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Normally I don’t like Mondays, but today has been a great day, a day when ideas have really been flowing. It started this morning during the journey to work, as I was driving I was listening to my latest cd from Derek Gehl’s Internet Entrepreneurs Club , it’s and interview by Derek Gehl with John Assaraf of “The Secret” fame.

John was talking about “the law of attraction”, on how you get in life what you expect. So basically, if your expectations in life are low, that’s effectively what you can expect to achieve … very little! Whereas if you send out positive thoughts about your expectations, expectations that you “genuinely” believe in, the energy from those thoughts will “attract” positive outcomes. It’s a fascinating interview.

At first talk of the “laws of the universe” sound a bit far fetched, but once you start to understand the theories behind it, you start to realise that it’s not as crazy as you first think.

Obviously there’s more to it than positive thinking and dreaming of being a millionaire.

- You have to genuinely believe in your dreams and expectations, you have to believe they can be achieved

- You have to have a plan on how you’re going to get there, or at least have a plan to get you started on the right path … you have to start taking action …

Once you have the belief and a plan to start you down the road to success, success will follow!

I have to say I genuinely believe in the law of attraction.

Let me illustrate. Prior to my flooding problems in the summer, my goal was to make $500 per day online, starting from scratch last January. I really believed I could achive it. I put together a short term plan and most importantly took action … within a short time I started to make money. By June I was up to $4,000 per month … I was really happy

But the $500 per day goal was limiting my thinking, and because I was happy with $4,000 at the time, I stalled and stopped trying to grow my earnings further … I had achieved my “real” expectations, the ones I believed in inside.

My time offline due to the floods gave me a lot of time to reflect and analyse what I’d achieved. It also gave me more time for research. I realised I could have earned a lot more, I realised that I’d actually made a lot of mistakes.

From what I’ve learn’t I know now that I’ve got to build a more sustainable business, built on several sources of traffic and income. That is what I’m now doing, I’m putting a detailed, longer term plan together, and I’m taking action to put firm foundations in place.

My goal now is a lot bigger … I want to earn a million dollars online by April 2009, my 40th birthday. What’s more I have the inner belief that I will do it, when I write about the goal or tell my friends, I actually believe I will do it, my determination and pride will ensure that I do - I actually believe that my friends believe it aswell.

So where does the law of attraction come in to this. Well, thinking about the cd interview this morning, I realised that since I set the million dollar goal, I’ve been thinking a lot bigger … in particular the ideas I’ve had today have been “big” ideas.

It’s no good setting a million dollar target, and then trying to achieve it selling a $20 ebook for example … what are the chances of selling 50,000 copies online of your ebook … pretty unlikely I would say … so I’ve found myself thinking subconsciously of ways to earn $20,000 or $30,000 per month, and as a result I’ve a list of ideas for my new project that I’d never have had a year ago … that’s the Law Of Attraction in action.

So your first goal is to lose your current set of expectations, and convince yourself inside that you can achieve a lot more … then start planning and taking action towards your goals …

Well it’s now 1am and the day job beckons … it’s amazing how the brain can keep going when you stimulate it … and to finish, I said to one of my employees today, that you know you’ve made it in life, when you can decide whether you have to get up or not each day!

Think positive

Richard

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