“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
~ Orison Swett Marden~

It is called “Being in the flow.”  You know you are there when everything and everyone that enters your life makes you happier and more energized.  More money, more love, more understanding, more breakthroughs take place effortlessly in this zone.

Moreover, those in that flow seem blessed with an abundance that is incomprehensible to most mortals.  The naturals of the world make up less than  three percent of the population of any given society, and while others struggle to make ends meet, they flourish beyond comprehension.  They seem to have the Midas Touch.

If you have ever attended a motivational conference or an entrepreneurial workshop put on by successful people, what you see in the audience are people hungry for success and looking to the charismatic millionaires on stage for guidance in removing the one unknown obstacle that separates them from the rich speaker.

Many in the audience know the content of the presentation even better than the speaker does, yet the results of the listeners remain meager indeed.

Some of those leaders look like chiseled movie stars, but interestingly some do not.  Some speak like finely-tuned politicians on message, while others seem to be halting and idiosyncratic.

Ask these leaders why they have results which have made them millionaires while others spend tens’ of thousands of dollars filling their pin heads with high-sounding notions which don’t seem to work for the masses, and they will say:  “Just do it.”

Here’s the problem:  Successful people have a divine ability to focus on what they want and filter out what could hold them back.  They can’t explain how they do it because they don’t know how they do it.  They just do it.

To learn from such people the system for success is a valuable investment worth making.  But unless you understand how to break out of the loser’s mindset by learning from people who first teach you to ask the right questions to yourself to break out from the ninety-seven percent crowd, the money you invest in such seminars will inevitably be flushed down the toilet.

Systems for obtaining wealth mean cockroach crap without first being spiritually grounded.  Making money and enjoying abundance cannot be discovered in the next great opportunity or hot business system.  It’s an inside job that will take some time and effort.

A great book on this subject is written by a man who understands the ninety-seven percent of us, Noah St. John.  Read The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness before chasing any more rainbows.

“The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.”
~ Publilius Syrus~

I’m as guilty as the rest of the mob.  When a relative stranger approaches me, gains my ear, and ultimately convinces me that they have a real solution to my personal or financial problems…well, I still hesitate and reach back to make sure my wallet is still stewing in the rump pocket.

Let me get in your face and mine.  Life is not a saintly adventure.  It is full of cataclysmic choices.  When you have weighed the pros and cons of doing or buying something, make a choice.  NEVER pocket veto a chance to be right and to move your life forward one notch or a hundred.

In these dismal economic times, when most people are licking their FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real), resolve to be decisive.

The alternative is to find your fame and fortune in a soup line with all the losers shaking with fear and unwilling to invest in anything or anyone that could possibly improve their lot.  Get out of that line.

Think about the moments when you say, “If only I could afford to get help with XXXX, I’m sure I could succeed.”  Most likely you have been saying the same thing for ages, hoping against hope that God might intervene with oodles’ of money or a knight on a white horse who will sweep you off your feet and gallop you away to the castle of your dreams.

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Let’s say a financially-secure relative takes his precious time and explains to you a formula to get a job by the end of the month, though you have been on the dole for six months.  It all sounds logical, but when your friend says it will cost you $200 in envelopes, paper and stamps and  another $100 in phone bills…you balk.  “I can’t spend money,” or “My spouse wouldn’t let me do that,” or “That sounds good, but you’re different than me.”

So you keep your dwindling cash in the rear pocket and continue to pray for divine intervention.  Of course, you don’t receive it, unless you consider one meal a day at McDonald’s to be divine.

That friend then gives you tough love and tells you that you are the most moronic piece of cockroach feces on the planet.  He tells your wife that she’s a disabler, and then shrugs his shoulders and walks away saying, “It’s your life, fool.”

Husband and wife look at each other in flashes of rage and utter despair.  Finally the husband says, “I’m going to invest in that stationary and stamps and send out hundreds of resumes.”  He does so and, lo and behold, three weeks later he’s back at work.

The lesson?  Find good advice from successful, ethical people and then follow it to the letter.  Going cheap is very costly and stupid indeed.  Think always of what your Return On Investment (ROI) may be, if you act.  There are no guarantees of success when you step to the plate, but the soup line crowd will most definitely keep you treading water forever.

“Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.”

~Paul Eldridge

Have you ever attended a party of people over 30?  A few are fit.  A few are rich.  A few are ebullient and confident.  A majority are full of hot-air stories of unproven and improvable glory years.

Fast forward to a party of people over 45, and now nine out of ten are full of bluster about the way they used to be.  Their stories are so incredible, that even (or maybe especially) their wives’ – usually the male specie does this -  eyes roll.

“I used to be a scratch golfer, says one.  “I used to date the most beautiful girls on campus,” boasts another.  “I used to be Barrack Obama’s buddy in his Chicago days,” blinks a third distortionist.  “I ran a four-minute mile when I was 19,” claims another boaster with a potbelly gut.

The used-to-be crowd remember the good old days as remarkable, but that’s usually because they tend to forget or brush over uncomfortable failures and setbacks which lessen their achievements.  If only the cameras had been rolling to record real history, maybe the braggarts would talk much less boastfully about their past.

“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life,” Bertrand Russell mused, “as not to receive new information from age and experience.”

Stop trying to impress people with the old, unreal you that may occasionally make you feel good or impress those unfamiliar with your past.  To ruminate about the used-to-be’s of life will surely paralyze you in the here and now.  They never ever produce a a drop of honey.

The best of your life is in front of you, whether tomorrow or 50 years remain in store.  If age and ability seem to be draining you of your life force, then learn to make lemonade from the lemons you have been given.  The happiest people always do so.

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
~Donald Trump, Real Estate Mogul~

Throughout my life I have been astonished by how small-minded most people become.  They live in a world where something constantly is created out of seeming nothingness. Ideas nesting in a mind often whisper for actualization. Yet they remain blind and deaf to their hidden purpose in life.

It is tragic that all but a very few of us discard these divine whispering voices as delusional or totally unrealistic.

For example, let’s say I ask someone if they want to get rich.  With a faint, whimsical, resigned-to-doom smile some will say, “Yeah, I’d like that.”  Others will answer with false altruism, “Nah.  Rich people are selfish and many of them are unhappy despite their wealth.”  Still others will fall back on the standard refrain, “Rich people are lucky and fortunate.  They get all the breaks and are usually born with a silver spoon.  I am doomed to mediocrity.  I gave up on being rich a long time ago.”

All of the above are guilty of small-mindedness which is, if left unchecked, a fatal disease of the soul.  We all have 24 hours in a day and a chance to change our attitude and thrive.  Our chances to think and act big are as infinite as the universe.

No matter how old, young, rich, poor, advantaged, disadvantaged, educated, ignorant, despised, loved, dysfunctional, functional, handsome, wretched, beautiful, homely, lucky or unlucky we believe we are is truly a matter of choice and consciousness.

No other human being – even one with a pistol pointing at our head and telling us to reveal all or die – can strip us of our dignity without our consent.

Recently, I was watching a video presentation by one of my mentors, Bob Proctor of “The Secret” fame.  He suggested that he was humble, poor and shipwrecked in his early life.

Then one day he wrote down his ultimate goal in one, all-encompassing statement, put it in his breast pocket, looked at it throughout the day, and never went to sleep without expressing gratitude to his Maker.

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Thereafter, he added the most essential element which has led to his multimillion-dollar income for close 45 consecutive years.  That element is living as if.   It is not enough to want to be rich and successful; you’ve got to feel it in your bones.  You need to hang around with eagle accomplishers and leave those complaining human turkeys to wallow in their desert of dry tears.

The honest truth is that your life is not predicated on approval of others; it is predicated on dreaming and doing on a massive scale.

If you are uninspired in what you do, then you are probably thinking small and feeling insignificant.

Instead, why not latch onto ideas and people in your life that fuel unbridled passion?  If you want to do more, you will have to become more.

As another one of my mentors, the late Jim Rohn, has said:  “Don’t aspire to be a millionaire simply because of the money and fame you can accumulate.  Instead aspire for the good life because of the excitement of the journey and the personal growth you must experience to get where you want to go.”

False humility is often nothing but a cover up for failure.  The truly humble are usually on top of the economic heap and don’t make you feel small because of their stature.  The falsely humble use God, government, community, family, friends, circumstances, genetic deficiencies and a host of other lame excuses so that they can unashamedly and justifiably dwell in a sea of underachievement.

Why not choose to become big and truly humble as a result?  Make the best of time allotted to you.  Count your blessings and determine to find a solution to your adversities.

Spare us all any lame excuses inherent in the settling for far less than you deserve.

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
~Derek Bok, Harvard educator~

No matter how you spin the effects of the economic climate, one constant remains: the few people with a great attitude or outstanding skill base get to hold onto their jobs, while the marginally efficient workers get their walking papers without a blink.

Education and a hunger to learn will put you in the running for the best jobs and the best entrepreneurial options.  We have libraries, we have the Internet, and we have a plethora of in-house and societal seminars/workshops to upgrade our skills and knowledge.

Yet how many people wile away their free time multi-tasking in escape activities such as watching TV, email messaging, reading vacuous comics, listening to deafening music, or just sleeping away the hours, days and years?

One bad habit repeated over and over again can put you on the surgeon’s table for open heart surgery or put you on Redundancy Avenue in the workplace.  You can’t be faked out by the short-term feeling of invulnerability.

The man who eats a Snickers Bar every day for thirty years may at first only get a sugar high.  But down the road he will deal with heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and perpetual drowsiness.  The smoker may run marathons in his twenties but, by the time he is in his forties, will be wheezing, suffering from chronic bronchitis, or even knocking on death’s door.

In the same manner, a man who doesn’t read the book, attend the seminars, and in general upgrade his skills will find himself left behind or left out in the workplace.  He may claim it is unfair that he got laid off, but the years of bad habits and perpetual intellectual laziness are his own fault.

Our results in life are usually very scientifically predictable.  That is both good and bad news, depending on our willingness to change and to shape up.

Start a daily plan of education.  Make it as habitual as eating breakfast or brushing your teeth.  At the end of the day ask yourself:  What have I learned today?  What have I accomplished?  What do I want to learn and accomplish tomorrow?

In many super successful people’s houses, the most important room is the library, not the entertainment room.  And the library – believe it or not – is often filled with books read rather than displayed for pretentious intent only.

I was never a fan of our outgoing President, George W. Bush, but I knew that he was not stupid, as many people claimed.  You don’t become President by being a stupid oaf or even by being the son of a former President.  It recently was revealed that President Bush was and is an avid reader and has plowed through over 185 books in less than two years.

Never underestimate a man or woman who reads and challenges his mind in many subtle ways.  Such a lifetime habit will bring infinite joy and breakthroughs which are clearly attributed to the ritual of making education a daily part of one’s life.

Be extremely vigilant over the gateway to your mind.  Your destiny is in your hands.  Every day use all your senses to soak in the sensations and information essential for your prosperity.  Most information is – with a bit of effort on your part – free of charge.

Further down the road, however, it will cost you dearly for being intellectually bankrupt.  To punctuate this philosophy, watch this Obama speech…

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others”
~Charles Darwin~

If you are sitting pretty as the new year begins, then hang up your cleats and let your life move forward blissfully on autopilot.  You have all the money, love, fame and respect you could ever desire.  You are serving the world while serving yourself.  Congratulations.

But I have a sneaking suspicion that your life and the accomplishments you desire are far from optimal.  And that insecurity — that void — is not a bad omen.  It keeps you alive and adds meaning to life.  The great accomplishments throughout history were not built by complacent-minded people.  They were built by people driven by a desire to see just how high and far they could go in life or how much distance they could put between themselves and a sordid past.

Let’s assume you have anywhere between one day and fifty or more years of life to go.  Let’s assume you have achieved little more than a survival lifestyle that depends on your going to work each day and making widgets or closing that next deal.

That survival mode is God’s grace to you.  It is as if  He is saying:  “OK.  You are not going to starve.  You are not short in the intelligence department.   I have given you good friends, love through many channels, and a general sense of well-being.  Yes, Mom loved your sibling more than you…..so what are you going to do next – snore or soar?”

If you have read thus far, I am certain you want to soar.  The sour alternative in 2010 is to sink and suffer.

The doomsayers are everywhere telling you that the economy is heading south, while implying that everyone is going to be a victim of this economic malaise.

If you choose to believe that gloomy outlook, then just stay in bed for the rest of the year.

But if you sense that these purveyors’ of doom are totally unhelpful and dead wrong, then decide that this year – whether it be your 20th year or 70th on this planet – will be the very one where you run to daylight and soar to unimaginable heights.

While many buy into darkness and puts their collective heads in the sand, this can and will be your breakthrough year.  Affirm to yourself that that is so.

When things look darkest, opportunity looms around every corner and on the other side of every deep valley.  Life is balance and always has been.  Where there is loss, gain can’t help but be just over the horizon.  This is law, not some esoteric notion!

Congratulations on being alive and ready to reach your stride.  This is going to be a great year full of fantastic opportunities amidst an economic paradigm shift.

I promise you that I will give insightful, honest insights to help you see options for success which you might not have seen previously.  Let me serve you, and you me.  Together we must  reach unimaginable heights in the 2010.  Get ready to rock and roll.

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“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
~Brian Tracy~

In my youth I often lived by the maxim: When the cat’s away, the mice shall play. I embodied that spirit in my school days when a substitute teacher took over a class and I horsed around and later on when I worked in an office (or wherever) and the boss went out for an hour or two while I lazed back.

It felt so right to do as little as possible and collect my wages or a passing grade. What I couldn’t realize is that such an attitude was putting a noose around my neck. As soon as my youthful exuberance came to pass, no boss would any longer wink at my laziness and indifference. They would instead hand me a pink slip and show me the door.

Goofing off in Japan — while possible and inevitable — is not a good idea and people who look for such childish escape from responsibility are quickly relegated to the office pastureland for career has-beens.

There is is nothing wrong with passion for work. It is what separates the big-time winners from the also-rans of life. But the trouble is that most people plan and moderate their careers (or lack thereof) with scant thought about the weighty issues that should weigh. Many people spend more energy planning an expensive holiday than they do mapping out a life.

Are you following your dreams or are you following the crowd?

Most people live lives of quiet desperation. They put their collective noses to the grindstone and work for a pittance because they choose to follow orders rather than think and do what will ultimately make them happy and financially free. Failing to plan is truly planning to fail!

Many people in this country work what is called service overtime. They pile up unpaid wages for their work time, sometimes as much as 20 hours a week. I know this is true because some of my students and associates have matter-of-factly told me of such behavior.

This flagrant disregard of the law puts a damper on ever being able to attain a balanced life. Most Japanese would shrug off this notion of balance because to do so – they deeply believe and fear – would relegate them to the office pastureland.

This workaholic mentality may have faded somewhat in the recent generation, but is still pervasive in this island-nation. To violate this ethic often means you can kiss a promising career goodbye.

And that is my point. Work as hard on yourself as you do on your job. Read the books, listen to the tapes, and attend the seminars when not working. Turn off the tube and turn on your imagination.

Use your mind to best advantage. You are a work in progress until the day you die. In a rigorous or even boring job…take notes, build your skill base, and then seek out opportunities.

Whatever level of salary and benefits your company provides to you, they can never compensate enough for living your life in neutral on a job and with a company that provide you nothing but a lifetime cushioned chair and a Timex watch for retirement.

Prepare to move onward and upward in your precious march through time.

“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things..”
~ Bill Gates~

Contrary to what many young people and hyperactive entrepreneurs may think, multitasking is counterproductive.

To juggle twenty tasks which have barely a thread in common is the last nail in your coffin — that is, if you are still entertaining any hope of achieving remarkable success in one field.

Basic science tells us that a laser of sunlight through a magnifying glass can ignite a fire. That same sunlight, when diffused, may barely produce any lasting warmth.

A very powerful speaker, motivator and fantastically successful entrepreneur, Bob Proctor, once shared a story about his mentor (and mine), Earl Nightingale.

Bob said that whenever he could have private time with Earl, he was ecstatic. One morning Earl invited Bob to breakfast. While Earl was eating his omelet, Bob asked him about something which had been puzzling him for quite some time: “Earl, you get so much done every day and are such a high achiever. But I’m puzzled. You never seem rushed. What’s your secret for controlling time?”

Earl dropped his fork and knife in disbelief. He said: “I don’t control time. That’s an impossibility. All I do is write down the five most important matters for each day and then start on the first. I give no mind to the second or third until the first is finished. When I finish number one, I write down one more goal at the bottom of the list and then begin in earnest on the number two task that day or the next.”

Laser focus was and is the life of a master. Getting things done requires concentration.

Eben Pagen, a modern-day achiever with similar attributes to Earl, says this about multitasking: “It is the same as smoking three marijuana joints. Your concentration span is zilch. Every time you interrupt for that email or to take a call or walk the dog as a needed distraction from the task at hand will require fifteen minutes of refocus time, at best.”

Maybe some of you think that you are the exception to this rule, but you are not. The lack of concentration by multitasking will subtract years from your productive life. If you are a high achiever, that might not be so bad. Yet when you are struggling, you will undoubtedly move forward only at the expense of illness and your family life.

Watch this, and you be the judge:

“I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.”
~ Andrew Young, UN diplomat~

Have you ever been in a cat-and-dog verbal fight with a mate, a family member or even a friend when the phone suddenly rang or someone unexpectedly knocked on the door?

When that phone rings or that knock happens, isn’t it astonishing how quickly you can turn from beet-red anger into an Alice in Wonderland, ear-to-ear grin Cheshire Cat, especially when it’s an old friend at the door or the line?

Why is that? Think of it this way: You can only be in one mood at a time. Anger begets anger; cheerfulness begets cheerfulness. Try as you might, you can’t laugh and stay angry.

Have you ever told someone you are exhausted? It’s funny how if, in the next breath, an old friend suddenly calls and invites you out for a drink, that the low-energy blues melt away in a flash.

When you have a clear, intelligent purpose, your energy level can and will match your needs.

Everything we experience derives from the pictures we paint in our mind and the messages we embrace or accept without thought. Most of what happens to us is a result of our thinking; it is not at all related to external events.

Everyone has been telling us to be fearful of the coming economic apocalypse. Are you biting at that bait? Are you cutting your losses and retreating into a cocoon until the alleged economic storm blows over?
The best ideas for business breakthroughs often occur when an individual or business concern is mired in debt or on the verge of bankruptcy. The phrases, “I’ve had it!” or “There’s nothing left to lose,” can often be heard in such dire times.

When you go for broke, the universe will reward you as long as you follow through.

Most people who buy into recessions and depressions are obedient workers who depend on the good will of an employer. Though your boss may sincerely care about you, nobody can ever care more about you than you.

Anyone reading this message is in the fortunate category. They live in countries which educate their citizenry and provide economic stimulus to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Choose to create your own weather map of success, no matter what! When storm clouds gather, sell umbrellas. When the sky clears, sell seeds and gardening equipment.

Be creative and bold. People who act so experience clear sailing to their goals because most everyone else sets anchor in the Harbor of Doubt and Fear and helplessly waits for the “All clear” signals from the prophets of doom.

Recessions and depressions are a collective state of mind. Choose not to participate. Opportunity and money never disappear unless you do.

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go the grave with the song still in them.”
~ Henry David Thoreau~

Intending to get things done does nothing of the sort.  Quite to the contrary, it leaves you stuck in the starting gate of life and, as the years flicker by, more bitter than a chaw of ginseng root.

What action could you take or should you have taken to better your life?  Could it have been to leave a broken marriage that has no hope of healing?  Could it be stepping away from a high-paying job or business that leaves you outlandishly tired and totally dissatisfied?  Could it be going back to school to get the training which would could give you the business or professional edge for success?  Could it be taking the time or the time off to get to know your children again or for the first time?

Whatever the regrets you continue to harbor and the dreams you hold on the backburner for that perfect moment, you alone can decide your divine moment to finally step out of the false safety of inaction and experience the cleansing air of possibility.

Aging is supposed to be the culmination of a full life — a life of challenge, defeat, victory, ecstasy, and ultimately acceptance of all that was, is. and will be in your life.

So get off your butt and, as Jim Rohn says, “Work more on yourself than you do on your job.”  The latter will pay the bills, if you are lucky.  The former will bring you unbridled wealth in all aspects of that word.

Desperation and regret are killers.  Living your life by your own design is the the only antidote to bitter mediocrity and half-baked achievement.  You do have a treasure wrapped up inside of you.

And tyranny always is the result.

Throughout history, great ideas have led to heady revolutions followed by elitism and exclusion-ism – a pecking order – where the the least qualified tend to rise. They rise because most ideas – no matter how noble and high-sounding – are used and abused by manipulators, usually financial magnates, to pacify and neutralize the masses and then steal away democratic principles in the name of protecting the samesaid principles.

I tend to shy away from far-fetched conspiracy theories, but they are a basis for sound discussion about how we can protect and spread democratic principles with principle.

“The Calling” is a docu-movie worthy of seventy minutes of your time. Most of our lives have a pathetic side based on being herded like sheep by the inner circle of manipulators worldwide who are dedicated to squashing free speech and the natural flow of goods and services.

In other words, most of the man-made tragedies in the world are orchestrated by a secret society of those determined to bring about a New World Order, but not the ethereal type we were taught should exist by religious leaders and high-sounding politicians. It is an order which is much closer to what the Third Reich and brother Adolph had in store for us.

If we don’t wake up from our deep stupor soon, our freedoms will vanish and the world – what’s left of it after a slow, planned genocide orchestrated by those who know – will be ruled by unimaginable satanic forces.

Watch The Calling (below), even if you are skeptical as hell about what I have said in the previous paragraphs. We are puppets on a string and our thoughts and actions are manipulated in a way that makes some of us absolutely crazy. Then the authorities step in, create martial law and Draconian measures to strip our freedoms away, and then the Kim Jong Ils of the world step forward to begin the Rule of One Thousand Years.

Caucasian, pearly-toothed models adorn the Internet with every conceivable sham and scam under Satan’s sun, and millions of clueless folks keep falling for the same fleecers time and again.

The thirst for quick wealth and a lazy lifestyle fuel the Internet carnival, and frankly, I have no problem in principle with creating wealth and lifestyle with a minimum of wasted energy.

Each of us has a divine gift within ready to manifest itself in physical form whenever we decide to believe our inner voice and serve the world selflessly with our hidden yet inherent talents and skills. Serve is the important word here.

Most marketing and advertising schemes are predicated on creating false needs and then making false claims that the marketer has the product or service which will make you rich and famous in a New York minute. If that were true – if, if, if! – then once you knew what that scammer knew you could have a life of ease and luxury and no longer need the scammer.

But it’s seldom true because marketers and corporations are not interested in solving problems and bring peace to the earth. They are in the business of creating desire and leading you one step at a time down the rose garden path from shipping and handling intro products for a scant buck, to the endless up-sells and cross-sells that never lead full throttle to your objective, quick riches.

As Earl Nightingale once advised: “We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” He’s right. You will need guidance from those who have walked the path and know the terrain of success, but you have that ability without following every impulsive biz opportunity distracting you in your inbox.

Report scams. We must be judgmental of dishonest people in order to protect the integrity and profound effect the Internet can have on eliminating abject poverty through education and training.

And most importantly, keep a vigilant watch over what and who is programming your mind. Get clear about what you want to do in your life.

I am a student of mind control. We are all looking for happiness and the good life. Most people want to live with honesty and integrity…but unfortunately not all of us share such sentiments!

On the Internet we see the full spectrum of human kindness and of human depravity and evil. In a manner of speaking, these frank exchanges between polar opposites can pry open our collective consiousness and destroy poisonous mysticism and delusional thinking passed unknowingly from generation to generation.

Ignorance is not bliss. Being exposed to the potpouri of human ideas and values can be a spark for change, for tolerance, for community. The worldwide web allows us to scrap intolerance and ignorance and replace these negatives with synergy and positive growth.

As an online marketer, I feel a sense of urgency. Netrepreneurs are pioneers carving out the future of communication and peaceful coexistence. While we want to make lots of money, we should also want to leave no trace of deception or outright fraud in our wake.

You needn’t steal other people’s ideas or flog other people’s products you haven’t used without a caveat. Words can be mesmerizing, hypnotizing, energizing…but more often than not they are a form of masturbation meant to draw the reader to soothing sounds and visions far removed from the product on offer.

In my blogs, in my articles, on my website it is my absolute duty to decode deceptive language and hype and present products or services with due caution and balance. There are no magic pills or a Jesus of Clickbank. There are good products and people.

Some marketers may call my straight strategy a sure step to financial suicide, but I am certain that if you read what I write about affiliate products and anything I promote, you will make fewer decisions to buy useless, overpriced crap or products which don’t match your needs or your intended purpose.

Fact: Most products marketed to newbies and netrepreneur wannabes are suitable for experienced, somewhat successful marketers or above. Because the newbie doesn’t know what he/she wants or needs, they buy the hyped product just in case and then let it collect cyber dust for months or years before deleting.

For many years I have been an English-language trainer at major Japanese corporations. I have mastered Japanese-Anglicized expressions and clearly interpret twisted English sentences into meaningful dialogue. I am often praised for this uncanny ability. This training, of sorts, is the foundation for how I will treat you, my colleagues and comrades trying to make a living or a fortune online.

Beware of the wolves, but know that not everyone is out to get you. I’m devoted to decoding hype and bringing value to all.

If you have ever been to an American workplace, you will notice one very subtle yet distinct difference with the Japanese one. I’m not talking about the verbal exchanges or the arrangement of desks or the food served in a cafeteria or the number of paid holidays. Though these elements of the workplace may certainly be in contrast from country to country, there is another item on the desk that is very telling of the American character.

Icons can be powerful in keeping your life and your morality in check. But if you have no idea of who you are and what you stand for, it is easy and maybe inevitable that you will fall for any fool strong enough to lead you. So my questions to you are very deep and very important: Who are you? What do you stand for? What do you fall for? What do you want from life?

Decide these answers and then do a very un-Japanese thing, put that photograph on your work desk and use it for guidance in those rough moments we all face.

Ask yourself the following questions each day upon awakening (preferably 15~30 minutes earlier than you have been accustomed to)

What are the three most important jobs, goals or challenges I have for today?  Which one is most important?

How can/will I measure whether I have achieved them?

Who can I help, serve, cheer up or surprise with a gift or gesture?

What one behavior or action which is uncomfortable to me can I attempt during the day?

How much money do I need to create today in order to reach my short- and long-term objectives/goals?

How can I fit in at least 15~30 minutes of rigorous exercise/body movement in my daily life today?

Being far from perfect is a lizard excuse for standing still in the face of challenge.