I’m very fortunate to live where I live and have the time to go fishing often. Where we live is right next to the Skagit River in NW Washington. In this part of the country salmon fishing is a favorite pastime. In fact one of the reasons I was so motivated to build a business like this, is the residual income and I knew with a solid residual income I could spend more time fishing.

I’m not near as good a fisherman as my brother Dave. He has many more years of fishing these lakes and rivers than I do and he is very good at it. I’ve learned a lot about fishing from my brother Dave.

I learned the two most important rules to fishing.

Rule number 1 – You must fish where the fish are.

Rule number 2 – You can only catch a fish when you have your line in the water.

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The Twelve Laws of Facebook

If you don’t, where have YOU been?

Unless you have lived in a cave the last 5 years, you have probably heard of facebook. It is a rocking hot social networking site that seems to be almost everywhere today. On the news, in the movies, on the radio and all over the internet. Facebook is on the minds of millions of folks every day. In the US alone over 50 million people login to their facebook account at least once per day. EVERYONE LOVES FACEBOOK! Every prospect you will ever need for business recruiting or customer acquisition is already on facebook. Now, it’s your turn!

There are many different types of people on facebook. I am going to do an article on that soon. But these great folks all participate in what I call the Twelve Laws of Facebook.

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Determine Your Locus of Control

There is a large body of psychological literature that revolves around the concept of Locus of Control Theory. In more than 50 years of research, psychologists have determined that your Locus of Control is the determining factor of your happiness or unhappiness in life. Here is why.

A person with an internal locus of control is a person who feels that he or she is in complete control of his or her life. This person feels strong, confident and powerful. He or she is generally optimistic and positive. He or she feels terrific about him or herself and feels very much in charge of his or her destiny.

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This is Lesson 3 of several regarding GOAL BUSTING:

Stop Blaming Others

From now on, refuse to blame anyone for anything – past, present or future. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Buddy Hacket, the comedian, once said, I never hold grudges; while you’re holding grudges, they’re out dancing!

From this point forward, refuse to make excuses or to justify your behaviors. If you make a mistake, say, I’m sorry, and get busy rectifying the situation. Every time you blame someone else or make excuses, you give your power away. You feel weakened and diminished. You feel negative and angry inside. Refuse to do it!

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This is Lesson 2 of several regarding GOAL BUSTING:

GOAL BUSTING Part 2 ~ Take Charge of Your Life

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what
he is born with  a man is what he makes of himself.
(Alexander Graham Bell)

When I was 21, I was broke and living in a small one-room apartment, in the middle of a cold winter, working on a dead end job during the day. I usually couldn’t afford to go out of my apartment in the evenings, where at least it was warm, so I had a lot of time to think.

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This is Lesson 1 of several regarding GOAL BUSTING:

“If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed
to work to achieve the goals of someone else.” ~ Brian Tracy

GOALS: How to get Everything You Want ~ Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

Success is goals, and all else is commentary:

All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single mindedly on achieving it, every single day.

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