Make Money Online With Universal Habit Force

An average person thinks anywhere between 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day.  For most people, 99% of the thoughts that they will think today are going to be the same thoughts they thought yesterday.  The conscious control we believe we have over our lives is an illusion.  Our lives are ruled by our subconscious minds.

When you go to the grocery store, do you stand in front of the liquid dish detergent isle trying to make an informed, conscious decision of which detergent would be best to buy or do you just grab the brand and type you always buy?  When you walk over to the bread isle, do you look at all the different types of bread each time, or do you just buy the regular one you always buy?

At some point during this month, did your telephone company call you to try to sell you on another month of telephone service, or were you just automatically billed for another month?  What about your cable or Internet service?

Universal Habitforce

I first read about the term “Universal Habitforce” in Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”, but I’ve since adapted my understanding of it to mean something different than what Mr. Hill talks about in his book.

To me, Universal Habitforce has many faces.  It’s easier to understand the power of it if I give you a couple of examples from my life.

Weeds In The Garden

The property that I live on has some of the most amazing soil I have ever seen in my life.  All of the plant life around my house is huge.  All the flowers and bushes grow and flourish in this soil.  Unfortunately, so do weeds.

A month ago I decided to rip out all of the plants and flowers that were growing in one section of my front yard.  Every year they’ve been spreading and basically taking over the patch of grass that separates my house from my driveway.

When these plants are nicely trimmed and groomed, they look nice but when I get busy and have no time to do any gardening they take over my front yard and grow like nuts.  Essentially, they employ universal habit force to thrive.  By default, I don’t normally have time to cut these plants back so by default they grow bigger and spread.

When I decided to rip the plants out, I also had to make a decision as to what I would have to do in order to get rid of all the weeds that have grown in between the plants as well, since the last thing I’ve got time for right now is ripping out weeds. 

So, here’s how I used “universal habit force” to my advantage.  After I ripped out all the plants, I leveled the ground a bit and then I dropped down a whole crapload of grass seed and then I let the universal habit force do the rest of the work.

For the first week or so, nothing happened.  There was just this spot of dirt in my front yard that looked somewhat ugly.  The following week is the week that we got Zoe so there was no way I would have had any time to do any gardening.  Luckily, I didn’t have to.  The grass seed began to sprout on the second week.  At first it was just in a few patches here and there, but by this morning the patch of dirt is now 90% covered in grass. 

See, all I did was plant the seeds and then left it alone as I was busy with Zoe and my affiliate marketing.  I didn’t sit there and have to motivate the grass seeds to grow.  I didn’t have to feed them nutrients, they just fed themselves from the ground.  I also only watered them twice.  The rest of the time they got water from rain.  Some of my weeds came back, but the majority of them have been replaced by grass.

This is an example of utilizing universal habit force.  Leveraging the power of nature to your advantage.  Aligning with natural systems that already exist to accomplish something you want.

Housetraining Zoe

Here’s another example of using universal habit force to my advantage.  This is something I learned the hard way with my dog Kobe.  You see, house training a dog can be pretty difficult if you don’t know what you’re doing and you try to force it, instead of utilizing universal habit force to do it for you.

What do I mean by this?  Well, the premise behind house training a dog is that you want to teach them to pee outside, not inside your house.  So, the idea is to create opportunities where the dog can go outside to pee and then praise the shit out of them for peeing outside.  This helps them to associate peeing outside = praise.  At the same time, if they try to pee inside you can interrupt them and sternly say “NO” and quickly take them outside and wait for them to pee out there and then praise them again.

That’s the basic premise anyways.  Now there are some problems that arise out of this.  Firstly, young puppies can’t hold their bladder for as long as an adult dog can.  Also, they don’t like the feeling of having a bladder even half full, so what they do is they just want to pee all the time – anywhere they can.  This means that if the puppy is inside you have to keep a constant eye on them at all times, which can be pretty challenging when they want to pee every hour.

Not only that, but they don’t like peeing when people are watching, so they’ll often run into another room and pee before you can chase in after them.

So, how can we utilize universal habit force to help us in this situation?  Well, firstly there is a habit that dogs have that prevents them from peeing close to where they sleep.  So, if instead of letting your dog sleep on the floor you instead put them in a properly sized kennel that isn’t too big for them, they typically won’t go to the bathroom inside the kennel where they sleep.  This isn’t foolproof as sometimes puppies will still have an accident in the kennel for a number of reasons, but 98% of the time they will not go in there.

So, if you put them in the kennel when they go to sleep you eliminate the chances of them peeing while you’re sleeping.  Then, when they wake up if you take them out of the kennel and take them straight outside to pee, they begin to form a habit of going outside to pee.

This is an example of utilizing universal habit force to our advantage.  I don’t have to teach Zoe not to pee inside her kennel.  It’s already bred into her DNA.  I just use that knowledge to make it easier for me to create opportunities for her to wake up, go outside to pee and get praised for it which reinforces the good behavior.  I found this method of housetraining much better than putting out newspapers in the house for the dog to pee on.

Default World View

Another example of utilizing universal habit force is to learn and study the default world view of a society or a demographic and utilize that to your advantage.  For example, let’s say that 80% of my website visitors use Internet Explorer as their browser.  Now, let’s say that I personally don’t like Internet Explorer and I use Firefox instead. 

Now, what if I had some kind of feature on my website that only worked in Firefox?  Well, that would mean that 80% of my visitors would not have access to that feature.

If this was true, I could utilize two solutions to this:

1. Write some code that checks if my visitors are running Internet Explorer.  If they are, proceed to try to convince them that using Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox and that they should switch.  Ask them to install Firefox to enjoy the full benefits of the site.
2. Modify my software to work in Internet Explorer as well.

Which one of these do you think utilizes the universal habit force more? Obviously it’s #2.  If you want to make money online, learn who your customers are and understan
d THEIR world view.  Then, build value and services for them and their world view, not yours.

Affiliate Marketing

The world of affiliate marketing is tremendously influenced by this.  Those that understand the existing natural habits of human behavior stand to make millions, while those that try to get people to act like some ideal scenario they imagine in their heads will go bankrupt.

In large quantities, people are very predictable.  It’s absolutely insane to see just how mathematical trends can be.  Once you become attuned to these subtle details that make the difference in being able to connect and influence people, you open the doorway to another world.  It all starts with understanding how universal habit force applies to people.

Look at the continuous success of diet offers and make money from home offers.  All these diet offers promise to help you lose 20 lbs in 20 days, and all the money making offers promise to teach you how to make money from home working 2 hours a day.  It really doesn’t matter if it’s possible or healthy to lose 20lbs in 20 days by taking some supplement pill and sitting on the couch.  The point is that the average person out there wants that to be true and they’re willing to pay for product after product until they find that solution.

The secret is to figure out how people are already thinking, and then to find ways to automatically make money by offering value to those people who think that way by offering them the solutions to the problems they keep having.

Of course this is easier said than done, but here are some examples of ways people have utilized universal habit force to make money online:

• Forced continuity membership sites that sell you once, and then keep charging your credit card until you cancel.  They don’t have to resell you on the product / service every month.  They sell you once and then by default you keep resigning up each month.  You actually have to take action in order to cancel, which is why most don’t.
• Creation of auto-responders that take new visitors through an email newsletter sequence that gets sent out to them automatically with no intervention from the site owner.
• Users who communicate on your Blog by leaving comments to each other end up creating valuable content for your site pretty much by default
• Forum communities where people leave posts and generate content for you automatically
• etc.

Making Money Online with Universal Habit Force

I know this concept is somewhat abstract, but if you become aware of how universal habit force plays itself out in your life and how you can utilize it to help you make more money online, you may surprise yourself with just how quickly you begin to see results.

Some of the questions that you may want to ask yourself to apply universal habit force in your life to make money online may be:

• How can I structure my online business in a way where by default my income grows each month?
• Am I seeing this from the point of view of average client I want to attract, or am I just looking at it from my biased perspective?
• If there is something that I need to do each day in order to produce some type of result that turns into income, is there any way I can automate it?
• How can I help others to provide more value to themselves and others like themselves?

If you’re totally stuck and don’t know how this could apply, here’s an example.  Go find an Audio CD training course that will help you make money online, but that you haven’t had time to listen to.  Now, go to your car with that CD and pop it into the CD player.  When it starts to play, turn off the engine (you may or may not need to press stop on the CD player) and lock the car back up and go home.  Now, by default, the next time your drive your car somewhere, you’ll be listening to that Audio CD.

Find ways to set yourself up to win by default and you will.

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