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Your main intial strategy should be building your list up to several hundred members using low cost (or even free) traffic methods, so that you can soon begin doing ‘ad swaps’ with other list owners. An ad swap is where you partner with another person who’s got a similar size list of subscribers – you send their ad (usually for a free offer) to your list, and they send your ad to their list. Hence the ‘swap’. There are entire communities which I’ve listed below, that are dedicated to doing nothing but ad swaps. The potential for free traffic with ad swaps is virtually endless.  (Note that I’m NOT implying ad swaps should become youronly traffic source.  I’m simply saying that they can become one of your main focuses as they are proven effective by thousands of online marketers including myself.)

Here’s where it gets good…

Once you’ve got a small initial list of several hundred subscribers, and are ready to do ad swaps, what you can do is simply grab one of the email ‘swipes’ below, and give that to your ad swap partner to send to their list… They’ll in turn provide you with their ad copy, which you send to your list. This is already a dead easy way to get free traffic to your Siphon website to begin with, but here’s the really cool part… As people from your partner’s list join Siphon, you’ll also get the first FIVE people they each refer, as YOUR subscribers!

…That’s one MASSIVE benefit of our exclusive ‘Send 5 Viral Platform’,which is built in to your Siphon website.

…And of course, whoever joins Siphon through your referral link willWANT to get their first 5 ‘base referrals’ (which are added to YOUR list and not theirs) as quickly as they can, so that they start getting the same viral list building benefit from the people they refer.

Continue reading »]]> I got this mail in my inbox 5 days ago but didn’t read it until today. I am glad I did!! So I want to share this story with anyone who will read it.

Hey
I’d like to talk to you about something that might be effecting you and your business negatively to a far greater
degree than you may give it credit for.

Before I go any further, let me say that nothing I have to share today was easy for me put together for you.

It took many hard hours to prepare.

It’s incredibly personal, and before I began to put one word on paper I felt sharp sting. Fear.

When that happened …

I knew I had to stop everything I was doing to work through this, because if it’s this hard for me to bring up and
speak to I know that this issue is silently effecting many in an extremely negative way.

What is it?

It’s the problem of self doubt.

And how to overcome it.

If we can work through this together, right now …

If you and I can be honest for a few moments and really do some deep work together you’ll come out of the
experience far stronger for it.

I promise.

I don’t ask that you trust me right now, rather I just ask that you please stretch yourself a bit …

Are you game? Good. Look …

I don’t care who you are.

I don’t care if you’re Bill Gates, Howard Stern, President Obama, or Oprah,
we … All have those silent moments when the only thought we can hear or give focus to is …

“What’s wrong with me?”

What triggers it can be one of a million different things, but …

Typically it hits you at points in your life where your results don’t match the expectations you have for effort you
exerted to obtain certain results …

You fall in love.

Give your significant other your heart.

They go and cheat on you or leave you for someone else.

You’re left with …

“What’s wrong with me?”

You exert your whole soul to your business building efforts and nothing quite seems to work.

In fact, you end up digging yourself even deeper into a whole.

The only you’re left with is …

“What’s wrong with me?”

You’re left feeling deflated, isolated, empty. You don’t tell anyone, but …

You want to go hide under a rock and never come out, but instead you feign a smile, and carry on as if nothing is
“effecting” you.

Neither way of “dealing” is good, in fact …

Left untreated this “thought” can not only kill your chances of building the business you want, but on a far deeper
level it can destroy the quality of your life and the lives of those around you.

The problem with this thought is …

When it hits you, the only way for your mind to react is to answer this question with all the “things” that “you think”
are wrong with you.

And then …

Deeper down the despair whole you go.

I know because …

There have been times in my life where I’ve let this thought take me to those dark places.

I’ve let it Rob me of results and achievements.

I’ve let it strain or destroy important relationships in my life.

I’ve also seen this “thought pattern” destroy other’s businesses that I’ve worked with.

But …

I know that the effects are not a permanent state of mind.

I’ve beaten it.

Every successful entrepreneur you and I admire has found in their own way a way to overcome it, and thus, so can you.

I don’t want this “pattern” to destroy your chances of success, because it shouldn’t, and it only has the power to
effect us if …

You or I let it.

The problem is, most of the time it starts small, and by the time it gets “out of control” we’re too far gone to
notice where we are mentally.

So, the way we overcome the problem of self doubt is to …

Inoculate ourselves against it.

Stop it before it can effect us any major way.

Before I go any further, let me say this first …

No matter how “bad” things may “seem” at times, there’s no problem so big that you can’t find happiness right now.

This I promise you.

In fact …

I believe, finding that happy place is exactly where that success that you may think is eluding you lies.

Let’s get there because …

The only meaningful difference between those who you may aspire to “be like” and yourself at this current moment is
the compounded results of the actions that they’ve taken when faced with selfdoubt to find their way back to their
happy place again.

The faster you can recover and remain in 1a place of joy the …

Faster and easier success will find it’s way to you.

I say this, because the only way that I’ve been able to overcome these moments in my life has been through deliberate
practice.

Consistent effort to find and remain happy no matter what I’m faced with.

If you’re willing to fight for your happiness today then it will bring your life more meaning and joy on not just a
daily basis, but a moment to moment basis.

Just imagine always being happy.

How would your life change?

It’s an exciting idea isn’t it.

Now, let’s see what we can do to make it a reality.

What I’d like to do is walk you through the general thought process that I’ve found myself going down when I’ve been
hit with the “What’s wrong with me?”

Thought pattern.

Generally it starts small.

Something doesn’t go quit the way you expect it to.

Sometimes you can just shrug it off, but others, that feeling sticks around just a little while too long, and once that
happens …

You start asking yourself questions like “what did I do wrong?”

You start to explore the answers.

If you could stop there and take positive action to validate those possible wrong “things” you’d be golden,
but our minds don’t work that way.

Instead of telling us that we should go out into the real world and validate the possible causes it does this instead.

It starts to compare your results with others, and typically, others who you think are doing better in that area of
life than you that …

You don’t think are actually more worthy of whatever results you “thought” you should have than you are.

An example …

Let’s say you work your butt of for a promotion at work.

You do all the right things. You make all the right moves, but …

When the times comes for the promotion you get passed up.

Then you get passed up again.

When your mind finds it way to that “What’s wrong with me place” you start to ask yourself questions like …

“Why did Johnson get the promotion and not me?”

You run through the list of reasons why you’re just as good as he or she is and you can’t find a definable reason why
they’re “more” fit for the job than yourself.

The only answer your mind can serve you up is …

Something must be wrong with me.

Another example …

I had a guy on my team when I started having some success in my network marketing business who was recruiting a
LOT of people.

I was happy for him, but they didn’t duplicate as fast as he expected them to.

Not long after he’d call me and say …

“Daegan, why aren’t they duplicating? I’m starting to lose confidence here.”

Not long after I never hear from him again.

He disappeared.

He reached a place where, whatever or whoever he was comparing himself to that his mind could only serve him the answer
that it “must” be him at fault.

From there that most dangerous of questions must have sprung up …

“What’s wrong with me?”

See …

In both situations when your mind can’t find an answer, it logically moves to you as the root cause.

And that’s bad, because as soon as that happens and that …

“What’s wrong with me?”

Starts to repeat itself in your mind the only thing your mind can do is find answers.

“This is wrong with me. That is wrong with me. That other thing is wrong with me.”

None of it true.

All of it subjective, but to you, in that place it couldn’t be any more true.

Once your mind goes there it starts to generalize. If you’re no good at X, then you’re no good at Y, and if you’re no
good at Y, then you’re no good at Z.

Soon, you perceive yourself as without worth.

Complete and total self doubt.

And that is VERY dangerous place to be.

The reason that I share all this is so you can see the process in it’s full light.

Knowledge is the seed of action.

If we never know, that this process isn’t “us” the only thing that you or I can do is take it as truth, when there’s
nothing further from the truth.

Your mind must work, and if you let it work on it’s own, it’s like a computer, at times, it can crash, but your mind
isn’t you.

You control your mind.

You can either accept or reject what it wants to serve you.

Here’s a personal example of what I mean, that we’ll dig into deeper at a
later date.

I have what I have come to call “Instant Gratification Syndrome” which means …

My mind always wants to find ways to instantly gratify itself.

For me, that means it constantly wants me to check my emails to see “what my daily income figures look like”

Why? we’ll get to later, but …

I feel my mind finding “reasons” for me to check my email when I don’t do so as often as it would like.

My mind is sneaky, and if I don’t do a reality check every now and then, there I go …

I believe I need to do whatever it is urgently, and as result I check my email address and my mind wins.

My mind isn’t me.

Your mind isn’t you.

You need to understand that.

One of the best ways for proving this to yourself is to, stop what you’re doing and either write in a journal for 40
minutes uninterrupted or meditate for the same amount of time uninterrupted.

What you’ll find is your mind will constantly sway to certain things that it habitually sways to, these thoughts
that come to your mind at those points in time are NOT you.

They are the habits that keep your “lizard” mind in it’s happy routine.

Until you or I break out of those mental routines there is no growth, but …

I digress.

The point I wanted to stress is you are not your mind.

When it goes to those places of selfdoubt understand that your mind is lying to you.

It’s creating meaning out of nothing, and by believing it you’re brining that meaning into reality.

Don’t believe the hype.

So …

How do you defeat self doubt?

The easiest way once you can get into the habit of doing so, is to notice those times when you feel let down by
certain expectations and simply let them go.

Here’s how your mind works …

If you’ve watch TV shows like “LOST” and got hooked after watching a few episodes
it’s because they use what are called “open loops” to keep your attention.

What loops are are situations that go unresolved by the time the episode ends.

You want, no, you NEED to know what happens, so you’ve got to toon in next week and so you become “hooked”

These TV shows use a series of these loops to keep us tuning in.

Not long ago I realize how powerful this force is at keeping our attention, but
had a profound epiphany one day journaling on the subject when I realized …

“If that’s how our minds work when watching TV, what about with our own thoughts?”

Wow!

It hit me like a bolt of lightning when I realized that all of the things that I felt stress over were essentially open
loops.

Unresolvable thoughts in my mind that stayed there exactly because they were unresolvable.

From there I quickly realized that if I want to live a stress free happy life that the thing I’ve got to do is let go
of those things that are unresolvable, otherwise …

I’d be doomed to stress, and potentially extreme self doubt and depression.

Do you see how I got there?

Your mind creates a small “Open Loop” whenever it can’t figure something out,
so what does it do?

It digs in until that little “open loop” turns into a grand canyon sized unresolvable problem like …

“What’s wrong with me”

The best way to NOT get there is to let go of any thought that you can’t resolve yourself.

If you can make this a habit your life will change drastically.

I promise.

But how do you let go?

It’s one of those things that’s easier said than done.

For me …

The best tool I’ve found is my journal.

If I have a problem I go and journal about it.

I look at it from all angles, I try to find new things I can test on myself to see if it brings me different results.

If I either find things to test, and they prove unsuccessful, or I can’t find anything to test the validity of the
“supposed” problem, then I make the decision that I’ve got to let it go.

Sometimes it doesn’t go easy.

I’ll find myself journaling about it more, and it will find it’s way into my thoughts over and over again, but …

When I put my thoughts to paper it becomes extremely apparent what the issue or problem is and becoming hyper
aware of how that “problem” thought manifests itself gives me the tools I need to let it go whenever I find it
trying to sneak back in.

What do I mean by letting go?

Exactly that.

Letting it go.

Dropping it like a bad habit.

Ok …

“So what if I’m passed the first stage of a unmet expectation and I’ve found myself smack dap in the middle of
comparing myself with the Jones’s?”

Simple.

Notice you’re making comparisons that aren’t fair. Unless you know everything about that other person or their
circumstance and how they think how can you ever accurately compare yourself to them?

You can’t.

So why would you try?

Because I haven’t allowed my mind to let go of something that should have been
let go of a long time ago.

What is it?

There you go. That’s the thought process.

Find that initial “thing” that started the process and from there work on getting rid of it as described above.

The other thing that I’ve found that’s helped me a LOT is to really define for myself within myself what makes me
happy.

And sometimes it’s not that easy, but I’ll tell you what makes me happy as it relates to my business.

“Figuring out the puzzle”

“Getting better”

“Testing and trying new things”

If I’m thinking about and doing those things as it relates to my business I’m happy.

If I take myself there and immerse myself a week could pass and I wouldn’t know it.

That’s just what I love to do.

It’s not the money even though …

For a while I thought it it was.

But it ain’t.

Now, I’ll take the money as the late Jim Rohn once said.

But ain’t the money that fuels me.

If I go to that place and do those things, and think those thoughts that put me in a happy place, there’s no room
for bad, negative, or self doubt feelings.

I’m too busy having fun.

You should take some time to really define that place in your business for you as well.

The best way to do this is …

Take note of what excites you, notice the action verb “excites” …

What excites you when you’re doing it.

That is where you will find your joy and your unique genius.

That’s where you’ll have the biggest impact on the world.

You find that place and no secret, no new trick, no nothing can hold you back.

I’ve shared several ideas with you today that have helped me a lot.

I’ll stop here, but I WILL say this …

You’re not your thoughts.

You’re amazing if you let yourself be.

If you’ll let go.

If this has helped you at all, let me know, join our community and let me know what you think:

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To the top,

Daegan “reaching out” Smith

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Why Get Rid Of Stress

We can never deny the fact that stress can be a big hindrance in everything you plan to do with your life. It can get in the way of business, career, or even with your family and friends. If you give in to the irritation and anger that is often the result of stress, you are bound to make wrong decisions and plenty of mistakes that will bring you down.

You can lose your job, do badly in a business deal, or even make enemies left and right when you let your stress control you. Learn to control stress and get rid of it every time it crops up for self-improvement.

Find The Source Of Your Stress

Knowing the source of your stress gives you plenty of options to counter it. If your stress stems from overwork, then take some time off from your busy schedule to relax. The home can also become a stressful environment, especially when it’s disorganized. If you think that the design of the interior is giving you problems, then take some time to rearrange the furniture around or add some home decor to make it comfortable to look at. Once you are able to determine the problem then you can take the necessary steps to correct it.

Learn To Relax Once In A While

Everyone would agree that work, or the demands of work, is mostly the cause of stress. If you think that you have that wild look in your eyes every time your boss asks you to do something, then you better ask for a vacation leave to relax yourself outside your work area before it leads you into trouble.

Take some time off from your busy schedule and visit the local spa. Pamper yourself by indulging in a full-body massage or get an aromatherapy session going on to help you relax. You can always take a vacation if you really want to get the thoughts of work out of your system, but a massage will do just fine if you can’t afford to be absent from it.

Find The Child Within You

Kids are known to be stress-free. Even if you scold them or force them to eat vegetables, you will never see them suffer from stress. The reason here is with their mindset to enjoy life as they see fit. You can take your cue from them and enjoy life more.

Find your inner child and just play. You can grab your Playstation out of the cabinet and bring out the games you usually play during your free time. Another idea is to listen to your favorite music or read some comics on the Internet. You can even play online games if you like just to get your mind off your work.

Keep in mind that the gist of stress management is not the methods you take for getting stress out of your system. The idea here is to learn how to divert your mind from the problems that causes stress to give yourself time to relax and face the problem with a clear mind.

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Continue reading »]]> Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and success.

I remember watching Patch Adams, it’s my favorite movie, actually. Its one great film that will help you improve yourself. Hunter patch Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and suicidal attempts, he decided to seek for medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself in to a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him to meeting different kinds of people. Sick people in that matter. He met a catatonic, a mentally retarded, a schizophrenic and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure and pains he has gone through, he still wants to become a doctor. He carries with himself a positive attitude that brought him self improvement and success. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around him and the quality of life. Did he succeed? Needless to say, he became the best damn doctor his country has ever known.

So, when does self improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these tips, friends
*Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?

*When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on self improvement, not self pitying. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.

*When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.

*The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self improvement.

*Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to be goody-two-shoes in just a snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.

*Self improvement results to inner stability, personality development and dig this. SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

* Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement doesn’t turn you to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes and aims to result to an improved and better YOU.

*Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying hi or hello, greeting someone with a good day or telling Mr. Smith something like hey, I love your tie! Are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

*When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement.

We should always remember that there’s no such thing as over night success. Its always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice quote says that: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, officemates, neighbors they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.

Continue reading »]]> Hmmm….thanksgiving….my thought about this day. Well, to start I have to say I didn’t grow up with thanksgiving so when I moved to America, I actually found it annoying! Well what I found annoying is that there are so many “holidays” over here? I felt I went from one “holiday” to another “holiday” and no breather in-between. But what I really found strange was that Americans had 1 day they showed their thanks for everything?

However, I try to say thanks as often as I can (remember) because I don’t have any guarantee I’ll be here tomorrow!!!
But thinking about it, I guess it wasn’t such a bad idea to make a national Thanksgiving day, one day a year where we all give our blessings and thanks for what we have (don’t have) in our lives! That way everyone get’s reminded to stop, think and say thanks!!

So after browsing and watching videos, and reading about how Thanksgiving came to be …… I guess I should say Thanks….

Continue reading »]]> Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to
install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However,you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been
completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error – Program not run on external components.” What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before
you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming.
Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files.Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running.

One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.

God/Tech Support: You’re welcome, anytime.

- Anon
Love and Joy,

Aine Belton

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Continue reading »]]> Ok, so this happened a long time ago – like in May of 2009…..LOL, but I am posting in now cause I’m deleting the other blog where I wrote it the first time.

I just got yelled at for asking a guy that I have always been on friendly terms with (he works in Key Food and we’ve always said hi and the usual stupid friendly small talk you do with people you see all the time) until today! I don’t understand I asked him if this guy coming from a car was his brother (it looked like he himself came from the same car) and he got pissed and was like “I’m not even gonna answer that”

“I’ll pretend you didn’t ask, I can’t believe you asked me that…bla bla” so me thinking he was kidding started laughing and that of course made him more mad….lol…so I keep laughing and he yells: ” Just because I’m black…so you’re saying all black people look the same?” Say….WHAAAAAAT????? YOU MUST BE FUCKING (EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE) KIDDING ME!!!! He was serious! He was so mad, he was yelling at me and of course this just made me laugh even more, I could not believe what I was hearing! Then to top it off, he yells: “Don’t forget you are black too!” Ok…LOL so why in the hell did he get mad in the first place then if that’s how it is? Ohhh, yeah because I’m lightskinned, I’m a mix of white and black and my daughter is white and I was with my white male friend……..is that why he reacted in that way??

I do not know what went on in his head but this to me is total ignorance, he must have some serious issues with himself being capable of even connecting a simpel question of “Is that your brother, cause you kind of look alike” to a racsist comment! Does that now mean that I can not ask people if a person is their sibling in fear of being called a racist being that my skin color is light? I guess I can only ask a light skinned or a white person? Or can I, I might upset someone????

Continue reading »]]> Well today might be the start to my ending…no I mean the start to getting a final answer to what’s going on with me!

I went to my doctor to get the results on my blood tests and it says for sure that I have something going on with my immune system…I take that as a immune system disorder!

The one that comes to mind is lupus, that is the closest one I can think of in terms of all the stuff I’ve been going through through the years, and it just keeps adding on. The latest add on to it is my stroke!!

Man I hope we can figure it out so that I know what I’m dealing with.
The most frustrating part is not knowing what’s going on because as long as you don’t know, then what can you do to prevent….what??!!