Music For Self Improvement

Would you like to pop in a CD and have a better quality of life, and even self improvement? There are three ways you can use music to accomplish this.

Music For Motivation

Put on energetic music, and even doing housework seems less like work. Using music to motivate yourself or change your mood is an area where you can trust your experience and experimentation. When you find the music that energizes you, relaxes you, or makes you happy, keep it ready for when you need it.

Music For Intelligence

Music creates neural pathways in your brain that stimulate creativity. Studies show that music trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. In one study, three-year-olds were split into two groups. The first had no special training in, or exposure to music. The second group studied piano and sang daily in chorus. 

Eight months later the musical three-year-olds were much better at solving puzzles. They also scored 80% higher in spatial intelligence than the other group. There's also anectdotal evidence that listening to music, especially from Mozart's era, can help you study and learn better. 

Hopefully there will be more research. In the meantime there's no reason not to do your own experimentation. I've heard that Stephen King writes with loud rock music playing, so the benefits of music may be according to your own tastes or brain-organization.

Music For Brainwave Entrainment

Want to listen to some music, and get smarter, or have instant easy meditation? There are products now that "entrain" your brainwaves, in order to put you in a meditative state. Music is embedded with beats and pulses that entrain your brain waves to a specific frequency. Put in the right CD or MP3 for your activity, and you get better brain function. Science? Partly.

Brain wave frequencies vary with mental state. Daydreaming and light meditation take place in the "Alpha" range of frequencies, for example. So if you listen to music containing beats at a frequency of 10 Hz you will generate more brainwaves at a 10 Hz frequency and enter a relaxed Alpha mental state. Do these things really work?

Yes. I've found two products that put me in a peaceful state unlike any other music or meditative practice. Studies will prove the effects (some have already), and disprove the wilder claims. Given my results, however, I wouldn't wait for more research. Many things work long before the scientific proof arrives.

If you are skeptical, you can wait for more evidence of the benefits of brainwave entrainment. Meanwhile, why not try classical music when you study, just to see if it helps? Experiment with music - Mozart isn't dangerous.

Blogging to the bank 2011

This is the latest of Rob Benwell's Blogging To The Bank ebook, which teaches his method for making money with blogs.

What's compelling about Rob's story is that he's made over a million dollars using blogs and there's very, very few people who can claim this. His book has massive appeal just because we all want to find out exactly what he does different - what's his secret?

What's compelling about Rob's story is that he's made over a million dollars using blogs and there's very, very few people who can claim this. His book has massive appeal just because we all want to find out exactly what he does different - what's his secret?

I reviewed Rob's second version this book back in August of 2007, where one thing was quite clear - Rob uses blogs in a much different way to make money online to how I use blogs. You can read my original review by clicking here - Blogging To The Bank 2.0 Review.
Niche Marketing

The strategy Rob applies is about leveraging multiple blogs in multiple niches to make a lot of money. This is not about becoming a dominant player - an expert - in one niche subject area that you are passionate about, which is more the "Blog Mastermind school of blogging".

Although the overall strategy might be quite different between what I teach and do and what Rob does, if you break things down, the f undamentals remain the same.


this book is strictly for the people who care about the money most and can see themselves repeating that process above over and over again.

If to this point you have struggled to come up with a niche topic to write your blog about it, stop caring so much about your passions and your skills and just do what Rob does - find the money in lots of different niches and build lots of blogs to tap into them using a formulaic approach.


Rob's book is far from perfect, but let me start with what I like followed by where I think it could be improved.

    * It's efficient - there's no waffling
    * Rob covers a lot of different techniques, yet uses very few words to do so (the whole book is only 50+ pages)
    * Rob recommends email list building from your blog. I think this is key. Imagine having 20 blogs, all with an email list of 500 to 5,000 subscribers each. This is an attainable outcome and really spreads your income sources across many assets - I like this A LOT.
    * Affiliate marketing is the top recommended monetization method and it's clear this is Rob's strong point. However he keeps things very simple by focusing only on Clickbank as the source for affiliate products and shows us what criteria he uses within Clickbank to decide which products to promote.
    * By focusing in ClickBank and affiliate mark eting, the niche selection process really is a process - there's no "personal reflection" or anything of that nature - look for the numbers, find where the money is being made already, then set up a blog to sit in front of the buyers and take some of that money for yourself.
    * Rob ends the book by talking about selling blogs - another tactic I'm a fan of, although really the book only touches on this subject as an afterthought.

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And that's why almost everybody fails.

BUT...

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Later dude!

 

Burn the Ships

One of the keys to reaching your goals is to eliminate any escape routes. It is tempting to retreat to safety and comfort when challenges and difficulties arise. To avoid turning around and abandoning your goals, you must make going forward more compelling then going back.

When striving towards a goal, you must focus on what you want to obtain and avoid the impulse to go back to what you know and to what is comfortable. When Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez landed in Mexico, one of his first orders to his men was to burn the ships. Cortez was committed to his mission and did not want to allow himself or his men the option of going back to Spain. By removing this option, Cortez and his men were forced to focus on how they could make the mission successful.

Eliminating an escape route creates a compelling reason to focus on the goal and to keep moving forward. However, it is important to keep in mind that although Cortez had his men burn the ships, he did not have them burn the food and supplies. Cutting off an escape route to increase motivation and create the desire to press on where you might otherwise give up is totally different from throwing caution to the wind and taking undue risks. Reaching your goals still requires prudent planning and managing. All goals contain a certain degree of risk, but it isn't necessary to create undue risk and stress by not properly planning and thus lacking the necessary tools and supplies to achieve your goal. Take risks, but don't be careless or foolish and simply hope that everything will be okay.

Before you decide to burn your ships, make sure you have the supplies and tools necessary to achieve the goal. Something like quitting your job might sound like a good way to close the escape route, but it might also be a fast way to bankruptcy if you don't have resources to carry you through. Creating a savings account balance or having a journey job (a job that is a stepping stone to what you really want) allows you to take the risk of leaving your current job without creating undue risk. I once took a six-month leave of absence from a job while I was deciding if I wanted to move to a different state. Although it was difficult making the transition as I was very homesick, once I found a job in my new location, I resigned from the job I had waiting for me because I knew it would be too tempting to go back.

Close off the escape routes and make sure that you have a compelling reason to move forward. However, at the same time, make sure that you plan for the risk and have the tools, supplies and resources you need to achieve your goals. You can't eliminate risk but you can plan for it. Don't just jump in without thinking through the process and having a solid plan for moving forward.