I must be Crazy 4

Crazy stuff



One day Mind Movies sent me an email that proved to be the big turning point in my internet career. They invited me to register for a webinar that was being held by two real estate moguls that had a program designed to help people build internet businesses.  I thought about it for a minute, checked my work schedule to see if I'd be free during the webinar and decided it might be worth watching, so I signed up.

The company is MindProtein.com; they have a blog page that looks pretty interesting and can be very educational.  It was a company started by Ralph and Matt, who had a successful real estate business and were branching out to other web-based ventures.     
  
It looked like they had some insider information to sell that could be useful.  I'd seen a lot of get rich quick schemes on line and was completely prepared  for this webinar to be the same thing, but I'd learned all sorts of things watching and reading the free stuff and figured a little more information wouldn't hurt.  I work in television and am bombarded eight hours a day by commercials and half hour ads that sell everything and anything, so I was immune to sales pitches.  At least most of them.  I do have an exercise machine and a Magic Bullet, but at least I use them on a regular basis.
 
I was hoping I'd be immune to this sales pitch.


I was not.


The video started innocently enough.  The facilitators, Natalie and Ryan, talked calmly about who we, the audience, were going to meet, how successful they were, and how they had a fantastic opportunity to offer only 15 people.  The scene started out with Natalie and Ryan sitting in a SUV, driving down a street in San Diego, on their way to a meeting with Than and Paul.  "We" get out of the car, head into a building, meet Than and Paul, then head to a conference room.  "We" sit at one end of a conference table and they sit at the other, where they start a conversation about why we are there.  Than and Paul talk a little about themselves, how they started their business and why they were now talking to us.  


They were looking for people who wanted to start their own businesses or grow what they already have on line.  They promised that they could teach us everything we needed to know to be successful.  They said that they learned so much through their own growth, that they had a so much information to share, they now wanted to teach.  By the end of the video, they had me convinced that they could help anybody who was willing to work, learn, and had a good product to sell, and they were only going to help 15 of the most promising businesses.


I thought, what the heck.  I'll send them my idea.  Surely there'll be 15 better ideas coming across their table than mine.  


Surprisingly they called me back.  They liked my idea.  All I had to do was "invest" in myself.  


I don't know what it was about this sales pitch, but I bit.  I gave them my credit card number and started my venture.  In the back of my mind I was aware of what trouble I was setting myself up for, but for some reason I felt this was what I should do.  My television job was evolving into a computerized business, one where people will no longer be needed before I get to retire, I had no debt, and I had the money to "invest" in myself.  If I were to start a new career, this would be the time to try.  All I needed was some guidance and a good push.  My credit card bill was the good push.  Plus, I figured, if I failed, I could still pay off my credit card and life would go on as usual.  


Now, after a few months working with these guys and their coaching team, I've decided that I might be able to pay off my credit card, but my life will never go back to the usual.  I not only can't believe what I'm doing, I can't imagine myself not doing it.  It's too late to go back. 
  



Next, I'll tell you what I've learned and if it's worth it.

I Must be Crazy 3

Crazy enough

So, I stopped automatically deleting my e-mail spam and looked at some of them.  It seemed a harmless act.  Most of it of it was deletable, but some of it was interesting.  I thought, what would it hurt to see what these people were selling?

Okay, so I started to buy into what I was seeing.  Part of that was the desire to change my life.  I was tired of working at the same job, 30 years and counting, and part of it was that I wanted to lead a more positive lifestyle.  Not to mention that I've lived in the same house for over 20 years, a duplex that was originally meant to be a transition home to a bigger house after about 5 years.  Ahh, the best laid plans.

One of the e-mails I was getting was from an Australian couple selling a pre-fab movie program to create a visual tool for positive affirmations.  They call it Mind Movies.  They were offering access to their program at a "sale" price, and they had preproduced movies I could download for free.  So I did.  And I liked them.  Then I decided I'd like to make my own, so I bought their package.

                      It turned out I liked making my own movies.  I now have three.  
                                                          This was the first.
 

The movie kit included choices of music, topics, graphics and text, then you could use their picture library or upload your own pictures.  I had a ball!

Then there was a free download of advice on finding your perfect mate.  The Soulmate Secret by Arielle Ford.  She was interesting, but my interest level on this subject was minimal.

I downloaded a "tool kit" for raising your personal vibration level, Love or Above, by Christie Marie Sheldon, which included a meditation audio and a couple of e-books.  Her product was really interesting, but I haven't bought the whole program yet.  I found her voice a little grating, but she has a good product. I'm recommending her to other people.

Then there was Margaret Lynch.  She sells an EFT (emotional freedom technique) program that involved clearing your chakras by tapping some energy points and voicing your problems.  I downloaded and followed a few videos that had me tapping my financial troubles away.  I still like to watch them.

There was Christine Arylo, Bob Doyle, Chris and Janet Attwood, Maestropath, David and Kristin Morelli, Bob Proctor, and a few more people, all who had programs to sell after you signed up for their free newsletters or downloaded their free videos and e-books.  I was pretty picky about what I bought, but I enjoyed all of the free material.  I signed up for webinars, e-conferences and radio shows, avoiding the ones I had to pay for, and found myself glued to my computer.  I was not only learning about the law of attraction, EFT, positive affirmations and personal frequency vibrations, I was finding out that web technology had advanced much farther and faster than I'd been aware of.  My tech-brain was drinking it all in and I wondered how I could use some of it.

I also learned that I really believed what these people were saying, particularly because I was already  aware of what they were selling.  It's just more profitable now to package the old stuff into new technological versions.  What was once "new age," "hippy dippy," and  "way out there," 20 years ago, is now popular as a way to save the earth and improve our lives.

All of this made me more determined to get my book out there, because I had information that wasn't being shared: more old stuff that's been around forever, but not talked about much.  So I worked my book over, rewriting some of it, adding to what I already had.  Then I tucked it away again, because I still didn't know what to do with it.

Next chapter I will start my adventures with the final webinar, which turned out to be the most expensive "free" information I ever bought into.

Until then, check these guys out:  www.LoveorAbove.com and www.mindmovies.com