Is it really a wonder, after all the DNA of gorillas is 95% the same as the human DNA.

Still I am far from believing that this is where we originate from… far fetched…
But hey if it resonates with you then fine :) Everyone has the right to believe whatever they feel is true

“You” Laws:

1. Remain in the present moment. Future and past should only come up when absolutely necessary.

2. Live life passionately. If you are in a dead-end job or just unhappy, search out your life’s passion.

3. Be grateful for everything. Every heart beat is a gift. Realize how lucky we are to be alive.

4. An energy level higher than that of those around you is contagious.

5. Give your energy willingly to everyone. It is drawn from a limitless source.

6. If your energy does drop, everything will be alright. Those people who you gave energy to will return the favor.

7. Your emotional state is independent of external factors. We learned at an early age to look at the world to show us how to feel. I am reminded of a child who scrapes his knee and looks around to see if anyone will comfort him if he were to start crying, if no one is around he will get up and keep playing.

8. Truthfully speak your mind. No matter what emotional response you have at first. Over time your truthful thoughts will erode from societal input. Your thoughts will become more positive and beneficial.

9. Be comfortable touching others. Touch others more. Be aware of how others enjoy your touch.

10. Be happy with yourself as you are now. There is no other time other than this eternal Now to be happy.

11. Strive towards perfection. Set lofty goals and do right action every day towards those goals.

12. Be empathetic, then rise. Sometimes people want you to feel their pain. Sacrifice your good vibes for them, then pull them up with you back to your previous state.

13. A positive mind is very powerful. There are times for negativity, but those times are rare.

14. Never give up on or condemn another person. They may not be aware they are hurting you. Forgive so you may be forgiven.

15. Failure is another step towards success. Don’t let failures slow you down. If they do, then this is what I do: I envision myself in old age looking back and laughing at how many failures led to my great successes.

16. Stop comparing yourself to others. We are each on our own path.

17. Understand other opinions. Rather than sticking to your point of view, people will enjoy your vibe much more if you don?t argue your opinion to be ‘Right’ and not ‘Wrong’. It is win-win.

18. Have faith that your good vibes are flowing into those around you and lifting them.

19. Meditate or use another centering ritual. Rituals have been very vital to humanity.

20. Drink water frequently. Divide your body weight in two, that is the number of fluid ounces of water you need daily.

21. Keep your body fit and healthy by exercising and eating right.

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Universal Laws

1. No one wants disrespect.

2. We all are pursuing our own version of happiness.

3. Remember, everyone is on their own path with their own goals.

4. Good vibes resonate and amplify with other good vibes exponentially.

5. The world will be a better place when we leave it than when we found it.

6. We all want to be rich and powerful, but few can rise up. Be happy regardless of your status.

7. Life is abundant. Money, love, and joy can all be yours in excess.

8. Work hard to improve the world around you. It will return the favor.

9. The universe is naturally a happy, good place.

10. Do not fear death. Life is inescapably eternal …

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Virtual currencies and intangible value are slowly but surely replacing our current monetary system..

Having the lowest price is not necessarily a good thing. It is not going to bring you more business, well it might but you will have to work twice as much for the same money. Don’t aim to have the lowest price tag – aim at having the best value product or service. That’s going to bring business your way!

One of the most remarkable ones – Think and Grow Rich. I will keep sharing some of his thoughts with you. I hope those come in handy when the time comes…

- A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- You give before you get.

- You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

- Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

- You can start right where you stand and apply that habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

- Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

- When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

- All the breaks you need in life await within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

- Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

- Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

- Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

- Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Desire is the starting point of all achievements, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Don’t wait, time will never be just right.

- Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

- Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

- Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

- Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

- Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

- Fear is nothing more than a state of mind.

- First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

- Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

- Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

- Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

- If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

- It has always been in my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

- It is always your next move.

- It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others succeed.

- It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

- Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

- Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

- Money without brains is always dangerous.

- More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

- No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

- No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

- No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

- No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

- One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

- Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Persistence is to the character as carbon is to steel.

- Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

- Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

- Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

- Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

- The battle is all over except the “shouting” when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

- The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

- The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

- The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

- The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

- The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

- The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

- The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

- There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

- Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant a seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

- Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

- Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

- War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

- We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

- Think and grow rich.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing became a process of discovery that i couldn;t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Shanon O’Brien

I’m not a very good writer, but I;m an excellent rewriter. ~James Michener

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

Been there done that.. can’t remember if I’ve got the t-shirt but still had plenty of lessons learned from back then. I was anxiously trying to get some leads for my network marketing business and any traffic for my pity websites at all. My websites at that time were getting hardly any traffic and even if someone somehow landed on my pages he or she never returned again. I didn’t know what I am doing wrong… At some point I decided it is useless to spend time with my websites as they were going nowhere… I had totaled the fortune of $127.50 for the period of 2 months… I decided to quit and get a job. This happened on a very sunny Sunday morning…

Later that day I met with a friend of mine. We both started with our online ventures at the same time. Surprisingly he was doing very well. He told me he got almost $1000 in sales in the current month and even showed me the check. WTF!? I thought! (..and to be honest I think I even said it) How could that be!? After all we were promoting the same affiliate programs and the same network marketing company… How was that possible??

I will tell you how he did it. I will cut the long story short. The answer was: MySpace.. While I was trying to SEO my websites and putting hours and sweat in finding links and submitting my websites to directories he was doing Social Media Marketing… Adding friends, creating multiple accounts, sending tons of messages. Basically spamming the s**t out of the poor MySpace users… (If you have ever received messages in your MySpace inbox about ringtones or noni juice that was probably him :)

Anyways, I am not saying what he did was right, not at all. But what this experience gave me was the feeling that there are a lot of opportunities in the social media, for marketers, for small business owners or just for people who want to network, or find partners for their business, or grow their downline… you name it!

Right now there are tons of big social media networks, bookmarking sites and hubs. I am sure you can name a couple yourself or if you can’t than you really need to spend more time on this blog with me… Those can bring the traffic and they convert pretty well if you know how to use them… and the best thing is it is free! (most of the time :)

In this post I am not going to give you any specific details. I will make that later with a separate post for each one of the big players. I will cover how you can use them and will give you tools you can use as well. It has always been about who has the biggest gun, strange but it is the same now with social media marketing as well..

If you are really interested in growing your business through social media, which I hope you are, then look forward to the series of posts I will be making on this topic. I will give you tangible things, ideas and resources you can actually work with. I will pour my personal experience on those pages just to save you the hassle of having to go through the same errors I did.

The first ones on the list of big players will be Twitter and Facebook. Stay tuned for more…

Those questions have been in the back of my head since I first started with my online adventure in 2005. I couldn’t help thinking about how those people live and what makes them so successful. I decided I am going find out.. and I started researching and analyzing. I kept my eyes and ears open and now, 5 years later, I am anxious to share what I know with you, the things that helped me get where I am. Things that still help me every day on my way to achieving and living my dreams. That’s why I started this blog and this will be the main goal of it – to share the things that helped me get where I am right now.

There isn’t one single magical key that will make you very very successful. Are you disappointed? Well don’t be. Still there are some characteristics of the successful people and things you can easily make part of your routine on your way to living your dreams.

Are you dreaming about succeeding? Do you really really want to succeed and live the life of your dreams?

This burning desire is the vehicle that will take you where you want to be. And the fact that you landed on my blog and that you are reading those lines means that you are already on your way to Success! Here I will give you some applicable step-by-step guides that you will help you speed up and feel that you are on the right track. Everything in our world is moving faster and faster and you either keep up or get left behind. So make sure you follow my next posts to get some free advice and tips on how to stay on top of the wave.

The Vehicle of Your Online Success

Ok, so your dreams and commitment to succeed are the vehicle of your online success. No matter where you want to take your vehicle you will still need a bunch of other things to accommodate the journey.

- The first one being you knowing how to drive… or finding a driver. What I will try and do in my posts here will be like driving lessons. So you can start moving your vehicle and feel comfortable doing so till it gets so easy you start doing it without even thinking about it.

- We will still need fuel.. And what I realized in my short life so far is that the vehicle of our dreams is running on two things.. well it is not petrol, and it is not gas.. it is perspiration and dedication. I am not the kind of person that will promise you overnight success. You will have to invest some time and some sweat and some money in it. But what you will get in return is seeing your dreams manifest and living the life that you dream about. How is that for a ROI (Return on Investment)? You can’t stop at the gas station, top up your tank and just go.. you do have to pay for it but the reward is that you will have the fuel to get where you want to be. Still I want to make it very clear – Succeeding online is a lot easier than most people think. And the results can and will be mind blowing. You will need also:

- Goal. It is like knowing where you want to go. Well is it important? Let me ask you this.. Will you agree that it is better to know where you are going before boarding a plane? Or before going on a journey, do you want to know where it will take you. I do agree it is fun sometimes to just roam around.. I still do it myself. I do it in my business and also with my car.. But still the best results I achieve when I know what I want and I am focused and keep my eyes on my goal. I found that the same applies to many of the successful people, if not all of them.. So stay focused and picture your goal very clearly.

- Having a map does help. Your map is your plan. Start putting things on paper even if it is virtual paper. (You can use Google Docs – it is online and it is free and it is easy to use. The big plus is you can access it from anywhere. I will post a how to about Google Docs next week). Writing and planning is really magical. If there is one thing about how I achieve my little triumphs that I know 1000% works this is planning my next success. I plan.. and I stick to my plans. What I do is I put things on paper and then I read them every day. This has tremendous power as it helps you stay focused and reminds you of your goal. Do you agree that it will not make sense if you want to get from New York to Los Angeles to do a U turn in the middle of the trip and go to Minneapolis just like that? And when you have your map with you it will be very helpful more than once. Don’t take my words for granted, try it! I challenge you! And then share with me what happened.

There is one thing people overlook very often – who is next to you, on your way. What company you chose for your journey affects the journey itself a lot. Do you like traveling alone or will you prefer to have some good company. Well for my online business I have always preferred to have good company -  it makes the journey a lot more pleasant.  I personally love brainstorming maybe that’s why I enjoy so much the company of smart, intelligent and creative people. My advice is team up! Find people that are as passionate as you or even more about what they do. It is sooo much better to have such people around you. You will see that if you do have the right company you will reach your goals faster and it will be easier to get there. Often those people will be around you after you reach your first goals and will give you good ideas about your next journey, very often you will share same vehicle with the more than once.

To end this post as I think it is already a bit long I will just add one more thing. Your mind. Your mind is like the engine of the vehicle. It is your mind that either helps you get to where you want to go or it limits you and prevents you. I want you to realize you have a very powerful engine! I know you can achieve anything you want and I am ready to bet on that. I believe in you and I am here to tell you it is a wonderful journey and it is easier than you think! You just have to be committed to get there. Don’t wait for the right time. The right time is NOW, HERE and NOW. Don’t be like those people, who want to make a trip to some place all their life and always find an excuse not to. At the end they regret it. I believe you deserve to live the fulfilling life that you dream about. So put on your sunglasses, big smile and I wish you happy driving!

And if you feel like you need a driver, or just good company on your way just give me a shout :)

~ Vladimir Hristov

In this virtual world the blogs are the new media. People that blog do it because of passion, or just to kill some time. Some of the bloggers see that as a way to pay the bills, and some make millions per year.. Newspapers and regular media are losing ground very very quickly and are being replaced by social medias and blogs.

From home entrepreneurs, small and medium companies to the fortune 500 corporations – everyone understands the power of The Blog! The corporate blog is one of the most common things for the big corporations and now even small business owners and professionals like lawyers, accountants or even your local dentist do blog. They do it because they know that is the easiest way to reach potential new clients while in the same time enhancing the relationship that they have with the current clients or partners. Providing tips and advices, following the latest trends, reviewing products,breaking news, your expert opinion – there are numerous possibilities to harness and show that you have the knowledge and you have the skills. This is bringing down the walls between you and the visitors of your website, they will be one step closer to becoming your loyal clients. Your blog can turn you in an authority expert and it is a very powerful tool.

But it also has another benefit that is at least as equally important. Usually when you have a website, no matter if you run a small or medium business or if you are just a professional  (lawyer, accountant, dentist, photographer..etc.) your website will not be very content rich – meaning that you will have less pages for the search engines to see.  (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, Ask and so on.. ) A standard website has Home page, About us, Services/Products, Contact us.. that’s the most common theme. But the more content you have, the more this content is related to your business and your niche, the easier it will be for visitors to find your website  and become aware of the services and products that you offer. Take it as a lottery ticket. The more content you have the more tickets you have. I am not saying you should go out there and start posting just anything. Quality of your posts matters.

So what do you think.. can you get use of a blog?

One advice about those of you who really want to blog and make it big. Be honest. Be yourself. There is only one you. You are unique. Tell your real story and your blog will become your most powerful weapon. Leave all the hype and just be you.

That is my 2 cents on blogging

~ Vladimir Hristov