Steve Oliphant’s Musings

I am trying out YouTube as a traffic generator for some of my products. Check out http://youtube.com/profile?user=isuccess to see what I am doing.

ThrivingOffice.com is selling a CD (or downloadable MP3’s) to help you make your home office sound like a “real” office. I haven’t bought it, but their audio on the front page made me bust up laughing.

And then I found The Business Bib for those webcam meetings. <Snork!>

I am putting the finishing touches on a new product: Link Mask - it is simply a script that lets you either shorten or mask links. I have it installed at www.stevelikes.com.

It lets me use urls like
http://stevelikes.com/muvar
instead of
http://crecon.muvar.hop.clickbank.net
which is obvious a clickbank link url that would be easy for someone to steal the commission with.

It is really cheap. It is really easy to install and use.
Check it out!

JP Maroney thinks that two things determine a person’s success in life:

1) The thoughts that occupy your mind, and

2) The people with whom you associate.

I think he is exactly right with this.

For the first part, your thoughts determine both your actions and your reactions which in turn lead directly to success or the lack thereof.

For the second, the people you associate with will either boost you or hinder you - and they will influence your thoughts.

So to find success, simply control your thoughts, and the people you associate with.

Easy huh?

Message from Mike Litman that I got in my email today:

Dear Steve,

So what some of you’re friends and family don’t
believe in your dreams.

Who cares.

So what some people mock you for spending time
reading success books, going to seminars, starting
your own business.

Who cares.

So what some people think your success needs to happen
instantly because their life is all about instant
gratification.

Who cares.

So what in the past you’ve made mistakes, you’ve quit on
yourself, you looked like a fool to some.

Who cares.

So what you’ve made some bad business moves, followed the
wrong people, got bad advice.

Who cares.

So what you thought you’d be further along towards your
goals by now.

Who cares.

Who cares.

Who cares.

None of that matters one bit.

Not one.

Who cares about yesterday. Who cares about the past.

Nothing matters.

Your failures don’t matter.

Your mistakes don’t matter.

Your past doesn’t matter.

What matters is what you’re going to do with your future.

What will you do with your future? What will you start anew
today?

What is one thing you don’t want to do today, but if you
did it would move your life or business forward?

What will you do with your greatness that demands to be
released?

what will you do with your natural strengths that beg to be
expressed?

What will you do with your inner courage that desires to
stomp on your fears?

Will you let your great inner worth and power stay asleep
or will you ignite the match called the fire within?

What will you do?

Mike Litman
World’s #1 Motivator
http://www.mikelitman.com

P.S. Forward this email now to 3 friends you CARE about.

Well, I care about anyone who may be reading this blog

And I agree with all he has to saw.

I have recently quit my daytime job. It was hurting my health. I was so stressed out because of mutliple responsibilities and bosses that I my blood pressure had skyrocketed, I was getting migraine headaches several times a week, and every time I was called in to talk to the main boss I would get physically ill and go home throwing up.

This is hard for me to admit. I like to think of myself as helpful and a hard worker.

But my wife convinced me to do it.

It also wasn’t making enough money for our family to survive on. It was keeping me from DOING what I KNOW is necessary for success.

I was reading J P Maroney’s Posts about what is necessary for success in business and I realized that I was missing FOCUS.

James Brausch talks a lot about focus too

So does pretty much everyone who is succesfull. So what should I be focusing on?

That is easy - and hard. I have some successes and some failures, and most of my successes have petered out after I lost focus on them. Thinks like my NicheCreator Software, my Banner Creation Software and Web hosting, my Internet Marketing Classes, my Search Engine Marketing Videos, and much more. When I see all the projects I have started but not completed, or that were succeeding, but I stopped focusing on them and they petered out, it is hard not to get discouraged.

So, I will personally be focusing on FOCUS.

“What you know does not matter - what you do matters” - copied from gymjones.com

I am too sick right now to apply that to fitness. (I have had the flu for at least the past three days) but I wanted to apply it to Working for Yourself and/or Internet Marketing.

Last tuesday I was presenting my internet marketing class ( a webinar/telecast that I do every tuesday night) with a special guest. He is a copywriter that has had many successes in the past and is currently making a six figure income from home writing copy for others. After the class as I was complementing him on his presentation I mentioned that most of my internet success has been from luck, not necessarily good marketing. In response he said, “Just Showing Up is half the game” and then went on to explain that I had created products, put up websites, and done presentations (like that class) and that I was way ahead of most simply by doing.

My flaws including putting myself down a little too much - which is good for being humble, but bad for self promotion and self confidence. And one way to feel good about yourself is to accomplish something.

So, I have taken out several uncompleted projects and am finishing them (doing) and putting up websites for them (doing) and then emailing out to my mailing list about them (doing).

Even if I don’t make any sales at all, I will still have DONE something. I will be able to point at the websites and feel accomplishment.

EDITED TO ADD
I look back at this post that I started a month or so ago, and never finished. I think the main reason has been due to lack of focus. It is not easy to focus when you are attempting multiple projects, and have a large family (I have six kids) - but that is no excuse. I will publish this post and then finish another one on FOCUS and then abide by it. It is not enough to KNOW that I need to focus, I also have to DO the focus.

James Brausch is giving away two books I want

I hope I get them

One is Richard Bach’s “One“. I have read “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by him and really enjoyed it.

The other one; More Words that Sell will help improve my copywriting. (Something always worth working on.)