Once in awhile, green is a beautiful thing. And I don’t mean the environment here; I’m referring to this wonderful new resource from Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen. I am constantly loaning out my library of success and prosperity books and audios. But I haven’t let this one out of my sight. Why? Because I still have so much to learn from it that I don’t want to part with it just yet.

I have heard that Mark & Robert are multi-millionaires who truly understand the meaning of giving, and this DVD proves it. They have assembled an excellent cast of players to provide immediately valuable content and have done so for the cost of shipping. I applaud them for really getting in there to help during this perceived time of economic need.

Whether you could use additional passive income or need to jumpstart your bank accounts, this DVD can help. If you just want to stimulate your creativity or want to gain a few “aha’s” to keep you on top, this DVD can help. I encourage you to explore what is within; I truly believe it will change your current reality, no matter where you are now.

To your success!

Listen to a message from Tanya Brockett about her appearance at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Conference this week (September 25, 2009)!

September, 2009, Crozet, VA—Tanya Brockett has an audio message for you. Listen here:

CBC Welcome Message 

Come join Tanya at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 39th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC), September 23-26, 2009 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. She’ll be there at the Authors Pavilion (Exhibit Hall E) from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. on Friday the 25^th, promoting and signing her book THE LOAN SOLUTION: NINE STEPS TO COMMUNITY EXPRESS. This book is a must read for any small business owner that is contemplating using other peoples’ money to start or grow their business. It provides loan program descriptions, cost of money calculations, checklists, and tips for successfully acquiring a small business loan. While you’re there, stop in on any of the 80+ issue forums as CBC Members share the progress of their work on legislative initiatives and exchange ideas correlated to policy issues that are of critical concern to their constituents. Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with National leaders, experts, and activists. Don’t miss ALC ’09. Reinvest…Rebuild…Renew! We’ll see you there.

Setting and achieving goals has never been so fun! Visit www.mindmovies.com/?14116 to learn about using interactive visualization to determine what you want and set your mind on achieving/acquiring it. I’ll include a link to mine here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/TBrockett/videos/1/

The act of developing the mind movie is so fun, that you will enjoy the feelings of having your goals met right from the start, and will likely bring it to fruition much sooner than you can imagine. Watch. Enjoy. Then go make your own! I’ll write more about this again soon.

I am a dinosaur. I have been avoiding the social networking scene for quite some time because I believed that I barely had enough time to run a business and a household, how on earth could I start blabbing online with people? Who has time to keep up with a Facebook or MySpace or Black Business Space profile? Who has time to make more friends–especially those that aren’t the parents of my children’s friends? 

One of my colleagues, Renee Bobb (www.reneebobb.com), shared some of the benefits of social networking with me. She explained that it is a good way to network: to add value to someone as they add value to you. It is also a way to learn of training events and to post your own events as well. It is a way to learn of new opportunities. It provides an additional audience for any marketing platform (new book, perhaps?). And, believe it or not, it might just be fun.

“Ha! More fun than SPAM?” I asked.

“Try it, you’ll like it,” she encouraged.

I did. And I did. I have only joined one site so far, but I will likely look into others once these dinosaur bones stop rattling. Renee suggested that I limit my social networking time to one hour per day; so that I remain in touch, but I also remain productive. Very good advice. It is easy to get sucked into the cyber-chatting thing. And I have enough e-mail to manage already; I do not want to waste any more time online than I have to.

So, for any others out there that can’t imagine that social networking can be a good thing: Try it, you’ll like it.

Isn’t it funny how we have vivid memories of certain sounds, jingles, phrases, smells, and activities? Isn’t it interesting how something can easily trigger that memory and bring it to the forefront? And, what is even more intriguing is that the emotional responses you felt at that moment of experience can be relived simply by recalling that moment.

Today I saw a sign that read “Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.” Now, if you were a child in the seventies, this might bring back a memory for you. It did for me. Not only did I not have to read the sign past “Two all beef patties,” but I immediately recalled the jingle, the melody, and the song that those words belonged to. And the memory, for me, was a pleasant childhood memory.

I am currently reading John Assaraf’s book, The Answer (http://www.johnassaraf.com/), and recently learned that one step in the neural reconditioning process (a process of reconditioning your brain so that you establish new habits that support your new beliefs/goals so that success comes easily and naturally) is neural linking. The gist is that you take a positive memory that has a high emotional charge, and you attach new beliefs to that memory to add impact to your new beliefs. The idea is that the more high energy and emotion you have associated with a goal/affirmation/belief, the faster you bring it into your physical reality. If you already have those positive energy memories, then just anchor your new belief to it to create a higher charge.

One thing that many negative people have a hard time with is coming up with something positive to think about. How do they keep their joy up when they don’t have any positive experiences to dwell upon? Well, you don’t have to try to get excited about your new belief if that is not working for you. Instead, look at a past experience that brought you joy, and anchor your new belief to it. This is a wonderful approach that I had not previously heard of or considered. So now, what if you had a rotten life to this point? What experience do you use? Well, the answer does not so much rely upon finding that joyous little moment of pleasure in your past family life or something. Sometimes it comes from hearing a jingle that made you sing or laugh in times past.

So, since I just saw the sign with “Two beef patties…” I know I have at least one experience upon which to anchor my new beliefs. How many things like that can you find?

 

Faith. It is “something” that we expect to hear about or somehow understand within the religious context. But do we really get it? Really? I believe there is many a bible reader who, when smacked in the face with their current, negative reality have forgetten the true essence of faith. Having faith means that whatever is going on in the here and now should not impact that which you are exercising your faith to believe will happen. For example, if you have faith that you will get a promotion and you truly believe that it is coming to you, but you then get passed over for some underling and you say “I’m never going to get any higher than this,” or “I guess I’m not promotion material.” Where’s the faith in that? If you believe that you will win favor and achieve what you set out to achieve, you can’t let set backs deter you from your belief. It is not easy to exercise your faith. It is one thing to believe when things are going great. It is quite another when it is not. That’s where true faith kicks in.

Toni Morrison is credited with this quote about how to make enough time to write. I just found an edge and thought I would use it to my advantage. I have the urge to get something out and no children to hinder its creation. (My three girls have gone to visit the grandparents this week.)

I believe it was James Ray who cited the statistic that 80% of Americans polled said they wanted to write a book one day, but only 2% actually do it. I certainly count myself among the 80%, and as of last November (2007), I also became part of the 2%. At least the 2% that actually published the book that was written. (I have met many a writer who has written the book that no one outside of immediate family will ever see.)

 

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My first book, The Loan Solution: Nine Steps to Community Express (available at www.HallagenInk.com), truly started coming into being on Thanksgiving weekend the year before. Getting up early and going out on the balcony to watch the sun rise over the ocean front in Myrtle Beach is enough to make anyone create an edge. It was magnificent to watch the orange ball rise and turn yellow. It was refreshing to smell the ocean air and hear the waves crashing against the shore. It was liberating to watch the pelicans graze the water’s surface as they flew quickly by. Ah, what a wonderful edge indeed.

 

But alas, here I sit in my room with my computer in my lap; no ocean to see or hear, no birds to watch. Yet, it is still an edge. My next book will likely emerge here. I will be writing a small book just for writers. It will be full of wisdom, ah hahs, information, industry nuggets, and inspiration. Perhaps it will help others to find their edge. I expect I’ll rejoin the 2% club within the next several months with this little masterpiece. As long as I can continue to find a few edges.

Welcome to the blog of author, speaker, and entrepreneur Tanya Brockett. I am excited to finally create a space to share insights, thoughts, wisdom, and ideas for writers, speakers, small business owners, Unleashed Women, and more. (To learn more about me, read the bio that is posted separately.)

I have many wonderful inspirations in my life and now I am wanting to create another avenue for being an inspiration myself. I love teaching workshops and doing presentations because I can literally get blinded by all the light bulbs that go off in the minds of my audiences. This is exciting and fulfilling, but I realize that this can’t happen if you are not in my audience. That’s where this blog comes in. It will allow me to share more with more people, even if we cannot meet face-to-face in a workshop, conference, or training seminar.

Enjoy your visit. Come back often. Share your thoughts and positive messages with me as well. I look forward to sharing with you.