One of the BEST books on Self Esteem I’ve ever read is one written by Maxwell Maltz called Psycho-Cybernetics.

It’s been years since I’ve read this book but from it I’ve gleamed some valuable points that I never forgot.

Our Self Image, is how we think about ourself, a good dvd/book or really philosophy about our thoughts is “The Law of Attraction” and “The Secret” which has been pretty huge in the media recently on Oprah and Larry King, etc…

First according to the secret we become what we think about most, so if we think we’re ugly and fat then that is what we will become, however if we think about becoming better looking but we still end each thought with how bad we look now, then that negates the positive thinking – it’s all or nothing, you need to not only create a positive thought but re-inforce that thought w/ a strong positive emotion, even if it’s faked a little the more you do it the stronger will be the change on your subconscious level – NEVER underestimate your Subconscious mind.

Now for where I was originally headed – The one thing that I gleamed the most from Pshycho Cybernetics is something called C.R.A.F.T. it’s a method of changing your thought and behavioural problems.

C – Stands for Cancel. When you think of something negative,  like for instance you see a pretty body in a magazine and automatically say to your subconscious, I could never look like that. This is a negative thought that MUST be controlled, it must be tamed and beaten the crap out of.

To Cancel this thought and make it like it was never born you need to say the word “Cancel” say it loud, say it proud, say it with authority because this is the first step to taking control of your mind. But this is only the 1st step.

R – Replace, immediately after saying “Cancel”, you need to come up w/ a replacement thought – but it needs to be more than that, you need to think about how beautiful you are, and how happy your are with the way you are. Feel it, and own it.

A – Affirmation – each negative thought you have is a habit, it takes roughly 21-28 days to break a habit, and the only way to break a habit of thought is to re-inforce the positive thought give it more power.  To do this you need to create an affirmation. Following the model scenario in the magazine, your affirmation could be: “I have a warm and endearing smile, I am beautiful, and I love who I am, especially my uniqueness.”

Look this is SERIOUS. We are at War!

At any one time our thoughts are a waging a war, this is an enormous war our Positive thoughts, thoughts that are in accordinance with God, and with the universe, and everything right in this world, then there are the Negative thoughts, these are the Orcs, these will destroy you if you let them, they will completely destroy your mind. Don’t let them. Seize this day to change your life, the journey of a million miles starts with a mere footstep. I’m a huge Hobbit fan, and I love when Sam reaches the outskirts of Hobbiton, and takes that one last step away from home, the furthest step he’s ever taken, the step that would change his life forever.

The hobbits went through some enormous changes, emotionally, spiritually, physically, saving the world was demanding, the you hiding inside is a hobbit, a small halfling, trying to break free, and show to the world that you have what it takes that you are worthy.

*Back on Track*

F – Focus – this step is about creating a vision of who you desire to be. This is if where you change your behavior to go with your thoughts. Now that your habits of belief are changed you can focus on changing things if need be, if it’s all in your head and you don’t really need to change anything that’s fine too. Say for instance you want to lose weight though, here is where you’d write up a vision of who you want to be, then spend time each day meditating on the image, and how happy you are that you look and feel that way.

T – Training – Sometimes change requires learning, here is where you learn, it could be signing up for Ediets.com or enlisting w/ a life facilitator or personal trainer, it could be as simple as reading a few books, whatever it is – this step is important to finishing your transformation, it’s very important to always be reading a good book, learning how to be what you need to be.

One more idea before I end this – is a lot of time, self-loathing and low self esteem is paired with fear, fear of changing, fear of doing anything, fear of this or that it doesn’t matter, a lot of us and yes I was one of these people have fear and are overly anxious be it just social anxiety.

A huge way to get over this is to be dangerous and adventuresome, pick something that is exciting and fun, and something that is totally out of your spectrum – go hang gliding, or sky diving, or hold a tarantula, –pick one fear to overcome, and when you face that fear it will cascade down, the bigger the fear the better.. Think of a pyramid of Wine glasses. Each glass represents a fear, and the wine represents facing a fear, the bigger your fear is that you face the more wine cups fill up from the top one overflowing.

So it is w/ life… I hope some of this insight will help you…God bless you in your journey.

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• We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. (quotationsbook.com)
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If you haven’t heard by now, honeybee colonies across the USA are collapsing – and with the collapse of honeybees comes not only the loss of sweet honey for bread and tea, but also a huge loss for agriculture…

Stay tuned and I’ll show how honeybees relate to the law of abundance but for now please swing over to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder – Where is it Heading?

Honeybees are crucial to our existence, without honeybees we can’t pollinate our crops, without pollination not only do we go hungry so does the livestock we feed on as well, and eventually we’re talking a famine of mass proportions.

In life we have honeybees as well – these are people who lift us up, they can be people in your life, mere acquaintances who’ve made an impression in the small amount of time they’ve spent or they can be people you’ve only read about, or learned of through other means. They could be a teacher who’s message still strikes your core even today, years after you’ve graduated and moved on.

Without these honeybees we cannot hope to gain abundance, just as honeybees in nature provide an abundant yield of fresh fruits, flowers and grains, so do our honeybees in life produce abundance, they provide a rich life full of color, remove the things from your life that might kill off these honeybees, like negative attitudes, and thinking – honeybees float off to beautiful flowers both in the physical realm and the spiritual.

Be a flower so that you can attract more honeybees into your life, and with it you’ll grow and blossom, and bring abundance to your life.

See what Elbert West has to say about Honey Bees: WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE HONEYBEES?Also I’d like to thank Elbert for offering to send me a free copy of his newest book. I can’t wait to get my copy and will definitely be putting up a review of it here for everyone to read – If you are as impatient as me, then go ahead and swing over and check his book out on Amazon.

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Read On For a Marketing twist that could mean a huge flux of link-backs.

But first the Meme: What is your dream business if you could own any company or build your own business idea – what would it be?

Mine: As I mentioned in an earlier post to own a business alone is a dream, but I’ve always been pulled towards owning a Pizza Chain, I guess it comes from working as a Delivery Driver for 5 years, of course I have some really unorthodox idea for my pizza chain that could make it hugely successful, only time will tell. Check out my blog post on this subject.

NOW for the Marketing Experiment.:

This is a cool Meme, with a marketing twist, that could bring hundred of links to your blog, if not thousands.

First off list the last 5 blogs that this came from like so.

1. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
2. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
3. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
4. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
5. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com

Let’s call this the viral Marketing MEME.

Now the way this works – Put your address in the 1st space, then delete #5.

This will move you down to the next line.

This way not only will you move down but your link will be spread across many future blogs, AND the reader gets to read the answer from multiple bloggers till the Meme ends or repeats itself whichever comes first.

My advice is once you’ve created your post- then try as hard as you can to get your friends to do the same, and before long you’ll have 400,000 links to your blog and a technorati rank of 10, or something like that but in any case give it a shot and see where it takes you – but if you do give it a try then please comment about it on here – This is a Marketing Experiment – so test results and comments are greatly appreciated.

Here’s an example of what your blog could look like, when copying this….

Meme: What is your dream business if you could own any company or build your own business idea – what would it be?

Mine: “Insert your blog post here”

Previous Bloggers: As I mentioned in an earlier post to own a business alone is a dream, but I’ve always been pulled towards owning a Pizza Chain, I guess it comes from working as a Delivery Driver for 5 years, of course I have some really unorthodox idea for my pizza chain that could make it hugely successful, only time will tell. Check out my blog post on this subject.

1. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
2. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
3. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
4. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com
5. http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com

Get a Viral Boost by Adding to this MEME today!

Again I appreciate comments, and perhaps this has been done before, I’m not sure, I reason though that it will be a fun experience nonetheless. I’ll call it: TurboMEME. or maybe ViralMEME. Take your pick.

*Time Stamp Changed*

Today we are launching our first contest!

Since I launched this blog one week ago I’ve gotten my traffic upto about 60-100 hits per day. As far as advertising goes, the money hasn’t shown up yet, but I’m confident that it will hit soon.

Today is an EXCITING Day, I’ve felt strong urges that could be perhaps manifestations from the using the law of attraction, or it could just be indigestion. In any case here’s the Contest we’re launching.

For this contest there are 3 different ways to enter, enter one or enter all. #2 may be entered upto 3 times per blog, by posting upto 3 trackbacks. All other ways to enter can only be entered once, unless you own/write for multiple blogs, and then only at one per blog.

1. Write a Review about our blog, this would link to the main page. Earns 5 Entries.
2. Write a trackback/excerpt featuring an individual blog posts/permalinks. An example here is if you have a favorite article write a small 1-3 paragraph post that relates to it. Earns 3 Entries.
3. Add us to your blogroll. Earns 3 Entries per month that we remain on your blogroll.

Winner Receives: Bragging rights, Their Link on our Blogroll, and the winning or best Review /trackback will be linked to from here and I will write a review for their site and it will be featured here as well. PLUS 15% of ALL My Ad Revenue from the beginning of this blog till the End of this contest.

End of Contest: All Applications must be in by The Last Saturday of the month of May by Midnight. Winner will be chosen over the following few days and announced on the Blog that week sometime.

All applications must be in the form of comments to this blog post, just link to the post that you’ve written about us, and make sure I have a way to contact you.

*Side note: The winner of each month’s contest receives 10 entries into an even bigger drawing – When I reach $1,000,000 which I have no doubt that I will, one person will win $50,000 which I will save out of the $1,000,000 Earnings.

Also, for everyone who enters the contest will receive 1 entry per task into the Grand Prize Drawing as listed above, so if you received 5 entries to the monthly you will still only receive 1 entry into the Grand Prize Drawing. There will also be a 2nd prize of $25,000, and a 3rd place prize of $10,000.

Disclaimer: These rules can be changed as needed by me without giving expressed notice, and will be only out of necessity to keep the rules fair and that’s about it.

I want to own my own Pizza Restaurant, I have the theme worked out, and some unique twists here and there that will make it unlike any Pizzeria in the world.

It will be a pizza place for a new generation. The Web2.0 of Pizza.

Why? I can’t really divulge, someone might steal my ideas, but I can say that it’s no small thing that I want to build.

This is why I’m using the secret, this is why I’m here, tapping into the Law of Attraction, to build my Pizza Chain, w/ the perfect pizza and the yummiest wings you ever tasted, honey barbecue, and sweet hawaiian teriyaki.

I can taste it now… My first big manifestation, is going to be enough to open my own Pizza store. I’ve done some research and designed a business plan, and I believe I can do it for roughly $20,000 which includes some working capital for advertising and marketing, and wages.

Stay tuned for a related MEmE.

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*Time Stamp Changed*

Today we are launching our first contest!

Since I launched this blog one week ago I’ve gotten my traffic upto about 60-100 hits per day. As far as advertising goes, the money hasn’t shown up yet, but I’m confident that it will hit soon.

Today is an EXCITING Day, I’ve felt strong urges that could be perhaps manifestations from the using the law of attraction, or it could just be indigestion. In any case here’s the Contest we’re launching.

For this contest there are 3 different ways to enter, enter one or enter all. #2 may be entered upto 3 times per blog, by posting upto 3 trackbacks. All other ways to enter can only be entered once, unless you own/write for multiple blogs, and then only at one per blog.

1. Write a Review about our blog, this would link to the main page. Earns 5 Entries.
2. Write a trackback/excerpt featuring an individual blog posts/permalinks. An example here is if you have a favorite article write a small 1-3 paragraph post that relates to it. Earns 3 Entries.
3. Add us to your blogroll. Earns 3 Entries per month that we remain on your blogroll.

Winner Receives: Bragging rights, Their Link on our Blogroll, and the winning or best Review /trackback will be linked to from here and I will write a review for their site and it will be featured here as well. PLUS 15% of ALL My Ad Revenue from the beginning of this blog till the End of this contest.

End of Contest: All Applications must be in by The Last Saturday of the month of May by Midnight. Winner will be chosen over the following few days and announced on the Blog that week sometime.

All applications must be in the form of comments to this blog post, just link to the post that you’ve written about us, and make sure I have a way to contact you.

*Side note: The winner of each month’s contest receives 10 entries into an even bigger drawing – When I reach $1,000,000 which I have no doubt that I will, one person will win $50,000 which I will save out of the $1,000,000 Earnings.

Also, for everyone who enters the contest will receive 1 entry per task into the Grand Prize Drawing as listed above, so if you received 5 entries to the monthly you will still only receive 1 entry into the Grand Prize Drawing. There will also be a 2nd prize of $25,000, and a 3rd place prize of $10,000.

Disclaimer: These rules can be changed as needed by me without giving expressed notice, and will be only out of necessity to keep the rules fair and that’s about it.

So here I was… reading article after article after article on how to apply this new found knowledge from ‘the secret’ into my own life, and then I found some articles on the opposing view, which there’s opposition in everything, and I got to thinking how a little skepticism can be healthy – again only a little, a lot would be overdosing on that as well. There’s a saying in my church – Moderation in All Things.

Now I don’t discount the power of ‘the secret’ or the ‘law of attraction’, but I started thinking maybe I was being a little foolish going full headed into this, when I don’t really know what it all entails. So I took some time to meditate and ponder over ‘The Secret’ and the ‘Law of Attraction’ after some thought I believe it can be altered a little better to fit into my own belief pattern.

I’m an avid believer in my church, I’m LDS/ aka Mormon – and I know I might be considered odd by many, but some of the teachings of the Law of Attraction seem to contradict my religious heart, and seem odd to me.

As I said earlier my church has a popular saying ‘Moderation in all things’. I think it’s very well possible to over-do things a bit with living the law of attraction, but I’m saying this is only my idea of the way I personally need to live it.

I’m a very liberal person, I have never supported the Iraq war, and I have never supported our False President, however as a Mormon I can be quite conservative on some issues for instance Abortion. I’ve read a number of books on becoming a millionaire, one of my favorites is the Automatic Millionaire by David Bach. I’ve also read article after article on wealth creation. Then of course there’s this old adage by Benjamin Franklin that says “a penny saved is a penny earned”. Now I say this after I wasted money, that could be applied to my future, at Mc Donald’s, but I’ll admit I’m a work in progress.

The Meat of this post: A Somewhat Conservative Liberal Mormon’s viewpoint slash version of the Law of Attraction.

First off I want to say go and read about the law of attraction, watch ‘The Secret’ then come back and re-read what I have to say.

Now having been a dreamer and believer most my life and tried just about everything a man can try – From MLM Riches to HYIP Dreams to Autosurfs Folly, you name it I’ve been there, and on some I made some money for a little while but then lost everything.

I still hold dear to my heart the fact that I believe I can be everything I’ve dreamed about, I also believe altering my attitude and emotions can help me get there, and believing that I deserve the desires of my heart and that they are a worthy goal and desire.

I believe God gives us what we think we deserve rather than what we really deserve, and being an omniscient God he knows all of our deepest thoughts and knows our feelings of Guilt and Doubt. Do not doubt that you deserve something, or if you do doubt then work on overcoming that guilt and doubt, there is a way, wherever there is a will.
Patrick’s Personalized Law of Attraction:

1. Ask God for those things that you desire, ask with a sincere heart and be comforted knowing he will give you everything your heart desires, that he intends for you to have, if you have the faith, and if you don’t have the faith he may test your faith or wait till you do gain the faith required, the faith to move your mountains.
2. Pay Tithe’s to God, or if you don’t share the same beliefs as me it can be any charity, give 10% of what you earn back into society.
3. To gain time(aka freedom) and money you must give time and money, spend time each week giving of your time to others, by helping others you will not only giving of your time, but you will be showing God or the Universe(Whichever you believe) that you are worthy of your desires.
4. Pay yourself first, According to David Bach this is the single biggest way to gain wealth and retire early. To be above or at the rest of society he suggests saving 10%. To be greatly above the rest of society and acquire wealth faster he says you need to be saving 20-25% and this should be going into safe but profitable mutual funds and other long term investments.
5. Pay another 5% monthly into an emergency fund. You should have at least 1 year’s worth of funds in a savings account, before you increase the amount you pay yourself, a good rule of thumb is to pay 5% to yourself and 10% to your savings until you have your savings at one year, then you can increase your payments to yourself, you never know when a Hurricane Katrina might show up at your door, so it is essential to have this safety net.
6. Do whatever it takes to become a home owner. It’s a fact owning a home is a big step in becoming an Automatic Millionaire, your first home doesn’t need to be fancy, it doesn’t need to be huge, it could be an ex-chicken coup(trust me I’ve lived in one – remodeled of course) – just get ownership of a home, work as hard as you can to pay it off early then when you sell it you’ll have a huge down payment on a bigger home, then work hard to pay that off and you’ll have a nice down payment on another big home, or perhaps a nice size home and some investment properties, see where this going?
7. This is another of my own personal steps – it involves two different thoughts, first better yourself where possible so that you can get a better career, go back to school if needed, start a business if you can, etc. Secondly if possible do something on the side that will help you make more money, an extra $200-300 per month can relieve a lot of burdens, and lower your stress levels, I mean would you turn down an extra $3,600, a year? Someways to do this is yardsales, ebay, adsense, blogging if you can get a following, or do like my wife and sell baby bedding sets that cost her $15 to make for $70-$100 on local classified sites.
8. Fake it till you make it, believe in yourself and your dreams. Here’s where you’ll live the law of attraction – don’t doubt that you’ll receive what you want, keep at it until you do succeed, and most importantly never give up.

As is the crux of most faiths, at the core of the law of attraction is belief. You must believe in the universe, or God. I’m a Christian(LDS Faith) and I combine my belief in the validity of the Law of Attraction and my strong beliefs in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

I believe Heavenly Father wants us to be happy, and when we keep our heads down, always watching our feet, we end up missing a huge world around us.

A good movie once said Get busy living or Get busy dieing. I choose to live this life and the next life to it’s fullest.

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction? Do you believe a tech support office Geek can make $1,000,000 in 2 years? I have immense faith, and I ask you this question – what if you could be part of my success? What if you could be partners in this success? I’m looking for like-minded people who want to share in manifesting wealth for each other.

Ways you can help:

1. Link to this blog, or talk about it in your favorite forums.
2.  Bookmark and visit Frequently.
3.  Bring a few friends on over to view the site.
4.  Trackback to our articles,  subscribe to the feeds, and leave your comments.
5. Pray, Think, and Visualize our success along with us. I truly believe when people combine their thoughts together you can better the manifestation process.

And if you’re not yet convinced of how exciting this is, Imagine that I’m you, you’ve been living on minimum wage for 10 years, since you started working @ McDonald’s back in 1996. Imagine that’s your life.

Now imagine a life-line is thrown at you, a solid rope to climb up above your situation. Imagine not being afraid of success anymore, imagine every good thought you have becoming a reality. Just imagine living the life that up until now has only been available to a select few… This is a worthy goal I believe, and imagine witnessing, and even helping me reach my goal, just the feeling of accomplishment knowing you can be apart of this!

Yeehaw, this is exciting!

You may be asking yourself what this secret is all about, that I keep talking about.

Well here’s a link to the official blog, and an article about how oprah is helping to spread the word. Again you can’t really understand what its about until you watch the movie. Click Here to learn more now.

Here I am, again I’m starting on April 15th, 2007 from scratch, and this is my Journey to make $1,000,000. Whether or not you think I’ll succeed, I’m going to share each and every step and movement, if you have suggestions for me, I’ll add those on here too, and before long with your help I’ll be a millionaire.

Part of this journey is marketing, and I have an amazing treat, I found maybe the best resource for blog marketing online. It’s a must read:

66 Ways to Build Links in 2007

Wow my very first blog post. This is where it all begins. This is Patrick’s road to riches, this is Patrick’s American Dream, this blog is a detailed look at one man’s jouney(well, and his wife too.).

This is the chronicle of one man’s rise from dirt poor and obscurity to filthy rich emperor of the Blogosphere.