Fighting Yourself & Your Mindset.

Kia Ora,

Have neglected this blog for a while as being battling with myself. According to those teaching this type of education that I am using, I have the knowledge to succeed, but there is something just holding me back. Me.

It doesn't help that my flatmate's answer to getting things of the ground is to get a job.

That is besides the fact we have played cash flow 101 several times he still does not get it. It is hard enough convincing myself at times that I am on the right track without that coming from a mate.

It comes back to the crab story one of Robert Kiyosaki's advisors talks off. Where she grew up there was a type of crab & once they had two crabs they put them in a box which the crabs could easily climb out of. Why they ensured they had at least two crabs was as soon as one tried to climb out, all the others in the box would pull them back in.

They liken this to your friends & family when you are looking to launch your business or go through investing. You are going through the change in mindset needed but they are afraid of your change & therefore they suggest what is comfortable for them, usually get a job.

News flash, there are not a lot of jobs out there at present. I have carried out temp labouring to help keep my business dreams alive but even that has dried up over the last year or so.

So we have to think of other ways of creating that cash flow.

Recently I went to a seminar & yes thanks for the comment Helen, Kieran Trass was speaking at that seminar. He did have a couple of his games with him.

That seminar gave me some ideas to work on, but in the meantime I have being working on creating cash flow from the internet. Not successful as yet, but starting to get an idea of how this social media can really be useful. Working to a plan that will bring in cash flow from the social media but also advertise my businesses.

One I saw was great. I was on an internet dating site that is totally free & right now for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

Anyway when these sites start up they have to find ways to build members or create cash flow. This one had added adverts & adsense adverts as well. Then I noticed what the adsense adverts were. They were all this sites competitors who had paid for advertising.

So the people who had set up the site were making cash flow that their competitors were paying for & this allowed them to survive as they grew their membership.

It is that type of thinking that inspires me when things are tough. As I work through this social media stuff it starts to dawn on you the ways in which you can use it, which is not in everyones face. True it has taken me about three weeks to learn what some kid could probably get set up for me in five minutes, but I am perservering. Might even get some kid in to make it all work in a better fashion.

All this just shows that maybe those coming through have already learnt the lessons of the rich. Make money out of nothing, by seeing an opportunity.

You just look at Twitter & then you see all the applications that have being develped to make it better.

The comment was made that websites are basically obsolete or just on line brochures now. Set one up cheap, which if you do right will bring you a cash flow as well then link it to your Blog & to your Twitter & Facebook page. Set up a seperate Facebook page for your business & have it open to the public.

Suddenly you have the ability to create cash flow not just from your immediate community but from hundreds of millions who might never use your core service.

One person had 94,000 followers on twitter. Now if one of your tweets caught her eye then she retweeted it a good number of those followers would then retweet it, but also go & look at what it was that she liked.

Beats knocking on doors. So it is limited by our imagination & ability to keep going despite all the issues trying to drag us back.