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The Cafeteria….again
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I know I’ve posted this before and even made a video about it but it’s such an important concept that I feel I should repeat it frequently. It’s about the Emmet Fox short quip called “The Cafeteria”:
Emmet Fox was pretty new to the United States. He’d come from London, I believe, England. He passed by a restaurant and thought “this really looks kind of nice.”
He went in and seated himself at the table and sat there waiting for the waiter to come on and take his order. Nothing happened, no one showed up, and he saw all these other people getting their food and he couldn’t figure out what was going on.
He felt something was wrong, and he was getting a bit perturbed, but he’s a very smart man and finally realized that this was a cafeteria although they didn’t have cafeterias yet in England, and he realized that he had to get up and go get his own food.
He made an entire story out of that with excellent meaning and purpose.
In New Thought a lot of people just decide they want something and say “you’re supposed to let God tell you what it is that you want to do, that he wants you to do.”
Metaphysically this means – if we had a banquet table in front of us, and we walked around it for hour after hour after hour, but never said “this is what I want“, we wouldn’t get the food.
We have to get specific and say what we want and make a decision. A lot of people have never learned to make a decision and say “this is what I want.”
If you wanted a car, and you would never say what kind of car you wanted, or the color, or anything else, you’re not going to get it.
Emmet Fox was sitting there and finally realized that he had to get up and go get it, get the food, that it wasn’t going to be brought to him, but it took his watching all the people around him to finally realize that.
You can have a lot of thoughts and ideas but if you never settle on one, never say “this one is what I want”, you’re not going to get it.
No matter how much you watch, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you say you want it, you have to get up and do it.
You have to take action.
Once Emmet Fox realized that he had to get up and go get the food, he actually had to put his feet on the floor and go do it. The realization wasn’t still going to get him any food. He had to go get it.
Which is the whole idea we have behind the principles that we teach in New Thought – that we have to do something. We can pray, we can meditate, we can find information, we can choose what we want, but unless we actually do something, it’s going to be a long time that we’re just sitting there.
We have omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, and unless we put omniaction in, nothing happens.
We’re in a physical body to take action.
God is spirit. God doesn’t have the hands and the feet. We’re the hands and the feet. We have to do something.
There’s a lot of people out there that sit and think, “I can create something or make something happen just by thinking it”. They have to be very far advanced for that to happen. They can get the idea from the universe, and it can be a pure idea eventually, but they actually have to implement it.
The more we know about metaphysics, the more we are responsible for.
We can know it and understand it, but we also take action. 
Beginners, people who just get into it in the beginning, most frequently get things right away because all of a sudden they’re getting a new approach to life.
But the more we get into it, the more we realize that for every thing that comes to us in our life, we have to have a change in our minds.
We have to change, have a change of opinion. We have to “let go”…..
We have to let go of “we can’t” and say we can. We have to let go of “not enough” in order to have enough. We have to let go of “poverty” in order to have plenty.
We learn these things. We begin to put these ideas and emotions into stopping the claiming of what we don’t want in our lives. We begin to claim what we do want in our lives and begin take whatever action is necessary.
There are people that say that the New Thought concepts and principles don’t work. Most likely if they have even tried it at all, they haven’t realized these things from the past, their beliefs, their negative beliefs that they’re claiming, and therefore haven’t let go of them. Those negative beliefs are anchors weighing you down when you’re trying to move around the ocean.
We’re being held back by our old beliefs and our old feelings and fears and anxieties, frustrations, thinking that we’re not supposed to or can’t or whatever reason we come up with.
What are you waiting for? Take action now!
Terrie
Don’t Audit Life….
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Here’s a great thought – “Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of NOW.”
Does this hit home for you? I hope it does. I know that for me it certainly does. For example, this week I’ve been sick and even missed work for 3 days – highly unusual for me.
What did it teach me? It taught me to look at where I am right now, what I’m doing and what it all means. I think I had been pushing too hard at work and not enough about life. After all I am not WORK, I am so much more. And so are you.
Do you just hang out hoping that things will change? I did. For the longest time it was always ‘when I lose weight.’ or “When I x, y, z, then I’ll do a, b, c”. That is not living. That is existing and “auditing” life.
You have to invest yourself fully in life. Not just sit around and watch others live life.
Make a list of what you enjoy, what gives you pleasure and what would give you pleasure in your everyday existence. I bet that some of these things have to do with helping others or making others feel happier. What if you just stopped someone and made them laugh or say thank you for something they’ve done – even if it’s part of their job.
Do you come home feeling satisfied? Do you enjoy what you do during the day? I know my day starts out with me and my dog and I love it when she talks to me. But then the real joy in my day starts when I go through the gate on the Army Post. The gate guards are terrific and I always try to make them smile and laugh – it’s either really cold or really hot out there (remember I’m in Texas) and these guys (and some gals) have to stand their for 8-12 hours doing the very same thing over and over again (checking ID cards and saying “welcome to Ft ….”). What can you do for someone like that?
What about your coworkers – what can you do to brighten up their day and make their jobs even more meaningful? Do you really look at their faces? Do they seem happy? Do they seem sad? What can you do to help them through their day? Can you reach out to them in some way?
Stop auditing what you’re doing and start participating!!!!
Let us know what’s happening.
Terrie
Ready To Start Your Online Business
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This is the last day to take advantage of this great deal. Dr. Jeanette Cates is my mentor for online business. She has taught me pretty much everything I know.
Check out her “Incubator” – it is jam packed full of information that will take you from not knowing anything to having a successful business!
Here’s an article she wrote that will show you how she can take something that seems so complicated and make it seem so very simple. Sign up for her Incubator now!
Online Success Map
Are you making it too complex? This is a really simple business. Basically there are only a few parts.
1. Choose a market
This is the group of people you are going to sell to. There is no magic to this process. You merely choose the people you want to serve.
Sometimes it’s a group of people you are a part of. For example, you like to play golf, so you sell to golfers.
Sometimes, it’s a group of people who are likely to buy. For example, even if you are not a golfer you know that golfers are always trying to improve their game, so you choose to serve the golfers’ market.
2. Find something to sell
Now that you know the people who you are going to serve, you’ll get to know them. You’ll discover the problems that they face on a daily basis. Then you’ll find a solution to offer them.
Naturally you can create or pay someone else to create the solution for them. That’s considered creating your own product.
Or you can find an existing product and tell them about that one. That’s the affiliate marketing model.
3. Capture their information
While you can send them directly to the sales page, you will never build an online business doing that. So you want to offer them a reason to give you their name and email.
For that you generally offer a free report or audio or video. Something that is about solving the very problem they’ve come to solve.
Once they are added to your list you’ll add them to an autoresponder sequence that relates to that topic.
4. Sell something
This is the first place you make money. After all, you already know your audience. You know what their problems are. And you’re presenting them with a solution to those problems.
So they are likely to buy if they recognize that this solution solves their problem. Or offers them the opportunity to do what they love better, faster or with less work.
Over time you will work to improve the number of sales you make, whether it’s by
– getting better, more targeted traffic
– getting more people to opt in to see the sales page
– improving your sales page, if it’s your product
– or a combination of these factors.
But for right now, on the basic Online Success Map, your job is just to offer them the solution to purchase.
5. Sell related products
One of the biggest mistakes new marketers make is stopping after the offer of the solution. Whether your visitor buys or not, your job has just started!
For everyone on your optin list, you should be providing steady information to them on the topic for which they signed up. Ideally you want to provide frequent messages for the first couple of weeks, then settle into a minimum of one message per week.
What do you include? Information that is helpful, as well as other recommended products to help them solve all of their problems or fulfill their wants.
If you follow the simple 5-step map, you’ll quickly create your Online Success.
Dr. Jeanette Cates is an Internet strategist who works with online business owners to help them create their Online Success. She offers a free video overview of her Steps to Online Success at the Online Success Incubator
Quit Talking….
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I was reading one of Florence Scovell Shinn’s books (“Secret Door to Success”) today and was reminded of a very basic principle of success. Here’s an excerpt:
“”Living in the past, complaining of your misfortunes, builds a thick wall around your Jericho. Talking too much about your affairs, scattering your forces, brings you up against a high wall.
I knew a man of brains and ability, who was a complete failure. He lived with his mother and aunt, and I found that every night when he went home to dinner, he told them all that had taken place during the day at the office; he discussed his hopes, his fears, and his failures.
I said to him, “You scatter your forces by talking about your affairs. Don’t discuss your business with your family. Silence is golden!”
He took my lead. During dinner he refused to talk about business. His mother and aunt were in despair. They loved to hear all about everything, but his silence proved golden!
Not long after, he was given a position at one hundred dollars a week, and in a few years, he had a salary of three hundred dollars a week.”
Why don’t you take a week and write down what you say to whom each and every day. That includes people at work and at home. Do you get caught up in the office complaining or the office gossip? Sometimes that is simply a habit that you’re not even aware of. But you must be cognizant of what’s going on and what words are coming out of your mouth and those going into your ears.
So write things down as they happen. Take a few minutes each hour (set your reminder on Outlook or on your watch) and jot notes so that in the evening when you really have time, you can remember that you talked about this or that – or even that you just listened to the conversation. Listening is participating. Listening makes impressions on your subconscious mind.
Once that week has past review what you’ve written down for each day. How much of your time were you engaging in things that were not of any use (and potentially dangerous)? I think you’ll be surprised.
Now, what can you do about this? Figure out your plan of action to avoid the negative participation. One way to deal with this is to make a plan each morning. Write down something constructive you can do with your “free time” – that is, the time you’ve been involved in either listening or talking. Write down an affirmation to say instead of going to the “water cooler”. Frequently people are concerned that they will be looked on as an outsider if they don’t participate. Is this your concern? I think you can still be involved if you decide to change the subject or talk about something positive on that same subject.
In addition to writing down your plan for avoiding the negative self-talk, write down what you want to accomplish each day.
Do this for another week. Then repeat the same exercise of writing down what you say. But this week, also write down how your day has gone, how much success you’ve had at doing what you wanted to do, what you planned to do in the a.m. and did you succeed in doing it.
Let us know how this works out.
Terrie
Living in the past, complaining of your misfortunes, builds a thick wall around your Jericho.
Talking too much about your affairs, scattering your forces, brings you up against a high wall. I knew a man of brains and ability, who was a complete failure.
He lived with his mother and aunt, and I found that every night when he went home to dinner, he told them all that had taken place during the day at the office; he discussed his hopes, his fears, and his failures.
I said to him, “You scatter your forces by talking about your affairs. Don’t discuss your business with your family. Silence is golden!”
He took my lead. During dinner he refused to talk about business. His mother and aunt were in despair. They loved to hear all about everything, but his silence proved golden!
Not long after, he was given a position at one hundred dollars a week, and in a few years, he had a salary of three hundred dollars a week.
Talking too much about your affairs, scattering your forces, brings you up against a high wall. I knew a man of brains and ability, who was a complete failure.
He lived with his mother and aunt, and I found that every night when he went home to dinner, he told them all that had taken place during the day at the office; he discussed his hopes, his fears, and his failures.
I said to him, “You scatter your forces by talking about your affairs. Don’t discuss your business with your family. Silence is golden!”
He took my lead. During dinner he refused to talk about business. His mother and aunt were in despair. They loved to hear all about everything, but his silence proved golden!
Not long after, he was given a position at one hundred dollars a week, and in a few years, he had a salary of three hundred dollars a week.