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Bestseller Fiction Classics deserve better.

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That's why we've been updating them for you with new covers and decent descriptions. This all started as a program to enable writers to learn from the classics and so improve their own craft. However, it's popular support has broadened the scope to include the top 100 (or so) all-time popular classic fiction (and a few non-fiction) to enable any writer (or reader) to study from history's greatest. What we found is that these books - now in the public domain - have been given short shrift, with boring covers, cheap-quality printing, and poor (also boring) descriptions that don't communicate the excitement the millions of readers have shared over the years. And the ebook versions are mostly some sort of machine-code scene, with no table of contents and sometimes other horrible errors. Sure, they're free - but "you get what you pay for" has never been truer. So I started this campaign with a couple dozen books, just to see how they do - and now have committed to doing a full release for over 100 books. This will mean they get proper reviews, their own page on a respectful website, and ways you can find any version of these classics that you want - hardback or digital - all with some care to the reader, and respect for the original author and his works. I just wanted to drop you a note to say I'm working on this. Eventually, they'll all wind up in a catalog that you can download (for free) and so have access to all these versions. The great part is that they don't have to cost an incredible amount to get the best quality possible. The point is to give writers and readers, as well as the books and their authors, all possible respect. While this may take a good part of the upcoming year to create, it will be a labor of love - and so should go more quickly than someone getting paid to do this.  (Of course, these will have small prices on them, which will pay my bills while I re-publish these.) Thanks again for your support...

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How to Make MLM a Best Home Based Business Model

Posted on September 4, 2012 by robertworstell

In order to see MLM or any other model as a success, you need to do your due diligence and look at the risks and failures first.

The chief trap which people who get sponsored into any MLM have is their own emotions. When you start any MLM, you’re bombarded with all sorts of content in video’s and print about how great this is and how you can earn cars and bonuses and everything you’ve ever wanted.

They also probably roll out a few videos of millionaires who are making thousands per day and have been in this for years.

If you dig a little deeper, you’ll see big holes that you can fall into between just starting and getting to that millionaire status.

And this is the problem which home based businesses have in general – they don’t really have a workable business plan to begin with.

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Shaklee Basic H, Cinch, Miscanthus, and Creating Your World

The world is exactly as you consider it.

And it flies along completely according to your world-view.

All my testing along this line (and life could be considered only a test, with no pass/fail) has only brought me back to this point.

But thinking of you showed me that I simply needed to bring you all up to date on what I've been doing and what progress I've been having.

The farm life

I love farming. It keeps you real. Right now, we are dealing with getting ground ready for Miscanthus, a bio-fuel. It's been around over 1,000 years in Japan as a hybrid, and been grown in Europe since the early '80's as a biofuel. (If you look how much less trees there are and how much population has taken over most of those continents, this isn't particularly a surprise.) But MFA Oil has brought this into the mix and gotten a few acres able to be planted in the Midwest under a Federal Grant so we can see how this can be used to replace some of the coal we burn. (More information on miscanthus is found at the SEJ site.)

Anyway, this plant germinates at about 40 degrees F, so I've been out a couple of days this week and last, working up our fields to they'd be ready for planting this stuff. March. But corn doesn't usually go in until late April, and soybeans in May. So I've got a warm jacket on and I'm out cultivating these fields. Dusty and noisy - that's row-crop farming.

My cows are doing just fine. Somehow made it through a hay shortage (there's always some hay around if you want to look for it - at some price) and we're getting ready to wean this year's heifers. (We sell our "problem offspring" and make the bulls into steers so they won't be. )

The fields are starting to green up and I'll be spraying them this next week with some Shaklee Basic H in order to help them green up faster. Seems we ate them a bit close last fall and I need grass to sprout quickly now so I don't have to buy more hay.

Finding Legitimate Work From Home Jobs

Which brings me up to what I do in my spare time - earning a living. While the farm is more profitable this year, and is continuing to be, I still make my own spending money with other work. Freelance web design keeps me going. (And if you have to ask "how much?" you can't afford me.) But I'm always looking out for better and more remunerative ways to do things. Which lead me, interestingly, to Shaklee.

If you were lucky as a kid, your Mom raised you on Shaklee. But this business is still a "50-year-old startup", as some describe it. It's probably the oldest network marketing business in existence. They don't advertise except by word of mouth. And you probably can't order it unless you know someone who's an independent distributor (like me.)

The reason I got in is because it's a perfect fit (and the fact that for a $40 membership, you have a lifetime 15% discount.) You'll see when you check them out, that they spend most of their time double-checking their products to make sure they are the highest quality possible. And spend most of their income on paying their distributors for telling their friends and family about their products. And while I can go into a lot more here, just figure that my own reasons for Why Shaklee and Why Now are because I can work from home at my own schedule and have a continuing income to offset retirement costs. Plus stay healthy by investing in preventative measures such as supplements.

It's a perfect income opportunity, as I see it - there's a built-in online ordering system and no inventory to keep. So we are talking a perfect dropshipping opportunity. For a guy out in the boonies of no-where (by choice) this seems a no-brainer as a way to get some income rolling in. The entry costs are low (especially compared to starting up a fast food franchise)

Whatever happened to ThriveLearning System?

Well, I've been busy learning all about Shaklee, to be honest. Since I didn't have anything to write up about it, nothing new came out. It's all still there and workable. In fact, several people have been signing up for some of these programs from what I already wrote. This Shaklee Independent Distributor scene will just add into the Online Business part of that.

I've been studying up on surfactants and how to raise crops with less water using their naturally-derived Basic H. And this has been taking my time in researching and writing these articles. Basic H as a surfactant is a perfect match for this heavy clay soil we have on this farm. So I'm working up how to deal with this, as well as fixing an old sprayer we've had in order to get it running - but that's farm news, which we've already covered.

The next writing which took up my time was reading up on the Cinch Inch Loss Plan (Weight Loss Diet). This particular diet (yes, I've got a few pound more than I want to inflating this spare tire) is built around the point of using the amino acid leucine to preserve lean muscle mass so you actually burn fat instead (most diets do the reverse, which is why you feel worse shortly after starting).

And now I'm back to writing about you again.

Because all this work recently brought home the fact that "the world is exactly as you consider it to be." When I experience negative emotions, it's simply that I've somehow allowed these into my space (created them). So my practice has been to remove all the noise-sources which generate these. Just let them move off my lines. I was on a local board just to see what I could learn about politics and civic duty, and found out (confirmed) that boards are mostly useless for getting anything done. And people who man them have very little else to do in their lives, so can get pretty defensive about almost nothing. Needless to say, I quit when I found that (although it's not official yet - I'd like to fade away quietly.) Because I'm pretty creative and energetic normally. I don't need to invest my time in monthly meetings where a bunch of old men get together to just bitch and complain, while the manager quietly and efficiently runs the business the rest of the month. You don't try to get anything done via a board. 

But I will spend hours twice a month with my local Shaklee guys (and gals) to figure out how we can get more people into this scene so they can improve their lives.  There's quite a difference there. You get out of life what you put into it. So if you are just bitching and moaning, then that's what you're going to get back. But if you are creating a new and better world with every moment of every day, then you will get a much better outcome all around you.

My tractor brought this home to me. You see, every now and then, it doesn't like to start. Has to do with a rebuilt starter that doesn't mesh exactly right. If I simply get myself all metaphysically connected back into the earth beneath the tires of the tractor, it starts right up. But if I'm busy being an "rugged individual" then the machine won't start until I am. Kinda hard to explain, but it works for me.

All life has lessons, if you just are willing to learn. And in order to learn, you should teach as best you can.

The Judiciary System: Your #1 Right!

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Many complain how our "rights" are being taken away.

A few are ready to fight-and-die to protect our "rights".

But few know what is their #1 Right!

In fact, the main reason we're losing so many of our rights these days is precisely because so few know their #1 Right!

That's right! (No pun intended.)

Ask yourself this, "What good are "rights" that can't be enforced?"

Your #1 Right is the right to know how to enforce your rights!

Yet, government isn't telling you!

Your tax-supported schools aren't teaching your children.

 Lawyers certainly aren't leaking their money-making secrets to the public.

An old adage says, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse," yet neither government nor the legal profession has at any time in the history of the world made any genuine effort to teach the public how justice is secured in courts. Nothing about the rules of evidence. Nothing about the rules of procedure. Nothing about how to use the rules to get Justice! Nothing!

Without your #1 Right (or tens of thousands of dollars to pay lawyers to secure your rights for you) what good are government's empty promises?

Indeed, if you don't know how to enforce your rights, do you really have any?

Do you really?

Think carefully!

Rights without knowledge to enforce them are just empty promises, like carrots on a stick to get us to work hard and keep the economy going for the well-to-do who can afford lawyers to fight for them!

You and your children have been lied to long enough!

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Just sending a quick post out to everyone.

The point is that it seems sensible to learn how to be a distributor in order to make it these days.

I hope to bring up tips and tricks on helping people live better, more healthy lives. To do this, I am considering a dropship company called Shaklee which does a decent job. At least for 50+ years now...

So here we go...

Living the American Dream...

- or - Can you make a good living in harmony with Nature?

An open letter to all my friends - present, past, and those yet to be::

Well, now I've gone and done it. And, as usual, ask you to reject everything I am about to tell you - at least until you've proven it for yourself.

You probably know how I've spent most of the half-century on this planet working out how this universe works, boiling it down and making it simple for anyone to understand. And next after that was to make Enlightenment (aka: satori, cosmic consciousness) also easy to achieve. Finally, I worked out what a person was to do with all those possibilities they have after that high state was theirs forever.

These are all written up and available as books. (The final one is available for free here, and courses on what I cover are here.)

Now, it's all fine to have a high personal state and so on - but what good is it if your broke and can't afford to buy good food to keep your health?

A person has to make a living meanwhile. And more money is always better.

But to be honest, while I've been figuring this "making a living" stuff out, it's been quite convoluted. Mainly because unless you are dealing with someone who is particularly honest and straightforward, there's always a bit of a slant or scam in it. So that has to be weeded out as well. (And of course, I was more interested in sorting some major issues like regaining native freedom, peace, and personal abundance to worry about this other much.)

Here's the logic of what to look for in making a living:

A living can (and probably should) be made without being part of the conventional "system".

It will probably involve the Internet, but for sure it will involve your own network of friends and associates.

Everybody has to win at this. And that means every single person on this chain of contacts which stretched through any and every life you touch.

While I was checking down these lines, most all regular businesses fell out and didn't make the cut. And as I do web design to pay my bills, I run across a lot of different business models. And this research was after I did the work of sorting out whether college degrees made a difference (they don't) and where entry-level jobs would take you (not very far, even after a 20-30 year career with a single company.)

The point all my research repeatedly pointed to this: you have to ignore what passes for conventional "wisdom" and find what really works.

As I've told you before, the other half of the "Thrivelearning System" is based on individual work:

Knowing the basics of how to make money - and getting really clear on this.

Having a website which makes you money and train how to make money online.

Doing the research which allows you to find valuable products which you believe in but can dropship - or do affiliates sales for - and so carry no (or little) product in your own home.

All the best companies down this line have extensive training available at no cost. All of them. They really want you to succeed personally.

But the main points are those three above, regardless of the company

What I uncovered recently was a single program which fit all these. Now it doesn't mean that these others I found (and still recommend) are obsolete. And all that above training you may have taken up to this point will amplify what I'm about to tell you.

One of the funny things is that the company behind this program, as well as the program itself,  is that it's as old as I am. Both of us started the same year. And I'd heard about it all my life. When I did a web design for one of its distributors, I had to do my usual amount of homework to understand what he and his wife were trying to do with their lives. And they had very busy lives - he's a 4-time national truck-pulling champion and had a full-time business building racing engines. She works full time for the government in their agriculture branch. But in this last year, they were able to make a full time income using the scraps and pieces of time they had laying around - essentially by just listening to people they meet and friends, then helping them as best they could.

That sounds just too easy, doesn't it? But it was true - they made over $30K in a year, plus got enough to pay half of a new car. You can see them talking on that new website I just built this last week: Real-Life-Choices.com

The product and business is Shaklee.

Yes, that's all hard to believe - and I don't expect you to.  

Why I'm interested in this is that it's probably the best business model you can have these days. It is basically recession-proof and you earn as much as you work, not just how long you work. It's the retirement you want, not what your company or the government is willing (or able) to give you. (More absurd claims I expect you to reject. Please.) And the "work" isn't really - it's helping people. 

As usual, I ask you to not believe anything I say - to only check it out for yourself. Just another opportunity.

Also also as usual, I'm running way too long on this.

The YouTube video channel to check out on this is FC Shaklee.

And if you like it, you can check out their products here.

Your choice, as usual.

Thanks for being there.

PS. Here's those links to the products I mentioned above:

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

Master social network marketing - Charles Heflinâ€'s Synnd

Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken Evoy's Site Build It!

Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally -€" Dr. Frederick Graves' Jurisdictionary

(I've been reviewing some material lately about online business from An Online Sunshine Plan, and thought to make some excerpts available so you can improve your life as you are leading it. These are also on scribeshare.net, and are linked or embedded below. Thanks for visiting.)

  Simple schedules to make your online marketing more effective

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  Getting your schedules, daily and weekly, is one of the keys to success in online marketing.

Some lessons come slowly - at least to me. Schedules are a necessary part to achieving goals. But sticking to them sometimes gets in the way of intuitive, right-brained, imaginative flights-of-fancy.

At least that's how I see it.

For some twenty-plus years, I was part of a corporate cult-ure which ate up over 60 hours of my time every week. There were policies, strategies, evaluations, analysis, production conferences, financial planning meetings, very few perks, and lots of penalties. So finally I quit and "retired" to the family farm to sort things out (which is going along quite well, I can say after 7 years here).

But I really developed a resistance to all this structure. I'm an artist at heart, but an engineer lives in there, too - so I'm all about figuring things out and letting out some of that inspired brilliance whenever I can.

So, like Europe after Rome collapsed (who saw frequent bathing as to "Romanesque"), I gave up all the structure of "weekly analysis based on the progress on strategic plan execution" in order to be more than a bit Bohemian. However, I did manage to keep to three time slots daily/weekly (one for farm, one for work, one for my artistic and Internet urges) out of necessity. Farm was to provide my room and board. Work keeps my bills paid. The third one is for "everything else".

Now this worked fine for awhile. I went back to college (for the first time) and was able to complete a few degrees. I wrote some books and started marketing them - having to learn all sorts of stuff about online marketing, which work still continues.

But when I really got torqued about my day job, I got motivated to do something about it. Like Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", I now had a BURNING DESIRE (his emphasis). I hated my day job and would do most anything to replace it. A good sales pitch and a chunk of change on a credit card gave me an additional reason to succeed.

When I finally started taking their lessons to heart, I gave a post yesterday about the lesson's learned.

You have to start with your vision-to-accomplish and work this down into weekly and daily To-Do lists, when you then do. Each day, you need to review your vision statement (2 or 3 times or more is best and then your plan. From these, you then check over your recent To-Do's and see what it is you should now be doing next to move your existing scene toward your envisioned scene.

At the beginning of each week, you write a list of steps to do that will get parts of your current planning done. Then work from that weekly To-Do list to make your daily To-Do list. Simple.

Current planning? Yes, you are going to update your planning as you learn more and get more networking accomplished. Hill said to revise your planning as many times as you need to in order to get the best approach to your vision.

You are going to have to have a daily schedule for your work - the stuff that's going to make you financially independent. And it's going to have to include:

Open your binder or folder where you keep all your traffic for that particular business. (Get one if you don't have one. This is a basic organizing tactic.)

Check and review your vision statement - and envisioning it with all the emotions connected to it, getting the idea that it's already here.

Check your plan to see if it's accurately going to achieve that vision statement - and tweaking/revising as needed.

Check your Weekly To-Do list for what is done and what you can do today.

Write your Daily To-Do list off that - and what you didn't finish yesterday.

Check your emails so they don't back up, which includes eliminating spam and opting out of non-productive mailing lists.

Review your RSS feed aggregator - and streamlining this to only those sites which give you truly useful data on a regular basis. (Sure, you can get your news this way, but take care you don't get sucked into Yahoo's daily 100 posts... "useful data" is the key.) You find and subscribe to useful blogs/sites so you get new data quickly, faster than you could log onto that many sites - and less distractive.

Allot some time here to leave appropriate comments on any site/post that allows you to leave your site url. (And consider unsubscribing from those who won't.)

Now, take some time to check your metrics and see how your sales are doing, how your website is converting your customers. Might be something you do one day out of the week. But if you can convert it to an hour or so daily, it will help you keep on top of things.

Note down poorly performing web pages you have. Or pages you can't metricize. (Google Analytics has a free program for you which fits on most public pages.) Figure out if you have to tweak these or note for later overhaul.

Your next piece of time will be in developing new products to sell and/or launching a marketing campaign for these. If you do a single new product every week, then spend the rest of that week (or the next week) marketing it, you'll have between 20 and 50 new products creating revenue every year.

Just before end of your slotted production time, check off the To-Do items you accomplished and note which are still in-progress. Put your list in your binder or folder to keep it secure, then close it for the day.

There you have it - a simple way to organize your life and business to stay on top of everything you have to do and to get it all done.

You have to be prepared to run your business as a business. Doesn't mean you can't love what you do - you really should, after all, because why are you doing what you really don't like to do?

Get your binder so you can organize your business into a highly efficient scene. And watch your profits grow and grow as your real work becomes more and more enjoyable.

Good Hunting!!

  1Here’s the short prescription for success:

a. Study Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” - particularly the second chapter.

b. Study Wallace Wattles’ “Science of Getting Rich”, particularly the summary.

c. Get a copy of Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret” recording and listen to it. (All of these are available on-line as free downloads.)

d. Follow what these authors say to do. And study these regularly.

A Guide to the Thrivelearning System - Links and Resources

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

Master social network marketing - Charles Heflin’s Synnd

Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken Evoy's Site Build It!

Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally – Dr. Frederick Graves' Jurisdictionary

Get and stay scam free from here on out - Get Scam Free (book and online course)

Additional Thrive Learning Sites:

Thrive Alliance Best Education Guide Business Startup Resources in Wisconsin Thrive Cafe - Seattle Organizational and Personal Effectiveness Thrive Learning Management System

    OSP article excerpt: Schedule for Online Marketing

(I've been reviewing some material lately about online business from An Online Sunshine Plan, and thought to make some excerpts available so you can improve your life as you are leading it. These are also on scribeshare.net, and are linked or embedded below. Thanks for visiting.)

  Setting your strategic Internet marketing scheduling

- may be the key to your sanity and profits...

  Now I've recently completed a third course this summer in marketing and web building. To say the least, my head was full to bursting - until I sat down and scratched it all out on a yellow pad.

The simple priorities are these:

You have to make profitable sales to stay in business.

You have to market to get leads and convert these to buyers.

You have to research and review your progress against plans you made.

Now, these three programs agreed on these three, but differed in how to get them done - and in the sequence you should work on them.

There were simply a few points they also agreed on as to how to do this - but they didn't agree on an order:

Build your web presence with a web host and a domain name.

Use a WordPress blog to add content.

Add monetized links that are relevant and contribute to the content.

Promote actively - often three times more than you would spend on anything else.

Since these courses were all built on search engine discovery, they all had basic SEO tactics in that training. Two of the three were hinged on social media marketing (which is a bit of an oxymoron, since social media shun marketers...)

But our point is how to organize this. I've read the stories where a person spent months on building up an ecommerce site only to make nothing on it (and thank Gawd for his day job...) My first training was devoted utterly to learning how to use their proprietary web-building software.

And the other extreme was a course where they spend hours telling you how to do social marketing - 15/16's of the course, in fact - and then gave the final hour was on how to monetize. Meaning that the bulk of their students would simply opt for more training - since what they taught in that sequence would keep the person broke.

However, the breakthrough was in the third one. Here, they said to do your research and find your market first - but that you were also finding how to monetize it as part of that research. Then you built your blog and started promoting.

Let me break with all three - they are all right and also wrong.

You don't build anything overnight.

You do continuously build and refine what you already had going.

Promotion is a big part of marketing, but you also have to monetize constantly to convert viewers to buyers.

And you have to have a plan, plus review the metrics of that plan to make any success.

Part of this was learning and breaking down a Jack Humphrey 60-day plan. Which was great - but it really was a finite recipe and couldn't be used without a great deal of other data. (Which is why they only gave it to you behind a hefty paid subscription.)

When gridded out, that plan really boiled down to a repeating set of actions, plus adding one or two new promotional outlets each week. 8 weeks of basic content addition, plus tons of promotion.

But it was even simpler than that.

Weekly schedule:

Research and Review: Review your previous week, all metrics, and create your to-do list.

Monetize: Find new income sources (affiliates or new products) that you can add - and sign up for them or create them for your sales funnel.

Promote: Content - add more linkbait (truly memorable blog posts) to your site.

Promote: Comment - find where people are linking to your site and comment on theirs. Or Stumbleupon, Digg, or Twitter about them, if no direct comment possible.

Promote: Converse - join in the conversation on various forums which have to do with your niche.

So: Research/Review - Monetize - Promote - Promote - Promote.

This also follows a longer cycle of what you are going to be doing. In the beginning, you need to spend a sizable amount of time defining your niche and the long-tail keywords you want to optimize for (and write content about). Part of this will be finding if that niche is actually one where people spend money - and you'll be finding affiliates or products that can be sold within that niche. Once you have these two established, you can spend the rest of the time promoting and getting yourself - and your products - known.

Those are the bare bones - and you can see that this has lots more below it to make it work.

But I hope you can use this to streamline what you're doing and so become more profitable...

PS. Note that this is only five days worth of work. Take the weekend off with your family - or go read a book - or go hiking -- or do some more of whatever you still need to get done with your jobs... Your choice.

A Guide to the Thrivelearning System - Links and Resources

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

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    OSP article excerpt: Strategic Internet Marketing

(I've been reviewing some material lately about online business from An Online Sunshine Plan, and thought to make some excerpts available so you can improve your life as you are leading it. These are also on scribeshare.net, and are linked or embedded below. Thanks for visiting.)

How and why you have to organize to get anything done.

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Suddenly hit me when I was all sour about the stuff I had to get done compared to what I wanted to get done.

It wasn't some mystic/spiritual attitude adjustment I needed to do, but rather simply following my own advice.

For many years, within that corporation I was part of for so long, I was very (VERY) good at consulting and counseling. But the key thing I kept dealing with in other peoples' lives was their lack of organizing. And that corporation had some definite instructions about how to organise, and as an internal consultant, I had narrowed down those instructions to just a few issues. And applied them myself to my own overloaded/undermanned scene so that I lived a fairly comfortable existence (within their pretty bizarre corporate structure).

The problem is that I threw out everything I had been following when I left that corporate structure, figuring that if and when I needed some data that was actually vital, I'd simply be able to pull it back up again and start applying it. Meanwhile, I was going to go out on my own and see what the rest of the world (did I mention this was a corporate cult?) had to say about how to get things done.

All these books I'd been studying and serendipitously discovering - they all kept saying the same things:

Concentrate on your goal

Discover your own purpose

Develop a "burning desire" and devote all your energies toward that end.

Plan your work, work your plan.

And as I meandered around, I saw that the more I didn't apply those few datums, the more I kept having to do something else for someone else. Unhappiness continued to surface.

Looking back to times where I was getting things done, showed that (regardless of the corporate mess I had gotten myself into) - there were times when I was actually getting things done and making some progresss, at least toward their goals if not my own.

The conflict between their goals and mine finally reached a peak and I left.

Now I just had my own goals to discover, sharpen, and achieve.

At this particular point (today), I find that I now know all I actually have to know to make a success online (which is the cheapest and most recession-proof of getting things accomplished.

So why aren't I rich already?

Because I'm not following my own advice.

Here's the advice I use to set out for others:

Figure out what you actually should be doing, producing, or presenting.

Figure out what your ideal scene or situation should be.

Work your production sequence out backwards from your final product to where you start. Include all the sub-products you need to create along the lines.

List all the hats/jobs that need to be done to get your production actually done.

Work out a schedule in sequence so you can get these all done. This will be daily/weekly/monthly - as not all jobs have to be done every day or every week.

Write a plan for yourself to get this organization in.

Now, here's the basic policy we used to use in that corporation - which really has quite a reputation for getting things "done" (even if what they were doing was a bit "tetched" at times):

Evaluate your scene based on the ideal you want to achieve. Find the key point that, if handled, keeps you from achieving that ideal scene.

Write a program which will move you from where you are to where you want to be - within the existing resources you now have.

Now, write a weekly To-Do list which starts getting that program done - includes everything you really need to get done this week.

Every day, write a daily To-Do list which gets that weekly list done.

At the end of the week, review your progress, as well as production metrics, to see if you are getting closer or further away from that ideal scene. Also look to see what steps on your To-Do from the week before actually got done - which means what steps of that program got done.

Write a new weekly To-Do for the new week, which has steps to correct anything which moved you into the wrong direction and actually gets your programmed production done.

When that program is done, or close to done, evaluate your current scene against the ideal you want to achieve and find what key steps you need to take to move you forward again.

Then, start writing you weekly and daily To-Do's again to get this done.

Organization by folders

As well, there was a physical organization that went along with it.

They had corporate administrators which oversaw production. And they reviewed and handled production for several different areas and had to keep things straight. So they used folders for each area they had to handle. I used a version of this personally.

In that folder:

Inside left cover: current evaluation write-up with program on top. Stapled in or under a binder-clip.

Weekly To-Do on top of that, under a paperclip.

Right inside cover: Daily To-Do's. A copy of the metrics were kept just below the DTDs - this was on graph paper, ran on usually a quarterly basis (at least 12 weeks) and was updated by hand. A new daily To-Do was made out every day and put on top of the old one (usually paper-clipped together by the week.)

At end of week, these were collected and stapled together with the Weekly To-Do on top.

Analysis of last week's progress was in a short paragraph at the top of the next week's To-Do.

Program was updated with all the steps marked off as done.

New weekly To-Do was then slipped under the paperclip on the inside cover and the first daily To-Do was written and placed on top of everything else on the right side.

Using a clipboard for mobile organization

Now, I used to keep all this on a clipboard if I had to move around a production line - and then clean out that clipboard weekly and filed it in that folder. This is so you can track several different production areas.

On the clipboard:

Bottom - program with current steps you're working on on top.

Next up - the weekly To-Do

Next - A grid for the week of all the key metrics you were tracking. These were set up so that you set production goals for the week on every metric and then broke them down into what needed to be accomplished that day. For five days, if you had a 200 widget goal, you'd have 40 widgets being produced each day. And you kept this marked every day, finding out from that area what they had accomplished the day before. So you knew if something was not on quota and could concentrate on figuring out how to debug that area. I also marked in last week's production by days, so I could see if I was ahead or behind in what I needed to produce.

Above that, your daily To-Do with the steps you needed to take to get that production and accomplish that program.

Daily, I'd write that day's To-Do against the metrics and the weekly To-Do. Then follow that daily To-Do. Best was to write it out first thing in the am.

At the end of the week, the clipboard was cleaned out, a new metric-grid printed off and filled in with the week-before's production and quotas for this coming week. New Weekly To-Do, new daily To-Do.

Use 3-ring binders for an individual online freelancer

Now - to apply this to your own daily scene, and to adapt it for the individual freelancer - we would make some changes.

Keep everything in a 3-ring binder, punching holes in your papers to keep everything in.

Inside left - your program, with weekly To-Do on top of that.

Inside right - daily To-Do. Grid of your metrics below that - week to week for online business.

Assemble your daily To-Do's with your Weekly To-Do and put these all in sequence, maybe clipped together by each week for the last few weeks - whatever works and doesn't get in your way. You need to be able to quickly see what you'd done in earlier weeks for your analysis.

But where you get other data, like nifty print-outs of stuff online - or production notes - or brainstorming -- put these into the back of that binder (behind a divider) or into a separate binder. Date these, but organize by type and use - so you can find what you need again. Use post-it's as tabs is one idea, particularly colored ones. With two binders, one is straight, hard-core production. The other is bright ideas and stuff to do to improve your scene. This latter one will be used when you write your new program.

Writing Programs

Essentially, you are doing weekly and quarterly production analyses. You'll also do fuller analysis when your program finishes. Your To-Do's are mini and micro versions of your program, designed for that time period immediately ahead of you. The program should be designed to last about 3 months, but can last as long as it takes.

Now, this doesn't mean you can't update your analysis and program as needed - particularly if it looks like a program is bugged and will need special handling to get it back on the rails.

If you aren't doing a major re-write, just a debug - then simply put this debug program on top of the other program and orient your To-Do's toward getting this debug program done first and then get back to your original program. Retire the debug program behind the original program when it's complete.

Once a program is fully complete - or replaced by a new program, retire the program with all it's To-Do's into a records binder. And when that records binder gets too full, empty it into a labeled file folder and put that into a file cabinet or banker's box so you can refer to it if you ever need to again. (And keep these for five years or so, then chuck. Five years is an eon in Internet time.) You'll have something like four folders a year (one for each quarter), and something less than 100 sheets in that folder. So one banker's box should hold all your archives.

And this is also why you keep your bright ideas separate. Those stay in binders and go on to your shelves if you find yourself too full and not referring to them much. These give a different way to anaylyze what you've been doing.

Advantages of Weekly and Daily To-Do's

Really, this allows you to concentrate on just what immediate targets you should be taking.

The program can get overwhelming when you try to get a grip on everything you want to get done over the next few months.

Get inspired once a quarter or so, and write that long-term plan to make your goals.

Then only focus on what you can realistically get done that week, while taking the steps needed to set other actions in motion which will be needed later.

Like cooking a meal. Not everything is best clunked into the microwave. And you also have to clean dishes on a daily basis. Food preps and shopping are also steps you need to take - but these are best done when the prices are lowest and it is most convenient for you. So you might set a stew or roast going in the Crock-Pot before you head out the door, but taking a sandwich and fruit and a thermos of tea with you for lunch. (Breakfast was something simple, like oatmeal with milk and fruit.) Then, when you get home, you dish out some stew with vegetables and some sliced bread with butter and jam. Pour yourself some fresh milk. While you have all the day's dishes in the dishwasher, you put the rest of the stew into small containers in the fridge or freezer so you can warm them up again on a later day. Put the dishes away before you go to bed so everything is set for the next morning.

From the above, you can see what steps you have on a Daily To-Do in order to feed yourself. Of course, you don't write these out - but that example shows you how something could be organized for immediate and future actions.

How to start this

You probably already have some piles of paper sitting around. Some are partial programs, some notes, some inspired ramblings.

Simply gather all of these up, punch holes in them, and put them into a binder - behind a divider. Fresh start.

Write a comprehensive program in sequence of what you need and want to achieve.

Print that program off and put it under a binder clip in the front left of that binder.

Write a To-Do for the next week (even if you only have a few days left) and clip that in front of that program.

Write a To-Do list of targets to get done today and hole punch it - put it in the rings on top of everything on the right. Note what metrics you need to achieve - or that you need to figure out some metrics that will help you track your goals as a target for the week.

Start getting that daily To-Do done.

Tomorrow, you'll check off your weekly To-Do and then write another Daily To-Do, hole-punch it, and put it on yesterday's To-Do - then work that one for the day.

If you don't have a binder and 3-hole punch, put it on a clipboard. No clipboard? Find a paperclip and a stiff piece of cardboard. And then when you can, get to the store and buy your needed supplies. Make a list of them and then note down what day you should do your shopping. Then work that list.

Summary

Know your goal. Plan for that goal and then work your plan. Break down your actions and track them daily and weekly. Review your goals progress quarterly. Keep track of your metrics to see how you are or aren't achieving your goals.

Use binders and files to keep yourself organized and focused.

And if you have people working for you, see if they can't profit from the system you work out.

There's a lot more to organizing than this - but the principle is the same: break larger areas down into smaller ones so you can concentrate on just those smaller parts.

Luck with this!

  A Guide to the Thrivelearning System - Links and Resources

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

Master social network marketing - Charles Heflin’s Synnd

Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken Evoy's Site Build It!

Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally – Dr. Frederick Graves' Jurisdictionary

Get and stay scam free from here on out - Get Scam Free (book and online course)

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    OSP article excerpt: Why and How to Organize Your Operation

(I've been reviewing some material lately about online business from An Online Sunshine Plan, and thought to make some excerpts available so you can improve your life as you are leading it. These are also on scribeshare.net, and are linked or embedded below. Thanks for visiting.)

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The 2 Reasons Affiliate and Bum Marketers Fail are simple:

1. Lack of focus 2. No Long-term orientation

Taking the first, where affiliate marketers fail is that they don't keep to one approach. They are constantly seeking and finding very lucrative, but narrow/shallow approaches. The products they offer are mostly of the same ilk - get rich quick, or these 30-page ebooks for $15 which are just one-off products.

The failure here is to keep looking for new things instead of really building up around a central, valuable theme.

This leads us to the second point. Affiliate marketers fail - or just continue struggling to succeed (same difference) as they don't consistently provide incredible value in a given niche. The knuckleheads I've dealt with along this line consistently bring me new products through my email portal, all of which are glowingly represented as being a "new way to make money!" or tell with lengthy lists of testimonials about how this new ebook or product will... But the products are all over the place - hair products, diet products, forex manuals, you name it.

What these marketers fail to do is to develop a line of products which services a single, narrow niche completely. The worst of the lot are the people selling marketing products to marketers. Because they are simply feeding this addictive, attention deficit problem. Most all of these new marketing approaches are the same, just tacked on and glossed up with new terminology.

Real successful marketers find a problem area they have a solution for and then sell variations and expansions of that system to those same customers and gradually expand that narrow niche slightly wider - or pick up a related niche and bring their old clients over to this new one.

This is having and building a "sales funnel" of a consistent line of goods. Any accomplished sales organization does this. These are called "department stores". And you can do the same online as in the brick and mortars.

But the Internet also allows people to shallowly sell a wide variety of products and not have to build any base to actually get recurring customers.

And this route ensures that you are constantly looking for new stuff to sell and ways to sell it. And you are also always looking for new customers and clients.

The solution:

Build a base. Means you can actually drop all these various products into a blog or an ecommerce engine (and now you can host blogs inside ecommerce engines - they are built on the same code, basically).

That blog or ecommerce site then has all the data a person would need about a given product - and they could find, by category or search, what they were actually looking for. And then would come back to find other stuff they were needing.

The affiliate salesperson, would then keep looking for bargains and drop them into this base. Sure, they keep building stand-alone sales pages and mini-webs, but these then point to the ecommerce base or blog page where that person could then contact the affiliate sales line.

Essentially, they need an online catalog of all the various items they are selling. And when they send out emails, it's "look what I just found for you!" "Come see my site to see what the latest is!" It's not "here's what I dug up that you can buy now."

That's where I simply opt out of that person's mail list.

But people who do have some great content - really helpful stuff - I keep coming back to them, their blog, their ecommerce site. Because they've done the research so I know that what they offer is good stuff, or at least is amusing.

Solution Steps:

Know what you really like to do and how you like to help people.

Find stuff that will help people and offer it to them in return for something they want to give you. (Like a decent price, or an email address that works.)

Set up a base so that people can find out more about you and your products on their own.

Promote that base along with any product you are offering.

Keep building onto that base with every new product you find.

Streamline what you are doing and dropping old products that no longer sell, or drive customers away.

Turn long-term clients into working as affiliate sales people for you.

Luck and Good Hunting!

  A Guide to the Thrivelearning System - Links and Resources

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

Master social network marketing - Charles Heflin’s Synnd

Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken Evoy's Site Build It!

Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally – Dr. Frederick Graves' Jurisdictionary

Get and stay scam free from here on out - Get Scam Free (book and online course)

Additional Thrive Learning Sites:

Thrive Alliance Best Education Guide Business Startup Resources in Wisconsin Thrive Cafe - Seattle Organizational and Personal Effectiveness Thrive Learning Management System

  OSP article excerpt: 2 Reasons Marketers Fail

(I've been reviewing some material lately about online business from An Online Sunshine Plan, and thought to make some excerpts available so you can improve your life as you are leading it. These are also on scribeshare.net, and are linked or embedded below. Thanks for visiting.)

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Starting a Small Business Online: You have to start by picking out a basket to put your eggs in.

Trite (but true) aphorisms:

One always learns from his mistakes.

And as well, hindsight is 20-20.

Thirdly, what you don't take care of in the beginning can set you back to the beginning.

Or you'll seem to think that. But it's not time to get depressed about things. Take stock of your resources and you'll find that you've been learning all the time. And are now in a much better condition to get really going. This next time will be faster.

I recently found myself back at doing what I should have done to begin with. However, I didn't know it at the time. The reason my sales aren't taking off is that I never set up a proper back end (terminal), followed by a regular runway, and using a definite flight plan.

The steps are simply in this sequence:

A proper back end first consists of having something valuable to offer.

Next, you set up a way to exchange for this - either affiliate sales, or dropshipping, or ecommerce.

Then, you promote this all over the place. So people can find your valuable offer and take you up on it.

And all of this is before you quit your day job.

Nothing new, perhaps. But here is something - and take this to heart:

You settle on one valuable item and get that really moving before you expand to another.

Sure, if it doesn't work out, then fine - start researching and picking out another. Now that you know what reasearch you need to do, the second one will be easier.

Practically, pick out your basket - one basket - and then get some eggs into it. And watch those eggs real closely

But the basket comes before the eggs (figuring that the chicken is around there somewhere - but let's not go there...) Basket first.

A. What is something valuable that you can offer to people who will exchange something with you for them?

Now, go and find out all about that item and what people think about it. Find your keywords, find your delivery methods, find out the demographics who will buy or subscribe to it. Get all this nailed down.

B. Next, figure out your delivery system. If this is an info product, figure out how you can offer it online and deliver it at very low cost - usually, this is an ecommerce site of some sort. If someone else already has that product, maybe you promote and sell it as an affiliate. Or you sel it directly and they dropship it for you. Or you buy in bulk, warehouse, and ship it yourself.

C. Third is to figure out how to promote it. Nowadays, this is best done through social media - a blog, usually - and also posted to the winds through bookmarking sites, etc. Some people tell you to use PPC (not me) to get started. And I recently found an article where the author recommended it as a temporary jump-start to get things going. (I don't tell people starting out to advertise as you can lose your budget very quickly with no results - and the best advertisement is by getting word of mouth through excellent products and delivery.)

D. Now, once you have successfully sold and delivered goods which are making you money - then expand into another (niche) line of work, another (niche) product. You use what you learned from the first time and expand. You keep producing and delivering products from the first one, but now you have some more income and probably some more time to invest in ramping up another product. This can be an additional product in the same niche, or a new product line in a new niche area. (Preferably related to the first, either in main subject, or in delivery mode - so you can use the existing shopping cart and blogs to start promoting these new products.)

Make the second line as or more successful than the first, and then start up a third. Research first, always.

As you continue to do this, life becomes simpler and more profitable.

But again: basket first, then eggs - and then to market.

- - - -

Here's the special news for all those stalwart readers who have made it this far:

I'm restarting the Online Millionaire Plan (and you have it in your hand as the Online Sunshine Plan) and reworking it from the bottom up. Meaning that I'm going to take all the many volumes of work I've already done so far and verifying the tests and results. And then re-release new versions with new materials. The emphasis will be on practical application for this new economic scene we just inherited. How to start or expand a small business online on a very small (tiny) budget. Step by step. I figure with all the mis-steps I've already taken, and the tons of data I've already poured through, this should be pretty valuable and useful. Emphasis will be on each step, tying it back into the overall.

And now I know how to really give value as we go, so I'll tell you the tips and secrets uncovered during this line of work.

Stay tuned to http://robertworstell.com - as this is where I'll give the core data - a lot of my peripheral blogs will be changing as I do. But I'll also tell you why and how to apply it on your own.

Good Hunting!!

  A Guide to the Thrivelearning System - Links and Resources

Spiritual

Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique

Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System

Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv Eker

Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.

Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training Materials

Business

Do market research for products which can factually earn you online income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands

Master social network marketing - Charles Heflin’s Synnd

Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken Evoy's Site Build It!

Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally – Dr. Frederick Graves' Jurisdictionary

Get and stay scam free from here on out - Get Scam Free (book and online course)

Additional Thrive Learning Sites:

Thrive Alliance Best Education Guide Business Startup Resources in Wisconsin Thrive Cafe - Seattle Organizational and Personal Effectiveness Thrive Learning Management System

    OSP article excerpt: Starting an Online Business