How To Improve The Law Of Attraction

If you weren’t aware already, there are two parts to our mind, the conscious and the subconscious. Our conscious mind is what we’re very familiar with, we make decisions with it every minute of every day.

The issue is that it’s only a fraction of our total mind, it’s the subconscious that’s the real powerhouse!

The Power of the Subconscious Mind
To prove it, think how easily you perform tasks like walking, writing, driving, riding a bike or playing a musical instrument once you learn or train yourself how to do them.

You aren’t consciously thinking of how to perform every little movement your body makes in order to do the action like walking are you? No, you’re not.

In fact, you aren’t even consciously thinking about breathing or pumping the blood around your body. Are you starting to get it?

Train the Subconscious Mind
You can improve the law of attraction by ‘training’ your subconscious mind as it’s the thoughts and habits it holds that it gets to work on, not what you consciously think and that’s catch.

The thoughts you hold consciously with persistence will, in due time, crossover into your subconscious, and then that’s where things start to happen!

Desiring to be slim while holding subconscious thoughts and habits of an overweight person won’t work. Neither will desiring to be wealthy when you have subconscious thoughts and habits of a poor person.

And of course, desiring for anything yet holding the subconscious thoughts and habits of a person who believes its attainment will be hard to get certainly won’t work.

Training Tools
Visualization, affirmations, vision boards, writing down goals, etc are all just tools for you to communicate to your subconscious what you ultimately want it to work on attracting.

If you’re not getting the results you had hoped for, explore what your habits are and they’ll reveal what your subconscious is really working on.

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Are You Treating Your Band Like A Business?

I know this is probably a thought which scares most musicians and in an ideal world, a musician could be left to be just that, a musician!

However, nowadays you need to get on with doing things yourself if anything is ever to happen.

I believe if you understand the business elements of running a band, you’ll certainly look at everything in a much different and hopefully more insightful light.

Let’s examine the following as we compare some business elements as they relate to a band:

Let’s not forget about running the business/band:

Most small businesses fail because they don’t know how to market and promote themselves, do you see a pattern forming here with bands too?

“But Chris, I’m a musician, not a business person!” I hear you say.

My point here is that you don’t need to be a business person, but I’m sure if start to understand some business concepts, it could really benefit the way you promote your band.

Over my next few posts, I’m going to share some ideas which I’ve learnt from online marketing which I think can help any band or musician utilise the internet to better promote themselves.

I welcome your feedback and comments so please subscribe to this blog to receive post updates when they occur.

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Do You Know What “The Secret” Really Is?

In 2006, a little independent documentary titled “The Secret” started to spread like wildfire throughout the world.

It was so inspirational, it gave people a renewed hope in life because it claimed you could be, do or have anything in life, large claims huh?!

The Secret is all about the law of attraction, and if you haven’t heard about it by now, you must be living under a rock!

In a nutshell, it states that everything that exists is formed from energy where like energy is attracted to like energy.

Your thoughts are energy at their most basic form hence the law of attraction suggests you attract everything into your life including people, events and various other things.

There are arguments for and against this concept so is it just some airy fairy concept or actually something very profound?

I’ll be exploring this idea a bit more, analysing it in deeper detail as it’s not as cut and dry as ‘The Secret’ DVD initially suggests.

Stay tuned.

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How To Grab a FREE Course on Blogging

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

  • The best blogging techniques.
  • How to get traffic to your blog.
  • How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

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Music Marketing and Promotion Workshop – 17 Sept

If you’re interested in improving your music promotion skills, there is a FREE full day workshop happening soon that’s fully funded by NZ Trade and Enterprise.

When: 17 Sept 2008, 9am – 4:30pm
Where: Waitakere Enterprise, 4 Henderson Valley Road, Henderson, Auckland

Check out the Music Marketing and Promotion Workshop brochure for more details and how to register.

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Dr John Demartini and The Gratitude Effect

On Tuesday night I had the chance to hear Dr Demartini speak for the second time, in support of his latest book titled ‘The Gratitude Effect’.

Of the many things he talked about, one of the key things was the idea of understanding the duality and balance that occurs in everything.

Everything is balanced
True gratitude comes from this understanding where you can appreciate negative as well as positive events, as it’s only our perspective that makes it seem as such.

There is good inside of every bad event and bad inside of every good. It’s always balanced though you may not initially be able to see it.

To not see both sides is when you allow yourself to feel infatuation or resentment, which are both imbalanced perspectives.

Reflections of people
Another interesting point is how you perceive other people, as what you see in others is a reflection of yourself.

If you know someone who is caring and generous, to the same level you have that trait somewhere.

Likewise if you know someone who is selfish and cruel, you also have that trait to the same degree somewhere.

Challenge and support
Challenge helps you grow in nature, support shields you from growth.

If you always surround yourself with things that support you and your beliefs, you can never reach your full potential. Challenge is required to expand you, to make you think and to grow you as a person.

Yin and yang
There can be no happiness without sadness.

Kindness and cruelty. Giving and taking. Life and death. Growth and decay. Confidence and fear. Light and dark. Charity and selfishness. Relaxation and tension. Joy and anger. Fulfilment and emptiness. Co-operation and competition.

Everything is always balanced and true gratitude is when you can be thankful for all the things that support and challenge you, when you can find the benefit in the drawback and vice versa.

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What Type Of Musician Are You?

I was chatting to a young musician woman the other day at a bar explaining my philosophy on musician types. If you are a muso, what type are you?

Performer vs Creator
Imagine a scale with the performer on one end and the creator at the other. You might be one or the other or some shade in between.

The performer loves to perform, doesn’t matter whether it’s his/her music or someone elses. They love to be the center of attention and their fulfillment comes from performing for people to entertain them. Kind of like an actor/actress. Think of American Idol contestants and covers musicians.

The creator loves to write music. His/her fulfillment comes from the creative process, solving the riddle that each song provides, and the satisfaction from completing and then sharing their art with others. Kind of like a screenwriter. Think of any originals artist/band you know.

It’s interesting to think that the performer is motivated by external elements and the creator is motivated by internal elements.

Initiator vs Bouncer
You can then split creative musicians into an initiators and bouncers.

Initiators are the musicans who come up with no ideas all the time but sometimes struggle to follow through and complete a song. They provide the spark but not necessarily the fuel.

The bouncer can take an initiator’s idea, add to it, change it or help take an idea in a direction that can help complete a song. Bouncers may not be the best at coming up with the initial idea but they can certainly run with something once they are shown that idea.

Leaders vs Followers
Within a band situation, the leaders will be more outspoken and tend to drive the band with their ideas or plans. The followers are more carefree and happy to go along with whatever is decided upon by the rest of the group.

What type are you?
Have you figured this out yet? The reason is once you do, and you know what your band mates are, then you’ll start to understand the dynamic that exists within your band.

Each member can then fit into and perform a role that matches their type.

No more getting annoyed at that lazy band member when really, they want to contribute, it’s just a matter of figuring out the best way how for them to do so.

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I could not use my internet without this tool, it’s that good!

Roboform is a toolbar that remembers all your website, logins and passwords securely. It bookmarks and saves all your login details for facebook, myspace, online banking, emails, etc and anything else you use online and then allows you to re-access them in a single click!

No more having to remember urls, logins and passwords for a million sites, it’s all there on your Roboform browser toolbar.

Mark Joyner on his Simpleology blog has a great post explaining how you can use Roboform when you want to seek out things on Google, Trademe or any website that has a search feature regularly.

Try Roboform for FREE today

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Book Review: Make Real Money on the Internet by Stephen Pierce

“Make Real Money On The Internet” by Stephen Pierce is a straight forward, helpful and informative 133 page read for anyone who is interested in learning how to use the internet to earn an income.

Its focus is to give you the bigger picture knowledge needed to establish an online business in any area of interest.

He reveals his seven critical steps that cover the following areas:

  1. How to perform market research
  2. What types of products can be sold online
  3. Why Stephen recommends information products
  4. Lead generation tips
  5. Traffic generation methods from free to paid methods
  6. Steps to automate everything and
  7. How to utilise bonus offer for maximum effect.

Stephen has written this book in a very conversational and easy to read manner, so that even if you have no experience in running a business, you’ll still be able to follow along with the principles he outlines.

It’s definitely NOT one of those business books full of technical and confusing jargon.

It’s interesting to find out from his introduction that Stephen came from a background of being homeless at one point, with no formal education, and that he applied his seven critical steps to help him and his family build several multi-million dollar businesses today.

The book has plenty of useful ‘how to’ information titbits and Stephen shares plenty of personal experiences to tie them together.

His micro-niche concept is a useful tip that can help you focus your market research or potential product creation efforts. He also shares with you key search terms you can use in search engines to uncover markets where a problem exists that you could create a product to solve and profit from.

Stephen stresses that above anything else, the ability to generate traffic is absolutely critical to making real money on the internet. He provides suggestions on generating lots of free traffic through Myspace, Youtube and blogs. Some of the other traffic strategies he touches on are e-zine and banner advertising, the use of articles and affiliates to drive traffic.

The only negative thing I have to say about this book is that after reading certain sections, you wish Stephen could have gone into deeper detail on the various steps that he discusses.

Aside from that, “Make Real Money On The Internet” is an informative and concise read, outlining the proven system Stephen Pierce uses to make money from the internet in seven straight forward and easy to follow steps.

Claim your FREE copy of “Make Real Money On The Internet” by Stephen Pierce while stocks last.

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5 Lies Indie Musicians Believe In – Part 2

As a follow on from my last post where we were exposed to the 5 lies indie musicians tell themselves, the fine people at MusicMarketing.com recorded a conference call they did to explore this topic further.

Not only do they elaborate much more on each of area, they provide some solutions too.

Listen to the MusicMarketing.com conference call.

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