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		<title>Making Better Decisions About Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working for months on a new product: Inside the Trader&#8217;s Mind. I have to admit, when my partner, Brian Latta, first came to me with the idea of a mindset video specific for traders, I wasn&#8217;t sure it was a good fit for me. But I listened to him, and I did some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblike" style="height:25px; height:25px; overflow:hidden;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markjryan.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F08%2Fmaking-better-decisions-about-money%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allow Transparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;"></iframe></div><p>I&#8217;ve been working for months on a new product: <strong>Inside the Trader&#8217;s Mind</strong><a href="http://www.insidethetradersmind.com/index.php?src=mjrblog"></a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidethetradersmind.com/index.php?src=mjrblog"><img alt="Inside the Trader&#039;s Mind" src="http://www.insidethetradersmind.com/images/bundle.png" title="Inside the Trader&#039;s Mind" class="alignleft" width="244" height="240" /></a></p>
<p>I have to admit, when my partner, Brian Latta, first came to me with the idea of a mindset video specific for traders, I wasn&#8217;t sure it was a good fit for me. But I listened to him, and I did some research. Brian is a brilliant guy with a firm understanding about how to make money. His expertise in the area of neuroeconomics is well established. </p>
<p><strong>Neuroeconomics</strong> is a burgeoning field. It is the study and understanding of how people make decisions and how that drives economic factors. It sounds very scientific and technical, and it is. But that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t learn from it, learn about it, and capitalize on the understandings that have come from its study.</p>
<p>You might think that you&#8217;ve got nothing to learn from neuroeconomics or traders.  But if you&#8217;re interested in making good decisions about money, projects, and investments, these incredibly fascinating fields of study can help you. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.insidethetradersmind.com/index.php?src=mjrblog">Inside the Trader&#8217;s Mind</a></strong> can help you.</p>
<p>This may be a product that could change your life, even if you&#8217;re not a trader. I&#8217;ve blended the scientific research, knowledge and understanding from some of the smartest people in the field of neuroplasticity and neuroeconomics. In this two-DVD set, you&#8217;ll gain insights from  Dr. John Burton, John Overdurf, Brian Latta, and myself. </p>
<p>If you ARE a trader&#8230; you&#8217;ll quickly see the power of <strong>Inside the Trader&#8217;s Mind</strong>.</p>
<p>We had a few active traders take a sneak peek at the product. Here&#8217;s what one said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The progress that I&#8217;m seeing with my challenges of high anxiety, self doubt, and victimization in regards to FOREX trading are absolutely remarkable in the space of one week.</p>
<p>I have used both the necker cube video and the inductive space video assiduously, multiple times, many times each day. The &#8220;layers of the onion&#8221; are peeling &#8230; wow! in a way that I did not expect. I know that what is happening is the removal of all obstacles to my success in trading.</p>
<p>These obstacles are not only about only trading or learning the trade plan or concepts of FOREX. They are cutting to heart of the deep problems I have been facing for many years in my whole life as a human being.</p>
<p>I really appreciate your consideration of me as a whole person, not just as a student learning FOREX. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark Justin
</p></blockquote>
<p>You can do all the manifestation work you want&#8230; but if you&#8217;re operating from a place of stress, fear, doubt, or greed&#8230; you&#8217;re going to make bad decisions. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re making decisions about money from a place of those primal motivators of stress, greed, doubt, or fear, you trigger a part of your mind that works off of adrenaline. That part of your mind is meant to make life-and-death decisions, not rational decisions about money.  </p>
<p><strong>Decisions made from this vantage point end up being less than optimal.</strong> How much money have you lost by making decisions from a place of stress or anxiety?  This fight or flight part of your brain is only interested in what is going on right NOW to save your life. This part of your brain has no access to the higher thinking parts of your mind that deal with the future: your dreams, hopes, and long term success.</p>
<p>Imagine working with these processes to make optimal decisions about your money, your investments, your goals, or even what is the best course for action?  </p>
<ul>
<li>Can you imagine how much money you might save from this place of mind and body?</li>
<li>Can you imagine how much more money you might make?</li>
<li>How much more secure would you feel know you were making decisions from the optimal place in the mind? </li>
</ul>
<p>Take a look at <a href="http://www.insidethetradersmind.com/">Inside the Trader&#8217;s Mind</a>. The scientific research taking place in the field of neuroeconomics, neuroplasticity, and neuromarketing is fascinating. It will change your life, whether you know it now or not. </p>
<p>This DVD is cutting edge. There will be imitators. But no one will have the depth and breadth of expertise, knowledge, and technology that this DVD brings together. </p>
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		<title>Subliminal Wealth Teleseminar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are being Subliminally Manipulated&#8230;YES You! And we can prove it. Whether you believe it or not, you are being subliminally influenced every day&#8230; all day. The technology is way too powerful today to ignore if you want to live free and make your own choices. And the technology is powerful enough for you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblike" style="height:25px; height:25px; overflow:hidden;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markjryan.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F01%2Fsubliminal-wealth-teleseminar%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allow Transparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;"></iframe></div><p>You are being Subliminally Manipulated&#8230;YES You! And we can prove it.</p>
<p>Whether you believe it or not, <em>you are being subliminally influenced every day&#8230; all day</em>. The technology is way too powerful today to ignore if you want to live free and make your own choices.</p>
<p>And the technology is powerful enough for you to use for your own advantage.</p>
<p>Want to learn more? <a href="https://www.hypnoticimedia.com/teleseminar/index.php">Visit this link and register</a> today for the <strong>Subliminal Wealth teleseminar</strong> on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.</p>
<p>You may have heard of the old flash on the screen on the movie theater causing people to buy more Coca-Cola or popcorn. Well that was in the 1950&#8242;s&#8230; and believe me, as much as TV and computers have advanced since then, so has the understanding and usage of this technology to get you to buy.</p>
<p>My highly successful <a href="http://www.subliminalmanifestation.com">Subliminal Manifestation</a> series has helped thousands around the world to use this technology to get past conscious resistance and improve their lives through unconscious allowing. Perhaps you&#8217;ve used one of these DVDs to improve your life.</p>
<p>And once you&#8217;ve done that, and learned how this technology can work for you, you can use it yourself.</p>
<p>You can use subliminals to:</p>
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<li>Change beliefs, habits, and patterns</li>
<li>Develop new behaviors to achieve more desirable results</li>
</ul>
<p>And you can also use this technology to influence other people in your life. You can use it to improve your relationships both personally and professionally. You can use them to help those you love allow more joy and expansion in their lives, and you can use them to forge greater connections with your sales prospects and customers.</p>
<p>You can use them to increase your own ability to allow more wealth producing experiences in your life!</p>
<p>If nothing else, you can learn how to protect your mind and your loved ones from the influence others may try to exert on you, and your wallet.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.hypnoticimedia.com/teleseminar/index.php">Join Dr. Kevin Hogan and me</a> next Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 9 pm Eastern Standard Time to learn more about subliminals, and how subliminals directly affect your wealth.</p>
<p>This will be a fast moving hour, packed with information you can use immediately to improve your life experience in a number of ways.</p>
<p>To learn more and make an immediate impact in your life, <a href="https://www.hypnoticimedia.com/teleseminar/index.php">listen to the teleseminar</a>! You&#8217;ll also receive a free MP3 of the call, register today!</p>
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		<title>Creating the Rolls Royce Mastermind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have asked me how the Rolls Royce Mastermind with Joe Vitale came to be, and if I had any part in it. They are surprised when I tell them the story. Maybe you will be, too. It all started at Miracles Weekend Seminar in San Diego, California. This event almost didn&#8217;t happen until [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fblike" style="height:25px; height:25px; overflow:hidden;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markjryan.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F12%2Fcreating-the-rolls-royce-mastermind%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allow Transparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;"></iframe></div><p>Many people have asked me how the Rolls Royce Mastermind with Joe Vitale came to be, and if I had any part in it.</p>
<p>They are surprised when I tell them the story.  Maybe you will be, too.</p>
<p>It all started at Miracles Weekend Seminar in San Diego, California. This event almost didn&#8217;t happen until my wife, Kathy, Joe&#8217;s assistant Suzanne, and I stepped in to rescue it.</p>
<p>We had turned lemon into lemonade and had a successful seminar. Joe was feeling good, relaxed, and relieved.</p>
<p>He had gone to dinner the night before with John Assaraf. On the way to dinner, he saw a car dealership with two Bugatti Veyron sports cars. They were valued at $1.8 million (at the time <img src='http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ). When Joe told me about the cars, he was more excited about them than the dinner and meeting with John Assaraf, and he wanted to go see the cars again.</p>
<p>Joe and Nerissa had hired a limo and invited me to go sightseeing around San Diego, and back to the car dealership. So we drove along the coast to the Symbolic Car dealership.</p>
<p>When we arrived, we immediately went to look at the Bugattis, but they weren&#8217;t ready for viewing. So, we looked at other cars including many rare race cars in their private museum. These cars were amazing and worth millions. If you&#8217;re ever in San Diego, I recommend a trip to their dealership.</p>
<p>They also had Rolls Royce cars. Joe got into the new convertible Rolls Royce. When he got in, both Nerissa and I said he looked fantastic in the car, but we agreed that he looked too much like a mafia guy with his sunglasses in the it. So he got out of that car and into the sedan.</p>
<p>That was it. You could tell it was Joe&#8217;s car.</p>
<p>We took the car for a ride, it was amazingly smooth. Joe asked how I liked it, and I said it was like sitting on my couch driving down the highway. </p>
<p>Even Nerissa who is very green and earth conscious was initially concerned with the low gas mileage. But when she got into the back seat, a nice happy smile came over her face. She said she thought she could live with the low gas mileage. It was nice to see Nerissa so happy.</p>
<p>Joe was unsure. So we went back to the dealership to see the 1.8 million dollar Bugattis. We pulled the Rolls up next to the Bugatti building and went in to start one of the cars.</p>
<p>Joe started the Bugatti and sat in the driver&#8217;s seat. He was shaking like a leaf when he got out. The pistons sounded like a sledgehammer hitting a railroad tie. It was too much power for Joe to handle. We had a good laugh at how nervous he was. I on the other hand got excited as I had worked on and around Nascar engines. I was ready to drive!</p>
<p>We were excited about the Rolls Royce, but Joe wasn&#8217;t convinced.</p>
<p>We went back to the hotel and walked to a nice restaurant on the beach. We ate and then walked off some food along the beach while talking about the Rolls Royce.</p>
<p>Joe called me in the morning and said that Bill was coming to get us in the Rolls Royce. We were going to ride and shop for the day to get Joe used to the car. When Bill came to pick us up, we were smiling seeing such a beautiful car coming to get us. We drove around, shopped, and went back to the dealership.</p>
<p>At one point, we were looking into the back of the car. Joe was nervous about spending so much money on this car, even though he loved it. As he looked into the back seat from the door, he said, &#8220;It is almost big enough to hold a table and meeting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like a bolt out of the blue, it hit me. I said, &#8220;Joe, how about a mastermind meeting?&#8221; </p>
<p>Joe eyes widened. </p>
<p>Then I said, &#8220;How about a rolling Mastermind?&#8221;  I had told Joe in the past and on his <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/nevada45/Joe_Vitale_Testimonial.wmv">testimonial</a> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/nevada45/Joe_Testimonial_Part_2.wmv">page</a> that I always wanted to do a car mastermind. So I said, &#8220;How about a Rolls Royce mastermind?&#8221;</p>
<p>He lit up, but still was not convinced.</p>
<p>Our salesman, Bill, had some things to do and told us to go for another spin in the car, so we did. Then it came to me.  I remember Joe telling me something about how he had recruited for Rajneesh Majaraj (Osho) in Houston for 7 years and had ran a center for him there as well. While this guru was not popular in the United States because of his tactics, I remembered the reverence Joe had for Rajneesh. I appealed to that side of Joe, because I knew if he listened to me he would have a much needed source of income for both him and myself.</p>
<p>I asked him to remember how many Rolls Royces Rajneesh had (over 90).  I said, &#8220;And here is one of his disciples now driving one, and it could be his.&#8221;</p>
<p>I reassured Joe that i would be there for him to start the masterminds and get it going.</p>
<p>Joe has some issues about talking to folks he doesn&#8217;t know. I reassured him that I was good at this and could teach him how to coach people.</p>
<p>I have flashbacks to 2004 when I first told Joe about ho&#8217;oponopono (he rejected the idea at the time; it later became <em>Zero Limits</em>). That weekend, I helped him set up his booth at the National Guild of Hypnotists. Thanks to my 15 years of experience doing trade shows, we completely sell out of products. At one point during the weekend, Joe had to speak. He asked me to help set up his Power Point presentation and make sure the stage was OK.</p>
<p>Attendees were filing into the room, and I noticed Joe was sweating bullets on top of his head. I got him a towel, and I noticed he was shaking nervously. I asked if he was alright. He said, &#8220;No.&#8221; He hated public speaking. I asked him if I could do a few exercises to help him calm down. I did the exercises, and he calmed enough, but not completely. I talked to him some more and he asked me if I would introduce him. I told him I would and that I would sit right up front and smile and support him.</p>
<p>He did great and he thanked me and said he had to speak again tomorrow and would I do it all again then. The whole weekend went so well, he asked if I would come again next year and help him again. I agreed, and it went even better. Sales were great, we did more coaching, and that is when he did finally listen to me about ho&#8217;oponopono. It wasn&#8217;t long before <em>Zero Limits</em> came to be.</p>
<p>Joe and I became good friends after that. I helped coach Joe to the point of where he can get up in front of a group and speak for two hours without notes. Joe always had the information, but he was afraid to speak the information with authority. This is what I am good at doing.</p>
<p>Back at the dealership, Joe asked me if it would be okay to have others ride along on the rolling masterminds. I said, &#8220;Joe, it&#8217;s your car.&#8221;</p>
<p>We went in, and Joe leased the Rolls Royce&#8230; leased it so he could have a better write off.</p>
<p>Over a year later, I&#8217;ve done 12 masterminds with Joe. It is now his thriving business.</p>
<p>I knew Joe was ready to take it over by himself. When I was driving, he would proudly explain to others how he came up with the idea all by himself. At first I was a bit upset, but I knew that is Joe&#8217;s way of reclaiming his power.</p>
<p>I knew he was telling me he was ready to try doing masterminds more by himself with others riding along. And I guess I don&#8217;t blame him. He was paying me half of the profits, and I am sure he could pay others less. After all, it is business,  right?</p>
<p>So off goes Joe in the Rolls Royce, masterminding on his own with some new folks! While I am not sure of the quality of what others bring to the mastermind, they seem to be working out. I do know that Joe is now capable enough to do it all by himself. Joe learns well&#8230; and, as he puts it, humorously&#8230; just sitting with him in the Rolls Royce and for dinner is worth more even if he doesn&#8217;t coach or give product ideas.</p>
<p>And I am moving into doing my own brand of coaching, which is different. Joe wanted to do more product development coaching, as he got pretty good at it. I wanted to do the deeper work with clearing others of what stopped them from attaining their goals.</p>
<p>So maybe we will work together again. He has told me that, several times, he was wishing I would have shown up when he had brought others instead of me. When I wasn&#8217;t there, he had to work harder. He didn&#8217;t realize how easy I made it until another tried to fill my shoes. But hey, that is part of how you grow. And I thank him for the compliment.</p>
<p>Go look at the website and see the testimonials with me in them. There are less of them since I have left, but there is enough still there to give you an idea of my contribution. (<a href="http://www.markjryan.com/events/mastermind.php">Go here to see a video testimonial</a> from Nancy Philpott after her experience with me.)</p>
<p>There it is! The Rolls Royce Mastermind story! And there is a lot more coming.</p>
<p>In the future, I will talk more about other successful products I helped Joe develop. I will also talk about the Russia trip, and many more interesting things. Stay tuned!</p>
<p>One of the reasons I am doing this is because Joe said I didn&#8217;t toot my own horn enough. He said I should do it more. Now that I am, let&#8217;s hope he contributes some of his positive insights! <img src='http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Thanks, Joe, for a wonderful time on the Rolls Royce Masterminds! Good luck in the future.</p>
<p>If you are interested in a very productive and life changing Mastermind with me, let me know. It won&#8217;t be a fancy meal or a drive in a Rolls Royce, but you will walk away with much more than I could have given before. My focus will be completely on you, your issues &#8211; whether business, personal, financial, or spiritual. I also charge a lot less because you don&#8217;t have to pay for the glitz&#8230; but you get the same results. </p>
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