Question: How to earn $7,500 / month (Full details inside)

Aloha Dien,

Thanks, I am glad you liked it. I also like what you said about making things happen. That is so fundamentally important.

I learned years ago that my biggest weakness is TV. I did not have the willpower to turn the damn thing off.

My solution?

I gave away my TV. It was drastic but it worked. I found all sorts of "extra" time for working out, martial arts, my business and family functions.

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

I think we all need to card in our wallets with that written on it.

Aloha,

Jason

Hi Jason, For most of my life I wasted my time watching TV.
But when I moved to Australia I left the TV behind and because
my wife is absolutely against having one I have now made more
progress in the last 3 years than I have in the past 30. Without her
I don't think I would have had the strength to kick that habit. We still
go out to the movies once a week but that's only 2 hours of time compared to
the 20+ I use to throw away each week. Like you I now have time to do more
important thing. But now I have to be careful of too much Internet surfing.

Cheers,
Steve

Aloha Steve,

I agree that Internet surfing can be the same sort of drug. I have limited myself to ONE forum to post to and read... this one.

Aloha,

Jason

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Goldblogger

Thanks, I am glad you liked it. I also like what you said about making things happen. That is so fundamentally important.

I learned years ago that my biggest weakness is TV. I did not have the willpower to turn the damn thing off.

My solution?

I gave away my TV. It was drastic but it worked. I found all sorts of "extra" time for working out, martial arts, my business and family functions.

I agree, TV can be a deadly force! I don't watch much TV. Though I do like the occasional comedy as a stress reliever.

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

I think we all need to card in our wallets with that written on it.

You're right! I'm gonna make a card with those words right away!

Here's the part on the motivations of successful people regarding "Making Things Happen" from Edward de Bono's book (with slight editing)...

Making Things Happen

If I had to choose the one motivating factor that seems to me to be operating in most successful people it is the wish to make things happen. ...

"I realized that money wasn't the be-all and end-all. I think everybody looks for money in the beginning," says Mark McCormack. "Their initial financial requirements - their concrete requirements - are those of a family, but I think after you reach a certain level that's no longer the intriguing factor. I think trying to accomplish something that's unique and, in my case, that had never ever been done before, was very challenging and very exciting."

Diane von Furstenberg: "It's the warmth that you get in the fruit of your work or in the fruit of your efforts. It fills you up with a warmth and you wink at yourself, you smile at yourself. you don't need to share it with anybody and it's not 'ha ha', it's just warmth."

...

Sir Clive Sinclair: "The main excitement is when you suddenly see a way of doing something that hasn't been done before. It's the moment of solution. What is also nice is the recognition that there is a solution; one has found the solution."

Nolan Bushnell: "I think the most important factor in my life is boredom. I just hate boredom; I hate redundancy. I hate repetition. I think that has been a heavy motivating force. I just can't let ideas be ideas. I have to sort of push them until I've found how to make them real - how do you make things happen?"

From "Tactics: The Art and Science of Success" by Edward de Bono, pp.68-69.

(The book was written in the mid-1980s, and mostly consists of interviews with various successful people, divided into topics. I just included the entrepreneurs' quotes above. The two quotes I left out were from a bank vice-president and a researcher/strategic thinker.)

Even though de Bono's "Tactics" book is over 20 years old, it's a good one!

Cheers

Dien

Jason,

That was one of the most honest and forthright responses I have heard in a very long time. I have read many, but it was really cool to hear the response.

You hit the nail on the head with some power. I know there are many people who buy all sorts of information in order to reach the rainbow, but there are many others (myself included) who buy and search for information in order to build our knowledge. You can learn so much by reading or hearing information from other people who are actually doing something and accomplishing things, and you can apply nuggets of their information to your own thing.

Joe Cossman was was the master in twisting information or techniques in different ways. We all know what happened for him.

Thanks again!

Rick

Aloha Rick,

Thanks for aloha.

I love Joe Cossman too. Especially concerning his twisting of ideas.

In fact, Dien talked about that in this thread, where he discussed the use of coupons to prompt response to offers.

Aloha,

Jason

Making things happen flies in the face of all that New Age crap that so many people push...

Spiritual Marketing/Attractor Factor/The Secret

There is a huge difference between WANTING and MAKING THINGS HAPPEN.

Maybe that should be the new tagline (MAKING THINGS HAPPEN) for SOWPUB?

Aloha,

Jason

Originally Posted by Goldblogger

Making things happen flies in the face of all that New Age crap that so many people push...

Spiritual Marketing/Attractor Factor/The Secret

There is a huge difference between WANTING and MAKING THINGS HAPPEN.

Maybe that should be the new tagline (MAKING THINGS HAPPEN) for SOWPUB?

Aloha,

Jason

I'm surprised that David Frey is endorsing "Spiritual Selling".
See: http://spiritualsellingbook.com/ maybe there is value
in "Thinking before Leaping". Action is a necessary ingredient
to using "The Secret". Many people think that the secret requires
only wishful dreaming without taking any intelligent action. Here's
a great explanation of what the secret really is...
http://www.Snipurl.com/FreeAudioBook

Isn't it true that what you think about most of the time is what you
are drawn to act upon? I thought the secret was simply focusing your
thoughts on what you want and then taking action to get it. Nothing metaphysical about that.

Cheers,
Steve

Hi Dien, de Bono's books Six Thinking Hats & Six Action Shoes are also old but good. Have you read his newest one published just last year? The title is: A New Religion? H+ (plus) How to live your life positively through Happiness, Humour, Help, Hope, Health.

It can be read in less than an hour and those who read it can tell if someone they never met before has read it and know of the principles by the secret signal de Bono describes in the book.

I like his quote You can analyze the past but you have to design the future found at the top of his page at: www.hplusanewreligion.org

Cheers,
Steve Shulenski

Hi Again Jason,

I actually gave a talk the other day at my Toastmasters meeting on this very subject on the Dangers of Television.

I actually went over the TOP in how Dangerous it really is. Some of the members got really scared at the level of detail I had went into. LITERALLY.

That said,

I too currently have a weakness for Television and can feel and see the negative consequences.

I recently disconnected (Last Night) the one in my room.

It is STILL PHYSICALLY there however just not plugged in.
I know that It will be GONE (sold, or garbage) this week.

In order to kick the habit, I was "trying" to use will power and discipline. THAT was obviously not working for me.

But I heard this quote from somebody recently which said that

"ENVIRONMENT TRUMPS DISCIPLINE"

I have been repeating it, to myself and others because it is both simple and yet "profound".

The applications are numerous.

So, as per your post and Steve's, I see that you changed YOUR environment by throwing out the Television instead of using will power.

You are now receiving benefits of Making things Happen as well.

CONGRATS to you all on your T.V Victory!

I will be with you shortly because

ENVIRONMENT TRUMPS DISCIPLINE" :->

Duane Adolph

Originally Posted by Goldblogger

Aloha Dien,

Thanks, I am glad you liked it. I also like what you said about making things happen. That is so fundamentally important.

I learned years ago that my biggest weakness is TV. I did not have the willpower to turn the damn thing off.

My solution?

I gave away my TV. It was drastic but it worked. I found all sorts of "extra" time for working out, martial arts, my business and family functions.

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

I think we all need to card in our wallets with that written on it.

Aloha,

Jason