Which one would you rather have, a quick spot of money, or the ability to generate an income for your entire lifetime? If you would rather get rich quick, I would kindly ask you to close this browser window now and do not let it hit you in your bottom on the way! I have nothing to offer you here.

The get rich quick mentality has to be the laziest of all. Those with the get rich quick mentality want to make lots of money very fast and they do not want to have to work for it. It is like making a wish and poof it is there. I can tell you right now, folks, it just does not happen that way. Think of the old saying: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Now, I do not know about you, but I would rather eat for a lifetime and not have to worry about tomorrow. Do you know what I mean?

Now, being able to generate an income for a lifetime takes work. It takes effort. If you are willing to expend that effort and work for it, your rewards will be worth it. If you think you are entitled to loads of money and do not want to work for it, well, it is not going to work for you either. It is a two way street. If you have the gumption the sky is not even the limit, there are no limits to how successful you can be. It is all up to you. You have the key to the power of your success.

So, how is it that you can learn to generate an income for a lifetime? I have heard that sales are the way to go. If you can learn to sell, and sell anything to anyone anywhere in the world, you have it made. It is important though, to choose your education carefully. Many sites out there now seem to offer you the world when what they deliver is far less.

I like to look for a company that offers training not only in the marketing aspect, but in personal development as well. I have heard it said that your income rarely exceeds your personal development. I believe that to be true. The more work you do on yourself the better value you are to others. I also like to look for a tight community. If it is a faceless company with little to no interaction between its members, then that leaves little interest to me. I would rather know the owners, know the top producers, and know the members.

Communicating with each other allows us to all grow stronger in the pursuit of our goals as we share our passions, our ideas, and our knowledge.

If you are looking to generate an income online, remember to look for a strong company. A company that shows growth, strength, honor, and integrity will stand the test of time and can take you where you want to go.

Do not go looking for a genie in a bottle. Be the genie in the bottle. Make your own success. You have the power in you to succeed right now whether you realize it or not. When you decide to realize it, match yourself with the right opportunity at the right time, you will find the success you seek. Make it happen.

If you are miserable right now, it’s because you choose to be.  If your today isn’t shaping up like you want it to, you and you alone have the power to change your tomorrow.

Quite literally, you are miserable right now because of the thoughts you are thinking.  If you don’t like the way something is, change your perceptions, change your thought patterns.  Choose to be happy.  When you choose a new outlook on life, it can change how you feel and how you respond to events.  Most importantly, you need to quit blaming outside uncontrollable forces for your problems and challenges in life.  Through your thoughts you have made decisions and those decisions have led you on the path you are on.  The path of life has many forks and branches.  Will you continue on the same path or will you ignite the power in you right now and choose a new, better, and brighter path?  Your future is up to you.  It is what you make it.

It all comes down to the power of your thoughts and decisions.  You can stay miserable by continuing to think the way you do, or you can choose to think different thoughts, happier thoughts, more productive thoughts, and therefore alter the decisions that you make based on those thoughts, and become a happier, more enjoyable person.  Change isn’t always easy.  Your mind is going to want to resist it.  But your mind is not in control, you are.  There is a saying by Albert Einstein “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  If you want to see a change, the change has to begin with you.  Choose better thoughts.  Make better decisions.

I would like to ask everyone to help me with a challenge of mine.  I struggle with receiving compliments and recognition.  I always just brush it off as nothing, and I need to stop doing that and be open to receiving.  I give so much of myself, asking little if anything in return.

When I worked and got awards, I would just shrug them off as it was part of my job and just something I did because it was the right thing to do or was good for the company.  I never took and understood the full weight of the compliments and recognition.

In one way, I like compliments and recognition, and in another, I don’t.  It’s just something I do, something that is a part of me.  It was strange at work, I would see other employees who were so slow and did next to nothing and it always irked me.  I always put in 110% and couldn’t understand why others didn’t.  I think that’s why they liked me so much.  I was always producing more and always asking for more responsibility always taking the initiative to create something better.  Like I said, it’s just a part of me, something I have always done.  I’m a better giver than receiver.

So, I want your help with my challenge of receiving.  If you know me, whether by an online association or you have met me in real life, I want you to leave a comment with a compliment or recognition so that I can learn to accept them more and easier.

Thanks!  As John Jackson always says, you all inspire me.  Thank you for being a part of my life.  I am truly blessed.

The characters in this video, which actually came first, star in the previous post’s video, Validation.

“Rent-A-Person” is a romantic musical comedy about a men’s room attendant who founds an organization which revolutionizes rush hour traffic. Starring James Haven.

If you liked the previous video, you’ll love this one too.  Enjoy! =)

Create Your Greatest Day,

This has to be one of the most inspirational videos I have ever watched!  It is amazing and will make you smile, may even make you shed some happy tears (if you are the emotional type like me). I feel blessed to be able to share this with you.

“Validation” is a fable about the magic of free parking.  Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis.

It may seem like it has nothing to do with running your own online business, or marketing, but really, when you think about it, it has EVERYTHING to do with it!

How we choose to communicate with others directly influences our results in life, as well as business. I have made it a practice to tell those that I choose to surround myself with how much I love them and how awesome they truly are. I hope after you watch this inspiring video, that you will take up the practice as well.

Thanks go to Cristina Munoz for sharing this awesome video with me!  I LOVE it, and I know you will too!

Create Your Greatest Day,

The search for the Golden Egg is ever present. With the economy in the dumpster and the unreliability of “jobs” or Wall Street, people are looking for alternatives. What kind of alternatives? Ones where they can beat the recession, fire their boss, end their long commute, and spend more time with their family. How are they achieving these goals? Home based businesses on the internet.

Work-at-home opportunities are rampant. You can find home biz ads everywhere you look around the internet. How can you make sure that you find the right one for you? Well, here’s some advice on what to look for to find the opportunity that fits you and your family.

When looking into the various internet business opportunities, you must do your research. Find out more about the company and what you’ll be doing to see if it will be a viable solution for you.

Research the company To find out more about the company, you can use a search engine, such as Google. You can Google the company’s name along with ripoff, scam, or review and see if they have a good reputation and to see if you can decipher whether the company you are looking at appears to be legitimate or not. Let common sense prevail, however. A lot of times, reviewers will say that a certain opportunity is a scam or bad deal. But look at what they have to say before you make a decision. In most cases, they are just trying to sell you on their opportunity. If that is the case, not a whole lot of stock can be put into their negative spin on things. They are just trying to win you over to their side.

Find out what you’ll be doing When doing your research, you’ll want to try to find out exactly what you’ll be doing. Will you be placing ads in Pay-Per-Click (PPC)? Selling digital software? Marketing a website? Make sure that whatever it is that you will be doing, that it appeals to you and is concurrent with your morals and values. If it feels shady to do something, like you will be deceiving someone, then don’t do it. The more you find something that appeals to you, that you have a passion about, the more successful you will be at it. Also, you’ll want to make sure it’s not too far out of your skill set. This isn’t to say that someone completely new to a computer can’t tackle an internet home business. You’ll just want to make sure that you have the time and the money to invest into the proper training to bring you up to speed on the skills you will need to survive the internet jungle.

Find out how much money you’ll need up front Many opportunities start out for pennies compared to what it will cost you once you get on the inside. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just be prepared. If you don’t have a lot to spend, you’ll want to stick with lower operating costs until you get the cash flow to fund the bigger opportunities. One thing to keep in mind as well, is that you get what you pay for. Many times, things that you can purchase for cheap, are just that, cheap. Don’t expect too much. On the other hand, inflated prices are possible too. Use your best judgment. Listen to your instinct. If the opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

All in all, just make sure you do your research before you plunge head first into anything. Make sure it’s legitimate and has staying power, that it’s something you would enjoy doing or a product that you would enjoy promoting, and that you are aware of what all the opportunity entails.

I wish you the best of luck in your search for your Golden Egg. In the famous words of Star Trek’s Spock, May you live long and prosper!

Kelli Jacobson is the author of KelliJacobson.com.  She is also an expert Internet Marketing Mompreneur.  She is living her dream by being able to be home with her son, yet still provide for her family and the lifestyle that they deserve.  You can learn how to market like a pro, just like Kelli, by visiting http://www.LiveAbundantlySuccessful.com.

Everyone has that little intuitive voice inside them that keeps guiding them along the way.  However, most of us have learned to tune that out and not listen to it.

I know I have at times.  Cases in point:

I had always heard that when babies learn to walk, it’s over night.  I was like yeah, right, okay…  Well, my son has always been a little slower in things, he was born 5 1/2 weeks early.  He also has his own time schedule to do thing, not adhering to a standardized chart.  He was probably about 2-3 months later than other kids in crawling, and walking was the same way.  He would take 2 and 3 steps in between things, and I thought it was going to be forever before he walked.  Then one day he started getting daring and took 4 and 5 steps between things.  Later that afternoon, after never seeing him stand up without holding onto something, I saw him stand up in the middle of our back yard – in no man’s land with nothing to hold onto.  The very next day, he traveled more than the entire length of the house from corner to corner without touching anything.  He went from a few steps to walking all over the house – overnight!  I should have listened!

When deciding what camcorder to purchase, I had been told the Flip would do for a starting camera by many sources.  Even a friend said that it was good.  I did not listen and thought I’d be all fancy and professional and get one of those expensive camcorders.  Surely they would be better, right?  Wrong!  I went through both a Canon and a Sony and had to take both of them back.  Our 4 year old Kodak digital camera that could take video as well did a better job with the white balance and color.  So, on my third try, I tried the Flip Ultra II.  Lo and behold it worked!  The white balance and color was perfect!  I should have listened and saved myself the extra trips back and forth to the store.

This last one here is one I really wish I had listened to sooner.  I’ve known about Andy Andrew’s book, The Travler’s Gift for some time now.  I also knew that he was going to be at a conference I am attending next week.  So, I knew I wanted to get it and have it read before then, but I still kept putting off the purchase.  Then, he was scheduled to be on our Leadership Mastermind call a couple of weeks ago.  I wanted to have it in time, but I knew there was no way I could get it to me in time, not even with my Prime shipping at Amazon.  And I still procrastinated another day or two.  I think I ended up ordering it after the call.  Well, it finally came in and I let it sit on my kitchen table until late that evening.  Finally, around 1:30 a.m. I decided to go to bed and read for a bit.  Maybe a couple of pages or a chapter, but usually no more than that.  Well, 80 pages later and 4:00 a.m. after I had intended on staying up all night and reading the whole book because it was so good, my body finally succumbed to sleep.  I’ve now finished that book and it has touched me and impacted my life so significantly, I really wish I would have listened and gotten it sooner!

So, remember, when you have those intuitive inklings, when you have that inner voice telling you that you should be doing something, listen to it, you won’t regret it!  It’s when you don’t listen to yourself that eventually, somewhere down the road, you regret it.  So, Listen to Yourself!

Ok, folks.  So… some of the people I shared the information on Duplicate Content with, seemed to think, from their training, that the information I had was not correct.  Which is cool, you can only go on your best knowledge at the time being, so I totally respect their stand.  Also, in seeing something that Google had posted on their Webmaster Tips page, I was starting to doubt it too.

So…  We had a webinar again tonight with Ferny Ceballos, so I asked in the GoTo Webinar panel, my question to get some clarification.  I would like to now share with you (complete with screenshot documentation), what I believe was Raymond Fong’s reply (as Ferny was presenting and I doubt he could have typed the response while he was talking).

My Question:

On the All Access Q&A call last Thursday, ya’ll said that when it comes to Duplicate Content, Google only considers it duplicate if it is on the SAME domain.  I’ve relayed this to others and they insist this is wrong.  Even Google’s webmaster tips says that’s not quite correct – that if they find the same or similar content that it doesn’t get ranked and indexed as well as fresh content.  Can you explain this better?

Response:

“do a quick search for “majority leader harry reid one day after he unveiled” and you’ll find the same article posted on 9 different domains”

“there’s what google wants you to believe and thee’s what’s really happening, if google does a manual review, they CAN ban one of your duplicate website, but odds are slim that they’ll doa manual review”

“So from a practical perspective and looking at what’s happening, dont’ worry about duplicate content across different domains as long as you are being ethical”

My Question:

So it’s okay to submit the same article without spinning it to say 300-400 different article sites?  Google will not penalize you for that?

Response:

“yes”

“u can imagine how easy it would be to sabotage someone’s website if duplicate content was an issue like so many people think it is”

Actual Screenshot of the conversation – click to enlarge:

Kelli Jacobson =)

I was on an All-Access Q&A business call this evening and a striking revelation was made by SEO Experts, Ferny Ceballos and Raymond Fong.  They were talking about duplicate content and what Google thinks about it.  They shared that when it comes to duplicate content, as far as Google is concerned, it is only duplicate if it is on the SAME Domain name.  So, you could have the same content in 100 different places around the Web, and it is perfectly fine.  It’s when it is on the same Domain name that it will be counted as duplicate content.

One of the examples that they shared is news articles.  Think about it.  All of the AP News articles are the same exact text.  And there are a ton of sites that carry that exact same AP News article.  Does Google not rank them and show them because they are duplicate content?  No, they show and rank them all because they are coming from DIFFERENT Domain names, so different locations.

Just thought this would be a worthwhile tip to pass on to those that strive to not duplicate content when producing articles for marketing.

Mindset is one of the most critical skills you can learn when it comes to becoming successful.  If you don’t have the preconceived belief that you are a successful person, then you are not going to be successful no matter what you do.  You have to believe in yourself first before anyone else will.  I hope to contribute content here to help you develop a positive mindset to become successful in every area in your life, whether it be your personal life or business life.

I am a Networking Mompreneur.  So, for me, it’s both personal and business.  I have heard from just about everyone that I am connected with in network marketing, that Mindset is the number one area that you need to have in place before you can become successful.  I started my path on re-discovering my personal growth prior to my search (again) for an online opportunity to make money from home.  I think it was integral in finding the opportunity that I did.  And because I believe so highly in the Law of Attraction and Mindset, I decided to share my nuggets of knowledge with everyone.

If there is ever an area that you would like me to cover in regards to Mindset or the Law of Attraction, please let me know.  I am here to help others, so would love to know what you think and what you want information on.

May you have a very blessed (by deity of choice) day!  And don’t forget – you are the creator of your day – create a great one!

Kelli Jacobson =)