Allow me to be one of the first in wishing you a very, merry, and even happy new year. Who would have thought 2010 would have come around so fast? I know I didn’t.

Nevertheless, it is here and it is our time to shine. As with all new years, I believe in setting year long goals, following them, and holding myself accountable. Let me be honest, last year didn’t go so well for me. I didn’t plan very well, didn’t see a change that rocked my business world, but survived with my health and ambition, so it is on for 2010.

This year, I plan on doing things a little bit differently. First of all, I intend on mapping my course this year to a T and making sure that it comes out the way I intend for it to happen by getting up earlier, reaching out more, and working harder to make these things a reality.

This year, I will complete my dream board, 5 year goals, and 1 year plan of action to kick this life into overdrive. Now is the time and this is the year.

What are your plans for the upcoming year? Share a few goals with me as I do with you and let’s enjoy this journey together!

Happy New Year!

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Greetings Blog Family,

The time has come for us to stop having one night stands in pursuit of our worthy goals and dreams. It is really frustrating to see us waste our energy, dissipating our energy and efforts with all the starting and stopping in pursuit of our goals and dreams. We need consistency.

Consistency is the key

Consistency is a monster because it provides you with two of the essential elements of success that you need to take your business, life, endeavors to the next level.

The elements that I am talking about are confidence and motivation. Confidence grows internally when you perform day and day and create a track record of success that you can feel and is tangible in your life. The momentum comes from from this consistency and creates the energy, enthusiasm, and belief that you need to make everything you desire to happen.

Get the video in your life and share it with others. Now is our time!

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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Greetings Blog Family,

Today I want to talk to you about a great little analogy that I have come across and added some juice to as well. The phrase “Eat That Frog” comes from a book written by Brian Tracy where he claims that you should start your day by complete the biggest, most hairy, difficult goal that you have first. By doing this, you will make the rest of your to do list seem short, easy, and attainable. This will give you the momentum to continue through your day and dominate through achievement.

And achievement is the only way you can kill the crabs. You have surely heard of the phrase, Crabs in a barrel. Well, they say these crabs are always trying to hold you back from the achievement and success that you desire. Don’t let them hold you back and pay them no attention. Continue to thrive, achieve more everyday in your life.

Check out the video and let me know what you think by leaving a comment below. If you really like it, be sure to tweet this message to your following or share it on Facebook.

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It has been a while since FreddieTaylor.com was jumping with excitement and energy. But I am happy to announce that the time has come for those feelings to return.

In this episode of Balance, I take my first step in a journey of a thousand miles. It is my aim to motivate you on a daily basis to be and do more in your lives and existence. It all starts with goals, passion, and performance.

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Greetings Blog Family,

Another week has come and gone. This time it has found me ready for it and aiming for the stars. I am fired up. As you will see over the next few weeks I have some very special material planned for this blog and am very excited about it.

It dawned on my not long ago that I wanted to own a media empire and have the influence and reach that many of the power stations had. This realization made me began to look at this blog and my other ones a little bit differently. Blogs and the Internet has given ordinary people like myself without hundreds of billions of dollars the power and access to reach millions if we have the ability or chops to make it happen. Well, I am going to find out because I love to get in front of the camera and share what I know. The wild thing is that I know many other people that feel the same, so as little organization and effort can make all of this a reality.

Last Week Goals

1. Video Blog at FreddieTaylor.com – I was successful in getting back on the video wagon here at FreddieTaylor.com with the launch of my weekly series, Balance. That was a lot of fun and it is replacing my Monday Motivational Moments that was a feature on this site.

The reason I changed the name is because I wanted to motivate, but there are some other subjects I want to get into as well and Balance will allow me to do so. As entrepreneurs, we cannot be so one sided and focused on money and the bottom line, there is just way too much more to life than that. Balance is my effort to discuss many of these issues as well.

2. Study New Business - I was able to study my new business model and am very excited about it. There is a little bit more understanding to go, but I will have to learn that on the fly. Now is the time to get out and get it going, so I will.

3. Prepare for my Picking Comps presentation - This past weekend, my partners and I held a 3 day event called the Ultimate Foreclosure Workshop. You can view it at UltimateForeclosureWorkshop.com. It was a stunning success. We had 17 paid participants, so there was some margin made and most importantly, the participants were excited about the information they received and pleased with their purchase. In short, we delivered, which is what you want when you are taking people’s money. Our thought is to under promise and over deliver….that we did.

As for my presentation, I thought it could have went better, but not a bad job. Like most entrepreneurs, I am pretty critical of myself and always expect better. Next presentation, I will do better.

This Week

Now is the time to roar into the next week and get it crackin! Here are my major goals for the week.

1. Plan – It is official in my mind that this is my last year in the appraisal business. I have to cut the cord and get out now. The question is what exactly will I do in the future, so I want to lay out a detailed plan to ensure that I am making solid progress everyday. This may take a week or so as I have several projects in the works, but need to tie them together in a cohesive way to capitalize on their synergies.

2. Complete Landing Page – One of my new ventures requires that I complete a video for this landing page I am creating. This has to get done and the sooner the better. So, I will be all over that early in the week and hopefully able to make it happen.

3. Full Week @ FT.com – I want to follow up my last week with another solid week here on this site. You will see a few more post as I back away from appraisal business and get more into my online work. I am very excited, but like any transition there is always some anxiety…However, I am ready to strike!

Let’s go get’em!

Now is our time to shine. I have defined my week and plan on being all over it. Will you do the same? If you don’t make the goals public, that is cool. Write them on your board, look at them, intimidate them, and get them done!

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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Blog Family,

I confess. From time to time, I watch QVC. I said it. But you have to hear me out before condemning me as an outcast to know that I was doing market research for you. While 

watching a sale for pediatric posturepedic pillows,  it hit me.

The lessons to be learned from QVC are invaluable.

What is QVC?

QVC is one of the largest multimedia retailers in the world, and broadcast live 24 hours a day, 364 days of the year. This is the live show that sells the products constructed by the worlds entrepreneurs in a quick hitting, in your face, shop at home style.

According to their website, QVC is a wholly owned subsidiary 

of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to the Liberty Interactive Group. Trades under the Nasdaq as LINTA. QVC was founded in 1986 by Joesph Segal. In it’s first full fiscal year of business, QVC’s revenues exceeded $122 million. This is outstanding and was a record in American business history for sales of a new public company.

Additional information on the QVC website reveals the company received more than 181 million phone calls last in the United States alone, shipped 166 million units worldwide. Net sales for 2007 was more than $7 billion and they reach more than 166 million cable and satellite homes worldwide.

What does QVC have to do with Entrepreneurs?

I think it is safe to say that QVC has a winning business model and is doing a lot of things the right way. Therefore, I thought that maybe as entrepreneurs and bloggers, we could gleam some insight from QVC that has made them so successful and apply it to our individual businesses.

QVC sales the products of entrepreneurs like you in real time. There tactics and influencers have been effective enough to drive the kind of numbers that they are reporting. Maybe there is something to learn from this phenomenon known as QVC for each of our businesses.

Marketing Lessons from QVC

1) Prominent Product Positioning. Although they are only limited to your television screen, the QVC administrators have mastered art of prominently placing their products on the screen to maximize visibility and give the potential buyers an idea of how big the product is they are viewing and how it is used. This is done by showing the product next to common items in the home or someones hand to give an idea of size. And they are always demonstrating the use of the products as well as giving suggestions on how it can be used by the end buyers.

2) Repetition of your message and selling points. Repetition seems to be one of the key strategies that QVC employs to move their products. And moving their products is their specialty. Watching the show on pillows, they sold over 52,000 units while I was watching the show. Simply amazing! And one of the key points I noticed during this segment was how many times and variety of different ways they repeated the product name and unique selling points. The lesson for you is to make your offering visible and repeat the benefits as often as you can without driving the customer or readers crazy. The point is you have to get your message into their minds so they can realize this is something they need. This can only be done through repetition.

3) Urgency. I love the way QVC uses urgency to convert sales. Yes, they spokes person does let you know that this is a limited time only offer. But the subtle way they do it is the best….with the clock. They will have a countdown clock in the corner of screen letting the viewers know that this product will only be available for the next 5 minutes, so they better act now. Another way they utilize this tactic is by saying there is is only 1,000 of these units available and they show how many are left in stock. Again, emphasizing the urgency the viewer needs to use to get one of these great deals. In your business, maybe you could have time sensitive dates for your readers or customers to act on to take advantage of your offerings.

4) Appeal to Desire to Belong. I had trouble naming this, but it works. The point I am trying to illustrate is they use of “everyone else is doing it, so you should as well” tactic utilized by the QVC. Example, on the screen they would flash how many orders have been sold. As mentioned above, during the sale of the pillows they kept flashing the number of sales they have made. This was done for urgency because they said only so many units would be sold, but also to let people know that others have found this to be a great buy. Sometimes as entrepreneurs and bloggers, we utilize this tactic in the form of testimonials, which QVC does as well with live callers that are buying the products. They allow the presenters to interview them after making a purchase. The viewer identifies with the buyer and thinks maybe this will be a good deal for them as well. The desire to belong is great in a many of our markets, so consider using this tool at your disposal as well.

5) Show Savings. Regardless of the market and especially today, people are looking for a savings. You should not allow the consumers to calculate the savings they will benefit from buying your product or service. QVC does this with the side bar on the screen where they will show the retail price of an item, the marked down price, and the difference is the saving. In addition, they will have specials if someone bought two items, then they would get the second one for $5 off. Instead of just letting this savings slide, they would highlight that and encourage the buyers to get two in order to save more money. The more they buy, the more they save. It is a great way to get your potential buyers one step closer to making a purchase with you.

6) Make Purchase Recommendations.  As mentioned in #5, QVC will make various packages that the buyers can choose from and illustrate the savings involved. This is a great idea, but don’t loss the other recommendation in there. The opportunity to tell your audience what they need. QVC was selling pillows in sets of two, but encourage the viewers to buy two sets of two pillows for the savings, their spouse, even the guest bedroom. If you can build your ethos, trust, with your audience, then they will believe you and take your council in purchase decisions.

7) Connect Features & Benefits to Buyer Needs. You are aware that QVC utilized spokespeople to promote the products during the individual segments. The people are not talking aimlessly about the products they are selling, but they strategically mentioning the features and benefits of each item and drawing a directly relationship to the needs of their buyers. As an example, the pillows were to provide great support for the users and this point was demonstrated by having someone lie on their pillow and a regular store bought pillow. Once this demonstration was made and you could clearly see the difference in the two pillows, the presenters spent a lot of time telling the viewers how and why this will benefit them and solve their needs. Everything from the quality of the pillow will save you money because you will buy less, to the better nights rest and refreshed feeling you will spring out of bed was covered. Your buyers will not buy if they don’t understand how your product will help them out specifically. Spend time driving that point home.

8 ) Easy, Visible Purchase Options. If you watch QVC, there is no doubt that you can find out how to purchase their goods. First of all, the spokesperson is going to mention how you can do this every so often, but it is also plastered all over the screen. They have the phone number visible (large) and the website clearly visible. They let their viewers know exactly how they can pay for the goods, by credit card, eCheck, PayPal, but not C.O.D. It is very important to never leave your potential buyers guessing. Every delay is a moment for them to turn away and entertain someone else’s offer. Don’t give them that chance, provide them the information they need to make a purchase decision.

The Monster Marketer that is QVC

Without a doubt, the people at QVC have mastered their business model and does very well with it. As entrepreneurs, we should not spend out time trying to talk down or bad about another business, but instead we must learn from their successes. Everyday QVC runs in most countries, take a few moments to watch their broadcast from time to time. You might find a bargain that is right up your alley, but I am certain you will feel the power of their marketing efforts, notice the tactics I mentioned, and more.

Now go into the world, find your markets, implement the marketing strategies of the QVC and dominate. These tactics can be used on your website, commercials (if you run them), flyers, during presentations, radio spots, news paper ads, and more. If you find any additional strategies they are using, be sure to share them with us here. We are all here to learn and grow from one another.

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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Greetings Blog Family,

I am coming back at you on another Sunday. The 25th straight Sunday in a row that I am reporting my accountability to you. It has been bumpy road being honest with my performance, but I believe it is for the best. It is my hope that my brutal honesty with my progress is encouraging you to find someone to reach out to and hold you accountable for the success and dreams that you desire. I believe everyone deserves so much.

Last Week’s Goal: Complete my taxes

Last week, my goal to complete was my taxes. Did I finish them? No. I didn’t finish them. Let’s just say I there are a bunch of reasons I have why they where not completed, but none rise above the definition of an excuse. So, I will save my excuses for never. 

There is one thing that I love about the fraternity I joined in college and it is their disdain for excuses. The truth is no one wants to hear an excuse and any reason for not completing a task is an excuse. This is still my outlook today. Don’t make excuses, get it done.

I will finish my taxes this week, so they are not going to go back on my accountability list. I am moving on to something bigger, better, and even more important.

This Week’s Goal: Quality time with my boys!

I have two big headed, little boys by the name of Jayel and Freddie 3. These are my little men and I love them dearly. However, over the last few months I think the change in my business, economy, and other concerns has led me to not being in their life as much as I would like.

This week, I plan on reconnecting with them as I have a great opportunity to do so. My wife, Krystal, is out of town for a few days and has been so since Friday. This gives me a great chance to do all the little things that they need to get them through the week, but also gives me an chance to have fun with them and reconnect as well.

I want you to hold me to having fun with them everyday as well as reading with them at night and doing something special this week since it is just the boys. I have somethings in mind, but it is going to a good week.

What have wee been up to?

FT & Boys at SIU vs. UIC B-Ball Game

Well, on Saturday, we went to the Southern Illinois University vs. University of Illinois Chicago basketball game in downtown Chicago. It was great because it was their first time at a basketball game. They won some tickets from their school to go with the school, so it was a really great event. We got t-shirts and was treated to a great game. SIU lost the game 67 to 74, which was a bummer for me because I am graduate of SIU. The boys were pretty happy. We had hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels, soda, and cotton candy to round out the night of junk food and loud noises. It was a great evening.

Other than that, we have been seriously playing some video games. They get a kick out of the old man trying to keep up with them. They don’t realize that I have over 20 years of serious video gaming experience over them, but they have fun trying to beat me. I will admit that in most games, my 9 year can beat me. But if he throws in the old school classic games he doesn’t have a chance.

FT & boys reading on floor in bedroom

Tonight, we finished off the long day of play with reading. We read Freddie 3′s book, “Junie B First Grader”. Although he is only in Kindergarten, he loves Junie B and her big first grade adventures. Here is a picture of use reading on the floor in their bedroom. I love these boys. They are so special and get a kick out literally everything. It is very funny.

Think we will go bowling on Monday. We haven’t done that in a while. They love bowling, plus it will give me a good excuse to hit the lanes. I will be sure to take pictures as well. I need to start a flickr account so I can just integrate my pics into this website. One day, I will get that done.

Who do you need to reconnect with this week? Get to it, relationships don’t work themselves out!

Take this week to reconnect and build with those special people in your life. We work so hard from week to week just to make it. Don’t ruin the special relationships you have trying to provide for them. In these few moments we have on earth be sure to fill them with love and your love ones.

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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Blog Family,

I am writing late on a Sunday night because it has been a long day, yet I must get my accountability in for the week. I feel accountability is what every entrepreneur needs.

Many entrepreneurs go into business for themselves to avoid having to be accountable to someone else. You know that is the polite way to say having a boss all over your back and up in your business. If you have a job or work for someone else, then you are going to experience some of this.

The fact is having someone you are accountable to makes you more productive. It is true. Let’s just face it. To bring out your very best, you must set high goals and be accountable to them.

So how does the entrepreneur get that accountability they need?

They have to go get it. You can get a mentor. This is a great idea. That mentor would be better than a boss because there are there to help you learn and grow. Mentors have been a key asset of successful people for centuries. Don’t neglect the power.

You could network with a group of like minded people that will hold you accountable. You have to network and meet people that you respect enough to work with them and trust them enough to share your goals and dreams with them. Everyone in this group could share the ir weekly or monthly goals and hold each other accountable for their goals. Moral support and not letting the group down can be powerful motivators for you.

Or you can be creative.

The route I chose was to be accountable for a large weekly goal in my business and life. I know this is different, but why not? It is interesting and I know there are people in my Blog Family that will do a great job at holding me accountable. And that is what you need. We all have the potential for greatness inside of us. Sometimes we just need it dragged out of us. You are going to help me get over that feeling.

Last Weeks Goal

Last week, I wanted to write 50 articles for my niche sites during the week. This was a follow up goal from the week before where I only completed 40 articles. 4 0 articles was outstanding, but I wanted the entire fire. So, I set the goal one more time. This time I was determined to hit it.

Last week, I hit my goal. I wrote 50 articles for my various niche sites. I am so excited. I know that each one of those articles are going to move their way into SERPS that can generate traffic. It just felt good to hit the goal of 50 articles.

This Weeks Goal

This week,  I have to complete the taxes. It has to get done.

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Blog Family,

As you might expect, I have been thinking about goal setting and goal attainment, moving forward with my plans. But as I do my daily and weekly, mental round up, I am forced to notice all of the areas that I have fallen a little short. The goal was a little higher than what I accomplished for the month. That space between what was planned and attained. Does this amount to failure in your mind?

What is failure?

Failure means many things, depending on who you are talking to. Some think failure is not attaining every little goal you set out to achieve. To others failure lies in disappointing other people. Still to more, failure is making yourself look foolish.

I think failure pigeon holds many people from reaching for and attaining all that they could in their life time. Somehow these setbacks, changes in the plans, and differences paralyze many people into not acting at all. As though their lack of attempt isn’t a failure or a set back it’s self. You cannot simply shelve a dream and think that you are playing it safe. You are failing in the worst way because you are not trying at all.

Redefining Failure

As of today, failure has a new definition.

You cannot be a failure until you have given up on a thing and have gain no value from the pursuit.

Since you cannot pursue a thing without gaining some type of value and insight from that pursuit, you cannot ever be a failure so let’s stop thinking of it all together. And if you are still in pursuit of a thing, then it is not over, you have not quit, then you still have a chance of attaining it. Stay in the game.

Failing Yourself to Success

My entire life has been lived with a spirit of adventure, exploration, and commitment to live the dream of an entrepreneur and do it on my terms. At times, this hard headedness has gotten me into some real pickles, but I forge ahead. This is the mentality that is absolutely needed to be an entrepreneur and actualize your dreams, or in this case my dreams. I have to move forward.

I didn’t pass every test with flying colors while pursuing my MBA. I wasn’t the valedictorian, so in the eyes of some I may have failed, but I failed forward. It seems that with every adventure that I have I am able to build upon it and continue my journey.  As an entrepreneur, I have opened and closed more businesses than I care to remember. Each one taught me a valuable lesson that carry forward with me to this day knowing that these experiences are the reasons that I am in the position that I am in today.

Today, I own my own business work from home everyday, am there for my family when I need and want to be, and have the chance to go full time on the Internet. Maybe this isn’t the most ideal place to be. Afterall, I don’t have an abundance of money to through around and I could live in a better neighborhood, or whatever. But this is what I have.

Classic Example from my Sunday Accountability #23

This past week, my goal was to write 50 articles for various niche sites on mine. Yes, this was an ambitious goal for the week considering everything else that I had to complete, but I set it anyway. I set it to stretch myself to see if I could accomplish it and get the duel benefit of building those articles for my niche sites that are going to raise my traffic and rankings.

Well, I didn’t reach 50 articles last week. I only completed 40 articles. Am I a failure?

If you would call me a failure, that is fine because the reality is that I know have 40 fresh articles moving towards gaining me more SERPs, search engine rank positions, to gain more traffic and potential revenue for me long term. That is awesome.

Ok, there could have been 10 more articles if I would have hit my goal. That would have been great. But the truth is if I would not have reached for that goal of 50 articles that I knew was going to stretch me, I would have written 15 to 20 articles thinking I did something special. This goal of 50 articles that I fell short of taught me a lesson. The lesson was that when I put my mind to it, I can produce a lot of material for my websites. Afterall, this material is going to lead to traffic and traffic is what I want.

Last Week I Failed Forward

So, last week I failed forward by completing 40 out of 50 articles for my niche sites. This week, I plan to do much of the same, write another 50 articles. This time I am going to hit this goal, but I relax knowing that I am going to advance my niche business strategy and get closer to my overall income goals via the Internet.

I hope you are failing forward as well.

First in the mind, then in Reality!

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Greetings Blog Family,

Another week has come and gone. How did you do this week? Did you move closer to your goals? Well, I hope you did and hope you continue to fight forward and make it happen.

Last Week Goal: 50 Niche Articles

This was a great goal that I came up a little short on this past week. I wrote 40 articles for niche sites and fell just 10 articles short. I could have made it, but didn’t for a variety of reasons that I like to call EXCUSES. And let me tell you, excuses are going to get you no where fast, so don’t used them and I won’t either. The best thing I can do, you as well if you fell a little short, is to dust ourselves off and try, try again. If you hit your goals for this week, then good for you, plan yourself a small mini celebration of a cookie or something and GET BACK TO WORK!!! We got goals and dreams to actualize here people.

This week’s Accountability Goal: 50 Niche Articles

Even though I fell a little short, I still added 40 articles to my niche sites that have grown in number, which is outstanding. I purchased a few more sites this week. I have a total of 15 niche sites that I am operating. 7 of the 15 sites don’t have material on them yet or have very little and not pulling in many SERPs, search engine rank positions, but their time is coming.

As I am writing these articles, I am focusing on the sites that are having the most success and slowly building the others by trying to bring them on board as far as making money, which Adsense is the main money maker for these sites. Although, I know own two sites that are solely dedicated to selling original products that I am developing and will be making in to Click Bank products for the marketplace to sell as well. Stay tuned, but one of those products is an appraisal, real estate based educational product, but it is coming. The other product is a secret for now, shhhhhh.

Adsense Updates:

One of my goals is to pay some bills with my Adsense earnings, which is why I am writing so many articles for my niche sites and trying to bring them online as earners. They say content is king, so let’s continue to build and push the content. As for Adsense, I have not been doing bad although yesterday sucked and I only made $0.44, which is going to bring my average down for the month that was getting close to $3 a day. Here are my earnings over the last few months just so we can start to gauge my progress and determine if the writing is paying off or not.

Daily Adsense Averages

December 2008 = $0.97 / day

January 2009      = $1.79 / day

February 2009    = $2.69 / day

As you can see, through the first 7 days of February, the additional article writing seems to be paying off in terms of daily Adsense earnings. I will continue to update these figures so you can watch my progress as we move forward and bring more and more websites online and earning income. The way I see it is if all I have to do is write articles to make more and more money through Adsense, then watch out now cause I am going to be blazing content out like it is no body’s business.

One thing that I am thinking about is using the same simple designs on all of my sites and maybe I need to switch it up a little bit for some of the niche sites. I have been using WPTwo by Adam from Creadiv.com for the majority of my niche sites and I plan to continue using it, but maybe some of these niche sites need to be a little more functional for the viewing public. I will keep you updated, but be sure to check out Adam’s theme if you are into Adsense earnings cause it works.

One of the major things I have since building my Adsense revenue was change my niche sites over to his theme and it is working out as you can see from the increase in Adsense revenues. Hopefully, that trend will continue. It has to continue because my goal is no where in site, but we are moving in the right direction.

As for these earnings, the majority of the earnings are made from one site, Invest With Passion my real estate investing site, and one other that is gaining ground. The idea is to get these other sites consitently earning as well to increase revenue and make it happen.

Closing Commitmment

Blog Family, I know you are going to hold me to my accountability goals of 50 articles and I will not let you down this week. But my question to you is, what is your major goal for the week? Will you share it with me and allow me to hold you accountable? Don’t be scared. What is the worst thing that could happen? You get motivated to reach your goal and get closer to your dreams.

At some point in your life, Blog Family, you must step outside your comfort zone in order to strive for the things that you wish to attain. And here is the kicker, if you would just venture out….you will be successful.

Let’s go get’em!

First in the Mind, then in Reality!

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