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by Internet marketing for seniors team | Sep 30, 2016 | branding challenge, Day 12
In general, every marketing story needs to let your audience know that you understand them, that they matter, that they’re not alone, that there is hope, and that their problems can be solved. If you can craft a story that covers those elements in a personal way, you’ll create a successful marketing campaign centered on that marketing story. A story like that will be shared, commented on, and get results.
How to Reach Your Audience with Stories
Start with Your Audience’s Problems Pinpoint a specific problem that a member of your target audience has. When you craft a story around that one problem with the solution to that problem being part of the moral of the story, you make a connection. It is that connection that increases sales. Don’t forget always remember to tell your audience what to do next. When you have the call to action it gets the result through the story. The story is the tool, not the result.
Pinpoint a specific problem that a member of your target audience has. When you craft a story around that one problem with the solution to that problem being part of the moral of the story, you make a connection. It is that connection that increases sales. Don’t forget always remember to tell your audience what to do next. The resultant call to action gets the result through the story. The story is the tool, not the end result.
Define your audience
- Give them a gender
- An age
- A place to live
- The job
- A Salary
Ask Your Audience What They Want?
Talk to them and form open communication paths with your audience. You can do this with email, social media, or through your website’s blog. But, however, you do it, your audience must always be at the center of every story, every product, every service. Every time, this will ensure your success.Give Your Audience Solid Examples of Success: Using feedback from your customers and robust statistical research show your audience what success looks like. Infographics, images that help tell the story and other visual elements will help make it more readable and enjoyable.
Talk to Them, not at Them
Talk to them and form open communication paths with your audience. You can do this with email, social media, or through your website’s blog.But, however, you do it, your audience must always be at the center of every story, every product, every service, and every thought to be successful.Give Your Audience Solid Examples of Success: Using feedback from your customers and robust statistical research show your audience what success looks like. Infographics, images that help tell the story and other visual elements will help make it more readable and enjoyable.
Give Your Audience Solid Examples of Success: Using feedback from your customers and robust statistical research show your audience what success looks like. Infographics, images that help tell the story and other visual elements will help make it more readable and enjoyable.
Using feedback from your customers and robust statistical research show your audience what success looks like. Infographics, images that help tell the story and other visual elements will help make it more readable and enjoyable.
Entertain Your Audience with a Twist: No one is going to read your stories if they’reboring. Create a hook and carefully craft a story that will entertain your audience on their level using marketing stories that they will want.
No one is going to read your stories if they’re boring. Create a hook and carefully craft a story that will entertain your audience on their level using marketing stories that they will want.
Examples of good hooks can be found in television soaps. They end with something dramatic that makes you want to see more. Don’t give away the farm too early on in the story. Keep your audience waiting.
Hooks are cliffhangers
Successful stories have several hooks going at once.
Audiences who read, relate and engage with your marketing story are a lot more likely to answer your calls to action whether that is to sign up, buy now, or call. Stories are in our DNA, tell a compelling one that resonates, and you will win over more potential customers. At the very least stories will increase your tribe.
Remember, it’s not about selling, it’s about telling your story in an interesting and engaging manner that your audience wants to read. You can’t do that if you have not taken the time to get to know your audience.
A Subject: This should be your audience or someone your audience can relate to. It can even be you. Find out who your target audience is, know what their dreams, hopes, and problems are and weave a story around them. You might even be able to find a customer who has a compelling story already about how they overcame something. Make sure that the methood they used is comaptible with your offers.
A Goal
You must understand where your subject wants to end up. What are they seeking? Do they want to make more money, work from home, learn to do something,
what exact outcome do they seek?
A Problem
If you know the goal, then you need to identify the reason your subject is having problems reaching their goal. Is it due to lack of action on their part? Is it due to lack of knowledge? What reason are they having issues reaching their goal? What
roadblocks are in their way. This is typically the most emotional part of your story.
A Solution
Of course, you need to be able to show the solution exists to help your subject reach their goal and overcome their problem. The solution is either a product, a service, a mindset, a lesson, a moral, coaching, or whatever it is that is your specialty.
You are the solution, and you must show that in the story.
Think about what stories you can start sharing and look at how other writers and business owners entwine storytelling with their marketing.
We’ve already talked about keeping your target audience in mind and that’s going to be key as you craft your story. They are the reason you tell stories. Here are some more tips to help you formulate your story.
Stories Should Be Relevant
Stories should be relevant to what you’re trying to say. If you’re going to share a personal tidbit within a larger email, post or anywhere, always relate it back to the main point and what message you are trying to convey.
Think about your audience and what they want to know. Tell stories that will be meaningful to them, not ones that simply stroke your ego or make you look like some kind of superhero.
Never force the storytelling. Don’t just tell a story because you think you should. Tell stories that are natural in the context of the conversation.
Let stories to reveal something new about you or about the story’s subject. Give your readers insight into something they didn’t know. Not every story will do this, but the one’s that do will have the greatest impact.
Be Honest in Your Storytelling
There’s no need to bend truths or change facts because they’ll come back and bite you later on when you contradict yourself. On the other hand, if the story you’re sharing is fiction, make sure your readers are aware of this. Don’t mislead your audience because they’ll always remember that and that’s definitely not good for business.
Years later your readers will have forgotten what you say – but not how you made them feel.
Make Sure Even Negative Stories are Positive
Make sure your stories reflects you positively, even if they share something dark or unfavorable
about yourself. People are always interested in how you have dealt with issues in your life, but illustrating oneself as a current train wreck doesn’t usually get the results we want. Show how you learned from mistakes or overcame obstacles because these are some of the most powerful stories.
Share
One of the best ways to make your story stand out is to collect and share data.
Capturing data and sharing it in an interesting way as part of your story can help add to the meaning of your story. Showing real numbers within the stories you craft can resonate with your audience in a way that truly gets results. If you share customer success stories, with real numbers within those stories it will really spark discussion and ignite your audience. For example, how many pounds did they lose or how many dollars did they make?
by Internet marketing for seniors team | Sep 29, 2016 | branding challenge, Day 11
Storytelling has long been a practice in all types of marketing, even before we invented the term”marketing.” People who had something to sell others sometimes invented stories, some were realistic, some weren’t. Time and again the concept of storytelling to market a business has been shown to work better than any other method of marketing. If you can tap into the stories your audience needs and wants to hear, you create a situation where they feel like they know you. When you know them, it follows you understand them and that they want to buy from you. Don’t overlook The Power Of Stories.
The Power Of Stories
When you think about it, stories are part of our lives from birth through to death. We literally live stories every single day of our lives. It’s how we communicate; it’s how we relax after a long day. Storytelling is in our DNA. Successful writers and businesses tap into our storytelling DNA in a way that resonates with their audience. Helping them see themselves in the stories receiving the results, and solving their problems, just like the characters in the story.
Today and tomorrow you’ll learn what type of stories your audience wants to read and how to tell them. Our ultimate goal is that you’ll know how to make your stories so compelling that you’ll get more shares, more sign ups, and more responses than ever before.
Understanding Storytelling
As Annette Simmons, author of The Story Factor, once said: “If you wish to influence an individual or a group to embrace a particular value in their daily lives, tell them a compelling story.”
Storytelling is a powerful tool for marketing your business. However, be aware, but marketing with stories is not license to lie or trick your audience, even though it happens out there.
To understand the power of storytelling in marketing, you might remember when in the 90’s The sitcom, Seinfeld, George Costanza purchased a car based on a story.
Here is the scene. George is so proud of himself because was going to buy a 1989 Volvo Sedan, but instead, the salesman convinces George to get the 1989 Lebaron Convertible.
The salesman told him the car used to be owned by Jon Voight, so George jumped on this opportunity to own a status symbol and a piece of history.
But then this happens.
Of course, in this case, George was duped.The owner of the car WAS a “John Voight,” just not the actor, Jon Voight. Still, this shows the real power of storytelling in selling.
You Don’t have to Dupe your Audience
When you think of stories, instead of imagining fiction, or a used car salesman try to imagine family stories. The stories your Mom, Dad or favorite uncle told you about their young life. Sure, often the story was designed to keep you from making their mistakes, but they were true, honest, and actually did the job.
Marketing with stories isn’t that different. It’s about crafting realistic stories that impart the knowledge to your audience. The knowledge that they need to make a decision to solve their problems.
It’s also about creating relatable content, surprising and delighting your audience, all while being realistic and truthful. It’s about letting your audience get to know you on a whole new level. Breaking down boundaries, and creating brand loyalty with your audience. No other method is as successful as stories in this respect.
You want your audience to laugh, cry or jump for joy that they’ve finally found what they need and your story should easily accomplish that. Your marketing stories can be the difference between your brand and another brand that promises two for one if you buy widget A.
Your story can compel your audience to take the leap to solve their problems without any false sales tactics or emotional blackmail.
Getting to the Heart of the Matter with Stories
At its core, marketing with stories is about making a connection with your audience. After all, the stories you create are about them. That’s right, the stories you write will be about your audience and will address their concerns, their needs, their pain points, and how your product or service will fix those issues.
Remember nothing has changed about basic marketing. It’s still about your audience, and it still writes the benefits over features. As harsh as it may sound to you, no one cares about anything other than what’s in it for them, and how your product or service solves their problem. Price is far down on the list, as are the many features you are excited to tell them about.
Marketing with Stories gives you a good way to make it about your audience, focusing on benefits over features by telling your audience’s story in a new, exciting and compelling way.
People don’t buy anything because they need it, they buy because they have bene compelled to feel an emotion.
Tell the Story In the Way Your Audience wants to connect with It
By telling stories about your audience and customers you tell your audience exactly what they want to hear, and don’t make the mistake of telling them things they don’t want to hear.
To study the power of stories, a project called Significant Objects was born. According to the Significant Objects web page:
Significant Objects Project
“A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!”
What they do is buy very inexpensive items from local thrift stores or garage sales. Then, a writer creates a story to go with the objects, and they sell them on eBay. Now, before you get concerned, they say they make it clear the story is fiction and the writer’s byline is in the eBay listing. But time after time, these objects sell for many times their actual value.
They’ve even raised money for charities in their experiments.
Ordinary Birthday Candles Sell for $21.50
You can also go to their website and find many of the stories. For example, ready about this ordinary package of candles that sold for $21.50. The proceeds actually went to an interesting organization called Girls Write Now, a writing and mentoring program for at-risk girls from New York City high schools. Pretty cool, huh?
“When people are finding meaning in things — beware.” — Edward Gorey
About the Significant Objects Project
How Does This Apply Your Writing Business?
But bringing this back to your business, how can use this valuable insight? Can you make up stories to sell stuff? Well, that may or may not be a good idea for you (it might be if you’re selling fiction), everything and everybody has a story and the more you can draw that out, the better you can sell your products and services.
In general, every marketing story needs to let your audience know that you understand them,that they matter, that they’re not alone, that there is hope, and that their problems can be solved. If you can craft a story that covers those elements in a personal way, you’ll create a successful marketing campaign centered on that marketing story. A story like that will be shared, commented on, and get results.
How to Reach Your Audience with Stories
Start with Your Audience’s Problems: Pinpoint a specific problem that a member of your target audience has. Craft a story around that one problem with the solution to that problem being part of the moral of the story always remembering to tell your audience what to do next.
Define your audience
- Give them a gender
- An age
- A place to live
- The job
- A Salary
Ask Your Audience What They Want: Talk to them and form open communication paths with your audience. You can do this with email, social media, or through your website’s blog.But, however, you do it, your audience must always be at the center of every story, every product, every service, and every thought in order to be successful.
Give Them Examples of Success in Stories
Give Your Audience Solid Examples of Success: Using feedback from your customers and solid statistical research show your audience what success looks like.Infographics, images that help tell the story and other visual elements will help make it more readable and interesting.
Entertain Your Audience with a Twist: No one is going to read your stories if they’reboring. Create a hook and carefully craft a story that will entertain your audience on their level using marketing stories that they will want.
Successful stories have several hooks going at once. Look at your favorite sitcoms for examples
Audiences who read, relate and engage with your marketing story are a lot more likely to answer your calls to action whether that is to sign up, buy now, or call. Stories are in our DNA, tell a compelling one that resonates and you will win over more customers that you did before.
Remember, it’s not about selling, it’s about telling your story in an interesting and engaging manner that your audience wants to read. You can’t do that if you have not taken the time to get to know your audience.
by Internet marketing for seniors team | Sep 28, 2016 | Wealthy Affiliates
Affiliate marketing does it live up to it’s claims?
If you’re looking to make a ton of money online, then the best option for the most people is undoubtedly affiliate marketing. This is the online business model with the lowest barriers to entry that anyone can learn and everyone can master. At the same time, it is potentially one of the most profitable business models you can use online. Certainly much more profitable than blogging for AdSense revenue or similar.
The Carrot Dangled On Facebook
And this is a hook that advertisers on Facebook often like to pursue. Chances are that you’ll have seen plenty of adverts for online money making schemes and ‘programs’. And no doubt 9/10 times, they’ll be based around affiliate marketing.
You’ll know these ads if you see them. They’re the ones where people talk to you from their private yacht and tell you how they make a 6-figure salary in just a few hours of work each week.
Likewise, you’ll have probably have seen the videos of online ‘billionaires’ talking about their money-making systems. They wear smart suits in very pimped-out offices. They’ve created a ‘digital empire’ using affiliate marketing techniques. Now they’re rich and powerful and you probably want to be them…
But is this all true?
Can you really accomplish all that through affiliate marketing? Is it really that easy? Or is there more to it than that?
How Much Does an Affiliate Marketer Make?
First of all, let’s assess the claims about earnings. We don’t have to guess at this. During the 2014 Affiliate Summit over 1,800 affiliate marketers answered a survey describing everything from their methods to their earnings.
How much were they bringing in?
Well, only 46% earned less than $20K while 8% earned $50K-$100K and 12% earned $100K+. At the very least, this shows it’s certainly very possible to earn big money. The rest were around the middle, but note that 19% elected not to answer at all.
What’s also interesting here though is the sheer spread of earnings. Affiliate marketing is bringing in from $20K to $100K and beyond, which you just don’t find in traditional careers.
So what’s making the big difference here?
It’s the skill of the individual.
As an affiliate marketer, you’re self-employed and working alone. There’s no need to ‘climb the corporate ladder’ or to compete for promotions. You can get to the top overnight if you have the right skills because it’s all on you.
The Affiliate Marketing Lifestyle: What Does Affiliate Marketing Involve?
Perhaps the biggest draw of affiliate marketing though is not the money. Instead, for many people the appeal lies in the fact that this is a completely ‘passive’ business model. Once you’ve set everything up such as your sales funnel, your affiliate network account and your blog/sales page, then you can be earning money while you’re sleeping.
When it balls down to anything, it’s the freedom that is important. Most people want a better lifestyle. Usually the common denominator that better lifestyle is freedom.
But again this can get twisted. This lifestyle is what you can achieve once you’re at the top of your game as an affiliate marketer – it doesn’t come overnight.
The Affiliate Marketing Myth
In fact, affiliate marketing is likely to initially involve a lot of work. The idea here is that you put in the work up front so that you can sew the seeds of your labor further down the line. To begin with, you need to be willing to put in a lot of hours for very little reward.
Specifically then, what does affiliate marketing involve?
If you’re reading this , then there’s a good chance you have a general idea but we’ll recap in a little more detail for those who do not.
The devil is In the Detail
Essentially, as an affiliate marketer, you sell products for commission. This means you’ll be finding products online and promoting them using your own affiliate link. If someone clicks on your link and then buys the product, you’ll get a cut of the profit. Often, affiliate marketing involves selling digital products and you can expect your cut to be as much as 50% all the way up to 100% of the RRP.
There’s no risk involved for you because you’re not creating the product and there’s nothing for you to ship or for you to store. All you have to do is sell but you earn more than the creator.
The art of Preselling
The hard part though is in doing that selling. This is where the ‘marketing’ part comes in and your job from here is to find yourself a large audience through a blog, through an e-mail campaign, through advertising or through social media; whichever tool you find the most effective.
This is why there’s no steep learning curve or barrier for entry for beginners. All you’re literally doing is making sure people see your affiliate link. There’s no product creation and no investment. You can get started tomorrow in minutes and it won’t cost you a penny.
If you’re a big blogger and you already have an audience of 10,000 readers a day then you’re going to find this very easy. All you need to do is put some very persuasive text on your website along with the link and you’ll start driving traffic. If this is your first attempt at affiliate marketing though, then you may well find this process a little more complex and little more hard going.
You now have two options:
- Build your own audience
- Advertise
(Actually, there are other methods and growth hacks you can use which we’ll come to later, but for now this will suffice.)
Advertising – Scary for Beginners
If you’re going to use the route of paid marketing, then that means you’re going likely going to be using PPC. This is ‘Pay Per Click’ and basically means that you pay for every person who clicks on an ad and thus gets sent to your site. The more you pay, the more visitors you get.
If you design your site well and you can really convince people to buy your products, then you should be able to convert a predictable amount of visitors into buyers. This in turn means you can work out your precise ROI. So if you pay a certain amount per visitor, and N percentage of those visitors earn you X amount of money, you can tell whether or not your strategy is profitable.
How Much Are Adverts
The amount you pay per click will depend on the amount of competition available for your ad. PPC ads work on a ‘bidding’ system, whereby the advertiser offering the most per click is the advertiser whose ad is most likely to show.
Meanwhile, even if your website is very effective at convincing people to buy, you’ll still only get 0.5%-10% of visitors converting. More often than not, you’ll be at the bottom end of that spectrum. So you’ll need your ad to be seen by about 1,000-2,000 people in order for you to get a single sale. This means you’ll be paying a relatively high amount for your ad to be seen 10,000 to 20,000 times for about 100 sales.
This is a formula that takes a lot of adjusting and you can expect to lose a certain amount of money before you get it right. With a good set-up, you can expect to spend $600 a day on PPC to make about $200 profit. That’s quite a big risk when you’re first starting out and for the first few months you probably will be operating at a loss (until you learn the right keywords to target, the right products to sell, the right sales pitch etc.).
Building an Audience The Wealthy Affiliate Way
If you don’t have that kind of money to play around with, then your only other option is to build your audience naturally over time.
That means creating a blog and then using it to promote yourself through social media and to build up a mailing list full of subscribers. Again, you can’t expect your conversion rate to be all that high and you’re going to need about 10,000 views daily to make even close to a full time living.
Getting to this point is slow going. You can expect it to take at least a year before you’re on 600 visitors a day and while you’ll accumulate exponential growth at this point, it will still likely be a few years before you’re at 10,000.
Oh and at this point, affiliate marketing is anything but passive. At this stage, you’ll be investing huge amounts of time into writing a compelling blog that people will want to follow, emailing your subscribers and managing advertising campaigns.
It is very much possible to be highly successful at affiliate marketing. You definitely can earn hundreds of thousands from it and once you’re all set up, the money will come in while you sleep.
But it also requires a big upfront investment of time and/or money, along with the right knowhow and strategy. If it didn’t, then everyone would be rich, no one would work for an employer and the economy would have collapsed.
So it’s a good thing really…
by Internet marketing for seniors team | Sep 27, 2016 | branding challenge, Day 10
Health and the Law of Attraction Vision Board
The Law of Attraction works for any area of your life – including health. Final notes on the Law of Attraction covers the bits we have missed in the first two articles. You can attract better health, and you can also attract healing. It doesn’t matter if what you’re experiencing is a minor illness or something more serious.You can still attract healing.
What you have to do is to let go of any negativity that you’re holding onto when it comes to your condition. Don’t allow your mind to think about aches and pains or to dwell on how bad that you feel. Bounce out of bed and say to yourself you feel wonderful.
Resist fear
Also don’t allow fear, which is negative based, to rule your mind. Negativity can provide a fertile breeding ground for disease. This is why stress is so bad for the body.
It’s the type of negativity that can open the door for you to end up on the receiving end of ill health. Your mind has a powerful influence over how your body does physically.
Disease is dis-ease
To keep ill health from flourishing within your body, you must keep your thoughts on positive aspects of health. That includes emotions, too. Focus all of your emotions on ones that will yield peace for you such as happiness and joy. Concentrate on life and healing filling your cells.
Alot of doctor’s now agree that levles of sress affect your physical health.
Where positivity reigns, negativity will cease to exist. It may be that you have a serious health problem that could end your life. When this occurs, what most people do is to allow the emotion of the news to dominate their thoughts.
They allow the health condition to consume their thoughts and actions. When you hear serious news about your health, that can definitely be a psychological trauma.
But you can’t allow your mind to dwell on the negativity.
You can’t allow the illness to become the very center of your focus. When you focus on something that you fear, what it does is keep your mind churned up, which feeds into your body.You attract what you concentrate on.
That, in turn, puts out a lot of negativity and doesn’t attract good things to you. You can’t always talk about or think about health issues that upset you. Try not to dwell on illhealth.
Remember that negativity thrives in a negative mind, especially if you’re allowing fear and worry about the future to take root. Pull the negative energy that you’re putting out and turn it into positive energy.
Focus on Change
Keep your mind centered on what you want to change about your health. Focus on what positive, good steps you need to take to feel better. You can create a vision board for your health even if you’re currently in good health. Like attracts like and you want to keep attracting this good health to you.
On the vision board, use images or phrases that show where you want your health to be. You can use positive affirmations such as “I am healthy.” Just don’t include words that create negativity or induce fear on your board.
Visualize that your body has already beaten whatever health issue is going on. See yourself living a healthy and healed life. The images that you use can include images of yourself doing things like running a marathon or celebrating a milestone birthday.
Just use images that represent healing to you. Some people create a health board that shows them in future activities such as going on vacation or getting married.
Adventures
Many people want to have great vacations or adventures and travel to see the world. Yet time always passes, and it doesn’t seem to happen for them. This is how a LOA vision board can help you.
You can create one with an area dedicated to the kind of travel or adventures that you want to have. You can use photos of a beach scene or if you know a specific beach somewhere in the world that you want to visit, find images showing that beach and use that for your board.
Don’t worry about using a lot of images if there are a lot of places you want to see or adventures that you want to have. Your board arrangement can be as neat as you like, or the images can overlap.
To make a vision board like this, you can use images from magazines or ones that you print offline, or you can also use images that you can get from the craft department.
Vacation or Travel Vision Board
Many of these departments have images of travel in their scrapbook area. You can find words such as “travel” and “adventure” along with tags that will help identify the type of vacation or adventure you want to attract to your life.
Also take images out of travel brochures. Buy your luggage, and dig the moat for your abundance to come in.
You can also use affirmations on this board such as “I am enjoying a trip to the Bahamas” or “I am backpacking through Europe.” Whatever your greatest desire is for travel or adventure, find related images for those.
If you’d like to go on adventures with companions, be sure and include that as well. You can take a picture of yourself and your friends and add those on top of the travel destinations to put you “in the scene” too.
Creating a Spirituality Vision Board
This can also be seen as a center of peace board. It’s used to attract serenity and a deep sense that all is well between your mind, body, and soul. Images of light bulbs or candles or even the sun can be used to represent illumination and as a symbol of guiding your way through life.
Some people use images of practices that help them connect spiritually such as yoga poses or pictures of people in meditation. Others use images of monks or photos of Buddha or images of people known for bringing spirituality and peace to the world.
If the basis of your spirituality is a formal religion, such as Christianity, then you can include passages from the Bible that speak to you. Or images of Christ or the Bible to help guide you.
If you don’t have a formal religion, then use your favorite quotes.
Updating Your Vision Board Over Time
As time goes on, your vision board won’t stay the same because you will have attracted what you want from certain areas of the board. You need to remove images and sayings for goals that you’ve met or for those things that have been attracted to your life.
Sometimes, what you wanted to attract to your life will have changed, and you’ve discovered that you don’t actually want that any longer. So those items should also be removed.
You might find that one area of your life has taken on a great significance than another, so you want to make that one priority. If you’ve used scrapbook photo squares to put down your images, you can use a sliver of wax paper and work it behind the image.
Removing the Images
The wax paper breaks the glue and frees the image from the board. If you glued down the images, you’d have to be gentle, or you’ll tear a hole in the board. What some people do is just paste a clean cut out a piece of poster board over the entire area they want to update, and they start again.
But you should also make sure that your LOA vision board stays up to date. A vision board can help you to become the best version of you that you were meant to be.
Adding New Images
It can also help you to have the life that you desire. As your desires change, you need to make sure that you’re attracting the new desires.Don’t waste energy on what you have already accomplished or what you no longer want.
As you update and evolve your vision board for the Law of Attraction, make sure you position it where you can see it each and every day. You don’t want to stick it in a closet because out of sight means out of
You might make a set time such as the first Saturday of every month – to revisit your vision board and see what you want to change. Or, get involved in it daily and look for continual changes you can make.
Each time you run across something that would fit well on your vision board, add it to it. Or create a separate file to rotate items in and out of your board. If you want a clean board then rotation may be the answer.
by Internet marketing for seniors team | Sep 26, 2016 | branding challenge, Day 9
Practicalities of a Vision Board
The object of a vision board is strength and positivity. So exclude negative connotations.If you want to lose weight, for instance, then think of the positive aspects of being healthy. Do not under any circumstances think I want to be less fat or less piggy. Forget all the taunts and unkind or judgemental words. This post vision board ideas has been created to help you find your correct path.
Your aim is to attract health. Losing weight may be an aspect of increased health, vitality, and fitness. Don’t think unhealthy, think vitality. Use pictures depicting getting active, or getting fit, or getting healthier. Don’t think of deprivation. Don’t approach is with the view of doing without. If you are unhealthy, you are depriving yourself of health. Some people find it helpful to see a photo of themselves laughing, or on holiday or with family. Use pictures when you were at your happiest.
Put the board In a Prominent Place.
Once your vision board is up and ready, put it where you can see it – often. The object is to look at it and visualize yourself “being” the person depicted. It can’t and won’t work unless you can see it. We are all energy. Everything about us is moving. The planet is moving, and the universe is moving. Our cells vibrate with energy.
When we feel good, our energy is positively charged and lifts us. The universe is quite happy to give you what you need but you have to feel the vibrational energy, to think about it is not enough. Your vision board is not permanent. When it needs changing- change it. You can make other boards or just change it.
The Career Section of Your Vision Board
The career path is one of the biggest areas in which people want the Law of Attraction to work for them. That’s because too many people feel stuck in jobs that they hate. Or, they went to college, set off on one career path and have now discovered that it doesn’t fulfill them or bring them happiness in any way.
A lot of young people fall prey to what they “should” be in life. They choose a particular career field because a well-meaning parent or other mentor told them they needed to go into the field. Sometimes they were influenced by parental choice.The Law of attraction can point the way to the field you should be in. Sometimes people only know what they don’t want to do, but that’s a start to work out what you want.
Some people are desperate to leave their jobs, but they can’t face the insecurity of a move. Try looking at photos that make you feel happy and uplifted. We are all different some of us could happily take a salary cut to work for a charity, as long as we believed in what we are doing. Others not so much.
You might have financial obligations that you can’t just push aside. What you can do is to create your vision board. What will happen is that once you create your vision board, that positive energy is flowing out into the universe and back to you.
Use the Board to Help You Attract the Right Relationships
Creating a relationship area on your vision board can help you draw a relationship. The LOA vision board can work for getting a new relationship into your life. Or, it can work to help you create the right kind of relationship out of the one that you already have. Over the years with practice, I can bring into my life the people I most need at the time.
Some people are in destructive relationships. Others feel that any partner is better than none at all. You break off one relationship only to end up in one exactly like it. You can break this cycle. Even if all you’ve had in the past has been a string of bad relationships, the LOA can change that.
The relationship area will help you visualize what it is that you want out of your relationships. Every person in the world wants to be loved and to be in a relationship where they’re appreciated and respected. There is nothing missing within ourselves, we are perfect people in our own right, we don’t need the other half, although if you have it is wonderful.
Grow Love
A relationship area of a LOA board means that we’re looking to grow love, to attract it to us and to have one that’s positive and right for us. You should create a vision board for relationships if you seem always to end up with someone that’s an unhealthy partner emotionally.
Or create one if you’ve always been in relationships that created a lot of negativity. These are the kind of relationships that never work out in the long term because of that negativity.It drags us down and spas our own vibrant energy.
These boards are also helpful for people who are in a relationship already, but the relationship seems to be standing still. You’re ready to rev the relationship up a bit, but the other person just seems content to keep things the way that they are.
On a relationship board, you would put what it is that you’re looking for in another person. It can be the type of person you want, or what they look like or both.
Your board can also focus on a couple together, not just the one person you’re looking for, so look for images that show couples being romantic or having fun or sharing a tender moment.
If you want someone with a great sense of humor, you will look for images and words that portray that. If you want someone who’s athletic or someone who’s into charitable causes, you will put that on your board.
A Friendship Board
For people who don’t desire to have a relationship in their life but are looking for good friends to attract to their lives, a friendship board can replace a relationship board.
The friendship board will attract the kind of dear, life-long friends that you can count on to bring enrichment to your life. You can also create a board that helps you achieve happiness as a single person if you’re trying to break free from a negative relationship.
Manifest Money with a Vision Board
Having an abundance of wealth is something that has a lot of power to do good. Not only in your own life but in the lives of those that you’ll help out of that abundance.
If you’ve felt the strain of financial stress, then you know how much negativity it can produce. So whether you want to attract wealth for yourself or as a way to help other people, a LOA money board can help.
You need to shake any negative thoughts that you have when it comes to money. Look at money as a sense of freedom and generosity rather than focusing on what you don’t have or what kind of debt you’ve racked up.
When you’re ready to start gathering images, look for ones that represent what money means to you. For some people, this will be something as simple as a way to meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing.
For others, money represents a better lifestyle than the one they currently have. The images you cut out or print can be ones that reflect how many can enrich your life emotionally as well as physically.
You can include images with words like joy and satisfaction or other phrases that represent a positive feeling about money. You can use quotes about money, and some people take a picture of themselves holding money or something of value and put it in the center of their vision money board.
Education and the Law of Attraction
There are thousands of young people who want to go to college and can’t afford it. There are also thousands of older people who either didn’t finish college or didn’t get the chance to go simply because it just never worked out with their schedule.
Regardless of the reason, if you want to start or finish a college education, you can attract that goal to yourself with a vision education board. For this, you would need to have an image of the college that you’d like to attend.
You can even print off an application, shrink it to size and stamp “accepted” across the front of it before you glue it to your board. Whatever classes that you want to take, you can glue images related to these classes onto your board.
If finances are the reason that you haven’t reached this goal, you can cut out pictures of money or scholarship approvals and paste those onto your board.
Final Points
Again, the way that the Law of Attraction works is that when we see what we want most, and it’s clearly identified, we take steps to make those goals happen, and we’re often not even aware that that’s what we’re doing! In other words to make it work perfectly and in synchronicity you have to just let it be. Don’t sweat the small things.
“Nothing matters,but everything makes a difference”
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