LegendaryLife Blog

It’s really raining hard here… a week ago I had to stop working on my WoodMarvels.com site due to running-out of hard drive space (no big deal, I was due for a small break) but since then, it’s been go, Go, GO!

A week “off”

I started-off trying and almost finishing my very first motivational / inspirational self-help book which is looking fantastic and coming together amazingly well then I got a call for a few 3D animation projects and now, a huge opportunity for WoodMarvels.com that I am just so happy to jump head-first right into! It’s all a result of the massive amount of time I spent over the holidays upgrading that company and now, attention and opportunity is coming in leaps and bounds. I couldn’t be prouder!

Wait… that’s not all!

What’s even more fantastic is that my video to become the next “Islands of the Great Barrier Reef Caretaker” is just about to hit the 3K views too… I think my chances are really good to make it from 1 in 30 000 to 1 in 50 over the next two weeks but we will see what fate has in store for me. This would be a huge opportunity not only for me, my businesses and my books but also for Australia, giving me worldwide exposure to really make a difference in other people’s lives and become a worldwide spokesperson for this paradise on Earth! This would be an enormous boost to get me to where I want to be in life as it would easily shave a decade off my time lines for personal achievement!

All I see on the news is doom and gloom

Sure, people are losing their jobs, the economy is going into the dumps but there are businesses who are thriving during these times as well, the focus on the media towards depression is becoming rather dull. THINGS ARE NOT THAT BAD! If you are part of a dying industry, failed to diversify and learn new things and decided to play it safe all your life, losing your job sucks but it’s a wake-up call that your job isn’t your life and your life isn’t your job! There is still far more opportunity in this world that any one company or person can grasp, GOT FOR IT and take no prisoners! Life is about adventure, exploration and learning, not stagnation… I absolutely refuse to adopt the crisis mentality that is like a plague engulfing the world, I see, on a daily basis, opportunity coming out of this chaos, not dread!

LegendaryLife.com Update

Let’s see, a booming on-demand laser cutting company, publishing another book and maybe getting paid to explore the beautiful Great Barrier Reef Islands and on-top of that, launching LegendaryLife.com after YEARS in development… I really hope this tsunami of success and achievement keeps coming my way, I can only hope but wish for this to all become true in the next few months! Life is amazing when pieces of the puzzle really start coming together after so much hard work!

The Bottom Line

Don’t allow yourself to be brainwashed into thinking everything is bad, it isn’t!

If my Uncle can double his money on the stock market in 6 weeks, you can too!

I have fallen a little behind on a few things over the past few days due to a new site I launched with my Uncle.

2xStocks.com Background

I talk to my Uncle every few days and over the past few weeks, the gains he got out of investing money into the stock market were becoming increasingly pronounced. At first, he said he would give it a try, the following days, every few days, he would tell me how much money he made. This has continued for the past seven weeks! Over the weekend, I had a though while in the shower that this is an opportunity to share my Uncle’s knowledge. What I found surprising was that he was making very good money while the markets were sinking!

The Location

My Uncle has a very nice cabin next to a lake away from the city. The only way to get there is by canoe! It’s a very nice place that I look forward to staying at for months at a time each year. He has solar power for electricity, gas cylinders for cooking and plenty of wild blueberries and fish all around him. My favorite part of being at the cabin is the size of the bathtub, I believe it’s half a kilometer across and a kilometer and a half long, fed by a source! Visitors to his place include curious bears, chipmunks and lots of other wildlife. It’s the perfect place to relax and get some good work done! I stuck pictures I took at the cabin when I was there in the summer.

The Challenges

So how does somebody build a blog coming from a French speaking man in the middle of the bush? Well, I told him to just tell me what he was doing when ever he bought or sold a stock and I would write and post it on he behalf. He has a computer and net access at another home he has closer to town so he just sends me information from there.

The Results

We officially launched the site a few days ago, already, to my surprise, Google has indexed the site (!) and better yet, the traffic to the site is going up like gang-busters! Even better, we are starting to get comments and people asking questions from the form on the site. I have been on the internet for over a decade and never have I seen things happen so quickly! This is extremely encouraging! I had an idea of doing this years ago, that is why I bought 2xStocks.com back then but never got around to doing it but thanks to my Uncle, I now have another dream of mine becoming reality!

What’s Next?

Well, my Uncle is buying a scanner so he can e-mail me trading certificates when ever a stock is bought or sold, this goes a long way towards proving his gains. It’s one thing to say that he doubled his money, from 15K to almost 30K in six weeks but quite another having certificates proving it! I really look forward to seeing how this site performs over the next few weeks and months, it could end-up being one of my most successful sites yet!

The Bottom Line

Sometimes opportunity knocks without warning… always be ready to answer the door!

Buzvia: 2xStocks.com by Marcel

In a universe so vast and complicated, anything is possible... including the impossible!

Each and every human on this planet has infinite potential to turn their dreams into reality, so why do so few actually achieve them?

Lack of Creativity

A lot of people fumble through life without achieving their dreams either because they failed to find creative means to turn them into reality or worse, never developed the mental potential to actually think beyond their present circumstances. If you can’t imagine a better future for yourself, you will be unable to take any action to achieve it.

Lack of Energy

Living life is full of distractions, from financial to social ones… these all play an active role in draining your mental and physical batteries, if you let them! Saying you have no energy to follow-though with actions that will turn your desires into reality should be equivalent to saying you are too tired of breathing! You are full of energy, what you lack is the desire to develop your body to handle the additional stresses that come with going beyond your perceived potential. For instance, if you have a shitty diet and can’t be bothered to exercise on a daily basis, your future will be a reflection of your habits, in this case, shitty. But, if you decide each and every morning to actively find the time, resources and inner-power to actually make things happen for yourself and your family, things will turn-around for you rather quickly.

Lack of Focus

Knowing what you want is one thing, actually getting there is another. A lot of people give-up on their dreams right before they would have become reality or don’t even bother taking even the smallest steps towards a better life. If a goal is too large, treat it like a meal, you break it down to its constituent parts and then build it back together again. Nothing is out of the realm of posibility, humans have gone to the Moon, explored the most remote areas of our planet and even elected Bush twice! Decide what you want then decide to, on a daily basis, take “one small step” into the right direction! This will add-up big time over the period of a lifetime.

Lack of Urgency!

Some people believe that you need to let things sit for a while before following though with it. Nonesense! If you want to achieve something, start NOW, not an hour from now, not next week or next year when you get married… NOW! The reason for the NOW action is because it automatically puts you into the frame of mind of URGENCY! Who knows, maybe tomorrow you get hit by a bus… then what do you do? Even if you are only to do the smallest action towards turning your dreams into reality, do it NOW as… TOMORROW NEVER COMES!

Lack of Resources

Lack of resources is an excuse used far too often, I am telling you that there is NO SUCH THING! Public libraries have free books and internet so you can do all the research you want on a given topic without having to spend anything but your time. Sure, the library may be a few miles away but so what? Are you going to let a few miles get in the way of your dreams? I sure hope not! The Universe has infinite resources, there is no real limit of anything, whether it’s gold, rocks or oil… this is a human perception problem, not a natural one. Rise above your limitations, no matter where they come from and confront your future!

Lack of Self-Esteem

If you don’t believe in yourself, how do you expect others to? It’s a straight forward question that too few people battle with all their lives at the cost of their dreams. Listen, nobody is as special, powerful or limiteless as yourself, if you believe that you can achieve anything you put your mind to it, you can. There are no excuses for not creating the life that you and your family rightfully deserve! If your body looks as bad as your mind, make positive changes and you will see that, soon enough, your outlook and opportunities in your one and only life will shine from within you once again. We are all born with the same potential to succeed in life, there is no reason why you must fail so another person succeeds!

The Bottom Line

You have as much infinite potential as anybody else so stop making excuses and take action!

The steps of paranoia are a painful one!

Running around with your head chopped-off does nothing but make you die faster!

Jumping from one paranoid episode to another!

The propensity for people to jump from one crisis into another is happening yet again, right now, but this time, it isn’t terrorists but finances that are at the top of the list! What exactly did being scared of terrorists solve? NOTHING! If you review the news reports, trillions of dollars where spent, lives lost and even worse, the roots of the global economic crisis going on RIGHT NOW where formed. This is happening all again right now, the news has nothing good to say, governments are passing laws that make little sense and yet again, borrowing money they don’t have to put on the backs of the next generations to pay down. This has got to stop! You don’t dig yourself out of a hole by digging faster!

Where does paranoia come from?

Paranoia comes from not knowing what is around the corner… it served us very well in the ancient grasslands of Africa when many animals wanted us for their diner but now, with mass media and instant communication… this is killing-off our societies ability to maintain a clear vision regarding the future. There are problems now, there will be problems later but one things for sure, there will ALWAYS be problems. Going from a cycle of ignorance or indifference into paranoid frenzy as soon as a friend of a friend’s brother’s uncle’s grandfather looses a bit of money does nobody any good. The media, social groups, friends… all help create a severe winding-up of fears which only end-up making the entire situation worse for all involved, not better!

Paranoia affects your mental health!

I would be completely unsurprised if hospitals reported a significant increase in patience suffering from heart attacks, strokes and many other accidents… mostly due to the constant level of stress they put onto themselves. For instance, you lost 60% of your “savings” in the stock market over the past year… that would stress anybody out but if you treated the markets like a casino (they are one in the same in my opinion), you NEVER would have put your money in there to begin with. Never put money you can’t afford to lose on the market or with others, you are just asking to be burned.

So what is the solution?

The first is to accept that chaos will always win against stability, this is an important fact that is too easily ignored at our own peril. Second, a clear, long-term vision is required where small deviations might be necessary but the bigger picture of goal never getting out of sight. Micro-management isn’t any good for anybody.

Opportunity in Chaos

Each and every time there is extreme turmoil in society in general, you have winners who see the opportunity and losers who do not. This financial crisis is no different. Look at the marketplace, competitors are dying-off, retailers are eager for new products to sell and generally people are looking for escapes any way they can. The video game industry is booming right now as well as a few other sectors… try to think of what you can do to profit and actually help people, in the process, of making some money. Your goal shouldn’t be just getting out of this chaos alive, it should be to come out ahead!

The Bottom Line

Paranoia causes nothing but mental and physical stress, don’t allow yourself to be sucked into it!

I wish achieving success was as easy as this picture demonstrates.

If you ever wanted to become successful, here are Richard St. John’s 8 Secrets of Success that will give you a glimpse into what you need to achieve the life of your dreams.

Methodology

Richard St. John studied the question “What Leads to Success” for seven years, his results were gathered by interviewing 500 successful people. Without further delay, here is all you need:

PASSION

If you don’t love what you do, don’t do it.

DO IT FOR LOVE, NOT MONEY

Money comes as a result of love, not the drive for an ever increasing bank statement.

WORK

Lazy and procrastination aren’t in the successful persons vocabulary.

GOOD

Become the leader in your field

PRACTICE

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

FOCUS

Set your mind to be like an arrow going for a bullseye

PUSH

Push yourself mentally, physically and in every other way to become better… this is where shyness and self-doubt really allow some to achieve greatness.

SERVE

Provide value for others, becoming a millionaire takes time and lots of customers who will each give you their small piece of the pie.

IDEA

No idea is too crazy if you believe it’s possible.

PERSIST

Never give-up and never let yourself down… failure is a great teacher and tormentor in one.

The Bottom Line

Common sense mixed with a little stubbornness and craziness goes a long way towards achieving your goals.