David is/was a scientist who studied drugs and medicine.
In the book he talks about why placebos work, why people with healing hands can really help others heal.
There is so much in this book that relates to your well being, your relationships with others, your ability to build a successful life or business that I think I’ll have to read it several times.
So is Marlon Sanders, Ryan Deiss, Albert Einstein, You, me.
We have all failed many times.
But that’s an important part of succeeding.
Failing your way to success is the only route.
We all failed repeatedly when learning to walk, no one ever got up off the floor and started walking the first time they tried.
It’s never happened and probably never will.
It’s the same in life and business.
No one ever started and was immediately successful.
That’s not quite true, there have been a few who hit success very early in their careers, but almost all of those failed massively later because they thought themselves to be invincible and stepped outside their wheelhouse.
The real question is not will this fail, but what will I do if it does?
Successful people, however you define success, develop the attitude of Whoops, that didn’t work. Next.
They are focussed on doing their best and owning the process, but not owning the outcome.
They definitely don’t define themselves by the results of their efforts.
Just because you or I think that what we have done is the best thing we’ve done since learning to walk doesn’t mean anyone else will.
You can love the end product, but you cannot force anyone else to love it.
Just because you don’t love the end product you doesn’t mean that others won’t.
Your best chance of successfully creating something that others will also find valuable enough to pay for is to find things that they already find useful.
Work out how to make it better, easier, faster, or whatever would make it more valuable and do that.
and ask the AI to create a book, create a course, create a video series, or anything else you can imagine.
NotebookLM will do additional research, update the concepts of the book etc.
Please proof read whatever the AI tools create for you, rewrite the awkward bits, correct the mistakes and hallucinations, fact check any statements so that what you produce is worth someone else’s time and money.
It pays to remember that AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
It’s just very good at making you think it is.
Anyway, enjoy the books you’ll find even if you do nothing with them.
Summarising the book and reducing it to it’s core principles is simple, and this works for anyone who follows through.
The Plan
WRITE down on paper in order of their importance the things and conditions you really want.
Do not be afraid of wanting too much.
Go the limit in writing down your wants.
Change the list daily, adding to or taking from it, until you have it about right.
Do not be discouraged on account of changes, as this is natural.
There will always be changes and additions with accomplishments and increasing desires.
Three Positive Rules Of Accomplishment:
1. Read the list of what you want three times each day: morning, noon and night. It doesn’t have to be aloud.
2. Think about what you want as often as possible.
3. Do not talk to any one about your plan except to the Universal Mind within you which will unfold to your objective mind the method of accomplishment.
It is obvious that you cannot acquire faith at the start.
Some of your desires, from all practical reasoning, may seem positively unattainable, but, nevertheless, write them down on your list in their proper place of importance to you.
It has to be written down because if you can’t articulate what you want then the Universal Mind cannot deliver.
Some people call the the Universal Mind God, some call it the Universe.
It doesn’t matter what you call it, what matters is that it exists in you and all around you.
Quantum physics is just beginning to catch glimpses of this, but those scientists cannot explain it either.
It’s called ’10 Commandments of Con Men, Pickup Artists, Magicians, Door-to-Door Salesmen, Hypnotists, Copywriters, Negotiators, Political Propagandists, Stand Up Comedians, and Oscar-Winning Screenwriters.’
It’s written by John Bejakovic, a marketer who’s email list I’ve been on for several years now.
He has a quirky outlook on what he does and he’s reasonably successful as
No, I’m talking about the size of your email list.
What were you thinking?
Regardless of the number of subscribers the strategy you use is more important than the numbers.
Minimum of 1 email a week, but 3 is better and everyday is better again.
The strategy is always about keeping them engaged with you.
That means you tell them stories, or you give them one actionable tip they can use right now.
Something they can relate to, something they can use, something that helps them see you as a real person with their best interests at heart.
That means that even if you do have a link to a product for sale in your emails, and you should, your subscribers understand that it’s because you genuinely believe that you think it’ll be good for them.
People will always pay for a shortcut, or something that’ll make their lives easier.
Your job is to figure out what that looks like and help them find it.
Not everyone will take advantage of that immediately, for some it’s not the right time, for others they don’t understand that they do need it, and others will never buy that item.
That’s not your problem, that’s theirs.
Your problem is finding things that will help at least some of your subscribers.
That’s what I try to do.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. That’s what the Pinterest semi-automation tool does.
It makes the chore of creating pins and uploading them every day a breeze instead of a PITA.
Just like these other quotes that were never said by the people they were attributed to.
Einstein never said, “God does not play dice;” Twain isn’t the author of, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics;” Hemingway never claimed he could write a short story with just six words.
There are many, many more, but you don’t want me going through them.
It’s sufficient to say that there are nearly more misquotes than accurate ones.
One in particular that troubles people who are trying to improve their finances is Money is the root of all evil.
That is a misquote, the actual line from the Bible is The love of money is the root of all evil.
Now that makes a lot more sense, and, when you examine the people you know, a lot more accurate.
Those who earn well by providing a valuable service to others are not money grasping, but others seem to delight in doing their best to get paid for doing the least amount possible.
That’s what the shiny object vendors are doing.
They prey on people’s desire for quick riches rather than being paid for quality service.
It is Careware, which means free, but read the documentation about that.
For any type of website you want to build, this works great.
If you want to ask AI to create an HTML website for you it will do a great job.
Copy paste the output from your AI tool into Arachnophilia to make any tweaks you like then use the built-in FTP tool to upload your pages to your website.
Well-formed HTML is the fastest loading web page you can make.
Everything you could possibly need is built in, but if you have some coding skills, you can adjust any part of this tool to customise it for yourself.
In the current online environment affiliate marketing is almost as hard as being a vendor.
As an affiliate what you won’t have to do is product support, …
… Actually, if you add a decent bonus to sweeten the deal for the buyer you might have to do product support for that.
Everything else the vendor does to put a product online you’ll have to do to sell that product with your bonus.
Create the bonus, create a landing page and short funnel, write a sales/bridge page, write an email sequence, drive or buy traffic to your landing page.
The big difference is that you’re finding and handing buyers to them and for less money that they get paid, mostly.
Sure, some vendors will give you 100% of the first product, but that just means you’ve been paid to give them a buyer.
If you’ve been collecting the emails then you also have an asset to sell to, and, if you’ve got the funnels working well, possible getting either a small loss or small profit from that.
Since it’s so easy to make a product with the help of AI it really doesn’t make a lot of sense to be an affiliate anymore.
Share your thoughts.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Whether you’re an affiliate or a vendor you need to get visitors to your landing pages.
Keeping the cost down improves your ROI, free is the best.
It takes 5 minutes using this tool to grow an audience.
If you don’t want to create images with AI, that’s fine. You can upload any image you like from your desktop as long as it fits Pinterest’s specifications.
Square images are 1000x1000px and portrait images are 1000x1500px.
The app creates square images at the moment.
Why would you want to post pins to Pinterest?
They have 450 million visitors each month who are looking for things to click on and buy.
