Happy Thanksgiving 2008
(In case you saw the original title of this post “Happy Thanksgiving 2009″, there’s a simple explanation. I had just finished Thanksgiving dinner and sat down on the couch to hurriedly type this post. Apparently all that turkey tryptophan got to my brain, because I forgot what year it was and didn’t realize it until the comments started coming in 
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I try to avoid making the cliché “holiday blog posts”. After all, do you really need to read ANOTHER sappy “I’m so thankful for…” article?
And in the Internet marketing world the way it usually works is the marketer says… Happy thanksgiving, now go buy this.
The fact is, I am incredibly grateful for my life and the people in it. But I’ll spare you the stereotypical thanksgiving “stuffing”, because I want to do something a little different.
First, I want everyone who reads this newsletter to know that I’m thankful for YOU. Without you, Eric’s Tips wouldn’t exist.
Here’s a FREE small gift as a token of my appreciation. It’s an ebook called Firesale Profits Revealed. I’ve made tens of thousands of dollars from quick little firesales, so this ebook talks about how to do it (Note: I didn’t write it… it was ghost written)…
Click Here to Download Now (Includes Master Resale Rights)
It also comes with Master Resale Rights and a full sales page for you to sell it from. Here’s the rights…
[YES] Can resell it and keep 100% of the profits
[YES] Can sell resale rights
[YES] Can give it away
[YES] Can bundle with other products
[YES] Can use as bonus
[YES] Can add to membership site
[NO] Includes Private Label Rights
Second, instead of making a huge list of things I’m thankful for, I want to know what YOU are thankful for. Please post in the comments below what you are thankful for.
UPDATE:
Thank you so much to every one who posted a comment below. Many of them brought tears to my eyes. I’m sure the comments have touched and inspired hundreds of people who have read through them.
I honestly did not know what to expect. I knew I would get some comments, but the depth and sincerity of them really surprised me, particularly in light of the difficult time the world is currently going through.
Thank you for reminding me that the difficult times reveal to us what we have to be thankful for.
There were so many great comments… honorable mentions include Michael Robinson, Keith, Michaela, Ron, Simon W Rosenberg DMD, Ray, Pete Bass, Glenn Hughes, Carol Huskison, and too many others to mention them all.
My “runner up” would be Scott, whose website is Ask the Wealth Squad, who said:
I am thankful for
The pain I sometimes wake up to make me enjoy the freedom of pain.
My divorce for making me realize what was missing in my life - a strong relationship with God and his son Jesus
My recent layoff from work which gave me time to think about what I wanted to do with my life when I grow up (Currently age 40 but not wanting to grow up just yet)
The recent drop in the stock market as it created the realization that invested in ourselves in the best stock to buy.
The courts for granting me custody of my wonderful son 13 years ago.
My parents for feeding me while I am laid off
My years of plenty and God’s wisdom to store some wealth so that I can live for a bit without worry.
The worry that comes from that time I can live on my savings which gives me courage to do something new.
My friends and family for doubting me when I was young as it gave me the strength to succeed.
My dogs who love me no matter what the world does.
The USA and the opportunities it brings to anyone who is willing to work and sacrifice.
Our soldiers who have died protecting those rights.
The 2nd Amendment which protects us from our government reaching too far.
The Constitution and the brilliance it brings to our lives.
Austrian economics to understand business cycles and realize that this too shall pass.
Your website and the generosity you show - and the realization that you can be focused on doing good in the world and making a profit at it.
The interest and the ease of access to information to see how the world really works.
My travels overseas to fully understand how different our country is.
For my website which is still a work in progress - so this post has to stir me to action to finish it
For God sending his son to suffer and die for me.
For every breath
For every step
For every tear
For every pain
For every fear
For every doubterFor without struggle how can we say we have overcome? How can we know victory without knowing loss?
We fail not when we fall but when we don’t get up.
Scott
For the “winning” comment, I am choosing Kathryn Duerst, whose comment embodies the spirit of thankfulness. Thank you for reminding me to take a second look to see the divine.
Kathryn said,
Gratefulness is the ability to see the good in every circumstance, as even the hard times and trials are intended by God to shape us into His beautiful image and build our character. This is what I have heard all my life, but it does not come naturally without the practice of seeing as He sees. At first glance, I see the human side only, and it takes a second look to see the divine.
At first glance, I see the folks I care for at my jobs, elderly and handicapped people, and I think how difficult it must be for them to live in a body that does not perform as one wishes it could. Then I recall my training, that these people are gifted and special, and I am to come alongside as a friend, enjoying them and the value they contribute to my life. They do not want pity.
Seeing the one who has his feeding through a tube, I am grateful I can taste food and feel it going down my throat. Seeing the one who depends on me to be his eyes, I relish the many beautiful colors, shapes, lights, and bright eyes I can see. Seeing those who must move slowly in a wheelchair or with a cane, I exult in my bouncing steps down the hallway to answer the next call. These people make me know how good I have it.
And I wonder, if I was in their situation, would I be as pleasant? The blind man is so full of stories, memories from almost a century of life. He is one of my favorite people.
The one who gets a tube feeding every morning is so sweet and cooperative as I brush his teeth, lift him to his bath, and pour rinse water over his head; he trusts me completely. What faith! He seems grateful to have me there to help. I get to feel very needed and useful.
Then I think how much we all depend on each other. I depend on people like Eric to teach me everything about Internet marketing; without a mentor, I would be very handicapped online. I am so grateful there are people with a spirit of giving, to help me see hope in my circumstances. They breathe the divine viewpoint into my perspective.So I am not just a struggling laborer, working for ten dollars an hour, 60 hours a week, a single parent of seven, wondering when I will get my lucky break. I am part of a divine drama in which God has me and others doing whatever most demonstrates His love to one another each moment.
I am grateful I can serve and help the people I care for, and I am grateful I have some time left over after all the hours I put in at work to pay the bills, so I can be with my family a little while, and I can work online, too, for the day my online business will free me to be wherever I am needed most, just because I want to be.
This evening, I am spending the time with my family and the family of my daughter’s fiancé, and I have a few days off before the wedding to prepare for it. I feel incredibly blessed to enjoy this special time and relish it, because in a few days, the happy couple will be moving 2000 miles away, and I will be working hard to be able to afford to visit them whenever I want to. Gratefulness makes the most of what I have now, and it sees the potential in the future. I am grateful for these blessings.
Kathryn from Minnesota
I will be mailing Kathryn the Traffic Stampede course as a prize.
Although the contest is over, it’s not too late to post your comment of thankfulness. I know I will return to this page for inspiration when I’m feeling discouraged. You might want to bookmark it and do the same.
Have a great day and a happy Thanksgiving!
Thank god for making us, and thank us for making internet!
Happy Thanksgiving eric and everyone else.
very nice offer that you have made.
Thank you for your gift,is a great gift
Two days ago saw the conviction of Hannah Fosters murderer. After a mamouth manhunt and legal minefield.
The 16 year old was raped and strangled not 5 miles from where I sit now. She was abducted not 200 yards from her home.
The Fosters went thru hell trying to catch the guy and to get him extrodited from India.
The murder happened roughly 6 years ago and has been in the forefront of every ones minds locally.
So this man recieved 24 years if it had been up to his father he would of had him hanged.
The upshot of this is the guy who turned him in took his reward money and …………. built a school the first year he had 20 students now he has 127 students at the Hannah memorial academy it teaches the children of the tea pickers in Darjeeling who on average earn a dollar a day…….
The aftermath of this is I blubbed like a little girl.
I’m thankful that there are still great people in this world who think of giving first.
Happy Turkey Day, Eric - thanks for all your great posts and advice. AND, now for the download.
Blessings to you and yours.
I’m thankful for my two legs to take me where I want to go, for my arms to let me hold what I want, for my eyes to allow me to see beauties around me, my ears for the sounds of my family, my mouth to partake of the wonderous bounties, and a God to bless me no matter how hard life can get. Everything else is irrelevent….
I am thankful for my beautiful wife and 2 great kids. Without their support, I would not be here today.
Hi Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for you and your tips that help me enough to want to continue on, even though adversity faces me around every turn.
Have a great and prosperous future.
http://magicbusiness101.com
Im thankful for having the the space in the last three years to heal from the death of our daughter who died after giving birth at 21 years old, I am thank ful that we could afford the 3 years of work to take the time to do this, I have realized that time is short and it can be taken away without warning. My goal is to try and make a living online so as I can continue to spend every day with my wife.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family
peter marshall
Hi Mr Marshall, you have deeply touch my heart. Life is indeed short. Happiness is the most valuable asset in the World. Wishing you all the best on Thanksgiving from the other side of the Globe.
Eisen @ Shanghai
Hi
I have a lot to be thankful for and it really is difficult to choose one thing as I feel that everything in life is precious at the right moment. There is always a need and that need is fulfilled by a specific gift that we have been blessed with which happens to be right for that moment.
As an example I will share with you the time of the birth of my first child. Normally I am a very squeamish person and the mere sight of blood would bring me out in a sweat. But when my first child was born my wife had to undergo an emergency ceasarian. It was a time for me to be strong and to ensure that she gained some measure of comfort from that strength. Thakfully we got through it and I was able (through sheer necessity) to tap into a strength that I never knew I had and see my wife through this difficult time.
My first child is now 8 years old and we have another 2 children. The birth of each one required a different something from both myself and my wife and we are thankful that God provided for our wants at the time with the right gifts to see us through that moment. We continue to be blessed in this way on a daily basis.
Thank you and sorry if I went on a bit too much.
Shamsul Hayat
Recently an affordable new condo project offered folks a chance to buy one based on a lottery system. My mother says God is taking care of me because I’ve been a good boy. Yes, I won the lottery. This is the chance I’ve been waiting for to purchase my own own home. Never too late for one’s first home. Just turned 64 though it seems like life is in the beginning stages.
I am thankful for each day that I spend with my family and seeing my kids grow. I am also thankful for all the good people that GOD has put on this earth to remind us of his will and love, which motivate me to keep going and help as many souls as I can without expecting anything in return.
Finally thank you for your help in guiding us through the internet marketing mazes and pitfalls for free.
GOD Bless you and your family.
hai eric,
It is really awesome. I glade u for making this. it is very much helpful to the people how want to gain something in life. thank u a lot for this.
Hi Eric
I am thankful to God for the fact that I live in a beautiful country that is a place of peace. I am thankful for my family, and all those I love who enrich my life. I am thankful for the capacity to grow and learn. And I am thankful for people such as Eric Holmlund who give so freely of their knowledge and expertise so that I can learn even more.
Blessings of the season to you and yours.
Jenni Wright
Adelaide Australia
I am profoundly grateful for the freedom to practice my religious beliefs in relative peace and safety, which was why the Pilgrims came to America in 1620.
I am thankful for my loving family. I am also thankful for the ability to work from home and be with my family. Finally, I am thankful to coaches like Eric, who continually provides guidance and inspiration to those who have not “hit the bigtime” yet. God bless you and yours.
Rudy
Hi Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving from the UK. We don’t celebrate thanksgiving here but I think of all of the things that I have to be thankful for every day.
I am thankful for;
3 great children who have grown up into great adults and are all my best friends
The 8 grandchildren that I have been blessed with who are a joy
The ability, and health and strength to continue to earn money and provide myself with a truly magical lifestyle even though I’m past normal retirement age
The joy of music and ability to play instruments and pleasure I receive from both
The joy of friendships
I am thankful for waking up each day and living in a country where I have the freedom to do pretty much what I want
I am thankful for the joy of travel
I am thankful for the pleasure that the Internet has brought and continues to bring to so many people
I am grateful for the Law of Attraction that allows us to control what happens in our lives
I am happy and grateful to be part of nature and enjoy the immense diversity of it
I am grateful to be alive and able to be grateful
I have just sat and reflected on your question. Then I realised that the easy answer that first came to mind was not what real the answer.
What I am really thankfull for are the challenges that life throws at me. These can be family, teaching, therapy, a practical project or any number of things. Without these challenges my life would be stale and as a person I would not have learned and developed. Yes i love my family and friends but with out being challenged and made to reach solutions to problems I would be a very lackluster person. And consequently not as useful for others.
Happy Thanks Giving to my US friends.
Regards
Ian
Hello Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
I am thankful this year for the length of life that has been granted to my Dad and Mom. Both are ill at this, yet remain a very positive force in my life. Both are 81 years old and are suffering with various problems, yet are very thankful for every day they have! They have encouraged me with every endeavor I have undertaken and it was not till I reached middle-aged that I realized what wonderful parents I have been blessed with!
Best,
JB
i am thankful that this year i have been able to determine (somewhat) who has been trying to sincerely help me expand my IM business and who the definite sheisters are.
Jon
I am thankful for:
my family, even the dysfunctional ones!
my husband, especially when he cooks for me!
the stars in the sky
the birds in the trees
my ability to create
the wonder I still see in the world after thiry one years on this earth
my eyesight
my network of friends and acquaintances who bring me joy
Hi Eric and Eric’s Tips readers
I am thankful that I live in a peaceful country. I can’t imagine how life would be in a place like Iraq, Afghanistan or the other trouble spots in the world.
My thoughts go to people living in those countries and hope one day they can experience life without having to worry about all that goes on around them.
I am also thankful each day that I spend time with my wife and daughter. I enjoyed my daughters first ballet performance last weekend and was so proud seeing her on stage.
All the best
Rob
As a Vietnam Combat Veteran 66-68 I am just plain Thankful for LIFE in general.
The lives I saved(I hope).
The life I created(children).
The life I have.
And the future life of this Great Country the United States America.
Life.. the most precious thing God gives.
Hey Jim,
I live in Canada and am thankful to all you Veterans (Canadian and Amereicans and Allies) that fought and fight for our freedoms.
I’m thankful and proud to have America as neighbours
I can’t imagine what you guys went through - so thank you.
I’m thankful for my family beacuse without family nothing matters,
I’m thankful for my heath
I’m also thankful that I live in a Country that is tolerant to many different cultures, religions, races and yes even Sexual preference.
Thank God (whoever he may be) for the ability to be kind and compasionate.
Eric:
I am thankful to be alive. I think each day is a marvelous opportunity to give, share and offer whatever knowledge I have to help others.
With the economic crisis we need to work together, help one another so that we can all survive.
I am thankful for my friends, family and eager to turn an unknown face to a new best friend.
Most of all I am thankful for the presence of God in my life.
And of course last but not least, I am thankful for you Eric and your generosity.
Hi Eric,
I’m a fairly new subscriber to your tips, and I am SO pleased I found you!! You’re giving me greater confidence with every email I get. So thanks!
So… what am I thankful for…? Well, I’m housebound due to disability so I am eternally thankful for the Internet and all the opportunities and fun it gives. Thanks to the internet I’ve been able to get cutting edge research on my condition that I can share with my doctor, and I can build friendships with people all over the world that know what I’m going through. Thanks to the Internet, when I feel down all I need to go is watch a funny video on YouTube or post to a forum. Most of all, the Internet has given me the chance to start building a career despite my physical limitations. I’m thankful for the fact it’s made life less lonely, and I hope I can help other people in the same way!
Happy Thanksgiving
Hello cat,
i saw your mail to Eric and i think you are a person i need to know,know matter what your physical limitation is, you can mail me on psalm_sam001@yahoo.com and you can send your Email address to me too and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
I am thankful that I can shoot for my aim: Health, love, wealth and time to enjoy them;
and at the same time keep my integrity intact by following my belief: To thine own self be true.
Eric,
I totally didn’t get this was a contest - I was just saying thanks, but since you asked:
I am grateful right down to my soul for every day, no, every moment that I have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of my patients. I’m a nurse in a psychiatric facility where the patients have deep wounds. You just can’t see them.
I come home, and no matter what’s waiting for me there: the news (usually bad), bills, exhaustion from working 12 hour shifts, I am thankful. We all have so much to be grateful for that we take for granted. It’s humbling coming home after spending all night caring for patients with debilitating mental illness.
I have no lack. I am blessed. My cup runneth over.
I am thankful to Jehovah God for every second of my life.Even with the tough times we are having,there are those who have it worse.
I am thankful everyday to help others who are less fortunate as I am. There is always someone out there who has it worse than I do. I had opportunity to serve thanksgiving dinner.in a homeless shelter. The power of giving to help others feels awesome.
Hi Eric,
I am thankful for being me! If I wasnt the way I am, things would get on top of me all the time and my life would be mediocre at best. But because I am the way I am, I have the drive and determination to see that my wife and child, along with my own family and my wifes family and all of our close friends receive my help (either financially or by me giving my time up… what little I have) to help them in their times of need.
I come from a poor family (by modern western standards that is!) background raised by my mum with two other brothers and no father. To say we struggled is an understatement, but I didnt know the pain and struggles my mum went through to bring us up. I have worked hard though, got educated (still learning!) and got a good job so I am able to help financially when my mum or brothers need it most. They rarely ask, but they know that if their backs were against the wall, I would do anything to raise the money to help them. However my wish is to increase my earnings exponentially so that I can pay off my own debts and help them pay off theirs (not just the monthly servicing but the whole lot) so that I can buy them financial freedom. Then, like a stone thrown into a pond, the ripple effect works its magic and I hope that I may be blessed to be in a position to help others much more.
I already give of my time to several organisations here in the UK, examples are The Scouts (a youth organisation), a local association helping elderly leaseholders with leasehold issues like high repair chages etc that they cannot afford on a fixed pension, I go into a local school close to where I work and read with a child that has learning difficulties and self confidence issues. He is responding well according to his teacher and I am overjoyed that he is taking to reading, such an important skill to learn.
So… sorry for the ramble, but in essence if I was not me, I probably would not take on all this stuff and so I am grateful for being ME.
Kind regards.
Gareth C Thomas
P.S. of course it goes without saying I am grateful for my health, my family, the love of my family and friends, my job (right now banking is NOT a good place to be!), my car that starts every time I use it, etc, etc.
This is an email which I just sent as a reply to Travis. I hope you don’t mind my mentioning him.
Hello Travis,
To my surprise, I find myself responding to your final sentence… “You may…if you wish…share your list with me”!
I live in Canada and we celebrate Thanksgiving a few weeks earlier that you Americans do.
I love the exercise you share with your wife. Unfortunately, I don’t currently have anyone in my life to share my list with. I just had a relationship end and have been feeling somewhat down today. I am living on a very meager disability pension and seem unable to get past a few little marks on my brain and productively use all the drive and ambition and intelligence which are buried inside. I’ve been frustrated today because there are several pieces of software which I want to purchase but cannot afford.
All in all, life has knocked me way down from the pinnacle of my success some years back when the world was my oyster and my ego was a big as the world.
And yet, I have no desire to return to former times when things seemed so positive and the outside eye saw, sometimes with envy, a life which looked ideal.
I have been truly humbled, lost everything I once cherised, including a wife and business and dreams.
I don’t know what pushed me to write this email but I guess I want to share something with you. Reading so much email and looking at so many marketing websites, I sense that many of the “highly successful” internet marketers have no sense at all what success is really about. The big house, the impressive car and all the “fixings” mean nothing. They may be giving “thanks” for their success today. I don’t know. But hearing their egos talk about their marketing success, it is hard to imagine an inner peace.
I wish and hope that everyone includes all their friends and family in things to be thankful for. But more than that, I wish and hope that they live their lives each and every day as if they were thankful for the presence of these love ones. So often, spouses and children are treated with the same appreciation as the chattels which people own.
Show your “thanks” by being patient with your wife and children and family, show your “thanks” by accepting the differences and even rejoicing in the differences. Relish in the excitement of seeing these people as the unique and wonderful people they are…. even when you are tired, even when you disagree with them, even when you are asked to do something which seems an interruption, even when you are asked to hear their feelings or thoughts or ideas about something extreme.
I think you know what I am saying.
But there is one other thing to be thankful for….. I’ve learned the hard way to be thankful for who I am. I have been stripped of all the things which at one time defined me. I have no car, I have no house, I have no job, I have no elevated income….. but with all those losses, I am thankful for the person I am. I am human… no longer seeking perfection, no longer seeking to be right, no longer seeking to outdo someone else.
I must admit that I have a few tears in my eyes as I finish this. But they aren’t tears of sadness nor tears of loss. They are tears of acceptance in the most positive sense. Tears of acceptance that although I have lost “everything” and am not functioning “productively”, I am the best person I have ever been.
I finally like who I am… and that is truly something to be thankful for.
If I had been able to develop this “acceptance” of who I am at an earlier age, my life would have been very different. I’ve had a good life and I know that I have helped may people throughout my life. However, I was never thankful for being myself until now, at age 64 and with nothing material.
Robert
Robert,
That was the most amazing and inspirational response I have ever read. It reminds me of the words from an old hymn:
Just as I am, though tossed about
with many a conflict, many a doubt,
fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Eric,if you are reading here, this is thankfulness.
Sincerely, with blessings,
Pamela
Hi Eric and friends,
Today, I’m grateful for the four basic factors necessary for life,
for being able to meet my six human needs and for having great
people to interact with online as well as offline.
The simplest things in life are the most taken for granted, yet
are truly the most valuable.
Perhaps as we pause to give thanks on special days like today,
it will be useful to remember the pioneers who’ve gone before
us, blazing new trails and opening up new territories. Brave
souls who risked their livelihoods in many cases to explore
and chart unknown places to make it easier for the rest of us
to follow.
Special kudos to you Eric, for taking your risks, building on
your successes, and having the courage to stick to your own
convictions and share your experiences with integrity.
May each of you who read these words enjoy a safe, joyous
holiday season and a prosperous, abundance filled New Year.
Your friend in and out of the trenches,
@MichaelMillman ~ Twitter
I am thankful for being reunited with the love of my life, thirty years after we last saw each other. We still have not seen each other, communicating by phone and internet each and every day since this February - she in USA, me in South Africa. We plan to marry next year!
I Am Thankful For:
- Waking up this morning
- Still caring about the person I see in the mirror
- Starting this day as if it is my first
- Hearing the laughter of my children
- Having a heart that still feels
- Giving family and friends BIG hugs (and meaning it)
- Still wanting to make a difference in others lives
- Still being able to learn “how” to serve others better
- Having hope that I’m not “too old” to improve my life
- Receiving your email
- Being able to share what I’m thankful for . . .
I am so thankful for my friends, family, internet friends. I have been blessed with the friendship of several people that I believe touched the world in a special way given their generosity of spirit and loving acceptance of all. I’m filled with gratitude at the opportunity to know and love them. Nan
I am thankful that, in my 81st year, I am still here. I am thankful that after 6 strokes, (two the first day) and four more over the next four months that I can still, and Do, swim 1,000 yards every day. I am thankful that I am among the eldest ‘Noobies’ in the IM business, I would imagine. I am thankful to everyone who has been so helpful and hope that I will be thankful this time next year for a great 2009. I am thankful that it appears that my wife and I may celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary on 16 April 2010. In the swimming pool in our birthday suits!.
I’m grateful that I got to be with my Mother right up to her death. She used to read Eric’s Tips, from her laptop on her bet. She dreamed of doing something in the ‘recipe’ world. She had 1,000’s.
That was her love. Besides me -) And, now I guess I’m even more grateful to Eric for providing this format for learning as I’m really working to honor my Mother by picking up here and following thru on what she thought would be a good thing. Gratitudes Eric, and Happy ThanksGiving to you as well.
Hi Eric,
Thank you for the awesome gift. Happy Thanksgiving…Now stop reading this and get back to your family!;-)
I’m grateful that I got to be with my Mother right up to her death. She used to read Eric’s Tips, from her laptop on her bed. She dreamed of doing something in the ‘recipe’ world. She had 1,000’s. That was her love. Besides me -) And, now I guess I’m even more grateful to Eric for providing this format for learning as I’m really working to honor my Mother by picking up here and following thru on what she thought would be a good thing. Gratitudes Eric, and Happy ThanksGiving to you as well.
Eric,
I have been receiving your tips for a long time, I am thankful for all of the information you have shared.
I am thankful that I am going to be a grandfather in May of 09. and 09 will be the best year ever. That I have been blessed beyond measure, with family, friends.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
God Bless.
Jay
I am thankful that I came into the world with nothing so, everything I now own is sheer PROFIT.
Hi Eric and fellow readers!
Well, i never had the pleasure of thanksgiving day becouse i live in Sweden..
Mostly, i am greatful and proud to be the father of litle Lejla who is now 9 months old..
She is the reason that i want to improve my sittuation today and start making money in ways that gives me more time with her
And through that i send me greatest thansk to people with a good heart who are open to help others improve their sittuation..
Eric, with more people like you, the world would be a much more plesent place to live in
Happy thanksgiving to you all!
Hi everyone,
I am thankful for my beautiful wife and 3 children who are all healthy.
Thankful that we live in a nation that provides us with the opportunities to do better.
Thankful for Gods daily provisions for us, our needs are met each and every day.
Thankful for all the wonderful resources and helpful people that are available to us.
Thankful just to live where we do. (Australia)
Thanks also to Eric’s tips for providing us with this opportunity to express our gratitude.
May you all have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!
Regards,
Fred
Hello Eric
Wishing you and your family a very
~Happy Thanks-Giving~..Enjoy your day and turkey feast!! I’m in Canada and we celebrated Thanks-Giving in October, and am thankful throughout the year for the many blessings that is shining upon my family.
But most of all, I shall say to Mother-Earth,
“My Gratitude-Heart is all for you, ALL FOR YOU”
Thank You Eric, for providing such helpful tips and tutorial, your time and effort and their value are much appreciated. THANK YOU
with Love
bg
Hi There,
You challenged me to confess that I am forever grateful, forever thankful, that God so loved the world (me) that he gave his one and only son so I could have eternal life.
That I could be loved in such a way is unfathomable to many.
For that gift I am forever thankful.
Many Blessings to you Eric,
Owen
As a newbie, Ive been ripped off several times b4 coming across you,Eric.
It’s like having a new friend now, I look forward to your mails..and share the love of the open air ( and the ability to jog!) so ..let’s paraise God for an abundance of fresh air and good health to enjoy it!
ps
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
we have a food bank here to help the folk’s that need it,they were going to close it, as no one wanted to be responsable to run it
i thank god that i have been able to be there to keep it open for all those in need
and at 65 i give thank’s that i will be able to do it fore a long time to come if god willing.
Gratefulness is the ability to see the good in every circumstance, as even the hard times and trials are intended by God to shape us into His beautiful image and build our character. This is what I have heard all my life, but it does not come naturally without the practice of seeing as He sees. At first glance, I see the human side only, and it takes a second look to see the divine.
At first glance, I see the folks I care for at my jobs, elderly and handicapped people, and I think how difficult it must be for them to live in a body that does not perform as one wishes it could. Then I recall my training, that these people are gifted and special, and I am to come alongside as a friend, enjoying them and the value they contribute to my life. They do not want pity.
Seeing the one who has his feeding through a tube, I am grateful I can taste food and feel it going down my throat. Seeing the one who depends on me to be his eyes, I relish the many beautiful colors, shapes, lights, and bright eyes I can see. Seeing those who must move slowly in a wheelchair or with a cane, I exult in my bouncing steps down the hallway to answer the next call. These people make me know how good I have it.
And I wonder, if I was in their situation, would I be as pleasant? The blind man is so full of stories, memories from almost a century of life. He is one of my favorite people.
The one who gets a tube feeding every morning is so sweet and cooperative as I brush his teeth, lift him to his bath, and pour rinse water over his head; he trusts me completely. What faith! He seems grateful to have me there to help. I get to feel very needed and useful.
Then I think how much we all depend on each other. I depend on people like Eric to teach me everything about Internet marketing; without a mentor, I would be very handicapped online. I am so grateful there are people with a spirit of giving, to help me see hope in my circumstances. They breathe the divine viewpoint into my perspective.
So I am not just a struggling laborer, working for ten dollars an hour, 60 hours a week, a single parent of seven, wondering when I will get my lucky break. I am part of a divine drama in which God has me and others doing whatever most demonstrates His love to one another each moment.
I am grateful I can serve and help the people I care for, and I am grateful I have some time left over after all the hours I put in at work to pay the bills, so I can be with my family a little while, and I can work online, too, for the day my online business will free me to be whereever I am needed most, just because I want to be.
This evening, I am spending the time with my family and the family of my daughter’s fiance, and I have a few days off before the wedding to prepare for it. I feel incredibly blessed to enjoy this special time and relish it, because in a few days, the happy couple will be moving 2000 miles away, and I will be working hard to be able to afford to visit them whenever I want to. Gratefulness makes the most of what I have now, and it sees the potential in the future. I am grateful for these blessings.
Kathryn from Minnesota
I am grateful for all that I have in my life.
I have a wonderful family, a growing business, and wonderful friends.
im very grateful that we have a free country to live in and all the great things God has given me and great friends like eric. thank you eric and God Bless you and yours. david
I know one of the standards for this time of year is, “I’m glad to be alive and in good health”.
Well,’I am thankful to be alive’. And there’s good reason to be as glad as I am.
In order to put food on the table I work the night shift at the local 7-Eleven. Sad I know, but that’s not the bad part, even though it may sound like it.
A couple of years ago, Sunday morning, 5AM, a crack addict comes into the store. He jumps across the counter, grabs the young girl working with me, puts a knife to her throat, and pushes her towards me.
To make a long story short, he stabs me in the chest. The knife passed through the lung and into the heart.
A person of reasonable intelligence would rightly assume death was not far off. Happily for me a highly skilled Surgeon was on duty at the Hospital that night. I found out later that his being there was a rare moment. Needless to say he preformed a small miracle by way of a heart/lung operation.
A lot of pain and six months recover time put me back at work. Night shift at the local 7-Eleven.
But hey, ‘I am thankful to be alive’.
Michael
I’m thankful for the United State Congress, for their hard work, their courage and foresight. For their selflessness, their wisdom and their willingness to make the tough decisions and do what they know is right, no matter the consequences. I’m thankful that they are always there to make us more prosperous and free. I’m thankful to live in a country where I am free to be bitter and sarcastic even on a solemn holiday like Thanksgiving.
Just kidding, I am truly thankful to live in such a great country, with boundless opportunity and I am thankful for the men and women who have given their lives to protect our liberty.
I am grateful for many things but especially the fact that this year has been much better than last year.
Thanks Eric
I am thankful for people, books, films or idea’s that inspire me and help me remember who I really am. Not the roles I do, the hats I wear or the perception of who I am but the real me. A spiritual being having a (very) human experience.
I am grateful for that and for you asking me.
First of all i wish a happy Thanks Giving to all the Erics tips suscribers.
First of all i thank God for being alive and the gift that i’ve been getting all this vital information that Eric gives that rarely no ones gives through the web.
I’m pretty sure Eric that God has a special place for you…And that’s what i’m Thankful for….
Happy Thanks Giving for you a your Family..
Hi Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My family and me are very thankful for you and all your help and guideness.
http://www.GadgetWorldUS.com
Hi!
If u do not attach a gift, u’ve done alot to put smile o lots of faces by creating “Ericstips”. I thank you for making unemployed group especially the YOUTHs to be boastful of gainfully employed through reading your created Tips and acted upon it.I wish you more HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
From Sulayman Kasim.
Hi Everyone & Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your families!
I’d just like to say first that I’m not the most religious person but I truly do believe in the spirit of giving,helping others,and counting your blessings in life every day.
I’ve almost reached a milestone now of 20 years in the medical field(and believe me when I say I’ve seen a lot of others not as fortunate as some of us)First a Fire Fighter and Paramedic. Then a medical technician and now a Pet Scan Tech for Cancer patients in our local hospital.
I’m not the richest guy from doing this but maybe one of the luckiest. I do have a stable job in the medical field(even with a shakey economy) and an opportunity every day to help sick people and put a smile on the faces of cancer patients and family members…has anyone ever seen a really sick person smile?They forget everything including their pain for just a couple minutes. I’ve always felt laughter is one of the best medicines and something I’ve always been lucky enough to easily give others.
When you see all the sickness,do your best to help and then count your own blessings from those experiences…your life becomes richer with more meaning,gratitude and thankfulness.
Over and Out,
Gary
I have been using Gratitude almost daily in my life for the past 10 years. As I sit down to my nightly meal I give thanks to all that I have in my life. By focusing on what I am grateful for brings more of what I am grateful for into my life. Everyone around the table does the same as we hold hands and connect to each other. Not only does it put a smile on our faces to remember what we DO have, it also gives us all an opportunity to acknowledge that which we have accomplished, those who we are grateful for in our lives, and that which has come to us which we appreciate.
I can only say this.. by using gratitude I am debt free, own my own home, and are 2 months off spending 6 months in Asia backpacking with my husband. I seem to be in the monority, and I feel that gratitude has taken me to this place of being stress free in a “stressful world”.
Happy Thanksgiving To All!
I am thankful that I am Me,
and You are You,
and we are not the turkey.
I am thankful that I understand Gratitude,
and know deep in my soul what it means to be thankful.
Every glimpse of color, sound of thunder,
vibe of a touch, thought of family, every passing moment has glory in it. Being here
and having the opportunity to celebrate life,
and to make things better, or happier for someone somewhere, that makes me thankful.
Connie
Hi Eric;
I am thankful for my sight, so I may see everything that god has created.
I am thankful for my hearing, so I may learn from what others more knowledgeable then I may speak.
I am thankful to be able to speak, so I may pass on any wisdom that I may have learned through life.
I am thankful to be able to touch, so I may feel the embrace that others may bestow upon me.
I am thankful to have the ability to smell, so I may smell natures beauty.
I am Thankful to live in a Country that has true democracy where I am permitted to make a post like this without censorship.
Most of all; I am thankful to all our Armed Forces that protect us and fight when necessary, to allow us the privilege to live the life we do. Without them, none of the above would be possible as we would cease to exist.
Happy Thanksgiving
Hi Eric and all,
First I am so gratefull that God allowed Jesus to die that we might live, and for his constant prayers for us everyday that we stay focused on him regardless of what evils are being done around the world, by lawless men. I’m thankfull for his provision,spirt soul and body. I’m thankfull for the answers to the simplest requests I ask of him. I am thankfull for the truth that sets us free and the way he brings lovely people into my life. I’m thankfull for solutions that are natural to every health problem and for his promise that by his stripes (on his back at the whipping post) we are healed, because he made that legally available for us 2,000 years ago, so I agree with him. I’m thankfull for his watching over my family, and the delight in my son’s dog who arrives just when I need to go for a long walk around the river. His excitement is an contagious as soon as I say “Go for a walk!”I am thankfull for the many challenges that “stretch” me and drive me back to him and his word. Im gratefull he tought us to give thru John the Baptist’s words. If a man has 2 coats let him give to him that has none, and that the windows of heaven shall be opened and that, in Malachi, he will pour out a blessing we shall not be able to contain, if we share with others what we have more than we can use. It breaks Satan’s poverty off us and brings us into a real prosperity. I am especially gratefull to have found this site as Eric stands out as some one who has integrity plus excellence in a different arena, (marketting) and has learned how to share. God bless him and his whole family and all his hopefull students. Thank you Eric. Pixie.
Thank heaven for county and state fairs and the people who put so much into them. They make so many people happy. I try to help as much as I can.
Amidst a year full of turbulence in my life, failed business, credit card debts, outstanding bank loans, failed marital relationship and deteriorating health, I struggle with words to thank Him for giving me a fighting spirit still.. Amen
I am grateful to have found some of the best people in the internet marketing field, even though selfish needs are rampant. With so much negativity and doubt, it is easy to find the dream takers. So I thank the few, who inspire, and encourage us to keep looking ahead, no matter what happens.
This year, I am more thankful than at any previous time in my life. For about 8 years now I have been providing support to an incredible young lady who had suffered through a physically abusive childhood and also had some learning difficulties and social issues. She had to leave home at 17 and try to cope with the world on her own in spite of her neurological challenges and difficulties relating to people.
In spite of all she had had to deal with, she was always kind and joyful to an astounding degree.
This year she was finally able to start college at age 29 after getting jerked around for several years trying to get financial aid for a vocational school.
The community college was able to do testing and diagnosis so she could get help with her differences and, while she struggled badly at first, she’s completing her first semester with A’s and B’s.
The real blessing has come, however, from the understanding she’s gained of herself and the actual problem she’s been coping with, against all odds, for years. All the pieces just finally fell into place for her and she is at peace with the understanding of who she is and how she’s different.
As a result, she has just blossomed in unimaginable ways and for this I am incredibly grateful. Seeing such a deserving person make such a breakthrough fills my heart with gratefulness more than anything else I could imagine.
Jeff
i am thankful that through god we can change and not keep on being who or what we are, even no matter how old or young we are
cheers
Happy Thanksgiving!
I emigrated in USA in 1980 from a communist country in Europe, and I left behind my greatest friend - my husband and the best mother somebody can hope for.
I am thankful that God give me courage and strength to do it.
I am thankful that after 3 years I was able to bring in States my mother, after another 2 years my husband.
I am thankful for the grate life we had here until my husband got sick and left us behind.
I am thankful that in 1986 I became American citizen, and I am proud of it. I love this country for the liberty, opportunity, equal treatment regardless religion, skills, or ethnicity. I also love this country for how many friends I got in 28 years living in States. I firmly believe that the people is the greatest asset we have here, we are the most generous country on earth, and we do a lot of good work all the time when a tragedy struck somewhere on the globe: tsunami, earthquake, famine, we really are the first and the most consistent to help other people.
I am thankful for having the opportunity to travel a lot in USA, to meet wonderful people, to enjoy the mountains, Parks, and shores, to see the best of America which is in small cities or country side. That type of people is closer to my hart.
Eric, I am thankful for what you do for us all, this free course, your openness, your values, your good advises, sharing your expertise, and have understanding for our luck of patience sometime.
Happy Thanksgiving and many returns with health, and prosperity for all.
Michaela
Hi Michaela,
I love your blog.I took a look at it yesterday.Maybe one day I’ll do my own.
Gary
Thanks Gary, can you be so kind and comment on the Blog, I just started and some comment activity counts. I’ll return the favor when you set up your blog. Wait until Eric will give us a lesson about setting up a blog on our domain using Fantastico on cPanel. It realy is so easy to do it and with Eric’s talent as a teacher it will look even easier.
regards
Michaela
http://michaelacernescu.com
Be thankful for all things:
I am thankful for the power to choose. We can choose our destiny. WE can make great choices and see it come to pass. When we miss the mark we can choose to try again. When we accomplish our objectives, we can choose to celebrate and share with those we love and those in need. And we can choose to be thankful to whom and through whom we were bestowed with such a powerful gift, the gift of choice.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone-
Hi Eric,
I am from Australia and we do not celebrate Thanks Giving. But I believe in living my life each and every day with an attitude of gratitude. I am so gratefull for all the things in my life even the tough stuff, because it is here for a reason, to teach us and to keep us growing and developing. I have been following your tips and really liking the content. Thank you so much for all your work in helping so many people including myself and thank you also for the ebook “Firesale Profits”. Hope you had an awesome Thanksgiving. Bronwyn.
Be thankful for all things: for our trials, as they bring out our character; for our blessings as they bring out our gratitude; for suffering (as we all do at some time), because without suffering, there can be no compassion to show the depths of our hearts; for all of our highs and lows, because without both, we cannot prove and perfect our integrity.
Hi Eric, downloaded the gift. Thought, what have I got to lose?
Enjoy your articles and tips. Keep it up!
Hopefully this is my year to get it going. In the meantime, I have a lot to be thankful for not the least of which is my lovely wife of more than 50 years.
Roy
Thank God for the little things that we sometimes take for granted. The ability to see,
hear, walk and a sound mental capacity to comprehend and enjoy life. Thankfulness should be daily event that we practice each day along with compasion and joy.
Thanks Eric-Blessings to All!
Hi Eric,
I want to thank YOU for demystifying web site building with HTML from yesterday’s Lesson 28. That is the thing that has stopped me doing any thing in Internet Marketing because now I can build what I want to build, not be dependent. But I want to give thanks for life, my life, I recalled my own battles with death to the wife of a man who has, get this, Breast Cancer. She told me that it is very common amongst men, so they were told by the surgeons. I was given six months to live when I was 22, now I’m 54. It wasn’t until I was 36 did I find the cure, and got a new life, but how can I tell others; build my own website of miracles. Here I am 54 but I got a new life when I was 36, and it wasn’t being “born again.” It was from one; Chinese Medicine, and two; from a very controversial religion. Thanks.
First off Thx Eric for the gift as always.
I have come to trust your wisdom.
Iam grafteful for Life it self
Every thanksgiving is something I reflect on
You see my father was born on the 25th of Nov
Thanksgiving Day,1927 And went on into the after life March of 2000. He taught me and my sister that we are all put here to serve one another like it are not. And that we are only here for a visit. So on this visit each day,
I try to serve my fellow HumanKind with LOVE
So that when my visit comes to a end, Folks can say He contriubte to life and he will be missed. Just like my father on this day.
So I am Grateful for life and that GET to serve someone each day I am here. “GOD SPEED”
Eric And Thx for all U DO!!! James
Hi all,
I am so grateful that Eric has created this site as an environment which allows us to look at Internet Marketing in a more considered and socially responsible way - rather than just for personal gratification.
The posts made here so far have been testimony of that, and very moving. As well as learning to be as effective as possible, hopefully we can all together create pressure for the principles and standards in this industry to be raised as high as possible!
Regards from the UK,
Harry
I am truly grateful for being ABOVE ground today and for the ability to move forward despite adversity.
Thanks Eric for the gift!!
God bless You and Yours!!
First, thankful for everyone who are on this forum and particularly for Eric for his ‘Tips’.
It is natural for us to ask help from each other in times of trouble or sorrow. It is also natural to plead on behalf of our loved ones. These two forms of prayer - petition and intercession - are vital. But the prayer of thanksgiving, mentioned so often in Scripture and made so eloquently in many Psalms, must also be an essential part of our lives.
Are we truly thankful to God for His innumerable blessings and mercies toward us? Do we really feel we even have anything to be thankful for? Perhaps, amid our daily duties and struggles, an occasion for gratitude seems hard to find. We may have pressing financial needs, urgent family problems, deep personal sorrows or concerns. We may be only too well aware of the evils of our time, or the sins of our heart. We may simply feel empty, weary, isolated. The evening news, or the events in our neighborhood, may make us feel that talk of thanking God is at best simple-minded and at worst hypocritical.
Even with all the trouble in our economy we have so much to be thankful for in this country. We are a blessed (but spoiled) world. We seem to get into a rut of wanting more. Where on earth do we learn that? Our goal should be to count our blessings over the rest of life on a daily basis. We have our wall of gratitude but I’m going to try to say it “out loud” each day. I think we need to learn to be more appreciative of what we have and say so! Instead of gimme gimme gimme we’re going to try some thank you thank you thank you!!
Best Thankful moment,
RKMailer
http://www.orientalads.com
I don’t want this to sound like an advert so hopefully I am allowed to post it anonymously.
I am grateful to over 800 Internet users who have purchased a course I sell as part of the income has and still does, go to help poor children in the Philippines.
This year, my family and I are supporting the Kythe Foundation, a hospice for terminally ill children, mostly with Cancer. This year, the children in the Tarlac area will have the best Christmas they have ever had and it is all down to the trust so many people have put in me when they purchased my course.
It is not the first party we have held for them and as a previous posting said, it is wonderful to see those suffering with Cancer smiling, even if it is only for a few minutes. These children were laughing and enjoying themselves like ‘normal’ children and seeing the faces of the parents, to say the least, was wonderful to see.
These children teach all of us a lesson and I am grateful to them as we all live in our own little boxes and the children make us step out of them and see the real world. the show a courage way beyond there joung ages; the average age is about 8 years.
If everyone earning money on the Internet contributed only a small part to the Kythe Foundation, or other organisations like them, the Internet would be the greatest force on Earth for relieving pain and bringing happiness to those too poor to afford even the simplest
I find that when I concentrate on what is good in life, and when I’m grateful for what I have and for who I am now, that my life is unfolding in a splendid way.
And that my perspective of joyful gratitude for existence brings me freedom and health.
And that this feeling of thankfulness and appreciation keeps me in touch with the power of God.
Eric, I appreciate your willingness to freely share your knowledge, and may your life also unfold in a splendid way!
April
I am thankful for a good, healthy, and prosperous life and that I am able to help others have a better life.
I am thankful for the internet!
It broke all the barriers,borders,boundaries,
It works 24 hours a day.
It creates jobs,for thousands,and it doesnt discriminates.Its a source of wisdom of people all over the world.It creates opportunities for young and old.It guides you to find good people with valuable tips for free! Thanks Eric
First of all, Thank you Eric, for the great gift and all the wonderful knowledge that you share in your Eric’s Tips presentations.
Ok, what do I have to be most thankful for. Simply stated ME! I am thankful that I am “alive and kicking” so that I CAN be thankful for many of those things others have already mentioned. For if I ceased to exist, then I would not have anything or anyone to be thankful for!
This one is simple for me,I am so very thankful and comforted with the knowledge that this life that we live here on earth, as great as it is pales in comparison to the one we are promised.
God bless and Happy Thanksgiving
First and formost, Jesus Christ, for his obedience to his father. Because of his faithfulness, we have access to God. his father. I am 59. My health, I am very healthly for my age. My husband is 60. I am very thankful for him. He too is very healthly for his age. Our home,our animals, [2 dogs,& 2 cats].I am thankful for the opportunity to success or fail what ever we choose. I am very thankful for our military people to put their lives on the line for our freedon here in the States. I am thankful for our children [3 between the 2 of us and 8 grandchildren] and a few things we tend to for get about until we don’t have them. Water, air we breath. without either of those nothing else matters. We would die. I am also thankful for people like you and Squidoo. To give people like me an opportunity to make some kind of money on line.
We had plans for a dozen people for Thanksgiving, but canceled when my sister-in-law took a misstep off the curb and broke both legs last week.
Today we had Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital rehab, just our immediate family and Michele, hanging out and enjoying a relaxing visit. With excellent care and the additional advantages of chiropractic, homeopathic and spiritual healing, she is doing amazingly well.
Be thankful you have two working legs - that you live and breathe and sit up and take nourishment. So much we take for granted.
Thanks to all my internet community, it’s a wonderful part of life we share.
Dear Eric,
First of all, “Thank you for the download”.
Second, after reading almost all of the comments, I pray for those who have had sadness in their lives, and a smile, a “high-five”, and a “way to go” for the ones who have had blessings in their lives!!! Just remember that with God, anything and everything can happen, you just have to believe!!!
May you all have a blessed day of Thanksgiving with you and yours!!!
Kellie
Peace Grace and Love
“In all things, give thanks”
I am thankful for Jesus Christ and His blessed salvation; God’s Holy Spirit and His ever abideing presence. I am thankful that He leads me and keeps me and mine.
I am thankful that I am allowed to live in this (still the greatest in the world) country.
Of course, I am thankful for all my family and friends and all the material blessings we enjoy.
Finaly, I am thankful that God has preserved my health to the popint that I am still able to partially lift and otherwise assisst my (slightly obese,) near total invalid wife.
God bless you, Eric–you and yours.
Lloyd
Hi Eric,
I am thankful that on this Thanksgiving Day I was able to share a meal, love, laughter and true appreciation for family with all the trials and difficulty of this past year that I have been going through. But most of all that I am still enjoying good health. I have not made the progress that I hope prayed and worked for but I am not giving up because I believe God is still my guide and as long as I keep on trying I am going to make it before this year ends. I finally built my website and lost it this month, but I am going to give it another try. I MUST SUCCEED, I WILL NOT GIVE UP. Thanks for your help.
Hi
Thankful for another day, good health, and life.
Thanks again, for all the great information.
God Bless,
Well I am thankful that
I have all my limbs
and the ability of work.
I am also thankful I can type this comment and share with other people of my beliefs.
I also thankful that I still got a job and the ability of getting paid.
I am thankful that I haven’t given up internet marketing with all the struggling in the past and possibly the uncertainty of the future
I am thankful that my mum is getting converted to Christianity despite she have a cancer in her colon.
And I truly thankful what Jesus has what he’s given me in the past and continue giving today.
happy thanks giving!
Proson
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Peaceful Greetings to all.
“Thankfullness”
I am thankful for my faith in God! I draw on it every moment of every day.
I am thankful for my parents and teachers who nurtured that faith from the day of my birth.
I thank Him for the gifts He gives me, such as the gift of compassion towards those people, animals and all creatures who are suffering.
I thank Him too for reminding me that no matter how painful some of my physical ills may be, they are nothing compared to carrying a cross on one’s shoulders, especially after being cruelly beaten all the night before.
I am thankful beyond words for my darling family, relatives and friends who form the unending circle of love that weaves around my life.
And to these two beautiful 4 legged creatures who are lying on the floor each side of my desk I say thankyou for your contribution to the love in my love, and for the safety and protection you give to our family.
Finally, I thank God for letting me be born and live in Australia. It truly is a garden of Eden
Love
Veronica
Adelaide
S.A.
I am thankful that I live in a country (Canada) that has it’s best customer and our freedom protector right next door (USA).
I’m thankful just to have a roof over my head in these hard times. I hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving!
Michael
Hello Eric:
I am thankful for today. Not just because it’s Thanksgiving, but because it’s another day that God has made & allow me to see. I am thankful for my health & that of my family. I am a Registered Nurse & I see so much sickness that if I am not careful I can take my own health for granted & think that what I see day in & day out only happens to the other person.
Thanks for the gift & the contest
Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours
Thanks for the gift Eric.. I am thankful for my good health and the health and well being of all my friends.
Happy Thangsgiving To All
Hi Eric,
I’m thankful to my friend, Judy who helped me with my husband’s funeral arrangements and invited me to Thanksgiving dinner. He passed
away November 21, 2008. I wouldn’t have known what to do without her help.
Even though I’m grieving, I have a lot to be thankful for.
Jerri (From Florida)
Hi Eric,
Thank you Eric, Here in India we don’t celebrate thanksgiving day as such, But I am we happy that this is my first Wish i got and the gift i cool. Thank Youuuuuuuuuuu we much.
Raja
I am just grateful. This is my last night in the US before leaving for Kenya where I am living. Your Tips happen to come at the right time as if God prepared them for me. I am thankful. God bless you Eric.
Thank you for giving this gift. Better Future Better Life
ok Eric how about being thankfull for the “melting pot” that we are. If its not for our give me your tired your poor unbiased AMERICAN beginnings we would not be who we are today.It is so unfair to call a foreigner an immigrant because in actuality that is what we all are.IMMIGRANTS!. Yes I am! and proud to be American.I was born here,yes,but my great great grandparents who stood in line for days on an island that they conceived to be solely as the gateway to a new life.Believing with whole wholehearted conviction in freedom.Life without dictatorship and suppression.Not prejudice. But our great government thought otherwise,THEY changed our names according to our abilities or just shortened them for convenience, but that was accepted ,we are here,they thought,the land of opportunity.Yes this great nation offers all an opportunity but it is what we grab by the reigns and make of it rather than today’s consensus that everything is just given to us.Now to get back to where I started I am an American of Italian/Irish/Portuguese descent not an Italian Irish or Portuguese American.I am looked at and acknowledged as white,that’s ok with me but what of the Korean who are called Chinese,the Egyptian who is called Iraqi, the Australian who is called Brit,the Guatemalan who is called Mexican,the Mexican who is called dayworker,or the black-person who is criticized as light or wannabe and last but not least our neighbors and school mates whom we call terrorists.Change is due,and it is not whom I voted for I am proud to say, I believe in America,and Her newly ELECTED BLACK MUSLIM AMERICAN PRESIDENT.This is who we are, so saith the people.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
RICKANTHONY
Thank god for making us, and thank us for making internet!
Happy Thanksgiving eric and everyone else.
An Unfair Advantage: Sorry - this is not brief but if you bear with me and read it you will receive a blessing - I GUARANTEE IT!
I was 6 years old at the time. The second oldest of 5 brothers. It was February 1965 - my mom was in the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack. My brothers and I were staying with aunts and uncles during this time. At the young age of 26 my mom was diagnosed with Angina Pectoris (a weakened heart muscle). She suffered with exhaustion and severe chest and arm pain.
While in hospital a young preacher entered mom’s room to visit and pray for an elderly German woman in the bed beside her. Mom helped the preacher convey to the woman why he was there by interpreting for him as the woman spoke only German. The woman was not keen on receiving prayer but the brash young preacher prayed for her anyway. He then asked mom why she was hospitalized. After mom explained her health problem he answered,”I don’t think the Lord wants a young mother of five boys to be in that condition. Do you believe in healing prayer?” My mom answered that she did but having heard the prayer for the old German woman - she requested that he pray, God’s will not man’s will be done.
With that, the preacher prayed a healing prayer for my mom. A peace blanketed the room as the Holy Spirit entered - it was so powerful in that hospital room that the German woman grew scared and requested she be moved from mom’s room. Hospital staff actually did remove that women from mom’s room.
The next day mom was wheeled into a treatment room where two very sad looking doctors informed her that nothing could be done for her, that her heart muscle was deteriorating very quickly and she should prepare herself for death within two weeks. Mom took the news very well as the peace from the night before had not left her. Even after giving her this news - the doctors requested she see a another heart specialist and an appointment was set up for her. She agreed to this on the condition that she be allowed to go home instead of staying in hospital. She very much wanted to see her 5 sons so the doctors reluctantly agreed.
That Thursday dad took mom home and carried her into their house (she did not have the strength to walk). My dad was very worried and not sure this was the right choice. Both mom and dad slept very little that first night home. The next day mom got to see her five boys for a short while but in her weakened condition - that visit had to be cut short so we went back to stay with our aunts and uncles. Friday night was again a tough night for mom and dad to get through - mom was in severe pain and dad was trying to convince her to go back to the hospital.
On Saturday during the night (dad had fallen into a deep slumber out of pure exhaustion) mom was drawn out of this world through a scary darkness and she knew she was dying. She felt the hand of Jesus reach through that darkness and draw her into a beautiful place that she admittedly has never been able to find the right words to accurately describe. The beauty there is unlike anything experienced on earth. She recognized Jesus and was able to talk and listen to Him. Beyond Jesus was a force so powerful she could not face it.She knew it was God the Father - her Creator. At that moment, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that someday every knee will bow before His awesome presence. Mom relates that she felt heavy remorse while talking to Jesus about all the things she considered important in her life and that Jesus healed her sorrowful soul and gave her peace. She wanted very much to stay in that wonderful place and she states that it was her choice to stay or return to earth. She relates how she thought of her five boys growing up without a mother. She reveals how Jesus touched her dying heart and in an instant made her whole body strong and healthy once again. Then she awoke in her own bed beside her still sleeping husband.
She excitedly woke him and told him what had happened. They rejoiced and praised the Lord. The next morning my mom and dad went to church and utterly flabbergasted everyone in that small farming community! Mom - healthy and full of life and joy - stood up in church that Sunday and shared how Jesus had performed a miracle healing on her.
Mom and dad went to see her doctors that Monday. Shock and amazement showed on their faces as they examined my mom. Still, they insisted that mom see the heart specialist.
The heart specialist - with a group of young medical students surrounding him - put mom through a plethora of tests and found her to be completely healthy. He told those students that if they wished to become great doctors, they should always include God’s healing power in their future practise.
I’m 49 now and I still have my mom around. Dad passed on a few years ago - a very traumatic time for all of us but especially so for my mom. Some may find that strange given the full knowledge that dad truly went to heaven - that most beautiful of destinations. Mom had a difficult time accepting the loss and dealing with the lonliness and admits contemplating suicide in her darkest hour. She did a lot of praying and begging Jesus to chase Satan away. God saw her through and put another good Christian man in her life a short while later. It goes to show that we are all human. We all still need Jesus everyday. Even when we’ve already touched the pearly gates.
So I repeat - I believe I may have an unfair advantage. I have a mother who postponed going to heaven in order for me, my brothers and two sisters who followed later to grow up with the love she has given me and my siblings all my life. When I am at my weakest in my faith,I am reminded that a very real and documented healing from the Son Of God Himself - Jesus Christ was bestowed on my own mother. And so - I share this true account with you. I offer it to you as proof that God exists. That the Holy Bible is accurate and true. That Jesus did die
for all mankind and afforded a way to salvation by paying for everyone’s sin. That a simple acceptance of His gift awards you a home in heaven. How can I not be thankful? May God Richly Bless You.
I have to say…truly, I am Highly blessed to know that God hears and honors the prayer of the righteous man…thank you for sharing that miracle with us.
Eric, I am thankful to have a great family. I am thankful for my health. I am most thankful for god’s blessings.
When I see a stranger help granny with her shopping bags, when I see a stranger stop in front a crying child and asks about the problem, when I walk past a stranger in the early morning and I can see the genuine smile in the eyes…“Good morning”. When I drop a coin in the supermarket and a stranger in the queue picks it up and gives it to me with a smile.
These might seem like little things in our everyday life, but those are the little things that make our days a little better for everyone.
I’m thankful for those little moments because that is when love is born.
Thank you stranger.
Hi Eric
I am so thankful for my husband who after 16 years (and three kids later) still finds me attractive and has coped through all my crazy ideas. Besides God, he is the best thing that has happened to me.
p.s. thanks for your blog and free gift!
This is something we should say everyday. I am thankful to God for life and the ability to share my blessings with someone every day. Yvonne
Happy Thanksgiving Eric and thank you for the gift.
What am I thankful for? Where do I begin? I am thankful for a God that blesses us. I am thankful for my 7 year old daughter and that I was able to speak to her on the phone today(I am newly divorced). I am thankful for you, after all these years of trying to get a business going on the internet I finally found someone willing to show us how to put the pieces together. I will be building my pre-launch web page using html tonight after I finish putting the tree together. It is my weekend with my daughter so I thought we would decorate the tree Saturday. Mostly I think that I am thankful that I was born in the USA where I have the freedoms that we enjoy and can choose to build an internet business to better my life and my daughter’s.
Again thank you for the download and I eagerly await your next lesson.
I am currently jobless, and will soon be homeless. I am thankful to still be alive at this point… I just need to make money right now to survive…
I’m just thankful that God gave me enough time on this planet to be able to help others.
I am grateful for my abilities. I have the ability to serve my fellow man. I have the ability to be happy and have great pleasure in my life. I have the ability to study and learn. I have the ability to laugh and cry. I have the ability to work hard and play hard. I have the ability to find solutions. I have the ability to know that to love and understand my fellow man is a goal worth achieving. This year I found an ability I never thought I had; after a great tragedy in my life I found the ability to accept the help and support of others.
I am grateful that I live in this great country.
A country that affords me the freedom of religion, the freedom to grow and be all that I can be. The freedom to create the future and to make amends for my errors. The freedom to pick myself up and start over again when I forget my abilities.
Thanks for the gift.
I’m thankful for the blessings of health as I know many friends, family, and associates suffering from serious illness. I’m thankful for life and the great people that I have come to know and love. I’m greatful for my family and pets as they provide unconditional love and support. I’m thankful for the tremendous opportunities we have in this country. May each of us be blessed with the gift of helping others and seeing a joy in everyone we touch.
Eric - Thank you for such a generous gift and the unselfish way you share so much with your readers.
I am thankful for the number of times that God saved my life - literally. I should be dead today.
I am thankful for the roof over my head, food on the table and the beautiful sky above.
I am thankful for the new people I’ve met in the past years.
I am thankful that God keeps my bank account from bouncing as I feed two girls and two ravenous boys - have you seen how much boys eat?????
I am thankful that I have the opportunity to work from home and be there for my children.
I am thankful for the ability to think and make decisions. And I’m thankful to be able to rely on Him.
Thank you Eric for opportunity to remember just a few of the things for which I am very grateful and thankful!
Warmly,
Gail
*****ERIC!!!!
Your site is being watchdogged!!!
I posted a note
then copeid it and mailed it to me.
I then opened it my own mail to watch it dissipate
what do you mean?
its not there bottom line watched it dissapear
???
wifey was there too
curious
maybe glitch on my desktop but weird Joann was reading emais on other comp and just not there
we have 2 pc’s in home office both shows receipt
of email but not ?blog?
literally watched it erase
Erick I would not open myself up to criticism as I have just done but in all actuality wtf just happened
I’m thankful for my family. They are the reason why I dedicate a minimum of 1 hour a day learning how to do internet marketing the smart way rather than the hard way. By learning how to work smart, I am able to spend quality time with those who matter most.
Dear Mr. Eric,
I am so greatfull for knowing you.
I have to say you are a person of great knowledge and the fine thing is, you are able to share.
I, and all of your readers benefit tremendous from your time and efforts spend, just to make people happy by filing the wallets.
Keep doing the wonderfull work.
May God bless you, your family and co-workers.
Thankfull for knowing you.
Georges Baetens
Here are some thoughts I have for this 2008 Thanksgiving Day:
* I have food in the refrigerator, clothes on my back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep… that makes me richer than 75% of the people in this world.
* I have some money in the bank, in my wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace… that makes me among the top 8% of the world’s wealthiest people (despite whatever debt I have and the recent significant losses in my retirement accounts.)
* I woke up this morning with more health than illness … I am more blessed than the million who will not survive this week… (Unless G-d has other plans for me next week)
* I have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation… I am ahead of 500 million people in the world who face these horrors on a daily basis, often without any hope of relief.
* I can read this message, which is more than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
* I can attend a house of worship of my choosing, study the Bible or other Holy Books of my choosing and practice my religious beliefs without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death … I am far more blessed than millions of our ancestors and others that live in less tolerant lands then the USA and other free world nations.
* I have spend the day with family and friends, eaten responsibly from a wide variety of choices, received over 30 emails from internet marketers whom I subscribe to who have sent me Thanksgiving Day best wishes and some free informational ebooks to stir my thoughts on how to weather the current economic storm, which give me things to reflect on and options for goal setting and action taking.
And finally and reflectively with an acceptance of some pessimism and a hope of optimism, I live in a free country (USA) that has survived many horrible mistakes of the past 40 years of presidents and politicians who are clueless and I suspect don’t give a damn about the people they were elected to serve and protect, and yet we still survive as a nation, through it all. May G-d Bless and Inspire our leaders to act more appropriately in service to the people of this land, and as a light of hope and freedom to nations who struggle to achieve the freedoms and economic opportunities we have.
* So on this Thanksgiving Day, I hold up my head with a smile on my face, count my blessings and am truly thankful to G-d for the opportunities I have.
Simon W Rosenberg, DMD
http://www.InternetDentalEnterprises.com (marketing site)
http://www.DrSimonRosenberg.com (Dental Practice Site
I am thankful that God has blessed me to live in a time and land where I have the opportunity to live as I desire, become what he wants me to become, and the responsibility to share my blessings with all around me.
Not long ago, I saw a grieving father forgive the young man who had been convicted of taking his only daughter’s life away.
It was the kind of thing you never forget, witnessing an act of tremendous grace like that.
It renewed my faith in how amazing people can be, even while facing a world with so much pain, hardship, and injustice in it.
Since then, I draw strength from that man’s words, and from his belief that no matter what life throws at you, everything will be alright somehow.
If he didn’t give up, I certainly have no excuse to.
So I want to thank you Eric, for this forum, for your lessons, and especially for all of the awesome missionary work your wife and yourself do to help make this world a better place.
May God bless you and yours, Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I am thankful for my wonderful husband and new grandaughter. I am also thankful for Eric and all of the advice and encouragement he gives so freely.
You are one of the rare marketers who appear to be genuinely concerned with your customers by providing useful tips and bits of information and objectively writes/evaluates other people’s products. In this industry full of crap and scam, it has exceptional value. We
all appreciate it and are thank you for all.
In spite of my lousy marketing success (thanks to hype and wrong information obtained as well as my inexperience), I feel fortunate for my recent survival of three heart attacks and have every reason to be thankfull for my good fortune.
I am greatful that if I died today that I would know I have said everything that I have needed to say to my family to feel complete.
I would feel complete.
Hi Eric,
A little more than a year ago I worked in the mortgage industry and made a pretty decent living. Then suddenly I became a victim of the mortgage meltdown and found myself unemployed and then my whole world fell apart. Since I’m older and have been self employed most of my life I found it difficult to find work as I was told I was either overqualified or since I haven’t held a “JOB” since 1984 my background information looked like crap on the online job applications that so many companies use today. Long story short, my woman left me, I got evicted from where I was living and ended up becoming homeless. I was left all alone to try and put back the peices starting from scratch. It’s amazing how so many so called friends disappear once the money runs out. Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine myself in a situation like this but it’s all true.
What am I thankful for? Well it’s been a long road but things are much better now than they were then. First and foremost I am thankful that through the experiences of the past year that I have found a stronger faith in God. I now have a roof over my head. A real bed to sleep in. I’m not hungry any more. I have a refridgerator with food in it. I have a new woman in my life who loves me for me and not what I have or don’t have. I am thankful that through it all I am still alive and in good health as I’m diabetic and went without proper care for a long time. I am most of all thankful that I have an internet connection, a used laptop and the ability to learn quickly and that I did not lose my drive and ambition and give up or quit. With these tools I know that one day I will not only be able to have the life that I once had but far surpass that life through internet marketing and like you I will be able to extend a hand and reach out and help others do the same.
This may seem strange to say but the one thing that I am thankful for more than anything else is having had the experience of going through all of this because it opened my eyes. No matter how bad things got for me I could always look around and find someone else who had it worse than me. It made me aware. It made me even more thankful for the little bit that I did have so the next time you pass that homeless person on the street don’t prejudge him or her. It doesn’t make them a bad person. It may just be someone like myself who is trying t put their life back together again. Acknowledge them and just be thankful every day for the simple things that you take for granted each day and realize that it could happen to anyone, even you, just as it hapened to me.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Charles
Evidence that when you place your trust in God, He is faithful to His Word. Our experiences becomes a tool of wisdom for others. I remember going through the homeless shelter system with my family and when we placed our trust in God He blessed us tremendously! Not to mention the strength, peace and joy He gave us to go through that time in our life.
Happy Thanksgiving!
First and foremost, I am thankful for God’s love, that He loves me and will never leave me, that He died for me. I am thankful that He died and rose again for you, reader, and for all those I love.
Charley
Beyond the thanks for those in my family and my closest friends who I would go to war with if needed?
I am thankful for living now when the possibilities and potential exists as a result of the virtual world.
When a person in a 3rd world country (or in our own) can be educated and improve their skill and knowledge which might compare to that of a country with better resources, it will push them to a better quality of life. It also levels the playing field of course and keeps everyone diligent.
No more do only a few have special information which others do not. With videos, flash and the internet, neither geography nor money will be the primary barrier as we continue this journey.
An example is information such as what you have shared in your tips.
I have shared your links with others less fortunate and they have been able to “get a leg up” to improve the quality of life.
This is true because the internet exists.
Another example is many I have contact with who have similar stories such as Michaela wrote on this post. No longer do the old limitations exist.
So while there are predators, scammers, those and shallow thinkers on the internet, the value of sharing information over a wide range of ability, income and place in the world is awesome.
To date, each time I follow an item you recommend, I have not been dissappointed.
The journey will be to connect the opportunities for each perso in this new world. To this end, I attempt to contribute.
Happy Thanksgiving to you Eric.
I am glad you enjoy and appreciate the knowledge you have and that you share it with others with good character and responsibility.
Hello Eric,
well as everyone knows the economic times are tough right now as the stock market plummets and slowly rises again,
the jobs are not as plentiful they once were,
and the housing foreclosures at an all time high,
and for anyone trying to make a living on the net it is not as easy as the ‘guru’s’ would like you to think it is, press this do that ‘walla instant money b@llsh!t” you know what I mean,
now I’m not complaining as I am working on my own Internet business as we speak,
and some of the “guru’s” info can be helpful
but it does take time, hard work, dedication,
and knowing what, how, when and where to do what you need to do to make it work,
ok before I go on ranting about that I would just like to go back to the hard times of the economic meltdown,
I as well as many other millions of people
have been affected by this downturn in our society,
I have lost my job and it seems that nobody is in the position to hire anyone, at least I haven’t found anyone willing,
my house has been foreclosed on and the bank says I have to be out the week of Christmas,
even though I have no funds to do so,
Again I am not complaining, I am just stating some facts that are going on at the moment,
I have done some firesales, not to any measure of success that you have done I am sure
but the reason for all this info is this,
no matter what is going on in anybody’s life
good times or hard times,
there is always room to be thankful for something,
I am a single father
of 2 beautiful teen girls, and my mother is disabled and living with us,
so for me it is my family as they have stuck by me even though I have failed to be the best provider I wanted to be,
I just wanted everyone to know you always have something to be thankful for, no matter how bad it seems at the moment,
just take a look around take a deep breath and smile as you do have something to be thankful for, YOUR STILL ALIVE AND TOMARROW IS ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL BIGINNING OF ANOTHER DAY,
sorry for the rants,
HAVE A WONDERFUL HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Hi Eric,
Like you, I am most thankful for my family, and the good health of everyone of them. I’m
thankful that we all have roofs, clothing, and
enough to eat.
Thanks for all the great tips!
Sylvia
The first thing I was thankfull this morning it was for waking up. On my own feet. Isn’t that great?
Then, I thought of all the things I’m thankfull for… I don’t think I’ll be done in two hours mentioning them.
So… Have a great day, all of you!
Ever since my father was diagnosed with cancer, I prayed for his full recovery. He is in remission now and I have not stopped being thankful for the everyday that he is with me.
Eric
Very thankful that I came across your “Eric’s Tips” website and that you have put so much work into it. It has been very helpful in moving me through the steps of creating my own Internet business.
Best Regards
Joe
Hi Eric and all Eric’s Tips readers, happy Thanks-giving day to all who celebrate it.
But then, we should celebrate everyday with thanks to our God for all that we have been given, our loved ones, family & friends, to love & to be loved and the life we have been given and how we have developed it.
I believe we are here on this earth to expand on what we are given, not necessarily material or monetary things, although these have become necessary in the western world today, but rather to develop our inner selves to make a contribution by giving of ourselves to others. And You, Eric do exactly that by giving of your time, guidance and expertise in these columns to us, the needy, thank you.
Thank you, God for my life & all that I have been given & for what I am about to receive.
Martin Donnelly
http://www.burpin-catfish.com (for the greatest e-book maker with audio & video)
http://cluckin-duck.info/ (for the greatest linking software)
Happy thanksgiving to you & family !
I give thanks for every moment of my life,starting when I wake in the morning that I am alive to enjoy another day in this wonderful world. To be able to see,hear,smell touch and emotionally feel all the wonders that have been given to us to experience. I focus on the simple things that most people overlook like finding a penny on the ground and thanking god for this gift,so simple but so powerful! To smile and have someone smile back,to give and recieve a hug for no reason at all,to have someone to look at you and just know without a word spoken,to love and be loved. I could probably go on and on but these are all things not matrialistic,cost nothing,worth nothing but are priceless!
Hello Eric
I am not sure when you first came into my life but of all the people who I have interacted with vi the internet in my process of learning about IM you I have to say really deliver, I enjoy the emails you send as with this one you have just delivered.. I really feel you are the genuine person who helps “newbie’ even after a year & half still struggling however, less with your valuable assistance Jen
Thanks - and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
I want to thank you in this special day because I think you know the basic concept to make this world better: share without expecting nothing…I always wonder the special person you are giving all people the knowledge you have to make people success…
God bless you
Eric,and all who read this please note,
I am thankful for those times when I reflect on my life and the impact I have had on others by the standards that I have set for myself.
Life really is good and despite all that has befallen me and those dearest to me over the years I am thankful most of all that I can still smile and find humour in life’s little foibles.
Happy thanks giving.
Kevin.
thanks…seems like the right day to being saying thanks…Eric your kindness is appreciated
MD
Wow Eric,
Thanks for the gift, and you sure have some creative ideas on firesales.
Eric,
Sorry to post twice and NO i am not hoping to hoodwink you for the traffic course (i would be very happy to win of course). I have just read the post above by Dr Rosenberg and wish I could be so graceful in my thoughts and so poetic in my writing.
Now that post was inspiring.
Kevin
For my relationship with Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour
I am thankful for your Lessons that come into my inbox every now and then.
It serves as a reminder as well as a tune up of sorts about the latest techniques in the IM world.
Thanks and keep up the great work, Eric.
Cheers
Sir NicheALot
I am thankful for having been born in the U.S.A., a woman with the right to vote, own property and a business.
I am thankful for my sense of humor that still lets me smile when the wolf is at the door and my continued good health
Eric,
There are some fabulous thanksgivings on this page. I can be thankful for so many of the same things: relatively good health, a house (not paid off yet though) a car with a loan, and sufficient food to eat. I lost my job in April and have been struggling to keep my head above water, pay the bills, and keep the creditors off my back. Still my friends and family have helped me out along the way–some with money and others with words of encouragement and advice. Though sometimes I feel alone, I know that I am not and that is something to give thanks for everyday.
I have two great kids and one is about to graduate from college next month. She is smart and knows what she wants to do with her life. I never did at that age. And my son will graduate from high school and start college next fall. It seems that everyday I wonder at the fact that I had something to do with how well m kids are turning out, that they care about people, and are respectful of others. I am truly thankful for them and the chance to help mold them into who they’ve become.
I give thanks to God for giving me the strength to keep on when things have gotten tough. Somehow I keep finding more reserves than I thought possible. I give thanks for the friends who have helped me along the way and for my family even when I don’t agree with them.
Life is to be cherished and there are always alternatives that can take you through the bad times. And it requires that we be open to those possibilities. I may or ma not become wealth from my Internet business, but it has broadened my life and gives back when I least expect it.
I pray that all people can look for the good in others and help them along somehow. You never know when that help might come full circle back to you. And that is something to give thanks for as well.
I am thankful that the Lord saw fit to have me be hear for another year. I am grateful to be here in such a time as this. It has been seven years since the death of my son but my life is improving everyday. Waiting patiently for the soon coming King.
Hi Eric,I am writing back, to say thank you for your email. Thank you for the bonus of ten ebooks with resale rights. That is a great gift. It is heartwarming not one, but 10 superb Ebooks as a thanksgiving gift. It is amazing that you added to the list of freebies, one DVD on marketing secrets, one free course on becoming more effective, 60 days to web content for one cent, Ebay secrets, free site builder, 200 free PLR articles, 12 step by step videos and free internet marketing lessons. In addition, this is the first time in many months on the internet that I got a response from someone with whom I can exchange mails and actually have my questions answered directly. Thank you for making yourself available to online business aspirants like myself.
Have a blessed thanksgiving indeed!Esther
As I young disabled man who peak earning years were cut short, I am grateful for the people or person who is going to show me the way to make some money on the internet. My disability does not make me unable just more challenging however it does limit my choices and opportunities in life so I am confident that I am going to make it with the Internet. I have so much hope that I have been doing this for three years and without making any money have stayed with it and just pray patiently for my success to arrive. A higher power will send me the help through another person. This is what I am thankful for. Thanks for the opportunity to say this!
Thanksgiving is a time to be Thankful!
Thankful that you are not a Turkey!
*****Happy Thanksgiving*****
-Will
Happy Thanksgiving, Eric! And to all!
I am grateful for my saving relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am thankful for the redemption he gives me in every relationship, first with my wife, my two sons, and all of my family. And to all…
I am thankful that I have access to the throne room of God to pray and know that He hears my prayers.
Thank you, Eric, for all of the lessons and content that you provide.
Paul
I am so thankful to God for the many blessings he has giving to my family. It was 1 year ago today that our family began down a road that brought us to the darkest of times as we all sat at the hospital and watched our new born son/brother die in my wifes arms. Today we were able to reflect back and see that even in our darkest hour, God has been faithful and continues to hold us in his hands!!
What I’m Thankful for.well Lets see now.
1.I’m Thankful for the Bible Doctrine in my soul and to Know the truth.
2. To wake up and for every Breath God Gives me
3. for My Faimly and my son and all the young men over there keeping our Freedom Safe.
4. For Life.
5. For Eric’s Tips ?
6. and most of all becides num 1, the pivot of mature Belivers in our Country
Thsnk Eric From a Fan Fred
Eric happy turkey day to you as well.
Thank you for the incentives, the free gift, and for giving it to us straight. That is the feeling I have always got from you, which is nice in a world full of internet hype.
Thank you for the wonderful gift and all the valuable info you have been sending everyone. But I guess what I am most gratefull for is that god has allowed me the resources to help my family and others in my sphere of influence
I am thankful for the use of might right hand as I fractured my left one last week.but even more For my wife and 5 children one grandchild and all the good life has to offer friends,family,job,home we are a blessed nation to have what we have many people don’t and that’s what I’m thankful for.
A Thank you to you to Eric for all your good advice and lessons!
Doug
While striving for a living, and like most people, wishing I had so much more than I have, - today I thought, ‘what would it be like if I lost everything I have now?’ I realized then how much we are already blessed, and gave thanks.
I’m thankful for my family and the day time we share together. Economically times are tough. That being said my wealth isn’t material-it’s the love we have for each other that makes me a very wealthy man. In church today, they spoke of 10 leppers that were healed by God. Only one of the ten turned and praised god and thank him for the miracle. The pastor was making the analogy that given the economics of today, people sometimes loose site of what’s really valuable. Then he went on to talk about an old Japanese proverb. It goes something like this “now that my barn has burned down and I’ve lost everything I can see the moon” So, I guess what I’m most thankful for is to be able to loved and love back and recognize what’s important-really important-in life before it passes me by with regrets.
Hi Eric
Thanks for the lovely gift! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
I am thankful for every single thing that happen in my life. Negativity is a perception of the mind. I have a choice to accept it happily, learn and rise above it or be unhappy and feel depressed about it.
I am thankful for the chickenpox (50th birthday gift ha…ha…) I have right now. I am thankful each time I see (happily)the dry scaps falling off ;)-. I am thankful for the time it puts me under “house arrest”; for allowing me to do spring cleaning, for going through Eric’s tips again, for trying to bake a new focaccia bread, to chit-chat with friends and the list goes on. Everthing happens for a reason. Here is a parting quote I wish like to share:
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving (1783-1859)
I am Thankful to the Universe!
Hi Eric,
To GOD be the GLORY!
On this auspicious day,let us come before the LORD with a thankful heart and praise HIM for
his loving kindness and not forget all the benefits we received and enjoyed.
Eric,I am thankful for your unselfish love and your spirit of sharing and giving without asking for anything in return.
We’re all very blessed by your tips and contributions which will help us to build our online marketing business.
I’m simply delighted and thankful for this “spirit of thankfulness” that will draw mankind closer together and understand “The joy
of giving generously” and “The goodness of receiving with a thankful heart”
Happy Thanksgiving.
God blessed you and your loved ones.
Mike Wong
Happy Thanksgiving,to all folks in US.
Here in Singapore we are not celebrating….
but I felt it was always good to take the time to appreciate & reflect the things around God creation.
Thanks to intercessors of God in US & rest of world. My wife & 2 kids blessings to me & the joy brought to this family….God provision
& constantly lead in my life. Uurrr….Hallelujah! Amen
God Bless
I am THANKFUL for my health and freedom, for my family and friends. I am THANKFUL I live in a country that offers so many possibilities & the ability to learn from my mistakes and reinvent myself. I am thankful for hope and the adventure that tomorrow offers!
I am also THANKFUL for this offer & the opportunity to express my gratitude to the world!! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Proclamation of Thanksgiving by the President of the United States of America
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of almighty God
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than theretofore.
Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.
I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
—Abraham Lincoln
Hi, Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I’m thankful for the opportunities that exist for all of us to take control of our lives and thrive even in what seem to be the worst of times. I’m thankful that by thriving we make life better for all connected with us no matter how remotely.
I am thankful for the ability to be excited about the everyday happenings. Whether it be seeing a horse run in afield on the way home or getting helpful emails like yours or making a mistake and laughing about it instead of getting angry. Life is good.
I want to thank God for His provision. I want to thank God for giving me robust health. It’s the Almighty that sustains me all these years. Apart from Him I can do nothing.
I AM AN INTERNET NEWBIE AND YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT WAYS TO DO THINGS ON THE NET. I AM
STILL LEARNING AND MAYBE SOMEDAY I WILL MAKE SOME MONEY AT THIS.THANKS FOR THE RESELLER RIGHTS BUT HOW DO I SELL IT?
Well, Eric,
I was hospitalized last Friday evening due to three “mini-strokes” (TIA) … was released yesterday afternoon.
So I’m thankful that I’m here to witness and enjoy family and friends celebrating … and giving a bit of thanks of mine own that I’m able to witness it. Nothing like a brush with death to make one appreciate the life around us, ya know?
Oy, yeah … I’m not in the running for your gift - there are much more deserving folk than this old fart. Just figured it was worth the time to respond with a slightly different flavour.
Make a good day …
… barn
P.S. I’m not really wild about the preview adding [back]slashes … dunno whether they’ll show in the published item or not, but makes me want to correct something that I don’t know how to handle on this system .
I’m thankful the stock market was closed today so I could not lose any more money!
In life I am most thankful for my children.. without them I would not be who I am their love an support moves me where I may have never have moved on my own.
In general I am thankful that I work in an industry(online marketing) that gives me the ability to use my brain to think, my wisdom an creativity to make things that are of value to others, and my heart to have the ability to share it in such a way that makes it available to virtually anyone who needs it.
I am so grateful that I live in a time where no matter who we are or where we live we have the ability to write our own futures with the technology we have at our fingertips.
I look around and I am just thankful!
I am thankful for my husband who is able to be with me today after open heart surgery replacing aorta valve, three arteries, defibrillator and pacemaker inserted. After all the very scary surgery he is eating turkey today. I would also be thankful to learn to make money to pay for these surgeries.
Hi Everybody!
I am thankful because today we are all able to share our thankfulness to each other around the world with a click of a mouse and off-course I am thankful to the moderator because of his initiation. Remember…, if it were not the initiation there might not be INTERNET in existence today.
Anyway, here is my very own personal thankful list to the Universal Mind.
I am thankful for that to-day I am able to work with my own Computer and have this my own INTERNET CONNECTION and possessing a valid Credit Card with some balance (Ha!) in it (like to add a little note about the CC here. In Bangladesh having a CC is like possessing a diamond) and I am also thankful that today I am able to use the knowledge (computer knowledge) that I gained several years back by selling my maternal properties. I just knew back then that the knowledge will pay me back. Hey, I have not started to make money online yet. But I have this confidence that I will start to make money online soon. And I am also thankful for having this confidence.
Well, that’s about it mostly.
Thanks buddies around the World and thanks Eric.
Kamrul
Hi Eric,
First of all I thank you for giving this free gift on the thanksgivingday.
I thank God for whatever I am today and I pray for giving more opportunities to help poor and needy to whatever possible I can and seeing the smile on their faces, I can see God in them.
God is not in the heaven but in the hearts of noble souls and to help them is really boon to me and I thank God to giving me the opportunities like these.
I once again thank you for sending free gift.
Regards,
N.Vaidyanathan
I am God fearing person and I am thankful for the wonderful life that has been given to me.
I am thankful for the wonderful wife and family that I have.
I thank you Eric for the opportunity of these lessons of yours in which to learn the this business.
In this I am entirely thankful!
I have read through all the comments posted so far and am very humbled by the caliber of community on this blog.
On this day it is most appropriate to express gratitude and thankfulness for blessings in our lives both large and small. As for me, (in no particular order) I am thankful for:
1. God’s saving grace
2. family and friends who have been there for me through thick and thin
3. my business partners and community across the continent
4. freedom
5. opportunity
6. all those who will stand up against bullies and fight for what is right
7. good books
8. blue skies
9. the laughter of my grandchildren
10. smiles and hugs
11. health
12. the chance to make a difference in the lives of others
13. humor and laughs
14. oreo cookie milk shakes
15. labrador retrievers
16. honest people
17. Ben and Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk
18. my most wonderful spouse
19. a warm and comfy home
20. all things eternal
What a mixed list! But Blessings are like that. Life is like that. We can see wonder and grace in all sorts of places. May you never lose your sense of wonder and appreciation for God’s gift of life. Count your blessings everyday.
Eric –
Thanks for the Firesale ebook! You rock!
I’m thankful every day for my family and for satisfying work, for the opportunity to make a difference while I am here, and for the all the blessings therein.
Eric
Hey, Eric and all -
It just so happens I posted a video on YouTube this morning on the subject. I woke up early with the idea in my head and made the video before I even made coffee! Here is the link if you have a few minutes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0e7bJQoaf8
Hi Gene,
I’m so sorry about your brother. Your video was very touching for me…your a very tender hearted man. Best wishes for you and your family this Thanksgiving!
Gary
Hello Eric,
Be thankful for life its-self, take each day as it comes, never look back, and each next day that comes around, use it to it`s fullest in what ever you do, as you only have one chance and then that day as gone forever!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Thank you Eric,
Gary.
When I was a younger man, I always thought that I didn’t want to have children. Too much trouble.
Then I met the woman that would convince me to give it a try. And then she convinced me to try it again.
It’s been a great adventure. They’ve now grown and flown the nest.
And during this holiday weekend they have returned. It only took a few minutes for them to start bickering - mostly good natured - at one another.
As my children returned to the nest, a coworker lost his 17 year old daughter in a car accident.
I am so grateful that I can enjoy the beautiful music of my bicker kids and enjoy their love and life. And for the wonderful wife that gave them to me.
It seemed like only yesterday that I was reading them stories before bed each night. I am thankful for all the great books and special times we shared.
I know most of you reading this blog are much younger than me. So as my Thanksgiving gift to you, please accept some wisdom from an old guy.
Take the time to enjoy the moments. Really enjoy them if you have children.
We don’t know when they’ll end. And they go by so much faster than you can imagine.
Make memories.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Hi Eric,
I am so very Thankful for my family, My husband,
4 kids, 9 grandkids and 20 great-grandkids. All in wonderful health. I am thankful for my life
each and every day t
I’m thankful to my family,specially to my mother who had to suffer so much in her life & despite all of these,she still didn’t let me fell any of the troubles in my life.I’m really thankful to her for bringing me in this world.
Hi Eric,
I am thankful that there is such a day that somebody asks “What are you thankful for?”.
I am thankful for my life that God has given to me. That I am with my big extended family and friends that love me and that I am living in my own country and just be happy like any other human being. Whatever happens, I just know that God will make good of it.
I am quite moved by many in this forum who wrote about their lives; their sufferings yet are thankful for everything that happened.
Thanks to all of them for sharing and to you Eric for making this happen. I get the feeling that indeed all of us belong to his One Earth and there is One Life to share and to be thankful for. God bless!
Well I look out my window and look at all the trees and think how lucky we are to live in such a wonderful world. I then make the mistake and turn on the news - Ooops off with that quickly as all the doom and gloom of media will spoil it all for me.
I’m thankful for all the positive kind and honest people of this world especially those like you Eric who think of their customers before the lure of mega dollars.
Let all think positively even in adversity and what a better place this world would be for all. Great believer in **** happens so deal with it myself.
I recently had a few days away on an island camping with no mobile phones, TV, laptop or even a radio which proved to be a great way to unwind from the stresses of life. I returned only to find the world in a financial mess as told by the media not to mention all the other negatives of the world news.
Imagine a world of more positive news than negative.
Dream On.
Keries
Life is far from being perfect, but I’m thankful everyday that I’m still here alive and still can manage to comment on your post. I’m thankful for people like you who would bother helping people like me. I’m thankful for my family who is always there for me. I will always be thankful to God who never gives up on me.
Thank you Eric
Hi Eric,
Does Thanksgiving Day come only once a year? Do you spend only one day thanking God for what you have?
The other day I checked out the Clayton Makepeace site The Total Package and found an article posted by Daniel Levis. The article was titled “A Brand New Spin on Thanksgiving, And An Unusual Marketing Lesson … ”
The article described in graphic detail the life of Victor Frankl, a Viennese neurologist and psychiatrist who endured years of horror in a Nazi concentration camp. Frankl avoided the fate of others by finding meaning in his experience.
Does that teach us a lesson? For me it does - be thankful for what I have EVERY DAY, not only on Thanksgiving Day.
Thank you Victor Frankl … and Daniel Levis.
… Allan.
Hi Eric:
I am thankful for my family and for my health. What is life without either. I am thankful for providers for thoes who can’t.
Happy Thanksgiving Eric to you and your’s,
Gus Dempsey
I’m thankful for my family and friends.
I’m thankful for the opportunities I’ve found both on the internet and offline
Dear Eric,
Thank you very much per your kind gift I appreciate it so much.
Happy Thanksgiven Day to you and your loved family.
Receive warm regards,
With blessings,
Gabriel
Eric,
I count my many blessings and thank God for what he has done for me. Thank you for the gift.
This has been one of the most difficult years of my life. My wife has suffered with daily migraines and was hospitalized on Mother’s Day. Last month I lost the job I had been at for 15 years and like everyone else I’ve lost over 40% of my 401k.
Through all of the hardships God has reminded me that my happiness should not be based on money. I have a terrific wife and four wonderful daughters (two adopted from Vietnam) and great friends! I’m amazed at how God has blessed us.
Thanks for the site Eric. I just found it this summer and I love it. It’s not the typical “guru” site.
Please try chiropractic for your wife’s headaches. Find an upper cervical specific or a light-touch chiropractor, ask for referrals or email me. It is a miracle,accessing the healing power of Innate Intelligence. Check out upcspine.com, or associationfornetworkcare.com for starters.
I am so thankful to the Lord for the privilege of knowing Him and for His Grace and Mercy in my life and through my life to others. Through all the ups and downs of life, its trials, tribulations and joys, He is a Rock Solid Foundation.
Hello All,
I am thankful for people who have a way of bringing out the best in others. Just Like Eric has done here. I was feeling very low as I am in my forties have always been super active but now I have been bed bound for a few years, some of the stories here makes me a stronger and happier person in realizing how lucky I really am. When all the doors seems to close and darkness stands still somewhere a ray of light always appears from the opening of a new door. I am Thankful for each one of you and who you are.
Hi, Eric! First let me say that I’m thankful for all the help you have given me these past months. They are more important to me than you know. The one thing I am most thankful for though, is an autistic young lady that God blessed me with 20 years ago. We have had our difficulties and tough times, Eric, but love has pulled us through so many things. Today, on this Thanksgiving day, she was able to say thanks to God for Thanksgive dinner. It was just “Thank you, God! Food good. Amen.” That may not sound like much, Eric, but to us it was a miracle. Please go to http://www.theautistictouch.com and meet Jenny.
We love YOU, Eric. Thanks again. I’m already a winner, don’t you think?
Well EricK, Life is good. Sometimes we feel that isn’t fair but steel been good,it’s a gift. And talking about gifts lets say: Thanks Lord for everything, for your sacrifice, for show me the way and for provide us with presents of love, unconditional love and support. God bless you more!
Cesar
Im Very Thankful for LIFE.So many people I know and love have found all kinds of sickness and even death in some cases this year.Its nice to wake up each and every morning knowing I am allowed to live my life for now without thinkingand worrying about how it might end.
Hi,
Thanks a lot for this amazing gift,
and happy thanksgiving too !
Eric,
Just by reading all the other member’s posts.
Above all the troubles in the world, there are
generally alot more things to be thankful for.
Count your blessings, no matter of how small or grand.
What is thanksgiving or thankfulness? Thankfulness is my positive emotion or attitude acknowledging a beneficial gain I have received or will receive. Thankfulness is my feelings flowing from my heart expressing my deepest appreciation. I have felt that positive emotional attitude and have expressed my emotion of thankfulness many times. Through life’s experience I have felt the need to develop an ongoing attitude of thankfulness for things that have happened to me. By stepping forward and giving thanks I’ve seen that it became a stride toward achieving something bigger and better than where I am presently. My being thankful is like wrapping a present and being blessed by giving it away. Expressing my personal thankfulness in this way creates a wonderful memory in my heart that propels me on. By the act of being thankful I’m saying I accept my past, in turn bringing good thoughts for today, and thus creating a drive for the future. If only we could learn this sooner to search our soul to value that life is about the little things. If only we can see being thankful for the little things I will be thankful for much. Through life’s experiences I’m learning it’s enough to just say “thank you” when it comes sincerely from the heart. I’ve learned the lesson of thankfulness through the act of my will by just beginning to do it now. My grateful thoughts reflect upon all those people who have rekindled my inner spirit, I say: “Thank You!” I’ve chosen to write a journal of thankfulness in memory of all those special people, family, friends, and fellow workers who have spurred me on. I am so thankful for online entrepreneurs who have encouraged, inspired and motivated me not to give up but to press on to even higher heights. My heart over flows with deep gratitude compelling me to thank these special ones right now for taking the time to listen and help me through needful times. Again I say “thank you” to all of you. Thankfulness is like coinage that we can make for ourselves and spend without fear of ruin even though the economy does not appear good right now. More and more I am seeing the need to reflect upon my present blessings. How we use our blessings is the true measure of our thanksgiving. I’m now beginning to realize the attitude of thanksgiving has been life changing and one of the most important factors of my life. The soil of which thankfulness grows naturally is a humble mind. A thankful heart bears good fruit chasing away seeds of discouragement. Sometimes my light has flickered but I owe my deepest thanks to those who came along to renew my fading light. My thankful heart is discovering new mercies and opening the window of opportunity for ideas to flow my way. I am so thankful for those unknown blessings that I am convinced are already on their way. My heart is compelled to be as others have been to me. To always remember when I am eating the fruit to keep in mind those who have planted the tree. Remembering no man makes it on his own. When we are truly grateful by choosing not to focus on what is missing from our lives we open ourselves to good fruit flowing our way. Last night as I gazed upon the vast universe with its brilliant stars I am reminded: “Creation teaches us that an Infinitely Eternal All Powerful Creator created us and all we have. Therefore we are His creatures. He owns us. Our life, our breath, and everything we have are a gift. Our duty is simply to be thankful to Him from our heart and to cherish His glory and to love our neighbor.” Daily reminding me a little thanksgiving goes a long way.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for for your gift and your lessons.Keep it up.
Thankyou Erik,
Your site is such a refreshing and safe haven for me and contrasts enormously with just about all the rest of the poppycock in this field that is out there. I guess what I appreciate most is that you tell the truth. You are not afraid to discuss some of the negatives of web marketing. You offer a lot of options for people like me starting out. You don’t appear to simply have your hand out.
You don’t want to get me started about the things in my life I am gratful for. There are too many to list.
Hey Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving.
I am grateful that even though my job was outsourced to India (twice) in the past two years, I have good health, my children and wife are healthy. I’m thankful I live in a time and a country where people are willing to sacrifice and protect our country and make this a safe place to live.
I am grateful for the character lessons my parents taught me and that I should pass them to my children.
I’m thankful to the people I have met that are helping to inhance skills I have and teach me new ones.
Thanks,
Ed…
Thank you for your generosity in helping us all achieve our goals. Whichever way one aids one’s fellow man, like you are doing, it is always in the spirit of love. Cheers.
I am thankful that I can stand on the promises of God.
before i say that i am indonesian. in indonesia very much people but a little understanding english..so am i….
i am thankful for living now when the possibilities and potential exists as a result of the virtual world.
thanks eric……salam….
I’ve been going through hell. I’m thankful I can keep going.
Dear Eric,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, and also a HUGE thanks for the Gift.
The Most Important gift you made me realize my Road in Internet Marketing. Your truth & honesty reflects in each and every lesson.
To make it short, you have changed the mindset of many, who like would agree that business enterprenuers need to focus on being more realistic. Your approach is truely geninue.
Thank you,
Julius Po
http://www.learn4xi.com
Hi Eric, I am thankful that I have loving family and friends, that I live with freedom to make my own choices about what to believe, what to wear and what kind of work I will do. I am grateful that I have plenty of good food to eat, a roof over my head and a car to get about in.
I am also thankful for all the successful internet marketers, yourself included, who willingly pass on their knowledge to help others achieve success and financial independence. Thank you very much.
I am thankful for
The pain I sometimes wake up to make me enjoy the freedom of pain.
My divorce for making me realize what was missing in my life - a strong relationship with God and his son Jesus
My recent layoff from work which gave me time to think about what I wanted to do with my life when I grow up (Currently age 40 but not wanting to grow up just yet)
The recent drop in the stock market as it created the realization that invested in ourselves in the best stock to buy.
The courts for granting me custody of my wonderful son 13 years ago.
My parents for feeding me while I am laid off
My years of plenty and God’s wisdom to store some wealth so that I can live for a bit without worry.
The worry that comes from that time I can live on my savings which gives me courage to do something new.
My friends and family for doubting me when I was young as it gave me the strength to succeed.
My dogs who love me no matter what the world does.
The USA and the opportunities it brings to anyone who is willing to work and sacrifice.
Our soldiers who have died protecting those rights.
The 2nd Amendment which protects us from our government reaching too far.
The Constitution and the brilliance it brings to our lives.
Austrian economics to understand business cycles and realize that this too shall pass.
Your website and the generosity you show - and the realization that you can be focused on doing good in the world and making a profit at it.
The interest and the ease of access to information to see how the world really works.
My travels overseas to fully understand how different our country is.
For my website which is still a work in progress - so this post has to stir me to action to finish it
For God sending his son to suffer and die for me.
For every breath
For every step
For every tear
For every pain
For every fear
For every doubter
For without struggle how can we say we have overcome? How can we know victory without knowing loss?
We fail not when we fall but when we don’t get up.
Scott
Great share Scott. I also like the story on your website home page a lot. Isn’t that the story of life! We “invest” (or should I say waste) more and more time, money, energy and our whole life trying out more and more “solutions”. At any moment, we feel justified that we need to now resolve the most recent problem at hand (which usually results from the previous “solution”), hoping that by getting rid of what seems to be the cause of the current problem, we will get rid of that problem which we believe to be the cause of the previous problem, etc, etc., with the hope that the INITIAL problem that started this madness will disappear as a result of some kind of domino effect (cause and effect, right?).
Our limited awareness at each step leads us to believe that we need to solve the most recent problem first, before we can solve the original problem–the one that we REALLY want to get rid of (the swallowed fly)–and so we spend our life doing that, never getting rid of that initial problem but still hoping that we will, and doing more and more stupid things until we die of overwhelm and despair.
The old lady who swallowed a fly is like each one of us who chose to feel bad one day. Let’s say we chose to feel “I am a nothing” or “I am not good enough”, which of course didn’t feel very good, so now we had a problem, a BIG problem indeed. This problem remained over the years, and when we finally couldn’t stand it anymore, we took the advice of the first salesperson (or online sales letter) to come along, who showed us with a seemingly-flawless logic that our bad feeling would be a story of the past…as soon as we buy their solution.
Let’s say the solution was to buy that $50,000 fancy car…and maybe a fancy house, too, and other stuff to show off to family, friends competitors and associates…all in the hope to get rid of that plaguing inferiority feeling.
Of course, we couldn’t really afford it so we used our good friends the credit card and loans. But now we had to pay off those debts, so we decided to get a job (don’t mind that we hated it, as long as it pays the bills, right?).
Eventually that hate of the job and the boss caught on, and angrily we said ‘bie bie boss’, and decided to get into business in order to break free from that freedom-busting J.O.B…and we all know what headaches that brought, right? (obvious headaches for most of us who are even broker now, but true even for those who “succeeded” in business–ask any financially-free person, and you’ll quickly discover that they, too, still have big issues.
And I bet that the initial “inferiority” complex, the “I am not good enough” feeling is still there, cntinuing to drive the madness in our lives.
Is there a simple solution, you may ask? There is, and it takes no time, no money, no energy and leaves you with a whole new life. Just get rid of that negative feeling directly, by choosing to stop entertaining it, instead of continuing to bring in all this heavy artillery that’s really killing you–and make sure you do so before you die like the lady who swallowed the fly.
hai eric,
It is really awesome. I glade u for making this. it is very much helpful to the people how want to gain something in life. thank u a lot for this.
In these hard financail times, with financail disasters throughout the world, and terrorist activities, I am thankful for having the wisdom and guidance from mentors such as yourself, Perry Marshall, and many others to have learned to be in control of my own personal econonmy. What ever happens around us, if we learn to control our own world, and learn to help others by sharing this knowledge, we can improve this world one person at a time.
I have too much to be thankful for to mention, but I am thankful my son survived getting hit by a car and although he’ll never be “quite right” mentally and emotionally, I am glad he’s here and a cheerful and loving 15 year old. I am thankful for all my kids and my husband for pulling me through rough times. And I am thankful for all the Firesales on the internet because it has given me hope that I can actually do something to get out of debt finally.
Thank you, Eric.
Lola Vanslette
Hi LOla,
How ar u doing, pls can i know you better because i think we need to do something together help mail me asap you receive the mail.and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Hi Eric,
Contemplating your question - for what am I thankful?
I guess I am thankful for -
all that is, has been and will be.
I am thankful for every day i wake up,may there be many more.
Eric,
Since last 2 years i am receiving your mails,you are really doing a good job especially for newbies.After your inspiration,i have invested much time in internet business more effectively.All my best wishes are with you
I am thankful that we have the ability within us to create our own destiny. Develop an attitude of gratitude and enjoy Thanksgiving everyday!
I am so thankful that I have found network marketing and all that it can bring to myself and my family. I am also thankful that I have found someone like you Eric that is willing to help other people in network marketing for FREE and all the great information that you have given us and keep giving to us.I am also thankful for my family and my two little girls Ryann and Courtney I love you!
Again Eric thanks for all that you have done and will do!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Jill Skillern
I received an email the other day from an organisation with a short cover letter which just said”Christmas wishes please give.”
“I have nothing” I muttered to the screen, why doesent somone give me? “So which part of the nothing do you want?”
Reading the attatchment I was humbled, it was from an orphange, one I knew well.
A small kid wanted a toy spade and wheelbarrow.
A 12 yearold girl wanted a T-shirt; high school musical if possible.
Some other teanage girls wanted toiletries, deodrants “Goodies that help us smell nice” their words.
Some requests for stationary, pen and paper.
The requests for bibles from a few of the children, really got to me.
A gift of a bible helped me get away from drugs and gambling 28 years ago, not through anything I did, but through Gods awsome grace. Though I thought I have nothing.
I have every thing.
I have clothes enough to wear.
Toiletries I take for granted;
Paper I waste to much.
I neglect my quiet time to read my Bible.
I am really thankful for that email.
Great to see so many people participating in the comments. Eric, this is a great mailing list, and am happy to be part of it. Thanks to all who are making things better.
Eric,
God has surely blessed my life with more than I deserve. He has given me a wonderful wife (for 53 years so far), great children, grandchildren and good health.
But, I am most Thankful for the blessings of serving my Lord for some 60 years by telling others about Him.
Eric, thank you for your giving of your time by teaching us how to build a website.
I’m Thankful for everything that God has given me. Wonderful Kids, a great job, my Family, my Friends, and the wonderful life I have. I’ve been going through a lot of changes in my life lately and if it wasn’t for all these I would be totally lost. I’m also thankful for my Internet family (because that’s what I call them) for giving me the knowledge, inspiration, the drive to push me and tell me that I will succeed and live an abundant life. I know I haven’t done much lately to work and take action on my business. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not reading, studying, and learning everything there is to know about making a better life for myself, my kids, my family(s), and my friends. I’m thankful for God to be able to get me up in the morning and look in the mirror and say “You Deserve Abundance”, “You Deserve the Best that Life has to Offer” and go to work to do the best that I can each day to make the world a better and safer place to live. I’m Thankful for everything I have and for everything that is to come.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!! And I wish everyone an Abundant and Prosperous life!!
George Thurman
Hi Eric,
Firstly, I am very grateful for your lessons and the community you have brought forth with things such as this and also sharing your family experiences. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving Day just as I did. I am one of the lucky ones to have a big and mostly loving family who gets together for holidays etc. and know that alot of people do not have this. So maybe I should mostly be thankful for this.
Late last year, about this time, I experienced some pretty serious health issues and lost alot of weight. In part this was due to working a very stressful job for a few years at a big ecommerce company which I won’t name.
After a few changes, I have slowly but surely gained most of my health back to normal even though it was a tough year and my vision doesn’t quite seem as good as it once was. However, I am mostly thankful for regaining my health and also for gaining a renewed interest in computers through learning internet/affiliate marketing and starting an online business in part thanks to you.
I have been following your lessons from day one and although I was not a novice and had quite a bit of computer experience I had not been able to find my direction in online marketing. Thanks to you and a few other internet experts I have now found a new direction and passion in my life.
Thanks a million
Anthony
Eric,
5yrs ago my wife said I can’t remember what to do next while standing at the cooker. I’m thankful she had taught me earlier how to finish that dish.
A little while later she couldn’t remember how to cook anything. I’m thankful for recipe books and good friends.
A little while later when she couldn’t remember how to keep house. I’m thankful for a welfare system that provided some practical help.
A little while later when she couldn’t remember how to work the shower, I’m thankful for humble people who care enough to help.
A little while later when she couldn’t stand to be alone, I’m thankful for friends and a boss that let me work flexi hours.
A little while later when she needed care 24/7, I’m thankful for a welfare system that let me do that.
A little while later when her anxiety got the better of her, I’m thankful for medication that would settle her down.
A little while later when she couldn’t sleep more than a few hours, I’m thankful for facilities that work 24hour days to care for her.
A little while later after she has settled in to her new residence I’m thankful the short time we have together each day looking at flowers, horses and things she loved most.
A little while later when our son gets married I’m thankful she is able to see it.
A little while later when she is unable to make a coherent sentence, I’m thankful for a love which understands without words.
A little while later as she’s being taken to the tiolet, I’m thankful to the Lord who promises to restore.
A little while later when I’m home alone, I’m thankful for His grace to help in times of need.
A little while later as I make a comment on Eric’s blog, I’m thankful that I can cry and grieve as I should.
I am thankful that every day I wake up I am in a land that will give me everything or anything I would or could ever desire. That through hard work, integrity and vision, not only can I find the destination of my pursuit to happiness, but also help light the path for others to find their own happiness.
To me, that is truly amazing and a worthy thing to be praised.
Hope all is well Eric! I don’t comment much, but I am here, and I am loving the lessons!
-Greg the Writer
PS. And heck, you know what, I’d also love that free course : )
Hi Eric,
I’m thankful and grateful for your kindness
and thanks for all that you’ve done.
God bless you
yanyong
I am very thankful for god, give me a good life with my beautiful wife and my lovely child and loving parents.
I also thankful to Eric for giving valuable tips for running my business http://www.jjinfosys.com.
Thank God for life, my career, family and friends. Especially my girl & fiancee whose memory alone turns a stressful, hectic day into moments of pure happiness & love
I’m so thankful for God, who created me to be unique as a finger print. In holding this fingerprint in a vast world, I am thankful for the air I breathe in my existence. In this existence I am thankful for the nature, for it is bountiful and supportive. In support I am thankful for family and friends that are always there. In family and friends, I am thankful for the 6 billion people that inhabit this earth. In each person, I am thankful for how they shape the world, and strive to improve it. I am thankful for the improvements small in nature, for I am small in the big picture. I am thankful that I am small, for I will never know it all.. For that I live a thankful life…and I am just thankful for this life..Thank You..
And.. I would be thankful if I won..smiles.. Lezlie
I’m thankful my fiance survived a life-threatening infection and is now recovering in the high dependency unit of a hospital in England.
I’m also thankful I have a family that loves me when I see how many of my friends are neglected by their families.
Good thing I stopped to read Stan’s comment just above mine (nr. 227). It sure made my thanksgiving!
Also thanks to Eric for inviting me here and for the gracious gift.
Yours,
Sakari
Thank god for making us, and thank us for making internet!
Happy Thanksgiving to All
Thank you God for giving me a healthy and creative mind…
Hi Eric,
Have always wanted to ask. You have always had a long hair before ? Anyway nice haircut & great look.
Thanks a lot for the Gift..Eric..
Thank you Universe for the Wealth, Abundance, Good Health, Strength, & all the Knowledge & Lessons We have Learned.
Happy ThanksGiving Day To Everyone…
Best Wishes,
Frankie Teo
http://www.frankieteo.com
Thanks for your great support,I have been following up your tips step by step,they flow well.I look forward to inviting you to Kenya(my country)to enable you give tips to people in Africa where I believe that internet has not been exploited.God bless you and continue with your good work.Pass my greetings to your family.
i’m thankful for God for creating such a wonderful and kind hearted person like you, 2. i’m thankful for you deeming it fit to send this gift, 3. i’m thankful that the gift is of of good relevant, there are some gift that are not useful but you just have to accept it because it’s a gift, this is more than that it’s really a gift that can can make one happy, thank you Eric.
Hi Eric,
Just a few hours ago I was out at the County Jail where we hold a weekly Bible Study for the Inmates. I always start out our studies asking for praise reports. After all, just because someone is in jail does not mean that there are not plenty of reasons to be thankful. After we talk about what the men or the womens group have to give praise for, they usually ask me if I have a praise report too.
I have so much to be thankful for. I recently lost my job and was kind of worried how I would be able to stretch the little bit of money I had until I either get unemployment or a new job. The Lord showed Himself faithful as He has provided for me miraculously. My house payment went down $124, my gas bill dropped by $25, Student loan gave me an $112 break, My power bill had a previous over pay and this month was only $3.23 and God gave me a little windfall on top of all that. I ended up meeting my bills and was even able to send $100 to my fiance’ in the Ukraine (where they are hit even harder than we are). To top it off I have an appointment for a job interview this coming Tuesday. How cool is that?
The biggest thing I am thankful for though, is that I could go out to that jail and spend time on Thanksgiving with people who are just like I was. I spent a total of 11-1/2 years behind bars. I was a hopeless drug addict, a 4 time loser who never planned on quitting drugs. It was in prison that I met the Lord Jesus and said yes to Him. He changed my life instantly, & He changed my desires eventually. This year I celebrated 13 years completely delivered of my drug addiction . The change Jesus made in my life gives hope to others that He would do it for them too. (and He would!) but the really cool thing that I am thankful for this week is that one of the young men who was coming to the jail Bible study got out last week and went to a church last Sunday with 3 of his friends and all four of them went forward and made decisions for Christ. Now that is something to be thankful for.
Thank you Eric for letting us give thanks on your blog.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and thank you Stan for sharing your story too.
God Bless you all,
Pete Bass
I am so thankful for all the love that surrounds me every day, from my husband, my four beautiful daughters & my eight gorgeous grandchildren, not to mention my two sweet dogs! These are the stuff that really matters, so I am wealthy beyond belief!!!
Hi there Eric,
thank you for the download.
I am thankful for the fact that I have my health.
I wish everyone Harmony, Peace and Upliftment.
from Kevan…
I have come to realize that I am so very thankful for my family and friends and the opportunity to live another day to pursue my dreams. Sometimes we have to come back to the basics of life before we can appreciate more in life.
Life over the past 4 years has been very humbling for our family. My wife has pretty severe diabetes and wasn’t supposed to be able to get pregnant. However, about 4 1/2 years ago, my wife did get pregnant and was on strict bed rest for the last 4-5 months due to complications caused by her diabetes. Our daughter had to be delivered 8 weeks early to prevent my wife’s health from getting worse and risking both her life and the babies life. Although our daughter was born 8 weeks premature, everything turned out better than could be expected. However, soon after giving birth, my wife was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. They had even put her on the heart transplant list, but fortunately, further testing showed that the medications they had put her on were working and it appeard that they had the CHF under control.
Soon after that, she had, over most of her body, what we now found out to be psoriasis, after going through major testing including skin biopsies. This still is not under control however and she struggles with severe itching all the time. With all of her ailments she’s on at least 12 prescriptions monthly. With all this, she’s still working a full time job unbelievably.
I on the other hand had been programming for over 15 years and with having to take care of my wife during her difficult pregnancy and taking care of my daughter after she was born for the next year, I found it very difficult to find work as a programmer. Being 46, bad back and no money to re-educate myself, I was stuck with not too many options. I then turned to Network Marketing & Internet Marketing within the last 12-18 months. Although not impossible, I found it very difficult to try to build an online business with no budget and left desperate to find ways to make money online. I have learned a lot over the past 12-18 months and know that with my determination and knowledge I will be successful in my online endeavors.
So what am I thankful for: I am so very thankful that my daughter was born healthy and continues to do very well now that she’s 4 years old. I am thankful that I have both my wife and child here with me, even when we live payday to payday, and many times not knowing how we’re going to pay our rent, bills and my wife’s prescriptions which she needs very much. I am thankful that I still have a dream to achieve so much more in life and thankful for all the people I have met through internet marketing and network marketing and the relationships I have made along the way. I am thankful that I still have my parents around. I am thankful for how God has continued to provide for our families needs even when we had no clue how we were going to pay our rent/bills on numerous occassions over the past 4 years. We don’t have much right now but we have it all. We have all that we need right now. A roof over our heads, a job for my wife, our lives and most importantly my dreams of success that I have not lost even through all we’ve been through and continue to go through. I will not give up on my and my familes dreams and I most of all thank God for giving me the dreams he has given me with a steadfast determination to never give up on them, no matter what.
I thank God for giving the chances to change from day to day.
Sometimes I feel why I lack so much but when I see all the poor people and those are dying because they having no food at all…. What have I lack? I should be thankful always because I still have so many things that other people don’t have.
My currency is so low compare to usd but I’m thankful that I still afford to do things online and to help others.
I pray that all of us will be able to use what we have to help those who have nothing at all. Your move can change the life of people.
God bless!
Thank God for living. Many that have died did not wish to and as such I do for every brand new day that I see or comes my way I really appreciate it, more so when one remembers that you can only actualize or use a talent or achieve whatsoever you set your mind if and only if there is life! Thanks to you too Eric for the gift!!!
Thank you Tipmaster for the oportunities that you provide.
Eric:
I’m 73 and a veteran but I don’t need any prize for being thankful. I believe everyone born in this country has received the greatest prize available to man - the right to make the most of him or herself. I just want say that I am thankful for living in this great country and having the greatest opportunities that could be available anywhere.
Just reading one thankful comment after another
touches my heart deeply and makes me crying.
Thank you all!!
Fred.
Hello Eric,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. Most especially for this gracious gift you’ve given.
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful that despite the things that are going wrong, there are still so many things that are going right.
I’m grateful for people who see and act these good things, and inspire and encourage others and thus make a difference in our world.
Also, I’m grateful for the fact that even though I’m living in Asia and this day is not a holiday, I can still share in the spirit of thanksgiving with those I may never meet except through the internet.
Cheers everyone!
Ricardo
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“All things bright and wonderful, all creatures great and small, the Lord God made them all…” I am thankful for the trees, the roses(hmmm nice smelling lovely coloured roses), etc, etc, but Love is the greatest of them all. Love heals, forgets, blind, moved mountains, dare to care. Even God can forgave us because of His love. Why do we have war?
Anyway, God’s love helps me through all life’s challenges when no one’s around because they have their own burdens too. Pass on your burdens to Him. He is omnipresent.
The joy of reaching out, serving, caring for others/environment all emanated from love.
I am grateful for the opportunity I have each day to make the world a better place by how I live my life.
Often I forget this. Often I’ve made bad choices. Each day I wake up is another opportunity to get it right. What could be better?
I am grateful for the opportunity I have each day to make the world a better place by how I live my life.
Often I forget this. Often I’ve made bad choices. Each day I wake up is another opportunity to get it right. What could be better?
Hi Eric,
Hello from Germany. I Thank God who is supporting all of us with everything we need.
I am thankful for the great gift of the internet, which is giving many people like you an me the opportunity to make a living!
Thank you Eric for your “Thanksgiving-Gift”.
God bless you, your beloved ones and keep up the great work!
Best regards,
Matt (Germany)
Thank God for being born in America! Life is good!!!!
Now when people ask (most just say) how am I doing, I’ve learn to respond with, “I’m Blessed and Grateful.” This sounds like to most people that I’ve just hit the lottery and that I am better off than the less fortunate ones, but the truth is that I continue to learn everyday to just Be thankful for what I already have and to Be grateful for what already is.
Walk With Peace.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.
I am Thankful for what can never be replaced. I am not a material person because they can be replaced but Family and Friends can’t be replaced. I am Thankful for my Lord and Saviour. Without Him, I would have nothing. Each day I thank Him. I live one day at a time for you never know what tomorrow will be. The past is gone so I don’t look behind. Live each day and be Thankful.
Thank you Eric for your “Eric’s Tips”.
I’m thankful that I’ve finally learned that change happens so I waste less time trying to change it back and more time focused in the reality of the present in order to create a great future. I’m thankful I’ve finally learned to ask for help when I need it and have received the generosity of others from friends to passing strangers. I’m thankful that I’ve been given so many opportunities to be someone elses “hand along the way.”
To be honest, I really want to thank God for knowing and subscribing to this blog. You know what Eric, I’ve been looking around the net if there are Christian internet marketers. I mean someone who really has the heart to help others aside from making money on the net.
Then I found your site. This is a great blog. And I believe you are really doing good in your internet marketing career.
I am a Filipino (from the Philippines) pastor who have been self-studying about internet marketing. I have been applying some things that you have said here in this blog. And it is really working. Though I must admit that I am not really concentrated in my work since I am really working as a minister and my site is more like a religious site.
Perhaps one time, I will also feature you as one of the ministers who have been using this internet in reaching more people for Christ.
This is what I am thanking.
I’m thankful for all the people (including my dog) who care for me, and for not being misfortunate.
Peace to all, Vesna.
I am thankful for having been born in the Western world, where women at least have a chance to do what their hearts tell them to. Maybe I should also say I am thankful that this economic crisis has made people sit up and take notice that things do not always have to be rosy to be thankful. I think many people will find strength they didn’t know they had.
Hey Eric, Interesting contest…
You said “First, I want everyone who reads this newsletter to know that I’m thankful for YOU. Without you, Eric’s Tips wouldn’t exist.”
I think “THANKS TO YOU, because without you our Online businesses wouldn’t have exist even started”.
Any many of the thanks letter of mine are in queue as whenever I will cross any milestone or will achieve any good in Internet marketing Eric is the first person to give my credit. So thanks a ton for that.
Lastly thanks for choosing me as the winner in advance
Hehehehe.
Your friend,
Sohan
Hey Eric,
I am truly blessed and thankful for a great life. Sure, since I’m a little older, I have a few aches and pains. But that is overshadowed by the abundance in my life. I have a wife (mean red-head!) who is not only my best friend, but loves me unconditionally. Sometimes that’s quite a challenge. I have a job that I look forward to going to every day. They pay me more than I’m worth and seem to appreciate my efforts. I choose not to have a lot of friends, but the ones I have are truly friends. I occasionally make a couple of bucks on the internet from people who don’t know me but trust that I will treat them fairly. Yeah, I know it sounds a little sappy, but I appreciate the enormous amount of advice I get on the internet from people like you. I guess I have a lot to be thankful, wouldn’t you say?
Thanks Eric
I came in contact on telephone, with a girl of remote area of Balochistan, Pakistan, in July 2003, when she was only fifteen and studying in class IX(Jounior “A”Level). She was sexually abused in minor age, her parents and relatives were going to kill her, and she had decided for suicide. I gave her courage to face parents and relatives boldley, and stand to help the other victims too. She completed her college eduction(”O”Level), and now has opened a clinic in September 2008, after getting certificate of “Mid Wifery”. I helped her out morally, financially and in evry difficulty faced on this path. The important thing to tell here is that we have not met physically yet, and I do’nt want in future too, she has not seen even my pictutre nor I have.
My heart is filled with great pleasure, as a girl planning to die, has proved that she can face any challenge of life, and is encouraging other victims for the same.
Zil e Hasnain Sherazi
Thanks to all viewers, and to Eric for Thanksgiving
Thank You Eric For What seems To Me The First Truly Caring Approach To Teaching Internet Marketing.
Tim Duffett
OK Eric I am so very thankful 4 so many things it would take many of these little boxes to contain them all. But I will list a few–I am thankful that I have cancer but no pain, For the great teacher I have (Eric),for my 3 little dogs, 4 many friends, 4 this day, 2 b able 2 help others, & on & on. God bless you & yours, Mary
I am thankful for all the people who are willing to be UNCONDITIONALLY free from their bad (negative) feelings about what’s happening in their life–including what’s happening in their body, in their mind, in their emotions, in their finances, in their jobs or businesses, in their relationships, in their communities, and in their world.
Anyone who is willing to stop complaining and feeling bad about life without asking that something else must change first–i.e without putting any conditions on their freedom from such negative emotions–is someone who is taking full responsibility for the way they feel, no matter what is going on, and from my experiennce, such people add a bright sunshine to the world and make life so much easier for the rest of us. They are the greatest gift to the world and I am thankful for that gift.
Hi Eric,
Thank you for your gift. There is so much that I am thankful for that I cannot list them all. The most important one thing I am thankful for is the gift that God gave us. His son Jesus Christ, whom died for us on the cross, that we through him may one day join them in their kingdom.
Hi Eric,
Honestly speaking, I was not expecting the added unadvertised bonus. You always amazed me Eric.
From the bottom of my heart I Thank you for the gifts you gave. We need more people like you in this business.
More power to you,
Orlando Racelis
Feel the city breaking ‘n Everybody shaking And I’m staying alive. -I am thankful just being alive and intact.
This thanksgiving has been an exceptionally hard one but one in which we have been very thankful. My oldest daughter is a loan originator and her family has been hit very hard by the housing market. They may lose their home.
My youngest daughter is bipolar and has gotten divorced, moved to Lousianna and now back to Kentucky. My son lost his job as well.
The long and the short of it all is that there has had to be a lot of maneuvering in getting everyone moved. My son-in-law has finally gotten a job, my oldest daughter is here getting a few loans through and my youngest daughter is back on her meds, got a job and doing fairly well and my son has a promise of a job as well.
The Lord has allowed us to be there to help and He has been there with us all the way. We are truly thankful that all are safe and home.
George Hollis
I am thankful for nature, for animals, for all the wonderful people who are committed to making this world a better place and to people like Eric who send tips around to help others make a better life for themselves. This world rocks!!! Thank You God XXX
Happy Holidays Eric,
There’s so much to be thankful for. I am thankful for my life, my family, health and for a relationship with Jesus Christ.
I am thankful that to be able to spend thanksgiving with my family. Last year my husband and I were not together so our family was not all together in one place. This year we are back together and our marriage is doing much better. That is a blessing to us and our children.
I am thankful that all 3 of my daughters are healthy and doing well.
I am thankful that my uncle who had a heart attack and triple bypass surgery last December is alive, well and better than ever.
I am thankful that in 2008 I, my children and especially the elderly members of my family who endured so much during their lives were alive to witness the election of the first Black president of the US.
I’ll stop there but I have much more to be thankful for.
Joanne Mason
I am thankful for being alive… I should be dead.
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING.
At the age of 14 I was fascinated with chemistry and chemical reactions, my friend and I used to spend hours in his fathers workshop mixing various chemicals together just to see what reaction we could achieve.
The effects that went BOOM were the most exiting to us, and only encouraged us to become even more adventurous.
We read so much about explosive reactions we thought we were experts… in the end we were mixing stuff that we could hardly pronounce.
Then one cold and frosty morning the inevitable happened… all it took was just one small slip and BOOM, the effect was enormous… powerful enough to flatten the walls of the workshop and send the roof into a neighbours rear yard.
Considering the enormity of the explosion, we are both thankful to have only suffered concussion and the loss of a couple of fingers.
Lately that memory has got me thinking about the huge amount of misleading, confusing and darn-right dangerous Internet Marketing information products out there. Dangerous in as much as it can cause Analysis Paralysis through information overload.
Trying to sort out the chaff from the wheat to find that missing puzzle can be a huge time sucking, confidence destroying journey that is likely to end in crushing your dream of building an online business running on auto-pilot 24/7 providing an income even while you sleep.
THE ANTIDOTE… unsubscribe to all distractions… follow just one mentor to gain the right knowledge base… take action and carefully complete the tasks… put all the components in the correct sequence.
Do this… gain the right knowledge and things will not BLOW UP on you.
Trust me… it cost me two fingers to learn MY lesson.
Yes, it is true what they say… A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE REALLY IS A DANGEROUS THING.
I am just truly thankful to have survived MY lack of knowledge… with enough fingers intact to be able to write this post.
Good luck and God bless,
Glenn Hughes.
I’m thanksful for the gift of God’s salvation and for family.
I’m thankful for my faith, family and friends, for living in this country and having the opportunity to make each day count.
Happy Thanksgiving Eric!
I joined you celebration,no mutter i live out of America,i am privileged and honored for being in company of a lot of interesting and with good knowledge people across the Internet.
And,as how somebody said i am grateful for Internet in giving me and others so nice opportunity to be connected in getting to know each other,being a part of someone’s Success to make money online.I don’t earn online,i write Abstracts on my favorite masterpieces and life personal experience on self improvement.
I am grateful for my Parents!
I am grateful to Myself for being able to going my way of Self Improvement and reach Eternal Youth
On November 4th, 2008, Barack Husain Obama won a landslide electoral victory to become the 44th president of the most powerful nation on earth. Since then, and in all his speech, he had been very thankful to a nation that made him what he is; a nation of oppotunities; a nation where the poor can aspire and do indeed become rich; a nation where dreams come to fulfilment. For Obama, he would remain eternally grateful to the American people, founders, spirits and ideals. To me, his thanfulness is the greatest in this passing year.
THANK YOU, GOD, FOR EVERYTHING
THE GOOD AS WELL AS THE BAD
Hi Fields,
I think you and I have similar paradigms and beliefs. Do you have a blog or website that I could check out?
Blessings,
Irene
I am thankful for the beautiful family I was born into. I am thankful to the friends I have met along this path of life. But, most of all I am greatful for the family and friends who introduced me to JESUS CHRIST. For without him none of this would be possible. I have a beautiful daughter and son who are both believers in CHRIST, I have been blessed with a job that can support my family. But, most of all I am so thankful that Christ came upon this earth and died for my sins so I could have everlasting life. For those of you who are reading this who are nonbelievers my wish would be that you would come to know JESUS CHRIST and be blessed in the same way I have. May all of you have a great Thanksgiving, a beautiful Christmas and prosperous New Years
I am thankful that there is a God in Heaven who loves us and cares for us more than we can ever know. It is this knowledge of Him that makes everything else worthwhile. It makes myself and other people more tolerable, the internet such an expressive environment, and the world a more enjoyable place. Thank You to everyone who has made this note possible!
Hi Eric,
It is a great thing to me if i see people that really knows or appreciate what someone is doing to them,am from NIGERIA but i can see what Eric is doing about the online marketing so just because of this only i say to every body that HAPPY THINKSGIVING TO EVERY ONE. samson from Nigeria
Great a little extra for the start on the holidays. Thanks again Eric.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for all the Tips. What am I thankful for?
I am thankful to God for ALL that make me hopeful that tomorrow will always be a better day.
Eric,
Let me begin by wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
You ask what I’m thankful for. A few days ago my neighbor returned from Iraq (his second tour). I’m thankful for all the young men and women that return alive and healthy from a war we should never have gotten into. I’m thankful that I lived long enough to see a person of color elected President of this great nation of ours. I’m thankful that you and I can celebrate the holidays in peace and without fear of our homes being destroyed by miss guided missels. I’m thankful for every breath I take (I’m a Vietnam War combat vet). I’m thankful everytime my grandchildren run into the room and interupt me. But most of all I’m thankful for having been born in a nation where a man’s worth (or woman’s) is measured by what he/she can contribute and not by the color of his/her skin or by the name of his/her God.
God Bless you Eric, God Bless your readers, and God Bless America.
Eric, I have missed so many important days in my family’s lives being in the military. Just in the past 4 years I have been gone 23 months. Last Thanksgiving I was in Baghdad with the 36th ID out of Austin TX. I am home now, at least for a while I guess, but I am truly thankful for my family’s support, my country’s support,my wife’s love and my children’s (6 & 7) smiles and joy when they see daddy walk through that door one more time.
Thanks Eric, for being truthful, honest, and a helping hand. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Rich
hank god for making us, and thank us for making internet!
Happy Thanksgiving eric and everyone else.
Hi Eric,I am fine and hope you are ok too.First of all I would like to say thanks for all that you have helped us with on the internet who are near and far away. I am from the tiny Island of Jamaica W.I. and really look forward each time in receiving your mails.I think what we should really be giving thanks for is thanking God first of all for spearing our lives to reach this far, although many are sick and in the hospital whom are still alive but they have another chance to talk to God asking him for his devine intervention.We who are here without sickness or ailments should assist in helping the needy in any way possible,just as how you have given us your help especially this free ebook to make this world a better place I think this should sum up Thanks giving.Thank you Eric
I am thankful and blessed that I am alive along with my loved ones and we are able to see another beautiful day.
Thank you Eric for your helpful tips. As a recent victim of domestic violence, I am reading as much information as I can in hope of earning enough money to assist my situation.
I am certainly thankful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, my wife and 2 kids, my business, my country, and of course freedom that allows me to enjoy it all.
Thanks for the opportunity to share.
Kirk
Charity is a good start, Thanksgiving as it imply`s “giving” or to “give”, No matter who you are or where you are just give a little thought for those who are a lot less fortunate than yourself, weather you give a lot or give a little, a little of something is better than a little of nothing..
Thank you Eric,
Gary.
Really, thanks for all the things that you share witn us.
I’m in England, so we don’t have thanksgiving, but even here we can all be thankful for your generosity in giving us the benefit of your experience and knowledge, especially in these lessons, free for everyone. I would like to think that this fantastic resource will remain forever! Thank you so much, Eric.
I’m living on borrowed time so I am thankful for each day I wake up and find that God keeps me alive to see my family. Since about 3 months ago, I never take a single day of my life for granted anymore.
I am thankful for a lot of things:
1. My dog — I’ve been truly blessed to share the past 14 years with an amazing dog suited perfectly to my personality.
2. My husband — he may be an eccentric pill, but he’s my eccentric pill and he loves me.
3. My creativity and passion — without it these two qualities, I wouldn’t be able to wake up in the morning and face another day
4. Magical moments — when I need the money, it’s there; when I need a friend, someone’s there … whatever I need, always seems to be there whenever I truly need it.
I live a blessed life. Not an extravagant, opulent life, but a blessed one, nevertheless.
Thanks for the free gift, and the lessons from Eric’s tip’s they are getting very interesting and helpful. I am thankful for all we have in this country,and God willing it will not all be lost, also there are so many other things to be thankful for I cannot list them all once again thanks and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Hi Eric,
I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with awareness of your blessings.
I have so much that I’m thankful for. I’ll try to be pithy. It boils down to being thankful for all of God’s Graces. My family is first, of course. They are my passion. God Grace works through my family, friends, and all my connections that give me the experience of life to grow in love. That includes the challenges and difficulties because they are frequently the windows to the opportunities for greatest growth. I thank God for teaching me the strength in my spirit and love in my heart that I may share it with others. I thank God for bringing me the awareness that my love for my spouse outweighs my need for him.
Blessings,
Irene
1st Timothy 2:1 First of all, I ask you to pray for everyone. Ask God to help and bless them all, and tell God how thankful you are for each of them.
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Mark (me)
And surely pray and give thanks to all internet entrepreneuers that Give and Sell from their good heart that hath no greed.
Hi Eric,
To be frank, your “Thanksgiving” isn’t worth the money that you had offered even if its cost dearly expensive & to win your prize isn’t even the answer. The fact that we are talking is the person that “GOD” created is that ‘You’ willingly to share your successful Online Businesses & time with us.
Doing Online Business on Internet as many could link to Ghostnet, life could be frustrated, losing money & time.
We need trust, to work on this businesses & get real people Online isn’t as easy as we aspected. You really make us confident & continue learning with you thats what we try to share with others.
Great Marketer & you deserves this.
Thanks, regards
Mohd
Dear Eric,
It is surprising to me how easy this one is. I am thankful first of all for my family, and running a very close second, I am thankful for being a citizen and military veteran of this country. I watch things unfold; both good and bad, and know that I have been involved in the process.
Eric, frankly, The thing I’m very thankful for happens to be you! Here’s why:
First, I love the creative way you have treated this post at Thanksgiving to get us to think about being thankful, to stimulate comments on your blog, and give back through formulating this contest; (utterly brilliant)
The level of wonderful value you offer in everything you do for your subscribers such as, your emails, your products, your teaching;
How you speak about your family values and how you seem to truly live them;
I appreciate your sincere openness and transparency; (you always reveal your reasons, your strategy, your affiliate links) This creates incredible trust.
I’m thankful for the course you are giving on how to launch an internet business;
I like how you stand out from the rest of the marketers on the internet in all the ways above, and much, much more.
Thank you so much Eric
Kathy Strahan
Eric,
I am thankful for so very much and many.
the world has had so many changes since I entered. I am thankful to have seen a new era begin with 2000. Some changes are good and some I have many questions. People are so very different and isn’t that wonderful. How boring life would be if we were all alike.
I am so very thankful for people like yourself that give so much to others to help us. Your hints are the best. I have missed a few and need to back track to find them.
I am thankful to be alive in this changing world and be part of the some of the changes. At my age sometimes it is hard to accept change but I find it a challenge to mostly enjoy.
Thank you for letting me sound off.
Hope your turkey day was as great as ours.
I’m thankful that I live in a country that dispite it’s occassional divisions still affords the person who works hard a chance to use their skills to find their own way to success. And, of course, for people like you who support those people with your abundant knowledge. Thanks for that!
I’m thankful that I have more than one
chance to make my living on the internet
Eric,
I am thankful that I am an internet marketer. I get to enjoy everyday. I work from home and it feels good not to be in the everyday rat race.
Regards,
Pierre/http://www.beseated.ca/kits.htm
I’m thankful that I have the ability to change, grow, and become a better version of myself. This improvement makes it easier to give more to others.
Early this year, my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 of pancreatic cancer and was terminal. The medical staff did not know how long she had and we did not want to know. They worked hard to give her as much time as they possibly could.
This morning we got the good news that her cancer is in remission. THAT WAS GREAT NEWS AND WE ARE VERY THANKFUL TO GOD AND THE STAFF AT SANFORD HOSPITAL IN SIOUX FALLS SD.
I am really happy that you decided to give newbies like us and the rest of the wannabes ERIC’S TIPS and I look forward to each one.
Hi Eric,
I am 71 years old and still working at Lowel,s electrical dept.I am so thankfull that you take the time to teach us to be independent. I am so excited to learn a new way to make a living.As soon as i can put into practice your system,i can stay home and work.I am so thankfull that the Lord has given me more time to learn and prepare me and my wife to go on a mission to do the Lords work.We need to be very respectfull to are military,They keep us safe so we can do the things required of us. God bless them and your family.
Your hard working student, Gerald
thanks to god.
thank you Eric.
and hello for everybody.
I’m very thankful for you and all your help with getting my internet business started.
I’m so very thankful that I can do business wherever I have internet access. Early this month I received a phone call telling us that my mother-in-law had suffered a stroke. She was being taken to the hospital and would need extended care. My 93 year old father-in-law couldn’t take care of himself. We had to pick up and rush to another state for an extended stay.
Because of my business, I can keep things running while caring for my father-in-law and making arrangements for proper care for my mother-in-law.
I’m thankful that her stroke was not more severe and that we’ve all developed routines that meet the needs of the entire family.
Eric, thanks for you help making a difficult time easier.
Lynn
Thank yo very much for a great gift!
Hi Eric;
I usually do not put any comments on other peoples blogs but your request to express our thankfulness really interested me.
If you ever sat down and spoke to somebody whom you really did not know you would find out that we all have a story.
Although I will not go into details about mine I can tell you that I am very thankful that I was able to come out some of my darkest moments with the grace of God. I am thankful for the strength He gives us in our weakest moments and provides the light ahead of us to see a better future.
I am thankful for the goodness of people I meet or read about and what they do with their talents in our world that make a difference to those who are unable to care for themselves.
I am thankful for the people who truly love me or care for me and touch my life in special ways or by just being my friend.
I am thankful for my health and the continued health of my family, friends and pets.
I am thankful that the majority of people think of others well being instead of putting their own needs first.
There is much more but at least these are the most important.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and God Bless!
I am Thankful for each and everything that I have, that the person below me does not have. I am thankful for all the things that we take for granted Air, Water, Trees, Mountains, Clouds, Sky etc. I am thankful for everything that I have and everything that I will have. I cannot be unthankful as I have seen people in worse situations.
I have been reading Eric’s Tips for quite awhile now. I have tried to put some of his ideas to work for myself, but as of yet have not hit on that just right niche.
I will be closing down my normal website in the next couple of weeks. As soon as I can put together my final website. Two months ago I was diagnosed with cancer and given 6 to 8 months to live. Since I have no medical insurance at the present time my finiancial situation is getting worse every day.
If Eric would leave my website address that is posted at the end of this post just maybe I can get traffic to a very special firesale.
I do have Master Resale Rights to over 500 1week to 3 year old ebooks. My site will be up and running 2 weeks from today. I am going to setup a donation program thru PayPal with any donation any ebook will be able to be downloaded.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Robert Anderson
http://acssystem4u.com
In the spirt of thanksgiving… here is a link that sums it up. http://home.att.net/~mcp3_2000/_classics/013/whispers.htm
Thanksgiving should be everyday, if we only pause to realize it!!!
Great Post Eric. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and I believe everybody should help everybody out in need when possible this is what Thanksgiving is to me. Not only thinking about yourself, but those that need help also. Okay, Have a great day, God Bless you and your family.
Ray
Hello Eric,
First of all Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the people close to you.
I am from Belgium, and no Thanksgiving.
I do read your newsletters; and I am very glad that I do learn a lot.
Keep up the good work.
Best regards
Hedwig Theeuwen.
Sorry for mistakes in my language. Still learning
I am thankful for the essence of life, I’m just happy. I am thankful for the turkey on my breath. I am thankful for my grand dad, the last of my grand parents. I am grateful for the family and friends that are with me and I pray for those that are else where. I am grateful for this Eric’s Tip’s and the information that you are providing. I could go on, I am grateful for the love of Jesus, the blood, the name and the grace.
thanks
HI,
(on Twinkle Twinkle)
Thank you for the sun that shines, THank you for the birds that sing
Thank you for the food I eat, Thank you for the bed I sleep.
I am thankful for my great life,
my sweet wife, my great friends,
my cute little house, my reliable car,
my loving dog, my friends’ children who run to me to hug me.(We don’t have kids…but they know…) and lately, for the delicious Thanksgiving dinner, in company of 2 friends from Pakistan, who blessed the dinner in Arabic, who brought us a beautiful handmade shawl made in Pakistan, and even though we were only 4 around dinner, there was enough Love for 20 people. I know that God brought us together (God/Universe). May the spirit of Peace touch all the ones who are reading this. I am also thankful for seeing hope in my starting e-business. I know that as I give as much as I can in my business and life, is the real secret for abundance.
Love, Peace, Abundance to You!
I am thankful for being able to come home from Kuwait after 9 and a half months.
I am thankful to have a loving heavenly Father who I can go to with anything. I am also thankful for my family here on earth.
I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine.
I have been reading Eric’s tips for a long time, but this is the first I have ever posted here.
Thank you Eric for your gift to us.
I am thankful for my family, our health and happiness and for this day!
Than you Eric you are the best. i always enjoy your tips and blog posts. i have learned much from you. God Bless.
Gunvi
This really helped my Thanksgiving. Your tips are very helpful to newbie’s and I am just very thankful.
I am happy for my existence, but especially for my first cup of steaming aromatic coffee
Eric and all,
I am absolutely thankful for the wonderful love of God in that while I was still a sinner he loved me and gave His only begotten son to be a perfect sacrifice for my sin. I am thankful that God who is Elohim the everlasting Father of Jesus Christ has loved me and called me to be a son. For this I am grateful.
As a person dealing with a progressive illness,
every day is a victory. I’m thankful for
another chance to get it right. I appreciate all of the strong and positive people in my
life who are an inspiration to me. I try to
do the same for others who are less fortunate
than I am. I’m looking ahead to do great things
with my time. There are many blessings in my
life. Eric, you are one of them. I appreciate
your smiling face. When you reach out your hand
to people, it isn’t for the sake of taking
something from them. You lift them up. Thank
you, and keep being the person you are.
Hi Eric and many thanks for the great gift. For me the secret to life is simply to BE grateful. That includes both the good and the bad stuff. The bad stuff presents us with opportunities to learn and grow and the good is merely a reflection of what we ourselves have given away. So I just wake up and greet the day in a grateful way, rain or shine.
All the best. Ken
Happy thanksgiving to all. I am thankful to be in good health and have so many great friends. I am very thankful for all the good info I have received from Eric’s Tips. Have a great day……………Bill
I am greatful for another day of sobriety and that my ailing mother is hanging in here one more thanksgiving. Thanks for this opportunity Eric!
Thankful I am still alive and wanting to make a dent on internet marketing in my own small way.
Simply thankful for life and all it’s embodiments. The lord is good.
I am thankful for a loving Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ. I am thankful for my stay here on the earth that I might learn the things necessary and pass the tests to return to live with my Heavenly Father.
My family is my greatest joy and I am thankful that they will always be with me.
I am thankful for this great country The United States of America. This country allows us the freedom to make choices that determine our own destiny based upon our effort.
I am grateful to all of those that have given their time and lives to defend this great country.
I am thankful to be able to determine my own future based upon my actions.
I am grateful for my health, my wonderful family and friends
and to the opportunity the internet affords & the hope it gives me
- so I can get out of this 9-5 rut lifestyle.
Peace and Prosperity to All
Carl Willoughby
http://www.HughTraceyKalimba.com
Thank you for all the wonderful people in my life who contribute to the richness of each day. With Love
Thanks for the Valuable Tips and the great gifts
I am thankful with the Source of Life (God) for everything. I am thankfull for having this human adventure.
I am thankful for being blessed with an awesome family (pets included) and friends.
I am thankful for having the opportunity to encounter great people every day.
I am thankful for the existence of the Internet and Intuition for guiding me to incredible people like you.
I am thankful for having the opportunity to express my gratitude as well:Thanks Erik!
Only the best!
Sybille
Dear Eric
On Friday 18 April 2008 I received the following response from you as confirmation of becoming one of your disciples.:-)
Hi Victor,
Thank you for confirming your membership to Eric’s Tips!
As promised, you are entitled to download 5 more ebooks. You may
download them at:
[subscribe to get the link]
Please put this address on your SAFElist so that you will receive
all my important newletters and valuable tips:
tips [at] ericstips.com
Also, be sure to log into your “10 Free Ebooks Account” to get your
affiliate link and start earning commissions. You can login at:
http://10-free-ebooks.com/download/
I wish you the best as we embark on this internet marketing
adventure together!
Best regards,
Eric Holmlund
Eric’s Tips
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Wow that was over 7 mths ago.
Every single email and tip I received from you since goes into your special folder called ERICS TIPS.
Every single word and strategy or technique you teach and endorse either goes into my mind with awe and/or goes into my must implement file.
Since I joined your list, you have not only opened up my peripheral vision on the business aspects of internet but also doing so with business ethics and social responsibility.
So for that I am deeply and sincerely full of grattitude. The fact that you could give away so much (free ebooks) before youve even taught me anything is in itself giving in order to receive. And here again, you are giving away yet even more as your token of gesture for us mere mortals that follow you with pride, content and an open mind.
Recently my internet focus came to a halt. Not that I had been earning any income as I was just starting out etc.
You see in Feb of this year I made the unfortunate decision to give up my accountant job to Pursue the greener pastures of freedom, autonomy and hope of financial independence and passion in the world of internet marketing etc. Though in hindsight it was silly because i had no income to fund the traffic generation, the marketing not to mention other ongoing expenses of internet educaiton and marketing.
In August my own mother in NZ lost her job of 18 yrs. Unjustifably sacked by new managers of a Hospital. So in the last 3 mths I put my internet aside and used my internet and google Search abilities to research, access etc information re employment law in NZ and with the use of Skype and Email completed a 51 page Personal Grievance Application lodged to the Authorities in NZ against her Unjustified Dismissal. The outcome is yet to be determined.
The point is, I would NEVER in my wildest dreams or even a few years ago beeen able to do that (reseach law) and act on my Mothers behalf (in NZ) as her agent from AUSTRALIA and taking on the Lawyers of a massive company….blah blah blah.
So whilst I gave up my job to pursue internet marketing (and will continue to do so) and whilst my own dear Mother lost hers during this period, I am SO GREATFUL and thank the Heavenly Intelligent Universe, for the internet abilities I have learnt thus far and for opeining up my mind to the possibilities. More so I am greatful and am full of grattitude, that in despair and in adversities that there is always Hope, contentment and a sense of Completion towards a goal especially one that brings comfort, pride nad sense of contribution and purpose for and towards your loved ones.
I will now sit back, reflect upon my journey this year and after doing all I could for my Mother, it has in the end given me a sense of pride and purpose that will lift me even more to continue and hopefully be successful with my Internet Marketing Future.
(Our hearts and minds should also go out towards our friends and democratic spiritual loved ones in India)
God Bless You and Best of Luck to All your subscribers.
Victor Tamyan
Oops I dont know if I put one of my website on my comment above but its here….:-)
http://www.mylifemysuccessmydestiny.com
I’m very grateful for having a large family (8 kids). They are very supportive and I think my ‘MS’ journey would’ve been SO hard without them.
We take our health for granted, then mother nature kicks you up the Butt without warning.
I Don’t know how people get by ‘without’ a family. I feel blessed
Pete.
i am thankful for my health and happiness and people i have as friends. i will turn 70 soon and life is good to me. i am thankful all my family is in good health. Happy Thanksgiving
Thank you Eric! Nice piece of download. Your advice is always useful. Cheerz!
Hi Eric,
I am grateful for my wife who is a strong and giving person.
I am grateful to have four children who never cease to inspire me.
I am grateful to be given opportunities everday.
I am grateful for the richness the people in life bring to me.
I am grateful to be able to make a contribution.
Peace and Blessings
Peter
I am great for my family and our born baby, Joel.
The doctors said there is a possibility of Down Syndrome (DS) but thank God for giving a bouncing baby boy with no DS.
I am thankful for my business, Kwame Ofori-Atta, LLC. Even though it has just taking off, we have big dreams.
I am thankful for Eric for searching so generously with us. God bless you.
Thanks for the free download.
I’m thankful that I am alive, in good health, physically fit and complete and have a sound mind.
FM
Given all the chaos and fighting recently, Im just thankful Im alive to do what I want for me, my family and friends…
Hi Eric,
This is Reed, from India.
We don’t have Thanksgiving on our celebrations calendar here, but I really find this an exceptionally different occassion, and so, as a global citizen, would like to participate.
But it seems that all that I could have offered in Thanks to anyone, has already been expressed by the wonderful people here.
STILL, PLEASE TAKE THE PAIN TO BEAR WITH THE COMMENTS FROM A REALLY THANKLESS PERSON - ME.
I AM NOT PLAYING FOR THE CONTEST, BUT IF IT DOES TURN AROUND IN MY FAVOUR, THEN I HAVE A REQUEST. PLEASE DON’T SEND ME THE PRIZE. INSTEAD, DO THIS FOR ME.
You’ve announced that you would give out only one prize, for the comment that you find best embodies the “spirit of thankfulness”. INSTEAD, I WOULD REQUEST YOU TO MAKE 14 COPIES AND SEND ONE EACH TO THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTORS -
1) At 2008.11.28 00:47, Jeff
2) At 2008.11.27 23:26, Kamrul
3) At 2008.11.27 23:24, Linda
4) At 2008.11.27 23:08, barney
5) At 2008.11.27 22:16, Anonymous, (if you can
track him)
6) At 2008.11.27 21:37, billy martin
7) At 2008.11.27 21:33, Charles
9) At 2008.11.27 20:59, Ron
10)At 2008.11.27 20:59, Ron
11)At 2008.11.27 18:35, Michael Robinson
12)At 2008.11.27 18:15, Mel
13)At 2008.11.27 18:13, Douglas Goodey
14)At 2008.11.27 18:00, Cat
I feel they deserve it more than anyone else. This is not to take away anything from the other people who have posted to this column; in fact everyone who has chipped in has been BEYOND WONDERFUL, BEYOND EXCELLENT!
Think I’m saying this out of feelings of sympathy or something similar? DON’T EXPECT A THANKLESS PERSON LIKE ME TO DO THAT. In fact, I’m saying this out of PURE SELFISHNESS!
These persons have braved storms, and have been survivors themselves, or witnesses to some major ones. Survival always endows its children with strength beyond imagination, and makes them large-hearted and wise. Consequently, when any knowledge makes its way to them, they share it with the entire humanity, either by words, or through action. And, when people, caught in the swirling eddies of distress, stretch their hands out for help, they are always the first ones to invest their entire ability to pull them up and out to their feet.
And, even I, might be one of their beneficiaries one day! SEE HOW SELFISH I AM?
Eric, the reason I’m confidently asking for fourteen slices from your Thanksgiving Cake, is that I know you have a very big one - your heart! And you have proved that! Everytime! With all the wonderful things that you have done for us, and given to us!
However, this request of mine might become financially overbearing for you, with all the postage costs involved, and in case that happens, I might suggest that you make copies of this course available for these members on your website, and they can download it whenever they want.
Finally, please allow this thankless person at least one opportunity to rid himself of his sins of ingratitude; by wishing you, and everyone here, a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving Day!
God bless - all of you!
Thank you,
Reed Hummer.
I am thankful that there is still few people out there that not losing hope and still can thankful for their things in such a cruel world.
Hey Eric,
I’m thankful for my dad who had just passed away of cancer. He left me life’s lessons on how it is to be patient with all people you meet, a good work ethic as he drove a truck in Chicago for 28 years providing for his family.
I’m also thankful for the love he had for my mom who passed a few years back, he was her care giver in her last days and was married 58 years and still spoke of his missing her till his death, which left me with the example of how marriage is to be and how we are to care for our loved ones as I was his care giver till he passed.
And lastly I thankful for the peace that God gives in times as these as my mom and dad were open to the gospel of Christ which gave me the peace to know that I will see them again, ‘absent from the body, present with the Lord’
Dear Eric,
I am most thankful for my family and
friends God has brought into my life,and hopefully I can give a little back!
Love Larry
I am 70 years old and have won battles over cancer and heart problems. I have also been in the US Army for eight years and I am extremely thankful for all our young heros who ar still willing to sacrifice for us and our country. They and their families are enduring very difficult times as we head into the holidays and all I can say is God Bless and Keep you safe and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your patriotism. I am thankful for all of you!
I am incredibly thankful for my wife Emil, My son Elijah, my son Noah, and My baby girl Grace.
I’m very thankfully for the very basic things in life my familys health food on the table good friends,and to be able to stop from time to time and take a look around
at nature and enjoy the basic things in life, not message by the things we own, and my GOD bless you and your family by the way thank you for the gift. claude
I` m thankful for that i have the compability to help other people!!!
I am so thankful to God for letting me live to see seventy wonderful years. Like George Burns quoted “If I had known I would live this long, I would had taken better care of myself”. I want to add to that “I would had spent more time treating internet marketing like a business and not a hobby”. It’s still not to late (Your next Internet Millionaire).
Be Blessed Everyone!
Carol
I am thankful for the earth and it’s bountiful gifts.
I am thankful for the power of self-healing and the gift of being able to share it with others.
I am grateful for the relationships I have developed and will continue to develop during my lifetime.
I am especially thankful for the election of an intelligent U.S. President.
I am grateful for many peacemakers and givers of light in the universe.
Thank you Eric!
I am thankful for having my wonderful daughter back and for my wife who never gave up.
My daughter came down with an illness that left her just about totally devastated. She could not
even brush her teeth and lost all of the beauty and joy that she gave to the world.
This went on for 5 years. My wife, an RN, never gave up. We took her to every great hospital on the east coast, from Boston to Florida but they weren’t able to help us.
Then we found a doctor 60 miles from where we live and he had our daughter back to us in only three weeks and without medications.
Yes I am very thankful and not everyone gets an answer. I guess what I am saying is no matter what you are involved with, even trying to make it on the internet do not give up to quickly. There are good people (like Eric) who will help you take the next step.
Peace To All!
There are far too many things to list.
I am just thankful
There is nothing so great in thankgiving than appreciating the effort of those who made available to others their creative works.I am thanking you for letting me know so much in a brief period
There is nothing so great in thanksgiving than appreciating the effort of those who made available to others their creative works.I am thanking you for letting me know so much in a brief period
In all honesty, my gratitude was a little challenged this year because God chose to take my husband in January of this year. He was the love of my life for 42 years, and I’ve been trying to learn to cope and keep my head above water for all of these months since.
What I’ve learned is that you always think that you know how horrendous a loss like this would be, and how much you would miss those that you’ve lost, but the truth is that you don’t have a clue of how devastating it actually is because your life is ripped apart in ways you never thought possible.
As a result, I am grateful that my Faith in God is stronger than it was before, even though I do not understand God’s reason for allowing it to happen.
I am also grateful for the many people in my life that God gave me to help support me through this devastating time in my life when my Faith was challanged.
I am grateful that God brought someone as wonderful as my husband into my life at all and then blessed me with 42 wonderful years with him.
Most of all, I am incredibly grateful to God for giving us a son that has done what he could to help me through this, all the while stuggling himself to deal with such a terrible loss.
And finally, I am grateful that I have this opportunity to tell others how incredibly important it is to be grateful for the people that God has put into your life, and to love and cherish them every single minute of every single day, because Life is short and Time is fleeting.
In every way you can and every time you can, tell those you love how much they mean to you and how glad you are that they are in your life.
Don’t take for granted the Blessing that God gave you when he gave you very special people to love, and people who love you right back.
God Bless all of you. Thank you Eric for this opportunity.
Hi Eric and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you for your kind gift and I am thankful for having a mentor teach us the right way to have our own business online and not get caught up in the scams.
Not everyone will tell you not to buy anything until you understand what you are doing and what you may need it for.
I am especially thankful for the progress being made in the treatment of, I believe the worse disease for any family to have to deal with, and that of course is cancer.
I have lost a wife , daughter, brother and close friend all to this nasty disease however, I am very thankful for the time God granted me to have with these dear loved ones.
My daughter-in-law is in stage four cancer and has been granted more life than we thought would be possible due to the increased knowledge of how to treat cancer and especially through the power of prayer.
Thank you again, Eric.
Thankful my son has good days — a silly sing-along in the car on Thanksgiving — that offsets his not so great days.
Thank You for the gift. I am most thankful that my son and his fellow soldiers of the #173 rd Airborne Brigade made it home from a 15 month tour serving in Afghanistan in the US Army.
I am Thankful for all the young men and women who have returned home from the war overseas and all the ones fighting still, and I am Thankful to be alive after by-pass surgery to see and enjoy all 16 grandchildren and the 17th is on the way, with oldest being 8 yrs old, and 5 out of 6 children.
but I wish all Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.
I am thankful for being on this beautiful planet and having old friends and new friends not yet known to me. I am very thankful to be in this time and place with all that surrounds me and all of us. Thank God, spirit, universe that we are all here and doing what we need to do at this time.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the gift and the “no hype” to buy.
I’m thankful and grateful for being alive at this time in history–part of my morning pre-rising mantra/ritual acknowledgment to Creator for years. As one of the older generation, I’m glad to have some computer savvy to be able to keep up with technology as I learn my way around the web and try to build my business. I’m realizing how I can use good free materials like yours to help in that endeavor.
Many blessings to you and yours,
Rahimah Sultan
First of all Blessings to you and your family. I can”t just choose one thing because there are so many,this one is on my mind all the time.I’m thankful for my Grandaughter Ali. she has a heart of gold and she is only 6. You see on her b-day which is in march She said she didn’t want any gifts she asked if everone could bring a cute little animal instead, we asked her why. she said so she can bring them to the hospital and wants to give them to the kids there this way they can get better.Then when she seen me (gramma) she asked me if i had some change,I said yes i think so why she said i’m saving all my change in my piggy bank and giving a little bit to each sick person in the hospital and maybe that will help them get better
Don’t we all wish life was that easy/ In her small heart made of gold she really does believe this will happen and everyone will get better.
I asked her one day where did she get the idea from she said Gramma i just thought of it all by myself. Amen.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the great Thanksgiving gift! I
I am thankful that I am lucky enough to have a roof over my head, 4 wonderful children, a job (though I’d dearly love to be able to stay home and earn my living online). I am also thankful I live in a great country that is not torn apart with wars and conflict.
Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving!
Cheryl
Australia
Thank you to everyone that has posted on Erics Blog. By sharing your stories, you have filled my heart with warmth and love.
And even though I am not where I would like to be this Thanksgiving. I know I have at least started my journey and that I am truly blessed.
Thank you, Eric, you really are terrific. And hopefully, one day, our paths will cross.
Sending You Joyous Tidings,
Jeri
I am thankful for everyday I wake up in Oregon. A great place to live, but mostly I am thankful for ever finding Eric’s tips. For someone fairly new marketing on the internet, there is a lot to learn, and Eric has taken a huge chunk out of the learning curve, the frustration out of the “what do I do now’s” and has allowed me to really move forward in a step by step way to getting things off the ground. thanks Eric
very thankful
Eric,
I just wanted to say that I am thankful that God sent His only Son to die for ME. I am nobody but Jesus thinks that I am Somebody Special and in His eyes, I am. Without Jesus shedding His blood for me and you, none of this would be possible. God could have easily destroyed Adam and Eve when they sinned, but He did not. He wanted us to live and Jesus made this possible. Thank You, Jesus!
Now I have something else to be thankful for.
Thanks Eric.
I am thankful for God, Because of His love and mercy I have been able once again be thankful one more year. I have read every comment and I do have to say… In His infinite wisdom we are able to even share all these testimonies, they are evidence of the Love of God. I am also thankful for:
1. My Huband - who believes in my ideas, who supports me in my endeavors and who reminds me that we are not perfect and deserve second chances.
2. My children - who reminds me that they are all grown up and not 2 years old anymore ( I have six ages 17-24). For they teach me how to deal with certain personalities.
3. My Family - Who make me who I am and remind me of my roots as well as traditions.
4. My Friends - Who always have opinions for me to hear and in return I filter what I really need to hear to then act upon those wise opinions.
5. And last but not least - The internet - Where we are given ALL the opportunity to explore, experiment and prosper from it.
May you have a wonderful Holiday Eric and thank you for allowing me to have some “nugget of wisdom” to look forward to every time I check in here. God bless you and yours,
Carmen
I am thankful that I am blessed with the wisdom to better see the meaning of life.
When I turned 40, (2 months ago) my life changed from an “inward” focused life (focused on me) to an “outward” focused life (focused on others).
My inner voice now hears hourly wisdom from God. I listen to the wisdom of my Guardian Angels and I listen to what my body is telling me.
I am most thankful that I am understanding that all of my talents and skills are beginning to hone themselves into my current business and personal endeavors.
I am thankful for people like you who give gifts that are greatly appreciated to those of us who have no money left to buy yet another “latest must have tool”. I am thankful for my family, my husband who supports my every endeavor whether I make money or not; my son with autism who is now a sophomore in college; my other son who almost flunked out of high school but has now graduated college and is doing better than most his age. I am thankful for anyone who has ever done a kind thing for me and I hope to be able to do a kind thing for those who cannot pay me back. I am thankful that I still have good enough health to enjoy all the blessings that have come my way and I pray for those who are not as fortunate…
Thanks!!!
I am thankful for all the days I am given to enjoy this wonderful gift we call life.
I am thankful to God for the gift of this beautiful life, my sweet children, and loving husband. I am very thankful that I live in a country that I can worship God freely without fear and I can have choices like starting a business,choosing my own career, or staying home with my babies. I am so thankful that I can choose to school my children how my husband and I choose. I am thankful for many things but these are the few that come to mind!
I’m just thankful and blessed that I’m still here after all the self destruction I’ve put myself through over the years. I realize that God has never left my side even though I’ve pushed him away as far as the east is from the west. God Bless you all
Erick, I was recently informed, by my employer, that I would be laid off of my job on 12-22-08. I have been employed with this company for the past 10 years. Of the 116 employees that will be affected, I don’t know of any who have a prospect of finding a job right away. I am thankful to God that my employer was gracious enough to give us notice of the lay off ahead of time. Especially when so many folks are released from a job without any notice or warning. I am thankful to the Lord, that in an economy such as we have today, He has provided folks like you, who are willing to share feely and teach others, like myself, how to get back on our feet. I know that you don’t do this just to build a list, but that it is a ministry to others, some folks might not understand that. I can say that I truly thank the Lord for what you are doing, because it has given me hope, at a time when many in the same situation as I am currently in, have no idea what they are going to do. The news media is telling them everyday, how bad everything is and how many jobs are been lost. They don’t see any jobs opening up and their bills are starting to pile up. I am thankful that, with the guidance I am receiving from yourself and others I can do this business and provide for my family. And finally, I am thankful for Gods promise: “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” Psalm 37:24-26
God has given us the ability to create wealth, so that His kingdom can be established here on earth!
I am thankful for friends and family and this wonderful country we live in where we have peaceful transitions of our leaders and multiple opportunities to succeed.
Thank you also, Eric for your blog site.
i am thankful for every day that i wake up, it may be just another day filled with the same old stuff, but it is another day that god has given me to love my family and friends.
I Thank God for me my familys and friends wealth. Thanks for the good new friends in the Internet that help newbies like me. Thanks for your honest opinions about others marketers systems preventing us from wasting our money and time. Thank Eric
It seems like the “it is better to give than to receive” it works always, not just one day of the year.
Happy late Thanksgiving Eric. I always enjoy your tips.
Thanks!
I am thankful my son spent the past 10 days with his dad before being deployed to the Middle East; I am thankful he is a Christian.
I am thankful for a new President and the hope for America.
I am thankful for great friends, family and good health.
Hi Eric, I am still laughing. I thank GOD for people like you. You have put a smile on a lot of people faces. I am voting for “Connie” I hope she win your contest. I enjoy being in your class. I do not think I will ever be a “internet guru”. I am thankful to GOD that HE has given us all a gift for his glory. I’m learning a lot on the jouney to find out what GOD want me to do and be for HIM. Thank you Eric for helping me see more clearly what my gift really is. May GOD bless us all. Connie is the one that wrote about us not being the turkey. You are in my prayers, Sandra
When I look at the strife and suffering around the world I realize how fortunate we are to live in a society that has no reason to complain whatsoever about anything. No matter how bad things might seem, it all pales in comparison, be ever so thankful.
I’m thankful that “God Bless America” is and, hopefully, will always be part of this great nation.
Hi Eric:
I am very thankful for good health, friends, family but most of all for what God has done for me. I am truly blessed. My youngest brother just passed away because of an alcohol addiction but I am thankful to God that He gives me peace and joy.
Thank you for trying to help other people. We need more people like you who want to bless others.
I am thankful for this entire year of trying to make money online my computer has not had any problems!!
and health as I have sacrificed everything to make my online journey successful!
I am thankful for the opportunity to make a living doing what I want to do, where I want to do it. I’m thankful for the opportunity to grow my business by tapping into the online and offline mentoring that I can find with internet searches and also by simply going to my local bookstore. Most importantly, I am thankful for the joy of having both of my parents still alive on this earth and sharing their love with my kids.
I am most thankful for what I have learned throughout my life. Because with that knowledge, I can help other people in countless ways.
You can get anything you want in life as long as you help enough others get what they want.
I am thankful to our Father in heaven for His wonderous creation and this experience we call life. I am very grateful for His plan of salvation and I am thankful beyond words for the sacrifice made by the Holy Lamb of God.
I am thankful for those that reflect the love of God in their lives with their selfless acts of compassion. And of course I am thankful for the undeserved blessings in my life.
Praise and blessings, love and gratitude to the God of Abraham, the God of Israel in the name of our Lord Jesus.
I am thankful to be able to see the wonderment in my two year old daughters eyes when she looks out at the world.
Happiness, sadness, joy or pain. Every moment should be seen as a gift. The greatest gift is life itself.
Simply amazing.
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I am thankful for my children, my husband, my parents, and their wonderful health. I am bountifully blessed because I have them.
I am thankful for everything I experience in this life and the way the Lord use that to shape and form me into something much better than what I am. I am what I am by the grace of God but if I experience pain, suffering and humiliation, especially if for his sake, I know that the Lord values my life and have a special purpose for me and he is shaping me so that that I could become more like him.
I am thankful that my sister in law got sick and came ot live with us just as I retired. I am thinkful that there is a sink full of dishes for me to do when my wife wakes up from her nap. I am thankful my wife lost her 27 year career with Hanes Underwear when they moved the plant over seas. I am thankful my sister in law and wife both wanted a puppy and now neither one of them pays it any mind.
I am thankful for all the above because:
1. My sister in law is funny and nice to have around
2. My wife was able to leave a job she didn’t like anymore and go to school and become a cosmetologist and do something she loves.
3. I am thankful for a sink full of dishes because that means we had wonderful Thanksgiving meal (not crazy about doing the dishes though)
4. I am thankful for a dog no one loves but me cause I have another buddy who doesn’t bug me to get stuff done except feed her.
So no matter the circumstances I have a lot to be thankful for. Let alone for a strong military who acts with honor. For living in the United States where despite our problems it’s great to be free.
I am grateful for good health and being able to survive in these hard times.
i am very thankfull because people like you exist to impact lives on earth.
Hi Eric,
I am so thankful we have been blessed to live in these abundant times, regardless of the challenges we may be facing. I choose to look at the good, what is possible, the light that shines in each of us.
Thanks for being a star in the sky!
Matt
http://www.PositivelyMary.com/TrueColors-Resources.htm
I am thankful that we as a nation have come together and elected a president with a vision to make this nation one that we can all be truly proud of again.
Hi Eric,
I’m thankful that you “give back” by trying to help “the little guy” get established online.
I am thankful for much. God has blessed me beyond measure. He has carried me thru it all, abuse, divorce, single-parenting, re-birth, death, illness, and defeat on many levels. However, no matter what fiery dart the enemy throws, I have been protected under the shelter of his wing. He lifts me up to higher places every time. I am thankful for people, like you who are not afraid to plant positive seeds and to share them with others. I thank you for the gift of your time and expertise. Reaping what we sow is the one of the biblical principles that works for anyone, saved or not. Well done, good and faithful servant. May God richly bless you all this holiday season!
Hi Eric:
I am thankful for honesty and integrity, like yours! I appreciate that! I am thankful for our soldiers, our free country, and the REAL truth that sets us free in Jesus, our Savior. I am soooo looking forward to a perfect eternity with Him, because things in this life seem so serious, that they just can’t be important. This is a time for practice and preparation for eternity! Thanks, Eric. God be with you!
Eric, I wish you and your family a happy delayed Thanksgiving; thanks for all your great tips and advises. Blessings and a lot of laughter through the whole year to you and your family. Franz
Hi Eric;
I wish you and your family a happy belated Thanksgiving. Thanks for all the great tips and advises. Blessings and a lot of laughter in your family, Franz
First of all I want to thank you for your gift and I want to thank the LORD JESUS for bring me back home from IRAQ where I escape death almost 4 times.I’am a born again christan after living the high life as a muslim.I love JUSES and I think it was the best decision over to convert to christanity.GOD is good and I thank Him for someone like you.There is not to many marketers that give GOD the glory like you.Keep on the good work and faith because as the Bible said they complement each other.GOD bless you brother and bless your heart!
I am most thankful for my family and the good health they have. We are struggling financially so I am trying to learn the internet business to help but nothing would replace my family members.
Thanks Eric for all your fantastic tips!
For the many years I was lucky enough to have with my wanderful father and the years I have ahead with my fantastic partner.
This comment is not relevant to your Thanksgiving post but I can’t find another place to enter a comment. I am interested in the featured program you list about The Arbitrage Conspiracy. This looks like an excellent opportunity for those of us that are getting started and don’t have a product. How ever when looking at the CPA network sites they seem to be looking for marketers that already have a very active web site or a large mailing list. In fact the impression given by reviewing the sites is that unless you have one of those, don’t bother.
I understand more information is on the way but in the mean time can you shed any light on the process or the steps needed to get started.
Comment on Arbitrage Conspiracy: I was introduced to the concept by a friend a few months ago.
I find most of the CPA offers that I was able to check out to be extremely shallow and of little real worth. In fact the Arbitrage Conspiracy author actually acknowledges the fact when he refers to the millions of newbies on the internet “who often get very excited when they see these types of offers. They have no resistance, their scepticism is almost zero.”
I believe you could possibly rake in the millions following their advice, but not in a way that actually adds value to the www or to peoples lives in general. It seems to me a scheme built around the philosophy that it is OK to take advantage of people’s inner tendency towards greed and towards the idea of getting something for nothing. I don’t think that is wise.
Just my 2c…
thank you Eric for this gift…you’re the best
Happy belated Thanksgiving to all.Enjoyed the post. Much success to everyones endeavor.
My one and only grandchild is very far away and I have not seen him for 3 years now.
I am so thankful for the first year and a half of his life we could spend together.
I am very thankful for the “surrogate” grandchildren I have in my own country. Children who beg their mommies to come and visit me. I adore children, they make my day when I receive a sweet, sweet smile.
I am most thankful to God for giving me this great love for children and for allowing me to be a grandma to those who need a grandma sometimes.
Wow. I’m glad I came to see this post so late, it gave me the opportunity to read through hundreds of comments from people with grateful, thankful hearts.
Spiritually:
I’m thankful for the love and salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Personally:
I’m grateful I was born the child of loving parents. Thankful to have married a wonderful man who is a true life partner and has poured himself into raising our children with me.
Professionally:
I’m thankful for my job/business/ministry. Running my own online business has enabled me to use my talents, abilities and experiences to bring hope and help to so many overwhelmed people.
It brings me so much joy to know that every day, God uses the work of my hands to save people’s time, energy and money. I’m filled with gratitude that God has put me in a position to be able to provide the WorkingMom checklists, coupons and tools free of charge, without squeeze pages or anything else that would annoy me. I’m grateful that miraculously, I somehow earn a good living online treating everybody who stumbles across my site the way I want to be treated.
Yes, there is much to be thankful for. Five (soon to be six) healthy children, a nice home, wonderful husband, health, strength and a good job that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people…
THANKS BE TO GOD.
-Sabrina
http://www.workingmom.com
Congratulations to both Kathryn and Scott. What fantastic posts. Eric thanks to you for running this contest. I didn’t post anything, but I enjoyed reading them. Many of the posts humbled me. And I didn’t envy you picking a winner! Thanks for all you do and for the Arbitrage Conspiracy recomendation. It sounds cool!
Even though we don’t celebrate thanksgiving in South Africa, we should celebrate all the blessings in our life on a regular basis. Thanks for the free gift too, Eric.
Dear Eric,
It doesn’t need a genius,wise nor a rich man or both to reach this at point or portion to you at this unforgetable moment upon reading Scott and kathryn. Your goodness, sacrifice, fashion to help, good heart have echod to my heart in love of God. God Loves you very much and I know one day success is at your hand, I can’t see it but I can feel it and this is called Faith from God’s word blessed are those who did not and believe.
I have nothing now but you will laid lot of people to success in due time. Keep the good work righteous people are all around you but the most God is with you. I have nothing to give as of now but a simple message coming from my heart. Keep up the good work and always remember God for He is the one who gives us ability to produce wealth. Where there is joy, peace and gladness, there is He the Conforter, Prince of peace, Emmanuel our everlasting Father.
Love and kindness may always be in your loving heart.
Romy
Thanks for the great gift, Eric!
I am so thankful that I was able to travel to Ohio and visit my mom this Thanksgiving week. She was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and I really needed to be with her and go to one of her chemotherapy treatments and make sure she was really doing ok. My three brothers are in town with Mom, and they have stepped up to take great care of Mom. I’m so proud of them and thankful for them!
We’ve been through several major ordeals this Autumn, but I’m thankful and feel blessed that we’re making it through. So many people continue to be burdened so much more than we; and my heart and prayers go out to them all.
Eric, thank you for creating this forum and sharing so much with us.