I want to share 4 steps you can take RIGHT NOW to achieve your New Year’s Resolution…

1) Have ONE big resolution so you won’t get overwhelmed. We can be greedy at times and want EVERYTHING. It’s a lot easier to achieve ONE BIG thing.

2) Write down your resolution in your organizer or even better your “vision board” (http://aureliustjin.com/how-to-create-your-own-vision-board) to make your resolution tangible. We easily forget about our resolution and goals, so having it written down or shown somewhere will give us a constant reminder.

3) Let your friends and family know about your resolution for accountability purposes. Why not post your resolution by commenting on this blog post? It’s a great way to share and let everybody know what you’d like to achieve in 2010!

4) Support your resolution by making conscious decisions and steps to achieve your resolution. Once you have your resolution in place, you’ll begin to attract the things that will fulfill your resolution.

We that being said, I’d like to leave you with this great quote:

‘The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!’ — Edward Payson Powell

Happy New Year! I wish you much success for 2010!

Notes:

Traffic tip #1 – Build an email list. Everything you do should revolve around building your list and relationships. If you haven’t started building your list yet, make sure to get an autoresponder first.

Traffic tip #2 – Leverage on high traffic social media websites. Take advantage of social networking and social bookmarking websites like Twitter. Bookmark your website(s) and blog posts using Social Marker.

Traffic tip #3 – Start a blog to generate long term traffic thru search engines. Provide valuable and informative blog posts. Share your videos and photos on your blog to give it that personal touch, and show your readers that you’re a real person on the other end.

Traffic tip #4 – Write and submit articles to high traffic article directories such as EzineArticles.com , ArticleBase.com , GoArticles.com , ArticleDashboard.com and more

Traffic tip #5 – Start and recruit affiliates and joint-venture partners. Leverage and piggyback on marketers in your industry who already have established lists.

Make sure to get the latest PLR:

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1. Split the content to create dozens of articles.

2. Extract some content to use as blog posts so you don’t run out of blog content.

3. Add the content to your own product to give you report/ebook more valuable content.

4. Split the ebook to create 2 or 3 seperate viral reports so you can get traffic to your website.

5. Re-purpose the content by converting it to audio or video format — this serves as a different learning aid.

6. Split the content into 52 parts and preloading it to your autoresponder sequence – one part every week, so you have a year’s worth of content.

7. Create a 5-7 day eCourse using the content to build your list.

8. Sell the Basic rights, Master Resell Rights or Resell Rights to make 100% of the profits.

9. Sell this product on the backend, like your ‘Thank You’ page so you can make more.

10. Offer this product as a bonus when people purchase a product of yours or when they purchase someone else’s product through your affiliate link.

11. Supply the report in your members area.

12. You can reproduce the content for offline use.

13. Package this product with two, three or 10 other products to create your own "Mega Pack".

14. Sell this product to your subscribers at a special discount.

15. Integrate this product on someone else’s webpage so you can leverage on their traffic.

16. Edit, retitle, rebrand and change whatever you’d like within this PLR package -this includes the document and graphics/design.

17. Even if you have no plan or desire to sell it, you can discover a lot of valuable information in this report.

Make sure to get the latest PLR:

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And furthermore, when you think about it for long enough, you’re not sure what you’d even do if you were able to attain those dreams. Would your life really even be any better?

After a few weeks or months have passed, you exit your slump, but you do so very aware of how much time you’ve lost and how many opportunities you’ve forgone.

In the remainder of this guide, I’m going to help you to avoid that scenario. Instead of losing weeks or months to this slump or the next slump, you’re going to learn 21 ways to re-motivate yourself, refocus your life and goals, become happy and productive; and leave this slump in the distant past.

1. Take Action. Before you landed in this slump, you had goals, dreams, and lists of things you needed to do to accomplish them. At some point, you lost confidence in these ideas and stopped working on your projects and carrying out your dreams.

Well, it’s time to pursue those dreams once again. And you can do so by taking action. Ignore your feelings of lethargy and indifference and focus on making tangible progress. As you start checking things off of your “to do” list, you’ll feel better about yourself and the possibility of accomplishing your goals.

2. Ratchet Up Your Efforts. Working hard does not guarantee that you will accomplish your goals. But not working hard will undoubtedly ensure that you do not.

Be mindful of this when you’re deciding what to do for the day. Don’t simply drift along, waiting for your projects to make sense of themselves. Take control, make plans, and move towards them each day.

3. Pay Attention to People Who Have Succeeded. Just because someone else succeeded doesn’t mean you will. But it can provide a motivational example of path to your goal that has worked for someone else.

So, cast aside your doubts, stop telling yourself that you can’t do what others did–and instead take their examples for what they are: a source of inspiration and hope. And, most importantly, a means to get out of your slump.

4. Learn by Doing. If you’re faced with a complicated decision with no clear answer, one of the best ways you can move forward is to simply do, rather than thinking.

What do I mean by this? Instead of perseverating on the decision, pick one of the options in front of you; and move forward with your best effort to make it work.

If you fail ultimately, at least you can eliminate that path as a dead-end and then move forward with the other path.

5. Avoid Over-thinking. Thinking hard and carefully about many things is critical to success, but if taken to an extreme, it can become pathological. It can paralyze talented, driven individuals; and prevent them from attaining the success they would otherwise have.

So, next time you find yourself paralyzed by a decision, stop over-analyzing the situation–and just pick one path or the other.

6. Re-organize Your Work Area. No matter what you do, it’s always a good idea to have everything you need organized and within close reach. Re-organize your work area, so that it is a productive environment, rather than a sprawling, disorganized heap of documents.

7. Start Afresh. One frequent source of slumps is boredom. If you’re unhappy with your current routine, it may affect your ability to work and to accomplish your goals. Consider switching your daily routine to something new that excites you and motivates you to accomplish new things.

8. Reward Yourself. Surprisingly, slumps are very common among those who work hard. Why? Because, eventually they hit a wall, can’t figure out how to get around it, and keep working until they’re thoroughly burnt out and frazzled.

So, don’t do this. Set specific goals, accomplish them, and then reward yourself by taking the rest of the night off to relax. When you come back to your work, you’ll be happy and refreshed.

9. Visit a New Place. Instead of mindlessly chugging along with your daily route, break free and visit a new place. Take a drive to the beach or to a lake. Take a walk through the woods. Drive somewhere new and relaxing. Experience the small pleasures in life to demonstrate to yourself that there are reasons to move forward, to make progress, and to indulge in life.

10. Refocus Yourself. Slumps tend to make life feel unclear, unfocused, and pointless. Take some time to refocus yourself, re-think your aspirations, and decide what goals to keep and what goals to discard.

11. Schedule Things, Rather than Letting Things Happen to You. Don’t allow your schedule to morph into an unpredictable, unmanageable blob. Take the time to record things you need to do, schedule them into your life, and tend to them carefully. This is not only a good way to prevent disasters, but also to commit yourself to getting work done.

12. Physical Activity. The cause of slumps is not always or entirely psychological. In many cases, complacency and a lack of physical exercise can leave us in a mental fog. One cure for this problem is to get some vigorous exercise. Not only will it get your blood pumping and make your thoughts clearer, but it will also release endorphins, making you feel happy and more satisfied with your life and goals.

13. Eliminate Negative Thoughts. Skepticism and self-doubt are healthy when applied in moderation, but when they prevent you from achieving your goals, it may be time to reign them in. If you constantly find yourself doubting that you an accomplish something, instead re-direct your thoughts towards considering how you can accomplish it.

14. Challenge Yourself to Accomplish Something New. If you find yourself repeating the same tasks on a daily basis, you may become bored and complacent. Find ways to challenge yourself–for instance, by seeing whether you can do some task in half the amount of time–so that you engage your work and goals, rather than becoming indifferent to them.

15. Create Artificial Scarcity. Most people work best when they have no other choice. When that project is due in two days, you buckle down, stay focused, and get it done. But one week before that, you probably sat in front of the computer, “working” on it, but truly got very little accomplished.

Next time, start on the project later, rather than sooner. Save that extra time when you wouldn’t really be working to do something fun and refreshing.

16. Change Your Diet. Another frequent cause of “slumps” is diet. If you find your busy schedule forcing you into an unhealthy diet that causes you to put on weight and feel sluggish, put an end to it immediately. Not only will this help you physically, but it will help you to avoid the mental and emotional burden that comes with weight gain and unhealthy eating.

17. Spend a Day to Improve Your Productivity. Hard work isn’t the only ingredient in success. Another critical component is productivity. You can think about productivity as the amount you accomplish in each hour. So, spend an afternoon or even a full day figuring out how you can be more productive. This might simply mean re-arranging your filing cabinet or learning how to use certain programs on your computer better.

18. Simplify Your Goals. It’s often easy to convince ourselves that our goals have to be complicated and hard to achieve. But it many cases, there are achievable, simple goals that are still very desirable. So, take some time to decide whether you can make your goals clearer, simpler, and easier to attain.

19. Take the Path of Least Resistance. Instead of taking the path you think you “should take” or “ought to take,” instead focus on what paths cause the fewest problems and present the fewest challenges. If you can find and exploit these paths, you’ll save yourself time and make it easier to finish what you set out to do.

20. Sleep More. Many hard-working individuals whip themselves up into a frenzy; and convince themselves that they should never stop working. When taken to an extreme, this can be very detrimental to their goals. Keep this in mind when deciding whether to go to sleep or to keep working late into the night. If you don’t sleep, you might get more done tonight, but you’ll definitely be tired and get less done tomorrow. So go to sleep and come back refreshed tomorrow.

21. Make an Effort to Learn from Others. Rather than always focusing on your own stories and struggles, make a concerted effort to truly understand other people and their daily trials. Learn from them, absorb their stories, and use them to motivate yourself.

No matter how depressed and indifferent you feel right now, you have the capabilities to break out of your slump. You have 21 different ways in which you can do it. It’s just a matter of taking a handful of them, living by them on a daily basis, and pushing forward.

So, don’t let your slump get the best of you. Reclaim your career, your family life, your goals, your aspirations, and your hunger for new and challenging experiences. Leave this slump in your past; and return to your productive, happy life.

I’m proud to say that it’s been almost two weeks since I started my new position as C.O.O. (Chief of Operations) of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd. I wouldn’t say it’s a J.O.B. for me, and I’ll explain why in this post.

The director is none other than Frank Bauer.

He’s a very close friend and business associate of mine who I met back in early 2006. Frank and I have helped each other since the beginning, though he’s been in this business since 1996 while I’ve been doing it since 2005. We regularly attend business and Internet Marketing seminars, and travel around the world and inter-state, together. Our next trip is to Las Vegas for the Big Seminar. We’re excited about this one since we’ll be meeting up with some American folks (and touring the area ).

Frank co-owns ViralURL.com together with his partner, Colin Klinkert. It was a big step for Frank and me, but it’s something we should’ve done a long time ago. 

Frank and Colin’s site, ViralURL.com, has grown exponentially, and they’ve just launched their ViralHost.com website where you can get free hosting.

We both have our own strengths and weaknesses and together we work in harmony. Frank’s the “techy” guy and I’m the creative guy. We’ve found that working together is so much easier than working solely. One example of our completed projects is our outsourcing site – TimeToOutsource.com . It took us just under a week to complete this entire site.

At this stage, my responsibilities and day-today duties as C.O.O are to:

• Discuss and implement strategic plans;
• Seek out potential joint-venture partners;
• Recruit and train affiliates to increase revenue;
• Assist customer support staff and assistants, and make sure everything’s running smoothly.

But here’s the exciting part. Not only do I help grow Frank’s business, but we’re also partnering up on a series of products together, each aiming to help you in these areas:

• Traffic generation
• List building
• Product creation
• Niche marketing
• Productivity
• Social media marketing
• Affiliate marketing
• Copywriting

It’s no big surprise to you, since there are lots of existing products on these topics, but we’re excited about the development of these products because we’re going to give it all to you for free! Yes, you’ll get free access to all of these upcoming products and sites.

So that’s the big news for you I thought I should let you in on. I hope you’re as excited as Frank and I are.

I’ll be sure to keep you updated on any new developments with our projects.

I’m proud to release my latest report:

“The Internet Business Owner’s Resource Cheat Sheet”

Go ahead and download it right away at:

>> www.ResourceCheatSheet.com <<

As you know, today marks the day of the second half of the year.

Have you accomplished any of the goals and “new year’s resolution” you had planned at the beginning of this year?

If you’re seeing no progress then obviously you’re doing something wrong. But hey, I admit that I haven’t accomplished some of the goals I had planned.

I remember when I was struggling with this whole Internet business thing. I remember wanting someone to just “rescue” me and basically hand me everything I needed to know…

Little did I know, there’s no “magic pill” to a successful Internet busines.

The so called “gurus” can tell you exactly what you need to do, but at the end of the day it’s about you. It’s how well you can implement what they had taught.

It’s like having the latest and greatest gadget that saves a ton of time to automate some sort of manual task. If you don’t use it properly or don’t, know how to use it then this gadget is pretty much useless to you.

I get a lot of readers asking me what my secret is to building a successful six-figure Internet business. Want to know the answer?

You won’t be surprised or shocked when I reveal this secret to you. In fact, you’ll probably be mad at me for telling you this, but I gotta be brutally honest with you here.

The secret is — Your mindset.

Your attitude, your beliefs, your inner-self…it’s all part of your mindset.

I’m a big believer in faith. If you’ve read ‘Think & Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill, then you’d know what I’m talking about. It dedicates an entire chapter just on Faith.

It was the first book on self-help I read, and I’m so thankful for that.

Here’s a quote I like to keep around:

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” –  Martin Luther King Jr.

Doesn’t it make sense if you simply put your mind into it, you’ll attract what you ultimately want in the end? I know it sounds cliche, but that’s the truth.

When I created my first ever successful website, I had no idea how I was going to do it, I didn’t know where to get the resources, I didn’t know who to talk to but some how I managed to attract over $15,000 in sales in 48 hrs from this site.

What had happened was greater than what I had expected…

* The site reached 507 on the Alexa ranking, so only 506 other sites in the world had more traffic during that time.

* I managed to generate over 6,000 new members in just 48 hours. That’s 6000 members I never would have had, had I not launched this site.

* I had top Internet marketers approaching me for a JV.

I couldn’t believe it. From just a small idea I had which I had no clue on how I was going to do it, to a five-figure launch. And this isn’t my way of bragging or boasting. I just wanted to share my story with you.

What I did have was a BURNINIG DESIRE. All I knew was that I wanted to make this website a success.

It became such a burning desire that I couldn’t sleep at night. I burned the bridges so that I could not walk back but move forward.

All that was needed was taking the first step. The first step is DECIDING on what you want.

Once you’ve decided EXACTLY what you want, the next few steps will natually flow from there. It’s as if you’re a magnet. Magic starts to happen. You will find ways of getting things done. You will find the right people to help you. You will overcome any problems you encounter.

This quote may sound familiar to you: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

And it’s so true.

So here’s the bottom line – the next time you’re faced with the latest hype out there, be sure you’ve set your goals and priorities right first.

If you haven’t done this, be sure to check out my video that shows you how to use the “ABCDE” method for goal setting:  http://aureliustjin.com/the-abcde-method

What is it do you wanna do? eBay? Flipping sites? Niche marketing? Blogging? There are many paths you can take, and there’s nothing entirely wrong with any of these methods.

The best thing to do is to focus on ONE system.

Work the system, exhaust it until you’ve proven to yourself that it either works or doesn’t work for you. If it’s something that works, then keep doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it, until it doesn’t work anymore.

That’s exactly what I did to create my first ever successful website. I focused on just one system every step of the way until I saw results.

You might be sitting there and saying “Yea, I already know all this stuff”. I know you might be aware, and I’m not trying to insult your intelligence. I just hope I’ve at least reminded you of the importance of what I had shared in this message.

It may be green to some and it may be old to some. My goal in life is to help as many peopole as I can to shortcut their success, so they don’t have to go through as many of the mistakes others and I have.

You still got the rest of this year to reach those goals you’ve set. So what are you waiting for?

Your life is purely determined by what you decide to do RIGHT NOW. Hey, we can’t predict the future, but we can control what we decide to do next.

No one controls how you want to live your life. It doesn’t matter if you’re not getting any support.

It doesn’t matter if you fail the first time, because failure just leads you even closer to your goals.

It doesn’t matter if people are being negative about what you do. I’ve been through all that, and I overcame all the obstacles.

It doesn’t matter if your can’t get things perfect…there’s no such thing as perfect. You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going.

Get up and go do it.

Much respect for you if you decide to take action right now!

For now, be sure to check out my other blog post entitled “17 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My Online Business“. It will surely short-cut your success.

Your friend,
Aurelius Tjin

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1) Building a list of subscribers, customers and affiliates. Without my lists, my business wouldn’t be a fraction of what it is today.

2) Blogging. If you’re selling anything online, you need a blog, not just for posting content, but to build relationships and your credibility

3) Being part of or starting a mastermind group. You can potentially save months, even years by leveraging on those who are stronger where you are weaker. That’s just one of the benefits.

4) Your own product. The benefits are amazing. You’ll gain instant credibility, instant expert status, instant profits, 100% profits, you can open affiliate programs and it’s all passive income for you

5) Outsourcing your business. Think of it as a return on investment. You pay someone for a single job and get more free time to do more important things in your business which will make you money. Don’t wait, outsource your writing, graphics, and repetitive tasks. That’s when you’ll start to have a real business.

6) Being CLEAR on what you want. Once you know what you want, you’ll filter out what you need and what you don’t need.

7) Focusing on ONE thing at a time. One system, one product, one project, just one thing at a time!

8 ) Enjoy time off. I once heard from Alex Mandossian “Taking a day off work for the month can give you twenty productive days.” Don’t even check your email or turn you computer for that matter. Do the things you enjoy, spend time with the family or whatever it is you enjoy.

9) Attend seminars and meetings. It’s your best bet to meeting like-minded people; people who have a genuine interest in what you’re doing. There’s a lot of potential. The best way to start is to search for local groups and meet ups at www.meetup.com. I found three groups of interest from that site alone, and I’m speaking/presenting in one of them.

10) Create a “Vision Board” to accelerate your success. You might think that it won’t have any affect, but you’ll be surprised at just what might happen. I have a video that teaches you how to create your very own vision board. Click here to watch it

11) Renew, unwind and relax your mind and body by exercising. It’s like the oil and lube job for your car. You don’t have to do it, but your car would definitely run better. Personally, I go four times a week, combining cardio and weight training. You don’t have to build huge muscles, you can simply do resistance training or yoga. The benefits of exercising kicks in immediately after your first workout. You’ll feel more energized, you’ll sleep easier, improves your mood, overall physical body and mental acuity.

12) Using video in your marketing. Whatever your niche is, videos easily and instantly gives your product a higher perceived value.

13) Disallowing any negativity. If you’re ever in this situation simply think of positive thoughts, it’ll change your state quickly and easily.

14) Gratitude. Every morning, throughout the day and before you sleep, think of what you’re grateful for at the present moment.

15) It’s a lot easier selling to customers than it is to sell to prospects. How do you doit? You can cross-promote, upsell or maybe offer a product you’re an affiliateof

16) Use RoboForm. I can’t tell you how much time this little tool has saved me. This nifty little tool remembers and fills in forms and passwords so you don’t have to! Get yours right now: www.DownloadRoboForm.com

17) Lose on the front-end but make money on the backend. “You can have this for free, no worries. would u like ___ for just 20 bucks?”

Feel free to submit your comments and tips so the rest of us can see…

Here are my favorite gadgets in list form:

1. Flip video mino (http://www.theflip.com)

2. RODE Podcaster studio quality microphone

3. Western Digital MyBook 1TB Network hard drive for backing up

4. RoboForm software and RoboForm2Go USB version. Download it for free at www.DownloadRoboForm.com

5. Timer set to 45 minute intervals

6. Samsung Blackjack and HTC Touch mobile phones

7. Dell XPS M1710 laptop

8. Dell Inspiron 9 Mini laptop

Other gadgets – Logitech Pro 9000 webcam (used for start of video)

Now it’s your turn to share some of your favorite gadgets and devices with me and the rest of the readers. Just send your comments in the comments box….