My Favorite Self-Help Stuff

Let me tell you about my happiest discovery on the internet: article marketing.

It’s also called BUM marketing, presumably because you get to sit on your bum and yet can rake in lots of the green stuff. But this is way better than your average BUM marketing course, ecourse, or whatever.

I have them all, and yet, when Jeff Herring, article marketing expert extraordinaire, announces yet another teleseminar, I put it on my calendar immediately!

Why? Easy: Jeff delivers. He does what he says he will do. And then some. Lots of “some.”

And while his great big Internet Marketing Secrets Teleseminar has started, it’s not too late. You can still get in. You’ll just save lots of time… because you can access the audios for the first couple of weeks right away!

Jeff has changed my life. From despair to hope, from bleeding thousands every month to having the inflow increase (slowly so far, but accelerating), it’s all his doing. And especially giving me the confidence and know-how that makes me KNOW I can do it too.

He goes WAY beyond BUM marketing. Check it out right here:

http://www.turboarticles.net

And good luck

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As promised in my book Feeling Better Quickly, I’m going to share my Happy Playlist with you right here on my blog. These are songs I play when I need cheering up or just because. I also often play them when I am already feeling good.

Please note that some of my favorite songs are German — that’s where I grew up and so I have a particularly strong emotional connection to some of the songs that made me feel good when I was young(er).

Some of them might not even be particularly obvious as happy songs — must have something to do with what happened in my life when I used to listen to them that I now, consciously or subconsciously associate with them. There are other songs not yet on that list because I haven’t been able to find electronic versions of them — yet.

Anyway, here they are, in no particular order, or rather, more or less in the order in which they arrived in my iTunes and I was able to add them:

All You Need Is Love (Beatles)

I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles)

Staying Alive (Bee Gees)

Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees)

Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)

Positive Vibrations (Bob Marley)

Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)

Radar Love (Golden Earring)

Samba Pa Ti (Santana)

Black Magic Woman (Santana)

Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones)

I Want You (Bob Dylan)

Pop Muzik (M)

Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)

Jean Genie (David Bowie)

Magic Man (Heart)

Something (Beatles)

Come Together (Beatles)

I’m not in Love (10 cc)

Whisky in the Jar (Thin Lizzy)

All Things Are Possible (Darlene Zschech (Gospel from Australia)

Joy Joy Joy (Francine Jarry/Abraham-Hicks)

Aber Dich gibt’s nur einmal fuer mich (Flippers)

Listen to the Music (Doobie Brothers)

Flashdance (What a Feeling) (Irene Cara)

Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) Janis Joplin

Celebration (Kool & the Gang)

Financially Free (Lauren Lane Powell)

Manifesting Money (Lauren Lane Powell)

Eyeballin’ (Lonnie Brooks)

We Are The Champions (Queen)

Es wird ein Bettler zum Koening (Ricky Shayne)

Ich sprenge alle Ketten (Ricky Shayne)

Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)

Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)

An Old Fashioned Love Song (Three Dog Night)

The Show Must Go On (Three Dog Night)

Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)

Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)

One Step Beyond (Madness)

In the Summertime (Mungo Jerry)

School’s Out (Alice Cooper)

Schoen ist es auf der Welt zu sein (Roy Black & Anita)

Ich sing ein Lied fuer Dich (Heintje)

Ich bau dir ein Schloss (Heintje)

I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)

And last, but definitely not least:

The entire Tschaikowski Violin Concerto in D-Major.

Enjoy

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Oh dear! It’s been an incredibly crazy couple of weeks. Good thing I get to use all the tricks in my toolbox any time I like!

Murphy’s Law abounded. Or so it felt anyway. I should have known better — things do tend to take longer and need more double-checking than I expect.

And I’m still not finished. I’m planning to slicken up that sales page for my Get Happy Quickly Ebook. It still looks a whole lot less slick than I wish it did. But at least it’s working.

And my shiny new affiliate program (I can hardly believe I have one!) had a few snafus too. But true to form, after sorting them out, I immediately wrote it up and sent it over to ezinearticles.com

So what’s next? Advertise! I had been wondering about how I’m going to get the word out when I discovered a special offer on Avery Berman’s new book that I really wanted to buy (that kid is GOOD!) so I bought it (the book is as cool as all his stuff (MySpace video and Craigslist video is what I had before), and so is the third video that I now own: It’s on AdBrite! I felt so inspired that I immediately went there and bought a couple of ads. I can hardly wait to find out what’ll happen!

Adbrite is great because it’s way cheaper than Google Adwords. Or is it Adsense? I always get the two mixed up. Anyway, check it out if you like:

And I’ll tell you more about Avery’s cool new book once I’ve finished reading it (shouldn’t be long!)

In the meantime, if you haven’t already, please (pretty please) check out my own new book: Feel Better Quickly: Emergency Rescue Toolbox for your Mood.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Elisabeth

P.S.: My newest project: A series of articles about Aromatherapy, plus a booklet (to give away — yes, all my subscribers will get one), and probably an ebook I’ll sell.

I really like aromatherapy and use it all the time. I did manage to wean myself off the Zzzonked aromatherapy I used for several years to help me fall asleep. I still sometimes find it hard to believe that I’m sleeping just fine without it these days.

So let’s see… what aromas are the best ones to help you fall asleep: Personally, I really like Lavender. Jasmine is also very calming. Pair with an herbal relaxing tea and you may well sleep like a baby. More to follow another time…

Stressed? Depressed? Don’t put up with it. You CAN make yourself feel better fast.

How? Just get a copy of my emotional emergency rescue toolbox and start using it, and before you know it, you’ll feel MUCH better.

And all that for the price of, oh, 10 minutes of therapy perhaps. Maybe 15. Or a few pills of Taxol. Or a movie and popcorn for one.

And what do you get? A toolbox that lets you take charge of your emotions for years to come.

Not bad, is it?

Just click on this cute little teddybear and check it out:

Okay, as you can see, the sales page is there and functional, though not the flashiest one on the web. I’ll work on upgrading it some more. But I’m just so thrilled anyway that I’ve got it going.

And I’ve even set up the shopping cart system, and the automatic delivery of the ebook. And it’s working!!!

You’d have to know what a technophobe I was less then 2 years ago to really appreciate this.

Anyway. Give it a try. You can check it out right here:

Elisabeth’s Emergency Mood Rescue Kit

Take a look. Click on the the teddy bear above. Read the book. Feel better…

And if you like it, please let me know. Especially if I can use it as a testimonial

Now I’m off to make myself another mug of spiced hot chocolate. Yummm.

I hope you’ll have a wonderful evening.

Elisabeth

Affiliate Defined. Thanks to 13-year old British whiz kid David Wilkerson I think I may finally be able to put my affiliate marketing efforts on the right track. I kid you not!

I meditated this morning, which has brought surprising influxes of cash before, and so I consider it serendipity that I got an excited email from Ross Goldberg, the guru who put on the conference in Vegas I’ve mentioned here recently (I think).

He really knows his stuff when it comes to traffic and affiliate marketing, and so when he was so enthusiastic with recommending this ebook, I checked it out.

And you know what? It rocks. Really and truly. Fantastic info. Written in an accessible and entertaining style. Fun to read!

More on the book on my favorite webstuff blog. I’m trying to reign in the internet marketing stuff in this neighborhood, but since I DO write about prosperity, and this may well be the ticket, here it is.

Go here to find out why I like it so much. You may too!

That was the link for the ebook itself, actually. Here’s the link for my own website, with more detailed comments:

www.myfavoritewebstuff.com

Elisabeth

Excellent Squidoo Guest Editorial on my new techie internet marketing and internet how-to info sister blog. If Squidoo interests you, you may want to visit over there:

www.myfavoritewebstuff.com

And/or go straight to the real thing, which is Bob the Teacher’s Squidoo Secrets course (which is outstanding and features a great deal of info for absolutely no charge or at least did last time I checked): www.squidoocash.info

Do you wish you had more energy? How are you sleeping?

If life is stressful, chances are that sleep suffers. You may simply not have (or make) enough time for sleep (if so, you know what to do!).

Or, once you do go to bed, the zzz’s just don’t seem to come as easily as you may have hoped for…

What to do?

Lots of things. Here are a few that have helped me during a lengthy episode of challenged sleep a few years ago, and still do when the need arises:

1. Outsourcing your worries: Don’t go to sleep with them (as if you could!). Write them down on a piece of paper, or into a notebook, and let the universe take care of them. At least till morning. No, seriously, you’ll sleep better almost instantly.

2. Make sure your sleep “environment” is the way you like it. Dark, quiet, right temperature, comfy bed.

3. Wear socks. I know that some people joke about other people wearing socks to bed, but when it comes to sleep, they may be just what the doctor ordered.

4. Consider earplugs if noise is an issue. The world’s best earplugs are made in Germany and are called Ohropax. You can find some on Amazon.com (expensive if you buy them there but worth every penny). You can also bribe any German friends you may have into sending you some.

5. Have a calming night-time routine. Hot chocolate (or milk), calming music, boring reading and maybe some deep breathing. In fact, trying to do some meditation once you go to bed may really help. Do one where you have to focus on your breaths, and breathe really slowly. Don’t worry if you keep falling asleep in the middle of it. That’s the idea!

6. Soothing music. Stephen Halpern’s Sleep Soundly is one option. Check back for another option that I’ll have to check on first.

To be continued at some point in the future and/or in my newsletter

Easy spiced hot chocolate is my latest guilty pleasure. I generally use the sugar-free hot chocolate mixes as a base, but it will work just as well with the sugar-containing ones.

I got the idea when I found a curried sugar-free hot chocolate mix on Ebay — it was so overpriced, though, that I didn’t order it — and when I finally decided to buy one just to try it, it had become unavailable

So one day, I decided to experiment…

I often have a mug of hot chocolate in the evening — generally I get the sugar-free version, and I mix it with half low-fat milk (cold) and half very hot water. Because I like my mugs huge, I usually need two packets to get the right flavor and consistency.

But one day, I decided to add some spice to my hot chocolate. I experimented with various combinations, and found that my favorite is a little (1/4 or 1/2 teaspoon?) Garam Masala powder and a little (same amount) Spice Hunter Curry Powder. If you want things spicier still, you can use more (or less) and/or add cayenne pepper to taste.

Pumpkin spice mix works nicely too (a slightly different effect though). The possibilities are endless.

Yumm. And you know what? I discovered I only need one hot chocolate mix packet when I add the spices.

If you’d like to try it yourself, you might want to experiment with different spices to taste. You can mix them with the hot chocolate powder first, then add water and finally the milk, especially if you don’t like things clumpy. Experiment and enjoy.

BTW, a few days ago, I read to my great amusement that “they” have discovered to their great surprise (!) that hot chocolate mixes taste MUCH better if you add milk. They had to do a study to figure this out???

Meanwhile, have a great day, enjoy your hot chocolate or whatever you’re having, and if you come across a particularly good combination, please let me know at supportATmyfavoriteselfhelpstuffDOTcom.

P.S.: I finally tracked down a bag of that high-priced mix that inspired the whole thing, and you know what? I liked it a lot, but I liked my own mix even better!

You may or may not. If you want to try the special fancy curried mix, you can find it at www.eSutras.com (and it’s quite a bit cheaper there than it used to be on Ebay, though it remains a pretty premium-priced product).

Want to feel better? Especially when you have one of those days?

I still have them on a fairly regular basis (not nearly as often as I used to though). I guess they come with the territory when I insist on not playing things safe all the time…

So I have plenty of first-hand experience with working my way out of the dumps — and I’m happy to say that I’m MUCH better at it than I used to be. I get out of the hole so much faster, and I remember much more quickly that yes, I can do something about that, and then do it.

So if I supply you with self-help info, it’s because I have tested all those things myself. Obviously, as always, your mileage may vary, but there’s enough of a range that some of the tools should help. Just find your favorites… and/or add them to the ones you’re already using.

I also want to add, that these are not necessarily solutions to the problem that causes the stress. That will still need to be dealt with. However, it is much easier to deal with problems and challenges when one is not in the middle of a panic attack, so these tips along with any future ones are meant to help put you in a better frame of mind — so you will be able to achieve what you want to achieve much more effectively.

There’s also the issue of the Law of Attraction, another reason why it’s important not to wallow in misery lest you draw even more of it.

Here are a few easy and obvious techniques to start with (though there will be much fancier ones in upcoming parts of this series — as well as in my newsletter):

1. Chocolate. (I’m serious. It seems to trigger endorphins in the brain. Just be sure not to OD.)

2. A walk in the park (or on the beach, or anywhere else, preferably outdoors, that you enjoy)

3. A hug. If nobody suitable is nearby, try a phonecall with a friend.

4. A movie that makes you happy and/or laugh, preferably both. A few years back, when I went through chemo and got quite depressed at times, I prescribed myself a happy movie a day. It made a HUGE difference.

5. A first aid kit containing a collection of favorite comics, cartoons, and jokes

6. A good meal, preferably with a friend. But even a good solo meal can make you feel better (try fresh flowers for company). Consider having your favorite comfort food. That’s why they call it comfort food! Just see above.

7. Hot chocolate. Marshmallows or whipped cream optional

8. A hot bath or even a shower

9. A nap

10. Pet a cat (or dog, or bunny rabbit, etc.)

Okay, those were some of the basic ones. I’ve got lots more where these came from. In fact, I’m working on an ebook on the topic, and it’s getting closer to completion. But that doesn’t mean I won’t tell you more tips and techniques.

Look for Pt. 4 very soon, with a number of much fancier tools you may or may not have heard of.

Have a great day!

P.S.: For a much more elaborate technique for working yourself out of the dumps one step at a time see Pt. 1 and 2 of the series (just click on Abraham-Hicks in the categories list on the right and scroll down a bit. You can also find them under A Happier Life, but you’ll have to scroll all the way down AND go to “previous entries,” and then they’ll be near the bottom of the new page.

P.P.S.: For more out-of-the-dumps info, sign up for my newsletter, which features more detailed descriptions of some of my favorite techniques on reducing stress and on raising your vibration.

P.P.P.S.: Please note that these tips are not intended to replace therapy or proper medical attention if that is what you might need. They will make a nice supplement though even in that case.

I did it!!! I’m so excited!

Finally, I have launched my long-anticipated tech stuff blog.

It’s name: www.myfavoritewebstuff.com

Please go take a look! It has the COOLEST header graphics (they keep changing — I haven’t seen the same thing twice yet).

I know that my enthusiasm for techie stuff had started to get in the way of the more general self-help stuff, which was plenty anti-niche-y as was, so now you’ll be able to find all my self-growth info and the how-to-feel better resources more easily without getting side-tracked by my adventures with Squidoo and Co.

I’ll still provide information and connections, but much of it will be limited to short comments and links/references to the other blog.

I hope this will work for you. If you like the tech stuff, I’ll see you over at my shiny new webstuff blog. Which comes with its own newsletter, one that features lots of resources on how to build your own online business and presence.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for more self-help and you aren’t yet getting my newsletter, do sign up for it. I’m currently doing a series on how to raise your vibrations (and how to keep them high) for more effective manifestation of all your dreams. I’ve studied this subject intensely lately and, as is my tendency, I just can’t keep it to myself. And why would I want to anyway…

Stay tuned!

And have a fabulous day!

Elisabeth

P.S.: And btw, Mike, who taught me how to do all this, also just came out with a program that will teach how to get loads of traffic really fast:

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