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Gary Null is the Man
I recently found out about the work of Gary Null and his mission toward healthy living. He is absolutely amazing. His biography reads like lifetime achievement nominee for excellence in forwarding the prosperity of humanity. His counter culture naturalistic points of view towards health is backed up by his in depth reporting and research which has attained mainstream accolades.
Check out Gary Null’s site to hear what you I guarantee you wouldn’t want to miss.
Just what I thought
I remember when I used to look at all online businesses as scams, or collosal wastes of time that people did who were too dim witted to get a real job. I can see how people who don’t put their hand in these businesses would think that.
Creating an income online to most people is foreign. Even if they give it a shot then the fact they don’t see an immediate turnaround turns them off.
Most people look at things like that. That’s why most people aren’t wealthy.
You need to do extraordinary things to have an extraordinary life.
I’m not making this statement to encourage you to join some online business. I’m making this statement so you can realize you have to think outside the box in order to achieve uniqueness and greatness. Realize that todays taboos are tomorrows norms. Think of all the people that thought electricity was a fad, or America could never be an independent country much less a super power, or that a black man had a chance at being the president of the united states. Prematurely writing something off as unreasonable and unrealistic results in people often missing out on making theirs goals reality. Better yet, don’t think outside the box, realize there is no box.
Popular held beliefs aren’t alway accurate. A lot of social norms are in place to keep things orderly and civilized, keeping thing under control. That is a good thing. Not everyone is responsible enough to act on their own. A lot of people needs guidelines and rules, not to inhibit their life, but to in fact make it easier. Social norms give direction to the directionless.
With that said, there are a lot of us who have earned the right to govern our own way of living through vast knowledge of what is already out there. The problem is that social norms tend to discourage us from what is an otherwise rational decision.
Always remember, “If it was easy, everybody could do it.” The real question is do you have what it takes.
What does it take? Well it doesn’t take superhuman skills. It doesn’t take paranormal activity. All it takes is something we all have. A little bit of determination.
“A man who has never made a mistake, is a man who has never made anything” A great quote I heard a while back. It still rings true. It takes repetition in a lot of cases to become successful. More importantly, it takes a journey down the untraveled path. A journey few are fit for and others are born for. They just need to realize there is no box. All there really is, is freedom and opportunity to explore it.
Life’s defining moments
I was reading an article today about this guys defining moments of his life. It made me think about mine. The most defining moment of my life so far has been, Jan. 4 1998. The day I started interning for Big Dog Films. This event set a chain reaction of knowledge learned, experienced gained, and people met that has both blessed and cursed my life to this day. Blessed, because it opened the door to learn how to edit and got me involved with the creative process of film making meeting a bunch of great people. Cursed because I have been dogged out so badly by so many, if I were to tell you all about it, you’d have the makings of an Academy Award winning drama that no one would believe.
That’s pretty much it. no other big defining moments.
Understanding the gun before pulling the trigger
This is a continuation from a discussion I started yesterday. I thought it deserved its own discussion. Here we go!
To what level of depth does one need to understand the gun before pulling the trigger?
Does dumb luck ever play a place in contagiousness, or is it always created through precise action?
I think that’s a big question a lot of people need to know. I mean, If you are trying affiliate program after program, business model after business model for years, then all of a sudden, some obscure thing you did takes off, was it the work you put in or luck?
Are there people in this forum or out there that made millions after literally one month. I mean, not the exagerated half true stories that flood the net of
“Learn how I made 80 million dollars in 17 seconds from home in my underwear without wiping the drool from my mouth or taking my morning pee.”
A lot people can do numbers like that I suppose, but it usually takes years to figure out the strategy.
I wanna know, who are the real internet prodigies. No experience, no inclination, no idea what they’re doing, just dumb luck, making fortunes. I heard of some girl that made myspace layouts for her high school friends. No marketing experience. Not thinking about money. Now she does 1 million a year, employing her family. She probably has no idea to this day what SEO stands for.
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” True statement. But not always true. I know people that sometimes over analyze things so much they never get a chance to take action because someone else exploited the opportunity before them or, they analyzed it to the point where they diluted the opportunities essence and the core of the call to action is no longer the focus of the strategy, which usually turns out to failure.
Geometric progression, the power of compounding, the fact that the more content you put out there for a long period of time, the more it works in your favor with exposure, is an amazing force to reckon with on the internet but still. Is that what is solely responsible for success?
This more of rant than anything else but I felt it needed to be said.
So what do the novice to the experts think. The floor is yours
Spam Me!?, No, Spam You!
I mean, aren’t commercials and all advertising spam. If I’m watching my favorite episode of “Lost” and there is an interruption and I see some advertising for some product, isn’t that spam. It’s content administrator approved spam. Which means the people who brought me “Lost” approved it. Why am I giving these people so much power over what I need to see. What if something I really need to see isn’t approved by the people who brought me”Lost” and I miss out on crucial information for my life.
What about when I decide to go outside and walk around. Look at all the spam there (at least in New York). Billboards for anything and everything everywhere. I can’t even ride in a cab without an electronic “spam box” spewing spam at me.
I never asked to see these ads.
Who has control over that spam?
Do they really know whats best for me or do they just listen to whoever cuts the fattest check?
I get pre-approved credit card spam at my front door twice a week. Where is the real life Spam-assassin?
Spam is part of life no matter what name it goes by. The sad part is there is some great info out there beneficial to us but because of our spam over exposure and overload we will probably tune it out, leaving only the most wealthy spammers to get our attention, Coca Cola, Nike, McDonald’s, etc.. This happens with ideas too. Mental Spam. Religion. Trends. How many guys wore tight leather pants in the 80s and look back and say “What was on my mind”. I’ll tell you what, Fashion Spammers spammed you into believing in there trend. I see too many religious folk confused about there religious beliefs turning to me for answers and advice and I’m not religious. It’s a shame because there are lesser known and accepted beliefs that would make sense to a lot of people and help out a lot of people if they were exposed to it objectively.
Anyway, spam isn’t going anywhere. Matter fact we need spam. Spam regulation. There needs to be a third party spam governing body making sure all spam and advertising of public benefit gets to the people on the same level. Put the power back in the peoples hands to choose. Give the little guy a chance. He may change the history of mankind. He may have a lifestyle that decreases cancer by 90%. He may have a program to keep drugs off the street. He may have way to make prisons rehabilitation centers where felons become P.H.D lawyers with a 100% success rate (in actually this kind of program has already been started in NY but most people will never hear about it).
In closing, remember, listen to the little guy. 
10 Reasons Most Blogs Fail
Here is a list of reasons why most blogs fail by Chris Garrett. I think it is pretty accurate. I’m sure a lot of you have your own opinions. The truth of the matter is, most people can succeed at blogging for an income but most don’t. In short, people usually expect and want the immediate payoff, being short sighted in the long term. It takes a year or 2 to see any serious traffic from probably anything you do online. With that said, most people can’t wait for their 5 minute popcorn to pop (do they still make that). It takes another scarce trait too, determination. Figuring out certain internet jargon isn’t impossible but takes time (do you know how hard it was for me to set up this darn blog). Learning about adsense and affiliates isn’t an overnight process, but can be done. Anyway, enough of my rant, check the list tell me what you think.
- Not enough time – as Chris writes, it is hard work and takes time on an ongoing (daily ideally) basis
- Giving Up too quickly – most successful blogs don’t hit their strides til they are at least 12 months old
- Non commercial Topic – some topics are easier than others to find significant income streams for
- Lack of writing skills - like it or not, blogging is a written form and unless you are able to write you’ll almost always struggle
- Breaking the Rules - some bloggers get greedy and break the rules, either of the ad programs they use or the unwritten rules of blogging
- Distractions for the core functions of a blog – many get caught up in one of the many distractions that challenge bloggers and forget to concentrate on their actual writing of quality content
- Unluckiness – sometimes a blog’s success hinges on a lucky moment – miss it or fail to take the opportunities that come and you might miss significant rewards
- Taking Readers for Granted – I’ve seen a couple of blogs over the last year or so that fell over because the blogger became so self important that they forgot that a blog rises and falls upon whether it’s readers find the blog useful to them.
- Spreading self too thinly – many bloggers have the gift of being visionaries (a good thing) but fail to have the gift of realism. The result is that many start things that they have no way of seeing through or spread themselves across too many projects too quickly (to the detriment of all of them).
- Lack of Focus – hyperactive bloggers who flit from one unfinished project or idea to another without seeing anything through tend to fail to build sustainable blogs
My Green Mile
I was watching this incredible movie the other day and a couple of things came to mind.
#1 A question – If you were in a position to experience and know that someone you were dealing with was one of God’s miracles, like the way John Coffey was, but due to evidence in the court of law they were wrongfully guilty of a crime and sentenced to death to be carried out by you, would you carry it out or not in fear of being sentenced to damnation at the pearly gates?
I would not. No matter what the immediate cost to livelihood. But, I know a lot you still would deep down if it meant loss of status, home or personal peril.
For a lot of people the “here and now” means more than the “then and after”. I’m not trying to get religious or anything but I just think that this is an interesting perspective.
The other underlying message I got was how anti-death penalty the film was. I felt that point was very artistically executed. Anyway, Stephen King is genius like we didn’t already know that.
10 Blog Strategies guaranteed to persuade anyone!
Repetition
Talk to anyone well versed in learning psychology, and they’ll tell you repetition is crucial. It’s also critical in persuasive writing, since a person can’t agree with you if they don’t truly get what you’re saying.
Of course, there’s good repetition and bad. To stay on the good side, make your point in several different ways, such as directly, using an example, in a story, via a quote from a famous person, and once more in your summary.
Reasons Why
Remember the power of the word because. Psychological studies have shown that people are more likely to comply with a request if you simply give them a reason why… even if that reason makes no sense.
The strategy itself does make sense if you think about it. We don’t like to be told things or asked to take action without a reasonable explanation. When you need people to be receptive to your line of thinking, always give reasons why.
Consistency
It’s been called the “hobgoblin of little minds,” but consistency in our thoughts and actions is a valued social trait. We don’t want to appear inconsistent, since, whether fair or not, that characteristic is associated with instability and flightiness, while consistency is associated with integrity and rational behavior.
Use this in your writing by getting the reader to agree with something up front that most people would have a hard time disagreeing with. Then rigorously make your case, with plenty of supporting evidence, all while relating your ultimate point back to the opening scenario that’s already been accepted.
Social Proof
Looking for guidance from others as to what to do and what to accept is one of the most powerful psychological forces in our lives. It can determine whether we deliver aid to a person in need, and it can determine whether we muster the courage to kill ourselves.
Obvious examples of social proof can be found in testimonials and outside referrals, and it’s the driving force behind social media. But you can also casually integrate elements of social proof in your writing, ranging from skillful alignment with outside authorities to blatant name dropping.
Comparisons
Metaphors, similes and analogies are the persuasive writer’s best friends. When you can relate your scenario to something that the reader already accepts as true, you’re well on your way to convincing someone to see things your way.
But comparisons work in other ways too. Sometimes you can be more persuasive by comparing apples to oranges (to use a tired but effective metaphor). Don’t compare the price of your home study course to the price of a similar course—compare it to the price of a live seminar or your hourly consulting rate.
Agitate and Solve
This is a persuasion theme that works as an overall approach to making your case. First, you identify the problem and qualify your audience. Then you agitate the reader’s pain before offering your solution as the answer that will make it all better.
The agitation phase is not about being sadistic; it’s about empathy. You want the reader to know unequivocally that you understand his problem because you’ve dealt with it and/or are experienced at eliminating it. The credibility of your solution goes way up if you demonstrate that you truly feel the prospect’s pain.
Prognosticate
Another persuasion theme involves providing your readers with a glimpse into the future. If you can convincingly present an extrapolation of current events into likely future outcomes, you may as well have a license to print money.
This entire strategy is built on credibility. If you have no idea what you’re talking about, you’ll end up looking foolish. But if you can back up your claims with your credentials or your obvious grasp of the subject matter, this is an extremely persuasive technique.
Go Tribal
Despite our attempts to be sophisticated, evolved beings, we humans are exclusionary by nature. Give someone a chance to be a part of a group that they want to be in—whether that be wealthy, or hip, or green, or even contrarian—and they’ll hop on board whatever train you’re driving.
This is the technique used in the greatest sales letter ever written. Find out what group people want to be in, and offer them an invitation to join while seemingly excluding others.
Address Objections
If you present your case and someone is left thinking “yeah, but…”, well, you’ve lost. This is why direct marketers use long copy—it’s not that they want you to read it all, it’s that they want you to read enough until you buy.
Addressing all the potential objections of at least the majority of your readers can be tough, but if you really know your subject the arguments against you should be fairly obvious. If you think there are no reasonable objections to your position, you’re in for a shock if you have comments enabled.
Storytelling
Storytelling is really a catch-all technique—you can and should use it in combination with any and all of the previous nine strategies. But the reason why storytelling works so well lies at the heart of what persuasion really is.
Stories allow people to persuade themselves, and that’s what it’s really all about. You might say that we never convince anyone of anything—we simply help others independently decide that we’re right. Do everything you can to tell better stories, and you’ll find that you are a terribly persuasive person.
5 ways to make killer titles and opening paragraphs!
By Brian Clark
1. Ask a Question
Opening your post with a question is a rhetorical device (hence, the “rhetorical question”) that creates curiosity and gets the reader thinking. Thinking equals active engagement with your writing, and that’s a very good thing.
2. Share an Anecdote or Quote
Anecdotes are quick stories that can make people laugh or immediately establish the main point of your post. A nice quote from a recognizable authority or famous person can also work wonders when holding attention in those crucial opening seconds.
3. Invoke the Mind’s Eye
Producing a mental image in a reader’s mind is one of the most powerful things you can ever do as a writer, so expressly engaging the imagination is a powerful opening technique. Activate the mind’s eye of the reader by using words like “imagine,” “picture this,” “do you remember when,” etc.
4. Use an Analogy, Metaphor or Simile
Analogies, metaphors and similes are some of the most powerful devices available when it comes to telling a story in a single sentence. This is a great way to capture a reader’s attention and also acts to provoke mental imagery that allows readers to tell a story to themselves.
5. Cite a Shocking Statistic
Starting off with an interesting factoid is also a great technique. People love being provided with interesting data, but only if it is unique, startling, or even shocking. The statistic should also be directly relevant to the point of your post as well.
Bonus Tip: The third most important part of your blog post is the closing. A great way to close is to tie back into your opening.
So, which of the 5 techniques did I NOT use in the opening to this post?
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