Let me tell you a story.
One day, two men were walking home.
All of a sudden, it started to rain. Really hard.
Because both of them didn’t have an umbrella, the two guys got soaking wet. After a few minutes of torrential rain, the first man cursed.
“God, what have I done to deserve this bad fortune?” he growled, hurling his fist to the sky. “Why are you punishing me? I’m minding my own business here, walking home, when You had to make it rain!”
But the second man’s response was totally different. He began to skip, dance, and sing like Gary V in a concert. “Yeepee! Life is wonderful!” he hollered.
With venom in his voice, the first man asked, “What are you so happy about? Can’t you see we’re wet as frogs in a swamp!”
The second man said, “My dear friend, I’m a farmer. The rain is nourishing my crops. I will have a bountiful harvest this year!”
It was the same rain, the same amount of water pelting their bodies, but the two men had two very different reactions.
Why?
Because one person prepared for the rain and another didn’t.
Dear friend, mark my word: There is always an avalanche of blessing that will flow into your life. Financial blessings. Spiritual blessings. They pour like a rampaging river over you.
But will you be ready for their coming?
If you won’t be ready, you’ll just curse.
But who will praise?
The person who has planted great seeds in his life.
How will you do that?
Here are the three kinds of seeds that you need to plant:
1) Seeds of Desire
2) Seeds of Belief
3) Seeds of Action
Friend, God wants to bless you abundantly. May your dreams come true,
May your dreams come true. Bo Sanchez
Friday, May 14, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Born-from-the-Streets
If you want to become really wealthy (not just middle class), you need to learn practical strategies that can only come from actually doing it. Risking it. Making your hands dirty. And failing.
You don’t learn that in school. You learn that in the streets.
T.J. Watson said, “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” I totally agree.
I’m successful today because I’ve failed so many times. And I’ve failed so many times because I’ve made so many attempts.
Look, I’m not talking about foolish, impulsive attempts. (Okay, I must admit I did those too.)
Today, I’ve learned how to fail.
Do you want to start a business?
Follow these 4 important rules of failing wisely.
• I only start with small amounts
I don’t bet the farm. I put little amounts of money. So that if it fails, I don’t cry. I consider my investment as a tuition fee for learning in the best university in the land: University of Failure.
• I only do it with coaches behind me.
I don’t do anything without mentors beside me. People who have been doing what I want to do for years.
• I stick with my expertise.
I stay within my game. I’ve got core gifts and won’t venture too far from that field.
• I only work with people of character.
I don’t work with just anybody. Through the years, I’ve learned to profile people. Obviously, I make mistakes. But I (sort of) can guess if a person is dependable or not.
And if I fail eight out of 10 attempts, I’m very happy. Because the two attempts where I succeed will far outweigh all my failures.
Here’s my complaint of schools: They’re training our kids to fear failure. Woe to the kid whose report card has a red mark. Students will try everything not to fail.
But failure is good.
Google founder Eric Schmidt said, “Fail often and fail quickly. So you can try again.” Powerful words. It’s the reason why Google is so successful. It fails in so many of its projects.
That’s one of the reasons why we homeschool our sons. We want them to fail often and fail quickly. How? We decided to immerse our kids to real life assignments. Because they realize it’s okay to fail. My 9-year-old boy started three blogs to earn money. (His blogs are about video games.) So far, he has only earned a few centavos from his Google ads. In other words, he failed. Which is good. He has realized that failure isn’t so bad. It simply tells him to try again.
My friend, fail quickly. Fail often. So you can try again.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
You don’t learn that in school. You learn that in the streets.
T.J. Watson said, “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” I totally agree.
I’m successful today because I’ve failed so many times. And I’ve failed so many times because I’ve made so many attempts.
Look, I’m not talking about foolish, impulsive attempts. (Okay, I must admit I did those too.)
Today, I’ve learned how to fail.
Do you want to start a business?
Follow these 4 important rules of failing wisely.
• I only start with small amounts
I don’t bet the farm. I put little amounts of money. So that if it fails, I don’t cry. I consider my investment as a tuition fee for learning in the best university in the land: University of Failure.
• I only do it with coaches behind me.
I don’t do anything without mentors beside me. People who have been doing what I want to do for years.
• I stick with my expertise.
I stay within my game. I’ve got core gifts and won’t venture too far from that field.
• I only work with people of character.
I don’t work with just anybody. Through the years, I’ve learned to profile people. Obviously, I make mistakes. But I (sort of) can guess if a person is dependable or not.
And if I fail eight out of 10 attempts, I’m very happy. Because the two attempts where I succeed will far outweigh all my failures.
Here’s my complaint of schools: They’re training our kids to fear failure. Woe to the kid whose report card has a red mark. Students will try everything not to fail.
But failure is good.
Google founder Eric Schmidt said, “Fail often and fail quickly. So you can try again.” Powerful words. It’s the reason why Google is so successful. It fails in so many of its projects.
That’s one of the reasons why we homeschool our sons. We want them to fail often and fail quickly. How? We decided to immerse our kids to real life assignments. Because they realize it’s okay to fail. My 9-year-old boy started three blogs to earn money. (His blogs are about video games.) So far, he has only earned a few centavos from his Google ads. In other words, he failed. Which is good. He has realized that failure isn’t so bad. It simply tells him to try again.
My friend, fail quickly. Fail often. So you can try again.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
Born-from-the-Streets
If you want to become really wealthy (not just middle class), you need to learn practical strategies that can only come from actually doing it. Risking it. Making your hands dirty. And failing.
You don’t learn that in school. You learn that in the streets.
T.J. Watson said, “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” I totally agree.
I’m successful today because I’ve failed so many times. And I’ve failed so many times because I’ve made so many attempts.
Look, I’m not talking about foolish, impulsive attempts. (Okay, I must admit I did those too.)
Today, I’ve learned how to fail.
Do you want to start a business?
Follow these 4 important rules of failing wisely.
• I only start with small amounts
I don’t bet the farm. I put little amounts of money. So that if it fails, I don’t cry. I consider my investment as a tuition fee for learning in the best university in the land: University of Failure.
• I only do it with coaches behind me.
I don’t do anything without mentors beside me. People who have been doing what I want to do for years.
• I stick with my expertise.
I stay within my game. I’ve got core gifts and won’t venture too far from that field.
• I only work with people of character.
I don’t work with just anybody. Through the years, I’ve learned to profile people. Obviously, I make mistakes. But I (sort of) can guess if a person is dependable or not.
And if I fail eight out of 10 attempts, I’m very happy. Because the two attempts where I succeed will far outweigh all my failures.
Here’s my complaint of schools: They’re training our kids to fear failure. Woe to the kid whose report card has a red mark. Students will try everything not to fail.
But failure is good.
Google founder Eric Schmidt said, “Fail often and fail quickly. So you can try again.” Powerful words. It’s the reason why Google is so successful. It fails in so many of its projects.
That’s one of the reasons why we homeschool our sons. We want them to fail often and fail quickly. How? We decided to immerse our kids to real life assignments. Because they realize it’s okay to fail. My 9-year-old boy started three blogs to earn money. (His blogs are about video games.) So far, he has only earned a few centavos from his Google ads. In other words, he failed. Which is good. He has realized that failure isn’t so bad. It simply tells him to try again.
My friend, fail quickly. Fail often. So you can try again.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
Sunday, May 9, 2010
On Buying Cars
This month, I’m writing about the Lifestyle of the TrulyRich and Faithful.
Last night, my 10-year-old son was leafing through a glossy car magazine.
The cars were incredibly beautiful.
Benzes. BMWs. Audis. Jaguars.
“They’re so cool, Daddy,” my son gushed.
And I gushed along with him.
I must admit. The cars were utterly gorgeous.
In our society, cars are symbols that make men announce to the world, “I have arrived.”
That’s why people love brand new cars.
But through the years, I’ve trained my mind to think in the opposite direction: I love my car as it gets older.
Crazy, right?
The older it gets, the more I love it.
Not because I like vintage cars.
But because of the savings I get from driving an old car.
Here’s the thing: I love to earn much more than I love driving a brand new car. And I know that with what I save from not buying a brand new car, I’ll be able to invest that money and earn more.
After 12 years of building my wealth, I can afford to buy a brand new car every month. I could pay full cash if I wanted to. But even if I bought a new one via monthly payments, I would still have to spend perhaps P20T to P30T a month.
A part of my brain says, “Gee, that’s peanuts for you now, Bo. You won’t even feel it.” But the other part of my brain says, “Wait a minute. If I invest P20T or P30T a month in the stock market, I can make it grow at 20% a year. Shoot, that will become P40 Million in 20 years!
That’s when I realize my old car has become a fantastic vehicle.
Because it’s saving — and earning me — so much money.
Sure, I hear some rickety sounds from underneath my car.
Sure, the ride isn’t as smooth.
Sure, the aircon isn’t as powerful as when it was new.
Heck, I won’t die.
Because I keep my car in tip-top condition.
As I said in last week’s issue of WealthStrategies, a day will come when it won’t matter. I’ll be a billionaire and it won’t matter if I’ll buy a brand new car every time I feel like it.
But not now. At this time in my life (I’m 43), I want to grow my investments.
What Are My Toys
Rich people buy luxury cars, yachts, and vacation homes.
Some wealthy people buy ultra-motorcycles, state-of-the-art audio equipment, or mansions in posh villages.
These are their toys.
My toys are very different: I invest in God’s ministry.
I don’t look like a millionaire because I love giving 40% of my income to God’s work. Reason? I lead the ministry. I know our needs, intimately. And obviously, I believe in what we do. I believe in the impact that we have on people’s lives.
So each year, I give millions to the ministry with great joy.
These are my toys.
Honestly? They’re the most fantastic toys in the world.
You should try it.
May your dreams come true,
By:
Bo Sanchez
Friday, April 23, 2010
Dreaming Of…
I been praying to have a personal computer. I enrolled in online marketing lessons as preparations . At last, finally I was able to purchased one. This blessing lead me to become more convince that as long as we focus to our dream and pray over it, dreams becomes a reality.
I continue dreaming and I will …. for it will become a real thing.
I continue dreaming and I will …. for it will become a real thing.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Why Your Business Needs Friends
A Guest Post by Johnny B. Truant from The Charlie and Johnny Jam Sessions.
I got an email the other day from a man who was at his wit’s end.
The email explained that in this man’s business, he was doing many of the same basic things that I was doing, but with much less success. He had been building websites for years. He had refined his craft. He felt that the sites he built were better, more complete, and had more features and better support than mine. He had more experience than I had. He even said that he was probably smarter than I was.
Yet I was doing really well and he was not. So what was the problem?
I replied that he was looking at the situation incorrectly. Generating the business I have — over 70 current active leads at last count — has nothing to do with making better websites, or being faster, or being cheaper. And it certainly has nothing to do with being smarter. (Besides, I graduated first in my class, ahem.)
There are a million people out there who do what I do. A million people putting up Wordpress sites and making them sing. Plenty of these people are better, faster, and cheaper than I am.
So I told him: People don’t come to me because I create the best Wordpress websites in the world, because I don’t. The people who come to me do so because we’re friends.
This is the Third Tribe
I’m not going to argue that relationship-based marketing is better than bulk-traffic based marketing, because I know that many incomes have been built on attracting a ton of people who you don’t know and who don’t know you. However, I will say that if you’ve never truly tried to get to know your readers, followers, commenters, and casual online acquaintances, you may really be cutting off your profits at the knees.
In case you missed the memo, Darren is one of the principals of the Third Tribe — a group and a philosophy with its roots in building businesses and audiences based on interpersonal connections. If you’re operating with a Third Tribe mentality, the sheer number of people who visit your site or read your blog matters far less than the number of people you exchange a few words with, or who you help without asking for pay, or who like you enough that they’ll retweet everything you post or buy everything you put out.
A Third Tribe business is about getting as many people to like you as possible. I tell my consulting clients that my job is to teach people to make friends.
And yes, I know how naïve that sounds. But hear me out.
Most people in my shoes, looking to sell Wordpress website setups by leveraging social media, would get on Twitter and announce their service’s features and low prices. They’d blast their specials and sales out to Twitter and Facebook. Maybe they’d create a fan page so that people could be “fans” of their business — because, you know, it’s really natural to be a fan of a business. They’d optimize sales pages and plan careful upsells, and they’d massage prospects through their product funnel.
By contrast, here’s how I use social media:
* On my Facebook profile, I have photos of Robert Goulet Photoshopped into ridiculous scenes from my “travels.” (I used to use Robert Goulet as my avatar.)
* Most of what I put out on Twitter are dumb jokes: “I’ll bet zombie dinner parties are really awkward” or “They say that true beauty is on the inside. The problem is that nobody can see it in there, so you’re still going to look ugly.”
* A lot of my own blog posts have nothing at all to do with my business, like “I want to join Fight Club” and “Why I’m exactly like Morpheus.”
That all looks really backward, until you realize that my goal isn’t to create customers, but instead to make friends.
If you’re funny, people tend to like you. (I’m not saying you should be funny if you’re not, but if you’ve got it, flaunt it.)
If you write and talk about yourself as a whole person, rather than a one-dimensional business drone, people tend to be interested in you.
If you answer tweets and emails in a somewhat chatty, personal way instead of going for the sale when it’s not obviously warranted, people tend to enjoy talking to you.
And when all of those friends — and friends of those friends — one day have a need that you are able to fill, they won’t go to Google and look for the first search result or for the guy with the cheapest price. It’s human nature that they’ll come to you — their friend — first.
This really can be as simple as I’m making it sound. If you have an easily consumable product or service that a lot of people need and can afford, then all you really need to do is to get out there and make online friends. And they don’t even have to be friends-friends, if you know what I’m saying. They can be people who have read what you wrote somewhere and liked it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard something like, “I read something you wrote on IttyBiz about kung fu, and would like you to build me a website.”
I’m so not kidding.
The beauty of this approach is that it’s easy and natural if you can just unlearn some of the ingrained habits you’ve gotten used to, like a feeling that a businessperson should be “professional,” or that a fashion blogger should, you know, always talk about fashion and nothing else.
The web has magnified our interpersonal connections and the ability to meet new folks in new ways, but it hasn’t changed the fundamental nature of relationships. If we like people, then we want to hang out with them more, and do more with them. It’s that simple.
Now get out there and make some new friends.
Johnny B. Truant writes about Fight Club, tweets about zombies, and is one of the two extremely personable guys behind The Charlie and Johnny Jam Sessions. If you want to build a cool business while being a real person instead of a boring business drone, you should definitely get in on those.
I got an email the other day from a man who was at his wit’s end.
The email explained that in this man’s business, he was doing many of the same basic things that I was doing, but with much less success. He had been building websites for years. He had refined his craft. He felt that the sites he built were better, more complete, and had more features and better support than mine. He had more experience than I had. He even said that he was probably smarter than I was.
Yet I was doing really well and he was not. So what was the problem?
I replied that he was looking at the situation incorrectly. Generating the business I have — over 70 current active leads at last count — has nothing to do with making better websites, or being faster, or being cheaper. And it certainly has nothing to do with being smarter. (Besides, I graduated first in my class, ahem.)
There are a million people out there who do what I do. A million people putting up Wordpress sites and making them sing. Plenty of these people are better, faster, and cheaper than I am.
So I told him: People don’t come to me because I create the best Wordpress websites in the world, because I don’t. The people who come to me do so because we’re friends.
This is the Third Tribe
I’m not going to argue that relationship-based marketing is better than bulk-traffic based marketing, because I know that many incomes have been built on attracting a ton of people who you don’t know and who don’t know you. However, I will say that if you’ve never truly tried to get to know your readers, followers, commenters, and casual online acquaintances, you may really be cutting off your profits at the knees.
In case you missed the memo, Darren is one of the principals of the Third Tribe — a group and a philosophy with its roots in building businesses and audiences based on interpersonal connections. If you’re operating with a Third Tribe mentality, the sheer number of people who visit your site or read your blog matters far less than the number of people you exchange a few words with, or who you help without asking for pay, or who like you enough that they’ll retweet everything you post or buy everything you put out.
A Third Tribe business is about getting as many people to like you as possible. I tell my consulting clients that my job is to teach people to make friends.
And yes, I know how naïve that sounds. But hear me out.
Most people in my shoes, looking to sell Wordpress website setups by leveraging social media, would get on Twitter and announce their service’s features and low prices. They’d blast their specials and sales out to Twitter and Facebook. Maybe they’d create a fan page so that people could be “fans” of their business — because, you know, it’s really natural to be a fan of a business. They’d optimize sales pages and plan careful upsells, and they’d massage prospects through their product funnel.
By contrast, here’s how I use social media:
* On my Facebook profile, I have photos of Robert Goulet Photoshopped into ridiculous scenes from my “travels.” (I used to use Robert Goulet as my avatar.)
* Most of what I put out on Twitter are dumb jokes: “I’ll bet zombie dinner parties are really awkward” or “They say that true beauty is on the inside. The problem is that nobody can see it in there, so you’re still going to look ugly.”
* A lot of my own blog posts have nothing at all to do with my business, like “I want to join Fight Club” and “Why I’m exactly like Morpheus.”
That all looks really backward, until you realize that my goal isn’t to create customers, but instead to make friends.
If you’re funny, people tend to like you. (I’m not saying you should be funny if you’re not, but if you’ve got it, flaunt it.)
If you write and talk about yourself as a whole person, rather than a one-dimensional business drone, people tend to be interested in you.
If you answer tweets and emails in a somewhat chatty, personal way instead of going for the sale when it’s not obviously warranted, people tend to enjoy talking to you.
And when all of those friends — and friends of those friends — one day have a need that you are able to fill, they won’t go to Google and look for the first search result or for the guy with the cheapest price. It’s human nature that they’ll come to you — their friend — first.
This really can be as simple as I’m making it sound. If you have an easily consumable product or service that a lot of people need and can afford, then all you really need to do is to get out there and make online friends. And they don’t even have to be friends-friends, if you know what I’m saying. They can be people who have read what you wrote somewhere and liked it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard something like, “I read something you wrote on IttyBiz about kung fu, and would like you to build me a website.”
I’m so not kidding.
The beauty of this approach is that it’s easy and natural if you can just unlearn some of the ingrained habits you’ve gotten used to, like a feeling that a businessperson should be “professional,” or that a fashion blogger should, you know, always talk about fashion and nothing else.
The web has magnified our interpersonal connections and the ability to meet new folks in new ways, but it hasn’t changed the fundamental nature of relationships. If we like people, then we want to hang out with them more, and do more with them. It’s that simple.
Now get out there and make some new friends.
Johnny B. Truant writes about Fight Club, tweets about zombies, and is one of the two extremely personable guys behind The Charlie and Johnny Jam Sessions. If you want to build a cool business while being a real person instead of a boring business drone, you should definitely get in on those.
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