Your mind: the ultimate wealth creation technology

http://www.slideshare.net/superpeter/economic-options-seminar

I created a third flagship seminar at Talentelle, you can see a partial presentation at the above link.

This seminar is basically about re-educating people about their economic options. The truth has been hidden from people for far too long.

Based on broad principles written about by Robert Kiyosaki, the seminar goes further and provides practical ideas and concrete examples of how people can liberate themselves intellectually first, then economically, and finally financially.

That sequence (mind, value, money) is the correct sequence. The overwhelming majority of people make the mistake, in their career or business, of focusing on MONEY first.

The real power, the real gold, the real wealth -- they all lie within the human mind and the human heart. This is probably the success "secret" that is most ignored or misunderstood by the majority of people.

Yet, so many books have been written on the subject: The Science of Getting Rich, Think and Grow Rich, Maximum Achievement (Brian Tracy), etc.

Here's a second powerful secret missed by most people: Not only does the human mind CONTAIN infinite wealth, the human mind can also create TOOLS to mine itself in order to extract all that wealth!

This is important, I need to restate it, but more dramatically:

Not only does the human mind CONTAIN infinite wealth, the human mind can also create TOOLS to mine itself in order to extract all that wealth!

For example, I recently offered to a group of executives, managers, professionals, etc. the opportunity to hire me as the "knowledge packaging" specialist who would extract and package their tacit knowledge (which is in their head) into explicit knowledge (which is in the world -- such as a white paper, a flowchart diagram, a mind map, etc.).

The response so far is AMAZING! 9 out of 10 people want it! They even want to partner for the marketing of such services!

More on this later.

Wisdom offers salvation and power to wrongly convicted man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOq_AhuXi_8

Above is easily one of the top videos I've ever seen on YouTube! In less than 5 minutes, the video offers an electrifying tribute to Alexandre Dumas' masterpiece, Le Comte de Monte Cristo.

The story is one I identify with, about a man who was once naive about the ways of the world. As a result, he is unfairly punished by the law, pays a dear price and is brought to the brink of despair. He finds salvation in the vast and profound wisdom of a fellow prison inmate named Abbe Faria.

The movie has a breathtaking scene where the Count of Monte Cristo raises a toast to Albert Mondego, on the occasion of the lad's 18th birthday. I was so taken aback by the passage when I saw the movie that I memorized it!

"Life is a storm my young friend. You will bask in the sunglight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome: "Do your worst! For I will do mine!!"

Then the Fates will know you, as we know you. As Albert Mondego, the man."

Library of knowledge for all corporate employees

http://www.slideshare.net/success4employees

I'm attacking the North American corporate employees market. You can see all my slideshows for them at the above link. Enjoy!

Linkedin now has 9 million users!

In June 2005, when I created a blogzine exclusively dedicated to Linkedin (www.linkedinusermanual.blogspot.com), the socioprofessional networking site had only 4 million users.

Now they have 9 million! I correctly predicted the success of Linkedin (I should pat myself on the back for this one!).

Now, Linkedin has developed a new service, very much like Yahoo! Answers, where people can ask questions and get answers. Here, however, unlike Yahoo! Answers, the questions are very technical and one can expect the answers to be also of high quality.

One main reason is that on Linkedin, you are known and your profile is publicly available, so people tend to do their best to maintain their reputation. Not so with Yahoo! Answers, where everyone is pretty much anonymous.

I strongly encourage you to network via Linkedin. I notice that there are very few women on Linkedin. Unfortunately, this is a career and business mistake for women, but also for men who neglect to use Linkedin.

If you would like to connect to me, simply send me an invitation from your Linkedin page to superpeter@myway.com

You have the right to remain poor

I give a workshop on strategic blogging, and one of my key revelations to people is: "You have the right to remain silent... and poor!"

Another key statement about the price of success in the New Economy is: "The price is write!"

In other words, it is not possible to get really rich in the knowledge-based economy if you don't SHARE what it is that you know. And we are ALL experts at something.

Every day, there are 80,000 new blogs being created. Every day, 80,000 people are getting AHEAD of you economically. (Well, okay, maybe some of the new blogs are created by manianical and obsessive bloggers like me, but still, the point remains: first-time bloggers are getting AHEAD of you, or established bloggers are getting a little MORE AHEAD of you).

The success secret is to realize that you stand to gain by sharing your knowledge for FREE, and then charging for services (coaching, consulting, etc.) based on that freely shared knowledge.

The first step is to SHARE your knowledge via Internet. Only then will people know you, begin to trust you, and possibly hire you so you can APPLY your knowledge to their SPECIFIC situation.

This reminds me of a posting I wrote before: When you teach, you necessarily sell. But when you sell, you don't necessarily teach.

In other words, share your knowledge generously and gently teach people useful stuff that could help them in their career, business or life. Afterwards, they will be willing to listen to what you have to offer.

But if you start by aggressively selling something, then that tends to turn people off.

"Make money while you sleep" program

I recently launched an affiliate program where affiliates simply put a Payloadz link in their email signature, and make 30% of sales commission with every single purchase.

For example, an affiliate might end her emails with the following text:

Best regards,

Elea Johnston

Buy the eMillionaire Information Package for only $9.95 (regular value: $100). Click here: http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=267611

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I call it the "make money while you sleep" program.

Basically, every time someone you know clicks on the link and pays (via PayPal or credit card) to download the information product, you get 30% (in the above case, where an eMillionaire Information Package is sold for $9.95, you get $3.00).

In the future, I will also sell videos as well as e-books, at prices ranging from $50 to $200, so the sales commission can be as high as $60.00. Remember: this is money you make without making ANY effort.

In the above example, if Elea communicates with 100 people, and 40 of them buy an e-book at $30, then she makes 40 X $10 = $400.

Contact me if you'd like more details on how to participate in this affiliate program. Write to omnidigitalbrain@yahoo.com and mention "affiliate program" in the subject heading.

Wealth will happen violently

There is something "violent" in the acquisition of YouTube by Google for $1.65 billion.

It almost boggles the mind. These two young men, in their 20s, are suddenly extremely rich. Did they actually create all that value?

Not really. (They still fully deserve their success and new wealth, of course).

The value was created by users. Indeed, every day, 65,000 videos are uploaded and there are 100 million views.

You can understand this Web 2.0 phenomenon more by reading Don Tapscott's latest book, Wikinomics.

My point is just that wealth will happen suddenly and "violently" for many entrepreneurs as well as professionals who truly understand how to use technology as well as sociology.

Take, for instance, www.yet2.com. Yes, it's mainly for companies. But you can imagine how it would work if it were an e-marketplace where professionals can exchange, trade, sell, buy ideas and knowledge from other people.

The success secret is to realize that sooner or later, a significant part of your work will involve trading and exchanging things or ideas or resources with hundreds, if not thousands, of other people.

This is what I call the Dot Pro Revolution: professionals will begin to act, on the Web, like companies, and will sell products and services just like companies. Indeed, since the Internet breaks down time and space barriers, why restrict oneself to only ONE employer?

Therefore, it's important to begin to use and learn to master tools like Linkedin. Or Google Groups. Or RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Or Newsgator.com.

I'm so angry at Linda

Linda sent me an email last week. The subject line read: "The solution to all your virility issues."

I was shocked! How dare she do that to me!

First of all, I do NOT have ANY virility issue! As a male, I'm as alpha as it gets! (I'm also omega and all the other letters of the Greek alphabet which I don't remember).

Second of all, who the heck is this Linda? I don't even know her. And I don't remember ever dating any female entity named "Linda".

As you've probably guessed by now, it was spam email. I had a good laugh out of it. At least, it's not in Chinese or Korean. (BTW, that's my definition of "globalization": I get spammed in languages I don't understand!).

The success secret is not to spam back. Anyways, you can't. The spammer usually has a noreply@domainname.com kind of email.

The success secret is to SELL yourself more aggressively, but tastefully, tactfully and, hopefully, entertainingly.

This is a secret Harv Eker mentioned in his best-seller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. He finds it strange that people are reluctant to "toot their own horns." He wrote: "If you're not going to do it, then who will?"

Here's what he wrote that really struck a chord with me: "If you believe in your value, how can it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who might need it?"

Fortunately, I don't have that problem. Every time I made a lot of money (sometimes, I made $1,000 with just a phone call), it's because I proactively promoted myself. I can't help it, it's a reflex.

Today, with Blogger, Odeo, YouTube, Slideshare.net, etc. you can promote yourself, your expertise, your experience, etc. in so many ways!

As I often say to my clients: "You have the right to remain silent... and poor!"

As long as you're talking, you are selling. Of course, clients won't buy right away. But if you speak correctly, then prospects will increasingly feel that you are trustworthy, and then one day, they will feel 100% confident in your ability to deliver the solution to their problem. That's when they pull out their wallet and hand over some of that marvelous colored paper we all want! :-)

About Donald Trump

A woman asked this question on Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com) and I answered. She chose my answer as the best because it is "fact filled." I thought I'd share it with you.

Donald Trump-Business Success or Failure?

I just got into an argument with my husband about Donald Trump. He thinks he is AMAZING and I think he is lucky in business. While he has had success he has taken several businesses to the point of bankruptcy. Does anyone have any facts either way? Thanks.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

FACT: Multimillionaire Harv Eker (author of the Secrets of the Millionaire Mind) always cites Trump in his seminars as an example of someone who has a "financial thermostat" that keeps his thinking focused on big business opportunities, and that convinces him that he is worthy of being a billionaire.

FACT: Trump owed two billion dollars in the early 90s, yet came back a few years later as rich as he was before.

The truth is, most people are poor because they despise (are jealous?) of rich people. There is really no luck in business. If a person works hard at creating solutions, he or she will succeed all the time. Trump himself says in the current issue of Fortune magazine that his secret is that he's "obsessed about solutions." His wealth is only a natural result of this craving for creating solutions.

Many people might say that he's a "human failure," but this is just envy and jealousy, because the FACT is, he's a good father who got his two kids (Ivanka and Don Jr) through the MBA program at Wharton, one of the most prestigious business schools in America.

Another fact is that he created an incredibly popular TV show, that he also produces, called The Apprentice, that inspires people to go for their dreams.

Speed and frequency of feedback

I was playing tennis with my partner when a father and his son came to the adjacent court. They had about 100 balls to practice with, so I knew that the father was probably training his son -- about 12 years old -- to play tennis competitively.

The father stood at the net, and returned the balls to his son. What I noticed is that after EVERY shot the son made, the father would yell out a very specific feedback, such as: "Bend your knees!" or "Lean forward!" or "More power!" or "Foot work!" etc.

This gave me an important insight about success: speed and frequency of feedback are critical to rapid improvement!

Speed: the father's feedback came a fraction of a second after the son hit the ball.

Frequency: the father provided specific feedback every 1 or 2 seconds.

So feedback speed and frequency enabled the son to learn extremely fast, and to instantly correct errors in execution.

Now compare the above with the feedback that the normal employee receives, in the form of the annual performance review!

Speed: the feedback comes too late! The employee probably doesn't remember what the feedback is all about!

Frequency: once a year! That's very, er, infrequent!

Some people may say: "Well, employees are not really competing as in professional tennis. They just have a job to do. So why do they have to train and practice so hard?"

Because the Internet exists. Because there are 3 billion new workers who have just joined the global workforce, and are using the Internet to compete for YOUR job.

Three billion workers, that's... 3,000,000,000.

And they are smart, hungry and ambitious. They will do everything you will not do, and they will do it for one fifth of your salary.

That is the reason why EVERYONE needs a coach and needs to get fast and frequent feedback on his/her peformance.

Internet is your best friend or your worst enemy

Another way to put it is that the Internet will either kill your career, or turn you into a millionaire.

It all depends on HOW you use the Internet.

Without economic creativity (by which I mean "being able to generate ideas that have economic value") and without business training, a person will NOT be able to leverage the Internet for financial purposes.

This is, in fact, the challenge of most people: because they do not know how business works, they cannot reap the enormous economic benefits that the Internet offers.

Even geeks who know all the technical mysteries behind the Internet, and can create so-called Web 2.0 sites to gather content from users, cannot make money. Why? Lack of economic creativity and business training.

To remedy this situation and empower as many people as possible to launch and run their business, I created the BMW workshop (more info at www.businessmodelworkout.blogspot.com).

How does the Internet kill a person's career?

By eliminating time and space barriers. Which means that your competitors can come from China, India, Russia, etc. Yes, they can actually email a compelling proposal to your boss, and in the process, eliminate your job.

Even if your boss cares about you, he/she cannot refuse a better proposal from workers overseas. If he DID refuse such offers, he might get fired!

The best bet, in my opinion, is to act like as if your job will be taken away from you. Because one day, it will.

The best thing to do is to start treating the Internet as your best friend, and to make him work hard for you -- whether you are a free agent or an entrepreneur.

Sex, money, life, love & death

Most of us carry time on our wrist, so it's quite easy to underestimate the power and the nature of time. Yet time is the stuff life is made of. Time is the ONLY thing we truly own.

It occurred to me a few minutes ago that time is in fact an entirely DIFFERENT entity, depending on HOW we use it.

Time is love if you spend it doing something for someone else, like preparing a meal, or volunteering, or shopping for and later wrapping a birthday gift.

Time is life when you travel and spontaneously visit places outside the conventional path of touristic attractions. In other words, you actually meet the people who live there to learn more about them, how they live, how they celebrate life, etc.

Time is money, of course, when you work.

Time is sex when... well, you know. This kind of time also includes activities you do which guarantee a certain wanted and desirable erotic payoff. (Look, you'll have to read between the lines because I can't describe in any further detail! I'm just too afraid my Mom might somehow come across this posting!).

Finally, time is death -- and here, I have to pause and acknowledge that a great many people will deny this fact, but if you think about it, it's true -- time is death when we watch mediocre TV on a regular basis without seeking a better alternative use of our precious time.

Sometimes, time can be a mixture of the above, such as when we pursue a profession we love: time then is both money and love.

Hamburgers, knowledge and wealth

"I didn't invent the hamburger, I just took it more seriously than anybody else."

- Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonald's

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"I didn't invent knowledge, I just took it more seriously than anybody else."

- Peter Nguyen, intellectual capital industrialist

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I don't know if I'll become a billionaire by launching a business empire built on Real-Time Success Secrets content, blogs and systems.

But I do know that people (professionals, entrepreneurs, free agents, etc.) who take knowledge seriously, willl make a LOT of money.

If you SELL knowledge, whether in the form of a consulting session, a workshop, a coaching session, then you will make a lot of money. Especially since EVERYTHING you say can be recorded via a FREE software like Audacity (search for it on Google and download it for free).

Unfortunately, even if I keep reminding people that they should WRITE DOWN what they know and try to sell it as fast as possible, most people won't do it. Why? Habit.

People associate "making money" with "physically working." It rarely occurs to people that the richest people are actually teachers: Robert Kiyosaki, Anthony Robbins, Tom Peters, etc.

Indeed, engineers, programmers, graphic designers, lawyers, marketing specialists, etc. are all very knowledgeable people, and they all have very valuable knowledge. Yet they NEVER share that knowledge. They NEVER sell that knowledge. Sure, some of them may start a blog, but they don't ask people to pay for downloads!

It's really just a (bad) habit that people have, of linking "income" with "physically working in a cubicle." In the future, a great many people will become rich by teaching.

With the Internet, space and time barriers have been overcome! You can teach or coach ANYONE on the planet! (Provided they speak your language).

In fact, many smart people from India are tutoring American kids in math and physics, via Skype.

People who take knowledge seriously, will become immensely RICH. Probably richer than Ray Kroc, because when you sell a hamburger, you no longer have it.

But when you sell knowledge, you still have it! And you're getting paid too!

This is too exciting, I will write more about this in future postings.

Jim Rohn's powerful presentation -- FREE

Powerful presentation by Jim Rohn HERE. Enjoy! :-)

Jim Rohn was the mentor of Anthony Robbins, the famous personal development guru.

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FREE tele-seminar by Harv Eker

http://www.peakpotentials.com/new/millionairemind-teleseminar.html

The average person spends about $800 on Christmas gifts, and the majority are in debt until March 2007 at which time they pay off all the debt related to gift giving.

So I'm thinking, this is a GREAT time to talk about how to make MORE money! :-)

This is precisely why I'm happy to share with you the link above. It's a FREE tele-seminar by Harv Eker. You owe it to yourself to listen to it! I highly recommend it. I recommend his book too, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

After you've read the book and listened to the tele-seminar, contact me so I can tell you more about the business knowhow you need, so you can create more value and, of course, more money (I've developed in 2006 a super-powerful workshop called BMW, for Business Model Workout (www.businessmodelworkout.blogspot.com).

Enjoy the tele-seminar!

OhMyNews

OhMyNews (http://www.english.ohmynews.com) is a great idea. It's an idea whose time has come.

And people obviously welcome it. The site has a floating staff of 47,000 writers/reporters, none of whom are paid for their work. It boasts daily viewership of 1 to 1.5 million.

However, it is flawed. For instance, if you read the article "On Being a Citizen Journalist" (HERE), you would be tempted to think: "Sure, unbiased information is great. I need more information. The world needs more information to change society for the better."

But that's naive.

For instance, the author of the article writes: "My primary allegiance is to the public."

This statement espouses the mass society concept, whereas we now live in the demassified society. In other words, you cannot help a person if you do not know WHO that person is.

It's nice and noble to want to inform "the public", but realistically speaking, you cannot know precisely WHAT information a person needs to make better decisions, unless you FIRST know who that person is!

The ultimate test of the value added of OhMyNews is: "What is the difference in RESULTS between a person who reads OhMyNews, and a person who doesn't?"

If there is no difference in results, then there is no value added.

This is not to say that OhMyNews is not a good idea. I truly believe it is a good idea. But people today need intelligence (as in "CIA intelligence") that they can act on, not mere information.

And people need to have a way of asking reporters or experts for information they need RIGHT NOW.

Yahoo! Answers (www.answers.yahoo.com) is a good example of an interactive site that brings askers and answerers together.

In the long run, OhMyNews might be very effective at bringing about social change, but for this to happen, it needs to develop what the late Peter Drucker calls "information literacy." That is, people need to know what kind of information they need, and ask for it.

Writers, for their part, need to know what information they are responsible for providing, and only focus on delivering THAT information and exercise self-restraint so they won't bombard people with "interesting" and "news-worthy" but ultimately useless, impractical or irrelevant information.

Harv Eker's Millionaire Mind book

If there's one book I highly recommend (in case you're too busy to read many books), it's The Millionaire Mind, by Harv Eker.

He offers wealth-creation insights as well as inpirational stories.

Such as the story about how he himself was forced to go back to live with his parents three times, after his business failures. One day, a rich friend of his father's saw him and, probably at the behest of his father, gave him a critical insight. "Rich people think alike," he told Harv.

(This reminds me of Wayne Dyer's "Abundance is not something we acquire, but something we tune into.")

This mysterious, infinite source of wealth that rich people are able to "tune into," is what Harv Eker tries to teach through his book and seminars.

However, do not expect the book to offer recipes or procedures on how to actually become rich. What you get is higher-level principles that must first be thoroughly understood, forward and backward, before ANY action you take can yield results.

Here's a tip: try to teach that book to friends or relatives. If you can teach it, you master it.

Subsequently, there are other books that can give you the "mechanics" of wealth creation: The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber, for instance.

In the end, Eker talks about financial freedom, just as Robert Kiyosaki does. However, he focuses more on the all-important psychological imperative of CHANGING our minds whereas Kiyosaki focuses more on the outer environment and the rules of society.

Happy New Year!

Dear Subscribers,

I wanted to take a few minutes to thank you sincerely for the past year. It has been great fun to share ideas and resources with you. Every week, as I received notifications by email that more and more people were subscribing to this blog, it drove me to read even more books in order to capture and synthesize more knowledge for you. Thank you!

I wish you all an amazing year filled with love, success, health, peace... and then more love!

May I leave you with a profound insight I learned from Jim Rohn, which inspired me to come up with my own little quote... All the best for 2007!

"Success is something you attract by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

"Wealth is something you attract by the system you develop."