What I love about the BiB

Here I sum up my favourite things about the Business in a Box (BiB).


The 30 day activity booklet tackles habit formation right from the start. And these are not just ordinary, temporary or run-of-the-mill habits. Carefully crafted with long term success in mind, these habits focus exclusively on developing a 'getting things done' attitude, and paying daily attention to success, no matter how small or insignificant. That way, you cultivate day-to-day action plans with clearly set goals and celebrate the smallest of successes to feed your entrepreneurial drive and whet your creative juices continually. Kind of exactly like how the pros themselves do and say, success brings even more success, and that to me is the single greatest asset keeping me going despite countless obstacles.


You get to learn key character traits early on, through practical application of success attracting thought-processes, which few school text-books could teach you. This is KEY. You learn entrepreneurial traits of persistence, accountability, planning and execution, among countless others requiring exhaustive detailing, which this discussion is not about. E.g., you learn to hold yourself accountable through your signatures on top at beginning. And mentality is a huge component of character-building, with sufficient emphasis being placed on reading books by top businessmen and coaches, and ample opportunities to apply those lessons to your business.


The internet is vast and a constantly evolving, organic entity. You can get sucked into it for hours on end with zero productivity and even zeroer results to show for. The BiB gives a gentle nudge in the right direction, by clearly differentiating money making activities (MMA) and wasteful ones. In that sense, you are in the know right from the start on what you are required to do to grow your business. That actually forced me to focus only on the most important aspects of my business, not the glamour or the gaudy appeal. Effective strategies to minimise and avoid distractions were included, together with productivity-boosting activities, gadgets, software and the like. All these tools are fine and dandy, but if your toolbox (your mind) isn't trained yet to handle these, you won't get far. This is overcome by acknowledging yourself as being in the driver's seat with total control over where you want to head in life.


The BiB directed me to the correct learning sources, which is the basis for learning ANY new trade. CCPRO back office is the best resource for knowledge under a single domain. All the TOP people share insights there, combining wikipedia-like resource with a forum platform. I was able to realise what specific knowledge I could gain from whom and where. Trainings in the form of webinars and calls and recorded archives accessible any time ensured I had direct access to the latest information the minute I might need those the most. Be sure to check-in regularly and habitually going through ALL the training archives to get the most value for yourself.


As for the crucial strategic development of your marketing efforts, the BiB helps to correct your expectations and perspectives, making it easy to maintain a view of the big picture. The focus is of course on long-term development of your business with a viable strategy. Personally for me, developing my own strategy streamlined the entire process and brought form and structure to my haphazard marketing efforts. It gave strategy to randomness and brought order to the chaos that is the internet. I was able to realise early on that marketing without strategy will be wasteful and make you go round in circles. But what exact strategy do you need? That depends entirely on you yourself.


The best part is, after a month, you have formed a new habit of the entire A-Z process of running your own online business, the right way, while eliminating guesswork and unnecessary stalling. In this manner, you could hit the ground running and with consistency, reap the rewards over time. Hence, the onus is on you to commit unreservedly to your own future.

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On the diminishing returns of life

You've stopped cherishing a loved one you say?

And don't bother telling me not to take things for granted! That statement is a bit of an oxymoron, considering our minds are wired that way!

So before I dive right in, answer this question. How did you feel the first time you bit that favourite chocolate of yours? Did you taste bliss?

Let me describe it for you. The first soft, bite into that dark chocolatey mass oozed warmth and melting sweetness into your mouth, then all too-suddenly your tongue lapped it all up onto itself and your throat reflexively drank it down in greedy anticipation of the next morsel. But when you took the next bite, what happened? Not as relishing? Feeling full already on the third one? And on the fourth, the cloying sweetness starts feeling a little bit too much. Forget about eating the next choc bar for now. Your mind (and your taste buds) need rest!

That, my friend, was the Law of Diminishing Returns in action. To use biological processes to describe what happens when you eat that chocolate, our neurons fire up with frenetic activity the first time our brains recognise a new but 'familiar' sensation. There-in lies the 'problem'. In our brains and nerves, tiny molecules have the capacity for 'cellular memory' in the form of 'lock and key' structures and chain-processes. Continued stimulations of neurotransmitters, the most basic process of electrical stimulation in our nervous system, has a dulling effect on our ability to perceive our senses. Ever noticed after staying in a house by the highway, your ears get used to the noise and you can now sleep peacefully? That experience is akin to the experience of lessened pleasure of eating chocolate, and more seriously, in relationships, habits and emotions.

In finance, you see it manifesting in the steadily falling profitability of giant companies once they've reached a given level's worth of market capitalisation. Your thrill of buying that brand-new car fades after a few months of thrilling rides and serene escapades. In your job, you see it in the falling of enthusiasm and satisfaction, which you can't place as you still remember your first, exciting day of work. You could in fact, conjure up hundreds of scenarios you couldn't grasp at all back when they happened. But they did, and with a reason.

This occurs all the time. Instead of telling yourself to not take things for granted, realize that this phenomenon is actually a part of your make up. Only when you have realised this consciously, you will be able to see it for what it truly is, rather than entertaining myopic viewpoints characteristic of self-censure and contrition.

With awareness comes a natural shift towards change. This is the point where you will get down to changing your emotional processes of complacency. One way you could counter this 'laziness of the mind' is by engaging in the mental activity of pursuing new experiences. By continually trying out new things, thought-processes, experiences, activities and habits, you will forge your single greatest defence against yourself; never settling for the status quo. Like the restless traveller on a mission to see all the wonders of the world on a limited time-frame, you will remove the very repetitiveness of familiarity that bred your complacency in the first place.

With that said, you can now bring to fruition a new perspective to life in general. The Law of diminishing returns.

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The reason I decided to create this video is to show how easy it is to create any video using only still images and pictures. For that you need to head over to a gem of a website that www.animoto.com is.

From their bold slogans of "The death of slide shows" to in-built chic video designs, they deliver right from the start due to the intuitive layout and the sheer ease of use in creating video. Even novices could master the site in less than a day.

The main advantage in using animoto's services is creating professional-looking videos using only the images you supply. Nothing else. They create the effects, input the various techniques, with their very own music database and effects galore to boot. Even the text you input manages to pack a punch.

There are several things to bear in mind. You'll have to create you account there, which is simple and pretty fast. Secondly, you could opt for FREE and PAID versions. The only drawback to the free version is you only can create a video not exceeding 30 seconds and no downloads to you PC, although you can upload it directly to youtube. That means your choice of images had better be limited to around 6 to 8. As for the paid version, you not only get plenty more video time, you could download it direct to your PC. And, incredible as it is, it costs a paltry USD 30 a year!

However, for both these versions, animoto WILL include their logo, name and other branding properties. You cannot remove these inside animoto.com. This is where the third membership comes in.

That version is for corporate use. This is of course higher in cost, with an option of a 90-day trial and delivers far greater value in terms of full control over your own branding, distribution channels and the like.

Additionally, they have their very own greeting cards (more like greeting videos) for a growing number of special occasions and festivities.

So, head over to www.animoto.com now to create your own video and share!

Book Review of "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind"

Image coutesy of T Harv Eker, Peak Potentials

"Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future!" - T. Harv Eker

A book that bridges the desire for success,and achieving it.

In his groundbreaking book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind™, T. Harv Eker states: "Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!" Eker does this by identifying your Money Blueprint. We all have a personal money blueprint ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint, more than anything, that will determine our financial lives. You can know everything about marketing, sales, negotiations, stocks, real estate, and the world of finance. But if your money blueprint is not set for a high level of success, you will never have a lot of money - and if somehow you do, you will most likely lose it! The good news is that now you can actually reset your money blueprint to create natural and automatic success.

Using the exact same principles he teaches, Eker went from zero to millionaire in only two and a half years. He is now the president and founder of Peak Potentials Training, the largest success training company in North America. Peak Potentials has changed nearly 1 million lives throughout 101 countries, and publishes Secrets of the Millionaire Mind in 31 languages.

My personal opinion on this book would include nothing short of 5-star reviews and and a keen desire to share and recommend it to people willing to re-look their successes or failures in life. But, this is a big BUT, in bold letters, it is only suitable for those with strong belief systems and a huge bias towards action. Aside from plentiful "Ooh..." and "Aah!" moments filled with true, instant enlightenments, if you seek lifelong success principles, I have yet to find anything more lasting and permanent than this. You might enrol for great seminars and courses, and after a temporary boost in motivation, what happens? Not much, because it's then back to normal.

This book serves as a refresher before you head for the all-important seminar where the real transformations take place. These seminars are held all over the world, in which Eker himself personally revises peoples' money blueprints and gives them a plan of action to follow. That, in truth, is the real reason behind the permanent and lasting impact of the seminars.

So if you truly are ready to make the courageous step of embarking on a fully transformational journey towards wealth, purchase the book first here. After that, you could check out his seminar locations at the banner provided below, or get a feel of the events by signing up for his live seminars (or webinars if you will).

See you at the top!