QUESTION TO THE GURUS: Why do you promote a new product every month?

Hi CLIFFMN,

A lot of people (not necessarily you, but a lot of people in general) could fast-forward their learning and experience if they took a step back, examined things from afar and found a new perspective.

Sometimes the lessons we are seeking are not the lessons that we get. But once this is understood, we should be alert for the lessons wherever they arrive from, even if they appear from beyond our peripheral vision or from out of left-field. Even if they're not the lessons we wanted, we should embrace them.

For example, it has always astounded me that people come here and should quickly become aware that there are persuasion experts all around. You know, some of the product titles are a giveaway clue like 'mass control' for example. Yet what they see are a bunch of people offering help and free stuff. Then they act shocked and dismayed when the help and free stuff isn't so helpful or free.

They then have two choices. They can either step back and take a look at the big picture from a new perspective in order to see things for what they really are. Or they can soldier on with false assumptions determined to find that quality free stuff and help.

I'll answer some of your points. I'll be blunt, but not in order to offend, but because I actually do offer free help - when I decide to post.

So examine this from a new perspective. Who's at fault here? The persuaders who did their job of 'persuading', albeit by twisting their persuasion into deception? That's tough, but that's the way it goes, sadly. Compute, store in memory banks and get over it quickly.

Were there any clues to the upcoming deception? If so, make notes and remember them for the future. Don't fall for them again.

It was 'hyped for a week.' Did that set off any alarm bells? Should it have? Should it from now onwards?

So they promised to teach without selling but didn't deliver on that promise. Have you ever come across that before? Is this the first time ever that you have encountered such deception?

Blunt response - when are you going to learn?

You were seeking a teacher, so there's the lesson. It might not be the lesson you were seeking, but take it anyway. Or not. It's up to you.

This one's a biggie and it will likely annoy some people. Do you think that if someone is setting out to decieve you, that they really care about whether the information they use as a smokescreen to cover their deception is accurate or not?

Really?

But still, I see tons of people justifying being subscribed to hundreds of mailing lists of people who deceive every time they open their mouth because they want to learn from how they do things, or because they think that the deception is surrounded by quality information.

Who do you think spends most of their time slaving away testing stuff and fnding out real solutions to real problems? The people who are interested in deceiving you?

Why would they? They are busy with deception.

So there's another 'free' lesson. Even when you can identify upcoming deception, you may still be making a grave mistake by exposing yourself to misinformation from someone who has proven themselves to be unreliable. Even if you avoid the actual deception, you may still be deceived by consuming misinformation. Protect the real-estate in your head - don't allow anyone to tamper with it.

You only have to expose yourself to that kind of deception from a particular person ONCE. There is no excuse for the second time. Their deception is not the problem. The problem is people who get deceived yet continue to take exactly the same path in the blind hope that things will turn out differently. These people give the appearance that they actually don't want to learn the lessons which are shoved in their faces.

So you have identified a problem. What is it?

The problem is that what you previously considered as factors that make someone 'reputable' have been exposed as incorrect.

So go backwards. What were those factors? Once you have established what they were, mark them down as the opposite. These are now factors that help you to identify who is likely to not be reputable.

This person 'sponsored' the 'lessons'. 'Sponsored' is newspeak for 'getting paid to promote'. So you have established that someone's reputation for making recommendations has been altered. They have abused your trust. How do you respond to that? Moan? Try to reason with them? Or do you cut the lines of communication between them and yourself forever? Do you also allow this lesson to help you to decide how much time you will allot in future to learning from others and how much you will allot to learning from someone you can trust (like yourself for example)?

Are you starting to see behind the curtain yet? Are you starting to see through the smoke and mirrors?

Continually I see threads here from people who are frustrated as they search for people to teach them how to do stuff online.

If you are one of those people who have found only deception and frustration, here's a novel new approach you could take that I feel like posting every single time I see those type of threads.

Do it yourself.

Teach yourself how to use Google. Develop some initiative - it will take you far in business. Spend your time using the mountain of free online tools out there to reverse-engineer websites that are successful. Use your own eyes and brain to establish what works beyond doubt through observation, analysis and then your own tests.

Don't like being deceived? Then start seeing things as they really are. Have some pride and some backbone and don't allow yourself to be deceived.

Do you not believe that you have the ability to go out there and find the right lessons, solutions and data ON YOUR OWN that you need to create your own education and your own business?

Then you shouldn't even be considering going into business. Go away and come back when you have the belief.

Some people deceive, some people don't. Identify both and choose which ones you want to learn from. If you simply can't find the one group that you want to learn from, then ask whether you trust yourself. Then go and learn from him/her.

HTH.

But that's just it. I'm far from bored. Know what I'm doing right now?

I'm listening to "The Complete Rubber Water"

That's every CD I've ever made all mixed together in like an Ipod kind of
thing that just mixes up the tunes and plays them in all kinds of funky
orders. I may hear a song from 2010 and then a song from 1999.

A little self indulgent? Maybe. But what's more fun than loving YOURSELF?

The day I DO get bored is the day I take a bottle of pills.

And I don't see that happening...EVER.