Category: Business Opportunity

Small Business Affirmations 1 Video

Hey, my friends

This latest video on my YouTube channel is a series of affirmations targeted to small business owner and entrepreneurs.

The affirmations promote a positive mindset regarding your business and an encouraging message of forward progress. The affirmations are recorded in first and second-person for maximum impact. It’s suggested you listen with headphones and for about three weeks every day for best results.

The Affirmations:

1. I am a successful business owner.
2. Excellence is my personal brand. My commitment to it is unwavering.
3. I am attracting and finding new customers for my business every day.
4. My business grows by word of mouth every day.
5. My revenue and profit is growing every month.
6. I am finding new ways to expand my business with existing customers every day.
7. I am always adapting to meet my customers’ needs.
8. I offer world-class service at reasonable prices.

Just in case no one else has reminded you today, you ARE awesome!

Ray

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Multiple Income Sources – Day 35 of 365 Days to a Better You

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Today’s post may or may not apply to you, in your estimation, but I’d contend it does apply to all of us today. There are a lot of us, to one degree or another, who are living in an old paradigm when it comes to money and financial security.

I’m 54. My parents generation had a mantra that you got a basic education (maybe including a college degree or maybe not), you got a job, you worked hard, you saved what you could, you stayed loyal to your company and they would take care of you. My generation came along and realized this abject loyalty to a single employer was not being returned by employers. Our belief was that you got an education that included at least a bachelor’s degree and maybe an advanced degree. You viewed jobs the way a monkey views branches on trees. You swing from one to the next, trying to advance as you go.

Both of these paradigms have one thing in common. They both rely on you allowing someone else – a single company or multiple companies – to determine your financial success.

The two newer generations coming up now get kind of a bad rap from the two previously mentioned generations. They’re lazy. They have no direction. They don’t really care about getting ahead. At least, that’s the perspective through the eyes of our old paradigms.

The reality is, they’ve accepted something that shatters the two previous generations’ paradigms. There is no security in a safe corporate job. Plus, it sucks your soul and damns your independence and creativity in return for a paycheck. They’re not playing.

What this has created is a rebirth of entrepreneurism. If you go back a few generations ago, people largely controlled their own financial destinies. They owned a business or a farm. Then factories happened and Walmart happened and that idea of making a go of the world on your terms was decimated.

However, today’s technology and this innovative young generation have turned the tables on that world view. They want to live their life on their terms and they’re finding ways to run “lifestyle businesses” that allow them to earn the money they need while living the life they want right now – rather than waiting for their allotted vacation or retirement time.

Power hack: OK, Ray, so why are you telling me this? The system on which the older generations (including mine) base their paradigm is gone. The corporate career is not safer or more secure. For most people it does not provide financial freedom and the lifestyle we’d choose.

I’m not telling you to quit your corporate job, but I am suggesting you find a way to augment your lifestyle and your income using the tools and ideas that are driving this new generation.

We’ve all learned not to put all your 401(k) investments in one fund. The best practice is to spread the risk. Only we don’t do that with our incomes. We rely on the job and if something happens to the job, we get another job.

What if you turned your passion into a viable revenue stream or multiple revenue streams to open the door to more options than you have today? What if you took a page from this younger generation and refuse to rely on corporations to decide your financial future?

Would it change your future more than another night of reality TV? Would it put the passion back in your day, your week, your year? I can’t tell you what that “side hustle” is for you. I can only tell you that the smart money for living your best life relies in having other sources of income beyond the J-O-B.

Brainstorm some ideas. How could you make a growing side income doing something you love? Need more help?

Checkout these articles with tons of ideas for side-businesses.

You are all the best!

Ray

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You Know What They Say About Ideas…

Today’s Affirmation:

Whenever opportunity knocks, I answer!

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Steve Jobs once said, “We are here to put a dent in the Universe. Why else would we be here?”

You’d think when someone puts a dent in the Universe, or even really goes for it, that the world would welcome them as conquering heroes. But, it doesn’t always go that way.

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903: A group of people gathered to ridicule the Wright Brothers for trying to fly. When they pushed their plane out onto the field, people laughed. A few minutes later no one was laughing. A few years later those people were probably telling everyone how they were there when history was made.

Albert Einstein said, “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition form mediocre minds.”

Every time someone upsets the status quo with a game-changing idea, there is a long line of people ready to say, “That will never work.”

Right now there is a company that is getting ready to shake up the world of social media and the way commerce gets done online and off. They believe that the people – you and I – who create the value in the marketplace by sharing products, apps, movies, games, books, etc. with our friends should be rewarded for the the value we bring to the marketplace. Because when you tell someone about Facebook or Angry Birds or a great new movie, your friends tell people and their friends tell people. Your recommendation creates ripples out into the world that generate real world revenue for companies. Rippln believes you should be able to earn income from that activity.

As with the Wright Brothers, the usual crowd of naysayers has gathered ready to declare this idea DOA, but more than 400,000 people in over 200 countries have thought it’s a pretty good idea in the past three weeks since the prelaunch went live.

Right now, Rippln is private and by invitation only. If you’d like an invitation to find out what this is all about, watch this video and then use the form at the bottom to send your request. I will send your FREE invite.

http://startmyripple.soulerflare.org/rippln.html

You can begin playing the Rippln game for free as a FAN, seeing how far your ripples really spread around the world. There is no obligation. This  just may be your Kitty Hawk moment.

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