I just listened the Sedona Method Audio from Steve's blog. It made me feel downright lousy. Angry too. Note that I just wrote "made me feel" even though I know I am the one to react - no-one should be able to make me feel anything! That tells me something in itself.
When the audio told me to "switch polarity" of my thoughts from negative to positive, there was not enough time for me to raise the positive feeling that would have had any relation to the negative one, and then he was already asking me to feel the negative side again! And that happened even though it took me quite a lot of digging to find the negative in the first place.
Fortunately I have learned a procedure to deal and release negative feelings from Louise Hay's lovely book You Can Heal Your Life so I was able to process and let go of my negative feelings. But had I not have that, Sedona Method would probably have ruined my day.
However, this was a healthy notification that it does one good to process the negative feelings too, instead of just pushing them under the positive. However, Sedona Method would not be my choice of doing that.
How did you feel about this audio? Does it work for you?
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Passive Income Project Manager Speaks Out
Even though I am on vacation, I still think a lot about my passive income project. Lately, I have been searching for ideas to implement, but somehow I've still felt that I don't that perfect idea yet. And somewhere deep inside I know I'm losing my focus because of that. Project management to the rescue! I want to share you this discussion that I had with my husband last week.
Me: Honey, I need some help with my passive income project.
Husband: What kind of help?
Me: Well, I know you are excellent at organizing things and I recall you telling me how you did your homework superfast as a kid.
Husband: Yes, I did everything during the school day. I rarely took the books at home. Well, not until I was older.
Me: That is just what I mean. When you were ten you were already good at seeing what is important and what is not. I mean, some other kid could not have pulled that off. He would have missed something during the class and not end up being an A-grade student.
Husband: Yes, I am good at that. I would make a superb IT project manager if I wanted to.
Me: Yeah, I know you don't want to be a project manager, but I need you to do just that for me. I need to know what I should concentrate now. I need to know what is important.
Project Manager: Ok, can you tell me your goal again?
Me: You know my goal already, right?
Project Manager: Well, lately you have been talking about a lot of things, like building a SaaS application and expressing your talents more. So what do you really want, right now? Just pick one thing.
Me: I want what I state in my goal, I want to prove myself that I can earn us a living on internet. I want to start by creating something that brings us 1000 euros per month.
Project Manager: Ok, so essentially you want to learn the process of making money on internet?
Me: Yes.
Project Manager: I'd say that right now the most important thing would be to pick one of your ideas and concentrate on that, get started with it already.
Me: But I don't have the perfect idea yet! I feel I should now do my best to find an idea worth implementing.
Project Manager: I disagree. You have plenty of ideas. I've seen your notebook with full page of ideas.
Me: But those are just random ideas. What if I pick an idea that is not unique enough?
Project Manager: While we were driving today, how many bakeries did you see?
Me: A lot! They seem to have them in every corner, just like we have barber shops in Finland.
Project Manager: See? Those ideas are not unique snowflakes either. You just need to provide something that someone needs and then make sure that someone finds your product.
Me: Ok, I agree. Most of the ideas that earn people their living are not so unique. But what if my idea is not good enough, what if people won't buy my product?
Project Manager: Well, you cannot know that beforehand anyway. You have never done this so you don't have any experience on picking ideas that sell. I'd suggest you use the courses to help you with that. Follow them and do the marketing research on the ideas you have already.
Me: What if the most boring idea wins there? I will lose interest on it as time goes by!
Project Manager: Actually, I'd suggest that you won't pick your favorite idea now. It will be easier for you to learn the process if you don't have extra emotional stuff going on. Remember what Amy said, don't be a bitch to your idea.
Me: Ok, you are probably right there.
Project Manager: Just take it easy, don't stress. You are just picking an idea here. If you end up bored or it does not earn good money, you can just stop and pick a new one. There is no risk, no obligations, you'll lose nothing but time. Just start with something little and learn how it is done. Then just rinse and repeat.
Me: Ok, so I will not use time trying to find more ideas. I'll just pick one and start working on it as soon as possible.
Project Manager: Right. You will learn as you go and get better with time. Don't be overly critical now.
Me: Honey, I need some help with my passive income project.
Husband: What kind of help?
Me: Well, I know you are excellent at organizing things and I recall you telling me how you did your homework superfast as a kid.
Husband: Yes, I did everything during the school day. I rarely took the books at home. Well, not until I was older.
Me: That is just what I mean. When you were ten you were already good at seeing what is important and what is not. I mean, some other kid could not have pulled that off. He would have missed something during the class and not end up being an A-grade student.
Husband: Yes, I am good at that. I would make a superb IT project manager if I wanted to.
Me: Yeah, I know you don't want to be a project manager, but I need you to do just that for me. I need to know what I should concentrate now. I need to know what is important.
Project Manager: Ok, can you tell me your goal again?
Me: You know my goal already, right?
Project Manager: Well, lately you have been talking about a lot of things, like building a SaaS application and expressing your talents more. So what do you really want, right now? Just pick one thing.
Me: I want what I state in my goal, I want to prove myself that I can earn us a living on internet. I want to start by creating something that brings us 1000 euros per month.
Project Manager: Ok, so essentially you want to learn the process of making money on internet?
Me: Yes.
Project Manager: I'd say that right now the most important thing would be to pick one of your ideas and concentrate on that, get started with it already.
Me: But I don't have the perfect idea yet! I feel I should now do my best to find an idea worth implementing.
Project Manager: I disagree. You have plenty of ideas. I've seen your notebook with full page of ideas.
Me: But those are just random ideas. What if I pick an idea that is not unique enough?
Project Manager: While we were driving today, how many bakeries did you see?
Me: A lot! They seem to have them in every corner, just like we have barber shops in Finland.
Project Manager: See? Those ideas are not unique snowflakes either. You just need to provide something that someone needs and then make sure that someone finds your product.
Me: Ok, I agree. Most of the ideas that earn people their living are not so unique. But what if my idea is not good enough, what if people won't buy my product?
Project Manager: Well, you cannot know that beforehand anyway. You have never done this so you don't have any experience on picking ideas that sell. I'd suggest you use the courses to help you with that. Follow them and do the marketing research on the ideas you have already.
Me: What if the most boring idea wins there? I will lose interest on it as time goes by!
Project Manager: Actually, I'd suggest that you won't pick your favorite idea now. It will be easier for you to learn the process if you don't have extra emotional stuff going on. Remember what Amy said, don't be a bitch to your idea.
Me: Ok, you are probably right there.
Project Manager: Just take it easy, don't stress. You are just picking an idea here. If you end up bored or it does not earn good money, you can just stop and pick a new one. There is no risk, no obligations, you'll lose nothing but time. Just start with something little and learn how it is done. Then just rinse and repeat.
Me: Ok, so I will not use time trying to find more ideas. I'll just pick one and start working on it as soon as possible.
Project Manager: Right. You will learn as you go and get better with time. Don't be overly critical now.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Week 5 - Some Passive Value Before My Vacation
This week's report comes a bit early since I'm starting my vacation today.
I had two goals for this week. I wanted to get my programming project into a nice condition before my vacation. That went fine and I actually did not have to put much hours into it.
I also took Steve's challenge to create and publish something. I created my first video upload ever: Hands-on Video: Test-Driven Development - Java Application Skeleton
I am really happy that I took the challenge, because I learned so much doing it. It took me two working days to get my 30-minute video done. I had zero experience on videos so I started by downloading some tools and learning how to use them. Next I found out that I am not able to get everything on one take. I tried several times, but I always made mistakes in programming, stuttered or someone rang the doorbell. When I finally was able to get a longer piece of recording done, the recording application did not save it due to a restriction in file size! Finally I gave up and made my video in pieces. But that meant I needed to learn video processing too.
I thought doing videos for web is super easy, but I ended up with quite a crappy video. But it is my first so I think that is acceptable and I am really happy that I created it. After reading this article on uploading videos to YouTube and watching this video on how to make video tutorials for Blender I found out I did almost everything wrong!
The reason my video got blurry was the resolution. I should have recorded it using aspect ratio of 4:3 or 16:9. I also found out that YouTube resizes the video on upload and that I should have uploaded it in HD. Unfortunately YouTube limit for HD videos is 10 minutes and I already had split my video to 15-minute pieces. So I ended up uploading to Vimeo, just to find out that they allow only one HD video per week. I should have joined up the parts of my video before upload. Now the first part of my video is HD and the second part is not. But I can always re-upload the second part next week.
I used the following free programs to make my video:
Doing something little and giving it away for free is a perfect way to try out something and get comments. I had a totally different idea of how the end result would look like and I'm really happy now that I did not invest anything but time on this yet. I also have much better grasp now what it takes to make a product around videos.
Tip of the week
The 2012 Ultimate You Mindfest is starting in couple of days and it is free. I've been listening their paraliminal relaxation audio and it is really effective, so I'm looking forward to the actual fest.
I also got a recommendation for an interesting book that I'll probably buy when I get back:
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
So, I'm heading to vacation now. See you after two weeks!
I had two goals for this week. I wanted to get my programming project into a nice condition before my vacation. That went fine and I actually did not have to put much hours into it.
I also took Steve's challenge to create and publish something. I created my first video upload ever: Hands-on Video: Test-Driven Development - Java Application Skeleton
I am really happy that I took the challenge, because I learned so much doing it. It took me two working days to get my 30-minute video done. I had zero experience on videos so I started by downloading some tools and learning how to use them. Next I found out that I am not able to get everything on one take. I tried several times, but I always made mistakes in programming, stuttered or someone rang the doorbell. When I finally was able to get a longer piece of recording done, the recording application did not save it due to a restriction in file size! Finally I gave up and made my video in pieces. But that meant I needed to learn video processing too.
I thought doing videos for web is super easy, but I ended up with quite a crappy video. But it is my first so I think that is acceptable and I am really happy that I created it. After reading this article on uploading videos to YouTube and watching this video on how to make video tutorials for Blender I found out I did almost everything wrong!
The reason my video got blurry was the resolution. I should have recorded it using aspect ratio of 4:3 or 16:9. I also found out that YouTube resizes the video on upload and that I should have uploaded it in HD. Unfortunately YouTube limit for HD videos is 10 minutes and I already had split my video to 15-minute pieces. So I ended up uploading to Vimeo, just to find out that they allow only one HD video per week. I should have joined up the parts of my video before upload. Now the first part of my video is HD and the second part is not. But I can always re-upload the second part next week.
I used the following free programs to make my video:
- Webinaria for recording (I also tried FrontCam, CamStudio and several others)
- VirtualDub for editing
- MediaCoder for conversion (I also tried FormatFactory, but it crashed on .mp4 conversion)
Doing something little and giving it away for free is a perfect way to try out something and get comments. I had a totally different idea of how the end result would look like and I'm really happy now that I did not invest anything but time on this yet. I also have much better grasp now what it takes to make a product around videos.
Tip of the week
The 2012 Ultimate You Mindfest is starting in couple of days and it is free. I've been listening their paraliminal relaxation audio and it is really effective, so I'm looking forward to the actual fest.
I also got a recommendation for an interesting book that I'll probably buy when I get back:
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
So, I'm heading to vacation now. See you after two weeks!
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Week 4 - Embracing The Change
This week I have finally gotten some routine into my new lifestyle. I love my life now. I do about 4 hours of programming in the morning and then I use the afternoon to either on my hobby projects or to work on my passive income stream. If I want to do something else or change the routine, I can, and I enjoy it. On thursday I was so tired I slept through the whole morning! I can feel there is some extra stress around, but I assume that is normal right now. There is a thing called stress scale that measures how stressful different life changes are and changing a job is in the top 10. So I'm trying not to push myself too much.
I also had my first challenges. My old limiting beliefs crept to the surface, and I canceled the Get Rich With eBooks course. Fortunately, with a little help I noticed what was happening and reactivated my course account. Processing that stuff took a huge amount of mental energy. Stress and worry can kill a project like this, so I smashed them right away. The course came with an affirmations audio. I now listen it on the background when I work. I really like it and it is better than my old set of affirmations.
When I started with Get Rich With eBooks I thought I would not be needing any affirmations of motivational stuff. But I am still a newbie in so many ways, so the best I can do now is to stick to the courses and just do what the teacher says.
Tip of the week
Watch videos and podcasts on double speed. I tried this and realized I could easily follow them double speed. I need to learn much, so this will save hours of my time. No 3 x speed for me though, that needs some practice.
I'm using VLC Viewer, a free software that has an option to open streams over network.
Chris & Steve, thanks for the tip.
Goals for the next week
1. Work on my programming project
2. Create and publish something valuable (Steve's challenge in post Passive Value)
This is the last week before my 2-week vacation, so I want to get the programming project into a phase where others can easily continue working on it.
I already create and publish something valuable almost every week, but I wanted to take Steve's challenge anyway. I have a certain thing in my mind that I want to try.
I also had my first challenges. My old limiting beliefs crept to the surface, and I canceled the Get Rich With eBooks course. Fortunately, with a little help I noticed what was happening and reactivated my course account. Processing that stuff took a huge amount of mental energy. Stress and worry can kill a project like this, so I smashed them right away. The course came with an affirmations audio. I now listen it on the background when I work. I really like it and it is better than my old set of affirmations.
When I started with Get Rich With eBooks I thought I would not be needing any affirmations of motivational stuff. But I am still a newbie in so many ways, so the best I can do now is to stick to the courses and just do what the teacher says.
Tip of the week
Watch videos and podcasts on double speed. I tried this and realized I could easily follow them double speed. I need to learn much, so this will save hours of my time. No 3 x speed for me though, that needs some practice.
I'm using VLC Viewer, a free software that has an option to open streams over network.
Chris & Steve, thanks for the tip.
Goals for the next week
1. Work on my programming project
2. Create and publish something valuable (Steve's challenge in post Passive Value)
This is the last week before my 2-week vacation, so I want to get the programming project into a phase where others can easily continue working on it.
I already create and publish something valuable almost every week, but I wanted to take Steve's challenge anyway. I have a certain thing in my mind that I want to try.
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