ATTENTION: Challenge UPDATE!!

The Verdict is in (so far):

Here it is...

By now I know its possible AND MORE THAN POSSIBLE to make $20,000 in 20 days. Though, to make $20,000 in 20 days takes a lot of time. Go figure eh?
Lets differentiate hard work from lots of work.
Hard to me is a 9 to 5 job that is boring as hell and no flexibility. Lots is plenty.
I wouldn't say the 2020 Challenge is hard work, because personally I have found it fun and enjoyable. Its lots of work and plenty of thought and time. Sure you could do it in a shorter amount of time than I, spend less hours in a day, but for me quality is of the essence. If I'm selling a product, id better be damn sure its a good one.

After all, how many bunk products are there out there? Tons! And it drives me bonkers when I buy an online product and the provider does not deliver.

A few days back I tested out Armand Morin's "Generator Software" for Sales Copy. It did not deliver what it promised. Heck, I am easily satisfied but this just did NOT cut it, and it was disappointing. It was sad to see all those endorsements when the product was so basic and thrown together, you could just tell. I mean who does he think hes fooling? If you are going to sell something to the public, it better be good and it better have value. So that is where I am coming from, I am going to deliver value and provide something worth while and it may take more time to do it.

FOR THE AVERAGE JOE: $20,000 in 20 days is do-able and fairly straightforward. Yet it is time consuming if excellence is important!

The Bottom Line:
Overall this is an excellent system with lots of good support. Its legit, unlike some of the other schemes I have seen, and easy to follow.

So would I recommend this? yes absolutely!!

On a more personal note:
I am committed to making that $20,000 if it kills me, which it just may, he he.
It could take 20 days, it could take 30, but by gosh I'm doing it!

MUA!

Ashley

Day 8 On Hold....

Dear Fellow 20/20 Challengers!

My 2020 Challenge is officially on hold until I finish creating my product. Which by the way is not required. The program suggest buying a pre-made product an NOT creating your own.
Which makes sense doesn't it?
And if something makes sense then why in the heck would I not follow the system?!? Good question :)

My product is an e-book entitled "How to Stop Your Child's Biting and Hitting for Good." Unfortunately I had to write the whole thing myself. And since I happen to be an expert on this topic and there is a huge need for this information I took the bull by the horns and decided to do it myself.

Originally I scoured high and low for a product I could sell and feel good about promoting. But my conscience wont let me sell anything I don't believe in 100%. I couldn't do any less than my best, therefore I decided to create my own product. I thought it would be done by now and it isn't....I need to finish this before I can really complete day 8 and so forth. So my goal to complete the 20 20 in 20 days isn't happening. I project 30 days and that is what I need it to be in order to avoid personal bankruptcy and not have my credit tarnished forever. Also the fact that I would be homeless by then :) So all you readers need to buy my book when it comes out, OK? Or else Ill be coming to stay at your place.

I'm off to Colorado on Tuesday for another phase in the Ashley Ryan Saga. I had an interesting talk with my mom last night and she made some accurate remarks on the way I am living my life...I will share more with you later on that. Well, I guess hindsight is 20 20, he he he he. I kill myself :)

Something I learned today from the hours of business audio I listen to:

For those of you that have a business and are currently using an Auto-response system such as Aweber (http://www.norisk.aweber.com).
An effective money saving tool, and apparently the only that makes sure your message doesn't go into your prospects spam folder is Click here!

Another valuable tip from today was surrounding the concept of follow up....
I mean how many times do business follow up with Prospects and not clients. It makes way more sense to follow up with current clients and create affinity vs only focusing on prospects. Duh! I never thought about that. Excellent tip none the less. So if you already haven't started, start an auto-response system for your current clients, and let them know how much you appreciate them! If have clients and you don't have an auto-responder set up, what are you waiting for:


Definition of prospect: A potential client, in the future, as in not your client yet
Definition of client: A customer currently using your product or service

I will still keep you updated daily, I promise!

Something Deep: I have to think about this one....

Here is one of my old faithfuls which I do my best to prescribe to on a daily basis:

"Forget Safety, live where you fear to live, destroy your reputation, be notorious." Rumi

DAY 7 - Time Invested: 5 Hours

So what's DAY 7 about You Ask:

• Starting your re-branding
• Contacting Joint Venture partners
• Tweak sales letter
  

The Good:

• Good details and sample letter on how to contact possible partners and JV's
  
• less work than days 4-6, phew!
  

The Bad:

• The manual didn't talk about web hosting, or how to get our sales page from frontpage or coffeecup to the actual internet. Didn't say a word about it, which I found confusing
  
• Could be more examples of letters to potentials partners. Thats just me though as I like lots of examples :)

Something Deep:

Opening as every moment is the practice of true bliss.

The human body is very sensitive to pain. Stub your toe, and for a few moments you are consumed in minor agony. Emotionally, too, pain is ever possible. Your lover betrays you, and your heart feels crushed. When you feel the agony of lost love—let alone the immense suffering of the world’s starving and dying millions—you can be wracked with sorrow.

Feeling physical and emotional pain is natural and inevitable, but uncomfortable. So you do what you can to avoid it. You can drive a nice car, isolate yourself from diseased and wretched people, and minimize rocking the boat of your intimate relationship. Your effort to avoid pain is as natural as pain itself.

Most of your life can become the effort to avoid pain, to experience pleasure, and to pretend everything is OK, even though something feels amiss. Your life can still feel incomplete, even in the midst of a fine meal with a smiling lover at the peak of health.

Even during the best of times, you may suffer a sense of lack. This dissatisfaction occurs because you are not opening. When you open fully as any moment, you are complete. Your broken arm may still ache. Your heart may still reel in response to the loss of someone you love. But if you practice opening now, then you add less self-created suffering to life’s natural fluctuation of pleasure and pain.

Feel your pleasure, or its lack, right now. If you are feeling relatively comfortable, for instance, then notice that you can feel your comfort. You are open to feeling your comfort. Your openness is what allows you to feel your comfort.

Now, your comfort has changed a bit. Your posture has shifted slightly. Your tongue or fingers may have moved. What you feel now is slightly different than what you felt a moment ago—but that you can feel at all means you are open to feeling.

Fully open, and as openness, feel. Allow your tongue to open and feel. Allow your fingers to open and feel. Feel the entire surface of your skin open to sensation. Feel your mind open to thoughts. Feel your eyes open to light. Whatever you are feeling—however painful or pleasurable—you can feel it because you are open.

Regardless of how much pain or pleasure the moment brings you, the truth is that you are openness. When you resist any aspect of the moment, when you close to an emotion, a person, or a situation, then you deny the openness you are. You create separateness and suffering—you do separateness and suffering—even though you may be sitting in a hot tub with a beautiful lover eating grapes.

Pleasure and pain come and go, and there is only so much you can do about it. To be born is to be guaranteed some amount of enjoyment, discomfort, and certain death. Simply to be alive as a body is to know both health and disease. To enjoy intimacy is to expose your heart to deep sharing as well as to the unloving moments of others. True bliss is to remain open—as you are—in the midst of all experience, both heavenly and hellish.

Regardless of how much comfort you are experiencing, you can surrender open as you are or you can knot yourself closed. If you open as you are now, a spacious and tender love abides—the openness that is feeling—even if your body aches or your lover has spurned you. If you close now, turning in on yourself in an effort to avoid exposure, then you suffer your own separative cramp, even if you are surrounded by love.

Openness is bliss, though not the giddy kind of bliss you feel when someone tickles you. When you feel anything, you are open as feeling. Openness is who you are, your most fundamental feeling of being. When you close to the moment, resisting emotions, people, or situations, then you deny your openness, and you suffer. Openness is bliss because it is most deeply who you are.

Your heart always knows the truth of openness. In every moment of your life, your heart tacitly compares the closed suffering that you are doing to the bliss of your true openness. “This moment can be deeper.” “Our love can be more full.” “My life can be more fulfilling.” Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living this lie. No matter how much pleasure or pain comes your way, dissatisfaction means you are resisting the openness of the moment, the openness who you are, the truth. When you are not open to emotions, people, and situations, then you are denying your most basic nature, the openness who you are.

Practice being openness by opening to feel. Just as you are, even though you may have habits of closure, you can always practice opening to feel. Open to feel whatever you are feeling now. Open to feel your breath moving in and out, feel the posture of your body, feel the space and motion in the room around you, feel the emotional tone of the people nearest to you. Open and feel. Open as feeling. Open to feel everything, and feel as openness itself.

In the midst of orgasm, practice opening, breathing and feeling all that you can feel, your intense pleasure, your lover, the entire room, the lives beginning and ending everywhere, and continue opening to feel everything fully without closure. In the aftermath of a car accident, practice breathing and feeling everything, your cuts and bruises, your fear, the love of those who care for you, and continue to feel open as each moment unfolds, pain and all.

Do your best to create pleasure and comfort in your life. But to live true, live open. Resist nothing. Feel everything. Breathe everyone’s pain and pleasure in and out of your heart. If you feel a lack in your life, practice living and breathing and feeling open.

Openness is truly who you are.

Blue Truth Excerpt - David Deida

DAY 7 - Out of Comission

Hello Friends!

Today I was ill. Probably from all the late nights I have been putting in :) So I took it easy and did as much as I could, but I am not counting it as a day, because I was out of commission.

So for those of you that are dying for more, here it is:

BTW (by the way) I stole this post from someone else's blog, I know the person yet I didn't ask.

Something Deep:

I do not choose to be common

It is my right to be uncommon - if I can.

I seek opportunity - not security

I want to take the calculated risk:

To dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

I refuse to barter incentive for a dole.

I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence;

The thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence

nor my dignity for a handout.

I will never cower before any master

nor bend to any threat.

It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid;

To think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit

of my creations and to face the world

Boldly and say,

This I have done.

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DAY 6 - Time Invested: 6 Hours

So what's DAY 6 about You Ask:

• Pricing your product
  
• Tracking methods for affiliates
• Posting or emailing your sales letter to others
• Discussing pre-launch
• Getting more Joint ventures going
  

The Good:

• Good information
  
• Simple, straightforward no extra cost systems for doing things, yaaay!
• Great tips and walk through on using paypal
  

The Bad:

• Not Specific Enough info on pricing could have been more detailed such as
• There isn't enough information (for my liking) on how to write download page copy
  

Something Deep:

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom
Than to go right in chains

Wow what a great quote from Thomas Huxley.
That quote comes from the book "The 4 Hour Work Week". Excellent book I might add if you haven't already read it.

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Bob Marley are examples of people looking wrong in freedom rather than right in social constraints. I like to think that I live my life in that way. And I do compared to most people... But when the "heat" is on, its hard to stand firm in how I feel and what I need to do.
We all know this scenario, of taking a stance in something, and then when there is "social pressure" backing down or caving. It takes incredible strength to stand up for ones beliefs and really go the whole nine yards in the face of adversity. In fact, personally, I know very few people who have been able to do this and still stay standing.
I guess I can apply that to my situation now. I'm doing the challenge while almost bankrupt but deciding not to go back to a "real job" like everyone else suggests I do. I am still working full time hours but as of right now no money is coming in. I am throwing caution to the wind, but sometimes the pressure from outside is almost too much to bare. The judgments are intense, and gossip about me going nuts are also hard to take. But I have to do what I have to do and failure isn't an option at this point, I am going to make that $20,000 if it kills me!!

I hope y'all buy my product when it comes out :)

DAY 5 - Time Invested: 9 Hours

So what's DAY 5 about You Ask:

• Sales Copy (writing)
• Requesting Feedback
  
• Website Layout
• Website Tracking
  

The Good:

• In depth information
  
• Lots of details and HOW TOs

The Bad:

• Very time Consuming!!!
• It says it takes 30 to 60 minutes to find a certain number of Joint venture partners when it took me closer to 1.5 hours

Today took me a lot of time, I have been working on my 2020 Challenge from 9:30-5. And more later. Not sure if this is full time yet but I will update you. Even at full speed and a lot of time I am slipping behind.

Something Deep:

"Nothing we do amounts to much, yet everything we do has significance beyond our comprehension." Blaise Ryan

Continued from day 3:

The idea of things mattering and then not mattering at the same time.

There are two schools of thought on this:

1. Subjective Reality and Quantum Physics.
2. Objective Reality and no physics.

In scenario #1 Nothing is real and nothing matters because it is all made up. If you have seen the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know" http://www.whatthebleep.com/ you will have a taste of this. According to #1 our perception is very limited and we see the world as "we" are and not as it is.
Some genera's of spirituality go even further to say that the world is all an illusion and completely made up. We make up the rules, we create everything.
Believe it or not, there is scientific evidence to back this up.
If you would like more detailed information, one of my favorite books is "Busting Lose from the Money Game" By Robert Scheinfeld. He explains this model far better than I ever and It is one of those life changing books. So do yourself a favor and READ IT. To Bust Loose from The Money game and at the same time understand Subjective Reality.

Then there is scenario #2, Objective Reality and No physics.
In other words, everything we do DOES matter and the world and what we see out of our eyes is completely real. For example, people who presribe to the "law of attraction" believe that what we believe or the thoughts we hold in our mind will be attracted or pulled to us. Which does fully apply to #2 in the concept BUT in real life it does because most people who practice the law of attraction can't empirically prove that they get what they attract. Does that make sense?
I hear people say that they believe in the secret and law of attraction but then when they get a headache they become a victim of the headache. IF they really prescribed to the law of attraction they could attract and "create" something else instead of being controlled by it. I mean everyone does this all the time, we say we believe one thing but don't fully live it. Heck I say I believe things all the time, but I really don't, because if I did, I would do them, wouldn't I? Its not rocket science.
So depending on what you believe, things matter and they don't matter. In Subjective reality you can do whatever the heck you want to do because its all made up. Morals, values, ideas, are all made up so you can really break the bank and have a good time, guilt free!

In Subjective Reality, things do matter and there are consequences to our actions. If we have an affair on our marital partner, the consequence would be hurting them and that would feel "very real". If we hit someone with our car an objective realiter could say that it isn't real and doesn't matter, but it still may feel real? Duh.

I do personally know people that live in a world of the "world not being real" and it works for them. Robert Scheinfeld lives in that world and it works for him, the same rules don't apply :) That's why I insist you read his book. I know two other men that live very interesting lives in the world of subjective reality. Their names are Chad and Issac, they are making a movie on Subjective Reality called "Leap Beyond Illusion". It features Dan Millman from "The way of the peaceful Warrior" and Gary Renard from "A Course in Miracles" www.theleapmovie.com. These men live lives most people dream of in their own Subjective Reality.
Steve Pavlina has a great blog that talks about this in depth:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa/

Love you!

STAY TUNED!!
Tomorrow I will share a new segment from my "Quarter Life Crisis" series with some hot, spicy and highly entertaining details in the new developments of my personal life. You'll love it, I promise.