I WILL(( EMPOWER)) YOU
QUOTE - "WE DON'T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE DESERVE, BUT WE WILL NEVER RISE ABOVE THE LEVEL OF OUR EXPECTATION". Joel Osteen.
Dear Friend,
I've been researching the Self Help and Internet Marketing Niche for some time. One thing I
have noticed is that a critical step has been overlooked up until now
and I see that without the comprehension of this critical feature, it is
as though we were digging for gold without a spade.
Are you ready for the spade? I know that according to
my email stats that at least 16% of you opened this email and maybe 10%
of you are still reading. Maybe like me you've envied those out there who can
sell ice to an Eskimo. They just seem to have the knack for it. I'm not
gifted like that but what I do have is a desire to prove people wrong.One statement comes to mind and I've forgiven the person from whom it came however it serves as a force to motivate me to succeed. The statement "you couldn't sell mud to a pig" serves this purpose.
Well you get the point. But lets get back to the spade - the product of all your effort and the future of all your victory.
Here
it is - Your success is in your perception of yourself or more
succinctly your life metaphor. This is the picture or phrase you give
yourself that defines who you are. As Anna Esnine would state "we don't
see things as they are, we see things as we are".
LISTEN! I don't know you from a bar of soap, but I'm going to wear my heart on my sleeve and tell it like it is.
Why?
Because
no product or offer both physical or metaphysical (spiritual) will help
you unless your life is founded on a positive metaphor that can take
you forward. In other words, it is impossible to act consistently in a
way which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself. My spade theme
serves a valuable purpose here as the philosopher Plutarch will support
with the assertion that
"The richest soil, if
uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds". Without the spade (your
life metaphor) to cultivate or better said motivate you to organize your
life, though the best intentions abound, Plutarchs analogy will ultimately unfold because you come to life without and errand and
therefore no advantage results. This is the case with everyone suicidal
and depressed that I have come across in my now 35 years of existence.
Each persons circumstances were different but all except for one had the
common trait of having no life metaphor. The one that did was the
exception that proves the rule. His/Hers was the belief statement that
"When life gives you lemonade, you say screw the lemons and run". A
negative belief like this also incurs the same result as a life with no
metaphor. This phrase (in my opinion) is one born from hurt and abuse in
which the person who bares it cannot accept any good as it suspects
evil behind any good offered and so the self fulfilling prophecy kicks
in and the individual will produce the results to support the belief
they hold. And for the record, the person who shared this metaphor with
me did actually also disclose to me that they were also abused by a
violent partner earlier in life. Point proved.
Moving
on now from the use of a life metaphor in its diabolical form, let me
give you a well known example from Forrest Gump. "Lifes like a box of
chocolates. You never know what your going to get". or "Life's like a
ten speed bicycle, with gears we don't even use". These are an example
of some common ones - in particular the life metaphor from the Forrest
Gump movie. Would you like to hear mine?
Life is
both a pink diamond and a wagon wheel. I'm serious, I actually think
that. Pink diamonds are of the most valuable in the diamond range and a
cart minus a wagon wheel (think of those ones from the western movies)
cant function.
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he" Prov 23:7.
"I think, therefore I am" William Shakespeare.
At
this point in this post, my conservative guess is that there is about
5% of you left reading who initially looked at this post. That still
equates to thousands with thousands more to follow. I promised you in
the title that I would empower you, a promise you can take to the bank.
Why?
I'm
glad you asked. Here is a key to sales both online and in person that pop
psychologists would charge you hundreds or thousands (if your into
Anthony Robins) of dollars a year.
Sales tip No 1 -
Once you know someones life metaphor and passion (what they have a
natural aptitude for), you can tailor your online/business venture to
support their vision. An example of this was when I was talking with a
colleague who displayed all the signs of a disgruntled employee. He had
all the three symptoms of alienation, de-motivation and resentment but
the major contributing factor for all these symptoms was his inability
to move forwards. He didn't have the money to start a business and as a
result felt helpless. Throughout our conversation, I uncovered a deep
interest he had in marvel comics and superheros in general. It was here
that with some prompting from myself, he came up with the idea of
beginning a comics forum online which people could send in their short
stories to in order to attract support for the new superhero they
created. From here, I offered him a free e-book on how to create an e-book
which also had my personal link to the opportunity
I was promoting. The point here is not my self interest, although that
was served,but helping him find his passion. As Jean La Fontaine states
"Man is made so that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish".
Steve Jobs also remarked "Follow your passion, and the universe will open doors where only walls now exist".
When
someone finds their passion in life,they change their emotional
trajectory to an upward state so that even negative circumstances become
merely speed bumps instead of oceans that appear un-breachable. Fear
instead of being crippling becomes false evidence appearing real to them
and the level of depression required to initiate suicidal idealisation
cannot exist because the person has a vision for their life. This is why
my father at the age of 93 with 10 % of his heart left due to
inoperable calcification is still living. He lives on the farm cared for
by my brother and sister in law and lives for his mechanical interests
which fill that sense of vision in his life. His younger brother at the
age of 81 having made millions in cotton farming suicided. Why this or
any suicide occurs we cannot relate to any single cause however one
contributing factor may have been his retirement from the farm and farm
lifestyle he loved so much to the foreign suburban living that he felt
relegated to. We all have a source from whence we derive our sense of
legitimacy which for him was his competence in being a cotton farmer.
Once he now longer had this, he no longer had relevance and the result
was depression followed by suicide.
To avoid
digressing from my original topic here to the function of legitimacy and
it's purpose in our lives, I will pass it over here but on the larger
issues concerned with it, there is a great deal to learn and at the
conclusion of this post I recommend a teaching series for your consideration.
Sales tip No 2 -
In dealing with prospects, once you know their life metaphor, you can
also more easily assess if they are worth your time. Someone who sees
life as a battle (one of my relatives and a previous boss for example),
would tend to be more suspicious and sceptical of anything you offer. It doesn't mean your product or service is necessarily bad, it's just that
due to the fact that they see life as a battle, they are concerned with
winning. So when you share an offer, they will tend to critique it from
a position of superiority. I'm not saying don't try to sell to someone
with this personality trait - everyone should try the impossible once or
twice in their lifetime, but what I'm saying to you is that you will
work for your money.
Ok, I better cut to the chase
right now as no doubt I may have lost another 2% of you out there due
to indifference or other attractions. For those of you still hanging in there, I want you
to entertain an undercurrent of self congratulation due to the fact
that your attention span has lasted longer then the average persons
30-45 second time span. Go on....Pat yourself on the back. I can teach
you free of charge how to do this later on :).
From
here, I have one more truth I need to instill in you, then you will be
ready for the teachings that have caused me so much success and
breakthrough since I implemented them in my life at the beginning of
2014. First, a quote from motivational speaker Paul Hanna,
" Once a seed is planted, it never dies, it only grows".
Just like the seed in dream works animated film Puss in Boots, the
intention of this ebook is to see something sprout in your heart (not a
desert somewhere) that takes you to a reality where the real golden eggs
are.
The Final concept I will share relates to
the role your personal life metaphor plays in your life whether you realize it or not. By this I mean that your attitude and demeanour are a
surface manifestation or signpost reflection of your internalised life
metaphor. Although we have our peaks and troughs or high and low tides
as far a emotions are concerned, we eventually return to the same level -
the one we have set for ourselves. C.S Lewis called it the law of
undulation and Rob Dofelli calls it regression to mean but regardless of
the term you label it, It is a level to which you repeatedly return or
better put your default state of being. This concept empowers you,
brings the ball back to your court. You begin to see that it's not what
happens to you that affects your behaviour, but how you interpret what
happens to you that affects your behaviour. And thus in addition to
moral input during adolescent years, your life metaphor will be the lens
through which your outlook or world view refracts.
It
is here I conclude this post. Some of you have fallen off the radar
but some remain which based on my promotional efforts would range in the
thousands anyway.
From here, there are 3 options that you can and all of you will pursue.
OPTION 1 - Do Nothing.
This is the poorest of the options but by far the easiest. You are not
however absolved from the responsibility to impart what I have shared to
your fellow man in need of it. If you saw someone drowning or having
just been involved in a car accident, your natural tendency would be to
help and help you must when you are blessed with the capacity to do so.
As C.S Lewis states "The longer we feel without acting, the less we will
be able to act and in the long run, the less we will be able to feel".
Reinhardt Bonnke, also confirms this by stating, "most of us are so
scared about doing something wrong, that we don't do anything at all". My
cherry quote to top this cake being "Procrastination is the graveyard
in which opportunity is buried". Whether you pursue anything I offer you
or not, you must act when you feel and especially when moral obligation
compels you.
OPTION 2 - Sow a love gift
into your local church. Failing that, you favourite benevolent
organisation. Failing that, help some homeless vagabond who has no way
of ever repaying you. This will be important for reasons I will discuss
later.
OPTION 3 - Since you've come this far, you've no doubt enjoyed my message. I welcome your support by joining my affiliate offer here. Once you know your passion, The tools and strategies in here will help you exponentially reach your goals.
