourself emotionally from the outcome of that phone call (or whatever it is you are doing).  You have to be at ease with yourself, you have to be you. If you let yourself get carried away with a situation, it is very easy to react in such a way that it will hurt the situation rather than help it. You lose out, no one else, just you.

I’m sure if you have been online for any lenght of time you will have heard the terms “attraction marketing” and “personal branding”.  Well, I suppose “attraction marketing” is a little about what I’m talking about.  I mean if you are still emotionally involved you are not going to be very attractive.  But I think a better way of describing what I’m talking about is another term.  This was recently coined by a good friend of mine and I think it hits the nail on the head!  ”Authentic Marketing”!

That’s what you need to be, totally authentic.  When you are relaxed and emotionally detached, that’s what you become, you become authentic.  And when you are authentic you are you, you are natural.  There’s no edge, there’s no anxiety etc, and that’s far more attractive.  Don’t you agree?  I hope so.  

I hope you found this article and video helpful and if you have any questions or want to chat about this or anything in fact, please do get in touch.  I’d love to hear from you.

All the best

Rik

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Dec

1

Working For Yourself – Why You Need To

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I have a quick message for you today, but even though it’s a quick message, it is an incredibly important one.

I’d like to quickly talk about why you need to start working for yourself.  Even at the best of economic times, being your own boss is the safest and most sensible road to take.  As we grow up, we are constantly told that we need to study hard, pass your exams, get a solid professional qualifaction, get a secure job with good benefits and pension etc.  All sounds pretty good at the time doesn’t it?  Security, constant pay cheque, benefits.

I’m sure you’ll have heard of Robert Kiyosaki, the author of books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad.  Well, what I have described above is basically what his poor dad used to say to him.  His poor dad had the core values of the masses, that is to say, you had to be an employee, someone who traded their time for a constant set salary at the end of every week or month.

His rich dad’s values on the other hand were totally the opposite.  How could working for someone else be the definition of security?  You were at the total whim of someone else, of market forces etc.  The only way to make true money, to have true security and financial freedom, financial peace of mind was to be the business owner and investor.

Unfortunately over the last few months a lot of people have come to realise that their 9-5 existence did not actually mean “security” as they had been led to believe.  It’s a myth, an urban legend, if you like.  A lot of people, people who were well educated, had high paying jobs, great benefits etc, have had to pay the price, with their “secure” jobs, for the shortfalls and errors of others.  That must be very hard to swallow and accept.

Believe me, I know what these people are going through.  It happened to me over two and a half year’s ago.  At the time it was obviously the worst thing that had ever happened to me.  It was devastating. However, it didn’t take me long to realise it was actually the best thing that could possibly have happened to me.  I was finally free, my destiny was now in my own hands.  That’s a truly liberating experience.  

A couple of days ago I went for a walk near where I live and shot the following short video.  It’s a quick glimpse of my Friday morning “at work” now that I control my life by using the internet to run my home based business.

If you would like to learn more about how you can harness the power of the internet and web2.0 technologies to run you own home based business and produce true security for yourself and your family then take a look at the short video on the following page and review what I have for you.  

http://globalonlinemasterminds.com

Depending on when you view this page you will either see me or if I haven’t updated the videos yet, you’ll see a business partner of mine, Jonathan.  I have a lot of videos that need updating so I’m working through them, but it really doesn’t matter who you see on the videos, the message is the same.

I hope this quick little article has helped you a little today and I really look forward to hopefully chatting with you soon.

All the best 

Rik

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Nov

11

Videos Of Where Home Has Been

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Below are a few short videos mainly of Mauritius, where we lived for a while and a couple of my home town.

I will be adding many more videos in the coming weeks, months and beyond. Some will be like these below but mainly they will be about, well best way to describe them would be, training, teaching what I have learnt along the way online and beyond.

Take care
Rik

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