‘Dark Continent’ – A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. As little was known about the continent’s interior geography, map-makers would often leave this region dark – Still is!

I am reading a lot about the Laws of Attraction, therefore when you get writers block, all you do is attract more of it. So I went looking for inspiration and found it, sort of, in a short story by Ayn Rand “The Simplest Thing in the World”. This is the introduction to the story, I quote “The story illustrates the nature of the creative process – the way in which an artist’s sense of life….” we’ll stop right there. It’s this “sense of life” thing that is the problem, it comes from what we have inherited from our tribe/family/call it whatever you like and their respective mindsets. Now, if you grow up believing that you can’t do it, you can’t! This is what you have to change. It requires constant vigilance of what you are thinking about, only good positive thoughts are allowed.

On to other things, if you have not heard of Leo Babauta, go read his blog, http://zenhabits.net/about/ and as he says “smile, breath & go slowly”

Till next time.

‘Dark Continent’ – A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. As little was known about the continent’s interior geography, map-makers would often leave this region dark – Still is!

Today is Nelson Mandela’s 93^rd birthday. If he had not been around to guide South Africa to democracy I fear the country would have gone up in flames. This quote from him I believe is also appropriate to the Laws of Attraction “We must use time wisely and forever realise that the time is also ripe to do right.” My spin on this is don’t waste your time thinking negatively!

I am currently reading two books on the Laws of Attraction; an eBook by Dr Joe Vitale – Attract Money Now, and The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks and will be quoting from them liberally in my blogs. If you want to download Joe Vitale’s eBook go here: http://www.attractmoneynow.com/

Now, to quote from Attract Money Now “Remember, your lack of money, love, health, wealth and happiness comes directly from your mindset.” “Shifting your focus to where you want to be, rather than focusing on what you don’t have, shifts you out of the scarcity mindset into receiving mode.”

If you’re going to think, which you do anyway – be positive, know what you want from life and focus on that!

‘Dark Continent’ – A 19th century expression previously used to describe Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. As little was known about the continent’s interior geography, map-makers would often leave this region dark – Still is!

This weekend our car broke down. Its done a few miles, and various components needed repair and/or replacing. I have been delaying this, hoping to get it to last a little longer so that I can scrap it and sell it before we emigrate to the UK. However, I do fret and worry about it all the time! Now it has broken down, all the parts that have been showing signs of trouble packed up at the same time! I now wonder whether with all my fretting and worrying I didn’t bring this on? You know, manifested it, in terms of the Laws of Attraction – nonsense! I know of course, that if I had done the repairs this would have not happened!

This is the whole point of the Laws of Attraction, for instance when it comes to money, don’t think about how to actually bring in the money: think about what you must do in order to let the money come to you. You actually have to do something!

A cousin of mine called yesterday and asked me if I had read “The Laws of Attraction”, I said “yes” then realised that I had not, but had read a lot about it. He told me to read it, and that he would be posting it to me. And, since I needed lifting up – mentally that is, I promptly started reading about it again.

Wikipedia describes it thus - The Law of Attraction is a metaphysical New Thought belief that like attracts like, that positive and negative thinking bring about positive and negative physical results, respectively. According to the Law of Attraction, the phrase “I need more money” allows the subject to continue to “need more money”. If the subject wants to change this they would focus their thoughts on the goal (having more money) rather than the problem (needing more money). This might take the form of phrases such as “I have as much money as I need” or “I have a job that pays very well”.

It is important to point out that the Law of Attraction is not just about money. It is a very general law which can be applied to every aspect of our lives. This is a law that helps to enrich us as people, not just financial entities.



The first thing to realise is that a 637% return pa is not possible from genuine foreign exchange dealings, neither is it possible from investments, so clearly this is a scam, a ponzi scheme, don’t know what a ponzi scheme is? Here is Wikipedia’s definition – “.. it is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors.” Call it what ever you like, but you will lose your money if you are not careful. These types of “investments” are referred to as HYIP’s(High Yield Investment Programs)

Lets return to my comment “you will lose your money if you are not careful.” Not careful? I make it sound like it is a viable investment option. Well, this is what I found when I started investigating these forex and other schemes that are available on the Internet. There are investors that use these, shall we say “alternative” investment vehicles, and do invest in them, albeit with care and circumspection! They use Alexa (www.alexa.com) to monitor traffic to the website of these schemes. The traffic volume and whether it is increasing or levelling off tells them whether or not to invest or get out. And so, by being vigilant and careful and NOT being greedy you could make a pretty good return investing in these vehicles. They seem to invest anything up to US$150 for 14 days, sometimes a month or more. The schemes have different investment rules which you must make yourself familiar with, one twit invested $30,000 and lost it all! He got no sympathy from any of the other investors, they considered him stupid.

So be CAREFUL!! When Googling these sites you find lots of blogs with positive reviews, these are written by the schemes to attract ‘investors’ I did however find an independent one to which I now subscribe, you will find it here: http://hyip-blog-investment-monitor.com/ Subscribe, it makes for a good read if this type of investing appeals to you.

Today I came across one that is not forex biased but invests into a sports betting market called “arbitrage”. A sports arbitrage situation occurs when two Bookmakers (companies that handle bets on the results of a match or of an event) have different odds for an event and this difference will generate a profit or a zero loss on the worst case, no matter what the result of that event is. The mind boggles! But, it is another way to make money on the Internet….

In January a friend of mine called and asked me to go with him to look at a way of making money on the Internet with forex trades. I don’t have much knowledge of forex trading, except that financial institutions like banks pay some very bright people lots of money to trade in foreign exchange. And that these bright people have enormous resources at their disposal to help them make decisions regarding these trades. Also, forex trading is referred to as a “zero-sum game”, which means that at the end of the day when all the gains and losses are summed up you get zero. When somebody gains, somebody else loses!

With this in mind we met and went off to see this chap who happened to own a car wash – interesting. Here was a chap with a car wash making money out of forex dealing on the Internet. And, he was making quite a lot of money from this part-time activity. In the previous month he had made over $1,085! He started with an initial investment of $2,000 which he still had invested, and had made another $490 and he wasn’t even half-way through the month. I was amazed and sceptical, he was getting a return of 1.75% per day, this equates to 637% per annum! Only after he showed me his personal bank account and his Internet payment processing account where I could follow the transactions he had made did I believe it. Yep, it was real, he was making money! But how? I was going to find out ……

When I started this blog it was about my search for the perfect or best MLM product for me to market, of the MLM products that I’ve been exposed to so far, I believe that I have found it in Lekker International a global travel club, and have now decided to simply write about all the other ways I have came across on the Internet to make money. And there are so many of them!

Most are really alternative and generally risky, some are outright ponzi schemes disguised as foreign exchange trading. Some invest into a sports betting market called “arbitrage”. A sports arbitrage situation occurs when two Bookmakers take bets on the results of a match or of an event, and have different odds for these and this difference will generate a profit or a zero loss on the worst case, no matter what the result of that event is. Some purport to be financial adviser’s and offer to structure an investment package specifically for you offering a return of 1% to 3% per day! Some even offer affiliate commissions. One even claimed to be one of the worlds largest natural gas projects and to be the largest single resource natural gas project in Australia’s history.

Interesting stuff this!

Lekker’s fifth, sixth and seventh levels of compensation …

The Wealth Management Fund, fifth level of compensation, was created to generate investment returns for Associates independent of their Lekker business. The profits from this fund are paid every 6 months to qualified Associates.

The sixth level of reward are Elite Leadership Events. Leaders are selected, based on the sales generated in their country and qualify for an all expenses paid luxury 7-9 day Leadership Retreats held yearly in exotic locations. Qualifiers receive the following:

• return economy airfares to event

• 5 Star accommodation for duration of event

• transfers from airport to hotel and return from hotel to airport

• immigration visa fees where applicable

• meals

• nominated tours

• and more

This is a great opportunity to associate with the elite leaders in Lekker and the management team, create life long memories and be rewarded for your efforts.

Membership of the RHODIUM CLUB is the seventh level of compensation . Rhodium is the highest rank that can be achieved with Lekker International. Associates who achieve the rank of Rhodium join an elite group who receive special privileges and benefits while also accessing substantial rewards.

Rhodium ranked Associates receive a share in 1% of the CV¹ annually from total global sales. The reward is paid annually at our special Lekker Leadership Events where qualified members of the Lekker Rhodium Club receive automatic qualification to attend the event with their partners.

Note 1: CV- Commissionable Volume, for every Lifestyle Pack purchased, CV is generated; Bronze Lifestyle Pack = 50, Silver = 100 and Gold = 130.

Most Network Marketing companies simply pay you your commission when you’ve earned it and that’s that! Very few, if any, help, assist and guide their members in building wealth. I have found one that does all of these things, they are genuinely concerned about the financial well-being of their members, and have built their product’s commission structure accordingly. It works like this.

With Lekker there are seven levels of compensation or reward; the first two are cash based, paid weekly in Euro’s, and capped at €10,000 per week! “Capped” you say, “why capped?” Because Lekker wants you to build wealth and design a life for the future. So, the other five levels of compensation are paid differently.

Lekker wants to help you enjoy luxury vacations every year in exotic locations so you can create memories that last a life time. Now it is so simple. The cost of your vacations has already been slashed by up to 50% by using the generous Holiday Rewards Vouchers you receive when you become a Lekker Associate and purchase a Lifestyle Pack. Now, at your third level of compensation or reward you earn Travel Credits that can pay for the remaining cash balance and any extras. These credits can be redeemed with Lekker travel suppliers for the following.

• Cash component when redeeming Holiday Reward Vouchers
• Flights
• Tours& Attractions
• Car Hire
• Travel Insurance
• etc

4% of the global CV¹ from all purchases each week is allocated to the Travel Credit payouts.

Lifestyle Bonus the forth level of compensation, is to help Associates with the cost of purchasing a new motor vehicle, home, vacation home, aircraft etc. 4% of the global CV¹ is pooled each week to fund this special reward.

Tomorrow, I will cover the fifth, sixth and seventh levels ….

Note 1: CV- Commissionable Volume, for every Lifestyle Pack purchased, CV is generated; Bronze Lifestyle Pack = 50, Silver = 100 and Gold = 130.

I was talking to a friend yesterday who has been involved in MLM for 15 plus years and has never really made it – he is one of the 97% who are just grist to the mill! His problem (which he didn’t acknowledge until yesterday) is that he can’t, won’t, or refuses to sell the dream! He appeals to the prospects logic. Now we all know that people buy on emotion, nothing else! And that’s what you have to appeal to.

Selling the dream also has its problems. When you appeal to a prospects emotions you also start sowing the seeds of discord which eventually give MLM a bad reputation. These dreams have got to be managed! Why is this? Simple really, people are basically lazy and not prepared to work, so they buy into the dream and when they don’t make the millions they’re expecting, they get disillusioned and blame MLM, forgetting that they did absolutely nothing to further their lot in life! How do you manage these expectations? To start with, you never close a sale! The following month you will have to close that sale again! As Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter says “there are three reasons people join a business; they know you, they like you and they trust you.” That’s it! They don’t have enough information on any other parts of your business to make an intelligent decision, they joined because they know you, like you and trust you, and then their emotions take over!

When I was looking for an MLM product, I wanted something that people would want, but what? The lotions, potions et al that were being pedalled out there cost the earth to start with, I also did not know if they worked and could not find a way to validate their claims, there are no independent laboratories out there that I could find that do that type of thing. Then I found this http://tuanpickard.mylekkerlife.com now here’s a product that people like, people like to travel, it’s a $9 trillion industry projected to grow to $14 trillion in the next five years! The reason people don’t travel as much as they would like to is because they either don’t have the time or the money and here is the solution!