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Winning the Lottery

Evie — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:21:09 +0000

Can one go from *bad luck* to *good luck* over night? Are there such things as luck ~ OR ~ are the *lucky* more aware of the miracles all around us, all the time? When “winning the lottery” is only winning money in a lottery ~ one will soon be back to the point of where one started (or worse) before one ~Win’s the Lottery~ one should strive to win the lottery of self … and one of those is to re-boot, re-code, re-write, re-record …

Which lead me to the myGenie site

This blog is a work in progress at the moment … probably for the rest of the day, unless I close this out to start another one Check back as it progresses, as I act by choice as I choose to create and I AM blessed with ideas, my world is so very thankful for. My current focus is lacking, but my potential focus is HUGE!!! I do not know if it is an actual “Planning Day” I need or just planned and scheduled planning times …

… any way … it is time to find my way out of procrastination and DO from my BEing, to be able to SHARE what I have (or know, or even just a small little idea … that has HUGE potential …

Can EFT be as simple as tapping? I think I needs find out and then I shall report my findings here (or other blog??? hmmmm ideas abounding )

Mind Like Water

Evie — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:14:31 +0000

Definitely a video I am going to watch again ~ Love the Mind Like Water ~ and I am currently at the:

“Your mind is limited in its ability to manage commitments, because it is handicapped in its ability to remember and remind.

But until it trusts there is a better system, it cannot let go of the job.”

Working Hypothesis’:

“There is usually an inverse proportion between the amount something is on your mind and the amount it is getting done.” and “If you don’t give appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves” ~ David Allen from the video.

Using the previous video as a catalyst to getting things done – it only made sense to stumble across this video

To be able to achieve *Mind Like Water* and get things “off your mind” one must know {absolutely know} one has … “captured, clarified and organized ones commitments, at all horizons and …” Beyond

Then in every moment that one should be consciously engaged with the tasks that need to be done to ultimately reach the goals that the tasks are pieces of … as often as one is able to address each task … and “items” (tangible items/tasks(?) with no purpose) should be kept to a minimum.

I am glad I snapped a pic of this as it ran across my horizon today

How to create digital products of your own

Evie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:30:17 +0000

More people every day are making a living online creating digital products. Every time we turn around more people are sending out e-mails hawking another digital product. Many of the e-mails are endorsing the same digital product. How do the makers of these products keep coming up with their ideas and bringing them into creation is such a short time span? The truth is, it is easier than most of us think it is. Regardless of who you are, what type education you have or even how much free time you have – you too can create your own digital product.

But how do you go about creating your OWN digital product? Available for instant download by those who wish to sign-up for your newsletter, download totally free, or even give you their hard earned cash? How do you go about creating your own digital product in record time?

I am a fan of checklists. A checklist will assist you in organizing the entire process. The checklist can include goals and a time limit for each of your items to be checked off. By doing this you are creating your own accountability system to ensure each step has been completed. A checklist ensures success faster.

What should you include in your checklist? Things such as market research and then niche research (drill down into the market of your choice) and then it’s on to keyword research. By using the keyword research you can build your product around them – this will assist surfers to find your products easier. Writing – how long will you give yourself for the writing process? Will you do it in one setting or over many? How long per session?

By entering into product creation without time limits for your goals along the way, you are entering into a squishy quagmire or a slippery slope that leaves you open to never accomplishing your goal, forever spinning your wheels in process. How can you know you are done, or even when you should be done? With time limits and set goals along the way, you are able to track your progress. Are you ahead, on target or behind. Being able to measure your progress you can then track when you may need to change or step up your strategies.

Once your checklist is in place, it is time to start your research in your chosen area, market or niche. Tools to use now include such things as Google Adwords Keywords, Word Tracker or Market Samurai to determine how many people are actually searching for the area, market and niche you would like to address.

When all is said and done, even if you have the best product to fill that area – if no one wants it, it will not be to your advantage to spend you time in this market, niche or area. This will also show you how many others are competing for those readers, or dollars. Done properly, this can save you a lot of wasted time. Making sure your niche is a profitable one before spending too much time or your money can save you a lot of headache and heart ache in the long run.

Once the research has been done, it is time to start writing. The best way to write for the Internet is to write as though you are talking to a friend. As the saying goes “what is a stranger, but a friend you have not yet met”, and in this new market we are living in – people want to buy from those they know and trust . No BS’ing those you wish to build a relationship with – even if that relationship is only one of seller and buyer … as those definitions are becoming more and more blurred everyday.

When you are writing, do just that, write. Don’t edit. Don’t re-read. Don’t think too much. Writing is for just that – To WRITE. This will allow you to crank out a much higher amount of content in a much shorter mount of time (and no matter what – Content IS King). As a matter of fact when one allows themselves to get into the flow of writing the quality of the content can actually be much greater than if one agonizes over word usage, comma placement or sentence structure. PLUS the writing will sound more natural and free flowing.

Editing comes AFTER writing – not during the writing process. Using a spell checking software will take care of this issue along the way – so if you see red underlined words – don’t sweat it and do NOT go back to correct it – that is for AFTER you are done getting your words on the paper or on the screen.

If writing is not your cup of tea – writing is a task you can outsource using many of the resources available online, however having a rough framework of what you want to have written will assist your product to be what you envision it to be.

When you sit down with your researched market and niche and have your list of keywords to use and then allow your self to get into the flow of writing. You will have a pile of digital products to give away or sell in a very short amount of time.

SO – creating digitial products is a much easier task than many want you to believe it is and you too can have your own products to offer your readers, subscribers and buyers.

Imagine what a wonderful world

Evie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:13:56 +0000

Imagine … Imagine if everywhere you look everyone was happy, where everyone was at peace, where everyone sought to be the BEST they could be and also sought to help others to be the best they can be … Imagine what a wonderful world one would find if the first thought is to build a wonderful world.

LOT’s of “free love” 1960 imagery ~ but get past that and see it as fueling our earth with love … with purpose … with fulfillment … with the reason WE (you, me, her, him, them, and us ) what a wonderful world this WILL be.

PLEASE – if you like the video and/or song – visit the actual YouTube video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtLxzxQt3U ) and rate, leave comment and subscribe.

So many say what we do online is not worth the time spent – but one mind changed, one heart awakened, one being enlightened … yes it is.

It does not need to be by want of force or force of want – only by that which is … What a wonderful world this will be … I Say I am … I say I Am … I Say I AM WONDERFUL and by knowing this I know you are as well.

Pandora – the way music will be heard in future?

Evie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:45:22 +0000

Yesterday I became aware of a site called Pandora (no kick back, payment or affiliation of any kind for the link) Pandora began what they call a Music Genome Project (registered trademark) … About this same time we began a project at my place of work at the time (Intuit) and we called it the genome project.

The business end of our project goals was to get to the smallest particle of what made what happen when and where in the QuickBooks program. QuickBooks had grown very quickly and it had become a pieced together bit of wonder – but how did all the pieces work together? The team I had on this project were the BEST of the BEST! and they delved deeper than anyone thought they would be able to. They embarked into an unknown territory. Their focus was to uncover the genome of QuickBooks.

We went to Mountain View a few times to educate the programmers of the program about what the program THEY built did, why, and what happened IF … since I was on the management side (the *YOU CAN DO IT* motivating part) a lot of what my team did went right over my head, but I knew what they did made a HUGE difference in what happened going forward.

We knew what our goal was we carefully planned what to do and then we acted upon what we found. The potential was HUGE!

Unfortunately (in my view) the bottom line ruled the future and Intuit is where Intuit is now because of that … neither here, neither there – BUT …

The Genome projects of the year 2000 lay the ground work for the future – one of which is Pandora:

On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

Since we started back in 2000, we’ve carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists – ranging from popular to obscure – and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy – but now that we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project

If we lived in Oakland California – I’d be banging on their door daily – I want to work for you! I want to work for you! I WILL work for you But since we don’t and moving to California is HIGHLY unlikely – this blog post will suffice for now. I have created three seperate stations so far and I am amazed – in awe – in wonderful WONDER as to what they have created.

It is my hope the project my team undertook in the year 2000 to map out the QuickBooks genome has rendered that product as useful and awesome as the one undertaken by Pandora.

Give it a listen – try it out and see what you think – I’d LOVE to hear your comments about this new media available to us all.

Thank You,

Evie

Currently 450 Times A Day I Am famous

Evie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:05:27 +0000

Being an early adopter of things has it’s rewards and drawbacks. However, being an early adopter of Famous For Fifteen Seconds has some massive rewards. Being as there are only 12 positions taken so far out of 5760, the current 12 positions are rotated continuously.

Twelve images/URL’s rotating at 16 seconds each means a complete rotation is taking 192 seconds. One hundred ninety two seconds divided by 60 seconds is 3.2 minutes. Being as there are 1440 minutes in a day (60 minutes times 24 hours) if my image and URL are shown every 3.2 minutes by my calculations I have the potential to be seen 450 times a day.

Famous for Fifteen Seconds traffic has gone us by 410% over the last three months (as per Alexa.com) Even Twitter has only gone up by 73.2%. Sure Famous doesn’t have the traffic of Twitter … BUT … If this keeps up – WOW!!! Especially if people visiting the site do not see the value of adding themselves in to the rotation. But it is all about choice and choosing rather or not $5.00 is too much to pay a month to assist in driving traffic to your website or offer (NOTE: I am not an affiliate, partner, or any other thing that will get me even a penny of the $5.00 – but I DO believe Adrian’s idea has HUGE potential)

Anyway – that has been our math section of the day If I have it incorrect some how – PLEASE comment and let me know. I’ve been out of school a LONG time and what you don’t use you DO lose.

As I’ve said before we can have the grandest ideas in the world, but if we fail to take action – they are just ideas, pipe dreams, nuggets of stuff just floating around – waiting for someone else to take the action(s) needed to bring a GREAT ideas to reality. So — KNOW what you want to do, PLAN how you will go about doing it, and then ACT. If you haven’t yet begun to do this with your ideas and dreams … make today the day you Being To

SO – with that being said … what is the GoalBuzz of today? Giving a shout out to for Adrian Cowley of Famous for Fifteen Seconds … maybe he’ll let me in on his next grand project

Hmmm – does that mean I am gaining anything from this post? … thinking … the answer I get back is Nope … I am good to go. So check out Famous for Fifteen Seconds – I’d LOVE to know what you think about it.

Famous For Fifteen Seconds

Evie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:49:25 +0000

I just joined a fairly new website called Famous For Fifteen Seconds. The cost to be added into the rotation is $5.00 per month (every month one stays a member and in rotation). The actual time a subscribers image and URL are on at one time is 16 seconds so an image will be able to rotate around the clock and not just be shown at the particular time the subscriber signed up.

From the Terms and Conditions:

As the actual time for display will be 16 seconds this will ensure if all slots are filled that your image gets a time slot right round 24 hours so will be seen at some stage at each time of day all around the world.

Sixteen seconds times the number of TOTAL available slots is 25.6 hours.

The early adopters are able to get their image shown many more times than once per day, as the images (and subsequent URL’s) are being rotated continuously. As of the time of my subscription there are still 5,749 slots available. I feel that even once the rotation is full – having ones image and url the only thing someone sees on their screen for 15 seconds will be huge. Where as the Million Dollar Home Page is a static page ~ Famous For Fifteen Seconds is on a rotating basis … so (imho) the site will end up being much more sticky (meaning people will come back more often and stick around longer)

My current image is that of a red flower (for the BUZZ and the URL is of course Goal Buzz anything to get the buzz on our goals.

This was a subject I felt I must act on. What a way to begin to put my feet purposely on to the hot coals. This is a new venture I am excited about embarking on, as the focus truly does shift to goals and *getting things done* Another of my (very) major goals are my domain names and my domaining business … and I am very curious as to what the effect of famous For Fifteen Seconds will have.

Ideas are swirling on the potential of this venture and possible ideas that spring forth from this, like the seed burrowed into soil, given water and sunshine grows to the plant it is to be bearing the fruit it bears and then the seed burrows into the soil to start the cycle all over again…. I am grateful for the follow on Twitter that alerted me to this opportunity. After reading the FAQ on Famous For Fifteen Seconds, reading the T and C’s (terms and conditions) and asking some clarifying questions of Adrian, I knew it was time to plan and then act Talk about some magnetic marketing!!!

So it is I share this find with you. We truly do have so much to be thankful for in this world, as the Internet continues to shape and mold so many possibilities. As this site gains readers it will morph into a platform for all our members to utilize to assist in defining, setting, planning and then acting on our goals.

The hard part is waiting for my image and URL to go live as again from the Terms and Conditions:

Once you have ordered and the funds have cleared in my PayPal account, I will aim to get your image online within 24-48hrs (but please have patience if things kick off and loads of people order at the same time)

OK – I can do this

Start with Ambition – WORK to Finish

Evie — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:13:05 +0000

Today’s blog begins with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

This quote kinda knocked me on my rear-end this morning. It was a *duh* but also a “What does this mean?” So asking empowering questions – I asked my Self … What am I to take away from this? My answer was as follows.

I can have the greatest story ever, waiting to be told floating around in my head, wanting to be put to paper or recorded. However if I take no steps to make it so, no one else will ever know the scope of the tale if I first do not sit down and first write it, then find a way to get it published and then follow through with the marketing of that tale waiting – wanting to be told.

I can have the greatest website idea also floating around in my head (maybe bumping into the never told story) but no one will ever know the scope of what is possible to accomplish until I sit down and draft out what my idea is – AND THEN follow through to either gain the skills I need or to find them to bring the website into completion and use.

… OR … will this great Universe we are a part of find another way for the story or the website or the *fill in the blank* to ~become~ ?

Reality has a funny way of re-re-re-creating itself until the desired outcome is met. Of course *whatever* morphs as it goes through each individuals abilities and skills as *whatever* is brought to and then takes on a life of it’s own.

In my opinion, creating *whatever* is a lot like birthing a child. Some people want no children and will stop any oops that come their way, no matter the cost. There are many people who do not see themselves AS a (the?) creator – so they abort ideas or wisps of thought, never doing the actions needed that bring them into the stream of co-creators of our reality, while they sit on the sidelines and bemoan the fact they are left behind, as others pick up the discarded (escaped ) ideas and wisps of thought to make it so.

In my reality an entity not born to the “parent(s) of choice” will find another to become. Meaning rather it be person, book, tool, or *fill in the blank* … *whatever* that WANTS to be created (heard, experienced, … to BE …) WILL be.

The shortest distance between two points IS a straight line, but if needed detours are always available … even if new roads need to be built.

… hmmm … how’s that Self?

Good Ideas, Opportunities, Plan’s and Actions

Evie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:24:49 +0000

I receive many newsletters and inspirational type things in my daily e-mail. One I look forward to every day is Neale Donald Walsch and his I believe God wants you to know series:

I believe God wants you to know.…that you’ve just had a really good idea!

Don’t deny it! Don’t cast it aside, or “put if off ’til tomorrow,” or in some other way give it short shrift. Ideas are gifts from heaven. Don’t dishonor them.

Jump right on it. Make it happen. That what ideas are for!

We are not always able to jump right on any idea that comes to mind, but ideas that come to mind are the seeds of your future wealth or lack there of. Had Albert Einstein or Leonardo da Vinci or hundreds of thousands of other masters NOT followed through with their ideas where would we be now?

If you get an idea but can not get on it – write it down. Do not think you will remember it, you will not No matter how much we think we will remember, other things come into the mind to replace what was there.

Do you know what your KPA is? Do you know what KPA is? KPA is Know, Plan, Act …

Know – the mind … I have heard it said our minds have OVER 60,000 thoughts a day. But thoughts come from deeper inside ones self. Thoughts come from emotion (more to be written about this topic at a later date – By starting from a base of gratitude, happy, and/or love we can control our thoughts to higher and higher potential).

Plan – Knowing and then acting without a plan is like jumping in your car and driving cross country without a map. PlanningDay.com will be a much better tool in the near future. What needs to be done – list everything that would need to be accomplished – a checklist if you will … some like to use Mind Maps, others outlines, while others just make lists.

Act – The best knowledge coupled with the best plan will produce NO results if there is no action. Action is key to any success. As human beings it is our nature to succeed. Unfortunately many of us have been programmed to believe “it’ll never work” “Your too old” “Your too young” … You don’t have enough education – or money – or looks or whatever … NOT!!!

The time is ripe to shed limiting beliefs and grow into our full potential (which is ever growing – so there is no “done”

Know – Plan – Act

Currently 450 Times A Day I Am famous

Motivation and Inspiration

Evie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:05:41 +0000

It is my belief there are more of us saying the same thing in “in our own way” than ever before in all history combined together compared until right now, this moment.

Case in point In my travels today – one of the sites I landed upon is a blog, and this particular blog entry Motivation and Inspiration is exactly what I needed this day.

Below are the snippets I pulled from the video’s Thank You

Les Brown

Put back as retarded in the fifth grade to the fourth, most of his schooling was done as though he was incapable of learning. A chance meeting with a teacher changed the path he was on.

Someone else’s opinion of you does NOT need to be your reality. The ONLY person whose opinion DOES matter is YOURS. You are your best advocate or your worst enemy.

It’s possible. When faced with *whatever* say IT’S POSSIBLE It’s Possible.

Most people are so negative they must say no seven times before they say yes. Be ready, seek advancement of skills. The only way to “Be Ready” is to seek advancement of ones skills when there is no need, and to be “hungry”

Pursue ones passion. We must have passion in what one does. Being able to follow ones passion, one becomes more thankful.

Thankfulness breeds gratitude. Gratitude breeds success. Find reasons for gratitude.

Nido Qubein

Change from within … the only one who REALLY wants change is the baby in wet diapers.

1) Excellence is a habit: The wildly successful people form habits which “breed” success.

2) Personal responsibility: No one can whine to me why THEY can’t achieve their dreams. As children our surroundings have a lot to do with we do and do not, however there comes a point in every human being’s life when THEY take responsibility for their own actions – even if that decision for their responsibility they give over to another to control. The one “being controlled” is still the one who is choosing in every moment to BE controlled

Life is lived best when you set your self a goal.

3) Change – it is time to face our greatest fears. Change does not come from, nor just for the sake of, cause improvement, but improvement ALWAYS comes from change.

Do not change for the sake of change, but change for that which will improve … once this vicious cycle has begun and others are taught how to do and then improve, abundance is ours ALL of ours

Napolean Hill

Personal Success – When Napolean Hill was a youth and he studied with Andrew Carnegie; he told Mr. Carnegie he (Napolean) should not be a leader due to his youth, lack of education, and lack of finances:

Andrew Carnegie: Science for success philosophy, taught Napolean one GREAT truth

A power that is greater than poverty, education, greater than all your fears and superstitions.

This profound power is that of the creator. We have the complete and unchallengeable control over our mind.

Napolean Hill’s take away was: What ever the mind can conceive and can believe, the mind can achieve. (and how is that, the mind finds a way

Marci Shimoff

Dare to be happy – happy attracts success.
Don’t believe everything you think. I CAN, I CAN, I CAN
Use the power formula: Intention, attention, no tension.
Let your passion lead – have the will to go with your gut. Do what you love. Continue-continue-persist.
Don’t catch the NO Cold ~ emotional contagion. We become the average of the five people we spend most of time with. That we associate with. Spend time with people who are happy for no reason.

Zig Ziglar

By the time I got to Zig’s videos I was happily adlibbing along the way. Sorry

Can one help a negative Nellie? Drama … problem seekers … want to be negative Nellie’s. The people who complain the loudest are usually the ones who ARE the problem? Negativity breeds negativity. There is no other way to say it It has gotten to the point me, myself will actually go about shaking it off the cycle of negativity MUST end.

Do IT … If someone isn’t willing to DO something first, nothing will be done. You MUST do step number one, before you can do step number two.

The person WITH the problem – if THEY do not take that first step – no matter HOW bad the problems seem to be, or the person seems willing to change it – the person does NOT WANT to change the situation.

The eyes are the window to the soul. Look deep into your eyes in the mirror and say your affirmatives into the eyes of you. Morning, Noon & Night … and if you get a chance to sneak an extra one or two in ~ WHOOOO HOOO !!!

Before bed – I love *~* because … and go through the list looking into and through the window of your soul (eyes)

In the morning before starting the day again look into the window of your soul and say your affirmative statements again FEEL These as your truth with passion and excitement and just the first 24 hours will uncover miracles.

Everybody sells – EVERYBODY. Unless one is a hermit and the only one they interact with is themselves (they are still selling them self How and why? Who knows – but time is the most precious of commodity.

No one changes except YOU. Self talk is the worst talk. How to stop self talk … ooohhh good article to research and write

Seems kinda strange one of my domain names IS EverybodySells I love it when a plan comes together, even if I have been like Fry and been asleep for a thousand years

Gratitude – the healthiest of ALL human emotions is gratitude.