On my journey’s to explore meaning and purpose and enjoy the journey I wanted to escape the cold weather for a bit and went to Cyprus.
James and I wanted to meet Mark V, creator of the incredible system and hang out strategising and talking 2010…
What I loved about it so far: weather, food, making recurring passive income, working in the sunshine…. having some cool dinner conversations and meeting great IM guys….
Back in a few days… question: could you live like this…. I start thinking I could. – To be explored.
James and I both talked a lot about having taken the leap of faith and quitting day jobs to live this amazing new life of choice and freedom! bring it on!
Hi, just a quick ‘news flash’ about next week’s Wednesday… (28/10/2009!)
I will be down in Pinewood studios being interviewed for SWAT.tv… they are a online TV station (they are also on sky I think) and they have thousands of viewers… cool!
On the same day – (why is it always on the same day – I got nothing else on next week!) I will be speaking at the yes! group in London…. you can book your ticket for £15 here: http://www.yesgroup.org.uk/index.php?option=com_registrationpro&Itemid=138
weird is that I wanted to speak at the yes! group for over a year… I applied and asked and – NOTHING… then – one day (last week!) I had a reply to one of my broadcast emails (the one which said ‘Why working from home SUCKS …) and they asked ME to speak!
The guys from the yes group titled my talk ‘ From Loser to Inspirational Winner’. LOL. I have 45 minutes and my main outcome is to get everyone there inspired and to believe they can do whatever they want.
I hope to see you there, guys…
Daniel
PS: Here is a video I did yesterday in Manchester… I have a unusual ‘family’ connection with Manchester… and – it’s not what you think (l0l)
I still owe you a update on my birthday and an apology for not doing the birthday boat party for the children’s foundation…
With the launch of Yibbies and the two 3 day workshops coming up I just felt I couldn’t do it justice….
So instead I decided to take my first in many working breaks abroad, embracing the internet lifestyle. I am here with my business partner James and both our partners….
check out the video below and please note: this is NOT a watch me I am so cool I am a millionaire BS…. it’s a concept I would love many more people to try and see how it feels for them…. for me? it feels great!
Btw, the video was done with the new ipod nano… love it… check it out in an apple store near you!
as always, please let me have your thoughts and feedback in the comment section below….
thanks a million for all your wonderful and heartfelt words and your support…. what a ride (and I haven’t even been in the car yet!). I had an amazing time on stage and when I was announced, I really did celebrate! What a cool day it was! So I was thinking how can you benefit from my win?
First of all … if I CAN DO IT – THEN YOU CAN DO IT!
Secondly: I wanted to share a marketing lesson that might come in handy. How did I get so many votes? I don’t know ALL the reasons, but I have recorded a video where I comment on the powerpoint I used and what I did in there to get connection with the people in the audience.
It’s all explained in there…. from opening loops and using metaphors to damaging admissions and using humor. I also create my own currency for the day – and I know it worked because people used it in their conversations….
I have to admit I don’t even know at this stage if I want to keep the car… it’s just so not me…. maybe I drive it for a day when the sun shines….
On a more personal note – this win seems like I have broken a spell or a curse or something. I never won a competition in my life since I was 9 years old and I have PROOF that I am deserving of silly cool things like shiny sports cars…. may this be this beginning of something big and adventurous.
There is also a weird thought pattern I witnessed. I thougt people (Dan B, Marcus who let me re-arrange my slot for Sunday, Rob who had to travel down on Saturday,…) didn’t want me to win and would make life difficult…. but they were all so amazing. I was surprised at the amount of good will I must have accumulated over the years….
So here is the video…. I am sure you will get something out of it…
as always, please leave your comments and suggestions below
I was looking and searching all my life – with the uncomfortable notion that I am not enough and somewhere out there is the missing ingredient to success. Finally – after almost 43 years – I have the answer. And it won’t come as a surprise that I found it in Manchester. The big events in life are always serendipitous (cool word: had to look up meaning and spelling and it means “lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries”). So here it is. Two secrets and life long questions answered in one.
Well, you will have to watch the 1 minute video. In case you are wondering why I look the way I look? It was 7:40 in the morning and the sun was right in my eyes.
to your success
Daniel
PS: I am looking forward to meeting up very soon…. I have my birthday coming up in October and I am planning to invite all of you… I had a great idea while reading the millionaire code. I let you know soon so that you can make arrangements…
I teach. I teach internet marketing. And I learned a lot in the last 3 years. But I only realise now that people don’t care how much I know. They don’t. All they care about – and rightly so – is themselves and their dream. They want to make money, in most cases, and that quickly and without the pain.
Now I know after looking at many products, my own included, that we make it too hard for people to succeed. Not on purpose, but most people looking at internet marketing don’t want to learn all about internet marketing – they just want to make money.
I realise that trying to teach them product creation, conversion strategies and membership sites (just to name a few) is for 1-2% of people only… most want the results only…what to do?
People want to learn about IM, and so they should, but along side their job to learn their is sooo much to learn and it changes all the time.
What we need is a EARN as you LEARN model, where we teach the most important tasks first (Traffic!) and then focus on marketing. Then pay people high affiliate commissions (50%) on coninuity models of education so they get paid as they learn more. If they choose to, they can then apply the traffic and marketing skills to their niche or business and learn about product creation.
This is what I want to do. I am working on it right now. Make more people more money and make some along the way as well
I am writing this as a guy who started 3 years ago to form a dream about speaking on a stage…. I asked a friend if I coud have 10 minutes to speak to his networking club people… I did that a few times. In February 2006 Dwayne made a joking remark while I was doing my 10 minute talk… he said: “when is your one-day seminar gonna be?”.
I didn’t have a one day seminar… until then I suppose. I remember preparing for months. I remember being so worried about not having enough to say, enough to share, worried about not being enough.
that is how it all began. I remember interviewing Armand Morin and some other Internet Marketing greats in September 2007 in London. I went on the stage in the evening and I told myself. In 2 years I will be on stage with them!
The ’secret’ – as they call it – is actually quite obvious. If you set an intention and work towards it – it will manifest. (I actually send an email to Rhonda telling her she should call it the ‘obvious’ but I suspect it wouldn’t have sold so many copies
so why am I telling you all this and why is this post called comfort zone stretch?
Because this September, just 2 years after interviewing some of the big guys… I will be on stage as one of the speakers with them… I am not scared, not a lot at least… they made 30 Million $$$, I made some as well….
I can only be myself and there is always more to learn…. so until very soon…
1st April. Taking a day out to look at what I have done in the last 3 months… and more importantly – what I want to do in the next 90 days… I suppose the simple view is do more of what I loved, do less of what I didn’t like so much.
I did well: trainings, public speaking, setting up membership site, platinum group, increase recurring monies and big pay days, party for friends, new friends, work IN my business, JVs and strategic relationships
I didn’t do so well: outsourcing and delegation, balancing work/life, body and diet habits, look after my son and daughter, spend time away from work, maintain friendships, work ON my business
I have spend some time with business people who are further down the line than me and I try to learn as I bubble along… what is weird though that I hardly ever feel I achieved anything significant in the last two and a half years – because I focus on all the things I still want to do.
This is why I love doing events – that is a great place to get feedback for me. I can see people breaking through, I tell my story and it inspires people! I love it.
so back to ‘work’ – it’s the 1st April. What have you done in the last 90 days and where are you heading? Discuss.
