originally published in e_Marketing -- Blog

After much preperation and experimentation, I finally got Linknet Radio up and running a couple of weeks ago. This is my much anticipated Flash Alternative for Online Media. It uses a very simple implementation of Wimpy Player -- one you can see at Power Linking with Linknet and Business Blogs) using Wimpy "playlist" capabilities. I know there are alternative players out there — and eventually I hope to try them out — but the Wimpy Player is easy to get up and running, doesn't require any Flash experience, and it WORKS!

Here's what I wanted to do...

I wanted to take articles I had written for various websites, record talking article versions of them, and then string them together into "programs", as you can see if you follow links above.. I also wanted to be able to mix in recorded ads for various products, short music clips, and so on.

And most importantly, I wanted flexibility to combine various articles into different playlists for different websites, programs, instructional courses, talking ebooks -- a whole range of applications.

For instance, I have websites about Internet Marketing, Online Video, Golf Travel, Trade Show Displays, Vinyl Banners, Real Estate, Online Training and more. Articles that are relevant to my Real Estate sites are probably NOT relevant to my Golf sites, and vice versa.

What do you do next if you want to make your daydream real? If you want to take a vacation you make plans, buy your plane tickets and reserve a hotel room. When date arrives you head off to enjoy rewards of your daydreaming and planning.

Olympic athletes do a similar thing before a competition. They imagine themselves skiing a course or moving through their sequence of gymnastic moves. As they prepare, they see themselves doing each move to perfection and then standing on podium with a medal around their necks.

Visualization may apply to planning a great vacation and to winning athletic competitions, but can it help you succeed in business?

You may remember Harvard Business School study where recent graduates were surveyed about their goals and then ten years later. The result of visualizing their success? Graduates who had had clear goals in mind were making two to ten times as much money as their classmates.

Put this strategy to work; do some directed daydreaming.

Visualize Your Goals - Create a vivid image in your mind of what success means to you. Write down answers to following questions about your image of success:

What would you be doing with your time? Who would your clients and customers be? How many clients and customers would you have? How much money would you be making? How much could you afford to give away to your favorite causes? What would your lifestyle be?