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I started to take a look at my own schedule of events this past week.

And I’ll tell you the truth, I almost fainted.

I have so many different projects I am working on that I thought, “Am I crazy?”

The truth is we all have something going on every day.

The difference is whether or not what you have going on will always be something that “consumes” your time, or is it something that is only for a season.

If you’re like me, when you see opportunity in front of you, you snatch it up right away.

The problem sometimes is we get involved (which is a plus being a first mover) with an opportunity, but then we put the plan on the back burner.

The biggest mistakes I see made with most people are:

1. They get in and look for the exact “right time” to begin sharing the great find that caught their attention.

2. They always feel like they have to “know everything” first before they go forward.

3. They get in, go full guns, talk to a bunch of people, but don’t put together a solid plan of action.  Many times the people they talk to are not really ones they qualified out (by sifting and sorting their list). They often don’t commit, are broke, or just plain are looking for something better and not willing to do something about it.

I will tell you that this, or ANY business is trial and error.  What makes anyone think that this would be any different that if you were starting your own brick and mortar style business.

If it were that easy, I tell you, EVERYONE would be doing this and succeeding and we would hardly have any attrition in our businesses.  The average retention rate by the way in most businesses is 18-23%.  I currently have 100% in mine, but I have something really unique, but I digress.  LOL!

I started to take a look at my own schedule of events this past week.

It’s tough sometimes to figure out who we are gonna be in this industry.

It’s important I think to remember that we are all different and unique in our development.

The key is to realize that we ARE developing.

If we weren’t, we wouldn’t be looking to enter into a network marketing opportunity.

Money drives many people.  But I think what drives more people is what the money provides for them.

There are different levels of freedom in network marketing.

Each one involves a certain amount of commitment.

But once you figure out who you are in that equation, you can START to formulate that PLAN of ACTION.

I would like to offer you something to help open your vision for who you might be in this quest for your own wealth and prosperity.

Jim Rohn is considered be one of the most inspirational speakers of our time.

A contemporary of Zig Ziglar’s, Jim calls to mind the value of indentifying who you might be as an entrepreneur and what you are willing and capable of doing to become successful.

I am including an audio clip from I absolutely play over and over again.  It truly helps me when I am identifying who I am sponsoring and who how I can best support them to allow us both to be successful.

Enjoy!

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They are the perfect bad guy!

They draw us towards them like flies to honey.  Then, they wave all their good fortune in our faces and live the life we wish for but won’t bother to DO what they might have done to obtain it.

THEY FRIGGING SUCK!

How often have we all looked at someone who has what we want and scratched our heads in wonder as to HOW that person is so successful?

I think we would all be surprised to see how many times a day the little green eyed monster show’s up after swimming around in our subconscious.

If we have any measure of ambition, we always are looking to see where we can go NEXT.  I myself know that over the years I would hate hearing, “I saw someone in this movie last night that looked just like you!”  Usually it was either Tom Cruise or Rob Lowe or someone of that type and age.

I would kick around wondering how they got where they are and always grabbed a hold of the easiest answer. Read the rest of this entry »

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vision |ˈvi zh ən|

noun 1 the faculty or state of being able to see : she had defective vision. • the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom : the organization had lost its vision and direction. • a mental image of what the future will or could be like : a postive vision of society. • the images seen on a television screen. 2 an experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition : the idea came to him in a vision. • (often visions) a vivid mental image, esp. a fanciful one of the future : he had visions of becoming the Elton John of his time. • a person or sight of unusual beauty. verb [ trans. ] rare imagine.

I am a huge believer in the power of vision and dreams in our lives.

You can ask any of my team members or upline mentors and they will tell you that I can spend hours on the subject identifying the deepest and most powerful dreams we have.  We all do have them, they are just hidden away in the dim recesses of our psyche.  We only allow them to emerge and have breath when we are either in a deep sleep or a severe traffic jam.

It is amazing to me how we many contexts and connotations a word can have and how it resonates differently to each person.

I chose the word vision because I noticed how often I stress it my team in terms of goal setting and building our business.

Sometimes, I  forget that one person’s vision, (their why, or reason for getting involved in a business opportunity)differs from mine or anyone else’s.  It really does come down to personal investment and preference.  It is why I don’t try to cookie cutter anyone into following the same type of vision as I may have for their business.

When I looked at the diverse definitions of vision it really made me “see” how unique and special each person’s can be.

What do YOU “see” for your business, and more importantly, your life? Read the rest of this entry »

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How did you start your day today?  Could you literally write it down event by event?  I mean from rising out of the bed to brushing your teeth to…….oh crap! What did I do after that?

I think so many of us struggle with consistency in our lives.   And then, we decided to become network marketers. What we thought was going to be freedom quickly seem to eat up every hour in our day.  Before, we had someone set our own hours.  Now, the hours seem to tick away.  We used to have someone give us our duties to perform.  We now find ourselves having to create our Daily Mode of Operation.  We knew that if there were supplies that needed to be replenished, that we just had to put in a work order.  Our insurance, our travel, our overall stucture was in the hands of our employers.

Wow, when I put it like that, why WOULD I want to be an entrepreneur?

The serious entrepreneurs know the answer to that.  And for the ones that don’t, it’s pretty simple.

The same people who are in control of your schedule, are in control of your employment.  Take that with you on Monday morning.

This is the tap, tap, tap, in my head that I have lived with my whole career.  And a great career it is and continues to be. However, I really

I believe that we all inherently wish to have the financial stability, so that we can attain the LIFE we dream of having.

Oh, you know the thoughts.  The ones that hit you on your way to work, sitting in traffic.  The ones that cause the person behind you to frantically lean on their horn so you can fill the gap the has been created while you were off in your own dream state.

It’s a great place to be, and definitely a start.

What happens when you decide to take that plunge and become your own boss?

For me, it wasn’t too far off how I live day to day as an actor.

I equate our profession to that of a retired person.  Every day can either be what happens to us, or what we will make of it.

So, I started out like many.  I went to classes.  I worked in  a day job that gave me the flexibility to be able to audition. I looked to get involved in projects for free.  Basically, I made myself available to opporutnity.

My intent was to set something in motion, and hoped it would pan out.  Sometimes it did, most times it didn’t.  I felt many days as if I was spinning my wheels, but I still wished for my dream of actually doing nothing more than paying my bills as an actor.

I find that being in business for myself can often be very daunting some days.  The biggest part is having to leave the comfort of our misery to enter into the discomfort of uncertainity to attain our ultimate prosperity.

So, how do we do that?

I think it’s safe to say that (in the words of Jim Rohn) in order for things to change, we have to change.  Now, before you start getting all, “yeah, yeah, yeah, I know” like my teenagers often say, realize that you have to adopt what our employers have ingrained in our heads for years.  If you look at your new business like your first day on the job, you should adopt some of the good habits that kept you on track in that job.

Set Your Hours

You have been a 9-5er or 7-3er, or 6-6er, or whatever you’re schedule was for all this time.  The minute we don’t have a set time for our daily activities we wander. The difference is you don’t have to be spending those kinds of hours building your business.   So, punch your entrepreneurial time clock every day, whatever that is.  A little secret?  It’s not a continuous clock.  It can be broken up to fill in the time with your WHY for being in the business.  So, for lunch don’t just feed your stomach, feed your vision.  Find a quiet place OUT of the house.  Bring your lunch with you and flip through a travel, new homes, or boating magazine. That last one is obviously my favorite. Take your spouse out for that same lunch and discuss what their dreams are and ignite that passion in them.    Whatever flips that switch in you.  When you are full of that WHY take it back to your home office or whip out your computer, phone, and list of activities for your day and watch the kind of commitment you will have.

Don’t spend more than 25% of your time marketing your business online.

For many(myself included), we can plant ourselves behind our computers and get sucked into the vortex of busyness.

The internet is one of the greatest tools for most of us to reach out globally in our businesses.

The one thing we forget is that this is a PEOPLE business.   We should be connecting with people.  If we are not actively prospecting throughout our day, we are missing out on the real seeds of our business.  In order to build the house, you must be the mason.  It is much better to take on one task and master it, than to take on many different tasks because you think THIS will be the solution to your lack of growth in your business.

I remember being in my martial arts classes years ago and going over how to throw a front snap kick.  I practiced this kick over and over for weeks, months, and even years of my training.

There were other students that were definitely more proficient with other techniques than I.  However, because I had practiced this one technique so diligently, nobody could get in range of that kick.  I had figured out how to time it and vary it to the point that nobody knew quite if and when it was coming.

As this technique became a forte of mine, I was able to develop my other skills at a slower but steady pace.

So, the moral of the story is small continuous efforts applied daily to a single skill will produce massive results over time.

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Join me and let’s get on the track to efficiency and productivity.

Until next time.

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Here is the final installment and probably the greatest determining factor when learning to sponsor new reps into your business. The word ACT is the a great root to follow. It makes up many other words. Active, Action, and lastly Activity. This is where we step out of the thinking stage of our business and move(literally)into the doing stage.
Like anything, a snowball effect is created when we begin to invest in the actions that will either propel us forward, or invariably construct out ruin.
I am currently reading a wonderful book called The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. Darren is the publisher of Success Magazine and is a what I would call an achievement coach. I do not receive any moneys from the promotion of this book, but I feel it is a wonderful resource that can help identify what our sticking points are in the pursuit of our own success.

The Right Activity

So much time tends to be wasted when you decide to embark on building your own business. Before you had a boss setting your schedule, and now you are literally the captain of your own ship. Trouble is, the wind tends to blow different directions every day and we can become victims to it.
There are certain activities that can help build up the leader in you.

1. Start your day reading 15 min. of something life affirming

You can either have bacon and eggs for breakfast every day, or you can have high fiber cereal with fruit. You decide which is better for you. The same goes for how you will deal with a “no” or a “yes.” If you are in a balanced place from the beginning of your day, you are more likely to create activities that will feed your productivity instead of your procrastination. Write an affirmation and put it in present tense. When you see it, you will become it.

2. Make prospecting calls

Believe it or not, I hate it as much as anyone, and I love to talk to people.  The difference is that we must go through the little fire of anticipation to come out the other side.  Here is a little tip.  As much as you feel you will perish from this process, you won’t.  I have made countless calls to prospects and team members and found like the old riding the bike adage purveys, it gets easier.  The 300 pound gorilla is the greatest killer of your financial freedom. Even though I love the internet for being able to reach out to hundreds of thousands of people. It can become a crutch for us all.

If you have leads that you know are waiting for your call,  or even if they aren’t, connect with them. Get in, dare I say it, a conversation! The worst thing that could happen is they hang up in 10 seconds. That is one less person on your list that wasn’t interested in changing their life you didn’t have to deal with. Believe me, as an actor the greatest gift I have is that I will repeat something so many times until it feels natural. You will always improve at something, the more you do it.

3. Get out of the house

If you want to be a networker, go out and network. Be in the midst of people. I’m not saying that you tackle people in malls, but the whole point to our business is to get out from behind the desk! You can do this business from anywhere! I love David Wood. He does half his webinars from the porch of his Costa Rican house. I am of the mind that in order to change your perspective, change your geography.

You can also connect with a team member. Someone brought you in. I’m sure there are certain initial or ongoing tasks that can be tackled. If you do them together, you get to go to lunch! And lunch time is ANYTIME and ANYWHERE you want it be.

Thanks for following through with this trilogy. I have a tendency to write more than less. I hope that this these tips proved helpful.

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Remember, every day is an opportunity to growth, hope, and change.

Choice is something can ignite fire or flame out.  Choose what your direction is.

And stick to it.

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