The Hustle

You see a good website? You scroll down to the bottom. Click on the credits & see what you can get for free. I have a virtual forwarding address, full domain/web-hosting, an autoresponder and several business/creativity suites ALL FREE! Go for someone who's successful and observe them closely. Look at their photo, take cues from the details. Get a suit. Suit it up. It makes you feel less inferior when online. It doesn't matter if up you're dressed and down you're naked. Take a pic, anyway. Webcam or phone, DSLR or iPad- anything with a high resolution. Smile because that's the winner's language! You got enemies, so you think you should be frowning because of the stuff you went through? I got them, too. Now, smile completely. It drives them completely crazy!

Keep an open mind: LEARN! The Internet is self-made but it's made for the students who find the loose ends across the world and come back and start a clothing factory. It's that real. Sign up to authorities in your niche and keep the box unchecked: You DO want to collect marketing information from them AND third parties. THAT'S HOW YOU GET INTO THE CLOSED CIRCLES OF THE PRIVILEGED FEW. Become an administrator and organize your information. Do it online, on a CD/disk and preferably on paper, too. You never know when Apocalypse happens in cyberspace. And with the amounts of cyber-terrorism occurring daily, you never know!

Become compelling. Command attention. Be yourself. That way you can be awesome and that's when people notice you. Scrutinize people you admire & look up to and apply whatever they do that works, as best as you can in your world, as well. For example, I like Richard Branson. His unique & free-spirited nature he created Virgin with, motivated me to go through with establishing Freespirit Illustrations Company. Until today, I'm still inspired by him. Once you've gotten the flow of your work, develop your own personality in business. This becomes the foundation of your brand. Your brand is everything & anything that relates to the public promotion of your company, products & services. To use myself as an illustration, big factors of my brand are freedom to do things my way and creating a platform for myself to be heard from. I'm an underdog and have been suppressed loads of times. I relate to the mentality of Mark Twain: 'It not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.'

Get things done. Become your most demanding boss and best employee. Combine the two together and, at least for a while, you have a high output performance. Go back to being healthy again. Power days only last that long. Be good to your health thereafter. Whatever your soul wants, you give it! I used to deny sentimental, emotional music for most of my life, out of the fear of not being hard enough for my shallow, pretentious friends at the time and often being condemned thereof. Now, I listen to that and crank it up full power 'cause that unleashes the titan in me.

Think big and you'll become big. Anything you feed your mind, happens. It's your superforce, your soul. Imagine it as your own, personal, ultra universal-fighter: It may do everything but you still have to give it orders and steer it into missions and combat. The subconsciousness rules us but many things we accept out of habit and that need not be. Be the best you can be out of your worst you've been in and your soul will single-handed make sure you excel at that, as well. It's not dormant. Use it! Tell yourself what you want to do then write it down and repeat it several times a day, every day for at least a month. Sound too hard? Then you don't want your dream enough. But it's OK, there's nothing wrong with having fantasies.

To be self-motivated, you have to read up on a lot of speakers. My top dogs are Zig Ziglar (RIP), Brian Tracy, John C. Maxwell, Tony Robins, Wayne Dyer, Jim Rohn & Jack Canfield. They have awesome free articles & videos that are outright nuggets in inspiration. Study them! When you feel you've had enough, take a break. Repeat it the next day again. Do this for at least 30 days and you'll be high-kite surfing through the obstacles good ol' life gives you, with a bounce in your step. That's right, you'll swagger! And you thought you couldn't make it!

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