Here is my third short motivational video – Motivational Moment Video #3, obviously. I was very conscious of keeping this video under 10 minutes, which I think is breaking strain time for most people. Everybody is so damn busy, me included. So, unfortunately, I had to chop some really funny stuff out.

If you are too busy to read my intro then just go straight to the video below…

If not, the video is in three parts:

The first part is my standard fare – I discuss an ancient Japanese samurai maxim that has so much truth – IF only people would realise it!

The second part is a continuation of my inclination to feature “special” people who I have met on the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching Course. You will recall that last month (yes! It was a MONTH ago!) I featured Lizzie “the Lizard” Dickinson, daughter of Hilary “Hils” Dickinson for a little bit of humour. Well, this month I have targetted another female – a feisty one at that! Watch part 2 and p155 yourself laughing at the things I say about my lovely friend.

Part three is TGM (er, that being me) in action doing some nasty things to people – just a short series of clips. I thought it was in keeping with the “samurai maxim” – so you will get to see me do some things with a sword and poleaxe a few guys. Oh, it’s all good fun (when I am the one handing out the punishment, that is). Never mind, I have been on the “receiving end” many times over the years. But… that was then… Ha! And this is NOW!

Oh, you will hear water tinkling away in the background too. That is NOT me BTW! (Unlike some people we know who may have buckets under their desks during seven hour seminars – NO names mentioned!)

I am sitting in my living room with the camera facing an indoor atrium that contains a beautiful fish pond, rockery and some palms and ferns and the like. It is situated in the centre of the house and is exposed to the open air. In other words, the house is built around an open air atrium. I like water features and I have four of them at strategic points in and around my home.

I hope you enjoy this. It took me AGES to shoot and render it then upload it.

If anybody doubts the value of video on their blogsite then KNOW THIS… in just over 24 hours this video has been viewed 2,170 times! Note: The number of views is being regularly updated along the timeline in the comments below. If you are interested you can see the progressive views logged through the comments.

PS: I would REALLY APPRECIATE it if you would not reveal my “victim’s” name in any comments that you would like to make below. Let everybody else have the pleasure of watching it and getting a surprise at the identity – ESPECIALLY the VICTIM herself! LOL!

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Hi,

I thought it was about time that I did a book review here. As you may know, TGM (that being me as in “The Gazz Man” – sick of typing that out all the time when I am being importunate or quarrelsome – hmm, I may just do a Prince-thing and refer to myself as the “acronym” – silly stuff over.) has a HUGE library of motivational and associated books.

One of the very finest IMHO is Maxwell Maltz‘s BRILLIANT book called Psycho Cybernetics. Do NOT let this curious title put you off. This book is packed with information about success, self-image, rational thinking and a host of other information about why we are like we are.

I read this book the first time on 27 October 1991. Now, you may be wondering how I know that. And even if you’re not, I’m gonna tell you anyway. Well, I sign and date every book I read and give it a score out of ten on the last page. And this book is a rare 10/10 on TGM’s Richter Scale. I have read it several times since too. And I am just about due to do that again.

Have I impressed upon you how highly I rate this book? I hope so. (FYI the ISBN is 0-671-70075-8 and my copy was published by Pocket Books). Any decent bookshop will have a copy but you can probably pick up a second hand copy for five bucks. Stupidly, many people get rid of it – probably from deceased estates. They really don’t know what they are doing. If they knew what it was about they would devour every page because every page is literally loaded with wonderful information.

Just to give you a sample of what Psycho Cybernetics contains, let me select a few excerpts to share with you:

“It usually requires a minimum of about 21 days to effect any perceptible change in mental image.”

[See addendum below]

“Edison believed that he got some of his ideas from a source outside himself. Once, when complimented for a creative idea, he disclaimed credit, saying that ‘ideas are in the air’ and if he had not discovered it, someone else would have.”

“You act, and feel, not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they are like.”

[See addendum below]

“Why not select the right role, the role of a successful person – and rehearse it.”

[See addendum below]

“The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.”

“Resentment is an emotional rehashing, or re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible – change the past.”

“Resentment, even when based on real injustices and wrongs, is not the way to win. It soon becomes and emotional habit. Habitually feeling that you are a victim of injustice, you behin to picture yourself in the role of a victimised person. You carry around an inner feeling which is looking for an external peg to hang itself on.”

“Ideas are changed not by ‘will’ but by other ideas.”

[See addendum below]

“God sees us as men and women through whom He can do great work.”

“IMAGINATION plays a far more important role in our lives than most of us realise.”

Maxwell Maltz was one of the world’s most widely known and highly regarded plastic surgeons. He lectured in Amsterdam, Paris and Rome universities. He also performed plastic surgery in Nicaragua and El Salvador. He passed away in 1975.

As I said at the beginning of this topic, do NOT let the rather weird title of this book put you off. I was speaking with Garry Parkes about it just before I finished this post and I mentioned to him that Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho Cybernetics would be in my TOP 5 motivation and self esteem books. I recommend that everybody should read it. It is simply superb.

ADDENDUM: I used some of the information in Psycho Cybernetics to write my own e-book called BRAIN TRAINING several years ago and it has helped a lot of people with issues ranging from motivation, self-esteem, weight loss, quit smoking and the like. There is even a template and instructions on how you can write your own affirmation to combat whatever mindset you may have difficulty with. [shameless plug]

Here is an example of an affirmation from BRAIN TRAINING. It is to do with “happiness.” Since, most people want happiness but find it so difficult to achieve try this for 28 days – write it out by hand onto a small card and read it every morning when you get out of bed and every night before you go to bed.

If you repeat this happiness affirmation in the manner that I have described something incredible will happen to you. Suddenly, upon awakening, you will mysteriously already have a smile on your face. What a way to start the day! Try it.

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Hello fellow marketers and bloggers and visitors to the TEMPLE!

STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS:

Many people who are starting their Internet Marketing businesses (or ANY business for that matter) are taking on this venture as first time business proprietors. Many of them have never experienced being “in charge” before. And it can be a daunting experience.

If this describes you and you haven’t been your own “boss” before then you will undoubtedly experience a range of emotions ranging from elation and the thrill of expectation of success to confusion to apathy and even depression when things don’t go well for you.

PLANNING:

As a business owner, the one thing that you simply must do is PLAN. Not only that but you must monitor your plan every week and review your progress weekly and monthly.

It is just SO easy, when YOU are the boss, to slacken off and do very little or even NOTHING for a day, a week or even a month. DO NOT DO THIS! Make it your mission to do SOMETHING positive EVERY single day! Writing these entries into an exercise book will create a journal of your experiences and, if you do this for 30 days, it will become a habit – a GOOD habit!

ACTION:

After the PLAN it is ACTION that will push you forward. Remember… “Nothing ventured, nothing gained!”

The key to progress is planning, monitoring and adapting. Sure, you can be stubborn and either NOT have a plan at all or not have a plan written down (ie in your head which you WILL forget) or a plan that IS written down but is so rigid that you simply refuse to change it even when you know that it is not working. The good thing about having a written plan is that you can monitor it.

FREE ACTION PLANNER:

Incidentally, I know I bash this but if you haven’t yet got my FREE Action Planner then you can get one here:

ACCOUNTABILITY:

Often it is useful to be able to “bounce” ideas of somebody else who has a common interest OR to allow that person to monitor your progress on a weekly basis. To that end, I have been thinking that it would be a great idea to have an “accountability partner.” Theresa Mayhew actually touched on this a couple of days ago when I was drafting this post on a pad.

A good example is that of a gym or aerobics or yoga partner. You know, somebody who you can meet down at your local gym or sports stadium to train together. It is SO easy for us to cheat ourselves and NOT go but when you know that somebody else is relying on your attendance then we are MUCH likelier to go, aren’t we? Strange huh? We will let ourselves down but it’s much harder to wimp out if somebody else is relying on us.

Something I have found out over the years is that the hardest part is in just getting started, or MAKING THE DECISION to do something.

YOUR THOUGHTS?

So, what are your thoughts on these things? Planning, action and an accountability partner to push you FORWARD in your Internet Marketing efforts? Is an “accountability partner” a good idea? Do you want or need one?

These are my thoughts but tell me what YOU think!

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Hello,

I have been thinking – ever since the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing coaching course has finished – about the tremendous amount of information that everybody has been exposed to. This has also been obvious on Alex Jeffreys own blog where hundreds of people have been making all sorts of observations and comments in the last couple of days at his invitation for feedback.

Now, I don’t mind saying that I am a pretty well organised individual and I am a very good planner and I am methodical. However…

… I too am struggling to cope with everything.

Some time back I made the comment that people were trying to squeeze three years of activity into three months. Alex saw that comment and mentioned it in one of his webinars.

The BIG obstacle that just about everybody faces is TIME.

How can we get everything that needs to be done… done?

So many people have to work all day, run businesses, attend to home demands, attend to family demands, accede to the requests of our friends etc, etc and yet STILL try to find time to build an internet business. And here is what I think…

… I think we are all getting frustrated that everything is taking so long to do. Let’s see…

writing articles and submitting them

And that’s not the entire list That’s just what I quickly rattled off the top of my head. Now I KNOW how busy everyone is. Most are so damn busy that they don’t even have time to read posts like this fully. They certainly don’t have time (or can’t be bothered) reading other people’s comments. I know that because of what is said (or not said) in the comments.

You see this on Twitter all the time – everybody is so obsessed with throwing their own offers out into the constant stream of people there that very few ever bother to look at what anyone else is doing. Everybody has a “see this” or “visit this” link. Then of course, we have the usual suspects who are so off the planet that NOBODY knows what they are on about, including them! (I’m gonna write a Twitter post soon about some of the UNbelievable things I see there – should make for “interesting” reading)

From my point of view I get 100’s of emails every day. Yep – every day. There is one IM who emails me at least two or three times a day. I treat this guy like a joke now. I just collect his emails (without even reading them) and re-direct them into a single folder. I find this individual MASSIVELY annoying. However, apparently, he is one of the most mega-successful marketers on the entire Internet. Go figure that…

There hardly seems to be any time to have a LIFE with everything that needs to be done and every demand that others make upon your time. So I wonder…

… how are YOU coping? Tell me.

PS: Is there anything that confuses, confounds, perplexes or FRUSTRATES you so much that you just feel like SCREAMING! (LOL) What annoys the CRAP out of you? Come on… have a whinge or a bitch. Just let it all out. The Gazz-Man is here to laugh WITH you not AT you!

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Improving yourself will enable you to fulfill your DESTINY.
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