Larry Winget’s Advice To 2012 Graduates

Posted by Denise Griffitts on May 17, 2012 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Published May 15, 2012 | Fox & Friends | Larry Winget

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Congratulations on earning your degree. But the truth is that the degree alone isn’t going to be enough to assure your success in the real world.

In the real world employers don’t care much about your degree, your happiness, your income or really much of anything that has to do with you. They care about what you can do for them. And from this point on, that’s how you have to think. Businesses exist to be profitable. It is your job to help make them profitable. If you know how to do that, how to be worth more than you cost, then you have value in the workplace. If you don’t know how to be worth more than you cost, then employers will pass you over and find someone else.

Look at what it really takes to be successful in the real world.

You have to take RESPONSIBILITY. Your life, your results, your success, happiness, health and prosperity are up to you. When it turns out well, you get the credit and when it doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to, you get the blame. It isn’t up to anyone else to make sure you are successful, it’s always up to you, so be responsible.

RESPECT OTHERS. Respect your employer enough to be on time and give them your personal best every day because that is what they are paying for. Respect your boss, even when you think he is an idiot because he is still your boss and deserves your respect. Respect your coworkers so they will respect you and your customers because they pay you.

CLEAR PRIORITIES. Your time, your energy and your money will always go to what is important to you. If looking cute is important to you then you will spend all of your money at the mall. If being financially secure is important to you then you will make sure that you save, invest and live on less than you earn.

It’s about WORK AND EXCELLENCE. Regardless of what others may tell you, it’s not about your passion — as I know people who are passionately incompetent. It’s not loving what you do or being happy every day. You aren’t paid to be happy on the job, you are paid to do your job. Success always comes down to hard work and excellence. And it takes both. Hard work alone won’t cut it. I know people who work really hard yet aren’t any good at what they do so it doesn’t matter. And I know people who are excellent at what they do but they don’t work hard enough at it to make any difference.

So work hard and be excellent at what you do. And remember, if any one can do it then anyone can do it.

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Larry Winget

The New York Times/Wall Street Journal best selling author and internationally known speaker. Larry is considered a self-help/business/financial guru to hundreds of thousands of people!

A Year of Success

People aren’t as successful as they want to be, rich as they could be or happy as they think they should be. That’s the truth. That’s why Larry Winget teamed up with 3 of the world’s leading success experts to create this new program, A Year Of Success.

People get hooked into systems that are too complicated, don’t work, over-promise and under-deliver and that flat out cost too much darn money. That’s why he is so proud of A Year Of Success. If you aren’t a part of this yet, you should be. If I wasn’t in it, I would not be recommendng it to you. And that is the truth.

The response to this program has already been terrific. People are loving the mix of success experts and the value and very reasonable investment.

PLEASE – just do this: go to A Year of Success.

Watch Larry talk about the program – it will only take a minute. If you are intrigued, then look through the rest of the site, watch some of the other videos and make your decision. At $2.82 per week, you won’t be taken advantage of financially. But you will get 52 video lessons along with an action plan for each one that will allow you create a better year this year than you had last year. Along the way, you will get 4 bonuses that I know you will really enjoy. No upsells, no tricks; just simple, actionable ideas that you can implement to make a real difference in your life.

Free WordPress Theme for Business or Portfolio

Posted by Denise Griffitts on May 1, 2012 in Web Development | 0 comments

As a web developer I rarely, if ever, use any of the free WordPress themes that abound, but the Adapt theme by WP Explorer caught my attention recently. And in case you are not yet aware of WP Explorer it is a great place to find free and premium WordPress themes.

The Adapt theme caught my eye because it was crafted to work for sites where the focus of your work and recent news is the primary purpose. Additionally, it is 100 percent GPL (General Public License) and free. In short, it looks to me like a great theme for people who need to get a website up quickly and don’t have a big budget to work with. It is very minimal and very easy to setup. It comes with built-in post types for your portfolio, homepage highlights and homepage slider, so adding your content is a breeze. There are page templates for your blog, filterable portfolio, full-width pages and even a landing page template.

The Adapt theme also features:

• Fully responsive layout
• Homepage slider with unlimited heights. (Love this!)
• Portfolio slider
• Filterable portfolio template (This makes it a great choice for freelancers who need a quick way to showcase a portfolio. Adapt’s filterable portfolio page template allows you to easily sort and display portfolio items by category.)
• Full-width and landing page templates
•  Blog page template
• Threaded comments
• Widgetized sidebar and footer.

Is 2012 Your Year of Success?

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Apr 26, 2012 in Entrepreneurism | 0 comments

Let’s face it. People are not as successful as they want to be, as rich as they think they could and should be, or even as happy as they want to be. And that is the truth. And when you couple these very normal and natural thoughts with persistent economical / political low-level dread, there is some real room for mental and emotional improvement just to survive the evening news!

You already know that I do not bombard you with a ton of “buy now” stuff and I only recommend products that I actually use and benefit from myself. What I want to share with you today is A Year of Success.

If you connect with me on Facebook. LinkedIn or Twitter, you already know that Larry Winget and Bob Burg are friends of mine, and people who I have a VERY high professional and personal opinion of. Larry Winget is known as “The Pitbull of Personal Development” and is a 5 time New York Times / Wall Street Journal bestselling author and somebody you see on TV a lot. Larry is a regular contributor on Cavuto, Fox News, and other news networks. Bob Burg is one of my favorite authors and if you haven’t already done so, you really should read the Go Giver or Go-Giver’s Sell More and his latest book, It’s Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business.

Larry and Bob have partnered with Chief Fascination Officer of Fascinate, Inc., Sally Hogshead and leadership development speaker & consultant Mark Sanborn. Mark is the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea lab for leadership development. Leadershipgurus.net lists Mark as one of the top 30 leadership experts in the world. Mark is the author of You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader which speaks to leaders at every level, both those with and without titles. The book focuses on six things that all leaders do to make a positive difference. If you want to learn how to lead, or you are a leader looking for ways to lead better or teach others to lead, this book is for you.

Fascination is an intense emotional focus. When customers are fascinated by you and your message, they’re more likely to trust, believe, and respect you. As the only keynote speaker and author on this topic, Sally Hogshead has developed a scientifically-based system of influence, based on the brain’s hardwired patterns. For any goal that requires strong communication— from selling insurance to motivating top talent— the Fascinate system outlines the shortcut to persuasion. Sally has taught over 100,000 people how to use their natural strengths to become more persuasive.

I tell you all of this so you know who will be working with you and what they collectively bring to the table. In fact, the four of them have reached over a million people with their messages, all over the globe. In A Year of Success, they will teach you, challenge you, provoke you, (Larry!) and push you outside your comfort zone to the point that you gain with bigger, faster, and smarter results, no matter what you are doing.

How to Easily Create Amazon Affiliate Links

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Feb 27, 2012 in Internet Mastery | 2 comments

I have a lot of clients who signed up to become an Amazon affiliate somewhere along the way and then never did anything with it because creating those affiliate links for products was just too complicated for most people.

Amazon Associates Central has finally made it a bit easier for the layman to create links and I am quite glad to see it.

Here is how to create links in just a few easy steps.

1. Login to your Amazon Associates Central account.
2. Type the product, book title or author that you are searching for in the search box.

Choose your product and then click on the orange “Get Link” button. When the HTML code appears click on the “Shorten URL with amzn.to hyperlink.

That will give you a tiny hyperlink that you can use on your website, in mailings, on FB, Twitter, etc.

How To Keep Track Of Your Progress and To-Do List

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Feb 25, 2012 in Musings of the Author | 0 comments

To-do lists are dynamic documents. Today’s list probably looks very different from one you made a year or even a month ago. If it doesn’t, it’s probably time to revisit your goals!

By looking back on previous to-do lists, you can learn a lot about yourself, your goals, and your habits – good and bad. But when you are finished with a list, don’t toss it. Instead, file it away and when you’ve got a month or two worth of lists stored up, pull them out and go on a backwards journey. And actually, I do things a little bit different with my “to-do” list by tying my working lists to to my digital journal.

It is very important to me to journal as this is how I keep track of where I have been, what my thoughts and dreams were and are, what was happening on any particular day or period of my life and what my business gains and goals are.

However, keeping a traditional journal has never really worked well for me as I think and type at a lightening speed, but actually writing it all down means I can’t really keep up with my own thoughts on paper. Very frustrating for somebody like me who is a logical, linear thinker and just wants to get things done in the most efficient manner possible.

Happily, some years ago I found a fabulous digital journal that I have referenced on several of my recent radio broadcasts on Your Partner In Success Radio and am getting a lot of people sending me notes to say thank you for the great idea. I use and HIGHLY recommend The Journal by DavidRM Software. He offers a 45 day free trial and  if you want to upgrade to the paid version it is a one time fee of $49.95.

I recently had a massive computer crash and to be perfectly honest, the thing I worried about most was losing my years worth of journal entries. Fortunately for my sanity, I had backed everything up (it prompts you do do so on a regular basis) and was able to restore my journal. Whew!

The Journal can store anything in an entry: digital photographs, spreadsheets, word processor documents, and more. I use the meta keyword search tool to find out what was going on with my “do-do” lists going back several years. It is an enlightening journey, I promise you! These are some of the features that I love the most:

• Powerful word-processing features
• Store anything. (text, digital photographs, videos, files…)
• Find what you’re looking for with the powerful search features
• Print your entries for binding or sharing
• Set reminders for appointments, events, tasks & special days
• Import entries from other journaling software quickly
• Post your entries (including entries with images) to your web log (blog).
• Security – password protection

So when making your “to-do” lists and goal lists be sure to ask yourself the following questions and then check out The Journal to see if it will aid you in keeping track of yourself. And by the way, I am not an affiliate because David doesn’t currently have an affiliate program but if he ever does create one, I will be first in line. This is a tool that I simply can’t praise enough! I also need to mention here that David is tremendously helpful if you have a problem with your journal and will immediately return your email.

• What items have changed on my list? Did they go away because you accomplished a big project, or because you gave up?
• What has stayed the same? Are these repeats still there because they indicate an ongoing habit (exercise, for example) or because you still haven’t finished what you set out to accomplish some time ago?
• What continually falls to the bottom of your list? Are there items that were carried over from day to day, or even week to week? What were they, and why did you keep procrastinating? Did you finally finish the task, or did it just go away?
• What patterns do you see? Are there seasonal or other patterns you recognize, such as you always start revving up to capture new business in the fall and work on product creation in the spring? Are these the best times for those tasks?
• How many items do you typically write down, and how many do you typically accomplish, each day? Use this information as you move forward to make your current lists more effective.
• How do you feel when you look back over your lists? Are you struck with how much you’ve accomplished, or are you depressed by how much you never did? How can you use those feelings to motivate you now?
• In retrospect, were the items you thought were the most important turn out to really be the most important? If you had to do it over, would you place your emphasis, time, and resources elsewhere?

Your past lists are valuable clues as to your working style, preferences, and personality. Just as an archaeologist would review pieces of pottery and ancient artifacts for clues about that ancient civilization, you can review your own clues to make your present-day effectiveness the highest it can be.