Moving Simpleology Posts!

In an attempt to simplify all my online activities I have created a new central website where I collect all of my blog postings. This includes everything I was posting on here.

The new simpleology blog entrance page can be found at:

http://heartsunlimited.net/blog/simpleology

If you are subscribed to this blog and you wish to stay subscribed, there's no need to take any specific action. I will move the blog feed as well. This will be done in a day or two.

If you are interested in starting your own simpleology blog, this blog domain will soon become available. Please contact me if you're interested in taking it over.

Thanks for your interest in simpleology. I'll continue to report about this on my new blog!

Patricia

Sir Rupert and the Accidental Guru...

I detest gurus. I really, really do. It's nothing personal. I detest what other people make of them.

Born in the sixties I was brought up in an environment where many of my friends' parents had been hippies. My own dad has records of many an artist who made an appearance at Woodstock. And I had plenty of yogi tea in households where albeit everyone was dressed in variations of orange - disciples of Bagwan Sri Raneesh. Or wore necklesses with the image of Sai Baba.

During my teens I was under the impression that all gurus lived in India. Or at least had their roots in this country of the mystics. But later on I discovered that gurus are found in all areas where people seek direction. Rockstars and famous actors can be given guru status as well. Surely Oprah Winfrey - a woman I truly respect for what she's doing - is looked upon as a guru of sorts. And of course there are also internet gurus...

There is a certain stupidity which emerges from a mass of devotees who repeat their gurus phrases with a trance-like look in their eyes and never question if what's been said holds true for them as an individual as well. When God created (wo)men, he gave us a brain. And I'm pretty certain it was given for a very good reason: to use it!

Now my dad may have played lots of hippie music, he's also a scientist to the core. And in our family not a single statement was accepted without thorough scrutiny of its truth. So never have I been even tempted to shave my head, chant whomever's mantras or blindly follow the leader of the peck.

That isn't to say I don't admire or respect people. I do have my private list of individuals whom I readily want to learn from. Whenever I encounter some form of expertise in a field I wish to learn about, I'm all ears and ready to soak up new knowledge as a sponge...

One of these persons is Sir Rupert Sheldrake - a biologist and scientist with revolutionary theories about the way our memories work. I once had the honor of meeting him in person. And I have to confess - I actually behaved quite silly when this happened. Showing certain behaviors I publicly disapproved of when encountering it in others. Like my slightly hysteric voice screaming "Oh my God, oh my God, it's the real Rupert Sheldrake!"

I am about to interview the #1 expert on manifesting money out of Thin Electrons...

www.thinelectrons.com/MJcall.html

In case you're now wondering what on earth a biologist has to do with manifesting money - absolutely nothing whatsoever.

The reason I'm bringing him up is because I like to believe Sir Rupert unknowingly played a part in the friendship which developed between me and the person who is ultimately the reason I'm currently writing this all... Mark Joyner.

From the moment I decided to have a go at earning money online, it took me a whole 8 months to first learn his name. And when I finally did encounter 'Mark Joyner' I still didn't have a clue about who he *really* was. That took me yet another month to figure it out...

So just in case you never heard of him: Mark is an internet marketing expert and best-selling author of at least two books - 'MindControlMarketing.com' and recently 'The Irresistible Offer'. He made millions selling info products online.

I often think of Mark as being an accidental guru. I know for a fact he doesn't like it one bit when people give him guru status. He's actually the guy who coined the phrase "If you meet a Guru on the net, shoot him!"

Lower your gun! You're not supposed to take this literally...

What Mark means is that you should think for yourself instead of blindly following any supposed internet guru you encounter. And while my initial encounter with Mark was pretty heated, he had my deepest respect for saying this. When we next found out we had a mutual interest in Sir Rupert's work and that of other scientists and philosophers, our friendship was pretty soon sealed.

Last summer Mark claimed he would 'pull 50K out of Thin Electrons' in just a couple of weeks. That sure got my attention! And surely enough, that's exactly what he did...

On Tuesday January 17th Mark is going to explain what he did and how you can do this yourself too. So make sure you're on this call and when you've listened to what he has to say, decide if you will:

a. shoot this accidental guru
b. apply what you've learned from a true expert in the field...

www.thinelectrons.com/MJcall.html

See you on the call!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck

P.S.
There are a limited number of lines available. Make sure you register now as the empty spots are filling up fast!

www.thinelectrons.com/MJcall.html

Time to Upgrade to Simpleology 102!

Read this letter from Mark...

Dear Patricia,

I'm a little sheepish to come to you like this, but I am left without other options.

Before I explain what I'm asking (don't worry, I'll make it worth your while) give me 30 seconds to tell you what strange fate befell my good friend Joe.

First of all, it should be made clear that Joe did not break any laws or do anything immoral to bring this upon himself.

I will be the first to stand up for him and attest: it was all an honest mistake!

Joe is a really smart guy.

But let's just say he's not the most organized man in the world.

What he lacks in organization, though, he makes up for with his quick wit.

For example ...

From year to year, Joe has been getting by without really having full control of his finances.

If you asked him how much many he had, he'd say "I don't know" and it would be the truth!

Joe had always believed that things would work themselves out.

No matter what happened ... He believed he'd be able to pull himself out of any predicament with the sheer power of his brain.

I can't even remember the number of times Joe had brushes with "financial death," but he always seemed to come out on top.

Heck, there were even times where it appeared that Joe was prospering, but that never lasted long.

I had always admired Joe's ability to pull himself out of trouble, but in my heart I knew he was playing with fire.

Last year, when it came time to buy Christmas presents, he didn't quite have the funds, but he worked a deal with his bank to advance him a little more on his already-over-extended-credit
and he saved the day.

His family had no idea how close they came to having a Christmas without presents, but Joe was not the kind of guy to give his family cause to worry.

That event left Joe feeling invincible.

He said, "no matter what happens, I seem to be able to manufacture a miracle to pull myself out of my situation."

He was untouchable.

For the following year he continued to live as recklessly as he did in the previous years, but pushed the envelope just a little further than before ...

Then something terrible happened.

It was the day after Thanksgiving and his wife came asking for Christmas-shopping money.

He knew that his bank balance was close to zero but he told her, "Sure thing, darling, I'll give you some money next week."

That night he sat down to write a new promotion for his business so that he could generate the shopping money for his wife.

The next day his promotion began and it was a huge flop. Not a single order.

This bothered him a bit, but he still believed he was untouchable.

"I'll work this out ..." he told himself.

He called up his bank and asked if he could get an extension on his credit.

No deal.

Something about his "debt to income ratio."

He went through the stack of mail on his desk that had accumulated over the last three months and found as many credit card offers as he could.

"You're pre-approved, Joe!" they all said.

One-by-one he called them and they turned him down.

Perhaps "pre-approved" meant something different to them?

"We're sorry, we'll send you an explanation in the mail," they frowned.

Finally, one of them came through with a limit of $1,000.

The card came in the mail two days later and he handed it to his wife.

"Here you go, honey. Buy your presents with this card this year. I'm reorganizing my finances and set up this account for sundry expenses."

Why not? She had no reason to suspect anything, so off to the store she went.

5 days later it all began to unravel.

His beloved son was in a car accident and suffered serious head trauma.

When the ER doctor came out to greet them he looked quite grim.

"Look, I'm not going to kid you here. Your son has taken a serious blow to the head and it's possible he may never regain full functionality in his brain."

I don't think there is any way to do justice to what a parent feels when they hear such words spoken about their child.

"But there is something ..."

They looked up through teary eyes with hope.

The doctor went on to explain that there was an experimental treatment for head trauma that used "Hyperbaric" (high pressure) Oxygen to infuse the brain and prevent long term tissue damage.

"It's experimental, controversial, and insurance will not cover it ... But it's your only hope."

"We'll do it!" Joe's wife blurted out.

Joe felt a sinking feeling in his stomach ... He knew that his cards were all maxed out. How was he to pay for this!

They rushed their son to the treatment facility and they immediately gave him a single treatment without asking any questions about payment.

When their son came out of the chamber it was clear that the treatment was working already. The boy who was barely able to formulate a single word after the accident was speaking semi-lucidly.

A miracle treatment, indeed ...

The doctor sat with them in the room and explained that the boy needed about 30 treatments to be brought back to normal, and that he'd need to come twice a day for the next 15 days.

Each treatment would cost $150.

"We'll do it!" his wife blurted out again - as a mother would.

The doctor rose up as the wife shook his hand but Joe lingered in his chair.

He knew his game was up and the time for "glossing over" the truth had come and gone.

"Doctor ... We have no money to pay you for these treatments. Is it possible to give you payments over time?"

The doctor looked on in disbelief. Joe had driven his son and wife over in a luxury car and he did not wear the clothes of a pauper. What kind of man was this?

The doctor stared at him for a moment ...

"Joe, we do sometimes provide pro bono treatments, but we have a waiting list a mile long. We're an experimental facility and our only funding is payment from our patients. Priority must go to our patients who can pay."

This came across like a slap on Joe's face.

"Doctor, we can pay for the treatments. We'll be back tomorrow for the second treatment with cash in hand," Joe's wife said firmly.

On the drive home the rage built up silently in Joe's wife.

She began to understand what had been going on ...

In her mind, she put all the pieces together.

When they got home, all hell broke loose.

They put the boy in bed and Joe went to his office, hoping he could manufacture another miracle somehow.

Joe looked up from his computer and saw his wife standing in the doorway.

He wanted to reach out to her ...

He wanted to tell her how sorry he was ...

He wanted to -

"Who are you!" she screamed at him.

No one knows exactly what happened in the next 5 minutes, but at the end, Joe had a bloody nose, a smashed up computer, a room full of paper thrown about, and nowhere to go.

He drove down the road and slept in the car that night.

Joe's wife called me up explaining the situation.

Of course I'd pay for the boy's treatments.

Yes, I promised I wouldn't tell Joe she came to me for help ...

Joe left the family, and took his debt and his chaos with him. He knew he was no longer welcome.

His wife took the kids and moved in with her parents and is now starting over anew.

A week later, Joe showed up on my doorstep unannounced.

He looked like he'd aged about 10 years from the last time I saw him.

I had to pretend I didn't know what happened, so I listened to the whole story all over again.

"Mark, can you give me a loan?"

The next four words were among the hardest I've ever had to utter in my life.

"No, Joe. I can't."

Joe was like a brother to me.

What kind of bastard was I to refuse him help?

"Joe, you're not going to understand why I'm doing this now, but you'll thank me for it later. I'm not going to help you, Joe. What I'm going to do is train you."

I went on to explain to him that if he needed a place to stay some night, he'd be welcome at my home.

If he needed a meal, he could break bread with me.

But I would not give him money.

Instead, I asked him for some.

"Joe, give me a dollar."

"What!"

"Don't you have a dollar, Joe?"

If he hadn't known better, he would have stood up and punched me square in the jaw in that moment.

"**** you, man."

Joe got up to leave with tears in his eyes ...

"Get back here and SIT DOWN!"

He slowly walked back in shock, sat down, and listened.

"Joe, a few months ago you asked me to coach you and I told you that you'd have to go through Simpleology first. I even gave free access to Simpleology 102 ...

"And what did you, do? Like everything else, you blew it off. You went on thinking you knew better. You thought I was just trying to get rid of you ... I charge people $2,000 an hour to talk to me on the phone - and I offered to help you for free if you'd only go through these two courses first. But you wouldn't even do that ..."

Joe's eyes started to brighten a little bit.

He sat in silence and I carried on.

"Joe, people have been coming to me for years asking for free help. I've always been very generous with my time, but the fact is, it would be simply impossible for me to help everyone who came to me.

"I created Simpleology so that I could have something for my P.A. to send folks to when they came asking for help.

"She has a standing order to send people there first. If they have any questions, they have to first demonstrate that they've gone through all of Simpleology. Do you know why?"

Joe looked lost. He would have answered if he weren't so shell shocked.

"I do that because I know that if they simply followed what I said there, they wouldn't need my help. That's why."

Joe started to brighten up a bit more even. Maybe there was hope.

"Yeah ..." he said hoarsely.

"Listen, Joe. Do you know why I ask people for $1 to start the trial of Simpleology 102? I could just as easily let them start the trial for free and the marketing effect would be exactly the same. So, why the $1?"

"I don't know ..." Joe mused.

"I do it because it's a symbolic act, Joe. That $1 symbolizes their commitment to complete the course. Even that small symbolic act makes all the difference."

Joe sat for a moment and I could see it all sinking in.

"So, give me my damn dollar, Joe."

He laughed.

"Haha, OK Mark, I get the lesson."

"No, I'm serious Joe, give me the dollar."

"Mark, I'm broke, man!"

Joe started to tear up again.

"Joe, what are you doing for dinner tonight?"

"What?"

"'What?' Is 'what' a food group? What are you doing for dinner tonight, dude. I'm serious."

"Well, I was going to get some fast food, I guess."

"Good! Well, here's what I want you to do. I want you to spare yourself the artery-clogging session at the burger joint, pay me $1, and eat at my house tonight - as my friend."

Joe stared at me and I could see the tears welling up in his eyes. These were good tears. Tears that brothers share when they drop all the macho bulls*** and realize it's OK to be vulnerable.

I held out my hand ...

He reached into his wallet and handed me the dollar.

In that moment you could feel the very fabric of reality ripping. Joe was sealing a fate for himself from which he could never turn back.

A better fate ...

A stronger fate ...

One where he'd finally get his act together and grow up.

One where he knew he would never have to "worry" about money again.

Heck, someday he'd even regain the respect of his wife.

As I cooked him a healthy natural meal he sat at my computer and did Day 1 of Simpleology 101.

The next day, he came over and did Day 2 right in front of me.

And so on ...

He hasn't finished 101 yet, but I know that at the end of it, he will immediately go on to Simpleology 102 and follow the course checklist precisely.

I know that he'll take that next big step and get his money problems sorted out forever.

How do I know this?

Because we have a sacred bond.

A sacred bond symbolized by the passing of a single dollar bill between the hands of brothers.

Earlier in this letter I promised that I'd ask something of you and here it is:

I want you make this sacred bond with me now, Patricia.

Simpleology 102 is "The Simple Science of Money."

I'm going to let you try it out today for only $1 so you can experience that same financial turn-around in your life that Joe is about to experience.

Imagine ...

If you had gone through life blind and could suddenly see, what would that be like?

That's what I'm offering you with this bond. It's a right of passage that forever changes your world-view.

But this bond demands something of *me* as well. It demands that I exceed your every expectation.

It demands that I truly *guide* you through this awakening ...

I'm so confident that I can guide you through this as I have for so many others that I'm giving you an escape clause.

I ask you to only try Simpleology 102 risk-free for 120 days.

In fact, I'll only ask you to pay $1 today as a sign of our bond and you won't have to pay me anything else until you have had the chance to experience all of this for yourself.

After all, if this "The Simple Science of Money", wouldn't you be able to apply what you learn and make many times more than the tiny investment required for the course?

You certainly should, and that's why I'm so confident in my offer to let you try it for $1.

But remember, that bond also symbolizes my bond to you.

You have put your trust in me and I take that trust very seriously. Every care has been taken to give you a truly life-changing experience.

Now, I can't promise you will become rich as a result of taking this course. Not only would it be illegal for me to do so, but it would also be wrong.

See, someone can flip on the light switch for you, but it is you who must walk to the door. (see Step 1 below)

If you do not find that it pays back your investment many times over, don't pay me.

If it does not show you the way to that door (the financial "way out" you have been longing for) then you can simply cancel and you won't owe me a penny.

I'll even give you back your $1.

But I know that's not going to happen.

See, I know you have that other essential element - that burning desire to get out of your current situation - or you would not have read this far.

You see, there is a little bit of Joe in all of us. Sadly, Joe is the Everyman of today's reckless culture.

Do you see now why I'm willing to take this risk?

I have so much more to show you, Patricia ...

But first things first ...

Step 1. Log in to Your Simpleology Account

http://www.simpleology.com/login.html

Step 2. Look at the Menu on the Left Hand Side

Step 3. Click on "Simpleology 102" in the Menu

Step 4. Scroll Down and Click the Button

At the bottom of that page you'll see a button to begin your risk-free $1 120 day trial of Simpleology 102.

That's the first step.

The rest I'll show you when I see you inside ...

All the best,

Mark

Mark Joyner
Founder of Simpleology


P.S. Did you know that these results will come to you with only 15 minutes a day?

At the end of Simpleology 102 you will have incorporated these new ideas into your 15 minute Daily Target Praxis and the Simple Science of Money will be hard-wired into your daily life.

It'll be like brushing your teeth soon.

Anyway, more about that when you watch the Quick Start cartoon video in a few moments.

P.P.S. I believe that business is all about an exchange.

A "quid pro quo."

This for that.

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

If the purpose of Simpleology 102 is to ensure that you prosper, I should only be paid if you prosper, right?

That is why I'm going to take all of the risk.

I'm telling you - just try this now and give me only $1 on good faith. That's it.

That's how dedicated and serious I am about helping you to succeed. Nothing would make me happier than if I were to publish one of your success stories, just like the ones I'm about to show you in a moment.

Not only have I removed all of the risk for you, I've painstakingly put together and thought out a step-by-step way for you to master this information and integrate it into your life.

See, I've been a student of learning psychology for years. I believe that learning should be fun ...

Well, you'll see soon enough.

Oh yeah, and if you're wondering if Joe's story is real, I ask you ... Does it matter?

After all, it's your story I'm worried about, not Joe's ...

I felt guilty after reading this. I had been neglecting my lessons halfway 102. Okay, that's a little further than Joe ever got, but still...

I just paid Mark $1 to re-establish my commitment. (See, I too got free access...) I guess that's my main new year's resolution: stick to my commitments. One of the thing I actually never did was to include the simpleology course in my Daily Target Praxis. It was kind of the thing I'd do after finishing my DTP targets. With the amount of items on them only building up, the course started to slip through.

Lesson learned... Everything you want to do in a day has to be included on your list!

Who's Really Reaping the Rewards?!

I was tipped today by a friend about another give-away event to help me build my list. This time it's the 117 Christmas Gifts - The Internet's Largest Free Give-Away Ever...

Is everyone going crazy or something?!

Well - if you are considering signing up for this one as a partner - meaning if you are contemplating on making a contribution so you can build your list - here's some food for thought...

I went over the conditions and there are a couple of things which are really not cool.

It starts out okay. You can sign up for free and what's even better, you can upload your product to their system so you don't risk exceeding your bandwidth when potentially thousands of subscribers start downloading your product.

Apparantly there's an upsell from the makers of this promo as well that you'll receive a 50% commission on from anyone who's referred to this promo by you.

According to the testimonials you'll be able to easily get as many as 5000 fresh opt-in leads to your lists. All sounds pretty tempting, right?

Scroll down...

Now here's where it gets dodgy in my humble opinion. With 117 products available for download, you know this is again a total information overload. So you're best shot at having your products seen and wanted, is to be in the top of the list.

Are they listing according to quality and value of your product? - NO

Your ranking solely depends on how many people you manage to refer to the site... In their words:

"We've Created A Way So That The JV's Who Work Hardest, Are Rewarded The Most!"

More realisticly it means that if you have a huge opt-in list already, you send out one or two emails and with a press of the button it's delivered to your thousands of leads. Write a good email and it will have a good response, so there you go: top-listing.

Worked hard? Don't think so...

Then there's you with a little list of say 500 leads. You have a great relationship with your members so when you send out your recommendation you get 10% to check it out = 50 referrals. That's great, right?

The only problem you're now facing...

... we would like to see us help each other and grow our business together. :-)

To have your listing maintained on our "Downloading Area", we require every marketer to have a minimum of: (Total # of unique referrals)

A. 25 referrals By Dec 15'05
B. 50 referrals By Dec 16'05
C. 75 referrals By Dec 18'05
D. 100 referrals By Dec 20'05
E. 125 referrals By Dec 22'05
F. 150 referrals By Dec 24'05
G. 200 referrals By Dec 26'05

So, unless you manage to find some new list resources you can tap into, you're product will be kicked off the download pages within 3 days. Pretty harsh policy for a program which states to 'help each other and grow our businesses together"...

Because you really need those new leads to grow your business - as opposed to the top-marketers participating with their already established lists of thousands of people - you are the one who really needs to work your butt off to make this thing work.

But the odds are not in your favor and so it's the same old story again - in reality it's not the guys who work hard who get rewarded, it's the guys who already made it who catch an easy ride. (Though no doubt they've worked hard in the past as well...)

Who's going to invent the system which truly and honestly rewards hard work? Where you get listed for your quality and the value you provide? If you know of a system which is already out there, I'd love to know about it!

What the Bleep Do We Know?

I've seen it. Finally...

Us over here in Europe were already lagging behind many months as the movie wasn't released to the cinemas till late Spring. But there was so little publicity involved, it almost went unnoticed. I'm not even 100% certain it didn't play in our local theater...

However - I finally saw it last night and my mind is still spinning with everything in there. I will have to see the DVD at least a dozen more times before I will have actually grasped all that was said. And that's coming from someone who did a 4-week course with Fritjof Capra about system's thinking and read quite a few books already related to quantum physics. If you're still living a 100% Newtonian reality, you'd probably go slightly schizo...

You know what gave me the biggest aha?

How it all relates to simpleology!

One of the scientists who was interviewed (I cannot recall his name - will look it up) said that every morning he consciously takes time to create his day... He continued to state that by focusing on his goals and preferred possibilities, small miracles happen during the course of the day. And it seems like the Universe is conspiring to make his ideas become reality.

Mark doesn't talk about Daily Target Praxis in these terms, but when you're involved in doing them you sure are focusing your thoughts on your goals as well and your actions that follow are all in sync with achieving your target.

Anyone notice small miracles happen to them as well?

I have - quite a number of them already. My medium term target (launching Manifesting Money Out of Thin Electrons on January 17th 2006) is turning out to be a lot 'bigger' a project than I originally thought it would be. But I'm receiving totally unexpected help from people I never even contemplated asking for this. Very cool! :-)

I'm feeling very excited about my discovery how Simpleology really is a type of 21st century education. I already thought it to be one of the best things that happened to my life. Beginning to understand how it also is related to quantum physics is just... eh...

... how the bleep to I describe this one... ?!

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I Create My Day

The most often referenced interview in the film is Dr. Joe Dispenza's comments on creating his day. In response to the numerous requests, the following is the transcript of that part of the interview.

"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

"So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.

"I'll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that during parts of the day, I'll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that's produced an effect in my physical body. Now that's a subjective experience, but the truth is is that I don't think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would come."

(Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?TM)

Inspirational Gift Ideas

It's December 11th as I'm writing this page and Christmas is getting closer and closer... I don't know about you - perhaps you don't even celebrate Christmas - but if you do, you will be all too familiar with the yearly stress of getting everything organized.


Over here in the Netherlands we already had our first outpooring of gifts when we celebrated the national feast of Saint Nicholas on December 5ht. Traditionally this is the day that all families exchange their holiday presents. In the 'good old days' my mom and dad still fondly recall, the focus was mainly on the practical. Gloves, sweaters, boots were favorite gifts. Or new pens and pencils, notebooks and diaries.


These days commerce has completely taken over and the presents are more and more characterized by being useless gadgets that break within 24 hours and are only 5 minutes fun to toy with. The main problem being: if we already have everything our heart desires, then how on earth can we still find something of value to please our loved ones with?!


Others are struggling with tight budgets and even if their family members don't have it all already, the next problem is how to afford the shopping frenzy all the neighbors are endulging in...


Coming from a wildly creative family, I have seen a great many solutions to both these problems which proves to show that NOT spending your last nickles on Christmas presents is both rewarding for your wallet and for your heart. And I like to share some of these ideas with you.


http://www.my-happy-heart.com/happy-holidays.html


A good number of these gift ideas require personal time, energy and effort going into them. Because I can also completely empathise with everyone who's totally pressed for time, I've also included some ideas of what you could actually buy. You won't find my favorite perfumes and watches on this page. Just stuff for the happy heart...

Little Guardian Angels...

It's Thanksgiving today. You're probably aware of that. If you're from the States, you won't be reading this straight away but getting ready now for a nice gathering I hope.

If you're from Europe like myself, or from Asia, Afrika, Australia or the other countries on the American continents, you'll notice perhaps how quiet the internet has become...

America Off-Line...

We're getting ready over here in the Netherlands as well. Ready for what still is one of the biggest national feasts ofour little country. The celebration of Saint Nicholas.

The Saint has arrived on his steamer on November the 12th andever since the kids are totally excited. They put their shoesin front of the woodburner each night, hoping St. Nicholas or one of his many helpers will pass by our house to surprise them with a treat. A chocolate letter perhaps or some marzipan.

We have other sweets as well that you'll never have heard of. Like 'pepernoten', 'borstplaat' and 'speculaaspop' - there's no translation for those...

And on December 5th it will be the big night of presents and other goodies. We'll have an early meal. The kids will be unusually quiet. The tension slowly building. When will we hear the loud bang on the frontdoor?That's the big moment. The moment the gifts are delivered...

At our boys' school they've started a new surprise game. Every morning each kid writes his name on a piece of paper. Then it's folded in four and put in a cup. When all of the papers have gone in, the cup is passed round and everyone draws a paper out again. Quietly reads the name and keeps the paper in his or her pocket. That's when the fun begins...

During the rest of the day, they now do nice things for the person who's name they drew. Help them out with something difficult. Sneak a nice message into their lunchbox. Some pepernoten in their jacket perhaps. Whatever they can think off.

And all the time the other person is not supposed to find out who his little guardian angel is...

Because you don't want to be suspected by your protege, what do you do? Create decoys!

Instead of only doing something nice for one other, you do lots of little nice things for many more of your school friends. And since everyone is using the same tactic, by the end of the day they're all totally confused about who did what for whom...

So when they gather in the end circel, it's again exciting as now all kids get to tell who they were looking after that day and what special things they did.

My boys are loving this so much, they made us all draw papers tonight after dinner. And now we're all going to be guardian angels for one of our family members. Surprise each other with a little special something...

I drew Tomas. At the age of nine he's my oldest son. With the most beautiful eyes in the world. Large and dark. Deep yet soft.

I'll probably tell you more about Tomas another time. He never ceases to amaze me with his deep philosophical questions and his own beautiful vision for our world.

Tomas ideas inspired me to write a story. A fairytale you could call it. Or a modern creation myth if you want. It's called 'The Dreaming of Paradise'.

We share a love of writing and creating books...

Today I want to honor him and offer you the pdf of 'The Dreaming of Paradise'.

http://www.heartsunlimited.net/dreamingofparadise.pdf

If you enjoy this story, do let me know. I'm sure Tomas wants to know too. There's a little tail to this story as well. Or rather a big tale. So make sure you read it all the way to the end!

I'll explain a little more about this later...

Thank you Tomas for being my angel of inspiration.
And thank *you* for being a loyal reader!

Wishing you much love, joy and happiness today and in many days to come,

Patricia Ritsema van Eck
www.my-happy-heart.com

P.S.
Please feel free to share 'The Dreaming of Paradise' with your friends. Thanks!

D'arcy Mayo's Miracle

During the very first lesson of Simpleology 101 you're asked to write down, 'One Thing You Most Desire in Your Life.' My response was to have the resources to live life fully which means
traveling the world, loving with passion, creating writings that move peoples to think, act and fulfill their destiny. That was on August 11, 2005 … my birthday.

I was in a financial bind after having lost everything following several strokes … I'd lost my business, my home, my ability to read/speak/write so my resource were zero.

A friend I trust told me about Simpleology so I thought, what have I got to lose? That opening lesson changed everything for me!

My efforts to re-learn the use of language was accelerated because of the use of the Daily Target Praxis that Mark Joyner taught me in Simpleology 101 … that made it possible for me to take the next step which was to create new income steams to achieve my stated target of living life fully.

Within a month, I had begun building a new business and had started earning income online. Less than 3 months later, I'd gone from less than $70 in August to $3,485 per month in October. It's great the way life works when you use Simpleology to focus your life.

In addition to my income growth I was able to travel to the Australian Gold Coast for a week-long working holiday that cost me not a cent.

Now, I'm expanding my ArticlesAbouteBay website and building an awesome writers portal at OnlineWritingStudio.com which I believe will be unique and service writings of all kinds all over the planet. Breath-taking results like that are common to members of Simpleology which is why I’ve gone further and created a blog to share my experience at SimpleologyBlog.com …

With all my heart, I thank Mark Joyner for his vision in creating Simpleology.

Click here to visit D'Arcy Mayo's Simpleology blog...

Lisa Made It!

Have you ever heard of Lisa Preston?

Lisa is a 'southern gal' from the United States who 'made it'. No, I'm not referring to how she made it through simpleology 101. She made it on-line! Lisa recently hit the jackpot with a software she created with Instant Software Builder.

Two days ago I wrote how I managed to finish a 1000+ page guide about creating software with 'relentless focused action'. Lisa happens to be an early customer of mine who purchased access to the guides in pre-sales. This is what she wrote me:

Patricia, can I tell you something cool?

I made a piece of software with ISB, and it's selling well!

In fact, Shawn Casey is doing a teleseminar on it and I've already done one webinar with Jack Humphrey showing how to use it!

I had to tell you, as your Big Books on ISB helped me a lot!

It's called Instant Niche Emails, and writes 52 original emails, based on your personality and niche information. You can use the emails to follow-up with your list for a year.

I'm just amazed and overwhelmed at the orders coming in - we have been swamped! This little piece of software has taken off like crazy!

I wouldn't have been able to create the software without your tutorials. While Cody's tutorials are fine, a person with no experience like me needed extra help...

I read through your tutorials a dozen times and tried everything you said. You made it easy to understand things, and what was still over my head, you gave examples of that we could take and use. That was invaluable!

So thanks again for your awesome tutorials! Without them I'm not sure I could have made the software. You have helped me so much!

Lisa Preston
http://www.InstantNicheEmails.com

With Lisa's permission I created a special report which showsyou how she created 'Instant Niche Emails' using one of the recipe packages she got with her purchase of the Big Books onISB.

The Making of Instant Niche Emails:
http://www.letsmakesoftware.com/dlc/NicheSoftware.pdf

After showing her the report she wrote back:

"Wow - this is so cool! I think this pdf shows how anyone, even with limited tech knowledge, can turn an idea into reality."

Everyone has one way cool idea lurking inside, just waiting to be brought into existence. I really hope this special report will inspire you to create a 'winning' product yourself.

I will be interviewing Lisa coming Friday about the marketing of Instant Niche Emails. Stay tuned for more about Lisa's instant success...

The Biggest Challenge Ever

Time has come to truly put Simple.ology to the test. I'm faced with a Challenge with a capital 'C'...

Can I or can I not manifest €17,000 (euros) out of Thin Electrons before November 17th?!

I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a matter of life and death that I succeed. But there sure are some BIG consequences if I don't. Basically, this is the moment in which I need to prove that I'm capable of running an internet business which makes enough profit to provide my family with bread on the table and a roof over our heads...

The irony of it all is that I'm currently working on a project called 'Thin Electrons'. A case study of how Mark Joyner manifested $50,000 out of that same matter within a couple of weeks. It's quite a huge project, since I'm not only writing the book about this. There will be a step-by-step guide as well which teaches people to copy Mark's results.

The first drafts were finished a little over a month ago and right now 25 newby marketers are testing the materials with their real-life business aspirations. It's all very exciting!

What I had not forseen, is that this 'Thin Electrons' project would become the ultimate test in itself. I know Mark did it. And I know of others who would be capable of doing it. But these people are all experienced marketers. Will I be able to pull this off myself as well?

Luckily enough I'm now half-way Simple.ology 102 which teaches all about the 'Simple Science of Money'. The introduction video for this course has an image of a little stick figure, an enormous bag of money and thick clouds standing between. The stick figure was doing her best to grab the money, but because of the clouds she kept grabbing thin air...

"Oh my, that's me..." - I thought.

Now that I've reached lesson 13, most of the clouds have evaporated. And with my new clear vision on how to feed time and energy into a system in such a way that it becomes efficient in producing money in return, I'm confident that I'll see some awesome results pretty soon.

So will I manifest €17.000 in 17 days?

I best get on with it!

Simpleology 102 - The Simple Science of Money

Relentless Focused Action

It seems ages since I last had contact with the outside world. (Apart from my family that is.) The reason for this:

'Relentless focused action' - step 17 of Daily Target Praxis.

If you're a simpleologist like me, you know what I'm talking about... ;-)

It was 'relentless focused action' which enabled me to deliver a 1000+ page product last week: The 3 Big Books on ISB. (ISB stands for 'Instant Software Builder' and my product explains how to create professional software with a minimumof tech knowledge.)

In the past I would have tried juggling 3 to 5 projects at once and keep them all in the air. With as a result:

• Nothing ever truly gets finished.
• My head is a mess trying to remember too many things that need doing.
• I'd get distracted with ideas for project A while working on project B
• Prioritizing would be difficult as all seems equally important.
• Opportunities for one project would be missed, because I'd be focusing on another project.

Why am I telling you all this?

Well, my guess is I'm not the only one who has struggled with this phenomenom. And if any of the above sounds like you, it's not too late to free yourself from the ideal of multi-tasking!

Sign up for Mark Joyner's Simpleology course and learn to get out of life what you really want. You will see results from all the time, energy and money you invest, faster than you could possibly imagine. Which in return will fill you with feelings of happiness and satisfaction. :-)

If you're already doing simpleology, I'd love to hear how it's been for you. Do let me know!

With the Big Books finished I'm ready to continue on my next project: 'Manifesting Money Out of Thin Electrons'. Again with relentless focused action...

Simpleology fills your life with focus and action!

I Did It!

Hurray! I finished Simpleology 101 and started on 102!

Reflecting on what these past weeks have brought me, I think the most significant is the complete clearity I now experience about what I'm supposed to do and not do during the day. This alone has helped me to speed up processes, as I used to drift off in day-dreams about various possible things I could engage with.

The other thing which stands out is the increased sense of motivation to reach my goals in life. Each day after finishing my Daily Target Praxis I'm all wound up and feeling excited about getting on with it. And it reflects as well in feeling more content through-out the day -- a much appreciated side-effect with my family members. ;-)

I've actually also started using The Healing Codes and these I do right before my Daily Target Praxis. The codes help me to tune into my heart and establish a high level of heart/brain coherence. Thus the "do/dump/deliberate" decisions are all made from the heart (it has a brain of itself, but you can also refer to it as intuïtion -- NOT instinct!) and when the heart is in charge, you simple know what to do and don't have to waste any time thinking.

Another side effect of all this working on myself, my business and my attitude is that I decided I can no longer spend up to an hour a day blogging about simpleology. It's simply not in line with my major targets... :P

I think I shall change the name of this blog to "The Weekly Journal of..."

Lock Box & Dream Catchers

Rob W. posted the following comment to my previous post:

"I've been doing the daily praxes for a few days now and I'm not really using the dreamcatcher page at all. If I have an idea of something that I need to do I put it on the mental lock box page.

It's probably that I'm not understanding clearly how these two pages are to be used. Can you offer advise on how you are using these pages?"

Rob, as I understand it all - and keep in mind I'm a student like yourself! - you mentally close your Mental Lock Box at the end of your daily praxis to keep your mind at peace. If you'd keep it open and scribble notes to it all day, you'd miss the peace of mind effect.

The Dream Catcher is to catch all your fleeting non-target related thoughts of the day itself. Which you implement in your Daily Targets the next day or transfer to your Mental Lock Box - the next day!

However, it would probably be a good idea if Mark would give some more clearity on this. You can post your question to the helpdesk (the link is in the membership area). Since last tele-class was such a success, no doubt there will be more like this on a regular basis!

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I'm not so much on-line these days as I'm very busy with a major clutter clearing as my current short term target. After deciding to let go of a great many never-yet-finished projects and excellent-but-not-target-related ideas, simpleology has helped me to finally say "I changed my mind, goodbye!" to them...

The mental clarity I'm gaining from this is incredible. I can wholeheartedly recommend everyone to chuck out all stuff which is not bringing you closer to your targets!

(As a nice side-effect this also is a great time-saver on no longer having to dust the collectibles... ;-)

Simpleology - Your Road to Mental Freedom!

Do - Deliberate - Dump

(Some more notes from last week's tele-class.)

"Mark, you say the Daily Target Praxis only takes 15 minutes. For me however it often takes over an hour..."

Focus on getting your praxis done in 15 minutes. If you spend an hour on Daily Target Praxis every day, you will stop wanting to do it. If it's 15 minutes, it's easy and you'll be excited to grab the day by the throat.

When you are taking longer, there are 2 possible reasons:

1. You're not familiar enough yet with the Daily Target Praxis.
2. You are over-analyzing what you are doing.

The whole idea of your Morning Brain Dump is that it is a dump. Just write down everything as fast as you can. Then after you tuned in to your targets, you go over your list again. You should be clear enough now to know in an instant if whatever's listed on here will get you closer or further away form your major targets.

• Do It ---> absolutely do it today!
• Dump It ---> whatever is not your heart's desire
• Deliberate It ---> Not sure? Move it over to your Mental Lock Box

If you have to even think about whether you really have to do something today: deliberate!

You don't want your mind to be cluttered with things you don't want to do (dump it) or things you will be doing in the future (deliberate it). It's confusing.

If you have too many things on your list, make it shorter. Because then you will experience the feeling of accomplishment. As a result, you will be much more efficient the next day. And over time you will be able to judge better what you can do.

Give yourself a timer and challenge yourself to get it done within 15 minutes. People tend to rise up to challenge. Challenging yourself at the start will get you switched on.

Deadlines can help you to get things done. Great things happen from:

• persperation
• inspiration
• desperation

I know there is one person listening on the call, who's currently working on a project and who's motivated for a large part by desperation. Which is fine for a short while, but shouldn't become habitual. It is a sure recipe for stress and your hair will have turned grey before your time...

If you are aiming at your targets from a stable position and simultaneously are motivated from inspiration, you say: "I don't have to do this, but it sets me on fire!"

Notice the difference with desperation...

Simpleology is about removing stress from your life. When you strip away everything which isn't bringing you what you want, you no longer experience stress and inspiration flows in.

Inspiration -- 'in spiritus': having the breath of God!

Simpleology - Living an Inspired Life...

Living Life To The Fullest...

I wrote a book called My Happy Heart which teaches you to get back in touch with your heart using simple heart focus techniques. In this book I talk about the soft whispers of the heart. The little voice inside which -- when you finally notice it and stop to listen -- is often responsible for BIG changes in your life...

The day will come that your heart will ask you: "Is this really what you are wanting to do with your life?!"

And when it hits you how far you've drifted away from your dreams and passions, that's your opportunity for change!

Simpleology asks you to get in touch with your heart each and every day. To remember your big dream -- your long term major target. And then it asks you to imagine yourself reaching your target. Feel the joy, the triumph, the content of finally having realized your goal.

Filled with passion you are now all fired up to aim for your target. Every decision you make in the next 15 minutes or so is about reaching your goal. You go over the list of things your mind has been telling you to take a look at. What to do with them?

What used to be a difficult decision making process, has now become crystal clear. Is it worth investing your time in this? Does it bring you closer to your target? Will it help you realize your big dream?

You are making these decisions in the moment. And that moment is colored by your passion, because only minutes ago you remembered how it felt like to reach your goals. There is no confusion in your mind. The fogginess you once got used to has cleared...

There is such joy and energy when you start the day knowing that you are doing what you want to do with your life. Most people only experience this once every 5 or 10 years. Not us simpleologists! We get to feel this each and every day...

Simpleology - allowing yourself to live in the moment!

No Simpleology Today - Healing Codes Instead...

I just discovered this new healing system called The Healing Codes - though not related to simpleology, it fits in very well with Energy Praxis...

It's a dead-simple system to heal everything from an everyday cold to cancer and diabetis. Yes, be sceptical. I was when I first heard these claims... But when I found out more about the science behind it, it all made perfect sense.

http://www.heartsunlimited.net/HealingCodeSpecial.pdf

You can read more about it in this special report which includes dozens and dozens of testimonials from people who've been using the system to cure about everything. Themselves, their kids, their parents or their dogs...

The basic idea is that we have flaws in our cellular memory which stems from wrong beliefs we carry with us - either developed ourselves through traumatic experiences or passed down the generations.

These unhealthy 'pictures' we carry with us, cause fysiological stress in the body. This means our autonomous nervous system is constantly triggered to react as if we are facing a deadly dangerous situation and prepares us for flight or fight.

That's okay when faced with real danger, but not so okay when faced with phoning our mum, sitting in a traffic jam, that kind of things...

This unhealthy reaction to non-threatening situation depletes our system from the energy it needs to grow and maintain healthy. Our immuun system slowly falls apart and once we've reached a certain threshold, we will constantly be sick, ill et cetera.

The Healing Codes get right to the root cause of the problem and using simple 6 minute exercizes we heal the pictures that started the negative spiral. Thus our immuun system gets boosted, we regain our energy and this enables our bodies to heal themselves.

That simple!

http://www.heartsunlimited.net/HealingCodeSpecial.pdf

On Second Thought... "I Changed My Mind"

Was it me saying I don't want to change?!

I changed my mind about that... ;-)

Last night's teleclass was awesome. Craig Perrine hosted this call in which Mark answered many questions sent in by simpleologists. We're probably all wondering the same things, 'cause to me it felt he was addressing me personally. Well, he actually was at some point...

This call gave so much clarity and really removed some of my last resistance to change!

(BTW - all teleclasses are free for subscribers to the simpleology course. If you haven't started on your own pathway to power yet, click here...)

I'm currently looking at 9 sheets of notes from last night's call and that is way too much to post here today. But I got answers to the 3 main issues I'm struggling with - the issues I posted about yesterday.

1. What Happens When You Open Your Email First

When you start with your Daily Target Praxis and follow it to the letter (thank for reminding me, Mark!), you will be tuning in again to your major short, medium and long term targets. Imagining again that you have reached your goal and a straight path which lead there behind you.

You are doing this, because with this vision in mind, you can shoot through your possible tasks list of today (Morning Brain Dump) and make instant decisions about whether to:

• do it
• dump it
• deliberate it

Your mind is in the right frame set - each of these decisions is based on the question: "does this task bring me closer or further away from my targets?"

What happens when you open your email prior to doing your target praxis?

Simple: it sets your mind in the wrong frame!

You will see items - the important things on other people's target list - which will now most likely control the rest of your day. And that is not what simpleology is about. With simpleology you are the one in control of your day!

In order to move towards your target in a straight line, you have to get in touch with it every day. This is the most powerful way to keep straight on track.

2. Dealing With Dozens of Creative Ideas

When you have a vivid imagination and a creative mind, ideas will be popping into your head all the time. This is very disruptive for what you are doing in the moment.

When you have already decided on what you are doing today, don't be distracted by new ideas. Even if you are hit by the best idea of your life!

Discipline yourself to put your ideas into your Dream Catcher. Knowing that it's tucked away safely on there and you will not forget about it. You always come back to your Dream Catcher the next day when you do your Morning Brain Dump.

Then you can decide to either save your idea for later - you put it into your Mental Lock Box. Or when it is in line with a target you are aiming at, you can add it to your Daily Target List.

(The same holds true for any worries you might be having during the day. Put them on your Dream Catcher and give your brain peace of mind! - Also keep in mind that worries really don't get you anywhere in life. Worries do not fix problems. They only add to any anxiety and stress.)

There are people who live on great ideas, but never accomplish anything in their life. There is no pattern to what they are doing, because they have no single focus. Seduced by 'the romance of great ideas' their reward is to be complimented for all the ideas they have. But in the long run, other people get tired of hearing all those great ideas which never come to pass...

If you find you are wrapped up in ideas mostly, award yourself by accomplishing one. Keep your focus on that single great idea and go for it!

3. Dealing With Resistance To Change

When I found out yesterday's teleclass was going to be about answering people's questions, I sent Mark an email:

Hi Mark,

This is a bit too short notice perhaps, but if you get a chance at all to talk about subconscious self-sabotage mechanisms trying to interfere with simpleology daily praxis, that subject has my highest interest right now.

I'm going through one of these cycles myself. I must add to this that because of the way you set up simpleology, it's much easier to deal with than in the past.

It's definitely a case of resisting change. Add to this a very stubborn part of me which refuses to believe I can be successful and is lurking at every corner trying to set me up for failure.

Awareness is a major key in dealing with this. Daily praxis definitely is a great way to increase awareness.

I think more people will be encountering this issue...

On the call Mark replied to my question. But it was very different from what I expected...

In Simpleology there is no mention of self-sabotage at all. Why? Because you don't want to give power to it! That is not to say simpleology won't deal with it at all. There is mental programming built into simpleology itself.

The way the course is set up, you are exposed to the same message in various ways:

• watch and listen to videos
• read from the Virtuosity Book
• read out loud from the Virtuosity Book
• listen to the lesson audios
• physically engage in the exercizes
• think about what you have learned
• write down in your own words
• also write down how this will affect you

All of this re-inforces the lessons you are learning as you retain the information in various parts of your brain. And when you reach lesson 18, you start with lesson 1 again. Because now you will look at all the previous lessons from yet another angle as your perception of simpleology has broadened immensely since you started. You will reach new levels again of understanding.

Again you are reinforcing positive habits and feelings.

You also are now practising Daily Target Praxis which asks you to each day get in touch with the underlying reasons why you to accomplish a certain target. You imagine how it feels when you reach your target. Feel the glow, the exitement. Feel it in your bones!

These feelings are such an incredibly empowering force! They will effectively shut up any self-sabotaging voice and allow your true you to let itself be heard and shine through.

Follow the course check-list precisely. Go through every single step and trust the process. Experience all of this programming as it will make you lean and strong. An unstoppable force to be reckoned with... ;-)

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After hanging up, I was left with the feeling of having had an epiphany. And frankly, though all of the above was immensely valuable information, this wasn't what brought the epiphany about...

More about that tomorrow!

Simpleology - helps you to get your life back!

I ---- don't ---- want ---- to ---- cha..... ---- aaaaaaaah!

This week has been one big struggle with myself. Simpleology is making changes inside. Subtle ones. And I am resisting...

The hardest habit to kick is opening my mailbox first thing. Even though I *know* it will mess up my praxis. Almost always there will be at least one *urgent* email that I *have to* respond to straight away.

Urgent? Get over it! If it is really urgent, the phone would be ringing...

Another habit is acting on ideas straight away. There's a certain marketer I highly respect, who always says: "Money likes speed. If you are hit by an idea, act on it immediately if you want to monetize it."

That probably holds true for people who have one or two ideas a month. But it definitely doesn't work when you generate about a dozen ideas a day. Seriously. I used to teach creative thinking techniques. Creative thinking has become a subconscious habit...

Use your Dream Catchers worksheet to capture your ideas. That puts your mind at rest and you can continue with focusing your energy and attention on your major target!

But the hardest part is probably coping with the concept that Simpleology in fact has put me on a road to success. Me? A successful person? Is that okay at all?!

There is some serious subconscious programming at work here that needs to be erased...

A little while ago Mark explained why you shouldn't want to do the whole simpleology sequence at once. It all has to do with change. Allowing your mind and your body to slowly adjust to the new you that you are becoming.

Obviously for a very good reason...

Simpleology 101 - keeps you on track!

Message from Mark Joyner

Have you ever actually read the "emergency instructions" card onan airplane?

One of the things they tell you is to "put your own oxygen maskon first" when the cabin loses pressure.

If you think about it, the practicality is irrefutable. If you help out one person and suffocate in the process, you have helped one person. If you put your own mask on first, you're then free to help as many people as you like.

Simpleology is about making yourself the most Powerful person you can be. It's about getting your own "oxygen mask" strapped on securely to your face and keeping it there.

If disaster were to strike your area, do you have enough Power to live through it?

Do you have the Money for an airplane ticket out if there's a warning?

Do you have the physical Energy to survive for a few days without food and water?

Do you believe you could help others, or would you be the one who needs help?

Do you understand why you do your Daily Target Praxis every single day?

Mark Joyner
Founder of Simpleology

Distracted by Hurricane Katrina

Sam Heyer, co-author of Business Sexcess and a personal friend, emailed me this weekend to ask if I was willing to contribute to his Hurricane Katrina Relief plan. Which I did, and inspired by his initiative, I also dedicated the home page of one of my websites to this.

http://www.marketingfrontline.com

Now, I don't really watch television a lot. I find it a waste of my time and when I do get hooked, it's usually to see some documentary on National Geographic or Discovery channel. Neither do I read the newspaper. Another time waster and with both forms of media I always feel totally drained after watching and reading.

Because of this, I don't always know what's going on in the world and with this Katrina disaster, I didn't actually hear about it till the streets of New Orleans were well flooded. And then I got hooked to the news again...

I'll spare you my personal opinions about what has happened. But I will say that I was very shocked by various responses to this disaster, which are so completely different from the responses to the Asian tsunami disaster last Christmas.

Living in a country myself which is at some places 18 feet below sea level, any flooding anywhere in the world gets my serious attention. It wasn't till after the disaster of 1952, when 1/3 of the Netherlands flooded and thousands of people drowned, that flood prevention became a top priority here. And it makes me sad to learn that still more disasters have to take place before other authorities wake up too.

I was told in school that the main reason I had to learn history, was to learn from it and make sure to not repeat the mistakes from the past. Yet, history repeats itself over and over it seems, no matter how many history lessons taken...

What I find even more disturbing are the accounts of people who completedly snapped in response to what happened to them. I can understand looting to some degree -- if I'd be trapped without food and water, I'd probably rob a supermarket too if that would save my kids. But the additional violence and aggression is quite beyond me.

It feels like humanity is a species in severe distress. Our minds and hearts are not functioning properly when we start killing those who come to our rescue. And frankly I don't think it will do us any good to point our fingers to others and blame the government, the institutionalized religions, the terrorists, the fast food industry, the 'elitarian, opinionated European snobs', the paparazzi, the marketers, the neighbors or any other person or organisation.

In the end it's me who is responsible for my thoughts and my actions. I choose my responses and my reactions to my circumstances. So if these are mostly subconscious reactions, it's time to do something about that!

I better get of my soap box before I turn this blog into a whole different topic all together...

If you feel moved to make a contribution to help the hurricane Katrina victims, I've listed various ways you can do this at http://www.marketingfrontline.com - and this is only a limited list...

If you are feeling totally powerless and overwhelmed by the events, please read: Heart-2-Heart: The Message of Water

I wrote this issue of my newsletter shortly after the Tsunami disaster. One of the responses I got to this:

If there was a way to transmutate that horrible disaster into international hope, you seem to have a gift for that.

Otherwise be sure to either get started or faithfully continue simpleology, as it will clear the clutter in your mind and build a stronger stamina to deal with any types of stress...

Simpleology - a fun and free system for all!

How About Those Recurring Daily Tasks?

The other day I received the following question:

I just completed Lesson 16 and I'm confused about how to do the Daily Target Praxis. What happens to all the things you do during the day that aren't directly related to your target? E.g. household chores, grocery shopping, making dinner, etc. Do you list those on the Daily Target sheet or just ignore them?

I've given this some toughts myself. One of the things I learned myself with time-management, is to actually have more targets, but then divided as:

1. business
2. family
3. social life
4. personal development

What you mention is a must-do to run your household. With a multi-faceted targeting system, you can list them. With the simpleology method, what I'd do is develop a system in which you set aside time each day to reach your major target. Be real about how much you have so you also have time to do your daily chores in a relaxed way.

Another thing you could try out, is Tellman Knudson's method of mixing targets and fun. I posted about this on my blog ("Making fun of your drags"). I don't use this for major target work, but I've started to use this with the kids to make daily chores more fun.

Daily Tasks - Tip From Another Simple.ologists :-)

MarkJoyner.name Discussion Community - Daily Tasks: "Select the main target my mind was keeping to itself, and sharpen my focus



Hi!

I put two things together yesterday which saved time and energy.

As the very last thing I before going to bed I took out the cockpit and placed the next morning's paperwork in order on top of it, without doing anything else.

This 'put to bed' the daily tasks and removed anxieties about today's targets.

Once in bed and just before going to sleep, I used a method which has proved useful for many years: I said to myself 'What is important is ...' and left my mkind blank to receive the answer.

Over many years this has helped me enormously to keep focussed - and produced some surprising answers!"

Dealing With The Information Overload

Just listened in on an interview Lou d'Alo from PowerUp Coaching did with Mark Joyner. And at some point the topic of info overload was addressed. You know the feeling: you're sitting at your desk all fired up and ready to go. Decide to quickly check your email for anything important, and by the time your system is done downloading, it tells you you've got 94 emails...

Then as Lou was explaining: many of the marketing messages you receive are written by professional copy writers. They're good! So if they tempt you into reading the email, you get all excited. Yeah! This is great. I could probably use that!!

At that point you forget to ask yourself: "Do I actually need this to get where I want to be with my business?"

The very first lesson of simpleology explains the 1st law: the Law of Straight Lines.

Meaning: the fastest way to get anywhere is to take the shortest, straightest route. If you want to go from Amsterdam to Miami, you preferably do not want to make a pit stop at JFK.

Modern marketing has totally screwed the way people think. We watch television and we are taught that when we buy this car, we'll get a hot boyfriend along with it. Personally I had a period during which I insisted on using Lätta butter on my bread. Not because it tasted so much better - because Lätta butter was associated with young, energetic, successful yuppies. And television commercials had tricked my mind into believing that by eating Lätta, some of that yuppie energy would rub off on me...

The accumulated affect of watching too much tv commercials, surfing the net and receiving loads of marketing emails, is that you get very, very confused. You loose track of what you really want in life. Even if you do have some vague idea of what you want to accomplish, you keep forgetting about this as your mind is told to go off some side path again to check out another must-have gadget.

Info-overload has thus become a far bigger problem than most people are even beginning to realize.

Simpleology will help you to get functioning in a healthy way again.

You remember to walk a straight line. You look at everything in a systematic way. Which makes it easy to make choices in life. And easy to deal with information overload.

I received 94 emails in my inbox today. But I don't get side-tracked any longer with the bells and whistles. Already at the head-line I now begin with asking myself: "Is this an offer that shortens my way to my major target?"

If the answer is 'no', I no longer have a problem resisting curiosity about what it's about. I press delete. If the answer is 'don't know', I might give the writer one or two more paragraphs. If I haven't found out by then, I also press delete.

Basically the first lesson alone already saved me 1 to 3 hours a day!

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Simpleology ROCKS!: "How To Get More From Simpleology!
I mentioned in a previous post that I highlighted important details as I read through the Virtuosity book. I highly recommend doing this, and here is how I'm using this little extra strategy to help retain the information I learn on a daily basis...

After doing today's assignment:

1. Read your current day's lesson in the Virtuosity book.
2. Highlight the most crucial points made on that day.
3. Write ONLY those points you highlighted onto a sheet of paper.
4. Put that sheet of paper in your binder right before your next day's assignment on your Checklist.
5. The next day, start by reading that page(s) of highlights.
6. Turn the page and begin today's lesson in the checklist.
7. Go back to step 1 and repeat."

(This is the opening of some very useful learning advice on the simpleology blog of Andy Hussong - whole heartedly recommended you read it all!)

How An Energy Leach Can Turn Into A Power Supply

Recently I wrote a newsletter to my Secret Weapon subscribers list that I was fed up with Secret Weapons and about to close the list. I bought a software called "Secret Weapon" from Mike Chen in March 2005 and thought I would do some internet business with this.

I registered a domain name and started a list. However, the software didn't work, and there was no support. Basically nothing happened after this first initiative but sending a couple of newsletters over to my new list. (Click here to see the full text of this newsletter.)

As a result of this last mailing, I was flooded with heart-warming responses. There was one email however, which had such an incredible impact on me, I just have to share this with you.

This email shifted my perception on matters in such a dramatic way, that right now I want to say:

"Thank you, Mike Chen, for all the blessings you unknowingly brought into my life!"

Here's the paradigm shifting email:

Hello Patricia

I guess I am not the only one who returns you an email upon your latest newsletter. You must get overwhelming response to that.

I am currently on Simpleology 101, sometimes not doing it for 1 or 2 days, but in general proceeding well. I knew this gigantic thing through you and I wish to thank you for this opportunity.

With the newsletter in which you introduced Simpleology to me, you changed my life instantly.

You must know about this influence, this potential that is in every single email address you have gathered.

As I am as a character, I did not do my homework over the past weeks. It is always the same, first I start with something, then I let it go again. Then I try to speed up, running against time and do as much as possible, only to realize that I can't keep up with all the stuff and it is overwhelming me.

With Simpleology, I hope to be able to learn doing it another way round. You made this possible.

See, how it all fits together?

We are all much more connected than we believe, and every effort will find it's reward, though often unconsciously, never noticed.

That's also, where your other sites come in the game. I saw you have one about "hearts" or so, and I did not yet check it out. But there is exactly my theme. I'll write about love and what it can do for us, for me, for you. It will be in the Ebook I'm going to publish.

Do you see the big picture?

Your efforts with "Secret Weapons" were never in vain. No, these efforts were indeed totally necessary in order to gain access, via your mailing list, to me and others. To present me Simpleology and what more may come; you would not have reached me otherwise.

And think of all the others you touched in similar ways, most of whom you'll never ever know about!

Come on, that must warm your heart, that must almost make it explode with joy, bliss and greatness!

Thanks to Mike Chen!

Did you thank him already for all that?

I thank him, with gratitude, and I thank you, for just being there, just sharing something with me. You could also have been afraid of the potential rejection you could have earned and therefore could not have shared it.

Your impact is much greater than you could possibly ever imagine and Mike's "misbehaviour" could be the greatest gift you ever received and he should be thanked for. That's just what I wanted to point out and bring to your attention.

Thank you again for sharing, thank you for making the time to read this way too big email and thank you for being there, as what I call a "member of my earth team".

Enjoy your life at every moment with all fibers of your heart.

Frank Rosebrock
http://mastermind.sysop.com/blog/

Frankly I can't even begin to list all the wonderful things which happened in my life after I first *knew* I had to purchase MYOS.

That was a soul's calling at the time. Now I can see why...

Thank you Mike for all the miracles still happening in my life because I bought your softwares.

Thank you Frank for bringing this to my attention.

And thank you, my reader, for allowing me to share this and so much more with you!

When you are focused on what is wrong with any given situation, you drain your energy. It's a big energy leach. Without needing to amputate it from your life however, you can turn any situation into a power supply - giving you energy instead of draining you - by remembering what good it also brought you and feel gratitude for this.

My heart was touched to the core and I felt like a new person when Frank's words sank in. I hope his email will inspire you too to see the blessings in disguise when seemingly 'bad' things happen in your life!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck
Founder of Hearts Unlimited
and Simpleologist :-)

When Passion Kicks In...

Tonight my partner and I were discussing the subject of picking a major target. Mark states somewhere in simple.ology 101 that when you aim for a target whith all your heart, your energy increases exponentially.

My partner is a percussionist. He's 6 ft 2, very slim and in everyday life he walks as if he's carrying the world on his shoulders. What a difference with when he's holding a drum! His spine completely straightens up, his eyes begin to radiate and with each bang of his hands, the resulting sound and vibration surges energy through your very being.

Reflecting on this metamorphosis, the following words came to mind:

Passion is the energy which makes your soul shine through.

When passion moves you, the world slides off your shoulders and you can achieve anything you choose.

Are you passionate about your major targets?

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Cheating Didn't Work!

After giving myself a short break over the weekend, I found it a little more difficult to get properly started this morning. My mind was a little frantic with everything that I just had to get done today...

I started out allright. Routine:

1. Start computer
2. Boil water for fresh coffee
3. Insert password to start Windows
4. Make coffee
5. Clean workspace to be ready for simple.ology daily target praxis
6. Login to simple.ology member's area and watch video
7. Complete lesson for that day
8. Drink coffee
9. Do praxis

Then the praxis itself consists of a series of things, starting with going over your major targets. Followed by the "Morning Brain Dump". And that is where I stepped off track...

I skipped the targets and went straight to doing my brain dump, but then decided that was enough to work from for today as I was really pressed for time and needed to get started with all of my targets.

Big Mistake!

Basically I reverted to my old working habits by doing so. I did lots of things today which could have been postponed, dumped or delegated. And I did totally nothing to bring me closer to my major targets.

Why not?

Simply because anything related to them didn't show up on my brain dump till the day was over. And I was just working down my brain dump list one by one...

I really need this system to get ahead in life...

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Making Fun of Your Drags...

Martin wrote the following comment to What Do You Do With A Brain Running Wild?

It occurs to me though that I'm most likely to avoid doing that which I perceive as a 'drag'. Maybe what's needed is to re visit the task and ask - "Does this really need to be done?" and if the answer is yes, "Isn't there a way to make this fun/interesting/not a drag?"

That's a great question!

Being a mum of 4 young boys, this is a question which regularly pops up, since the boys are very reluctant to engage in any activities like cleaning dishes and clearing the mess they made after playing.

The first simple.ology member's call featured Tellman 'HyperFocus' Knudson and he presented a most interesting exercize to increase focus. Listening to it, I thought it to be an excellent game you could play with your kids to get them engaged in daily chores in such a way, it becomes fun.

All you need is a kitchen alarm and a paper which lists your tasks, chores, targets - whatever you need to do. You write down 6 things on your list:

1. task / target a
2. a fun activity
3. task / target b
4. a fun activity
5. task / target c
6. a fun activity

With simpleology I guess you could just select daily targets from you list. With daily chores: anything which needs doing in the house. And a fun activity can be anything you very much enjoy doing (including relaxing on your couch!).

Let's say you're taking one hour to accomplish this, then you dedicate 10 minutes to each item on your list. You set the alarm and then you start working on item 1 as fast as possible. As soon as the alarm goes off, you drop everything, reset the alarm and continue with item 2 - the fun activity. As soon as the alarm goes off, you stop what you were doing, reset the alarm et cetera.

The benefits of this:

• you get things done much faster
• you develop your speed and concentration
• you become more focused
• you increase your ability to make strengthening decisions
• you are actually also having fun!

I have to admit I haven't actually tried it yet with the kids. But I intend to propose this at our next family meeting (we have a meeting each Sunday after dinner to go over the activities and chores of the following week).

I'm sure the kids can come up with lots of fun things to do and I'm even more certain that I can come up with enough little tasks. I'll report back on this as soon as we have a real live experience of how this works out!

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(When you start on simple.ology, you get a free tele-class each Wednesday with some expert. Last Wednesday the topic was speed reading - a most intruiging way to free up more of your time...)

How Many Minutes Are You Using Effectively?

Message from Mark Joyner:

There are 525,600 minutes in every year.

If you sleep 8 hours a day, you only have 350,400.

If you take two days off per week and work only 8 hours per dayyou only have 125,280 minutes a year to "get things done."

If you take one hour off for lunch and a 10 minute break forthe remaining 7 hours, you only have 91,300 minutes a year to"get things done."

If you're like 95% of the population and *really* only use about 1/3 or less of that time to get work done (as opposed to playing around, daydreaming, or doing "busy work," you onlyreally have 30,450 minutes a year to "get things done."

Are we really only using 10% of our available time effectively?!

Your Daily Target Praxis will allow you to:

• get at least 3 times more done in the time you use
  
• multiply your effective minutes by eliminating time leaches
  
• give you the energy to work faster
  
• keep you on track toward those things you *really* want

Mark Joyner
Founder of Simple.ology

What Do You Do With A Brain Running Wild?

Someone with simple.ology authority told me today to start over with lesson 1 of 101.

Duh? Why, for crying out loud? That's the 4th time in 2 weeks that I'm going over lesson one again. At this rate I don't think I will ever finish this 36 day eCourse...

Of course there was a good reason for telling me this. The reason being that totally beautiful pdf I put together yesterday. You know, the one you see directly below. The one that I streneously encourage you to download and pass on to all your friends with a messed up brain when time is concerned. That small work of art just managed to put me back on 'Start' and re-enter the game...

"Being focused is not about being able to concentrate for long hours on a row. That's just a skill that comes in handy IF you are also able to focus your skills on getting a project finished before you start the next one..."

I wrote that just a couple of days ago. Big lesson I learned after starting for the 3rd time. And guess what: I learned something more today!

You see, I wasn't considering the making of this pdf to be the start of a next project before hitting my target. I was actually taking it to be in line with my target. Well, one of my targets. The medium term major target. Not so much my short term major target, which is "getting organized."

Honest observation: I spent half a day making this pdf and all the time I wasn't doing anything about getting organized. Basically, I was not keeping my short term major target in site, hitting it till I hit it. I was having a most pleasant time creating the pdf and used it as an excuse for not going after my short term target (which frankly I'm finding to be a drag...)

This is how my brain works:

1. Drop anything interesting inside my brain, and it takes off in 20 directions at once and starts brainstorming on auto-pilot almost.
   
   
2. Whatever my brain comes up with - it instantly tries to connect it to a major target or pressing concern (I'm not sure yet if this is solely for the purpose of 'tricking' me into believing it's okay to persue the idea or not - this is all happening at lightening speed, you see).
   
   
3. When my brain comes up with anything I consider to be fun, I'm already excused to take it on, as brain says it's within the right focus.

Combine this brainstorming 'machine' inside my skull with a 'yes-sure-great-I'll do that too' personality and you have the perfect recipe for total distraction and desorientation before the sun sets...

Lesson I learned today: my brain is my number one obstacle in getting what I really want, as it's really clever in tricking the system (can't believe it's actually allowing these words to come out of it...).

Making that pdf was actually a weakening decision. And it's often when we have to make these kind of decisions - the tough yet strengthening one versus the easy but weakening one, that we fall victim to temptation and our brain will find the perfect excuse for it.

I have no problems keeping my hands of chocolate, cookies and sweets. You'll hardly ever find me sitting behind a tv screen - perhaps once a month. I can easily pass on alcoholic beverages. But to actually finish a project before getting started on a new one...

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A Gift For You!

"Do You Meet Your Daily Targets"

The text and Visual Planning Aid worksheet as discussed in previous post is now available to you in easy to print pdf format. You may print as many copies of this as you want, give it away to your friends who always miss their deadlines and never show up in time for their appointments or lock it away safely in a secret corner of your hard drive.

Anything - as long as you keep the original texts unchanged.

To your timely success! ;-)

click here to download it all in pdf

Do You Meet Your Daily Targets?

How long is the Daily Target list you last compiled? 5 targets? 10? 15? Or perhaps nearing 2 dozen?

My last list existed of well over 30 small targets. Well, I thought they were small. I really thought that all in all they'd take me perhaps 10 minutes at most per target. But then, I have a really lousy sense of time. Time is kind of non-existant in the realms I live in...

Besides, when it comes to long lists, I also lose the overview. I just get lost in a stack of papers, where words become a meaningless sequence, seemingly continuing to the end of times. In short, I'm your typical 'right-brainer' type of person.

Never being able to meet your daily targets, is really demotivating (energy leach). It doesn't exactly get you all passionate and fired up to achieve your goals, if every morning you find yourself copying about half of yesterday's Daily Target list to today's Morning Brain Dump...

Besides, it's costing you valuable time as well. Today I took out a stopwatch and timed exactly how long it took me to copy my unfinished business from yesterday's to today's sheet: 3 min 23 sec. That sounds like nothing, but wait till you've multiplied this by 365...

1235 minutes = 20 hours and 35 minutes wasted every year!

(It makes you kind of freak when you start thinking now about all the time you waste watching the idiot box...)

However, there are excellent ways to deal with this! And since on average 50% of humanity has a right-brain preference, there's a big chance you, my reader, will find the following information useful.

Here are 2 time-management techniques I used to teach, when I was working as a corporate trainer for Qréacom. One is to get a good visual impression of how many hours you have available every day, and the other is to make a fairly accurate estimation of the time it will take to reach each target. Use these techniques to determine how many daily targets you can add to your list and to schedule them. (Steps 11 and 12 of your Daily Target Praxis.)

Mark Joyner has something he wants to add to this as well about this 'add-on ouside of simple.ology' (!), but he'll have to await his turn till I'm finished explaining the basics to you... ;-)

Visual Planning Aid

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The Visual Planning Aid consist of clock images and a coloring legenda. Since the majority of us has learned to read clocks shaped like this as kids, the images represent time in a more tangible way. From left to right you're seeing half a clock for the night hours, a fully round clock for the morning and afternoon and another half a clock for the evening. All of one day.

To use this planning aid, you will need to print a copy to paper and have 5 vilt-tip pens or pencils at your disposal in the colors red, orange, green, blue and violet. The colors have certain meanings:

1. red = simple.ology daily target praxis
2. orange = meetings & appointments
3. green = travel time
4. blue = daily targets
5. violet = family & personal time

Start with the red pen and color the block of time you reserved for simple.ology course and praxes. Personally I like to evaluate my targets at the end of the day again. So I set aside 2 blocks - one in the morning and one in the evening.

Then take your orange pen and color the block of time you set aside for meetings and appointments already on your agenda. If you still need to schedule a meeting for today, skip this for now and plan your target time first.

Use the green pen to add travel time for these meetings. (People with no sense of time, typically don't take travel time into account...)

If you have any family or personal obligations (playing sports, going to your son's school play etc.) use the violet pen to color those blocks of time. You will now have a pretty good visual impression of the amount of time you have today to meet your targets.

Okay - pause for a sec now. Don't take out the blue pen just yet. Before we continue to color the chart, it's time to learn the next time management technique...

The Correct Time Estimation Formula

How many minutes does it take you to pay one bill? To respond to all of your emails? To sort your administration? To write a sales letter? To create a web page?

You will probably have at least some idea. Take paying a bill for example.

• fetch the bill and your check book
• write the check
• put the check in an envellope
• write the address down and stick a stamp to it

Depending on how well organized your administration is, I'd say it shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to accomplish this. (I sometimes take 30 minutes to locate envellopes and stamps; that's why my short term major target is to get organized!)

But really, it depends. It depends on whether or not during these 10 minutes...

• your kids decide to fall on their heads;
• your best friend just got sacked and calls you on the phone in tears;
• your cute neighbor fancies he needs a cup of sugar;
• the postman wants to deliver a package and needs your autograph;
• you trip over a toy while fetching the stamps and have a spontaneous fit...

Okay, chances are higher that all of this will not happen during these 10 minutes. But if you have about 180 minutes of daily tasks in total, it's almost inevitable that something will happen which will slow you down.

That is why you need the Correct Time Estimation Formula. You know how much time you possibly need. With the Correct Time Estimation Formula you can now calculate how much time you probably need. And it's really simple...

[sum total of possible time] + 25% = [probable time]

So if you think you need 10 minutes to pay a bill, plan 10 + 25% = 12.5 minutes to do it.

And if you are one of these people who really doesn't have a clue and merely guesses, add 50% to 200%. Using this method regularly, will actually help you to get a firmer grip on your time consciousness. Especially when you take some time to evaluate as soon as you finish a task.

What I do on my Daily Targets list is to write the estimated time between brackets straight after my target. Then calculate the probable time and write that down under the heading 'Schedule'. And as soon as I've finished, I write the actual time under the heading 'Done?'.

Okay, back to the Visual Planning Aid...

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As you can see here my day starts with 30 minutes of simple.ology at 8:30 am - kids just left for school. I'm taking a bit more time than the estimated 15 minutes. That's because the daily target praxis sequence isn't automated yet - I still have to look things up and reread. Plus I'm taking mental notes all the time about what would be interesting to post here on the blog. ;-)

Then a 2 hour block of daily tasks. Starting out with what I consider to be the most boring ones. This helps to 'strengthen my power' and also I quite like it when it isn't hanging over my head for the rest of the day...

As you can see there is half an hour of white space between target time and an appointment. That is my overflow time - the time I can use to finish a target which got interrupted or that I underestimated.

The rest is pretty much self-explanatory. But otherwise you need to know that I only added the descriptions of my planning here as an illustration. Normally I don't write them down on this chart but only on my Daily Target list. And I keep this print with my list for reference.

That's it for today!

Your turn now Mark. You wanted to add...

Great stuff.

Couple comments:

1. Do your targets first before anything else - meetings and errands should come after. Right after you do your Daily Target Praxis you have the most energy and focus. And follow it to the letter (which means going right to your targets when you're wound up like a rubber band ready to snap at them).
   
2. I also want to make it clear that add ons are add ons and outside of Simpleology. I want to cook things down to the bear essence when presenting Simpleology.

MJ

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A Shift of Perception

Simple.ologists reading: this relates to "Daily target Praxis"

It's amazing what a difference it makes when we eliminate a certain 3-letter word from our thinking. Especially when this thinking concerns the muzing over our goals in life...

I started my first driving lessons when I was 18. I can't remember the exact moment, but it probably was pretty soon after I had finally reached the age at which you can legally obtain a license. But I didn't pass the exam till I was 23.

Being a student with a chronic lack of money, I never managed to save up for more than 4, perhaps 5 lessons in a row. Then I'd pauze for half a year to a year and take another couple of lessons. Not exactly the fastest way to do it...

Some people are great savers. I happen to be a great spender. With little to no insight into what was actually happening with my money. If the wallet was full, I'd be partying. If the wallet was empty, I was actually quite content to live on water and bread till the next allowance was wired to my account.

But at some point I made a decision that I really needed that driver's license. It became a nuisance to always be dependant on others. Plus I think my dad gave his old car to my brother, with the side-note he would have to share it with his sisters as soon as they'd pass their driver's exam. That car was a "Volkswagen Golf" - a totally cool car to be seen in...

I took an extra job and saved up enough money to pay for another 10 lessons and the driving exam itself - which costed a fortune! All the way through this last cycle, I was convinced I'd pass the exam. It actually wasn't an option to fail, simply because I didn't have the funds to pay another exam. And of course, I passed!

Now this was some years before I was introduced to concepts such as positive affirmations and such. At the time it felt natural. The desire to succeed was extremely intense. I had visions of collecting my license weeks on forehand - both during the day as while asleep. I had a very clear vision of what I needed to accomplish and just went for it - in a straight line.

Natural born simple.ologist, huh?

Hmmm...

If only I'd be as confident in every aspect of life...

After sorting through all of my projects today (see yesterday's post) - prioritizing, dumping and making notes of whom to delegate to - I realized that I'm having a bit of a hard time believing that I can succeed in any kind of business. The reason I'm focusing a lot on working on-line is two-fold:

1. I love to write and teach and I enjoy sharing what I learn - the bigger the audience, the better. So the internet just happens to be the best place to reach thousands and thousands of people.
2. I need to earn an income too and again: the internet is the place with the thousands of potential customers.

Whereas the writing comes natural, the selling is really 'hard' work. In my perception I'm working my butt off and I get wonderful response to the sales letters I write. That's fanmail. Not sales...

So, what started to happen. Each time I login to my server and check the stats, this voice would be chanting in my head: "I'm not making sales. I'm not making sales. I'm not making sales. I'm not making sales." And it was growing in intensity. More and more emotions attaching too. The complete opposite feeling of when I was preparing to take my driver's exam.

Now watch what happens as I remove this 3-letter word from my mental conditioning...

"I'm making sales. I'm making sales. I'm making sales. I'm making sales!"

Tiny difference in words. Huge difference in perception!

You know that it took this frame shift to finally notice the recent conversion rates I of my last sales attempt. 84 unique visitors to make 18 sales. Okay, not near enough to make a decent living, but hey! A conversion rate of 21.4%!!!

The sun is shining inside and life is good. I am going to succeed! :-)

Simple.ology 101 - a fun and free system for all...

How to Get What You Don't Want!?

Simple.ologists reading: this relates to lessons 2, 3 and 4 of simple.ology 101

I always felt good about my abilities to concentrate. If anyone would ask, I'd say I'm good at focusing and not easily distractible (unless I'm having to fill out the tax forms). That was until today...

What happened?

This morning I wrote MJ a letter about my concerns that though I was working my butt off to make my projects work, I wasn't making enough sales. I was tired, feeling edgy and something also happened that knocked me of balance. Frankly I was complaining. You know how it works...

"Everybody is doing great and I'm just this little fish and nobody is paying attention to me!"

Reply:

"You're not a small fish. Listen to Russell's story ... He went from being totally dirt poor broke to making 50K a month. All that in two years.

You can do that too. So the question is - what's holding you back? My guess: too many projects at once - not enough focus."

Ding, dong!

Hmmm... yes, I do have plenty of projects going on at the same time....

1. Marketing my Dutch book in the Netherlands - start laughing, 'cause at the moment I can hardly even manage to fulfill an order. Wish list project...
2. Getting "My Happy Heart" ready for publication - been working on this one on and off for over a year now. Seems to keep sitting in the stage of 'almost done...'
3. Writing the last chapters of my book about creating software yourself - okay, I'm having some tech issues here which are preventing me from getting it done. Need to earn enough money to buy a new computer first...
4. Redoing ALL of my websites (started as of March I think...)
5. Creating about 12 software applications which I think would be great...
6. Launching a new website tomorrow - forget about that one. No way it will be done within the next 24 hours.
7. Selling an incredible set of books and audios for a bargain price (that's the project that got me whining in the first place).
8. Setting up a new project together with MJ to finally learn how to sharpen my marketing skills.
9. Putting together a couple of eCourses about prosperity, about making software, about mind-mapping, about stress management and some more...
10. Blogging, writing newsletters et cetera and of course doing my simple.ology daily praxis.

And that's just my work related projects. Deadline for about all of them: the week before yesterday...

I bet you're laughing right now. Boy, is this obvious. How on earth can you hit all of these targets at once. Is it any wonder that I am NOT getting what I want?

That's what happens when you're lost in the forrest and have to choose between a dozen paths which may or may not lead you out. You need a helicopter to see things from a different perspective again. Thanks MJ, for taking me on that chopper ride!

What did I learn today?

Being focused is not about being able to concentrate for long hours on a row. That's just a skill that comes in handy IF you are also able to focus your skills on getting a project finished before you start the next one...

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Subliminal Simple.ology...

Simple.ology 101: "Tip!"


I just transferred all of the mp3 lesson files to my mp3 player, set up my head phones and am listening to all of the lessons as I'm writing this.

That is NOT the tip though...

I instantly found that I couldn't actually concentrate on both writing posts and listening to the audios. However...

If you set the sound very, very low, the lessons will not so much be registered in your conscious mind, but very firmly registered by your subconscious mind.

It gets even better if you have a recording which is mixed with music that stimulates alpha waves. (Simple.ology 102 purchasers have received a free download of subliminal software from me which allows you to do this!)

So, the tip is basically to additionally to the regular learning and practising of this system, also set your learning up for subconscious learning to support this.

If you want to know more about the effect of subconscious learning, I highly recommend that you read 'Super Learning' and 'Super Memory' from Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.

(I have an inspirational books section on my website with a little more info about this book: www.my-happy-heart.com --> check the dropdown menu at the most right of the nav bar and select books, music.)

Apart from the simple.ology lesson, you can also put your targets in a subliminal recording. State them as if they've already come to pass, read them aloud and record this. This will help your mind focus on your targets and naturally find solutions to overcome obstacles when you encounter them.

To your subconscious you've already reached your goal, so it will do anything to make sure this reality is reflected in your real life experiences.

Have fun with your simple.ology!

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Integrity Saves You Time & Energy...

Don Miguel Ruiz: "Be Impeccable With Your Words "

"Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

~ The Four Agreements

Don Miguel is a Mexican sjaman, educated in the old wisdom of the Toltecs. And in his book he speaks about how we humans have been "domesticated" to a type of civility which is mostly based on fear and anxiety. We live in a dream world. But it's not a pleasant dream. It's mostly a nightmare.

And the scary part is that at some level we all agreed to live in this dream. We carry a Book of Laws within us which state clearly what we can and cannot do. If we break the laws, we get punished. By our parents when we're young (that's the domestication process) and by ourselves when we get older. Which in most of the cases is even worse...

How many times have you told yourself:

• "I'm not worthy of love."


• "I'm not a good person."


• "I don't deserve this relationship."


• "I am a failure."


• "I ... " (fill in the blanks)

That's punishment for you. And the creepy part of it is, that we punish ourselves over and over again for the same mistakes. We only have to remember a time we broke a rule from our Book of Laws, and the nagging begins instantly.

Then, the other thing we do, is also say bad things about other people. As a species, many of us are addicted to gossip. We like to talk about others and often in ways that don't make that other person shine...

Both when you are talking negative to yourself and when you are talking negative about others, your words become poison. You may take that quite literally!

Here's An Experiment For You...

1. First you are going to make yourself feel really good. As good as you can be today. If you have your own method of pumping yourself up - do this. Otherwise, about someone you really love. Think about the nice things this person has done for you, how he or she helped you or just how lovely this person looks smiling.
   
   How would you rate your overall feelings on a scale of 1 to 10?



2. Now think about a person you really dislike. Take out a notepad and write down everything that's horrible about this person. The injustice you suffered at his or her hands. How bad he or she made you look that day in front of your friends. Every bit of nastiness you can think of and tell it to paper as if you were gossiping to a friend.
   
   How are you feeling now? Be really honest with yourself...

Get the point?

Before you read on, please repeat part 1 of the exercize to raise your feelings of well-being again!

We often lower ourselves to gossip, because for a fleeting moment it will make us feel better. Well, we think it does, because we can think a little better about ourselves by putting others down. You understand the illusion of this reasoning. It already looks foolish when writing this down. But these are unconscious processes.

Anger, irritation and jealeousy will do the same to your system as fear, stress and anxiety. I spoke about that in the my previous post. How these emotions send shots of adrenaline and cortison through your blood. Remember? That's why it's poison.

Well, that's what Don Miguel Ruiz will tell you too, though he words it a little differently. And he will also tell you that at any time in your life, you have a choice to change the way you act and react to your circumstances. You can choose right now to be impeccable with your words from this day onwards...

Save Yourself Time & Energy

You can also ask yourself, where talking negative is taking you. Be it talking negative to yourself or about others, how does it contribute to the things you want to accomplish in life?

You already know it takes your energy level down. Would you agree with me that it's a waste of time too?

If you've treated yourself to the free Simple.ology 101 course, you will know by now that to get what you want in life, you have to spend your time and your energy wisely. And gossiping is both a time and an energy "leach" (see lesson 16 of the Simple.ology Virtuosity book).

While down-talking, the time ticks by and you're not accomplishing anything good. On the contrary. And besides that, you'll also feel drained afterwards. Not the best situation to move ahead again.

Today I made the choice to think twice before I speak. So that whatever I utter will help me accomplish my goals instead of burning my bridges...

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How Simple.ology Will Help To Fight Poverty

Mark Joyner believes that poverty is threatening the very existance of humanity. The differences between the rich and the poor are becoming bigger every day. And it's creating an explosive situation.

This is one of the main reasons that Mark has compiled all of his knowledge about getting what you want into a consize, easy to follow multi-media course. And he's giving free access to this for everyone on the planet.

Mark really wants you to take advantage of this opportunity. The more people who know the laws of success and getting what you want, the bigger the chances that our species will reach a new level of sophistication.

Poverty is the root cause of a lot of disharmony. Extreme examples are the acts of terrorism we see these days. Nobody in their right mind would honestly believe that it's okay to kill innocent people. Yet, somehow a core group of terrorists manage to convince others that it is. And they can only do this, if there is a deep level of discontent already breeding within their new apprentences.

Your Spirit Is Chained By Adrenaline...

But to bring it to a more day-to-day level...

If you are struggling to survive, that gives stress. Your mind is constantly occupied with questions about how to pay for your food, the rent, new clothes for your kids, the car repair et cetera. You worry. You're anxious. And when that happens, your body is flooded with adrenaline and cortison.

Adrenaline makes you edgy. It is great for fighting or fleeing danger, but it bars your creative thinking and your problem-solving skills. Your perception narrows and your reactions will be on instinct rather than on intuition or reason. You interpretet people the wrong way, get into many arguments or you break down and cry about almost nothing.

The effects of an adrenaline shot last for about six hours. And because you already are edgy, chances are you'll be fueled with more adrenaline long before your first shot has worn out...

Cortison is even worse. Also called the "stress-hormone", cortison has been identified as the main cause of aging quick.

We Need YOUR Talents!

Have you ever seen a street bum? A guy who sleeps under the bridge and has to beg for food all day? These people get old before their time. Not because they live outside most of the day. Farmers live outside too and they usually look extremely healthy. It's because they're living in survival mode 24/7 and their system is totally taken over by adrenaline and cortison...

I happen to believe that each and every one of us is gifted with some great talent. You too have a genius lurking inside of you. To be able to use your talents however, your basic needs must be met. As long as the majority of the world is suffering from poverty, we are wasting talents by the millions. And trust me, we NEED those talents.

The world is facing many problems today. Hunger is just one of them. We need to deal with wars, social injustice, criminality, allergy explosions, fresh water scarcity, ecological imbalance. Just to name a few...

If we'd begin to free the genius in everyone, people will step forward with solutions to our problems. But they need to be able to think. They need the opportunity to free their minds from worry and anxiety and use their neurons in creative and positive ways.

Who knows, maybe we're all desperately waiting for you?

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Marketing Masters Frontline:

"You Are A Genius!"
Time To Free Your Genie From Its Bottle...

Because Only Then Will You Be Able To
Always Get What You Want...

Freedom of Money
Freedom of Time
Relationship Freedom
Physical Freedom
Spiritual Freedom

Learn How Ultimate Freedom Can Be Yours For Free...

My friend and mentor Mark Joyner has put together a truly excellent on-line course which teaches you how to get what you want. Mark himself knows how to get what he wants. He is a very wealthy internet business consultant, considered by many the "Godfather of Internet Marketing".

Apart from marketing, he has studied quantum physics, philosophy and psychology, spiritual and religious works. From his studies and his personal experiences, he discovered that getting what you want happens when you follow 5 particular rules for success.

With all of his clients he found that whenever they'd break only one of these rules, they'd never reach true success. He's helped many people become very successful in business, both on-line and off-line. The guy definitely knows what he's talking about!

The Genie Inside You Is Calling...
I happen to believe that each and every one of us is gifted with some great talent. You too have a genius lurking inside of you. To be able to use your talents however, your basic needs must be met. As long as your mind is mostly occupied with how to nourish these, you won't be able to let your talents shine through you.

• Imagine how you would feel if you only work because you want to work, not because you have to. All your future days are already paid for...


• Imagine how you would feel if you no longer have to slave your way to the holidays, but can take time off any day you want to. Rejuvenate your body and soul...


• Imagine how you would feel if you could afford all the best organic foods, nutritional supplements and health care. Have a massage once a week. Frequent the sauna...


• Imagine how you would feel if you can spend as much time as you like enjoying the company of your loved ones. Deepen your relationships instead of being the stranger who cuts the meat on Sundays...


• Imagine how you would feel if you could explore the realms of the spiritual. Meditate without knowing the alarm could go off any minute. Discover who you are in God and who God is in you...

When you have reached the point that all of this happens naturally in your life, you have achieved Ultimate Freedom. Freedom of money, freedom of time, physical freedom, relationship freedom and spiritual freedom. You can now pursue the real genius in you.

We all have a genius lurking inside us. With Ultimate Freedom you have a choice to discover your true genius and how you can uniquely apply it. When you learn the simple laws of success, you will achieve Ultimate Freedom...

And now there is an easy-to-follow system waiting for you. This system is called "Simple.Ology", because getting what you want isn't all that difficult. It involves simple steps. Simple rules. Simple 15 minute daily excersizes. Commit yourself to 38 days of easy learning and listening and change your life for good!

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Simple.Ology 101

The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

Simple.Ology

• The 5 universal laws to abide if you want to achieve your goals in life;


• the scientific formula for success;


• the 3 sources of power and how to increase them exponentially;


• the pathway to making the 3 sources of power work for you instead of against you;


• the 2 essential decisions you have to take first, less all of the above is rendered useless...

The Simple.Ology 101 course material consists of:

• "The Virtuosity Book" (pdf) which contains all of the lessons


• "Course Check List and Workbook" (pdf); the daily lesson plans and exercizes


• 12 individual worksheets (pdf)


• 6 "Memory Joggers" (pdf)


• 18 videos with very descriptive visual, auditive and written lessons


• 18 mp3 audios of the textbook
  

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You will get all of these absolutely free when you sign up to participate in this course. And frankly, I have never ever seen anything of this quality and magnitude given away. This course is easily worth hundreds of dollars.

I have been one of the beta-testers for this course and it is truly one of the very best materials on this subject that I have ever seen to date. I urge you to check it out. There is nowhere else where you will get content of this quality for zip, nada, niente...

Are You Ready For Simple.Ology?
I could try to convince you to take a look. Concoct some hypnotizing sales letter that drives in deep that you are facing grave problems and that I've found the solution for them. But all what that does, is tricking your mind into believing something. It's a temporary illusion and even if you would sign up, you wouldn't follow through on what is offered. Simply because you weren't ready for it...

"When a student is ready, the master will appear."
Simple.Ology is only intended for people who are ready for it!

When you are ready to take your life into your own hands, you will feel it stir inside. You will have some sort of alarm go off. A voice in your head will whisper: "Go for it!"

I've considered asking Mark's permission to show you some of the lessons. Convincing you that this indeed is some of the best material ever published on manifesting your desires. But I won't.

You don't need a peek view to make up your mind. You will simply know: this is for me.

If the time has come for you to have the curtains lifted from your eyes, surf over and sign up for Simple.Ology 101. Then write me that you agree with me that indeed, this is nothing but excellent...

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Wishing you a world of wealth!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck
Founder of Hearts Unlimited
Connecting the Hearts of People...

P.S.
Though there will be more products which come out in this series and some of them have a price tag, Mark is not running any affiliate programs for this. So there are just a handful of 'strategic partners' whom are hand-picked by Mark for their genuine enthousiam.

The reason why is simple: he does not want people to recommend Simple.Ology to make a buck. He only wants people to recommend it because they believe in it with all their heart.

Simple.Ology

I happen to believe in it...