I love to run. This is a rather recent feeling. In my younger days, I thought people who ran were crazy. Why would anyone just go running? Then a few years ago, I promised my daughter that I would run in a 5K race with her. I’m not sure what made me make the commitment. It was just after she had completed a Thanksgiving Day race near our house. For some reason, I told her after she finished that I…
Turn your dreams into goals. Develop a plan to reach your goals. Take the steps necessary to accomplish the plan.
That’s how you make your dreams come true.
A few years ago I was talking with someone close to me. He was lamenting the fact that he had spent what he saw as his “best five years” working for a guy who used him up and spit him out. Without thinking I said, “Those weren’t your best five years. Your best five years are your next five years.” I’ve tried to remember that insightful moment since then. Way too often we waste time thinking about what might have been….
Preparation pays off in business. It pays to have a system that gets you ready for any situation.
I am a great fan of golf. I recently attended the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open, which were held on consecutive weeks in Pinehurst, North Carolina. One of my favorite books about golf is “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” by Mark Frost. The book details how amateur golfer Francis Ouimet defeated the great Harry Vardon in the 1913 U.S. Open. The victory is credited with helping grow the game of golf in the United States. The book is well…
One of the best ways to reach your goals is to find someone who has accomplished what you want to accomplish, then do what they’ve done.
The ability to persuade can be one of the most powerful skills to learn in business and in life. Business presentations go nowhere if they don’t show people the wisdom of the opportunity. And numerous casual conversations contain some degree of convincing the other person to see your point of view. Jason Nazar, the CEO of Docstoc, wrote a powerful article on the Forbes website called “The 21 Principles of Persuasion.” The piece is well worth the read, but several…
One of my mentors recently summed up the network marketing profession this way: “We get paid to talk to people.” Ultimately, it all boils down to that. So I developed a simple, two-step recruiting system. 1. Find people to talk to. 2. Talk to them. Keep in mind, of course, that simple does not necessarily mean easy. Talking to people is easier for some people than others. But the great thing is anybody can do it, and everybody can learn…
One of my mentors in network marketing, Tom “Big Al” Shreiter, taught me that the network marketing professional’s job is to help people make a decision. Once you understand that it’s OK if the decision is no, that takes a lot of the pressure off during your presentation. After all, network marketing isn’t for everyone. If so, everyone would be doing it, right? My friend, John Milton Fogg, shared a video on Facebook that shows a great way to help…
The other day I was thinking about a time in my life that wasn’t very pleasant. I went through some struggles and faced a few challenges. I began to wonder about some of the decisions that I had made back then. I started thinking about whether my life would be better now if I had done some things differently back then. After a while it occurred to me how useless that kind of thinking is. The brutal truth is that…