From the Fingers of Henrik Flensborg

A new way to beat old habits

Have you ever tried implementing new habits – and failed?

Not because those new habits weren’t worthy of entering your life.

Not because the old habits served you better.

Not because they wouldn’t improve the quality of your life.

Not because they wouldn’t make you more effective, happier, healthier, and wealthier or whatever it is you need or want more of in your life.

But simply because your old habits had a firm grip on you and pulled you back.

Sometimes it’s just as if implementing new habits is too hard, and your usual motivation just isn’t enough.

Remember, that old habits served a purpose in your life once. They grew out of a need, and at the time you implemented them, they were the best or easiest to implement.

But how would you like to know about a system that will almost magically propel you towards your new habits?

A system that will pull you to your new habits, just as your old habits used to do.

I’ve successfully used this for implementing new eating habits, but I’m sure you can find other uses for it as well.

Let’s say you want to cut out specific foods from your diet such as milk, saturated fats, white flour, sugar etc.

On Day 1 you cut the unwanted food from your diet.

But only for one day.

It’s easy enough to muster enough motivation, perseverance, determination and willpower to stick it out for just one day.

At the end of Day 1 you sit down and pay attention to how well your body is feeling.

Notice everything – even the smallest improvements – and celebrate what you have achieved.

On Day 2 you return to your old habit – your old way of eating.

At the end of Day 2 you sit down but this time you pay attention to how your body is feeling worse than yesterday.

On Day 3 you repeat what you did on Day 1, and on Day 4 you repeat what you did on Day2.

As the days go by you will notice a shift.

The days with the proper diet will just seem more right and you will automatically want more of them.

The days with your old diet will be less and less appealing, and you don’t look forward to them anymore.

And when the time is right, you simply just stick with your new diet without any problems.

What you are establishing is glimpses of what you will feel once you leave your old habits behind.

You are in fact establishing two sets of experiences – and then you basically just let your mind and body choose the most appropriate one.

Establishing new eating habits is one thing, but what about other types of habits?

Let’s say you stink at time management.

So you seek out a time management system and put the new system to use on Day 1.

On Day 2 you return back to your old way of managing time.

And then you alternate between the two.

At the end of each day you look back on how each type of time management has worked for you.

And when the time is right you just forget about the old and ineffective way of managing time – and move forward with your newly acquired skills.

Try looking at some of the bad habits you at some point in your life tried to change (and failed at).

Which of those bad habits do you think would be the easiest to change with this system?

Start with the habit that you find it easiest to change, and then work your way through the more stubborn and ingrown ones.

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Another cool tool from Jeff Alderson

Article Equalizer from Jeff Alderson is the latest tool from what seem to be an endless supply.

Article Equalizer is a desktop tool that will let you search different article repositories, download the matching articles, merge the articles with a template and upload the articles to your website.

Talk about an easy way to get free relevant content to your website with almost no work on your part.

We’re not talking about site scraping copyrighted material, or violating TOS of various RSS feeds we are talking about automating a tedious job.

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A listbuilder NOT for everybody

I’ve been reviewing a new system called Viral List Builder and my conclusion is that you will most probably not find it useful.

You see, Viral List Builder is a tool that is tailor made for list builders that primarily cater to other list builders and secondary to internet marketers.

And I would in fact not even classify it as a viral system – it’s more like a referral bonus system.

With the usual hosted list building systems you have no direct access to your list – you basically just log in and let the system send out your message.

The problem with this is the following:

1) You don’t know how many emails bounces, so you have no real way of knowing the true size of your list.
2) You can’t do split testing since you have no direct access to your list.
3) If the system is blocked by spam filters because of complaints, then your messages are blocked as well
4) If the system is unavailable, then you can’t get your message out.
5) If the system is discontinued, then you have lost your entire list.

Viral List Builder is dealing with all of these issues, because here you have access to those email addresses just as if you had referred them directly to your own list management system.

And the way the system is put together makes it perfect for those internet marketers who build internet marketing related lists.

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