Gone are the days on the internet where you simply build it and they will come.  You now have to build it then post it to several places to entice people to come.

Here is a quick list of the Top 50 Article directories from vretoolbar.com I just posted the most recent and it’s updated frequently on their website.  Now tomorrow I will show you want you can do with these article directories to get your content out for more eyes to see.

Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, Pagerank

Updated: Today (March 13, 2012)

What does your success rituals look like?  When you wake up first thing in the morning do you have a routine or ritual to get you started for your day?  Do you know that are daily lives are filled with rituals that we somethings don’t even think about.  When you wake up what do you usually do?  Most of us go use the bathroom, brush your teeth etc right?  Well that’s a ritual or routine that you do that you don’t even think about.  At night before you go to sleep you also have a routine that you follow pretty closely.  We as human beings are creatures of habit and we create these on a daily basis whether we like to or not.

Since we do things based on habit is it possible for us to build success rituals that can help move us closer to our goals?  Well of course you can but you just have to take a closer look at exactly what you are doing and what you NEED to do to get a good success rituals or routine.

Here’s a few success rituals rules that you must follow to ensure that you form great ones to bring you to your goals.

Success Rituals Rule # 1

Success is determined by your daily actions.  What would you have to do on a daily consistent basis that will bring you closer to your goals?  For example if you are an internet marketer one of the things you have to continue doing on a daily basis is to create unique content for your sites.  By committing yourself to create new content daily you have more content for your sites.  You have more things to share out to people.  Plus all this content that’s unique and good starts to help brand you as an authority in your given niche.

Another example is if you are a network marketer.  One thing you MUST do in network marketing is to simply share what you are doing.  I was involved in a company where one of the ten core commitments was to do two daily exposures a day.  Doing this might not seem much a week or two from starting but when you consistently do at least two a day you are guaranteeing yourself people to follow up with weeks and months from your start.  Doing this daily also helps you step away from your comfort zone of talking to people.

Success Rituals Rule # 2

Learn to create daily routines/rituals based on what your goals are. Once you have figured out what your goals are, target what key elements you must do that will help you achieve that goal.  Once you learn those few key elements learn how to build success rituals around them.

Here’s an example of one of my success routines that I do almost religiously now.  Since I know that part of success in any endeavor is to stay motivated with your goals.  I know that I have to shower myself with positivity so for my morning ritual that I do before I do anything else is I read at least 10 pages of a good book.  After I read those 10 pages I read a passage from Og Mandino’s Greatest Salesman in the world.  Then I read a set of afformations (to learn more about afformations check it out here).  After I finish reading those I look over my goals that I have written for myself and then I read over my to do list and prioritize my task from most important to least important.

Success Rituals Rule # 3

Don’t try to build a bunch of new success rituals right away because you will burn yourself out.  When you are just starting out with creating new rituals I suggest starting off with just one or two new rituals at the most.  I would try it out with a small amount first so you can get a feel of how it works and how something that you do daily will eventually turn into a habit.  Once it turns into a habit you won’t even think about it when you do it, you’ll automatically just do what you need to do!

When building your new success rituals keep in my that it won’t be easy to do.  You are essentially trying to break a bad habit or trying to build a whole new habit that you are not used to doing.  So be patient when doing this.  Remember that it takes around 21 days for something to eventually turn into a habit.  So keep at it when you’re doing your success rituals.  When you are faced with not wanting to do your routines keep in mine it’s your old habits trying to take you back to your comfort zone.  Don’t let it take you back to complacency.

Build that success rituals!

Happy Monday to everyone!  Since I wanted to keep the motivational monday videos going I decided to post a video from the late Jim Rohn.  In this short video he talks about how many days we should we working in a week and how many should be to rest.

He also talks about the reason for working 6 days and resting one is “If you rest too long the weeds take the garden, not to think so is naive”.  What Jim means by this is don’t rest too much in your business or what ever venture because you will lose momentum in what you are doing.  Gaining momentum is one of the hardest thing to do in almost anything you do but once you have it you have to more sure you keep it on your side.

Think of running first thing in the morning.  How hard is it to start running especially when it’s really cold?  But if you still want to run how do you start it out, well for starters you might walk for the first couple minutes right.  Then after you’ve built a little steam you might run a little faster so your muscles are starting to get warm.  After a few more minutes you might run a little faster and eventually you could be running at your full speed.

When you get to that speed you’ve built momentum and it’s now a lot easier to keep that speed doing for yourself.

But anyway here’s the Jim Rohn video for this Monday

“Who you think you are is also intimately connected with how you see yourself treated by others.  Many people complain that others do not treat them well enough.  “I don’t get any respect, attention, recognition, acknowledgment.” they say, “I’m being taken for granted.”  When people are kind, they suspect hidden motives. “Others want to manipulate me, take advantage of me.  Nobody loves me.”

Who they think they are is this: “I am a needy ‘little me’ whose needs are not being met.”  THis basic misperception of who they are creates dysfunction in all their relatioships.  They believe they have nothing to give and that the world or other people are withholding from them what they need.  Their entire reality is based on an illusory sense of who they are. It sabotages situations, mars all relationships.  If the thought of lack- whether it be moneyh, recognition, or love-has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack.  Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.  Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.  The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.  You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Try this for a couple weeks and see how it changes your reality: Whatever you think people are withholding from you- praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on- give it to them.  You don’t have it? Just act as if you had it, and it will come.  Then, soon after you start giving, you will start receiving.  You cannot receive what you don’t give.  Outflow determines inflow.  Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won’t even know that you have it.  This includes abundance.  The law that outflow determines inflow is expressed by Jesus in this powerful image: “Give and it will be given to you.  Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap”‘

The source of all abundance is not outside you.  It is part of who you are.  However, start by acknowledging and recognizing abundance without.  See the fullness of life all around you.  The warmth of the sun on your skin, the display of magificent flowers outside a florit’s shop, biting into a succulent fruit, or getting soaked in an abundance of water falling from the sky.  The fullness of life is there at every step.  The acknowledgment of that abundance that is all around you awakens the dormant abundance within.  The let it flow out.  When you smile at a stranger, there is already a minute outflow of energy.  You become a giver.  Ask yourself often: “What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation? You don’t need to own anything you feel abundant, although if you feel abundant consistently things will almost certainly come to you .  Abundance comes only to those who already have it.  It sounds almost unfair, but of course it isn’t.  It is a universal law.  Both abundance and scarcity are inner states that manifest as your reality.  Jesus puts it like this: “For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”

I highly recommend this book.  It has tons of great insights and really lets you put things into prospective.  Click on the image below to order it through amazon!

So every Monday I will post videos or small articles or pictures that will give you that added motivation to start your week off right.

For this Monday I’m posting a video of Giavanni Ruffin training with Eric Thomas speaking in the background.  I know many of you have seen this video clip but till this day this is one of those videos that I can watch numerous times.

It’s all about how bad you want something and what you are willing to sacrifice to get that goal.  It’s not just about sports or music it’s in everything you do in life.

You need that passion and motivation to get that goal in life.

Enjoy this video

In order to live life abundantly we have to be extremely grateful for what we already have now.  When you are grateful for what abundance you already have in life surprisingly the universe tends to bring more to you.  It’s a weird law but I guess that’s how the universe works.  Perfect example.  People who are now the ultra successful tend to get more opportunities than the person who also moans and complains about how he has nothing in life to be thankful for.  Those who feel blessed are often blessed with more.

It’s like playing a shooting video game like Modern Warfare.  What happens when you get a kill streak of a few people?  Well if you’re not a gamer (I’m not either but my friends are!) you tend to get more “goodies” to use.  You start getting better weapons and even vehicles to use.  All that momentum that you’ve created in the game brings you more things to play with.

Look at Jeremy Lin right now.  I’m sure you’ve heard of the asian american player who is currently playing for the New York Knicks.  Since he has started playing for the knicks they have been winning games and the team is pumped up.  They are all happy and playing as a team.  Not too long ago the team wasn’t doing to well and were plague with injury.  But then Jeremy Lin comes in who was like the 10000th player on the bench on the cusp of getting cut plays well one game and continues to play better and better.  If you listen or watch his interviews he always says how grateful he is for his team playing well and how grateful he is for the opportunity to play.  Now that’s a great way to live life abundantly right there!

How can you start to live life abundantly right now?

Start to write out what you are grateful for in your life.  You’ll be surprised how much abundance you have.  I personally write out ten things that I’m grateful for in my life every night before I go do bed.  I suggest you try it out as well. I wrote a post on that before check it here (daily method of operation)

Now it won’t be overnight that you’ll see abundance right away but learn to live life abundantly!

When you were a kid remember how much you loved doing something like playing with your toys or playing basketball.  Remember how when you were at that age you would do what ever you can to continue what you were doing.  For me it was playing basketball.  I would do anything I can do keep playing basketball.  You can say I had passion for it at an early age.  I knew I loved it way before knowing what the word passion meant!

Now you’re probably thinking that’s great Yves but what does it have to do with me right?  Well what’s your passion now as a “grown up”  After years of dedicating myself to basketball I knew that I wouldn’t be able to make that into a living of mine (there were tons of people way better, stronger, and taller than me plus I’m filipino we aren’t that tall hahahaha).  I knew that I had to find another passion.  But I knew it wasn’t something that I can spend a day, week, or months looking around for to find it.  I knew that I had to basically experience life growing up and learning many different in life to find that passion.  So are part of my growing and learning I went through tons of different things.  Went through tons of different classes, lots of books, seminars etc….

I remember one of my mentors asking me this question that helped me with my passions in life which was “If you could do anything in life if money wasn’t an object and you couldn’t fail what would you do?” Based on that question I knew it evolved helping people in one way or another.  I always had a passion of helping others succeed in what they are doing.

When you google the definition of passion it’s:

1. Strong and barely controllable emotion.
2. A state or outburst of such emotion.

It’s something that fires you up when you get up in the morning to do it.  You need that passion to be burning so hot for you so that when you run into problems you’ll continue to push through it.  You’ll also need it to help you past those haters and turn them into your motivators!  You’re passion is also something that you can find fun to do day in and day out.
Another thing to think about passion is many of the people out there who are multi millionaires have extremem passion for what they are doing.  They continue to say that it’s not about the money but that they just love doing what they do.

You can’t fake passion for something because people will see it plus those who don’t have the passion for something usually quit when it starts getting rough anyway.

Here’s a video on Steve Jobs about passion

Today I’m sharing a Will smith success video that I’ve watched several times and till this day gives me chills on the things that he shares.  In my personal opinion Will Smith is one of the most successful actors and people out there.  He has such a ridiculous work ethic out there.  One of the quotes that I like is

“Talent is something you have naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft”.  Too many times people out there will just quit because they don’t have the natural talent with something but really it’s all about developing that skill set.  Hard work trumps over talent every single time.

There is a ton of great nuggets in this video so I don’t want to share too much of it but rather enjoy the video with Will Smith on success

I’m sure many of you know this book or have any had the graces to read the 4 hour work week.  If you haven’t read the book click on that book and order your copy on Amazon immediately.  If you want to start any business where you can eventually detach yourself from the business to where it’s fully automated please read that book.  The book is very eye opening and really shows you that you can achieve anything you want, travel anywhere  you want and basically do anything you want to in life.

Now there are hundreds of ways to set goals out there.  Almost every “guru” out there has their own twist on goal setting.  Goal setting in a nutshell is really picking what you really want in life.  Focusing in on it by not getting distracted by other things.  Then setting up a plan of action to achieve that goal.  I’ve found that one of the best ways to set goals is to work my way back.  What I mean by that is having an end goal and mind and setting up mini achievements to get to that goal.  For example if my goal was to make 10k a month online, I can work backwards with that easily.  First would be how much money I would have to make per week to achieve that.  Then I take it another step back and to see how much I’d have to make daily to achieve that goal.  If you’re an internet marketer you can even use your numbers like how much traffic and your conversions to find that daily target.

Here’s an example:

Once you find out what you need to make daily.  Lets use an example of 1000 dollars that you need to make a day to achieve that goal.

Say you are selling a product where you make 100 dollars for each sale.

Then lets say that you’re conversion rate for traffic to leads is 10% (I know this might be high but I want to make this example as easy as possible for you)
Then your leads to sale is another 10%.

Now lets do the Math:

So for each 100 people that go to your page you are converting 10% of the people into leads which is 100 x 10% = 10 leads for each 100 on average

Now your leads to sale is also 10% so for every 10 leads you generate a sale = This is where you make your 100 dollars!

So what do this numbers mean?!?! Now this is just theoretical numbers so you can understand the process easier.  I’m not saying these numbers aren’t possible but you need to be a realist as well.

So back to the numbers so on average every 100 visitors to your website you make a 100 dollar sale and your daily goal is $1,000 a day right?  So with these numbers you need an average of 1,000 visitors a day to your website to hit your daily target.

Like I said earlier these are just hypothetical numbers but with this little example you should be able to come up with how much traffic you need to send to your website to achieve that goal.

If this was a little confusing I’m sorry but hopefully you get the jist of what I’m talking about.  If you want more info on exactly how to do this check out Tim Ferriss’ blog post on lifestyle costing here in there he explains it in detail and he also has worksheets that you can use for setting these goals.