"So where have you been, Ladan?"

You know how Twitter and Facebook have become so popular these days. Twitter is just like a blog where you can post your latest updates, but it is even faster and easier. You can also use Facebook to share your latest news, tips, and interesting resources in a more personal way.

That’s why for the last several months, I have been actively posting new Internet marketing related tips and resources and personal news mostly on Twitter and Facebook - not on this blog anymore.

So if you have enjoyed reading this blog so far, you can find more updates on my Twitter and Facebook pages here:

• Ladan Lashkari on Facebook
• Ladan Lashkari on Twitter

I update these two almost every day, so you can discover lots of cool tips and tricks about Internet marketing and personal development there.

It does NOT mean I won’t post anything new to this blog any longer. I will still keep updating this blog from time to time.

See you around!

You can see lots of fun photos of my Christmas adventures this year here…

See the rest of the photos…

So here’s a special message for a special person: YOU

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a splendid new year filled with happiness and success.

And hope that next year at this time , you have a big, wide smile on your face thinking about all the amazing goals you achieved in 2009 .

No matter which part of the world you are, special warm Holiday wishes coming your way from the sunny Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Merry Christmas!

Ladan Lashkari

How would a smart entrepreneur finish up the year?

Here are 4 important secrets that top 1% most successful people use today…

1. Review Your Past Year and Find the Treasures

One whole year…

12 full months…

365 days…

Can you imagine how many valuable lessons and experiences we’ve gained? All the mistakes we made and things we learned. And if you just walk out of 2008 without noticing and remembering them, it is like throwing away your one year’s valuable life.

And then we’ll end up going through 2009 making the same mistakes, unless we learn from the past to use the opportunities in the future.

So let’s take a careful look at your 2008 and find the treasures to use for faster success in the coming new year.

2. Sharpen Your Goals for Your Next Year

The next step is choosing which goals you want to target in 2009. After all without knowing where exactly you’re heading to, you can never get there, can you?

Check out this blog post to find out how…

Now the third secret…

3. Keeping Balance: Are You Giving a Fair Share to Your Life?

"Balance is the key to ultimate success and happiness."

Ask any success mentor and they’ll you this as well.

We can’t be truly and fully successful and happy unless we give a fair share to all areas of our life. This includes…

• Your happiness , spending time on things you love, and having fun
• Your career , achieving your business goals and growing your income
• Your relationships and love life , because life feels empty without our loved ones
• Your health , because you can’t enjoy the rest without it

The secret is, every time you feel unhappy and not satisfied in your life, one or more of these areas are missing.

It means the Balance is not there.

So on the last days of 2008, how about we take a good look at our life and see which of these parts we need to get to more? How do you think you can add more Balance to your life?

Write down your ideas now…

4. Chill Out and Enjoy the Holidays!

So the last but not the least, take some time off from work, stress or worrying over small things, and just have fun!

You certainly deserve it after a full year of hard work.

Happy holidays to you and your family!

Some of the best moments in Life…

To fall in love.

To laugh until it hurts your stomach.

To listen to your favorite song in the radio.

To go to bed and to listen while it rains outside.

To find money in a pant that you haven’t used since last year.

To receive a call from someone, you don’t see a lot, but you want to.

To laugh at yourself looking at mirror, making faces.

To clear your last exam.

To go for a vacation to some pretty place.

To laugh without a reason.

To accidentally hear somebody say something good about you.

To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep for a couple of hours.

Calls at midnight that last for hours.

To hear a song that makes you remember a special person.

To be part of a team.

To watch the sunrise.

To make new friends.

To feel butterflies in the stomach every time that you see that person.

To see people that you love are feeling happy.

See an old friend again and to feel that the things have not changed.

To take an evening walk along the beach.

To laugh… laugh… and laugh… remembering stupid things done with stupid friends.

These are the best moments of life… Let us cherish them.

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed"

Have a lovely day!

Ladan

P.S. Can YOU think of any other beautiful moment to add to this list? Let’s share it here for everyone to see and appreciate your inspiration!

As much I loved to take some time to still keep writing for you here, because I always enjoy sharing anything I know with you and also hearing your comments…

But the truth is I was very busy with some personal matters and also some other business projects.

As for the personal matters, yes, we all do have a personal life - even us Internet marketers.

After all, money isn’t everything .

"Yeah, right! "

Well, I agree with a part of how you feel. Because there are two types of people who say this exact thing…

• Those who are broke and say it just as a lame excuse to defend why they are not successful

And…

• Those who are rich and have already tasted how it’s like to have lots of money, but have seen how money can’t buy everything. So they have reached a higher place that they see beyond just "money, money, and more money"

So OK, I am certainly not broke so I consider myself in the second group.

So as we were saying, one of the reasons I was away from blogging for a while was giving more attention and priority to my personal life… and to people I care about.

But another thing keeping me busy this past 2 months, was getting into a new Internet marketing "hobby":

Niche marketing.

I was never a hard-core niche marketer. Most of my business was focused on targeting the Internet marketing niche. That was my passion and something I felt I was great at.

But recently, for the fun of the marketing experiment and to get the thrill of the challenge of trying a brand new road, I got into niche marketing…

And after 2 months, let me tell you that I love it.

It is not only very profitable, but also it is so much fun to get into so many various niches and conquer them, and at the same time grow your knowledge in so many different topics.

For example now I know many things about dog allergies, hair care, loans, makeup secrets, interior design and so much more, just because of building some sites about them.

So if you are the type of person who enjoys new experiences and loves growing your knowledge on various fields, niche marketing will be so much fun for you.

Talk to you soon!

Ladan

This is the question we’ve thought about many times - maybe even our entire life.

Do you look for happiness by trying to succeed in your career, making more money, becoming more popular and admirable among people, becoming physically fit, and many other things…

… But still don’t feel you have that wonderful feeling of “true happiness” inside your life?

Are you usually in a rush to get things done fast and it seems like you’re racing through life with yourself?

STOP!

… And realize the beauty of this very moment .

The world around you is full of beauty. You just need to pay a little attention to see and hear it.

Close your eyes…

Imagine you’re looking at the world from above and see these things…

Some happy children are laughing and playing together. A happy couple are in each others’ arms saying “I love you”. A mother is caressing her child’s head and talks to her kindly.

Birds are flying freely in the sky. The sun is shining. Flowers are blooming. Trees are growing. Rivers are flowing.

If you haven’t closed your eyes by now, do it now and imagine the above things. It will be a wonderful experience. I promise.

Imagine these scenes as if you’re really there - seeing, hearing, and feeling everything.

You see, life goes on everywhere in the world .

And YOU are a part of it!

You are here in this world for a reason, so realize your value.

Realize the value of today, and this very moment.

Appreciate all the wonderful things you have.

Appreciate your every day, every hour, and every minute.

Appreciate your family, friends, and other people you care about.

They’re all valuable gifts that life has given to you.

… And appreciate yourself!

Realizing the value of your life and enjoying your every day is the key to true happiness .

Wish you all that is happy, all that is beautiful, today and every day!

Like I shared with you last year on my 20th Birthday blog post , every year on my birthday I always look back carefully on the past year and analyze everything that I did, the goals accomplished, lessons learned, and so on.

So this year again, I’m doing the same…

And I decided to share it with YOU again, because the fact that you are a valued reader of my blog, makes me excited about sharing with you some things to help you achieve your goals faster and give you inspiration to see everything is possible!

Here are just a few of things I did last year - the 21st year of my life…

• Launched 11 websites and 5 big Internet marketing projects…

• Met lots of top Internet marketing minds and super-experts and built business connections with them.Also learned despite of making millions of dollars a year, having people "bowing " in front of them and calling them "Gods" and "Gurus"… most of them are still humble, kind and wonderful people with a big heart you’ll be amazed to see.

• Increased my monthly income and switched it from manual style to 95% fully automated, so I don’t have to spend much time on my business a month.Actually if I stop working forever now, I have automated profits coming to my bank account every month which I can use to live my dream lifestyle.But hey, I won’t stop working forever, because I’m in love with what I do and helping people achieve the same freedom and lifestyle.

  The point is, won’t you feel wonderful to do what you LOVE to do… but know you don’t HAVE to?

• Traveled to outside of Iran for the first time ever in my life (May 2007, Singapore). Now this is something big because the majority of people there don’t get to do it even once in their whole life, because of visa obstacles and the costs of it.This is when being an Internet marketer rocks!

• Moved out of Iran permanently (one of my top 3 goals since I was 12 years old ) and started living in Malaysia for the time being.

• During my travels and adventures around, I learned amazing lessons about life - so invaluable that I wouldn’t agree to exchange them for $1 million . Seriously.

And you just saw a glimpse of things happening during last year.

So what about YOU?

Have you achieved the goals you set for yourself during the past year?

If you’ve had amazing success, I am so glad to hear it. I admire you for your success and hope to be learning from you to get to where you have reached.

If you however didn’t reach all your planned goals last year and look forward to more success in your Business or personal life this year, I heartily wish you the best of luck and hope to be hearing your success story here soon .

Because I know you have all it takes to achieve all your goals.

Yes, no matter how BIG your goals are, you are BIGGER than them and can achieve them all.

• Even if you are 16 year "young" - like I was when I got started in Internet marketing…

• Even if you started with less than a $100 budget that you borrowed from your grandmother …

• Even if you are from a special country where you’re not allowed to have a PayPal account, can’t cash USD checks, or even can’t get a normal credit/debit card from your banks…

• And even if you believe in yourself and know you will succeed… but you are the only person believing that, and others around you try to disappoint you…

Because you know what?

Challenges and obstacles are only a test to check if we REALLY want success strongly enough to stick - no matter what.

If we get tired soon and and give up, we’ve failed this test.

But if we stick to it for a while and keep trying, the rewards will be HUGE… and well worth it.

So don’t let challenges trick you to believe they are too strong or permanent, because you are smarter than them and know they’re NOT.

Wish you all the best!

Ladan

P.S. So when is YOUR birthday?

Do you do a similar analysis every year about thing you did, learned, and accomplished last year?

Me and our other people from all over the world reading this blog would love to hear from you. So hit the comment button below and let us know about YOU!

P.P.S. Stay tuned because you’re going to meet some amazing people in the next post. People who each are unique and a jewel in their own way.

Also some friends have been telling me, "Ladan, update your blog!"

Yes, OK, I agree with you that it’s been a while that I haven’t been actively posting updates here like before.

It was because there were so many things going on in my life and changing things, so I needed to spend more time in the offline world.

And yes, we Internet marketers DO have an offline life too.

But now I’m back again!

You’ll be seeing some interesting updates and Fun surprises here in the next few days. So stay tuned!

Looking forward to talking with you more…

Ladan