Heather Picken’s Miracle Month Contest!!
MIRACLE MONTH CONTEST
Hello everyone! I would just like to share with you a contest that my friend, teacher, coach and colleague is doing this month! All you have to do to WIN is post this everywhere and anywhere:
I Create Miracles Fun-ellenge
Here is how it works: For the entire month of October you are creating your miracle!
Step 1 Create a membership profile here if you haven’t already.
Step 2 Connect to me on facebook www.facebook.com/heatherpicken and write on my wall that you are doing the I Create Miracle fun-ellenge aong with posting a comment below.
Step 3 Add your comment below that you are doing the I Create Miracles Fun-ellenge so I can keep track of what you are doing!
Starting Today Create a video, tweets, and facebook updates that you are doing this I Create Miracles Fun-ellenge with Heather Picken check it out here:
http://thespirittrainer.com/blog/?p=177
(make sure you put this in ALL YOUR POSTS and Videos, blogs, and tweets. You must keep track of EVERYTHING you do on your member page that you have created here this includes links to where you posted videos or tweet ect. that way I know who is doing what and where
So if could say something like this: Hey I create miracles fun-ellenge with Heather Picken
http://thespirittrainer.com/blog/?p=177 (must include this LINK in all posts that you do or videos)
Then make sure you watch for the next set of instructions that I will post on facebook..it will say something like this…Ok I Create Miracles Fun-ellenge here is your next step…. How many posts? As many as you want..the more the better. I will be judging the winner based on how much you connect to people and get the word out and the miracle you are creating.
Step 4 ALL INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE POSTED ON MY FACEBOOK SO WATCH FOR UPDATES TO FOLLOW THE NEXT MIRACLE STEP!!!
Winner will be chosen on Oct. 31st!
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Mark Victor Hansen-LAS VEGAS SCAM?
I just got home and opened my inbox and started reading my mail, which is about 60% marketers trying to sell me some garbage (when will you ever learn, it’s okay to sell stuff but once in a while at least offer some free info?!). Yes, to all of you marketers who only send me emails trying to sell me crap with no free information, I mean you! If you want some examples of real people in marketing who know what in the world they are doing, google Heather Picken, Christy Whitman, Nan Akasha, Anita Pathik Law, Lorraine Cohen, Morgana Rae and Mari Smith, just to name a few. (Funny how they are all women)
And now back to the reason I am writing this….
One of the first emails I read, is from Mark Victor Hansen offering a $99 Las Vegas Voucher if you buy his new book called “Fast Cash.” So, I click on the link to see the video, because in the email he writes, “See the video below for the FULL details.” FULL DETAILS?
It was the most vague video ever! He goes on to discuss how he has friends in Vegas and in the travel industry, and that’s IT! He doesn’t mention which hotels you can stay it, he doesn’t tell you if it includes airfare, nor does he mention how many nights it’s good for? He only says you get a room for two people and this $99 voucher! THAT’S IT! He considers that full details?
So, just to see if there was anymore possible information, I click on the “order now” button. Guess what I see, a $99 charge for ONE BOOK! No mention of anything about LAS VEGAS. It mentions nothing about a hotel, or airfare or ANYTHING! If this isn’t a scam I don’t know what is?
Now, technically maybe it is an authentic deal. I really don’t know. But don’t you think if it was a genuine offer, he would give you more details? Please see the video for yourself here and feel free to comment below on whether or not you think this is a SCAM?
www.markvictorhansen.com/travel
I hate seeing people scammed online because they make it that much harder for the honest marketers! And for someone as reputable as Mark Victor Hansen to be doing it, with all the money he ALREADY has? That’s pretty awful in my opinion. For the life of me, I HOPE I am wrong about this and this is a genuine offer. but when something is as vague as this, and looks to good to be true, you would have to be a complete MORON to purchase this! Please tell me what you think?
Oh, and here is the email I received with this vague vacation offer (AKA $99 book purchase):
Dear Friend,
I would like to extend to you a special offer. I’m having a clearance sale and would like to gift you with a FREE book when you purhcase a trip to Las Vegas for only $99! I have partnered with my friends in the hotel business and they have allowed me to create this special deal for you! Please take a look at the video below to get the full details!
Videos: www.markvictorhansen.com/travel
To your Continued Success,
Mark Victor Hansen

Founder, MEGA Seminar Series
Thanks for reading, and please BUYER BEWARE!!
Truly,
Melanie Joy Vertalino
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Off Topic-Replay Recordings for Telephone seminars
Hi everyone!
I wanted to talk about something other than relationships for a change. Something that has been bothering me for some time now. I often wonder if I am the only one bothered by this?
How many of you wake up to read your email and see dozens of offers for free seminars, teleseminars, webinars, etc? I know I do. I wish I could hear all of them. I certainly sign up for all of them. Even though I have come to learn that a majority of these calls are just a way for the speaker to promote a new product of theirs. None the less, there is always something to learn from these calls.
Now, here is the big question that has been driving me wild! Why don’t most of these people record the calls and send the replays to people who have signed up for the call? Don’t get me wrong, some people do this. But so many more, don’t do it! Do these people not want the extra business? Do they have too much money and are trying to make less? I really can’t think of one good reason for them to not send a replay to those who have registered? I miss about 95% of the calls I sign up for in hopes that I will get an email for the replay call within a few days. So many times this doesn’t happen!
I listen to these calls while I am working on my computer. It is way too hard in this day and age to be available for a call at someone else’s convenience. People, this is why modern day technology has created products for you to record these calls with! It is my personal opinion that anyone who does a seminar, should have the equipment to record it. What harm can it do? It can only do good, because most people will download the call and listen later. Quite possibly, they may even purchase what you are selling. Or do you not like money? Isn’t that at least part of the reason you got into the business you are in? Isn’t that also the reason for you to do the call? I will never ever understand this! I know some people put the information on a CD and sell it as part of a package deal, or offer to sell the call for a price. But I don’t see this too often. Most calls I miss just disappear into oblivion!
If you are in Internet Marketing and participate in teleseminars/webinars that you don’t record and send to registrants, can you please tell me why? Am I the only one who feels this way? Please leave your comments below and any suggestions on a remedy for this problem. Thanks!
Man Trouble: My First Time (continued)
Now that you have the basic idea of what I was trying to convey, I would like to tell you about my first time. I mean, the first time I realized life wasn’t so simple and that in order to get what I wanted in a relationship, I would have to choose my actions carefully. Before this day, life was much simpler. Granted I was 19 years old. All I knew about love and boys was “Go for it!” Onto the story….
My First Time
It was June, 1994 and I had just met a guy I really liked. Only problem was, he had a girlfriend.
So, I kind of just hung around with him and a mutual female friend of ours, with hopes,
but with no really solid expectations. One thing led to another and before you knew it,
we were “seeing each other.” Fast forward six months. Six months with no comittment
is a long time, especially when you are in love. Finally, I told him, “It’s either her or
me.” I had learned from our mutual friend he was still seeing the other girl. I guess some
small part of me had hoped she would just magically fall away. Yeah right! So, I gave him
the ultimatum, not really knowing if I would ever hear from him again, and it hurt. Two
weeks went by and he came by with a friend and called me outside. He told me he broke up
with her and wants to be with me exclusively! You can just imagine the excitement I felt at
this point after waiting for more than six months. I ran inside to tell my mom, who at the time,
was my “Love coach,” obviously having way more experience with men than I had at this point.
I told her the good news and that he had asked me to go out with him right then and that
I had said yes. My mom said to me, “Go back downstairs and tell him you can’t make it!”
This completely puzzled me! Why? Why am I doing this? I wanted to be with him so badly! But,
I did what my mom told me to because she was a smart woman. Our mutual friend ran into this
guy moments later and he had told her what happened, and she said he seemed very upset.
At the time, I had no idea why I had to do that when I wanted to be with him so badly. Later
I realized that in order to get a certain response out of another person or to “Have your way
with a man,” you need to instill a certain feeling inside of him. He has to know you are NOT
available at his beck and call. At nineteen, this lesson was a hard one to learn. But it was the
first of many lessons such as this one.
How many of you remember your first time? Maybe some of you don’t even have a first time? I still have friends who insist on being 100% real and tell me that they aren’t into playing games. Well, it really isn’t all about playing games. It’s about respecting yourself and your life enough to do what is right for you! Also, it is about knowing men and people in general and under what laws they operate.
We are always looking for “something else.” Are you completely and totally happy right now? I would bet that you have been telling yourself for some time now, “I would be so happy if I could just….” Fill in the blank, it could be to lose weight, get that dream job, or dream guy or something else. We all make our own happiness contingent on some outside material item or outcome. How many times in the past have you received the object of your desire? Are you happy now? My point although I went too far is, we all want things that we can’t or don’t have!
In other words, men want women they can’t have. This is life. Obviously at one point, when you become indispensable to him, you won’t have to worry about this anymore. But how do you become indispensable to a man? That is the question everyone wants to know and I hope to address this in future posts. Furthermore, I will soon have a book for sale titled, “How to Get Your Way With A Man,” and you will be able to find it at the web site, www.HowToGetYourWayWithAMan.com.
Please feel free to post questions or comments below. If there are any relationship or dating problems that you would like me to address, please post them below and I will give them serious consideration and quite possibly post them!
Man Trouble-My First Time
Think back. Can you remember the first time in your life that you had a problem in a relationship with a man? I am referring to the very first man, and the very first problem ever. Not a question you hear everyday is it?
Strangely enough, I actually can remember the very first relationship problem I’ve ever had. Well, really it wasn’t the first time, but it was the first time I knew I could do something about it. I felt confused, happy, and empowered all at the same time! A whole new world was opened up for me and a whole new world can open up for you!
Do you feel helpless in your relationship? You’re unhappy, but you don’t want to leave because you love him. Does that sound about right? So many women struggle in relationships where they’re unhappy but for one reason or another, they can’t leave. You say to yourself, “If only he would change.” Do you ever find yourself saying one of the following things to yourself?
- Why won’t he make a commitment?
- How long before he asks me to marry him?
- I wish he would clean up around the house more often.
- It seems like he spends more time with his friends than with me.
- How can I get him to open up more about his feelings?
This is a short list, but I could write all day about things we wish men did more often or did less.
Ask yourself this question;” What if there were something I could do within myself to change this situation?” Remember, this has nothing to do with him, but everything to do with you. People are very responsive creatures. We respond to what is in our environment, what is going on in front of us. You want to change one (or many) of his behaviors in an indirect way.
Think of one specific thing you would like to change in your relationship with your boyfriend, husband, etc. Brainstorm or meditate on this problem for a few minutes and try to discover how it relates to you. Really try and clear your mind and just be silent while searching for an answer. How can you change the situation for the better? I am not asking you to be direct and tell your man what you think, want, or feel because that rarely works with men. (Seriously) In what way could you be different that would in turn show a difference in him? Put that thought into action.
Feel free to post your situation, questions, comments, or your plan of action below.
In my next post I will tell you the story about my first time. You will learn exactly what I did, how I did it and what the outcome was.

