It's a matter of Choice

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Written on 10:17 AM by Nice to meet you, I'm Chance :)

Today I want us to think about the word CHOICE.

What does choice mean to you? Is it the opportunity to choose what you eat for lunch, who your friends are, when you get up or how many glasses of wine you have?

Or maybe it means, freedom, happiness or success.

2009 is only a few mere hours away, and while many of us will drink, party with friends and share a New Year's Kiss with our loved one underneath a sky of glittering fireworks the Universe continues to work hard; letting go of the past 12 months and preparing for another 12 fresh canvas' for which we can each CHOOSE what we write on them, how we treat them and what we want from them in return.

If it's all sounding a bit esoteric, then make the CHOICE to look away, but if you've reached an epiphany, decided you deserve a better year or simply bright eyed and keen to step forth into 2009 then this post may be the ingredient you're looking for.

I have never experienced a year like I have this 2008, I lost one of the most irreplaceable people, someone dearly close to me to which every move I made was to hopefully make them proud of me. I think daily about them daily, yet it all still feels impeccably surreal. Mixed in with this equation was the love that grew my family and I, my partner and I and those friends that stood near. All this has brought me to a place where, little things don't trouble me anymore, I've learnt there is so many, many more important things that we glaze over everyday with little care for their beauty, the place of love they have come or even the opportunity they could be, should we CHOOSE to stop and see.

We all joke about what our New Year's Resolution is going to be, but how many of us, stop and think about how truly fortunate we are that we have the freedom to not only CHOOSE a Resolution, but the ability to CHOOSE to honour it or to not. This post may be a little heavy for some, but while it's not nice to think about we all truly do take life for granted and few of us truly do our opportunity at living a life justice. For most it comes down to the deep seeded psychology of not respecting ourselves. Learn to love yourself, appreciate yourself, be grateful for yourself and it will reflect in your life and all that crosses your path.

I'm going to give you an exercise, and I'll join in and do it also. From the moment you finish reading this post through to the same time tomorrow I want us to think to ourselves all the things we're grateful for; I'm grateful for my life, I'm grateful for my family, I'm grateful for my health, I'm grateful for the roof over my head, I'm grateful for my mom's brownies, I'm grateful for my new haircut... Just run through everything in your head, don't put clauses on things, I'm grateful for my family except my mother in law because.... just instead appreciate things for their essence, regardless of someone or something’s good or bad points in your mind, they're in your life for you to learn, grow and benefit from, don't ever discount a person or event. Consider practising the daily act of being grateful, just in your mind, and soon you'll start to mean it from you core and you'll begin to see a positive shift. Remember no one else knows you're doing it, just you, and that's all that matters, what's the harm in trying, hey?

So when it comes to CHOICE, you soon see that where we each find ourselves at this exact moment, is the result of alllllll the choices YOU have made which have got you here, like it or not, you chose to quit your job, you chose to dye your hair pink, you chose to eat all that takeaway, you chose to unconditionally love your partner, you chose to be grateful daily, you chose to smile at strangers you pass. Good or bad you chose it. Now CHOOSE to make not a Resolution for this New Year but a shift in consciousness that gets you to a better place, a happier place and one that will support, nurture and manifest your hopes, dreams and desires. Anything is only as possible as you CHOOSE it to be. Choose to aim for the moon, for even if you fall short, you will land among the stars.

Make a conscious CHOICE, you deserve happiness, you deserve success and you deserve to do what it takes to be grateful for all that can make this happen and begin to make smart decision today.

Your life, what you achieve, how you feel. It's simply a matter of Choice.

Goodbye 2008, I am grateful to have shared this year with you.

Kindest - Chance :)

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A is for Affiliate. "Huh, you said what now?"

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Written on 8:06 AM by Nice to meet you, I'm Chance :)

If you're looking to make some dollars online then you may have come across the word Affiliate, usually in reference to an Affiliate Program. An Affiliate Program is something some websites offer, such as Amazon.com where you can register to become an Affiliate of theirs, you then promote their products on your website and when visitors to your site then click through and buy from your Affiliate in this case Amazon you receive a kick back or commission as a thank you for sending them there. Now it's not always rewarded based on a purchase, it may be once a survey is completed etc.
So anywho's that's the quick overview of an Affiliate Program, so what's brings me to this topic today?

In my continual search for Internet business ideas I thought, I love audio books, I love business, marketing and self help books, and I'm looking for a digital product to sell because it can be sold infinite times and requires little energy to maintain once established, so in short, I could start an Audio Book Download Site! YES!

Then in doing initial research to locate where and how I can go about getting resell rights to then set up this amazing wonderful money fountain I realised it's may be a little tricky to go about it this way. So being the Determined Entrepreneur, I continued to forge forward until my pathway crossed a solution, and that's when I stumbled upon HayHouse.com (A big publisher for self-help books) and their Affiliate program. *Light bulb - "Hmm, maybe this is my answer."


Hay House pay out between 10-20% commission on sales from your referred customers. Which isn't too bad, while it may only be $4.90 here and there, imagine if you set up 10 of these Affiliate sites with different Affiliate partners, each generating say one $4.90 commission per day, that's $343 per day! Not to shabby!

So back to my audio book website idea thingy, I love Audible.com so I popped over there and sure enough, they do an Affiliate Program too! Yay, and better yet, they have a 60 day cookie which in English means, when a visitor from your site clicks through to Amazon and then makes a purchase within 60 days you get the commission from the sale, where as most other Affiliate Programs only have a 30 day purhcase window.

The Audible commission scale isn't percentage based, instead it's calculated on 3 types of purchases, 2 are of their membership programs, so a commission of $25 and $10 respectively or $3.50 for individual purchases. So again, not to shabby.

So one of my recently recruited mantras is, "Don't think, just do." because I could sit here for the next 3 months, thinking and having the best intentions of, "Yeah, let's do 10 affiliate sites, make $343 bucks a day and pay off some debts, go on a holiday, buy something nice, blah, blah." But unless I get passed this just thinking stage I'll be in the same boat treading the same water in 3 months time, but now I'll be thinking, "Crap, I should have started those Affiliate sites, 3 months ago, cos I could have had $20,000 in my pocket now." So with that in mind, I move my thoughts to the next stage. (Oh and I'm in Australia and all figures mentioned above are US$ so with the current conversion of 68c to the dollar, that US$20k becomes, AU$29k. Nice)

What kind of a site to setup for this Affiliate Program idea...
You see you have to apply to be an Affiliate and submit your website so you can be approved or denied, as far as I'm aware they're mainly looking for no offensive content, no hate sites etc. So now I need to set up my site, but quickly, I don't want to over capitalise and over invest my time to getting this ball rolling, I have other sites and ideas to share my time with too!

So that brings me to where I am now, I'm going to do this Affiliate program with Audible.com (if they'll have me!) but now what format to do the website I then submit for approval... Hmmm... Do I do a Blog and review books, or maybe a website that lists all the books available, but that's over 8,000 titles! This one I'll have to nut through a little more. But I'll keep you posted!

Can you share your own experience with an Affiliate Program or share an idea about what format my website should take to suit the capitalisation of this Audible.com Affiliation? Comment now and share ideas with other readers.

Till tomorrow. Dream Big Kids - Chance :)

P.S. Oh you're wondering just how possible it is to make money from this kind of Affiliate Program? There are plenty of google searches that claim people that have maid their Millions from Affiliate programs, but you'll soon learn I'm not looking for a get rich quick scheme and neither should you, instead replace that desire with a solid steady growth of multiple income generating websites you establish that tick over a nice cash flow each week, that you can built and comfortably profit from. So in short, I don't know how much if any money can be made from Affiliate programs, I've not done this before, I can calculate figures based on the commission scale, but as to what sales are actually made is another thing. But that's what this process is about, learning and sharing as I go. So get comfy bookmark my blog and subscribe to updates.

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I've been slack, but I'm back!

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Written on 10:39 AM by Nice to meet you, I'm Chance :)

Ok, so like many entrepreneurs I got excited, started my new blog and then kinda slacked off from keeping it updated and in fact remembering to remember I started it in the first place!

But enough of that, it has been a big year including an irreplaceable family loss, so having ridden the 2008 roller coaster I'm ready to stand tall and truly earn the title of The Determined Entrepreneur and make myself and everyone around proud of me and hopefully inspired to take their own action for greater, health, happiness, love, and of course prosperity.

So I have made a personal commitment with myself, that I will
A) stick to my low-carb weight loss plan and build on the already lost 3kg (nothing to do with this blog, but just wanted to share)
B) Post here daily following the theme of, "Today's thought." focusing on a tip or idea each and everyone of us can greatly benefit from. How's that sound?

So with a fresh new blog template, a new post and aspirations of keeping this blog furious, exciting and ever changing, let's charge our glasses and salute to Choice & Action! Haraaa!

Upcoming thoughts: The 4 Hour Work Week, Spreadshirt, Etsy, How to make and take Action.













Dream Bigger - Chance :)

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