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March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 1 Comment
The Laws of Earning Money By John Assaraf
“The Street Kid”
www.JohnAssaraf.com/blog
If you want one year of prosperity, grow seeds. If you want ten years of prosperity,
grow trees. If you want a lifetime of prosperity, grow your self-worth.
— Chinese proverb
What is money, really, and what are the laws of earning money?
This happens to be one of my favorite topics because money is easy to come by if you do a few things right, and it will forever elude you if you do a few things wrong.
Back in the old days, before money existed, people used a form of exchange
called bartering. Later, cattle and other livestock became the form of exchange. That worked well within small communities and cultures, but as society grew it became inconvenient to drive cattle and other animals across great distances. That’s when the smelting of metal began, and with it the production of coins. Coins were portable and, thanks to the gold rush, they were durable. Some of the earliest coins bore an image of a cow’s head.
In fact, the word capital comes from the Latin word kaput, which means “head.”
As wealth increased, coins became inefficient and too heavy for horses and buggies, so paper was added. Soon there were also letters of credit, which appeared on the scene to represent large amounts of money. As more people
started traveling, credit cards came into play, with the advantage of being lighter than cash and more secure. Most recently we’ve seen incredible developments with electronic and Internet banking, where we can move vast amounts of money around the world at the push of a button.
So, what exactly is money? It’s an idea, and ideas are nothing more than
electromagnetic energy. And as you should know by now, if you understand the laws of attraction, you can understand the laws for attracting money.
OPTIONS FOR MAKING MONEY
There are five options when it comes to making money.
1. Win it. In any given year, about 25 people out of 250 million will win a big
lottery. I don’t recommend banking your financial career on hitting the winning number. Statistics show that eighty-five percent of people who win the lottery quickly lose all the money.
2. Steal it. Of course, the price is quite expensive because you end up going to jail if you’re caught, and there’s a very big chance that you will get caught. So stealing money not an option.
3. Find it. Id’ be willing to bet that the odds on this one are just as high as
winning the lottery.
4. Inherit it. I don’t know about your family, but in my family, this option isn’t
worth holding my breath for. Which means the only option left for me, and I would imagine for you, too, is to earn it. And that means it’s really important to understand the laws of earning money.
VALUING YOURSELF
The first question to ask yourself is, Do I feel that I deserve to earn a lot of
money? I can honestly tell you that the people I know who make a lot of money
absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt feel that they deserve it.
If you don’t believe you deserve to earn money, you must raise what I call your
deserving level and lower your excuses level. By “excuses level,” I mean all your excuses about why you can’t earn money or haven’t earned money. It’s time to stop telling yourself that you aren’t smart enough or good enough or that you don’t know enough and you start putting a value on yourself. If you don’t value yourself, money will never, ever be attracted to you. You will repel it as fast as you can imagine it, and others will not value you, either.
In my companies, we don’t offer a lot of free things because we believe that free attracts freeloaders. If I don’t value the amount of work and time I’ve put into becoming an expert in my vocation or field, then how will anyone else value it? If I don’t vibrate and oscillate at that level, why would my customers?
I have personally invested over half a million dollars in my education in the last
twenty-five years. I’ve hired consultants, read books, and traveled all over the world to educate myself about making and keeping money, the laws of the universe, the brain, and more. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of money to become outstanding, so I put a lot of value on my time: I value it at fifteen hundred dollars per hour. Some people might say that’s absolutely ridiculous. I say, “Well, I’ve made more than that.” I’ve made from fifty thousand to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in one hour of speaking, so obviously
somebody somewhere believes that my time is worth that amount.
In our universe, money has something we call species recognition. The term
simply means that people who value your information, product, and services will pay greatly for them if they are worth it to them.
YOUR FINANCIAL PERSONA
Every one of us has a persona, a term that comes from a Greek word meaning
“mask.” We wear masks about all sorts of different things: we have our money face or our game face on. To attract more money, you must alter your financial persona immediately. Start thinking, acting, and behaving like the people who are already earning the income you want.
Think of Donald Trump. I don’t know of anyone who interests me as much as he
does from one perspective only: his brilliance for coming back from devastation. Trump was $900 million in debt and he kept his game face on as if nothing was wrong. Although he was probably getting irate phone calls and visits from his creditors, Trump kept his persona in line with that of a billionaire. While things were crumbling around his world, his mask stayed on. For those who didn’t know the exact truth, that mask created a certain air of arrogance and a certainty that made people want to do business with him.
One of the best ways to alter your financial persona is to believe a certain thing that’s a lie right now. You learned in the earlier chapters about the brain that if you impress a new persona upon your non-conscious mind, that persona will take hold and take flight. The outside world will match the inside image.
Here’s a little formula for attracting and earning more money:
1. Get the vibration (the self-worth persona) in harmony immediately.
2. Increase your deserving level through your new self-worth vibration.
3. Alter your financial persona immediately. Start walking, talking, and behaving like a person who is already earning the level of income you want to earn. This may feel awkward at first. About twenty-five years ago, I heard a speaker by the name of Tommy Hopkins say, “Fake it till you make it.” I didn’t really understand what he meant until I started studying the brain. Hopkins meant that your subconscious doesn’t know the difference, so if you fake it long enough, you become it.
You’ll probably find some resistance from your own internal dialogue. That small voice inside your head will argue, “But you’re not a multimillionaire. You’re not making this amount of money. Why do you keep telling yourself that? Why do you walk this way?”
I don’t suggest that you go out and spend that way just yet, but I do recommend that you try something that actors Jim Carrey and Barbra Streisand did, and that I have done as well. Three years from now, I want my equity in my new company to be worth $100 million, so I carry a check in my pocket written out to myself for that amount. Every time I put my hand in my pocket, I’m sending an electrical message to my brain. So my persona, the time I invest, the way I carry myself, and the way I research and study all match up and are in line.
In the marketplace, once you have the right vibration, the right persona, and the belief that you deserve to earn more money—and you understand that you’re not going to get it by inheriting, finding, stealing, or winning it—the question is, What are the laws of earning it? There have to be laws. If everybody else is making money, how do you put yourself in harmony and develop the skill set you need to earn more money?
LAWS OF EARNING MONEY
At the beginning of this chapter you learned that money is an idea. Now let’s take that concept one step further and add this corollary: You get paid in direct proportion to the service and value you bring to the marketplace. If you can determine how to bring more service and more value to more people, they will exchange with you that little green paper with ink on it called money.
To start earning more money, you must ask yourself three questions.
1. Is there a need in the marketplace for your product or service? I’ll give you two products to think about: hula hoops and pet rocks. In case you’re too young to remember, a hula hoop was something you put around your waist, then you moved your hips a little and it swirled around and around. A pet rock was literally a rock in a box that someone packaged nicely, marketed brilliantly, and sold by the millions. Was there a need for hula hoops and pet rocks? Of course not. But if there’s a need for your product or service, move on to question number two.
2. How good is your product or service and how unique is it? Compared to
other people offering the same or similar product or service, how good is yours from a quality perspective, and how unique is it? If it’s absolutely unique, rare, and of high quality, its value goes up. That’s why a specialty service provider like a skilled brain surgeon can demand a lot more money: there are few people who have this skill and become extremely good at it.
3. How good is your ability to market and sell your product or service? Your
ability to market and sell your product or service to generate revenue at a local, regional, national, or international level is the most vital part of the equation. To earn more money, you have to become a marketing and selling master or have one on your team.
If you have an average product or service and average marketing and selling
skills, you will earn an average or just below average income because ninety-five percent of your competitors are also average. That group will share fifteen to twenty percent of all the revenues for that product or service category. The remaining five percent of the competition—the ones who understand the laws of earning money—will rake in all the rest.
Please note that you do not personally have to be the expert in sales or marketing for your company, but you do have to build a team around you that has those skill sets.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
Quantum physics provides the ultimate insight into the study of law of attraction and intentional manifestation. This relatively new science has proven that conscious observation of potential energy is what causes matter to emerge into existence.
Simply put, human beings are actively and continuously bringing reality forth from pure potential by observing, or intending. When we look at the world around us, i.e. into the quantum or superstring field of unformed energy, we manifest the objects, events, and experiences that make up our world.
By extrapolating on what quantum physics teaches us about life at the most basic levels, we can see clearly how the law of attraction is the most practical model for personal development and contribution to society.
Also interesting is the fact that science has been unable to prove the existence of any reality outside of the human brain. Thought vibrations and brain waves can be measured as responses and transmissions but it’s beyond the scope of any experiment to actually prove that anything outside of the brain is causing these waves and vibrations.
Therefore researchers can’t say with any degree of certainty that an outside world really exists. For all intents and purposes life could be a giant shared hologram that each of us helps to broadcast.
While radical, the implications of this are simple: Whether we look at existence from the universe in, or from our brains outward, the result is the same.
Everything is created from pure energy by waves of thought. This is true of all that has ever been, all that currently exists, and anything with the potential of existing in the future.
While this can be a little mind-boggling, it doesn’t have to be. In fact there is no real need to try and understand any of this; you only need to grasp the abstract notion that you create your life experiences and the world around you in every passing moment.
And you create all this by simply observing and believing in what you intend to see, feel, touch, or otherwise experience. From this perspective, can you see how what you believe has a powerful impact on the way your life unfolds?
What might your life look like if you were able to believe with every fiber of your being in an ideal vision? If you remove doubt or questioning and just decide to transition into a state of absolute belief, the events and circumstances you prefer will rapidly manifest into being.
You will effortlessly take possession of your ideal life experience once you stop trying and begin believing. The only work involved is in moving from a state of having faith to a state of knowing/believing without question.
While there are multiple techniques designed to assist you with this process, I urge you to simplify and just start accepting your preferred reality as the absolute truth. As soon as you wake up in the morning, before your mind slips back into the state of mundane acceptance, close your eyes for a few minutes and see your life as you would have it in every way.
Leave nothing out. See every detail and accept this image with faith beyond reproach.
Do this each morning for a month and I guarantee you’ll see change. Combine this exercise with daily affirmations, meditation, and other intentional manifestation practices and you’ll create miraculous results.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
I didn’t always understand the Be Do Have Principle.
Because I didn’t understand it, I always seem to wonder why I wasn’t creating the lifestyle I wanted.
And once I got it….I mean, really got it, my life transformed!
Do you understand the power of it?
It comes back to the principle of being the person you want to BE and then you Do what that person would do, to have what they would HAVE.
It starts with your THOUGHTS. Your THOUGHTS determine who you are. When you think you can or can’t do something, you affirm it in your action. The “doing” is the action based your beliefs about yourself. Then, of course, we manifest or “have” what we think we can have. If I decide I’m going to be a singer. I start thinking and moving through life as a great singer. The actions I take are based on what I think about being a great singer.
Do I believe it? Can I see myself living this way? Do I feel good when singing?
I practice and practice. I put myself out there as a singer. I start to have results through my being and doing. People start asking to me sing at their wedding. Teams call for me to sing the National Anthem. A band wants to record with me. I put out the vibration that I am a great singer and move that way in my life. Yes, Be Do Have!
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”-Mahatma Gandhi
It All Starts With….Being!
I know some people just don’t get the be do have principle because they want to have a million dollars in the bank and then they will feel like a millionaire….
… No! That is not how it works!
In fact, its backwards!
Get this, you must BE the millionaire first, long before you actually have the money in your bank account! How would a Millionaire think? How would they make decisions? Decide on the being! Be Do Have is very powerful if you understand it all starts with the BEING!
For example, many women worry constantly about being overweight.
What they could be doing, to harness the power of their thoughts, is focusing on “being” the thinner person.
How would a thinner person eat? What would a person do after dinner….go for a walk or sit down and watch t.v. the rest of the evening?
Instead what do some women do?
They go to the dreaded bathroom scale, look at it, feel horrible about what the scale says and attract more negative energy about their weight by the defining number. I know I have allowed the scale to dictate whether I was feeling great about myself or not depending upon the number.
A person looking for a great relationship with a woman might say, “I am so happy that I have a wonderful woman in my life that I enjoy being around everyday.”
What would that committed person do?
How would they act?
What would they do together? Do those things!
Even though you don’t at the present moment have a woman in your life or even know of any female possibilities.
Create A New Reality
Create your new reality by using this simple be do have principle!
The above positive affirmation is putting you into direct alignment with your goal of having a wonderful woman in your life. You must BE that person that has the wonderful woman, DO the things that person would do first before you will ever HAVE the relation you are looking for.
A runner moves through life as a runner.
When I wake up in the morning, I look at the clock and snuggle in for a few minutes. Then I get up and put on my running clothes…without putting too much thought into it because if I thought too much about it I would probably stay right in my cozy bed.
Wait! Did I say “probably” stay in bed…..I would stay in bed!!
I made the decision a long time ago that I was a runner, so guess what that means? It means I get up and run, because I am a runner, even when I don’t feel like it. I eat healthy because I am a runner. I go into a clothing store and look for running clothes. I have more running shoes than any other type of shoe. I buy running magazines. You get the picture. It is who I am BEING.
Embrace the power of Be Do Have!
Someone that is successful in business does not wait until the results show! A successful business person must BE a person that moves through his/her day as a success.
Make the decisions a successful business person would make!
A successful business person wouldn’t make his/her decisions based on money, they make their decision based on their goals!
Be that person!
Use Be Do Have to create the success you are looking for!
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 16th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | 2 Comments
How exactly does the law of attraction work, and how can I become a firm believer in it?
Quantum Physics teaches that nothing is fixed, that there are no limitations, that everything is vibrating Energy. By understanding that everything is Energy in a state of potential and by applying the Law of Attraction to bring into our lives what we focus on, it is never necessary to feel stuck with an undesirable life. With quantum physics, science is leaving behind the notion that human beings are powerless victims and moving toward an understanding that we are fully empowered creators of our lives and of our world. Everything is Energy.
If you take your hand and put it under a proper microscope,you will see a mass of energy vibrating,its not really solid.Nothing is…Not even your car,house,table,chair your sitting in,money,relationships!
Einstein’s 1905 formula E = mc2 explains the relationship between Energy and matter, i.e., that Energy and matter are interchangeable – that, in reality, everything is Energy – dancing, fluid, ever-changing Energy.
This Energy is influenced by our thoughts. It is shapeable, formable, and moldable. As Creators, we shape, form and mold the Energy of the Universe through our thoughts. We transform the Energy of our thoughts into the Energy of our reality.
The popular movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, clarifies that quantum physics is the physics of possibility. We have been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real than the internal world. Quantum physics says just the opposite. It says that what’s happening on the inside determines what’s happening on the outside. It says that our world is shaped by our thoughts.
Since nothing is fixed and everything is in a state of potential, everything is possible. As we understand that everything is possible, and as we focus our thoughts on what we want to attract, we can literally call into existence whatever we desire.
The Universe exists as infinite potential in infinite abundance. As we focus our thoughts, we have the power to bring our desires into existence, our dreams into reality. As we focus our thoughts, we have the power to be and do and have whatever we desire.
Almost every religion tells us that we have been created in the Image and Likeness of the Creative Source,that should obviously mean that we have God potential and power to create our world,that we are indeed God like and have all the qualites of God. As God is omnipresent, God/infinite power/source/spirit must be present within every individual, hence every individual must be a manifestation of that Omnipresent,Omniscient and Omnipotent Consciousness…I am not saying we are God,but we are of God. So,its necessary to put ourselves in harmony with this law to reap its benefits, otherwise we suffer its consequences.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 6th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
We talk about the fact that the more attractive your business is, the more customers you’ll attract via word of mouth. We also talked about the Attraction Quotient being a key to that.
Let me explain…
Imagine owning a business that is SO attractive … that you have queues of people lining up out the front waiting to do business with you.
And imagine too that you never have to spend a cent on advertising. That referrals flow in thick and fast. So thick and fast that you don’t need to spend a cent of money on advertising… customers simply flock to you. In fact, customers actually aspire to be clients of yours because it’s such an attractive thing to do.
Companies that have a high attraction quotient actually experience this on a daily basis.
Here are six key factors that impact your AQ …
1. Experience
What kind of customer experience do you deliver that creates an absolute WOW in the hearts and minds of your customers? Not just answering the phone on three rings or underpromising and overdelivering, but how can you leave them gob-smacked from the very moment they first set eyes on your business. How well do you do that?
2. Your USP or UVP Unique Selling Proposition
What do you do to stand out head and shoulders above your competition in such a way that it delivers massive value to your audience?
3. Brand
How strong is your brand in the hearts and minds of your consumer? What message is it sending? Is it attractive to your customers?
4. Culture
What is it like to work for you? The attractiveness of your corporate culture has a direct bearing on how attractive your business is to customers.
5. Heart
What does your company do to make a difference? To give back? The companies that have the biggest hearts are often the ones that create the most attraction.
6. And last but not least, viral appeal.
Once you do great things how easy are you making it for potential customers to see how attractive your business is? Viral marketing is a little like word of mouth marketing but on a much bigger scale. When people tell the world about something they’ve seen or experienced those people tell others and those people tell others and so on.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
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