Let me start by saying if you are comfortable being “satisfied” this blog post is not for you…

Consider this, it is possible to be fulfilled in your career, have control over the amount of money you bring in each month, to love what you do and to make the world a better place while you are doing it. If you have always believed deep down that this is true, and are motivated to do whatever it takes to create that in your life, yet until now did not know exactly how, then this article is for you.

With the direct sales industry experiencing explosive growth over the last two years, the need in the marketplace for more business opportunities and the necessity for people to learn skills to better their lives, better their circumstances and empower themselves,  John Asaraf and Bonnie Bruderer saw a definite need and more importantly a definite opportunity in creating a different type of direct sales opportunity.

Now, just hearing the words “direct sales’ may have conjured a systemic response from within. Either you have had a terrific experience in the past and know the true benefits that direct sales offers such as more freedom, more financial rewards and the ability to create the lifestyle you truly desire and deserve, and are thrilled there is a new opportunity. Or perhaps you have a different opinion and like some fear the lotions, potions and pills that may have been pedaled to you from friends and family members.

Either way, let me explain what we mean by different and how by joining V.I.S.S. you actually can experience what it means to be in business for yourself yet never alone. With the tens of thousands of dollars spent on personal development for themselves, six books authored between them, and a combined three and a half decades in the personal development industry, John and Bonnie knew that they had knowledge, experience and access to training, support and information that can not be accessed anywhere else, all in one place. They also realized that what people needed most at this point were business opportunities, thus V.I.S.S. was born. V.I.S.S. stands for Vision. Inspiration. Strategy & Support. All of which you will experience in each and every aspect of the company.

The opportunity centers around joining our team as a distributor and learning how to teach Vision Board Experiences (VBE’s) to others through tele seminars and webinars, in-home settings and corporate settings. It is the perfect opportunity for empowered individuals that are looking to supplement what they are already doing, to add to a coaching or training practice and for those who are looking to make a big impact in the world.

If this sounds like you and you are wondering how to get involved, I encourage you to join one of our business opportunity calls on Wednesday’s at 5 P.M. to learn more. Only join us if you are serious about making a big difference in the world and your life and business as we are looking only for those who are empowered! We are looking for the first 100 Visionaries to join us at the ground level and are quickly approaching that goal, just three weeks after launch.

Visit www.ExperienceVISS.com and register for the call today if you know you are ready to finally experience a different type of business opportunity.

Meditation is one of the best ways to help you achieve mastering the universal laws of attraction so you bring more abundance into your life. However, sometimes it doesn’t always seem that simple. For example, asking someone, “how do you meditate?” is like asking someone “how do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

There are many, many different ways to achieve the same purpose — all of which become easier with practice. Here I will briefly discuss some of the most common meditation techniques you can use to attract abundance, stop procrastinating, etc. Try them all and figure out what works best for you.

Learning How To Meditate

If you really want to benefit as much as possible from the self help healing that meditation can bring into your life, there are a few things to keep in mind. The most important element of any meditation style is breathing. You will breathe in slowly and deeply through your nose, hold it for just an instant at the pinnacle, then as slowly as possible release the breath out your mouth, compressing your stomach down to push the air out of your chest cavity.

Another key element to any type of meditation is focus – similar to the overall focus we must achieve to utilize the universal law of attraction in our lives. Naturally our minds only hold thoughts for a second or two and then they move on, which of course means we are easily distracted. Meditation is only effective when we can provide our own self help and block out our mental fluttering. This is definitely a learned skill that gets easier with practice.

A few more meditation tips I can pass along are to make it a routine. Set aside a certain time each day to meditate, like before or after reviewing your vision boards. Stop procrastinating and put it on your schedule if you have to. Have a quiet, comfortable place to sit. Remove any distractions from the area (such as silencing your cell phone and putting your dog in the backyard). Sometimes it’s nice to have a CD playing with relaxing music or nature sounds. This can trigger to your brain that it’s time to get in meditation mode.

As far as specific meditation techniques, I recommend these four: the stillness, the flow, the centering, and the void.

Let me quickly explain the techniques:

THE STILLNESS: This popular technique involves focusing your vision on a single point until you get the infamous blank stare (or if your eyes are closed, a sort of internal space out). You might stare at a spot on a wall, a candle flame, or a religious or spiritual object. You can also focus on something auditory like chanting or a bell chime.

THE FLOW: This meditation technique is very much like the one listed above except that you will focus on an object in motion—such as a water fall, your own breathing, or something auditory like drumming.

THE CENTERING: This technique takes many different forms but ultimately aims to heighten your awareness of your place in the world. Centering meditation can be either outer (real) or inner (imagined) but the intent is to anchor your perspective in the center of a vivid image in which even the smallest detail is noted. With this technique, you will get into your meditation space then allow yourself to let in an outside noise or thought. This can be a great technique for beginners because of this (if you find it hard to quiet your mind and concentrate). By responding to “distractions” by absorbing yourself in them and therefore dismantling them, you take their power away.

THE VOID: This technique is sort of the antithesis of the three listed above. Like the name suggests, here you will think about nothing. You will have no focal point. You could think of focusing on “the blankness” or “the stillness,” but nevertheless the void meditation is about the complete absence of any internal or external focus. It can be quite challenging but very rewarding and relaxing.

Good luck with whichever technique you decide to practice!
John Assaraf

Affirmations are so simple and yet so effective, especially when it comes to the law of attraction. An affirmation is a statement, often repeated in our heads. That’s it. There isn’t much concentration or focus required. The affirmation’s power, however, lies in its ability to re-shape our thinking and perspective drastically and quickly, similar to what happens when you learn how to visualize.

Here are 4 ways affirmations can help you:

1. Affirmations quiet our ego’s mental chatter

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to many of the difficulties and complexities we face is mental chatter. It is this constant stream of thinking and ideas that distracts us from being able to focus on what we want, whether it’s stillness and serenity or a specific goal. Mental chatter is the voice in the head that screams, “I can’t do it! I can’t do it!” or “I’m ugly. I’m fat.” Affirmations soothe this wailing like brain entrainment for adults and like a pacifier for a baby. In moments of fear, panic, or anxiety, repeating to yourself, “I can do this! I can do this!” or, “I am beautiful. I am attractive,” is incredibly powerful at helping you do an emotional 180. It doesn’t take constant coaching and mentoring; all the power to change is right inside you waiting to be utilized.

2. Affirmations can begin to transform our thinking instantaneously

When we focus on “I can do this,” instead of nerves and jitters, we have immediately taken control of our lives and ourselves. When we are in control, we immediately feel at ease. Sigh! When we feel powerless, our fears and worries tend to spiral out of control. Instead of focusing on the fear and bringing more of that into our reality based on the law of attraction, saying affirmations gives us a new focus. It is the same concept as women doing deep breathing when they are giving birth — it gives them something else to focus on rather than the physical pain they are feeling.  A slight change in focus can and does make a world of difference. This tiny little mental trick is a powerful one like knowing how to visualize is.

3. Affirmations put us in the driver’s seat

Affirmations can transform our lives (no need for constant coaching and mentoring anymore for you) by giving us a sense of power and control. Often it doesn’t take much to remind us of how powerful we are. Simply saying, “I am calm. I am cool. I am collected,” before a job interview can take us from nervous to confident in no time.

4. Affirmations can be effective when change is most difficult

True change comes in this manner: first our thoughts, then our words, then our deeds. First we get an idea like, “I’m tired of being overweight.” This gains momentum and turns into saying things like, “I am going to go to the gym 3 times this week.”

What follows? Three trips to the gym.

The problem arises when our thoughts still want to be couch potatoes. Stating affirmations like, “I go regularly to the gym. I exercise. I workout,” can shape our reluctant thinking. When change seems hardest, that is a sign that one needs to be using affirmations constantly to help change their lagging thinking. As you know, if you hear something often enough, you will start to believe it.

For more information on how to use affirmations to transform your life visit:  Transform My Life With Affirmations!

John Assaraf

I think I have been asked at least 5,000 times what it really takes to be successful in business or your career, so I jotted down 10 questions you can use to gauge whether you already have what it takes, or if you need to do a little “work” to get there.

Many years ago I heard Jim Rohn say that you either pay the price of discipline or the price of regret. Discipline weighs ounces…regret weighs tons!

With that said, here are 10 questions to ask yourself:

1. Are you disciplined?
2. Do you take rejection personally? What about criticism?
3. Do you bounce back quickly from making errors or failing over and over again?
4. Are you a planner or do you do things by the seat of your pants?
5. Are you prepared to take risks? Moderate or Big?
6. Do you stay focused on one thing and one thing only until the result you want is achieved?
7. Do you have the stamina to keep going long after everyone else is tired?
8. Can you delegate well, or are you the only one who can do things right?
9. Do you wait for things to happen or do you aggressively go after what you want?
10. Do you do whatever it takes to achieve your goals or just what’s convenient?

These questions are critical for you to ask yourself in order to get a true picture of your nature and behavior. What I have found is that successful people are aware of the consequences of not being efficient in these areas, and find other ways, resources or people to manage for them. Good Luck!

This story takes personal goal setting to a whole new level for me every time I remember it…

When I was 21 years old, a gentleman asked me what I thought the value of an hour was. I was stunned, as I had no idea how to answer the question; he went on to teach me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned.

He suggested to me that the value of an hour was priceless. It quickly become obvious that this confused me a little and I needed more self help instruction, so this is what he said to me – one of the greatest forms of positive affirmations around me I have ever experienced.

“If you invest one hour each day in understanding yourself and your environment better, you will accumulate nine 40-hour weeks over the course of a year!”

Yikes! As you can imagine, I was blown away when he put it to me that way.

Nine 40-hour weeks? This seemed impossible until I did the math. 365 days, times one hour each is… yup, nine 40-hour weeks!

He went on to ask me how good I could get at something if I did it all day, every day for just over 2 months. Well, you already know the answer to that.

Even without a thorough understanding of the laws of attraction, I thought I could be awesome!

He went on to tell me that over the course of just five years, I would have invested the equivalent of 1,825 hours of focus on whatever I desired to accomplish in my life.

Imagine for a minute, how good you can become at anything, so long as you did it for one hour a day for the next year. How fit could you get? How much more in love would you get and give? How much more money could you earn? How much more often could you succeed at realizing your positive affirmations and personal goal setting?

Let me suggest that one hour is a small price to pay in comparison to the payoff. Just one hour a day may be the razor’s edge you need to really get the results you want in your life; it may be the difference between the law of attraction working or not working for you.

For me, the decision was easy. I have been studying human potential and the mind for over 20 years. Each time I think I’m getting a good handle on it, I am gently reminded of how much there is to observe and learn and how a yearning for self help is of the utmost importance.

Is getting what you want worth an hour a day? I certainly hope it is.

I still manage to set aside my hour to read motivational stories or listen to inspirational people. They are the fuel for my mind and it keeps me learning and yearning for more.

Please adopt an hour a day for yourself! Pick one area of your life that you want to improve and commit the next 90 days to that one thing. Use positive affirmations to help if need be.

I assure you that the results you achieve will be well worth the decision! And remember… you definitely cannot take out of life more than you put in.

Here is another missing piece of the puzzle in achieving your goals.

Do what I suggest here and you will be healthier, happier and wealthier!

Do you set goals based on how much money you think you can make or based on what you have done in the past?

Many people never reach their goals because they do not understand a few small key factors I reveal in this two part video blog.

Enjoy and make all your dreams come true!

Part two will be out Monday.

Why are New Year’s Resolutions a waste of time? Because they are not backed by the right mental preparation and conditioning.

I know that’s a bold statement, but let me ask you, how many years have you been making resolutions, only to find that within two or three weeks (any day now) you’ve given up?

The fact is, relying upon will power, resolve and persistence is absolutely the worst way to achieve your new goals. These things are controlled by your conscious mind, which is responsible for only about 2-4 percent of your day-to-day actions and perceptions.

It’s not your fault!

When I say that it’s not your fault, here’s what I mean: Due to your habits, you’ve become conditioned to stay in the same physical condition, salary or in the same mediocre relationship. An internal financial or physical “set point” is conditioned deep in your subconscious brain so that you don’t have to think about the day-to-day activities you need to do to maintain it.

Does this make sense to you?

Think about lottery winners: Why is it that within two or three years, almost all of them lose all their money? It’s because they are conditioned to be without money. Their do not change their subconscious set point of how much money they should have, therefore they revert to that point – it’s like an anchor on a boat!

Believe it or not, once any image, habit or belief is ingrained in your subconscious brain, you automatically seek out situations and behave in ways that resonate with that “internal image.” Now, if you currently don’t like the results you are witnessing with your physique, job, income or relationships, then guess what … you must break the old patterns and old conditioning that’s causing them!

How is this possible? Well, NASA has proven that breaking subconscious patterns takes 30-60 days of brain retraining.

You see, if you do not “re-train” your subconscious brain at the same time you make the decision to improve your health or financial situation, for example, you will within very short order return to your old weight and wealth patterns – and that’s why, despite the best intentions, the vast majority of New Year’s resolutions are not kept.

Simply put, there is a “cybernetic trigger” in your brain. It detects any change from your current situation, no matter what is, and it overrides your will power and forces you to behave in accordance with your old habits. Hence, the same results repeat themselves, because of the same thought patterns and behavioral patterns. It works exactly like the thermostat in your home that automatically picks up any change in room temperature and then makes corrections to return things to “normal.”

In essence, this automatic “trigger” causes you to rationalize why you’re not sticking with your diet or new financial plan, and basically forces you to revert to your old habits and patterns.

Think about this: When you break the word “rationalize” in two, you get “rational-lies.” The internal self-talk you catch yourself doing is automatic, and a result of the system doing its job to keep you at your “comfort zone,” even though it’s not what you want!

What does all this mean to you? Your income, your body and your relationships are only expressions of the internal self-image you have at a deep-rooted level… If you want to see permanent changes on the outside, you must retrain the mental image on the inside first.

So it adds up to this: If you truly want to make permanent changes in your life, it takes about 15 minutes a day of mental retraining for 30-60 days. The more you do this, the faster you’ll see results. The good news is that you can’t get a brain hernia if you overdo it.

The bottom line is this: When you are interested in your success, you’ll do what’s convenient. On the other hand, when you are committed to your success, you’ll do whatever it takes.

If you are serious about living the life you want and deserve, check out my Having It All program and I’ll show you the most advanced system for permanent financial and life success.

To Having It All in 2009!

John

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You will benefit from the support of a group of like-minded individuals who are focused on attracting all of what they really want in life. And you will learn to harness the power of your subconscious mind to address whatever challenges you are facing in your life.

The cohesive energy of this eclectic group of people makes this experience incomparable to any other of its kind. This is why the Having It All Challenge is so exclusive. Your success is practically predetermined, because we are selecting people who are truly committed, not just interested in transforming their lives.

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
–Dale Carnegie

Achieve all the success and happiness you want in your life now. This opportunity will not last much longer, so act now and be a part of this exclusive group. For more information about the Having It All Challenge you can listen to a recorded call with John Assaraf and learn how to change your life now!

To your success!

John Assaraf