Author Archive
Relationships At The Level of Values
Posted by: | Comments
Regardless of what your business is or might be, it’s likely that it depends on relationships. That’s certainly true in the case of MLM or Network Marketing where building a strong team can be the difference between a mediocre business and a truly successful one. One way to create a strong team is to not only create strong relationships but to start off with partners who share your values.
As my friend and coach John Milton Fogg, author of The Greatest Networker in the World, is know to say, It’s not hard to learn what people value. Just have a conversation with them and listen for their values.
This passage from the second book in The Greatest Networker series, Conversations With the Greatest Networker… demonstrates “Listening For Values”. The scene takes place at a Saturday training where The Greatest Networker engages a young man in his favorite conversation, “Where do you live?”
____________________
“Thanks for your help, Vince,” The Greatest Networker nodded gratefully. “Are you willing to do something with me here?” Sliding out of his chair, he jumped off the stage and walked towards the man.
“Sure,” Vince said.
“Great, thanks again,” he said sincerely.
“Okay,” he addressed the entire audience. “Vince and I are going to have a conversation. I’m going to ask Vince where he lives. Is that okay with you, Vince?”
“Yes sir,” was Vince’s reply.
“Sir,” he repeated, almost as a question. “Army? Navy?” The Greatest Networker inquired.
“Mother,” Vince said with a smile.
“Ah yes, I had one of those. Evidently, in at least one way, very much like yours.” He smiled, and I had the thought that we were about to get a crash course in the art of relationshipping. The man was good. I could sense Vince was nervous at first, but I could see that he was already beginning to relax.
“While Vince and I talk— and by the way, this will only take two or three minutes at the most— you will all have some work to do. I want you to
practice your Creative Listening. Pay close attention to everything Vince is saying. Don’t read anything into it. Use Open Listening. Just focus your listening on exactly what comes out of Vince’s mouth— his words, not the chatter inside your own head. What Vince says is what he means. Not what you think he means. People say what they mean, yet we insist we know better. Crazy, don’t you think?” he nodded….
To read the rest of this passage as well as get access to wonderful resources go to: The Greatest Networkers in the World – Listening For Values: Where Do You Live?
Belief and a Dream
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t underestimate the power of your belief and how it can lead to the life of your dreams!
A BELIEF is simply a thought you think over and over again. In fact, it becomes a habit. And like all habits… it can either serve you or work against you.
It’s important to understand that the reason our belief’s have so much power is because our mind works like a computer. It doesn’t know the difference between what is “real” and what is not. It just accepts the information that you program in over and over again. Your imagination creates and your imagination can destroy.
In other words, when things aren’t going exactly the way you would like them to it’s usually because you’ve created a story in your mind, one that you’re at least starting to believe (regardless of the factual truth) , that is taking power away from what you say you want That power is draining from you through the bad feelings created by your thoughts.
Although the story you have spun in your head may not be based on “reality”, your feelings are real and it’s your feelings that determine what you attract. It’s a critical point to be aware of because when faced with a set of circumstances, your personal human computer starts creating scenarios to explain them. And then your body responds to your brain’s interpretation.
When it comes to building a network marketing business we are confronted with a wide variety of circumstances… leaving us to make deductions that will send us in one direction or another based on our feelings about them.
How you feel about a set of circumstances based on what you say and believe about them can drastically alter your life’s course… not to mention the course of your business.
Let’s look at an example:
Possible circumstances:
1. You have two new customers in a week.
2. One just had a bad reaction to the first product they ordered and the other had a bad experience with an incomplete order.
Possible interpretations:
- These products are a joke
- The company can’t be trusted to get it right
- No one is going to trust me again
- These customers could have used more information
- The incomplete order might have simply been out of stock
- These things happen but rarely
Can you see that if you choose one of the first three interpretations that you may be turned off about a career in network marketing? You might decide that it’s too risky, too embarrassing, and something to be avoided. You could also be cutting off any opportunity to provide a fabulous experience for someone else and building a strong business for yourself in the process.
If you choose one or more of the last three interpretations you may still BELIEVE there is some hope for you, your business and possibly even these two customers by simply learning more about your product and how the company works. You could still feel great about the company and the industry as a profession and create many reasons to continue on to pursue your dream with the business.
The circumstances didn’t change… but your interpretation of them will dictate what you believe which will dictate how you FEEL which will dictate what actions you take, leading you down a completely different path. That’s powerful!
So please consider making a decision to interpret things in way that make you feel really good about your products, your company and the industry and your potential to build a large passive income. Your good feelings will guide you to the opportunities and the people that will help you see those dreams come true.
Don’t underestimate the power of your belief and how it can lead you to living the life of your dreams!
–Mary K
¸..· ´¨¨)) -:¦:-
¸.·´ .·´¨¨))
((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Light
EXPECT MIRACLES!
Your Money Blueprint
Posted by: | CommentsI was just on a phone call with T. Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. He’s a fascinating and brilliant guy who has figured out not only how to identify somebody’s personal ‘money and success’ blueprint, even better he teaches how it can be changed to serve you better.
If the idea of a ‘money blueprint’ is a new one to you just consider the function of a blueprint. It’s simply a preset design… or plan for the building of a house. When it comes to money… we are limiting our flow of money based on the ‘blueprint’ set inside us as young children. In other words, those people and things in our early lives influenced our ideas about how much money is ‘appropriate’ or ‘possible’ – and whether we realize it or not, that information has caused us to set a cap on what we’re comfortable with today.
Oh… I hear you arguing with that idea. Let me ask you… how do you explain the fact that most people who win or receive unexpected, large amounts of many are typically in the same financial position 24 months later as they were before the windfall?
I remember attending a workshop many years ago where we were encouraged to discover the dollar amount at which we had set our ‘money thermostat’. Today I want you to consider discovering where your thermostat is set –
Get out a sheet of paper and write down how much you earned last month. Do you feel it’s possible to earn that amount again this month?
Okay… now double that figure. Do you believe that you are capable of earning this new amount? I’m not asking you to consider the liklihood that you will earn this doubled amount next month… just whether or not, looking at that number, you feel you’re CAPABLE of earning that amount in a month.
Are you good? Feel fairly confident you could earn the higher amount?
Now let’s double that amount. Again… how do you feel about this new figure in terms of the possibility that you could be earning that monthly? How about the probability? What thought’s are going through your mind? Check in with your body… how are you feeling about this new figure?
Keep doubling the number until you get to the place where you feel so much resistance in your whole body and mind that it makes you want to laugh out loud… or cry, for that matter.
When you’ve found that spot you’ll know you’ve hit your (current) cap. Unless you change the underlying blueprint this setting on your thermostat will kick in and sabatoge you to keep your money flow below this uncomfortable level.
Understand, your rational, analytical mind will declare how silly this is… that of course you would ‘allow’, even love having greater earnings. You need to know this is not up to your conscious, rational mind. Your subconscious is driving this train and when the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win!
That’s valuable to be aware of since I’ll hazard a guess that part of what you may consider a ‘perfect’ business involves a significant amount of financial success too. It certainly does for me.
So the game becomes how to replace those limiting beliefs that have been programmed into you with new beliefs that expand your relationship to your abundance. During the next month or so we’ll explore the differences in the way rich people think and the way poor people think. Hopefully, this will trigger some expansion and a new money blueprint for you!
Never Too Late for Financial Freedom!
Posted by: | CommentsNo, it’s not! It absolutely is not too late for you!
Okay, so how do you start? If you’re really behind what do you need to do to catch up? Well, naturally, you need to earn more money. Now before you throw your hands up in the air consider this. There is a way… it doesn’t necessarily work for everyone… but it sure is working for a lot of people! Yes, I’m talking about direct selling and network marketing.
That may be so but guess what? A LOT of people make a little money. And with a little extra money that can be saved, a person can catch up to financial freedom with amazing speed.
The crux of the matter, when it comes to financial freedom, may not be money itself… the real secret is changing how we manage the money we do have. Network marketing allows you to earn extra money in a very flexible way but it’s up to you to manage that money intelligently so it can buy you the freedom you desire.
I’ve always found it a shame that our schools don’t educate us about managing money. Certainly corporate America has done a very poor job of educating employees to save money. So it’s clearly up to us to grab the reins today and start managing our money in a new way.
Do you realize that just $10 a day can change your life? Spend it on fast food and you’ll shorten it… save it for bigger investments and you’re on your way to financial freedom.
Isn’t it reasonable to take a look at a $100+ billion-a-year industry, that offers simplicity while giving you an asset?
A business is an asset, so when you build a network marketing business you’re not only learning critical life skills, you’re actually building an asset.
Something that works for you so you don’t have to trade your time for dollars for the rest of your life.
There is one thing our current state of economic affairs should be proving to us… a ‘job’ is not an asset; it’s not something you can sell on eBay, you can’t rent it to someone… it has no intrinsic value at all! In fact, income from your job is the highest-taxed income possible. The days of pretending there is security in a job are gone. Why not learn to be rich… rather than work for the rich? There’s no time like NOW for you to step in the direction of financial freedom!
–Mary K
¸..· ´¨¨)) -:¦:-
¸.·´ .·´¨¨))
((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Light
EXPECT MIRACLES!
