The Curse Of X
Posted on July 10, 2007
Filed Under Internet Marketing
The first time I had to deal with what I’ve dealt with the last three days, I was sixteen.
I’d been pissing blood for days and was too embarrassed to say anything to my parents - explaining WHY I was too embarrassed is too embarrassing to write even now.
Finally, something “passed” and I was in such intense pain I thought I was going to die right then and there - of course I didn’t.
Every two years or so, I have this to deal with - and over the years I’ve become pretty good at separating mind from body - the pain is there, but I do my best to accept it and it becomes minimal. When I resist the pain, or give into panic it’s intense.
The pain has proven a powerful life lesson; what you resist only worsens. Resist your current financial situation and the situation worsens - it doesn’t get better.
It’s law of attraction on a different level than most have experienced - the secret isn’t about “thinking” - the secret is about “feeling”.
Why?
Because you’ve had millions of thoughts in your life - many of them not conscious and therefore you can do nothing about that which you are not conscious of. Nothing exists that you are not conscious of - what exists is what you are conscious of.
The answer to any income goal already exists; are you conscious of it? That’s the question.
The point here, is that a feeling - like a picture - is worth a thousand thoughts. Stress in this moment isn’t the result of ONE THOUGHT - it’s the accumulation of thousands of thoughts that lead up to the one thought that stressed you out - so when you do something about the feeling all of the thoughts are dealt with too - conscious and subconscious.
Anyway, my painful affliction is kidney stones which ain’t fun to live with - but some things are like that and it’s how you feel about what you HAVE to live with that defines the ultimate experience. It’s not Pollyanna, rose-colored fairy woo-woo stuff.
It’s as simple as turning lemons into lemonade and you should also be on the lookout for it - the things YOU despise most in life are showing you a powerful opportunity if you flip it 180-degrees.
The Adwords Black Book probably never would have been written - and probably not as powerfully as it was without the contribution of my shitball ex-boss. He’s still a rinky-dink little bastard, but he’s also STILL sending me a check every month equivalent to what he paid me for tolerating his micro-managing paranoia for 160 hours per month (BTW, when I wrote the ABB that monthly check was about half what it is now).
OK - just want to end by sharing this snippet from a Marlon Sanders email - because it’s true. I have a $100,000 education that got me a J-O-B in a coffee shop - dues paying is required, sorry to break that news - good news is, some people get them paid a lot faster than others.
Think about it. If you spend 4 years in college and yet 80% of the people can NOT get a job in the field they get their degree in and 95% of the graduates make under $100,000 a year, do you REALLY think buying 1 course you study in 3 weeks will do for you what a college degree won't? Please. This is a process. It requires effort and learning. Not magic. I really worry about people who think that buying one inexpensive product (compared to a college education) can do what college can't! I just don't get that. Seriously.
.X.
X, I need your help! I followed your Black Book DVDs tactics (bidding on trademark terms) and the friggin advertiser told CJ itself and now CJ has me deactivated (sons of BEEPers!). What should I do??
Thanks, Felix.
Felix -
First, respect policies and fly under
the radar as much as possible if not.
Second, write CJ and plead ignorance -
stupid people get more breaks than
smart one’s - it’s essential for their
survival (NOT calling YOU stupid).
If that doesn’t work, create a new
account and then Bitch Slap that
merchant across the Pacific, then
across the Atlantic and back.
All the best to you - X
Lesson learnt. I sent an email the same day, and got their okay to get a new account. I’ve also joined their competitors’ aff. program. I’m gonna bitch slap til their asses turn blue
Thanks for your killer info, Mr. X. After a year in IM, your DVDs (& ebook) has finally brought me home the cash.