In my last update of our authority niche blogging series, I promised to post a step-by-step guide to registering your domain name with namecheap using a debit card by our local Nigerian banks. This article is to fulfill that promise.
Step 1: The first step to take before registering a domain name is to go to my recommended domain registrar and sign up for an account.
Step 2: Click on sign up and fill the form. The form looks like this.
It’s amazing that just as I was tinkering with writing about what happens when you believe, I stumbled on a post by Chris Assad with the same title. Once I read it, I became more than convinced to write about it, so, here are my inner thoughts on what happens when you believe.
So, What Happens When You Believe?
Most people think raising the quality of your life has to do with getting a bigger car, moving into a mansion, starting a big business but I really beg to disagree. I honestly think raising or improving the quality of your life starts from within. It starts from the things you and I cannot see. It starts from the things we cannot touch. Such things include your thoughts, choices and self-talk. So, I ask you, what thoughts are you thinking? What choices are you making? What do you tell yourself each day you wake up?
It’s an undeniable fact that great things start with small beginnings. Every great thing you see in life started from small beginnings. Put in another way, there’s no great business, ministry, establishment, marriage or family that did not start small.
Stories of Nigerian Companies that Started Small
The Dangote Group, we all know today, started small. It started in 1978 purely as a trading concern. It then used to trade in rice, sugar and cement under the business name, ALCO International Limited.
If you desire to experience unlimited success in life you have to learn how to program yourself for success. Programming yourself for success involves the use of your sub-conscious as it’s more powerful than your conscious in the everyday scheme of things.
The best way I can explain the conscious and the subconscious mind is to say that you use the conscious mind to learn new skills (like driving, for instance). At the point of learning, you’re conscious of your every move on the accelerator, brake and clutch.
But, as time goes by, you drive without being really conscious. At this point, because you’ve consciously learnt the driving skill and it’s become a part of you, you can get into your car and start driving without really thinking about it. Your subconscious is like a tape recorder. It records all the immpressions the conscious mind sends to it and replays them to you anytime you want to repeat the activity. Because of this function of the subconscious, it’s powerful in everyday life as it controls most of the things that have become part of us. This explains why it often seems difficult to change a routine.
If you really want to achieve anything worthwhile in life, you must be motivated to take action. There are many ways to motivate yourself but I want to just examine 2 of such methods. And they are: using public pressure and rewarding yourself.
Before I proceed, let me quickly say I’ve personally used (and still use) these 2 ways. In fact, very recently, I put these 2 methods to work by publicly announcing a kindle publishing challenge. I found I was often distracted to achieve that goal and I threw it to the public domain and I’m sure you’re all waiting to get updates on the challenge.
I must confess that this week’s Monday Morning Dew (MMD) was inspired by Marvin Sapp’s song titled “Deeper.” I heard it in Church yesterday and the song so touched me that I went in search of it on the Internet. Luckily, I found the lyrics which I reproduce below:
If you’ve been trying to set up an Internet Business without success, it could be due to some of the reasons I talk about below:
Reason No 1: Lack of Focus
Most times when you start an Internet Business, a thousand and one things compete for your attention. Every email you receive promises you a new way of making money and if you do not close your eyes to them, you’d find yourself with so many unfinished projects. Your efforts would be scattered and you will see no results. So, take my word for it; maintain your focus if you really know Internet Marketing is for you.
You all know I’m always online and everyday, I get bombarded with figures of earnings from amazon kindle books. At the beginning of February, I wanted to create a kindle book after reading Dr Andrew William’s earnings (he is one of my online mentors).
If you also read this post on diversifying your online income, you’d see that I mentioned I’d be pushing myself in this direction alongside my normal blogging schedule. But, I’d confess I’ve been so distracted and even though I have my outlines for the kindle books, I’ve not finished them. So, I thought I’d do a challenge to urge myself on and even get my blog followers to partake in the challenge (if they so wish).
I really hate to say the word “NO” but I’ve found myself saying it a couple of times (particularly in the days leading to the start-up of my Internet Business). Then, I was working on a manual titled “How to Successfully Start Your Dream Business with Little or No Money”. That manual was what I started my Internet Business with but I launched it while still working as a journalist at City People Media Group. So, I had a lot of responsibilities at home and the office (but I still wanted to start an Internet Business by the side). So, I had to say “NO” to a couple of things to be able to finish the 158-page manual!