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OPENING YOUR ABUNDANCE

“Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart”

-Alexandra Katehakis

Ever heard of a certain short story of a woodcutter who accidentally dropped his old axe deep in a lake one evening? Poor guy isn’t a swimmer. All he could do is fixing his despaired gaze on his sinking axe until it disappeared into the depths of the lake.

The axe was his only tool for earning food and shelter for his family. His long hard struggle is nothing without the assistance of his axe. Now that it is gone, it will take him days to make a new one or even buy one. The sunken axe has been with him since his starting day as a woodcutter and he thanked it for all the hardship they’ve gone through. More so, it has been around since his father’s lumbering days. As he was muddling in his own thoughts, the lake bubbled with flashes of light coming out from it.

The woodcutter was shocked at the sight of a water creature emerged from it. The creature assured him that it meant him no harm and wish only to seek confirmation of a certain axe that fell on the lake where it resides. It was holding 2 axes, one is a striking golden axe and another is a used, battered looking axe. He told the water creature that his axe was the old one and thanked the creature for returning it for him.

Touched by his honesty and sincerity, the creature gave him the golden axe as a gift. At first the woodcutter refused the creature’s offer, afraid that there might’ve been something that it would want from him in which he couldn’t afford in return.

However, the creature convinced the woodcutter to accept it as a remembrance for all the sacrifices and good deeds he has gone through all these years with humility and patience. Overjoyed by the creature’s sentiments, he accepted it wholeheartedly and promised himself to remember this day. The day where his long-years of struggles was rewarded.

For once in your life, you would like to feel the magic of receiving wealth beyond your wildest dream for all the struggles you have gone through. But as much as you want it to happen, things won’t necessarily go your way.

As for our woodcutter, should the water creature not emerge from the lake to offer him a reward for his honesty; he will lose his dear axe for good. Worse, his only means to earn money for his family. But it did, and gave the amount of gift it dubbed equal to the woodcutter’s patience and perseverance.

Remember the first paycheck of your life?

Try to recall the excitement and exhilaration when you first cashed out the money. The excitement of earning money using your own hands gives a much more personal meaning to it. However, it doesn’t come without ample obstacles and struggles. This includes your attitude towards accepting the money as well. Why is it some people who struggled as much as you do didn’t receive what they deserve? Has this happened to you, your close friends or family members? Do you know what caused it mostly?
Within the next pages of this book, you will uncover the one true manifesto of your abundance. It is more than just your well-known struggle but it starts as early from the way your mind commanding your nerve system to act upon it.

This command is highly influenced by the result of conflict between your mind and your heart. Slowly, you utter words reflecting your feelings and eventually you act the way you are feeling now.

MANIFESTO 1: THE VOICE OF YOUR MIND

“There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity, and that lie is, “There is not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.”

-Michael Beckwith

The path to great wealth and health starts from within. It hinges especially to your acceptance to the world around you. The result from the positive outbreak of your mind is a clear definition of what you desire from and for the world. Rather, the world itself will find you worthy of your altruist mind. Slowly, all the abundance in the world will open itself up to you.

You see, our mind is made up of constant rewiring of our thoughts, past experiences, expectations, actions at every second, minute and hours of our life. The ‘final product’ of our thoughts is the one in charge of the further reaction towards everyone around you.

Let’s start with when you first wake up for today. This would be one of the simplest things for you to do. All you need to do is to utter gratitude into your mornings. It is true when people say how the very moment you open your eyes to confront the day ahead of you highly influence your activity throughout.

Waking up to a silent, happy prayers or routine helps your subconscious mind to react positively to the days ahead. You won’t even have any room in your mind left to spare for all the negativity that you might’ve accumulated yesterday.

Why should you even have one if you are so focused on searching for something greater than yesterday. Life continues to those who believe in themselves; believe in their own capability that they are worthy to feel good every day. Of course, there are days when you feel like it should just stop because no matter the amount of motivation you feed yourself, your optimism continues to deplete.

Trust me when I say it is all because you started your day feeling lesser than you should be. You are demotivated by the upcoming day that you don’t even know what’s going to happen. Rather than breathing in all the goodness around you, you let your mind trapped within your own uncertainty.

Remember, your mind is the inquisitor of your actions. If I’m to exaggerate it, our mind is the all-seeing eye of our knowledge and physical capabilities. It can control us and bind us to our demise if we do not feed it with ‘magical’ ingredients surrounding us.

Remember your first, “what do you want to become in the future?” question back in middle school or kindergarten? Most of the initial dream you wanted to be back in the days changes gradually.

Some still believe that they could achieve their dream and that’s great. But that is the start of everything is it not? You wanted so much to project to your future according to what your mind told you to.

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10 Reasons You're Missing Out if You Don't Market on Facebook

If you are not running a Facebook marketing campaign, you are seriously missing out. Facebook has over two billion monthly users. These users generate billions of page views month after month.

It is no surprise that Facebook’s sad revenue continues to grow. More and more businesses, and we're talking anywhere from local, mom-and-pop operations to huge multinational conglomerates are quickly waking up to the tremendous marketing opportunities Facebook brings to the table.

If you have been hiding under a rock or you are still thinking that Facebook marketing won’t really benefit your business, you might want to think again. Here are ten reasons you're missing out if you’re not marketing on Facebook.

The moment you log into your Facebook account, Facebook is essentially profiling you. It's tracking every piece of content you engage with. This creates a user profile that Facebook then employs to target their ads better.

When you run a paid marketing campaign on Facebook, you take advantage of this powerful ad-targeting and user-profiling infrastructure. On top of that, even if you don't want to spend one red cent on advertising, you can still benefit from this amazing user-profiling technology through Facebook page audience insights.

One of the biggest problems online businesses encounter is when a user goes through many pages and is about to buy but bales up. For whatever reason, the person has filled up a shopping cart or has gone to a sign-up page and changes his or her mind at the last minute.

Facebook has an amazing technology called Ad Retargeting that can help you remind that person to come back to where they were. In fact, this technology is so robust that you can remind people to go back to their shopping cart or, if they are reading a piece of content, go to the next piece of content that they may have overlooked.
Maybe they were reading a piece of content that people about to convert would normally read, then you would show them an ad that goes to your conversion page. Whatever the case may be ad retargeting drives people back to your website, and this can help you close the deal and improve your ROI.

If you’re not on Facebook currently, please understand that for every day you postpone your start, your competitors are learning how to target your audience members. They're learning how to market their stuff better. In other words, this is an opportunity cost and the potential loss for your business gets bigger and bigger every passing day. You’re just making it all that much harder for your business to catch up.

Did you know that if you have a small business and you already have local customers that come back again and again, they may be all you need to succeed with local marketing on Facebook. That's right.

How? Well, when you market to your existing local customer base, that you have a Facebook page and you engage with them on Facebook, your content might lead to their local friends and friends of friends. In other words, your brand becomes more visible in your local area of coverage because it's spread by people you already do business with.

The best part to all of this is that this is absolutely free. You just need to engage with your existing customer base on Facebook. Maybe you can run a special discount promo campaign or a discount code that they can find on Facebook and redeem offline.

Whatever the case may be by creating a tight link between your brick-and-mortar engagement with your customer base and your Facebook presence, you can spread the influence of your brand on Facebook, which can translate to new flesh-and-blood customers physically showing up at your business’ doors.

Let's get one thing clear. To sell anything online, you must first get people to trust you. For people to trust you, they must first like you. For them to like you, they must first feel that they know enough about the problem. Do you see how this works?

The best way to walk people through this conversion process is through content. When you market on Facebook, you can actually try out different content ideas. The good news is not all of them have to be hits. In fact, most of them can be failures, and that's perfectly okay.

Facebook is so robust that you get many bites at the apple when it comes to content ideas. You can publish many times over using an extended timeline.

Also, this is fairly straightforward because you can feed your content into Facebook ahead of time by scheduling stuff in advance.

Unfortunately, you miss out on this if you don't choose to market on Facebook today. Don't think that you have to come up with the absolute perfect content the first time around. There's no need to do that.

In fact, as you market on Facebook, the more it becomes readily apparent which pieces of content resonate the best with your audience and which ones fall flat. What's important is that you start publishing today.

Believe it or not there are lots of people who have developed a Facebook habit. Whether you call this a sophisticated and digital form of gossiping or not, the fact remains that there's a significant percentage of the American population that can’t get enough of Facebook.

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Introduction

The human brain is hard wired to overthink and nothing feeds it better than anxious or negative thoughts. Anxious thoughts can be overwhelming, and so can negative thoughts. Both can also lead to overthinking which in turn result in anxiousness and poor decision-making. Together these two make up for a perfect formula for a racing mind.

What that means for a lot of people is that they often over-evaluate and exaggerate the real situations, events, possible scenarios and even goals but never actually do anything about them. Pending decisions are often a cause for worry with the imminent fear of making the wrong decision and having to live with it for the rest of their lives.

And while thinking is nice, not doing anything about your thoughts actually means not making any progress. In fact, being an over thinker can actually result in becoming someone who stands still in life, because deconstructing things won’t let you move forward. It may also be the one thing most responsible for stopping you from taking action.

This is the trap that a busy mind can easily get entangled in. A mind that tends to overthink can make it very difficult for people to balance thought and action.

They get trapped in their thoughts and find it very hard to act. If you think that you are an over thinker, you will also know that it is very easy for you to get caught in a loop where you recreate an event repeatedly or try to analyze an idea from every possible angle. After hours of thinking and getting no sleep, you often get nowhere and are unable to move the process along.

Plus, when you overthink, your judgement gets cloudy and your stress levels elevate.

What Do You Overthink About?

Not all overthinking is the same. This may sound strange so let’s look at it a bit more closely. One type of overthinking means obsessing over a single thing or event over and over again. It could be something in your present that you can’t seem to let go of such as why your head hurts so bad? Could it be a symptom of something more serious? Perhaps even something deadly? Is that why you can’t seem to sleep well at night? And so on.

Another way to overthink is to regret a decision or action you may have taken. This one takes you back to your past and keeps you rooted there. An example may be choosing a career choice that didn’t work out as planned. Instead of trying to change their circumstances, over thinkers tend to get stuck in the “what if” phase ruminating over the past. This neither helps change the past nor improve their current status.

Then there is the scenario where you keep deliberating about a possible future and how things may pan out. Thinking about how bad the economy is may lead you to ponder endlessly on how your investments are going to be worthless, how you may lose your job or how you may never be able to send your kids to college.

In any of these scenarios, overthinking the situation means that you can’t think about anything else and it starts to affect your life in a negative way.

The Problem With Overthinking

Since overthinking seems to mostly revolve around negative or problematic issues, these can take hold of your mind and exert their power over it. It is very typical for most people to obsess over previous mistakes, present day stresses and future troubles and not do anything to improve their situation.

Here are some common problems associated with thinking about every trivial thing in life:

Overthinking creates problems which are not there

Overthinking about every little problem only magnifies it manifold. Also, thinking about the same thing time and again makes it larger and scarier than it actually is. Ever spent time ruminating why your boss didn’t comment on your presentation in a recent meeting? Was it because your presentation was bad? Did it make you look incompetent in front of your colleagues? Are you going to be fired for making a sub-par presentation? You get the idea.

The same can also happen when you overanalyze a good thing. Even in scenarios where you keep thinking about something over and over again can diminish its importance and make it appear insignificant.

Things like choosing what to wear for a job interview or deciding where to go on vacation are not difficult decisions, but being an overthinker can make these seem like life or death decisions. Ironically, all that thinking won’t help you make a better choice.

Overthinking keeps you from living in the present

When your mind is constantly worrying, thinking and analyzing, you miss out on a real chunk of the present. Overthinking stops you from living in the moment and lets you dwell in the past or a possible future in your mind.

When you are not in the present, your brain shifts into something called the default mode which is when the decision making part of your brain does not work well. Research also points to the fact that when in default mode, the brain expresses lower levels of activity when you are involved in a task and higher levels when you are not engaged.

This means that it works harder when you overthink which is not a good thing, since allowing the brain to be in a state of constant anxiety can lead to other behaviors like anger and depression which are all toxic to mental health.