I consult and coach people work hard on making their dreams a reality.

Often they tell me that they are frustrated about money, so I share ideas, systems and programs that I know will work for their situation. More often than not, we find that there are simple things they have overlooked or forgotten. Once simple change ends up leveraging their efforts and making the path to wealth much easier than you would have imagined.

It’s like the money is right there waiting for them.

Some follow the advice, some can’t believe it’s real, and a few attack the advice… as if they’ve become the expert at not receiving money.  I suggest the following video as a reminder that the money is often right there in front of you:

Is Making Money Online is Too Good To Be True?

I’ve been sharing ideas that anyone can use to capitalize on the assets you have, to create traffic for their web site, or even to use free traffic to promote their web site, blog, or business.

I know it is what people are looking for. Talking to thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals and marketers, I get asked again and again

How to get more leads and sales.

The truth is that business is not as easy as the get rich quick offers make it out to be. There is no magic bean or system that will make you rich. However, it is very possible.

I recently reread Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins. Much of the book is about large companies and the specific examples may not feel relevant to your start up or small business.  But the principles that Collins talks about come from extensive extended research and interviews with CEO and companies that have survived and thrived over the long haul.

The secret was revealed in the questions about what allowed these companies to achieve many times the growth of their competitors. It wasn’t some technological advantage. In fact, most of the winners were unlikely to even mention the technology, patents, or proprietary methods their company employed.

The best companies, the ones that jumped ahead and produced more income, jobs and profits were the ones that mastered the mundane. They focused on what worked and worked at getting repeated results in whatever proved successful.

If you have a bad business and somehow magically get a ton of publicity or a big rush of customers, what you have is a bad business that’s very busy.

Please don’t take offense. We’re all guilty of seeing a bright and shiny object (like “traffic” or technology) as the cure for our basic failure to master the mundane.

This year, in our business, we’re meeting daily to remind ourselves that the secret of succe3ss is in the details and working on fixing the little things that hold up our business growth. Since our business is about helping your business, we’ll share ideas and thought on this here.

If you are out to master the mundane and set up a business that become your cash cow, stick with us by subscribing to our feed with the orange RSS button or opting in for on of our offers in the sidebar so we can keep in touch.

If you agree. Share this post with a friend.. then let’s all get to work doing perfecting the simple things that will allow us to master the mundane and pick up the dollars sitting right in front of us.

We’ve been having a discussion on simplicity today and this video came to mind.

I quote it often.. as my explanation of how complex simple can be.

Dr. Tone LaMotta, author of What You Really Want Wants You shared with me this quote from Bob Proctor.

Realizing I hadn’t seen it before, I did some research. I could find that exact phrase, but found all those words and the same concept over and over.

And a wonderful story told by Bob Proctor:

In 9th grade, I knew this guy who got kicked out of school.

Feeling stuck, he got a low paying job and did not anticipate any sort of success coming his way.

Things were going from bad to worse when the book, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, was given to him. That little book was, not only the first book he had ever read, but it brought a major turning point in his life, as well as in the Personal Development industry as a whole.

From that point he went from earning $4,000 a year to over $1,000,000 a year in a short amount of time. And it has only been up-hill ever since

The guy in the story is Bob Proctor.

A simple idea can make a big difference. Dr. Lamotta reminded me of that, and many other ways that you can be happy in in any economy at any time.

Take a look at the free program Toni is teaching now

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What we count is as important as the amount we count

Chip Conley speaks at the TED conference

Great refresher course on Abraham Maslow and how he might have changed his pyramid had he lived longer:

We’ve been using metrics that count the lowest levels of Maslow Hierarchy rather than the things that really matter to most of us today.

We only can manage what we measure.. so let’s measure what is really important

What should we be measuring Gross National Happiness (GNS)?

please leave a comment with what you think matters.. and how to count it

"Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Nan Akasha’s Already Rich: Secrets to Master Your Money Mind comes out today and I thought you’d like to see a short excerpt:

I told you I like to go to the core, to get the fastest and most accurate results. The core of who you are is your self image. Your self image is the blueprint from which your systems operate, It is what your mind, your ego, and the Universe use as a guide to know what you want. Remember these systems are here 24/7 working to bring you what you want.

“Why don’t I have the money I want then?” You ask. I’ll bet a large portion of you reading this book right now, have read tons of books, taken classes and tried meditating, visualizing, making vision boards and more, with some or no results.

It’s not that these techniques aren’t useful. It is that you can only make ‘skin deep’ changes when you do not first change your self image. It is a bit like covering up an ugly old chair with a blanket. It may look better, but it is still an ugly old chair underneath. It will never change by covering it with hopes, wishes and weak affirmations.

Will power works only when applied to keeping focused on your vision and staying committed to your goal. It is not to be used to change habits, beliefs or create true transformation. Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows this. What always happens in the end? You cannot sustain the diet because it is not transforming you from within. It is attempting to force a change on you from outside.

Your shift must occur within you first, in order to transform your outer world experience. Change the internal landscape, energy and image, and the outside naturally shifts to match. It can literally dissolve and then take the shape of your new self image in an instant, if you let it!

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Hope you had a great day today.

If you took part in the commercialized traditions of celebrating love, hurray for you.

If you are more like the TGS characters on 30 Rock, I hope you remember that every day is a great day to spread love.