Take Action!

How many of you set some “resolutions” for the New Year? Let us call them what they are “goals”, resolutions for many is a way to say you are going to do something but if the action is not given to it then it is forgotten with little or no consequences to ourselves because after all it is just a resolution, right? You see if you call it a goal it is meaningful, I am not saying resolutions are not meaningful just the thought behind it is different. It is a subtle difference but for many it is the difference between success and failure. Last Christmas I made the decision to create the lifestyle we wanted, to start a home business and become an active & involved parent and to travel with our children. Wow, I look back at the year and we have accomplished just about everything we set as our goals for 2007!

So what do you want? What do you want to change compared to what you did in 2007. Really get clear on this, what do you want, are you willing to trade your life for it? Also, what has held you back from making this change in the past? Be clear on what limiting belief that you hold that has held you back from making these changes. Most of us want to change our work, fitness, health, and relationships but we do not take ACTION. We are paralyzed by FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). We have to recognize that and face the fears we hold in our hearts that hold us back from what we want.

How do you make these resolutions into goals? One, write it down this is really important as it will set the sub-conscious mind into motion. Two, read it every day to remind yourself what it is you set your intention on doing, and then take ACTION. This is vitally important; many of us know of the Law of Attraction and we use it in our daily lives. However, it only works if you also integrate ACTION in the steps of using the LOA. What does action really mean? If you break it down it is really about making a decision and then following through with that decision. Make a goal or goals for 2008, write it down and read it every day as many times as you can, and then take ACTION. Make the decisions you need to make to move you towards what it is you want.

Here are 4 great steps to making decisions. Many people have trouble with this part of applying the LOA into their lives. Follow these steps and you will see things changing in the direction of your dreams so fast you will be amazed.

1. DO I WANT TO be, do or have this?
2. Will being, doing or having this Move me in the direction of my goal?
3. Is being, doing or having this In Harmony with God’s Laws or the Laws of the Universe?
4. Will being, doing or having this violate the Rights of Others?

If the answer to the first 3 questions is YES, and the answer to the last question NO, then take action and move forward.

I am so grateful for what I have been able to accomplish this year. With that I am so grateful for what I am already creating in 2008 because I can build on our success and also what I have learned in that process over the past year and I know achieving what I am setting as my goals for 2008. What about you? I will ask the question again, what do you want? Really what do you want in your life that for some reason or circumstance you have not accomplished yet. What is holding you back? Your success is assured if get clear on what you want and take ACTION!

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Facebook Friends Connect

As many of you are aware Facebook is a great place to meet like-minded people from around the world. It is a chance to really connect with people that you may not be able to because of your geographic location etc. This is how it began I met Mari on Facebook in one of the groups we both belong to and I added her as a friend. We messaged each other here and there and soon realized we had a common appreciation for traveling and having a mobile business and lifestyle.

Exchanging messages here and there on Facebook I soon realized that she was on Vancouver Island, we should meet. So that was it, I met Mari and her husband Ty and learned more about their adventures and what they have planned for the 2008 year. Mari is a Lifestyle Entrepreneur & Relationship Specialist, they have a great adventure planned and you can learn more about their mobile lifestyle at Mari and Ty's blog.

This truly was a rewarding experience to meet face to face and know that you can create friendships in the virtual world and solidify them in the real world. My thanks to Mari and Ty for taking the time to meet me and I am truly grateful for it.

Snow, Scottish Dancing, & Facebook Friends

The power of meeting people in person. It is great to meet people in the virtual but it is also awesome to meet them in person. From virtual reality to reality. That is what this is all about we are people so connect with the people.

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Be-Do-Have

Many of us have heard about that saying Be-Do-Have, wow is it really that simple? I wanted to share a story of how we started this idea of Life is a Playground and our business Clark's Playground. Just about a year ago we were like so many working, day to day raising a family and making the best of what we thought we had. The keyword is “thought"

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Why start a home business?

As so many of us go through life saying what is all this about. Work all week to just get by then retire and have no money to enjoy ourselves. It does not have to be this way, it is our obligation to enjoy our time when we can and make the money to do it as well. No excuse take action!

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Life is a Playground, how do you choose to play?

This site is a story of how we live our life day to day. What the freedom of having our own home business gives us. Live the life you want! If we can do it so can you.

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Serenity

I always love the journey of building a successful home business and how personal development is so entwined in this success. I spend time each day study all the different resources out there and have been given a book sometime ago from Bob Proctor. This book is called "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen. When I was given this book it was suggested that I read the last chapter everyday and it is a great practice. This little chapter continually reminds me to calm down, not slow down. When you are calm your creative thoughts can flow freely, this is the power. These thoughts are the money makers and if you want to have a successful network marketing home business then read this chapter each day. So here is the chapter print it and read it every day, I am sure you will find great rewards in this practice.

Serenity – "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more that ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of other as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, know how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equable.

The Strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm. "Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet-tempered, balance life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite poise of character which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold- yea, than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life- a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the wave, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!

"How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of self-control. How few people we meet in life who are well-balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character!"

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt. Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Tempest-tossed souls, wherever ye may be, under whatsoever conditions ye may live, know this – in the ocean of life the isles of Blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of your ideal awaits your coming. Keep your hand firmly upon the helm of thought. In the barque of your soul reclines the commanding Master; He does but sleep; wake Him. Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, "Peace be still!"

This is a great little piece and is a great place to turn when you feel that things are not just the way you planned. Calm and Serene Thought will take you through that time. This is how we are able to create a multiple 6 figure home business. Also, if you would like to learn more sign up for our 90day eCourse and we will share with you what has allowed us to create the lifestyle that we choose.

Leadership and Lifestyle

"Leadership is not personality, title or endowment. Leadership is a price and the price begins with ALONENESS." (Charlie "Tremendous" Jones) I love this quote because it reflects the way we often feel with our home business.

Matthew and I both have so much time and flexibility with our home business. However, the masses all work a 9-5 J.O.B’s and they spend their weekends rushing around with the crowds shopping, getting kids to weekend activities and loathing the Monday work week. The leadership we show is there is another way. You can enjoy your life and make a multiple 6 figure income as well.

Do you realize that success, and I am talking true success, only happens to 3-5% of the masses. Now some of you may say what is success? Well I like how Earl Nightingale puts it "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal". Our successful home business lifestyle allows us to go shopping in the middle of the day on a Monday, taking the kids to the fire hall for school field trips and spending 6 weeks on the beach in Baja in the middle of winter, come home from that and go to Australia and more, these are just some of the things we did this year alone! So the price we pay is small, because in return for this solitude is an attitude of gratitude and freedom. We are able to be present in our lives as well as the lives of our children's. Now if being present in your children's lives or living life on your terms is not a worthy ideal then what is? Live the life you want, that is your responsibility, and you can be the 3-5% if you choose to make the change.

Enjoy the video for our trip to the fire hall with our daughter's pre-school, this is how we spend our days!

From the Clark’s Playground….go out and Play!

Law of Supply

I have been reading a great book called "Working with the Law" by Raymond Holliwell. And as I said last week I will be putting together an article about each of the laws covered in this book. These laws will assist you in creating a multiple 6 figure income home business, or creating any lifestyle you choose.

This week's law is "Law of Supply", comes from an email I received yesterday with this great story about this law so I decided to post the reprint of this great article.

Law of Supply

Have you ever run a race, or worked at utmost capacity for a protracted period, or swum a great distance? Remember how, soon after starting, you began to feel tired? Remember how, before you had gone any distance, you thought you had reached your limit? But remember, too, how, when you kept on going, you got your second wind, your tiredness vanished, your muscles throbbed with energy, you felt literally charged with speed and endurance?

Stored in every human being are great reserves of energy of which the average individual knows nothing. Most people are like a man who drives a car in low gear, not knowing that by the simple shift of a lever he can set it in high and not merely speed up the car, but do it with far less expenditure of power.

The law of the universe is the Law of Supply. You see it on every hand. Nature is lavish in everything she does. There is abundance for everyone. But just as you must strain and labor to reach the resources of your "second wind," just so you must strive before you can manifest the law of supply in nature.

The world belongs to you. It is your estate. It owes you not merely a living, but everything of good you may desire. You've got to demand these things of it, though. You've got to fear naught, dread naught, stop at naught. You've got to dominate - not to cringe. You've got to make the application of the Law of supply.

"Consider the lilies how they grow." The flowers, the birds, all of creation, are incessantly active. The trees and flowers in their growth, the birds and wild creatures in building their nests and finding sustenance, are always working - but never worrying. "Your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things." "And all these things shall be added unto you."

If all would agree to give up worrying - to be industrious, but never anxious about the outcome - it would mean the beginning of a new era in human progress, an age of liberty, of freedom from bondage. Jesus set forth the universal Law of supply when he said, "Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for the morrow, what ye shall eat, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed - but seek first the kingdom of God, and all those things shall be added unto you."

Why is it, then, that so many millions of men and women go through life in poverty and misery, in sickness and despair? Why? Primarily because they make a reality of poverty through their fear of it, they visualize poverty, misery and disease, and thus bring them into being. And secondly, they cannot demonstrate the Law of Supply for the same reason that so many millions cannot solve the first problem in algebra. The solution is simple - but they have never been shown the method. They do not understand the law. The power is placed in hands so taken up with other things that they have no time to seize it.

The essence of the law is that you must think abundance, see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind. There is no lawful desire of yours for which, as far as mind is concerned, there is not abundant satisfaction. And if you can visualize it in mind, you can realize it in your daily world. Use this power to create the home business you want, the lifestyle you want or a multiple 6 figure income!

Robert Collier
From The Book of Life

Control your thinking, home business success!

We have learned about the Law of Attraction through many sources lately. Man of us have found if we us this "Law" we can manifest a better life. However, why do some people still say that the success they seek is still not manifesting. This can be many things but one thing is that just following the "Law of Attraction" may not always work. There are more laws that we need to incorporate into our daily lives. Over the coming weeks I will cover some of these and demonstrate how it has enabled my wife and I to achieve success in creating our home business and enable us to generate a multiple 6 figure income and living the lifestyle just a year ago we dreamed about.

The Law of Thinking

You see to most people life seems to be a deep mystery. Life is the way it is and for most they settle for what has been given to them. However, understand the laws and it is no longer a mystery and we can then realize that we can have any life we choose.

We are progressive, a creature of constant growth. We cannot stay in one place if we are not improving our lives then our lives are disintegrating. The progress that we seek is controlled by our ruling state of mind. This is so because our mind is the governing power or our life. Our attention needs to be give to this mental state for it will regulate all or our actions and results in our life.

If our ruling state of mind is progressive, aspiring, harmonious and positive then all the powers will be directed to create these results in our lives. However, if your mental state is negative, downward, then you can expect that will be the results you see in your life. Our thinking power is what will determine our state of living. As we think we set a power into motion far and near. This power will affect our welfare and often affects the others we think about. This is the power that makes all our life become what we want.

If we take the thought of success, keep it in our mind, hold the thought in everything we do we will attract like thoughts, for "like attracts like". We will draw the universal power thoughts of success. We will psychically contact minds who think along the same lines. You will find that this will bring success to our lives. Therefore, have a successful mind and success will come to you. This is how successful living is founded, "The Law of Thinking" is in perpetual operation, and it works both ways.

People think we must deal with two forces. That is to attract success we do away with failure. This is wrong because success and failure are two sides of the same thing. You cannot think of success then worry about the current unfavorable conditions you may have. We must then think about success, and as we think about success, failure, it's opposite, will become absorbed. The method is not dealing with two powers, prosperity and poverty, we follow the Law of Good and dwell on prosperity then we shall bring prosperity into our lives.

The first question in our creation of a multiple 6 figure income or building a successful home business is, are we controlled by our thoughts, or our are we controlling our thoughts? To create the lifestyle we want we must first use our thoughts for gain.

To gain a successful home business lifestyle we must first have a disciplined orderly, constructive state of mind. You must be of calm mind and orderly in your thoughts. "Anything in life that dominates us, makes us a servant to its dictates". It's true; life is your playground as long as you think it is!

Next week- "The Law of Supply"

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Putting the "Service" Back In "Customer Service"

The future of customer service is here. Technology has made seeking out support faster and easier than ever. But, has your digital age company sacrificed true service in the name of automation?

Today, finding customer support is as simple as writing an e-mail or picking up the phone. But, even though you're not face-to-face with your customers, you still leave a lasting impression. Do you come across as caring and competent, or menacing and mechanical?

Offering stand-out service on the Internet isn't as hard as it is rare. Take these simple steps towards old-style service in the digital age:

1. Give Each Customer a Personal Response
   
2. Be Clear, But Sincere
   
3. Offer Live Customer Support
   
4. Make Sure Your Support Reps Have All the Answers
   

Give Each Customer a Personal Response

When a customer sits down to e-mail your company, it's because he needs help. He chooses e-mail because it's quick, but his request still warrants a satisfying and personal response!

Companies eager to save time and money often take automation too far in their customer support. Each customer has a unique question, and deserves a unique answer. Even if you save time by copying and pasting stock replies, change the opening and closing to make the message sound less robotic.

Be Clear, But Sincere

When responding to customers' e-mail, be sincere and to the point. Before sending a message, try turning the tables. Ask yourself, "Would this answer satisfy me if I were the customer?"

Take that extra moment to give your customer the help he deserves. It might mean the difference between a satisfied customer and a credit card chargeback!

Offer Live Customer Support

E-mail has become an acceptable form of communication. But, live customer support is still necessary. The plethora of information available online can be overwhelming to customers, especially those new to the Internet!

Single your company out from the crowd by providing customers with a real person to talk to. Live phone support is an invaluable way to foster trust. When your customer has reached the end of his Internet rope, and just needs help, your toll free number is the answer he's looking for.

Make Sure Your Support Reps Have All The Answers

The presence of phone support will do no good if your staff doesn't know your product! Customer support reps should be warm and friendly, and willing to help with any aspect of your product.

What a good feeling it is to talk to someone who feels confident in his product. It's even better if he's knowledgeable enough to solve your problem without transferring you all around the company!

Provide Stand-Out Service; Gain Lifelong Customers

Too many e-businesses skimp on customer service, hiding behind web sites and message boards. Customer support is an integral part of every company, even those operating solely online. Be one of the few to offer stellar service, and gain customers for life!

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Customer Service is becoming a lost art, make sure that never happens at AWeber Communications! Find out what service is meant to be.

Summit 2007- Live with Intention

Here is a video of our recent Summit Conference in Sydney Australia, the power of making a decision and living with the intention of success each and every day.

The First step in Success

What is the first step in changing our results and creating the life we want instead of living the life we are given? To some the first step is so elusive they do not even attempt the first step. You would be surprised however the first step is one that is within everyone's grasp. It all comes down to what Earl Nightgale calls "The Magic Word". Attitude, this is the first step because our attitude will predict our results. Our attitude is the foundation for living a highly successful life or one that is problem and poverty stricken.

It is a simple formula; fair attitude—fair results, good attitude—good results, and great attitude—great results you get the picture. The benefit in knowing this is that the only person that controls our attitude is you. See no one can tell you what type of attitude to have you make the choice and believe me when I tell you that it is a choice you make each and every day weather you know it or not. You can make a choice to start every day with a great attitude or you can just go along and pick the attitude of the people you meet up with in the day. Do you every notice that? You see if we are not conscience of our attitude then you will pick up the attitude of the people you are around. That is a dangerous game because if the person or people we associate with the most have a bad attitude then you can predict the results you are going to get without question.

So how can you build a habit of a great attitude? First, you must become mentally the person you wish to be, you must be the attitude you wish to become. To quote German philosopher, Goethe "Before you can do something, you must first become something" so start each day with the choice of having a great attitude towards this great thing we call life. I start everyday with a sense of gratitude that I control everything that I have and everything I will get from this life, and with that I choose to have a great attitude.

So here are some points to start you on developing a habit of a positive, expectant attitude:

1. Treat every person you meet as the most important person on earth.
   
2. Act toward others and the world in the same manner, exactly the same manner, as you would want them and the world to treat you.
   
3. To achieve the kind of life you want you must; Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct yourself in all of your affairs as would the person you wish to become.
   

Follow these 3 steps each and every day and soon you will see the life in front of you changing to match what you give. It is a law just like gravity, like attracts like.