10 Pointers to make more MONEY!

First of all, having the ability to make more money is far more important than having money. So, let's investigate how to increase your ability to make money.

Money on itself has no value. It is a note that represents a trading value.
Steve Pavlina ones described money as such; "The money you earn is society’s way of saying: “In exchange for your valued contribution, you are hereby granted the right to extract equivalent value from society at a time of your choosing.”

So we can conclude that the amount of money that you earn is proportional to the amount of value you are able to contribute to society!
How can you make more money than? By contributing more value to society!
So, is the one who determines the value of your contribution the society, and not you?
Let's listen to what Steve Pavlina says;
"Your income depends on the social value of your work, not the personal value. Personal value is whatever you say it is. Social value, however, is determined by social consensus."

That way the key principle becomes; To make more money, you need to contribute more social value!

Here are some pointers to increase your ability to make more money by contributing more social value;

1. Recognize your personal strenghts and values;
First of all, you should identify your personal values and strenghts. What are you naturally good at? Working on your strengths will give you much more in return than working on your weaknesses.
So it’s essential that you identify your strengths.

2. Do your deliberate practice
Improve your skills. You can do this by deliberate practice. Here is the best definition I could find;
Deliberate practice refers to a form of training that consists of focused, grueling, repetitive practice in which the subject continuously monitors his or her performance, and subsequently corrects, experiments, and reacts to immediate and constant feedback, with the aim of steady and consistent improvement.
It is generally accepted that this form of training calls for approximately 10,000 hours of concentrated effort if one is to achieve the optimum level of expertise.
Take at least 1 to 2 hours a day for your deliberate practice. It's like a basketball player that adds an hour a day to his normal routine in order to practice the most difficult shots. His goal is to reach a world class level. You can do the same!
Define your best skills and find your niche!

3. Fill up your toolbox
Aside from the skills you choose for your deliberate practice, you need to have other skills in your toolbox. These extra skills complement your main skills and help you provide something unique. You don’t have to be very good at them, but you should be good enough.
Write down a list of 4 to 5 extra skills, and invest some time to master them.

4. Find you unique value
Everyone of us is unique and we all have our own unique set of values. We place them in an order of importance and live by that hierarchy.What value can you contribute to the world that others can’t? Answering this question isn’t easy but it will help you differentiate yourself.
Your action signal than becomes; Take the time to find your unique values. (When was NOW a good time to start doing so?)

5. Become a Master Connector
Expand and work your network. It is not always important WHAT you know, but WHO you know! Your network is essential in your quest for riches.
First of all because it helps you find demand. It will help you connect with those people you need to fill your voids. Working on your network will eventually start offering more opportunities and it will help you find the supply that you were looking for! You will be able to find the right person (or persons) whose skills complement yours.
The best way to enlarge your network is to help them help you! Pay it forward and start helping the people in your network. Pretty soon they will do the same for you!
Get on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and get connected!

6. What is your personal brand?
After finding your unique value proposition, you need to get the message out to your target audience. If people don’t know you then they won’t come for you! For that reason, you need to build your personal brand. By building your personal brand, people know what they can expect from you so they will come to you when they need it.
Get your own website, start your own Blog, write down a one-liner about yourself and get started!

7. Set your radar on recognizing opportunities
Most of us run around blindfolded. Opportunities are not knocking on your door, they are literally tearing your door down! Become a "Lucky Luke" and start attracting those golden egg opportunities. Opportunities often come in unexpected ways. You need to open your eyes and see what is around you.
"Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they’re too busy looking for something else. Lucky people see what is there rather than just what they’re looking for."

Lucky and rich people keeps their eyes and ears open for things that other people do not see.
Like my friend Moise keeps telling me; Watch the trends! On the other side you can observe how people do things and what kinds of particular problems they have. (Like everybody wants to get out this "crisis" and wants to make money?)
Be hungry for ideas and surround yourself with creativity!

8. Always keep one eye on the end consumer
You must become a customer-oriented solution provider! Always, always (did I already said always?) keep customer satisfaction in the back of your mind. For every need you can find a bunch of links towards all your skills, unique skills and extra skills who are inside your toolbox. Create solutions for those needs and...bingo!
Your solution should be customer-oriented and satisfy the customer. If the customer is satisfied, she may spread the word about you.

9. Don't start form scratch
One of the best ways to provide more value is by building on the value you already provide. This is a smarter approach than starting from scratch because you can already leverage what you have. Think in questions like; What extensions can I add, What extra services can I surplus, What untapped opportunities did I miss, What other clients can I reach for, What associations can I make, What alterations can I make, What can I add?
It might take some more time, but I definitely recognized that a step-by-step approach is must better than the fast-track methods.

10. Always keep your other one eye on your goal
Don't get side-tracked. Ones you determined what it is that you exactly want to create, what kind of business you want to endeavor and how much money you want to make, stick to it and go for it. Don't forget to write out all your emotional drives as to why you want to make all that money and make sure that your goals are worthwhile and fulfilling. And never forget to have fun during the entire process. Instead of trying to achieve your goals in order to have fun, try to happily achieve those goals!

Get geared up and get moving!
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Wishing you all the best of luck!
Leo Stroobants

10 Prosperity Tips

As we all know living a prosperous life is about much more than just having enough money. In order to be truly prosperous, you need to change your total mind-set from lack to abundance. You need to make a mental and emotional shift and start living your life on a more abundant level - in all 8 Dynamics of life! (Professional-Career/ Financial/ Material-Lifestyle / Emotional /Relational-Family/ Physical-Health / Spiritual / Contribution

Below are some 10 tips for doing that:

Prosperity Tip #1 - Do What You Love

When you spend time doing things you really love, you automatically feel happier and you put in motion an entire set of events. When you feel happier, you emit more positive vibrations, and attract the things you want more quickly and easily! Start spending more time doing the things you really love. Spend more time doing things that give you energy. This can include hobbies as well as transitioning to a more fulfilling career.

Prosperity Tip #2 - Affirm You Always Have More Than Enough

The more you focus on lack, the more lack you will experience in your life. Turn this around by constantly affirming, "I always have more than enough money for everything I need." The more strongly you can come to believe this, the more your physical surroundings will shift to match your expectations. Where attention goes, energy flows. So what you continuously put your attention to, will expand!

Prosperity Tip #3 - Take Action

Before he became Buddha, Siddartha spend his entire time thinking and visualizing the world as he wanted. Until he decided to take action. Action isn't always necessary in order to attract abundance into your life, but it sure doesn't hurt. Don't sit around waiting for your circumstances to change - get out there and change them! Things don't change, people do! Taking even one small step toward what you want can often trigger a flood of opportunities and synchronizations that get everything moving in a more positive direction. At the very least, taking action can boost your confidence and make you feel more in control of your circumstances. Are we human being or human doings? Really?

Prosperity Tip #4 – Gratitude and Appreciation

Start your day with gratitude and it will become one overloaded with gifts. An appreciative mind-set makes everything seem better. Not only do you feel more abundant, your very focus on the positive aspects of your life will naturally attract more things to be grateful for. Pick up the habit of writing in your gratitude journal. Make it a daily habit to appreciate the wonderful things that happen to you - even the small things. The more you do, the more you'll find good stuff flowing into your life as if by magic.

Prosperity Tip #5 - Love, Love, Love

The most important force of all, the emotional drive we all thrive by. Love is one of the most powerful and transformational forces. It can heal the most painful situations, transform lack into abundance, and inspire positive change in both the giver and receiver. Practice flowing feelings of deep love for everyone and everything in your life. Love your blessings, your friends and family, the difficult people you encounter each day, and even your illnesses and obstacles. When you love them, you heal and transform them into genuine blessings.

Prosperity Tip #6 - Boost Your Self-Worth


Your beliefs have everything to do with the things you experience on a daily basis. Only when you feel worthy about yourself, you can recognize the worth in others. If you don't believe you deserve abundance, you will continually push it away! Start improving your self-worth and affirm constantly that you deserve to be happy, healthy, wealthy and full of energy. When someone gives you a gift or compliment, accept it with gratitude! You don't always have to return it, just happily accept it. The more you do this, the more you will open yourself to the blessings the universe wants to send your way too. And believe me, there are many!

Prosperity Tip #7 - Make Room for More

If every nook and cranny of your life is crammed with clutter and disharmony, you've got no ROOM for prosperity to come in! The Universe hates vacuum. Once a year you should trow away (or better yet give away) the clothes you haven't been wearing in the last year. Make space to be filled up again with new goodies, new energy! One of the quickest ways to get abundance flowing more smoothly through your life is to clear a space for it. Get rid of physical clutter and release painful emotional burdens and unresolved issues. Clean up your physical, spiritual, emotional and financial affairs, and watch how easily they are transformed from stagnant to vibrant.

Prosperity Tip #8 - Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

Besides poor self-worth, you may have other limiting beliefs that keep you from experiencing the prosperity you deserve. For example, do you believe you must work hard to receive a lot of money? Do you believe that rich people are rude and insensitive? Do you believe that having a lot of money would be a burden? Learn to examine and question your beliefs about prosperity - and change the ones that limit you. This is an ongoing process that can change your life in powerful ways.

Prosperity Tip #9 - Fire Up Your Abundance Radar

You've probably heard it said that whatever you focus on expands. Prosperity is no different! Get into the habit of seeking examples of abundance wherever you go. When you're shopping, pause to notice the abundance overflowing from store shelves. Each one of those products began with a simple idea in someone's mind and was created in physical form! Take a trip to your local farmer's market and marvel at the abundance of produce available. Each one of them was started with a tiny seed planted in the ground and nurtured until it grew into a luscious fruit or vegetable. Take time each day to reflect on the abundance you see all around you, and you will attract more of it (in all forms) into your life.

Prosperity Tip #10 - Positively Abundant

Positive thoughts and emotions will automatically attract more positive circumstances into your life, including prosperity! Negative thinking is nothing more than a habit of looking at the less favorable aspects of every situation. But every negative situation has at least ONE positive benefit. The more you can train your mind to look for the blessings and remain open to possibility, the more blessings and possibilities you will see! Start a new positive thinking habit today and watch how it transforms you into a magnet for everything good.

There are many more ways to attract greater prosperity into your life, but these tips offer a simple way to get started.

Life is meant to be lived fully!
Licensed to thrill,
Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist

Prosper in difficult times,...

This is kind of a lengthy post, but it’s material you need to know.
It doesn’t really matter what party is in the White House, the fact is the government isn’t going to watch out for your best interest. Instead they’ll cater to high priced lobbyists, and their own selfish interests.
The only person who’ll watch out for you is YOU! You’ve got to learn new skills, economic survival skills. Skills which will allow you to continue living at your current level or better.
Remember that we are overfed and showered with bad news and negative vibes, CNN is almost becoming Constant Negative News! It's not about THE economy but all about YOUR economy. Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

Learn to sell, learn to market and write and barter. Learn manual skills with which you can trade for other goods or services. Start your own small homebased business using the new skills you’ve acquired
Develop something of your own creation, something of which you are the sole provider. Your own product or specialized service which you have built from scratch, honed and perfected.
The following was written by J.F. (Jim) Straw, publisher of the Business Lyceum e-Letter, and should be a wake-up call for all Americans not wishing to be a part of the quickly evolving economic decline of America.
JULY 2008
Greetings & Salutations:
The biggest questions on the minds of Americans today are, “What is going to happen to our economy?” “Will we have a depression?” “How can I survive?”
It has been my opinion for the past 10 years that we are long overdue for a full scale economic depression. But, it will be completely different from the depression predicted by my contemporaries.
We have already seen a stock market crash in 1987 bigger than the one that preceded the depression of the 1930s. – And, we have already had more bank and S&L failures (percentage wise) than back then, too.
The rate of bankruptcies has grown from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands each year – now, over a million bankruptcies each year - with the biggest percentage of bankruptcies in the higher income brackets.
Employee lay-offs, plant closings, and business failures have increased exponentially over the past 5 years. And, for the first time in our history, the unemployment rate among white-collar executives is higher (percentage wise) than among blue-collar workers.
All of these facts lead me to sincerely believe that …
The Depression of the 1930s was a “Blue Collar” Depression
But …
The Next Depression will be a “White Collar” Depression
Simply because …
Our Economy Has Become Top Heavy
There are simply too many white-collar workers, bureaucrats, and unnecessary people doing unnecessary paper-shuffling busy work. They consume far more than they are capable of producing. – These are the people who will be out of work, on the bread lines, during the next depression … NOT the blue-collar workers.
As an illustration: Before I had money enough to pay someone to sweep the floors, I did it myself (still do; on occasion). – That is the essence of the difference between the White Collar workers of the 1930s and those of today.
Because there were few business schools before the depression of the 1930s, the vast majority of White Collar workers came up through the Blue Collar ranks. Then, when the economy got tough, Blue Collar workers were let-go and the White Collar workers stepped from behind their desks and filled those jobs. After all, they were the most experienced and best qualified to hold those productive jobs.
Today, the vast majority of White Collar workers are schooled in the arts and sciences of business. They have studied management, economics, political science, marketing, production, contract negotiation, and employee supervision. But, they have never done the jobs they manage and supervise.
It is one thing to tell an employee, “this needs to be milled another one-thousandth of an inch,” and quite another to say, “here, let me show you how to mill this to specifications” (and do it).
As the next depression deepens, it will become necessary (as it was in the 1930s) for businesses to “chop heads” to reduce overhead costs. This time, however, it will be White Collar heads that roll because they are the least experienced and the poorest qualified to “produce” the many goods and services required by our society.
Contrary to the allegations made by a Japanese official, the Blue Collar workers in the U.S. are not lazy and ignorant. They are the victims of the emotional rhetoric of the lazy and ignorant “book learned” White Collar segment of our society. When the Blue Collar workers find that their knee-jerk reactions to that emotional rhetoric has been overcome by reality, they will return to producing more than they consume.
Lest you begin to condemn me as a book burner, consider this … a Blue Collar worker, upon entering the White Collar world, will by necessity read books in order to learn about doing the things he/she does not know how to do. On the other hand, a “book learned” White Collar worker will rarely, if ever, go out on the shop floor and learn how to do the jobs being directed. – My point is that “book learning” is an absolute necessity, it has, however, become an end unto itself. Therefore, I do not condemn book learning, I simply consider it to be a “starting place” not an “ending place.”
Blue-collar workers may be laid-off; the plants they work-for may be closed – but – they will find work because they have historically produced more than they have consumed. They will take jobs at lower wages, without many of the now customary benefits, in order to produce the goods and provide the services needed. And, because of the reduced costs to produce those goods and services, the prices will fall proportionately.
Businesses that will survive and prosper during the next depression will be those businesses that eliminate top-heavy management positions (its already happening) and reduce their debt to a minimum (also happening).
Why? – Because, contrary to the economic manipulators in our government …
You Cannot “Borrow” Your Way Out Of Debt
Even if the “prime rate” goes to 2%, blue-collar workers won’t be borrowing. Neither will wise and prudent businesses. The only people vying for those low-interest loans will be the out-of-work white-collar segment of our society – trying to borrow their way out of debt.
Blue-collar workers will – as they have historically – only “borrow” for purchases of major necessities. Instead of spending their hard earned dollars on frills & fancies, they will save their money for that proverbial rainy day.
Beyond that, during the next depression, there will be …
No Major Banking Collapse
Why? – Because the banks in this country have already been frightened into tightening their belts. – Go to your local bank and count the number of empty desks in the area where the junior vice-presidents used to be. – And, with more low-cost blue-collar savings money coming into their hands, they are shoring-up their shaky liquidity and reserves – PLUS – with the relaxation of some of the more outdated banking regulations, the banks are now in a position to put their depositors’ monies in higher yielding equity positions.
Because of that, during the next depression, there will be …
No Stock Market Crash
In 1987 – when the stock market did crash – most of the trading activity was in the hands of individual investors. Today, most of the trading is in the hands of professional traders … managed accounts, mutual funds, institutional investors … with less likelihood of the major sell-offs that cause market crashes.
But, during the next depression, there will be …
Major Insurance Company Failures
>From the F.D.I.C., on down, you can expect Insurance Company after Insurance Company to fail.
Why? – Because the biggest buyers of insurance are the white-collar segments of our society (individual & corporate). They have, for too many years, been laying-off their major liabilities to insurance underwriters. – As this white-collar segment loses jobs and default on their insurance premium payments, more and more insurance companies will suffer a cash crunch.
When that happens, insurance claims that have usually been paid from current premiums collected, will have to be paid from reserves. Then, when the reserves are gone, it will be time to start dipping into assets … selling at pennies on the dollar in order to meet claims payments.
Of course, as the insurance companies fail, there will be more white-collar unemployed. That will only deepen the white-collar depression.
So … to survive and prosper during the next depression …
Start Thinking Blue Collar
Put aside some money in a savings account with a smaller, local area bank. – Stay away from regional or statewide banks. Preferable is a State chartered bank instead of a National bank and – if you can find one – a bank that is NOT F.D.I.C. insured. You won’t make a bundle in interest, but your savings will be safer.
Quit borrowing money, or buying on credit, except for major necessities. Even if the prime rates goes to 2%, stay away from unnecessary credit.
Invest in the stock market. – Buy stock in companies that produce goods or provide needed services. Put some money in a managed account or mutual fund and learn to trade stock profitably for your own portfolio.
Send your kids to Trade School instead of College. Let them learn welding instead of economics. They will have jobs when the economists are in the bread lines.
Those who produce more than they consume will survive and prosper.
Those who consume more than they produce will suffer the fate of the proverbial grasshopper … and … the hardest hit will be government employees at all levels – city, county, state and federal. – It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of economic parasites.
The “economic parasites” to whom I refer are … holders of positions in redundant and outdated government agencies, bureaus, and commissions; some of which have survived since the early 1900s without any useful purpose today … redundant government employees; unnecessary people who are employed for the sole purpose of maintaining the use of budgeted funds (then can’t be fired without an act of God) … and those persons who perpetuate those unnecessary, outdated and redundant offices and jobs.
Your mission; Become more ATTRACTIVE, always! Raise your vibrations and learn to become more magnetic and remember....YOU MUST WATCH WHERE YOU HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, THAT IS WHAT IS ATTRACTING YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES....GOOD OR BAD!
Licensed to thrill,

Leo Stroobants
The Energy Evangelist
www.leostroobants.com