My new website: www.thedisplacedafrican.com

I can now be found at the Displaced African website: www.thedisplacedafrican.com


My new website: www.thedisplacedafrican.com

The interconnectedness of things

I am amazed by how interconnected everything I am learning is. Anyone who is familiar with Jay Abraham's work knows that among other great things it centers around a couple of things:
a) Getting the most profit from the least amount of work and constantly scanning one's business and life for windfall profits that have yet to be discovered or exploited.
b) The strategy of preeminence in which the seller transforms into the customer's number one advisor and confidante.
Now contrast that with Yaro Starak from the blogging mastermind and his ideas:
According to him a great blog basically centres around two ideas:
a) Getting the most profit from the least amount of work: To this end, Yaros heavily suggests outsourcing anything that is not one's strength or competency. Side note: A lot of the articles that I have to read as part of Jay's mentorship program encourage one to discover one's passions and competencies and work on those while delegating or outsourcing everything else.

b) That a great money making blog has two components:
* Pillar content: First of all one must know which niche they wish to serve through the information they post on their blog. Then they must create content so compelling and useful to the niche they serve that it can be relevant to the niche years from when it's written and therefore act as an asset in the long term.
*Marketing:One must establish communication channels that will reach maximum numbers of people from the niche one serves. As you would probably know, Jay Abraham's great gift is in marketing.
Again, it's absoloutely fascinating how interconnected everything is and my force and energy is getting concentrated in one direction (financial freedom) with all sources of information guiding me in the same general direction.

Mwas

Internet Marketing

Hey guys,

Just thought I would recommend this site. It's one of the ways I got certain about wanting to be mentored by Jay Abraham it has a large number of free interviews with business and marketing experts. Below is a short description of it. Hope it is useful to me as it has been to me:


"Over 117 Hours of FREE Audio Interviews
With Sales, Marketing and Business Success Experts."

Michael Senoff's www.hardtofindseminars.com is the world's leading
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Hope that helps,
Mwas

Quick update

Hey,
I have been busy moving forward and as a result I have been away from this blog for WAAAAYYYYY TOOOO LONNG but I am back to give a quick update on the huge strides forward I have made in recent days.

1) The articles I read by Dr. Covey and Brian Tracy continue to impact me deeply. I was due to submit my passive self-income audit (basically a 16 page questionaire whereI assess where I'm at) YESTERDAY but I have just been synethesizing and rewriting and as soon as I'm done here I will get right back to the work of finishing it up and sending it off.
2) The mentorship program has a plethora of articles. The articles have a plethora of useful, immediately actionable resources and information. I have decided, rather than going through the articles, 2-3 a day (which is what I have been doing, with limited success), I will go right back to the begining and try to suck every drop of usefulness out of each article especially the Dr. Covey article, the Brian Tracy articles and the current article I am chewing over:
3) John Dudeck on Highest and Best Use: The first idea alone from this article is immediately applicable in my life. It is a challenge for me to find my strengths (like Popeye with his spinach, lol) and my areas of flow. I can't comment on this article too much because it was after reading this first great idea that I immediately felt I had to go back and fully appreciate and integrate the great info I had read from the other articles.

4) I have been focussing on improving my health, diet and body...so far, great, my eating habits have dramatically improved, the 5 kilograms of junk that I took off during Unleash the Power Within(yup, for some reason during those 4 days I dropped 5 kilograms while eating about 6 meals a day and drinking water every half hour......I'm amazed myself). This brings my total fat loss to about 15 kilograms since the begining of the year. I'm working on consolidating the psychology neccesary to not only keep this going but push my body to places that previously would have been unimaginable (including dancing, endurance sports, martial arts etc etc)
5) I joined a Blog Mastermind run by Yaro Starak. Yarro's sends me audio and articles each week to read and APPLY and I have access to a forum where I can ask him and other members of the Mastermind ( we are about 240) questions that will help me commericalize my blog and make $4000-$6000 a month from 2 hours of work like Yarros.

6) The Blog will be moving to Wordpress: The first lesoon from Yarros is on how to transfer to Wordpress and the advantages of using Wordpress. Therefore, this blog and my MAS blog will be moving over there over the course of the next week.
7) I will eliminate my book review/story time blog for lack of time and merge it with this financial freedom blog and my MAS blog.

Finally, I am searching for a life coach because I am getting to the point where I am juggling way too much and my time management skills are very poor. I need someone to help me organize my life better, quantify the important areas of my life with greater clarity, help me uncover the MOST IMPORTANT AREAS TO WORK ON and things I simply shouldn't even work on. I have found a lady who seems quite promising and I will keep you posted on how it all goes.

And, oh yes, I am, also looking for a personal trainer in the health and fitness side. I just finished going through Pete Sisco's ebook. I first heard about Pete and his training methods about four years ago but in my mind I simply assumed he was a con-artist. After emailing a couple of personal trainers, hearing about his methods from Anthony Robbins and doing a bit of research on the net, I have come to see that his training methods are simply controversial but far from pseudo-science or con-artist scams. Therefore I have decided to go through the workouts proposed in his e-book, using, his online strength coach service as a guide. However to avoid mistakes I made in the past including poor form and 'over-exubarance', I'll get a personal trainer. I'll write this up more in my MAS blog

PS: I updated my networth to incorporate the remaining equity in my credit card (so far, I have spent about $4,000 and have about $700 left).

Networth IQ

You may notice that to the right, there is a scale indicating my financial net worth. The straw that finally broke the camel's back on putting that on the site, BEFORE I start earning money was a coaching session by a man known as Scott Harris who is a trainer for Anthony Robbin's company and the interview I read of Brian Tracy by Jay Abraham. Boiled down into one simple, easy-to apply step it's this:

In any field of human endeavour, there are those few key behaviours that will produce the most singificant change, find out what they are and make sure you measure (i.e. QUANTIFY) your progress because measured behaviour improves whereas unmeasured behaviour may dissipate

With that in mind, I have decided to buy a journal, and I am going to work even harder to get a morning ritual that involves visualization and recording and measuring my progress in my journal. This journal will also record my health and fitness goals which I talk about in my MAS blog.
The legendary Dr. Wayne Dyer

Anyway, just a quick update.

Enjoy,
Mwas

Update on Jay Abraham's mentorship program

Hey,
I am so excited because I have been busy as a bee on cordial; Jay has sent out about 30 documents for us to read by the 8th of November when we'll have our first mentor call. I am really getting impacted by articles on having a vision and defining life exactly as I want it. So far I have made the following changes:
1) I had planned to make the money first and THEN go after my life's bliss and purpose.
Instead the articles I have read thus far have really challenged me to INTEGRATE my vision for my life with my financial goals and let the passion from my life's desires spill over, no better yet, drive me, towards my financial goals and that way I'll achieve quicker. It's for that reason that I am now rewriting my life's plan synergizing even further my spiritual, financial, physical, achievement and other goals. Challenging stuff! Below are some key points on articles I have read thus far:

Dr Stephen Covey on Passion
Key insight: Start by thinking about your mission in life and gear EVERYTHING in your life around that. My goal coming into the program was to get passive income streams going AND THEN start pursuing my life's purpose. However Dr. Covey has inspired me to realize that I must pursue my life purpose FIRST and then check and see if passive income is in alignment with it.
Key action step: I must rewrite my self-assessment audit form beginning with my life mission first in mind rather than focussing on passive income first and then life mission second
Key questions: How can one make life planning fun? To me it seems like such a tedious lonely process. What ways have people managed to make it fun?
Jay Abraham interviewed by Anthony Robbins
Key insight: The infinite possibilities for growth if one is willing to measure and quantify the key areas of their life and constantly re-evaluate and re-measure these areas.
Key action step: Begin to quantify the key areas of my life - emotional. physical, monetary, spiritual???- and work out a fun plan of measurement and constant reevaluation.
Key questions: What are the fun systems that already exist to measure key areas that I can model and copy and how can I incorporate them into my day to day life?

Brian Tracy on Paying Yourself What You're Worth
Key insights: When engaging in any economic activity, ask yourself, "how much am I earning per hour doing this?", "Figure out the skill you are weakest at and make it the area of your greatest strength."
Key action steps: I will engage in the goal setting exercise set by Brian Tracy this evening.
Key questions: Perhaps some anecdotes in regards to the weakest skill exercise to support his ideas.
Stephen Covey (Dr. Covey's son) on Trust
Key insight: Trust causes expediency, we should see trust as a way of speeding up the lifting of everyone towards their goals.
Key action steps: Must dedicate myself to the study of how to build rapport with a wide variety of people as opposed to the narrow scope that I currently build rapport with; will begin the search for 'relationship and rapport' models
Key questions: Who are experts in the field of relationship building and rapport that I can model.

Excited!

Mwas

Thank God for Problogger

A few additional distinctions from the Problogger article on Darvas box theories (again these are my scribled notes)

Thank God for Protrader. Within their Darvas box tutorial they perfectly explain how to create a box:
Search for an all time high in a stock and if that price is not exceeded for a predetermined number of days –for Darvas it was 3- then that was the top of the box.
To create the bottom of the box we search for the lowest price not touched or exceeded for the last 3 days i.e. we do the same thing as finding the top of the box but in reverse.

I must create a trading rule regarding allowable capital risk per trade.

Calculate one’s break even

(Total cost of trading=(Parcel size*stock price)+ entry brokerage+ exit brokerage)/Parcel size
Here one can calculate the number of shares they need to buy and the price they require to break even-have no loss!!!



How to select an industry?
Darvas tended to trade in ‘expensive’ stocks believing you should buy dear and sell dearer and liked to invest in emerging and expanding industries.