Gregg H. Hawkins

I’ve mentioned on my blog a few times that I have ventured into affiliate marketing, mainly Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising . It seems to be the big thing as of lately. I began to research the topic mid/late last year and was fortunate to meet Wes Mahler. Wes was kind enough to introduce a group of about 40 us to affiliate marketing and show us how to get campaigns started from start to finish. I definitely did not learn everything I know about affiliate marketing from Wes as a lot of it came from reading forums, other websites and blogs, and testing out tactics on my own. Don’t get me wrong though because Wes and I can’t forget to mention Steven Truong, have taught me a lot and have also been great helpers and go to people for any questions I have had.

Time to Give Back
Wes was a great inspiration to me. I realized that the time he put into helping beginner affiliate marketers was more valuable than him actually making the thousands of dollars he actually makes through affiliate marketing and other projects. By creating the Affiliate Mastermind Group he was able to create a great network of like minds (affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs) who all had the same goal in mind - to become successful. The Affiliate Mastermind Group doesn’t exist anymore due to some unfortunate events, however most of us still do keep in contact via email and AOL/AIM. The Affiliate Mastermind Group was a great concept and way to network with other people. There were some big names in the group including Jon Waraas. Don’t get me wrong though, most of us will become the big names in the near future!

What I’ve decide to do is to create my own blog (www.ThePreneur.com) and forum (www.PreneurTalk.com) to create the same environment Wes created for us. I want to help beginning affiliate marketers get on their feet just like Wes helped us. I want to create a blog that people access for information and gain inspiration from. I want to create a community of affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs where everyone can ask questions and help each other out. There are no stupid questions.

Contacting Me
If you’re a beginner at affiliate marketing and/or interested in learning about it please contact me! If you contact me, please do so through the contact form on The Preneur. If you have friends or know of anyone else who wants to get into affiliate marketing please have them contact me as well. Hopefully I can get a group of about 5-10 interested people to start off and begin teaching the basics to. If you would like to find out more information please visit The Preneur blog and consider registering at the forum to collaborate with others just like you. This group will only become what we make of it so let’s make the most of it!

I don’t have any plans in the near future to keep GreggHawkins.com alive. However, I’ll leave it up for now, there just won’t be any updates to it. In the future I may turn it into a portfolio website for my photography ( that is when I get my SLR camera). My time and efforts will be put into my new blog www.ThePreneur.com and forum www.PreneurTalk.com. For those of you who are interested in affiliate marketing don’t be discouraged. Take action now! Affiliate marketing is a fast growing industry and there’s still a lot of money to be made. Affiliate marketing takes a lot of hard work, time, motivation, and dedication on your end. If you’re willing to put in those things you will become successful.

Blog: www.ThePreneur.com
Forum: www.PreneurTalk.com

7,556 total visits, 5,694 unique visitors, and 61,096 pageviews. No, these aren’t the monthly stats for my blog as I went over those in my earnings for August post. These are the stats for the Newport Harbor fansite my brother and I created. Those numbers were generated in 16 days of the fansite’s life. We also generated a fair amount of money in those 16 days with Google Adsense. By taking these numbers and doubling them, is what we expect the statistics to be for September.

The Traffic Statistics

• 7,556 Total Visits
• 5,694 Unique Visitors
• 61,096 Pageviews

As I mentioned earlier in the post, those are the traffic statistics for the first 16 days of the fansite ending the month of August. Visitors spent an average of 6 minutes and 57 seconds on the site generating an average of 8.09 pageviews per visit. So how did these visitors reach the site? Direct traffic accounted for 9.05% of the traffic, referring sites accounted for 7.90% of the traffic, and search engines sent us 82.60% of the traffic.

Total Revenue
We’re still tweaking the ads and testing out different revenue sources for the site. However, for the first 16 days we generated $91.54 in Google Adsense alone. We implemented Kontera the last week of August, which only generated $2.19.

By getting accepted into other PPC and CPC programs we hope to double if not triple our total earnings for September. We tried out AuctionAds for a little while, but those weren’t performing at all. We’ve also applied to AzoogleAds, Vizu (create polls), and a few others. Our main goal is to generate enough traffic in September so that we can get accepted into TribalFusion’s network. Hopefully we’ll be able to do it!

Overview of August
I made a post about generating a passive income the other day. I think it relates to this fansite very well because all of the hard work is done (to some extent). The hardest part of the fansite was getting it up and functioning within the first 2 days. After getting all of the content and whatnot for the site, we only spend about an hour a day updating it. Generating $5-$10 dollars a day by doing basically nothing adds up at the end of the month. Though, we know it will take much more hard work to double that amount earned per day and that it is possible if we try hard enough.

The first few days were an absolute scramble to gather all of the information we wanted to include, cast member biographies, and photos. It was also hectic finding the perfect WordPress theme and finding all of the perfect WordPress plugins for the website. Looking back and viewing the first 16 days of statistics makes me smile because it’s truly a success.

August has been an exciting month for me in many aspects. I’ve improved from my July earnings in some areas of my blog while other areas still need attention. My brother and I started a fansite and have been quite successful so far, I broke the $200 earnings mark for PayPerPost, and I reached my goal of making $10 in Google Adsense. I believe that August started off as a good month with great activity within my blog, but as the month progressed I noticed community participation decline. I’m not quite sure whether people weren’t interested in my posts or because I wasn’t as active in other communities. Other than that traffic was mediocre in my mind and could use some improvement.

Earnings for August (2007)
August marks the second month I’ve had Google Adsense integrated within my blog. August was also the first month that I implemented affiliate links and banners from Text-Link-Ads and Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, which I hardly generated any money from. I’m thinking about removing those banners from the blog, but I’m not quite sure yet. For August I earned a total of $279.21 dollars from blogging. Other than that here’s how my earnings for August broke down:

• PayPerPost: $215.45
• Reviews: $25.00
• Affiliate Referrals: $25.00
• Google Adsense: $10.08
• Text-Link-Ads: $3.68

Recap of the PayPerPost Reviews

• Get Business Cards with VistaPrint
• Roman Greenberg to Fight Damon Reed
• Turning Donations Into Salvations
• Rob Zombie’s Halloween Movie
• Just Thoofing Around
• Kindergarten Through 12^th Grade Homeschool
• Taking Out a Loan
• Utilize Technology From Your Mobile Phone
• Picture to Painting
• The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk
• Eye of the Dolphin (2007)
• Student Loans - Direct Plus Loan
• Communicate Quicker, Clearer, Faster
• Free Encrypted Online Backup

Blog Traffic for August (2007)
As I mentioned earlier, blog traffic for August was mediocre in my opinion. I was Stumbled a few times and made the front page of Thoof however, I wasn’t able to capitalize on the incoming traffic at that time. Even though I received slightly more unique visitors that July, I didn’t generate more pageviews.

For the month of August I received 3,139 pageviews from 1,891 unique visitors and a total of 2,201 total visits to my blog. This was a decrease of 212 pageviews and an increase of 347 unique visitors. The average time a visitor spent on my blog was 4 minutes and 7 seconds generating an average of 1.43 pages each visit. For the month of August referring sites accounted for 45.71% of my traffic, direct traffic accounted for 23.40% of my traffic, and search engines accounted for 30.08% of my traffic. For September I hope to keep visitors at my blog longer, therefore, creating a longer average time per visit and hopefully more pageviews per visit

Expectations for September (2007)
For September I’ll have to set the goals a little higher than before. I’ll make it a goal to generate at least $20 dollars with Google Adsense. I think that $20 dollars is a reasonable amount, but will be a challenge to reach. I also want to break the 2,000 unique visitor mark for the first time. Lastly, I want to make it a goal to stay more active in my fellow blogger’s communities. For the first half of this month I was doing fine, but as the month progressed I became worn out and was distracted with other things. I will need to keep my mind and stay focus on the tasks at hand.

Top Commentators for August (2007)
I’d like to thank the top commentators for the month of August! I appreciate your participation with my blog and hopefully I’ll be seeing you guys and gals around more often! Without you I wouldn’t be where I am today, nor would my experience online as a blogger be as great. Thank you for reading my blog, your friendship, and participation.

1. Shaun Low
2. Glen Allsopp
3. Shane
4. Ms. Q
5. Eric Karey
6. Susan Suarez
7. Steven Fergus
8. ForumeR

This wraps up the monthly report for July (2007). If you want to provide any feedback, make suggestions, or have any questions feel free to do so through the contact form or in the comments. Thanks for dropping by!

Lately, the fansite my brother and I are running, our Google Adsense earnings have been decreasing quite dramatically. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem? We were generating about 0.34 cents per click, a lot of the time our fansite was generating .50+ cents per click, last week during this time. Now, the earnings per click have dropped down to about .15-.20 cents per click.

My brother and I have posted on a few forums and other people have noticed a drop in their earnings per click this week as well. I was wondering if anyone knows the problem of this? It has definitely impacted the overall earnings each day and we hope we can get that number back up to where it used to be.

Generating Passive Income
What my brother and I have realized is that webmasters can generate a passive income quite easily. Even though we’re generating about $10 dollars per day in Adsense it equals to another $300 per month ($150 after we split it). We’ve put in the blood, sweat, and tears these last 2 weeks and are now reaping the benefits. It’s great to check your Adsense earnings every morning and see that you earned a few dollars in your sleep. Just think of it this way, you could have 10 websites and make $10 dollars a day on each one. That’s and extra $1,000 per month! I mean come on, who wouldn’t like that?

Some of you may think that putting up a fansite such as we did is fairly easy. However, you must realize that my brother and I know absolutely nothing about coding or being a webmaster, and this is our first major experience running a website of such caliber (even though it is on WordPress). Everyone has to start somewhere, right? It’s great that our fansite is constantly showing up in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) on the first page for many keywords and phrases. It’s amazing how much traffic you can generate and get to your website by showing up on the first pages.

Long Term Investment
In my opinion, creating websites, fansites, forums, or whatever you can think of, are long term investments. Honestly, you put in all of the hard work in the beginning. It takes hours to set up a website and get it exactly how you want it (maybe less if you’re a professional). It also takes a lot of time to promote, advertise, and market your website online. Once you’ve successfully done that, you’ve created yourself a stream of passive income.

Now that my brother and I are pretty much done tweaking the fansite, except for adding a forum, we only spend about an hour a day, maybe less, updating it with more photos and information. That’s not much time compared to the 5+ hours a day that we were spending on it the first week. Why not make life easy and build yourself a passive income through your blog or website!?

Recommended Reads:

• 150+ Uniques and 850+ Pageviews the First Day
• 220+ Uniques and 1,300+ Pageviews the Second Day
• How to Get 80% to 90% of Incoming Traffic From Google

Newport Harbor Fans is Officially 1 Week Old
In this post I’m going to reveal to you the traffic statistics, revenue, and affiliate and advertising programs my brother and I are currently using on Newport Harbor Fans.

It’s insane how fast my brother and I slapped up a WordPress them, edited, and got Newport Harbor Fans dot com up and running. Since we launched the fansite we’ve been working on it non-stop this whole week. We’ve put in a lot of our time into it and hopefully it will pay off in the long run. It’s too bad that I revealed the first few days of statistics to you guys because after the second episode aired (August 22, 2007) our traffic hit the roof. Our hosting plan costs us $9.95 and we get 1 terabyte of bandwidth, 100 gigabytes of storage, unlimited domains and sub-domains, and fast support. I think it’s a 10 megabit connection, but don’t quote me on that. It’s a great thing that our hosting provider, Host Gator, has been able to keep up with the traffic as well as the bandwidth demands.

Newport Harbor Fans First Week Traffic Statistics
According to Google Analytics, for the first 7 days (1 week) not including today (August 23, 2007), Newport Harbor Fans received:

• 1,384 Unique Visitors
• 12,142 Pageviews

These visitors visited, on average, about 7.66 pages per visit. This created an average time on the website of 6 minutes and 10 seconds. For the first week, Newport Harbor Fans’ bounce rate was only 22.84%. Not bad at all.

The most visited page turned out to be Newport Harbor’s cast member, Chrissy Schwartz about page, which generated 454 pageviews. Close behind was Clay Adler’s about page, which generated 404 pageviews.

As I mentioned in my previous posts, Newport Harbor Fans ranks #1 and on the first page of Google for many search terms and keywords. We’re currently receiving traffic from Google, Yahoo!, AOL, and Blingo.

Newport Harbor Fans First Week Revenue Channels
The domain cost us $9.15, actually $18.30, because I purchased newportharborfansite.com as well just to be on the safe side. My brother and I didn’t want competitors to snag that domain name. Currently, our Google Adsense earnings for the 7 day period equals to $21.15. This gives us a profit of $2.95. There’s no doubt that our profits will increase as the traffic and revenue increases every day.

I’ve mentioned before that my brother and I are by no means professionals at monetizing websites. However, we’re currently testing different ad units in different places to see which ones perform the best. As previous research has stated, the Adsense block (350×200) has performed the best for us, so far. This morning, we were also accepted into Never Blue Ads network and have begun to browse through their campaigns and added some ad blocks and text links onto our website. Hopefully this will allow us to generate more revenue so we don’t have to rely on one source of income from Google Adsense.

I hope that all of you don’t mind these posts about Newport Harbor Fans. It’s pretty exciting for my brother and I considering we’ve been hoping for this kind of opportunity ever since we’ve been exposed to all of the different ways you can make money online. Just remember, nothing is impossible nor will it be easy, but hard work and dedication will pay off in the end.

Note: There are 10 spots available for text link ads under the “Sponsors” header on the website. Advertisers can purchase them for $20 per month beginning September 1, 2007 until September 30, 2007. The niche is very targeted towards teenagers between the ages 12-24 in the entertainment (film & television) category. If you’re one of my readers you can contact me directly through my contact form.

I’ve been teasing you guys with posts about 150+ uniques and 850+ pageviews the first day our website was up than another post about 220+ uniques and 1,300+ pageviews the second day our website was up. With 80% - 90% of that traffic coming from Google’s search engine, Google has been a main player in the success of our website. However, with the lack of knowledge on how to properly monetize a website, we’ve only made $9.05 in the last 4 days. I’m guessing that if we were Tyler Cruz, Nate WhiteHill, or Zac Johnson, whom I consider true professionals at making money online, my brother and I would have probably done a lot better in the revenue department. Do you think you could have done better?

The Lucrative Hobby Revealed
Is the suspense killing you? Well, here it is. By now, you’re probably jumping up and down in your seat eager to find out what my brother and I have been keeping secret these last 4 days. I’ll be honest, it’s nothing special and there’s no special way to do this kind of thing; we just thought of it at the right time and were also lucky.

What we did was create a fan site for MTV’s reality show Newport Harbor The Real OC. We were fortunate enough and also amazed that the domain (www.newportharborfans.com) was still available for purchase. This is the first season of Newport Harbor, but it is considered the fourth season because it replaced Laguna Beach.

How did luck play a role? We quickly did our research and found that there were no other serious fan sites on the market. There are a few other fan sites and forums dedicated to Laguna Beach, The Hills, and Newport Harbor, but there were no fan sites solely dedicated to Newport Harbor. We wanted to get a WordPress theme up and running as quickly as possible and get listed in Google so we could hopefully rank in the top 10 for a lot of popular search terms. If you read the first post you know that it paid of pretty well.

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Setbacks of About Our Fan Site
My brother and I didn’t want to use a WordPress theme, but we had no other choice. We don’t know how to code html, php, or use css to create a website. We believe that this will provide us great experience running a fan site such as this for future endeavors. We also believe that if we professionals and knew exactly what we were doing and how to monetize a website, that our revenue would have been much greater. Even if we don’t make a lot of money and our fan site fails miserably, it’s better to have tried than not have tried at all.

Future Plans and Monetization
There are many things we would like to implement on the fan site. We would like to implement a Google search bar where our current search bar is located so we can hopefully increase our revenues through searches on our website and we would also like to implement an Adsense block above the grey sidebar. Another goal of ours is to integrate a forum on the website because we believe that will keep people at our site longer and would equal more potential clicks on ads. We aren’t sure whether or not we want to integrate a forum in the website now, or wait a little while to build a loyal fan base. Other than that we hope to provide the latest news, gossip, and pictures about MTV’s Newport Harbor’s cast members.

Feedback and Opinions
We would greatly appreciate your feedback and opinions on the fan site. Maybe even Tyler Cruz, Nate Whitehill, or Zac Johnson will take time out of their busy schedules to drop by and make a comment or two about Newport Harbor Fans. We know that we’re not professionals, but we believe that the potential factor on this fan site could be great if we play our cards right and monetize it correctly.

Yesterday I made a post about a little experiment that my brother and I started. I was also thinking about it and I wouldn’t really consider it an “experiment,” but a lucrative hobby. I say lucrative because the traffic and pageviews are quite amazing for the 2^nd day, especially for the amount of marketing and advertising we’ve put into it - absolutely none. What we need to figure out is how to monetize our website to earn the most money from this website. Now, don’t take it the wrong way and think that my brother and I are greedy, because we aren’t. Our desire, passion, and motivation to become successful and earn enough money to pay off our student loans for college is what’s keeps us going; trying new things even if they do end up as another failure.

Second Day of the Experiment
It’s simply amazing how much traffic we’ve received to our website in just the second day of it being up and being listed in Google’s index. For August 19^th, 2007 our traffic statistics for the website increased even more. We received 223 unique visitors and 1,333 pageviews. We also used up over 200 mb (megabytes) of bandwidth for the second day. We expect these statistics to keep rising as the days go on and hopefully begin making a profit by the next week if we play our cards right.

This “experiment” definitely isn’t one of those projects where you slap up a website and watch the search engine traffic find its way to you. The last 3 days have required a lot time and effort to get the website almost to 100%. I’ll admit that it isn’t exactly how we want it yet, but hopefully it will be by the end of this week. Even though we don’t know much about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), we’re trying our best to provide internal links, alt tags for images, and use main keywords and phrases as much as possible without degrading the quality of our website. It seems like it’s working because we’re still showing up on the first pages of Google for many search terms.

Statistics for the Second Day
Like I said before, it’s amazing how much traffic we’re receiving from Google. According to Google Analytics we received 198 visitors yesterday from a total of 105 keywords. The traffic statistics were broken down with 8.4% being direct traffic, 5.04% being referring websites, and 86.55% coming from Google. The average time on our website was 5 minutes and 45 seconds, which is up 1 minute and 10 seconds from the first day.

Google Adsense only brought us in .77 cents, which is horrible in my opinion, especially for the amount of traffic we’re receiving. We’re currently looking at Google’s Referral Products to include on our website and affiliate programs we want to promote.

Google Analytics - Visitors Overview

Google Analytics - Traffic Source Overview

Google Analytics - Top Content Overview

Advertisement Opportunities
We will probably reveal the website to all of you within the next week. We’re hoping to offer advertising opportunities (directly through us) so we can maximize our profits. To begin with, we’ve decided that we want to offer text link ads then offer other opportunities when we feel the time is right.

Once we get the website exactly how we want it, we’ll probably reveal it to our readers. That way you guys will be able to give us your opinions and possibly help us out monetizing the website. I hope these statistics are motivational to some of you because it’s possible for anyone. My brother and I aren’t professional web developers, online marketers, or experienced webmasters, but with the help of WordPress we’ve accomplished something great.

Go To: The First Day of the Experiment

I wanted to inform my readers about a little success I’ve run across. The other day over at CashQuests, Kumiko mentioned how to keep your readers from laughing at your opinion by supporting your results with statistics. That’s just what my brother and I intend on doing. My brother and I were lying in bed two nights ago and I came up with a brilliant idea. Let me tell you, it was one of those moments where my hope and excitement were indescribable. I almost didn’t hop out of bed thinking that this idea had already been taken, but decided to anyway because hope desired me to. Why do I mention hope? Because I was hoping that the domain name was still available and we would be the first ones in the market. The domain name was available and we were definitely one of the first ones into the market.

Now, I know most of you are asking yourselves what in the world is this experiment? What’s the domain? What’s the market you penetrated? I’m sorry, but my brother and I have decided not to disclose that information at this point in time. For those of you who are sneaky ninjas and are good at solving puzzles, you might figure out what it is. If you do, we ask that you please don’t disclose the information either.

First Day of the Experiment
The first day we began this “experiment” was on August 17^th, 2007. The domain took life, but we were skeptical about how well it would perform. It wasn’t listed in Google so we new we wouldn’t be able to tell what kind of traffic we could generate. We kept punching away and got the domain and website fully functional by the end of the day.

We only received 7 unique visitors.

Second Day of the Experiment
Though, the second day was a lot more hectic we were definitely more successful. It’s a great feeling to wake up in the morning, check Google’s index and find that your domain has been listed for searchers to stumble upon. My brother worked on the website from the time we got up (8:00 am) until he had work at 2:00 pm. I worked on the website from the time we got up until about noon and various times throughout the day. I kept thinking to myself that I hope this hard work and dedication will pay off. I was also excited to see the second day’s stats on Google Analytics.

Google Analytics - Visitors Overview

Google Analytics - Traffic Source Overview

Google Analytics - Top Content Overview

The Statistics Skyrocketed
It turns out that the hard work and dedication paid off. I waited until after 12:00 am to check Google Analytics for August 18, 2007. What? No way! The website received 154 unique visitors and 869 pageviews in only the second day. These numbers are the kind of stats I wish I could generate with my blog!

The traffic turned out to be exactly what we expected. Only 22.62% of the traffic was direct, 2.38% was from referring websites, and exactly 75% of traffic came from, you guessed it - Google. It turns out that we rank 1 in the Google search engine for quite a few keywords and phrases. We also show up on the first page of Google for many other keywords and phrases, but aren’t number one. One of our top phrases sent us 29 unique visitors in only the second day. Simply amazing.

It was also amazing how long visitors stayed on our site and how many pageviews we received for each page of the website. For the day, the bounce rate was only 27.89% and many of the pages received over 30+ unique views. Google sent us a total of 125 visits and those visitors viewed on average 5.07 pages on the website. The average time on the website was 4 minutes and 35 seconds.

We Shall Continue On
The second day statistics have motivated my brother and I to keep working hard. This was also proof that being first to enter a market will help you rank well in Google for keywords and phrases. Though, our earnings for the day weren’t all that great, a measly $1.40, we hope to monetize the website to better that statistic. We believe that today (Day 3) will be even more exciting and the statistics will be even better.

Go To: The Second Day of the Experiment

The web 2.0 craze has been about sleek designs and making money online. It seems like that now-a-day most of our attention is being concentrated on our blogs and websites and we tend to forget about our own lives. Making money in general is a hard task for many, especially if you’re just joining the blogsphere hoping to strike it rich. However, there are other ways to make money when you’re not online otherwise known as offline.

Undesirable Expense’
I was thinking about it the other day and was talking to my brother about it as well. We don’t spend our money at all. In fact, I still have my first two paychecks from Abercrombie & Fitch and China Bistro that I received this summer and don’t plan on going to the bank anytime soon. Sure, my money may be better off in the bank, but I have 3 months before they are voided and it’s better sitting on my desk than in my bank available for me to spend!

What I’m trying to get at is that we, as a society, spend our money on a bunch of useless things. Before purchasing something we need to ask ourselves whether it is a commodity or a necessity to our well being. Can you live with or without it? Personally, my largest expense is what I spend eating out for lunch and dinner. But seriously, buying that $200 dollar Juicy purse, which is the size of a Chihuahua, just to say that you have it and the other girls don’t is pointless. Buying that cup of coffee at Starbucks every morning or Jamba Juice at lunch is also an unnecessary expense.

Make Money in Life
Some of us are so concentrated on making money online that it’s getting to the point where it’s ridiculous. Making a little extra cash on the side is good, but we can also “make money in life” by saving our money from those little expenses. We need to discipline ourselves from our urges to eat out and from those impulse buys at retail stores. Remember, a lot of little expenses will add up to one big expense.

Keep making money online, but spend your money wisely!

If you missed yesterday’s post about the Law of Attraction you may want to go read that post before you begin to read this one.

It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Research has shown that we have about 60,000 thoughts a day. It would be impossible to control all of those thoughts. However, our feelings let us know what we’re thinking. Our thoughts create our feelings. We, as humans, can differentiate between the good and the bad feelings because of the way they make us feel.

Bad Feelings

• Fear
• Depression
• Guilt
• Resentment
• Hate Revenge
• Anger

Good Feelings

• Love
• Gratitude
• Joy
• Passion
• Happiness / Excitement
• Hope / Satisfaction

The good and bad feelings can be referred to as good or bad frequencies and good or bad vibes. When you celebrate the good feelings you’ll draw to you more good feelings and things that make you feel good. The good feelings are the ones that you should want to feel all the time. Whether you’re feeling good or bad, you’re creating a future based on your feelings - on track of your desires or off track of your desires. The law of attraction is working every second. Everything you think and feel is creating your future.

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

The Power of Visualization

• Visualize “When you visualize, then you materialize.” Dr. Denis Waitley conducted a study with Olympic athletes called visual motor rehearsal. He had the athletes run their event only in their mind. Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when they were running their race in their mind as when they were running it on the track. The mind can’t distinguish whether you’re really doing it or if it’s just practice. Close your eyes everyday for several minutes and visual having what you want and feel the feelings of already having it. Decide what you want, believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, and believe that it’s possible for you.

Trying Something: Create a vision board. Take pictures of things you would like to achieve or attract, a house, car, spouse, et cetera, and put it on your vision board. When you look at your vision board begin to visualize having already acquired all of your items and the feelings that come with them.

Visualizing something can create a euphoria of feelings. Capture those feelings and hold on to them. It’s the good feelings you don’t want to let go of because the law of attraction will work and more of those feelings will enter your life. If this all sounds bogus to you, just give it try. You never know if something will work if you don’t take the time to try it for yourself. I’m going to be making my vision board these next few days to help motivate myself to become the success I vision myself to be.