Is it a goal, imagination or journey? (13)
hey hey hey!
First of all, I am not a big fan of SMART goals! I believe these are good for things like I wanna lose 10 Kg, I wanna earn $1M or whatever!
I believe the end goal is what matters, well at least for me. So when I say I wanna be happy, please do not ask me to specify a SMART goal for happiness. It is like asking someone who never seen apple to describe what would apple look like to him.
As I have been literally failing in every business in the last 8 years, I am kind of tired, really! I mean tired of failing!
The only thing I am really successful at is my daily job which I freaking do not like, however it pays well for me to get into affiliate marketing.
Long story short, I spend over $ 200K on businesses that all went bad. And here I am on STM starting over.
Here you go:
My damn SMART goals which I mean short term:
1 - Getting to $1K profit per day using Native Ads in 2018.
2 - Quitting my daily job in 2018.
3 - Buying a second passport by Q1 2019.
My end goals:
1 - To be damn successful in something I like such as Affiliate Marketing, do not ask me to define "successful", I will know it when I get there.
2 - To present in one of Affiliate Marketing events.
3 - Have no fixed location, just travel whenever I can.
4 - Freedom of being told what I should be doing at work.
5 - Having a strong mental ability to focus, relax and think.
6 - Afford to take my whole family to a new country (it is really a big family!).
7 - Improve at least 100 people lives who have been struggling like me.
8 - Help 10,000 children to get into school.
If I wanna describe it in short: I want to achieve financial and location freedom and help others doing the same or at least show them the road.
Perhaps that may change, who knows! but I will let you know then!
Cheers,
"As I have been literally failing in every business in the last 8 years, " 
What have you learned from this? And how are you going to apply these learnings in AM for example?
Originally Posted by stickupkid
"As I have been literally failing in every business in the last 8 years, "
What have you learned from this? And how are you going to apply these learnings in AM for example?
What have you learned from this? And how are you going to apply these learnings in AM for example?
This is why I am focusing only on Native Ads now, nothing else.
I got to tell you I learned it really the hard way! I was stubborn like a stone that I can make 3 things work at the same time! I never said no to any idea that sounds good to me.
But I watched a clip of Steve Jobs before and I quote " The things we said NO to are the reason why Apple is a great company now". Well, I am neither Steve nor owning Apple
but you got the point.So one thing only.
Cheers for your interest tho!
If I wanna describe it in short: I want to achieve financial and location freedom and help others doing the same or at least show them the road.
Every time you experienced a temporary setback, you became even more determined to succeed. I can feel your energy through your words - your desire is already off the charts!
The only other thing you need to do, is ALLOW for success to gradually manifest. No need to push yourself too hard - try to feel your way around by chasing what interests you and by following your inspiration.
You have a good job, so financially you're not in dire straits. There's no urgency to succeed. You've already spent 8 years - what's another year or 2?
You'll get there. I'm seldom wrong about people. Wishing you the very best!
Amy
The fact that you're still going after many years of failure shows great determination. Most people would have given up.
Often a true test of ones character is how someone copes when things in life go poorly. Failure in that respect a great character builder because it forces you to be humble and admit your mistakes.
I'd much rather chat with someone who's struggled to achieve success and found it than someone with whom success came to them easily and went to their head.
You've got a great attitude and heart man. I think you're going to make it.
Just think of that 200k as a moderately priced education
Originally Posted by vortex
I am well aware of the law of attraction and I liked the Secret book. I have changed alot the last couple of years. I started to dig deeper in myself trying to understand what I really want.
I now mediate everyday for different stuff ( I would not have evern believe in this few years ago), mainly to focus and relax. I understand that 1 or 2 years more would not make a huge difference considering I have been waiting that long.
I know I will get there, and you better not be wrong about people Amy
cheers,
Originally Posted by thedudeabides
The fact that you're still going after many years of failure shows great determination. Most people would have given up.
Often a true test of ones character is how someone copes when things in life go poorly. Failure in that respect a great character builder because it forces you to be humble and admit your mistakes.
I'd much rather chat with someone who's struggled to achieve success and found it than someone with whom success came to them easily and went to their head.
You've got a great attitude and heart man. I think you're going to make it.
Just think of that 200k as a moderately priced education
Often a true test of ones character is how someone copes when things in life go poorly. Failure in that respect a great character builder because it forces you to be humble and admit your mistakes.
I'd much rather chat with someone who's struggled to achieve success and found it than someone with whom success came to them easily and went to their head.
You've got a great attitude and heart man. I think you're going to make it.
Just think of that 200k as a moderately priced education
Litteraly everyone around me (except one) keeps ADVISING me to stop doing business and focus on what I am successful at (a corporate job that designed by socitiy believes all people should act the same way, of course except the top 1-3%), I got it that! I have wasted alot of my saving but for me I have learned from spending that money more than my engineering bachelor or any other business diploma I have done.
I live in one of GCC country at the moment where entrepreneurship is not even a concept. It is like if you are born rich, why on earth are you trying to be one? But again the job pays well
Time will prove everything tho!
Cheers,
I now mediate everyday for different stuff ( I would not have evern believe in this few years ago), mainly to focus and relax. I understand that 1 or 2 years more would not make a huge difference considering I have been waiting that long.
I know I will get there, and you better not be wrong about people Amy
I know I will get there, and you better not be wrong about people Amy
Litteraly everyone around me (except one) keeps ADVISING me to stop doing business and focus on what I am successful at (a corporate job that designed by socitiy believes all people should act the same way, of course except the top 1-3%), I got it that! I have wasted alot of my saving but for me I have learned from spending that money more than my engineering bachelor or any other business diploma I have done.
This is why asking for advice from other people won't always serve you - because they can't feel what you feel. You have inner guidance that will lead you to everything you want, and they can't feel that. Your decision to look inwards for a solution sounds wise - Abraham and Seth would be proud!
Every time you experience a setback, you put more prosperity into your escrow, and your desire increases. But there must be some degree of resistance that's preventing the manifestation from happening. It's like pulling the rubber band back back back...and more meditation + relaxation + doing more work to get into energy alignment (e.g. focus wheels, visualization, etc.) will cause that rubber band to be released - and you'll zoom all the way to where you want to be and further.
In the book "Ask and It Is Given", Abraham offers lots of processes for manifesting stuff - a few of which people have found very helpful for receiving financial abundance or eliminating debt. You don't have to buy the book - just google "The Prosperity Game" and "The Wallet Process" and you'll find plenty of instructions. For example this article:
http://lifetrainingonline.com/blog/a...attraction.htm
Many of the world's richest people had rough starts. Some had to lose everything they had - some even several times - before finally striking it rich. The important thing is to make peace with where you are - you sound like you're already holding up extremely well under the circumstances. It's very hard not to blame yourself when on the surface you've "wasted" all that money and have nothing to show for it, and even harder when sometimes you feel the need to justify to people all the sacrifices you've made and are continuing to make. But you're your own master, and all that money was NOT wasted - with every attempt you were putting in a request to the Universe which put what you wanted into your vortex. Now you just need to align your energy until you can FEEL the stuff that's in there.
Once you do, you'll start to get inspiration that will push you in the right direction - rendezvous with the information you need, the people that can help you, tools that will help you, etc.
Most/all of this you may already know - and you certainly seem to be well on your way towards becoming more allowing. Once the level of resistance lessens sufficiently, success will manifest through the crack of least resistance.
And you're in no hurry for that manifestation to come.
Try to enjoy every step of the process, and excitedly anticipate the sweet unfolding that awaits you.It's always a joy to be able to speak in LOA language with another Ab'er!
I'm enjoying our exchange!Amy
Originally Posted by vortex
LOL! Even if I'm wrong, your own intuition is never wrong!
This is why asking for advice from other people won't always serve you - because they can't feel what you feel. You have inner guidance that will lead you to everything you want, and they can't feel that. Your decision to look inwards for a solution sounds wise - Abraham and Seth would be proud!
Every time you experience a setback, you put more prosperity into your escrow, and your desire increases. But there must be some degree of resistance that's preventing the manifestation from happening. It's like pulling the rubber band back back back...and more meditation + relaxation + doing more work to get into energy alignment (e.g. focus wheels, visualization, etc.) will cause that rubber band to be released - and you'll zoom all the way to where you want to be and further.
Amy
This is why asking for advice from other people won't always serve you - because they can't feel what you feel. You have inner guidance that will lead you to everything you want, and they can't feel that. Your decision to look inwards for a solution sounds wise - Abraham and Seth would be proud!
Every time you experience a setback, you put more prosperity into your escrow, and your desire increases. But there must be some degree of resistance that's preventing the manifestation from happening. It's like pulling the rubber band back back back...and more meditation + relaxation + doing more work to get into energy alignment (e.g. focus wheels, visualization, etc.) will cause that rubber band to be released - and you'll zoom all the way to where you want to be and further.
Amy
Your words reminded me somehow with Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is my favorite book by the way. Although it is fiction, every time I read that book, I say "F&%*" if a young boy with no experience at all could follow his dreams, why cannot I??
I am confident that I will make it work, I know every dollar I spent right now on Affiliate Marketing is a step forward. The good thing for me is that I have stopped everything else I have been doing online, literally everything! I even cancel my server subsritpion for all the crap I was doing to make sure I will not return back.
Honestly, for me, at this point, I do not want another plan, I do not want another business. I just want to make this work, and I will do.
I know if all these people here are making it happen, I can do it too, I believe I have access to most of the resources they have. It just a matter of testing for me.!
One of favorite quote for Steve Jobs is "If I try my best and fail, well! I've tried my best". So I am trying my best every day! I have started a follow along post a couple of weeks ago to even commit more to what I do everyday.
I enjoy our exchange too
Cheers,
I believe 1k/day is achievable goal. Im doing middle xxx/day and still looking for options to scale my business. But I think you must follow three steps to achieve that goal.
1. Start believe it is really possible, and you can do it. The most important thing is believe in yourself.
2. Doing the right moves, study a lot, and test things as fast as possible
3. Luck
They are really amazing goals.
I do think that there is value in breaking down goals into even smaller micro goals as well. What is important is that you are improving and better than you were the day before.
Originally Posted by cmdeal
You are right, sometimes is better not to ask for advice. It is interesting to see how people think so different from each other. I am reading right now "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One" by Joe Dispenza. He talks about the same thing to "Ask and It Is Given". It is really not easy to digest such information when you are not seeing results. However, I know it is true and I am applying it right now. It is amazing to realize that our minds tend to get affected by negativity a lot of faster than positivity! I believe the same reason is we do not align out positive thoughts with feeling but we align (very good) our bad thoughts with feeling, does that make sense?
Your words reminded me somehow with Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is my favorite book by the way. Although it is fiction, every time I read that book, I say "F&%*" if a young boy with no experience at all could follow his dreams, why cannot I??
This is also what makes it so easy to laugh and jest at people that still have dreams. "Get your head out of the clouds and stop reaching for the impossible", they say. Whereas what they're REALLY saying inside is: "You don't have anything I don't, so if I didn't succeed, then you won't either."
Whereas the truth is that we each create our own reality. Just us. Nobody else. Once we realize that, we would take matters into our own hands, and aim to change ourselves in order to effect change to our external circumstances - instead of blaming the outside world on what's happening (or not happening) to us.
Abraham Hicks talks quite a bit about that - they do it in colloquial language that everyone understands. The Seth books (by Jane Roberts) go into a lot more detail on exactly how we create our reality. These books aren't the easiest to read/digest, but when I sometimes come across a passage that resonates with me, I feel joyful. Here's a sample:
You always know what you are doing, even when you do not realize it. Your eye knows it sees, though it cannot see itself except through the use of reflection.
In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three dimensional reality. You project your thoughts, feelings, and expectations outward, then you perceive them as the outside reality.
When it seems to you that others are observing you, you are observing yourself from the standpoint of your own projections.
You are the living picture of yourself. You project what you think you are outward into flesh. Your feelings, your conscious and unconscious thoughts, all alter and form your physical image.
In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three dimensional reality. You project your thoughts, feelings, and expectations outward, then you perceive them as the outside reality.
When it seems to you that others are observing you, you are observing yourself from the standpoint of your own projections.
You are the living picture of yourself. You project what you think you are outward into flesh. Your feelings, your conscious and unconscious thoughts, all alter and form your physical image.
So - see yourself as the wildly successful affiliate marketer / online entrepreneur that you really are, and you will start projecting the right expectations into the world - and your future reality will HAVE to reflect these expectations.
Thanks for the book recommendations! Alchemist I've heard other people said good things about. I need to find time to read them after I finish the Seth books.
I think it's really fantastic that you've put so much positivity into this thread! Whenever you feel discouraged, all you need to do is come back and read what you wrote, and remember the feelings you had when you wrote it. Feel the same feelings, and you'll bounce back.
As for it being hard to digest this stuff when you're not seeing results - that's the hardest part. Energy and manifestations are all about building momentum. Consistently feeling positive will result in faster and faster momentum that will get you where you want to go. But in the beginning when the train is stationary - or worse, headed in the negative direction - you'll just need to "psych yourself out" and run on blind faith until that train builds up momentum in the positive direction. By the time you're more used to feeling positive and start seeing pieces of the puzzle fall into place, there would be no turning back. But before that point, it WILL take some effort.
I also want to clarify that I'm not suggesting to NOT take action.
We humans are still avid believers that action is what it takes to achieve success, so stuff like reading forum posts / blog posts / books, doing research on niches and offers, spying, doing different testing etc. etc. - will ALL improve your expectations for success. Sooner or later, you'll start to receive the right sorts of inspiration - that's when the right ideas will come to you, or you'll happen to meet the right people or tools etc. etc. that will basically PUSH you to take action. This is called Inspired Action and is the type that will get you the biggest results.And you WILL get to that point soon - there's no turning back now.
Amy
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