| I've talked a lot over the years of making your | | | | how rocket travel would affect living creatures. So |
| dreams, your heart's passions, come true in your life | | | | when Mark created his 7 Day Business Turnaround, |
| in one form or another. You might not make it on | | | | he decided to run a select group of people through |
| Broadway, but you can always act in your local | | | | the program first, just to see what would happen, |
| theatre. I'm not a famous singer with thousands of | | | | and he called them his Space Monkeys. |
| adoring fans, but I did sing the National Anthem in | | | | Some of them were already successful business |
| front of 2500 people at our local AA Baseball game. | | | | owners and/or internet marketing gurus, like Tellman |
| Sometimes touching a dream is all we can do, and | | | | Knutson. Some were a small presence on the net, like |
| the very act of reaching for it stretches us and helps | | | | Kristi Sayles, a 2nd grade teacher who made an |
| us grow. Every time we reach for a dream we get a | | | | extra $400-$500 per month in internet marketing. |
| little farther along our path. | | | | There were brick and mortar businesses, and total |
| Sometimes we know the outcome before it happens. | | | | newbies. There was even Mike Hudson, a very |
| I was pretty sure when I tried out for the Anthem | | | | successful man who wrote much of the copy you |
| that I would get called. Sometimes we don't know. | | | | see in the guru's campaigns, who had never created |
| We have a great idea and we know it is worth | | | | his own product in all these years. |
| pursuing. We put our hearts and souls into it because | | | | It was an experiment in marketing, in creativity, and |
| it is the right thing to do, whatever the outcome | | | | in bringing together people from entirely different |
| may be. We leap and trust that the net will appear | | | | backgrounds and seeing what they could do in 7 |
| before we hit the ground. | | | | days with intensive training and access to each other. |
| There has been much controversy over the last year | | | | And what they could do was amazing. |
| or so about the movie and book "The Secret" and | | | | I joined the & Day Business Turnaround on it's launch |
| The Law of Attraction. Some believe that if you hold | | | | to the public. I am very impressed with it, and |
| an idea firmly enough in your mind it will manifest in | | | | recommend it wholeheartedly. He teaches about |
| real life. Others claim that is a dangerous notion, | | | | cutting costs, stopping the time bleeding, how to do |
| because you have to work before anything can | | | | quick "Cash Injection" missions, and how to think long |
| happen. Just believing isn't enough. | | | | term once you have the present under control. The |
| I agree. With both, actually. If you want something | | | | forums are one of the best parts, because you |
| badly enough, you will take steps toward it. If you | | | | never know who you might run into. |
| want it but can't see it, can't visualize it, you will have | | | | I ran into the Space Monkeys, and I remembered my |
| a much harder time manifesting it because you are | | | | dream of interviewing experts. Here they were, 16 |
| not clear on what you want. If you don't believe you | | | | Space Monkeys, and I have a way to contact them |
| can do it or that you deserve it, you will fight | | | | (or at least some of them.) I have something in |
| yourself every time you get close. | | | | common with them, and several are still active on the |
| When you can see it and believe in it, you will want | | | | forum. So… |
| to act on it. It is those three things working | | | | I invented the Wealth Virus. The WHAT? The |
| together- Vision, Belief, and Action that will bring you | | | | Wealth Virus. It is something the Space Monkeys |
| the things you want. Affirmations, self hypnosis, | | | | caught when Mark used them for guinea pigs, and it |
| prayer, scrap books and collages of our desires, all of | | | | has been spreading ever since. Every project they |
| these help us focus our attention on our dreams, and | | | | work on, all the people they come into contact with, |
| it is that focused attention that will take us closer to | | | | seem to catch the Wealth Virus. Really. |
| them. | | | | Why did I invent the Wealth Virus? Because it gave |
| Two years ago this Fall we quit our jobs driving truck | | | | me a chance to debrief the Space Monkeys. It gave |
| and began following our own dreams. Mine was to | | | | me a story line to play with, a reason to do the |
| join Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Robert Allen, | | | | interviews, and a fun thing to talk about, not to |
| Marshall Sylver, and the other mentors and coaches | | | | mention a great URL. Check it out at the end of this |
| of the world in helping people reach their dreams. I | | | | article. |
| wanted to be on stage, making a difference in many | | | | So I set up the website and started contacting |
| people's lives. I love to travel, to speak, to share, to | | | | Space Monkeys. I only had 16. Could I get enough to |
| teach. I also saw a serious lack of women up there | | | | make a decent teleseminar series? Well, so far I |
| on stage, and thought I could give a slightly different | | | | have 7 Space Monkeys and Mark Joyner himself who |
| perspective to the world. | | | | have said "Yes" to being interviewed. And a dream |
| So I took classes, went to seminars, joined | | | | seed planed almost 2 years ago is growing into the |
| Toastmasters. I went through Coaching training. I | | | | most beautiful reality I can imagine. |
| took Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets. I joined | | | | Sometimes in the last month I have felt a little |
| Robert Allen's Enlightened Wealth Institute. I learned, | | | | overwhelmed with all I am doing, yet overall I am |
| I studied, I defined my dreams more clearly. I | | | | happier than I have been in a long while. Following |
| watched the gurus closely- what I liked, what I | | | | your dreams and finally catching up to them is a mind |
| admired, what I didn't. Which traits I wanted for my | | | | blowing, life altering experience, and I recommend it |
| own, which ones I did not. | | | | to everyone. :) |
| I loved the idea of Harris and Merlin's 12 Week | | | | I have often said "Follow your dream." Now I realize |
| Intensive. You find 12 experts in a field you are | | | | that you don't just follow a dream. You dream it, you |
| interested in. (Actually, you find and contact about 60 | | | | lead it, you follow it, you coax it, you sometimes yell |
| and get 12 of them to say yes.) Then you interview | | | | at it for not being what you thought it should be. |
| them, one each week, on a teleseminar that you | | | | You let it sleep for a while, then you wake it up and |
| broadcast for free. Each one gets to give an hour or | | | | try again. You allow it to grow, you shape it, you trim |
| so of great information, and promote a product or | | | | it, you expand and contract it. You live with it, and it |
| program of theirs that will teach people even more. | | | | lives in you. Most of all, you work for it, and you |
| You are an affiliate of the sales from the call. Harris | | | | never, ever give up on it. And it never gives up on |
| and Merlin made about $130,000 from the first 12 | | | | you. |
| Week Intensive they did, and became well known in | | | | The Space Monkey interviews will start in late |
| the process. | | | | August. Be sure to register for your Top Secret |
| That became one of my dreams. Find experts I | | | | Clearance ID at |
| admire, ask them for interviews, get to know them, | | | | Become part of my dream with me. Share it with |
| interview them, and help them help others. | | | | your friends. Watch it grow before your eyes. |
| This month I have started realizing that dream. The | | | | Then ask yourself - What is your dream? What can |
| first of July I became part of Mark Joyner's 7 Day | | | | you do today to reach toward that shining star? To |
| Business Turnaround. I have provided a Simpleology | | | | bring it out, dust it off, and remember how its glow |
| link below. The information is great, the training even | | | | reminds you who you truly are? |
| better, and I got to meet some of the Space | | | | Dreams are for those who stretch themselves in the |
| Monkeys. | | | | reaching. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his |
| What in the world is a Space Monkey? Well, before | | | | grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" |
| we sent humans out to face the void of outer | | | | What dream is worth stretching yourself for today? |
| space, we sent up a dog, and then a chimp, to see | | | | |