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Making 2009 your best ever year?
Internet marketing opportunity to kick-start 2009
Hi folks and a very Happy New Year to you from Vinden Grace & Eve Grace-Kelly!
In these challenging times and with internet marketing technology getting better and more affordable,it’s fascinating to learn of an opportunity that enables us to increase our revenues, while utilising thetools we need for our business anyway….
I must admit that I’m always cautious of so-called ‘next big things’, but this does seem worth a look at least.
I’d recommend that you:
- Check out both links below.
- Listen to the video messages and grab a pre-launch position today. (It launches tomorrow!)
- Then share this with all your contacts.
There seem to be some very serious players involved in this.
(A guy who ran a company with Tony Robbins, plus Implix, the company behind ‘GetResponse’ autoresponders, etc, so they seem to have an interesting track record.
NB. As always though, please do your own research….)
This program is closing pre-launch in around *30* hours…
If you have already secured your position, congratulations.
If you haven’t, I urge you to do so now:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
When an opportunity like this launches, those who get in at the
beginning can make very nice returns…
(You can also go here to get more info:
http://blog.webprosperity..com)
So I’d recommend that you do not put this off because there’s very little time left.
So, what do you need to do?:
1. Secure your early position now:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
2. Promote your own link if you can.
3. *Upgrade* on Tuesday, Jan 6th 2008
Once you do so, you’ll potentially be able to watch as your income grows for the rest of the year…
This appears to be very promising….
Here’s the link again:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
Let’s make 2009 our best year ever 
Get ready for Tuesday, January 6th!
Kindest regards,
Vinden
New Year’s Resolutions: learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time.
For those of you struggling to kick-start a project or get started with any goal, read on!
This was sent to me on New Year’s Day by the delightful Project Manager for our superb membership site software.
Thanks Nam Tran!
As Life / Personal Coaches, this really appealed to me and to my lovely wife, Eve Grace-Kelly. For those of you struggling to kick-start a project or get started with any goal, read on!
A story for the rest of your life
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say,
“Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over.”
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead
“I will come next Tuesday”,
I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy.
Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there.
When I finally walked into my daughter Carolyn’s
house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children.
I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.
I told my daughter, “Forget the daffodils, Carolyn!
The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and
there is nothing in the world except you and my grandchildren
that I want to see right now. I don’t want to drive another inch!”
My daughter smiled calmly and said,
“We drive in this weather all the time, mother.”
“Well, you won’t get me back on the road until it clears,
and then I’m heading for home!” I assured her.
“But first we’re going to see the daffodils.
It’s just a few blocks,” Carolyn said. “I’ll drive. I’m used to this.”
“Carolyn,” I said sternly,
“It’s all right, Mother, I promise.
You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”
So we went!
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road
and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church,
I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read,
“Daffodil Garden —->”
We got out of the car, each of us took a child’s hand,
and I followed Carolyn down the path.
Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped.
Before me lay the most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken
a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak
and its surrounding slopes.
The flowers were planted in majestic,
swirling patterns, great ribbons
and swaths of deep orange,
creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink,
and saffron and butter yellow.
Each different-colored variety was planted
in large groups so that it swirled
and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.
There were five acres of flowers!
“Who did this?” I asked Carolyn.
“Just one woman,” Carolyn answered.
“She lives on the property. That’s her home.”
Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house,
small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory.
We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster.
“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking”
was the headline.
The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs,” it read.
The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two
feet, and one brain.”
The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience.
I thought of this woman whom I had never met,
who, more than forty years before, had begun,
one bulb at a time, to bring her vision
of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year,
this unknown woman had forever changed
the world in which she lived.
One day at a time, she had created something
of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.
The principle her daffodil garden taught me
is one of the greatest principles of celebration.
That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time.
“It makes me sad in a way,” I admitted to Carolyn.
“What might I have accomplished
if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five
or forty years ago and had worked away at it
‘one bulb at a time’ through all those years?
Just think what I might have been able to achieve!”
My daughter summed up the message of the day
in her usual direct way.
“Start tomorrow,” she said.
She was right.
It’s so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays.
The way to make learning a lesson of celebration
instead of a cause for regret is to only ask,
“How can I put this to use today?”
The Daffodil Principle.
Stop waiting…..
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die…
There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
and, Dance like no one’s watching.
Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!
Don’t be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.
A very Happy New Year to all of our readers!
Vinden & Eve
Spreading Kindness….Holiday Reflections
Saw this today & certainly paused for thought….
It’s always good for the soul to reflect on helping others…..
“I pulled my cab up to the curb and sounded the horn. No one came to the door.
So I walked to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90’s stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it like somebody out of a 1940s movie.
By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets.
There were no clocks on the walls, no knick-knacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware
‘Would you carry my bag out to the car?’ she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.
She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. ‘It’s nothing’, I told her. ‘I just
try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated’.
‘Oh, you’re such a good boy’, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, and then asked, ‘Could you drive through town?’
‘It’s not the shortest way,’ I answered quickly.
‘Oh, I don’t mind,’ she said. ‘I’m in no hurry. I’m on my way to a hospice’.
I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. ‘I don’t have any family left,’ she continued. ‘The doctor says I don’t have very long.’
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.
‘What route would you like me to take?’ I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newly-weds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, ‘I’m tired. Let’s go now’
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.
Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her.
I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
‘How much do I owe you?’ she asked, reaching into her purse.
‘Nothing,’ I said
‘You have to make a living,’ she answered.
‘There are other passengers,’ I responded.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.
‘You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,’ she said.
‘Thank you.’
I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.
I didn’t pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift?
What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?
On a quick review, I don’t think that I have done anything more important in my life.
We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID,
OR WHAT YOU SAID, ~BUT~,
THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.”
Happy Holidays to you all.
How Will You Spend Your Dash?
Amidst the sometimes frenetic activity that is Internet business and marketing, it’s good to pause from time to time and ensure that your life is in balance. My wife, Eve Grace-Kelly, and I are also qualified Personal/Life coaches and one of the things we try to teach is ‘work-life balance.’ (Ensuring a healthy balance for you between these…)
Eve found this and suggested that I pass it on…
“Now and again I come across a poem that just stops me in my tracks! And this is one of them.
It conjures up such vivid representations of how I have spent my life in the past, what I am focussing on today and what legacy I want to leave behind……….
In particular, it makes me think about other people’s lives that I have touched in some way and whether I was there sufficiently for them. I think so. I hope so. But I will be even more so in the future.
I hope you enjoy it too!
Eve”
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning…to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth…
and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own; the cars….the house…the cash.
What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard… are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what’s true and real,
and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile…
remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy is being read with your life’s actions to rehash…
would you be proud of the things they say about how you spend your dash?
Author Unknown
World Internet Summit: Should You Attend? Internet Business Specialist Answers…
Is it worth attending the World Internet Summit?
The short answer: absolutely!
My longer answer…
Well, 4 days (day 1 is for beginners-a nice add-on guys :-) ) is very intensive, but really enjoyable.
It’s interesting to see how different speakers perform, what their niche is, whether they do a short sales pitch at the end and deliver loads of content, or a short amount of content and loads of pitching!
Thankfully, the World Internet Summit in London during September 2008 was up to its usual very high standard.
Some of the bonuses (there are lots! It’s not just education, although it’s essential to keep up-to-date) of going to this type of event are:
- Networking. I met several potentially very strong Joint Venture (JV) partners.
We had some really good discussions and are working on a project as we speak!
There was a very smart idea of speed networking, where those who were dedicated stayed behind after the conference and asked one another:
1. What do you do?
2. What would you like to do &
3. How can I help you to achieve it?
As Business and Life Coaches, we applaud this feature hugely! - Time to reflect. It’s so useful to take time out of your business, listen to other internet business specialists who have different backgrounds to you and to one another and a different take on online business, and then see where their ideas can be applied to your business.
Brett McFall (one of the co-founders of the World Internet Summit) gave a useful run-down of the A to Z of the Internet. Co-incidentally, his offering of a coaching programme was very similar to the one we will be launching in a few months!
Tim Brocklehurst talked about the power of viral marketing and very smoothly ploughed on despite his laptop crashing! Very professionally handled Tim 
Ray Edwards gave an excellent talk on copywriting, including a neat formula.
He’s well worth listening to as he writes for some really big names like Mark Victor Hansen, Brad Callen and Willie Crawford.
Sean Roach was as entertaining as ever with his talk about his take on web 3.0, his platform for social media.
Armand Morin had some interesting insights into the future of magazine publishing in the ‘real world’! He sees little future for them, believing they’ll all go fully online in time. Food for thought…
Debra Thompson Roedl walked us through how to create a million-dollar information marketing business, e.g. utilising the same product in several different ways.
I missed the last day unfortunately as my mother-in-law passed away suddenly, so we had to drive down to Devon from London…
I have a Resale Rights license for the World Internet Summit DVDs (actually, the previous event a few months ago in Australia).
I also have a Master Rights license to them, enabling me to sell the Resale Rights!
I’ll post a URL here in due course when I’ve got the details sorted.
Great content and a great business opportunity!
Watch this space for more details coming soon.
Best wishes,
Vinden Grace