This post captures some of the highlights from the last 31 pages of Nathan Hangen’s Claiming Your Destiny. (You can read the first half of this review here).

Nathan’s book concludes with these empowering, action provoking questions and ideas:

Who Are You?

What is your brand? You can be anything you want to be, whatever you feel you need to be. You are capable of taking back your destiny. Don’t play by the rules, make your own rules and become what you need to be.

How Much Real Estate Do You Own?

People aren’t buying items anymore, they are buying relationships and trust.

How much real estate do you own? How much of your niche are you carving out online? Do you own your own name.com? Do you own your YouTube channel? Are you using Twitter and Facebook to leverage your brand and your social network?

Even if you don’t want to be a guru, there is no reason that you can’t position yourself as a trusted ally in the eyes of the world. If nothing else, you need to own your own portion of Internet real estate because just like houses and apartments, internet real estate is going to increase in value over time.

If you haven’t already, start carving out your own little niche on the web and set up shop. Set up your own blog or website and just squat until you feel you’ve got something to offer.

With every niche, every domain, every article, every keyword, and every social account that you own, you start to create a wealth that will pay huge dividends down the road.

Building a Foundation

Creating an online business is very similar to building a brick and mortar in that regard. You’ve got to spend a lot of your early time shaking hands and making friends. Your PR and branding is more important in the early stage than it is in the later stages.

If you rush into the marketing phases before your business is ready, then people will blow you off and move on. And even if it does pay off at first, your structure is weak, and not built for long term success. If you focus on building a foundation first…then you’ll be able to weather small storms along the way.

3 Ways to Turn Your Passion into Profit

1. Consulting
2. Membership Program
3. Sell your stuff

If You Can Make it in this Economy

If you can hang on to your hat and buckle up for the ride, then you can capitalize on this paradigm shift rather than suffer from it. The truth is, if you can make something happen in this economy, then you can make something happen anytime and anywhere. Learn the ropes now, get baptized by the fire, and set up shop. If you act now, you can create something for yourself, your family, and for the world.

Your Life is a Reflection of what you make Time for

If you want to become a best-selling author, or a pro blogger, you need to make sure that your life reflects that commitment.

This means less procrastination, less excuse making, and more action. More action leads to more achievement, which is what will help you build the momentum you need to succeed.

You’ve got one shot at life; don’t let one single thing get in the way of you being happy. Spend your time in winning relationships, whether they are personal or business. Keep pushing that boulder uphill until you get there…no excuses.

Blogging as a Platform

Treat blogging as a stepping stone or a platform. Blogging is a means in and of itself, and like any other promotional tool, shouldn’t be started until you have specific goals and an action plan ready to put into place.

Working with Small Businesses

Generally, local businesses face problems that are much easier to fix than those of big businesses. If you’ve got the skills, then start small…build your chops…and then go big.

Don’t Get Trapped

Blogging is an awesome promotional and marketing tool, but it’s not the only path to building an online business. Think about that when you’re planning your online business ventures, and decide which platforms you’re willing to be tied to.

Create a business plan with an exit strategy, and you’ll be ahead of a large percentage of online entrepreneurs.

As I said before, it’s all about the endgame. Download your own copy of Claiming your Destiny.

This book contains 89 pages packed with inspiring and thought provoking ideas about lifestyle design, overcoming obstacles and the gatekeepers that keep us from going after our dreams “full throttle”.

I found it encouraging and uplifting to read about his own struggles and insecurities in starting an online business, something most of us beginners can relate to.

Some of the ideas in Claiming Your Destiny may sound familiar to you but Nathan presents them in a new and refreshing way and it never hurts to be reminded of these great truths.

He also shares insights into his Master Plan, the step by step approach he used to achieve his goals by beginning with the end in mind.

Prioritizing and Outsourcing

Nathan discusses the importance of focusing on high leverage tasks, those that lead to generating revenue and he recommends making an A list, a B list and C list. Nothing new here but as a blogger, are you sure you’re spending your time on the most important tasks? I know many of us could use some help in this area.

Suggested Tasks to Outsource

Have you spent days trying to format an eBook or tweaking a theme? Nathan recommends outsourcing these and other tasks:

• Guest posts (from others to your blog)
• Web Design/Graphics
• Sales Copy
• E-Book Formatting
• Custom Coding/HTML
• Blog Posts/Content (Niche Blogs)
• SEO
• PPC

Own the Night

He has a section titled How to Be Like Batman in which he lists 5 lessons we can learn from the superhero. One of them, #4 is Own the Night, which highlights the importance of using our evenings to advance our goals.

Every one has 1 or 2 hours a day they can use to work on those things that really matter to them. I’d like to add to that Own the Weekends and Holidays.

If you dream of making money online or starting a business then be like Batman and own your time. Use evenings, weekends and holidays to advance your goals.

There’s a lot more goodies in this eBook (I’ve only read up to page 58) but I couldn’t wait to share this on my blog. On my next post I’ll present highlights from the last 30 pages.

I’d like to end my review with an inspiring quote from the book:

Never Give Up

Fatigue, depression, doubt, cynicism, skepticism, hunger, thirst, lack of patience, you name it, you’ll deal with it. Whenever you feel like you aren’t going to make it, realize that you are in the moment that separates the quitters from the winners. You have to be the person to believe in your vision, even if the rest of the world has given up.

I highly recommend you grab a copy of Claiming Your Destiny and keep it handy for those days when you may feel a bit discouraged and need a little lift.

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Claiming Your Destiny Review – Part 2

Most of these rules we’ve probably heard before but it doesn’t hurt to be reminded. Besides, knowing and doing are two different things.

Here they are:

* Take Action! If you know that things in your life are not right, then it is your duty to take action and change it! No one else will step up for you. And it is okay to make changes.

* Focus! New opportunities and ideas arise every day, but to be successful you have to focus your energy and passion and get things done.

* Set goals. Be specific and write them down, and then work, work, work to achieve em. You need passion, your resources, skills and a dream to succeed! Not more, not less.

* Live in the Now! Yesterday is long gone, tomorrow will come soon enough. Of course you shall plan, but only to revise the plan and adopt to what life has to offer for you.

* Delay gratification. Sometimes you have to wait until you can reap what you saw. Be patient and give the world some time to pay you back.

* Don’t do all by yourself. Find people to support you, talk to experts and outsource some of your duties to someone else.

* Be good! Make someone else’s life better, and yours will be better