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Posted on 03.09.05 by Laura @ 12:43 am
There’s so much to be said for journaling that I’m not quite sure where to start! If you’ve ever taken a creativity course or read a book on becoming more creative you’ve probably had the idea of journaling every day shoved down your throat. For good reason! Try this. Even just for a week and see if it makes any changes in your life… Every morning make this your first priority. Sit down with a notebook and write. Everything that comes to mind. Even if all you write is “I want coffee…” over and over again. After 20 minutes you’re free to go about your day. And your coffee. By the end of the week I’ll bet you’ve seen some interesting ideas, thoughts, lists spill out of your brain and onto paper. And, although it may be too early to tell, you may also notice your creative side peeking through that usually logical, usually predictable personality of yours. That’s a creativity building exercise for you. Stay on it past the week and big changes are coming your way. Here’s where the Idea Bank comes into play… Take that same notebook and flip it over. Now you’re writing back to front but it doesn’t matter, I’m just trying to save you 67 cents for another notebook. Make this side your Idea Bank Notebook. Whenever you get an idea - whether it’s for an ebook you want to write, a recipe you want to experiment with, a new business venture or a solution to a problem that’s been hounding you - jot it down. Jot it down. Then let it go. You may never see it again. But if you need to, it is there. Take that little Idea Bank Notebook everywhere with you. You’ll get ideas all over the place. On the streetcar, in your coffee shop, watching television. If you are passionate about any one of those ideas, or if any one of them are true gold, your subconscious will remind you consistently until you can’t ignore it anymore. At that time you’ll grab your notebook, take out that idea and start to play with it. If the idea is for a business venture you’ll play at it by writing out a business plan. If the idea is for a recipe alteration, you’ll head into the kitchen. Or collaborate with friends. Or draft an outline. And your idea starts to grow. All because you had the foresight to jot it down when it entered your mind the first time. Filed under: Idea KickStarts and Ideas for Ebooks Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.23.05 by Laura @ 9:16 am
A lot of people these days have been hearing the buzz about ‘niche marketing’. Specifically writing information products for niche markets. And they’re struggling for ideas on how to become the next info-product millionaire. Why? We’ve been told by many that selling information products online is the newest, fastest way to get rich quick. If you’re on a high about this, I don’t mean to burst your bubble. Just ask any highly paid online entrepreneur and they will tell you:
Yes, you can enjoy decent success relatively quickly. You will get very excited when you make your first sale. You will jump for joy when you get up on Saturday morning and discover you made a cool $300 in your sleep. And you’ll dream of the day when you can lose the suits and the commutes. Getting to the day of that first online sale is an uphill battle for many and for many reasons. One is self sabotage. I recently read a book by Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Larina Kase titled “How to End Self Sabotage“. I don’t even really know why it intrigued me enough to want to read it. I personally didn’t think I needed something like this, or that I even needed to be aware of self-sabotage. I even asked a few of my friends “Do you think I block myself to the higher possibilities to my life?” Each one of them laughed and said I was the most determined, hard working person they knew. (Now that title doesn’t really mean as much as you’d think - we live in a community of under 500.) Perhaps my inner self was trying to tell me something. Because I did read it. Twice! You know what? Head over to that site right now because there is a free quiz. See if your ‘inner self’ is trying to tell you something. Let me know (leave a comment to this post) how the quiz, and the page, ’spoke’ to you. How to End Self Sabotage speaks mainly to the aspiring ebook author, but we self-sabotage unconsciously in many areas of our lives! Love, family, career - and applying the knowledge of this book will help all areas of your life. When you’re on the page, click through to check out the price. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I’ve digressed off topic here, but tomorrow I’ll be back with some Idea Kickstarts on coming up with great ideas for the information product creators out there. I just wanted to make sure you were ‘un-blocked’ and relieved of your self-sabotage first. Filed under: Idea KickStarts and Ideas for Ebooks Comments: None |
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