If you are trying to quit smoking, nicotine withdrawl is perhaps the biggest thing you worry about before you decide to put out your last cigarette while exhaling that last drag.

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My Personal Nicotine Withdrawl

It is now one month since I extinguished my final cigarette at the time of this blog post. I will let you know with all my personal honesty what to expect if you are similar to myself physiologically speaking. Not everyone is the same, so by no means should you consider this to be what automatically will happen to you. Not all nicotine withdrawl is the same for everyone, but here is what happened with me.

• The first two weeks, my hands were subconciously looking for something to do. I would walk out of my job and reach in my pocket looking to grab something which really mentally was my precondition to grab a cigarette and light up and soon as I walked out the door.
• I would noticed my allergies more and odors suddenly became much more obvious.
• I would become EXTREMELY hungry out of the blue and feel the need to eat like a horse.
• I continue to feel extremely lethargic and need to take steps to overcome that.

How I overcame my own nicotine withdrawl.

Now you wonder how I overcame all of these things. Nicotine withdrawl is not as bad as that list of things that I a said may seem. So here is how I beat back each one of those things.

I had gum for every time that I was looking for something to do with my hands and had a drinkng straw to stick in my mouth. I also had toothpicks or anything else that you can stick in your mouth.

For the allergies, well, the sneezing was ok. It was far easier to deal with sneezing than dealing with the daily hacking in the morning just to get the first breath of air in the morning. Every morning when I was smoking, I would wake up hacking up a lung and coughing because I would congest overnight. Well, now that is gone completely a month later. I no longer wake up hacking. I simply chose to deal with the allergies, because that is something that I can work on holistically.

As far as lethargy, well, I must admit, that one is very difficult to overcome. It is perhaps the one thing that has given me the BIGGEST struggle with nicotine withdrawl. Nicotine is a chemical antidepressant so a lot of the natural body chemicals that make us tired are suppressed. This is perhaps the biggest reason why people struggle to quit smoking. So now, I needed a source of energy. I would find it in different teas, vegetables and nutritional supplements. One of the ways that I was able to overcome the energy factor is to use products that help provide energy from my network marketing company. They make products to provide optimum health and energy so it was a perfect match for me.

One final note about my nicotine withdrawl…

Just get over it! I did after over 20 years and over a pack a day. You know about the things that can stand in your way. They are not obstacles. They are a test of your will. Are you comfortable living with cigarettes? I was not. You have to decide that you are not comfortable being a smoker anymore. Besides… You stink!

I know, I did. It took an audio from a great friend of mine by the name of Ray Higdon to put things in perspective enough to realize that I had to be uncomfortable enough to drive me to succeed. With that said, shout out Ray if you happen to pass by this post. Fear and Procrastination is your best product! So if you are able to realize the message and you want to quit smoking cigarettes, stop procrastinating. Stop fearing the nicotine withdrawl and just DO IT!

A major part of attraction marketing is also making sure that you are not scaring people off. That is what we are going to discuss today.

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Attraction Marketing Is NOT Scaring People Off!

Stop with the crazy talk about politics. You know who you are and if you are one of those that is spewing against everything in the government that makes you angry, GET OVER IT! It will not build your business and in fact, it may be scaring off some of your best prospects for your business. If you want to spew hate messages about Obama or about Mitch McConnell or for that fact, any other political figure, set up a different Facebook profile for that and make friends with a bunch of other people that feel the same way.

Let’s agree to one thing that will help your attraction marketing. STOP talking about what these guys in the picture are doing in your social marketing. It is scaring off good prospects.

DO NOT use the Facebook profile that you use to market your business to spew your political emotions. You may be making yourself become TERRIBLE at attraction marketing.

Ok, I know you may be passionate about what you think each one of these guys may be doing wrong and how bad you think they are, but do you realize who may not agree with you?

They always say not to touch religion or politics. I cannot agree with that theory any more than I do now.

Attraction marketing is about bringing in all different types of people into your circle.

When soldiers are in a trench getting ready to turn and fight an armed enemy, do you honestly think that they ask each other if they are liberal or conservative? NO, they don’t. They just do the job. Attraction marketing is exactly the same thing. It is about taking a thought or an idea and throwing it out there because it is an idea that helped you.

We get back to value here. Share value, not your political opinion. Again, do the politics in a different profile.

Use attraction marketing to benefit anyone regardless of their politics or religion.

Can I make it any simpler than that? We often say things that others find to be disagreeable. It may come out of our mouth naturally, but remember, before you hit the “post” or “share” button who may read your post. It may be somebody who likes the other guy or worships the other god but may be one of your best business partners.

So if somebody asks me how I feel, I keep it simple. I tell people that I wish to keep my opinions to myself and fully respect theirs. I also tell them that it is a good idea to use a different profile as I have stated in this article. You can still be politically active. Just be smart about it.

On a seperate note, for those of you who have followed me up until now, my life continues to be smoke free.

In any event, please leave me a comment below if you have anything to say about this part of attraction marketing.

I want to let everyone know how to market on Facebook with two powerful words. Be sure to read on to see how these words are transforming my business by the day.

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How to market on Facebook with 2 words.

Ok, so you have been busy posting thinking that you know how to market on Facebook by placing ads in many groups that allow posting. Yes, you are correct for doing that, provided that you are sharing value, but that is only part of the equation. The other part of the equation comes down to how you follow up. So here they are, the two words that you need to know.

The words “thank you” can go a long way when you learn how to market on Facebook.

Thank you are the two words that teach you the most about how to market on Facebook.

It is crystal clear. All throughout your life, your mother or father always told you how important that it is to use the words “thank you” when somebody does something nice for you. So why should that not apply now? I am going to go into a story about a friend of mine from Facebook. You may find this interesting.

How Shelly Shull Taught You How To Market On Facebook Without You Even Noticing!

Shelly Shull is one of my friends on Facebook. She is very energetic and loves to help people and loves great content. Well, one day, she came across one of my posts in a group somewhere on Facebook before we were even friends. She liked my post, so feeling compelled to appreciate the kudos received, I sent her a thank you message and requested that she become a friend. She accepted and we had a nice conversation.

To this day, Shelly has been the most energized individual and the most outgoing individual in my organization. I have been working a very short time with her and have seen her get past the shyness part of the business faster than most people. You see, Shelly did not internalize things, she just went after them and became a great business partner of mine.

Now, if you want to learn how to market on Facebook, I can give you one piece of advice to start. Thank people who like your stuff. There is one individual that I see quite often who follows this with everything he posts. His name is Patrick Holden, another one of my Facebook friends. I always see him thanking people who like and comment on photos he posts.

This is the reminder that “thank you” may be the two most important words for people who want to learn how to market on Facebook or for that fact, anywhere else.

Often, people get caught up in pleasing the robot for rankings when trying to do SEO copywriting. Their posts do not offer any compelling message that makes the reader want to buy, subscribe or move onto other posts within a blog.

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SEO copywriting is about getting your visitors to take further action on your site after they get there, because traffic is useless unless it has the desired result stemming from that traffic.

SEO Copywriting Is For Your Readers First

Sure, the robots will read your text to determine relevance and quality to decide if they should rank your post, but let us make one thing clear. The robot will NOT do the following things.

• Pull out a credit card and buy from you.
• Subscribe to your mailing list.
• Care about the content that is in your related posts.
• Like you as an individual.

Yes, the robot will determine if you have a quality score that deserves to get you a high rank for the particular keyword that you are using for rankings, but SEO Copywriting is about getting enough traffic while still writing compelling copy to make your readers take a desired action.

Ok, so to do your SEO copywriting, take these simple steps.

1. Define your topic and your keyword. Use only one keyword and do not try to stuff it in there too much. Most of my posts only have a 2% keyword density. It is sufficient.
2. Make your h1 – h3 tags have your keyword, but use the keyword in a sentence inside these tags to make it a bolded statement where possible so it does not simply look like you are pleasing a bot. It looks obvious to many people.
3. Engage your readers. Ask them to like, share and comment on your posts. Offer a giveaway if you are trying to get subscribers.
4. Use visual eye candy so you show up in the images search. A little picture says a thousand words and is instantaneous. By using alt tags, you feed the robot who crawls your site and you feed your readers with a picture of what to expect before they even come to your site so now, your visitors are targeted.

Take your SEO copywriting seriously, because it will take you very far.

We get hung up on SEO as a generality again, trying to please a robot without the credit card. You now have a perspective about what you need to do with your SEO copywriting. You need to feed the robot a little bit, just enough to beat your competition, but you also need to consider your readers and visitors first, because as they always say, your customers come first. Give them what they want and your SEO copywriting will give everyone something to think about, including the robots.

Did you know that the biggest of all mlm secrets is that people join you and not your company?

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MLM Secrets And YOU!

People do not join Empower, EPX, Pure Leverage, Monavie, Visalus, SISEL, Jubirev, Amway, Shacklee, Melaleuca or Xango. They join YOU and that is the biggest of all mlm secrets that you can learn. If you choose not to remember that fact, well, you will fail, because people do not care about the finer points of your business opportunity. They want to know if they are joining somebody that will help them make money.

MLM Secrets: What your company does not want you to know…

• Your company does not own you! You own your own business and all you are doing is distributing their product through a network that you built.
• Your company thinks so little of you that they tell you to sell their product, because it is all they think that you know how to do.
• You have the power to earn multiple streams of income, even if your company discourages it. Ever seen a company go out of business or change the compensation plan to cut your income? Having your backups in a row will keep your income secure.

 MLM Secrets are hidden in plain sight every day.

You know it, I know it. People are promoting different business opportunities all day long. They tell you why theirs is better than yours. Have you ever wondered how people are making checks from many different places? I bet you have. The thought is definitely more appealing than just receiving one check from your MLM company every month. It also guarantees your income should something in the market change that makes people jump to a different company for a particular line of tools. The biggest of all mlm secrets always get back to you and how you can lead a team with one common goal of financial freedom. Remember, you are not here to sell the most vitamins. You are here to gain financial freedom.

Ok, so now I end this post with an offer of sorts. I would not leave you empty handed. Perhaps you are wondering if you will EVER learn all of the mlm secrets that you need to learn.

If you do make the choice to reach out to me for some personal coaching, I will spend one hour with you free of charge and go over your busienss with no strings attached. With that said, here are a few short instructions.

1. Install Skype on your computer. You can get it here.
2. Add me on Skype. My username is lawrence.krakow  Make sure that you use my EXACT username as it appears.
3. Have an open mind! Do not be bound to one business and enslaved by it. It is YOUR business first.

After you add me to Skype, we will schedule one free hour of coaching to see where you are with your business. There are not very many mlm secrets to learn, but one of the mlm secrets to live by is that you control how you earn income. Your company does not. They often do not want you to know many of the best kept mlm secrets out there, because it means that they would not have exclusivity with you.

Ok, well, I didn’t actually make $3509.48 with one action, but you can agree that I have attained that much money and then some for one action that I decided to take. You see, it was 9 days ago that I decided to put down cigarettes forever. I was smoking about a pack and a half per day.

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The Math…

$6.41 per pack X 1.5 packs per day X 365 days in a year = $3509.48 in savings in the first full year of not smoking.

That is just one year of savings from taking one action in my life. Multiply that by 10 if you consider that I will not be smoking 10 years later. Multiply by 20.

Now you have it, a good reason to give it all up, but there is more. If you think that it is just about the money, you are sadly mistaken.

Now that you have seen how I saved the money, here are more reasons that I was able to easily find motivation to do what I was able to do a week and a half ago.

• Smoking makes those who do smoke stink. I realize that now more since I stopped.
• Breathing is far easier.
• I do not have to worry about finding a place to smoke or go out into the cold to light up.
• I do not have to try to push wellness products while smelling like a tobacco farm!

So now, I am 10 days in… When writing this post, I have saved 1.5 x $6.41 x 10 = $96.15…

Every day that number grows. I know that you cannot get back the money that you burned up into your ashtray, but you can do one thing.

Throw away every ashtray and cigarette lighter that you have and stop procrastinating. This also applies to other areas of your life where you may have been procrastinating. It may have to do with shedding pounds or finishing a course. It may be about getting something done around the house that has been lagging or finally taking your family somewhere that you had intended to take them but never did.

It is about replacing the word SOMEDAY with NEVER, because that is the way it is if you say SOMEDAY.

Do you want the truth?

If you say that you will do something someday, you will never do it. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO IT.

Oh and by the way… Honorable mention to Ray Higdon again, your audio definitely made the process easier for me. If you run across this post, share that link in the comments section to your audio about fear and procrastination. I think my readers will absolutely love it. It gave the perspective that I think I really needed to finally get this done.

Do you really KNOW how to overcome procrastination?

The biggest thing that people struggle to understand is how to overcome procrastination, because they often do not realize that they are holding themselves back.

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I quit smoking, because I learned how to overcome procrastination.

JUST DO IT…

It is funny that I say that, because last night, I happened to be catching up on some rest by laying on my couch (no, I don’t do that very often) only to see a documentary pop on about Bo Jackson, the freakishly athletic guy who excelled at baseball and football. Well, we all know that he just did it.

If you want to know how to overcome procrastination, look no further than my post showing you how to stop smoking.

It is now one week since I started to prove that I learned how to overcome procrastination.

My story started many years ago, in fact… Over two decades. The problem that I had was that I always wanted to quit smoking, but the cravings were always more powerful than I was ready to handle. I kept putting it off and putting it off until I finally hit that point in my life where I had to do something about it. It was enough and finally, my vision of living smoke free was far more powerful than the pain of a nicotine fit.

I stopped using the excuses that are common with smoking…

• Oh I will ween down.
• Oh I will get the patch.
• Oh I will get hypnosis.
• Oh I will not hang around smokers.
• Oh I will hide my money so I can’t get it to get cigarettes.

All of these things are feeble ways to procrastinate. If you want to learn how to overcome procrastination, you really need to think about one thing. Does your vision of success far outweigh the pain you will feel if you fail? If you have answered yes to that question, you then have learned how to overcome procrastination.

Are you one of the millions of people around the world trying to figure out how to stop smoking?

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I updated this post at 5:30 AM on 4/11 to add this video to the mix from the prior afternoon. Enjoy!

I bet if you are reading this and really want to know if there is a way that can work for you, I do want to tell you that you are in luck, because there is. It all comes down to you and a truth that is always evident in human behavior.

OK, Here is how to stop smoking.

Just stop NOW.

This is not a magic bullet to help you learn how to stop smoking with pills, patches. weening down or anything else. All of those things are methods of procrastination and will get you absolutely nowhere fast.

Ok, this may be harsh, but it is the truth. There is nothing you need to do to learn how to stop smoking. You just have to stop. I know that it can be painful at first, but it will be a hell of a lot more painful later for both yourself and your family.

Sorry to tell you the truth. I have been there with you.

YOU know how to stop smoking. You just never thought that you did.

It is harsh to tell it this way, but it is the only way.

You cannot procrastinate and you cannot say that you will do it soon or sometime. NOW is the only word that matters because anything else just will NOT cut it. I really do hope that I inspired you today. If I can do it, so can you. If you are in the network marketing industry, this is simply a test to see if you are willing to do things in the moment instead of accepting things the way they are.

The way to do it is start immediately and THAT is how to stop smoking.

I REALLY hate writing posts like this, but seriously people, do you realize that the toes that you step on today are connected to the foot that is part of the person who may kick you in the future? I HATE it when people take advantage of other people and NOW I am going to make a stink.

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So if you start a group on Facebook and invite people in to post as an open group, it does not give you the license to pin your crappy biz opp link on the top of the damn page. You are disrespectful of the people that came into your group in the first place.

All said and done, Facebook is SOCIAL MEDIA!

Not your personal ad board…

People thought it was worth their time to invest their energy into a group that you started and if you want to destroy your group, you will be selfish and keep your stuff on top.

I personally do not care that you are selfish, but…

What does that say about you and how you will treat the people that you want to join your business?

Selfishness is something that WILL defeat you in this industry if that is what you are. Now other than this Ange Laa who is friends with me on Facebook under another profile (NOT FOR LONG HOWEVER) there are several marketers pinning posts at the top of the groups and just ignoring their groups, because they can. There is NOTHING social about what they are doing. NO VALUE…

Just GREEDY self promotion!

Now, this person with the duplicate Facebook profile under a different version of the same name has EXACTLY the same post up in another group.

This is just GREED.

I WILL be unfriending her and am considering doing the same to the people that have pinned posts in the other groups, because…

I wanted to give a huge shoutout to a good friend of mine about some of the self motivation tips that I have been fortunate enough to receive. His name is Ray Higdon and many of you around the network marketing industry are quite familiar with him.

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Fear of rejection and tears from your past do not serve you now. The biggest of all self motivation tips is to JUST DO IT like they said in the old NIKE commercials.

Self Motivation Tips For The Struggling Network Marketer.

As Nike said back in the day, JUST DO IT!

The past few days have been spent listening to Ray’s piece of work called “Fear And Procrastination” where I have been immersed in detail. You see, it is not that often that I find people with effective self motivation tips that REALLY resonate.

These Self Motivation Tips Are About YOU!

I titled this post with the words “no fears no tears” not to tell you that you have to completely get rid of all your fears and all your tears. They will ALWAYS be with you, but only your fears can serve you, but BOTH can hold you back if YOU allow it to happen. I cannot go further into detail about this in a short blog post, because I am really only writing this to acknowledge what Ray has done to help MY personal development.

If your past brings up tears, remember, they do not serve you and help you move forward. Your fears may hold you back if you don’t confront them. Heck, I could not even shoot a video for my first year in the industry, because I was afraid that people would think that my voice sounded funny. My self motivation tips today stem from what I listened to from Ray. Face the fears, talk to people, make that blog post, shoot that video and most of all, do NOT let the negative people hurt your progress, because YOU are already doing MORE than they EVER will until they lose the negativity.,

Take these self motivation tips to heart and stop procrastinating.

Step out of your comfort zone and do the ONE marketing task that YOU fear doing the most. My biggest of all the self motivation tips to you today is JUST DO IT like Nike says.

Here are a couple more self motivation tips.

1. Do NOT let rejection effect you. If somebody says no, there are several billion people on the planet who are available as a market your stuff and programs.
2. Do NOT put off what you can do today. Someday is a word that is worse for you than ANY cuss word in the English language.
3. Your past life struggles and bad things that have happened to you are not something that you can change. You cannot change the past, but you CERTAINLY can impact your future.

If you found value in this post, I would love to hear what you have to say. Tell me in the comments section below what your thoughts are about self motivation tips.