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		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>Some of you may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been writing a lot of content on this Blog for a while.</p>
<p>A big part of that is because I&#8217;ve been going through some major transformations in my life that have put me very much into &#8220;student&#8221; mode where I am re-evaluating and re-learning a lot of the previous beliefs I held in my life.</p>
<p>However, another big reason for my lack of &#8220;sharing&#8221; is that I have been feeling very disconnected from my Blog audience lately.</p>
<p>Meaning, after Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g for over 5 years (almost 6 now), I have created a following of readers that I feel as a group I know fairly intimately.</p>
<p>When I normally sit down to write a Blog post I have a pretty good idea what my audience wants to hear.</p>
<p>I know how to break things down for them in a way that they&#8217;ll understand according to their current set of beliefs.</p>
<p>The challenge is that for a while now, but especially since becoming a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> Member and since 2012 rolled around, my beliefs have been undergoing a complete re-vamp.</p>
<p>Becoming a member of the Global Information Network has lit a huge fire under my ass.  It&#8217;s had a massive transformational effect on me and I&#8217;m loving every minute of it.</p>
<h2>Income Boost</h2>
<p>One of the first things I decided to apply my <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training to is increasing my income.</p>
<p>I always like testing out something new I learn by seeing if I can apply it to manifesting more money with it in my life.</p>
<p>The reason I do this is because money is a good way to &#8220;keep score&#8221;.  It&#8217;s not the only way to keep score, but it&#8217;s a convenient unit of measure to use to track progress.</p>
<p>Meaning, for example I could have used my <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training to focus on improving my relationship with my wife or my dogs or my business partners or improving my level of health or fulfillment or sense of freedom that I feel every day, but those are much more difficult to quantify and track.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s much harder to test out a new &#8220;system of thinking&#8221; when applying it to something ambiguous.</p>
<p>Money is not ambiguous.  It&#8217;s specific and therefore really easy to track and test with.</p>
<p>For example, since becoming a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> Member in November 2011, (just 3 months ago) my income has grown by 34%.</p>
<p>For me, that is a HUGE increase, especially since in the previous 9 months prior to that it hadn&#8217;t grown at all, and over the previous 18 months prior it only grew by around 20%.</p>
<p>So when I track my income I can see a directly, measurable, easily quantifiable boost to my income since becoming a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> Member and applying the teachings taught within.</p>
<p>How much would your life change if your had a 34% boost in your income in the next 90 days?</p>
<p>What&#8217;s even more exciting is that my wife&#8217;s business has grown by leaps and bounds as well, and she has barely scratched the surface of the <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training so far.  She has mostly just learned from me after I went through the training.</p>
<p>By using something like my income as a &#8220;testing ground&#8221; for the <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training I&#8217;ve been able to prove to myself that the stuff that is taught within the <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> system really works &#8211; and is not just theory that &#8220;makes sense&#8221; but doesn&#8217;t produce results.</p>
<p>There are a LOT of systems out there like that.  Systems built on theory and logic and stuff that sounds like it *should* work, but which produce NO RESULTS.</p>
<h2>Alienating My Audience</h2>
<p>Now you may be thinking &#8230; Ok Paul, so you became a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> member, and in the last 3 months you&#8217;ve focused on testing out the training by focusing on applying it to boosting your income and you boosted your income by 34%.</p>
<p>So how does that translate into feeling disconnected from your Blog audience and not writing a lot of content?</p>
<p>Well, the reason it translates into that is because as I learn and apply the <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training I&#8217;ve been learning, and as that training starts to produce results in my life and completely transform everything for me, I have been growing more and more excited about the teachings taught within <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a>.</p>
<p>Because of this I find it very difficult to NOT talk about <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> and the training within it.</p>
<p>Even with my &#8220;real life&#8221; friends, I find it difficult to talk about other stuff besides <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> training.</p>
<p>Why?  Because it&#8217;s so fricken awesome!  And it works!</p>
<p>I mean honestly&#8230; put yourself in my shoes for a second.</p>
<p>Looking for a solid, workable system that uses the Law of Attraction and a &#8220;Spiritually Aligned&#8221; process of increasing your income without &#8220;working harder&#8221; is something I&#8217;ve been searching for for over 10 years.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got bookshelves full of books and DVD&#8217;s on the subject and most of the stuff out there produces marginal benefits, and only if applied in conjunction with other stuff.</p>
<p>The stuff I&#8217;ve learned in <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> has been producing significant results in a very short period of time.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s super exciting to me.</p>
<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t I want to talk about it everywhere I went?</p>
<p>The challenge is that not everyone who reads my Blog is interested in making more money, and not everyone is a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> member, and not everyone has listened to the Your Wish is Your Command, so when I talk about those things, I start to &#8220;alienate&#8221; some of my audience.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had people say stuff like &#8220;Can&#8217;t you talk about something else?  Why are you always talking about GIN?&#8221; to me, and it gave me pause.  I thought to myself &#8220;Hmm&#8230;maybe I have been talking about <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">GIN</a> a bit too much on my Blog lately&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>So I stopped writing for a while until I had something non-GIN related to say.</p>
<h3>David Wilcock</h3>
<p>A few weeks ago, while reading an interview with Richard Bartlett (originator of Matrix Energetics), I came across the name David Wilcock.</p>
<p>David has recently written a book called &#8220;The Source Field Investigations &#8211; The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies&#8221;.</p>
<p>I was instantly drawn to the book, bought it, and couldn&#8217;t put it down until I finished the 400+ page volume of wisdom.</p>
<p>Even though I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with every conclusion David makes from the scientific and well researched information he presents in the book, the research he presents is very eye opening.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about writing some Blog posts about the content he talks about in this book, and once again I found myself holding back as I didn&#8217;t think my audience would be able to relate to it.</p>
<p>The reason for this is because Wilcock dives into all kinds of stuff that is really &#8220;out there&#8221; for the average person.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about stuff like secret government projects on remote viewing, free unlimited power devices, pyramid secrets, and even crop circles, alien / UFO cover-ups.</p>
<p>Even though I&#8217;ve always been very interested in that kind of stuff, I haven&#8217;t really written about it a lot on my Blog as I previously felt I should stick to topics like making money, health and fitness, and personal development.</p>
<p>So I thought about writing some Blog posts about what I learned in this book and other research I&#8217;ve done, but once again I felt like it probably won&#8217;t resonate with my existing Blog audience.</p>
<h3>Matrix Energetics</h3>
<p>There&#8217;s an upcoming Matrix Energetics Level 1 &amp; 2 seminar here in Vancouver in March that I&#8217;ll be going to, and I&#8217;ve been really drawn to go to that seminar.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve already done my Level 1 &amp; 2 training, but I definitely want to go again, and I also want to do my Level 3 &amp; 4 training later on this year.</p>
<p>Once again though, when I tried to sit down and write some content related to Matrix Energetics, I once again felt a disconnect with my audience.</p>
<h2>Making a Change</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-5634" style="margin: 10px;" title="crop_circle" src="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/crop_circle.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" />I have essentially come to realize that in the past, as I&#8217;ve &#8220;scanned&#8221; through a lot of different things, I&#8217;ve shared some insights in many areas of my life, but never really dove deeply into anything that was of interest to me.</p>
<p>By keeping things &#8220;surface level&#8221; it&#8217;s been really easy for me to keep a connection to my audience of &#8220;scanners&#8221;.</p>
<p>Meaning, I&#8217;ve been writing my Blog posts with the intention of trying to connect to as many people as possible.  In order to do that, you need to keep things general and not go into too much depth.</p>
<p>However, I&#8217;m no longer going to do that anymore.</p>
<p>Instead I&#8217;m going to be writing my Blog posts from the perspective of not really caring how small of a group of people I&#8217;m going to be connecting with.</p>
<p>For example, when I talk about something like UFO&#8217;s or aliens, I know that a large percentage of my audience will be turned off by such things as not everyone believes in E.T.&#8217;s.</p>
<p>However, I don&#8217;t really care any more.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to dive into topics that interest me, and I don&#8217;t really care if those things don&#8217;t resonate with everyone.</p>
<p>I am now a lot more interested in forming a smaller number of deeper relationships with people, rather than a large amount of surface level relationships with a lot of people.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to start sharing some stuff that I have only shared with very close friends.</p>
<p>Buckle your seat-belts Dorothy, things are about to get really &#8220;woo woo&#8221; around here.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Trying Something Different As a Scanner Type Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>As many of you know, I consider myself a scanner / polymath type personality.</p>
<p>This entire site (including it&#8217;s name) was built with the idea that I could share my scanner / polymath journey with other scanner type personalities and run a Blog that doesn&#8217;t just focus on one topic, but instead explores a variety of different topics.</p>
<p>I created Paulymath.com in 2010 as a way to consolidate my growing number of Blogs into one single Blog where I could build up my following long-term, as opposed to starting and stopping many different sites.</p>
<p>Looking back, it was the perfect decision at the perfect time and I know the growth of my site in the last year or so wouldn&#8217;t have happened if I was still trying to run a dozen different Blogs, each specializing in one area of interest I have in my life.</p>
<h2>The Downsides of Running a Multi-Topic / Scanner Blog</h2>
<p>Although there have been many upsides to combining all of my Blogs and only having one Blog to focus on, there has also been some downsides.</p>
<p>One of the main downsides to running a multi-topic / scanner friendly Blog has only come to my attention recently.</p>
<p>What I have noticed is that as I attract a larger number of scanner / polymath type personalities to my Blog, it has become increasingly more difficult to write content and start up conversations on topics with any real depth.</p>
<p>Let me give you an example of what I mean.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that I am writing a Blog post on weight loss.  If my Blog was specifically targeting the weight-loss niche directly, and all of my readers were interested in fitness, health and weight loss, then when I would write a weight loss related post I could dive more in depth into it without worrying about alienating, boring or trampling on the beliefs of my other audience members.</p>
<p>To prevent those things from happening, I end up having to keep things simple in my posts so that everyone will more or less understand what I&#8217;m talking about, even if they&#8217;re not interested in that specific topic.</p>
<p>Perhaps a better example would be if I picked two areas of interest that I write about &#8211; (1) Spirituality and (2) Warhammer 40k.</p>
<p>I know that there is a rather significant percentage of my readers who are into spiritual development, and who have absolutely no problem with content which mentions things like God, chakras, The Universe, Law of Attraction, Reiki, energy healing etc.</p>
<p>I also know that I also have a growing base of readers who are interested in Warhammer 40k and other tabletop games.  Those readers would have no problem with me talking about things like the best way to prime Blood Angels, or the best way to achieve a realistic looking shading effect on a cape.</p>
<p>However, if one of my readers who is interested in Warhammer 40k reads one of my posts more targeting my spiritually interested readers, then they will probably get turned off by me talking about chakras or something like that.</p>
<p>Likewise, those readers interested in spirituality probably don&#8217;t really care about the point value of an Ork Deffkopta.</p>
<p>The biggest problem is that the further I dive into a topic more specifically, the more people I lose who are not interested in that topic.</p>
<p>Also, even when I do dive into a topic with a little bit of depth, I often receive comments and emails from people who are confused with what I&#8217;m referring to.  The reason for this is that they weren&#8217;t the intended audience for that topic.</p>
<h2>A Scanner Considers Specialization</h2>
<p>One of the things that I always try to do in my life is to challenge myself and to challenge my beliefs.</p>
<p>Since around 2008 when I first learned about the term &#8220;scanner&#8221;, I have grown very comfortable in my skin as a polymath / scanner type personality.</p>
<p>I no longer look at myself as &#8220;broken&#8221; and unable to stick to one thing for a long period of time.  I now embrace my scanner personality openly and I love it.</p>
<p>However, lately I have been looking at the downsides of not specializing in certain things.</p>
<p>One of those downsides is never getting to experience what it feels like to dive into something really, really deeply.</p>
<p>One example that pops into my mind is learning how to play guitar for example.</p>
<p>When you first start learning how to play guitar, it sucks!</p>
<p>You try to play, but it&#8217;s difficult and you sound horrible.</p>
<p>Eventually you learn a little bit and you may even be able to practice enough to be able to play something that sounds decent but not great.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that typical scanner threshold of investing around 100 &#8211; 200 hours into something and then moving on.</p>
<p>But what would it feel like to invest 10,000 hours into something? or more?</p>
<p>That is something that scanners very rarely, if ever get to experience.</p>
<p>What would it feel like to be able to play guitar so well that you can just create music directly from your soul and play it out loud?</p>
<p>That is something that you won&#8217;t experience if you never dive deep into anything.</p>
<p>In high-school, one of the things I dove into pretty far was playing basketball.  I took every opportunity to play at lunch, after school, and on weekends.</p>
<p>That and playing with computers.  Those were my two things.  I hardly did anything else.</p>
<p>To this day I am still obviously very much interested in computers, Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g, web development, Internet Marketing etc. so in that area of my life I did dive in pretty deep.  Compared to the average person, I would consider myself a pretty competent expert on these topics &#8211; although there are obviously a lot of other &#8220;gurus&#8221; out there which specialize in each of these areas more specifically and know a lot more than I do about them.</p>
<p>In a lot of other areas of my life, I haven&#8217;t really dived into a lot of stuff very deeply.</p>
<p>I used to play World of Warcraft for example, but while some of my friends created one character and leveled it up I created a half dozen and didn&#8217;t really level them up to their &#8220;max&#8221;.  I know some people who started playing Warcraft like 5 years ago and they still play it to this day.  The level of depth that they experience in this game, is far beyond my understanding of it simply because they&#8217;ve invested so much time into it.</p>
<p>Another example I could use is martial arts.  I trained in a martial art, but I never took it to the point of reaching a black belt or higher.</p>
<p>There are many benefits to &#8220;scanning&#8221; as you get to learn about a lot of different stuff, and in almost all cases I really have no desire to dive deep into certain things.</p>
<p>For example, I used to be into car audio.  I dove deep enough into it to be able to wire my own car stereo system, install an amp, subwoofer, alarm etc., but after that I moved on.  Investing 10,000+ hours into car audio doesn&#8217;t interest me, but I do know that type of thing interests others &#8211; and that&#8217;s cool.</p>
<p>So overall, I still very much like my scanner type personality, but these past few weeks I have been realizing something.</p>
<h2>The Benefit of Diving Deep Into Something</h2>
<p>Going on the Dr. Bernstein diet has really taught me something.</p>
<p>I learned the power of consistent, daily action taken towards a long term focus.  Meaning, every day I wake up and have to prepare my healthy meals, and eat them while avoiding the temptations of unhealthy food all around me.</p>
<p>Cooking a healthy meal is not difficult.</p>
<p>Eating a healthy meal is not difficult.</p>
<p>Avoiding the temptation of something unhealthy is not difficult.</p>
<p>However doing all of those things EVERY DAY is.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the consistency that&#8217;s the hard part.  But it&#8217;s also the part that produces results.</p>
<p>As I have made these decisions to stick to my diet and eat healthy every day I have seen great results on my plan.</p>
<p>This inspired to me think about other areas of my life where I could do the same thing to experience better results.</p>
<p>What if I could pick something else, and dive into it, investing my energy into it on a consistent basis long term?</p>
<h2>My New Project</h2>
<p>For almost two weeks now I have been really thinking about doing exactly this with my Warhammer 40k hobby.</p>
<p>More accurately, it&#8217;s not so much just specifically Warhammer 40k, but just the table top gaming hobby in general.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve dabbled with Warhammer 40k for years now, diving into it for a few months, then putting it on the back burner, and then getting pulled back into it etc.</p>
<p>I actually really enjoy the hobby, but I just never really decided to fully dive into it &#8211; until today.</p>
<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know what it is about miniature war gaming that I love so much.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just something about building the models, painting and collecting them that I love.  When I sit down to build some models, my mind goes quiet and it&#8217;s like a meditative state that I go into which I find very relaxing and enjoyable.</p>
<p>I love building and painting these models and really that&#8217;s only about 20% of the fun in the hobby.  There&#8217;s so much more to it, like actually playing the game, competing against other people, entering tournaments, visiting gaming conventions etc.</p>
<p>As a scanner I would never get to experience those things since it takes me way too long to just paint one army, let alone try to actually play the game.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also difficult to make friends in any hobby if you don&#8217;t consistently show up.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m going to try something different.  I&#8217;m going to try to commit myself to diving a lot deeper into this hobby.</p>
<p>This means I&#8217;m going to have to say no to other things which may show up in the future, so that I can say yes to this &#8211; and that&#8217;s OK.</p>
<p>For weeks now my intuition has been pushing me in this direction, and I&#8217;m so excited to see where this takes me.</p>
<h2>My New Site</h2>
<p>As part of making this decision, I have decided to fully embrace my new path by not only getting into the hobby personally, but to also build a website / community where I can share my journey down this road and connect with and meet other gamers as well.</p>
<p>For this website I am not going to take a scanner / polymath approach like I do on this Blog.  The website will not have any unrelated content on it.  All of the content will be centered around the topic of table top war gaming.</p>
<p>In the past, outside of this Blog, I have never been able to keep a targeted niche site going long term.  A big part of that was because I was &#8220;scanning&#8221; those topics of interest but some of it was related to the topics themselves.</p>
<p>For example, my freshwater aquarium fish site started out great as I started my first aquarium and slowly stocked it with fish.  Then I got a second aquarium and got more fish.  It was easy to produce content then.</p>
<p>However, after that, what else could I write about on that topic?  I don&#8217;t run an aquarium store or anything like that so really all I could talk about was the fish in my tank, but after a while that gets boring.  There&#8217;s not much more to say.</p>
<p>My RC car Blog had a similar problem.  As I was building my RC cars I could write content, with pictures and show them.  I had content to write about.  But since I live in Vancouver, we don&#8217;t get 12 months of summer like they do in California.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re lucky if we get a few months of sunshine in the year, and the rest of the time it&#8217;s raining.  So once the summer time is over, that means RC car season is over, and that means it becomes very difficult to come up with new content until the following year.</p>
<p>Also, an RC car setup costs around $1,000 so if I wanted to write product reviews in that niche I would have to spend a lot of money on a lot of RC Cars.  Once again, if I was running an RC Car store then I would have access to that inventory so it would be easy.</p>
<p>That is why I think my idea of starting a table top niche gaming site is different.  I am not restricted by weather.  I can Blog about this all year long.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s sunny or snowing outside, I can build/paint and play all year long.</p>
<p>Also, the price of table top miniatures is not that expensive in terms of if I wanted to purchase products, do unboxing videos, review them etc.  Of course it will take a lot of work (work which I enjoy), but the great thing is that I shouldn&#8217;t ever run out of content ideas.  There is always something new coming out every month so there is always something to write about or make videos about.</p>
<p>So after thinking it through, I have decided to start a new site where I will focus strictly on table top miniature war gaming.</p>
<p>Of course I&#8217;ll still be running Paulymath, with the only difference being that I will be moving all of my Warhammer 40k content off this site and onto my new one.</p>
<p>The new site is called <a href="http://www.tabletopgamer.com">TabletopGamer.com</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s live now if you&#8217;d like to pop by and check it out, but it&#8217;s not very impressive yet.  It&#8217;s just something I put together quickly to get started on something.</p>
<p>I will be working on it a lot more very soon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Starting an Ecommerce Website in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>Back in 2008, as with many other Bloggers, I used to reveal some of the ways that I make money online.</p>
<p>Today, most Bloggers &#8211; myself included &#8211; don&#8217;t reveal their sources of income or how they go about generating it as so many lazy, unethical and unoriginal copy-cats rip off your ideas and destroy them.</p>
<p>In the past I actually really enjoyed doing my monthly income report posts as I received some really positive feedback from other like-minded entrepreneurs who were trying to get started online.</p>
<p>By sharing what worked, and what didn&#8217;t for me, they were able to learn from that and try some of the strategies out for themselves.</p>
<p>However, at some point, as the word spread that people were making money online Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g and Affiliate Marketing, hoards of so called &#8220;entrepreneurs&#8221; rushed to try to cash in on the gold mine.</p>
<p>Unwilling to put in any actual work or creativity to build projects that actually produced some sort of value for the world, they instead just focused on trying to find the fastest, shortest, easiest way to rip off someone else and to make a quick buck.</p>
<p>Of course, as any real-world entrepreneur will tell you &#8211; that never works long term.</p>
<p>The principles which make you successful as an online entrepreneur, are identical to the principles that make you successful in the &#8220;real&#8221; world.</p>
<p>Integrity, intuition, creativity, perseverance, belief in yourself and your ideas, and your ability to execute on those ideas are all a part of what it takes to succeed online and offline.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most people are not willing to put that kind of effort in so instead they are always chasing the next quick buck.</p>
<p>Because of this, as I mentioned above, I don&#8217;t really like to reveal a lot of my projects anymore.  Some of the top Bloggers in the MMO niche I have spoken to have also expressed the same sentiment.</p>
<p>Some of them have been ripped off much worse than I have in the past because they have a much bigger profile and shared a lot more details about their projects.</p>
<p>The truth is that unfortunately I have had to hold back a lot of information on my projects from my Blog audience, which I think is a shame as I think it would help a lot of other people get started.</p>
<p>I do share a lot more details about  how I make money online with my <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/mentoring/" target="_blank">one-on-one mentoring</a> clients as well as my <a href="http://www.paulymathmc.com/sales_pages/4244" target="_blank">Paulymath Mentorship Club</a> students, because there I have a much better handle on who everyone is and I would know if someone is ripping me off.</p>
<h2>For the Ethical Entrepreneurs</h2>
<p>Having said all that, I do want to give offering more transparency on some of my projects another try.</p>
<p>The reason for this is because I believe the &#8220;Make Money Online&#8221; niche has matured a bit more now, and a lot of the unethical rip-offtreneurs have left in the last year or so in a mass exodus to find their next &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; schemes.  Not sure what the flavor of the year is for them now &#8211; back to MLM&#8217;s? flipping real estate? penny stocks? forex?  online poker? Who knows.</p>
<p>Either way, good riddance to them.</p>
<p>Once again I&#8217;m seeing a lot more people who do exhibit some of the qualities I mentioned before coming into the market and they genuinely want to learn how to make money online without being stupid about it and ruining it for everyone.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge I see with such entrepreneurs who are just starting out with making money online is that they have no inspiration or examples of some of the things that you can do online in 2011 to produce results.</p>
<p>The Internet is littered with all kinds of examples of what worked in 2006-2009, but after that it&#8217;s mostly a black hole as most people went underground with their projects.</p>
<p>So, in hopes that this project might inspire someone like that out there, I have decided to share a new project I&#8217;ve just launched.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if this project will work.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if it will be ultra successful, a complete flop, or somewhere in between.</p>
<p>But, either way, I figure if I share it maybe some of you can learn something from it.</p>
<p>Even if the project completely flops at least you can learn from what doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>And if after sharing this project, I don&#8217;t see some of the downsides that I&#8217;ve seen in the past, maybe I&#8217;ll share more of my projects in the future.</p>
<p>Helping people like that is one of my passions, so I really enjoy doing that.</p>
<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s get to my new project.</p>
<h2>My New Project</h2>
<p>My new project is an Ecommerce website.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve talked about building Blogs and Affiliate Marketing websites in the past, but I haven&#8217;t really publicly talked about building Ecommerce sites.</p>
<p>Back in the early 2000&#8242;s I actually used to run a web development firm that built Ecommerce and auction based websites for companies, and up until about 5 years ago I actually ran my own Ecommerce website.</p>
<p>To this day I still do a lot of consulting and helping retail businesses develop Ecommerce strategies for their online store.</p>
<p>The Ecommerce model of making money online is actually a great model if you can get everything aligned and working properly.</p>
<p>Five to seven years ago my Ecommerce site was actually starting to really take off, but the challenge I had back then was that there were too many responsibilities I had on my plate to make it work &#8211; not to mention the fact that I was also working full time managing a corporation.</p>
<p>You see, back then in order to run my Ecommerce site I had to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Be the creative director who came up with ideas for how to make the site successful</li>
<li>Be the programmer who developed the eCommerce shopping cart platform / website myself</li>
<li>Do the day-to-day administrative tasks associated with running an Ecommerce site</li>
<li>Stock inventory, package and ship it out when items sold</li>
<li>Generate traffic to my site pages</li>
</ul>
<p>Of those three things, the biggest time drain for me was the programming / development of my website / shopping cart and all the administrative tasks.</p>
<p>The great thing now is that today in 2011, there are much better options for running an Ecommerce site.</p>
<p>I no longer have to develop my own shopping cart to run the website.  I can now simply purchase a shopping cart solution and have someone else take care of that part of things for me.</p>
<p>Sure there were shopping cart solutions available 5-7 years ago as well, but most of them were crap.  They were slow, crashed all the time and had very limited features.  The ones that were half decent cost tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars for a license.</p>
<p>Today, things are much different.</p>
<p>Today I can purchase a license of <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/interspire/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">Interspire Shopping Cart</a> and get the benefit of an entire team of programmers working to constantly improve my website/shopping cart for a price that would have been impossible 7 years ago.</p>
<p>Secondly, the administrative tasks that I always dreaded doing such as uploading products and descriptions and answering support questions can be easily outsourced to a virtual assistant today.</p>
<p>Essentially what this means is that if I outsource that development by purchasing a shopping cart license, and I outsource administrative tasks, then all I&#8217;m left having to do myself is to be the creative/idea person, stock the inventory, sell it and focus on building traffic to my site.</p>
<p>Even traffic building / SEO can be outsourced to companies like <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/rankpay" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rankpay</a> if I wanted to.  Of course there is always other traffic sources like AdWords and Facebook as well.</p>
<p>Overall, I think that today in 2011 it is a lot easier to run a small-sized Ecommerce site than it was 5-7 years ago.</p>
<p>However, as with anything there is always a flip side to it as well.</p>
<p>Because the cost of entry to run an online store is much lower today than it was 5-7 years ago, there is naturally more competition.  Also, industry giants like Amazon are also in the picture offering stiff competition with their low prices.</p>
<p>What this means is that I will definitely need to learn and adjust my strategy to fit in with what works today in 2011.  Times have changed, so I have to adjust and change with them, but I&#8217;m really curious to see how I can fare in running a part-time Ecommerce site today in 2011.</p>
<p>Either way I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll learn something.</p>
<p>Wish me luck.</p>
<h2>Re-Introducing BlackTieMagic.com</h2>
<p>After making the decision to try my hand at an Ecommerce project again, I was thinking about the type of products that I would want to carry.</p>
<p>My first thought was to try to run an online Warhammer 40k store, but my research showed that Games Workshop is not currently very friendly with their online distributors.  Their business model is still very much based on selling their product at their bricks-n-mortar shops and from what I&#8217;ve researched, they seem to treat their online distributors like the ugly step-sister.</p>
<p>This is too bad as I love Warhammer 40k stuff, so I think it would be fun to run a store selling that.</p>
<p>My second thought and the one I ended up going with was to re-open my former Ecommerce site which sold <a href="http://www.blacktiemagic.com" target="_blank">magic tricks</a>, <a href="http://www.blacktiemagic.com" target="_blank">magic dvd&#8217;s</a> and <a href="http://www.blacktiemagic.com" target="_blank">magic books</a>.</p>
<p>I actually still have a lot of inventory left over from when I ran that store, so I figured what better way to start then by liquidating that inventory on my new site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blacktiemagic.com" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5091" title="BlackTieMagic.com" src="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/btm_snapshot-1024x672.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="380" /></a></p>
<p>For a shopping cart platform, I looked at a lot of different shopping cart solutions such as <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com" target="_blank">Magento</a> and other WordPress Based shopping carts, but I finally settled on what I believe to be the best shopping cart platform on the market at it&#8217;s price level &#8211; <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/interspire/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">Interspire Shopping Cart</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/interspire/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">Interspire Shopping cart</a> is the self-hosted version of BigCommerce shopping cart.  They are the pretty much the same identical shopping cart solution except that BigCommerce is a monthly subscription service while Interspire is a one-time license you purchase.</p>
<p>With the one-time license you get more control over how the site functions and it also integrates with my <a href="http://www.amberpos.com" target="_blank">Point of Sale</a> / <a href="http://www.amberpos.com" target="_blank">Inventory Management System</a> I use, so I chose to go with that.</p>
<p>I still have a lot of work to do on prettying up the design, implementing a newsletter, building traffic, and of course putting up a lot more inventory for sale, but that&#8217;s all in the works.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Paulymath Mentorship Club Now Live!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>Hey everyone, I have just launched the Paulymath Mentorship Club.</p>
<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t been following along with the pre-launch videos, the Paulymath Mentorship Club is essentially my group mentoring project where you get a chance to be mentored by me at a fraction of the $400-$800/m investment required to be mentored by me one-on-one.</p>
<h2>Content</h2>
<p>The content that I produce within this club is going to cover:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Strategy</strong> &#8211; My best strategies for making money online.  These strategies are not going to be limited to just Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g either.  I will cover many different ways to make money online and explain why it&#8217;s a good idea to spread your risk by employing multiple strategies for generating income.</li>
<li><strong>Mindset </strong>- I&#8217;m going to teach you how to develop the best mindset for making money online.  This will cover all three areas of our &#8220;mind/consciousness&#8221; including how to properly harness the power of your conscious, subconscious and the superconscious mind.</li>
<li><strong>Execution </strong>- I&#8217;m going to teach you how combine the strategies I teach with the proper mindset to get yourself to take action.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Bonuses</h2>
<p>As an added bonus, all Charter Members of the Paulymath Mentorship Club will also receive two bonuses from me:</p>
<ul>
<li>A copy of my eBook &#8220;Law of Attraction Turbocharge&#8221; free of charge. ($20 value)</li>
<li>Access to the first 3 Modules of the Ultimate Blog Business course I put together in 2010.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Guarantee</h2>
<p>Not sure if the Paulymath Mentorship Club is for you?  Why not take it for a test drive and decide then?  I&#8217;m offering a 30 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee.  That means there is ZERO risk for you to try it out.</p>
<p>Also, regardless whether or not you decide to keep your subscription to the Paulymath Mentorship Club, as a Charter Member you may keep your free copy of the Law of Attraction Turbocharge eBook as a free gift from me to you just for giving my mentorship club a chance.</p>
<h2>How to Get Started</h2>
<p>Click on the button below to learn more.</p>
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		<title>Would You Like Me to Teach You How to Make Money Online?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>This morning an idea floated into my head and it&#8217;s been on my mind all day long.</p>
<p>This is not something that I came up with as a result of sitting down and deciding to dream up yet another project for me to work on.  It is something that I feel came to me straight from intuition, which is why I&#8217;m taking action on it right now by writing this Blog post even though this is still very much in the brainstorming phase.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the main concept of the idea&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>I want to personally mentor a group of people to make money online.</strong></p>
<p>Now, mentoring people to make money online is not new to me, and I already offer that service at a rate of $95/session where you get to work with me one-on-one via telephone.</p>
<p>I have never had a single client who I worked personally with one-on-one tell me they were disappointed with a session.  In fact everyone I&#8217;ve worked with has told me they got a lot of value from their one-on-one sessions with me so I know what I deliver is at least worth $95/hour to people.</p>
<p>However, there are two main downsides to working with people one-on-one.</p>
<ol>
<li>I find myself constant repeating the same content to each new client, since 80% of the issues people need help with are the same core issues other clients have had.  Even though the content may be new to my clients, it&#8217;s nothing new to me and frankly it really gets boring teaching the same basics over and over again to one person at a time.  There is only so much time I have to devote to mentoring/teaching so working with people one-on-one doesn&#8217;t provide me with a lot of leverage.</li>
<li>In order to really build momentum and start producing results quickly, I need to connect with my mentoring clients <strong>minimum</strong> once per week and ideally twice per week.  Any less than that, and they start losing momentum in between calls and get nowhere.  It&#8217;s almost like working out with a personal trainer.  If you only go once a month or twice a month, it&#8217;s very difficult to see results.  So ideally, to build momentum and start producing results people really need to connect to my energy at least 1-2 times per week.  The challenge with this for most people is that they can&#8217;t afford the cost of 4-8 sessions with me per month &#8211; which is approx $400-$800/m.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now, I know that I could lower my prices &#8211; and I have in fact tried that in the past to help people out &#8211; but even if I charged just $25/session that would still require an investment of $200/month to work with me twice a week &#8211; and there is no way I could afford to do one-on-one mentoring at such a low rate as I would have to say no to projects where I make four to ten times that amount per hour in order to make room for the lower rate.  Even though I really enjoy mentoring and helping people, it obviously makes no sense for me to do that as that would mean it would actually be costing me money to mentor people.</p>
<p>So, this morning I got the idea to create a group coaching environment where instead of working with people one-on-one, I can mentor people in a group environment by setting up a membership site that is affordable to everyone and which allows me to leverage the technology of being able to create content once and have multiple people gain value from it many times.</p>
<p>Think of it as kind of a hybrid between my free Blog here at Paulymath.com and the one-on-one mentoring I do at $95/session.</p>
<h2>What Makes This Unique</h2>
<p>Now, so far you may be thinking that there is really nothing unique about this idea since there are many different online courses out there teaching how to make money online taught by guru&#8217;s who have made tens of millions of dollars.</p>
<p>I know because I&#8217;ve spent tens of thousands of dollars buying their courses, and I can attest to the fact that many of them are great!  I&#8217;ve implemented many of the ideas taught in those courses to help myself and my consulting clients to make a lot of money by leveraging the power of the Internet, so I know they work.</p>
<p>However, my goal here is not to try to &#8220;one-up&#8221; any of these gurus.  That would be like me trying to &#8220;one-up&#8221; Michael Jordan in basketball.  That is not my intention.</p>
<p>What I want to do is to build a community / membership site that works with the same types of awesome people I have been mentoring one-on-one, but in a group environment.</p>
<p>And here is the one thing I have come to realize / learn from working with people one-on-one.</p>
<p>99% of the questions and issues people get stuck on when trying to make money online are <strong>NOT</strong> taught by the top guru&#8217;s online.</p>
<p>Let me repeat that.</p>
<p>99% of what may be stopping you from making money online is <strong>NOT</strong> being taught by the top guru&#8217;s online.</p>
<p>I know that&#8217;s a bold statement.  Trust me, I was just as surprised by this as anyone else.  Let me explain what I mean.</p>
<p>See, when I first started doing mentoring I thought I&#8217;d be teaching these advanced strategies to people on what is the best way to SEO optimize a page or how to implement a proper link-bait strategy or some kind of advanced video editing tactic etc.  You know, all the super cool stuff I&#8217;ve learned from the guru&#8217;s over the years after spending thousands of dollars on their courses and seminars.</p>
<p>What I realized though is that <strong>THOSE</strong> are not the problems <strong>REAL</strong> everyday normal people are having.</p>
<p>Let me give you some examples of what I mean.</p>
<p>In relation to making online videos, the Guru&#8217;s out there teach courses that will tell  you what settings to use for encoding your H.264 videos and what bitrate to use for best video quality/speed combination.</p>
<p>What I discovered is that <strong>REAL</strong> normal, every day people aren&#8217;t getting stuck on steps like that.</p>
<p>You know what step <strong>real</strong> normal everyday people are getting stuck at?</p>
<p>Being completely scared shitless to the point of being paralyzed about the thought of turning on the camera and recording themselves!</p>
<p>Normal people have no problem buying a video camera, and all the equipment they might need, but then they just can&#8217;t press that record button.  And if they do, when they watch themselves back, they want to run and throw up &#8211; not upload their video to YouTube!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the honest truth.  Fancy words like H.264, codecs, bitrates, and all that techno-jargon doesn&#8217;t matter!  Whose are just technical details.  What people need is a way of overcoming their camera shyness and learning to make their first video!</p>
<p>I was the same way at first.  Watching back my first video was horrible!  I felt embarrassed for myself just watching it, even though I was alone and nobody else saw it.  I deleted it 3 seconds after watching it back just to alleviate the anxiety and embarrassment I felt.</p>
<p>Then, I discovered some &#8220;secret&#8221; strategies that helped me to overcome that, and to make videos and build a YouTube channel with a tonne of subscribers and today I have zero anxiety about making videos.  I can just shoot a video and upload it and I feel no fear about it.  And I&#8217;ve helped others do the same thing!</p>
<p>Of course there are the technical aspects of bitrates, and codecs, and editing tools and all that as well, and I want to teach that too, but all that stuff only matters when the real issues of fear, anxiety, etc. are dealt with.</p>
<p>That is just one example.  Here&#8217;s another one.</p>
<p>The Guru&#8217;s out there will teach you a course that will give you 487 traffic generation strategies for your Blog.</p>
<p>You know what people do when you teach them 487 traffic generation strategies?</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right.  They sit there with a puzzled look on their face, slightly cross-eyed, slightly drooling, in a trance-like state with the mental chatter of &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this, I can&#8217;t do this, what makes me think I can do this, I can&#8217;t do this!&#8221; running through their heads!</p>
<p>You know what I have found to work with &#8220;normal&#8221; people?</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t teach them 487 strategies.  That&#8217;s like trying to drink from a fire hose at full blast.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even teach them ONE traffic generation strategy.  That&#8217;s like trying to drink water from a garden hose on full blast.</p>
<p>You teach someone the FIRST THREE STEPS of one traffic generation strategy.</p>
<p>And then you open up your heart and intuitive senses and observe what mental and technical blocks come up for them before moving to the next step.</p>
<p>Making money online is <strong>NOT</strong> just about strategies and techniques.  That&#8217;s only one third of the challenge.</p>
<p>Making money online is largely about the right mindset and heartset.</p>
<p>As a coach I know that my job is not just to teach you the strategies and techniques of making money online.</p>
<p>I also have to get your mindset right, and I&#8217;ve got to get you PASSIONATE and excited about making things happen.  You&#8217;ve gotta wake up every morning and be pumped up to build your online business.</p>
<p>If your <strong>mind</strong> and <strong>heart</strong> have already given up on your online business, no technique any guru will ever teach you will work.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care if their system is &#8220;foolproof&#8221; and &#8220;push-button-easy&#8221;.  It still won&#8217;t work.</p>
<h2>The Three Part Approach</h2>
<p>To make money online, we need to get three parts working together.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4220" title="MakeMoneyOnlineTriad" src="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/MakeMoneyOnlineTriad.jpg" alt="" width="404" height="371" /></p>
<p>We need to have the right strategies in place to produce proper results.  MOST of the strategies taught online today don&#8217;t work.  They worked in 2004 or 2006, but they don&#8217;t work today.  You need to know what works TODAY in order to succeed.  The landscape is constantly changing so you need to know what works NOW.</p>
<p>Execution, which simply means taking action is also a big part of success.  If you take the most brilliant strategy for making money online but you don&#8217;t take any action on it, you will NOT produce any results.  That&#8217;s the bottom line.</p>
<p>The two-part <strong>Strategy + Execution</strong> = <strong>SUCCESS</strong> is what most guru&#8217;s online teach.</p>
<p>They teach you the strategy and then they say <em>&#8220;Ok, now run along and take action and EXECUTE these strategies and you will see results.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>And when people don&#8217;t produce results the guru&#8217;s say <em>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not my fault, the person didn&#8217;t take any action!!!!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s fine and dandy, and it&#8217;s a convenient excuse but the question I have is WHY don&#8217;t people take action?</p>
<p>I mean if I teach someone HOW to do something and they are capable of doing it, and doing that thing will help their online business, then WHY do 99% of people out there still not do it?</p>
<p>Well, the answer is MINDSET.</p>
<h2>Why Mindset Matters</h2>
<p>Tony Robbins says that 80% of success is psychology &#8211; methods only account for 20%.  This is coming from a guy who has worked with hundreds of millions of people worldwide from high-school students to the US President and everything in between.  He&#8217;s worked with people who are on welfare and those who make billions per year.</p>
<p>I completely agree with Tony Robbins on this point.  That is why I believe that mindset is such a huge part of making money online.  If you don&#8217;t have the right mindset, you won&#8217;t make money online.</p>
<p>How do you know you&#8217;ve got the right mindset?  You know you&#8217;ve got the right mindset if you&#8217;re already making the kind of money online that you&#8217;d like to be making.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not &#8211; then you don&#8217;t have the right mindset.</p>
<p>You may THINK you have the right mindset &#8211; but you don&#8217;t.  If you did, you&#8217;d already be producing results.</p>
<p>As part of building this membership site I want to teach a LOT of mindset related stuff.</p>
<p>This is where I believe I shine above almost all other guru&#8217;s out there.  My research, studies and experience with personal development related topics is awesome.</p>
<h2>Adding a Spiritual Element</h2>
<p>Now comes the final piece to this puzzle.</p>
<p>I have never done this before, and I have to admit that when this concept first came to me this morning it scared the crap out of me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m a very spiritual person.  By spiritual I don&#8217;t mean Religious.</p>
<p>I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience here on earth.</p>
<p>I believe in the Law of Attraction.  I have written and published a book about it.</p>
<p>I believe in energy healing, and am a trained Reiki healer.</p>
<p>Even though I write about the topic of spirituality on this Blog from time to time, I largely keep those blog posts separate from my &#8220;make money online&#8221; related Blog posts.</p>
<p>The reason I did that in the past is because I didn&#8217;t really want to &#8220;color&#8221; the more left-brained strategies I teach on my Blog &#8211; such as how to build an email list &#8211; with my spiritual beliefs.</p>
<p>However, whenever I do that &#8211; hold back on adding in the spiritual side of things to my Blog posts &#8211; I always feel like I&#8217;m holding back a piece that may be the most important piece of the puzzle.</p>
<p>In the membership site I want to create, I will NOT be holding anything back.</p>
<p>You are going to be getting my WHOLE opinion on each topic &#8211; including my spiritual beliefs around the issue.</p>
<p>If that offends you, then this membership site is NOT for you.</p>
<p>What does this mean?  Well, what this means is that if I&#8217;m teaching a technique for curing writer&#8217;s block for Bloggers I may give you a meditation exercise that I use for connecting to and opening up my throat Chakra &#8211; the Chakra responsible for communication.</p>
<p>It also means that in addition to teaching you the strategies and techniques for starting up your own YouTube channel, I may teach you some visualization exercises you can use to literally ATTRACT viewers to your videos using the Law of Attraction.</p>
<p>For those who don&#8217;t believe in such &#8220;spiritual&#8221; concepts, this stuff will sound like &#8220;hogwash&#8221; or &#8220;magical thinking&#8221;.</p>
<p>To me it&#8217;s a way of life.  I LIVE this way of thinking every day now, so I can&#8217;t NOT be who I really am.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another example.  Last week I bought a <a href="http://www.circleraphaelusd.com/qabalah_solid_copper_jupiter_house_talisman.html" target="_blank">Qabalah Jupiter House Talisman</a> for my house to protect my house from low-level energies which may be attracted to me as a result of the Soul Realignment™ course I&#8217;m taking.  As part of the course, I&#8217;m doing psychic Akashic Record readings and clearing work for clients and as taught by my teacher in the course, I have to take precautionary steps to protect my house and energy from some of the &#8220;nasties&#8221; that are out there.</p>
<p>The reason I bring that up is to give you an example of the types of stuff I believe in.</p>
<p>If me talking about such things annoys or insults your religious or atheistic beliefs, then this course will definitely not be for you because my &#8220;spiritual&#8221; beliefs in the Law of Attraction and Chakras and such things WILL be an integral part of the MINDSET part of my teachings in this course.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying you have to believe in everything I believe in.  But I&#8217;m just saying if that kind of stuff doesn&#8217;t resonate with you then you probably won&#8217;t like the &#8220;real&#8221; me in this course.</p>
<p>For those of you who are totally into that stuff, I think you&#8217;re going to absolutely LOVE this course. <img src='http://www.paulymath.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h2>How It Will Work</h2>
<p>I haven&#8217;t worked out the details of exactly how this course will work yet.</p>
<p>As I mentioned earlier, I feel that this idea was &#8220;given&#8221; to me and I trust that there is a LOT more to come as to how to set it up.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I do know.</p>
<p>I will be running the course as a membership site using Kajabi.</p>
<p>There will be a lot of videos and lessons teaching all aspects of making money online.</p>
<p>They will most likely be a community forum aspect to the site where people can ask questions, leave feedback etc.</p>
<p>Each lesson / video will allow you to leave comments, ask questions etc.</p>
<p>For my one-on-one mentoring sessions what I normally do is that I actually intuitively tune into the person&#8217;s energy who I am working with and I actually &#8220;read&#8221; (yes as in psychically) and mentor on the fly.  Meaning, I have never had an agenda for ANY of my mentoring calls with any client until about 5 minutes before the call.</p>
<p>What I do is 5 minutes before a call I just do a meditation, tune in, and I literally get FLOODED with intuitive insight as to exactly which strategies would be best to teach the client on that call.  All my mentoring clients love this as they are usually blown away by how I&#8217;m able to teach them solutions to the exact problems they have been having without even having to tell me what the issue is.</p>
<p>What I am going to attempt to do with this course is to try to do this on a group basis.</p>
<p>I know this sounds like it may be more challenging than working with someone one-on-one, but I&#8217;m feeling intuitively drawn to try things out this way.</p>
<p>I feel I will be supported in this challenge.</p>
<p>So, what this means is that I am going to create the content for this course on the fly, week by week, based on your feedback and my intuitive sense of what I feel the group needs most.</p>
<p>There will be no actual set linear curriculum.</p>
<p>As a subscriber to the course, you&#8217;re going to have to trust that what I teach next is what you need to learn.  Of course I also plan on having many ways to send your feedback, questions and comments to help me create the type of content my subscribers want.  But there will not be any set curriculum with a beginning and end to it to start with.</p>
<p>I trust things will just evolve as they should in a way that&#8217;s best for everyone.</p>
<p>I must admit that this idea seems like it is either the STUPIDEST thing I&#8217;ve ever thought of, or the most BRILLIANT thing ever.</p>
<p>YOUR feedback to this Blog post will tell me which it is.</p>
<p><strong>Would you like me to teach you how to make money online?</strong></p>
<p>Let me know by leaving a comment below.</p>
<h2>Pricing</h2>
<p>I haven&#8217;t figured out pricing yet.</p>
<p>I want to make this course really affordable for everyone though.</p>
<p>If you were to work with me one-on-one, having a mentoring session twice a week, you would have to invest around $800/month to learn how to make money online.</p>
<p>I believe that investment is worth every penny, however I know a lot of people don&#8217;t have that kind of money to invest.</p>
<p>So I don&#8217;t want to make this membership site cost anywhere near that amount.</p>
<p>I am thinking that I might build it out on a scaled price model.</p>
<p>Meaning, I think ultimately the &#8220;perfect&#8221; price for something like this will be around $97/month to access all the content.</p>
<p>However, what I might do is to build it out more along the lines of this:</p>
<p>First 10 people will get in at $9/month.</p>
<p>Next 15 people will get in at $19/month.</p>
<p>Next 25 people will get in at $29/month.</p>
<p>Next 25 people will get in at $39/month.</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>So the price will go up over time, rewarding those people who get in earlier.  The reason for this is that obviously those who get in earlier will not see a lot of content to start with since I will be making this content on-the-fly each week.</p>
<p>As time goes on, there will be more and more content within the course and so the price will go up.  Also, I really want to reward those people who join in on this program from Day 1 to support it and it will be their feedback and support that will help this project grow.</p>
<p>I am not sure about this pricing model yet, it is just something that popped into my head.  What I do know is that I want to make it really affordable for people as I know that when people are just getting started with making money online a lot of them don&#8217;t have a lot of money to invest in the beginning.</p>
<p>So, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Who would like me to teach them how to make money online?</p>
<p>Leave your questions and comments below, and sign up below to be the first to hear about the course when it comes out.  That way if I do decide to do a scaled pricing model as I described above, you can get in at the lowest rate.</p>
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<p>I have just reached a new milestone for my Blog.</p>
<p>As my Feedburner chicklet <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rss10000.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4196" style="margin: 10px;" title="rss10000" src="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rss10000.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="36" /></a>shows this morning, my Blog RSS / Email subscriber count has now finally gone over 10,000 people.</p>
<p>Driving home from lunch today I was thinking about the early days of my Blog when I only had a few dozen readers.  When I mentor people in building Blogs I call those the &#8220;empty room syndrome&#8221; days.</p>
<p>The reason I call it that is because most of the time you write Blog posts and it feels like you&#8217;re talking to an empty room because in most cases you get very little comments when first starting out.</p>
<p>What a lot of people don&#8217;t realize is that 99% of people who read Blogs don&#8217;t leave comments.  That doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not reading your content, it just means they&#8217;re either too shy or too lazy to leave comments.</p>
<p>In the beginning it&#8217;s so disheartening to spend a few hours writing a post, publish it and then get no feedback or comments from people.</p>
<p>Statistically speaking, my Blog gets about 6.9 comments per post I write now but in the beginning that number was much lower.</p>
<p>This feeling as if you&#8217;re speaking to an empty room is one of the biggest psychological reasons that people abandon their Blogs in my opinion.  I try to teach my mentoring students to expect that to happen, so that they don&#8217;t get depressed.</p>
<p>One mistake that many new Bloggers make is writing a Blog post, publishing it, not getting any comments on it, and then assuming that the reason for getting no comments is because their content sucks.  That is almost never the case.  The reason most new Bloggers don&#8217;t get any comments is because they don&#8217;t have a large enough audience yet.</p>
<p>If you only have 10 or even 100 people subscribed to your Blog you may not be getting ANY comments yet, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that the people reading your content don&#8217;t like it.  I have met people who have read my Blog for over 3 years who have never left a single comment, but they read every single post and really enjoy reading them.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re just getting started, don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;re not getting a lot of comments at first.  Focus on creating great content and <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/2011/02/04/how-i-turned-an-epic-fail-into-blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g-success/" target="_self">build your email list</a> from day one.</p>
<h2>Where My Traffic Comes From</h2>
<p>Another <strong>huge</strong> mistake I see a lot of new Bloggers making today is wasting way too much of their time on &#8220;Social Media&#8221;.</p>
<p>Many people waste so much of their precious &#8220;after work&#8221; time on sites like Facebook and Twitter, instead of investing time into developing content for their own Blog / Business.</p>
<p>It boggles my mind how people say that they don&#8217;t have the time to write Blog posts, or to create content, yet I see hundreds of updates from them on Facebook.</p>
<p>If you want to build a successful Blog, don&#8217;t waste your time on Facebook.  Instead of posting dozens of snippet-sized mini messages on Facebook, organize your thoughts and write a Blog post that delivers value to your niche market, publish it on your own Blog and then just put a link to it on your Facebook profile.</p>
<p>There is a massive <strong>overabundance</strong> of snippet sized pieces of mostly JUNK information on Facebook and Twitter.  Honestly, it&#8217;s mostly all just noise at this point and nobody really gives it any attention.</p>
<p>Everything you write on Facebook just disappears into the abyss after a short while anyways and you don&#8217;t even own your own content on there.</p>
<p>In the last few weeks I had a conversation with several people about building an audience using Facebook versus using a Blog with an email list.  They made mention to the fact that they like Facebook because they make &#8220;friends&#8221; on there by clicking on the &#8220;Add Friend&#8221; button and many times people will &#8220;friend&#8221; them back.</p>
<p>One person told me they were adding an average of 3 new &#8220;friends&#8221; to their Facebook friend list every week.  This is based on spending 1-3 hours per day on Facebook commenting on people&#8217;s photo&#8217;s, status updates etc.</p>
<p>I told them that as far as building an audience is concerned, I thought that was a waste of time.</p>
<p>They disagreed, until I logged into my <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/aweber/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">AWeber</a> account, and showed them a screen shot of how many new subscribers I added to my email list in January 2011.</p>
<p><strong>The number is 1,027. </strong></p>
<p>That is 1,027 <strong>new</strong> email addresses were added to my email list in January 2011 alone &#8211; all on auto-pilot.  Now, not everyone sticks.  About 30% of people eventually unsubscribe after downloading the &#8220;ethical bribe&#8221; I send them, but that is still about 700 new people added to my email list in one month.</p>
<p>In my opinion, I think Facebook is largely a waste of time as far as building your following / subscribers base or marketing your Blog.</p>
<p>I heard another person the other day saying &#8220;<em>Facebook has completely destroyed Google.  Google is pretty much dead now.</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>What a pile of crap.</p>
<p>Google is still, by far the single biggest source of free traffic out there, especially for Blogs.</p>
<p>In the last year here are my traffic stats from Google, Facebook and Twitter.  Meaning, here is the number of visitors that I have gotten to this Blog from these three sources:</p>
<p><strong>Google</strong> = 165,603 visitors<br />
<strong>Twitter</strong> = 675 visitors<br />
<strong>Facebook</strong> = 718 visitors</p>
<p>I still get the majority of my traffic for free from Google, Bing and Yahoo.  All the other social media sites are rather insignificant.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that those sites are useless or that they shouldn&#8217;t be used.  What I&#8217;m saying though is that if you&#8217;re trying to build a Blog or an online business, and you&#8217;ve only got 2-3 hours every night to work on your business, don&#8217;t spend all that time on Facebook.  It isn&#8217;t going to get you anywhere!</p>
<p>Focus on creating quality content.  Blog posts. YouTube videos.  And then post them on your Facebook / Twitter pages with a link to your Blog post where people can subscribe and leave comments.</p>
<h2>Get Reviewed on This Blog</h2>
<p>Another thing I quickly wanted to mention since I haven&#8217;t written about this for quite some time is that I am once again accepting <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/advertise/" target="_self">paid reviews</a> on my Blog.</p>
<p>My current rate is $250 for a paid review which pays for my time to research and write a review of your company&#8217;s product or service and present it to my readers.</p>
<p>Since I now have a readership of over 10,000 readers you&#8217;re getting massive, targeted exposure for just 2.5 cents per reader.</p>
<p>Please note that paying for a review does not in any way influence my review of your product.  I write my reviews honestly based on my opinion of the product or service you offer, but in most cases if your product or service totally doesn&#8217;t resonate with me or I don&#8217;t consider it to match my audience&#8217;s needs I will not accept the product/service for review in the first place.</p>
<p>A paid review can be a great way to get exposure for you company/product and many times my reviews appear in the first page of Google when people search for reviews of your product or service.</p>
<p>To find out more, check out my <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/advertise/" target="_self">advertise page</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>2011 Blog Poll Prize Winners Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>About a month ago I ran a poll to find out what you, my readers, would like to see more of on my Blog here at Paulymath.com.</p>
<p>As a small token of my appreciation for those who participated, I also offered a draw for seven prizes ranging from an iPod to banner advertising here on Paulymath.com.</p>
<p>I just finished doing the draw, and here are the winners:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>iPod Shuffle 2GB</strong> &#8211; Sue from <a href="http://www.JustGoGreenGo.com" target="_blank">JustGoGreenGo.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Avatar DVD (Blueray)</strong> &#8211; Jill from <a href="http://www.RunWithJill.com" target="_blank">RunWithJill.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Avatar DVD (Blueray)</strong> &#8211; Flora from <a href="http://www.ColorYourLifeHappy.com" target="_blank">ColorYourLifeHappy.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Law of Attraction Turbocharge</strong> &#8211; Alice from <a href="http://followtheredqueen.com/" target="_blank">FollowTheRedQueen.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Law of Attraction Turbocharge</strong> &#8211; SunnyDay.</li>
<li><strong>Law of Attraction Turbocharge</strong> &#8211; Adrian</li>
<li><strong>125&#215;125 Banner Spot</strong> &#8211; Danocoyote.</li>
</ol>
<p>The winners were picked by using the Random Number Generator at <a href="http://www.random.org" target="_blank">Random.org</a>.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the winners, and even if you didn&#8217;t win the bigger prize is that I will take your all of your feedback into consideration and produce more quality content around the topics that YOU my readers want me to write about in 2011.</p>
<p>If those who won the iPod and Avatar movies, could you please use my contact form to email me your contact info (Name, Address, Phone) and preference of color for the iPod (if any) and preference of format for the Avatar (regular DVD or Blueray).  For my eBook winners, please contact me with your email address and I will send you a link to download my eBook.</p>
<p>As for the banner spot winner, please contact me for instructions on what I&#8217;ll need for the banner.</p>
<p>Thank you all for participating!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Book Now Available on Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;m so excited.</p>
<p>My Law of Attraction Turbocharge eBook has now been published as a paperback and is available for purchase on Amazon.com.</p>
<p>Of course it is still available as an eBook for those who prefer to get instant access, but I do know that many people (like myself) prefer to read books on paper.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just something about being able to hold a book in your hands, and reading text on paper.</p>
<p>Usually when I buy eBooks I end up printing them out and binding them anyways, as I find it much easier to read them that way than on the computer.</p>
<p>Either way, regardless which format you prefer, you now have a choice of getting my book in <a href="http://www.loaturbocharge.com/sales_pages/2124" target="_self">eBook</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456351966?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=paulymathcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1456351966" target="_blank">Paperback</a> format.</p>
<h2>Special Pricing for Christmas</h2>
<div id="attachment_3886" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC03780.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3886" title="Law of Attraction Turbocharge" src="http://www.paulymath.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC03780-300x225.jpg" alt="Law of Attraction Turbocharge" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Law of Attraction Turbocharge</p></div>
<p>With Christmas coming up, I&#8217;ve also decided to reduce the price of the book by 25% from $27.00 down to $19.99.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;ve wanted to learn how to get better results with the Law of Attraction in 2011, this is your chance to get the book at a discount.</p>
<p>So far I have received very positive feedback on the content of the book from those who bought the eBook version.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.paulymath.com/2010/11/22/my-first-video-testimonial-for-law-of-attraction-turbocharge/" target="_self">Josh Lipovetsky</a> liked the eBook so much he even recorded a <a href="http://www.paulymath.com/2010/11/22/my-first-video-testimonial-for-law-of-attraction-turbocharge/" target="_self">video testimonial</a> for me.</p>
<p>There are a few other testimonials I have from people which I haven&#8217;t put up yet.</p>
<p>If anyone bought my eBook and would like to leave a testimonial on Amazon, that would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<h2>Amazon Affiliates Welcome</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re an Amazon Affiliate, you can also promote my book as an affiliate and earn some extra income.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not quite sure how to create an Amazon affiliate link, send me an email through my contact form and I&#8217;ll be glad to help.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the book on Amazon:</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over two months now I&#8217;ve been working a new eBook about the Law of Attraction. I&#8217;ve been a believer and successful practitioner of the Law of Attraction for almost a decade. In the last five years I&#8217;ve seen the concept of the Law of Attraction rise to become a world-wide phenomenon shortly after the [...]]]></description>
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<p>For over two months now I&#8217;ve been working a new eBook about the Law of Attraction.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been a believer and successful practitioner of the Law of Attraction for almost a decade.</p>
<p>In the last five years I&#8217;ve seen the concept of the Law of Attraction rise to become a world-wide phenomenon shortly after the release of the movie &#8220;The Secret&#8221;.</p>
<p>When I first saw &#8220;The Secret&#8221; I immediately blogged about it and recommended people to watch it about 8 months before it was featured on Oprah and became huge.</p>
<p>What I really liked about &#8220;The Secret&#8221; is that it was a great introduction to the Law of Attraction.  The movie covers some of the very basics of the Law of Attraction, interviewing many of the world&#8217;s Law of Attraction masters.</p>
<p>However, I never saw &#8220;The Secret&#8221; as a &#8220;How To&#8221; manual for making the Law of Attraction work.  The movie barely scrapes the surface of just a few Law of Attraction concepts and even then it oversimplifies them to an extreme.</p>
<p>At first &#8220;The Secret&#8221; rose to great heights as people jumped on the bandwagon and all hoped they would be able to manifest Ferrari&#8217;s in their driveway out of thin air.</p>
<p>Of course when that didn&#8217;t happen, everyone began bashing the Law of Attraction as fake.</p>
<p>What a shame.</p>
<h2>What the Law of Attraction Isn&#8217;t</h2>
<p>Learning to consciously use the Law of Attraction to manifest the life of your dreams is not something you can learn in a few minutes.</p>
<p>Much the same way as learning a martial art, or a sport, the Law of Attraction takes practice, testing and skill building.</p>
<p>I guess I can count myself lucky as my first exposure to the Law of Attraction wasn&#8217;t through the movie &#8220;The Secret&#8221;.  I learned about it years before &#8220;The Secret&#8221; came out and by the time the movie was out I had already used the Law of Attraction to manifest hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra income as well as a house, car, and many other things.</p>
<p>Because of this I have a deep conviction and belief in the Law of Attraction and how it works.  I always looked at learning how to consciously use The Law of Attraction as a skill, a muscle to be developed like any other.</p>
<p>I never looked at it from the point of view that it is some kind of &#8220;secret&#8221;, which you master simply by learning about it.</p>
<p>If you think the Law of Attraction is some kind of &#8220;secret&#8221; technique which you can master in a few seconds after learning the secret, you will most likely fail.</p>
<p>If, however, you approach the Law of Attraction from the point of view of a skill which you can develop, you <strong>will </strong>see results rather quickly.</p>
<h2>Why I Wrote this eBook</h2>
<p>After many surveys and countless conversations with my coaching students and other Law of Attraction practitioners, I discovered that when it comes to the Law of Attraction most people experience the following challenges:</p>
<ul>
<li>They report that they know what the Law of Attraction is and believe they know how to use it.</li>
<li>They report sporadic results at best.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.</li>
<li>They report having great success in some areas of their life with the Law of Attraction, but poor results in other areas.</li>
<li>They report not know what they are doing wrong.</li>
<li>They report that they don&#8217;t know how to shorten the amount of time it takes to see results with the Law of Attraction.</li>
</ul>
<p>Countless survey reports have shown me that these are the most common challenges people have with the Law of Attraction, so a couple of months ago I set out to write an eBook to help people overcome these challenges.</p>
<p>About two months later I have finally finished putting the finishing touches on the eBook and am now offering it for sale starting today.</p>
<p>This eBook contains 9 key strategies which I believe are missing from people&#8217;s Law of Attraction toolbox.</p>
<p>These are strategies which I have learned as a result of almost 10 years of study and experimentation with the Law of Attraction.</p>
<p>These are strategies which I have not seen in any other Law of Attraction book &#8211; and believe me I have read many!</p>
<p>I have never previously released this material, except in private coaching sessions with my mentoring students.</p>
<p>I was originally considering teaching this material in a group teleclass setting as a <strong>$497</strong> course on advanced Law of Attraction tactics.  I <strong>know</strong> the strategies I teach work because I have personally used them to manifest some incredible things in my life, so I know the course would have been a great success.</p>
<p>However, after starting to work on the course I thought about all the people out there right now who don&#8217;t have <strong>$497</strong> to buy a course right now, regardless how effective it will be in their lives, so I decided to create an eBook version of the course which I could offer for much less then the course.</p>
<p>That is how the idea for my Law of Attraction Turbocharge eBook was born.</p>
<p>Guys, I poured all my energy and heart into this eBook and I fully guarantee that you will see results after reading and applying what I teach within.</p>
<p>This is not some cheesy 3 page report type eBook with re-hashed ideas you&#8217;ve heard before.  This eBook contains 78 pages of Law of Attraction content you&#8217;re going to love.  It took me over 14 hours just to edit the thing after I finished writing it!</p>
<p>I will be selling the eBook for <strong>$47</strong> and offering <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a full no-questions asked money back guarantee for 60 days.</span></p>
<p>Read it, use it in your life, and if you don&#8217;t see results I&#8217;ll refund you every penny.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>I&#8217;ll take all the risk!</strong></span></p>
<p>For a limited time I&#8217;m even going to go a step further and <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">offer the eBook for just $27 for my Blog readers</span></strong> by following this link:</p>
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		<title>Changing My Blogging Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Piotrowski</dc:creator>
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<p>I decided it&#8217;s time for a change in Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g strategy.</p>
<p>I have been finding it more difficult to write content for this Blog, and have really been wondering why that is.  It is definitely not due to a lack of content pumping through my mind, as I am always writing in my journals, having conversations with others and pumping out a tonne of email every day.  Content is not the problem.</p>
<p>What I have been noticing though is that while I take a very non-linear approach to writing in my journals, and I don&#8217;t even attempt to try to explain things I already know &#8211; on my Blog I always try to write from the perspective of talking to someone who has never ready any of my other content.  This has become an increasingly difficult task because all of my content builds on top of other content.</p>
<p>For example, when I write about beliefs or Law of Attraction or the Universe, or subjective reality or intention manifestation or nutrition or Warhammer for that matter, there are specific words and concepts that I typically cover in previous posts and for those that read all of my content it should be easy to follow along but for anyone new to the Blog it might be easy to misunderstand what I am referring to.</p>
<p>However, I&#8217;m not going to let that stop me from writing content anymore.  I&#8217;m just going to write the same way I write in my journal and if anyone is confused or unsure about something they can always leave a comment asking a question or search through my past content to find references to what I am referring to.</p>
<p>Secondly, the other aspect of my Blog<a href="http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin/" class= "linkcloak" rel="nofollow">gin</a>g strategy that I am going to be changing is switching from a more &#8220;teacher&#8221; style of writing where I write content  based on things that I have learned and tested in my life and know to be true, to a more &#8220;explorer on a journey&#8221; style of writing where I&#8217;m going to share my journey more &#8211; even if my thoughts, theories and concepts are untested and I&#8217;m just as confused about them as my readers.  For example, the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thinking and writing about Law of Attraction and how it fits in with the Universe and mass consciousness but I still have more questions than answers so far.</p>
<p>In the past I wouldn&#8217;t write about this stuff until I&#8217;ve had time to really consider what the truth is and experiment and test it out in my life, but now I&#8217;m just going to Blog my thoughts on a more regular basis.</p>
<p>In this way, I&#8217;m hoping that my Blog will become a more social platform for people to engage in conversation and discussions where we can all co-discover our own truths, and then I can always write eBooks or create products later which are more based on my personal experiences and experiments with these theories.</p>
<p>I do also plan on jumping around with my content discussing all the different things that excite my Paulymath mind instead of trying to keep things centered around one or two topics.  That is the reason I created this Paulymath Blog in the first place, but I haven&#8217;t yet taken advantage of it yet until now.</p>
<p>Hope you guys like this new direction and I look forward to pumping out a lot more content for you guys very soon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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