When I was going to college just a few years ago, I was in class with a younger associate who was astonished that I left the radio off when I traveled between cities across the Midwest. My reason: it gave me time to complete logical chains of thought I had going.

Of course, now I know even better.

Because all that noise just keeps you thinking. It doesn’t help your thinking or figure out how to quit thinking.

Today I threw out (gave away, actually) a 12-hour set of CD’s which cost me nearly a hundred bucks – because that person said in the third recording on the first CD: you can’t do anything about thinking, you can only change what you are thinking.

What a curve-ball.

For the past few days, I’ve been telling you all about Levenson and his Sedona Method. And been telling you how this enables you to quiet your mind and actually quit thinking as the bad habit (addiction, actually) it is.

Another lecture I was listening to today was on wealth building. Yes, that’s kind of a oxymoron all by itself – since your prosperity is already present. Now, he did give a lot of good mechanics on actions you can be informed about to help you with your inspired actions.

But this guy said the same thing many, many people before him said: you have to surround yourself with the tapes that will reinforce and create the world you want. And this is true.

True for those who can’t quit thinking.

I’ve covered this before in other material. It takes about 28 days of listening and re-listening to the same material or set of materials to change a habit. All thought is generally a habit. So if you want to change your mind, you simply change what you are listening to.

You see, most people are effect of the 50-60,000 thoughts that go through their mind in a 24-hour period. They can’t help but think. The breakthrough of the Sedona Method is that it quiets the mind. It allows you to not just think pleasant, joyous thoughts – by regulating your feelings as “The Secret” espouses – but actually to slow down the frequency of thoughts and get them to simply slow way, way down… and then — just stop.

Takes awhile. But you’ve been thinking your whole life, so cut yourself some slack.

Levenson talks on his early tapes that what you are actually doing is getting rid of the mind itself. (As I went over before.)

So why do you need to listen to these tapes? To reinforce your thought processes so that you always “think” in this new habit.

Sure, there is learning new techniques, new ways to accomplish things in this universe. But that is all working at a quite mechanical level, isn’t it.

This new approach is much simpler. If you just keep releasing, you get to the point where Levenson recommended – of simply releasing in order to get things to appear. Now, that is kind of drastic, isn’t it? And you are still going to get inspired action you have to do. Like suddenly calling someone – or turning down a certain street when you are driving somewhere – or stopping to go into a store you haven’t visited before.

Intuitive suggestion – inspiration. Same thing. Quiet your mind and these start coming to you.

Why is it so hard to develop intuition? Because most of use are thinking too hard at it.

Here’s your suggested program to follow:

• Turn off the TV for most of the day, if not all of it.
• Quit listening to audio CD’s and recordings – as well as DVD’s.
• Welcome and release any and all thoughts that come in. If they won’t release and are negative, release on being stuck – then go back and finish releasing them.
• Truth (true inspired intuition) won’t release, but you’ll recognize it for what it is.
• Achieve that inner, joyous, profound peace and maintain it. Any thoughts come in, just welcome and release them.

Do this plan for 30 days instead of anything else. Three times a day just purposely sit for awhile, motionless, relaxed – and release any thoughts that come in, quite in addition to releasing through the day as you go.

You’ll find that all the information you had earlier studied now comes to you as you need it. If there’s something foggy about it, some detail, then re-listen or re-read that material again. Often this will come as some sort of inspired idea as to a book or CD/DVD will suddenly come to you for something you should act on. Follow your bliss – act on your inspired intuitional glimpses.

And while there can be “relapses”, just figure that there is a lot of practice you’ve been going at for more years than you know in developing your thinking habit (at least from age 2) – so some additional thoughts coming in can easily be dealt with by welcoming and releasing.

OK? Have fun.

How to get real and useful 2008 Presidential Candidate Election News: Turn off your TV, radio – and quit reading anything but the comics and sports section…

What is the “main-scream media” riveted on these days – what’s their aim, slant, and glory?

The 4 C’s: Controversy, Cacaphony, Consternation, and Chaos.

You need to be listening to the news like you need (another) hole in your head. Because:

1. You can’t really trust them to give unbiased news (right or left or center).
2. They are in the business to keep you listening, reading, or viewing so they can make more money selling advertising.
3. You only make yourself stressed out and sick by filling your life with bad news all the time.

This opinion is the result of all the research I’ve been doing into self-help books. One of the reasons the world is considered to be in such bad shape is all the negative (and false) press that is being generated.

I could go on and on about the way our media is set up. First, they are in business to sell advertising. Pure and simple. If people won’t subscribe to their stories, then they go out of business, since advertisers can’t get a return on their investment. So they have to slant their stories in such a fashion that they get people “hooked” on that channel of “news”.

And so, we have the shocking, the bizarre, the grotesque – all tabloid stuff – so we as viewers remain “addicted” to this channel of data. So we will get to see those advertisements and the news channel can stay in business another day.

Were the press ever really working in our best interests? Actually, no. The idea of journalistic standards was invented in Academia in order to get Journalism students (yes, colleges and universities are money-making organizations…). But did the press ever listen? No – they were run by business men who had to make a profit for their stockholders.

Is this a bit too cynical? Perhaps. But then again, look at what sells and is really trusted these days. The Bible is the all-time bestselling book – unless you’re in an Islamic country and then it’s the Koran. What gets the highest ratings on TV? Entertainment shows – amateur singing and dancing. Sports comes up next. Highest rating of all time – final show of MASH, a comedy.

What is the “main-scream press” doing then? God only knows – and He isn’t saying.

By surveys, only Congress is trusted less – and they’re competing with the President.

It’s mostly because they are putting out silly trash that people don’t “need to know” and mostly wish the press would keep their mouths shut and their eyes out of someone dying on a street corner because of their own or another driver’s stupidity.

But we are wide of the mark for today. Our topic is what the media should be doing about presidential candidates. Below is a Press Release which gives my general views on the subject.

Far more tools about what you can do to insulate yourself from the “main-scream media” can be found in my “Go Thunk Yourself, S’more!” book – which ad follows this release:

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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Best Way to Choose Your 2008 Presidential Candidate: Turn Off ALL TV and Radio, Successful Self Help Author Claims

MEXICO, MO. Dr. Robert C. Worstell, author and editor of over three dozen self help and personal development books, stated today that if a person is going to honestly evaluate and choose the best candidate, that person should turn off all TV programs, quit listening to the radio, and throw away all the paper except the classifieds, comics, and sports pages. He said that the proof of this is in the underlying system all self help authors use to make their books bestsellers.

In an interview with the Midwest Journal, Dr Worstell claimed that all media gets it wrong – and especially politics.

“You can’t trust the media to get anything right. So why are you believing that they are going to tell you anything worthwhile about a candidate?” He said, candidly. “All the media are advertising-supported, right? So they only tell you stuff that makes you want to watch their show or buy their paper. Who advertises in election years? That’s right – candidates and their flunkies, the organized groups for one side or the other.”

He further reasoned that anything which makes you feel bad isn’t good for you. And you only really trust people you can talk to. So his advice is to only talk to your friends about what they think about candidates and then make up your own mind. But if you hear a lot of trash talk, then figure that you’re getting bad data that isn’t going to do you any good.

“All these bestselling self help authors knew that. That’s why Obama does great when he talks in uplifting terms – like Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill. When Hillary goes sour, it hurts her.” Dr. Worstell explained, “While Harry Truman spoke straight talk from his convictions, it also gave him the worst ratings in history for any president (Coasties don’t understand Flyover). Why does America think Congress is screwing things up? Because they are constantly bickering and not getting anything done. Politicians and Politics is just wasting American’s time. Tell them to shut up and go buy a nice book or listen to an audio tape. Much better for you.”

His approach to self help comes from his rural roots, plus a long hitch in the West Coast. The contradictions in lifestyles forced him to evaluate their approaches to life. Ultimately, he returned to his native Missouri and took up farming while he completed his research. The result of those studies netted him several advanced degrees and ultimately a “Go Thunk Yourself!” book series, which lays out a common sense approach to improving your life. One of the points in his book is to turn off the TV, radio, and ignore the newspapers.

“I do tell people to get the news they need from the Internet, but don’t live your life there.” Dr. Worstell says, “Get on, get the data you need, and get off. With the various podcatcher programs and newsreaders, you can get condensed format for any vital news you need. But the real news you want is what is happening around you. How is your garden, how are the kids doing in school, how’s your spouse doing at the job – you know, that type of thing. The more people live vicariously through the ‘main-scream media’, the more they have truly lousy lives filled with problems and worries. Just turn all that stuff off and help your kids with their homework. Or take up a hobby the whole family can enjoy. Or play card games with the neighbors. But go out and live some life, for Christ’s sake.”

The opinionated farmer-doctor lives and operates a working farm near a town called Mexico, Missouri. He says his inspiration comes from those wide open spaces and hard physical work daily.

Dr. Worstell also maintains several blogs, and has written numerous articles and whitepapers. He’s posted several videos on YouTube, as well as many podcasts. Two of his books are available on Amazon and other online retailers, while the rest are published through Print-On-Demand Online Publisher Lulu. All of his books are available for download as well through Lulu.

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15559 Audrain Rd 921
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Websites: http://gothunkyourself.com
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Blogs: http://worstellr.blogspot.com
http://amodernview.blogspot.com
http://intmillplan.blogspot.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/joethunkyourself

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Worked this weekend while working at my day job. (Just my style, multi-tasking at Internet Marketing and web design while pushing boxes around a warehouse, taking hundred-pound-plus boxes onto a 3×4 pallet at 30 feet – the lighter ones can be 80 feet up…)

The latest incarnation of an online marketing plan takes all the elements of an Online Marketing Plan, but now looks backward from the SEO tactics of Michael Campbell and Dr. Andy Williams.

Your base is to work out how to get these mini-webs/mini-nets into play with all the other venues of attracting viewers and getting sales leads/subscribers.

Mini-webs/Mini-nets are a sort of Google food. One that this search engine likes. Properly constructed, it both feeds the current need for keyword-centric searches and the nascent use of LSI/theme-based content (which is only going to continue to evolve).

Since over 80% of most web-site traffic is from search engines (your mileage may vary), we not only give our attention to external links, but also then build a nice little link-controlled web/net which flows pagerank upwards to key pages – thus increasing their value to the search engines (particularly Google, the 800-pound gorilla sitting stage-left).

This mini-web/net isn’t just bait, it actually feeds the basic algorithms which Google uses, at least the current evolution. Now it is food because it is based on the three needs of the Internet which the users defined long ago: Information, Choice, and Timeliness. These join together at the hip to form the subject known as Content.

You are constantly building more content, which continues to feed the search engines and give you more page rank. You are building, on a timely basis, a huge site. And it’s built on human standards – which the search engines are set for. (They long ago started getting hip to the spammers and hijackers, who utilize the capacities of computer-generated speed to flood the search engines with some sort of short-cut they recently discovered. Then the search engines respond with bans, de-listing, and other counter-tactics.

The secret is to be human.

Humans only do things at a regular pace. They can only code so fast. They like and dislike various things. And know when content is useful or not.

Google has even started employing people who use their search engine to find web sites and rate them. Those which don’t fit the bill are penalized. Over-optimized pages can lose page rank and even get banned.

So design and build like humans do. Means you use articles that make sense and are written to be understood. While you can use emphasis now and then, you use pronouns when they are called for and not just use your keyword over and over and over. You don’t plop down 300 pages all at once.

Articles show up ok, since they have to be (for the most part) human reviewed and moderated. Since they have duplicate content filters, this tends to weed (and penalize) the whole article directory field. [Ezinearticles.com tends to rise above this, but they are unique in their ability to rise above the common...]

Again, you have to work through the attempts to “hack” this system. You want to produce great, fresh content that is useful to users. And produce this only on a human scale. Of course, corporations are forgiven, as they often will launch a vast amount of re-designed and added pages at a single whack. But we aren’t talking corporate, we are talking individual.

Now we are just the simple people, individuals. And the work we do is for our own progress, our own financial gain. And of course, to get this gain by being of service to others…

And so we work on an individual basis – at that individual speed – which should be just fine for our needs. The thing is to pace yourself and so get all your needs covered. How this is done? Simply get one mini-web per product line up and running every week. And your articles and a Squidoo page posted, as well as any blog mentions you’d like.

Lots of work to do.

But you can get it all done if you work out a logical sequence. Working from an existing product (or an affiliate’s):

0. Given that you’ve already researched your keywords,
1. Create a mini-web which utilizes these, and links to your product’s sales page. Go ahead and post this. (Time – a few hours of one day, once you get used to the sequence.)
2. Post a press release about this. Do up a podcast giving your breakthrough on this – have someone interview you if you can.
3. Post to your blog, linking in the podcast. Supposing we are promoting our latest book, make this a book review. Link into all pages of your latest mini-web.
4. Create a Squidoo lens out of the book review. Link to your blog, product sales page, and every mini-web page.
5. Write about five articles or so – link to the landing page, your main web site, and of course to an opt-in page to get their address (with a suitable bribe). Get these all posted, one at a time, to each of the five main article directories. Then the next, then the next, etc. Don’t post all five to one directory at once – looks like you’re spamming.
6. Do up a media release so you can line up and get radio interviews. (Book authors are usual suspects at this – being an expert on what you just wrote and everything.)
7. Set up your own affiliate sales (thank you page, download link, etc.) and modify your mini-web for this. Also update your master affiliate page, if you have one.
8. Option: do up a full set of MP3’s and offer this as a kit – through your mini-web (update) and also through your affiliates (update).
9. Option: create an online course (autoresponder delivered) and update your mini-web and affiliate pages/links.

Then you are able to cross connect these different product-types, particularly if you have a page to link in your MP3’s and online course to your book itself. You would have a MP3 series for each book, as well as an online course for each book. So a person could be interested in MP3’s, books, or online courses – and so flip to different types of this product instead of only accessing through your one book page. This also gives you some very interesting options for pagerank building.

Anyway, that’s the long and short of it. Of course you social book mark everything as you go. And you could comment market instead of article marketing, if you wanted.

The thing is to give you options, plus a way to get maximal marketing going on. I use a book in this, as I write books – and am way behind, now, in marketing them. But at least now I know how.

As I have three product lines of books, I can then spend one day each on just marketing them. I’d take another day to send broadcasts to each of these different lists and as well the last day (of my five-day workweek) working on new products. Once I get these up and running, making money hand-over-fist, I can then simply quit my (weekend) day job and have more time for all this (or just some time for myself…).

But you can see how to do it, now, can’t you. Somewhere, you have to fit in time to keep abreast of things – but as we get faster at page/site building and posting, there will be more time to do that type of thing. As I said, you and I probably have a great deal of catch-up to do, just getting our existing web-sites optimized properly.

By adding a mini-web every week, you build a mini-net in short order – about 50 mini-webs a year. And so you then add a great deal of pagerank to everything – which gives you more people finding you on the search engines.

Tomorrow, I hope to tell you something about climbing the search engine rankigns via keywords which these above guru’s don’t explain too well, but you can use for yourself….