Believe!
Your Belief Makes Your Life
You gotta believe, your beliefs and feelings, what you focus your thoughts on and around, affects your life in ways you may not realize. You don't think so? Well, maybe this will make you believe...
Over 100 years ago in his book "As A Man Thinketh", James Allen relayed the case that our very thoughts affect the conditions of our lives, our health, our wealth. Literally what we think controls almost everything that happens to us.
Yet for over 400 years most people have not believed this to be true. Mistakenly. Because it actually IS true. What you believe, what you feel, what your intentions are, what your faith is centered in, actually affects your health, your wealth, your relationships, what's happening around you.
What is considered to be the greatest self help book of all times, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, clearly states that the most important thing you can do to change your life is to change your thoughts. Based on over twenty years of research and the study of many of the most successful people of his day, he determined that the one thing that makes the difference in peoples lives is what they think. What they believe.
Interestingly, modern science supports this. According to modern physicists like Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus and former Department Head of the Department of Material Sciences at Stanford University, the physical matter of the Universe is actually controlled by our consciousness. According to these scientists, underneath the Atomic level, underneath the Sub-Atomic level, is the Vacuum level, and underneath the Vacuum level is the Planch or consciousness level. And that your thoughts interact with the Planch level in such a way that it actually changes the magnetic fields amongst other things at the vacuum level.
At this underlying level, they believe that there is an "alternative" form of reality that when acted upon by our conscious thoughts and intentions alters our perceived and true reality. Experiments in quantum mechanics conducted as long ago as the 1930's showed that the results of certain atomic and sub-atomic level experiments varied depending upon the very act of being observed.
In the early 1980's during the cold fusion experiments at the University of Utah, Dr. Marvin Hawkins, who at the time was one of the graduate students involved in the experiments, observed that the experiment results varied based on who it was that was conducting the experiment. He has told me that he believes cold fusion will become a reality at some time in the future. It works. But only if the person who is doing the work truly believes that it does. Otherwise it doesn't.
Within the last decade, Dr. Tiller and Dr. Walter Dibble have been conducting experiments that prove that "psycho-energetics" or "subtle" energy as they are now calling it can not only affect things like raising or lowering the ph of a container of water by thoughts alone with no chemical interaction, but that such intentions can actually be recorded into a machine (they call it an intention host device) and have the same results. These experiments have been conducted at long range and by a wide variety of participants with the same results.
This has the potential of literally changing everything. To know that what you turn your thoughts and intentions to can quite actually change your life is amazing. Think about it. You can completely alter your reality by focusing your intentions, your thoughts on your desired results.
So, what do you really want?
Friday, October 8, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Network or Not Work
Job Hunting in 2010/2011
Are you out of work, or under-employed? Many of us are these days. Many of us haven't had a formally normal sized paycheck for more than a year. Some of us for more than two years. And even those of us who are still working normally in our career field have found our paychecks and/or benefits cut by 10 or even as much as 20%! Some companies have cut back benefits drastically and at the same time increased employer paid contributions by quite a bit.
And on top of that, a large number of employers have also cut back on the hours they pay employees to work. This all adds up to most people having less take home money than they did three years ago combined with higher bills and less benefits. And that's before we talk about the failure of Congress to extend or make permanent the Bush Tax Cuts.
To make matters even worse, most employers have started using an online application process exclusively. That means that your resume or employment application is filtered automatically by the software they use. In most cases a live person never sees your resume. The software checks to see if you fit the criteria for that particular job by searching for the keywords they are looking for. And then it only prints out the top 2-5 resumes or applications based upon the relevancy of the keywords used.
In other words, getting your resume past the software filters to be seen by a real live person has become as difficult and as much of an art as having a web page that ranks in the top five on a Google search. IF you don't have a degree, and the other people applying for that job do, you don't have a chance of even being seen.
So what's a person to do?
Network.
Network? Yes. You have to find a way past the software filters and HR people who just don't care about helping you out. You have to get to the real decision maker somehow. And since even now roughly 85% of all jobs are not being advertised. As a result, networking is still the best way to find work. If you aren't networking, you might not be working.
You have to show that you are interested. That you have passion. That you are confident. That you are committed. These are the things that potential employers are looking for. Are you willing to work at anything available? Are you able to do a variety of tasks? Are you showing that you are constantly learning new things and improving your abilities?
You can do all of these things by networking constantly with people you know in your profession, church, and community. Add to that social networking sites like Facebook and Linked In. This can give you an ever expanding network of friends and associates that can go worldwide within just a few months if you work it.
Update your "wall" a few times a day with things you are doing or working on. Add your old employers and others to your network constantly as you find them again. Call and talk with each of them to tell them about your job searching activities and to ask them if they might have any referrals or prospects for you. Upgrade your education. Send out thank you cards to those you talk with. Show them you are grateful for their help. Even if you get depressed, which is a normal reaction to sudden job losses, keep showing a grateful attitude.
Try hard to send out at least three resumes per day. Consider alternatives like starting an online business or becoming involved in a network marketing company. There is a reason that both Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki recommend network marketing opportunities. Be willing to take a part time job like driving a school bus or working at a gas station to help out while you are looking.
And don't forget to help others as well. Doing service work for others and spending time with your family are important activities as well.
As you do all these things on a consistent basis, you will have better opportunities than others who fail to do them.
Remember, Network or Not Work. It's your choice.
Cleve Horrocks has been an employee, an employer, self-employed, and an employment counselor for his church. He is currently helping others learn how to market themselves and improve their business building activities. Go to his website www.AttractLeads.info for more information about obtaining leads for your home-based or network marketing company.
Are you out of work, or under-employed? Many of us are these days. Many of us haven't had a formally normal sized paycheck for more than a year. Some of us for more than two years. And even those of us who are still working normally in our career field have found our paychecks and/or benefits cut by 10 or even as much as 20%! Some companies have cut back benefits drastically and at the same time increased employer paid contributions by quite a bit.
And on top of that, a large number of employers have also cut back on the hours they pay employees to work. This all adds up to most people having less take home money than they did three years ago combined with higher bills and less benefits. And that's before we talk about the failure of Congress to extend or make permanent the Bush Tax Cuts.
To make matters even worse, most employers have started using an online application process exclusively. That means that your resume or employment application is filtered automatically by the software they use. In most cases a live person never sees your resume. The software checks to see if you fit the criteria for that particular job by searching for the keywords they are looking for. And then it only prints out the top 2-5 resumes or applications based upon the relevancy of the keywords used.
In other words, getting your resume past the software filters to be seen by a real live person has become as difficult and as much of an art as having a web page that ranks in the top five on a Google search. IF you don't have a degree, and the other people applying for that job do, you don't have a chance of even being seen.
So what's a person to do?
Network.
Network? Yes. You have to find a way past the software filters and HR people who just don't care about helping you out. You have to get to the real decision maker somehow. And since even now roughly 85% of all jobs are not being advertised. As a result, networking is still the best way to find work. If you aren't networking, you might not be working.
You have to show that you are interested. That you have passion. That you are confident. That you are committed. These are the things that potential employers are looking for. Are you willing to work at anything available? Are you able to do a variety of tasks? Are you showing that you are constantly learning new things and improving your abilities?
You can do all of these things by networking constantly with people you know in your profession, church, and community. Add to that social networking sites like Facebook and Linked In. This can give you an ever expanding network of friends and associates that can go worldwide within just a few months if you work it.
Update your "wall" a few times a day with things you are doing or working on. Add your old employers and others to your network constantly as you find them again. Call and talk with each of them to tell them about your job searching activities and to ask them if they might have any referrals or prospects for you. Upgrade your education. Send out thank you cards to those you talk with. Show them you are grateful for their help. Even if you get depressed, which is a normal reaction to sudden job losses, keep showing a grateful attitude.
Try hard to send out at least three resumes per day. Consider alternatives like starting an online business or becoming involved in a network marketing company. There is a reason that both Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki recommend network marketing opportunities. Be willing to take a part time job like driving a school bus or working at a gas station to help out while you are looking.
And don't forget to help others as well. Doing service work for others and spending time with your family are important activities as well.
As you do all these things on a consistent basis, you will have better opportunities than others who fail to do them.
Remember, Network or Not Work. It's your choice.
Cleve Horrocks has been an employee, an employer, self-employed, and an employment counselor for his church. He is currently helping others learn how to market themselves and improve their business building activities. Go to his website www.AttractLeads.info for more information about obtaining leads for your home-based or network marketing company.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
SEO Basics
SEO Basics
One of the most difficult things for me to grasp when I started out online was this concept of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Surprisingly, SEO basics aren't really that difficult, and can be learned by almost anyone. There are just a few simple concepts, that if applied, will get you 80-90% of the way. The complicated stuff is the last 10-20% which will take time to learn and some serious study. But to get you started, these simple rules will work.
1. Decide what subject you want to write about. Anything that people want to learn about and will search online for answers to is a good place to start. Start with a subject you already know about.
2. Do some basic keyword research. Google's free keyword research tool is a good place to start. I use a program called Market Samurai which is free for just the basic keyword research, but the paid version includes much more.
3. After you've figured out the keywords you want to use and write about, pick a domain name that includes your main keyword phrase. It's surprising how much that one simple thing will help with your rankings.
4. Include that main keyword in your domain name, domain title, domain description, and domain keyword tags when you set up your domain.
5. Write an article about your subject that will be the main introduction on your domain home page. 450-700 words seems to be ideal.
6. In the first two sentences of your article include the same keywords as in your title and description.
7. Then use those same keywords again as you write your article once or twice in every 100 words or so.
Believe it or not, that really is it. SEO basics 101. These very simple concepts will put you ahead of most people who write content for the internet and get you ranked much higher. There are more things you will need to learn, but this is an easy place to start and they will help you get higher and higher rankings as you use and practice these principles.
Cleve Horrocks has been an entrepreneur most of his life in one form or another and loves to help others discover their passion and potential in life. Need leads for your home-based or network marketing business? Check out www.AttractLeads.info
One of the most difficult things for me to grasp when I started out online was this concept of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Surprisingly, SEO basics aren't really that difficult, and can be learned by almost anyone. There are just a few simple concepts, that if applied, will get you 80-90% of the way. The complicated stuff is the last 10-20% which will take time to learn and some serious study. But to get you started, these simple rules will work.
1. Decide what subject you want to write about. Anything that people want to learn about and will search online for answers to is a good place to start. Start with a subject you already know about.
2. Do some basic keyword research. Google's free keyword research tool is a good place to start. I use a program called Market Samurai which is free for just the basic keyword research, but the paid version includes much more.
3. After you've figured out the keywords you want to use and write about, pick a domain name that includes your main keyword phrase. It's surprising how much that one simple thing will help with your rankings.
4. Include that main keyword in your domain name, domain title, domain description, and domain keyword tags when you set up your domain.
5. Write an article about your subject that will be the main introduction on your domain home page. 450-700 words seems to be ideal.
6. In the first two sentences of your article include the same keywords as in your title and description.
7. Then use those same keywords again as you write your article once or twice in every 100 words or so.
Believe it or not, that really is it. SEO basics 101. These very simple concepts will put you ahead of most people who write content for the internet and get you ranked much higher. There are more things you will need to learn, but this is an easy place to start and they will help you get higher and higher rankings as you use and practice these principles.
Cleve Horrocks has been an entrepreneur most of his life in one form or another and loves to help others discover their passion and potential in life. Need leads for your home-based or network marketing business? Check out www.AttractLeads.info
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