Sara's Positive Affirmations

I don't exercise very much but I actually love to run. The problem is that I don't really run much. Most of it is walking and then I feel like a failure. I recently discovered a little trick that has helped me be more of a runner and less of a walker. As I run I begin to recite in my mind (sometimes even out loud) my positive affirmations. I need to concentrate on them because I'm a stickler for detail and I want to make sure I am reciting them word for word, and I also want to recite them with meaning, so that I truly feel and visualize what I am saying and thinking. Lo and behold, before I knew it I found I had run further than ever before because I had taken my mind off the running and was concentrating on something else!

Try this trick and let me know how it works for you, with the caveat that you keep your eyes peeled for potholes, dogs foaming at the mouth and mad moms driving in their mini-vans while talking on a cell phones.

Another excellent time to recite your affirmations is right before you fall asleep at night. I am going to post my affirmations below and I hope this doesn't bite me in the butt. I'm doing this more as an example of what you can put together for yourself. From what I've read affirmations are self-serving so please don't read mine and think that I'm an egomaniac or a narcissist. I'm actually fairly humble and the affirmations help boost my self-esteem and allow me to love myself and think of myself as a successful, loving human being, which I am, of course!

Here we go:

I am loved
I am beautiful
I am skinny
I am loving
I have a wonderful man who loves me and takes care of me
My guardian angels protect me
Everything I touch turns to gold
I sell Power Pops in abundance
I am abundantly successful on the Internet
I am abundant

As you can see I am "affirming" for weight loss by already visualizing myself as skinny. I am also projecting my business success by currently visualizing myself as abundant. I do this to the point that an image of me making fat deposits at the ATM flashes in my mind.

Send me your affirmations and I'll post them on this blog!

To your health and wealth,

Sara Abrams
www.MagicDietLollipops.com

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Cookouts Can be Enjoyed While Watching Weight!

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Potato Chips...
By Sara Abrams

Today's Thursday and the weekend is almost here. Are you already stressed out about how you're going to survive this weekend's cookout? How will you resist all those yummy grilled foods without going off your diet?

Let's plan a little. You know that if you deprive yourself and don't eat with everyone else, you'll be resentful and may sabotage your diet later on. Why not make it an active weekend so you know that even if you had a hamburger you also walked a little further this weekend, did a few push ups and did some sit ups too. If fish is allowed on your diet, maybe you want to throw that on the grill instead of a fatty burger. Can you live without the bun? Or maybe just half a bun. As far as potato chips go, I'd rather have a few chips and savor them than a bag of baked chips that taste like cardboard.

Now it's time for dessert. If you can resist whatever gooey, succulent treat is part of the cookout, you could definitely substitute a Power-Pop instead of cake or ice cream. The Power Pop will last about 15-20 minutes and by then your urge to snack on something non-healthy will be over. The pops also only have 28 calories so they're a sure bet. And, if anyone asks what you're sucking on, have them call me! The safe and effective double-patented Power-Pops formula uses 6 key natural ingredients to suppress the appetite and food cravings, burn fat and calories, and increase energy levels. They are truly a unique weight loss breakthrough!

Have an awesome summer!

To Your Health & Wealth!

Sara's Success In Business in a Down Economy

I have been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug since I came to Charlotte, NC four years ago. I published two magazines the first year and a half that I was here and watched in disbelief as my savings were gobbled up. Print advertising had begun its rapid decline and was falling quickly out of favor in exchange for web based advertising.

I then began a career in sales but soon learned that inviting people to coffee was the easy part. Unfortunately you also had to "close" the sale. I loved the social part of sales, but wasn't crazy about closing the deal. In hindsight, I can see that creating the magazines and venturing into sales were all leading up to finding the right product to sell. I was also learning about network marketing as I went along, as there never was an MLM product that I didn't think was awesome and something that I could sell the dickens out of.

Probably my biggest blessing was that as I was getting ready to admit defeat and look for a full time job as a legal assistant, the bottom fell out of the economy and there were no jobs. Luckily, I was able to secure a part time job that gave me a base salary and an office full of warm and friendly individuals but barely covered my bills. This forced me to continue with my entrepreneurial quest and finally I found a product that met all my requirements. Power Pops from the Essante group, are a unique diet aid that had not reached the Charlotte region yet. The Power-Pops are sweet lollipops that are eaten half an hour before a meal with a glass of water to activate the ingredients. The ingredients are natural including Hoodia, B-6 and B-12, and suppress appetite and give energy.

I fell in love with the product, began using it myself with good success (11 lbs. so far) and started selling the heck out of them. The company is network marketing and the light bulb went off in my head when I was told that there are less than 10,000 distributors. One of the ways to make money in network marketing is to be one of the first in the company. Essante had everything I was looking for, a sizzle product, a new company, and a vision of becoming the first organic and green network marketing company in the field of health, wellness and beauty products. I also made a determination that I would learn the company and the products and give it my full attention. Success would come from marketing consistency and unwavering faith in the products.

Now that's not to say that I haven't looked into other venturs, like Affiliate Marketing, but my main focus are the Power Pops.

To find out more go to: www.MagicDietLollipops.com

Sara Abrams
704-965-1800

My Adventures in Affliate Marketing

I am not an expert in affiliate marketing but I thought it would be good to share my affiliate marketing adventures with you. First, what is affiliate marketing? According to Wikipedia: Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

If you are looking for a business opportunity that won’t cost you, this is the one. You are the affiliate and all you need to do is advertise someone else's product. When you sell it, you get a commission. Of course there may be costs to the advertising portion and we’ll get to that in a minute.

Where do you find the products to advertise and sell? There may be other websites, but I opened an account on www.ClickBank.com, again at no cost. I then went to their marketplace and put in some keywords of products that interested me. After futzing around with that I decided to be a little more analytical. The easiest way to determine what to sell is either by the hottest sellers on Click Bank or by choosing a niche product with the idea that you will reach a smaller audience but you will stand out more as the choice to buy from. I Googled a few terms and then decided to pick subjects according to the number of “results” that showed up. “Health Cures” produced 1.1 million results, “Health” produced 1.2 BILLION, and “Money Making Online” produced 202 million. I went back to Click Bank and chose some money making products and some niche health products.

Once you’ve picked a product you want from Click Bank’s marketplace, click on “view pitch page” to make sure it looks professional. Then click on “create Hoplink”. A small dialog box will open (I had to reduce my main page to find it). You’ll need to sign in with your Click Bank username, don’t worry about the tracking ID, and hit enter. You’ll then get a URL link for that product and a Hoplink. Copy both to a Word document so that you can easily refer back to them, along with the name of the product you want to promote.

Now for the big question, how are you going to get the word out about these fantastic products so that you can make some nice commissions? This is the part that I’m still struggling with and I will give you my secrets, but if you have more ways, please, please share!

My friend advertises on YouTube. He did some research and found a product that is widely searched for on YouTube. He then made a very static video that lasts 27 seconds and has already sold seven products. I have not done that yet but I probably will give it a try as I was very impressed with his results.

I have elected to advertise with Safelists. I have memberships in both Traffic Exchange websites and Safelist websites and decided that the traffic exchanges are too time consuming for my needs. Safelists are a way of advertising through emails that you agree to receive and in turn all the members of the safelist group have agreed to receive your advertising emails. I go back to the URL link for my product and gain an understanding of what it is offering, write that up in an email format, and set up an email to be sent to the rest of the group. I have seen dramatic traffic with this system for my website www.MagicDietLollipops.com, but no real clicks. I also promote my affiliate marketing on Tweeter with a little tease about the product and the URL site.

I have just recently put all my affiliate marketing products on one web page, www.BelieveInMoney.com, and have begun to advertise that way when I don’t have time to individually promote each product.

Let me know your thoughts on how best to promote affiliate marketing. I think it is an outstanding opportunity for someone to make passive income from the comfort of their home.

Sara Abrams

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Attitude, Belief, Desire

I was going to write about a Power Pops distributor who lost 70 lbs. in 7 months but, that’s old news. We know the Power Pops are magic. We know they work. But how do I work? What motivates me? What keeps me going?

I had posted the following on Facebook:

Do you have affirmations that you say to yourself? I have been reading Louise Hay and trying some on a daily basis. I think it's a very subtle shift that takes place when I do it. For example, instead of berating myself, I try to love myself and always look at the positive instead of the negative. I bolster my self-esteem and confidence before I market my products (ie, cold calls...). It helps. What do you do?

I loved this response I received from Sean:

“Affirmations are great, but a whole lot more powerful if you can tie them to emotions - you then start manifesting things really quickly! Think of thoughts as the rudder on a boat - they point you in a specific direction.... Emotions are the driving force that get you moving in that direction. So essentially whatever affirmation you are thinking of needs to be felt with every fiber of your being. It may be difficult at first, but with practice your entire body will come alive with a single thought. The emotion is what materializes things.”

I hope that helps you too with your sales, or your business, or your relationships. “Feel it with every fiber of your being.” That is how we manifest success!

To your health & wealth,

Sara Abrams
www.MagicDietLollipops.com