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		<title>Why Blogging Is Vital For NLPers &amp; other Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started my Modern Jedi NLP On-Line/Hands-On Course, one of the ideas I had was to allow the students to answer their certification quizzes after each section of the course on their blogs. It ocurred to me that this would be a win/win on a number of levels.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I started my Modern Jedi NLP On-Line/Hands-On Course, one of the ideas I had was to allow the students to answer their certification quizzes after each section of the course on their blogs. It ocurred to me that this would be a win/win on a number of levels.</p>
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<li>The student would have a chance to learn a vital, low cost marketing skill that would help his/her practice.</li>
<li>The fact that the student was answering in a public forum would challenge them to truly think about what they were learning.</li>
<li>Since blogs are so much more search engine friendly than regular websites, it would enable the prospective NLP practitioner to begin to show up in Google searches.</li>
<li>It also occurred to me that it would help spread the word about the Modern Jedi NLP training as well.</li>
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<p>One of my students, Josh Kronlund chose to answer his quizzes on a free blog he set up in minutes.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Check out what happens when you google &#8220;Josh Kronlund NLP&#8221; </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> Here are the screen shots captured on 09/24/09:</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Screen Shot 1: this first group shows mentions of Josh in my blog (which you are reading)<br />
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Screen shot 2: is still the first page of google and Josh gets a couple of direct listings for his blog.</span><br />
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<p>Now, admittedly there is a lot to the art of blogging and getting search engine ranking.</p>
<p>I learned most of what I know about blogging and using it as a marketing tool from <a title="How to start a blog now" href="http://howtostartablognow.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Rob Bronson &amp; Michael Guerin.</strong></a></p>
<p>If you want to boost your business you definitely need to learn this stuff. Here&#8217;s how:</p>
<p>Mike &amp; Rob are offering a new course which they are beta testing (which means it will be at a fraction of it&#8217;s value)</p>
<p>Check it out here and tell them I sent you. (actually they&#8217;ll know where you visited their site from and they&#8217;ll teach you how to know that stuff too.</p>
<p>here&#8217;s the link: <a title="How to start a blog now" href="http://howtostartablognow.com/" target="_blank"><strong>http://howtostartablognow.com/</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Comments? Leave em below!</strong></p>
<p><strong>all the best, </strong></p>
<p><strong>Mark Shepard, Modern Jedi Guy<br />
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		<title>7 Ways of Dealing With Negative People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7 ways of dealing with negative people at home or in the office]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got a very thoughtful comment from one of my readers in response to my <a title="Negative People" href="http://modernjedi.com/brainwashing-vs-influence/" target="_blank"><strong>Brainwashing vs. Influence article</strong></a> that warranted a full post in reply.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Your article really hit a nerve, since my wife and i were talking about my parents recently. my dad retired 6 years ago, and my mom retired last august. and now they sit around the house, watch way too much fox news, and complain about the world. It’s sad.</p>
<p>We used to get together and have a lot more fun.</p>
<p>Now… it’s different. when they visit I’m always telling them (hey, no news, ok?) so they’ll change the channel.</p>
<p>Being self-employed for more than 5 years has made me nearly fanatical about staying positive, surrounding myself with positive people, and avoiding energy-draining negativity.</p>
<p>Here’s a question for you? <strong>Why is it that bad attitudes are so contagious? </strong>Any nlp wisdom for that one?</p>
<p><strong>If you are around negative people and can’t get away from them (i.e. you share the same office, etc.), what can you do?</strong></p>
<p>thanks,</p>
<p>Michael Guerin, <a title="Merchant Account Processing Specialist" href="http://www.ampyourcashflow.com/" target="_blank">Merchant Account Processing Specialist</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Why are bad attitudes so contagious?</strong></p>
<p>The simplest answer is: Thoughts have an energetic frequency. Like sound vibrations, they broadcast outward and affect other fields.  Like a contagious rhythm your energy field will begin to pick up the vibration and start to entrain to it. In a drumming circle if someone is really off the rhythm it will pull everyone else off. UNLESS. The main group of drummers listen to each other and not to the out of rhythm one. In this case the more powerful and plentiful rhythm will overwhelm and drown out the &#8220;negative&#8221; one.</p>
<p>If there is a group of twenty really bad drummers and one really good drummer he will be taken down to their frequency. He may have to stop and take his drum and get out of there.</p>
<p><strong>If you are around negative people and can’t get away from them (i.e. you share the same office, etc.), what can you do?</strong></p>
<p>Other than staying away from negative people there are a few things you can do to protect yourself from the viral power of negative thoughts spewing from the world around you. Most of them use the power you have to manage your own thoughts:</p>
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<li><strong>Imagine a powerful force field around yourself </strong>that &#8220;Zaps&#8221; negative external thoughts like a bug zapper.</li>
<li><strong>Imagine yourself big and huge and powerful like the &#8220;Jolly Green Giant&#8221;</strong> waaaaay up above the little &#8220;chirps&#8221; of negative voices down below you. It also helps to imagine the negative people to be like whiny little children. You don&#8217;t hold it against kids that they can get whiny. But you also don&#8217;t tolerate it.</li>
<li><strong>Chant inside your own mind: &#8220;Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine.&#8221;</strong> also put it in 2nd and 3rd person: &#8220;Why does it work out better than you can possibly imagine?&#8221; and &#8220;Why Does it work out better than they can possibly imagine?&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>In some cases you may need to challenge them.</strong> I would suggest that instead of confrontation, you use the Modern Jedi NLP techniques of &#8220;Positive Negatives&#8221;. Here&#8217;s an example: &#8220;I&#8217;m not suggesting that you are really being negative,  but it seems to me that someone as intelligent as you are could notice some positive aspects about that situation that might put it into perspective&#8230;&#8221; This statement &#8220;calls&#8221; them on their negativity and also compliments and challenges them all at the same time.</li>
<li><strong>Another possible solution is to put your parents to work!</strong> If they have nothing better to do than sit around watching TV give them a job. Teach them how to do some of the things that you need help with in the office. Engage them to help with the grand kids. If they feel needed and have something vital to contribute they may make a shift.</li>
<li><strong>For people who you have to share an office with</strong> or who are on a team with you, but who you have no managerial responsibility,  <strong>be very careful.</strong> In a meeting where new ideas are being offered, the &#8220;devils advocate&#8221; types will kill innovation if they are allowed in too soon. However, they <span style="text-decoration: underline;">can</span> envision what can go wrong with something, so later on they can be an asset in de-bugging an idea or process.</li>
<li><strong>Ultimately, we <span style="text-decoration: underline;">always</span> have a choice.</strong> If you are feeling stuck in a molasses like goo of negativity at work or at home you may have to leave. I know that may sound extreme but it may be necessary to protect yourself or give yourself some time to get stronger.</li>
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<div class="comment">To sum it all up:</div>
<div class="comment"><strong>First: </strong> You have to manage and take charge of what you can control. Your own mind. Turn up your inner positive volume and use the power of your imagination to turn the negative voices down.</div>
<div class="comment"><strong>Second:</strong> Look for ways and resources that will enable you to either distract the negative people or to use their negativity in a positive way. But again, you have to be in charge of it. Lead them away from negativity and towards positivity. In some cases you might have to lay out the rules.</div>
<div class="comment"><strong>Third: </strong> If all else fails? Get the hell away from them! <img src='http://modernjedi.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> ) Life is too short to allow other people to drag you down to their level.</div>
<div class="comment">Want to learn more?  There are plenty more tools and techniques that you can discover when you decide to</div>
<div class="comment"><strong>&#8220;Defeat The Dark Side and Master Your Mind For A Change With NLP.&#8221;</strong></div>
<div class="comment"><a title="Master Your Mind For A Change! Learn NLP" href="http://modernjedi.com/nlp-trainings" target="_blank"><strong>Check out the Modern Jedi On-line/Hands-One NLP Training</strong></a></div>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 1 of a Question and Answer call about Mark Shepard&#8217;s Modern Jedi NLP Online Course (recorded 4/29/2009)
Introduction to the Modern Jedi NLP Online Course

Convenient
Affordable
Multi-media
NLP Community Master-Mind
A few examples of Real People Using NLP Michael Guerin and Rob Bronson
Graduates of this course will be able to be certified NLP Practitioners or they can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>This is Part 1 of a Question and Answer call about Mark Shepard&#8217;s Modern Jedi NLP Online Course (recorded 4/29/2009)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Introduction to the Modern Jedi NLP Online Course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Convenient</li>
<li>Affordable</li>
<li>Multi-media</li>
<li>NLP Community Master-Mind</li>
<li>A few examples of <a title="Real People Getting Results w NLP" href="http://modernjedi.com/real-people-getting-results-with-nlp/" target="_blank"><strong>Real People Using NLP</strong></a> Michael Guerin and Rob Bronson</li>
<li>Graduates of this course will be able to be certified NLP Practitioners or they can just use the tools and techniques to improve their lives.</li>
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<p><strong>Q: What is NLP?</strong></p>
<p>A: Neuro Linguistic Programming is all about how you run your mind. How you interpret the external world and make sense of it internally. It&#8217;s also the study of excellence. It&#8217;s also all about how you communicate with other people.</p>
<p>NLP is partly modeled on the work of Dr. Milton Erickson, MD &#8220;the father of Modern Hypnosis&#8221; as well as some of best Therapists, athletes, business people, etc.</p>
<p>Your behavior, thoughts, reactions, interpretations of the world, etc are under our control&#8230;if we knew how to access the &#8220;programs&#8221;. People can make incredible improvements in their lives, relationships and work rapidly.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Can NLP help with changes where a person knows they should eat more vegetables but just never does?</strong></p>
<p>A: Yes. I give a short introduction to NLP submodalities on the recording.</p>
<p><strong>Q: A question about Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic channels of communication.</strong></p>
<p>A: I give an example of making a quick change with a client using kinesthetic submodalities (over the phone while in the grocery store)</p>
<p><strong>Q: How young can a client be and what intelligence level is needed for success with NLP?</strong></p>
<p>A: Works great with kids. Works with all intelligence levels as long as a client can access their imagination.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Can you explain about how your unconscious mind doesn&#8217;t recognize the difference between what is real and what is a memory or an imagined event?</strong></p>
<p>A: Explained with example</p>
<p><a title="NLP Certification Trainings" href="http://modernjedi.com/nlp-trainings/" target="_blank"><strong>Register for the Modern Jedi NLP Online Mind Mastery Course </strong></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us out here on the front lines of entrepreneurship, there is one constant that either makes us or breaks us&#8230;
And that&#8217;s US!
As cartoon strip character Pogo said many years ago &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is us!&#8221;
Ultimately, wherever we are is the result of our thoughts, beliefs, values, decisions, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For many of us out here on the front lines of entrepreneurship, there is one constant that either makes us or breaks us&#8230;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s US!</p>
<p>As cartoon strip character Pogo said many years ago &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us!</span>&#8221;</p>
<p>Ultimately, wherever we are is the result of our thoughts, beliefs, values, decisions, and actions (BTW &#8220;inaction&#8221; is actually the action of not doing anything).</p>
<p>Since NLP provides us with easy to use maps for recognizing and changing our own blocks, patterns, behaviors, fears etc. it makes a great tool for business people. What I love about folks in business is that they &#8220;get&#8221; that if something is costing them, they have to change it.</p>
<p>My business clients &#8220;get&#8221; that if they spend $100 dollars to clear something that&#8217;s holding them back and hurting their company or their success and they make an additional $100 dollars, then it wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;cost&#8221; it was an <strong>investment that just paid for itself. If that $100 investment brings a return of $200 or $1,000 then it is a &#8220;no-brainer&#8221;.<br />
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<p>Typically, I find that when people clear the block that has held them back they go on to exponentially increase their income and their effectiveness as leaders in their respective fields.</p>
<p>Two examples that come to mind of people who have made revolutionary change in their lives as the result of learning NLP are <strong>Michael Guerin</strong> and <strong>Rob Bronson</strong>.</p>
<p>Michael has been kind enough to share his story with my readers on a number of occasions as well as on the phone and in an extensive video interview.</p>
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<p>The bottom line for Mike is that before he worked with me he could barely use the phone. He literally had a phone phobia. He also suffered from agoraphobia so basically, he couldn&#8217;t get out and meet and greet new clients and he couldn&#8217;t call prospects on the phone! Not a recipe for success in business! We did my basic NLP breakthrough process and within hours he was on fire! As he said in his interview with me, &#8220;It was really strange because it was like the old pattern was just gone! As if it had never existed in the first place&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Mike has gone on to increase his <a title="Amp Your Cash Flow Merchant Services" href="http://ampyourcashflow.com" target="_blank"><strong>Credit Card Merchant Processing business</strong></a> so much that he is now training other associates to work for him. He has also expanded into helping other business owners make sense of online interactive marketing. In this severe economic climate Michael Guerin&#8217;s businesses are thriving and growing by leaps and bounds. That&#8217;s the power of NLP to help us get out of our own way.</p>
<p>Which brings me to <a title="Robert Bronson blog" href="http://www.robertbronson.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Rob Bronson</strong></a>. Rob is my good friend and technical adviser. This blog format and all the videos I&#8217;ve been doing is the direct result of Rob using my own NLP stuff on ME! I had a lot of technological RESISTANCE. which Rob helped me to release!</p>
<p>I first got to know Rob when he took my <a title="NLP Sales tools" href="http://reluctantsales.com" target="_blank"><strong>&#8220;Reluctant Sales Person&#8221; training</strong></a> a couple of years ago. And immediately started implementing the tools and techniques he&#8217;d learned there. As a genius level technical guy, Rob had a little trouble relating to the rest of us non-geek types. Through the NLP sales training he learned how to speak another person&#8217;s language and how to communicate the way other people preferred to communicate so that he could maintain rapport and get his message through in a way that could be well received.</p>
<p>Rob learned how to get out of his own world and to enter into the world of his client.</p>
<p>A year ago Rob and Mike and I began to meet every Monday in a &#8220;Master Mind&#8221;. We would frequently spend the entire day learning about internet marketing and search engine optimization, blogging, copy writing and basic business tools, techniques and philosophy. We also continually put NLP into practice and shared our successes and challenges. We supported each other and acted as sounding boards for each other. Personally it saved my business and my sanity on a number of occasions.</p>
<p>At one point Mike did not even have his own website up. At one point Rob was living in someone&#8217;s basement. At several points, I was tangled up in my own &#8220;stuff&#8221; and they helped &#8220;coach&#8221; me through the tunnel and out to the sunlight.BTW we <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> need the help of other people. NLP does not make anyone invincible or perfect.</p>
<p>It was a year of stripping the paint down to the surface and sanding and honing ourselves. and then as the financial storm clouds gathered back in the fall of 2008 something magical happened, Rob and Mike began to form a partnership that was all about helping other people in business save time and money and benefit from what they had learned and put into practice&#8230;</p>
<p>Now with their new business <a title="Best Web Presence" href="http://www.bestwebpresence.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Best Web Presence </strong></a>they are so busy I haven&#8217;t seen them in weeks. They are signing up clients left and right at a time when there are thousands of &#8220;Chicken Littles&#8221; running around screeching &#8220;The sky is falling! The sky is falling.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The point of my story is that there is a set of tools and techniques that if used properly will enable you to clear through the clutter of your own thinking and patterns of behavior</strong>. Once you clear the personal blocks that are holding you back, fasten your seat belt because things can change rather quickly. At this time last year neither Rob, nor Mike nor I knew how far we would have journeyed from where we began. It truly has &#8220;turned out better than they could possibly imagine&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Does rapid change seem to be pretty scary to a lot of folks? Sure. But that&#8217;s a subject for another post&#8230;</p>
<p>If you are curious about how NLP can help <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your</span> business please call me at 203-804-1208 or e-mail me mark [at] markshepard.com. You can also <a title="NLP Certification Trainings" href="http://modernjedi.com/nlp-trainings/" target="_blank"><strong>learn more about NLP Certification here</strong></a></p>
<p>Please share this post with anyone you know who may be struggling with their business or who may be ready to break through the blocks and experience more success.</p>
<p>- Mark Shepard, NLP Trainer, Songwriter, Visual Artist, Author, Speaker&#8230;</p>
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It&#8217;s not about having an inferior product or too much competition.
It&#8217;s not having too little capital
It&#8217;s not having some wacky idea that no one wants and then trying to get every friend relative and innocent passerby to &#8220;drink the kool-aid&#8221;.
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<ul>
<li>It&#8217;s not about having an inferior product or too much competition.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not having too little capital</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not having some wacky idea that no one wants and then trying to get every friend relative and innocent passerby to &#8220;drink the kool-aid&#8221;.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not having a great idea that people don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; or a great idea that&#8217;s ahead of it&#8217;s time.</li>
<li>It has nothing to do with how smart or creative you are.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not starting a business with absolutely no clue how to sell (although that&#8217;s a biggie and if selling is a problem for you check out <strong><a title="Help for The Relcutant Sale Person" href="http://www.ReluctantSales.com" target="_blank">www.ReluctantSales.com</a></strong> )</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not any of the dozens of personal and professional challenges most self employed <span style="color: #000000;">entrepreneurial types struggle with.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Biggest, Huge-est, Most GIGANTIC Mistake Business Owners Make is s</strong><strong>imply this:</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Trying to do everything.</strong> Not knowing how to delegate. Not having systems in place so that other people can do the things you are not good at. Spending precious time on tasks and projects that could be delegated instead of focusing your energy on what you do best and on what brings in the money.</p>
<p><strong>When you try to do everything in your business you are bound to fail. Even the smallest business is a ravenous, many headed serpent that one person can never hope to keep fed.<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Even though a key concept of NLP is that &#8220;there is no failure only feedback&#8221;. In Business, the &#8220;feedback&#8221; of less money coming in than going out or of the owner rushing around from dawn until the &#8220;wee hours&#8221; can only go on for so long until something has to change. Either</p>
<ul>
<li>the business ceases to exist due to lack of money or</li>
<li>the business owner gets totally exhausted, burned out or sick or</li>
<li>the business owner finally wakes up and does something different.</li>
</ul>
<p>We also have a saying in NLP: &#8220;The most flexible communicator controls the system.&#8221; As the owner of a business (even if you are a Reiki master if you are working with clients you are a business owner), it is your communication to yourself, your clients and the people who work in and with your business that must lead and control the direction of your enterprise&#8230;(beam me up Scotty! I just wanted to help people!)</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the catch 22! </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">When you are starting a business on a shoestring and a prayer, how do you get the kind of help that can enable you to grow your business if you have no extra wads of cash laying around?</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>You need the help to grow your business but you can&#8217;t pay for the help until your business grows!</strong> Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place! <em>(In NLP We call it a &#8220;double bind&#8221;)</em></p>
<p>Can i share a personal example?</p>
<p>Last year. September of 2007 this idea hit me really hard between the eyes and it wasn&#8217;t pretty. For 25 years I&#8217;ve been self employed and always struggling. In retrospect I was close to major success and breakthroughs several times but I literally got worn out and burned out to the point where I just couldn&#8217;t personally sustain things and then it would all fall apart. Then I would give up in disgust and go start a different business from scratch and make the same mistake all over again.</p>
<p>July of 2007 I taught my first full blown NLP practitioner certification training to a small group of students. It was great! I loved teaching the class. I loved sharing the powerful life changing concepts of NLP and Hypnosis and  Time Line Therapy™ but the gargantuan effort of preparing for the class, creating workbooks, cd sets and ordering all the other supplies and finding a place to have the training and getting the students in the seats and all the registration procedures and then correcting the exams and creating certifications and sending them out and then preparing the Master Practitioner level program and teaching that one weekend a month in addition to performing and booking all my own gigs and cleaning my house and seeing private clients and going to networking meetings and taking courses on how to do all this stuff better&#8230;</p>
<p>left me&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>totally&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>and&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>completely&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>exhausted&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>and while I was so busy doing all of that stuff. I didn&#8217;t always have time to keep an eye on the bottom line and so all of a sudden even though I was working my brains out&#8230;I was out of cash flow&#8230;.oops! <img src='http://modernjedi.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> (</p>
<p>Does any of this ring a bell with any of you out there? Are you getting the picture? Can you grasp my concept here?</p>
<p>I mean you can have all the Modern Jedi Mind Mastery training in the world, but <strong>if you try to run a business, any business, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all by yourself </span>you will eventually crash and burn&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p>Yup. I know what I&#8217;m tawking about&#8230;uh huh and it ain&#8217;t pretty&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, there is no failure. There really is only feedback and so we &#8220;passionate ones&#8221; pick our selves up off the ground and dust our selves off and start asking ourselves some really good (if hard) questions.</p>
<p><strong>Like &#8220;What is the weakest link in my business?&#8221; </strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>&#8220;Oh&#8230; Shit. </strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>It&#8217;s&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; </strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.ME!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Now stay with me here because I will get you to a powerful solution and it&#8217;s going to solve a bunch of your challenges all at once.</span></strong></p>
<p>So last year, I started a master mind group. Michael Guerin and Rob Bronson were the charter members and we began meeting every Monday just to run ideas by each other and to challenge and support each other and to learn with each other and to help each other see the stuff that we were too close to see in our own businesses.</p>
<p>And it made a huge difference. <strong>It was the first time in 25 years that I wasn&#8217;t alone trying to figure stuff out. I had a team. </strong></p>
<p>For example: At one point <strong>Rob Bronson</strong> &#8220;pushed&#8221; me kicking and whining and complaining to move all of my websites to GoDaddy.com and saved me $6,000 per year. At one point I pushed <strong>Michael Guerin </strong>repeatedly until he fired his web designer and started taking charge of his online marketing. Mike and I &#8220;pushed&#8221; Rob Bronson to get his butt out of a really negative situation in his life and business and on and on and on&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>So at some point you must form your own Jedi Council or Master Mind Group.</strong></p>
<p>This was so cool that I started inviting some other people to join us and one of them was this amazing woman named<strong> Julie Braun,</strong> she calls herself the  &#8220;Marketing Guru&#8221;. <a title="Julie Braun Design" href="http://www.juliebraundesign.com" target="_blank"><strong>www.juliebraundesign.com</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Julie was doing huge, major, multiple  marketing projects on a scale that made my head spin.</strong> She was doing events and PR and entire marketing campaigns for small to medium sized businesses. She was providing services that would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But she wasn&#8217;t working with Fortune 500 budgets. She was affordable. How did she do it?</p>
<p><strong>It turns out that years ago <a title="SuperInterns.com" href="http://www.superinterns.com/" target="_blank">Julie mastered the art of engaging INTERNS</a>. UNPAID INTERNS</strong>.</p>
<p>Now these are not slaves. These are not college kids who come to your business to do all the yucky work like filing and photo copying (you just may have to pay for that kind of stuff. Do not even think about doing that crap yourself. You can&#8217;t afford it any more).</p>
<p>Julie was setting up specific projects, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">real</span> honest to goodness projects and allowing students to truly get hands on experience. So she was able to do often times 10 times the work that she would be able to do alone.</p>
<p>She had learned a way to not only leverage her knowledge and expertise but her time and resources in a way that enabled her to Work &#8220;on&#8221; her business as well as &#8220;in&#8221; her business. Her only investment was her time and attention and she developed exactly the skills working with interns that all of us entrepreneurs MUST develop any way if we want our businesses to succeed. <strong>The ability to delegate intelligently</strong>. <strong>The ability to manage other people. The ability to lead. The ability to generate and incorporate intelligent feedback. </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">All without a huge financial risk putting pressure on your learning curve.</span></strong></p>
<p>I got so inspired by that I immediately found a Yale student who wanted to learn NLP, he ended up editing my first year&#8217;s NLP training audio series.  He got to expand his knowledge base and I got a project accomplished that I just didn&#8217;t have time to do. That was my &#8220;big toe in the water experience&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Now over the years, Julie has really fine tuned all of the details and concepts of using unpaid interns in her business to the point where it was just obvious she had to share the goods with those of us who were struggling with this whole &#8220;solopreneur&#8221; thing.</strong></p>
<p>So Last summer she and her business partner <strong>Michelle Demers</strong> <a title="Total business fitness" href="http://www.totalbusinessfitness.com " target="_blank"><strong>www.totalbusinessfitness.com</strong></a> created <strong><a title="SuperInterns.com" href="http://www.superinterns.com/" target="_blank">SuperInterns.com</a> </strong>it&#8217;s what I call a &#8220;Turbo Booster Zoooom  course&#8221; designed to get you up and running with unpaid interns fast.</p>
<p>To be honest, I signed up for the first one but because I was too &#8220;burned&#8221; out from teaching my 2nd NLP training and some personal stuff going on in my life, I never got to class. <strong>BUT they recorded every call and I finished the course later while driving in the car</strong>. <em>My point is you can learn this no matter how busy you are.</em></p>
<p>(BTW Michelle met Julie in a different Mastermind group &#8211; are you getting that you need to &#8220;mastermind&#8221;?)</p>
<p><strong>The Super Interns Crash Course</strong> will be offered again in a few weeks and if you are in business for yourself (or if your employer doesn&#8217;t have the budget to hire the help you need to do your job right) <strong>THIS IS REQUIRED. You owe it to yourself to take this.</strong></p>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">This is:<br />
&#8220;Save Your Business (And Possibly Your Sanity) 101&#8243;</span><br />
</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Are you with me on this? I know we all have the attention spans of 2 year olds these days but this is vital so PAY ATTENTION:<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Whether you take the course or not this is so important that you MUST at the very least know about it. I could not live with myself if I didn&#8217;t share this information with you. It&#8217;s that important to your success and sanity.</p>
<p><strong>So I&#8217;ve invited Julie and Michelle to share their stories with me on a telephone call next Wednesday, January 14th from noon to 1:00 PM eastern time.To Register </strong><strong><a title="Register for Noon Call 1-14-09" href="http://tinyurl.com/8mhrdp" target="_blank">Click Here</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>They are also doing an informational call of their own that evening, January 14th at 7:00 pm eastern time. to Register </strong><a title="7 pm Super Interns Call 1-14-09" href="http://tinyurl.com/8ntgr9" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
<ul>
<li>The Call at Noon will be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">me</span> interviewing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">them</span> (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">you</span> will also be able to ask questions).</li>
<li>The call in the evening is totally their show. So you have some choices.</li>
</ul>
<p>The calls are free and whichever one you can make, <strong>it will be well worth your while to take an hour to find out how you can get some relief from the grind</strong> of being the sole practitioner or sole proprietor or solopreneur. It could save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars and possibly enable you to truly catapult your business to the moon. It&#8217;s also one very creative way to move forward even in spite of the dire economic forecast and the worst economy in 100 years.</p>
<p><strong>It is also of interest if you have college age kids</strong> or know some college students of any age because many colleges require internships precisely because the right internship could make all the difference in whether your children get a dull, low paying, soul crushing job right out of school because they have no experience in the &#8220;real world&#8221; or get to work closely with the CEO of a growing international company.</p>
<p>I sat down one day and figured out that I need about 10 interns in my business right now.</p>
<p>so if you know anyone who is interested in or is actively studying these or related fields:</p>
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<li>Arts Management</li>
<li>Internet Marketing</li>
<li>Psychology, NLP, Hypnosis, Personal Transformation and Change</li>
<li>Music,Theater, Storytelling</li>
<li>Graphic Design</li>
<li>Direct Marketing</li>
<li>Sales Skills</li>
<li>General Business</li>
<li>Health and Healing</li>
<li>Peak Performance</li>
</ul>
<p>Call me! 203-495-8808 or e-mail me at mark [at] markshepard.com</p>
<p><strong>Registration page for 12 to 1 pm call –<br />
“How to Get Free Help for Your Business” hosted by Mark Shepard <a title="Register for Noon Call 1-14-09" href="http://tinyurl.com/8mhrdp" target="_blank">Click Here</a><br />
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<p><strong>Registration page for the 7 to 8 pm call – “Unpaid Interns to the Rescue!” </strong><br />
(Super Interns general call) <a title="7 pm Super Interns Call 1-14-09" href="http://tinyurl.com/8ntgr9" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
<p>Just for registering for either/both calls you’ll get a free ebook <strong>“251 Great Internship Projects!” .</strong></p>
<p>If You already &#8220;get&#8221; that you need the course you can click here to: <a title="Super Interns Crash Course" href="http://tinyurl.com/587rap" target="_blank"><strong>Register for the Super Interns Crash Course: How To Put Unpaid Interns To Work For Your Business</strong></a> &#8211; early bird special ends Friday 1/9!</p>
<p><strong>BTW when you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">do</span> decide to take the course, be sure to mention my name and you will get $50 bucks off of the already too cheap price of the course. </strong></p>
<p>Please leave a comment below and share this with as many people as you can</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Mark</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;">If you or someone you love suffers from worry, anxiety or panic attacks this could be the most important message you ever read.</span></h1>
<h2>Give me 2 hours on the phone and I&#8217;ll give you back your life. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Guaranteed.</span></h2>
<p>Have you ever had an idea that was so good and so powerful that it just jolted you up out of bed first thing in the morning? That happened to me today so please forgive me if I get excited about what you are about to read.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the scoop:</strong></p>
<p>On Thursday November 20 at 7:00 pm Eastern US Time you are invited to join me on a powerful phone call where I will walk you and only 19 other folks step by step through each of my powerful and easy to remember, PROVEN anxiety and stress busting techniques. I&#8217;m calling it: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>&#8220;Stop Anxiety Now!&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p>On this call <strong>I will reveal all 17 of  my rapid anxiety busting secrets for the 20 people who are most serious about blasting through anxiety and worry now</strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">This</span> week. Not in a while. Not, after weeks and weeks of endless talking about your problem. Now! <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>This</strong></span> Thursday night between 7:00 and 9:00 PM Eastern.</p>
<p><strong>Warning: This is not a <em>&#8220;FREE&#8221;</em> call. But it <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is</span> absurdly affordable.</strong></p>
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<p>This is not one of those thinly disguised marketing calls where you get teased with just enough info to get hooked into buying some expensive seminar or product. This is real, life changing substance.</p>
<p><strong>On this call I hold nothing back.</strong> You get exclusive access to every single usable tool to crush stress, fear, worry and anxiety that I use with my one on one clients as well as in my own life on a daily basis. I personally used every one of these techniques to blast through my fear and anxiety around performing the <a title="A Life In Song: 30 Years of Mark Shepard's Original Words &amp; Music" href="http://www.markshepardsongs.com" target="_blank"><strong>songs I&#8217;ve written over 30 years</strong></a>. I still use these techniques to manage any stray shreds of anxiety about the economy or my teen age children. Every parent experiences worry. It doesn&#8217;t have to destroy your life.</p>
<p>You get it all at a fraction of the cost of working with me one on one (1:1)</p>
<p>Normally you would pay $500 per hour to get the benefit of working with me. The results I get with even long term phobia and anxiety sufferers has been proven over and over again to be worth every penny.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>&#8220;I doubled my income after working with Mark Shepard to clear my telephone anxiety&#8221; &#8211; Michael Guerin</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Worked for me! Thanks a lot! <img src='http://modernjedi.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  &#8211;  slamedcivic1302</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Thanks a lot man, it really helped me right now about my flying anxiety that I will be on a plane in 12 hours and I was very worried but your tool really helped&#8230;well done &#8211; Blazinhotzulfe</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>After I did this, I felt really happy﻿! &#8211; scubadiverwill</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Thank you so much for the this, wow! you&#8217;re great &#8211; celinademars</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Excellent! Brilliant! Well Done! One of the best I&#8217;ve tried. Instant impact You will help thousands if not millions of people around the world<br />
- swervemufc </em></span></p>
<p>Even with my end of the year  1/2 price telephone coaching special you would still pay $250 per hour to work with me individually and my availability is extremely limited.</p>
<p>This call is cheap. Your satisfaction is totally and completely guaranteed.  <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">And</span> the first 10 to register get a sweet bonus package</strong> worth a lot more that the price for 2 hours of sheer life changing value and personal attention.</p>
<p>The Stop Anxiety Now Call on Thursday night is limited to 20 people because I want to be able to answer each and every question you have. I&#8217;m committed to getting you permanent, positive results fast.</p>
<p><strong>Please note if you have social phobia or extreme shyness:</strong> If your particular anxiety challenge normally keeps you from raising your hand and participating in group situations that&#8217;s okay too. If you&#8217;re not ready to join the group and fully interact, <strong>you can mute your line and get the benefit of listening in. Then during the program, only when you feel ready, you can un-mute and join us at any time</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s simple and easy to do:</strong> if you can dial a phone number you can manage the technical requirements. It&#8217;s that easy.</p>
<p>Of course there are juicy bonuses to reward you for taking action now. I love to spoil my clients with added value.</p>
<p>If you are one of the first 10 people who register you will get these bonuses:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>17 Rapid Change Secrets To Stop Anxiety Without Harmful Drugs or Endless Therapy </strong><strong>Workbook </strong>- instant download <strong> </strong>($59 Value)<br />
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<li><strong>20 Part Audio Set</strong> containing the entire Stop Anxiety Now! program. &#8211; Instant Download ($97 value right there.)</li>
<li><strong>Meet Your Unconscious Mind </strong>Special Report explains why we can achieve change so rapidly when we engage Your Unconscious Mind. &#8211; Instant download</li>
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<li><strong>This call will also be recorded and added to the bonus set</strong>. It will only be available to the people on the call. You&#8217;ll be able to listen and reinforce the 17 rapid change patterns over and over again whenever you need to blast through&#8230;pretty much anything.</li>
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<li>You will also get my <strong>StressBusters CD</strong> ($47 value) &#8211; Delivered by US Postal Service</li>
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<li> You will get my <strong>Eyes on the Horizon CD </strong>($20 value)  &#8211; Delivered by US Postal Service</li>
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<li> Plus I&#8217;m known for throwing in some extras as a special surprise gift.</li>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Your Satisfaction is totally and completely GUARANTEED. The risk is all on me.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Relax and Feel Totally Comfortable Guarantee</strong><strong>: </strong>If at the end of the call you don&#8217;t feel like you got $97 worth of usable tools and techniques to help you eradicate worry and anxiety, I will simply give you your money back. No tricky language or hidden clauses other than this &#8211; you <strong>do</strong> have to be on the call all the way to the end to qualify for your refund. That&#8217;s only fair to give yourself the full program. and it&#8217;s only fair to other people who may have wanted your spot. Attendance is limited. There are only 20 spots so if you have no intention of listening to the full call please do not register. Let someone else have your spot. Other than that it&#8217;s no questions asked. Your satisfaction is guaranteed..</p>
<p><strong>You can call in from anywhere in the world. </strong>(regular long distance charges apply)<strong><br />
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<p>The call is at 7:00 pm US Eastern time. as soon as you register you&#8217;ll be given the phone number and pass code to call. As well as the down load links to all your bonuses.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe <strong>me</strong> when I say you can stop anxiety this Thursday without harmful drugs or endless therapy? Pay attention:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>You were of REALLY GREAT HELP to me!!! All the best. &#8211; Inga</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Thanks dude. It may sound simple and crazy but it does work&#8230;  good stuff man! &#8211; ssips720</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Wicked! Seriously man that was so helpful. I was dreading work today and was also feeling down because another job I applied for were not getting back to me. Using just one anxiety technique I instantly felt better and then I received 2 emails, one saying work was canceled today, and another stating I&#8217;ve got an interview! <img src='http://modernjedi.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />   It&#8217;s so good thinking the best instead of the worst  &#8211; Badger</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>Thank you! It does really help. You are a great man! &#8211; neskasis</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>I&#8217;m 17 and it seems like most of my day is filled with unhappy thoughts and it really prevents me from having any fun. And after using your  NLP anxiety technique I am usually able to really lower my anxiety level. So I just wanted to write to you and thank you for your help. &#8211; Micah</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #291de1;"><em>I just wanted to thank You&#8230; very helpful with lots of great information.  Peace. &#8211;  Loyd</em></span></p>
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</em>Check it out for yourself. It&#8217;s perfectly natural to be skeptical. Particularly if you&#8217;ve tried &#8220;everything&#8221; and still suffer from debilitating anxiety. Most people mistakenly believe that it takes a long time to change. I&#8217;m not promising you will never encounter stress or challenges in your life. That would be absurd. What I do promise is that you will have a whole new set of easy to use tools to deal with the stuff life flings at you.</p>
<p>if you are not 100% satisfied with the program your dough will be on it&#8217;s way back to you the very next day.</p>
<p>All you have to lose is your fear, worry, and anxiety. Guaranteed. For only $97.</p>
<p>What psychotherapist or coach has ever offered you this kind of deal? They want their $150 bucks every week and the longer you take to get better&#8230;the better for them. <strong>Meanwhile you&#8217;ve been suffering just talking about it each week.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>But now for less than $100 bucks</strong></span></p>
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<li>You get 2 hours with me in a small, safe group. ($1,000 value)</li>
<li> You get the entire &#8220;17 Rapid Change Secrets&#8221; manual and audio set that I normally sell for $97 ($97 value)</li>
<li> You get my &#8220;StressBuster&#8221; CD ($47 value)</li>
<li> You get my &#8220;Eyes on the Horizon CD&#8221; with some of my best original songs with NLP language patterns embedded in the lyrics so you feel better just driving down the road listening ($20 value)</li>
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<p>If you can&#8217;t make this call or if the class is full by the time you read this.  RELAX! If there is an overwhelming response (which I think there just might be), I <em>may</em> be open to other time slots to accommodate folks from the UK, Australia etc. You could also just register to get the bonus package. I regularly sell that for exactly the same price but this way you&#8217;ll get the additional recording of the call.</p>
<p>I <em>may </em>possibly offer this again in the future. There&#8217;s no guarantee of that but there&#8217;s no need to get anxious about whether you can get in to a call to stop anxiety. You know what I mean right? Once the class is full I will put any one else who wants in, on a waiting list and you&#8217;ll get first crack on any spot that opens up or if I decided to do another call, you&#8217;ll get first notice before anyone else.</p>
<p>So just go for it. Here&#8217;s the button to register.</p>
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<p>You will be given instructions on how to download the bonuses and the number and passcode for the call.</p>
<p>Talk to you Thursday!</p>
<p>Mark</p>
<p>p.s. if for some reason even the mere $97 bucks for this call seems like something you can&#8217;t do, that&#8217;s why you need this call. Your mind and your money are totally linked. But I appreciate what that&#8217;s like. Been there. done that.</p>
<p>You can still watch my anxiety treatment video series for free. <a title="How to stop anxiety without harmful drugs or endless therapy" href="http://modernjedi.com/2008/10/how-to-stop-anxiety-without-harmful-drugs-or-endless-therapy/" target="_blank"><strong>Anxiety Treatment Video Series</strong></a></p>
<p>You can watch and listen to my <a title="Mark Shepard - Clear The Fear Song" href="http://www.markshepardsongs.com/2008/11/clear-the-fear-song/" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><strong><a>Clear the Fear Song</a> </strong></p>
<p>So no matter what, do not allow your fears and anxiety about releasing your fears and anxiety to stop you from releasing your fears and anxiety. Take action. Don&#8217;t take my word for it. Test it yourself in your own life.</p>
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		<title>How Michael Guerin Cleared His Phone Anxiety With NLP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this extremely important interview I did with Mike Guerin. I know it&#8217;s long but the best part is towards the middle and end so I sincerely urge you to watch or listen to the complete interview.
Michael had suffered from severe phone anxiety and agoraphobia for years until he decided to come and work [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out this extremely important interview I did with Mike Guerin. I know it&#8217;s long but the best part is towards the middle and end so I sincerely urge you to watch or listen to the complete interview.</p>
<p>Michael had suffered from severe phone anxiety and agoraphobia for years until he decided to come and work with me 1:1 to clear it.  I think we did a total of 3 or maybe 4 NLP sessions which included Time Line Therapy &#8482; and EFT (emotional freedom technique).</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got to see this video because Mike and I are having so much fun talking about this stuff!  It&#8217;s kind of hard to imagine this guy ever being terrified of business networking or making sales calls or following up on referrals.<br />
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<p>Here&#8217;s the audio in case you want to download it to your computer/mp3 player and listen on the move!<br />
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For more information about my Clear The Fear Fast programs visit: <a title="Stop Anxiety in 10 Miinutes or Less" href="http://www.ClearFear.com" target="_blank"> <strong>www.ClearFear.com</strong></a></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in business and have questions about credit card processing or merchant account issues, check out Michael Guerin&#8217;s site:<a title="Protect your business from credit card processing rip-offs" href="http://www.ampyourcashflow.com" target="_blank"> <strong>www.AmpYourCashFlow.com</strong></a></p>
<p>Ready to join the <a title="modern jedi nlp trainings" href="http://modernjedi.com/nlp-trainings/" target="_blank"><strong>Modern Jed NLP Practitioner Certification training course?</strong></a> It&#8217;s better, easier, more convenient, more affordable and more effective than ever before! <a title="NLP certificaiton training" href="http://modernjedi.com/nlp-trainings/" target="_blank"><strong>NLP Trainings</strong></a></p>
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