Recently, I went on a mission trip to Belize with 33 other folks from my church. We worked hard and had a great week. After we finished our work, we had the option to go snorkeling on the last day we were there. When they told us about it, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to go. I tried to snorkel one other time when I was a kid. It wasn’t pleasant. And to be honest, I was tired….
My daughter played in a softball tournament for the state championship this weekend. Her team played well, finishing second. I was proud of my daughter and her team. And, as I’m beginning to discover about almost everything, I learned a valuable lesson along the way. Her coach asked me to keep the scorebook for the team during the tournament. I was glad to do it. It made me feel like I was contributing to the effort. As in most tournaments…
About a week ago I was looking for a book on a shelf when I saw something jammed between two of the larger books. I pulled it out, and recognized it as booklet given to me by a good friend years ago. It has excerpts from “The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn.” I opened it up and saw the note my friend wrote to me. I immediately remembered thinking that it was a great gift when I had received…
There’s an adage that says, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” The other day, I was looking for a notepad on my desk. I needed it to write down some information that I wanted to be sure to remember later. My desk can get kind of messy. OK, it can get very messy. Stuff was piled all over the place. I looked and looked. No notebook. I moved some piles around….
I am often amazed at how techniques I learned in coach training apply to the network marketing profession. Coaches are taught to have no agenda. A coaching session is all about the person being coached. That outlook fits perfectly with network marketing. The best way to help people is to first understand what they need. If we don’t know what they need how can we know how to help them. The best way to understand people is to get to…
Several years ago, someone I trusted in network marketing suggested that I buy some leads to help build my business. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Earlier, I had made the list of family and friends as I was taught to talk to about the business. When that didn’t work, it sounded good to have a list of “pre-qualified” people to call. So I bought leads. And I made calls. And I bought more leads. And I…
I was reading a thread on a personal development forum about Dean Karnazes, an endurance runner. He gives his advice for pushing athletic performance to its limits. A lot of what he says is great advice for our business life. Karnazes says to be audacious. Any goal worth achieving involves risk, he says. We networkers often get stuck in what is called “analysis paralysis.” We find something we think will work, but we want more information. We want to be…
If you want to be successful in network marketing, it’s important to have a strong company behind you. Your company should have key characteristics, known as the “five pillars.” The first pillar is company management with experience and integrity. Google the company president to find out more information about the one leading your company. Read your company’s policies and procedures. The second pillar is timing in the company and the industry. You don’t want to be in a brand new…
I spent the last 20-plus years as a journalist. I’ve written hundreds of news stories. One thing I learned is that if you want to get the best information, you need to go directly to the source. Someone at a speech can tell you what they think the speaker was trying to say, but you have to go straight to the source for the direct information. I’ve written often about the book, “Success in 10 Steps,” that changed my network…
A few weeks ago, I bought a box of Louis L’Amour western novels. He’s one of my favorite authors, and I was happy to find several of his books that I had not yet read. In the box were several books by other authors. As I was looking through them, I noticed one from a series of books called, “Choose Your Own Adventure.” I had never heard of the series, so I took a closer look. The cover said there…